What are the recipes for the best Health / Stamina Potions

[Xzall]

Hey,

I'm sick of making small Health and Stamina Potions.

What are the ingredients to make better potions like Plentiful Health or Stamina?

I only know of Giants Toe + Wheat = a op Fortify Health Potion

[TAGma]

Giant Toe create valuable potions, but their magnitude is no better than any common ingredient.

Blue Mountain Flower + Wheat for example, will create a much less valuable potion (gold/septim), but in addition to fortifying health (same magnitude), it also has the desired healing effect.
This is one of the best early-game combinations, due to how easy to find and cheap these ingredients are.
Both ingredients can also be planted in your garden (Lakeview Manor, Windstad Manor, etc).

The Alchemist, Physician, and Benefactor perks improve the magnitude of your potions as well.
Having them all will create a potion that heals for approximately 93 points - similar to Potion of Vigorous Healing (100 healing points).
There is also the enchantment to fortify Alchemy.

I think the ingredients with the greatest healing magnitude are the ones added by Rare Curios, Void Essence + Saltrice = +10% ~ +20% - nothing too significant, not really worth it given how expensive/hard it is to find them.
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To restore Stamina, the cheapest/easiest to find are:
Bees; Mudcrab Chitin; Purple Mountain Flower.

Histcarp; Goldfish; Pearlfish; Pygmy Sunfish; also have this effect and can be grown in the fish hatchery at Windstad Manor.

[Xzall]

Originally posted by TAGma:

Giant Toe create valuable potions, but their magnitude is no better than any common ingredient.

Blue Mountain Flower + Wheat for example, will create a much less valuable potion (gold/septim), but in addition to fortifying health (same magnitude), it also has the desired healing effect.
This is one of the best early-game combinations, due to how easy to find and cheap these ingredients are.
Both ingredients can also be planted in your garden (Lakeview Manor, Windstad Manor, etc).

The Alchemist, Physician, and Benefactor perks improve the magnitude of your potions as well.
Having them all will create a potion that heals for approximately 93 points - similar to Potion of Vigorous Healing (100 healing points).
There is also the enchantment to fortify Alchemy.

I think the ingredients with the greatest healing magnitude are the ones added by Rare Curios, Void Essence + Saltrice = +10% ~ +20% - nothing too significant, not really worth it given how expensive/hard it is to find them.
-
To restore Stamina, the cheapest/easiest to find are:
Bees; Mudcrab Chitin; Purple Mountain Flower.

Histcarp; Goldfish; Pearlfish; Pygmy Sunfish; also have this effect and can be grown in the fish hatchery at Windstad Manor.

Ye I know basic cheap recipes + invest in perks after I level up, I just need some...catalysts I guess?

What are some awesome good / rare catalysts to add as 3rd ingredient to improve HP / Stamina?

[alexander_dougherty]

If you are wanting stamina, you probably need to be looking at Veg Soup, it only adds 1 point of stamina, Health and Magicka per second, but it stacks, so eat ten Veg Soups and you get 10 points of stamina, Health and Magicka per second

[Central]

Healing [en.uesp.net]
Stamina [en.uesp.net]


Check those articles. the small flame icon next to an ingredient shows how much power it will add to the potion, the coin icon shows how much more the potion will be worth if you use those ingredients.

If you have the anniversary edition (or the rare curios creation) than you can get some of the best ingredients from the khajit caravans.

[Xzall]

Originally posted by Central:

Healing [en.uesp.net]
Stamina [en.uesp.net]

Check those articles. the small flame icon next to an ingredient shows how much power it will add to the potion, the coin icon shows how much more the potion will be worth if you use those ingredients.

If you have the anniversary edition (or the rare curios creation) than you can get some of the best ingredients from the khajit caravans.

So for example for a Restore Healing potion the best ingredients are Blisterwort, Ambrosia, Flame Stalk, Saltrice etc?

What's "1st Effect"?

[Central]

it means that it it the first affect assigned to that plant.
If you have never seen that plant before than all effects will remain unknown, you can craft potions with it to learn its effects. If it is the first effect than it means you will also learn that effect from eating the ingredient.
Edit: and yes, those plants you named seem to make the best potions.
i have no idea if you an farm those ingredients, i didnt try that