Nirnroot vs Elixir of Exploration

[Terran Ghost]

Good people of the Imperial City!

Edit: thanks for the replies! :)

Do you think doing the Seeking Your Roots quest is worth the Nirnroot, or should I just keep it to make my own potions?

I thought the potion you get from the quest would give a permanent boost to something, but it is temporary. I'm not even sure what I'd use it for. I'd probably stash it for a rainy day and be too skittish to actually use it.

[R3sistance]

I'd just do the quest, with the value of the potions you can just buy better ingredients from a vendor anyways.

[ntl69]

DEFINITELY. The 'elixir of exploration' (various strengths) add health etc for 300 ish seconds. The most powerful potion increases many stats by 20. That is huge. To play on harder difficulties (expert or master) the potions are a real help. The quest itself requires way too much grinding (finding 100 ninroot means combing every inch of cyrodil).

I cheat. Console command add 100 ninroot, go to Sinderion directly, and get every potion of exploration and complete every stage of the quest in 5 min. Sinderion sells alchemy supplies and is a good source, he has equipment etc and maybe the best selection of any alchemy vendor.

[R3sistance]

Early game the fortify skills might be good, I'd only use it when levelling said skills. It should be Blade, Blunt, Destruction, Restoration, Security and Sneak. These skills all cap effect at 100 tho so the potions do become essentially worthless in late game, the fortify health and fatigue 20 points for 300 seconds isn't worth much and it has night eye which can be annoying to some people.