Alchemy

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Hello all you fellow alchemist. I read books and buy training to increase my
alchemy skills. What have you all found to be the most efficient way to
increase your alchemy?

Haldir the Marksman

 

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"Charles Morgan Norris" <cmnorris89@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:<Yw4Ec.179$Zl3.1@bignews3.bellsouth.net>...
> Hello all you fellow alchemist. I read books and buy training to increase my
> alchemy skills. What have you all found to be the most efficient way to
> increase your alchemy?
>
> Haldir the Marksman

Alchemy is very easy to raise. Just mix potions. Every time you
successfully make ~15 potions, your skill goes up. If I'm playing a
character that uses alchemy, the main problem is to NOT level too fast
(when alchemy is a major or minor skill).

Isn't it annoying to be playing a game where your reaction to
leveling is "Oh, {explitive deleted)!" ? Tiny bonuses and tougher
monsters means you almost have to game a character to not level too
quickly.

 

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"Charles Morgan Norris" <cmnorris89@bellsouth.net> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> Hello all you fellow alchemist. I read books and buy training to increase
my
> alchemy skills. What have you all found to be the most efficient way to
> increase your alchemy?
>
> Haldir the Marksman
>

pratice it!

buy a lot of cheap ingredients, make potions of restore fatigue and sell
them. Dont' worry about the failures: if you have at least a 15, selling
potions will repay the ingredients and your alchemy will rush up.

sorry for my english.

 

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"Charles Morgan Norris" <cmnorris89@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:Yw4Ec.179$Zl3.1@bignews3.bellsouth.net...
> Hello all you fellow alchemist. I read books and buy training to increase
my
> alchemy skills. What have you all found to be the most efficient way to
> increase your alchemy?

First, harvest any potion ingredients you can, to build up your available
stock.

Then, as soon as you can afford it, buy as many cheap potion ingredients as
you can (several dozens of the more useful ones at least), then stand around
and make potions until you can't take it anymore. My rule of thumb after I
reached about level 10 was to buy any ingredient that cost 1 or 2 coins.
That quickly changed to 5 coins, then 10, etc. Selling potions back that
I didn't need, such as Restore Fatigue, also paid for the cheap ingredients
several times over.

Definitely make (or download) a list of which ingredients should be mixed
with which other ingredients, then customize it to fit your character. That
is, if an ingredient can be used to help make 3 different potions, and one
is more useful to your character than the others, then you should prioritize
the useful potion over the others and you should use that ingredient to make
that type of potion most of the time.

Especially be sure to make some that boost intelligence, and drink a few, so
that your potion creation success rate will be higher. Since you only get
better when you succeed, this is an important tip to remember.

"Nested Loop" or recursive fortify intelligence potion drinking and making
is how people get their intelligence to stratospheric heights, because the
potions you make when your intelligence is higher, boost your intelligence
more. (If I had been the designed and developer who wrote the code, there'd
have been a chance of your brain short-circuiting when your Intelligence hit
some magic number!)

With big enough stacks of ingredients, your Alchemy skill will likely go up
several times during each "potion-making session".

Navigating the interface is the most annoying part. It could be made
better, but you quickly get proficient at it.

 

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On 29 Jun 2004 01:49:45 -0700, von.sagrillo@verizon.net (DeAnn) wrote:

> Alchemy is very easy to raise. Just mix potions. Every time you
>successfully make ~15 potions, your skill goes up. If I'm playing a
>character that uses alchemy, the main problem is to NOT level too fast
>(when alchemy is a major or minor skill).
>
> Isn't it annoying to be playing a game where your reaction to
>leveling is "Oh, {explitive deleted)!" ? Tiny bonuses and tougher
>monsters means you almost have to game a character to not level too
>quickly.

Yup - I would have given the same answer except I would have said
restore health or fortify intelligence since the ingredients for both
are available at the same place in Sadrith Mora.

I recently made myself a mod to alter a certain scamp in Caldera to
sell 50000/day rather than 5000 - though I've not been using the extra
money to do anything other than lighten my backpack and bribe 1000
each time rather than 10 or 100. It has helped my speechcraft

 

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> I recently made myself a mod to alter a certain scamp in Caldera to
> sell 50000/day rather than 5000 - though I've not been using the extra
> money to do anything other than lighten my backpack and bribe 1000
> each time rather than 10 or 100. It has helped my speechcraft

Same here!! Incredible! I just used TES today for first time, and edited
scamp to have 500000 instead of 5000 I just love to travel light and
easy.. Now with acrobats at 69, and athletics at 66, i can almost hit the
celieng in every building (also sometime get head stuck in roof when jumping
down stairs.. ), but that's maybe what they call light-head 😛

 

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On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:55:00 -0500, with the help of 10,000 Little
Computer Monkeys (LCM'S) "Andy B"
<AndyNoSpamHereEitherBadeaux@cox.nospam.net> wrote:

>
>"Charles Morgan Norris" <cmnorris89@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
>news:Yw4Ec.179$Zl3.1@bignews3.bellsouth.net...
>> Hello all you fellow alchemist. I read books and buy training to increase
>my
>> alchemy skills. What have you all found to be the most efficient way to
>> increase your alchemy?
>
>First, harvest any potion ingredients you can, to build up your available
>stock.
>
>Then, as soon as you can afford it, buy as many cheap potion ingredients as
>you can (several dozens of the more useful ones at least), then stand around
>and make potions until you can't take it anymore. My rule of thumb after I
>reached about level 10 was to buy any ingredient that cost 1 or 2 coins.
>That quickly changed to 5 coins, then 10, etc. Selling potions back that
>I didn't need, such as Restore Fatigue, also paid for the cheap ingredients
>several times over.
>
Early in the game when I need gold, I generally sell most of my
characters potions to Creeper since he pays full value for them. Then
after awhile to remove some merchant clutter, I buy back those earlier
low value potions from whoever I sold them to, and dump them on some
creatures/npc's body to get rid of the potions...


That's my 2¢,

FTA


"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

-Martin Luther King Jr.

 

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On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 00:56:58 GMT, "AseStar" <a s e s t a r @ s t a r t
.. n o> wrote:

>> I recently made myself a mod to alter a certain scamp in Caldera to
>> sell 50000/day rather than 5000 - though I've not been using the extra
>> money to do anything other than lighten my backpack and bribe 1000
>> each time rather than 10 or 100. It has helped my speechcraft
>
>Same here!! Incredible! I just used TES today for first time, and edited
>scamp to have 500000 instead of 5000 I just love to travel light and
>easy.. Now with acrobats at 69, and athletics at 66, i can almost hit the
>celieng in every building (also sometime get head stuck in roof when jumping
>down stairs.. ), but that's maybe what they call light-head 😛

Bear in mind that I am playing THIS character WITHOUT training - have
to limit myself somewhat! (Still, with all those fortify strength
potions it's not as difficult as you might think - I now have the
Lords' Mail but apart from the Masque of Clavicus Vile everything else
is standard Dark Brotherhood issue - I'm looking around for suitable
heavy armor since I want to get my heavy armor skill up soas to rise
in the Imperial Legion)

Ideas I'm kicking around for next time include wearing ONLY Imperial
Legion gear....