The BIG Skyrim Thread

[Zarcon]

Yeah the speech skill has some neat stuff, though none of it really worth wasting several perk points for, since monster will level scale and eventually shops will be mostly obsolete to you.
At least, I pretty much never use shops anymore.

what do you mean "you dont use shops" ? how do you get money then?
I need tons of money to pay for the mega expensive training, if I want to train in archery, one-handed, or sneak for example, i need between 4000 and 5000 gold for 1 skill increase. Which means between each level-up, I need to collect at least 20,000 to 25,000 gold.

If I don't sell all the items I collect during quests to the various shops across skyrim, there's no way I can make this much money...

Just pickpocket your money back after training.

are you serious? you can actually do that?
omfg why didnt I think of this earlier... I AM RICH!!

Yup.
If you can make the trainer your companion it's even easier, just organize their inventory and take your money back.

 

[Costello]

hahahaha... thats brilliant !
thanks for the advice

 

[Costello]

ourgh, apparently if you want to pickpocket this much gold, you need extremely high pickpocketing skills... which is not my case.
Damn...

 

[Pong20302000]

can we get a mod warn here guys
someones double posting

please use the edit button

dam this game is good tho

 

[casidepro]

ourgh, apparently if you want to pickpocket this much gold, you need extremely high pickpocketing skills... which is not my case.
Damn...

Acually you cant pickpocket more than thousand gold even with 100 in pickpocketing i have tried it myself. You can however train 1 level if the cost is below 1000 and then pickpocket it back, and just repeat it until it costs more than 1000.

 

[DarkStriker]

sneaking 100, enchanting 100, blacksmithing 100, onehanded 100.
Smith, enchant , smith, enchant, smith, enchant, sneak, 1hit-ko.

 

[Hells Malice]

ourgh, apparently if you want to pickpocket this much gold, you need extremely high pickpocketing skills... which is not my case.
Damn...

Acually you cant pickpocket more than thousand gold even with 100 in pickpocketing i have tried it myself. You can however train 1 level if the cost is below 1000 and then pickpocket it back, and just repeat it until it costs more than 1000.

What about 100 pickpocket, perks and +40% Pickpocketing enchanted items? (100 enchanting req).

 

[casidepro]

ourgh, apparently if you want to pickpocket this much gold, you need extremely high pickpocketing skills... which is not my case.
Damn...

Acually you cant pickpocket more than thousand gold even with 100 in pickpocketing i have tried it myself. You can however train 1 level if the cost is below 1000 and then pickpocket it back, and just repeat it until it costs more than 1000.

What about 100 pickpocket, perks and +40% Pickpocketing enchanted items? (100 enchanting req).

im not sure about that one but when i try to steal more than 1000 gold it just gives me a flat zero percent and i have 100 in pickpocket.

 

[Skelletonike]

D=
That sucks. =S
Also, do any shops sell ebony?
I need it to craft, but I only have like... Two pieces, don't even know where I can mine it.

 

[raulpica]

ourgh, apparently if you want to pickpocket this much gold, you need extremely high pickpocketing skills... which is not my case.
Damn...

With 100 I can pretty much pickpocket back every money I've given them But I've got some perks invested into it, so I've got a higher success rate than normal.

It's REALLY easy leveling up Pickpocket. Just steal stuff from everyone till it goes up to 100

 

[DarkStriker]

D=
That sucks. =S
Also, do any shops sell ebony?
I need it to craft, but I only have like... Two pieces, don't even know where I can mine it.

 

[Skelletonike]

D=
That sucks. =S
Also, do any shops sell ebony?
I need it to craft, but I only have like... Two pieces, don't even know where I can mine it.

 

[prowler]

South East of Windhelm there is an Orc camp which you can't go in unless you do a quest, near the Orc camp is a Mine where you can get a decent amount of Ebony ignots. The orcs will say stuff to you in the Mine but they won't attack you.

