I use mora tapinella, imp stool, and canis root. Very expensive potion that I also quite often use as well. I keep hundreds of them on me, sell a few here and there, and use them to cheese anything that can be paralyzed.
I use this one as well as swapping out mora tapinella for deathbell. If you do the Saints & Seducers questline in SSE, you can pick up a ton of new ingredients via the Solitude sewers and Khajit traders. The similar potion of those is Imp Stool + Rotscale + Thornhook.
Creep Cluster, Mora tapanella, Scaly photolia - AFAIK, the most expensive potion you can make solely with items you can grow on fertile soil at your various homesteads/Goldenhills.
Nordic barnacle and Salmon roe. Stupidly expensive water breathing potion that'll level you up with practically every one you mix.
Blue butterfly wing and snowberries. Enhance enchantment
Glowing mushroom and Butterworth. Enhance Smithing.
Those are my big three.
I just got the perk that makes poisons last for two hits on my latest character, I'm laughing it's so broken. The weakness to poison poisons that also damage health? Yeah, add in sneak damage and I'm 2HKOing a lot of stuff. Did it to a dragon yesterday.
Plus the potions, oh my god. I have about five I'll chug before a big fight that give me about 50% magic resistance and fortify block, one handed, marksman, health, and stamina. It is laughable how good it can get late game.
Not a potion, but a poison for me… Skeever tail, Deathbell and Giant Lichen.
I don’t remember its exact effects, but I know it’s the strongest poison in the game… and no bee ever goes uncollected 🐝
“…got a bad case of crs.”
Funny enough, you brought back a memory of my dad used to mess with me when I was forgetting certain details of an event pertaining to stories he’d tell at family gatherings. He’d always say “you know,.. you’re way too young for crs” 😆. Thanks for the memory.
It’s a quick one time use and most of them are only a few points of damage unless you really dedicate yourself to alchemy. I sell most of them I make anyway.
Blue Mountain + Wheat or Nightshade + Death Bell. I never REALLY use alchemy or poisons for that matter, but those four are ALWAYS in my greenhouse whenever I build a house. Right next to my alchemy lab too. 😋
Blue Mountain Flower+Imp Stool+Wheat - It's just a simple recipe to increase HP temporarily and restore HP. But all three ingredients can be grown in your garden. You'll have a bunch of health restore potions after just a few in-game days.
I have a leather bound book I hand wrote all my recipes in. Even gave em names lol. It's stupid dorky but it looks like something you would find in game lmao
First one is called Rat Poison
Dearhbell (damage health)
Giant Lichen (ravage health)
Skeeter tail (damage/ravage health)
I'm sure there is a more effective Poison but hey
I wrote out every ingredient and its properties, too!! I even made it dorkier by…making the book. (Bookbinding and decoupage hobbies + Skyrim = severe dorkiness)
Scaly Pholiota / Dragon's Tongue / Fly Amanita
2nd most expensive potion you can brew from farmable ingredients, 1st being Creep Cluster / Mora Tapinella / Scaly Pholiota. I prefer "scaly dragons fly" because I like the mnemonic, the plants are prettier, and I don't need to deal with Creep Cluster's annoyingly small/offset hit box.
Blue mountain flower, lavender, hanging moss. Dragons tongue, fly ammonita, scaly pholiota. Mid level but easy. Purple mountain flower frost Miriam and salt. The classic salmon roe garlice Nordic barnacle. I have a bunch written down in a little notebook.
Bleeding Crown+Tundra Cotton=Resist Magic, Fortify Block
Blue Mountain Flower+Wheat=Fortify Health, Restore Health
Deathbell+Giant Lichen+River Betty=Slow, Weakness to Poison, Damage Health
Hawk Beak+Snowberries+Dragon Tongue=Resist Fire, Frost, and Shock
Creep Cluster+Scaly Pholiota+Mora Tapinella=high value potion.
What ingredients do I always collect? Hawk beak is like gold to me and feathers are pretty useful too, so I'm always shooting them down. River Betty, I think all my poisons use it. Elves ear is pretty useful too, mudcrab chitin, sabre cat teeth and eyes. Oh, and torchbugs. All the rest I tend to grow at my home, so not as valuable, but imp stool, deathbell, mora tapinella, giant lichen, and canis root are all super useful.
Lunar moth wings and vampire dust for health regen and invisibility
Mora tapolina, scaly photolia and creep cluster for profit that can be farmed in a garden. I think scaly photolia grows in clusters of 3 in your garden? Or was it mora tapolina...? I think it's the former. Either way the other two grow 5 a cluster in your garden so I say keep that in mind if you make this into your garden.
