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Jul 19, 2023

Best Healing Potion Recipes In Skyrim

Here are the best healing potions in Skyrim! Alchemy in Skyrim can be a bit like mixing paints together. With just the right colors and ratios, you can achieve some gorgeous, vibrant colors. If you

Here are the best healing potions in Skyrim!

Alchemy in Skyrim can be a bit like mixing paints together. With just the right colors and ratios, you can achieve some gorgeous, vibrant colors. If you add too many of the wrong colors together though, you can end up with a dark, unappealing sludge. The same goes for ingredients in the game.

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Indeed, the key to alchemy is to avoid negative effects, and condense either multiple positive effects together into a single potion or focus on a single, potent effect. Of course, there are a lot of ingredients to choose from, but thankfully you have this list to help you out.

If you're simply looking for a single, condensed healing effect, you can throw together a wide variety of ingredients to achieve that. The great news is that some of these ingredients are quite abundant, and you only need a minimum of two ingredients to make a useful potion.

The best ingredients to combine for this effect include Blue Mountain Flower, Butterfly Wing, Charred Skeever Hide, Daedra Heart, Eye of Sabre Cat, Rock Warbler Egg, and Wheat; just choose two and throw them together. Blue Mountain Flower and Wheat are especially easy to gather.

Blue Dartwing is an ingredient that is part of the base game. It can be acquired by catching dragonflies that you spot in your travels. Keep in mind, every time you catch one of these little biological helicopters, you have a chance to get either a blue wing or an orange wing.

If you have a bunch of blue wings, you can combine them with Swamp Fungal Pods, an ingredient found in marshes in Hjaalmarch, or Ash Hopper Jelly if you have the Dragonborn DLC, to create a potion that both heals you and gives you resistance to shock damage for a limited time.

The great part about Blue Mountain Flower is that you can find it growing all over the place, oftentimes in areas that aren't very snowy. Just 10 minutes of wandering around spamming your interact button while looking at the ground can net you a bunch of flowers.

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If you feel like fighting a giant and need some extra health along with healing, you can combine Blue Mountain Flower with Wheat to get a Fortify Health effect. Avoid ingredients like Bear Claws, Hanging Moss, or Blue Butterfly Wing, though; they'll grant negative effects.

This mixed effect potion is great for sneaky assassins, sword and shield build, and other light armor users, but can only be achieved through a single ingredient combination. For this potion, you'll have to combine Ash Hopper Jelly and Felsaad Tern Feathers.

The most likely use cases for this potion are either being caught by surprise by an enemy that is stronger than you realized, or preparing for a particularly difficult fight where you know you'll need healing and extra defense. Light armor, after all, gives up a bit of defense for mobility.

Charred Skeever Hide is easy to acquire, so long as you don't mind walking up to someone else's camp fire and stealing the hide off their dinner. You'll most likely find this ingredient in giant camps or bandit camps, so be careful if your character is lower level.

If you combine some Skeever Hide with Eye of Sabre Cat, you will restore your stamina and health at the same time. Saltrice is another option for achieving the same effect, but you'll need access to Rare Curios; content from the Creation Club.

Felsaad Tern Feathers are also part of the Dragonborn DLC. They're extremely useful for all kinds of alchemical mixes, but they're a bit difficult to obtain; you'll have to get proficient with a bow to shoot the white bird that yields them out of the sky.

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While you could focus only a restore health effect, you should take advantage of multi-effect potions with this ingredient. Charred Skeever Hide, for example, can be combined with the feathers to create a potion that restores health and cures disease; this is likely most useful when you're fighting vampires.

If you have Rare Curios from the Creation Club, you can make this potion with Rock Warbler Eggs, which can be found in bird nests, oftentimes in rocky regions like the Reach, and a Heart of Order, which can be purchased from Khajit caravans.

This potion is great for most builds, provided you're using a one-handed weapon of some kind. Besides, it can't hurt to keep a potion like this around; it could be the difference between winning a fight or having to load a save and try again. If anything, you can always sell it in the future if it goes unused.

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