For open-world RPG games, potions are very common to find. This item will provide several effects that really help player finish the game. In Skyrim, you can also make alchemical potions. This time, I will provide Skyrim potion guides: how to make and the ingredients.
Skyrim Potion Recipe
There are two different subdivisions of potions.
- Potions that help by restoring health/Magicka/stamina, fortifying an ability or the effect of the ability, or otherwise benefiting the Dragonborn.
- Poisons, on the other hand, are applied to weapons and detrimentally affect the targeted character.
You can look at the entire Skyrim potion below:
| Name | Ingredients | Effect |
| Healing Potion | Blue Mountain Flower and Wheat. | Restore and Fortify Health |
| Regenerate Health | Juniper Berries and Namira’s Rot | Regenerate Health |
| Magicka Potion | Creep Cluster and Red Mountain Flower | Restore Magicka |
| Regenerate Magicka | Jazbay Grapes and Salmon Roe | Regenerate Magicka and Fortify Magicka |
| Salt Pile and Garlic | Regenerate Magicka | |
| Stamina Potion | Purple Mountain Flower and Torchbug Thorax | Restore Stamina |
| Purple Mountain Flower and Bee | Restore Stamina | |
| Regenerate Stamina | Scaly Pholiota and Mora Tapinella | Regenerate Stamina |
| Fortify Stamina | Lavender and Garlic | Fortify Stamina |
| Fortify Barter | Tundra Cotton, Dragon’s Tongue | Fortify Barter |
| Fortify Destruction | Nightshade and Glowing Mushroom | Fortify Destruction |
| Fortify Enchanting | Snowberries and Blue Butterfly Wing | Fortify Enchanting |
| Fortify Light Armor | Skeever Tail and Luna Moth Wing | Fortify Light Armor |
| Fortify Lockpicking | Namira’s Rot and Spider Egg | Fortify Lockpicking |
| Namira’s Rot and Pine Thrush Egg | Fortify Lockpicking | |
| Namira’s Rot and Falmer Ear | Fortify Lockpicking | |
| Fortify Marksman | Canis Root and Juniper Berries | Fortify Marksman |
| Fortify One-Handed | Canis Root and Juniper Berries | Fortify One-Handed |
| Canis Root and Bear Claws | Fortify One-Handed | |
| Fortify Pickpocket | Blue Dartwing and Orange Dartwing | Fortify Pickpocket |
| Fortify Smithing | Purple Mountain Flower and Frost Mirriam | Fortify Smithing |
| Fortify Sneak | Purple Mountain Flower and Frost Mirriam | Fortify Sneak |
| Fortify Two-Handed | Fly Amanita and Dragon’s Tongue | Fortify Two-Handed |
| Fortify Restoration | Cryodilic Spadetail and Abecean Longfin | Fortify Restoration |
| Cyrodilic Spadetail and Salt Pie | Fortify Restoration | |
| Resist Fire | Snowberries and Dragon’s Tongue | Resist Fire |
| Resist Frost | Snowberries, Purple Mountain Flower and Dragon’s Tongue | Resist Frost |
| Resist Fire, Frost and Shock | Snowberries and Glowing Mushroom | Resist Fire, Frost and Shock |
| Resist Magic | Lavender and Tundra Cotton | Resist Magic |
| Resist Poison | Grass Pod and Thistle Branch | Resist Poison |
| Cheap Damage | Deathbell, Imp Stool and Mora Tapinella | Damage Health and Lingering Damage Health |
| Quick Damage | Deathbell, Skeever Tail and Giant Lichen | Damage Health, Rave Health and Weakness to Poison |
| Damage over time and Paralyze | Mora Tapinella, Imp Stool and Canis Root | Lingering Damage Health and Paralysis |
| Damage and Slow | Deathbell, Imp Stool and Salt Pie | Damage Health and Slow |
| Damage Health and Damage Magicka Regen | Deathbell, Nightshade and Blue Mountain Flower | Damage Health and Damage Magicka Regen |
| Lingering Damage Magicka | Wheat and Purple Mountain Flower | Lingering Damage Magicka |
| Fortify Carry Weight | Scaly Pholiota and Creep Cluster | Fortify Carry Weight and Weakness to Magic |
| Giant’s Toe and Creep Cluster | Fortify Carry Weight | |
| Invisibility | Luna Moth Wing and Nirnroot | Invisibility |
| Luna Moth Wing and Vampire Dust | Invisibility and Regenerate Health | |
| Luna Moth Wing and Chaurus Eggs | Invisibility and Damage Magicka | |
| Luna Moth Wing and Ice Wraith Teeth | Invisibility | |
| Cure Disease | Mudcrab Chitin and Charred Skeever Hide | Restore Stamina, Resist Poison and Cure Disease |
| Mudcrab Chitin and Vampire Dust | Cure Disease | |
| Mudcrab Chitin and Hawk Feathers | Cure Disease | |
| Waterbreathing | Salmon Roe and Histcarp | Waterbreathing |
| Histcarp and Chicken’s Egg | Waterbreathing | |
| Nordic Barnacle and Histcarp | Waterbreathing | |
| Fast Levelling and Quick Money | Salmon Roe, Chicken’s Egg and Garlic | Waterbreathing, Regenerate Magicka |
| Giant’s Toe, Bear Claws and Hanging Moss | Fortify Health, Fortify One-Handed and Damage Magicka Regen |
How to Get The Ingredients
You can find most of the ingredients in the Skyrim realm. Some only need to be picked, and some items can only be obtained by defeating bosses. Other than that, you can buy out all the alchemy ingredients from their respective shops and wait 48 hours for them to re-stock.
If there is a glitch, you can follow these following works with shopkeepers.
- Buy every ingredient.
- Then, save your game.
- Next, kill the shopkeeper.
- Load the save file.
- Later, repeat that and the shopkeeper will respawn.
Perk and Enchantments
Several things can help you in your concoction, by Perk and Upgrading. The Perk from the alchemy tree will give you the ability to make potions more easily and effectively. So you have to upgrade each branch.
- The Benefactor perk makes your potions’ positive effects 25% stronger.
- Physician boosts the strength of your restorative potions 25% stronger.
- Each rank in the tree will increase the strength of your resulting potion by 20% to 100%.
- Poisoner perk gives 25% extra strength to your poisons.
- Concentrated poison will let your poison affect a second time
- Purity allows you to remove the negative effects that certain potions inflict on you. But it also de-values certain potion combinations.
- Green Thumb allows you to save your ingredients which means you will have to grind less for your potions.
You can actually increase your potions in general by using enchanted gear. When you unlock the ‘Fortify Alchemy’ charm, you can place this in:
- Headgear
- Gloves or Bracers
- Rings
- Necklaces
How to Make Skyrim Potion
Once you know Potions recipes, you should know how to make them. If you’ve been playing Skyrim long enough, you know about the Alchemy table. It is the workbench to make the potion.
Head to the Alchemy table which will show you all the potion lists. Select one of them, and it will open the ingredients list. Generally, you only need 2 ingredients to make a potion, but you can add the third ingredient for more effects.
As you make these potions, you will continue to discover new properties for ingredients. It gives you the ability to create more and more options.
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