Skyrim Anniversary Edition: How to Max all skills fast! Level 252 build (all 251 perks!)

[@autumnpico8564]

A better way to speed level pickpocket is to start the murder mystery quest in Windhelm and advance it until you have the mystery amulet. Then sell it to the killer, go behind him and pickpocket it. Then sell it back to him and repeat. You can do this an infinite amount of time, he will always buy it back from you for 500 gold. It's worth 1000 gold so it levels you super fast and you get a lot of money from it. Paralyze him or put a bucket on his head to keep him from catching you.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Nice thanks for sharing I wasn't aware of that method!

[@prisonerofthehighway1059]

You can also start the dark brotherhood quest line. The 3 bound victims are 100% pickpocket chance. You can plant and pickpocket huge amounts of gold on them. Fairly certain value determines XP.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@@prisonerofthehighway1059 that is also a great way!

[@BobbyLCollins]

@@prisonerofthehighway1059 This is incorrect. Each of the 3 bound victims still has a chance to fail any pickpocket check (even if your pickpocket skill is 100 with all the perks). You cannot dump all your gold on them and pickpocket it without being detected. There's a chest in the shack you can temporarly stash all that gold and at most, you can plant approx. 200-300 gold and pickpocket it successfully, which yields far, far better xp than anything else I tried (including those enchanted iron daggers), but it can still fail. This method requires a ton of save-scumming, but it's actually faster than the Thieves' Guild resell method.

[@neraphruneblade7903]

What I did a couple days ago was simply pickpocket 400 gold back and forth. It leveled PPocket super fast.

[@maxidiaz7955]

If you want to level up Speech by selling stuff, remember: If you sell a stack of items, it'll only count as 1 item sold worth of Speech experience! So if you want to level it up faster/using less items, you MUST sell everything one by one, NOT in stacks.

[@superalatreon1]

FUCK! And i juuuuust finished selling all the Carry Weight potion stacks to the caravan and reached 100 Speech 😭😭 i KNEW i should've come back to check the comments first ....

[@DarkmegaGaming]

theres a mod or two that fixes that.

[@sL-ym3vr]

Oh and if your duplicating stuff by fast traveling away you can just walk in and out the main entrance I think it's faster

[@MrYabber]

@@superalatreon1 LOL. The chest is connected to their inventory, so you can just go back to the chest and get all the potions back 😉😉

[@MrYabber]

@@superalatreon1 I just saw u posted ur comment a month ago lol, I’m a little late

[@ericteal7118]

Glad I found you my friend … I’m a dad as well , however I’m a bit older than you .. both of my sons are grown and have left me far behind .. all I have left now of good memories , is Skyrim. We all loved this game however we never finished it . I mentioned to them that I missed them being at home and how we had so much fun with the game .. for Father’s Day , they bought me my very own Xbox with the anniversary edition of Skyrim. So I’m beginning again , but after watching some of your videos to see what I may have been missing , I have fallen in love with the game all over again. Gonna get started and head out of Helgen , following your instructions to max out everything , just as you have shown .. Please keep the vids coming and keep me moving in the right direction . Thank you as well for taking the time to do this for the older Skyrim lovers like me .. great job .

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Ah thats great I'm glad you have fallen in love with Skyrim again, that was a lovely gift from your sons! Its a game I've left before and come back to, this is my third adventure with it after two years away, decided to give making my own videos a go as well this time! Glad you found this video useful and no problem I am working on other videos as we speak, I try and get something new out every week, sometimes that slips lol, but juggling working full time and a family (kids are only 6 and 1 lol) alongside can be hard! My dream would be to be able to do this as my job and then I can devote a heck of a lot more time to it!

[@judyclark8758]

My youngest daughter 35 and niece 38 just got me started with Skyrim. Good info is helpful.

[@FlashKillerX]

I love this, very wholesome

[@ChristopherSumner-e3x]

Love this comment ❤

[@oldmanballs]

Learn to type ​@@mike-thegamingdad

[@simhz2221]

This might cure my habit of starting over when I don't like a build - great work!

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thank you 😁

[@shaunterry1019]

To level combat skills faster, progress the Companion storyline once you've accumulated a good amount of gold, because they can train your combat skills up to level 75 I think.

[@meethooks]

One handed and bow to 75, two handed to 90.

[@Rorschachqp]

Plus Shields and Heavy Armor. You can add a follower, pay for training, trade gold back to get your money.

[@zebatov]

I avoid training in these games. Just crank the difficulty up to legendary and whack at a giant or a mammoth. Works for archery, too.

[@albumreviews11]

@@zebatov tha KS for the advice

[@danareese5260]

@@albumreviews11 I just get shadowmere. You can hit him from behind while crouching and build sneak at the same time. He helps with a ton of the skills.

[@ld12278]

To max out Alteration, obtain the Magelight spell and fast travel to Solitude. Exit the gate toward Dragon Bridge and immediately turn right, facing the mountain peak. Repeatedly cast Magelight at the peaks and the level with roll in absurdly quick

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Nice didn't know that method 👍

[@WhimsicalLittledawg]

How does this work? Does it work?

[@mrmoto6008]

Can confirm this works, just went from LVL 20 to LVL 50 in like 3 mins..

[@WhimsicalLittledawg]

@@mrmoto6008 Do you know what they're talking about? I can't understand them 😭

[@keifujitora6587]

Or just use Telekinesis after obtaining the Secret of Arcana ability from the black book quest in Solstheim Instant level 100 Alteration in 3 seconds by fast traveling when doing it

[@caryhill6792]

At 10:30, you don't have to fast travel for the duplication glitch. You can simply walk out of the Whiterun gate, and turn around and walk back into Whiterun and that will also duplicate the items.

[@aalexis69]

fast traveling to the horse stables gives me a faster load time

[@mikemadden6322]

Meh..just leave the companion in whiteout and it'll work..

[@bpdough]

You can get Sneak 100 before leaving Helgen in the beginning. Enter Helgen Keep with Ralof, kill the two imperials and immediately take the key from the captain so Ralof can't open the gate. You can sneak behind Ralof and hit him with a dagger and quickly level up Sneak. Switch to legendary difficulty to speed up the process. When finished, open the gate and continue on.

