March 23, 2013 1:19 PM EDT
Isnt about alchemy is about poisons only.
And i keep saying the same, poisons can maybe improve your damage a little bit... but lets guess:
U have Enchanted gear (used for crafting weapons or in this case poisons), then u do all possible stuf (NO CHEATING OR EXPLOIT) to make your poisons do the highest damage that can be done, u get a poison with i guess its about (if i remember right) 150 instant dmg and 31 for 10 secs, thats 460 dmg (on legendary i think its 1/4 of that) then u had to collect the best ingredients (not easy at all) to do less than 150 dmg to enemys with 20 times that hp or even more, tested it on my lvl 50 archer poison assassin, against a leveled guard, doing only 1/10 of his hp. And its only lvl 50, if u keep leveling your alchemy ll keep the same dmg, and maybe at lategame you will barely move the HP bar from the oponent.
Assuming we want to roleplay a poisoner assassin maybe we can put other trees on hold to not get more than 30 levels (booooring) and even with that mechanic the poisons do not fill the role for the assassin, at all.
I said poisons are horrible to roleplay an assassin, didnt say "poisons suck, period" u can play like a falmer with a shield and sword with poisons, ok maybe y can do a bit more dmg with that, amazing, not even a lot of dmg, but helps, BUT u cant use poisons for assassinations, the game dont give you the possibility to craft better poisons even if you are forced to serch for ingredients for a long time, your best poisons ll allways be the river betty ones and the crimson nirnroot ones (jarrin root is just 1 in the entire game).
That being said, i think my point is valid, poisons can help you with dmg early levels, after 50 60, you ll be doing majority of your dmg with another source.
Now, this can work if you get poisoned perk, then u just put 20 30 vials into a boss pocket, and you maybe kill him, i think its just boring and dont fit the roleplay, and that only works on a few enemys that can be pickpocketed.
The last thing i wanna say, maybe killing all with just a few poisons isnt the idea neither, ll be overpowered like a stealth high level bow atack, just 1 shot and GG, BUT u can see, at early levels u can find 50 dmg poisons, or 75 dmg poisons, a few in the world, but before lvl 10 those are really helpfull, thats how i thinkg that must be lategame, just the possibility to have a few powerfull poisons to roleplay your assassin, not jarrin root ones, but at least 1/5 powerfull than those.
This is the BEST damage poison you can craft in the game with FULL enchanting and useing the helmet BUGÂ http://i.stack.imgur.com/j6eGL.jpg (took this one frmo other site, i dont know if i can post the link to the site itself)
NOTE: and i say again, alchemy is super overpowered, but we talk about only poisons.