SkyrimShark85
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If you max out the alchemy skill by doing nothing but buying ingredients, creating potions and then selling them back to the alchemist it more than pays for itself because when your alchemy skill gets high enough you can sell created potions for more than what you paid for the required ingredients. At first you will only about break even doing this but when you focus all your perk points on the alchemy skill eventually you can make an exceedingly high profit by doing this. It helps if you acquire the thief guardian stone first so you can increase the skill a little faster. Also, you should invest one perk point for haggling and then one for the allure perk so when your speech skill gets up to level 50 you can get the merchant perk and sell the created potions to any merchant. This is very easy to do because as you are doing all the buying and selling to max out the alchemy skill, respectively the speech skill will also increase.