hey if it works it works I used this method to decent success I mean I used a number of things to make it a lot easier, but still I did it though I am the kind of person who maxes out their crafting skills before they fight the first dragon in the game which is actually pretty easy if you know what your doing
Just about gathered all the materials. Almost 600 dwarves ingots, just a few more iron ingots to go and I'll give this a shot. Finally a leveling guide that rewards actually playing the game not just exploiting bugs.
You can also buy Iron ores from all the smiths in Skyrim, Transmute, wait 1hr, Transmute, rinse repeat, and then craft gold rings. Transmute converts iron ores to silver ores to gold ores, this way you won't have to take all the Dwemer smeltable items.
Michael Caluag With my play through I just make a lot of potions that made smithing and enchanting better and eventually (2 days) My potions were really strong like 1000% I found it really hard boring and fun
SwagSpirit Agony yeah that’s how you do it through the “exploit” path, with this method you are exploiting a bug in the game which allows you those potion advancements
Be careful for what Dwemer scrap you loot, not all of if can be smelted into Dwarven metal ingots. You don't want to fill up your pockets or your companion''s with unusable stuff, unless you want to sell it. Only take things that begin with an *adjective*, like "bent", "large", "small", or "solid", and don't bother with any levers. Leave the rest.
Already know all of this, but the fact that you start from preparations like Ancient Knowlenge effect, Aetherial crown with Lover stone and sleeping is awesome! I never saw this in other guides and learned all this from UESP wiki :) What I can add is that it is quite possible to buy a house in Whiterun to level 14, when you can take the quest "Unfathomable Depths", and it's fully worth it. Also you can marry (Ysolda in Whiterun, for example, to complete her quest you can steal mammoth tusk from The Bannered Mare) to get +15% XP bonus from sleeping in the house with your wife/husbund. And if you install Unofficial Skyrim Legendary/Special Edition Patch, you'll gain 15% more XP in smithing from originally bugged Ancient Knowlenge effect to total 20+15+15+15=65% more XP in smithing. Also as an alternative you can make ebony bows from 80lvl smithing, they cost way more than upgraded dwarven bows and give more XP as a result. As already mentioned in comments you can use these bows to upgrade Enchantment, best enchanment (most expensive) for leveling is Banish, and you can easily get it from Fletcher in Solitude from 22lvl. It seems that all :) Sorry for my english and that wall of text ;)
"Easy." "Banish." I've spent almost an hour and a half hitting the guy. Pro tip, the thieves catches in riften are more helpful than just one merchant. I'd also check the smith every round, if you're waiting, not quicksave scumming.
Huh, then I guess I shouldn't feel bad that I got so side-tracked that the need for me to level up caused me to end up doing the Dragonborn DLC. First time playing Elder Scrolls anything by the time I beat that I went from level 11 to level 22 lol.
Great guide man, I’m a new player and was pretty lost on how to get smithing up. You showed a great way that works and it was also fun while doing it. I liked that quest line.
You need to be level 14 for from-deepest-fathoms to give you the lexicon for that name of quest. In the meantime, you can easily hunt, buy and loot that leather, and mine iron for daggers and shields. Crazy to go into dwarven ruins with less than steel gear. Preferrably orcish or dwarven, but definitely not iron or scavenged armor. At level 22 with the perk, you can upgrade steel into exquisite. That holds for a while in the lower levels. Iron mines: Embershard mine, just uphill of the guardian stones. 2nd biggest I think. There is also 2 more iron veins outside of the back entrance, go left. It looks like one vein, but the top right corner is another vein entirely. Halted Stream Camp almost directly north of Whiterun, all the way around. Fort Fellhammer, south southeast of dawnstar Iron-Breaker mine, in the south of Dawnstar itself. Smallest of these. There are other locations *with* iron veins, like the "mine" south of winterhold, but they are tiny pitiful things. You'd do better looking for a guide to overworld iron veins. A small run to do is this: below the guardian stones is a vein. Across the river from there are some wolves, go uphill to Annise's Cabin. To the south, and to the east too I think? there are veins bordering the little ledge it's on. Then go west across the mountainside to a tree on a small ledge. Over that and theres a rocky outcrop. 