Dragon's Dogma recovery item guide

This is a quick-reference guide for what I found to be the most useful healing items in the game. These are items that will restore health, stamina, or cure status effects. It also includes a listing for the ales that Selene can make for you.
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Stamina Recovery Items

These are useful items for restoring stamina on the fly, so you can continue fighting or running or jumping, or whatever it is you are doing that uses your stamina. Note that some of these items are found on Bitterblack Isle (the "Dark Arisen" content) and the abbreviation "BBI" is used for that location. The recovery amounts are ESTIMATES but should be reasonably accurate.

Name	Health	Stamina	Target	Location or Recipe
Gloamcap	0	200	Self	find in wilderness
Mushroom	0	250	Self	find in wilderness
Scrag of Beast	0	250	Self	common enemy drop
Small Fish	0	300	Self	fishing spots
Pickled Mushroom	0	300	Self	Curious Wine + Fiends Perch or Gloamcap
Fiends Perch	0	300	Self	find in wilderness
Sour Scrag of Beast	0	400	Self	let Scrag of Beast sit for a few days
Rousing Perfume	0	300	Party	Harspud Juice + Small Nut
Beast Steak	0	400	Self	common drop from cows
Saurian Tail	0	450	Self	drop from cutting off saurian's tail
Small Rank Fish	0	500	Self	let Small Fish sit for a few days
Large Fish	0	550	Self	fishing spots
Large Mushroom	0	550	Self	find in the wilderness
Backfat Oil	0	600	Self	combine any sour/rotten meat + small fang or elongated claw or hunk of ore
Sour Beast Steak	0	700	Self	let Beast Steak sit for a few days
Rousing Incense	0	600	Party	Harspud Sauce + Small Nut
Cragshadow Morel	0	700	Self	find in BBI
Ambrosial Meat	0	700	Self	rare drop from cows
Pyrepipe	0	700	Self	find in BBI
Large Rank Fish	0	800	Self	let Large Fish sit for a few days
Giant Fish	0	800	Self	fishing spots
Perfect Herb Ale	0	800	Party	Secret Herb Ale + Drop of Deliverance
Mushroom Potage	0	1250	Party	find in wilderness
Staminal Drench	0	2000	Self	combine Pyrepipe + Pickled Mushrooms
Sour Ambrosial Meat	0	10000	Self	Let Ambrosial Meat sit for a few days
Giant Rank Fish	0	10000	Self	let Giant Fish sit for a few days
Harspud Milk	200	200	Self	common find in boxes, or buy
Harspud Juice	350	350	Self	common find in boxes
Egg	500	500	Self	common drop from birds, snakes, or find in bird nest
Harspud Sauce	700	700	Self	uncommon find in boxes
Finest Herb Ale	500	500	Party	combine select herb ale + Peppermint Seed
Golden Egg	1500	1500	Self	let Egg sit for a few days

Health Recovery Items

This is a list of the useful items for recovering your health, so you stay alive a little longer than you probably should. Note that some of these are found on the Dark Arisen dungeon known as "Bitterblack Isle." That location is abbreviated as "BBI."

