SKYRIM | 100 Skill Leveling Guide, Tips, and Glitches!

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Jigsaw

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Welcome to Jigsaw's Guide on Skyrim!
I Hope you all enjoy this guide. It will be constantly updated, and PLEASE feel free to make a request on a video/guide. Please like my videos, it means a lot. All of these guides will have Up To Date methods and should all work fine (I use them myself). Thanks for looking, and enjoy the guide.
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Armor- This is a guide on how to Make AWESOME mages armor. Helpful when leveling skills.​
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SCHOOLS OF MAGIC
Conjuration
1. Acquire "Soul Trap"​
2. Acquire a horse or dead body​
3. Cast until Level 100​
Destruction
1. Acquire Shadowmere​
2. Use your best destruction spell on him​
3. Wait for him to regen health​
4. Repeat until Level 100​
(Save every level to be safe, don't kill Shadowmere)​
Illusion
1. Acquire Spell "Muffle"​
2. Use Muffle until Level 100​
(Easier with Mage amor, see above)​
Restoration
1. Acquire "Healing" and "Equilibrium"​
2. Set difficulty to NOVICE​
3. Dual Cast until Low health​
4. Restore health to full​
5. Repeat​
Alteration
1. Use "Detect Life" Until Level 50​
2. Go to Tolfdir at College of Winterhold, buy Telekenesis​
3. Create Mages Armor for Alteration (See Above)​
4. Dual Cast Telekenesis on an item until 100​
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CRAFTING SKILLS
Smithing/Enchanting​
1. Acquire around 300 iron ingots/leather strips​
2. Acquire around 100 filled Soul Gems (any)​
3. Create and Sell Daggers until level 70​
4. Create and Enchant daggers til Level 100 for both​
Where To Find Tons of FREE Iron Ingots​
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CHARACTER SKILLS
Sneak
1. Get Iron Dagger
2. Travel to High Hrothgar
3. Sneak and stab a praying Grey Beard until Level 100

Pickpocket
1.Get put in jail in Riften​
2.Break out​
3. Go to cell across from yours​
4. Pickpocket him and place items on him​
5. Repeat until level 100​
Speech
1. Go to Black Briar Meadery in Riften​
2. Talk to the Elf who works the counter​
3. Ask him about Maven Black Briar​
4. Persuade for truth​
5. Repeat to Level 100​



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Jigsaw

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Dragon Kin

Dovah Fen Ni Dii
Awesome guide!!

What about smithing and enchanting? Since the patch I haven't found a fast or easy way to 100 smithing. A fast way would be great!

Keep it up
 

Jigsaw

New Member
Awesome guide!!

What about smithing and enchanting? Since the patch I haven't found a fast or easy way to 100 smithing. A fast way would be great!

Keep it up

The smithing takes time, its hard to get a lot of iron. I Will create a video on smithing and enchanting since they do go together somewhat. Thanks for the feedback!
 

Dragon Kin

Dovah Fen Ni Dii
^ can't wait!

Also, does the Speech glitch in Riften still work? You could add that too.

And there is sneak glitch either in the very beginning at Helgen or in High Hrothgar
 

Jigsaw

New Member
^ can't wait!

Also, does the Speech glitch in Riften still work? You could add that too.

And there is sneak glitch either in the very beginning at Helgen or in High Hrothgar

I just made a video on sneak and smithing/enchanting (as one). Speech tutorial will come next.:Dragonborn:
 

Mathew

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Holy sheet, I needed mage guides like these(i'm a mage pure). Thank you very much
 

ShadowGambit

Active Member
The iron dagger way is not the fastest way anymore after 40 smithing, as now Smithing takes the value of the item into account too with patch 1.5.

Jewellery is the fastest way.

Go get Transmute and get all Iron Ore that you can find. Pickpocket and steal every gem that you can find.

Make Silver and Gold ore with Transmute (it will increase you alteration level too), then Ingot (you will need both gold and silver). Make jewellery.

Other method, a little slower: Get about 200 iron ingot. Go to Markarth. clear the Dwemer ruins and the Dwemer Museum of all the dwemer metal THAT DOESN'T START WITH DWEMER (starts with small dwemer, large dwemer etc...) Turn them into Ingot. make Dwarven Bows.

Note that with the dwemer scraps that you get from Markarth alone, and with the Warrior stone, you will have enough Dwarven Ingot to take you from 40 to 100.
 

Jigsaw

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The iron dagger way is not the fastest way anymore after 40 smithing, as now Smithing takes the value of the item into account too with patch 1.5.

Jewellery is the fastest way.

Go get Transmute and get all Iron Ore that you can find. Pickpocket and steal every gem that you can find.

Make Silver and Gold ore with Transmute (it will increase you alteration level too), then Ingot (you will need both gold and silver). Make jewellery.

Other method, a little slower: Get about 200 iron ingot. Go to Markarth. clear teh Dwemer ruins and the Dwemer Museum of all the dwemer metal THAT DOESN4T START WITH DWEMER (starts with small dwemer, large dwemer etc...) Turn them into Ingot. make Dwarven Bows.