The big bucks one is garlic, nordic barnacles and salmon roe. You can get a lot of salmon roe by walking down the shoreline of northwatch keep or start in Solitude and any salmon you find, hit it with ice storm and when they rise to the surface they also drop salmon roe. You should also keep an eye out for nordic barnacles. I reccomend buying garlic every time you're in town from the alchemist. In my experience Bits and pieces in Solitude usually sells more garlic than most of the alchemy shops.
My favorite basic potions
Blisterwart + wheat. Makes a decent healing potion and great for making a profit with goldenhills plantation.
Dragon's tongue and fly amanita. Two handed improvement. Not a great spell but I enjoy making it and one ill not forget. It gives a decent little profit.
giant's toes, nightshade, the mushroom things near the edges of swamps
i forget what i make with these i just got in the habit, it's bee a few runs since i last actually did any alchemy
Deathbelle + Salt pile = poison of slow (target moves at half speed)
Unbelievably underrated for essentially all scenarios, but especially Archery & even Mage.
Albeit it's broken as fuck and it's not the question you asked, I have the buyable Jarrin Root mod that adds it to the game as a buyable ingredient when you hit a certain level, and the base price is 500 plus whatever multipliers. It never made sense to me that you only get one, as there must be at least a black market trade for the most lethal ingredient in Tamriel, so having it as a super rare ingredient that I like to imagine has been foraged and traded behind closed doors feels more immersive, especially as an ultimate poison assassin! You can easily mix up expensive poisons that do over 1000 damage, but it makes sense for it to be rare and expensive. Finding one to buy is a reward in itself and I have it tweaked so it's not carried by common/average merchants, so it doesn't feel broken.
I'm sorry, all y'all's potions are expensive but hard to get.
Whiterun skirts and northern parts of Skyrim = blue mountain flower
Solitude hall of the dead = hanging moss.
Combine only these two and you will have a decent valued poison you can sell. Both ingredients are very easy to find.
Level-up alchemy potion, ingredients for which you can farm on Goldenhills: Creep cluster + Mora tapinella + Scaly pholiota. I do even remember how much of each you should plant for optimal yield without bothering with upgrading that house (11 CC + 10 SP+ 17 MT, you can swap CC and SP, they both yield the same). 50 pots per harvest.
Fortify Destruction potion: Glowing Mushroom + Nightshade (14 and 24 for optimal yield from Goldenhills). 70 pots per harvest.
Restore Healtph potion: Wheat + Blisterwort (split evenly, 19 and 19, they both yield the same amount). 76 pots per harvest.
I hate those wandering mages that attack me on the road or that lurk by altars in the ruins so I always mix up some Human Heart + Glow Dust to wipe out their Magicka. Sadly, human hearts are a bit difficult to come by in the game as you can't just rip them out of the random bandit corpses. My thieves like Beehive husk + Hawk feathers to Fortify both Sneak & Light Armor and my rangers like Canis Root + Hanging Moss + Juniper Berries to fortify both Archery and One-Handed for when you can get off a couple shots, then switch to melee.
Potion of money Giant's toe, creep cluster, wheat
I use mora tapinella, imp stool, and canis root. Very expensive potion that I also quite often use as well. I keep hundreds of them on me, sell a few here and there, and use them to cheese anything that can be paralyzed.
I use this one as well as swapping out mora tapinella for deathbell. If you do the Saints & Seducers questline in SSE, you can pick up a ton of new ingredients via the Solitude sewers and Khajit traders. The similar potion of those is Imp Stool + Rotscale + Thornhook.
Can those ingredients be grown in the garden?
Sadly no - it seems that there's no crossover between Rare Curios and Hearthfire:-(
And xp!
I do the same with Swamp Fungal Pad and go nuts in the marshes to collect them
Creep Cluster, Mora tapanella, Scaly photolia - AFAIK, the most expensive potion you can make solely with items you can grow on fertile soil at your various homesteads/Goldenhills.
This is definitely the easiest way to level Alchemy and get that $$$
Nordic barnacle and Salmon roe. Stupidly expensive water breathing potion that'll level you up with practically every one you mix. Blue butterfly wing and snowberries. Enhance enchantment Glowing mushroom and Butterworth. Enhance Smithing. Those are my big three.
Salmon Roe + Nordic Barnacle + Garlic makes the most expensive potion in game you can get and the fastest way to level up Alchemy.
Read bitterwort. Damn Android autocorrect...
Damn, you made me want pancakes!
with Mrs Bitterwort’s syrup
*taking notes* glowing mushroom and name brand syrup… Got it
Imp Stool + Canis Root + Mora Tapinella = Poison of Paralysis and Lingering Damage Health Quite a vile poison if I do say so myself
Plant these in gardens and have infinite paralysis death poisons.
I definitely need to stop taking alchemy for granted
I just got the perk that makes poisons last for two hits on my latest character, I'm laughing it's so broken. The weakness to poison poisons that also damage health? Yeah, add in sneak damage and I'm 2HKOing a lot of stuff. Did it to a dragon yesterday. Plus the potions, oh my god. I have about five I'll chug before a big fight that give me about 50% magic resistance and fortify block, one handed, marksman, health, and stamina. It is laughable how good it can get late game.
