Yeeeeeaaaaaahhhhh I know i messed up spelling Midas now the whole internet has to tell me lol, Tis the rules 😅 EDIT To all the comments saying "how have you never heard of this?" I dont know what to tell you other than: I'm sorry? I never claimed to have created this method only gave it a cool name and shared it with yall as TODAY nobody talks about anymore or how you can combine it with enchanting and alchemy. I never really tried to do these kinds of methods in my hundreds of other playthroughs over the years and just discovered it recently myself when messing around so i thought id make a video on my process and i didn't lie when i say that I myself haven't heard of anyone talking about this method as no ones told me about it and ive never personally watched a video mentioning it before. And im not alone apparently as other people are just discovering this through my short sooooo idk what to tell ya other than thanks for the engagement i suppose 🤷♂️
“Carry weight” always gave an absurd increase to monetary value. Plus, if I recall correctly, the higher the monetary value of the enchantment, the more experience it would give you anyway.
I remember watching my grandpa play Skyrim before I even got my hands on the game, he’d just sit in whiterun using transmute for what seemed like hours, he also eventually leveled up enough to where he could one punch frost trolls😂, I miss him
@@svenlauke1190 He literally said “he **also**” which does change something because it makes your comment irrelevant. He didn’t say that levelling up non combat skills levels increases damage at all.
Don't forget silver ore, the step between iron and gold. It's a bit tedious because you have to keep dropping your silver ore to not convert it (unless you have a mod; I don't know if they patched it in the recent rereleases) but more common gems like garnet and amethyst slot into silver, so this lets you level up your smithing, clear your inventory, and make a huge profit.
@@nicholausstevens1262Faster but not more profitable though. As an enchanted silver ring with a jewel slotted in sells for more than an enchanted plain gold ring and the jewel separately. The only advantage to selling the cheap jewels separately aside from time is a sligh increase to speech craft.
There are some mods that change transmute to prioritize iron ore over silver to fix this problem. Im not sure but I don't think its fixed in vanilla, not sure about the unofficial patch.
I downloaded the immersive jewelry mod and it has made transmute ore a useless spell because the spell doesn't recognize the new versions of iron and silver ore even tho they have the same base ids.
I generally find turning them into dwarven arrows is far better smithing xp, makes them weightless and good to sell. The only down side is you have to cut wood for ages. Using the follower infinite carry weight exploit lets you clear entire dwarven ruins for usually 400-500 bars. I usually follow this strat to get the level needed for dwarven smithing perk though.
@@aleshanevzor7147 if you put items in a chest or container (bodies don't count) and tell your follower to loot it, they can carry an infinite amount of stuff. You can pretty much pick every single thing in a dungeon and bring it out in 1 trip.
Bro, this is probably the most lore breaking spell I've ever seen. In a world where pretty much anybody could use magic, and the universal currency is gold having a spell like this is like giving a money printer to every single kid once they start school
@@MrIrishpunk Nah man, but you can magicka drain every single person, and in character creation which ever race you pick you'll always start with at least 100 magicka. That's the only requirement you need for magic in this game. That and a book. And since it cost like 88ma. or something like that, it means that every single person can cast it.
Skyrim region was supposed to be larger, so magic adepts and supernatural creatures didn’t appear so common as they are. Pretty much every cliff side has a cave with a bunch of vampires and/or necromancers lol
i honestly end up doing this almost every playthrough lmao people always talk about stealth archery and it makes me think of this - this is my stealth archery
Screw "stealth archery" and "potion/cheese spam," I max temper + enchant my heavy armor and big thwacking sticks. Throw in a few heals and fireballs for extra greatness.
Mine too, i really stop myself rushing this spell and mine all the mines on the way😅 with ordinator perks its hard not to use the busted alterationtree
I didn't think of using that spell, but I do use the rest of it, using ore and ingots to make weapons and armor for smithing, enchanting it for enchantment, then selling said weapons for Speechcraft. I started doing this with a file where I'm playing as an Orc that only punches foes or shoots arrows, as well as sometimes healing with magic and shouting the enemy to charred pieces.
Wouldn't really call this a cheesing method though, you're just playing the game as intended.. The alchemy/enchanting loop is an actual cheesing method(also a major glitch I'm guessing the people who playtested never bothered to try anything like that..)
@lololollololol629 I remember being able to rack up an insane amount of Septims and experience pretty quickly and it felt very cheesy at the time. I'm not sure if they patched any of it or not, so maybe it's not as bad as it once was.
@@lololollololol629I think you misunderstand what cheesing means. It doesn't mean you use glitches. For example, in Dark Souls, there are plenty of ways to kill bosses super easy with no glitches, those are still examples of cheesing the game. This method is definitely a cheese method, even if it is intended gameplay.
True but due to how efficient people are with skill points now due to this game being out for years it doesn't really matter. Plus enemies have a limit to how high they level with you the only enemy that will endlessly level with you is the magic ananomly
Goodness this comment makes me feel old. Remembering that not only has it been over a decade since Skyrim but also that those who would can barely pass the minimum age requirement for the game are now adults.
It's been so long since I did this but traveling passes time yes? I seem to remember doing a town loop then doing a high value mining loop then coming back and it being reset. Bonus points if some of your mines are caves so you can kill and get hit a bit so your armor and weapon skill keep up better.
Well if you fast travel to cities that are far away from each other, and visit every city that has shops you can sell too, you can make it to where 7 days goes by In-Game by the time you come back to the 1st city. Example Start in Falkreath Then go Winterhold Then Whiterun Then Morthal Then Windhelm Then Markarth Then Riften Then Solitude And Back to Falkreath Where it's been more than 7 days and you don't have to reload or wait for the refresh Choosing to fast travel to far away cities increases the In-Game time passed after fast traveling. Instead of fast traveling to the next nearest city.
@kylezierow5492 suprisingly I've seen a lot of comments from people (like myself) who didn't use it like this till recently. Sure the smithing part is common knowledge (its litteraly the point of the spell) but combining it with enchanting and alchemy is what sets this apart
I remember discovering this on my first playthrough. I spent HOURS mining, buying and then transmuting hundreds of iron ore into gold, making jewelry, enchanting it and selling it. Love this spell, for any build!
I remember finding and going nuts with my main thief build early on. Really put my gold pouch to work, I was rich BEFORE I stole everyone's valuables 😂
If the game had a system that made the economy fluctuate depending on supply and demand, The Dragonborn could singlehandedly make Gold go from Expensive to Worthless In no time (also yes, I use this whenever I level up Smithing and want a decent amount of Septims quickly) Also It's funny that TH-cam thinks Smithing Is wrong and wants me to change It to Smiting
For that, you would actually need a working game that is not broken as soon as you finally wake up and shoot up into the stars because the wagon you are on bumps on something.
That was actually a planned system to implement before release iirc, and things like lumber mills were also allegedly planned to play a role in these economic ecosystems.
There is such a thing as "too much". Games tend to get less fun when you start to add a ton of realistic details and mechanics. Of course, fun is subjective. What one person enjoys may be different than another.