Note that with the dwemer scraps that you get from Markarth alone, and with the Warrior stone, you will have enough Dwarven Ingot to take you from 40 to 100.



The Iron Daggers method is still the best in my opinion, simply because of how easy it is. While making jewelry may level you up slightly faster, the time you spend looking for all those gems to pickpocket (which could be hard if you have a low pickpocket skill) will eventually be outweighed by the time making Iron Daggers to level up. Although your methods do seem to be good alternatives, they are circumstantial. Also, the Iron Daggers Method Allows you to freely chose which side of smithing you will do without possibly wasting a skill perk on making dwarven items.
 

ShadowGambit

Active Member
With the new smithing system, I don't think that 300 iron dagger will cut it. Mostly 450 I think.

Now, you need only around 200 dwarven bows though.
 

Jigsaw

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With the new smithing system, I don't think that 300 iron dagger will cut it. Mostly 450 I think.

Now, you need only around 200 dwarven bows though.

As I said, finding dwemer scraps may be harder than simply buying iron. And you also have to spend a skill perk for dwarven items which maybe you didnt want. If I am able, I will test that method out at some point.
 

ShadowGambit

Active Member
As I said, finding dwemer scraps may be harder than simply buying iron. And you also have to spend a skill perk for dwarven items which maybe you didnt want. If I am able, I will test that method out at some point.

But it is cheaper :)
 

Streets

The Gentleman Owl
If you are going up the left side of the tree, Steel Plate Armor is the best thing to do if you don't take the Dwarven Smithing perk. Before the 1.5 smithing patch, it took 570 Iron daggers without warrior stone and without a sleeping bonus to go from 15 to 100 smithing. After the patch, they have given Iron daggers a diminishing return on value, so this number will be much higher. I agree with ShadowGambit on Jewelry and Dwarven Bows, or Steel Plate armor for left side. Hit Kolskeggr and Saunarach mines for gold/silver if you don't want to transmute. Go through one dwemer ruin and you already have the means for 100 smithing. You can still use iron daggers to get to about 40 smithing or so pretty quickly, and then you can use those for leveling your Enchanting also.

With the patch, people using the Warrior stone and having the Well rested bonus, 700 Daggers will take you to around level 66, when you start needing over 20 iron daggers per level to gain, so as you can see, the Iron dagger method will take far longer than you say "300 Iron daggers." 300 iron daggers will take you from around 66 smithing to about 80 smithing, so yeah, I think you should update that section of your guide.
 

Jigsaw

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If you are going up the left side of the tree, Steel Plate Armor is the best thing to do if you don't take the Dwarven Smithing perk. Before the 1.5 smithing patch, it took 570 Iron daggers without warrior stone and without a sleeping bonus to go from 15 to 100 smithing. After the patch, they have given Iron daggers a diminishing return on value, so this number will be much higher. I agree with ShadowGambit on Jewelry and Dwarven Bows, or Steel Plate armor for left side. Hit Kolskeggr and Saunarach mines for gold/silver if you don't want to transmute. Go through one dwemer ruin and you already have the means for 100 smithing. You can still use iron daggers to get to about 40 smithing or so pretty quickly, and then you can use those for leveling your Enchanting also.

With the patch, people using the Warrior stone and having the Well rested bonus, 700 Daggers will take you to around level 66, when you start needing over 20 iron daggers per level to gain, so as you can see, the Iron dagger method will take far longer than you say "300 Iron daggers." 300 iron daggers will take you from around 66 smithing to about 80 smithing, so yeah, I think you should update that section of your guide.


I will be starting a new character build within a few days. I will be sure to test this method out, as it seems to be credible. I will post a new video with results if I find results to be better. Thanks for the tips and feedback!
 

ShadowGambit

Active Member
If you are going up the left side of the tree, Steel Plate Armor is the best thing to do if you don't take the Dwarven Smithing perk.

The only problem I see with the Steel Plate armor is that Steel is "expensive". There are no Ore Vein for steel, sadly. Also, to make a Steel Ingot, you need Iron and Corundum ore. That may make it harder to achieve than to go hunt 1 dwemer ruin and use 1 perk point.

But I have to say that the Steel armor way may be faster and easier than the Jewellery way though.
 
For the past few days on and off I have been leveling smithing using the iron dagger method I did not realize it at first but it took 166 iron daggers to get me up around twenty levels (20-40 but i made some jewellery as well so it really only got me up about 17 or 18 levels) and just today i decided to try the dwarven bow method. After patch 1.5 I believe it is faster I made 101 dwarven bows it got me up 20 levels (40-60 with out smithing anything else) it took only 5 bows to get me up every level (last level though 59-60 took 6) if i used the iron dagger method (and made 101 of them) it would not have gotten me up that high

Although the method is only really useful if you are taking the right hand side of the skill (heavy armor) it will be faster IMO
 

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