Alchemy Crafting for The Elder Scrolls Online

In this section of the Alchemy Guide you will learn how to discover all the traits of the reagents. At the start all your available reagents will have unknown effects. To discover the first effect you can eat each reagent once if you want. However, you can also follow the method below to unlock all the effects without wasting extra ingredients.

There are two achievements that you can unlock if you do trait discovery. This is not mandatory but it will make it easier for you to find the proper effects when you want to craft a potion or poison. Once you've obtained the achievement Toxicologist and Botanist, you will also get two dyes, Viridian Venom and Nirnroot Gray.

Alchemy Discovery Method

Here is the list that you should follow, assuming you have no traits discovered yet. After crafting those combinations, you will know all the traits of the reagents for the achievements.

Craft the potion once, then move on to the next combination and so on till you are through the whole list. You can use potion or poison solvents to get through this list.

Sometimes an update (New DLC) can introduce new ingredients. Here we have 4 new ones:

If you want to discover the traits too you can follow this list:

You can easily prepare for the trait discovery, just get the amount of reagents needed that are listed below and then you are ready.

Further New Ingredients

The ingredients below here are new and not yet implemented in the discovery list.

Conclusion

Trait discovery makes sense when you have a dedicated crafter character to know what effects each reagent has, that way you won't get confused and you won't have to look up ingredients online when you want to try something new. It is also good if you want to get the achievements that are tied to trait discovery. However, other than that the trait discovery has no real use case, most players memorize the most important potions or poisons that they usually craft and that is usually enough.