Issue is that gold is essentially worthless in game. It’s so easy to accumulate more than you will ever need and if you do ever need some quick you’re limited by the npcs available money
That’s why people role play with it. I play thieves a lot too much infact when I role play as a thief, I hold on to every gem I get and then at the end of my save I sell all of them and see how much I have. It’s fun tho to role play as the richest person ever.
Sometimes when I decide I have too much money I will literally start putting random amounts in random barrels in whatever town I'm in. I once tossed a quarter million gold on the floor in front of the orphanage in riften. I like to imagine that basically set the orphanage for decades to come. And before anyone asks yes I ended that specific bitch before I did so.
And if you're naming after King Midas, the one who turned things into gold via touch, you may want to not call it "Midus". But yeah, this is everyone's go-to when they get the transmute spell, I can't say I have ever produced silver weapons via this method and have only gone on to make and enchant jewelry.
I wrote this entire process in several comments sections back in the day cus no one would do it but i really dont think hes stolen this, just all of us have the same strat cus its pretty obvious.
This is my go to method for building a battle mage. If you complete barenziahs crown for the thieves guild you’ll find gems way more often and it makes creating jewelry much easier
Some additional tips for this; Buy iron ore from every blacksmith that you can fast travel to and deposit it in a player home or hand it to a companion until you're out of space. Equip transmutation in each hand. You can rapidly cast transmutation alternating between left and right hand casting. You'll double the amount of transmutations per session. Make sure to enchant/buy some gear with increased Magicka so that you can cast more transmutations before running out of Magicka. Once you run out of Magicka, take a one hour rest. It's much faster than waiting for your Magicka to regen. Collect gemstones anytime you see them at a general store or when looting. They can be used to smith even more valuable jewelry. Pay attention though, only some can be used in gold jewelry. Keep a companion and a pet with an inventory by your side. You can stock up on more iron ore & jewelry during the process. Alteration's "Adept Alteration" perk is a must!
Man I just love the implementation of crafting in Skyrim. I've been slipping on it for a very long time, being super bored and never finished a single playthrough but now with a fresh mindset of just immersing myself in the world and the gameplay mechanics the game has totally grown on me immensely. I'm 16 hours in on my new playthrough and am still in Whiterun just doing silly magic stuff
I spent a playthrough doing this while living in Whiterun and RP’ing as a journeyman enchanter - going out to collect materials in order to pay for mead and food at the tavern. It was a very chill playthrough.
Did this in survival mode but as a hunter/explorer, hunting animals for food and gold, camping in the woods, clearing dungeons and selling it all for food and room and ale at the tavern, and ill move from tavern to tavern, just vibing fr
@alejandrovillares8571 the alternate start mod makes this a non factor. Would definitely recommend. I was able to do several playthroughs where I was literally never the dragonborn.
@@Mr.Skdoodlethis method is much fun - i was everything, from forsworn outcast, over zombiehunter, assassin and witcher up to that orc that claimed the big hammer from his god, to smash evil
You should also mention that it is easy to find. Near the northern watchtower behind Whiterun is a bandit cave ( the one where you easily find early game Mammoth tusks) on the desk of the bandit chief
A truly one of a kind spell to come out in an elderscrolls series game legit all other games before hand they allowed you to make custom spells but the one game they don’t allow you to do that in they lock in hard for the visual effects,mechanics,and types granted they lack the vastness of the many schools of magic the previous games once had and the ability to absolutely break your game testing out the many different effects each spell had to offer along with finding out game breaking bugs within them via custom spells it really shows how far and vast the mind of Todd Howard and the likes of the teams that worked on these games over the years really put into making a generic Bethesda titled game like elderscrolls or fallout feel like a trip down memory lane I just wish they would stop remastering Skyrim and instead try remastering the older fallout and elderscrolls games
This has been my go to method for leveling up my smithing for a few years. It was a big game changer from spending a ton of money and making iron daggers
Didn't like it when they reduced iron dagger experience. If they offered immersive alternatives to level, it would be fine, but they only increased the grind
This has been a method in the game for years. My brother and I were doing this ten years ago, I think he’s the one who actually came up with this strategy. He probably saw me smithing a bunch of iron daggers and thought that was dumb so we started transmuting gold, making jewelry, enchanting that jewelry, then selling it, leveling up multiple skills at once. If you add alchemy into the mix you can become incredibly overpowered with enchanting without any glitches
This is exactly how I power levelled and got my gold to buy the shop back like 10 years ago. Never really would have thought about calling this a technique. Rather just the smart way of doing it.
@@infinitybreak4459you must have just started playing Skyrim because this is one of the most common ways to level up smiting. This is a super well known meta as witnessed by no one being surprised by this in the comment section.
@@infinitybreak4459bit of advice get some gear to reduce alteration spell cost so you can transmute more ore without having to wait an hour between every cast
Having enough valuable stuff to sell has never been a problem. The merchants having enough money to buy any of my stuff is a problem Like I need to unload 300lbs of enchanted armor and weapons but they run out of money after I sell them like 2 soul gems and a few potions.😢
I've always run up to that camp to snag that tome on EVERY.. SINGLE.. PLAYTHROUGH. Just having easy access to making a boatload of gold early on is really nice. Transmute, Smelt, Blacksmith.
Yup, you can also uae items like vokun and clavicus masque to net even more gold. It's also a great way to power level mage skills with trainers. Since most trainers at the College of winterholdare also vendors, you can train with them for money, and then sell all that enchanted jewelry to them (preferably equipped with a fortify barter item/potion) to get your money back, rinse and repeat. You can get to level 30 in a few hours.
It's part of one of the oldest exploits in Skyrim. The only things missing/off are 1. Alchemy encouragement 2. Swap the enchantment potion for restoration potion. Enchantment gets a big buff from restoration buff potions. It's the exploit that let's you get weapons with max damage and max powered enchantments
i figured this out in my first playthrough. only issue i had was finding iron since i wasnt good at memorizing things. now that i know theres only four mines worth doing and they respawn 30 days after being harvested last, well smithing training just means alot of naptime.
@@mrtoast244 i also try to avoid glitches that arent explainable within the game. so basically i only use the restoration glitch cause its literally just the potion doing its job
@@pulsefel9210 I mean, the alternative is waiting 2 days every time you buy iron. Which isn't an exploit or a glitch, but is just a more time consuming way of doing the same thing. For things like this I'm fine with exploits personally. Also the restoration loop is crazy and way more of an exploit than resetting shops lol
I've been using this method for 6 or seven years now. Transmute is always the first spell I go for when I get to Whiterun. The fact that it's so close and it's found in a mining camp packed with iron ore makes it a great starter spell to boost exp in the beginning of the game. The only down side is you need to make sure you have the magic to cast it.
They need to make a mod where i can turn gold ingots directly into septiums so i dont get under cut by the vendors. (You forgot to mention the speech exp for selling all the stuff you make!)
So for anyone who doesn't know where to find the Transmute Ore spell book it is located at Halted Stream Count, just north of Whiterun and near Silent Moons Camp.
