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Perkless in Skyrim

Bad to the Dragonbone.
Gold well spent or waste of time? If you do train, what skills do you focus on?

Generally, I don't train much. Maybe I should. Training can drain a money pouch in short order, especially at higher levels and goodness knows I end up with a bunch of it and nothing to spend it on.

On the occasions I have trained, I've dropped coin to improve Archery at early levels (with Faendal since I can easily get it all back), or 2H and/or Heavy Armor with the Companions. I think once I trained to improve Destruction but being a mage is expensive anyway, what with buying all those cool new spells, that I didn't have much to spare.

Skills which would seem to benefit the most from training are (in my opinion) Destruction, Restoration and the armor skills, mainly because they seem to take forever to improve on their own. What say you?
 

Epic Keith

By Ysmir you're going to FREEZE to death!
Gold well spent or waste of time? If you do train, what skills do you focus on?

Generally, I don't train much. Maybe I should. Training can drain a money pouch in short order, especially at higher levels and goodness knows I end up with a bunch of it and nothing to spend it on.

On the occasions I have trained, I've dropped coin to improve Archery at early levels (with Faendal since I can easily get it all back), or 2H and/or Heavy Armor with the Companions. I think once I trained to improve Destruction but being a mage is expensive anyway, what with buying all those cool new spells, that I didn't have much to spare.

Skills which would seem to benefit the most from training are (in my opinion) Destruction, Restoration and the armor skills, mainly because they seem to take forever to improve on their own. What say you?
Training is good if you want a quick boost to your skills. It's good for those who want to level up quickly with no work. I think taking training in block and the magic skills are the best
 

Chadonraz

Well-Known Member
I have never purchased a single training session, because I've preferred to raise my skills in a "natural" way.
However if I ever want to get Pickpocket to 100, I'll have to buy a ton of training. It's the only skill I never (except when it's either that or murder, in a certain Daedric quest...) use.

I've been considering getting training in slowly leveling skills like Alchemy and Speech, though. Perhaps someday I will. :)
 

Perkless in Skyrim

Bad to the Dragonbone.
I have never purchased a single training session, because I've preferred to raise my skills in a "natural" way.
However if I ever want to get Pickpocket to 100, I'll have to buy a ton of training. It's the only skill I never (except when it's either that or murder, in a certain Daedric quest...) use.

I've been considering getting training in slowly leveling skills like Alchemy and Speech, though. Perhaps someday I will. :)
Pickpocket is easier to level than you might think. Initially it's tough since you have a high chance of failure but potions and magic items can tide you over until you get better. I've been putting a couple perks into Light Fingers and it's usually more than enough. Of course, if you don't plan to spend perks in Pickpocket then you may frequently be running for the hills or spending some coin to pay off a bounty. Jail isn't an option for me. :D

I love Alchemy and it's pretty easy to brew expensive potions to raise it fairly quickly. Speech usually takes care of itself in time. I try to buy/sell in individual units to help raise it faster.

I usually just never get around to training. The best time for it is early on when you need it but that's when most people are too broke to take advantage. Late game when skills level slowly is also a good time but it's less important by then since people can generally kick ass on their own.

I think what little training gets done is through "cheating" methods of getting a follower to train you then taking the gold back though I've dropped some major change on Farkas and Vilkas to raise my 2h and Heavy Armor.
 

RY14NCE

Dragonborn
The only training I've really done is with Faendal at the start.

I do get my money back from him, I originally didn't do this as I classed it as cheating, but then I thought, he keeps calling me "friend" and he even walked up to me and gave me a hat today. So if he's my friend, he wouldn't really charge me for these lessons anyway...

At least that's how I justified it to myself :)''

I sometimes train a skill if I'm one skill level away from a perk I want and have a point saved ready. I would also consider training for some of the skills that seem to level much slower than others e.g destruction, restoration, light/heavy armour, and maybe (since the patch) smithing.
 

Wildroses

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It depends on the character and the circumstances. If I have the ready cash AND aren't saving up for anything AND there is an easily available trainer, then they will totally train. But these circumstances aren't always met.

My first character would impatiently wait to level up so she could train some more. But ever since Hearthfire, my characters have tended to hoard their gold to spend on land and iron. My latest two are actively trying to get to 100 in enchanting, and enchanting is quite expensive as you have to buy filled soul gems if you want to do it as fast as possible. To make it worse, one is also a jewellery maker so she's buying all the precious stones she sees as well. On lower levels, this is expensive.

Mind you, one character I'm planning to do in a few months time is going to go to the College of Winterhold and actually study. She won't 'graduate' and be able to leave the College permanently until she has learnt all the Master Level Spells. I'm sure all her ready cash is going to be spent on training with the mages so she can go adventuring all week instead of all weekend.
 

Perkless in Skyrim

Bad to the Dragonbone.
It depends on the character and the circumstances. If I have the ready cash AND aren't saving up for anything AND there is an easily available trainer, then they will totally train. But these circumstances aren't always met.

My first character would impatiently wait to level up so she could train some more. But ever since Hearthfire, my characters have tended to hoard their gold to spend on land and iron. My latest two are actively trying to get to 100 in enchanting, and enchanting is quite expensive as you have to buy filled soul gems if you want to do it as fast as possible. To make it worse, one is also a jewellery maker so she's buying all the precious stones she sees as well. On lower levels, this is expensive.

Mind you, one character I'm planning to do in a few months time is going to go to the College of Winterhold and actually study. She won't 'graduate' and be able to leave the College permanently until she has learnt all the Master Level Spells. I'm sure all her ready cash is going to be spent on training with the mages so she can go adventuring all week instead of all weekend.
I tried to wait to level up and ended up getting several back to back level ups. I hate that and wish Bethesda had allowed us to only level up as much as we wanted instead of all at once. It's especially hard at low level.

I have Hearthfire and have yet to build a house. :rolleyes:

Some of the trainers are fairly easy to find but most of them I had to look up. You would think the Winterhold mages would be easy to find, right? I have to ambush them in their dorm rooms at night or I end up on a wild goose chase through the College when I want to buy new spells.
 

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