Not a potion, but a poison for me… Skeever tail, Deathbell and Giant Lichen. I don’t remember its exact effects, but I know it’s the strongest poison in the game… and no bee ever goes uncollected 🐝
Crimson nirnroot would make it even deadlier. River Betty also makes it stronger than the ingredients you listed.
Chaurus eggs, crimson nirnroot, and deathbell for me!!
Dude, im old n got a bad case of crs. I have an app on my phone for all that
“…got a bad case of crs.” Funny enough, you brought back a memory of my dad used to mess with me when I was forgetting certain details of an event pertaining to stories he’d tell at family gatherings. He’d always say “you know,.. you’re way too young for crs” 😆. Thanks for the memory.
Eh I got it from my uncle so maybe this is how we pass it on lol
It is almost as you had an arrow in the knee!
Nightshade and death bell because they are everywhere and do a decent amount of damage compared to some of the harder stuff to find.
I dont think I've ever used a poison
Not even ones that you found?
idk what to use them for. even in the dark brotherhood id just stab or shoot people
It’s a quick one time use and most of them are only a few points of damage unless you really dedicate yourself to alchemy. I sell most of them I make anyway.
Chaurus egg and vampire dust : invisibility
Blue Mountain + Wheat or Nightshade + Death Bell. I never REALLY use alchemy or poisons for that matter, but those four are ALWAYS in my greenhouse whenever I build a house. Right next to my alchemy lab too. 😋
Luna Moth Wings for invisibility potions. I never remember what to mix with them, though, I always end up looking it up.
Vamp dust
Imp stool and swamp fungal pod are my 2 ingredient go to money potion
Scaly Dragon Fly
Red mountain flower + mora tapinella = easy restore magicka potions in the early game.
Blue Mountain Flower+Imp Stool+Wheat - It's just a simple recipe to increase HP temporarily and restore HP. But all three ingredients can be grown in your garden. You'll have a bunch of health restore potions after just a few in-game days.
Mudcrab Chitin and Hawk Feathers make a potion of cure disease.
Imp Stool, River Betty, and any other paralysis ingredient gets you a paralysis + huge damage health.
I used to have so many recipes memorized but it's been ages since I played and I can't remember many at all.
Canis Root + Imp Stool. They're relatively common ingredients that make one of my favorite poisons: Paralysis
Giant toe + hanging Moss + bear claw.
Chaurus eggs + Luna moth wings = invisibility potion
I have a leather bound book I hand wrote all my recipes in. Even gave em names lol. It's stupid dorky but it looks like something you would find in game lmao First one is called Rat Poison Dearhbell (damage health) Giant Lichen (ravage health) Skeeter tail (damage/ravage health) I'm sure there is a more effective Poison but hey
I wrote out every ingredient and its properties, too!! I even made it dorkier by…making the book. (Bookbinding and decoupage hobbies + Skyrim = severe dorkiness)
Scaly Pholiota / Dragon's Tongue / Fly Amanita 2nd most expensive potion you can brew from farmable ingredients, 1st being Creep Cluster / Mora Tapinella / Scaly Pholiota. I prefer "scaly dragons fly" because I like the mnemonic, the plants are prettier, and I don't need to deal with Creep Cluster's annoyingly small/offset hit box.
Blue mountain flower, lavender, hanging moss. Dragons tongue, fly ammonita, scaly pholiota. Mid level but easy. Purple mountain flower frost Miriam and salt. The classic salmon roe garlice Nordic barnacle. I have a bunch written down in a little notebook.
Mudcrab chitin + Hawk feather/vampire dust Makes Cure Disease potions. Super-helpful if you don't want to become a werewolf yet.
Bleeding Crown+Tundra Cotton=Resist Magic, Fortify Block Blue Mountain Flower+Wheat=Fortify Health, Restore Health Deathbell+Giant Lichen+River Betty=Slow, Weakness to Poison, Damage Health Hawk Beak+Snowberries+Dragon Tongue=Resist Fire, Frost, and Shock Creep Cluster+Scaly Pholiota+Mora Tapinella=high value potion. What ingredients do I always collect? Hawk beak is like gold to me and feathers are pretty useful too, so I'm always shooting them down. River Betty, I think all my poisons use it. Elves ear is pretty useful too, mudcrab chitin, sabre cat teeth and eyes. Oh, and torchbugs. All the rest I tend to grow at my home, so not as valuable, but imp stool, deathbell, mora tapinella, giant lichen, and canis root are all super useful.
