Im making this post because when i got my smithing to 100 i wanted the best stuff for my Dragon Slaying Beast on Skyrim, i wont go into what is the best so i dont ruin stuff for people, lets just say i used some Blacksmith potion but it wasnt the elixir for my 1st armour set, then realising that i wanted a different armour set and i had used up all my potions i wanted the Blacksmith's Elixir combined with Elven Braces Of Smithing for a 65% improvement in my armour (this may not be the best improvement % but its what ive found so far) but enough about me here goes nothing... NOTE - I cant remember where i got the gloves from, sorry.

Ok so its the BLACKSMITH'S ELIXIR'S the potion that everyone wants right...? Why not combined with the smithing skill in skyrim they are VERY effective the Blacksmith's Elixir's description is as follows...

"For 30 seconds, weapon and armour improving is 50% better"

The ingredients to make the Blacksmith's Elixir's are "glowing mushroom, sabre cat tooth, spriggan sap and blister wort" in any combination...

If anyone is finding it difficult to find these im gonna list where i found them (there may be better places but these are just where i have been)

Glowing mushroom - Bleak falls Barrow, shortly after you encounter someone stuck in a spider web, i think its the next area you advance into, you pull a chain and the gate opens inside that cave theres a decent Glowing Mushroom spawn.

Sabre Cat Tooth - Around Riften ive found to be the best to hunt and kill that damn sabre Cat.

Sprinnigan Sap - ??? (If anyone knows a decent place please post and you will get the credit for it).

Blister Wort - Whiterun alchemy shop, the woman sells them usually wait a day or two for them to replenish.

Ok so now if your not into alchemy forget that bit this is the bit you wanna read... Ive only found 1 location to get 1 Blacksmith's Elixir's upto now so if we all pull together and list our finding locations it should be all good.

There is 1 Blacksmith's Elixir's potion inside the Thieves Guild training room inside the master chest, Not the gold one the other one, you dont NEED to have level 100 lockpicking to get inside but the higher lockpicking skill will help you. My advice would be to bring plenty of lockpicks, ive also heard...

(POSSIBLE SPOILER)

While doing the Thieves Guild you supposedly get a skeleton key? If my mate is correct you can just get to the quest where you obtain this and DONT finish the quest, then you'll be able to go do your own thing with the key that NEVER BREAKS.

If I already have 100 smithing skill, will it still improve my gear beyond what I am already capable of?

You and me both mate and Yeah it will.

Alright then, on my to get the ingredients now. Thanks for the heads up

No worries, erm i dont use this very often, is there a way to edit my own post's? =\

There is a short time limit to editing. When you make a post you see a little icon that looks like a pencil to the right of the stars below your post. If it's not there, you missed your window.

Ok cheers, i cant credit someone who finds the sprinnigan sap but still apprechiate if anyone knows where it is :)

I think you get the sap from a quest to fix the tree in Whiterun.

Well it seems my alchemy skill isn't high enough as I can only select 3 ingredients to make a potion. I scoured the world finding all that stuff too. Oh well, it was a nice thought. I guess I'll have to work on raising my skill.

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Oh and is sprinnigan sap different from spriggan sap? Because I found that at the potion shop in Whiterun.

Wow my bad, its Spriggan Sap. "Sprinnigan Sap" is just my bad typo.

You can buy Spriggan Sap in Whiterun from Arcadia's shop or just steal some she has sitting in the store.

How do you get the ability to combine 4 ingriedients

Hey people, ok just to set this straight ive had a few messages over XBL and i think i worded my post wrong, those are the ingredients used to make all the blacksmith potions because they all have "fortify smithing" but you CANT use all 4 at once... You'll need to use any 3 of them in any order... You'll also need the 1st perk of the alchemy skill tree called "alchemist" at a pretty high level for the created potion to be stronger.

Also Enchantments with alchemy bonus will help you with this...