[@Newlife2811]

And now you're going to be be over leveled in sneak and have high leveled scaled enemies who will kill you in one shot.

[@SixSirens]

@@Newlife2811 not true, I do it until I'm level 70+ and yeah some enemies are harder but you almost immediately start to get appropriate gear. Stopping at the first turn only leaves you at level 18, you'll be fine.

[@prisonerofthehighway1059]

@@Newlife2811 if you get sneak and one handed to 80 and take the appropriate perks, you can one shot/backstab most enemies even on legendary.

[@davidesparza1390]

I tried this but at the bear part and it didn’t work for me

[@AGame475]

@@davidesparza1390 you did it wrong then

[@BarracudaEmpire]

Not sure if this has been mentioned already, but when you're selling items in bulk (potions from alchemy leveling for example) make sure to sell them one item at a time. If you sell multiple items at a time, only one of them counts for speech leveling. Great guide, thanks for the hard work!

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Hey yeah a couple of others have mentioned that but thank you 😁👍! Thanks glad you enjoyed it!

[@SoulOfJustice1994]

Aetherial Crown with Lover Stone helps heaps. When you are levelling up enchanting, try to get a helmet of Waterbreathing and Boots of Muffling before you reach level 20, disenchant those and enchant the gold rings you make when levelling Smithing with Waterbreathing. This way, you can have stronger enchantments if you wait until you have all the perks to disenchant things. The Muffle enchantment is just handy to have before it disappears from shop lists. Get a Poison Immunity amulet from Radiant Raiment before level 20, too. Also, to level up light and heavy armour and block, make heaps of vegetable soup, up to 90 (clone it if you have to), and then make sure you have plenty of potions and healing spells. Once you have those, go to a giant camp. Drink 30 soups, hold up your shield and let the giant have at you. When you need healing, back off and heal. As you level up your block effectiveness, you will need to back off less often. When the soup's effect wears off, drink 30 more. Levelling up your armour skills is more harrowing, but faster than just letting the guards have at you. DO NOT SWITCH DIFFICULTY TO LEGENDARY. The giant WILL yeet you to space if you do.

[@anthonybottigliero8336]

Fastest way to level Enchanting is at the Staff Enchanter, you only have to create 10 flame staves.

[@zaenalarifin340]

After 8 years of playing skyrim, I just found this video, it's like finding a treasure!!! Wonderfull

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thank you very much for the lovely comment 😁

[@Kaiserfi]

Same, this video is highly necessary for the level 78 requirement to kill a Legendary Dragon

[@mateuszwitam1260]

this is absolutely the best skyrim guide i have ever watched

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Ah thanks buddy 😁🙌🏼

[@alexwallwall9545]

I really recommend that if anyone is going for the max 252 level then for your last 5 levels of a skill go around the map and find the books… the last 5 levels are obviously the hardest to level up. Especially for something like lock picking or any of the magic skills mostly destruction. It also adds a little more variation and sometime a little more fun than just grinding out the last 5 levels

[@azsiryoduh8563]

Hearthfire homes have the same amount of plant plots. Plant the ingredients there and fast traveling across the map twice then back to the house will grow them and its a little faster then sleeping.

[@bulutberatmutlu3579]

While leveling sneak I don't recommend using a high damage dagger because it will finish the graybeards health faster and they will step back as they been hurt make you have to move again behind them but if you use a lower damage dagger like iron dagger they won't move and it still gives same amount of sneak xp. Up to legendary difficulty you can't deal enough damage to make them move and gain sneak xp in a faster pace.

[@shaunterry1019]

Also, If I remember right, use the resto potion glitch to level up smiting fast too. Just use the resto potion to create a smithing potion. If you use the smithing potion, it should take you from level 20 to 100 if the potion is strong enough. Just create any armor or weapon, and use the grindstone or table to improve it, and it should work.

[@perkitaseaman3290]

Magnificent fantastic the rewards are sweet it just works 😊🍔🍟🧋

[@edwinfrauenstein9878]

How do you make a smithing potion strong enough todo that?

[@catherinejones9221]

@@edwinfrauenstein9878 fortify restoration glitch.

[@kentangmedia5670]

I also did the same with speech skill, i sold the overvalued item to a broken seller (0 gold) for once and then it become lv 100 instantly. This potion restoration and potion enhancements glitch were just like an in game cheat.

[@drlvln]

KEEP IN MIND: Removing any item made using Resto glitch will revert enchantment back to normal amounts. And if you get an absurd carry weight and take it off, your carry weight will stay at 300 no matter if you upgrade stamina

[@ZayP730]

minor tip. you can spam left bumper instead of holding the stick to get to 1 of an item faster if its a large stack

[@Hilly_DoDa]

If you get a falmer helmet and a circlet, you can wear both with the alchemy enchant so you can make better potions faster

[@ideadlift20kg83]

For anyone confused about Myrwatch, it's a creation club thing that costs 750 credits.

[@highraven8891]

Omg I was like this place does not exist. Getting frustrated lol thanks

[@Hungry73]

@@highraven8891 same... was getting mad

[@dievas_]

But this asshole said he has no mods installed...

[@connorbrummett]

It took me a long time to find out that while being included in the Anniversary Edition--it doesn't work across Steam family share.

[@nathanheyns7135]

To level up sneak fast, crouch and hit the Greybeards from behind when they pray. For Illusion, repeatedly cast Muffle on yourself. For Conjuration, repeatedly cast Soul Trap on a corpse. For Alteration and Restoration, repeatedly cast healing and the spell that turns life into magicka.

[@professorgenki5959]

Equilibrium.

[@BrandonMcBarrettFace]

From one Skyrim dad to another, thanks for this video! One of the things that has been preventing me from starting a new character is having to level certain skills like Speech, so this is going to come in handy 🥳

[@mike-thegamingdad]

No worries other Skyrim dad 😁👍🏻🤣

[@mangchol9487]

@@mike-thegamingdadsomething that isnt mentioned here is using an SSD (if you have one). Taking a load time from ~5-20s down to 2-5 seconds saves you a bit of time across a run.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@mangchol9487 yeah hadn't thought of that 🤣 I've always had one so not noticed the difference before!

