I was playing around with my Alchemy table the other day. I got to the point where I was just throwing ingredients together to see what would happen.

I made a potion that Damaged Stamina Regen 100% for 24 seconds and it Restored Stamina 24 points. I call it my "I am too tired to rest potion". I have done the same thing with Mana and Health potions but not this balanced of a bipolar potion.

What weird ones have you stumbled across?

I imagine the game had to think a while before deciding whether this was a stamina reducing poison or a stamina increasing potion.

I've yet to make a TES V potion that dumb, although it does remind me of one from TES III that had water breathing and water walking - I figured it was in case you tripped.

the target will lose more than 24 stamina points in 24 seconds so I would say it's better than nothing

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What about the potion of Air Breathing? Srsly though, isn't that what the last perk in the Alchemy tree is for?

invisibility, dmage magicka potion i havent tried it out to see if the magicka damage will make you visible or not though

it wont make you visible

As you might expect, most of the recipes with 4+ effects are a bit weird. The max you can get given the current ingredient set is five effects:

Ingredients ? Effects
Jarrin Root, Blisterwort, Human Heart ? Damage Health, Damage Magicka, Damage Stamina, Damage Magicka Regen, Frenzy
Glow Dust, Hanging Moss, Glowing Mushroom ? Damage Magicka, Damage Magicka Regen, Fortify Destruction, Resist Shock, Fortify Health
Hanging Moss, Bear Claws, Eye of Sabre Cat ? Damage Magicka, Fortify Health, Damage Magicka Regen, Fortify One-handed, Restore Stamina
Daedra Heart, Eye of Sabre Cat, Silverside Perch ? Restore Health, Damage Stamina Regen, Damage Magicka, Restore Stamina, Ravage Health
Scaly Pholiota, Creep Cluster, Mora Tapinella ? Weakness to Magic, Fortify Illusion, Regenerate Stamina, Fortify Carry Weight, Restore Magicka

Not sure which of those are poisons, and which are potions; they all have a mix of beneficial and harmful effects. Anybody know how that is determined?

I have whipped up a poison that does ravage health, damage health, and vulnerability to poison. Not so much wierd, as sickeningly nasty...

Psst.. Try jarrin root an nirnroot! You can only make one in the whole game because you can only get one jarrin root from the DB, it will 1-shot a dragon!
Save it in a special place in your house!

I lol'd at this. That potion has my dumbest beat: Fortify Smithing and Damage Stamina. I called it "Daydream Lotion" because I can't see swinging a hammer and not needing to keep your stamina up. I figured you'd settle down on the couch after a long day of dragonslaying and chug a few of them. Then just veg out on the couch with your companion and talk about all the cool things you would totally make... just as soon as you had a good nap.

I got a paralysis poison that restored health. For when you want the prone person that you're slaughtering to be healthy, I guess.

I got Fortify light armor combined with damage stamina and damage stamina regen (I think). Talk about cross purposes.

My two favorites so far are Fortify Two-Handed and Resist Fire (My Dragon-Killing Potion) and Invisibility with Fortify Health Regen (My Run-and-Hide Potion).

I wish we could name potions/poisons ourselves. I never think to check "Resist Poison" (an effect I rarely use) when I need to "Cure Disease" and the potion has both effects, but the game logic names it poorly.

I think the point of it is to give you enough Stamina for one last Power Attack for like a 'death blow', but, yeah, it's pretty funny. You be careful with that. XD

Fortify Two-handed + Frenzy conjures a nice image somehow. I doubt Frenzy works on yourself, though. Fun to pickpocket unto someone, perhaps.

So if you hit a mob with the damage stamina poison, do they just sit down and tell you to wait a minute while they rest up?

Hm, the oddist potion I have ever made was a posion. It damaged exactly 35 points of health, & restored 35 points of health.

You're the nicest assassin ever! XD

I actually saved the potion for a good laugh. I went into my unique/oddity item storange & noticed it restored 36 points of health.

So yes, it turns out I am!

poison of paralyze + restore health lol.

poison of drain health+restore stamina

it is like beating them to make them tougher (like monks do)

This thread makes me grin.

More fun pots/poisons, please!
-Loth