--Make gold rings to level 30. Get training from the smith in Riften when your character levels. --At level 30, ditch the rings to make dwarven bows. Go to the storeroom next to Mzulft and gather all the dwemer junk. Smelt it all and you'll have over 100 ingots to make bows. 3 dwarven ingots + 1 iron ingot for each bow. When you can upgrade bows to twice their value, concentrate on upgrading your bows because it only costs 1 dwarven ingot. Don't forget to get training when your character levels. Visit smiths looking for ebony. Buy it all when you find it. --At level 80, you can craft ebony bows to level 100.
Pro tip: never use fast method to mining (using pickaxe as a weapon and slash the ore), just use slow method and your ebony ore will recover after 31 in game days (just sleep over 31 days you don't really need 31 day in game). This method can be applied in another mining ore veins
Without the unofficial patch, the “additional 15%” is actually bugged to make it 15% more powerful upgrades. It’s still useful to upgrade dwarven bows because it ups the value and indirectly the leveling process, but not by that much unfortunately. With the patch though you’re golden!
@@Wolftron9733 u can always upgrade some of the enchanted artifacts, like azzadal's stuff. they are super expensive and u can raise like 2 levels at like when u are level 96 on smithing
wow, i learn something new every time i play. i thought that was something brand new that was added with the recent update. -the one that added Fishing and optional Survival mode.
@@greenpizza99 As I understand it, this is actually an Old Nord's Tale. Sometimes an ore vain will recharge but can't be interacted with, and folks assumed that it was related to mining outside of the animation. Turns out that it is just an issue that can happen sometimes, and is fixed by leaving the location and coming back a few times.
2 tips about mining - using the pick axe as a dual wielding weapon and hitting a mineral vein will let you mine it much faster. Also you can actually pick a jewel from the rock without hitting it with a pick axe. Just walk up to it, find the jewel and pluck it!
Information about mining without animation scared shit out of me lol. Is that true, ores dont came back in a WHILE if you just hit them and dont do the animation?
@@mattimottonen7330 You do not get less if you mine by hand and all segments of the game reset eventually. The developers did not add special code for mining the ores by hand, the results are the same. The only difference is if you dual wield a dagger in the left hand and a pickaxe in the right you will mine more quickly because of the dagger's swing speed.
@@Trephining Anything works but the more valuable the enchant is the more money you get. I believe Fortify Sneak is the most valuable armor enchantment
Archery (I think) is another good one as well as one of the useless enchants like "Banish Daedra up to level ___" or something. Also, when you sell, you get more xp from selling 1 item at a time (if you have a stack of 10 daggers, sell them 1 by 1). It's more tedious, but also more effective at leveling your speech overall
@@lefroste6370 yep. There are a million different ways to grind a ton of gold at level 1. And you only need lesser soul gems to accomplish this, though Grand souls would be the best.
You missed something good in Markarth. The Dwemer Museum has TONS of dwarven items you can melt down for crafting. You have to sneak around and steal it all, or just kill the guards in there, but its more stuff than you can usually carry!
I LOVE this video! Takes me back to my youth watching skyrim guides as I was obsessed with the game. Thank you for this! Checking out your other videos and am so glad there's a new stash of skyrim videos for me to now binge on.
This is a very concise video ! Transmute is a MUST. There is something you can do to speed the process. I like to complete No Stone Unturned super early. After the slow walk to Riverwood to drop off, I take the river to Whiterun. Then take a coach to Solitude and swim to Windhelm. Take the boat to Solstheim, recover the bonemold formula and get the armor from Mallory's basement. Recover the pickaxe but never turn it in. Recruit Faendal , give him the Blackguard armor, recruit the dog Meeko. With my two followers I started recovering Unusual Gems. I wore Apprentice Restoration robes from someone who fell from the sky while I was swimming to recover the formula. Shades of Morrowind. I gave all my health potions to Faendal, used Healing Hands on Meeko and punched enemies while eating food to heal. I chopped so much firewood to get the Solitude house, the last gem I needed and still at level 1. Now getting the Crown -- I had to use scrolls to get my team past the lion at the first part of the cave. The rest was running. Prowlers Profit gives so many gems, there's no reason to make a simple gold ring.
I wish you sprinkled in some humor with that. I'd actually watch a video of you getting all the Stones of Berenziah without leveling your character beyong level 1. Even if you did what you said up to the point of getting the dog Meeko, without leveling up to level 2, I would probably watch that. The best part is that you dropped the humor right in the beginning, and it isn't made apparent that you did so until the reader gets to the end, then sees how funny that sentence was: "There is something you can do to speed the process." Hahaha.
@@Trephining If you'll watch it, I can make a funny video. I prefer to play Oblivion to Skyrim though and am planning a video of finishing the Knights of the Nine at level 1.
You don't have to go through the mining animation. You can just hack at the ores with either normal one or dual weilding attacks, the important thing is to hit the ore. It will make a metallic sound if you do it right. This will not break the ore veins, they will respawn as normal after 30 days you just have to load into the mine, check the veins, then leave and go right back in. If you don't load the mine then leave and reset it then you'll just be looking at shiny rocks on the wall that won't give you ore if you attack them. Attacking them is faster than the animation, it's because of this it's my go to method and one I've been doing since 2012.
Great video. The best part is how you just use a normal talking voice and not one of those “WEUUUAAAATTSSS UPPP GUYYSSS!” TH-camr voices. Thanks for that
You kind of mentioned it in the video, but since the mines reset after 30 days, it makes more sense to hit ALL the mines first, then take the time to do all the transmuting and/or shopping. Also, there's lots of great places to get dwarven pieces you can melt down for ingots, like Mzulft or the museum in Markarth. Oh, and don't forget to rent a bed for the Well Rested bonus in addition to the Warrior's Stone before doing any smithing work or training! If you're worried about carry weight, there's a barrel in Riften by the market where you can dump things off in between mines, and as long as you go back to the barrel frequently enough it won't despawn.
