How To Level ALL Skills FASTER - Money Making Methods And More - Kingdom Come Deliverance

[@Ithiophilis]

Sir Radzig: "HENRY! There's rumors of you riding your horse around in circles for no reason, jumping in place for hours on end, and sneaking into every last person's house in Rattay to silently choke the shit out of them. JUST WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?" Henry: "Skill grinding M'lord."

[@alexcedeno966]

This comment is very Under appreciated😂

[@qkuiz300]

😂😂😂

[@forests.9597]

Don't forget choking random civilians to pickpocket them 😂

[@henrikaugustsson4041]

Reminds me of DiCaprio in the Beach when he’s sitting by himself in the dark, training night vision! 🤣

[@yoshirocks64]

@@forests.9597No no no, gotta pickpocket them while they’re asleep THAN choke them out. Gotta level up that pickpocket skill too! 😂

[@stevengreen11]

Sharpen every weapon you sell. You'll get more money, and the maintenance XP

[@DaveTheAussie1985]

Just replying here cause its at the top with no replies so less scrolling for people. but if you get hurt or injured training with Bernard, just talk to him again and do combo training. you health will restore and all injuries and bleeding will be gone.

[@chibidakis1]

@@DaveTheAussie1985 really appreciate this, thank you!

[@Mikhanius]

Sharpening is slow to master, you can just purchase fairly cheap armorer's kits and repair expensive armor that you find. With that I've got my maintenance to max level in just a couple hours of play doing other stuff.

[@anduro7448]

never thought of that , thanks

[@yukselaydin4473]

For maintenance level up,unsharp a sword,then sharpen it,one hour for max level.

[@ELepiphone]

A few years late but, to train your bow, there's some sheep in Rattay around the area where you can practice with captain Bernard. You can kill the sheep over and over, just run into the city and come back and they respawn. I usually run to where the blacksmith is and back. Make sure to loot your arrows back from the sheep. You have to stay some distance from the sheep otherwise they run, so try to keep them all together its a lot easier. Not only does this level your bow, but also strength, vitality, agility, hunting and your main level. So you'll level up a bunch of stats at once. Also once you get your hunting up, there's a perk that makes wild animals less skittish and that makes this method even easier as you can now be right up close to the sheep. Lastly this is on ps4 so I don't know if it'll work on pc, Xbox.

[@unclebizz9522]

also aechery ranges

[@steffens260]

I’m a few years late replying to your few years late comment. But while my game was in between playable and fully loaded, it kept me in the starter town. I repeatedly killed the sheep there till level 5 so I could at least shoot the bow correctly.

[@reposter6434]

​@@unclebizz9522ranges give only 1.5 xp, animals and humans give 8.5 XP

[@ryanschram7266]

You don’t have to run that far, just to the road and wait a few seconds. Turn around and they’re there.

[@matts5247]

You realize that gameplay mechanics aren’t platform specific right? The only thing that changes for the vast majority of games are the controls

[@AnoAno94]

VITALITY tip! Each jump grants 0.5 xp, even if it's cut short by an obstacles above henry. In Rattay, just inside the southeren entrance to the left you will find a Wash Through. The ones you use to clean yourself with. Walk into it and the wall behind it and spam space. You can empty your stamina bar as fast as you can click Space. Turbo jumping until you get that xp you want

[@matc2094]

Hello Upper , if you jump several obstacles with your horse you can leveling horsemanship insanely fast!!

[@NopeKickEm]

I’m going to try that out, thx for sharing 👌🏼

[@stupidhandles]

Matias Cer riding fast in woods off track but avoiding trees and shrubs seems to up horsemanship quick too

[@torekulgur7520]

For Chrisman if you complete the the courtship sidequest you get a buff called smitten which gives you +3 Chrisma then go the the baths and get the alpha male perk then get a trim to get the new style perk

[@JHNielson4851]

When training with Captain Bernard, get a long term room at the Inn east of the training grounds. As the Capt will beat you up severely you can go there to sleep & recover your health. Saves you a long trip through town or back down to the mill. Also learn to brew Marigold Potions and make a bunch of them. So you can heal back up without having to go to sleep. Repair all your equipped equipment after every fight and don't forget to check your horse's equipment also. You'll have to carry all the repair kits and as many as you can afford. Carry extras on your horse if you need the carry weight. Later in the game get rooms at all the Inns. Then when you're overburdened you only have to get to the nearest Inn to unload to your chest.

[@edwinfrerichs8674]

I could of swore I got fully healed by just starting another fight with him.

[@zanahaze]

This is late but if you start combo training with him is fully heals you

[@Matttheyapp]

@@zanahaze Thanks anyway

[@zanahaze]

@@Matttheyapp your welcome

[@sultanofswag8901]

There's a camp like right next to the arena you fight him in

[@OminousSoul]

Herbalism also has a Secret Perk. If you gather 100 Nettle you will gain the Resistance Perk which gives you Plus 2 Vitality. The Perks description says Poisonous plants or Nettle so it might work picking other plants besides it as well.

[@nicholasholloway8743]

OminousSoul oh im so... glad I was perusing through the comments to find such a helpful comment such as yours thank you

[@Taistelukalkkuna]

elcidS15, it´s permanent.

[@89thaharmaiiioptreshenanig3]

TokeTooMuch 420 oh crap really? Do they all have to be in your inventory? I already picked 90 within a couple hours of play

[@redacted7392]

@@89thaharmaiiioptreshenanig3 No, after you get the buff, it's permanent, whether you have the plants on you or not!

[@89thaharmaiiioptreshenanig3]

Fifthgift yeah I figured that out pretty quick, thanks

[@munounom8991]

If you care about your reputation, then go into bandit camps during night with a nightvision potion and pickpocket them before you stealth kill them. This is fairly easy when they sleep. Also with a horse if it goes wrong you can just run away(which you want to, cause you wont sneak in with your good armor, you will use black clothing only).

[@drigondii]

It’s fun to get drunk and fast travel. You just go somewhere random

[@akimbofurry2179]

realy? lol

[@aldervic6293]

I’m trying that thanks 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@fds7476]

Really? Holy shit, that is hilarious.

[@freddro31]

Good to know ha ha!

[@QNAAJTUJPRWJSGEZLPXYECAZFHODYW]

guess what are we going to do today Ferb!

[@sulfer16]

You can lock pick miller paychecks training box in rattay mill (not sure of his name) over and over. Pick lock - open chest - look away listen for door to close - repeat. Levels your sneak as well.

[@jeggred8611]

Mine broke after reaching skill lvl 3 in lockpicking, it won't relock itself anymore.

[@cmike123]

Miller Paycheck lmao

[@Qwiggalo]

You have to open it after unlocked, then walk away a bit and back. Works every time for me. You have to walk away only like 10 feet btw.

[@nandorszanyi157]

I mean with the amount of stuff Im selling him he might as well be called Paycheck

[@AmbivalCelestus]

I've used that chest way more than 10 times. You have to open it, close it, look away, then look back. And on console, it's really not that difficult to do.