Name	Health	Stamina	Target	Location or Recipe
Greenwarish	120	0	Self	grows everywhere
Apple	200	0	Self	grows on apple trees
Anathema Grass	200	0	Self	find in wilderness
Dessicated Herb	300	0	Self	several combinations are possible
Grandgrapes	300	0	Self	grown on vine bushes
Potent Greenwarish	350	0	Self	combine Greenwarish + Sweet Pollen
Balmy Perfume	300	0	Party	combine Harspud Juice + Large Nut
Spring Water	350	0	Party	collect at healing spring with Empty Flask
Mature Greenwarish	500	0	Self	combine Potent G. + Curious Wine
Herb Ale	400	0	Party	Trade Gransys Herb to Selene
Immortelle	500	0	Self	rare drop from undead enemies
Balmy Incense	550	0	Party	combine Large Nut + Harspud Sauce
Red Wine	600	0	Self	combine Flask of Water + Moldy Grandgrapes
White Wine	600	0	Self	combine Flask of Water + Moldy Apple
Stonemoss Poultice	650	0	Self	combine Cloudwine + Cragwort or Devilwort
Strongwarish	800	0	Self	find near Bloodwater Beach
Kingwarish	1000	0	Self	find in BBI
Distilled Herb Ale	800	0	Party	Trade King Bay Leaf to Selene
Fragrant Herb Ale	800	0	Party	Trade Salomet's Secret to Selene, or Distilled Herb Ale + Nostalgia Dust
Salubrious Brew	1500	0	Self	(Stronwarish or Scarlet Angelica) + (Forgotten Arcanum or Blood Decanter)
Foreign Medicament	2000	0	Self	combine Immortelle + Greenwarish
Lordly Tonic	3500	0	Self	find in BBI
Godly Analeptic	10000	0	Self	find in BBI
Auspicious Incense	35000	0	Party	find on BBI
Vivifying Incense	10000	0	Party	find on BBI
Harspud Milk	200	200	Self	common find in boxes, or buy
Harspud Juice	350	350	Self	common find in boxes
Egg	500	500	Self	common drop from birds, snakes, or find in bird nest
Harspud Sauce	700	700	Self	uncommon find in boxes
Finest Herb Ale	500	500	Party	combine select herb ale + Peppermint Seed
Golden Egg	1500	1500	Self	let Egg sit for a few days

Status Recovery Items

This is a list of the useful status recovery items. For those times when you get hit with Blind or Petrify and you need to know what medicine will fix you up so you can keep fighting. Most of these will restore a small amount of health and/or stamina in addition to their status effects, but they are more useful as medicine than food. I am NOT including those items that only recover a single status effect for a single character, since those are available to purchase in just about every shop in the game.

Name	Effect	Target	Recipe
Liquid Vim	Keeps stamina from decreasing	Self	n/a
Ne'er Do Part	FULL CURE + status immunity	Party	forge it from the reward for "A Parting Gift" quest
Sobering Wine	status recover + immunity	Party	Isometricine + Verdigris Concoction
Panacea	recover from any status ailment	Self	Interventive + Lunanise, or Acid Sac + Violet Concoction
Interventive	recover torpor, silence, burn, freeze and poison	Self	Poison Sac + Cerulean Concoction
Light-Cure	recover blind, sleep, curse, and skill stifle	Self	Lunanise + Flask of Water, or Yellow Poison Sac + Verdigris Concoction
Lunanise	recover blind, sleep, skill stifle, curse	Self	grows in BBI
Isometricine	Recovers lowered stats	Self	White Orchid + Spring Water
Nostalgia Dust	Recover Possession + some HP	Party	Placative Brew + Violet Concoction, or Nightfall Cresset + Sunbright
Placative Brew	Reover Possession	Party	buy it
Cockatrice Liquor	Recover Petrify	Party	Secret Softener + Violet Concoction
Taglius Miracle	temp Strength boost	Party	n/a
Salomet Secret	temp Magic boost	Party	n/a
Decoction of Bandlilly	temp Magic Defense boost	Party	n/a
Steel Nut Salve	temp Defense boost	Party	n/a
Month Dried Harspud	max stamina +500 for 3 minutes	Self	find on BBI
Decade Dried Harspud	max stamina + 1000 for 3 minutes	Self	find in BBI
Fiendish Essence	max health + 500 for 3 minutes	Self	find in BBI
Fiendish Extract	max health + 1000 for 3 minutes	Self	find in BBI

Making Ale with Selene

Selene has several ales she can brew for you. They all affect your whole party when you drink them. There are also some ales that Selene cannot brew, and some that can be combined to produce different types of ale. Selene's ales sell for a decent amount of gold, and considering that the ingredients are mostly found FREE running a micro-brewery is a good way to make some cash. It is best to wait until after the mission "Witch Hunt" though, because at that point Selene will leave her hut in the woods and relocate to your house in Cassardis village where she is much easier to reach and you can crank out the ale much faster.