I've been using a barrel in Whiterun in right next to the blacksmith to store all my crafting stuff. In nearly 600 hrs of play, it's never despawned. Any idea on the timeframe for that?
@@scottjones7948 it's 10 days, and I mentioned the Riften one because it's the one I use. Really, any barrel should work as long as you don't leave it alone for too long.
I use two barrels outside the smith's shop. One is for smithing stuff, and the other is for Other stuff, like tons of ingredients. While I have raised my smiting skill to 100 a dozen times, I learned something here. I am going to raise my smithing skill to 30 with gold before I start using potions. It becomes hard to find glowing mushroom and blisterwort after some time in game. I try to buy all ore from shops except for steel, dwemer metal and corundum. I can make so much money by upgrading weapons and armor that I just can't resist obtaining a pile of ore. I dont pay for smithing training; only pick pocket training. I also buy all the ingredients I can get my hands on and keep them in the alchemist's sachel in the home in Whiterun. I also buy all the empty soul gems I can find. Crafting is just a license to print money.
Once you've got smithing 90 you can use the5 books plus a power available at the end of one of the black books that double the amount points given by skill books
@@Trephining Step 1. Take a boat to Solhsteim Step 2. Get inside mine and read Black Book Step 3. Choose Scholar's Insight for 2 skill points per book. Read skill books only, after your skill is at 90
As someone who used this clean method to level smiting for years, in my opinion this guide was excellent. There are minor things in the higher smithing skill levels that I did differently, but nowadays I just use mods to get all the materials for crafting, right away. I still do the actual skill leveling legitimately, I just use the mods to cut out the tedious farming of materials.
@@TheElizabethEwing been to long since I played, but i played on Xbox, so the mods are made for that console. I don't remember the names, but I would recommend searching youtube for "skyrim QOL (stands for quality of life) mods" and include the system you play on (Xbox, PS, or PC)
Dwarves arrows are another great way to get your smithing skill up, plus if you’re an stealth archer build, you’ll have tons of dwarves arrows afterwards, I’d recommend going to markarth to do Calcelmo’s quest to clear the excavation site, once you do that, all the dwarven metal you can smell down is no longer “steal”, so you can take it, smelt it, then chop up some firewood, and get to arrow spam
Don't forget before you started crafting to get the well rested bonus. Couple that with the warrior stone and you'll get a 30% increase to learning skills.
For the grinders out there who would like to do this as you said 'without cheating', one can do similar steps as to what you mentioned but while also improving multiple perks at once, to do that, you need Volund plus any price improvement gear you stol-found/crafted, and the city of Whiterun. Make sure to start off with at least 10k gold to comfortably buy everything from adrianne, smith armors exclusively(best value best exp), improve it, sell it, you have now made roughly 1k profit, repeat for ulfbert and then for eorlund. for most benefit, also enchant the armors at the dragonsreach, you can get sousltones from belethor(who will sometimes have a few ingots too) and in dragonsreach, enchanting even if your speech skill isnt very high yet skyrockets the value of the items, even lesser soul gem upgrades will make the price go ballistic. If you want yo squeeze out an extra bit of value, make potions for improvement of enchanting, smithing and haggling. That way, you're leveling up smithing, speech, alchemy and enchanting all at once. *If you can make it to Nordic Armor, the path to massive riches is wide open*
I would recommend starting from Kolskeggr Mine, because not only you will get gold ingots, but also some gold from Pavo Attius for clearing forsworn.From this point do the same steps the video suggest you, it's pretty well done guide for beginners. PS. If you get some gems use them in your crafting of jewelry, it will slightly boost up your smithing skill leveling up. Last tip rings can be uses in leveling up enchanting, and getting gold, but for this you might want to side with Thieves Guild because only this faction has access to merchants having over 4000 gold.
Or a limited use trick from MajorSlack, if you have the merchant skill perk (sell anything to anyone) you can take very high value items with you when you buy skill training to recover the gold you just spent on training. Obviously this only works if the trainer is also a merchant and you have that perk.
@@thomasaitken7495 I got the staff that summons a daedric fighter and he distracts the deathlord long enough for me to sneak up and fill him full of arrows. Yoink! Yo stuff is mine now! Mwahahahaha!
Eorlund Greymane is a master smithing trainer (up to level 90). Train with him 5 times per level and then use a paralysis spell (no damage) on him. As he is getting up, he will be 'classified' as a container and you can pickpocket ur all money back without making anyone aggro with you. If you need a quick way to get paralysis, there is a set location for a staff of paralysis in Snapleg cave in the rift. This is the easiest method ive found to level it early and easily. Works best when you have enough gold/soul gems. You can do this with any trainer I think but remember it's only 5 training levels per character level.
There's also a two ebony at the peak of mouth of the world, as well as malachite and a notched pickaxe which is enchanted and levels up your smithing during attacks
You should've included the aetherium wars quest... That quest takes place mostly in dwarven ruins, perfect for gathering dwarven ingots to craft dwarven bows The reward includes the Aetherial crown that lets u use 2 standing stones at once...so Lover stone + Warrior/Mage stone = faster smithing/enchanting levels
I appreciate you making this video bro!🙌🙌👍 Between which mines to go to, for bigger iron ore deposits, gold ore deposits, and ebony ore. With also the little helpful trick to multiply your gold ingot quickly, that I never knew you could do, by having your follower be commanded to pick up stuff on the ground.
I think you shoulda been able to get your gear refined by smith npcs for gold and enchanted by wizards for gold. It would be good for people role playing as people who aren't smiths.