[@vasilyd8578]

24:42 weapon skills' experience is linked to base weapon damage (its damage at skill level 0). So for faster leveling it's better to use the best weapon you can get, and since you maxxed smithing and killed the first dragon you can make dragon weapons. Also there's Elemental Fury shout just near the Meridia shrine. Since you leveled up to 252 lvl in the end, you could get like 1250 lessons and don't bother as much with hitting a horse. For archery, Anga can give 6 free lessons, she lives to the South of Lakeview Manor in the mountains. And since you use restobug, you could level a lot of skills quicker, as others already mentioned: Smithing, Enchanting, Speech, Pickpocketing (if the enchantment isn't bugged without USSEP), armor skills (with maxxed defense and a million of health). You could enchant just 3 items to have zero mana cost for every school of magic.

[@Sanguivore]

Or instead of going for zero Magicka cost to separate schools, just make a single Fortify Restoration-boosted Fortify Magicka enchant on a piece of gear. If you have effectively infinite Magicka, the cost of spells no longer matters.

[@D1rtyharold]

I wish you could make a video explaining this comment....I understand the words....but need more guidance

[@johngustavobr8150]

@@D1rtyharold if you're familiar with the fortify restoration potion glitch, you can use it to make uber fortify enchantment potions, drink them and make a ring with fortify magicka that gives you millions of extra magicka, or magicka regen, or both. If you're not, just google it.

[@D1rtyharold]

@@johngustavobr8150 does it work on the PS5 version of Skyrim?

[@johngustavobr8150]

@@D1rtyharold never tried it on PS5. But it works on Xbox 360, PS3 and PS4.

[@caseysnyder5969]

If anyone is watching this video recently, I don’t have anniversary edition so I couldn’t do destruction that way. I did figure out if you go to the dark brotherhood, go to the torture victims and spam lighting rune and heal other it works really well. I’ve tried all of the different spells and seems like it gives the most xp

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Never tried that way, although you weren't far off with the Dark Brotherhood with the way I used to do it before I had AE. A few quests into the Dark Brotherhood you get Shadowmere. You can spam destruction and restoration magic on him to level it up :)

[@AGame475]

The pack only costs 100 points. And i think you start with 150. You can buy the pack. I dont have anniversary and I bought the pack.

[@jmmercy5455]

another way that's fast is to simultaneously use rune and summon companion twice. when the first one vanishes it triggers the rune and does a kill.

[@bragg94nb]

First video that actually mentions value to weight. I love it! I always go by a 10x value until late game then it goes by 10x weight and 300+ cost

[@jhomastefferson3693]

I'd argue that simply joining the companions and then paying them for training and abusing pickpocket save scumming to get your gold back is actually a faster/more effective way to level 1h, archery, and block to 75; and, 2h and heavy armor to 90 while also getting pickpocket to 100 multiple times. It also incorporates pickpocket into training the other skills and this is almost undoubtedly faster than horse training for the attack skills. You can use grelka in riften for light armor to 75 and then go straight to giants to finish armor, and go do horses after to finish weapons. You can make pickpocket legendary a few times over the course of this too, meaning you will need to do less telekinesis fast traveling later on.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Yeah training would definitely have been quicker if I'd have incorporated it at points in time when we have increased player level 👍🏻

[@jhomastefferson3693]

@mike-thegamingdad when I do a jack of all trades playthrough where I want to level and do everything, this is how I do it. And the levels from pickpocketing combined with levels from training tend to be enough to let you hit the next level until level 50 or so. Early on they will double level you. And after that point, it's a good time to start working on the crafting skills to get the rest of the way through a level so you can train again. Or, use muffle spam then, or soul trap spam on a corpse until you level up again, then go back to the trainer. I do the same thing with destruction training at the college.

[@shaunterry1019]

Aela can train archery to 75, Stonearm can train block to 75, the dark elf can train one handed to 75, villas and Farkas, heavy armor and 2 handed to 75, grelka in riften for light armor 75 I think,

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Ah yeah I always forget about the companion trainers! Its been so long since I've done that questline, great tip! 👍😁

[@damonpalovaara4211]

So to level alchemy faster you can focus on making fortify restoration spells and do the loop with fortify alchemy enchanted items. It's a loop that can be used to make very powerful potions quickly. You end the loop by making a fortify enchanting potion then use that potion to enchant an item with insane fortify alchemy. That loop alone will max out alchemy and enchanting then to level up speech you just need to sell a single insane potion. At that point you basically have infinite money with a bunch of level ups you can hold on to to pay for training. Just get the perk that lets you sell anything to any vendor. Pay for all the training you can get, then sell a single potion to get that money back, level up, then train 5 more levels. edit: I see that you used the resto loop later in the video. If you're going to use it I'd use it right away to max out alchemy, enchanting, smithing, and speech quickly. I get why you don't like it though, makes the game boring if you can one shot anything with a dagger.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thanks! Yeah my stance on it is probably odd I know, I'm comfortable using glitches like attack, save, reload to reset inventory, and also the Dawnstar chest. Yet not the resto glitch. Hypocritical I know. I think it comes from a few things, enjoyment is one as you have pointed out, save stability is another (pushing resto too high is a sure way of damaging a save), but the main that stands out is what I ultimately wanted my guides to be. I dunno if you have watched any of my builds but I wanted to present them as relatively quick solutions whereby a casual player can pick up and right from the start of the game (within say 5ish hours of set up), go and play a certain playstyle, on the hardest difficulties, and be able to manage it and have fun and get stuck into the game with all the content ahead of them. They are deliberately done so legendary difficulty is possible, but not broken enough that the hardest enemies (legendary dragons, dragon priests etc) won't give you a hard time and can still kill you. It was a bit of a balancing act. I also wanted to make the skills quick to level but to still feel like the player had achieved something by having to mini grind certain parts 😁

[@johndoe1773]

By far the most efficient and comprehensive guide out there that I’ve seen so far. Kudos! I got a save at level 257 but instead of using Alteration I’ve used Illusion (Harmony spell on Whiterun market) to level up fast. I have also found easier to pay for xp as long as the npc barters - so I have someone to sell the potions to.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thank you very much 👍. I wish I'd remembered to use the master level trainers for the combat skills in this, Nuirin, Farkas and Chief Burguk I think it is. Would have been a good use of all the gold as they are by far the most tedious to grind normally 😂

