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Alchemy
Skyrim Skill

An alchemist can create magical potions and deadly poisons.

Alchemy is one of the 6 Thief skills in Skyrim, levelled from 15 to 100 by use. Its tree holds 9 perks.

It is raised by 3 enchantments, spells and effects.

It gets a starting bonus for 4 races, the largest being Bosmer at +5.

Alchemy Builds

Lvl 50
9 / 9
8 / 9
4 / 10
6 / 6
7 / 12
Plague Warrior
Alchemy, One-Handed, Block, Light Armor, Restoration and Speech build
Lvl 63
4 / 9
8 / 14
8 / 15
6 / 10
4 / 9
3 / 6
Druid
Skyrim build
Lvl 44
7 / 9
7 / 9
4 / 9
4 / 14
4 / 10
Dragon Bane
Two Handed Highest Damage Per Hit Tank build
Lvl 75
6 / 9
5 / 9
6 / 9
9 / 13
6 / 14
6 / 10
The Witcher
Two-Handed, Battlemage build
Lvl 80
8 / 8
7 / 9
7 / 9
9 / 13
7 / 10
3 / 10
Boethiah's Champion
Shadow Spellblade Dark Warrior build
Lvl 80
8 / 9
9 / 9
9 / 9
8 / 8
6 / 9
3 / 10
The Hunter
Hircine Stealth Archer / Werewolf build
Lvl 81
8 / 9
11 / 11
9 / 9
6 / 9
6 / 9
5 / 10
Stealth BATTLEMAGE
STEALTH BATTLEMAGE build
Lvl 106
9 / 9
12 / 15
8 / 10
11 / 11
10 / 10
7 / 14
Arcane Stalker Vampire
Stealth based vampire with extensive magic power build
Lvl 159
14 / 14
15 / 15
8 / 10
9 / 9
10 / 10
9 / 9
Echo
Skyrim build
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builds

Open the character build planner with Alchemy at 100, then pick perks from its tree and build the rest of your character around it.

Create a build with Alchemy

Perks

Alchemist

Potions and poisons you make are 20% stronger.

5 ranks
Physician

Potions you mix that restore Health, Magicka or Stamina are 25% more powerful.

20
Poisoner

Poisons you mix are 25% more effective.

30
Benefactor

Potions you mix with beneficial effects have an additional 25% greater magnitude.

30
Experimenter

Eating an ingredient reveals first two effects.

50
3 ranks
Concentrated Poison

Poisons applied to weapons last for twice as many hits.

60
Green Thumb

Two ingredients are gathered from harvestable ingredient sources.

70
Snakeblood

50% resistance to all poisons.

80
Purity

All negative effects are removed from created potions, and all positive effects are removed from created poisons.

100

Boosted by

Enchantments (2)
Fortify Alchemy

Created potions are 8% more powerful.

at your skill×1.04
Krosis' Subterfuge

Lockpicking is 20% easier.; Bows do 20% more damage.; Created potions are 20% more powerful.

Spells & Abilities (1)
Sinderion's Serendipity

There is a 25% chance of creating a duplicate potion when using your alchemy skill.

0

Race Bonuses

Bosmer+5
Breton+5
Dunmer+5
Khajiit+5