So for all 3 games now I have always tried to get into Alchemy with at lesat one of my characters, but get so bored. Travelling across the land picking plants and then making potions that you could just find yourself .I think its the fact that it takes a while to level and you waste your time alot of the while because your picking these plants, experimenting with them, and having a high chance of actually losing that herb and not getting anything out of it.

I guess i just enjoy other parts of the game alot more, stealing potions and exploring. But is there anyone who does really enjoy Alchemy and not just see it as a boring side thing to do, to just get your hand on some powerful potions.

I love alchemy, im actually playing a pure "alchemist" at the moment, just made a topic about it yesterday, started today though, so its to early to tell how it will work out, but yea, alchemy is my favorite crafting skill.

It's hurt by the fact that potion loot is so common. The same goes with the Lockpicking skill and lockpicks. Alchemy is a power skill to invest in but generally only to boost Smithing and Enchanting, beyond that its usefulness is questionable.

My previous character at one point was walking around with 40~ Ultimate Healing Potions.

Waste of time and space. It's all but impossible to perk the skill to the point where potions are stronger than ones you can find or buy. And most potions are useless, or not worth carrying. The effects of the few useful potions are better found by correct use of guardian stones and enchanting. I've made hundreds of potions, and actually used maybe twenty.

I`ve experimented with alchemy with one of my recent characters,and didn`t find it that difficult to level up to 100 to be honest.As you spend most of your time travelling around on foot anyway,so stopping to pick up plants etc isn`t that inconvenient really - no more inconvenient than stopping to loot bodies or chests is it? Once you`ve got enough money you can train with alchemists at whiterun + Morthal,then make potions,then sell the potions back to the alchemists and get all your money back plus profit.Keep repeating this process and you will level up very quickly

You do know that you can get the effect from several potions of the same type if there just slighty different right? Like capping your magic resistance for a minute. Thats not useless no mather how you look at it xD

I kind of like it. I played an alchemist character once. It was pretty satisfying taking the random stuff I found, and making it into a valuable/useful potion.

I beg to differ. You can make both potions and poisons that are far more powerful than anything you can find or buy. More powerful and with multiple effects. In fact the ONLY way to get multiple effects is from Alchemy. No merchant or chest will yield that.

EDIT : It is also arguably the most powerful skill in the game. It is by far the most versatile.

I always take alchemy. The potions you can make are stronger than the ones you can find, minus the cheating "ultimate" potions that restore all of your Health/Magicka/Stamina.

The potions I usually mass produce and use are Damage increasing potions of whatever weapon I use, paralysis, invisibility, and health/magicka/stamina. Of course smithing also. I would use pickpocketing potions if they weren't still glitched.

I can't help but feel more and more skills keep losing usefulness though. Compared to Oblivion the alchemy in Skyrim is weak, exept for the restoration exploit of course. I could do hundreds of poison damage in Oblivion, and using a healin over time potion I could swim through lava and not die.



Definitely if used right. I mean what other skill can increase every other skill besides itself? none.

I like making poisons nothing else.

I've loved Alchemy since Oblivion, my first TES game. I love collecting things, and giving them a use. Morrowind's alchemy system is a bit more open ended, but things feel less like there's a point since the most interesting combination will probably fail to become a potion. Skyrim's isn't as fun, but being able to watch my character make the potions is a joy. I love finding how things work, and alchemy is endless amounts of how things work.

I don't get why people think alchemy isn't useful, in my opinion it is the most powerful crafting skill, allowing you to become much more powerful for those 60 seconds than enchanting or smithing if you didn't use exploits or abuse the system.

I love it. It felt really weird when I started a character with the intent not to use Alchemy, other than mixing very simple restore health/stamina potions using recipes, and only with ingredients she bought. Walking by all those pretty flowers waiting to be picked, all those butterflies waiting to be caught...

Then I started to pick ingredients she "knew" would make restore health potions. Then I started try out ingredients she "didn't knew" what they were for.

Now she's level 28, and I pick flowers and collect butterflies after all But I stick to restore health/stamina and resist fire/frost, and don't experiment that much with this character.

I think for an Assassin like my main character Alchemy is VERY useful. He usually cant even survive a direct fight with a bandit boss. So to have some poison and paralyze potions is essential.

If I see an arcane enchanter and and alchemy table side by side...I usually hit up the alchemy table first.

I always found alchemy more like a fun way to experiment and find out what worked best and what didn't, and what made the most expensive potion I wouldn't need. In Morrowind, it's more focused for me since if I want a fortify attack superpotion, I will seek out all the things that have the effect that I can, and hope for the best. I hate fortify potions, though. I don't care if they are useful, I don't like timed stuff. I like constant effects. If I want immunity to disease, I will use enchanting for that. Timed things usually make me nervous.

I love it too...it reminds me of my profession which is pharmacy...we just obviously dont use herbs.

There are two potions I make and use heaps of - Invisibility (because I haven't come across the spell book yet) and Paralysis. It's always fun to take an invisibility potion, then go up to a bandit and give him/her (reverse pickpocket) a paralysis potion before running him/her through with a sword, or thumping him/her with a mace.

It could also be like warfare at the Wal-Mart. Without morons accidentally creating mustard gas. Alchemy, it's safer than a Wal-Mart.

<3 @ Homemade poisons of all sorts

I've loved alchemy in Morrowind, oblivion and skyrim, hell my Morrowind character has a huuuuuuuuuuge alchemy lab in her study.

I love Alchemy.. Its a nice skill to have

I used a bit of Alchemy during my last playthrough as a High Elf mage. I didn't really use any of the potions I made but by picking up every ingredient I came across in my travels and making potions from them, I was able to sell them off and make a nice bit of money. Because of this it was very useful at low levels. In terms of actually getting use from the potions though, the only potions really worth carrying were ones I found, because I got bored of the skill long before I was able to make powerful potions.

Alchemy is my favorite skill,it's very powerfull and versital.
I like traveling around in Skyrim and enjoying the sights so picking ingredients isn't time consuming or boring to me.
Besides what better way to get connected with nature for my hunter character than alchemy.

Unexploited Smithing is considerably stronger than unexploited Alchemy.

I like it! It adds to my role-paying but also its a worth while skill to me. I always have a range of potions for every situation and need. Plus some fire resist ones for my vampire. Awesome addition