I like to combine the Transmute+Jewelry method with just carrying a ton of Dwemer stuff out of 2-3 of their dungeons (drop the solid metal and the large struts on the floor individually and have your follower pick them up if both of your carrying capacities are reached), buying not only iron ore but also the abundant iron ingots from smiths when possible and making Dwemer Bows in large numbers. Since you can easily obtain 400+ Dwarven Metal Ingots, this will level your Smithing insanely fast
@@edmundroth6337 well, it's basically really as simple as going into dwemer dungeons (preferably with a mostly empty inventory on you and your follower), collecting ALL the stuff that can be converted to dwarven metal ingots (basically everything with an adjective in the name apart from the levers) and overloading your follower (because the inventory fills up really quickly) by dropping stuff on the floor and have them pick it up via the command function which ignores their carrying capacity (doing this predominantly with the large metal pieces is the most efficient way). Using this method, you can literally carry metal worth hundreds of ingots out of some of the larger dungeons. At this point, almost all of the stuff is still in your followers inventory. You also need to procure large quantities of iron ingots, as those are the only other material needed to craft dwemer bows (the ratio is 3/1 dwarven/iron I think, but it could be 2/1, don't know from the top of my head). These can be bought from any blacksmith and most other merchants. I still recommend buying up all the iron ore and transmuting it into gold, using only the actual sold ingots for the bows (to be money-efficient). Then, you just go activate the warrior stone and visit breezehome or rent a bed in the bannered mare for the maximum xp boosts, walk over to Adrienne's smelting furnace, take all the metal from your follower, turn it all into ingots and craft away. You will gain an ungodly amount of levels. If you ran out of iron and have dwarven metal left over (which is to be expected), use that to improve the bows on the grindstone for even more xp. Of course, having the perk dwarven smithing is a prerequisite for all this to work. Since you get it at 30, it shouldn't be hard to achieve. If there are any questions left, be sure to let me know.
@@dariuskonig8762 Q: How would you adapt or modify this method so you can do it without putting perks into Dwarven smithing or any perks into smithing at all?
@@Trephining leveling up smithing without using any perks seems pretty pointless to me, what are you going to do with the skill when all armor/weapons it could be used on require the perks? In that case, you can't go for the dwemer strategy and have to make do with gold/silver to craft jewellery.
@@andrewcraigbrown2933 I'm not sure this is true, though. I never mine ores using the animation yet the Stalhrim ore I mine always respawns. Or does Stalhrim work differently compared to 'normal' ores?
that no respawn if you don't use the animation is not actually true, they will respawn BUT they will be glitched and you can't interact with them, all you have to do is leave the room and go back in, they'll go back to normal and you can mine them again
Do like 3 quests for the companions Go to Euland ( forgot the smith name ) and train in smithing Just stay at his chest under the forge Take all items and sell it to him and train again when leveling up It doesn’t take long This also levels up speech well too
Cool and useful guide! Might use it on a second playthrough though. Only ever tried Skyrim now, nearly more than a decade after it came out and I'm just enjoying my first playthrough at a steady pace, leveling stuff the "normal" way by just playing. Awesome to know there's plenty of guides out there.
This is very helpful to me and my smithing is now at 100 and I can now make any armor I want one of my favorite things to do in Skyrim is to make armor legendary
You can get additional skill point with Scholar's Insight power. It can be learned from The Winds of Change black book. Book located in Raven Rock Mine in Solstheim.
4:13 Bro. I was watching TH-cam on my Xbox and thought who tf is coach smiley?? I was tripping. Also to save yourself some mining, you can just dupe the iron ore with a follower at the whiterun gate. You can get around 200 with like 10 minutes of farming EDIT: LOL IM STONED AF, AND STILL WATCHING. You’re duping them, good lad
your smithing skill will also increase alot more if you are crafting high value jelewry. been usingthis system since 2011 glad to see someone make a video on it
Those rings are good for power leveling enchanting as well. Just do waterbreathing first, then fortify sneak. Oh, and watch out for the Briar Heart at the end of Kolskegger. He can be a real bee....ahem. Oh, and he goes to Markarth to smelt it. If you cleared the forsworn outside, just use the one at the entrance to the gold mine.
8:22 After 10 years I never knew that the reason their inventories were sometimes combined was this, I thought it was somewhat random or depended on the item type
I got smithing 100 kind of by accident lol. I did the fortify restoration potion looping method to make a super strong fortify enchanting potion. I then enchanted a pair of gauntlets that makes smithing with like X a million. I then smithed 1 pair of armour and it got me from 45 to 100 in 1 go lol
For people who didn't know you can equip the pickaxe and attack the iron veins and to make it even quicker duel wield the pickaxe but nonetheless you did awesome on this video keep at it man
I actually like to go hunting. With the leather I‘m making some leather armors. I know it is much slower but in this way I can upgrade bow skills, sneaking and smithing.
It’s also easier if you train to just before you level to 86 so when you buy levels from the smith at Jorrvasker you take less gold rings for that extra level
Big thing he missed was sleeping for well rested bonus. With the warrior, mage or thief stone you can use the well-rested bonus for another 10% exp (only useful if you have a pile of mats to use as it doesn't last long). Doesn't work with the lover's stone for some reason. You can also snag some more ebony from the mine in Shore's stone. Not much but, can grab 9 in the mine and a few outside by the smelter. Quick mission there that will also pay you like 1k for killing a handful of spiders in the mine.
I remember when smithing use to level up based on the amount of stuff you made and not the value, I definitely flooded the market with all the iron daggers I crafted
Get the Winstad Mine mod, the ore in there is unlimited, and after building up the mine you can have npc's mine for you. There is also a mod that changes the Transmute so it transmutes all the ores in your inventory. Combine this with enchanting all the rings, and you can hit 100 smithing so fast your head will spin, plus your enchanting skill will go up as well. Pick up all the iron daggers you find, improve them for even more experience. But I also recommend getting the merchant gold mod so they can afford to buy what you make. I got to the point in my last playthrough where I just had the mine sell the ores it mined. I was richer than all the Jarls combines by then haha.