[@dimonwhite02]

A very good way to level up lockpicking is to go around town at night lockpicking people’s front doors. This is quite easy and the next night they will be all locked anyways so you can repeat over and over again. This can be your training ground.

[@pierre-olivierjanelle3413]

If someone is still reading these comments. You can also make a noise to wake the owner and they will lock the door against as you go to the neighbor. So basically you can lock pick doors in a circle.

[@navanafti]

Just want to note, if you need to quickly level your maintenance, you can purposefully damage your weapon and then repair it without even leaving the grindstone, you still get xp for increasing the skill.

[@michaelpease2103]

5 years later and I'm just now playing this game for the first time. Thanks for this!

[@navanafti]

@@michaelpease2103 Glad it helped!

[@kleberson777]

nah, just loot any weapon from corpse and repair them all

[@navanafti]

@@kleberson777 lol, replying to a 6 year old comment. Excited for KCD 2?

[@kleberson777]

@@navanafti this not a forum, we can reply to any old comment. Excited for KCD 2? Of course. Currently replaying KCD1 and have a blast

[@TjPhysicist]

8:36 small tip there, there's a perk in the 'Speech' skill tree called Troubadour that makes it so bathwench is free! Bathwench service is AWESOME, it's basically the same as the "full service bath" (i.e. heals and cleans YOU up, and launders your clothes as well as saves the game) with the +2 Charisma effect afterward (the difference, for me at least, was 10g between full service and bathwench)...the troubadour skill makes it so it's completely FREE (afaik)...it's not TOO expensive to begin with, but making it FREE means i'm doing it WAY more often than before.

[@twanvanderdonk2504]

The bathwench is a prostitute... lol

[@ilylmao5445]

Wait does this service include adultery, I couldn't do that to Theresa

[@twanvanderdonk2504]

@@ilylmao5445 Yes, that's basically what it means. It depends on how you roleplay the game, or if you're not roleplaying at all and just min-maxing.

[@FunnyFreak_]

This perk makes cleaning clothes, healing and having fun free not just the last option

[@theincrediblefishsandwich2162]

If you clear all the herbs in skalitz during the intro you can have lvl 17 herbalism before you start the game proper.

[@petitcitron2852]

That's my man ;)

[@Markus-zb5zd]

Also a lot of strength if you go for leg day

[@Svoorhout85]

And +2 vitality from the hidden resistance perk you get from gathering nettles.

[@iamvenditare]

Thanks for all the tips, I'm glad to see the Herbalism Skill get a mention as it has been really useful for me. One note on that, for the +2 Charisma boost, you need 30 units of any (tested on Poppy, Dandelion, Chamomile, Marigold, Verbanium, Sage, St John's Wart, and Nettle) herb in your inventory, Nettle is best as it weighs the least (0.1) for 3 pounds total weight. Hope that helps and saves confusion. Keep up the awesome videos, cheers.

[@GabbyJFS_02]

About the drinking skill, if you’re trying to raise it quickly, I definitely recommend choosing to drink with Father Godwin during the Mysterious Ways quest (I recommend doing it anyways, it’s hilarious). I was level 2 in drinking, then after one night of debauchery with that man I was level 6.

[@Chrisfragger1]

Jump up and down? Getting Oblivion flashbacks here...

[@Primal_Robin]

lol instantly thought morrowind myself

[@ismelly5835]

Chrisfragger1 Haha yea. Jumping everywhere you go. Never walking.

[@alpharabbit2353]

Taaaaaake oooooon meeeeee(take on me)

[@jamesferguson7706]

Chrisfragger1 that’s what I thought

[@bheleu021]

Does jumping when you're stuck in a Bush where all you do is twitch therefore able to jump faster count?

[@17ftd]

so I was in Talmberg last night breaking in houses as usual waiting for the horse race tomorrow. i found a guard sleeping full armour(y'know, that's how they do back in the days) i used my max pick pocket skill to get 25 sec in his pants and found his inventory filled with weapons, shields, arrows, etc. i took all of them and pick pocket again. his inventory is refilled with more stuffs. i did it a couple times before it broke and break away in silence with almost overloaded hauls lol

[@matthewgreen6131]

A really good way to level pickpocket. When you find one of the random instances where guards, cuman, or bandits are fighting and some people are tied up. If the person tied up is a cuman or bandit the guards do not care if you pickpocket then. Each one tends to have 3-5 items to take. Them being tied up makes it very easy to pickpocket then as well.

[@Jatality]

This man deserves each and every one of our likes. He could have easily made each of these segments into a separate video and reaped the benefits from each one, like many other KZbinrs would have "cough" ESO-Fallout Guides... Thank you sir, we appreciate you. Keep up the great videos 👍👍

[@bacon-chewtoy]

Agreed

[@SomeOne-ex7hk]

The benefit to this is that you can focus on just the one thing you want to learn about, and he tends to make longer videos on each seperate thing. Everyone has their preference.

[@coltonsnyder829]

Jatality I can't even lockpick it's sucks on console

[@giovannizotti8549]

@@coltonsnyder829 Just *ROTATE* the left stick of your PS4 controller while following the movement with the right stick when lockpicking. You have to rotate many time the left stick.

[@themusketeer9458]

Playing this game for the first time now. 4k oled philips hue lighting, full klipsch home theater rtx 3080 all settings maxed out, good god i swear this is what skyrim looked like back in the day.. The sounds and the visuals are literally insane. The immersion.. getting the same feel i got from skyrim like 10 years ago that i never could replicate.

[@cannonballbrad9522]

I found that one of the best ways to level up warfare, (weapon of your choice), defense, stealth, horsemanship, and maintenance in the SAME ACTIVITY. All that you need to do is begin clearing out the bandit camps Around rat today for Bernard. You will be able to get into fights, you can alternatively sneak up to the camp and spook the horses or poison them, collect any gear worth selling and collect the bandit ears as trophies. Doing this enough will unlock the same activity in Sasau where you will be paid 625 gold per each bandit year that you could bring him. So save all of your bandit ears for von Burg And I ended up with 13,000 gold at the end of about two hours of playing. You’ll be taking a lot of damage so bring or more kits and blacksmith kits to repair your items which will increase that skill. Looting the corpses in the final stages of this activity will give you plate armors and weapons that can be sold for over 1.5k each. I kept several myself. And in between all of this you need to be on your horse moving from target to target so your horsemanship will increase as well.

[@CptCudlScoops]

Agreed. Also wont have to break immersion and just do the same thing for a half n hour to level it up. IE: Jump up and down in one place to level up vitality.

[@teromik1]

in other words... play the game :D

[@duende29]

Any advice on finding Bandit camps? So far most I've found seemed kinda random.

[@nicholasholloway8743]

Jawbone_ McGee hmm nice to know

[@rjasontwenty1099]

Collecting armour Quickly is nerffed ..overcumbered leading to nonhorseriding..

[@bauerfischer3030]

Best way for Pickpocketing is, to take all stuff from the sleeping people near by the Lodgings (Taverns). There you rent a bed and save bevore you take there stuff

[@IPLayedVR42Long]

Easier strength training: go up the road from the Captain, punch cows for 4 hours. I gained a bunch of leveling in agility, strength, vitality, warfare, and hunting. Just punch cows.

