Skyrim tips

[Toolbox X]

I've come up with a few Skyrim tips for you Skyrim players out there.

Raise your Smithing and Enchantment skills early. It's super easy to do and makes you almost unlimited money.

Getting Smithing to 100 is simple. Create Iron daggers. They are cheap to make and will get you to Smithing 100 very fast.

Raising Enchanting isn't as fast, but it's also simple.
Disenchant everything magical that you find that you do not use. Keep doing this.
Enchant all of those iron daggers you made while Smithing. Use all of the junk soul stones you've been picking up but not using. When picking which enchantment to use, select the one that makes the dagger most valuable. Turn Undead is a good one.

The best part is the enchanted daggers are worth a considerable amount of money. Learn where the blacksmith shops and weapon/Armor vendors are in each city and bounce to each of them with your daggers. Sell them for good money, and pick up as much apparel with bonuses to Smithing and Alchemy as you can.

Lastly, you can make a TON of money from Alchemy using potions. This is what I did. Buy a house (one you can furnish with both an Alchemy table and Enchantment table). On the Alchemy stand is a leather pouch for storage. Store ALL of your alchemy components in the pouch so you are not burdened by the weight of them. (All of the alchemy comps I was carrying around everywhere weighed 120 pounds!)

Learn where the alchemy shops in the different cities are and buy all of the comps you need for your potions. Sell your potions to buy the comps, and get all of the vendors money.

Creating Invisibility, Paralysis and Regeneration potions will raise your Alchemy skill the fastest, and they sell for a ton of gold, so concentrate on those.

Below is my list of the comps you need for:

Regenerate Magicka
Regenerate Health
Restore Health
Restore Magicka
Fortify Smithing
Fortify Magicka
Fortify Health
Fortify Enchanting
Fortify Barter
Invisibility

If these are the only potions you make you can stop picking up any ingredients but these:

Bee
Bear Claws
Blisterwort
Blue Butterfly Wing
Blue Dartwing
Blue Mountain Flower
Briar Heart
Butterfly Wing
Canis Root
Charred Skeever Hide
Chaurus Eggs
Crimson Nirnroot
Creep Cluster
Daedra Heart
Dragon's Tongue
Dwarven Oil
Ectoplasm
Elves Ear
Eye of Sabre Cat
Fire Salts
Fly Amanita
Frost Salts
Garlic
Giant Lichen
Giant's Toe
Glowing Mushroom
Grass Pod
Hagraven Claw
Hanging Moss
Histcarp
Ice Wraith Teeth
Human Flesh
Imp Stool
Jazbay Grapes
Juniper Berries
Luna Moth Wing
Moon Sugar
Mora Tapinella
Namira's Rot
Nirnroot
Nordic Barnacle
Pearl
Red Mountain Flower
Rock Warbler Egg
Sabre Cat Tooth
Salt Pile
Scaly Pholiata
Snowberries
Spriggan Sap
Swamp Fungal Pod
Taproot
Tundra Cotton
Vampire Dust
Void Salts
Wheat
White Cap

[Vanguard]

Nice post but I'm too busy assassinating fools with the dark brotherhood.

[2shotjoe]

tip #2: don't install update 1.2.

[Toolbox X]

1.2 is bad?

[Nose Nuggets]

smiting and/or enchanting are OP and make the game easy.

im 25 in full obsideon armor i think? the one after orcish and i can tune weapons to the epic level and its just silly. the obsideon weapon at epic was so good i went back to a blades sword i fond (im partial to katana's) and made that epic instead, now i only 1 shot "normal" enemies, the thugs and leaders take a few.

[Toolbox X]

smiting and/or enchanting are OP and make the game easy.

im 25 in full obsideon armor i think? the one after orcish and i can tune weapons to the epic level and its just silly. the obsideon weapon at epic was so good i went back to a blades sword i fond (im partial to katana's) and made that epic instead, now i only 1 shot "normal" enemies, the thugs and leaders take a few.

