The world of “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim” is so vast and beautiful, making it super fun to explore. True, the cold and mountainous region of Skyrim, located in the north of the Tamriel continent, is an exciting place for adventurous gamers, but it is also a fact that Skyrim can be dangerous.
Gamers can encounter battles with bosses and bandits, so they need a way to heal, or else it will be game over for you. How can you do this? By using alchemy and crafting the most helpful health potions.
What Are Health Potions In ‘The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’?
In “Skyrim,” health potions are taken in to heal you. There are two main types of health potions in the game. One is the restorative health potion, and the other is the regenerative health potion.
Restorative health potions instantly heal you for a predetermined number of health points. Meanwhile, regenerative health potions regenerate a specific amount of health per second over a determined set time.
Recipe For Restorative Health Potions
If you are just a beginner in Skyrim, you can choose to take the easier route to kickstart your journey toward making the health potion. Initially, you can talk to one of the people in the locations in the bulleted list below. They can start you off with a simple recipe for the restorative health potion.
- Arcadia: Arcadia’s Cauldron in Whiterun
- Zaria: Grave Concoctions in Falkreath
- Orgnar: Sleeping Giant Inn in Riverwood
Otherwise, there’s nothing wrong with using the trial-and-error method to learn the various recipes for restorative health potions. You can gather ingredients during your journey across Skyrim.
- The first option is to eat an ingredient. Doing this will unveil one of the four effects of the ingredient when making potions. But be aware that there are adverse effects.
- Another choice is to merge the ingredients at random as you do alchemy. This shall also reveal the various effects of each of those ingredients.
Ingredients For Restorative Health Potions
Use the following ingredients to make restorative health potions.
- Blisterwort
- Ash Hopper Jelly
- Blue Dartwing
- Butterfly Wing
- Blue Mountain Flower
- Charred Skeever Hide
- Eye of Sabre Cat
- Daedra Heart
- Felsaad Tern Feathers
- Rock Warbler Egg
- Imp Stool
- Wheat
- Swamp Fungal Pod
Avoid These Combinations
Meanwhile, just remember to avoid the combinations below unless you want to get poisoned.
- Blue Dartwing and Daedra Heart – Negative effect: fear
- Butterfly Wing and Eye of Sabre Cat – Negative effect: damage magicka
- Daedra Heart and Butterfly Wing – Negative effect: damage magicka
- Rock Warbler Egg and Blisterwort – Negative effect: damage stamina
- Eye Of Sabre Cat and Daedra Heart – Negative effect: damage magicka
- Swamp Fungal Pod and Wheat – Negative effect: lingering damage magicka
- Swamp Fungal Pod and Imp Stool – Negative effect: paralysis
- Wheat and Daedra Heart – Negative effect: damage stamina regeneration
Recipe For Regenerative Health Potions
Unfortunately, unlike restorative health potions, there isn’t an option to learn the recipe for regenerative health potions by speaking with an in-game character. However, you can discover the ingredients for this type of health potion by trial and error.
Ingredients For Regenerative Health Potions
Use the following ingredients to make regenerative health potions.
- Garlic
- Emperor Parasol Moss
- Gleamblossom
- Luna Moth Wing
- Juniper Berries
- Namira’s Rot
- Vampire Dust
- Nordic Barnacle
Ways To Craft The Strongest Health Potions
Whether you are preparing to tackle a difficult boss in “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim” or you are simply passionate about alchemy, you should know the various ways to enhance the potions you craft.
Enchanted Gear
There are times when the gear with you influence your potions’ potency. Across Skyrim, you will chance upon enchanted rings, bracers, necklaces, and much more that can improve your skills in alchemy. Otherwise, there’s also another option to enchant your equipment using Fortify Alchemy. This is an effect used in Enchanting. It endows your creations with a boost.
Furthermore, note that the potency of that boost depends on your Enchanting level and the perks you have placed upon your Enchanting Tree prior to enchanting your gear with Fortify Alchemy. Also, Fortify Enchanting options are also capable of making your enchanted equipment stronger.
Perks In Alchemy
Meanwhile, alchemy perks remain the most significant way to make your potions stronger in “Skyrim.” Below are the best perks you must have and upgrade if you want your health potions to be the strongest.
- Physician – Your health potions, together with stamina and magicka potions, become more powerful by 25 percent.
- Alchemist – This strengthens your potions with each rank.
- Benefactor – The potions you craft with beneficial effects improve by 25 percent.
- Purity – All the adverse effects are removed from the potions you create. Additionally, all positive effects also get removed from those potions.
Conclusion
Developers of “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim” have ensured gamers won’t be bored while playing it. So, there are times when you need to use the best strategies to trump the toughest bosses those developers have placed. But that doesn’t mean you can’t get help along the way. Healing by making health potions is your best bet when you find yourself in these situations.
Developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks, “Skyrim” is an action role-playing video game set 200 years after the events in “The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.” “Skyrim” takes place in a place of the same name. Its central story revolves around the Dragonborn, the character the player controls, on a quest to defeat Alduin the World-Eater, a dragon prophesied to destroy the world. Players conquer fate to stop Alduin from wreaking havoc.
