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Question regarding combining reagents for alchemy

msetten
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I am trying to understand the exact mechanism behind how potions and poisons are made. I am far in understand how it works, though something baffles me:

If I combine Bugloss (Spell, Resist, Restore Health, Cowardice, Restore Magicka) with
White Cap (Cowardice, Ravage Magicka, Spell Resist and Detection) and
Chaurus Egg (Timidity, Ravage Magicka, Restore Stanima and Detection),
I get a potion with the following effects: Spell Resist, Cowardice and Detection.

But if I replace Chaurus Egg with Corn Flower (Restore Magicka, Spell Power, Ravage Health and Detection), I only get Spell Resist and Detection, so loosing Cowardice even though that is both in Bugloss and White Cap.

Why does this happen? What rule am I missing?
Edited by msetten on March 24, 2021 11:32AM
  • tmbrinks
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    Cowardace and Spell Power are opposite effects.

    The Spell Power Portion of Corn Flower cancels out one of the Cowardace, so you only have 1 Cowardace, so it doesn't show up in the potion.
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  • msetten
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    tmbrinks wrote: »
    Cowardace and Spell Power are opposite effects.

    The Spell Power Portion of Corn Flower cancels out one of the Cowardace, so you only have 1 Cowardace, so it doesn't show up in the potion.

    Ah thanks. I knew that a few effects cancelled each other out, but wasn't aware of these two being opposites.
    Does anyone know a list of which effects are opposite of each other?
  • tmbrinks
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    UESP has them. I don't know if there's a list that shows all, but the do have them on the individual pages.

    https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Cowardice

    Link for Cowardice.
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  • msetten
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    Thank you. I have gone through all those page figure it out.
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  • allhailskippy
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    I use this site for potions. The way it removes all the non-matching components makes it the best one I've seen so far: http://esoalchemyguide.com/potions
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