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Skill Leveling Guide

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  • January 23, 2013

    Hey guys, thought I'd try and start a discussion and hopefully some more activity to this group. I'm trying to make a guide on how to level skills that people often have difficulty with. It'll just start as a few skills, but I'm willing to add others if a good case is made for their inclusion. This will house levelling methods that are spread across the group, and the site as a whole all in one place for easy access.

    Most levelling methods will be role play friendly. However, feel free to suggest methods that are unnaturally quick, and they will be included for those who are interested. 

    Just to be clear, not all of the leveling methods are mine. Where possible, I'll give credit to the person who told me of the method.

    As a last point, remember the basics for fast leveling to make the most of these methods. Grab the appropriate leveling stone (mage, warrior or thief), the aetherial crown with the lover stone  and get a rested/well rested bonus before hand.

     

    Enchanting: At low levels (-10), vendors sell significantly more, empty petty soul gems. Make the most of this by purchasing 200 of them before you surpass level 10. This will cost around 6000 gold with no speech enhancements. When you have the 200 empty gems, fill them however you want. These 200 gems fill be enough to reach level 100 in enchanting at your leisure.

    Credit: Mason

     

    Smithing: There are three stages to leveling smithing as quickly as possible.

    Stage 1: Use the transmute spell to make the most expensive jewelery possible. Do this until you have the "Dwarven smithing perk".

    Stage 2: Once you have the Dwarven smithing perk collect dwarven ore substitutes to create dwarven ingots. Purchase some iron ingots and craft as many dwarven bows as possible. Do this until smithing is level 40.

    Stage 3: Continue to craft dwarven bows, but save 1/3 of the dwarven ingots you gather to improve the bows you make.

    Alchemy: Alchemy also gains experience based on the cost of the created product.You can Maximize exp gain by creating the following potion ingredients and creating as many as possible in descending order.

    • Salmon roe, Histcarp, Jazbay Grapes
    • Salmon roe, Nordic Barnacle, Salt pile
    • Salmon roe, Nordic Barnacle, Garlic

    This page gives more information on Salmon roe.

    You can maximize the exp gain of the rest of your ingredients here alchemy calculator. Add all ingredients and make sure 3 ingredient potions and "any" are both selected. go through the list in descending order, creating all the potions you can

    Credit: Ben C

     

    Restoration: Get hold of the poison rune spell from dragonborn dlc, and use it repeatedly on large groups of enemies. 

    Level 65-100: Using the atronach stone and the circle of protection spell allows you to absorb the spells magicka, almost instantly refilling it. This allows you to infinitely cast the spell without losing magicka, and level restoration quickly. This technique can be put to good use when levelling other magicka skills as well because of the infinite magicka.

    Destruction: Rune spells are the best for levelling destruction. To make the most out of them, go to the Greybeards at High Hrothgar. Find as many of them in a small space as possible and use runes to damage them (slowly or else they will attack). To add even more levelling potential, add in a pet, a follower and a summoned creature or two. The more targets hit, the more experience you will gain.

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    Illusion: Illusion is very easy to level up quickly. Just keep casting the muffle spell in any area and your skill level will raise. To level even faster, use this in combination with the guardian circle/atronach stone combo or any other place where you can absorb magicka.

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    Conjuration: Conjuration can be difficult to level up, depending on which type of conjuration magic you choose to specialise in. Necromancy and soul trapping tend to level quickly, while atromancy and bound weapon summoning seem to take much longer. To level up quickly, find a dead body and repeatedly cast soul trap on it. Combine this with any atronach stone absorb effect to speed this up.

    Credit: Brynjolf

    Alteration: Here I’ll post two different Method of training this skill. If you use them, let me know in the comments which you found more effective.

    Method 1: get Secret of arcana and the Telekinesis spell. Activate the power, use telekinesis on an object, then fast travel far away while still holding the object. Your Alteration will increase significantly. 

    Credit: Ben C

    Method 2: Use the detect life spell in the centre of the Riften market. Levelling restoration with the “circle” method at the same time will speed this up.

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    Sneak: The best way to quickly level sneak is to preform sneak attacks. To speed this up, attack a friendly npc who will not retaliate. Prime examples here are the Greybeards and either of the followers during the tutorial.

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    Speech: 15-50: Visit Revyn Sadri in Windhelm. After completing a short quest for him, he will become available as a speech trainer. Purchase training from Sadri and sell items to him to recover the money. This will allow you to continue to repeat the process.

    Credit: Mason

    Note: Completing the quest "Tending the flames" will give the player a permanent 15% increase to speech skill levelling speed.

    Archery: Archery can be raised to level 50 for free at any time if Faendal is taken as a follower through training and taking back money from him. A further 16 free archery points can also be gained 6 are received from training at Angie's camp and another 10 reading archery skill books with the scholar's insight power from the dragonborn dlc. This means that only 34 archery levels need to be gained by using the skill in combat to reach level 100.

    Credit: Ben C

    Werewolf:

    To fully complete the werewolf perk tree as fast as possible, make sure to pick up the "Savage feeding perk" as soon as you can. This perk allows the werewolf to feed and get experience from most enemies in the game, making it easier to level up quickly.

  • January 23, 2013

    Fixed, thanks for pointing it out.

  • January 23, 2013
    Illusion: Cast muffle a lot :P Combined with healing+Atronach stone+Fire trap, this would level it super quickly.
  • Member
    January 27, 2013

    Alteration:

    Get alteration to 40 and buy telekinesis from the college. Select atronach stone.

    Use one of the holy lasers from the Beacon of Meridia to recharge your magicka while holding an item with telekinesis. Use your off hand to heal any damage...

  • Member
    January 27, 2013
    How do you level alteration fast? I remember the highest I got alteration with out training was 23, until I gave up because it took too long.