You find Jazbay Graqes in the area of the hot waters and geysers south of Windhelm. They grow on the ground. They are flat and yellow-brownish in colour and can be found on the roads in that area, too. There is one quest where you need to find 20 of them. Once you know what and where to look for can you find them often.

Daedra Hearts can be stolen from a few places, like the Companions and the Vigilant of Stendarr. Easiest however, and terribly boring, too, is to buy them in shops and can be found there rather frequently. The quests around the Daedras will sometimes spawn daedras and you can loot their hearts.

FWIW, the first time I became Arch-Mage I went ahead and looted the place from top to bottom. None of it ever respawned; and that was over a period of somewhere around 30 levels. It was depressing to go in there. It was like I'd [censored] the place of all that was good about it.

P.S. Pearls: I have two right now and 1) I'm afraid to use them in any potion because they're so rare and 2) is there a potion that exists that make it worth using them in?

I've always considered Dwarven Oil to be pretty common. You just have to go to Dwemer ruins to get it. It's also a good ingredient in Restore Magicka potions. As for Spriggin Sap, there's a quest that nets you 5-6 bottles and if one cares to go back, I think you can get more every 30 in-game days or so (maybe less).

Sabre Cat teeth are also used in Fortify Smithing potions.

They seem to used for making a few of the 4-effect potions (potions that contain 4 different effects). I would however not give this too much attention. What cannot be made in a potion of 5 or 4 effects, well, can always be made in a potion of just 1 or 2 effects. So it is not really worth the bother.

I have got like 800-900 chaurus eggs and perhaps just as many salt pines in my satchel at Breezehome. Compared to some of the ingredients can Dwarven Oil be considered somewhat rare. Like somebody already further up mentioned that one needs to get it out of their original owners, making it not an easy picking.

Not really. Pearls can be used in Restore Magicka, Restore Stamina, Resist Shock, and Fortify Block potions. You can do all that with common and cheap ingredients.
Small Pearls can be used in Restore Stamina, Resist Frost, Fortify Restoration, and Fortify One-Handed potions. Again all that can be done with common and cheaper ingredients. My hope is that they are useful for a quest.

Everything respawns in the Archmage's Quarters after 30 days of not being there. Everything. Even the soul gems. I know because they'd respawned on top of my Staff of Magnus I'd put in the display case.

True enough. I think I quit collecting Chaurus eggs at the FF Lighthouse when I got to 200. It became tedious. But I also remember another character where I had a similar amount of Dwarven Oil. I used all the oil but not the Chaurus eggs because by thenI had so much money it wasn't worth the time to keep pumping out invisibility potions to sell. But I always have a need for Restore Magicka... I think I might be making your argument for you.

They happen to be the only ingredient that has both of these properties. Meaning if you want a potion with both effects, it must include a Pearl.

You are right because I opened a lot of clams and never found a pearl inside. Only clam meat. Besides underwater there is nothing to see compared to Morrowind. I could not even kill the slaughterfishes with a dagger. At level 75, when you don't need them anymore, you can buy all kind of ingredients.

Not in my game. It may be a difference in systems. I play on XBOX and maybe you play on PC or PS3. Or it could have been a glitch in that happened in that game alone. But I'm not bs'ing about the stuff never respawning for me. If I'm going to lie about something it'll be IRL, probably to someone from the IRS.

I came out of Mzulft with 44 dwarven oils. I left some behind due to weight. It's not hard to get as long as you aren't bothered by Dwarven ruins. I got quite a bit of it from dwarven spiders. Some of it was lying around in rooms (chests and parts tables). Not being a jerk, I have a friend who hates Falmer and Centurions. He won't go in unless he has no choice. Oil and centurion cores are not reason enough for him.

White Cap, Dragon's Tongue, Mora Tapinella, and Elves Ear can do all I need the oil to do and it is cheaper and easier to find. Just be careful which ones you mix together.

Daedra Hearts. Not that hard to find later on, but they certainly are not common or even uncommon. They're rare.
That's pretty much it. I can't think of any more ingredients mostly because I haven't done much alchemy.

You can get them here (4 at a time every like 3-4 game weeks) after the quest:

True, but it is easier and cheaper to have a potion that Restores and Fortifies Magicka, and another that Restores and Fortifies Stamina and Resists Poison. The pearls aren't worth the hassle.

I completely agree, but I thought it was an interesting tidbit of information.

How about most abundant?
I'd have to say mountain flower, of course, since they're everywhere.
In certain interior locations glowing mushroom, charus egg, and the regular shrooms can be found in >400 quantities -
Chillwind depths, Frostflow Lighthouse, and Tovalds Cave for example.

^ Mudcrab Chitin and Salt Piles.

Oh, I know already, but earlier on in the game they're harder to get. Its actually pretty easy to get later on, i.e, after you finish that quest.

- I think the Spriggan don't give up Spriggan Sap (which is kind of odd). They're around though. Some alchemists might have them, or some shack in the wild, or College of Winterhold. Can't remember any precise location though. UESPWiki could know, though.
- You're wrong with Powdered Mammoth Tusk; you're likely confusing it with Mammoth Tusk Powder which is quest-related. PMT is very rare but obtainable, though. Actually just found my first (in that save) from a dead Conjurer's body.
- Wispmothers are around. There's one in Blackreach, one near Windhelm, northeast or so, one in the quest named The Pale Lady (doh), and there are others. One of those monument locations had only a Wispmother, and then the location was cleared. Also these could be sold and there's at least one in Arch-Mage's room in College of Winterhold.
- The amounts of Daedra on Nirn have lessened critically after the Oblivion Crisis. It seems, when
Others have been aswered.


Untrue it seems. The plants growing in the middle of the room seem not to. I picked most of those up before I was the Arch-Mage, and now that I am, those "containers" are still empty (i.e. the plants haven't grown back). Too bad, I'd love the look of that wildlife up there in my office.

That's weird, did you wait the full 30 days? I know I've gone back there every so often to stock up on Soul Gems and those potions that are on the shelves. I'm not sure if I checked the garden in the middle specifically though.

Well, you can do the quest pretty early on (I got the invitation real early on both of my playthroughs). I did it earlier on my first character (wanted the hearts for the armor) and I think I had to use healing pots, but on my 2nd one (light armor) I did do it later and didn't need pots.

Chaurus eggs, I pick them all up. It is the light. It has got to be the glowing light. I do not know why I keep doing this. I left the Frostflow Lighthouse with over 500 of them. All hand picked.

you can buy from vendor, just browse their wares.

the rarest is the powdered mammoth tusk, not even avail through merchant.

it's not worth the effort to hunt for any, as you can find another ingredients for the effect you want.