[@Lones555]

A little tip with Faendal is when you make him your follower he carries a key to his house. Take it from him and you can have all the stuff in his house for free.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Nice yeah and he also has a woodcutters axe in there as well which is useful as I've found the one that sits in riverwood is quite glitchy and doesn't always spawn so I go and take his 😁

[@roberttango9780]

I don't know if this was mentioned already, but you only need to level up your magicka skills to 10 below the next level to get access to them. For example, at level 15, you already have access to the apprentice level spells. At level 40, you have access to the adept level spells (so you only need to get restoration and alteration to 40 instead of 50 to be able to buy telekinesis and turn greater undead). At level 65, you gain access to the expert level spells (great if you want to get paralysis, which can greatly help in leveling your combat skills). And at level 90, you're able to start the radiant quests at the college and have access to the master level spells (although personally, I think the master level spells are unnecessary). As for the combat skills, I found it easier, after you prep with the magicka skills and enchanting, to get a lone giant to keep attacking you to level up light and heavy armor as well as block. Then once those skills reach 100, you can switch to paralysis to paralyze it and attack with your weapons (one-handed will go extremely fast this way). Also increase the difficulty to legendary. Once the giant's health gets low enough, you can either cast the heal other spell or the grand healing spell to restore its health. Rinse and repeat! :) Great video, by the way. I was able to also learn a few tips I still didn't know about as well.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

I think it may have been mentioned yeah but it's no problem thank you for sharing 😁👍🏻 And thanks for the tips about levelling combat as well! I completely forgot/neglected to use trainers in this as well which was a huge own goal as that makes it a lot faster, especially the companions trainers who are mostly expert and master level Thank you for watching 😁

[@SirThane13]

Combat and archery skills I used the Daedric Horse summon. You can get it from the Badlands from The Cause quest line which, IIRC, opens up at level 46. It heals so fast that it is difficult to kill. For Archery, I used the rapid fire bow exploit to speed it up considerably.

[@professorgenki5959]

OMG, forgot all about that horse. The Unicorn is better in that it takes absolutely no damage, and it doesn't despawn after a certain amount of time, so you don't have to resummon it. Also, it's MUCH easier to get than the Daedric Horse summon.

[@Oduunich]

Alchemy is also super easy to level using the broken Restoration loop to make an Alchemy item enchanted for a few thousand %. Alchemy levels based on the value of the potion crafted after all. So some Fortify Carry-Weight potions or a Water Breathing (Salmon Roe, Nordic Barnacle, Garlic) will shoot you up insane levels.

[@dmedwardsiii]

and after you make your broken potions, you can legendary your speech craft and 100 it on 1 sale

[@matthewcramsay7989]

One of the Black Books on Solsteim gives you two points for each skillbook read, so if you know where 5 books are you only need to get that skill to 90.

[@Java42069]

one thing that i think is really important that you didn't do that much is skill trainers everytime you level up make sure to spend ur gold to level up your combat skills, to my knowledge there are 3 combat skill trainers in whiterun 2 of them are in the companions which include 2 handed and bow which u can use up to lv 90, they also have heavy armour and light armour and a black smith trainer but you should level those up naturally and Amer is a one handed skill trainer up to lv 50.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Yeah definitely I'd forgotten about the companions trainers which can get you up to 75/90! Good tip 😄

[@bryanwilliams7907]

A better way of leveling archery is using the same method as sneak. Going up to the Greyveards and just sniping them with the bound bow (make sure you’re doing sneak attacks) levels faster

[@Omfguwu]

It's faster just to use the gold you're already obtaining especially on a macro level

[@AllanPopa-vd9sv]

Angi's camp on a cliff overlooking Falkreath is the best way to get the final 6 or 7 points in archery, it has a skill book as well.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Nice yeah I was up that way in a recent video of mine as there is one of the treasure maps in her drawers as well

[@titan_main]

For Archery, one-handed, and two-handed, it's definitely faster to just get training up to lvl 90, doing the telekinesis glitch to lvl up so you can train every 5 skill levels, and just selling potions to afford it. Then once you're 90, you can read 5 skill books for each, then for the final 5 levels do the quest for the "oghma infinium" and read the warriors path to get to lvl 100. You can even stop leveling block and heavy armor at 95 since you'll get the last 5 for free from the book. Archery is technically a sneak skill, but you still get the 5 levels for archery from the warrior path in the book. It sounds complicated, but even with all that it's still faster than the horse method. If you smack/shoot the horse you'll be there for like hours per skill, which is simple if you set up a macro and go afk, but if you just want to get it done as fast as possible while still actually playing the game, training + skill books + oghma infinium will probably also save you time. You can speed up the training by having 2 level ups ready when you go to the trainer. Do the telekinesis glitch and fast travel somewhere to get one level up, then "accept" your first level up by selecting magic/health/stamina, then do the telekinesis glitch again to get enough experience to level up again, but DO NOT "accept" that level up until after right after you get your 5 levels from the trainer, that way every time you visit the trainer you can get 10 levels in a skill by just immediately accepting your level up after your first 5. Also, doing the companions questline gives you access to a bunch of follower/trainers where you can just fast travel somewhere with the telekinesis glitch, level up, get 5 levels in a skill, and go in their inventory to get your money back for free. Doing the whole companions quest probably wont save a ton of time compared to hitting the horse, but you can get to level 90 on both two-handed and heavy armor from Vilkas/Farkas, and up to 75 on block/one-handed/archery from Njada Stonearm/Athis/Aela. To get to 90 on archery you can do the first couple quests from the dawnguard questline and train with Sorine Jurad, which is also a vendor so you can sell potions to get your money back after training with her, but for one-handed you'll have to gain entrance into an orc stronghold and train with Burguk from Dushnikh Yal, which isn't too bad but he's the main one that you just wont get your money back from, and it's only from 75-90 if you got the prior one-handed training from the companions. It comes down to rather you would spend hours hitting a horse, or hours making/selling potions, then fast traveling with telekinesis so you can level up to train. Regardless, stopping at level 95 on one-handed, two-handed, and archery to do the oghma infinium quest is 100% worth it since getting from 95-100 takes about as long as getting from 15-90, if not longer.