1 or 2 veins there. Bam. Minimum of 12 ore. Theres also plenty out around whiterun's hill and out passed the farms, some silver, quicksilver too. Major slack attack covers it in one of his Pure Orc Legendary build videos. Find the playlist, click around. Corrundum mine for steel smithing: Pinewatch is just south of Lakeview Manor. A lonely cabin, with a dwemer button in the basement leading to a huge corrundum mine. It has a lot of bandits, and is a thieves guild special mission target I believe, so keep a hold of the silver mould in the treasury room or if you dont intend to do thieves guild quests, don't pick it up. The corrundum also comes in handy for outfitting hearthfire homes. Oricalcum mines if you don't want to do all of this all at once, and want some more of a leg up on the Forgemaster: Bilegulch mine is directly west of the mountain chain between whiterun and falkreath holds. On the world border mountains there. A bandit camp, about 5 regular bandits with only the chief inside. Orc stronghold south of markarth, there is a path to turn down across the river from the road into it. If you started as an orc, or if you did any of the quests that grant you the orc friend tag, that stronghold has an oricalchum mine, I think larger than bilegulch. For the final outfitting of ebony or daedric, you'll want an ebony mine perhaps. Though admittably, upgraded dwarven bows will buy you plenty of ebony. Still, pure profit won't hurt. Obviously with Solstheim and the dragonborn expansion, there is Raven Rock mine, in which you have to defeat a shock based dragonpriest before the ebony veins stop glitching out. But thats still only the second biggest ebony mine. Because orc friend comes in handy again. Because, Gloombelly Mine is in an orc stronghold east of windhelm gates. If you are using torches and not night eyes or an alteration light spell, be aware there is oil traps in there. But counting steal-tagged ore around on barrels and in buckets and the blacksmith table having an ingot, there's almost 40 ore in there. Then again, you do the dwarven bow route, you will definitely
One thing omitted: when you're at the Mzulft storehouse& you grab the Glowing Crystal Shard, take the time to grab the Dwemer metal pieces in the room; you can get a fair amount of invite from them. Also, once done there, before continuing, to to Reachwind Eyrie (sp?) for more Dwemer metal. IMPORTANT: Not all pieces can be smelter into ingots! Ignore anything whose name begins with the word "Dwemer", such as "Dwemer Cog". Then, before doing any more dungeon crawling, smelt the pieces into Dwarven Metal Ingots & store them in a safe location.
My metod is completely different which allows you to level up smiting on level 1. Firstly go to iron mine which is north to Whiterun, there you will find a spell book tat allows you to transmute iron to gold, collect all iron in a mine and transmute it to gold. Secondly go to mine loaded west to silver hand headquarters (you do a mission here when avenging Kodlak) and repeat the same thing. Finaly go to gold mine in the Reach (you can also do a quest for Pavlo which I highly recommend), and collect all gold, now smelter everything from gold ore to gold ingots, which you will use to create gold rings. This method not only gives you smiting, but also gives you alteration leveling up, along with good amount of gold,(you can also level up enchanting in this method).
Incredibly helpful. I’ve actually never crafted the Atherium gear before so that’s a nice bonus! I’ve always done the transmute ore trick and that takes ages. I’ll also collect all the scrap from Alftand too. But this is way more efficient and fun. Love it.
Great video. Really helped me with smithing and finally understanding how to do it and use it to my advantage! I actually took all the leather bracers and dwarven bows I made and used them to help me level up my enchanting. Not only is my smithing at 100 due to this video but so is my enchanting 😊
Thank you for this guide man, did it in 2021 lol, the best part of it is that it’s an adventure on its own, you go through the aetherium and lexicon quests, and dungeon. It isn’t braindead dagger or gold ring crafting.
It’s cool too see someone levelling the same way I did! I used lovers comfort from being married for +5%. However, technically the lovers stone removes the ability to gain sleep skill levelling bonuses which bypassing with the crown is a glitch/exploit (but I still do it anyway :D).
Christopher Alvarado I like that method because I can enchant the rings and just keep a pile of necklaces and rings in my bags and use them as vendor fodder.
On a quick note: If you have the Unofficial Patch installed, it actually fixes Ancient Knwoledge effect, so it'll work as intended and make smithing increase 15% faster.
Just finished this method on a fresh character and damn that took a long time lol. Much appreciated for the vid though. Figured it would be more productive than just standing there transmuting mineral ore for gold rings. Plus I know that crown comes in handy for leveling in general. PSA: You need to be level 14 before you can talk to the argonian for the lexicon quest.
Easiest way to level up Smithing with least resources - have Hearthfire dlc, make iron fittings/ hinges/ nails. Then you can sell them for a profit or use in construction of your manor.
There is a fourth iron mine he didn't mention which is right outside of markarth next to the farm you can't miss it, and it gives you a quest to clear out the kolskegger mine which is the only gold mine in the game so have fun with that
A lot of people don’t seem to know about this but it’s easier to get fire wood for Dwarven arrows, than to get enough iron, if you get a woodcutting axe and go to a stump you generate fire wood
Great video man! Once I do an exploit I feel all gross lol so this really is great! Thanks so much and the way you detailed it so good and easy to follow just a A+ job :)!
After you craft all the Dwarven Bows, instead of selling them all, you can get your enchanting to 100, by buying a hoard of filled petty and lesser souls gems, learn the turn undead enchantment, and enchant your your Dwarven Bows with it. It took me roughly 150ish soul gems before I got my enchanting from 20ish to 100. Of course, make sure you have the exp boosts before doing it.
