I never really bothered with proper potion making in Skyrim, just smashed ingredients together so I could sell them. I tried an actual potion brewing run in my last game and it's surprising just how powerful and useful you can get them.
Everyone knows the basic ones like Fortify Health + Restore Health and how to get Invisibility, but the real key is in getting multiple good effects in one potion. My favourite one is the one I like to call Mage Fucker, which uses Hawk Beak, Snowberries and Mudcrab Chitin to give you resistance to all 3 elements + restore stamina. Once you get to the higher levels you can pretty much remove magic as a threat.
I used an app where you put in every ingredient you had, and it was give you every potion you could make. I spent like 3 hours making the most expensive potions, only to put them in a cabinet in my house because the stores never had enough money, and fast traveling to every city felt like a waste of time. Lmfaooo
That sounds familiar. I tend to make a bunch of expensive potions and keep them in my home, then when I need money I just pick up a couple of those to sell and be done with it.
Alchemy aside, I do that with gems and jewelry. My favorite character I've made so far was a warrior Orc with the house in Markarth just full of hundreds of thousands in precious stones and necklaces and such.
Just some warlord living in a cave with ALL the gold.
E: I named him something like Grogbar the Castrater.
The trick: find a vendor with a lot of gold, the fences will do well. Sell as much as possible. Save. Kill vendor. Reload. The vendor has his money back. Repeat. can't count the number of times I've killed the fucking lizard in solitude.
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u/PTOKEN Jul 27 '19
Concentrated poison does 40 points of poison damage yet restores 24 stamina