Theres 1 peice that i can remember, its called "Ebony Helmet Of Major Alchemy" and its located at "Shrine Of Mehrunes Dagon"

You will need to complete Peices Of the Past Quest and right at the end kill the 2 Dremora's and pick up the Key to Mehrunes Shrine, entrance is opposite the alter (NOT OFF THE CLIFF) :D

Helm is located on i "think" the bottom shelf to the right of the centre chest.

I've been wondering what the ingredients are, thanks!

im not sure if u found this out already but you said you can get 65% improvement but i know how to get over 100%.

may seem like a lot of work but get 100 enchantment skill then use a enchantment elixer and put smithing on both gauntlets and chest armor and u will get around 30% smithing on each thats already 60% then use the smithing elixer and you get 110%

Nice kadenson, yeah the 65% improvement in smithing was just what i had at the time... Could probably get a stupid high smithing improvement if found enchantments for all armour peices, disenchanted them and put X2 smithing on a decent armour set.

By the way, i know someone is now gonna read this and either call me a liar or complain its not working for them but i assure you im not making this up, im not sure if its because im a higher level now since trying to get the Blacksmith Elixir for my Deadric... But when i got my Nightingale armour (i rate the best looking armour in the game) i was in whiterun alchemy shop doing the 2 day wait thing for the shops stock to replenish, trying to get 4 void salt so i could upgrade it.

While doing this i sometimes buy health potions too now and then if im getting low, and i can confirm she DOES sell the Blacksmith's Elixir, i bought it straight away and tried a good 10 times after that but nothing after the first buy, so yeah she DOES sell it but it must be random and pretty rare when it appears.

^  Similar to II V1CIOUS II, I waited every 2 days as I was trying to buy more Daedra hearts and surprisingly the White Phial store in Windhelm also sells the Blacksmith's Elixir (rarely though)

i have been working at this for a while now and with 100 enchanting skill plus the 5 enchanter perks and the one to increase skill enchantments on apparel its 25% default for 100 skill and grand soul plus 100% for 5 enchanter, 25% for the skill bonus perk and elixer for another 25% for a massive increase to smithing help. then you pair all that uber hax with the smithing elixir which is another 50%. so unless they have a wierd system for stacking effects like that then you can ultimately increase the upgrades to armor and weapons by 450%. feel free to correct me if im wrong as i was really tired typing this.

Just visit every alchemy or general store to find the ingredients.

Remember to use items or potions that improve alchemy to have better results.

kadenson:

im not sure if u found this out already but you said you can get 65% improvement but i know how to get over 100%.

may seem like a lot of work but get 100 enchantment skill then use a enchantment elixer and put smithing on both gauntlets and chest armor and u will get around 30% smithing on each thats already 60% then use the smithing elixer and you get 110%

You can also enchant a ring and an amulet with smithing as well, to further extend the enchantment beyond 110%

apparently you can stack enchanting/alchemy, like enchant some armor to make stronger enchanting potions, in turn use that to make even stronger enchantments that boost alchemy, in turn make even stronger enchanting potions. people have gotten up to like 2000+ defense / damage with this loophole. haven't tried it myself.

That's my project for tonight. Can't say that I will go that high........ But I would love to get to say 1000.

so far i got my daedric armor at 328 with only 2/5 juggernaut perks and daedric sword at 164 im still in process of improving them but spriggan sap and blisterwart are in arch mage chambers majority of ingredients are found there

Only combine 2 of the ingredients.  It will make a pure smithing potion instead of a diluted one with less % to actual smithing.  So far I've made a 147% smithing potion, but I also have 100 in alchemy and enchant.  I also used the falmer helmet glitch to get that high of a potion.  Made some 37% potions to enchant as well.  Apparently you can equip a dragon priest mask then the falmer helmet and also an ebony helmet, I haven't tried that yet but someone posted it on se7ensins.

I made gear with enchanting that gives me over +100 percent to smithing wearing 4 pieces and then my alchemy potion adds another +100 percent or so.