[@exodustimes4266]

Really?

[@fubar9629]

Oof some old school runescape flash backs from that comment

[@jakobnance5277]

Does that actually work

[@itsahalmar1853]

That works just like with most things don't get caught also funny to see them pass out

[@MarsLonsen]

Cries in Hindu

[@mil_es]

while training vitality with the jumping in place method, I’ve found if you keep your camera moving you can decrease the time between jumps by a good amount

[@aosabi]

While in combat, I have found that jumping not only trains vitality, but also increases my in situation vitality as their sword misses its mark, usually landing on my cuirass.

[@tcull5369]

You can get stuck in most corners or in-between two objects, jump is instant and you can afk it

[@drifterax7731]

M iles jumping in a doorway while spinning the camera is even faster

[@jeremykane999]

@@tcull5369 the good ole “oblivion” leveling trick

[@Arthillis]

As others have mentioned hunting is by far the fastest and easiest money making method. In the woods to the west/northwest about 3/5 th of the way between Rattay and Vranik/Sasau is a boar hunting spot. There are two boar there. With decent bow and arrows you can one shot them and the amount of meat will overload your horse and possibly you depending how good a horse and saddle you have. Take this back to miller and cook it on the fire in the house. Then sell it at either the taverns or the meat merchant or grocer or regular merchants or miller in Rattay. 2 boars worth of cooked meat sell for over 3k. Just sell it all to one merchant to clean them out up rep and get them to have a larger cash pool when next you do it. because its so close and gives so much money and is easy i think its faster then other methods ive seen that involve risky stuff like robbing sword shops. Also the more you cook a type of meat the higher quality cooked goods you get from it and the more money it makes. Once a merchant replenishes there cash after a couple days you can make 3k+ in less then a few minutes doing this without any repercussions or risk or dealing in stolen goods since cooked meat doesn't count as stolen.

[@oLawlieto]

Or you could pickpocket the traders for their keys (alt. gitgud at lockpicking) and just steal the money from a chest in the back. All indoors traders store their all their money and goods in 1 box. Fun fact, there is actually a box in the game that is linked to your horse inventory and its in Rattay.

[@orztaku]

ya, hunting is bullshit. So is fighting any enemies. All you loot from hunting is flagged as stolen and the meat will spoil, loot from enemies usually damaged ... and it all has weight. Next is not every merchant buys all stuff. The armorer will never buy your weapons or pelts and so on. So you spent 60mins fighting/poaching , then another 30mins limping to town and from merchant to merchant overburdened to sell and you still get hampered by most merchants only having paltry sums of Groschen. Better way: right after reaching Rattay you steal the keys or lockpick your way into the armorers house and you have +2ooo Groschen .... takes like 5minutes. You can steal from almost every merchant. You have to lockpick their chest every single time (lockpicking XP) or get the keys and get your payment everytime you come to town ...

[@Schugger1]

ok, to avoid not being to sell poached food, just cook it at the next fire/hearth and it brcomes a new item in your inventory which you could sell everywhere.

[@orztaku]

wasn't even the problem. It's still flagged stolen until you find a fire, which may cause problems. Can't cook the fur. It still weighs a lot (for it's worth). The meat still spoils (even when cooked). Not all merchants buy meat/foot/pelts and lastly merchants have limited groschen. All in all you spent like 1hr+ for some hundred groschen ... when you can make the same (or more) with 5mins lockpicking/pickpocketing/trespassing. If you don't feel like becoming a criminal, then you can always hunt down the treasures, each giving decent amounts of groschen + some good gear (which often sells for like 1k+ a piece). On a sidenote: at least they seem to have finally fixed that the arrows you loot from your prey are no longer flagged as stolen as well ...

[@Schugger1]

All true orztaku, but there are a good deal of players who don't want to take the roll of a rogue and don#t care about the fast Groschen. As soon as you enter midgame you won't have any financial problems anyway. Late game I only checked corpses for stuff I couldn#t purchase by any vendor. I ended by none-rogue playtrhough with about 45k Groschen in my chest and about 25k Groschen in my pocket.

[@JustifiedbyGod]

One of my favorite methods is in the first village, pick every single flower. With these, you can buy a lot of good repair kits before the game really starts. In my opinion, you want to get the "Leg Day" pirk as early as possible so that whenever you are picking, you are getting a little strength at the same time. Because the str points are so low (1 point per pick), it makes sense to get it early so it is almost an after thought while you are playing through the game.

[@IIgaiaII]

Just wanna say thank you in general about all of these guides about this game. They are for me a gem and welldone so cheers mate

[@ThePsiclone]

For anyone coming later... you can train to lvl 17 herbalism in Skalitz during the prologue, just pick everything, and take "leg day" perk you're training your strength at the same time. (you can also sell the herbs there for money too)

[@dakaodo]

I'm REALLY late to this video, but I got back into KCD for a refresher playthrough before KCD 2. @ 18:00 when you talk about improving archery and hunting, this is from what 6 years of players have learned: TrialbySquire (small YT channel) recently put out a video on leveling thief skills and included Bow skill. West and NW of Ledetchko, there are two pig fields with 6 pigs each. Hunting animals with a bow earns 14 XP for Bow and 6 XP for Hunting (though you have to kill AND loot the animal for the full Hunting XP I think; no need to actually take anything, just opening loot window is enough). That's 84 XP for bow per pig field, or 168 XP for both fields (one is a bit closer to road foot traffic, so move to the far side of the pig pen to avoid being spotted). This compares against archery competitions that as far as I can tell, earn 1 XP per shot. It's been a while since I checked the XP gain, but I'm pretty sure I earned 6-12 XP for the easy and intermediate tournaments. Wasn't good enough to win the advanced tournament. Clearing the two Ledetchko pig pens/fields once is roughly equal to 14 intermediate tournaments in Bow XP. And the pigs are infinite. Ride your horse or run a short distance away (I usually gallop down the road to the river ford, then back to the pig pens), and they'll respawn. May have to run around in the field and turn around once or twice to get all 6 pigs to visibly spawn in. Overall WAY faster for Bow XP, plus bonus Hunting XP. If you want some cash, you can lug all the meat (plus liver if you have the Hunting Offal perk) and sell it to the Ledetchko merchants, innkeeper, ale maid, grocer, etc. This really slows down the XP farming, but is good for a few hundred groschen until the merchants are tapped out each day. Plus builds local reputation 2X faster when you haggle but give a load of meat/goods away for free. This is immediately good for 1000+ groschen from just the innkeeper and ale maid on my first day, which is equal to net winnings from 17 intermediate archery tournaments (60 groschen per).

[@danw6877]

I know I am late to the game but I wanted to point out vaulting over fences no longer works to train vitality however jumping still does and if you turn spin in a circle not fast but not slowly either while you jump you can jump much quicker and its even faster and better then vaulting over fenses was you can kind of fell out where the sweet spot is while you are spinning around in place and jumping to find where you can jump the fastest.

