@Sangreal » It's a custom Fortify Magicka potion that uses Salmon Roe as one of the ingredients. There's a bug with Salmon Roe that makes it rather unique: Presumably the Fortify Magicka magnitude and duration base values were switched, so it provides about 12x as much magnitude as any other custom Fortify Magicka Potion, but it only lasts for 5 seconds. Just long enough to cast a Master level spell such as Dragonhide.
@Sangreal » It's a custom Fortify Magicka potion that uses Salmon Roe as one of the ingredients. There's a bug with Salmon Roe that makes it rather unique: Presumably the Fortify Magicka magnitude and duration base values were switched, so it provides about 12x as much magnitude as any other custom Fortify Magicka Potion, but it only lasts for 5 seconds. Just long enough to cast a Master level spell such as Dragonhide.
Ahha!
I remember now vaguely seeing this. Seems quite a hassle for a Dragonhide cast. Well maybe for bosses, but I myself was always too lazy to cast it on my mage, even before tough battles. Thus getting whooped.
Ahha!
I remember now vaguely seeing this. Seems quite a hassle for a Dragonhide cast. Well maybe for bosses, but I myself was always too lazy to cast it on my mage, even before tough battles. Thus getting whooped.
Didn't see this so I'm replying late.
As posted, you can see how strong the potion is. With 100 skill and all relevant perks (with no fortify alchemy gear) the 'Fortify Magicka' effect maxes out at +750 magicka for 10 seconds; with Alchemy gear my potions give me over +1500 Magicka which allows me to use any spell in the game without investing a single level into Magicka. It only lasts for 10 seconds but that is enough time to reliably cast two master spells before it runs out.
Dragonhide breaks down as follows:
I drink a 'Fortify Alteration' potion (base increase is +60% duration, 123% with the Fortify gear I use) then I drink the fortify magicka potion before Dual-casting Dragonhide. Dual-casted with Stability perk and potion my Dragonhide lasts for ~220 seconds (almost 4 minutes). I only use this combo for tough fights that I know Ebonyflesh won't cut it for.
Didn't see this so I'm replying late.
As posted, you can see how strong the potion is. With 100 skill and all relevant perks (with no fortify alchemy gear) the 'Fortify Magicka' effect maxes out at +750 magicka for 10 seconds; with Alchemy gear my potions give me over +1500 Magicka which allows me to use any spell in the game without investing a single level into Magicka. It only lasts for 10 seconds but that is enough time to reliably cast two master spells before it runs out.
Dragonhide breaks down as follows:
I drink a 'Fortify Alteration' potion (base increase is +60% duration, 123% with the Fortify gear I use) then I drink the fortify magicka potion before Dual-casting Dragonhide. Dual-casted with Stability perk and potion my Dragonhide lasts for ~220 seconds (almost 4 minutes). I only use this combo for tough fights that I know Ebonyflesh won't cut it for.