[@scubaguy007]

If they only had a super like button! Also if you had indexed each item in the description this would be the greatest Skyrim leveling video ever. It's still one of the best for sure! 😉 I leveled my two-handed and one-handed, pick pocket and lock picking using trainers since they take so long doing it doing it your way. With great respect for your effort and willingness to do a video like this, thank you.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thank you glad you found it useful! Adding in chapters is actually on my to do list, on one of my earlier videos someone requested it also, so I think tomorrow I'll get on it and get them done 👍😁

[@AGame475]

that super like is a subscribe

[@tylerboyer277]

Everything is super fast if you use restoration loop & enchanting potions. Setup- get a large level enchantment potion from the restoration loop and create a set of armor for making armor. Boot/carryweight, pants/smithy&alchemy, Chest/smithy&alchemy, helmet/smithy&alchemy Then create a god armour set. Upgrade armor to incredibly high levels and even enchant them with fortify large amounts of health and magicka. Make a sword with incredibly high numbers. Now your set up Heavy armour- have your follower equip your sword and fight them. With one hit your heavy/light/block can all reach 100. Speech- sell a potion with a huge number and bam, 100 speech. One handed- have your follower equip the god armor and fight them, smacking them over and over will upgrade your archery/onehanded/two handed. Pickpocket- craft a ring with an insane high fortify pickpocketing. Then go find a npc and put 950 gold in their pocket, then take it back.

[@BobbyLCollins]

There are some perks you don't want to get even if you follow this path. The Atronach perk in the Alteration tree causes summons to fail. Disintegrate in the Destruction tree can prevent you from looting quest items (or anything else) off corpses, Deep Freeze does the same thing as Impact, and Intense Flames causes everything on fire to run. Bullseye in the Archery tree makes you worse at archery (paralyzed foes immune to damage), and Purity from the Alchemy tree inhibits your profit from mixing rare potions. Lots of useless perks as well (Tower of Strength doesn't even work, specific damage type perks and critical damage perks don't scale with tempering or enchants, etc.). If using Fartmoor's patch, some (but not all) of these issues have been corrected.

[@superalatreon1]

So these issues are mainly present when not using the unofficial patch? Which ones does it not fix?

[@evan_a_morris]

Hey mate, i’m about to start a Vanilla playthrough (Anniversary Edition) on PS5 to get the Platinum trophy. Do you recommend against getting all of these perks to avoid any issues? If I just choose to unlock all perks will that be an issue?

[@keifujitora6587]

Tested the Atronach perk There ARE certain summons that still work with it, such as the ones added by Necromantic Grimoire creation club content Or anything without "where the caster points" description. So if the summon has you point somewhere to use, it will fail. If not, it will succeed regardless. There are exceptions however Such as Arvak, he has you point somewhere to summon but he will never fail. Durnehviir doesn't have you point and it's a shout, not summon... but it will fail.

[@professorgenki5959]

Don't forget the archery perk bullseye. It procs when you shoot the arrow, not when the arrow hits the target, which usually results in you missing the target due to them falling out of the way.

[@lewiswhite812]

Its so interesting seeing people’s different approaches at the start of the game. Embershard mine is a must before Riverwood. Bleak Falls Barrow before Whiterun too.

[@bensosnowski1128]

To level sneak faster, in the cave with the bear you can push your campanion against the wall and backstab him with a dagger repeatedly while crouched. As you level, put perks in backstab damage perks since the more damage you do, the faster sneak levels. Similar to what you can do to the graybeards

[@bensosnowski1128]

The cave with bear as you first start the game

[@bstybyz3]

I always leave Helgen at Lv 18. 100 sneak, and One Handed usually around Lv 30-33. Don't forget the steel dagger to help.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Yeah this is very true I don't know why I forgot that method when making this, I literally use it all the time 🤣

[@ianwallenborn]

Great video! I started a new character and followed all your steps but I discovered for two handed weapons you can use the aetherial crown and combine the lovers stone with whichever guardian stone (helpful for all skills really) and get The Longhammer and Elemental fury shout and you can swing that hammer like it’s a dagger and rack up those two handed skill points super fast, combine the shout with single handed weapons and bows for the same effect

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@ianwallenborn yeah that's a much better method, nice work! 😁👍🏻

[@janktobank]

At the very end, use both the Alteration and Destruction methods. Destruction doesn't level up as fast but might as well make 2 skill legendary at the same time.

[@JPSchumacher]

Dude what a guide, so straight to the point. Super easy to follow. Thank you for your service.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@JPSchumacher thanks very much appreciate the kind feedback 😁👍🏻

[@michaelduncan2392]

When it comes to skill books, I prefer to tell my follower to pick them up. I don't read them until the Isle of Solstheim, and I get the scholars' insight from the Blackbook Winds of Change. So, each skill book is like reading 2. Instead of leveling 5, you could level 10

[@Requiemslove]

With lockpicking, just acquire 800+ lockpicks, Go and find any one high level lock, start the mini game up, and rig your controller to automatically attempt the lock, you can do so with some tape or just by holding the left analog stick down on a controller. It will take a couple of hours, and it's probably a good idea to have your controller charging [so it doesn't turn off] and then just go do something away from the game for a bit. It's probably quicker than going around settlements unlocking doors, and presuming it's a dungeon lock, you don't need to have a high or maxed stealth skill to not get collared by the guards.

[@toragirsl1441]

This is a great video, I like that you've thought about how one skill will speed up the next one e.g. doing alchemy so the potion selling will make speech faster, then taking the potions back so you can then buy every soul gem needed for enchanting etc. Also maxing lockpicking before doing Pickpocket is a good tip. I watched another video on Pickpocket that hadn't shown that and it was a hard trying to pick the door and chest lock with 1 lockpick kept breaking and having to reload 😅. So much easier with all the perks as you get a wax key (I should have thought of that perk doh!)

