ESO Alchemy Guide

Alchemy, like Enchanting, in Elder Scrolls Online, is unique from the other crafting professions in that it involves discovering the traits of the ingredients used in order to successfully craft an item.

...and there are a lot of traits; each Alchemy ingredient has four of them. Scroll down to see our difinitive list of all alchemy ingredients and the traits of each one.

Leveling Alchemy

Just like all other skills in The Elder Scrolls Online, you gotta use it to get better at it.

The ingredients for Alchemy come from plants that you can harvest while you are adventuring, and you also need water to go with them. You'll find water in barrels, glasses, mugs, cabinets, etc., so be sure to search everywhere when you're out questing and in dungeons!

For most professions you would just go and start combining ingredients to see what happens, but you don't want to do that in Alchemy. You see, some ingredients do not work with one another, so it's important that you combine the right ingredients (see the table at the bottom of this page to see what each ingredient does).

• When you're looking at the table below, keep in mind that for an attempt at a potion to be successful you must combine ingredients that share at least one common trait. EG: Blue Entoloma and Bugloss both share Restore Health.
• • If more than one trait is shared between ingredients, then the potion will contain each shared trait.
• Another thing to be aware of: traits can also counteract one another. In our example of Blue Entoloma and Bugloss, one has Ravage Magicka and one has Restore Magicka, so these traits will be nullified.
  
  
• Alchemy allows you to create potions that have positive effects (for the most part, with perhaps some negative side-effects), but you can also make poisons.
• Poisons are equipped to your weapon and take precedence over any weapon enchantment you may have on it. Poisons have a 20% chance of using a charge when you attack with any weapon skill (light/heavy attacks, and weapon-specific skills).
• When creating poisons, any trait that would normally be considered positive in a potion, becomes an effect applied against the target that is hit by the poison. Eg: Restore Health in a potion becomes Ravage Health in a poison.

So, once you have consulted the table below, find an Alchemy Station in town (there are also some found in special hidden areas in the world), and use it.

After you use the station, you'll be given a screen to place the ingredients in. Combine the appropriate ingredients, based on traits, and you're good to go.

Alchemy Skills and Maxing Out

To max out your alchemy level, you'll need to put skill points into Solvent Proficiency in order to get to the highest level. The only other skill that will really help you level up your alchemy is Keen Eye: Reagents, which will make it easier for you to spot plants as you're questing out in the world.

Profitibility

Speaking of profit, the profitibility of Alchemy should be quite high, as potions are always in demand for both PVE and PVP!

Alchemy Ingredients and Traits/Effects

Hint: Click the column headers to sort the table.

Icon	Ingredient Name	Effect 1	Effect 2	Effect 3	Effect 4
	Beetle Scuttle	Breach	Increase Armor	Protection	Vitality
	Blessed Thistle	Restore Stamina	Increase Weapon Power	Ravage Health	Speed
	Blue Entoloma	Ravage Magicka	Cowardice	Restore Health	Invisible
	Bugloss	Increase Spell Resist	Restore Health	Cowardice	Restore Magicka
	Butterfly Wing	Restore Health	Lingering Health	Uncertainty	Vitality
	Clam Gall	Increase Spell Resist	Hindrance	Vulnerability	Defile
	Columbine	Restore Health	Restore Magicka	Restore Stamina	Unstoppable
	Corn Flower	Restore Magicka	Increase Spell Power	Ravage Health	Detection
	Dragonthorn	Increase Weapon Power	Fracture	Restore Stamina	Weapon Critical
	Emetic Russula	Ravage Stamina	Ravage Health	Ravage Magicka	Entrapment
	Fleshfly Larva	Ravage Stamina	Vulnerability	Gradual Ravage Health	Vitality
	Imp Stool	Increase Armor	Maim	Ravage Stamina	Enervation
	Lady's Smock	Increase Spell Power	Restore Magicka	Breach	Spell Critical
	Luminous Russula	Ravage Stamina	Maim	Restore Health	Hindrance
	Mountain Flower	Increase Armor	Restore Health	Maim	Restore Stamina
	Mudcrab Chitin	Increase Spell Resist	Increase Armor	Protection	Defile
	Namira's Rot	Spell Critical	Unstoppable	Speed	Invisible
	Nightshade	Ravage Health	Protection	Gradual Ravage Health	Defile
	Nirnroot	Ravage Health	Enervation	Uncertainty	Invisible
	Powdered Mother of Pearl	Lingering Health	Speed	Vitality	Protection
	Scrib Jelly	Ravage Magicka	Speed	Vulnerability	Lingering Health
	Spider Egg	Hindrance	Invisible	Lingering Health	Defile
	Stinkhorn	Ravage Health	Fracture	Increase Weapon Power	Ravage Stamina
	Torchbug Thorax	Fracture	Enervation	Detection	Vitality
	Violet Coprinus	Breach	Ravage Health	Increase Spell Power	Ravage Magicka
	Water Hyacinth	Restore Health	Spell Critical	Weapon Critical	Entrapment
	White Cap	Cowardice	Ravage Magicka	Increase Spell Resist	Detection
	Wormwood	Weapon Critical	Hindrance	Detection	Unstoppable