A Skyrim player managed to create a pretty counter-effective potion. If you’ve ever messed around in Skyrim for very long, you understand the basics of Alchemy. If now, it’s pretty simple to explain. Each item in the game that you can use to create a potion has four possible effects it can bring to a brew. In order to learn about these effects, a player needs to do one of two things: either eat it or learn more about it in a book. A player can make interesting concoctions through learning, tasting, and testing by creating potions galore.
Just because you can create a potion that heals, for example, doesn’t mean that it will always do just that. Some combinations of items can create potions that do multiple things. Poisons and potions don’t have too much of a line between them, which is why to be a Skyrim alchemist, you need a little bit of knowledge to help carry you through. That, or you combine everything in your inventory until you come up with something useful or funny on complete accident. (Works for me.)
What Potion Did The Skyrim Player Make?
One Skyrim player, like many of us, combined ingredients at random. They somehow managed to create a Poison Resistance potion that doesn’t just prevent poison. It also inflicts poison. Should have called it the Catch-22 Brew or something.
I managed to create a potion that resists poison which also poisons you. Expert alchemist.
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The potion doesn’t completely resist poison, or else it wouldn’t exist. Instead, it provides a certain percentage of resistance (in this case, almost 40%) so that if something tries to poison the player, there’s a chance that it won’t. However, because this poison also manages to do 35 poison damage to the player instantly, the potion can’t save the player from its own contents. And while it’s a decent exchange, damage now and poison resistance later, it’s still funny to think that a potion you created to resist poison can get you poisoned.