[@LastbutNotFirst]

SO I WAS STASHING MY STOLEN GOODS ON A HILL because i was too heavy.. and then all my stolen shit i discarded.. rolled down the hill.

[@lordtachanka394]

you can put it in your chest

[@LastbutNotFirst]

@@lordtachanka394 you dont understand how much stuff i stole. i couldnt move. lol.

[@Andrew-ih2gz]

I know it's a little late to say this, but I find the lodgings east of Rattay the best for training stealth. You rent a room for 2 grochen, then at midnight, sneak into the surrounding barns and knock out the townspeople. There are 9-10 people there who you can knock out and train it.

[@antonfilimonov9131]

It's going to help me, thanks

[@paddyduarte236]

nice thanks for this

[@solokom]

*Hunting is a very fast way to earn money.* Go to the Area where you were hunting with Sir Capon. There are Roe deer, boar, and Red deer hunting areas close to each other. Boar brings the most Gold by weight. Hunt as much as you can carry. Use the horse to get as fast to Uzhitz as possible. Meat spoils fast and that lowers its value. Go to the Tavern in Uzhitz first to cook the meat and get rid of the “stolen” tag. Then go to the trader in Uzhitz. He usually has a lot of money (1-2K) and if you are on good terms with him and have a decent reputation in Uzhitz, you can earn 600-700 Groschen in one trip. Hunting and selling meat gets significantly easier and more profitable when you use Hunting perks like "Tanner" for the extra coin selling the skin, "Wild at Heart" so game doesn't run away so easily and "Salty", so meat doesn't spoil so fast. That way, you can afford decent equipment in no time.

[@lexas1]

Probably the single most useful how to video on the game, well done. Btw, to each his own, but for me the only way to play a game is to role play it. So yes, I might want to practice lockpicking on the miller's chest because you could do this 'in reality', but attacking an unkillable npc over and over to artificially raise my stats? Nope, ruins the game.

[@mranthonymills]

In reality, you absolutely would do a bunch of practicing before doing something for real. No way would you be going out and trying to kill bandits after five minutes of practicing. If you had a master to practice with, you'd be doing that shit for weeks before you thought about risking your life. And you'd want to practice lockpicking a lot before trying it for real, too. This is one area where roleplaying and cheesing are pretty much the same thing.

[@Rustie3000]

super easy way to train reading is after you learned it through the quest, sneak into the Rattay Town Hall and the Sasau Monestary Library and steal all lore books (NOT skill books that train a skill and at least one copy of each, getting/reading duplicates doesn't advance your reading skill) and then go to one of your beds where you have the best bonus on reading and just flip through all of the lore books once. Other than skill books you don't have to take hours to study them, just choose a book from your inventory, flip through the pages and then move on to the next. This also works for all Treasure Maps, they also count towards reading. That way you get your reading to around lvl 10-12 in no time.

[@HereticDuo]

ok, here's a goldmine of weapon level ups, break into the monastery after 11pm & be back out by 4am, go through the 1st floor door through the building on the right as you walk through the archway leading to the church under construction. The prior in the 2nd room you go through will be alone & asleep, knock him out while he's in bed & start attacking him over & over, he's immortal so cant be killed & if you knock him out in bed there'll be not witnesses or fines for doing so, nobody is near by so no one will hear & you'll get 10 levels in strength, agility, vitality, warfare & whatever weapon you use in just 1 night.

[@blakethebirdmeister5336]

Fuzzy Duo has that been patched?

[@funnyguy5746]

@@blakethebirdmeister5336 Yeah, It was patched couple months after release

[@cityassassin]

@@funnyguy5746 Was it the skilling, or the invincibility that was patched out? Cause I managed to gather enough money to buy Henry a sword, before Skalitz went down, and decided to butcher Kunesh. He seems to be invincible too, so if it was the invincibility that went missing, can just use him for it instead.

[@paztypastn5785]

The Red Gamer the skill earning. They are still invi, but no longer grant skills when knocked

[@yukselaydin4473]

Before the raid of skalitz,I killed the zbyswek and after I came for parents he was alive.

[@johnsansker7064]

I saw this somewhere else and I'll pass it on here. Alchemy, Lulabye Potion + Arrows= Sleeping targets that can be pickpocketed. Also, allows you to take out harder targets. If I remember right, one potion does l 5 arrows, and they can and should be recovered and reused.

[@diablosanchez5844]

Early on u can rob all beggars in rattay at night time when they sleeping make like 400 gold in 1 night and get pickpocket to lvl 10 easy with no risk

[@pascaltomasovic3586]

yeaaaaaa............ or you could kill some cumans and sell their stuff for 400 gold and not fucking rob your former neighbours, you monster!

[@nono-bm2mz]

@@pascaltomasovic3586 cumans are so hard to kill

[@HostmorkeCZ]

@@nono-bm2mz get your archery skill up and you can slay them with one flown arrow.

[@Weirdaman]

More tips: Str: str based melee weapons and fight at any given opportunity (I recommend focusing on long swords as St. George's Sword is OP later on) Agi: agi based swords and bows and fight or poach at any given opportunity (gather arrows from bandits or the game, if possible get stats high enough for cuman bow - it has nice thread bars that help with aiming) Vit: sprint/jump/vault everywhere, general depletion of vitality bar (you can hold arrows and RMB to put them aside) Spe: use every possible speech option, question NPCs, haggle for lots of money (combine silver tongue with final offer - you can lower the haggle near to the minimum then settle for final offer), if possible trade with specialists ie. sell food to Inn keepers or game (once a bit spoiled and not 'stolen') to butchers, weapons to arms smiths etc. Def: wear heavy armor & shield and block/parry/absord lots of damage - it goes really fast by itself War: deal lots of dmg to humans by combat (stealth kills/KO doesn't count, game doesn't count) Any weapon: use any weapon and fight with it (for bows I recommend logs game in Ledechko, v. easy 50g every win) Alch: youtu .be/pZInG91VwvI I gave a comment there Drink: drink XD Herb: farm everything, neddles preferred as a hidden perk will give you +2 vit, most herbs on fields near monastery Horse: no fast travel, ride horses XD Hound: spam good boy dialogue - 20 minutes of keyboard bashing Hunt: poach - you get XP by killing and looting game separately Locks: find a guide xD remember to open every v. easy lock encountered Maintenance: sharpen swords before selling them, if possible buy or steal repair kits and waste them everywhere Pickpocket: spam Peszek to lvl 5, get crowd control & easy way out to make it easier, steal from sleeping beggars, you can steal multiple items at once by timer cost, later on you will love it: pay trainers for skill levels ie. 1,5k for masters and then take it back - huge amount of $ stolen = tons of XP Read: buy/steal books and open them, perform a quest for it, remember to get guides and study them to boots other skills Stealf: stealf xD if you are one of the AFK goofers you can clamp your W key somehow and sneak into a wall nearby enemies or in guarded areas - just go into a house and bump into a wall etc.