For the non-exploit people. 1) The xp you get is based on the value of the item you create. 2) Make Leather Helm from hides (I managed to collect 300) 3) Dwarven Bows from you Dwarven ingots (500+ should be sufficient) 4) Jewelry. - You can transform Iron to Silver to Gold using the Transmute spell which you can find in the mine just NNW of Whiterun (Steam Halted Camp) - Use your gems to improve the price of your jewelry products 5) Use Well Rested/Lovers Comfort bonus and The Wariors Stone before you start smithing 6) Buy some skill points too!
Just finished this guide. Amazing! Takes a bit of time but wtv. Id like to add, with all of those spare bows and leather bracers your left with, its a good chance to increase your speech skill by selling and buying back the bows to vendors lol also takes a bit of time but you dont lose any money.
I finally hit lvl 90 smithing and crafted my 1st piece of Daedric Armor. Now im going to pass out and figure the rest out later. 🙂 God is so good all those years of waiting and giving up finally paid off. Thanks also for the vid.
Cheers for the video mate, definitely my favourite levelling guide I’ve seen. This way feels so much more legit than these other levelling guides you get. Really good for players who want to level up smithing through quests and items.
A quick little note: - if you are married rent an inn room or send the spouse away during the leveling process( just tell him/her to move somewhere else away from your materials), this is because the lover stone does not stack with lover's confort sleeping bonus - Sleeping bonus is forfeit once you become a Werewolf, if you want to keep werewolf status forget sleeping, BUT if you have Dawnguard or Skyrim Special Edition, you can cure yourself, do the leveling and then ask Aela to turn you into a werewolf again - To cure Lycantrophy there are two ways, one is the Companions Quest line (the very end once you cured Kodlak and the Twins), or follow Dawnguard's qustline to become a Vampire Lord
Tip: if you still haven't got enchanting to level 100 yet keep the upgraded bows and enchant it this will it more valuable and also leveling enchanting too
I remember using the resto pot glitch to do this,when I did it i felt sad, I literally cheated something that when playing normally takes hours to get, so now I don't use the glitch anymore, but your method.
Mirmulnir: I MAY BE THE FIRST DRAGON IN THE GAME BUT I CAN STILL KICK YOUR A-... *sees an Argonian in full Daedric armor holding a Daedric battleaxe jump off the fucking Western Watchtower and run towards him* Thank you, Dark Souls.
I love how all of us exploit haters go through all of this pain to feel the accomplishment of not cheating. It's pain, but it's good pain baby. Great tutorial!!
I don't want to invest the point along the heavy path of smithing but the ancient knowledge and crown are good to know about, thank you. Edit: Oh come on you need dawnguard for this quest.
These are great quests to prepare for levelling up Smithing, but I'd probably get a few levels under my belt before doing them, especially on Legendary Difficulty. I really enjoy the Aetherium quest although it's long. It's obviously great for levelling every skill, since you can have both the Lover Stone and a Guardian Stone of your choice active. The Ancient Knowledge passive ability is so bugged - both effects are not what the description says. However, both bugs are better than the description, anyway.
I guess it's an exploit but i call it a feature. When your follower is full up, drop something and ask them to "do something" then make them pick up the thing. Preferrably after it's a stack so it's faster, but they dont stop "doing something" until you exit out of ordering them. They can do that without carry weight constraints and taking things Out of their inventory is no problem. Clear three dwarven ruins in a row. That'll do ya. But again, your opinion on glitch or feature. For safe free storage otherwise. If you mine at embershard mine or halted stream camp, pick up a woodsman axe. Chop wood. Give to the Bannered Mare inkeep. The guest room dresser and end table are now safe storage and bed is always free and always well rested, because you're disposition with the inn is "friend." No stolen markers, if it says they are it's lying. Pick it up. It will not have the stolen tag. You can just dash-n-dip place the lexicon in the Deepest Fathoms quest. No need to fight the centurion, especially if you play on legendary. This is the way to start legendary-ing your smithing. It's silly to say this is the easy way because you might as well get at least steel armor and weapons and get to level 22 smithing to make it exquisite before you go to the *dwarven ruins* and fight Centurions without an ounce of smithing done. You really want to buy or find steel armor? Or take that hammer and steam damage unarmored? Yikes. Go hit up embershard. Then Pinewatch north of Lakeview Manor plot has tons of corrundum in their bandit home basement. Clearing the place also gets you potion loot to sell, to buy iron for later too. There's also the fact that if you deliberately don't clear every enemy AND ore in a place, it respawns in 10 days not 30. Major slack attack knows how to do it better ;) for your first bit of smithing the ancient knowledge and aethereal crown is totally unnecessary! And dangerous to do that without even a BIT of smithing. Maybe after smithing level 60 when it gets slower and you're wearing orcish (bilegulch mine is in the northwest of falkreath hold, the orcish stronghold on the road south out of markarth stables also has an oricalchum mine.) You can look up where the Last Scabbard of Akrash is out of Riften passed the black briar lodge, two minutes on a horse and all orcs are cool with you after you give the book to the smith in Markarth. You really want to become orcfriend anyways, because once you get smithing to 100 then sure you could fight for raven rock mine, the 2nd biggest ebony mine that tends to love glitching out on you on the switch... or you could get on to Gloombelly Mine in the stronghold east of Windhelm, and only fight three patches of exploding oil for your torches. Get the candlelight spell, it's 300g max, so sell two dwarven bows you made. No contest! Full arms and armor up! Then whichever mine you went to, go to the other one once you have 6 to 8 daedric hearts, depending on if you are a one or two hander and if you want a bow. If yes to the bow, extra is always good to get arrows, but I tend to go dragonbone for those seeing as daedric hearts cost so much and are a pain to track down and all, while you naturally acquire plenty of dragonbone normally playing. For armor i tend to pick daedric over dragonbone. Either way you beat the armor cap, and the speech intimidation bonus is fun to use. Once your smithing is just sitting at 100, if you buy up ebony ingots and make bows to improve, its decent profit if you have amulet of zenithar and blessing of charity for the beggar's dollar. VERY profitable if you get some good fortify smithing gear, and or potions. (You'll start bartering to sell them, merchants dont carry that much cash. But there is your speech levels! Get the merchant perk quick!) Skyrim can be fun.