The problem with this pitfall is it levels up so many things aside from stuff that will help you in combat. Every level you gain, enemies are constantly scaling. And you find yourself quickly overpowered if you over do it.
True but thing is really powerfull gear will start spawning too in dungeons and with vendors. Stuff like ebony, glass, ect and with these you will stand a decent chance against higher level enemies
@@infinitybreak4459and you can just enchant your custom smithed and improved armor with health boosts etc. To handle and or compensate for low combat skills
Smithing is probably the best skill to have in combat it increases and negates dmg meanwhile dmg focused trees have a slower dmg growth and armor trees take forever to lvl unless you abuse healing magic against weak enemys
I use this spell in every playthrough of Skyrim I do I'll never forget when a friend that introduced me to the game showed me this spell we use to watch each other play the game all the time sadly he passed away in 2019 I made a very powerful build as a tribute to him with the last character race he used I'm itching to recreate it and possibly make it better in the anniversary edition when I get a chance to play it again unfortunately due to some recent events I can't play any games at the moment
I've always used that spell. Transmute iron to silver then to gold ore. Smelt the gold and craft jewelry. It's a process I've used in every play through.
The transmute down is like one of THE FIRST things i do in Skyrim when i make a new character lol. I leave Helgen, hit EVERY SINGLE IRON MINE on my way to Riverwood then whiterun then north to the coast and west all the way to solitude (solitude is great for earning tons of gold quickly plus proudspire) and when I'm in solitude I'll transfer and Smith all the gold and silver jeweled rings and necklaces, or just straight up regular gold rings because they weigh less. Also really helps to have the sign of the steed for like triple the carry weight at low level, or you can go the mage stone for alteration xp.
Damn I didn’t know this, ty! I assumed the spell was useless lmao. My second play thru ever rn. Joined Tullius and the imperials on my first play thru as a lv 33 stealth ranger, didn’t even finish game and started a second play thru as a lv 22 battlemage (1h + spells + heavy) Having a blast. This game is amazing. Sad I didn’t experience it as a child but it is providing an amazing adult gaming experience
Aye bro if you need tips let me know cause I've mastered the Skyrim. Got the platinum the same year it came out back in 2011 and still play to this day and I've done literally everything Skyrim has to offer (minus mods and creation club content). I've played every character race and done every type of build imaginable. From busted Battle Mage to Ultimate Stealth build. Pickpocket combat, Pure Warrior, Pure Mage, fists only, pacifist run (when not killing is an option). I also know how to make weapons and armor so strong you can play on Legendary difficulty and not worry about enemies being bulky sponges or worry about dying in 1-2 hits. I also know much faster money making methods than this. Anything you want to know about Vanilla Skyrim I probably know it.
I’ve been using this since the game came out- I have recently started playing Skyrim again. Transmute and Muffle are two of my favorites to level up fast
I have a small critique: only, take the magic stone of the 1st three to max XP from the Spell. Then before you switch to smithing, change to the warrior stone. Takes a bit more time, but better if you want to min max XP gains. I love this method, been using it for years! ♡
I’ve been doing this for a LONG time. Also, I hunt which increases archery with a soul trap bow, to make leather and get gems. Then make straps at a 2-1 with the leather, and you make bracers (scout leather with C Club items) , enchant and sell for the a Conjuration-smithing-enchanting-speech level. I call the process level swinging as every step causing one thing to go up, then it swings to the next perk and the next. Mix this with your Midias method that I already use and you can power level everything. Alchemy is the hardest to add into this process but I find hunting gives me simple ingredients to spam create shitty potions. On survival mode I take the money loss and just over sell, buy and selling. On regular mode I just fast travel to multiple holds and make bank.
If I could make one change to the spell. Right handed cast turns iron to silver. Left handed cast turns silver to gold. It takes 2 ore to make an ingot. But as it is, the spell turns any silver you have into gold before going for the next iron. Meaning you need to drop the silver ore you have to get a second one transmuted. Sometimes you need Silver for something.
I figured out this method pretty early in my first playthrough way back in 2011 and figured it was pretty obvious, I mean what else would that spell even be for in all honesty, especially how close it's found to 2 major forges in Skyrim... it IS a Bethesda game after all lol. I've been genuinely shocked over the years every time this method is posted and seeing how few people actually ever figured it out, always glad to see it pop up again as it is the number one method to mass level all your crafts in unison
Well, I'm glad someone finally gave it a name and put it out on the web. That Iron mine became one of my first stops on any playthrough after I discovered that spell.
i also like to use a different trick i found out: in any Dwarven/Dwemer ruin, you will find lots of item called "large dwemer plate metal", "small dwemer plate metal", and "bent dwemer scrap metal". take any of those to a smelter, and you can make them into Dwemer Bars, which you can use to make Dwemer weapons and armor. but most of those ALSO require iron, so i usually just make lots of Dwemer Arrows. this also works with "large dwemer strut", "large decorative dwemer strut", and "solid dwemer metal", BUT, those are very heavy, so i usually ignore them. the "solid metal" has a weight of 25 and only produces 5 bars when smelted...
The best spell is harmony, the master level illusion spell that causes all nearby hostiles to become calm. The range is huge and the duration is long, so you can cast it once and explore an entire dungeon before it wears off.
I do this method all the time but I also add in the No Stone Left Unturned reward so all of the little urns in a ruin have gems in them so your smithing experience way faster and your sales become more profitable using less carry weight the added value from the gemstones lets you strait up buy the soul gems for the enchanting because most mages who sell soul gems also buy enchanted jewelry my pattern is #1 Buy all iron ore in a town. #2 Spend all magica transmuting as much to gold as possible. #3 Repeat steps one and two until carry weight becomes an issue. #4 Smelt all gold into bars. #5 Forge all gold into the highest value jewelry possible using gems found from Stones quest perk. #6 enchant all jewelry with whatever soul gems are on hand #7 Sell all jewelry to a mage and purchase all soul gems in stock #8 Fill empty soul gems in a random dungeon looting urns to restock gemstones. #9 Use profits to purchase alchemy ingredients for enchanting potions (This can often be combined with #7) #10 Repeat.
Aye. This became a core part of all my playthroughs the moment I discovered the location of the spell tome. This would always be one of the first things I'd do in a playthrough. Now My character is always like like level 20 something and able to make ebony armor for himself and his followers.
I’m doing my first true Skyrim run, expert survival and 2 handed weapons, and this is the first run I’ve ever found the transmute spell and I absolutely love it, it’s a game changer.
When the vendors eventually run out of gold to sell your now enchanted jewelry… back out of the store menu and make a save. Then hit the vendor with a weapon and reload your save… *voilà* their entire inventory, including their gold, gets reset which increases your speech skill even more
Yes, this spell helped me so much & makes it worth playing again knowing i dont have to cheat the game & brings the grind down alot to help staying motivated to continue the game. Definitely helps out
Don’t forget fortify alchemy glitch paired with the transmute spell is otherworldly. Anytime I start a new character, first few hours are getting the necessary supplies to become OP.