[@Weirdaman]

More more tips: Remember that every skill has cap of 20, no matter if base or with buffs/perks. Meaning that once you reach basic ie. 20 str perk Brute will not give you anything but still apply penalties of -1 spe -1 cha. Later in the game remember to reset your skills with a reset potion (forgot name) and to ignore perks that give you useless bonuses (due to cap) in exchange for penalties (ie. Brute, local hero).

[@oLawlieto]

lockpicking is easy, all you need is 100+ lockpicks and a decent stealth gear. After that all you need to do is to go around and unlock peoples houses at night, most village doors are very easy or easy. Once you've unlocked the doors, go in and wake up any person in the house and make them close the doors again. once they have gone back to sleep unlock all the doors again.. For hunting you can also level it by killing sheep, cows, horses, chickens and dogs with a bow.. doesn't have to be wild game. You can start leveling herbalism as soon as you start the game in the first village by picking nettles and they are very close to eachother.. For pickpocketing, just go in to a village and steal 1 item at the time from people when they are sleeping. Once you get high enough skill level you can do it with sleeping guards aswell. And for reading, according to 1 of its perks you can also level reading by reading shrines and graves stones.

[@DaveTheAussie1985]

I was looking for someone to have said this before i posted the same thing. lol

[@fvansoldt]

"All you need is 100+ lockpicks". That must be the lousiest advice given ever. If you start you can hardly afford one lockpick. Just practice on the chest behind the Mill. It will be difficult in the beginning (with a controller), I had to practice a lot before mastering it. But after a while even the very hard ones are easy, just keep practicing.

[@IgorZakharov85]

Best way to upgrade Lockpicking at early levels (1-5) - is 2 houses West of Rattay entrance, directly South from Bathhouses - during night they are locked with "Very Easy" locks. Open them, come to owners, wake them up with talk, exit house. They will lock it again. Repeat. After level 5 - you can learn the same way, but find places with harder locks (i.e. inside Rattay TownHall people are also sleeping but there are both Hard and Very Hard locks). You will require 11-13 lvl in Lockpicking for Very Hard locks though. Regarding Herbalism - if you pick 150-200 of Nettle - it will give PERMANENT +2 Vitality for the rest of the game (Hidden Perk). Perk +2 Charisma from Herbs available at level 5 - will start working if you have 30 herbs in inventory (i.e. Sage), 29 will not work.

[@Dan-ks9hp]

There are some locks that aren't possible to open until you reach higher lockpicking levels. Done plenty of Veryhard locks mind but some have a message popup.

[@oLawlieto]

Locks have hardcoded exp gains, and I'd recommend sticking with very easy/easy locks until you get to level 15. The difference in exp gain is 5-10 exp more for hard/VH compared to VE/easy.

[@oLawlieto]

@Andrew G has nothing to do about being a pussy.. Hell I've unlocked VH locks on level 1.. For grinding purpose / fast leveling.. Hard and VH locks are useless to use for just that reason.. I'd much rather unlock 5 VE locks and get 20-25 exp / lock rather then trying to find a H/VH door that will only give me 30-35 exp / unlock.

[@oLawlieto]

Because higher level means it will be alot easier to pick harder locks.. And then there are ofc ppl who are going for the max every skill level achievement. And by the looks of it you don't so I really don't understand why you even care.. seeing how the OP gave a tip on how to do that for just that reason.

[@oLawlieto]

The doors you say reset "after a bit" only gets re-locked if an NPC opens and close it again. If an NPC never access a locked door or chest that you have unlocked, it will never get re-locked again. so your claim is false. And again this is for skill level grinding purposes not for casual gaming.. So I really don't understand why you even bother commenting on a video made for that purpose.. I guess you just wanted to brag about being able to unlock Very hard locks at lvl 6, even tho the locks themself are RNG and can all be unlocked at lvl 1.

[@MrZazobanec]

Lockpicking... There is a tower in western Rattay behind a church. Inside it, there is Very Hard chest, which always locks itself after opening... There is minimum lockpicking skill needed (i think 13 - 15) to open it... It's the way to make it to 20.

[@CrymsAI]

You can train lockpicking on the chest the Miller first introduces you to it on behind the Miller's house near Rattay. You pick it, open it, close it, walk around the corner and out of sight of it and go back. It's easy or very easy, but for the first 5-6 levels you can raise it much more quickly early on and with nearly zero chance of being caught.

[@matyusax0]

Also if you pick collect about 2-300 nettles (herbs) which are actually poisonous, you’ll get +2 on vitality permanently

[@dylanpullock6972]

Alchemy you don't necessarily need to be able to read in game to level it up. Buy marigold decoction book from Alchemy vendor in rattay, open book decipher steps yourself (if henry hasn't learnt to read yet, each letter in the words ar jumbled so its actually easy to make out the instructions tnru is turn etc.) Marigold is easiest decoction to make its literally water in cauldron, add 1 nettle, add 2 marigold, pour out into vial. There is actually a boiling step but but you can actually get away with not boiling the water. Lockpicking, there is a practice chest behind rattay mill. You can pick it, open it then close it and it will lock again. You can repeat as much as you want. Pickpocket training can be done solely on peshek. This also ups stealth which isnt mentioned when vid talks about using peshek

[@jacksonbanks1396]

As a person that uses a Pc, but also has a controller for certain things. Use a Keyboard and mouse for lockpicking. it is amazingly simple that way, but a serious pain in the ass with a controller.

[@Abyssic1]

also if you have a mouse that can change dpi on the fly, decrease your dpi as low as it will go and it's almost impossible to fail.

[@nicholasholloway8743]

Jackson Banks I've heard this alot from pc players using the controller, it must be different on console because it's easy af for me

[@derOeffes]

There are NPCs giving pickpocket related quests (go to person X, retrieve something from their inventory, not necessarily by pickpocketing and returning to the quest giver) which each give 1+ to pickpocketing. I've found two so far, one in Rattay, one in Sasau.

[@callumgarbutt2486]

if you spend you time at the beginning of the game collecting herbs you can choose the flower power perk which increases your charisma with all npcs in the game. you need to have enough fragrant flowers in your inventory for the perk to be activated

[@Luciferofom]

Two points: Level alchemy first! It makes everything else go from terrible to okay and it's an amazing way to get money. There's a station behind the Rattay apothecary. You can look at the recipes online. Second point: to level Alchemy, brew marigold decoctions in obscene numbers. They have so many good uses.

[@madladhobson]

For lock picking I found a chest that locks as soon as you pick it. It’s a very hard chest and it is in Rattay in the tower at the side of the church that is near the main square. I levelled lock picking up from level 11 to 13 in 5 minutes

[@andreaw2053]

Lockpicking is easiest to level in Rattay because it has a lot of doors and chests of various levels. Take a few in-game nights (when people lock their doors and shops are closed) and go around opening every front door you can find - just be careful not to get spotted. If you're feeling risky you can go inside and start picking chests too.

[@Targa7W]

I leveled herbalism to 15 or 16 in skall before handing in the quest to father, you can also get some coin and gear for the merchants there. Its maybe worth doing as the clock hasn't started in game so you can get the skill for no time investment. Similarly you can tickle the combat master during the chain portion hitting one time pausing and hitting again you can gain combat xp, again this is before the clock has started so maybe worth the extra hassle and care required.