[@minaya5751]

For faster leveling of the combat skills, you can get the shadowmere mount from progressing the dark brotherhood questline and use "overpowered weapons" from the fortify restoration glitch, this is possible due to the high health pool of the mount. (The Quotations are there because if your weapons are too strong you will kill the horse). You can also fully upgrade speech from selling 1 super-potent potion from the fortify restoration potion.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thanks for sharing those tips 😁👍🏻

[@buulecoom]

Even after playing Skyrim from release and even now, this video was extremely helpful. I've never maxed out all my skills but this did help. I mean the easy way use to be the Oghma Infinium glitch but I wasn't surprised when I had heard they patched it.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thank you glad you found it useful! 😁

[@clobzz]

wow, bethesda actually patching their bugs for once?

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@@clobzz first time for everything 🤣

[@professorgenki5959]

They only patched it due to all the little bitches that can't stay out of other people's fucking business. They gotta hide behind the internet while doing so, because they'd get rekd IRL.

[@Spirit_Junky]

Wind fury

[@Leto85]

On the road out of the other side of Helgen there are two more skill books that will permanently despawn once the Storm cloaks make their camp there, which is when you first set foot in Riverwood.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Great tip I never normally go that way, the game sort of pushes you towards Riverwood doesn't it

[@Leto85]

@@mike-thegamingdad Exactly! I had to be told myself that there are books there. Its more of a hit and run action at level 1 on legendary difficulty though; I normally don't level up until I've met certain conditions.

[@purpledevilr7463]

I went for Lockpicking first. Just going to the thieves guild, training, pickpocket gold back, repeat. It’s a bit faster. You can get about 65 Lockpicking easy without grinding locks. Just from training and pickpocketing the trainer. After that you need to do some other levelling so they can train you more.

[@carminek1473]

For one handed or two handed combat. In either an imperial or storm cloak camp, which ever suits your fancy, there is always an invincible soldier. You can attack them and after a but they'll stumble and then get back up. May be better than the horse. And since they'll always attack you once you attack them, may be useful for block as well.

[@carminek1473]

Bit*

[@ozymandeusii1576]

You can level sneak to 100 without the restoration loop by repeatedly sneak attacking Rolof or Hadvar when they give you the bow near the bear when escaping helgan, if you stealth behind them and power attack til your stamina is drained but keep the button held down u will re ente stealth right before regaing enough stam for the next power attack meaning every attack gets the stealth bonus and thus levels super fast. If thats too hands on u can also just crouch walk into a wall near the bear but it will take much longer. Can also use them to level 1 and 2 handed and des magic but they take much longer than stealth

[@nathanheyns7135]

You can also hit the Greybeards from behind when they pray.

[@evanhovis9126]

Get 4 pieces of armor that has 25% alteration cost and use telekinesis on a item then fast travel while using the spell from windhelm to markarth. This will max your alteration very fast and can be reset over and over until you are insane level

[@cheekosavoyard1293]

Don't work no more

[@ladyravenwatch]

​@@cheekosavoyard1293it does as long as you don't have the unofficial patch installed, still works for me, I'm on vanilla AE on Xbox One.

[@177Brims]

You need to get the arcane secrets perk from the blackbook at kolbjorn barrow this will give you 30 secs of free magic casting you can now cast telekenisis and fast travel

[@mylvie]

not sure if its been mentioned yet, but theres an even faster way to level illusion. fast travel to solitude and then go right outside to the mountain, and cast magelight aiming at the summit. its so fast you dont really even need cost reductions

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Oh really not heard of that one before, will have to check it out, thanks! 😁

[@williamriggs1854]

Use the companion guild trainers in whiterun. Much faster to buy levels in one and two handed while you level other skills

[@milonkill]

If you have goldenhills plantation unlocked, you can plant the scaly pholiota and Mora Tapinella at the farm, and plant the creep cluster at Mywatch. You get a ton more of the two former vs the latter, but it makes it go a little faster. Also, I tried creep cluster at the farm, and while it may work for someone else, I wasn't able to harvest it at all.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Yeah thats a good idea never thought to fill up multiple locations before and travel between farming

[@Rembrandt-wm2ze]

The creep clusters work by the front door just have to crouch and look right above them. I planted 6-6-10. Going pretty smooths besides a dragon every 3-6 days...

[@milonkill]

@@Rembrandt-wm2ze the front door? Do you mean the planters? Or the plot to the right when you walk out of the front door? I tried both, and damnit if I can't ever get the angle right! Haha

[@Rembrandt-wm2ze]

Yeah the planters

[@Rembrandt-wm2ze]

They work in the ground as well. Did the last 30 lvls working 12-12-20 hauling in 45 per load took about 45 minutes including killing 7 dragons. They spawn pretty regularly here

[@oneoranota]

Thank you for clearly explaining the restoration loop, I could never get it right !

[@mike-thegamingdad]

No problem at all 😁. You probably already know this but I'll say it anyway, be very careful with that glitch. And by careful by all means use it, but don't ever go as high as negative % numbers. If you do and save your game after that point you can break alchemy/enchanting %'s indefinitely on that save. I didn't make that overtly clear on this video but it's pretty much unrecoverable if that happens 😁

[@hermesonaires7047]

If I'm not mistaken, the Unicorn (from the special mounts quest) is unkillable. Nice way to level up the remaining 10 lvls of combat skills and maybe the upper lvls of sneaking after you've done some skill training with NPCs. You can get the Unicorn from the start, really easy "quest".

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Yeah it is unkillable, does it work levelling skills on it though? I don't know if I encountered a bug but I tried and couldn't seem to do any damage to it and because of that got no XP.

[@hermesonaires7047]

@@mike-thegamingdad Oof... So it's unkillable AND invunerable :( Back to Shadowmare it seems :v

[@vaa7514]

Starting to play Skyrim and learing how to get the most out of each quest. Novice player. Thanks for the tips.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

No problem at all and welcome to Skyrim! 😄

[@Talos2kX]

Nice guide video bro!! What I tend to do, to get sneak to 100 fast is have a dagger equipped and knife the stormcloak/imperial guy you're with in the helgen cave, knife him in the back when you're at the bear part, make sure you have a skill point in sneak too by getting your 1 handed up prior. For infinite levels I use the secret of arcana + telekinesis fast travel exploit. I've hit you with a sub too bro, have an awesome day!!!

