Skyrim Anniversary Edition: Best Start Guide!

Skyrim Anniversary Edition: Best Start Guide!
In this video I will cover off the first couple of hours in game, showcasing important points like, fast skill levelling, how to make gold quickly, strong early game weapons and spells, secret locations and more!
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[@davidentz7440]

Grab the Honningbrew Mead off Gerdur, so when you come across the revelers, select "why have one when you can have two" in the speech selection option and they will give you the charmed necklace, a +25 to carry weight enchantment. If you keep the other bottle, you might come across them again, and they will give you another charmed necklace for disenchanting.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

That is an excellent tip I will definitely use that thank you!

[@simonmacomber7466]

If you sell firewood to the innkeep at the Bannered Mare, you get your bed for free, forever. You can also take most, but not all of the items from the inn without stealing, including the wine bottle that the beggar wants.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Nice yeah I usually neglect the firewood trick as its only 10 gold for the room for 24hrs but I always forget you can then take stuff, good tip! 😁👍

[@marzix427]

I always want to try a different type of style, but it always devolves into me being a stealth archer, just so much fun.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Haha yeah that is 'the' Skyrim build isn't it! I agree its more fun though

[@davidentz7440]

Try 2 handed weapons. Now that can be a lot of fun. If you have Danwguard dlc, go to their HQ near Riften. Get their 2 handed war hammer, then head to black briar lodge place and kill the mercenaries. They are early on much easier than you realise. Grab the full plate armor. Now you are set as a Warhammer character. Make sure you always improve them at a blacksmith. Or try stealth assasin. Going invisible sneaking up to your prey and killing them (even in a crowd) and then going invisible again. Most times even the guards don't know you did the killing. Or Conjurer and you can literally have a small army do your fighting for you. Or go full destruction mage with flame/lightening cloak. Get ignite or any flame spell, which can be enhanced with augment flame and aspect of terror perks and destruction potions, which can make you pretty much invincible and can kill a small army around you. So many possibilities in this game

[@marzix427]

@@davidentz7440 the problem is that swinging a 2h always seems so hard, I miss a lot and its annoying. I'm ready for a new game.

[@stanettiels7367]

I feel you, bro.

[@HungrySolarSystem-BB25-09Alpha]

Why not just be a one handed god with two one handed weapons enhanced and you buffed up too the max where it's only a hit or 2 too kill anything that's not huge

[@Jim90117]

For those wanting to play on Legendary difficulty just be aware that enemies scale harshly with your level, if you hyper level up with non combat skills (sneak, alchemy, blacksmithing etc) and neglect offensive skills like 1/2 handed/destruction and armor skills, you will become very soft and will start getting wrecked and one shot by enemies.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Yep great tip! 😁👍🏻

[@flabbergasted6231]

There are a total of 12 chests in bleak falls barrow. Some hidden and some out in the open. In embershard mine there are a total of 3 chests. Also if you have the restoration spell turn undead you can go into the hall of the dead in white run and kill all but one of the skeletons in there and use the spell on it to level up restoration. There is also a draugr in the midden that you could level up restoration on. If you join the companions and become harbinger with a few quests you can then do the same follower and training trick with them that you did with Faendal. They have different skill training options and I believe they go up to level 75. The dawnguard chick Sorine also levels up archery to level 90. Then you can find Angi's camp and she can help level your archery skill as well. The Orc camps are a great place to get money with brawling with the Orc chief. Some of the chiefs can help you level up skills too. The khajiits caravans also offer skill training. Riften is a great place to level up speech as well. The riften prison guard, Maul, the gate guards, saphire. Oh and to save you a fist fight with Micheal in the bannered mare you can simply give a gold to a beggar and pass the persuade test with ease which also levels speech. There is also a speech book in the merchant shop, an alchemy book in arcadia's shop. I have more tips if anyone starting out for their first playthrough has questions. There are also tons and tons of ingredients hidden in helgen when you escape. Check the skeevers that have been covered in webs that are hanging up from the ceiling and you will get skeever tails. There is also a desiccated body that is hanging there as well that has loot. And you missed one skeleton when looting them. Right before you go through the tunnel there was a skeleton on the left on the floor that you can loot. In bleakfalls barrow there are also tons of skeever tails you can get and some glowing mushrooms.

[@jeffrey8941]

Wow

[@redbug3696]

Ya could a just made your own video ya know! 🎉

[@Domaister420]

Keep in Mind, that equipping the PickAxe and hitting ores w/light attacks is way faster then clicking the mining button

[@Dark_Walker_]

By the time you have equipped the pick, attack the mine and re-equip your weapon I will be long gone with the more. But I don't begrudge you your fun.

