Easy-to-get-and-grow in both Bold and Italic. Babette is the highest level trainer in the game. Buy her ingredients, pay for training as you go, and sell the potions back to her to recoup your costs. If you're a member of the Dark Brotherhood you can store ingredients and extra potions in containers in the sanctuary near the Alchemy Lab and get ingredients and training from Babette. Use this ingredient matcher to help discover ingredient properties and match to make potions. Check for any Roe or Salmon that get stuck on rocks close to the fall along the banks or in the river.Ĭhances are you'll have a lot of ingredients that make cheap potions. Be sure to harvest both the Roe and the Salmon bodies (it won't say you can Search them, you just click on them and you'll get a Roe and Salmon Meat) which tend to float a short way from where you killed them. I think there are 4-5 short falls where Salmon spawn. From the lake make your way along the river toward Riverwood and then to the bridge near Whiterun harvesting Spawning Salmon along the way. There is also a sunken ship near the west end of the lake with some Nordic Baranacles - the mast can be seen protruding from the water - and you can search the lake for more fish. Numerous Nordic Barnacles and several exotic fish ingredients can be harvest here.

There is a sunken ruin in the shallows near the northeast shore with standing stones which can been seen protruding above the water. Garlic + Nordic Barnacle + Salmon Roe is the most valuable potion you can make.Īn easy source for Nordic Barnacles, Histcarp and Salmon Roe(HF): Go to the lake north of Falkreath and west of Riverwood.

Waterbreathing potions made with Salmon Roe can increase your Alchemy level multiple times per potion early on and be worth over 10,000 gold with high alchemy + perks (listed above) + F. Use these to make Waterbreathing potions using Chicken's Egg, Hawk's Egg, Histcarp, or Nordic Barnacle. Spawning Salmon do not normally respawn so supply is limited. If you have Hearthfire the most valuable ingredient is Salmon Roe which can be harvested from Spawning Salmon leaping up short falls. Those three ingredients make the most valuable potion you can create using only grown ingredients. If you have Hearthfire plant Creep Cluster, Mora Tapinella and Pholiota in your garden and Greenhouse. Lami (Common) in Morthal, Arcadia (Expert) at Arcadia's Cauldron in Whiterun, Babette (Master) Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary, Milore Ienth(DB) (Expert) in Raven Rock. Also increases Speech skill which can be used to reduce purchase cost and increase sell price. The majority of ingredients are cheap to purchase and make potions much more valuable than the combined cost of the ingredients.

That will give you four items you can wear at once to boost the power and value of potions as you make them.īuy all ingredients from merchants except perhaps the most expensive. Gear that can be enchanted with Fortify Alchemy are head (helmets hats, hoods circlets), hand (gloves, gauntlets), necklaces and rings. Poisoner is a good option if you actually use potions, but will feel like a wasted perk point if you only get it to increase the value of potions. Smithing potions and potions you will typically use) are Alchemist x5, Physician and Benefactor. Perks you definitely want (particularly for F. Value and power of a potion is affected by Alchemy skill level and perks, and gear enchanted with Fortify Alchemy. Not off hand but I can give yo some tips:

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