What do you mean you have to use the "animation" for ore to respawn? You mean only ore mined with mining as apposed to attacking with a pickaxe will respawn? Can you manually attack the first ore then finish it with the mining action?
A couple years ago i knew everything about this game, even the dumb radiant quests, but now I've forgotten and here i am lol. I forgot kolskeggr mine existed so here i was just transmuting a million iron ores.
If you already have maxed alchemy and/or enchanting, you can make a bunch of iron daggers, blacksmithing potions, and while wearing blacksmithing enchanted gear, just sharpen all of the daggers, it gives rly good experience
I always just got the Whiterun, Dawnstar, and Markarth chests along with getting as many iron ingots as possible while I played. Proceeded to make a ton of iron daggers and I'd enchant them (soul gems gotten through the Dawnstar and Markarth chests) with Paralysis or Fiery Soul Trap, then sold them off. Levels up Enchanting too and makes a pretty decent profit.
@@hildebos1653 Yes that's what I mean. The original "vanilla" version that was released in 2011 does not allow crafting arrows. That was added in one of the DLC's.
Great video man. I ended up getting the black smithing cheat lore book from way up north in the icy dungeon and leveled up that way very fast. I forget the name of that book.
“Wow! How’d you learn how to make Daedric armor?” “Oh, I just made a couple thousand gold rings.”
Lol!
I literally can’t watch the video cause I’m laughing so hard
Me it was a couple hundred Dwarven bowes
Or iron daggers.
Leather Bracers FTW!
--Make gold rings to level 30. Get training from the smith in Riften when your character levels.
--At level 30, ditch the rings to make dwarven bows. Go to the storeroom next to Mzulft and gather all the dwemer junk. Smelt it all and you'll have over 100 ingots to make bows. 3 dwarven ingots + 1 iron ingot for each bow. When you can upgrade bows to twice their value, concentrate on upgrading your bows because it only costs 1 dwarven ingot.
Don't forget to get training when your character levels. Visit smiths looking for ebony. Buy it all when you find it.
--At level 80, you can craft ebony bows to level 100.
Idk what your name is but thank you for making the most easiest way to get 100 smithing into words
@@bread_status293 Yw. Don't forget to get the Well Rested bonus and Warrior Stone before smithing.
Thank you, kind sir.
You don't even need to craft ebony bows if you have enchanted fortify smithing gear. You just upgrade the dwarven bows
@Russ J Cheating is lame too.
I love that this exists for a 10+ year old game. Hope the next elder scrolls has this kind of longevity.
I wish they would bing out more content for the next game over time instead of reselling the same game just with slighty upgraded performance
Daddy Howard recently said that Skyrim was built the be played over and over again for years. This nexts one’s supposed to last decades 💀
@olliedeaney8740 ...
Unfortunately Starfield has shown us what 'meant to be played for a decade' looks like to Todd.
There are 3 ebony mines
The orc stronghold
The mine in raven rock on solstheim
And redbelly mine
Yep one over SE of windhelm @ Orc camp is 48 Ebony and a few iron/gold from memory.
And you can buy ebony ingot at any lvl.
Just dont tell the nearby miners you cleared out redbelly as those spiders come back eventually, and will take out the miners with ease.
Pro tip: never use fast method to mining (using pickaxe as a weapon and slash the ore), just use slow method and your ebony ore will recover after 31 in game days (just sleep over 31 days you don't really need 31 day in game).
This method can be applied in another mining ore veins
It's actually on the video, but just to make more clear
You know it’s gonna be good when the fated dawnstar teleport starts with “not for the chest”
What ?
@@fosburyatitsfinest2260 there's a cheat chest on dawn star, it has a lot of stuff.
@@fosburyatitsfinest2260 theres a chest by the mine that you can get into that holds the khajit traders inventory
If you do the avanchemzel quest, and with the restored lexicon you can boost blacksmithing level by and additional 15%
Without the unofficial patch, the “additional 15%” is actually bugged to make it 15% more powerful upgrades. It’s still useful to upgrade dwarven bows because it ups the value and indirectly the leveling process, but not by that much unfortunately. With the patch though you’re golden!
@@Wolftron9733 u can always upgrade some of the enchanted artifacts, like azzadal's stuff. they are super expensive and u can raise like 2 levels at like when u are level 96 on smithing
Wait so if you hit the ore veins with a pickaxe like they're an annoying dragur, they don't respawn?
wow, i learn something new every time i play.
i thought that was something brand new that was added with the recent update.
-the one that added Fishing and optional Survival mode.
@@greenpizza99 As I understand it, this is actually an Old Nord's Tale. Sometimes an ore vain will recharge but can't be interacted with, and folks assumed that it was related to mining outside of the animation. Turns out that it is just an issue that can happen sometimes, and is fixed by leaving the location and coming back a few times.
Getting mad RuneScape smithing 1-99 vibes from this, love it
sick pic
2 tips about mining - using the pick axe as a dual wielding weapon and hitting a mineral vein will let you mine it much faster. Also you can actually pick a jewel from the rock without hitting it with a pick axe. Just walk up to it, find the jewel and pluck it!
I didn’t know that about the jewl
You can glitch the ore vein this way
think u get less ore if u mine it like that, need to process the animation for max gains
Information about mining without animation scared shit out of me lol. Is that true, ores dont came back in a WHILE if you just hit them and dont do the animation?
@@mattimottonen7330 You do not get less if you mine by hand and all segments of the game reset eventually. The developers did not add special code for mining the ores by hand, the results are the same. The only difference is if you dual wield a dagger in the left hand and a pickaxe in the right you will mine more quickly because of the dagger's swing speed.
Also it’s very good to enchant all of those rings to increase your enchanting and sell them to increase your speech
with what? with what?
@@Trephining Anything works but the more valuable the enchant is the more money you get. I believe Fortify Sneak is the most valuable armor enchantment
Archery (I think) is another good one as well as one of the useless enchants like "Banish Daedra up to level ___" or something.