[@MrWhippss]

Fastest is shield bashing with the pickaxe

[@sg.o7139]

Add them to favourites it's literally 1 or 2 seconds to switch from weapon to pickaxe ​@@Dark_Walker_

[@theprestige5472]

I recently started playing a new save and this is seriously very helpful. I have played the game multiple times for a long time,but I haver never played it so optimized lol

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thank you! Ha yeah I think this is a product of playing far too many new playthroughs of Skyrim lol... I know those first few locations like my own house. I tried to keep this one quite generic, but I've almost finished pulling together my first more in depth build guide. I'll be finishing the audio tonight and then getting this up tomorrow so will be interested in seeing what you think as I plan to do a few more of those :D

[@amorky8391]

I've just started my first play through of skyrim and this has been the most helpful video I've found. Thanks so much!

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thank you! Glad you found it useful 😁

[@Scottmelhuish]

Just started playing a few days ago. Realised I knew nothing and went through the bazillion guides here on KZbin. Your the only one that talks clearly, explains your choices and pointed out things like sword skill practise on poor old Matf. Cheers.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

That's awesome welcome to the world of Skyrim (I'm still here 11 years later haha 🤣)! Glad you found my guide useful!

[@metalsnake27]

Thank you for this. My first time playing skyrim and I feel so overwhelmed

[@mike-thegamingdad]

no problem at all glad you found it useful and welcome to Skyrim, wish I could experience it all again for the first time 😁

[@minnowfood9252]

Thank you I followed this guide probably 90 percent but couldnt figure the nettlebane quest out but I have leveled up to 19 just by this guide alone

[@mike-thegamingdad]

That's great! Sorry the nettlebane one is my fault in order to get the witches to spawn for nettlebane, you have to actually start the quest which is done by talking to the priestess in the whiterun temple. Once that's done it's available, otherwise the location of the knife is empty 🤦‍♂️

[@KrystofM]

You don't have to brawl Mikael. Just give one coin to a beggar and you will almost always persuade him. And there are also at least two npcs in the beginning who you always persuade. One is whiterun guard and second one is Loreius (or something like that) who live on gis farm northeast from whiterun. He's part of one interesting sidequest named delayed burial. I think they all level up your speech

[@knowbuddyknows2814]

it is about time somebody made a walkthrough guide the way it should be done thank you keep up the good work

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thank you very much 😁👍🏻

[@jessieparks7751]

I never would have thought to do any of that. Thanks for the tips.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

You're welcome! 😁

[@RinKirit0]

If you equip the dagger and sneak behind Rolof you can get your sneak lvl 100 and gain around 15 levels within 20-25 mins before even opening the Belgian gate key

[@RinKirit0]

15-25lvls

[@RinKirit0]

Also can grind for as long as u want. Also upgrades one handed

[@RinKirit0]

This skips trying to level up sneak with the bear, u can do both at the first pojnt

[@RinKirit0]

and use dagger because you can get more hits in cause it does less damage

[@Alexandru1996_]

The mission picking and the locations to clear is helpful, i forget every time to go clear the bandit camps north of Whiterun.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thank you! Yeah they are good locations for early loot and a few useful items like the transmute spell etc

[@howardwaldron3863]

My man this video is absolutely amazing

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Ah thank you glad you enjoyed it 😁

[@danielr.golightly38]

Save your skill books for your final ten levels of your skill line. I think the limit is six books per skill. So six skill level ups. But with one of the Black Books in Solsteim you can get that changed to two skill level ups per book. It takes nothing to level up in the early game. Don’t waste it in skill books.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Good tip! 😁

[@mcmalave2789]

Actually, there are 5 books for a given skill. I agree on that tactic to save skill books to the end.

[@MrMoistMatrix]

This is a very underrated channel

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thank you! I only decided to start in on 20th July so still early days, got plenty of ideas for videos and guides planned though (next one has been filmed just needs editing and posting tomorrow night!) so hopefully it will grow 😁

[@lorgren4002]

Played this game a lot but stil learn something new. Like the video

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thank you 😁

[@lunadiamoor29]

I like how the love triangle includes all different races a nord an imperial and a bosmer

[@tylermorton854]

Love that someone finally mentioned the value-weight ratio

[@chilboswaggins5500]

But you should max enchanting in every playthrough. Therefore never leave one single weapon behind regardless of ratios or what other items are left behind. Sneak + carry weight doesn't add as much value as banish + paralyze, especially with smaller gems. The only weapon enchants worthy of your time are absorb health (available LV 1), chaos damage, banish and paralyze (all 3 available LV 22). Ignore fear & turn undead.

