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If you max out the alchemy skill by doing nothing but buying ingredients, creating potions and then selling them back to the alchemist it more than pays for itself because when your alchemy skill gets high enough you can sell created potions for more than what you paid for the required ingredients. At first you will only about break even doing this but when you focus all your perk points on the alchemy skill eventually you can make an exceedingly high profit by doing this. It helps if you acquire the thief guardian stone first so you can increase the skill a little faster. Also, you should invest one perk point for haggling and then one for the allure perk so when your speech skill gets up to level 50 you can get the merchant perk and sell the created potions to any merchant. This is very easy to do because as you are doing all the buying and selling to max out the alchemy skill, respectively the speech skill will also increase.
 

Specter of Death

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I have a decent process for this as well, that also saves you quite a few perk points. You really don't need to go in and invest a lot of perks into the Alchemy tree if you are looking to grind it. IMO the only perks that are really all that useful for the tree are the first 5 ranks of Alchemist. All the other perks are really only useful if you plan on using the poisons your craft for weapons, or the potions you make if you aren't using restoration. It makes the potions and poisons stronger, and in turn, more expensive--which not only increases the amount of Alchemy experience you gain from crafting (cause the experience you gain is based on the price of your product), but the amount of profit you can get.

What I like to do is Sleep in any in for the Well Rested perk, which gives you a boost in all-around experience gain, make sure you have the thief stone like you have already stated, and if you are able to: wear fortify alchemy gear. On top of the perks you have in the Alchemist perk, the fortify gear will make everything you make even more expensive and powerful. From there if you put a few points into the Speech skill tree to make it so that you get better prices, you can get rich after making only 10 potions.

My favourite potions to make for money and grinding are simple and are moderately expensive--but don't require the rarest ingredients like Giant's Toe. Here are a few that are super easy:
-Frost Lyriam, Purple Mountain Flower and Wheat
- Blue Mountain Flower, Hanging Moss and Lavender
- Blue Mountain Flower, Hanging Moss and Rock Warbler Egg
- Dragon's Tongue, Fly Amonita and Mora Tapinella
- Blue Mountain Flower, Chicken's Egg, and Lavender
- Blue Mountain Flower, Hanging Moss and Hagraven Feathers

These will pull you potions worth anywhere from 300-2000 gold each, depending on your alchemy skill, gear and speech skill.
 

sticky runes

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If you max out the alchemy skill by doing nothing but buying ingredients, creating potions and then selling them back to the alchemist it more than pays for itself because when your alchemy skill gets high enough you can sell created potions for more than what you paid for the required ingredients. At first you will only about break even doing this but when you focus all your perk points on the alchemy skill eventually you can make an exceedingly high profit by doing this. It helps if you acquire the thief guardian stone first so you can increase the skill a little faster. Also, you should invest one perk point for haggling and then one for the allure perk so when your speech skill gets up to level 50 you can get the merchant perk and sell the created potions to any merchant. This is very easy to do because as you are doing all the buying and selling to max out the alchemy skill, respectively the speech skill will also increase.
This is actually the method I'm using to play as my current character, an imperial Alchemist, who doesn't invest in any combat perks. Mostly alchemy, speech, restoration and enchanting, I leave a lot of the fighting to my bodyguard Stenvar, and back him up with arrows and spells. My potions are becoming stupidly expensive, so it'll be a relief once I unlock the Merchant perk and become able to sell to more shopkeepers.

I don't think I'll ever play as a character who doesn't use alchemy, though. I'm obsessed with picking flowers and mushrooms and catching butterflies, even if I'm playing as a burly warrior. It took me ages to figure out how the restoration potion exploit works, but once I did, it became even more fun.
 

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