Remember, when Selene is making ale, she only gives you ONE of each type per visit. You have to either drink it, put it in storage, or sell it before she will give you another ale of that specific type. However, you can give her a Gransys Herb, a Southron Oregano, a King Bay Leaf, etc. all in the same visit and get one of every kind of ale from her.

1. Give Selene a Gransys Herb to receive a Herb Ale: recovers 400 health.
   
2. Give Selene a Southron Oregano for a Select Herb Ale: recover 650 stamina, but fall asleep.
   
3. Give Selene a King Bay Leaf for a Distilled Herb Ale: recover 800 health.
   
4. Give Selene a Kept Moldy Berry for a Secret Herb Ale: recover some health, but skill stifle.
   
5. Give Selene a Salomet's Secret for a Fragrant Herb Ale: recover 800 health.
   
6. Give Selene a Sobering Wine for a Finest Herb Ale: recover 550 health and 550 stamina.
   
7. Selene cannot directly brew Perfect Herb Ale: recover 800 stamina.
   
8. Combine Select Herb Ale + Peppermint Seed for a Finest Herb Ale (see 6).
   
9. Combine Distilled Herb Ale + Nostalgia Dust for a Fragrant Herb Ale (see 5).
   
10. Combine Secret Herb Ale + Drop of Deliverance for a Perfect Ale (see 7).

Final Thoughts on Recovery Items

Many of these items are commonly found, or else their components are. Some are quite rare. Some are growing as herbs, fruit on trees, or flowers. Others are dropped by monsters or found in boxes and chests. Keep an eye out for these types of things as you wander the world of Dragon's Dogma. They are not easy to miss, if you keep your eyes open.

Some of these items (particularly the meat and fruit) are time-sensitive. They go from "good" to "moldy/rank/sour" to "rotten" over the course of several days. Remember that this process can be stopped by combining the item at the decay stage you want with an airtight flask. This produces a "kept" item. Kept items function exactly like their "fresh" version, except where fetch-quest targets are concerned. If the quest says "find a kept..." then you need the kept version. If it does not specify "kept" then you need the fresh version.


If you are looking for some items to sell for quick cash...
First, try Selene's herbs. Those Gransys Herbs and Southron Oreganos grow wild all over the place and have no other use in the game, but the ale you make from them has a pretty big price tag. So in exchange for a couple of free herbs, you can get a jug of ale and sell it for a few hundred gold pieces.
Second, try the wine. You will find apples and grapes growing wild. Try the fields in the southwest of the map (start at Bloodwater Beach and move up and down the seaside cliffs nearby). Then get a bunch of empty flasks. Find a jug of water someplace and fill those flasks with regular water. Not Spring Water. Then in a few days when the apples and grapes turn moldy, combine them with those Flasks of Water. This will produce wines. White Wine comes from apples and Red Wine comes from grapes. Both are great health recovery potions (restore 600 health). They also sell for a big price but have very low weight!! The white wine sells for around 600 gold. The red wine sells for around 800 gold. It could be more, if you have the Suasion augment equipped. They're woth a bunch of money, they are light enough to carry a whole bunch, and in an emergency you can drink one to regain some health. Nature's perfect gift.

In terms of your need for status recovery items, there are some status effects that are encountered rarely while others are found about every twenty feet. In the main portion of the game, the only enemies who can petrify you are a single cockatrice and a single gargoyle. Both are special mission event bosses so they only appear once before you kill the dragon. The only enemy who can cause possession is the Drake who hides south of the Shadowfort. You do not need to fight him ever, since it is easy to avoid him. More dragon-type enemies with possession powers show up after you kill the dragon. Possession is only effective on Pawns; the Arisen is naturally immune. Lowered stats is not something you will encounter in the main game until the final dungeon, and it only lasts a short time, so I never really worry about that at all. Still, you might want to keep one or two isometricines on hand just in case. If you are a mage, sorceror, magic archer, or magic knight then you need to worry about Silence. If your damage is all physical stuff then you do not need to worry about Silence. Sleep is a temporary inconvenience. Lots of enemies can cause it, but it never lasts very long and it does not actually hurt you by itself. Same for freeze. Drench and Oil do not really hurt you at all so never worry about curing those, either. Curse makes a few limited appearances in the main game, mostly from undead enemies, so carry a couple of things to cure that - especially if you are going out at night or into the Catacombs. Now the really annoying status effects are going to be burn, poison, skill stifle, torpor and blind. Always have four or five items to cure each of those.