This is literally how I have been grinding smithing and enchanting. Bonus fact, banish dadra enchantment is the most valuable enchantment for weapons, and showes up at vendors at level 23 I believe
Whenever I start a long term playthrough I always start it off by geting Transmute Mineral Ore and completing the Stones of Barenziah quest to get the invisible perk that gives TONS of gems, that perk will drop multiple gems into pretty much every single container and we all know that there are way too many of the Burial Urns in any ruin and now they drop multiple gems with a high rate of flawless specimens that are perfect to make high value jewelry that give tons of EXP
This was good before the homesteads. Now you level speech by buying stuff to build, level smithing by crafting build materials, level alchemy by having three gardens and greenhouses. My cheese to boost alteration is now spam oakflesh in combat till level 50 alteration. Get paralyze rune at 50, spam that plus levelling sneak, pickpocket and combat skills
Ive been "done" with skyrim for a long time now, after I got every achievement and gathered every unique weapon and armor, did every unique quest... I can jump back in anytime, ready for a new role playing adventure. But I still dont think Id beeline for this method, rather I think Ill still end up using the good ol' restoration loop. Works on console.
I find that Gold Rings are the best thing to craft with this method. For 1 Gold Ingot, you get 150 Septims worth of items and that levels you up faster. Plus, no jewels needed
This has been something I've always done in my mage and misc playthroughs in Skyrim, often avoiding it in my say warrior playthrough just to stick with the character theme.
literally the first thing I do when arriving at White Run for the first time: Get a little gear, go to the cave which contains the spell, and start transmuting. Easy way to get high level, I once entered white run with level 4 and left with level 20 in a matter of minutes, I just saved iron from before, bought iron from Eorlund and Adrianne, transmuted, made jewelry, enchanted and sold and then I bought new materials which now could be smithed with since I got the necessary levels for two more materials, and then enchanted this new weaponry/armor and sold, and of course kept the ones I was going to use. No exploits involved and I got to level 20 in like 15 minutes
Yup I do this too. It's been a while since I've played Skyrim, but I'm pretty sure you can also get this spell tome for free very early on in the game.
My favorite enchantment to put on jewelry when doing this is water breathing, because it doesnt matter what size soul gem you use, you get the same exact enchantment, thus its just as valuable as if you used a grand gem
Duuuude nice. I've done this on my last few playthroughs. I used to do the typical iron daggers/leather armor route until I found this. I haven't seen anyone else talk about it. Props man 👍
It's a nice idea and I've done it even on my first play of the game. The reality is you will end up with a ton of enchanted jewellery that you cannot sell off because nobody has that much gold to buy it off of you. Still worth doing it for the skills and character XP plus whatever gold you can get.
Yeeeeeaaaaaahhhhh I know i messed up spelling Midas now the whole internet has to tell me lol, Tis the rules 😅
EDIT
To all the comments saying "how have you never heard of this?" I dont know what to tell you other than: I'm sorry?
I never claimed to have created this method only gave it a cool name and shared it with yall as TODAY nobody talks about anymore or how you can combine it with enchanting and alchemy.
I never really tried to do these kinds of methods in my hundreds of other playthroughs over the years and just discovered it recently myself when messing around so i thought id make a video on my process and i didn't lie when i say that I myself haven't heard of anyone talking about this method as no ones told me about it and ive never personally watched a video mentioning it before.
And im not alone apparently as other people are just discovering this through my short sooooo idk what to tell ya other than thanks for the engagement i suppose 🤷♂️
Aktchuwally.... His name was proto-greek so it wouldn't even be in the same alphabet lol
@@dmitritelvanni4068 xD
Lol 🤣🤣 i was thinking whoever that midus was I'll have to look him up-see what other methods he got 🤣🤣
You admit your mistake. You are forgiven.
I dont use this method i just make iron daggers XD
Just remember, while you do all this, the drauger are training...
That's true... They scale based on your level and not your combat skills
@@dashua1735Fortify alchemy potion loop and its no problem. 100000000+ damage fork.
@@nediAW and ruin the fun of skyrim (what little there is)?
@@declicitous1763 .
@@declicitous1763what little there is? Cmon bruh this is one of the most fun games ever made
Whiterun has received its shipment of 57 gold waterbreathing rings as of this morning
Lol they just received 323 total silver rings with 30-40% Magicka regeneration from me. If only the Nords were open to magic.
They’re getting a lot of sneak from me
Whiteruns got the best navy now.
If you can get lucky around level 25 and find the “Banish” enchantment, that provide tons of levels and the most money to sell.
“Carry weight” always gave an absurd increase to monetary value.
Plus, if I recall correctly, the higher the monetary value of the enchantment, the more experience it would give you anyway.
I remember in my day, all we did was craft thousands of iron daggers 🗡
Still do.
@user-in1ms3ny3r a waste without mods on today's skyrim build (pc at least)
I used leather brace, bcs i always kill deer, fox, wolf to get leather
sure, grandpa, let's get you to bed
@@plaguenplay3516😂😂😂
I remember watching my grandpa play Skyrim before I even got my hands on the game, he’d just sit in whiterun using transmute for what seemed like hours, he also eventually leveled up enough to where he could one punch frost trolls😂, I miss him
@@svenlauke1190hey dork he never said he didn’t level up combat abilities
@@svenlauke1190 Yeah goofball he said ",he also eventually"
@@svenlauke1190 you just want a kiss don't you?
@@svenlauke1190 He literally said “he **also**” which does change something because it makes your comment irrelevant. He didn’t say that levelling up non combat skills levels increases damage at all.
Your grandpa sounded like great man😢
Don't forget silver ore, the step between iron and gold. It's a bit tedious because you have to keep dropping your silver ore to not convert it (unless you have a mod; I don't know if they patched it in the recent rereleases) but more common gems like garnet and amethyst slot into silver, so this lets you level up your smithing, clear your inventory, and make a huge profit.
Nah it's still faster to just turn it all to gold and spam regular gold rings. Then slap Fortify Sneak on them to turn the best profit.
@@nicholausstevens1262Faster but not more profitable though. As an enchanted silver ring with a jewel slotted in sells for more than an enchanted plain gold ring and the jewel separately.
The only advantage to selling the cheap jewels separately aside from time is a sligh increase to speech craft.
There are some mods that change transmute to prioritize iron ore over silver to fix this problem. Im not sure but I don't think its fixed in vanilla, not sure about the unofficial patch.
@@nicholausstevens1262damn really? Gotta try it, I will say that's fucked it'll break my immersion but I can't help myself😭
I downloaded the immersive jewelry mod and it has made transmute ore a useless spell because the spell doesn't recognize the new versions of iron and silver ore even tho they have the same base ids.
I've always used the "go into dwarven ruins and bring out 800 dwarven ingots to turn them all into bows" strat for smithing, but this is cooler
That's a great way to level smithing too, with the downside of requiring the Dwarven Smithing perk.