Also, when you sell, you get more xp from selling 1 item at a time (if you have a stack of 10 daggers, sell them 1 by 1). It's more tedious, but also more effective at leveling your speech overall
@@idkpeerpressure2854 but that requires soul gems
@@lefroste6370 yep. There are a million different ways to grind a ton of gold at level 1. And you only need lesser soul gems to accomplish this, though Grand souls would be the best.
You missed something good in Markarth. The Dwemer Museum has TONS of dwarven items you can melt down for crafting. You have to sneak around and steal it all, or just kill the guards in there, but its more stuff than you can usually carry!
Mzulft, on the west of Eastmarch 🤙🏻
@@nukeshotz Hello do the items in mzulft respawn ? LIke the solid dwemer metal and shit ???
@@princevaldym7606 Usually it does im not 100% sure about Mzulft but does in Markarth.
@@princevaldym7606 it does , just fast travel somewhere else wait three days go back and repeat.
U could ask ur companion to Take additional items from the ground - infinite carry weight
So excited to sit down and watch this. I come for the dry humor and I leave with new ways to level in Skyrim. It’s a win win.
I LOVE this video! Takes me back to my youth watching skyrim guides as I was obsessed with the game. Thank you for this! Checking out your other videos and am so glad there's a new stash of skyrim videos for me to now binge on.
This is a very concise video ! Transmute is a MUST. There is something you can do to speed the process.
I like to complete No Stone Unturned super early. After the slow walk to Riverwood to drop off, I take the river to Whiterun. Then take a coach to Solitude and swim to Windhelm. Take the boat to Solstheim, recover the bonemold formula and get the armor from Mallory's basement. Recover the pickaxe but never turn it in. Recruit Faendal , give him the Blackguard armor, recruit the dog Meeko. With my two followers I started recovering Unusual Gems. I wore Apprentice Restoration robes from someone who fell from the sky while I was swimming to recover the formula. Shades of Morrowind. I gave all my health potions to Faendal, used Healing Hands on Meeko and punched enemies while eating food to heal. I chopped so much firewood to get the Solitude house, the last gem I needed and still at level 1. Now getting the Crown -- I had to use scrolls to get my team past the lion at the first part of the cave. The rest was running. Prowlers Profit gives so many gems, there's no reason to make a simple gold ring.
I wish you sprinkled in some humor with that. I'd actually watch a video of you getting all the Stones of Berenziah without leveling your character beyong level 1. Even if you did what you said up to the point of getting the dog Meeko, without leveling up to level 2, I would probably watch that.
The best part is that you dropped the humor right in the beginning, and it isn't made apparent that you did so until the reader gets to the end, then sees how funny that sentence was: "There is something you can do to speed the process." Hahaha.
@@Trephining If you'll watch it, I can make a funny video. I prefer to play Oblivion to Skyrim though and am planning a video of finishing the Knights of the Nine at level 1.
Very likable vibes on this tuesday morning. Not thanking you enough to share these with us bro.
🙏🙏
Also, the smith at Solitude has a ton of iron and steel ingots inside his house, they are super easy to steal too.
Awe this would be good but I'm doing a good moral play through where I try to do the right thing in every way. It's alot harder that way too lol
It has to be ore to make it gold and silver
You don't have to go through the mining animation. You can just hack at the ores with either normal one or dual weilding attacks, the important thing is to hit the ore. It will make a metallic sound if you do it right. This will not break the ore veins, they will respawn as normal after 30 days you just have to load into the mine, check the veins, then leave and go right back in. If you don't load the mine then leave and reset it then you'll just be looking at shiny rocks on the wall that won't give you ore if you attack them. Attacking them is faster than the animation, it's because of this it's my go to method and one I've been doing since 2012.
So if I use attack method and I come back in 31 days and they aren't respawned I can just exit the mine and reenter and they will eventually spawn?
Great video. The best part is how you just use a normal talking voice and not one of those “WEUUUAAAATTSSS UPPP GUYYSSS!” TH-camr voices. Thanks for that
bro I'm from Brazil and your video was very easy to understand, I'm playing Skyrim for the first time thanks man
With the steel perk you can also make bonemold armor and with the elven perk you can make chitin light and heavy sets
How good are those? i.e. how do they compare to Steel Plate armor or elven or iron?
@@Trephining pretty sure bonemold is as good as steel, but lighter.
You kind of mentioned it in the video, but since the mines reset after 30 days, it makes more sense to hit ALL the mines first, then take the time to do all the transmuting and/or shopping. Also, there's lots of great places to get dwarven pieces you can melt down for ingots, like Mzulft or the museum in Markarth. Oh, and don't forget to rent a bed for the Well Rested bonus in addition to the Warrior's Stone before doing any smithing work or training!
If you're worried about carry weight, there's a barrel in Riften by the market where you can dump things off in between mines, and as long as you go back to the barrel frequently enough it won't despawn.
I've been using a barrel in Whiterun in right next to the blacksmith to store all my crafting stuff. In nearly 600 hrs of play, it's never despawned. Any idea on the timeframe for that?
@@scottjones7948- 10 days
@@scottjones7948 it's 10 days, and I mentioned the Riften one because it's the one I use. Really, any barrel should work as long as you don't leave it alone for too long.
@@scottjones7948 recently did this...
it despawned...
NEVER DO AGAIN 🤕
I use two barrels outside the smith's shop. One is for smithing stuff, and the other is for Other stuff, like tons of ingredients.
While I have raised my smiting skill to 100 a dozen times, I learned something here. I am going to raise my smithing skill to 30 with gold before I start using potions. It becomes hard to find glowing mushroom and blisterwort after some time in game.
I try to buy all ore from shops except for steel, dwemer metal and corundum. I can make so much money by upgrading weapons and armor that I just can't resist obtaining a pile of ore. I dont pay for smithing training; only pick pocket training.
