My alchemy skill just hit 100, and now all the potions I make behave as if I was back at Alchemy skill level 1. Poison with 3 pts of dmg? Healing potion for 10 pts?

I also have tried using/unequipping alchemy gear, with makes no change.

I have Alchemy perks 1/2 way up the tree.

Anyone else seen this? Is there a fix?

Did you save and restart the game after installing the latest patch?

Also check your skill tree and see if there is really a 100. It happened to me once that my one-handed combat skill went down from 100 to 25 without any visible effects in the magic menu. No shrine could fix it. All I could do was to load an older save file (no mods so far btw).

Also, after installing patch 1.4 (over the 1.4-beta patch) did two dragons not give me their soul. They died but did not burn up nor showed any soul trap animation or new soul for shouts.

I'm running the game post-patch; no older saves to fall back on pre-patch.

The skill does show 100.

Tried restartting and all that, no changes.

Alchemy is a regular pain in the [censored] lol. Why bother with it.

Because fortify smithing +68%. Because lingering damage 17 for 10 seconds. Because increase regeneration 68% for 300 seconds. And that's without even close to maxing out the skill or perks.

Some dragons don't give you souls...this has been the case since day of release. I think those ones which don't are labelled simply as 'dragon', rather than a specific type, such as 'ancient', 'elder', etc.

Thanks for the info. It was the first time this has happened though I have killed lots of them before. And not being able to roll back a patch and to verify ... well.