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1) Open your potion making console (drop an alchemy tool like the mortar and pestal into your character in the inventory) and click which ingredients you want to combine, the space on the right will tell you what kind of potion you can make. Click, "Make Potion", or whatever it says, and depending on your skill, you have a certain chance of creating a potion, the better your equipment and skill, the more effective the potion.
2) I believe I saw a simple recipe book in the Balmora Mages Guild, not sure though.
3)You make potions by combining two or more ingredients in which at least 2 of those ingredients share an effect. Just remember what kind of effects you plan to be using the most, and watch out for ingredients with that effect.
4) For what I've noticed, any ingredient with a particular effect is just as potent as any other ingredient with that effect, I don't know about using more than 2 ingredients with the same effect though, you'll have to figure that out for yourself.
I know a very easy way to train your alchemy skill to 100 really early in the game (in fact, and soon as you have all the alchemy tools and aroun 250 gold). It's not cheating, but may be considerred and exploit by some, I personally think it's not, since it's completely within the rules of the game. PM me if you want to hear it.
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