Now if you are venturing into Bitterblack Isle, or if you have already killed the main dragon and you are exploring the new monsters before you go through the Everfall... well in that case you need to go loaded for bear, dragons, cockatrices, and whatever else you might find. Bring lots of status recovery items and maybe a mage AND a sorceror to get the complete suite of recovery spells, too.

Good luck, Arisen.

[Mr. Moyer]

Yep there are a TON of NPCs in this game, and most of the escort quests have garbage rewards. But I'm still going to try.

[Huggles the Cat]

Don't forget there are some that are only available for escort in NG+ and if it's the Duke there are things you need to not do in the previous game's run in order to have gotten him. Someone on my discord group actually played through all of the escort quests out of curiosity. They said they felt drained after it and I think they said it also took them around 200 hours on that same file from start to finish with all escort missions completed.

[Mr. Moyer]

Also, I am sort of trying to build a guide to include ALL of the escort quests (quest-giver, destination, and rewards) but that is proving difficult for a couple of reasons: 1. my computer's graphics card is fried so I can't play this game right now ; 2. I'm working full time and I often have to go out of town for work, which leaves little time for gaming these days; 3. some of the gift items are difficult if not impossible to find in large quantities (i.e. foreign knife for the soldiers, large fish for NEARLY EVERY MAN IN GRAN SOREN, etc.) making it very tedious to raise everyone's affinity levels high enough to get their escort quest to pop on the board; and 4. Some people are available for questing early in the game, some later in the game, and some are always available so the timing is a bit difficult to nail down. And there are a lot of NPCs in this game.

[Mr. Moyer]

Mr.Huggles: good luck with your guide. I purposely wanted to stay away from things like listing the location for every item, since there is a bit of random chance in there and also because part of the fun of this game is in exploring the world the developers built for you. Also, during my play I find such things are really unnecessary except for a few of the really rare items would be good to have locations. I try to avoid getting into the tedious details like listing every spot where you can find Southron Oregano or every spot where you can mine ore or go fishing. I do have an expansive quest-based guide that lists all the side quests and main quests in the order you will want to do them in order to avoid letting any expire from getting too far along in the main story.

[Huggles the Cat]

@dj_moyer I'm actualy in the middle of doing my own guide for this game. I've pretty much got the location of all items memorized since i've been playing this since the demo and launch in 2012 (think the demo was 2011). Way more than 1,000 hours logged and knowing this game pretty much inside and out. Maybe i'll tackle helping out later once my guide is finished. It started out small (around 50 pages) but graduly built up to around 100+ pages (expected) as I kept adding more sections to cover. I need to finish this and all the test playthroughs needed for it before it start another sizable project. Do hit me up if you want a little more help in the future and it seems I may have forgoten. You can easily find me running the discord group for this game (when i'm not too sick or busy away from the computer).

[Mr. Moyer]

Some of these items are found RANDOMLY in certain containers only, with a very low chance of getting one. A few of them are GUARANTEED to be found always in the same chest in some forest or cave. Most of them are either growing wild, bought at a shop, or found as random loot from "any" container.

[Mr. Moyer]

@Mr.Huggles: my computer is currently FRIED due to graphics card issues so I can't play games until I get a new computer. But if you would like to take on the task of adding location info for some or all of these items then feel free. I promise you though it will be a big job; there are TONS of items in this game and the world you play in is pretty big.

[Huggles the Cat]

Very nice but some better detail on the Table could be more helpful (such as what region in the wilderness you could find some of those mushrooms (example... Mushroom: Wilderness-Gransys, Gloom Cap: Wilderness-Lake Hardship/Shadowfort region).

[apple.snowsong-voice actress]

Very helpful!