wrighty
Thalmor 3rd Emissary
hey there, I've recently got hearthfire and I've been working on my alchemy with the new greenhouse and garden additions and I've come up with a way to easily level alchemy and to make a lot of gold.
I've been working on a dark elf alchemist build and in this build I wanted to use alchemy as my hobby and my career and live in the wilderness avoiding most major towns, so I built lakeview manor and I mostly stay around falkreath hold and visit falkreath and riverwood.
With the garden you get 11 places to plant and with the greenhouse wing you get 18 I think, each plant only needs to be planted once then every 3 days it will yield between 3-5 crops, it depends on the plant.
As you may know the best potions to increase alchemy are the highest value potons, the higher the value the more the skill increase and the more money you make, the highest value potions need a giants toe, which are hard to come by in any number.
Luckily I found the most cost and time effective plant ingredients to use.
You need to plant Creep Cluster, scaly pholiota and mora tapinella in your garden and greenhouse, plant more mora tapinella because creep and scaly plants both yield 5 crops per plant and mora crops only yield 3 crops per plant.
pick all of your crops, I end up with 40 clusters, 40 pholiota and 60 something moras, with 0 fortify alchemy gear my potion value is 1432 and I make 40 in each crop, i then travel to riverwood sell them and wait 3 days then return to my manor and repeat I make easily 20000 gold per harvest.
This is great for roleplaying characters that want a career and a way to make money but have limitations, my character doesn't directly fight and avoids most dungeon delving.
A way to make this easier is to get 70 speech or use the speech persuasion loop in the black briar meadery to quickly level your speech then get the investor perk and invest in the riverwood trader, the shop is bugged and when invested in this shop has over 11000 gold to buy your potions. this allows you to offload your potions easily.
I also recommend investing in all 3 levels of the experimenter perk which reveals all ingredient effects IF you have the dragonborn dlc, you can then eat 1 of every ingredient to get all of the effects revealed in the game and then respec your perks so they're not wasted, this can be used to respec your speech perks after you've invested in the riverwood trader too.
This is a fast way to level alchemy and earn gold without dungeon delving for roleplay characters or for just quick easy gold.
I've been working on a dark elf alchemist build and in this build I wanted to use alchemy as my hobby and my career and live in the wilderness avoiding most major towns, so I built lakeview manor and I mostly stay around falkreath hold and visit falkreath and riverwood.
With the garden you get 11 places to plant and with the greenhouse wing you get 18 I think, each plant only needs to be planted once then every 3 days it will yield between 3-5 crops, it depends on the plant.
As you may know the best potions to increase alchemy are the highest value potons, the higher the value the more the skill increase and the more money you make, the highest value potions need a giants toe, which are hard to come by in any number.
Luckily I found the most cost and time effective plant ingredients to use.
You need to plant Creep Cluster, scaly pholiota and mora tapinella in your garden and greenhouse, plant more mora tapinella because creep and scaly plants both yield 5 crops per plant and mora crops only yield 3 crops per plant.
pick all of your crops, I end up with 40 clusters, 40 pholiota and 60 something moras, with 0 fortify alchemy gear my potion value is 1432 and I make 40 in each crop, i then travel to riverwood sell them and wait 3 days then return to my manor and repeat I make easily 20000 gold per harvest.
This is great for roleplaying characters that want a career and a way to make money but have limitations, my character doesn't directly fight and avoids most dungeon delving.
A way to make this easier is to get 70 speech or use the speech persuasion loop in the black briar meadery to quickly level your speech then get the investor perk and invest in the riverwood trader, the shop is bugged and when invested in this shop has over 11000 gold to buy your potions. this allows you to offload your potions easily.
I also recommend investing in all 3 levels of the experimenter perk which reveals all ingredient effects IF you have the dragonborn dlc, you can then eat 1 of every ingredient to get all of the effects revealed in the game and then respec your perks so they're not wasted, this can be used to respec your speech perks after you've invested in the riverwood trader too.
This is a fast way to level alchemy and earn gold without dungeon delving for roleplay characters or for just quick easy gold.