I generally find turning them into dwarven arrows is far better smithing xp, makes them weightless and good to sell. The only down side is you have to cut wood for ages.
Using the follower infinite carry weight exploit lets you clear entire dwarven ruins for usually 400-500 bars.
I usually follow this strat to get the level needed for dwarven smithing perk though.
Yeah, large dwemer struts fill your and your companion's inventories 😅
@@hammertime9183nice strategy 👏 but where do you get 500 bars?
@@aleshanevzor7147 if you put items in a chest or container (bodies don't count) and tell your follower to loot it, they can carry an infinite amount of stuff. You can pretty much pick every single thing in a dungeon and bring it out in 1 trip.
Bro, this is probably the most lore breaking spell I've ever seen. In a world where pretty much anybody could use magic, and the universal currency is gold having a spell like this is like giving a money printer to every single kid once they start school
Not really. When you consider how many people reside in skyrim and how few show any use of magic.
@@MrIrishpunk Nah man, but you can magicka drain every single person, and in character creation which ever race you pick you'll always start with at least 100 magicka. That's the only requirement you need for magic in this game. That and a book. And since it cost like 88ma. or something like that, it means that every single person can cast it.
@@EVeljko Game mechanics are not indicative of actual lore. It's just like spell tomes disappearing when you read them.
@@astuteanansi4935actually if you do it in 3rd person you can see your character throw it behind their shoulder.
Skyrim region was supposed to be larger, so magic adepts and supernatural creatures didn’t appear so common as they are. Pretty much every cliff side has a cave with a bunch of vampires and/or necromancers lol
Bro discovered an in game feature that tons of people use and decided to name it. Wild
i honestly end up doing this almost every playthrough lmao
people always talk about stealth archery and it makes me think of this - this is my stealth archery
Screw "stealth archery" and "potion/cheese spam," I max temper + enchant my heavy armor and big thwacking sticks. Throw in a few heals and fireballs for extra greatness.
Don't forget pickpocketing the master pickpocket trainer after training.
Mine too, i really stop myself rushing this spell and mine all the mines on the way😅 with ordinator perks its hard not to use the busted alterationtree
I did it once, and then after that, I just went to the secret hidden chests , ransacked them, and used Fortify restoration loop.
I didn't think of using that spell, but I do use the rest of it, using ore and ingots to make weapons and armor for smithing, enchanting it for enchantment, then selling said weapons for Speechcraft. I started doing this with a file where I'm playing as an Orc that only punches foes or shoots arrows, as well as sometimes healing with magic and shouting the enemy to charred pieces.
I think this has been a very common cheese method since release
Wouldn't really call this a cheesing method though, you're just playing the game as intended.. The alchemy/enchanting loop is an actual cheesing method(also a major glitch I'm guessing the people who playtested never bothered to try anything like that..)
@lololollololol629 I remember being able to rack up an insane amount of Septims and experience pretty quickly and it felt very cheesy at the time. I'm not sure if they patched any of it or not, so maybe it's not as bad as it once was.
@@lololollololol629I think you misunderstand what cheesing means. It doesn't mean you use glitches. For example, in Dark Souls, there are plenty of ways to kill bosses super easy with no glitches, those are still examples of cheesing the game. This method is definitely a cheese method, even if it is intended gameplay.
Not really common, the most common money making method ik of is [quick save], [stealing], then selling it back, rinse and repeat
Agreed. And yes this is very much cheesing.
Remember that when you do this, enemies get more powerful because they’re leveling up with you.
True but due to how efficient people are with skill points now due to this game being out for years it doesn't really matter.
Plus enemies have a limit to how high they level with you the only enemy that will endlessly level with you is the magic ananomly
I love seeing this being talked about!! I’ve been using this method for years 😁
I remember my child self being such a business man with this spell.
People: Why do you do that bro, so tedius...
You: I was a bisiness man, doig business.
Goodness this comment makes me feel old. Remembering that not only has it been over a decade since Skyrim but also that those who would can barely pass the minimum age requirement for the game are now adults.
Selling is a great idea until you hit every vendor in skyrim and have to wait a week 😂
fun fact, once you deplete a vendor's money do a save, murder the vendor, the reload the save. they are alive again and all their money is back.
It's been so long since I did this but traveling passes time yes? I seem to remember doing a town loop then doing a high value mining loop then coming back and it being reset. Bonus points if some of your mines are caves so you can kill and get hit a bit so your armor and weapon skill keep up better.
Well if you fast travel to cities that are far away from each other, and visit every city that has shops you can sell too, you can make it to where 7 days goes by In-Game by the time you come back to the 1st city.
Example
Start in Falkreath
Then go Winterhold
Then Whiterun
Then Morthal
Then Windhelm
Then Markarth
Then Riften
Then Solitude
And Back to Falkreath
Where it's been more than 7 days and you don't have to reload or wait for the refresh
Choosing to fast travel to far away cities increases the In-Game time passed after fast traveling. Instead of fast traveling to the next nearest city.
Yall...I've played skyrim since its release....you don't need to school me in the most basic, mundane stuff. I was just making a joke
Just reload your save bro.
Bro had me goin' until he said he's never heard anyone else talk about it. Literally we've all been doing it for more than a decade.
@kylezierow5492 suprisingly I've seen a lot of comments from people (like myself) who didn't use it like this till recently.
Sure the smithing part is common knowledge (its litteraly the point of the spell) but combining it with enchanting and alchemy is what sets this apart
I remember discovering this on my first playthrough. I spent HOURS mining, buying and then transmuting hundreds of iron ore into gold, making jewelry, enchanting it and selling it. Love this spell, for any build!
Yes, you get the spell at the bandit camp north of whiterun, I think it's on a table with ore if I remember correctly.
Halted Stream Camp
@@grandmarshallkingwolfman420 That's the one, THANKS
Every play though halted stream camp is my first stop after whiterun even before getting the dragon stone
@solalabell9674 yes, I have been using the midas technique for skill ups and money without knowing the method had a name.
I remember finding and going nuts with my main thief build early on. Really put my gold pouch to work, I was rich BEFORE I stole everyone's valuables 😂
If the game had a system that made the economy fluctuate depending on supply and demand, The Dragonborn could singlehandedly make Gold go from Expensive to Worthless In no time (also yes, I use this whenever I level up Smithing and want a decent amount of Septims quickly)
Also It's funny that TH-cam thinks Smithing Is wrong and wants me to change It to Smiting
For that, you would actually need a working game that is not broken as soon as you finally wake up and shoot up into the stars because the wagon you are on bumps on something.
@@Bartoc1988 Hey, It might be a broken mess, but It's a *fun* broken mess
That was actually a planned system to implement before release iirc, and things like lumber mills were also allegedly planned to play a role in these economic ecosystems.
There is such a thing as "too much". Games tend to get less fun when you start to add a ton of realistic details and mechanics.
Of course, fun is subjective. What one person enjoys may be different than another.