[@mychaeldark1007]

Also the clock hasn't started as far as I know once you get to Rattay. Just don't go talk to Sir Radish(I know, I know) and go around doing some of the things you want to do. Warning, combat will be difficult as many of the oppenents you'll fight have combat training and you don't so no dodge, blocks, or ripostes for you.

[@RealLofiVibes]

I found out you can level stealth too in skall. Slowly but you can right before you enter the main part of town there a guy looking at a bunch of hay he never moves never looks back so you can keep knocking him out.

[@Targa7W]

Nice, just need to find the lockpicks now :)

[@nicholasholloway8743]

Targa7W yes, agreed... best way to start it out. I mean you don't get alot from the leg day perk which makes it more effective in the beginning, this has helped me get to 5 strength before prologue ends

[@erikred9927]

Targa7W that's exactly what i did

[@aaronreid1445]

Best guide iv found on KZbin just got the game love but lots to learn as I don't play these type of games.

[@IdAefixBE]

Regular mating gives a very welcome boost in vitality experience aswell ;) It's funny to see how playstyle can influence your stats. I still have not gotten Bernard back to Rattay yet and my fighting-related skills are a joke compared to yours but I got to a solid 16 speech and that's the only stat I haven't specificaly trained ^^ Drinking gets up fast once you get brewing and using your potions. The perks are very useful in lowering the drunk downsides (if you use alchemy a lot, hungover and alcoolism are little to no problem anymore) and pulling extra buffs for being drunk. After that you can easily remain drunk at all time for glorious drunken master style.

[@w1ck3ds1ck]

Most useful comment in the whole section. Why grind away for hours to have all your stats on highest level, have the most money and so on, just to play the rest of the game on very easy mode?? Just play however you like and you will gradually get better at all the things you like doing in the game... I see no point in grinding all those stats, just to use that one skill the few times you'll need it. Investing so many hours into grinding instead of just playing the game (sidequesting, RPing, etc.) is unreasonable, to put it mildly. The moment that I got hooked to the game was that time you get drunk with the Uzhitz priest, fuck some wenches in the bell tower, then hit the bell just for the luls, keeping the village awake for the whole night. And then help him give a sermon the following morning, both of you still hungover as fuck. Glorious character design!

[@stupidhandles]

Tuncher Aydanov my fave moment was that piss up with the priest, totally didn't expect any of it. And seducing lady Stephanie, I said Henry's gonna shag her jokingly, then the boy did!

[@oneleghendo5239]

For hunting, boars are the best way to level up quickly. If you’re near a boar hunting spot there are usually 3-5 of them. if you find a deer spot nearby you can travel between the two and clear them out repeatedly.

[@la8ball]

You can level agility very fast by walking into a log or something and spamming the jump button. It gives exp and do not having to go through the animation

[@cmike123]

I train sneaking, lockpicking and pickpocketing all at the same time. Wait until night in smaller hamlets with less guards. Most housing has easy or very easy locks to pick, and maybe 2 rooms with 1 to 2 people sleeping in them. You can pick door locks in the homes as well as chests. You can then pick a pocket, sneak to the next room, pick another pocket and just go back and forth. You dont even need to steal anything when you pick a pocket. You just need to start the minigame, then remove your hand from their pocket. I tend to train drinking and reading at the same time. You can overeat with alcohol while you are sitting on your bed or in your room, then read for 2-4 hours. Finish the book, and drink some more. Just be careful about blacking out. I know you get robbed if you black out, but I dont know if that happens when you are in your own room.

[@noordinaryzoot3722]

Just saying, for levelling up the lock-pick skill, a good way to get up a couple of levels is to ask the miller at Ratay that looks after you, right after you get beaten up in Skaliz. Ask him to train you in lock-picking and he will bring you to a chest that has an easy lock on it that won't break your lock picks and re locks every time you unlock it. FREE EXP!

[@krock2894]

I just started playing this game, and found lockpicking very hard. I trained on that chest and failed so many times it eventually did use up all my lockpicks and he just walked away and wouldn't give me more. Luckily I had a save close by to restart. So it is still a good way to train but not infinite if you suck lol.

[@monkeytico2046]

@@krock2894 I recommend watching this video I was level 1 when I started doing what the video says and now I'm level 12! It took me like an hour but it's really worth the time

[@danielrichardson132]

that chest relocks every time the millers inventory resets. so every 1-2 days

[@yvinnthon4566]

Up, it was the same for me, just recently started playing and i was completely dumbfounded when i saw the lockpicking-method. Bring used to Fallout and Skyrim, this was a completely different scenario. But, grinding it out, training with miller Peshek and taking the right perk-skills kinda loosened it up; Now i'm picking Very Hard locks and hardly breaking a sweat! 👍🤓👍

[@seijurohyuga428]

I have watched this before but i just appreciate this alot and come back to it from time to time.

[@Isaiah42069]

i live in a wagon down by the creek.

[@sjtimmer7]

For lockpicking: do the chest at the miller first, and after you cannot unlock it anymore(10 times I believe is the max), go out at night, and open doors in villages. next night, they will be locked again, so you go again.

[@zachwhite5784]

How come there arent any videos on maxxxing all your weapon skills/StrVitAgi in the starting zone by smacking the unkillable Kunesh?

[@judi1009]

Zach White It got patched mainly to the Big youtubers showing iy

[@leviblanchard7437]

Just started playing this game in 2023… very much appreciate this 🙏 🙌

[@deejaaay7600]

You know what would give you the cutting edge over the others posting similar stuff? If you put the times and what you're covering in the description. That way we don't have to spend a lot of time going through what we're trying to find.

[@albhatep]

If you find a fence with a roof over hang you can walk into the fence under the roof and spam jump there's one around the back of the Millers house in the village next to Talmberg, there's a nest in a tree across the dirt road from the spot 25x faster than jumping up and down

[@traderpax]

You might want to point out that, to see the 'charisma' on a piece of gear, to press "Q". Some noobs might not know this ;D

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

traderpax it literally says "press "Q" for info" in the inventory

[@ElderonAnalas]

well... Sips didn't learn about how to view extra info on things until about 7 hours into the game... but he's bad at games... and that's half of his entertainment value along with his commentary

[@akimbofurry2179]

I was so confused for a moment, cuz I am dvorak and q is how I stick stuff onto my horse. I need to use the ' key to get my info.