 

[Skelletonike]

South East of Windhelm there is an Orc camp which you can't go in unless you do a quest, near the Orc camp is a Mine where you can get a decent amount of Ebony ignots. The orcs will say stuff to you in the Mine but they won't attack you.

Hmk, thanks, and what quest is that? =S

 

[Costello]

South East of Windhelm there is an Orc camp which you can't go in unless you do a quest, near the Orc camp is a Mine where you can get a decent amount of Ebony ignots. The orcs will say stuff to you in the Mine but they won't attack you.

Hmk, thanks, and what quest is that? =S

the quest is given to you when you get to the camp, the orc lady says "you're not getting in until you retrieve that item for us blah blah"

 

[Skelletonike]

South East of Windhelm there is an Orc camp which you can't go in unless you do a quest, near the Orc camp is a Mine where you can get a decent amount of Ebony ignots. The orcs will say stuff to you in the Mine but they won't attack you.

Hmk, thanks, and what quest is that? =S

the quest is given to you when you get to the camp, the orc lady says "you're not getting in until you retrieve that item for us blah blah"

Hmk, I'll check it out tomorrow. =3
While I was on the way to that town that has the underground mine prison, Falk something I think, I found several mines with lots of golf and silver, guess I'll use it to craft more useless over-priced rings and necklaces to increase my smithing level.

 

[Hells Malice]

South East of Windhelm there is an Orc camp which you can't go in unless you do a quest, near the Orc camp is a Mine where you can get a decent amount of Ebony ignots. The orcs will say stuff to you in the Mine but they won't attack you.

and that's when you kill them preemptively and loot their unsuspecting corpses.

 

[Skelletonike]

South East of Windhelm there is an Orc camp which you can't go in unless you do a quest, near the Orc camp is a Mine where you can get a decent amount of Ebony ignots. The orcs will say stuff to you in the Mine but they won't attack you.

and that's when you kill them preemptively and loot their unsuspecting corpses.

That isn't a nice thing to do.

 

[Satangel]

Wow if they do it as a DLC its gonna be pretty awsome .
I will start Skyrim today hopefully.. cant decide between 360 and PC .

I thought you were dead!?

lol posted a blog .

Anyway, Skyrims map is annoying me -.- Whiich side should I start with? Imperials or the Rebels?

I'm going Stormcloak this playthrough, and when I complete the game/storyline I'll start with the Imperials.

 

[Satangel]

ourgh, apparently if you want to pickpocket this much gold, you need extremely high pickpocketing skills... which is not my case.
Damn...

Acually you cant pickpocket more than thousand gold even with 100 in pickpocketing i have tried it myself. You can however train 1 level if the cost is below 1000 and then pickpocket it back, and just repeat it until it costs more than 1000.

What about 100 pickpocket, perks and +40% Pickpocketing enchanted items? (100 enchanting req).

im not sure about that one but when i try to steal more than 1000 gold it just gives me a flat zero percent and i have 100 in pickpocket.

Same here, I have 100% Pickpocket skill yet I have 0% of stealing anything above 1000 gold. There is a perk you can unlock (Cutpurse) that makes stealing gold a lot easier (50% easier). I don't have it though, but maybe with this perk? If you want I can further investigate/Google it!

I've got some more interesting info on pickpocketing skill, which is widely acknowledged as the easiest skill/way to get money:

• If you have to bribe a guard using the Thieves Guild option (using the Bribe Perk unconfirmed), the money goes into the guard's inventory. With this technique, you can avoid getting arrested for minor crimes.
• There seems to be a hidden value behind pickpocketing. You will have a better success rate if you only steal one item at a time. Ex: Ring, Sword, and Gold. 90% success rate each. 3/5 Attempts to steal all 3 at the same time succeed. Reopening pickpocket each time, though, was 5/5 attempts.
• It appears that pickpocketing from different angles can change the chance of success, notably with gold values over 1000, I have gotten up to a 21% confirmed so far, unknown whether or not this is a bug.

D=
That sucks. =S
Also, do any shops sell ebony?
I need it to craft, but I only have like... Two pieces, don't even know where I can mine it.