@@TaurusTheCrazyBull Thats true. I revisit the game once a year as well
i used this when i was younger and palyed the game around highschool. i realised this and it is infact an amazing way to level everything up
Iron -> Silver
Silver -> Gold
He left out that 1 detail
Issue is that gold is essentially worthless in game. It’s so easy to accumulate more than you will ever need and if you do ever need some quick you’re limited by the npcs available money
That’s why people role play with it. I play thieves a lot too much infact when I role play as a thief, I hold on to every gem I get and then at the end of my save I sell all of them and see how much I have. It’s fun tho to role play as the richest person ever.
Sometimes when I decide I have too much money I will literally start putting random amounts in random barrels in whatever town I'm in. I once tossed a quarter million gold on the floor in front of the orphanage in riften. I like to imagine that basically set the orphanage for decades to come. And before anyone asks yes I ended that specific bitch before I did so.
So you don't use the save n reload glitch to reset the merchants?
Not if you combine it with enchanting, and smithing 1000 gold rings with enchantments with net you more gold than you'll know what to do with
I never sell or use my gold to smith, I just accumulate it and so far I have over 250k+ in gold.
You cannot possibly convince me that you havent heard other people talk about this
Ive heard of the enchanting and alchemy part but never it starting with transmute
And if you're naming after King Midas, the one who turned things into gold via touch, you may want to not call it "Midus". But yeah, this is everyone's go-to when they get the transmute spell, I can't say I have ever produced silver weapons via this method and have only gone on to make and enchant jewelry.
It's the first thing i remember when it comes to smithing
I wrote this entire process in several comments sections back in the day cus no one would do it but i really dont think hes stolen this, just all of us have the same strat cus its pretty obvious.
@doughdeputy4449 thank you finnally someone who gets it!
This is my primary money making method in any given skyrim playthrough. I love the name you gave it though, I am all for it and will call it that :)
Awesome to see that the strategies I used back in 2011/12 are finally being appreciated 😂
One of my favorite things to do everytime I play Skyrim. Nice to see it getting the love it deserves.
Yeah but it’s not “the best spell”…. Cringe clickbait
This is my go to method for building a battle mage. If you complete barenziahs crown for the thieves guild you’ll find gems way more often and it makes creating jewelry much easier
Berenziah's Crown is always the first thing I do. I like swimming in jewels like Scrooge McDuck.
When fellow players ask what I'd like to have in the real world - that crown and a necklace of disease immunity
Some additional tips for this;
Buy iron ore from every blacksmith that you can fast travel to and deposit it in a player home or hand it to a companion until you're out of space.
Equip transmutation in each hand. You can rapidly cast transmutation alternating between left and right hand casting. You'll double the amount of transmutations per session.
Make sure to enchant/buy some gear with increased Magicka so that you can cast more transmutations before running out of Magicka.
Once you run out of Magicka, take a one hour rest. It's much faster than waiting for your Magicka to regen.
Collect gemstones anytime you see them at a general store or when looting. They can be used to smith even more valuable jewelry. Pay attention though, only some can be used in gold jewelry.
Keep a companion and a pet with an inventory by your side. You can stock up on more iron ore & jewelry during the process.
Alteration's "Adept Alteration" perk is a must!
Man I just love the implementation of crafting in Skyrim. I've been slipping on it for a very long time, being super bored and never finished a single playthrough but now with a fresh mindset of just immersing myself in the world and the gameplay mechanics the game has totally grown on me immensely. I'm 16 hours in on my new playthrough and am still in Whiterun just doing silly magic stuff
I spent a playthrough doing this while living in Whiterun and RP’ing as a journeyman enchanter - going out to collect materials in order to pay for mead and food at the tavern. It was a very chill playthrough.
I respect that
Did this in survival mode but as a hunter/explorer, hunting animals for food and gold, camping in the woods, clearing dungeons and selling it all for food and room and ale at the tavern, and ill move from tavern to tavern, just vibing fr
yeah, sadly out of nowhere you are chosen by the whitebeards and have to do a mandatory crazy quest to complete the playthrough :(
@alejandrovillares8571 the alternate start mod makes this a non factor. Would definitely recommend. I was able to do several playthroughs where I was literally never the dragonborn.
@@Mr.Skdoodlethis method is much fun - i was everything, from forsworn outcast, over zombiehunter, assassin and witcher up to that orc that claimed the big hammer from his god, to smash evil
You should also mention that it is easy to find. Near the northern watchtower behind Whiterun is a bandit cave ( the one where you easily find early game Mammoth tusks) on the desk of the bandit chief
Thank you, adventurer.
A truly one of a kind spell to come out in an elderscrolls series game legit all other games before hand they allowed you to make custom spells but the one game they don’t allow you to do that in they lock in hard for the visual effects,mechanics,and types granted they lack the vastness of the many schools of magic the previous games once had and the ability to absolutely break your game testing out the many different effects each spell had to offer along with finding out game breaking bugs within them via custom spells it really shows how far and vast the mind of Todd Howard and the likes of the teams that worked on these games over the years really put into making a generic Bethesda titled game like elderscrolls or fallout feel like a trip down memory lane I just wish they would stop remastering Skyrim and instead try remastering the older fallout and elderscrolls games
This has been my go to method for leveling up my smithing for a few years. It was a big game changer from spending a ton of money and making iron daggers
Didn't like it when they reduced iron dagger experience.
If they offered immersive alternatives to level, it would be fine, but they only increased the grind
Mr.crabs would have a frigging field day with this lol
There’s a Mr Krabs Mudcrab mod
@@SaintSkillet hold up, what?
@@thunderthug4190 there is a mod that changes all mudcrabs into Mr Krabs
@@SaintSkillet well, shiver me timbers...
😂😂😂
This has been a method in the game for years. My brother and I were doing this ten years ago, I think he’s the one who actually came up with this strategy. He probably saw me smithing a bunch of iron daggers and thought that was dumb so we started transmuting gold, making jewelry, enchanting that jewelry, then selling it, leveling up multiple skills at once. If you add alchemy into the mix you can become incredibly overpowered with enchanting without any glitches
This is exactly how I power levelled and got my gold to buy the shop back like 10 years ago. Never really would have thought about calling this a technique. Rather just the smart way of doing it.
I don’t know how you’ve never heard about this before this has been the “meta” way to play Skyrim since it came out
Yeah but no one talks about the way this spell can really kickstart it all
@@infinitybreak4459you must have just started playing Skyrim because this is one of the most common ways to level up smiting. This is a super well known meta as witnessed by no one being surprised by this in the comment section.
@@infinitybreak4459bit of advice get some gear to reduce alteration spell cost so you can transmute more ore without having to wait an hour between every cast
Having enough valuable stuff to sell has never been a problem. The merchants having enough money to buy any of my stuff is a problem Like I need to unload 300lbs of enchanted armor and weapons but they run out of money after I sell them like 2 soul gems and a few potions.😢
I've always run up to that camp to snag that tome on EVERY.. SINGLE.. PLAYTHROUGH. Just having easy access to making a boatload of gold early on is really nice. Transmute, Smelt, Blacksmith.
