Skyrim - How to Master Alchemy in The Elder Scrolls 5

This video provides everything you need to know to master Alchemy in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, from the very basics of ingredient-gathering, to finding the best recipes, and which perks to invest in to maximize your potions' or poisons' effectiveness.

00:00 - Intro
00:22 - Bonuses that Boost the Alchemy Skill
00:56 - The Basics of Alchemy
01:34 - Scavenging for Ingredients
02:05 - Where to Purchase Ingredients
02:43 - Using Alchemy to Earn Gold
03:19 - How to Determine Ingredient Effects
03:38 - How to Choose the Right Ingredients
04:50 - Leveling the Alchemy Skill
05:45 - Exploring the Alchemy Skill Tree
06:51 - Potion Examples for Different Character Builds

[GlitchedMuse]

I find it funny that Bosmer have a plus to alchemy, even though according to the Green Pact (which, admittedly, most Bosmer have stopped following so religiously at this point) they aren't allowed to harm plants. Granted, it only applies to plants in Valenwood, but still.

[marcosumezawa]

from reddit:
How to reveal all your ingredient effects pretty efficiently!
Hahaha, I submitted this in the wrong place a moment ago. Oops!

I put a little time and thought into this, and I think that it's good enough to be shared. I decided that instead of just wasting a buttload of ingredients without producing any potions, I decided to find 2 ingredients whose combination is guaranteed to create a potion, and then add a 3rd ingredient from the list of untested/unrevealed ingredients.

Confused? I'll give an example. Let's say I want to reveal some effects in, say, Spriggan Sap, and I have 13 of them. Spriggan Sap is fairly uncommon, and for the most part you can only get it by buying it from an alchemist directly, so we'd better make it count. Combining it with ingredients one at a time is likely to waste all of it without revealing everything, and you'll also probably produce very few potions to recoup the costs of the ingredients themselves. Thus I present to you: The Potion Gauntlet!

Purple Mountain Flower + Thistle Branch + X

Red Mountain Flower + Tundra Cotton + X

Blue Mountain Flower + Hanging Moss + X

Fly Amanita + Scaly Pholiota + X

Juniper Berries + Namira's Rot + X

Glowing Mushroom + Snowberries + X

Chaurus Eggs + Giant Lichen + X

Salt Pile + Cyrodillic Spadetail + X

Imp Stool + Swamp Fungal Pod + X

Nordic Barnacle + Butterfly Wing + X

Vampire Dust + Luna Moth Wing + X

Elves Ear + Grass Pod + X

[daniellathim]

Thank you in all the many years I have played Skyrim I never used that skill tree I'm finally trying

[jaysonwestbrook]

eat everything. combine everything. eat everything you make.

[georgemercer]

Here's one I came across when I first started to play:

Fire salt/Dragon's tongue + Snowberries + Hawks Beak = Elemental Resistance potion

It names only one element depending on what element is selected, but all 3 are there and is quite effective when dealing with astronauts, mages, dragons, etc. at least temporarily

[johnnbeuscher]

I was looking for a tutorial that can explain why 3 ingredients of the SAME effect don't work as well or at all. I'm wanting to make Ravage Health or combinations to make Lingering Ravage/Damage Health. Also, is there another ingredient as versatile as the River Betty. I'm just not understanding the concepts of the ingredient pairings and was looking for SOMETHING to explain these better !!!

[lunarcontact]

I wish you advised on alchemy enchantment ring from quest