Fortify Magicka Potions

Fortify Magicka potions raise your maximum Magicka by 20 to 100 points for 60 seconds, giving spellcasters a deeper pool for big fights.

Fortify Magicka potions, sold and looted under the name Extra Magicka, temporarily enlarge your Magicka pool. Depending on the tier, you gain between 20 and 100 extra points for 60 seconds. That headroom lets a mage squeeze in another expensive spell before running dry, which makes these bottles handy before a boss or a dragon. They raise the maximum rather than refilling it, so they work best alongside potions that restore or regenerate Magicka.

All tiers

Name Effect Value Weight Form ID
Potion of Extra Magicka Magicka increased by 20 points for 60 seconds 58 0.5 0003EAF7
Draught of Extra Magicka Magicka increased by 40 points for 60 seconds 124 0.5 0003EAFA
Solution of Extra Magicka Magicka increased by 60 points for 60 seconds 194 0.5 0003EAFB
Philter of Extra Magicka Magicka increased by 80 points for 60 seconds 266 0.5 0003EAFC
Elixir of Extra Magicka Magicka increased by 100 points for 60 seconds 341 0.5 000FF9FD

Where to find them

These are ordinary leveled potions. You can buy them from merchants who stock potions, and they turn up as loot in the world and in the inventories of other characters. Because they are leveled, the stronger tiers become more common as the Dragonborn gains levels. Every bottle weighs 0.5.

Brewing your own

Using the Alchemy skill, you can brew them from Briar Heart, Ectoplasm, Histcarp, Jazbay Grapes, Red Mountain Flower, Tundra Cotton and Void Salts. Any two of these share the effect and will produce the potion.

Mixing at an alchemy lab follows the usual rule: two or more ingredients must share an effect before anything useful comes out. Eating an ingredient reveals one of its properties (more with the Experimenter perk), and once an effect is known you can pick it straight from the lab menu instead of guessing.

Tips

Combine one with Regenerate Magicka Potions for a longer casting session: one gives you a bigger tank, the other refills it faster.

Where to find it

  • Sold by merchants who stock potions
  • Random loot in the world and on characters, leveled to the player
  • Can be brewed with the Alchemy skill

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Sources checked: Skyrim/DLC game files (potion records: effects, weights, IDs); Elder Scrolls Fandom potion articles (prices, locations)