I like the idea in principle, especially for RP purposes, but gathering all that junk and trying to throw it all together to come up with some sort of beneficial potion... it just takes too long for a one-use kind of deal. I don't like the alchemy system in this game at all, does anyone else feel this way?

I like catching butterflies.

I wasn't too fond of it until i realised it was the best way to make money, the weight to value ratio is unbeatable... Now i love it

Never felt that way... alchemy is pretty much a "have to" for me. I just can't pass up all those ingredients as I roam. My next character will probably not do it, for RP reasons, but me personally will feel the loss.

It is indeed very convoluted. I'm trying to get some interest into a mod here http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1342493-req-alchemy-revised/
Just my ideas, I dont know the CK but I might learn to make this.

I love it. Liked it in oblivion, hated it in morrowind, but now it rocks! The table tells you what potions you can make, tons of money, really cool potions.

As someone who always obsessively collects any ingredients I pass by? I always end up doing Alchemy at some point. (Even if I wasn't working on it originally, I realize that I've got 700+ lbs of ingredients in my chest in my house, and figure I might as well do something with them..... )

I think echanting is much more tedius. At least with potions you can spam create. You've got to go through the individual process for each enchanted item.

I can spend hours just with trying to catch dragonflies. They are a little devils to catch. Canis Root are also quit the fun. You sometimes only find it when you stand right in front of one. Try finding some in the marsh south of Solitude. It is mind blowing how hard it can be. And finding a River Betty puts a warm smile to my face. Nothing tedious about it.

Only the interface can get in the way if you want to experiment with lots of ingredients.

for my roleplays it works great. i, too, can't pass up ingredients and it's second nature. plus, it doesn't take long, after eating every 1st ingredient you get, to soon have a huge list of recipes that encompasses the 2-4 tier effects.

it could definitely have some damn customization though!!

what i also like, as far as rping goes, is that i spend all this time doing the fun alchemy stuff with one character, while, my non-alchemist character gets to just skip all of it. and, go on his way. very nice.

At first I wasn't too crazy about the alchemy system, but sfter playing for a while it has grown on me. I still do kinda miss Oblivion's system, but I guess that's just the that it goes sometimes.

I'm a compulsive hoarder, I can't walk a path in Skyrim without picking every flower I see. After a while I have hundreds of alchemical ingredients - what else should I do with them if not brew a ton of potions?

It's more fun than crafting a thousand of iron daggers, anyway.

the only tedium is selling your 'levelling' potions with multiple conflicting effects and a hefty price tag. but that just makes farming for herbs a case of touring alchemy vendors and clearing out thier stash of ingredients.

the whole experimentation thing is at least involving you in the process, much more immersive than making 500 pairs of leather bracers and then gaining the ability to craft demonic arms.

and i use my potions and lotions quite a lot. besides healing there's a full range of buffs for every situation, and the poisons... the things i mix make frostbite venom look like diet coke

Yes. Not the greatest.

Yes. I've got plenty of money to buy whatever potions I cannot find. the ingredients are really cluttering the chest in the alchemy lab. At least after crafting a ton of daggers you can learn to craft decent armor and weapons. Then you enchant those daggers and sell them.

the only time ingredient collecting has irk me was when i purchased a horse. I'm one of those people that if i see a bunch of ingredients, i can not pass them up. needless to say, i was mounting and dismounting my horse every 30 seconds until i decided to just leave the horse in the wilderness, so i could go on an ingredient picking extravaganza.

Something I've learnt with using alchemy on 3 previous play throughs, it only usually requires 4 major picking sessions, then you're sorted. alchemy is easy to level up and once it's leveled, it's just a case of picking which ones you need. Alternatively, once you have tons of mega expensive potions coming out of your ears, just buy every ingredient an alchemist stocks and you'll never run out. I just trade some of my potions for all their ingredients.

Strangely enough, it's the first ever TES game I've bothered with alchemy as it seemed a chore in the likes of oblivion etc.

It's tedious at first, but I think it gets interesting when you actually got a whole list down of all the potions/poisons you can make.
So once I know those effects, I could just collect only particular ingredients I want for a specific potion/poison.

It's good fun when you're exploring, looking around and seeing weird things on the ground. Gotta pick that up!

I prefered the Oblivion system with Alchemy where you uncovered the effects with improved skill. The new system in Skyrim, eat a bunch off ingredents or throw them together and see what happens is Tedious to say the least. It pretty much forces you to go online to find an Alchemy calculator to find out what does what, one of the reasons I dropped my Ranger build.

I kind of find it not tedious enough. I think I would like it more if you could combine more ingredients for different effects. Its a bit too simplistic. If simply combining two ingredients together was all that was necessary to make potions worth hundreds of septims, every person in Skyrim would be doing it.

I'm a collector so I collect ingredients but the process of making potions is tedious. You should be able to name your potions just like enchanting. And the interface should remember the name so to recreate that potion all you would need is the ingredients in your inventory and to click on the name - like cooking. I don't like mixing this and that to get a good potion and having to write the ingredients on a slip of paper because with all those ingredients who can remember what you used.

I really enjoy it.

Don't say its too tedious, or they will cull it like they did with spellmaking in the next game.

Its not for everyone, but that's the same with most pieces of the games.

I enjoy it, but if it starts to be tedious I just don't do it anymore unless I need something specific.

Tedious

Definition: Meaningless buzzword.

This is the sign of the true TES fan.

I agree with you, I am like that as well.

I also like catching butterflies and fish as well.

I also love cooking, though it is a shame that you cannot level up with that in the same way that you can with Alchemy.