When I upgrade the dwarven bows on the grindstone I get a message saying I need to increase my smithing or something like that and I have to pay the black smith.
"Hey adrianne can i borrow your forge?"
"Sure"
*pulls out 500 dwemer ingots 200 iron ingots and 150 leather units*
o h g o d
Lol
🤣🤣🤣☠️
hey if it works it works I used this method to decent success I mean I used a number of things to make it a lot easier, but still I did it though I am the kind of person who maxes out their crafting skills before they fight the first dragon in the game which is actually pretty easy if you know what your doing
Just about gathered all the materials. Almost 600 dwarves ingots, just a few more iron ingots to go and I'll give this a shot.
Finally a leveling guide that rewards actually playing the game not just exploiting bugs.
You can also buy Iron ores from all the smiths in Skyrim, Transmute, wait 1hr, Transmute, rinse repeat, and then craft gold rings. Transmute converts iron ores to silver ores to gold ores, this way you won't have to take all the Dwemer smeltable items.
Michael Caluag we watched the same video. ESO?
Michael Caluag With my play through I just make a lot of potions that made smithing and enchanting better and eventually (2 days) My potions were really strong like 1000% I found it really hard boring and fun
SwagSpirit Agony yeah that’s how you do it through the “exploit” path, with this method you are exploiting a bug in the game which allows you those potion advancements
Smithing is a bug
Be careful for what Dwemer scrap you loot, not all of if can be smelted into Dwarven metal ingots. You don't want to fill up your pockets or your companion''s with unusable stuff, unless you want to sell it. Only take things that begin with an *adjective*, like "bent", "large", "small", or "solid", and don't bother with any levers. Leave the rest.
Don't you mean "lever" the rest?
Morris Boverhuis underrated comment
Qiller Daemon haha bent
Don’t grab the struts either. Come back for those
Not small
Lmao i went for the well rested bonus then i awoke kidnapped by the dark brotherhood
Lol what are the requirements for them to find you? Is it just high stealth?
@@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868 kill grelod the kind in the riften orphanage then talk to aventus aretino in windhelm
Silence, my brother.
Gotta keep track of your side quests friend, haha.
Already know all of this, but the fact that you start from preparations like Ancient Knowlenge effect, Aetherial crown with Lover stone and sleeping is awesome! I never saw this in other guides and learned all this from UESP wiki :)
What I can add is that it is quite possible to buy a house in Whiterun to level 14, when you can take the quest "Unfathomable Depths", and it's fully worth it. Also you can marry (Ysolda in Whiterun, for example, to complete her quest you can steal mammoth tusk from The Bannered Mare) to get +15% XP bonus from sleeping in the house with your wife/husbund. And if you install Unofficial Skyrim Legendary/Special Edition Patch, you'll gain 15% more XP in smithing from originally bugged Ancient Knowlenge effect to total 20+15+15+15=65% more XP in smithing. Also as an alternative you can make ebony bows from 80lvl smithing, they cost way more than upgraded dwarven bows and give more XP as a result. As already mentioned in comments you can use these bows to upgrade Enchantment, best enchanment (most expensive) for leveling is Banish, and you can easily get it from Fletcher in Solitude from 22lvl. It seems that all :)
Sorry for my english and that wall of text ;)
"Easy." "Banish." I've spent almost an hour and a half hitting the guy. Pro tip, the thieves catches in riften are more helpful than just one merchant. I'd also check the smith every round, if you're waiting, not quicksave scumming.