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thank you glad you enjoyed it and thanks a lot for the sub as well that's great 😁. Yeah that's Ralof right at the start isn't it, definitely faster doing it that way 👍

[@Talos2kX]

@@mike-thegamingdad once you leave that first bit, there's a shrine of Talos nearby too with a bandit camp around the corner, you have a chance of getting an elven/dwarven sword to spawn there depending in your level, which will be boosted if you do the sneak to 100 exploit, that video is in my Skyrim playlist on my channel. Right now I'm working on getting lockpicking to 100 so I can get the pickpocket to 100 rapid, it's brutal how you only get just 1 lockpick when you're locked up in jail lol

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@@Talos2kX ah that is good to know thanks! Haha yeah the pickpocket skill is so hard to do unless you have lockpicking at 100 and all perks. With that its a breeze but otherwise its awful 🤣

[@luizrbf01]

a tip for restoration training with the Draugr in the midden, when buying to use turn greater undead, should buy repel undead too, both do basically the same thing, but the thing is, dual cast the same spell, only count as one experience, so you should use different spells in each hand, it will double the experience gain using this 2 spells.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

That's an excellent tip thank you 😁

[@Leto85]

32:45 It's not a glitch. For the Ebony Warrior quest you need to give the first blow.

[@cloutlaw5824]

I just started my unknown number playthrough of skyrim and man this video was great

[@mike-thegamingdad]

thanks glad you enjoyed it! And glad you are back in Skyrim 😁. We're all just killing time until ES6 aren't we? 🤣

[@FriedBob]

If you are using duplication, then duplicate iron ore. You'll get XP from transmuting it, and from smelting it that way.

[@empire_racing8258]

You don't get any xp from smelting ore into ingots

[@PillowEgg]

Thank you for this video, I was feeling down that I couldn't continue my progress from my 360 save to the other platforms, this will quickly get me to the progress in the game I need to be.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

No problem at all glad you found it useful 😁👍

[@YEETER41811]

For smithing, do the resto potions glitch, then make an enchanting potion to make a pair of jewelry or gloves that improve smithing by 1000 or more. After that, just grindstone an iron dagger or armor to get to 100 smithing fast or even instantly. You can also sell that same gear to improve speech super fast. (This levels up alchemy, Smithing, and speech)

[@yamatosennin9249]

almost instantly to 100 aswell

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Hey everyone! Sorry this video took a little longer to post than expected, I’ve had a lot going on in real life the last 10 days or so! I’m excited to finally bring this to you though, I’ve never done this before in over 10 years of playing Skyrim! I hope you enjoy it and have a great weekend! 😄

[@KingOfGamesss]

My Skyrim game glitched about 2 Years ago and I couldn't Reset (Legendary) my Skills any more...see the video on my channel

[@kaunissusi]

There are fast ways to level up a few skills before exiting Helgen, how come you didn't show that?

[@bemusedlist9242]

Slightly faster alchemy lvling garlic, salmon roe, and nordic barnacle 1.5k potion just dupe the ingredients

[@grim_tobe]

For lockpick, don't unlock the llocks ocks. Just break the lockpick.. also, for sneaking, you can use the horse to level it. if you don't want to advance the story to keep the dragons to not spawn.

[@miguelmondragon3958]

And after all that you can finally play the game.

[@shutuplige6524]

no shit huh?

[@xMadMurdockx]

Blud needs to touch grass

[@cheezebishh4512]

Corn balls posts is furry bait💀

[@augustsmith9553]

Blud

[@williamriggs1854]

When you're leveling alchemy, every time you level up you should go see a skills trainer! I like the light armor trainer in the market in riften and the mages at the college of winterhold bc they are all merchants so you can sell them potions to recoup the cost of the training

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Yeah I neglected to use trainers in this, I don't know why I just didnt think to use them, would have been much better for the combat skills at least as those are the slowest at higher levels I find

[@alphahempstergray3160]

A quicker way to do the gold bars is to take some from feindal before u have him pick them all up and drop them with the ones on the ground each time

[@definitelynotgore]

Watching a year later, best Skyrim video on KZbin. Easy.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thanks a lot! 😁🙌🏼

[@mckorr2116]

Goldenhills Plantation, once you get it all upgraded, produces a lot of gold for you, and all you have to do is wait, then ask your steward for it. A few days can generate LOTS of money.

[@jesselee8404]

Does anyone know about the glitch where the kid is marked by the quest but isn’t visible? I wanna use this house but can’t get any further 😢

[@lumen_chagak]

Fire enchanter augmented flames and aspect of terror all work together fire enchanter and augmented flames makes fire enchants stronger and augmented flames and aspect of terror increases the damage of fire spells. You can also get a fortify destruction potion which give temporary damage boost get enchant to 100 and you have a zero cast pyromancer build :)

[@Altrariel]

Thanks for this guide dude ! I'm myself not that young and it helped me a lot in leveling my second character on pc (though I had the game on console a long time ago). Greetings from France !

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@Altrariel no problem at all, you're very welcome 😁🙌🏼

[@ricksher1320]

I have found that if you use heavy strikes as often as possible when leveling 1 handed weapons and two-handed weapons it seems to go a lot faster. 1 heavy strike seems to be equal to about 5 normal strikes. I also leveled up sneak while leveling 1H and 2H, just crouch behind the horse and move back, crouch and hide, move up and heavy strike, move back and repeat.

[@-Untitled-]

OK, first stealth, before leaving the starting area helgon sneak attack the guy that helps you out, he's a invincible npc, 2nd dawnstar secret chest near mine, get all magic stuff then disenchant and get loads of gold. Wait a day to reset. Get spell muffle, this levels up illusion way fast soultrap on dead animals. Assassin guilty quest, get horse and attack it to level up attack and destruction magic. Not watched your video yet, but hope this helps.

[@SargeWolf010]

For lockpicking I recommend joining the thieves guild getting the skeleton key and then leaving 😅 only returning after completing all special jobs and getting unbreakable picks...

[@aaroncook6252]

Had a lot of fun using your guide. Thanks man!