I hear what you are saying, but things will get harder. I think you can up the difficulty level as well.

[ibanezfoo]

Give your slave girl a weapon that captures souls and make her hold all the empty soul stones. It will automatically fill the soul stones when she fights and I don't think you ever have to recharge her weapon (or it does it automatically). Keeps you with a steady supply of filled soul stones.

[Toolbox X]

Give your slave girl a weapon that captures souls and make her hold all the empty soul stones. It will automatically fill the soul stones when she fights and I don't think you ever have to recharge her weapon (or it does it automatically). Keeps you with a steady supply of filled soul stones.

Good tip!

[PanchoVilla]

Do you have to pick something and stick with it or is there room enough to do everything? Ie, if I get 100 in smithing and enchanting, does that make it harder to get 100 in anything else? So far the only thing I see where you have to pick and choose is in the perk trees, so you can get what you want. Alchemy sounds like its a no brainer for my wood elf archer/thief as poisons will be super useful to me.

BTW, this game rules so hard. I haven't played these games since daggerfall/elder scrolls II era and now I doubt I will ever finish red dead redemption since I spend all my time playing Skyrim. Esp since it seems like you really need to play it at least twice once Imperial and once Stormcloak.

[ibanezfoo]

BTW, this game rules so hard. I haven't played these games since daggerfall/elder scrolls II era and now I doubt I will ever finish red dead redemption since I spend all my time playing Skyrim. Esp since it seems like you really need to play it at least twice once Imperial and once Stormcloak.

Man thats tough... Red Dead Redemption was an AMAZING game. I'm patiently awaiting a sequel (or part 3 or whatever).

[mossy]

DO NOT update to 1.2, it breaks magic/poison resistance and can cause dragons to fly backwards. do not install 1.2, just play off line. bring that slave girl everywhere with you, she makes fighting large groups of bad guys much easier. also get married, your wife will open a store and bring in 100 gold a day for you.

[Toolbox X]

Do you have to pick something and stick with it or is there room enough to do everything? Ie, if I get 100 in smithing and enchanting, does that make it harder to get 100 in anything else? So far the only thing I see where you have to pick and choose is in the perk trees, so you can get what you want. Alchemy sounds like its a no brainer for my wood elf archer/thief as poisons will be super useful to me.

BTW, this game rules so hard. I haven't played these games since daggerfall/elder scrolls II era and now I doubt I will ever finish red dead redemption since I spend all my time playing Skyrim. Esp since it seems like you really need to play it at least twice once Imperial and once Stormcloak.

You get one perk point per level so there is a lot of room to diversify your perks into lots of different areas, and you have way more perk points than you need to specialize in only one or two areas. The only thing stopping you from doing everything with one character is each level you have to choose to raise Magika, Health or Stamina by 10 points. If you play a mage you are going to have extremely low health and stamina should you decide to make a serious shift to a melee character.

Alchemy lets you make fantastic health, magic and stamina restore and regeneration potions. It seems to be most useful for creating potions that raise your smithing and alchemy abilities for a short time. That will maximize your weapon and armor improvement skills.

Man thats tough... Red Dead Redemption was an AMAZING game. I'm patiently awaiting a sequel (or part 3 or whatever).

Dude, GTA5. Done.

[Nose Nuggets]

DO NOT update to 1.2, it breaks magic/poison resistance and can cause dragons to fly backwards. do not install 1.2, just play off line. bring that slave girl everywhere with you, she makes fighting large groups of bad guys much easier. also get married, your wife will open a store and bring in 100 gold a day for you.

1.3 released today to fix these issues.

[meaty-btz]

Skyrim, the only place where getting married adds to your account? lol....

[PanchoVilla]

is my slave girl the house person I got when I was named Thane of that first town? Or is there an actual slave girl you save or something? I haven't dealt with hirelings or companions yet as mostly they just get in my way in tunnels. It is handy if they have a torch though.