This is actually a really nice guide
I spent 4 hours doing this and trust me it pays off
your mom I’m going to do this method then
@@saitamaftw5385 this is the best method ever just follow his instructions and you will be at 100 smithing in no time at all
your mom I got to 100 smithing yesterday and got a trophy :)
@@saitamaftw5385 nice
Its taking forever for me I cant get enough iron or leather
To start the lexicon quest you must be level 14
what are the locations and quests in general? i would like to take a note
Huh, then I guess I shouldn't feel bad that I got so side-tracked that the need for me to level up caused me to end up doing the Dragonborn DLC. First time playing Elder Scrolls anything by the time I beat that I went from level 11 to level 22 lol.
Wish I saw this before I went to riften.
Naruku2121 me too 🙃
@@Griffden u can still do it
Playing Skyrim on my Switch, I followed this guide and it worked wonders! Thank you for this guide man and you earned a sub!
There is a satisfaction of knowing you worked for the level and not cheating
I was looking for his guide everywhere you have helped me out so much. Bless you o chosen one
Merle WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN IF YOURRE GONNA BE THIS GOOD AT GUIDES AND STUFF PLEASE UPLOAD MORE ;-;
Finally, an actual smithing tutorial. I can't believe I've finally gotten 100 smithing. Thanks!
Great guide man, I’m a new player and was pretty lost on how to get smithing up. You showed a great way that works and it was also fun while doing it. I liked that quest line.
This is the best guide for smithing on TH-cam.
You need to be level 14 for from-deepest-fathoms to give you the lexicon for that name of quest. In the meantime, you can easily hunt, buy and loot that leather, and mine iron for daggers and shields. Crazy to go into dwarven ruins with less than steel gear. Preferrably orcish or dwarven, but definitely not iron or scavenged armor. At level 22 with the perk, you can upgrade steel into exquisite. That holds for a while in the lower levels.
Iron mines:
Embershard mine, just uphill of the guardian stones. 2nd biggest I think. There is also 2 more iron veins outside of the back entrance, go left. It looks like one vein, but the top right corner is another vein entirely.
Halted Stream Camp almost directly north of Whiterun, all the way around.
Fort Fellhammer, south southeast of dawnstar
Iron-Breaker mine, in the south of Dawnstar itself. Smallest of these.
There are other locations *with* iron veins, like the "mine" south of winterhold, but they are tiny pitiful things. You'd do better looking for a guide to overworld iron veins. A small run to do is this: below the guardian stones is a vein. Across the river from there are some wolves, go uphill to Annise's Cabin. To the south, and to the east too I think? there are veins bordering the little ledge it's on. Then go west across the mountainside to a tree on a small ledge. Over that and theres a rocky outcrop. 1 or 2 veins there. Bam. Minimum of 12 ore.
Theres also plenty out around whiterun's hill and out passed the farms, some silver, quicksilver too. Major slack attack covers it in one of his Pure Orc Legendary build videos. Find the playlist, click around.
Corrundum mine for steel smithing:
Pinewatch is just south of Lakeview Manor. A lonely cabin, with a dwemer button in the basement leading to a huge corrundum mine. It has a lot of bandits, and is a thieves guild special mission target I believe, so keep a hold of the silver mould in the treasury room or if you dont intend to do thieves guild quests, don't pick it up. The corrundum also comes in handy for outfitting hearthfire homes.
Oricalcum mines if you don't want to do all of this all at once, and want some more of a leg up on the Forgemaster:
Bilegulch mine is directly west of the mountain chain between whiterun and falkreath holds. On the world border mountains there. A bandit camp, about 5 regular bandits with only the chief inside.
Orc stronghold south of markarth, there is a path to turn down across the river from the road into it. If you started as an orc, or if you did any of the quests that grant you the orc friend tag, that stronghold has an oricalchum mine, I think larger than bilegulch.
For the final outfitting of ebony or daedric, you'll want an ebony mine perhaps. Though admittably, upgraded dwarven bows will buy you plenty of ebony. Still, pure profit won't hurt.
Obviously with Solstheim and the dragonborn expansion, there is Raven Rock mine, in which you have to defeat a shock based dragonpriest before the ebony veins stop glitching out. But thats still only the second biggest ebony mine.
Because orc friend comes in handy again. Because, Gloombelly Mine is in an orc stronghold east of windhelm gates. If you are using torches and not night eyes or an alteration light spell, be aware there is oil traps in there. But counting steal-tagged ore around on barrels and in buckets and the blacksmith table having an ingot, there's almost 40 ore in there.
Then again, you do the dwarven bow route, you will definitely
So nobody's gonna talk about him dumping those bows at the end 🤣🤣🤣
One thing omitted: when you're at the Mzulft storehouse& you grab the Glowing Crystal Shard, take the time to grab the Dwemer metal pieces in the room; you can get a fair amount of invite from them. Also, once done there, before continuing, to to Reachwind Eyrie (sp?) for more Dwemer metal.
