Potions that level Alchemy faster

[dodger]

This is something I just can't find by web search at all. I did find one website that says crafting some potions results in faster leveling. But, assuming this is true, can anybody give some feedback on which potions to craft to level faster?

[ZemX]

Per UESP wiki, Alchemy in old Oblivion was a fixed amount of skill xp gain for any potion created with two or more ingredients. And their article on Remastered does not say that this changed. Other magic schools were changed so the skill increase is proportional to the base magicka cost of the spell. But it's not clear if Alchemy got the same treatment.

In Skyrim, the Alchemy skill gain was related to the monetary value of the resulting potion. i.e. Making more expensive potions with multiple effects and expensive ingredients resulted in the most gains per potion made.

I will say though that Alchemy seems to go up pretty fast here compared to other skills. I would just keep going for quantity and forget about what potions you are making. Whatever ingredients you can find the most of, use those to train.

[dodger]

OK, thanks for that. It would have made sense for them to make more complicated potions reward more XP. But, overall, things aren't so bad.

[ZemX]

It's still possible they did do that, but I haven't tried testing it. It would make sense given the change they made to the other schools of magic.

[Morgian]

If they did change something, I am sure it is tied to the value of a potion in gold.

I personally don't care, as the speed of alchemy is very fast. Between the Frostspire garden, the arcane university and harvesting plant-rich areas (around Skingrad for example) I can craft hundreds of potions in short time.

[ZemX]

Originally posted by Morgian:

If they did change something, I am sure it is tied to the value of a potion in gold.

So interesting thing I just noticed, I made a potion with two ingredients that did Restore Agility and Shield... it was worth 20 gold. Then I made a potion with just the two ingredients of Restore Agility from the previous potion, so it had just the one effect. Same 20gp value.

And yeah, both looked like they did they same amount of skill xp so while it might be tied to potion worth, it was weird the three ingredient two-effect potion was worth the same as a potion with just one of those same two effects. Definitely not how it works in Skyrim.

[Gregor Eisenhorn]

Mate, raid farms and make restore fatigue potions. There is a huge one right east of Kvatch and several others you can find on the wiki in order of amount of plants.

Then you just wait 3 consecutive days, rinse and repeat. You can max alchemy, be rich and have mercantile pretty high in a very short amount of time.

[parafwen]

i dont know how i feel about magic skills being fully levelled in 40 minutes...

restoration used to take like 6 solid hours of grinding, i maxxed it in legit 40 minutes, restoration was always the slowest...