[@mike-thegamingdad]

No problem Aaron 😁👍🏻

[@jakehouston7721]

You can level a lot of the weapon perks using the companions. For example Aela will level you higher than level 50 on the archery.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thanks yeah she can take you to level 75, and Nuirin the archer from in the Thieves Guild goes all the way 90. I completely forgot about the trainers when doing this 😫

[@TheSCPFoundation-v3r]

I keep comeing back to watch this amazing edit 😄

[@stevecochrane9531]

Many thanks, Mike! Well... I finally did it! Level 252 will all skills to 100, and all perks! I was even able to use vampiric grip with my character's left hand, and the character is wearing well-enchanted Ancient Falmer light armor. So, I made ALL skills "Legendary" (except lockpicking), and will see how long it takes to get to level 504(?). By the way, my character STILL has many of the original potions from the first round in Myrwatch. Thanks, again, for such a great guide! 👏

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Ah excellent I'm glad you managed to do it, and no problem at all 😁🙌🏼

[@BobbyLCollins]

garlic + nordic barnacle + salmon roe = big money potions at level 1. Tons of nordic barnacles in the sunken ship in the lake between Riverwood and Falkreath, tons of salmon roe in every river with salmon jumping upstream, and tons of garlic everywhere. *If using Fartmoor's patches, disregard.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

thanks for the tip!

[@EndreyMusic]

You can get salmon roe a lot faster by shouting at ordinary salmon, once they die you get salmon roe from them too

[@strawb3rryschildkrote665]

Sneak can be max leveled in the tutorial. Set the difficulty to Legendary and sneak attack Hadvar/Ralof when they follow you at the bear. You will have to wait 5 seconds between each slash until you get the first sneak perk, and can then spam sneak attacks. you can use any of the iron daggers found in the tutorial, or you can use the Steel Dagger found on the Torturer. Additionally, since this is Anniversary Edition, you can level up Enchanting faster by taking the Unenchanted Staffs and Heart Stones from Myrwatch, and enchant them in Bloodchill Cavern. Staff Enchanters have a glitch that gives them 20x xp, but there are specific triggers that undo the effect. The one in Myrwatch is undone by getting the house, but the one in Bloodchill Cavern is only undone by going to Solstheim. Enchanting the two staffs will get you near enchanting 80, so you can do the duplication glitch shown in this video to get a couple more. You can reach level 252 faster by doubling up Destruction and Alteration leveling, by using Unbounded Storms AND Telekinesis at the same time, just fast travel to uninhabited areas to level it.

[@brodaciousmax8025]

I haven't even watched yet but the comment section alone is a treasure trove of info!!!

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Yeah lots of good ones left! 👍🏻😄

[@GriffinatorOriginal]

If you use the restoration loop to make a potion worth over 500k gold and sell it to a merchant whether they have any money or not you instantly get to 100 speech. I did it on accident when I had leftover fortify restoration potions on me after the loop. Also using a looped fortify smithing potion to improve any weapon once jumps you to 100 smithing. I had a fortify smithing potion at something like “improve weapons and armor 56767977% better” and one improved steel great sword shot me all the way there. Basically if you’re already by doing the restoration loop you can skip a lot of these steps for some skills.

[@jetpaq]

This is the best of the best of these videoes!!! Well done mate!!!!!😀

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@@jetpaq thanks a lot 😁🙌🏼

[@Ostrom2]

For block, one handed, two handed. You can get a follower with those skill training option. The huntress in the companions will train your bow higher aswl

[@tiamatveldrin954]

as far as i know combat experience (melee, ranged, destruction) is based the amount of damage you actually do (based on basedamage of the weapon, so not with whatever you enhanced it to at the grindstone). so if you up the difficuly to the max you are doing less damage and actually get less experience, up the difficulty to the point where you don't instantly kill the horse and heal it up (as far as i know the sneakdamage does up the experience on weapon experience as well, but im not sure about that) also, if you don't feel like abusing the everlasting shit out of a horse, do keep in mind that both sides of the civil war have outposts and the commanders within them are also flagged esential, so you could also hit/heal them without risking to kill them

[@Lkilkenny]

I know this is a year later- but for smithing, fast travel to morthal, and somewhere on the river east of morthal there is a boat wrecked on the bank. There is a guarantied flawless diamond there. Dup that with the gold bars, and you will only need about 100 of each. Make the diamond gold necklace, which is worth the most out of all the jewelry items. They are worth 1200, so selling them will also get that speech skill leveled up

[@mike-thegamingdad]

That's a nice method not heard of that morthal flawless diamond, thanks for sharing 😁

[@Andys5v8]

It’s great to hear a northern accent! I feel at home. You have earned yourself a sub my friend

[@mike-thegamingdad]

🤣 haha awesome thank you for subscribing I really appreciate it! 😁👍

[@TheDevastator619]

Found lots of fun useful tips and tricks here. Can’t say I’ll personally tend to the more exploit-y ones, but this was a fun watch. I gotta look up the speed run record for this!

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@TheDevastator619 that's great! 😁 Yeah its not to everyone's taste but was fun to do! I've not revisited this save that often as once it's done you are grossly overpowered, but it's fun to play God from time to time 😉

[@denispetrov844]

finish the --Compa-nions questline so you get all their followers, they can train your Archery/Two-Handed/One-Handed/Block to 75. While doing the fast-level-up for the other skills, keep each corresponding follower trainer with you for every lvl-up you get, use 5 training, trade back your gold and repeat. At the end you will have a lot less of "why is this guy hitting his horse" :D :D

[@ephemeralenhancement9445]

For smithing, making diamond necklaces with flawless diamonds and gold is even faster! Use the duplication glitch for the gold bars and flawless diamond (find on a little ship in the river near Markarth) and then make those becklaces. They are worth a lot of gold, so it levels up way higher than the gold rings!

[@DynastyLuminous46]

I would refrain from reading skill books until the skills in question are at lvl 90 and use the Scholar's Insight black book power to gain 2 levels from a skill book, that way going from lvl 90 to lvl 100 in a skill is a breeze.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Good tip! 😁

[@drewcaynes8725]

Awesome video mate!!! Many thanks from Australia, I have come to the same problem as you stated at the start. This video is perfect!

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thank you! Glad you found it useful! 😁👍