IMPORTANT: Not all pieces can be smelter into ingots! Ignore anything whose name begins with the word "Dwemer", such as "Dwemer Cog".
Then, before doing any more dungeon crawling, smelt the pieces into Dwarven Metal Ingots & store them in a safe location.
really good edits and guide- that ending was the cherry on top XD
Just used this guide for the second time on a new character. Fun and easy. Thanks again dude.
How long did it take you to do all these quests in total?
@@Bwk-mj4pm I’m not positive because it’s been a few years but I think it took like 4-5 hours. That’s not bad for maxing smithing.
My metod is completely different which allows you to level up smiting on level 1. Firstly go to iron mine which is north to Whiterun, there you will find a spell book tat allows you to transmute iron to gold, collect all iron in a mine and transmute it to gold. Secondly go to mine loaded west to silver hand headquarters (you do a mission here when avenging Kodlak) and repeat the same thing. Finaly go to gold mine in the Reach (you can also do a quest for Pavlo which I highly recommend), and collect all gold, now smelter everything from gold ore to gold ingots, which you will use to create gold rings. This method not only gives you smiting, but also gives you alteration leveling up, along with good amount of gold,(you can also level up enchanting in this method).
This is very helpful. You, my friend, are a legend.
3:56 Storing anything inside that closet will make the items being marked as stolen once you've taken them out.
This is prolly the best smithing guide i’ve seen for this game. Awesome job bro
Incredibly helpful. I’ve actually never crafted the Atherium gear before so that’s a nice bonus! I’ve always done the transmute ore trick and that takes ages. I’ll also collect all the scrap from Alftand too. But this is way more efficient and fun. Love it.
Every person who plays skyrim needs to watch this
Thank you for this. Got 100 smithing and did some quests i didnt even know existed. Appreciated the no exploits approach.
Great video. Really helped me with smithing and finally understanding how to do it and use it to my advantage! I actually took all the leather bracers and dwarven bows I made and used them to help me level up my enchanting. Not only is my smithing at 100 due to this video but so is my enchanting 😊
Thank you for this guide man, did it in 2021 lol, the best part of it is that it’s an adventure on its own, you go through the aetherium and lexicon quests, and dungeon.
It isn’t braindead dagger or gold ring crafting.
for real
I know this is years later, but I'm revisiting this game, and THANK YOU
I sincerely appreciate that you gave us a guide that doesn't use cheats.
It’s cool too see someone levelling the same way I did! I used lovers comfort from being married for +5%. However, technically the lovers stone removes the ability to gain sleep skill levelling bonuses which bypassing with the crown is a glitch/exploit (but I still do it anyway :D).
I just get the transmute spell from halted stream camp. And buy ore along the way while I explore the map doing other quests.
Nathan Fielure why would you need transmute. You can’t get dwarves ingots from transmute and you don’t need to convert the ore.
@@maggiethetompug1409 I assume that he's using the gold ring method.
Christopher Alvarado I like that method because I can enchant the rings and just keep a pile of necklaces and rings in my bags and use them as vendor fodder.
@@FecalMatadorYeah you end up with more rings then u can possibly sell. Power level 2 skills easily.
On a quick note: If you have the Unofficial Patch installed, it actually fixes Ancient Knwoledge effect, so it'll work as intended and make smithing increase 15% faster.
Just finished this method on a fresh character and damn that took a long time lol. Much appreciated for the vid though. Figured it would be more productive than just standing there transmuting mineral ore for gold rings. Plus I know that crown comes in handy for leveling in general. PSA: You need to be level 14 before you can talk to the argonian for the lexicon quest.
Mate this is the best guide I've seen for smithing either. Grinding for hours isn't fun and it's nice to see someone who understands that lol.
I thought title said “smithing exploits without a guide”
Easiest way to level up Smithing with least resources - have Hearthfire dlc, make iron fittings/ hinges/ nails. Then you can sell them for a profit or use in construction of your manor.
This is the very best tutorial I've seen yet thank you so much!
always come back to this so worth the grind thank you bruh
I once used exploits... Then i took an arrow to the knee.
There is a fourth iron mine he didn't mention which is right outside of markarth next to the farm you can't miss it, and it gives you a quest to clear out the kolskegger mine which is the only gold mine in the game so have fun with that
Amazing it was sorta a grind but I loved the no exploits thank you
This is probably the most helpful guide for leveling. Very good strategy.
This guide is actually the best one so far
Best narration ever. Good job dude, not only informative but entertaining! Your placement of F bombs are great🤣
Thanks. It takes patience but I managed to do it. ❣️
You should tell people that they can't get the lexicon quest from the Argonian until they are level 14.....
Oof really?
A lot of people don’t seem to know about this but it’s easier to get fire wood for Dwarven arrows, than to get enough iron, if you get a woodcutting axe and go to a stump you generate fire wood
Great video man! Once I do an exploit I feel all gross lol so this really is great! Thanks so much and the way you detailed it so good and easy to follow just a A+ job :)!