[@danthewatcher9681]

Picking pokets is as wasy as it get's just be sure to understand the wall of text they use as a tooltip whin you press help easy way to pick pokets Press the button and then wait for the churck window to go from green to a yellow the take your finger off and pick the closest item to the door icon , repeat till you get all it's items, unlike Skyrim KCD gives you all the tools to pick the pokets and succes is based mostlly on your skill as a human, not %, if you're fast enough you can get the item if not "git gud Scrub!". Also near the back entrance to Rathey there is a Flock of sheep that spawns, sheep are 1 of 2 types of farm animals that you can murder in front of a guard and he'll walk past you like it was normal, the other is chickens, if you go in a new village or city and you find chickens around go puck them, good way to train unarmed or any kind of weapon and no one cares, but just in case before you do save, in case an update rolls and fixes chickens and sheep. Also later on you can can go back home to Skalytz and there's a gang of well armed and armored bandits you can kill just bring a lot of arrows and a brave horse, and don't let then near your pony, you can do them as early as main level 8 just train archery prior, archery training gives both str and agi as well as vitality XP along archery and hunt's man if you go for sheep, any place with sheep is good the more you level up the more sheep spawn in a place. Side note the bandits in Skalytz are vary strong, there is a cart turned on the side near the inn/tavern Hal's GF was, jump on the weal and with enough arrows and time you can kill them all. Don't try to use melee weapons from atop the cart they will make you fall, even the polearms.

[@draanosalkeir4218]

Training maintenance is second only to herbalism in ease to train. You only need one sword, any sword will do. The grinding wheel can damage blades as well as sharpening them. In Rat I got a hunting sword of some bandit and then proceeded to grind the edge off "angle for black smoke" and resharpen the same sword until my maintenance skill was high enough to make repair kits useful (i.e. allowing you to repair anything over 70% back to full).

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

Draanos Alkeir that minigame is pretty easy tbh, got 100% first try (lucky), but I usually get then to 85-98%

[@thant0s]

An even faster method if you have plenty of money already, is to load up on damaged armor / weapons / clothing from bandits, etc., and buy a bunch of repair kits to spam them all to fully repaired. Early on your skill won't be high enough to repair things even halfway damaged useful with kits, but once you start going, it immensely outpaces sitting down at a grinding wheel.

[@apollo6318]

Draanos Alkeir Draanos Alkeir hey 👋 I was wondering what level in maintenance do u need to be to repair weapons with conditions below 50%?????

[@draanosalkeir4218]

It maxes at 20 and that lets you do 60 and up. I would guess the thinking is that if you want max gold for your loot you need to kill quickly without overly damaging the enemies gear, and your own gear should be fixed every 3 fights or so. Oh and avoid the gear damage perks, if your good then you don't need them to will fights and all they do is lower the groshen you get from loot.

[@richardfarrer5616]

Now I've only done a little smithing myself, but you would end up with a dagger with very low temper if you tried that in reality. Surely the devs haven't missed that opportunity.

[@HurriShane00]

Since they fixed the lockpicking now. It is easier. but you can go to that chest that you train with the Miller in Rattay (where your bed is) and you can practice on that chest over and over. (as long as you have the picks) EDIT: This has since been patched. but you can still gain about 3 levels at the beginning which helps immensely early on.

[@NopeKickEm]

Also I’m not sure if this was changed from some update (I’m on Xbox one) but you can progress your lock pick much easier if you practiced lock picking with the Miller in Rattay (your home). He has a dialogue where you can “train” (not pay and raise skill) you into lock picking a chest over and over. There’s many videos about it that I suggest you look into it and prob put an annotation on top of the video or something. Anyway just letting you know, Btw keep up the videos 👍🏼

[@michaelsanchez5954]

Jaime they shouldn't patch it, it's an exploit, it's not the games fualt they found a unique smart way to advance in the game, if it's there and it works it deserves to be exploited.

[@w1ck3ds1ck]

Michael Sanchez The same logic applied in the real world explains crime and criminal mindset. Think about that.

[@CIDOfficer123]

To level up lockpicking, just go to any shop at night time where they have a hard lock at the main door and keep practicing. Once unlocked, go to their room and wake them up they will come after you and close the main door so its locked again. Keep doing it again and again. Once you get skilled enough, you will unlock the door even before they go back to their room so leveling up will become a lot faster.

[@lukasstone5707]

Cheese for the maintenance skill: intentionally dull the blade on the grindstone then sharpen it again. Smoke=dulling and Sparks=sharpening.

[@cshairydude]

Or swing it against a wall.

[@Shadic24367]

Best way to level stealth is at the beginning of the game in Skalitz, make sure you start off picking both strength options, knock out the guy near the hay (very hard to get caught) then go gather all the plants in the town, once you're full, put it all in the chest at home, knock out the guy again, herbs again, rinse repeat, then you can vault over stuff, if you get hungry you can sell some of the herbs, if you wanna level speech sell em one at a time and haggle for each one, buy food, haggle that too

[@brandonpumphrey7372]

Protip : if you untarget and look down at people's shoes when fighting and swing as you move into range they never seem to block. I cut down 4 plated dudes in 1-2 swings each once I got St. Michael's Sword from the Rattay swordsmith. It is definitely a cheese method I try to only use if I'm about to lose but when you're just farming bandits just chop em up.

[@younoobgaming4239]

Brandon Pumphrey any chance you have a video to demonstrate this method?

[@brandonpumphrey7372]

I made one and put it up on my gamer channel kzbin.info/www/bejne/anTTYpaahc55n9k

[@bemddi228]

that's genius haha

[@Ap0Kal1ps3]

I killed 30+ guys in the mission Night Raid using basically the same trick. Hold the unlock combat buttton, and use overhand swings while looking just above them. The AI doesn't know how to fight you if you're not targeting and not looking directly at them.

[@nicholasholloway8743]

Brandon Pumphrey very interesting, I do the same by holding b while facing them running backwards to force them to chase, then slash or smash em, they never block, I must try your method to see which is nominal for my use

[@delphidelion]

You can also use the archery range at Rattay for money and skill as well. You can bet up to 76g and face 2 others to get 152g after each round.

[@Metalshark100]

"ha jk i wonder if i'm going to get demonetised for that though, ha rip" LOOL i just found you but you're amazing. GJ love your vids

[@aosabi]

I got an ad, literally just before that line.

[@BlueBirdgg]

For the archer one, you can go into the river, it is much closer and turns the chalenge incredbly easy to win

[@York1new]

This man is saying 1 to 2 hours like it nothing

[@CombatJak]

Sorry but this is going to be a bit long-winded. For early stealth levels you can go to the bath house near the Miller's Place at Rattay at night. The door by the river stays unlocked or at least it did for me. Go in there and there are two people upstairs to knock out in their sleep. You can take their keys and hit the building directly across from that one where there are four more people sleeping. Once they wake up they will all switch beds and go back to sleep and you can do it again. Also since it is so close to the Miller you can go to sleep for an hour to save in between. I think this got me from Level 2 to level 8 in 1 in-game night.

[@drakmear]

Definitly going to save this video so i can come back to it later, this has helped me out a lot :D

[@ZethHolyblade]

Not sure if you mentioned it but regarding novice lockpicking training with the Miller npc, I noticed that on the PC version you can train on the same box from Lvl1 to Lv3 repeatedly. You unlock the box, open then close it, step back and go at it again. I have yet to pay him for higher lvl lockpicking training but perhaps the same thing can be done. Also, *something useful* I noticed is that the lock itself and its surrounding ring have their metal texture displaying peculiar markings and hyper or decolored spots that can be used as *a reference to keep the sweetspot aligned* while rotating the lock.