I can buy a weapon or armor from a merchant, improve it and then sell it back for my money back on the purchase(plus the ingredient to improve it) and all the merchants gold as well.

That is with the first speech perk, a necklace that gives 25 percent better prices and a mask that gives better prices. and around 40 speech or so.

i can hit over 500 with my sword and daedra bow you need 100 alchmey, enchanting and smithing. look up a guide on youtube.

This is from the UESP

  Get enchanting, alchemy, and smithing to 100. Smithing is the easiest to power-level, with enchanting close behind. Use your 5 training sessions on Alchemy, as it takes the longest. If you can, grab any necessary smithing perks for your armor/weapon choices. If you have the perks to spend, grab all levels of the pure power perks (the first one) for alchemy and enchanting, and the insightful enchanter perk.

   Buy or make a bunch of cheap sets of clothes or armor of any kind for: Hands, Feet, Body, Necklace, Ring, and helm.

   Stock up on grand soul gems and certain ingredients by any means necessary.

       Ingredients for Fortify Enchanting (Choose any two of the four): Blue Butterfly Wing, Hagraven's Claw, Snowberries, and Spriggan Sap.

       Ingredients for Fortify Smithing (Choose any two of the four): Blisterwort, Glowing Mushroom, Sabre Cat Tooth and Spriggan Sap.

   Make sure you know the enchanting recipes you want on your final armor, as well as Fortify Alchemy and Fortify Smithing

   At the enchanter enchant as many items you can with Fortify Alchemy, but make sure you are able to make one complete set of fortified alchemy apparel before completing. A set of alchemy apparel will have one item for head, neck, arm and hand. e.g. Circlet, necklace, bracers, and ring.

   Then, wear the alchemy clothes, and verify using Active Effects that the enchanting effects are active. There seems to be a bug where sometimes the enchanted item's effects are not active upon wearing. To correct just remove and then reequip enchanted items.

   Now make some Fortify Enchanting potions using combinations of: Blue Butterfly Wings, Hagraven's Claws, Snowberries, and the Spriggan sap. There are two respawning Enchanter's Philters in the Archmage's Quarters at the College of Winterhold, these increase the strength of enchantments by 20% for 60 seconds.

   At the enchanter, take the strongest enchanting potion you made, and enchant a new set of items with Fortify Alchemy.

   Works twice, however after two iterations the fortify enchanting doesn't increase the items strength, xbox tested

   Make some final Fortify Enchanting potions, and some Fortify Smithing potions (using Blisterwort, Glowing Mushrooms, Sabre Cat Tooth, and Spriggan Sap) to get your enchanting back up to max, and enchant your used weapons and armor as you please.

   Also, at the enchanter (and while your enchant potion is on) enchant a final set of cheap items with Fortify Smithing. Then, head to a smithy, with a grindstone and a workbench.

   Finally, wear your smithing items and equip the Notched Pickaxe and take your smithing potion, and improve any weapons and armor you've got. You will, of course, need materials to do it, but most should be fairly easy to come by. You will probably reach the armor cap with any armor you're wearing, and increase your weapons to massive heights (more than 500), especially with any offensive skill enchants.

Im not a hater or anything but what the hell is the point?!?!?

so u can kill a dragon in two hits?? why not type in a cheat and get the same effect in 2seconds?!?!

im maxing out enchanting plus all the lerks on my character so i can make a uber weapon and armour combo, but looking at these posts im thinking why the hell bother?!? its seems it makes things to easy..

will my character be to OP just with the standard max enchantments?

i miss a random stat generator on items in this game, i would like to find one of the best weapons in the game, not click a few buttons and fricking make it :(

Most people have this on xbox. And I believe even on PC, you can't just type something in and it appears. I grinded my @SS to making some uber potions that raise smithing by 5000% and enchanting by 1700%. took me forever to actually get done, and I only stopped because I just plain got tired of doing it. I can one hit dragons on master with my bow alone and my armor rating is over 5000. I don't plan on using the armor, but it's the sheer fact that you can easily do something like this in this game if you work hard enough and stick to your goals. Once I hit my goal, I felt proud that I had hung in there and finished what I set out to do, and I'm sure anyone else who has done it would feel the same too. That's what I love about this game, anything is possible.