After you craft all the Dwarven Bows, instead of selling them all, you can get your enchanting to 100, by buying a hoard of filled petty and lesser souls gems, learn the turn undead enchantment, and enchant your your Dwarven Bows with it. It took me roughly 150ish soul gems before I got my enchanting from 20ish to 100. Of course, make sure you have the exp boosts before doing it.
Worth every minute. Thanks for the tutorial man! Greetings from Brazil!
This is the best video every thank you for making a guide in how to level up smithing while ENJOYING skyrim not just do cheats and level up that way
you are the true dragonborn
Thank you so much!! That was so rewarding :) I wish every guide were like yours
A very helpful guide, thank you. No more mining, thank goodness.
@5:00 theres a quick way out to the left (facing the lock) in the river, follow a path, a little skyrim wall clinging and you're right at the entrance
I really appreciate the dialogue. Shit is Awesome! It's like a friend schooling you on a videogame. We still do it to this day.
Dude you're amazing why are your posts so old keep up the good work
For the non-exploit people.
1) The xp you get is based on the value of the item you create.
2) Make Leather Helm from hides (I managed to collect 300)
3) Dwarven Bows from you Dwarven ingots (500+ should be sufficient)
4) Jewelry.
- You can transform Iron to Silver to Gold using the Transmute spell which you can find in the mine just NNW of Whiterun (Steam Halted Camp)
- Use your gems to improve the price of your jewelry products
5) Use Well Rested/Lovers Comfort bonus and The Wariors Stone before you start smithing
6) Buy some skill points too!
since the first time i played, still the best video for smithing the way i like to do it!
How many years it has been until i finally found good smithing guide and finally ready to level up
Just finished this guide. Amazing! Takes a bit of time but wtv. Id like to add, with all of those spare bows and leather bracers your left with, its a good chance to increase your speech skill by selling and buying back the bows to vendors lol also takes a bit of time but you dont lose any money.
I did it!!! Just finished your guide. Super awesome guide dude. Thank you!
I finally hit lvl 90 smithing and crafted my 1st piece of Daedric Armor. Now im going to pass out and figure the rest out later. 🙂 God is so good all those years of waiting and giving up finally paid off. Thanks also for the vid.
Cheers for the video mate, definitely my favourite levelling guide I’ve seen. This way feels so much more legit than these other levelling guides you get. Really good for players who want to level up smithing through quests and items.
"i wonder what would happen if i have everything 100 at start?
**cant stop using player.advskill command**
Great tutorial! Doing it without any exploits actually gifts you something to be proud if.
gathering all the materials and boosts takes a while, but this definitely works and i used this method myself, thanks!
A quick little note:
- if you are married rent an inn room or send the spouse away during the leveling process( just tell him/her to move somewhere else away from your materials), this is because the lover stone does not stack with lover's confort sleeping bonus
- Sleeping bonus is forfeit once you become a Werewolf, if you want to keep werewolf status forget sleeping, BUT if you have Dawnguard or Skyrim Special Edition, you can cure yourself, do the leveling and then ask Aela to turn you into a werewolf again
- To cure Lycantrophy there are two ways, one is the Companions Quest line (the very end once you cured Kodlak and the Twins), or follow Dawnguard's qustline to become a Vampire Lord
Tip: if you still haven't got enchanting to level 100 yet keep the upgraded bows and enchant it this will it more valuable and also leveling enchanting too
Thanks for this video dude, it made getting to 100 super easy!
Saying bye to Katria always hurts a little.
Thank you so very much! I was looking for a way without exploits or glitches.
Really excellent guide plus that ending is hilarious.
I remember using the resto pot glitch to do this,when I did it i felt sad, I literally cheated something that when playing normally takes hours to get, so now I don't use the glitch anymore, but your method.
The what method?
Mirmulnir: I MAY BE THE FIRST DRAGON IN THE GAME BUT I CAN STILL KICK YOUR A-...
*sees an Argonian in full Daedric armor holding a Daedric battleaxe jump off the fucking Western Watchtower and run towards him*
Thank you, Dark Souls.
I love how all of us exploit haters go through all of this pain to feel the accomplishment of not cheating. It's pain, but it's good pain baby. Great tutorial!!
you know it lol
Yeah if ur just gonna exploit might aswell just open console
Just followed this guide and got lvl 100 smithing in ab 5 hours on and off. Great Guide
Thanks im stuck in smithing level 95 this guide looks very helpful for me
The way I like to do it is a mix between smithing gold rings, iron daggers, and training with Balimund great vid though!
Epic intro just subed btw im watching this on September 15 2019 lol 😊
6:39 That’s Gonna Hurt
Finally a good guide.
I really hate exploits and glitches, i prefer to play instead of abussing game mechanics
I don't want to invest the point along the heavy path of smithing but the ancient knowledge and crown are good to know about, thank you.