[@minemaster20399]

God be with you Henry!

[@YoussefQassabMusic]

Naturally...

[@thant0s]

*Correction* : You are unable to auto-brew potions until at least reaching lv10 Alchemy and allocate a point into Routine I. Until you get here, yes, you will have to manually brew each time. Further, you are able to craft all potions from the very beginning of the game so long as you yourself have a guide and know *how* to do so; the recipe sheets in-game are just a matter of "convenience", which is complicated by the Reading skill. You can immediately start brewing x3 potions every brew attempt; each mistake during brewing will remove one potion from the result, until you're left with an Unknown Potion worth next to nothing, so follow the directions carefully to maximize output. Grabbing Routine I at lv10 Alchemy, even though you only auto-brew one at a time, is still much faster at leveling your Alchemy skill, and you'll reach lv13 and Routine II very quickly, which auto-brews x3 potions. Note that as far as I can tell, you cannot auto-brew any potion you have not *perfectly brewed manually* at least once before.

[@chrisg2739]

In every play through of this game I have never seen anyone using a halberd. I really would love to see someone play through with that weapon.

[@chrisg2739]

CactusZone I have never seen anyone use them so how am I to know they are useless? And when was the last time you used one in game? Closed beta not at all? I’m just curious.

[@brandonpumphrey7372]

They weren't fully added to the game, there's a tree there but if you pay someone to train it you don't seem to get it to go up in levels. You can't sheathe them so your weapon is always out until you drop it. You can't transfer them to your horse as loot either. It is something hopefully they add in a patch or DLC but for now it seems they couldn't get it finished in time for launch.

[@chrisg2739]

Brandon Pumphrey ah that explains it. I can understand not being able to pack it though. It’s a pole weapon.

[@TheTrooper115]

You should at least be able to stow pole weapons on your horse, that'd make sense IMO.

[@AHappyCub]

There is a Pike like weapon that is used by NPCs, the only problem is it's a two-handed weapon and not available to buy

[@Rekaert]

Captain Bernard: The grumpy wellspring from which all your ability flows.

[@depress0coffee]

Find a bandit - fight him - when they surrender / ask for mercy - crouch and then knock them out from behind - then loot / murder + Warfare / whatever weapon + Stealth + Weapon again

[@zoot_.3063]

one step further is to pickpocket before knocking them out. Even if you get caught they wont run.

[@Matt-su5js]

Updated method since most methods were patched: Fight Bernard with real weapons. When fight is over train the "learn combos". He will completely heal you and it's a real quick training. Then go back to fighting with real weapons. Rinse and repeat. Then you can equip better weapons and easily hunt from horseback right off the trail in numerous spots. That covers, strength, agility, warfare, defense, whatever weapons you want. The hunting gets your bow skill up much easier than that chumps game I found which did me no good at all. Then for lockpicking go to the scribes house. Balcony door. Unlock hard door, bump into person on bench to wake them up, run away, come back after maybe 1 minute and it's locked again. That covers about everything but stealth.

[@glee8135]

does it cost gold to train with him ?

[@Matt-su5js]

Glee 813 no

[@Mayjay87]

So with Bernard, can you only train with him once? I trained with him on the initial quest, but after that I don't have the option to actually talk to him. He's in front of the combat arena, but I don't have the option to start dialog. Maybe the time of day wasn't right, I also haven't started the quest, Talk to the Baliff.

[@pingapang8155]

I finished the game already and hunting is the fastest way to get money. Also, make a physical crosshair on your screen if you have difficulty using the bow

[@nicholasholloway8743]

Pingapang I hate seeing comments like yours because I want to keep it as legit as possible, getting rich right off the bat would make it kind of boring, I like working towards that nice shiny new piece of armour, now ive been forced to the dark side for now I must use this tip

[@nicholasholloway8743]

Pingapang how long did it take for you to finish the game? And we're you playing for most of every day, or onley a few hours a day?

[@pingapang8155]

A week to finish, 2-4 hours a day

[@pingapang8155]

yeah yeah getting rich early could be boring but hunting is not easy

[@emperror85]

If you play on PC, modding to give traders a lot of money + steal from their very hard chests --> You get ALl their stuff, and quickly get 100k G. You can get all the stuff in one city in one night.

[@mustakragen6103]

Regarding Vitality - there is a way to optimize "up and down" strategy by pushing yourself to the wall under the roof which is lower than your jump height. This will lead you to series of "short jumps" which will drain your stamina very fast and help to speed process up a little. For Lockpicking - when you get your first lockpick traning from a Peshek(I have no idea what is his English name) you can pick traning chest several times(pick it, open it, look to another direction and repeat the process) this chest will runs out after you raise your picking skill to 3 or 4 which is nice start.

[@C.A.S7447]

Henry: I'm gonna go pick flowers...JUST AROUND THE RIVER BEND.. *I'm sure i butchered this...sorry lol.* 😖

[@kishinasura1989]

Looks fine to me but then again I'm from the south

[@godfreywobblewitit5074]

Its 2020. Anyone else come back to this game. And hated it at first. Now im like woa

[@erikred9927]

In the very beginning of the game on skalitz i picked all the flowers and sold them all my herbalism was level 17 and i had 500 or so gold i also stole all the potions in the general store

[@chrishyvarinen4931]

The miller in rattay has a chest je initially trains you on for lockpicking. This can be lockpicked repeatedly by opening it, then stepping back, it will close by itself, then you can approach it and lockpick it again. I raised my lockpicking to 12 in about an hour or two

[@Sherudons]

I just started stealth knocking out all the guards and hording/fencing all their armour, because curiosity demanded it. The garrisons have members all in cloth and are always happy to see me... sometimes in their own armour.

[@sniperlif3]

Lockpicking to max at the miller at rattay, when he teaches you how and tell you to pick the lock, you lock pick, open it, close it and wait, it will relock. Also, the same place, you can do pickpocketing with the miller.

[@rodrigogondarmendes820]

I found out pretty fast that Bernard is my best friend in this game.

[@nicholasholloway8743]

Rodrigo Gondar Mendes agreed, he's made me on the edge of being OP

[@soilthestillborn4949]

I absolutely despise him, he bugs out my game and I can never train with him and he breaks my game.

[@kendallmcdonald3130]

I like to learn the reading skill early on. It’s just such a good skill to have. Also, you can purchase skill books that help you earn xp on other skills

[@dravreh]

Thx - this was a great help!

[@danielrichardson132]

I just got this game and leveled locking picking to 15 so I could do very hard locks and rob merchant's. Fastest way I found was just unlock everyone's doors (making sure no one sees you). I would unlock the door then walk in the door way whistle or jump then walk back out 9/10 a person would get up to see what I was doing then just leave the houses "area" be it to the fence or just to the main road and they will go back inside and lock the door behind them. You then just rinse and repeat. Note you can only do this 2 to 3 times per house before they call the guards and it affects your reputation so just go from house to house. I did 2 to 3 cities a night and had level 15 in about 2 days, 5-6 hours playing a day.