Alchemy

MasterSpatula · April 2016

I unlocked all traits on 5 characters last night. (Already had them on another one).

I know that ZOS has metrics that can track what people are doing in game. I wonder if last night's results showed an unusual amount of alchemy going on thanks to this fine guide!

iTzStevey · April 2016

Nice guide! Very useful information! Just wondering if anyone has a rough idea on how many materials it would take to get from 1-50? And what materials would be best to use? I understand using the correct level of solvent for your alchemy level is best just not what plants to use, i dont want to waste a lot of valuable plants getting from 1-50 lol

ContraTempo · May 2016

Here are the new Reagents with their effects, and the Solvents. This is all subject to change as it is just being tested. I am not going to go into effects of poisons here because I know those will be changing a lot before release.

Mudcrab Chitin

Increase Spell Resist
Increase Armor
Protection
Defile

Torchbug Thorax

Lower Armor
Lower Weapon Crit
Detection
Vitality

Butterfly Wing

Restore Helath
Lower Spell Crit
Sustained Restore Health
Vitality

Spider Egg

Reduce Speed
Sustained Restore Health
Invisible
Defile

Beetle Scuttle

Lower Spell Resist
Increase Armor
Protection
Vitality

Fleshfly Larva

Ravage Stamina
Vulnerability
Creeping Ravage Health
Vitality

Nightshade

Ravage Health
Protection
Creeping Ravage Health
Defile

Scrib Jelly

Ravage Magicka
Speed
Vulnerability
Sustained Restore Health

Solvents for poisons:

Grease LvL 3
Ichor LvL 10
Slime LvL 20
Gall LvL 30
Terebinthine LvL 40
Pitch-Bile CP 10
Tarblack CP 50
Night-Oil CP 100
Alkahest CP 150

In addition, these solvents change from vet levels to CP levels:

Purified Water CP 10
Cloud Mist CP 50
Star Dew CP 100
Lorkhan's Tears CP 150

Dreddnawt · May 2016

You can grind out Alchemy lvl 50 in under 30 minutes with 240 junk Reagents and about 50 of each Clear Water through Pristine Water. I used Luminous Russula and Wormwood since they are cheap and plentiful.

To find all Alchemy reagent traits it is much easier to wait until you are lvl 15 and unlock Laboratory Use. Then you can do these 17 combines instead to find all traits:

Blessed Thistle + Corn Flower + Nirnroot
Blessed Thistle + Dragonthorn + Wormwood
Blessed Thistle + Namira’s Rot + Water Hyacinth
Blue Entoloma + Luminous Russula + Water Hyacinth
Blue Entoloma + Namira's Rot + Nirnroot
Blue Entoloma + White Cap
Bugloss + Columbine + Mountain Flower
Bugloss + Nirnroot + White Cap
Columbine + Namira’s Rot + Wormwood
Corn Flower + Lady’s Smock + Water Hyacinth
Corn Flower + Luminous Russula + Wormwood
Dragonthorn + Stinkhorn + Water Hyacinth
Emetic Russula + Stinkhorn + Violet Coprinus
Emetic Russula + Water Hyacinth
Imp Stool + Luminous Russula + Mountain Flower
Imp Stool + Luminous Russula + Nirnroot
Lady’s Smock + Violet Coprinus

@Tevalaur
Good luck with your guide!!

Aquanova · May 2016

An Awesome guide OP.

Bravo

Tevalaur · May 2016

Dreddnawt wrote: »

To find all Alchemy reagent traits it is much easier to wait until you are lvl 15 and unlock Laboratory Use. Then you can do these 17 combines instead to find all traits:
...

I disagree about the waiting until level 15 to have a clue what reagents do, and personally recommend immediately using the initial list of 30 paired combinations (which will also help you gain a few levels) rather than wait to use trios for all trait learning.

Once you do reach level 15 and have Laboratory Use, 11 additional combinations (as described in the guide) will get you the new reagents' traits -- and the changed trait on one existing alchemy plant. But relying on chance combinations without any real knowledge of reagents' traits until level 15 doesn't sound helpful to me.

Tevalaur · May 2016

Dreddnawt wrote: »

@Tevalaur
Good luck with your guide!!

Thanks, I've been busily updating my guide as DB information has rolled out. As I don't personally have access to the PTS I really want to thank those who do and are posting information. It has had the new reagents in the reagent chart for a couple of weeks now thanks to @Alanar in the PTS feedback thread, and now has the solvents thanks to @ContraTempo

P.S. I believe other than some updated screencaps it's nearly good to go except for what the poisons of different levels are called. Can anyone help with that info? (i.e. a level 3 poison is a ___ like a level 3 potion is a "Sip") (edit: extrapolating from screencaps I've seen, it seems they're just called "Poison" with a Roman numeral)

As a side note, I'm not going to work on "super poisons" until they do some more testing on the PTS and ZOS gets the power of combinations working as they'd like. It wouldn't make sense to publish what's currently popular on the PTS as ZOS staff have already said the durations/power of many effects are not comparable to what will go live.

Tevalaur · May 2016

I've spent the afternoon on PTS to update my website's guide to alchemy. If you wish to see the updated guide to alchemy and how the Dark Brotherhood changes affect it, you can find that here.

It also now has a pdf version (be warned: 23 pages!) designed with careful table/page-breaks for printability.

Tevalaur · July 2016

Updated this guide recently, rewriting some of the text and adding a section about multi-effect poisons (with recipes). I will likely be adding more multi-effect poison recipes over the next few weeks as well...