I also buy all the ingredients I can get my hands on and keep them in the alchemist's sachel in the home in Whiterun. I also buy all the empty soul gems I can find. Crafting is just a license to print money.
Once you've got smithing 90 you can use the5 books plus a power available at the end of one of the black books that double the amount points given by skill books
Any more information to go along with that, please? And thanks! Sounds awesome.
@@Trephining Step 1. Take a boat to Solhsteim Step 2. Get inside mine and read Black Book Step 3. Choose Scholar's Insight for 2 skill points per book. Read skill books only, after your skill is at 90
Thank you! It's always great to see your Skyrim videos! Always funny and entertaining! Great work!
The only smithing guide you’ll ever need right here!
It is very slow. You can go from 15 to 100 by upgrading just one dagger
@@hackfleischking5162 that's an exploit
As someone who used this clean method to level smiting for years, in my opinion this guide was excellent.
There are minor things in the higher smithing skill levels that I did differently, but nowadays I just use mods to get all the materials for crafting, right away. I still do the actual skill leveling legitimately, I just use the mods to cut out the tedious farming of materials.
What mods are they? I would love to know
@@TheElizabethEwing been to long since I played, but i played on Xbox, so the mods are made for that console. I don't remember the names, but I would recommend searching youtube for "skyrim QOL (stands for quality of life) mods" and include the system you play on (Xbox, PS, or PC)
was not expecting to see a Skyrim Skill Guide on october 17, 2021, but here I am.
The village of Shor Stone is Ebony mine
i believe light armour forging- the book is also at embershard mine or silent moons camp so you dont need to break into lods house
7:59 "I'm the Jarl...take a look". Coulda fooled me, pal.
Dwarves arrows are another great way to get your smithing skill up, plus if you’re an stealth archer build, you’ll have tons of dwarves arrows afterwards, I’d recommend going to markarth to do Calcelmo’s quest to clear the excavation site, once you do that, all the dwarven metal you can smell down is no longer “steal”, so you can take it, smelt it, then chop up some firewood, and get to arrow spam
Stealth archer is not a if but a when
Don't forget before you started crafting to get the well rested bonus. Couple that with the warrior stone and you'll get a 30% increase to learning skills.
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Is there a dragon mask with a smithing bonus?
I've been watching your videos for a few days now and I love your skyrim series. hope to see more
For the grinders out there who would like to do this as you said 'without cheating', one can do similar steps as to what you mentioned but while also improving multiple perks at once, to do that, you need Volund plus any price improvement gear you stol-found/crafted, and the city of Whiterun. Make sure to start off with at least 10k gold to comfortably buy everything from adrianne, smith armors exclusively(best value best exp), improve it, sell it, you have now made roughly 1k profit, repeat for ulfbert and then for eorlund. for most benefit, also enchant the armors at the dragonsreach, you can get sousltones from belethor(who will sometimes have a few ingots too) and in dragonsreach, enchanting even if your speech skill isnt very high yet skyrockets the value of the items, even lesser soul gem upgrades will make the price go ballistic. If you want yo squeeze out an extra bit of value, make potions for improvement of enchanting, smithing and haggling. That way, you're leveling up smithing, speech, alchemy and enchanting all at once. *If you can make it to Nordic Armor, the path to massive riches is wide open*
I would recommend starting from Kolskeggr Mine, because not only you will get gold ingots, but also some gold from Pavo Attius for clearing forsworn.From this point do the same steps the video suggest you, it's pretty well done guide for beginners.
PS. If you get some gems use them in your crafting of jewelry, it will slightly boost up your smithing skill leveling up. Last tip rings can be uses in leveling up enchanting, and getting gold, but for this you might want to side with Thieves Guild because only this faction has access to merchants having over 4000 gold.
Or a limited use trick from MajorSlack, if you have the merchant skill perk (sell anything to anyone) you can take very high value items with you when you buy skill training to recover the gold you just spent on training. Obviously this only works if the trainer is also a merchant and you have that perk.
So simple, innocent, wholesome. This brought back some good memories, thanks!
Lucky me, the bandit chiefs and bounty hunters had all the top armor just waiting for me to take it from them. Such generosity.
Yea the Deathlords give me lots of ebony weapons. More than I can usually carry out.
@@thomasaitken7495 I got the staff that summons a daedric fighter and he distracts the deathlord long enough for me to sneak up and fill him full of arrows. Yoink! Yo stuff is mine now! Mwahahahaha!
I got my full ebony set after sending the ebony warrior to the soul cairn. Lol
Eorlund Greymane is a master smithing trainer (up to level 90). Train with him 5 times per level and then use a paralysis spell (no damage) on him. As he is getting up, he will be 'classified' as a container and you can pickpocket ur all money back without making anyone aggro with you. If you need a quick way to get paralysis, there is a set location for a staff of paralysis in Snapleg cave in the rift. This is the easiest method ive found to level it early and easily. Works best when you have enough gold/soul gems. You can do this with any trainer I think but remember it's only 5 training levels per character level.
There's also a two ebony at the peak of mouth of the world, as well as malachite and a notched pickaxe which is enchanted and levels up your smithing during attacks
You should've included the aetherium wars quest...
That quest takes place mostly in dwarven ruins, perfect for gathering dwarven ingots to craft dwarven bows
The reward includes the Aetherial crown that lets u use 2 standing stones at once...so Lover stone + Warrior/Mage stone = faster smithing/enchanting levels
True masters teaching never reveal the full depth of their knowledge, leaving it to their star pupils to figure out the truly challenging material.
I appreciate you making this video bro!🙌🙌👍 Between which mines to go to, for bigger iron ore deposits, gold ore deposits, and ebony ore. With also the little helpful trick to multiply your gold ingot quickly, that I never knew you could do, by having your follower be commanded to pick up stuff on the ground.
