beastoking
Sunvaar Do Keizaal
Smithing, alchemy, enchanting.
My character has 502,000 septims due to that.
My character has 502,000 septims due to that.
I am fairly new to the game, but have found that thievery is a pretty productive means of making good coin early in the game. Joining the thieves guild in Riften makes this pretty profitable. They give you thieves guild armor that raises your thieving and speech skills so that is a help. If you talk to Vex and take any of the jobs she offers, be it burglarizing a home or business she will pay you 400 to do so. Before you go on her job save the game and then talk to Delvin who will also offer jobs. Ask for a Bedlam job and make sure its in the same city as the job Vex gave you. Reload the save if its not. The bedlam job is to steal anything until its adds up to 500 septims. He will also pay you 400 septims for doing the job, but the good part is you get to keep the stuff you stole for the bedlam job as well. You can take that stuff and sell it to Tonilla who is the fence for the thieves guild in Riften. by combining the jobs from Vex and Delvin you can make money faster because there are special items to steal for Vex and then you just clean out the rest of the place to complete Delvin's job too. You should be able make 1500 septims per trip. I also combine those jobs up with pickpocketing everything that walks or crawls and really make the trips lucrative.
I built up my pickpocket skill very quickly (the first skill to 100). I joined the companions and would go to Eolund at Skyforge for smithy training. I trained once and then would pickpocket the coin right back off of him and would repeat this for each of the five trainings per level. Due to the amount I was taking from him my pickpocket skill was going up as fast as my smithy skill was in the training and by the time the five trainings were done I usually leveled up and then just repeated. I suppose it would work on any person/skill you chose to train on, but Eolund just seemed particularly easy to pickpocket.
I usually burglarize the homes during the day and the businesses at night. Tonilla usually has 30 lockpicks for sale every time you go back so it doesn't matter how bad your lockpick skill is just keep a lot of them in inventory as they are pretty cheap to buy from her. You could also just find the person who owns the home or business during the day and pickpocket their keys. I think I have keys to every home and business in Riften and Whiterun now and am working on the rest ;-)
Anyway that's my two cents.
Also, there is one in Whiterun, underneath Skyforge, one in Dawnstar, outside Iron-Breaker mine, and one in Solitude, by the main entrance.The easiet way to get gold early on is to find the hidden chests in the cities the one just under the bridge as you walk up to the college in Winterhold has 10k gold in it.
You must have done A LOT of their jobs. They pay crap (at least in my estimation). I could make more in 1 day chopping wood.become a theif ,and do thieves guild side quests like burglary and heist.
That's how I earn the jackpot mate.
Of course, it would have to be an awful lot of wood. Funny, but I have 300K now and have yet to steal anything from anybody (well, that's not quite true, there was that book from Windhelm).You must have done A LOT of their jobs. They pay crap (at least in my estimation). I could make more in 1 day chopping wood.
You must have done A LOT of their jobs. They pay crap (at least in my estimation). I could make more in 1 day chopping wood.
Of course, it would have to be an awful lot of wood. Funny, but I have 300K now and have yet to steal anything from anybody (well, that's not quite true, there was that book from Windhelm).
The pay gets better and better over time, since you have stolen a lot of gold.
If you are doing there quests, just keep in mind....steal as much gold as you can and barter that pl***.
that's if you have the stolen goods perk.
steal and sell......simple become a thief. there is so much more gold in it.
Oh Yeah! Dem Dragon bones are worth a heap (I save mine 'cause I'm using them to make armor and weapons, but, as a thief you probably wouldn't have any need). Once you get the sell anything to anyone perk though you can make more since anybody will buy anything and their not so specific with what they take. Only the general merchants will take the bones until you do. Totally agree on the side quests. DB stuff pays pretty well too - 1500 a pop, but the Jarls quests will only give you 100 to 200 tops.I can earn so much gold alone without any bartering perks.
and since I have my thief perks like lockpicking investing in 4 perks, I earn $$$$$$ heaps of gold alone just by only selling dragon bone and ruby or gems.
But you get side quests and misc objectives alone which will earn you about 1,000 gold.
There are so many ways of earning heaps of gold in skyrim, you just need to invest your stuff and trade perks will earn you heaps.
But having way to much gold may spoil the game. It's always great to have a lot of gold.