Yup, you can also uae items like vokun and clavicus masque to net even more gold. It's also a great way to power level mage skills with trainers. Since most trainers at the College of winterholdare also vendors, you can train with them for money, and then sell all that enchanted jewelry to them (preferably equipped with a fortify barter item/potion) to get your money back, rinse and repeat. You can get to level 30 in a few hours.
I love this technique. Been using it for ages. Pairs great with windstad mine mod
It's part of one of the oldest exploits in Skyrim. The only things missing/off are 1. Alchemy encouragement 2. Swap the enchantment potion for restoration potion. Enchantment gets a big buff from restoration buff potions. It's the exploit that let's you get weapons with max damage and max powered enchantments
I used to use this method and i think it's the fastest and easiest way to gain xp on smithing! Thank you for sharing!
i figured this out in my first playthrough. only issue i had was finding iron since i wasnt good at memorizing things. now that i know theres only four mines worth doing and they respawn 30 days after being harvested last, well smithing training just means alot of naptime.
*Quicksaves in front of Adrianne Avenicci*
@@mrtoast244 i also try to avoid glitches that arent explainable within the game. so basically i only use the restoration glitch cause its literally just the potion doing its job
@@pulsefel9210 I mean, the alternative is waiting 2 days every time you buy iron. Which isn't an exploit or a glitch, but is just a more time consuming way of doing the same thing. For things like this I'm fine with exploits personally. Also the restoration loop is crazy and way more of an exploit than resetting shops lol
@@mrtoast244 "A salesperson might get nervous... a man approaches with his finger on F5"
Midas: (mee-dus)
As for making money this way, only if the merchants have enough gold to trade back.
I’ve been doing this my most recent play through word for word, cool you figured it out too and shared.
I always used it for smithing, but I rarely enchant this jewelry. Usually it ends up in one of my houses 😂
Yea man this is a hella good strategy! First time I found that spell I couldn't believe they would add something so exploitable.
My go to method for making lots of money early in the game, thanks for spreading the word!
I've been using this method for 6 or seven years now. Transmute is always the first spell I go for when I get to Whiterun. The fact that it's so close and it's found in a mining camp packed with iron ore makes it a great starter spell to boost exp in the beginning of the game. The only down side is you need to make sure you have the magic to cast it.
They need to make a mod where i can turn gold ingots directly into septiums so i dont get under cut by the vendors. (You forgot to mention the speech exp for selling all the stuff you make!)
Isn't that forgery? 😂
This game will be talked about forever lol
So for anyone who doesn't know where to find the Transmute Ore spell book it is located at Halted Stream Count, just north of Whiterun and near Silent Moons Camp.
I used this technique before I even seen someone make a video on it, thought I was the only one doing this hahah glad to know I’m not alone 👍🏽👍🏽
The problem with this pitfall is it levels up so many things aside from stuff that will help you in combat. Every level you gain, enemies are constantly scaling. And you find yourself quickly overpowered if you over do it.
True but thing is really powerfull gear will start spawning too in dungeons and with vendors. Stuff like ebony, glass, ect and with these you will stand a decent chance against higher level enemies
@@infinitybreak4459and you can just enchant your custom smithed and improved armor with health boosts etc. To handle and or compensate for low combat skills
This isn't Oblivion
Smithing is probably the best skill to have in combat it increases and negates dmg meanwhile dmg focused trees have a slower dmg growth and armor trees take forever to lvl unless you abuse healing magic against weak enemys
I use this spell in every playthrough of Skyrim I do I'll never forget when a friend that introduced me to the game showed me this spell we use to watch each other play the game all the time sadly he passed away in 2019 I made a very powerful build as a tribute to him with the last character race he used I'm itching to recreate it and possibly make it better in the anniversary edition when I get a chance to play it again unfortunately due to some recent events I can't play any games at the moment
I've always used that spell.
Transmute iron to silver then to gold ore. Smelt the gold and craft jewelry.
It's a process I've used in every play through.
The transmute down is like one of THE FIRST things i do in Skyrim when i make a new character lol. I leave Helgen, hit EVERY SINGLE IRON MINE on my way to Riverwood then whiterun then north to the coast and west all the way to solitude (solitude is great for earning tons of gold quickly plus proudspire) and when I'm in solitude I'll transfer and Smith all the gold and silver jeweled rings and necklaces, or just straight up regular gold rings because they weigh less. Also really helps to have the sign of the steed for like triple the carry weight at low level, or you can go the mage stone for alteration xp.
Damn I didn’t know this, ty! I assumed the spell was useless lmao. My second play thru ever rn. Joined Tullius and the imperials on my first play thru as a lv 33 stealth ranger, didn’t even finish game and started a second play thru as a lv 22 battlemage (1h + spells + heavy)
Having a blast. This game is amazing. Sad I didn’t experience it as a child but it is providing an amazing adult gaming experience
First time I played skyrim i was like 12, today im 21 and still play it🤣🤣
Aye bro if you need tips let me know cause I've mastered the Skyrim. Got the platinum the same year it came out back in 2011 and still play to this day and I've done literally everything Skyrim has to offer (minus mods and creation club content). I've played every character race and done every type of build imaginable.
From busted Battle Mage to Ultimate Stealth build. Pickpocket combat, Pure Warrior, Pure Mage, fists only, pacifist run (when not killing is an option).
I also know how to make weapons and armor so strong you can play on Legendary difficulty and not worry about enemies being bulky sponges or worry about dying in 1-2 hits.
I also know much faster money making methods than this. Anything you want to know about Vanilla Skyrim I probably know it.
I’ve been using this since the game came out- I have recently started playing Skyrim again. Transmute and Muffle are two of my favorites to level up fast
Been playing skyrim for ages and never knew this, thanks man
I have a small critique: only, take the magic stone of the 1st three to max XP from the Spell. Then before you switch to smithing, change to the warrior stone. Takes a bit more time, but better if you want to min max XP gains.
I love this method, been using it for years! ♡
I’ve been doing this for a LONG time. Also, I hunt which increases archery with a soul trap bow, to make leather and get gems. Then make straps at a 2-1 with the leather, and you make bracers (scout leather with C Club items) , enchant and sell for the a Conjuration-smithing-enchanting-speech level. I call the process level swinging as every step causing one thing to go up, then it swings to the next perk and the next. Mix this with your Midias method that I already use and you can power level everything. Alchemy is the hardest to add into this process but I find hunting gives me simple ingredients to spam create shitty potions. On survival mode I take the money loss and just over sell, buy and selling. On regular mode I just fast travel to multiple holds and make bank.
If I could make one change to the spell.
Right handed cast turns iron to silver.
Left handed cast turns silver to gold.
It takes 2 ore to make an ingot. But as it is, the spell turns any silver you have into gold before going for the next iron. Meaning you need to drop the silver ore you have to get a second one transmuted.
Sometimes you need Silver for something.
I figured out this method pretty early in my first playthrough way back in 2011 and figured it was pretty obvious, I mean what else would that spell even be for in all honesty, especially how close it's found to 2 major forges in Skyrim... it IS a Bethesda game after all lol.
