The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition

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Every way to get a skyrim skill to 100.
If you know any ways to get any other skills to 100, do tell!
Alteration: get mage light and shoot it at the highest peak of the mountain in solitude by the gates.
Sneak: when in the bear room in helgen, sneak up the wall with auto move and leave your computer running (this method is time consuming, I only was able to get it done in 2 days, given how long you can keep yourself awake and how much it costs on the energy bill).
(all ideas from this point on I have not tested so they may or may not be true, I may get spell names, armor names, or NPC names.)
Restoration: get the spell healing hands and go to Markarth, find Cosnach and keep hitting him with it, you could also have the bear in Helgen hit you a lot, then equip healing, and keep it up, Ralof shouldn't be down with you, out run him so he's still at the top of the spider cave, when your done and you've reached level 100 or close to, go in front of where Ralof is standing and let him kill the bear (note, if you need to use stamina a lot, be sure to find the secret shrine of Talos somewhere in the Falkreath forest and cure yourself of the bear virus).
(heh, I don't know a lot of these ideas and I've never tested them, but people say they work so...)
Destruction: go to a cave in Winterhold, it should be hobs fall cave, It has a lot of necromancers so you can kill them, some where in an ancient tome chest, the spell is Unbound Lightning, the glitch is, you have to get the spell ready in your hands, then, open the map, and fast travel to a far away place, not a hold though, when you get there, it “should” have the spell triggered, and with the distance you “Traveled” your destruction goes up.
Conjuration: get a bound sword spell, get soul trap, and get an easy atronach to kill (Arvak, Flame, any dead body) soul trap it, then kill it with your bound sword, this should level up your conjuration.
Smithing: buy a lot of iron, buy a lot of leather strappings, make the daggers, improve them, sell them, buy more strappings and iron, soon enough, you can probably make dragon bone armor, and you can also torture Nazeem by shouting iron daggers at him, talk about “daggerfall” *wink wink*.
Well, that’s everything I know, let me know some more in the comments.





















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worm_master Nov 27, 2024 @ 8:37am 
u do realise, sneak is a multiplier? more folks around, quicker it go's up, it should only take a few h.

Also the hobs fall cave, is in response to Necromancers Grimore, those tomes only appear if u have that MOD, and it wsent included in the upgrade.

HFC exsist's jus - the tome chest dosn't.

I think you need to learn the mechanics first.
Last edited by worm_master; Nov 27, 2024 @ 8:38am
Rez Elwin Nov 27, 2024 @ 8:38am 
Telekinesis is the fastest way to level Alteration, and you can make it fun by trying to catch items you fling up, you can also cast Detect Life at the same time to speed it up.

Sneak can be leveled to 100 in about and hour by sneak attacking Hadvar/Ralof in the same cave. Sneak attacks level it faster than just sneaking. If you're past that part of the game. sneak in the main hall second floor of Dragonsreach, does not take 2 days either.

Turn Undead is much faster than healing to level restoration. Works on any undead, but the 3 in Whiterun's Hall of the dead are the easiest.

Hob's Fall cave only has that chest if you have the Spell Tome Creation, it is not part of the base game. That glitch also does not work for destruction and requires you to have zero magicka cost. There is no "fast" way to level destruction, you must deal damage to level the school.

Conjuration is good.

That used to work, now that's the slowest way to level smithing in the game. Use jewelry and dwarven arrows, until ebony, then make ebony bows for the rest.

There are no shortcuts for One-Handed Two-Handed or Archery, those require damage done, and should level normally by playing, but if you want squeeze out the most, use the highest BASE damage weapon you have, you get more xp the higher BASE damage a weapon has. Playing on a hugher difficulty will level them faster.

For Light, Heavy Armor ,and Block. Get hit by the strongest things you can reliably survive. Giants work best but they are a not beginner friendly. You can also level restoration by healing from the damage.

PickPocket and Locking are pretty straight forward.

Speech requires buying and selling items, or bribing people. Persuasion and Intimidation checks, none of this is fast. Training might be your best bet,

Alchemy is simple, create the highest value potions you can, just like with Smithing, the gold value = XP.

