Quest Easy Gold for New Players to Skyrim?

Do alot of Errand quests, which every city has them, the Stables in Whiterun is ideal for traveling between cities since there is a Carriage-Taxi kind of thing there, you can't miss it, you talk to the Guy sitting on the front of it.

Like if you were to go to Solitude and do the Radiant Raiment errand quest by wearing a fancy outfit to the Blue Palace which has the Wife of the slain king sitting on the throne, you'll get 400-600g for doing so after asking for her opinion then returning to the shop with the news.

In Falkenreath there's a quest from a nord guy who is usually chopping wood outside the INN or inside of the INN which he wants to deliver ashes to the keeper of the graveyard; the High Elf priest of Arkay. awards 500g each time I did it.

You'll find a few in Whiterun and other cities as well that are similiar.

I think the easiest gold is through the Dark Brotherhood. You can start there quests basically right away and make around 400-600 gold per kill, along with the loot you discover when your wandering around. I'd recommend it to anyone.

Quite easy to join them too, plus you get awesome armour.

For me the easiest way to make gold is just (even at level 1) go into the dungeons or bandit camps and kill everyone and then harvest their weapons, armor, gold, basically everything and then sell it off.

I feel it's incredibly easy to get money in this game, you just have to loot everything you kill and make sure you loot the dungeons you go through. Just selling all that is good enough income for me.

Sorry I am back, I was offline for like; ever. I'm glad more people contributed to gold in this forum for the new players.

Nightmare Shadow said:

For me the easiest way to make gold is just (even at level 1) go into the dungeons or bandit camps and kill everyone and then harvest their weapons, armor, gold, basically everything and then sell it off.

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Im completely new at this game, so...where can sell your stuff?

Domikat1112 said:

Im completely new at this game, so...where can sell your stuff?

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There are tons of different stores all throughout the cities in skyrim until you get a certain perk though you can only sell armor to an blacksmith food to a food vender and anything to a general store ect. For making money i would just loot everything and sell it. Good tip to is to enchant the stuff you loot to gain a ton of money an stamina damaging (easy to get enchantment) steel sword goes for around 200-300 in my game and i dont have that great speech. Hope that helps

If your lazy or do the book glitch (the door of oblivion)

lonewolf said:

There are tons of different stores all throughout the cities in skyrim until you get a certain perk though you can only sell armor to an blacksmith food to a food vender and anything to a general store ect. For making money i would just loot everything and sell it. Good tip to is to enchant the stuff you loot to gain a ton of money an stamina damaging (easy to get enchantment) steel sword goes for around 200-300 in my game and i dont have that great speech. Hope that helps

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Alright! Thanks! I didn't realize it was that easy...

Easy Money for a new player are the jobs for the Thieves guild.

The bedlam job is to steal 500 gold in a specific city. You get rewarded 400-500 for each mission ... and you can keep the loot and to sell it to the fence.

The Number job is the easiest one though, but not as lucrative.

Take everything you can from the enemies in the first mission.
Sell it.
Do bounty missions from inns.
Take loot from the bandits you kill.
Sell it.
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Profit.

Potions!

Some potions you can assemble out of readily available herbs and flowers you can collect between Helgan and Whiterun can sell for 100+ gold each, and you can have a stack of 10 or so by the first time your boots hit Whiterun's streets.

You just need the presence of mind to grab the herbs you pass.

This is a strategy I use to make money: Go dungeon crawling. Only pick up items that are worth ten times their weight in gold. In other words, if an item weighs 10 lbs. and it's only worth 45 gold, it's not worth picking up to sell. However, an item that weighs 1 lb. and worth 45 gold is. Load up on the small stuff.

A big, shiny suit of armor that's worth 200gp might seem like a good item to sell, but if it weighs 50 lbs. it's only going to weigh you down and make you less money in the long run. You could pick up 50 items that weigh one pound, worth 10gp each, and make 300 more gold than you would have picking up that armor.

It's actually more effective than going on 500gp reward missions. On those missions you're likely to be stuck going through some kind of dungeon or quest anyway, which takes time. Picking up smalls can net you thousands of gold for very little effort/time.

I don't use shops much, and only loot what I need, but money isn't tough. If you just pick up the Septims you find lying around, and do odd jobs, it's quite easy to earn enough for Breezehome, and a mercenary rather quickly. The Companions is the first Faction with steady work you can get to quickly. Swing through Bleak Falls barrow on the way to save yourself a trip, then sign up as soon as you get in town. After the first 3 little missions, you got about 500 coin in pay, and maybe as much if you check every Ea/urn, body, and stop for the occasional Bandit. Do the Skjor, or Vilkas quests, they usually have more loot, and don't forget to see Farengar about a Stone.

Once you're sworn in, get a free, and pretty damned good weapon (so you don't have to pay for it) and then either move on, or join the Circle. Most of the starter dungeons for each faction (Bleak Falls, Dustman's Cairn, Ustengrav, Saarthal, Goldenglow...) have plenty of loot. If you're selling, silver swords fetch a good price, and there's always plenty of weapons/armor lying around. If not, you can play radiant to get the stuff you want... eventually. For instance, grabbing all the Light Armor, Bows, Arrows, and Swords/Daggers from Helgen Keep, and so on tells the game you're an Archer, so eventually you'll start finding more of the same loot in random chests. I use the weapons/armor to train Smithing (with leather from hunting, and the stee/al from Alvor) then discard them. If you just grab Gold, eventually it's better than Imperial Luck!

The Thieves' Guild, and Dark Brotherhood are the most lucrative, while the College of Winterhold is probably most expensive (but has a stupid amount of loot, especially Soul Gems just lying around, with little supervision during the day!) Also, everything in Delphine's little hidey hole is fair game. If you do the Alchemist's Tutorial in Whiterun, there's a lot of free ingredients in that shop that respawn with her inventory.

Possible Spoilers

When you first start the game, you should loot EVERYTHING from dead people. Even clothes. When escaping from Helgen, take all the items of the dead people so after you escape, you can sell em for a nice amount of coin. Also, at the end of Helgen where you have to sneak past a bear, there is a cart with a few Alto wines and a big bag of gold under them. After you are leveled, go to Windhelm and talk to Aventus Aretino if you want to start Dark Brotherhood. The DB gives LOADS of gold for killing and the end reward is a big nice 20,000 gold. The Thieves Guild also gives nice gold from doing Delvin and Vex's quests. The Companions are ok but you can take your enemies clothes to sell! The Civil war quests also provide a lil' coin.