This is what I'm currently trying to do now:  Make an insanely overpowered weapon and armor set.  

My goal is to use a combo of 100 Smithing, 100 Enchanting and the best Alchemy potions I can get for Fortify Enchanting/Smithing.  Then go craft the armor.  Quick question:  Can you make a Smithing/Enchanting potion stronger than 50% with a 100 Alchemy with perks?  I think you can, but I theorize it will invole enchanting a 4 piece set for Fortify Alchemy while using a powerful Fortify Enchanting potion, and you might have to go back and forth doing that several times to continue to make stronger and stronger potions/enchantments. 

The plan is to use the best possible Enchantment Potion to create Guantlets, Shoes, Clothes and a Ring with Fortify Smithing (at base 100 enchanting w/perks without any potions I can already create these with a 25% improvement rating).  Then go to a forge, put on the gear I just made, use the best Fortify Smithing potion I can get and improve the armor set and weapon.  I'm guessing if I can use four items with at least 50% smithing improvement, and a potion of at least 50% improvement, then I would be improving an item 250%.  And that's just assuming that Fortify Smithing enchantment/abilites caps at 50%, which I don't think does.

I'll then go back to the Enchanter, use another potion, and enchant all the armor I can, plus a ring and necklace with Fortify One-handed, plus whatever enchantments I want on my newly crafted weapon. 

Just want to see how crazy powerful I can make a set of armor and a weapon.   

there's  a bunch of spriggans near the first dark brotherhood sanctuary get the sap by killing them and looting it

The potion I make is Improve Smithing 147%. + I wear 4 apparel items that also improve smithing 29% each. When I combine this power with a fortify one handed or archery 147% potions, dragons-dragon priests-giants & mammoths fall very quickly.

A comment or two on this, first, don't obsess about getting spriggan sap for the smithing recipe. Blue butterflies are everywhere and free, blisterwort is commonly available in the alchemy shops and if you do the favors when available they will let you take it for free. You just need two ingredients for any single effect potion. Strength is not affected by ingredient. The 3rd slot is for a second effect and that's all you can use. Second, I read that whole wiki assembly section too and it leaves out one major thing. It says "At the enchanter enchant as many items you can with Fortify Alchemy, but make sure you are able to make one complete set of fortified alchemy apparel before completing. A set of alchemy apparel will have one item for head, neck, arm and hand. e.g. Circlet, necklace, bracers, and ring." but never mentions that you have to acquire something enchanted with raise alchemy first. That particular enchantment is very hard to find even in the shops and is expensive.

Is there an "Enchanting Elixer" ? & does anyone know the recipe?

Blue Butterfly wings and snowberries boost enchant. Blues are all over the tundra by Whiterun (and elsewhere) snowberries are everywhere there is snow. They are both common, easy to find and free. There are two Enchanter's Philtres that add 20% in the archmage's quarters that respawn. That's the best I've seen. You should be able to get that anywhere with sufficient levels and boosts. I have read but haven't checked to confirm that potions stack if the percent of boost is different. That happens naturally when making a lot of potions since the alchemy level changes (until it is maxed of course).

Thanks :-)

I just went to Autumn Watch for the dragon. it is a bandit den and in the smaller tower there is a Smithing Elixer that grants +40%. I doubt it is respawning but once the dragon is there the bandits are not. You can even sneak into that tower without alarming the dragon if you want to.

That was the whole reason I started with Alchemy....was to make a really good fortify enchanting potion.  RIght now I can only get it up to a 13% improvement.  NOT ACCEPTABLE!!!  Hmmm, but someone said they could be stacked??  I'll test this tonight to see if it's true.  

Realy? Il make a note of that thanks :)