Enchanting is a bit different, each item crafted gives you some base xp regardless of the gem, items, enchantment or gold value. Only time gold value comes intp play is when disenchanting, a high value item is worth more. The Fastest way is to use a staff enchanter though,

Illusion is one of the easuest, cast Muffle, you're done. Until the Master Spell Harmony at any rate which can max the skill from 15-100 in as little as 2 casts.
worm_master Nov 27, 2024 @ 8:45am 
Now THAT is more like it, except, there is a way 2 level up 1 handed fast, simply conjure a creature towards a NPC, when the NPC attacks the summons, simply crouch an start 1 handing him, ya 1 handed will level up super qyuck, as will sneak.
Rez Elwin Nov 27, 2024 @ 9:06am 
Originally posted by worm_master:
Now THAT is more like it, except, there is a way 2 level up 1 handed fast, simply conjure a creature towards a NPC, when the NPC attacks the summons, simply crouch an start 1 handing him, ya 1 handed will level up super qyuck, as will sneak.

That would be slower as you're getting less attacks in from the damage the summon is doing.
Morgan Fun Gamer Nov 27, 2024 @ 9:13am 
Thanks for this information on how to level skills and the way how i make smithing is that i just collect every pelt or leather i find and make leather helmets with them.
Rez Elwin Nov 27, 2024 @ 9:35am 
Originally posted by Morgan Fun Gamer:
Thanks for this information on how to level skills and the way how i make smithing is that i just collect every pelt or leather i find and make leather helmets with them.

As I mentioned, Smithing XP is based off the gold value of the item crafted. You can level however you want of course, but if you want speed and efficiency, leather isn't it.

Specifically for Smithing, I like to raid Halted Stream Camp and use the Transmute Ore Spell also found there to turn my Iron into gold and make Jewelry. That's the first step, then dwarven scrap after that. You'll also want to Clear Redbelly Mine at Shor's Stone. Doing that will make you a "friend" of the Orcs (there are other ways but this is the easiest) gaining you access to Gloombound Mine, the only decent source of Ebony in Skyrim, you'll want that for later.

You can alternatively clear Kolskeggr Mine, which also makes you an Orc Friend, and has a massive about of gold for more jewelry crafting but that requires being able to defeat Forsworn instead of spiders.
worm_master Nov 27, 2024 @ 10:02am 
@Rez, which is why u choose a weak 1 like skeleton minion, I do far more dam, then he do's, I do this on Legendary, spread over a entire dungeon, it all adds up. don't forget daggers count as 2 separate hits so i get x2 the experience any-way, which is why my 1 handed seems to level up faster.

Followin my own advice, my 1 handed is at 31, an all i done was bleak falls burrow
Last edited by worm_master; Nov 27, 2024 @ 10:08am
Morgan Fun Gamer Nov 27, 2024 @ 10:03am 
Originally posted by Rez Elwin:
Originally posted by Morgan Fun Gamer:
Thanks for this information on how to level skills and the way how i make smithing is that i just collect every pelt or leather i find and make leather helmets with them.

As I mentioned, Smithing XP is based off the gold value of the item crafted. You can level however you want of course, but if you want speed and efficiency, leather isn't it.

Specifically for Smithing, I like to raid Halted Stream Camp and use the Transmute Ore Spell also found there to turn my Iron into gold and make Jewelry. That's the first step, then dwarven scrap after that. You'll also want to Clear Redbelly Mine at Shor's Stone. Doing that will make you a "friend" of the Orcs (there are other ways but this is the easiest) gaining you access to Gloombound Mine, the only decent source of Ebony in Skyrim, you'll want that for later.

You can alternatively clear Kolskeggr Mine, which also makes you an Orc Friend, and has a massive about of gold for more jewelry crafting but that requires being able to defeat Forsworn instead of spiders.
This information you have told me is very helpful to me and thanks and i never know that it was based on gold value and i already heard a little bit of the Halted Stream Camp and transmute ore spell strategy and thanks for this information it is very helpful.
Rez Elwin Nov 27, 2024 @ 10:11am 
Originally posted by worm_master:
@Rez, which is why u choose a weak 1 like skeleton minion, I do far more dam, then he do's, I do this on Legendary, spread over a entire dungeon, it all adds up. don't forget daggers count as 2 separate hits so i get x2 the experience any-way, which is why my 1 handed seems to level up faster.

