Well, you can bind them to Q in the inventory screen. Hold Q while the cursor is over a potion and it'll bring up the quick potion menu, hold Q while in the world to select which potion is bound to Q. There might be a way to bind individual potions to a button too and maybe that's actually what you were talking about but if there is I don't know it.

As for whether they get better, I have no idea. I remember seeing some potions in a guild store that looked pretty awesome, boosting crit chance and things like that, but I didn't have a particularly good frame of reference for them since I was level 20. Invis might not last longer than 3 seconds at any tier though, the devs might be wary of making a potion last longer than a class invis.

I'm also using some mix potions I bought which give extra Health/magicka/stamina all in 1 so it definately gets to be useful

Just skin a Khajiit and wear it. Master camouflage.

Aicilef wrote: »

Three second invisibility is mainly for nightblades, so they can get the +70% crit, for others the three seconds is indeed pretty useless.

With the huge ability delay in this game rarely do I even get a hit off in those 3 seconds as a nightblade. That's excluding PvP, where you might as well add 2-3 seconds to every move you make (in a seige setting).

What i'm saying, is even as a nightblade the 3 seconds feels very impractical and useless.

Yea it's actually better than the skill nightblades can access, at least as a one-off. You can improve other potions quite a bit once you get the ability to add 3 reagents to them too.

Invis for 3 seconds that can be used while in combat and while in 'locked down' stage is useful. But the other likes 10 seconds of weapon dps etc, they may appear useless, but once you get 3 items mixed and work out what combine combo there are, you can make some interesting combos.

I use

My character is at level VR1 and has all the alchemy stats maxed out and I can only make a 3 second invisibility or stun potion using VR5 solvent.

The "Medical Use"s kill only allows 10% increase induration which isn't much since 10% of 3 seconds is useless.

It should be increased to 10 seconds, like the rest of the potions.

With the exception if making a potion that restores magica, stamina, and health, (when taking damage) the rest of the potions are worthless.

Increase stealth radius might be useful in PVP if a player goes into stealth mode on you (its effect, doesn't last long either). The Mages Guild Magelight is more practical and cost less skill points.

I didn't see any different in the 200 critical or spell damage potions; someone can correct me if I am wrong on this, I just did a quick and then reviewed the FTC logs.

Also many of the reactants only have negative effects, so what's the point of collecting them?

At least in Skyrim the negative potions could be placed on a weapon to increase its damage.

When you get three ingredient upgrade, you can create potions that restore X amount of health immediately Plus X amount over Y seconds ie 234 Points of health plus 234 Points over 10 seconds (from an actual potion I made not random numbers despite how it looks).

This can be handy.

Plus you can have potions that do about five things at once.

Aicilef wrote: »

As a level 50 alchemist (woot), I can tell you that potions will become pretty great, yes!

You can have...
- a potion that heals health, magicka AND stamina in one single sip
- a potion that raises your spell damage and restores magicka
- a potion that raises your armor and restores health
...

But the example that you gave, the potion of invisibility, stays indeed at three seconds. Three second invisibility is mainly for nightblades, so they can get the +70% crit, for others the three seconds is indeed pretty useless.

I use it to sneak past mobs that I otherwise can't get around. Useful for getting out of dungeons and past guards.

There is a 4 second invisibility potion (Blue Entoloma, Nirnroot, and Namira's Rot). It doesn't matter what solvent you use, it comes out the same:



I find that Namira's Rot is not very common, so I usually just make the 3-second version.

Here's my standard set of potions. I use the addon "Harvin's Potions Alert" to help trigger switching the active potion, and then prompt me when it's time to use it, though I frequently ignore it.

1. The most powerful potion combo, (Bugloss, Columbine, Mountain Flower), restores Health, Magicka, and Stamina, with an extra boost to Health. There are two other all-in-one potions (Bugloss, Columbine, Dragonthorn) and (Columbine, Lady's Smock, Mountain Flower) but this is the only one with the extra health boost.

2. A Magicka potion that restores Magicka, Health, and boosts Spell Critical: (Columbine, Lady's Smock, Water Hyacinth)

3. A Stamina potion that restores Stamina, Health, and boosts Weapon Critical: (Dragonthorn, Lady's Smock, Water Hyacinth).


There are various other potions that are useful for various situations.

A nice one for a boss fight would be Weapon Crit + Spell Crit (Dragonthorn, Namira's Rot, Water Hyacinth). Keep your self-heals handy, however.

An "Oh crap!" escape potion that restores health, gives a 10 second Unstoppable, and a 3 second invisibility (Blue Entoloma, Columbine, Namira's Rot). For a simpler version without the invisibility, use Wormwood instead of Namira's Rot.

A Mage's Boost potion that restores Magicka, boosts spell crit and spell power (Corn Flower, Lady's Smock, Water Hyacinth)

A Fighter's Boost potion that regenerates Stamina, boosts weapon crit and weapon power (Blessed Thistle, Dragonthorn, Wormwood)

I've come to prefer to use nothing but combo potions that always restore health, because when you die the battle is over. ;-)

Hope this helps!

Some do, some don't.

Some of them are as effective at Level 1 (natural water) as at VR (Cloud Myst)

Invisibility, Spell Power, Weapon Power, the overall effect and duration is the same, so use the cheap stuff.

Restore's (H/M/S) by themselves or added with the above effects do increase based on potion level though.

My advise is to always hover over the potion to see the difference (if it's already known to you), if not, make a level 1 and then a level 10. If the numbers don't budge, they probably won't at VR either.

alkoriak wrote: »

If you rely heavily on potions maybe the best choice is an argonian nightblade. Argonian has a passive boost for potions as well as nightblade has another passive, but they only concern stats like health, stamina and magicka. If you use jewelry to reduce cooldown betweem potions by 5 sec you can have almost full time a potion effect on. It can be usefull if you already maximized other stats you want. Also invisibility potions (3 ingredients) can go up to 4 sec invisibility which is enormous considering the nightblades have only 2.5 sec base.

Argonians should remain slaves. Stop encouraging rebellion.

I've gotten up to 12 secs of invisibility with upgrading the solvent

corrupted wrote: »

I've gotten up to 12 secs of invisibility with upgrading the solvent

Well, yes. That is how it works now.

However you'd have to go back and see how Alchemy was working 6 years ago. Might possibly have been changed in any of the patches over the years.....