I've been genuinely shocked over the years every time this method is posted and seeing how few people actually ever figured it out, always glad to see it pop up again as it is the number one method to mass level all your crafts in unison
Well, I'm glad someone finally gave it a name and put it out on the web. That Iron mine became one of my first stops on any playthrough after I discovered that spell.
If only there was a skill tree focused on stamp collecting because that sounds just as fun
I’ve thought this for years. Best spell and easy to come by
i also like to use a different trick i found out:
in any Dwarven/Dwemer ruin, you will find lots of item called "large dwemer plate metal", "small dwemer plate metal", and "bent dwemer scrap metal".
take any of those to a smelter, and you can make them into Dwemer Bars, which you can use to make Dwemer weapons and armor.
but most of those ALSO require iron, so i usually just make lots of Dwemer Arrows.
this also works with "large dwemer strut", "large decorative dwemer strut", and "solid dwemer metal", BUT, those are very heavy, so i usually ignore them.
the "solid metal" has a weight of 25 and only produces 5 bars when smelted...
The best spell is harmony, the master level illusion spell that causes all nearby hostiles to become calm. The range is huge and the duration is long, so you can cast it once and explore an entire dungeon before it wears off.
It's pretty useful as long as you do a mage run. Bonus if you actually wanna get into Alteration with the caracter so skill points aren't wasted
I’ve been using that method since 2011. It’s by far the best method for farming gold without using exploits
I thought I was the only one, recently downloaded it again and having so much fun again
What I also love about it, jewelry is lightweight, so you can sell for top dollar with little concern for overencumberance.
I do this method all the time but I also add in the No Stone Left Unturned reward so all of the little urns in a ruin have gems in them so your smithing experience way faster and your sales become more profitable using less carry weight the added value from the gemstones lets you strait up buy the soul gems for the enchanting because most mages who sell soul gems also buy enchanted jewelry my pattern is
#1 Buy all iron ore in a town.
#2 Spend all magica transmuting as much to gold as possible.
#3 Repeat steps one and two until carry weight becomes an issue.
#4 Smelt all gold into bars.
#5 Forge all gold into the highest value jewelry possible using gems found from Stones quest perk.
#6 enchant all jewelry with whatever soul gems are on hand
#7 Sell all jewelry to a mage and purchase all soul gems in stock
#8 Fill empty soul gems in a random dungeon looting urns to restock gemstones.
#9 Use profits to purchase alchemy ingredients for enchanting potions (This can often be combined with #7)
#10 Repeat.
Yup, always hoard iron ores for a while then transmute it to gold, jewels level up your smithing so quick compared to anything else.
Aye. This became a core part of all my playthroughs the moment I discovered the location of the spell tome. This would always be one of the first things I'd do in a playthrough. Now My character is always like like level 20 something and able to make ebony armor for himself and his followers.
I use this method, and have been. It's great. Even if you pick up the spell and sit on it for awhile, letting yourself stockpile iron ore. It's great
I’m doing my first true Skyrim run, expert survival and 2 handed weapons, and this is the first run I’ve ever found the transmute spell and I absolutely love it, it’s a game changer.
When the vendors eventually run out of gold to sell your now enchanted jewelry… back out of the store menu and make a save. Then hit the vendor with a weapon and reload your save… *voilà* their entire inventory, including their gold, gets reset which increases your speech skill even more
man you are a genius 👏
thank you
Yes, this spell helped me so much & makes it worth playing again knowing i dont have to cheat the game & brings the grind down alot to help staying motivated to continue the game. Definitely helps out
My friend told me about it years ago and I’ve used it for every playthrough ever since.
I 100% have done exactly this, so good, the only issue i have is not enough magic per casting
Don’t forget fortify alchemy glitch paired with the transmute spell is otherworldly. Anytime I start a new character, first few hours are getting the necessary supplies to become OP.
This is literally how I have been grinding smithing and enchanting. Bonus fact, banish dadra enchantment is the most valuable enchantment for weapons, and showes up at vendors at level 23 I believe
Yeah I didn’t learn of this spell until multiple years after starting to play skyrim but it’s insanely useful
Whenever I start a long term playthrough I always start it off by geting Transmute Mineral Ore and completing the Stones of Barenziah quest to get the invisible perk that gives TONS of gems, that perk will drop multiple gems into pretty much every single container and we all know that there are way too many of the Burial Urns in any ruin and now they drop multiple gems with a high rate of flawless specimens that are perfect to make high value jewelry that give tons of EXP
This was good before the homesteads. Now you level speech by buying stuff to build, level smithing by crafting build materials, level alchemy by having three gardens and greenhouses.
My cheese to boost alteration is now spam oakflesh in combat till level 50 alteration. Get paralyze rune at 50, spam that plus levelling sneak, pickpocket and combat skills
Enchanting and smithing are the most important skills in the game imo
Don't forget Alchemy. The crafting skills and system in Skyrim is just busted.
Master alchemy, smithing and enchanting, and you can just play any style
Ive been "done" with skyrim for a long time now, after I got every achievement and gathered every unique weapon and armor, did every unique quest...
I can jump back in anytime, ready for a new role playing adventure.
But I still dont think Id beeline for this method, rather I think Ill still end up using the good ol' restoration loop.
Works on console.
I used this when playing my first OP mage back when I still played Skyrim. Man those were the days..
I've used transmute as part of a power-leveling chain too. It's the easiest way to level alteration
I find that Gold Rings are the best thing to craft with this method. For 1 Gold Ingot, you get 150 Septims worth of items and that levels you up faster. Plus, no jewels needed
This has been something I've always done in my mage and misc playthroughs in Skyrim, often avoiding it in my say warrior playthrough just to stick with the character theme.
literally the first thing I do when arriving at White Run for the first time:
Get a little gear, go to the cave which contains the spell, and start transmuting. Easy way to get high level, I once entered white run with level 4 and left with level 20 in a matter of minutes, I just saved iron from before, bought iron from Eorlund and Adrianne, transmuted, made jewelry, enchanted and sold and then I bought new materials which now could be smithed with since I got the necessary levels for two more materials, and then enchanted this new weaponry/armor and sold, and of course kept the ones I was going to use. No exploits involved and I got to level 20 in like 15 minutes
Yup I do this too. It's been a while since I've played Skyrim, but I'm pretty sure you can also get this spell tome for free very early on in the game.
My favorite enchantment to put on jewelry when doing this is water breathing, because it doesnt matter what size soul gem you use, you get the same exact enchantment, thus its just as valuable as if you used a grand gem
Duuuude nice. I've done this on my last few playthroughs. I used to do the typical iron daggers/leather armor route until I found this. I haven't seen anyone else talk about it. Props man 👍
It's a nice idea and I've done it even on my first play of the game. The reality is you will end up with a ton of enchanted jewellery that you cannot sell off because nobody has that much gold to buy it off of you. Still worth doing it for the skills and character XP plus whatever gold you can get.