Edit: Oh come on you need dawnguard for this quest.
Lol
"The perks that matter first which would be heavy armour" Ha Ha like the light deathbrand armour more
This video is awsome, you are freaking hilarious. Got my sub man.
I just learned about the aetherium wars quest like a month ago and thought about this. Then today I see that someone thought of it in 2017 lol.
This guide is good, infact it is one of the best i have seen so far. It requires so much damn work though hahaha
Thank you so much, can’t even describe how much it helped me
That intro killcam is the 2nd coolest in the game
Sell all that bows and giving for free makes the speech higher and legendary difficulty will make this more challenging. Nice vid.
These are great quests to prepare for levelling up Smithing, but I'd probably get a few levels under my belt before doing them, especially on Legendary Difficulty. I really enjoy the Aetherium quest although it's long. It's obviously great for levelling every skill, since you can have both the Lover Stone and a Guardian Stone of your choice active. The Ancient Knowledge passive ability is so bugged - both effects are not what the description says. However, both bugs are better than the description, anyway.
I guess it's an exploit but i call it a feature. When your follower is full up, drop something and ask them to "do something" then make them pick up the thing. Preferrably after it's a stack so it's faster, but they dont stop "doing something" until you exit out of ordering them. They can do that without carry weight constraints and taking things Out of their inventory is no problem. Clear three dwarven ruins in a row. That'll do ya. But again, your opinion on glitch or feature.
For safe free storage otherwise. If you mine at embershard mine or halted stream camp, pick up a woodsman axe. Chop wood. Give to the Bannered Mare inkeep. The guest room dresser and end table are now safe storage and bed is always free and always well rested, because you're disposition with the inn is "friend." No stolen markers, if it says they are it's lying. Pick it up. It will not have the stolen tag.
You can just dash-n-dip place the lexicon in the Deepest Fathoms quest. No need to fight the centurion, especially if you play on legendary.
This is the way to start legendary-ing your smithing. It's silly to say this is the easy way because you might as well get at least steel armor and weapons and get to level 22 smithing to make it exquisite before you go to the *dwarven ruins* and fight Centurions without an ounce of smithing done. You really want to buy or find steel armor? Or take that hammer and steam damage unarmored? Yikes. Go hit up embershard. Then Pinewatch north of Lakeview Manor plot has tons of corrundum in their bandit home basement. Clearing the place also gets you potion loot to sell, to buy iron for later too.
There's also the fact that if you deliberately don't clear every enemy AND ore in a place, it respawns in 10 days not 30.
Major slack attack knows how to do it better ;) for your first bit of smithing the ancient knowledge and aethereal crown is totally unnecessary! And dangerous to do that without even a BIT of smithing. Maybe after smithing level 60 when it gets slower and you're wearing orcish (bilegulch mine is in the northwest of falkreath hold, the orcish stronghold on the road south out of markarth stables also has an oricalchum mine.) You can look up where the Last Scabbard of Akrash is out of Riften passed the black briar lodge, two minutes on a horse and all orcs are cool with you after you give the book to the smith in Markarth.
You really want to become orcfriend anyways, because once you get smithing to 100 then sure you could fight for raven rock mine, the 2nd biggest ebony mine that tends to love glitching out on you on the switch... or you could get on to Gloombelly Mine in the stronghold east of Windhelm, and only fight three patches of exploding oil for your torches. Get the candlelight spell, it's 300g max, so sell two dwarven bows you made. No contest! Full arms and armor up!
Then whichever mine you went to, go to the other one once you have 6 to 8 daedric hearts, depending on if you are a one or two hander and if you want a bow. If yes to the bow, extra is always good to get arrows, but I tend to go dragonbone for those seeing as daedric hearts cost so much and are a pain to track down and all, while you naturally acquire plenty of dragonbone normally playing.
For armor i tend to pick daedric over dragonbone. Either way you beat the armor cap, and the speech intimidation bonus is fun to use.
Once your smithing is just sitting at 100, if you buy up ebony ingots and make bows to improve, its decent profit if you have amulet of zenithar and blessing of charity for the beggar's dollar. VERY profitable if you get some good fortify smithing gear, and or potions. (You'll start bartering to sell them, merchants dont carry that much cash. But there is your speech levels! Get the merchant perk quick!)
Skyrim can be fun.
Btw guys you can sell all the bows you made in the warmaiden shop next to the forge
This is the best tutorial ever, keep doing videos!!
It was really tempting doing the easy exploits, but I'm not about that life
Edit: Ended up with 878 dwarven ingots lol
Finally!! A legit guide and not just another resto pot exploit!! Thanks!!
Your voice is pretty relaxing.
bruh your commentary is funny af. and good info, thanks and liked :)
When I upgrade the dwarven bows on the grindstone I get a message saying I need to increase my smithing or something like that and I have to pay the black smith.