Daggers also have low base damage, so you're leveling slower. I am not saying your way doesn't work, but it's not the fastest way.

Originally posted by Morgan Fun Gamer:
This information you have told me is very helpful to me and thanks and i never know that it was based on gold value and i already heard a little bit of the Halted Stream Camp and transmute ore spell strategy and thanks for this information it is very helpful.

It didn't use to be, I forget exactly when but at some point they changed how smithing works so it's based off gold. It was before SE though, so it's always been like that in SE.
worm_master Nov 27, 2024 @ 11:00am 
@Rez, my daggers currently do 18 dam each.... :-) coz of Goldenhills, was able to spam dagger blacksmithing, till 30, then crafted Elven daggerz:-)

Gold an diamonds r near impossible to come by... otherwise i'd make jewled necklaces
Last edited by worm_master; Nov 27, 2024 @ 11:05am
Rez Elwin Nov 27, 2024 @ 11:14am 
Originally posted by worm_master:
@Rez, my daggers currently do 18 dam each.... :-) coz of Goldenhills, was able to spam dagger blacksmithing, till 30, then crafted Elven daggerz:-)

Gold an diamonds r near impossible to come by... otherwise i'd make jewled necklaces

As I said it's BASE damage that effects XP, nothing else. For example, that Elven dagger has a BASE damage of 8, it doesn't matter how much you actually do with it. Gold is also easy to acquire if you're using Transmute. Halted Stream camp alone has 16 Iron ore veins, with a few spare pieces laying around. That's about 40 Iron ore or so, which can all be turned into gold, and it's not Just Diamonds, almost any gem can be used, but isn't even necessary. Just Gold rings should be enough to get to Dwarven smithing.
Games Nov 27, 2024 @ 12:05pm 
About the Illusion, the truth is that after get lvl 100 with rally spell, and get the harmony spell you will don't have enough magic to cast the harmony spell and do the legendary
hawklaser Nov 27, 2024 @ 12:06pm 
On smithing, I usually just wait until I have gotten a hearthfire home built up and done the Unfathomable Depths quest. The process of building up the hearthfire home should be enough to get your smithing up to or very close to 30 to unlock & get dwarven smithing, especially if did Unfathomable Depths before doing most of it. The key thing to keep in mind is to carry out as much of the dwemer scrap and plate metal as you can when do go through the related ruin. With the reward from Unfathomable Depths, and the warrior stone, you have a base +35% xp to smithing, then can add 5-15% more from sleeping. Then you just make and temper Dwarven bows, 2 dwarven ingots and 1 iron to make, then 1 dwarven ingot to temper. The main reason I go this route is both iron and dwarven ingots are extremely easy to get in bulk, and there are additional long term benefits to having built up a hearthfire home too. Even if you don't get to your desired smithing level from the metal you got from that first dwemer ruin, subsequent ones still have a ton more thats easily available.

If I'm not quite at 30 by the time have finished the hearthfire home, I'll just temper some of the horde of iron daggers I've accumulated from bandits and such. This also brings me to the other benefit of doing it this way, plentiful items to enchant to build up enchanting. All those light weight iron daggers from bandits are great enchanting fodder. Though the question becomes what about soul gems? You can either shop around for them, or loot a significant number off of the various dwarven constructs when you clear a dwemer ruin. Eventually I just enchant the tempered dwarven bows to make selling stuff to merchants quicker. So by clearing out dwemer ruins, you actually get plenty of materials to level both smithing and enchanting pretty quickly.
Rez Elwin Nov 27, 2024 @ 12:26pm 
Originally posted by hawklaser:
With the reward from Unfathomable Depths, and the warrior stone, you have a base +35% xp to smithing.

Provided you also have the Unofficial Patch. Ancient Knowledge does not improve smithing experience without the Unofficial Patch as it has been bugged since release and never properly fixed by Bethesda.
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Date Posted: Nov 27, 2024 @ 8:14am
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