Use appropriate guardian stones(20% if doing just one skill, lover stone 15% everything)
rest at inn when possible(15% skill gain bonus for things like alchemy)
When leveling magic skills use all your magic fast as possible using both hands with most expensive spell(like fireball instead of flame) when mana is empty wait 1 hour rather than letting it regen. Because of this magic regen is not important but max magic is. So if you have +30 magicka equipment use it.
Even more powerful than that is crafting 100% free casting gear then can go non stop
Use trainers in this order. Since you can only do 5 training per level you want to be efficient. Don’t level up without training 5 times first.
Train Speech to 25 at bard college(allows you to persuade ungrien at riften taking speech to 100 that way)
Illusion to 25(allows learn muffle which takes you to 100)
Alchemy to 51 (pain in butt skill but very lucrative for money)
Alteration to 50 (allows learn detect life takes you to 100)
Lockpicking to 51 (lockpicking is pain in butt to level up)
Pickpocket your money back from trainers. Nothing more needed to max out pickpocket. At first training with trainer + pickpocketing will level you to 25ish without having to stop. Eventually youll have to start potion crafting to get more levels to keep training.
Illusion Use muffle when walking around town doing other things. Don’t focus heavily on muffle until you can do 100% free casting
Speech Ungrien in black-briar meadery in riften at 25 speech persuade him indefinitely to 100
AlchemyBuy all the ingredients(except fire/void/ice? Salts which are too expensive) at merchant and put them together using this program. Also if gonna do daedric armour good chance to find enough hearts
http://skyrimforum.com/threads/poti...redients-get-a-list-of-possible-potions.2428/
(waiting 48 hrs for merchant to restock ingredients as necessary). Don’t obsess about selling potions. Just hold onto them then when you buy ingredients, soul stones, iron, enchanted gear(to disenchant) get your money back by selling your potions(requires merchant skill so can sell anything to anyone). Also when doing lockpicking. I buy lockpicks in riften which is also good opportunity to sell potions.
Smithing/enchanting in that orderhttp://eldersouls.com/page/index.html/_/guides/skyrim/skyrim-conjuration-smithing-enchanting-guide
Do iron daggers and leather bracers buying all leather, leather straps, iron you can… not steel. Don’t sell the daggers yet. Give all of them to companion for later enchanting. Be careful theres a bug where he picks up daggers but not added to his inventory. So save and make sure worked right. Companion will pick up equipment even when hes overburdened using the pick up stuff command rather than trading
Buy filled soul stones(not empty ones) and enchant your daggers(not leather bracers unless at end run out of daggers). Alternate between crafting daggers and enchanting them for weight purposes
Some enchantments will improve the selling price of the item more than others. In order of descending value:
Weapons: Banish, Paralyze, Absorb Health, Stamina Damage
After completing alchemy, smithing, enchanting can now create free casting gear
Alteration cast Detect life with dual hands but not with dual casting perk. Use free casting gear, leave overnight while you sleep. In whiterun. On stairs between black briar inn and church
restoration/armour/block
Craft free restoration necklace(29% reduce)/ring(29% reduce)/chest(48% reduce)
Equip light armour helmet and light armour footwear. Heavy armour chest and hands. This allows light armour and heavy armour to level at same time.
Go to bleakwind basin west of whiterun. Get 2 giants to attack you, 1 mammoth(more mammoths will block giants from reaching you with their large tusks)
Charge up both hands with grand healing(300 heal), use double tap charge up to get both hands up consistently. Do this until heavy/light armour to 85. Then switch to shield + one hand grand healing. Block to 100 which will also bump the armour up a bit. Then finish off the armour
After restore, armour, block done then get shadowmere and finish offense skills(1 hand, archer, 2 hand, destruction, conjuration(soul trap))
Get shadowmere
http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Shadowmere and
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Shadowmere hes a great mountain climber and good target to attack for skill leveling. He has lots of life, high health regen and wont run away or attack you. Easier than finding new enemies to fight. Here are some pointers for 2 of the quests to get shadowmere
Save an invisibility potion for killing Victoria. Drop the gargoyle above her head and go invisible immediately then walk away
For breaching security killing Gaius maros go to whiterun, he sleeps in bannered mare at midnight on Turdas(the day). Start at 4pm and go by 1 hour waits. Close door. Sometimes will get bounty for killing him even when door closed so just bribe your way out of it. You can also turn into werewolf to kill him.
Conjur use soul trap on shadowmere using both hands(free casting gear) to 50 conjur then buy bound bow
Archery buy bound bow or find here
http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Bound_Bow_(Skyrim) shoot shadowmere until 100(this will also raise conjur) no arrows use so no cost involved. I have turbo controller so rubber band the shoot button(R1) then occasionally cast bound bow(L1)Finish of conjuration now.
Sneakfind an NPC who stays in one location. Put your character in a corner. Rubber band controller so hes constantly walking forward into corner. Leave overnight.
In Hrothgar the priests who prey at 6 different mats in a hallway. Put my character between 3rd and 4th mat. There are many locations to choose from that’s just the place I used so I know it works for a one night which maxed my skill. I had muffled boots, +25% sneak hood.
To get to hrothgar just ride shadowmere up the mountain. Start from south end of mountain, work your way counter clockwise when stuck. When you get to throat of the world can then easily climb down into hrothgar.
Lockpicking buy lockpicks from thieves guild
then go to Markarth and finish quest to get into the Museum(Calcelmo who is found in understone keep in markarth take a left once enter), in left
Open all the locks here. Once done go back to thieves guild
Buy and waste locks on Master(breaks picks fastest) locked chest that is found in thieves guild. As in break them on purpose so you don’t have to find new locks to pick. I bought like 300 lockpicks at a time. Rubber banded the controller. At roughly 89 lockpicking you will be level 81 and can stop leveling.
I like whiterun as my leveling location has 3 blacksmiths. You can pretty much level to 81 without fighting much more than needed to get shadowmere and fighting the giants.
Your companion has a weight limit on what he can carry. But you can throw things on ground and he will pick it up no matter how much he is carrying. So basically you can carry as much equipment, poitions, ingredients as you want. Just be careful about a glitch for this glitch where he will pick the stuff up but wont appear in inventory
It took me about 3 hours to get to lvl 30 and about 3 days to get to 81 but that included doing quests to get shadowmere. Buying a house in solitaire, building my equipment and selling all my potions so I had about 150k gold after buying house and building my gear
Taking all this to the next level. Do not use perks. From now on you wont have to level ever again. Use this same character to split off into new character builds. For example….
Lvl 81 naked not perked character becomes….
Lvl 81 magician
Lvl 81 archer
Lvl 81 shield warrior
Lvl 81 thief/assassin
And save those different characters. But always keep the unperked naked character to branch from. This also means if they ever come out with a download patch with new content you can do a whole new character if it pleases you
When I did this I did put perks into
Speech(merchant to sell potions faster but if want to spend time can sell potions to general goods and alchemy merchants)
Alchemy(Benefactor)
Enchanting(extra effect) I did those 2 skills to get free casting but just speeds up leveling. Can do waiting for 1 hour to regenerate magic and not need free casting(will also have to do weaker enemy attacking you like mudcrabs)
Restoration(regeneration for faster leveling, respite faster running around map)