If you choose the imperial at the beginning. You can pick up a pile of ingots from the smith in Riverwood next to the armor bench
I think you shoulda been able to get your gear refined by smith npcs for gold and enchanted by wizards for gold. It would be good for people role playing as people who aren't smiths.
Wow interesting! Im recently started to play skyrim and idk what to do XD but videos like this one gives me hype haha
I like to combine the Transmute+Jewelry method with just carrying a ton of Dwemer stuff out of 2-3 of their dungeons (drop the solid metal and the large struts on the floor individually and have your follower pick them up if both of your carrying capacities are reached), buying not only iron ore but also the abundant iron ingots from smiths when possible and making Dwemer Bows in large numbers. Since you can easily obtain 400+ Dwarven Metal Ingots, this will level your Smithing insanely fast
@@edmundroth6337 well, it's basically really as simple as going into dwemer dungeons (preferably with a mostly empty inventory on you and your follower), collecting ALL the stuff that can be converted to dwarven metal ingots (basically everything with an adjective in the name apart from the levers) and overloading your follower (because the inventory fills up really quickly) by dropping stuff on the floor and have them pick it up via the command function which ignores their carrying capacity (doing this predominantly with the large metal pieces is the most efficient way).
Using this method, you can literally carry metal worth hundreds of ingots out of some of the larger dungeons. At this point, almost all of the stuff is still in your followers inventory. You also need to procure large quantities of iron ingots, as those are the only other material needed to craft dwemer bows (the ratio is 3/1 dwarven/iron I think, but it could be 2/1, don't know from the top of my head). These can be bought from any blacksmith and most other merchants. I still recommend buying up all the iron ore and transmuting it into gold, using only the actual sold ingots for the bows (to be money-efficient).
Then, you just go activate the warrior stone and visit breezehome or rent a bed in the bannered mare for the maximum xp boosts, walk over to Adrienne's smelting furnace, take all the metal from your follower, turn it all into ingots and craft away.
You will gain an ungodly amount of levels. If you ran out of iron and have dwarven metal left over (which is to be expected), use that to improve the bows on the grindstone for even more xp. Of course, having the perk dwarven smithing is a prerequisite for all this to work. Since you get it at 30, it shouldn't be hard to achieve. If there are any questions left, be sure to let me know.
@@dariuskonig8762 Q: How would you adapt or modify this method so you can do it without putting perks into Dwarven smithing or any perks into smithing at all?
@@Trephining leveling up smithing without using any perks seems pretty pointless to me, what are you going to do with the skill when all armor/weapons it could be used on require the perks? In that case, you can't go for the dwemer strategy and have to make do with gold/silver to craft jewellery.
Just started doing this and after 2 hours im finally at dawnstar lol. All in the name of badass armor
Ravens rock mine is also ebony mine. Smaller but for sure worth a visit. Quest inside is awesome anyway.
Just down the road from Kolskeggr mine Is Karthwasten, the richest silver mine in Skyrim, with 28 silver ore. Quest is optional.
hey, thanks. I never knew why sometimes the wife and husband's inventory got stoopid. no one else has told me that. 👍
In case you didn’t know you can equip the pick axe and keep hitting the ore deposit.
He mentioned that if you do that then the deposit won't respawn in 30 days
@@andrewcraigbrown2933 I'm not sure this is true, though. I never mine ores using the animation yet the Stalhrim ore I mine always respawns. Or does Stalhrim work differently compared to 'normal' ores?
@Gabriel Damasceno Meurer you don't have to do the animation. Never have in any of the games
Elemental fury
I've never seen any thing affect the respawns, always about a month.
Stahlrim don't remember having issues with either.
that no respawn if you don't use the animation is not actually true, they will respawn BUT they will be glitched and you can't interact with them, all you have to do is leave the room and go back in, they'll go back to normal and you can mine them again
Do like 3 quests for the companions
Go to Euland ( forgot the smith name ) and train in smithing
Just stay at his chest under the forge
Take all items and sell it to him and train again when leveling up
It doesn’t take long
This also levels up speech well too
Cool and useful guide! Might use it on a second playthrough though. Only ever tried Skyrim now, nearly more than a decade after it came out and I'm just enjoying my first playthrough at a steady pace, leveling stuff the "normal" way by just playing. Awesome to know there's plenty of guides out there.
This is very helpful to me and my smithing is now at 100 and I can now make any armor I want one of my favorite things to do in Skyrim is to make armor legendary
I love your videos. They go straight to the point and I love the commentary
I gotta say this is the best smithing how to video.
It is very a very slow method but he is very funy
Equip the pickaxe like a weapon and swing at the node instead of activating the animation. You can hotkey the pickaxe.
Dosent that make the pre never respawn again tho
@@thatboynuudl2095 no just reenter the cell and it should work
Sitting at work having my lunch break and im so hyped to get home to play skyrim and follow this guide! Btw im 41 😂😂😂
You can get additional skill point with Scholar's Insight power. It can be learned from The Winds of Change black book. Book located in Raven Rock Mine in Solstheim.
That mine also has ebony ore
If I remember correctly there is a copy of both the light armour smithing and heavy armour smithing skill books in silent moons camp.
I must say this is the best way to make a ton of money and increase my smithing it's just a win win . Thanks
4:13 Bro. I was watching TH-cam on my Xbox and thought who tf is coach smiley?? I was tripping. Also to save yourself some mining, you can just dupe the iron ore with a follower at the whiterun gate. You can get around 200 with like 10 minutes of farming
EDIT: LOL IM STONED AF, AND STILL WATCHING. You’re duping them, good lad
Cool. Good info and great explanation man. Idid it the hard way after hours and half way becoming a god. Alchemy took forever acquiring ingredients
Does anyone even need a guide in 2021? Doesn’t matter ima watch this whole video either way!
