Alchemy negative effects are too harsh.

[Fostik]

Subj.
Potions are too focused to make a lot of damage rather than anything else, which forces you to only search for potion without negative effects.
I'm not sure that this is what alchemy was intended for - extremely various mechanic, which leads to several recipes that can be really used, while everything else is just trash that will kill you.

Potions should give less damage, to allow even low matched potions to be used to trade one wound to another.

[shubla]

I think that if you just mix up this and that it is understandable that the outcome is not always pleasant.
I've come to understand that there are many elixirs that are perhaps even a bit too good, with the current system.