Materials | Alchemy ESO guide, tips
Last update: 11 May 2016
In alchemy, to craft potions, you will need two groups of items - Solvents and Reagents.
There's a total of 7 different Solvents, and each of them define the quality of the resulting potion - the better Solvent used in the production, the more powerful the resulting potion created, and the higher level is required for you to be able to consume it. The below table describes all Solvents available in the game, with their required level:
Icon | Name | The required level |
 | Natural Water | Required to make level 3 potions. Additionally, level 3 character is needed to consume the created potion. |
 | Clear Water | Required to make level 10 potions. Additionally, level 10 character is needed to consume the created potion. |
Pristine Water | Required to make level 20 potions. Additionally, level 20 character is needed to consume the created potion. | |
 | Cleansed Water | Required to make level 30 potions. Additionally, level 30 character is needed to consume the created potion. |
 | Filtered Water | Required to make level 40 potions. Additionally, level 40 character is needed to consume the created potion. |
 | Purified Water | Required to make Veteran Level potions. Additionally, Veteran Leveled character is needed to consume the created potion. |
 | Cloud Mist | Required to make Veteran Level potions. Additionally, Veteran Leveled character is needed to consume the created potion. |
There are a total of 18 alchemical Reagents available in the Alchemy, in a form of different herbs, mushrooms and plants. It is their proper combination, which define the type and properties of a created potion.
Below you will find a table, representing all the available Reagents, with a list of the effects they have on a potion (red color represents the negative effects, green is for the positive ones), as well as the place where you can find them:
Icon | Name | Effect | Place |
 | Blessed Thistle | Restore Stamina Increase Weapon Power Speed Ravage Health | Khenarthi's Roost |
 | Blue Entoloma | Restore Health Invisible Lower Spell Power Ravage Magicka | Khenarthi's Roost |
 | Bugloss | Increase Spell Resist Restore Health Restore Magicka Lower Spell Power | Khenarthi's Roost |
 | Columbine | Restore Health Restore Stamina Restore Magicka Unstoppable | Khenarthi's Roost |
 | Corn Flower | Restore Magicka Increase Spell Power Detection Ravage Health | Khenarthi's Roost |
 | Dragonthorn | Increase Weapon Power Restore Stamina Weapon Critical Lower Armor | Khenarthi's Roost |
 | Emetic Russula | Ravage Health Ravage Stamina Ravage Magicka Stun | |
 | Imp Stool | Increase Armor Lower Weapon Power Ravage Stamina Lower Weapon Critical | |
 | Lady's Smock | Increase Spell Power Restore Magicka Spell Critical Lower Spell Resist | Khenarthi's Roost |
 | Luminous Rusula | Restore Health Ravage Stamina Lower Weapon Power Reduce Speed | Khenarthi's Roost |
 | Mountain Flower | Increase Armor Restore Health Restore Stamina Lower Weapon Power | Khenarthi's Roost |
 | Namira's Rot | Spell Critical Invisible Speed Unstoppable | |
 | Nirnroot | Invisible Ravage Health Lower Weapon Critical Lower Spell Critical | In a near vicinity of water sources. |
 | Stinkhorn | Increase Weapon Power Lower Armor Ravage Health Ravage Stamina | |
 | Violet Coprinus | Increase Spell Power Lower Spell Resist Ravage Health Ravage Magicka | Khenarthi's Roost |
 | Water Hyacinth | Restore Health Weapon Critical Spell Critical Stun | Audiron |
 | White Cap | Increase Spell Resist Lower Spell Power Ravage Magicka Lower Spell Critical | Audiron |
 | Wormwood | Weapon Critical Detection Unstoppable Reduce Speed | Khenarthi's Roost |
Explanation
By simply finding a given Reagent, you won't be able to see its properties yet. To discover them, you have to combine and mix them with other Reagents, with similar properties - you cannot mix one Reagent contradicting the other, for instance the one increasing the weapon critical chance with the one reducing it, and so on.
By looking at the above table with all those Reagent's characteristics, you should have no problems with discovering their hidden properties. Below you can find a few examples of mixtures:
- Bugloss + Columbine + Dragonthorn -> a Potion restoring Health, Stamina and Magicka.
- Bugloss + Luminous Russula + Water Hyacinth -> a Potion restoring a huge amount of missing Health.
- Columbine + Lady's Smock + Water Hyacinth -> a Potion increasing the spell critical chance, while restoring some Health and Magicka.
There are dozens of possible recipes, that is why there's no point in listing them here - especially because all you have to do is to mix Reagents with similar properties. All you have to remember is to not to mix Reagents contradicting each other (like was mentioned above) and try to make potions with properties that supplement each other and will be of use to you. There's no point to make a potion increasing your speed and Magicka, if you are playing a character fighting in melee range (so you won't be using the speed buff) and having little to no use of magicka, because all your skills require stamina.