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your smithing skill will also increase alot more if you are crafting high value jelewry. been usingthis system since 2011 glad to see someone make a video on it
Thanks for this video I’m playing Skyrim atm and just transmuted a bunch of ore
Thanks for the insight
Saved this whole playlist to my library. 👍👍
Those rings are good for power leveling enchanting as well. Just do waterbreathing first, then fortify sneak.
Oh, and watch out for the Briar Heart at the end of Kolskegger. He can be a real bee....ahem. Oh, and he goes to Markarth to smelt it. If you cleared the forsworn outside, just use the one at the entrance to the gold mine.
Dude I forgot how fun this game was to play. Thanks
You can stop at 90 if you get the Hermaeus Mora perk that doubles the effect of skill books
8:22 After 10 years I never knew that the reason their inventories were sometimes combined was this, I thought it was somewhat random or depended on the item type
Casually drops 40 gold bars in a middle of the city
Refuses to elaborate
Leaves
I got smithing 100 kind of by accident lol. I did the fortify restoration potion looping method to make a super strong fortify enchanting potion. I then enchanted a pair of gauntlets that makes smithing with like X a million. I then smithed 1 pair of armour and it got me from 45 to 100 in 1 go lol
10:30 actually, you don't need to fast travel, just exit the town, and then get back inside
For people who didn't know you can equip the pickaxe and attack the iron veins and to make it even quicker duel wield the pickaxe but nonetheless you did awesome on this video keep at it man
bad idea since there is a glitch in the game which can cause the vein to not respawn if you do so
Elemental fury combination
@@Slydamiser then just buy some or do the glitch where you go underneath the forge in white run were the companions is
@@Slydamiser but I wasn't aware of that I do apologize tho
@@nukeshotz I forgot what that was lol 😅
11:36 hourglass armor 🤔 what would that do? Sands of Time stuff would be cool.
I actually like to go hunting. With the leather I‘m making some leather armors. I know it is much slower but in this way I can upgrade bow skills, sneaking and smithing.
It’s also easier if you train to just before you level to 86 so when you buy levels from the smith at Jorrvasker you take less gold rings for that extra level
Big thing he missed was sleeping for well rested bonus. With the warrior, mage or thief stone you can use the well-rested bonus for another 10% exp (only useful if you have a pile of mats to use as it doesn't last long). Doesn't work with the lover's stone for some reason. You can also snag some more ebony from the mine in Shore's stone. Not much but, can grab 9 in the mine and a few outside by the smelter. Quick mission there that will also pay you like 1k for killing a handful of spiders in the mine.
I remember when smithing use to level up based on the amount of stuff you made and not the value, I definitely flooded the market with all the iron daggers I crafted
Get the Winstad Mine mod, the ore in there is unlimited, and after building up the mine you can have npc's mine for you. There is also a mod that changes the Transmute so it transmutes all the ores in your inventory. Combine this with enchanting all the rings, and you can hit 100 smithing so fast your head will spin, plus your enchanting skill will go up as well. Pick up all the iron daggers you find, improve them for even more experience. But I also recommend getting the merchant gold mod so they can afford to buy what you make. I got to the point in my last playthrough where I just had the mine sell the ores it mined. I was richer than all the Jarls combines by then haha.
If I'm not mistaken, you can use septims at a forge to make gold earrings, and those can be enchanted to fortify both smithing and alchemy.
bro is not even playing the same game 😭😭😭😭
Bro what???
Must be a mod, bro. Not in vanilla Skyrim at all. Earrings are only really found on hairstyles
Very cool, my dude. Thank you for the Skyrim lesson 🙏🏻
Hope Coach Smiley is having a good day
The duplication trick still works since the start of the game, bless us that Skyrim doesn’t patch these op bugs.
What do you mean you have to use the "animation" for ore to respawn? You mean only ore mined with mining as apposed to attacking with a pickaxe will respawn? Can you manually attack the first ore then finish it with the mining action?
A couple years ago i knew everything about this game, even the dumb radiant quests, but now I've forgotten and here i am lol. I forgot kolskeggr mine existed so here i was just transmuting a million iron ores.
8:45 So if you attack the ore with your pickaxe will the ore never respawn?
I have the same question.
7:40 you can use the SHL method (save hit load) to buy ores from just one guy
If you already have maxed alchemy and/or enchanting, you can make a bunch of iron daggers, blacksmithing potions, and while wearing blacksmithing enchanted gear, just sharpen all of the daggers, it gives rly good experience
Wow it’s 2021 and guides for this game are still rolling out 😂
Still going strong...!
7:57 what a plot twist. It's actually the orc who's Jarl of Markarth
I always just got the Whiterun, Dawnstar, and Markarth chests along with getting as many iron ingots as possible while I played. Proceeded to make a ton of iron daggers and I'd enchant them (soul gems gotten through the Dawnstar and Markarth chests) with Paralysis or Fiery Soul Trap, then sold them off. Levels up Enchanting too and makes a pretty decent profit.
This makes me feel like Skyrim just released
Well laid out. I wish I had seen this before my first couple of playthroughs.
7:57 it sounded like he said he was the jarl 🤣
smithing arrows is a really good way to get your smithing to level up faster
Not available on vanilla Skyrim, unfortunately
@@craigslitzer4857 Do you mean Skyrim without DLCs or unmodded Skyrim?
@@hildebos1653 Yes that's what I mean. The original "vanilla" version that was released in 2011 does not allow crafting arrows. That was added in one of the DLC's.
Leather armour.
even though i've reached max smithing countless times im still watching bc i love skyrim
ty!!! finally!! this helped me so much newbie here 🖤
Great video man. I ended up getting the black smithing cheat lore book from way up north in the icy dungeon and leveled up that way very fast. I forget the name of that book.
Great video. But, what texture pack are you using? Or is this all vanilla?
Nice video man this makes the process a lot easier
love the video bro, i don’t know if you know but you can quicksave and hit the merchants and then their inventory will replenish
Thank you so much I've never been able to level up like this man this is amazing