
Home » Useful Potions and Alchemy Reagents in ESOĪlchemy is a versatile profession because it allows the player to craft the same potion in multiple different ways.Eastwest’s top men: Strong leaders, gentle fathers This is mostly visible for alchemy potions with two alchemy reagents. Once you take advantage of the Laboratory Use passive and start mixing potions using three alchemy reagents, you start getting very interesting results, and there’s only so many ways to craft a single, highly useful potion. Here’s a list of the most useful ESO alchemy potions in each category, and also an overview of alchemy reagents which are useful, which are not. The following potions were discovered using our Alchemy Simulator, and they all take advantage of the Laboratory Use passive, meaning they’ve been created with three alchemy reagents. Thanks to Tajin for providing us with a list for many of the potions in the comments! Restoration Potions There’s plenty of more useful potions out there, but these are probably the best potions you can have. These potions restore Health, Magicka and Stamina in a single sip. Potion Effectsīugloss, Columbine and Mountain Flower are your best friends if you’re looking for restoration potions. These potions focus on Spell Damage and Spell Crit, as well as Restore Magicka and Restore Health.

Lady’s Smock and Water Hyacinth are both the most common reagents for spell potions. Weapon Damage and Weapon Crit potions also restore Stamina and/or Health. These are very useful, but even more so for those who prefer physical weapon skills.


Lady’s Smock is basically the Spell Damage and Spell Crit version of Dragonthorn. If you want a potion with Spell Crit and Spell Damage, you need Lady’s Smock. Namira’s Rot (Spell Crit, Invisibility, Speed, Unstoppable) is a very useful ingredient for utility potions. Now there’s a whole bunch of alchemy reagents which didn’t even appear on the list above. Does it mean they are bad? Not necessarily. In order to create an invisibility potion, for example, your options are very limited. Only Blue Entoloma, Namira’s Rot and Nirnroot have the Vanish trait. Nirnroot can be combined with either of them to create a simple Vanish potion. Movement Speed potions are even more difficult to create, because there’s only two alchemy ingredients with the Speed trait: Blessed Thistle and Namira’s Rot.

There are some reagents which are simply useless, though. Emetic Russula (Ravage Health, Ravage Stamina, Ravage Magicka, Stun) only has negative traits.