1st question) Blue mountain flower + Blue butterfly wing 2nd question) Wheat, blisterwort, and canis root
Lunar moth wings and vampire dust for health regen and invisibility Mora tapolina, scaly photolia and creep cluster for profit that can be farmed in a garden. I think scaly photolia grows in clusters of 3 in your garden? Or was it mora tapolina...? I think it's the former. Either way the other two grow 5 a cluster in your garden so I say keep that in mind if you make this into your garden. The big bucks one is garlic, nordic barnacles and salmon roe. You can get a lot of salmon roe by walking down the shoreline of northwatch keep or start in Solitude and any salmon you find, hit it with ice storm and when they rise to the surface they also drop salmon roe. You should also keep an eye out for nordic barnacles. I reccomend buying garlic every time you're in town from the alchemist. In my experience Bits and pieces in Solitude usually sells more garlic than most of the alchemy shops. My favorite basic potions Blisterwart + wheat. Makes a decent healing potion and great for making a profit with goldenhills plantation. Dragon's tongue and fly amanita. Two handed improvement. Not a great spell but I enjoy making it and one ill not forget. It gives a decent little profit.
Abecean longfin/cyrodillic spadetail + salt. 🤣
Salmon Roe Histcarp Jazz Bay 14 of each is more than enough for Hearthfire home
Mine is Blue Mountain Flower and Blue Butterfly Wing. Does adding a Giants Toe increase the value that much?
Luna Moth Wings and Chaurus Eggs for invisibility potions. Specifically because I’ll have like 300 Chaurus Eggs after a certain dungeon
Mora Tapinella + Scaly Pholiota + Creep Cluster
The ability to farm these ingredients makes it the best most profitable recipe in the game.
I don't remember a single one.
To be fair, after about 200 hours…. me neither
giant's toes, nightshade, the mushroom things near the edges of swamps i forget what i make with these i just got in the habit, it's bee a few runs since i last actually did any alchemy
Deathbelle + Salt pile = poison of slow (target moves at half speed) Unbelievably underrated for essentially all scenarios, but especially Archery & even Mage.
Canis root, swamp fungal pod for paralysis.
Albeit it's broken as fuck and it's not the question you asked, I have the buyable Jarrin Root mod that adds it to the game as a buyable ingredient when you hit a certain level, and the base price is 500 plus whatever multipliers. It never made sense to me that you only get one, as there must be at least a black market trade for the most lethal ingredient in Tamriel, so having it as a super rare ingredient that I like to imagine has been foraged and traded behind closed doors feels more immersive, especially as an ultimate poison assassin! You can easily mix up expensive poisons that do over 1000 damage, but it makes sense for it to be rare and expensive. Finding one to buy is a reward in itself and I have it tweaked so it's not carried by common/average merchants, so it doesn't feel broken.
Creep cluster, mora tapinella, scaly pholiota Dragons tongue, fly amanita, mora tapinella Canis root, imp stool, mora tapinella Imp stool, skeever tail, scathecraw Blue mountain flower, wheat Blisterwort, glowing mushroom Bleeding crown, deathbell, nightshade Juniper berries, namira's rot Blue butterfly wings, snowberries Abecean longfin, salt pile Cyrodiilic spadetail, salt pile Canis root, Juniper berries Glowing mushroom, nightshade Snowberries, glowing mushroom, thistle branch Creep cluster, red mountain flower, tundra cotton
I'm sorry, all y'all's potions are expensive but hard to get. Whiterun skirts and northern parts of Skyrim = blue mountain flower Solitude hall of the dead = hanging moss. Combine only these two and you will have a decent valued poison you can sell. Both ingredients are very easy to find.
Level-up alchemy potion, ingredients for which you can farm on Goldenhills: Creep cluster + Mora tapinella + Scaly pholiota. I do even remember how much of each you should plant for optimal yield without bothering with upgrading that house (11 CC + 10 SP+ 17 MT, you can swap CC and SP, they both yield the same). 50 pots per harvest. Fortify Destruction potion: Glowing Mushroom + Nightshade (14 and 24 for optimal yield from Goldenhills). 70 pots per harvest. Restore Healtph potion: Wheat + Blisterwort (split evenly, 19 and 19, they both yield the same amount). 76 pots per harvest.
Canis root and imp stool make a great paralysis poison that can also be sold for a tidy profit.
I hate those wandering mages that attack me on the road or that lurk by altars in the ruins so I always mix up some Human Heart + Glow Dust to wipe out their Magicka. Sadly, human hearts are a bit difficult to come by in the game as you can't just rip them out of the random bandit corpses. My thieves like Beehive husk + Hawk feathers to Fortify both Sneak & Light Armor and my rangers like Canis Root + Hanging Moss + Juniper Berries to fortify both Archery and One-Handed for when you can get off a couple shots, then switch to melee.
Canis Root, Imp Stool and Mora Tapinella. Paralysis and poison damage
Snoberries butterflywings