[@Nanomaroni]

I've watched now 3 videos of yours and I find them one of the best for Skyrim Content out there! Then I was shocked you only had 3'000 subs. You're a treasure even for a Veteran Skyrim Player like me (almost 4'000 hours)!

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thank you for the feedback I'm glad I can help out in someway and make this game as enjoyable for others as it is for me still after 10 years 😁. I only decided in July '22 I'd have a go at making my own videos after watching creators like ESO for years and enjoying what he did, I had to teach myself basic video editing from scratch haha as I was so new to it. So I'm still amazed I've managed to get 3k people already who like them enough to follow 🤯. I'd love to be able to quit the day job and do this full time like some other creators so we will see what happens in the future! 😁

[@ryanrogers8211]

Excellent video my dude!

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thank you 😁

[@azarghadimi4492]

Best heavy armor and wepons at lv1 in skyrim anniversary edition is the armor of the champions and their weapons are super powerful you can get it at lv 1 just go to the archery shop in whiterun and read the note on the counter you should start the quest remember to keep 1 full set lf imperial armor for tricking the dude into giving you the imperial version of the champion's armor

[@Rohaku216]

Solid guide to start Skyrim really.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thank you!

[@kylehartley3822]

In the bear cave, use a dagger in your right hand. 3x damage makes the leveling much quicker

[@DEUS_VULT_CROATIA]

Why not with the bow right from the entrance as soon as your eyes look on him. One arrow to the head

[@supersonic889]

Do it in the first room with Ralof instead. It’s much easier.

[@Leto85]

There are also some eggs in a basket in the room where you took those potions from a barrel.

[@Adam-wt5id]

Everyone has a different approach, and different playstyles, but if you are playing AE with all the content, I recommend ALL characters prioritize a few things early. 1) get dragonrend ASAP so you can actually fight dragons when they show up or at least die to them faster as opposed to a long drawn out fight 2) get started on the farming DLC ASAP to make gold, and grow the proper ingredients for alchemists and to make good potions you want/need. Remember alchemy is the easiest way to get effects that have percents wayyy over 100% and increase your damage massively or help keep you alive. 3) one of the first things you should do is utilize the carriages to travel to each hold and get some fast travel start points so you can more easily approach quests from the beginning. 4) if you happen to be a warrior get the ebony blade ASAP because it cant be upgraded without the mod that patches it and its more than good enough to help you until you’re ready for better weapons.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

All good tips thank you for sharing 😁

[@supersonic889]

I made my sneak skill level 100 in 20 minutes in that first room with Ralof. Sneak attack him before you unlock the door. Trust me.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Even before you have a dagger? I've always found it works better with a dagger but good to know! 😁

[@Retired_Geek_Woman]

VERY nicely done! I play exactly the opposite of you. *laughs* I'm not very efficient and after a very long time playing, I think I'm level 15. You did that in no time. I also just started a gaming channel here on KZbin but my videos are play throughs and very long. I suspect you will be quite successful as your videos aren't very long and are super useful. I learned a lot watching your first one!

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thank you! The efficiency I think is a product of playing Skyrim far too much! Pretty much a decade now, across the original game, remastered and anniversary editions. Also started on PS3 initially, then PS4 and now PC haha. Probably need a new game but I love it too much still 😂. That's cool you've also started, there seems to quite a few new channels popping up I've seen also playing Skyrim. Its great it has so much popularity still. I'll give your channel a follow and check out your videos sometime! 😁

[@Retired_Geek_Woman]

When I look at hours played on the games in my game library, Skyrim is the second most played when you count the various versions plus the disk version I had first. And that's with over 30 years of gaming. I look at new games and even buy one from time to time. But few can keep my interest like TES games. Few have that immersion that I am looking for when I sit down to play a game. So who cares that you/we/us keep playing Skyrim. My problem is continuing past level 16 or so. Hopefully by committing to post game play videos of it, I will be inspired to keep going. In an upcoming video, I come across a new quest I've never seen before in almost 11 years of playing. I suspect that will continue happening. Thanks for the sub and watch! I see that you have hit over 100 subscribers. Congrats! That's my first goal. Then on to 1000!

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@@Retired_Geek_Woman yeah I love that about skyrim, even to players with lots of hours, it always seems to throw something new into the mix you have never seen before. I can#'t wait for TES6, whenever that comes out (probably a few more years lol), just for that 'first time' experience again. I'd love to forget skyrim and play again for the first time. Thank you 😁 yeah 1000 feels far away doesn't it, I'm sure we will both get there eventually 👍

[@Retired_Geek_Woman]

@@mike-thegamingdad There is nothing like playing a game for the very first time. And you are right that you can't get that leve of excitement back. Yes there is plenty of great play where we haven't experienced a particular quest, scene or part of the map before. But that day one on any game is incredible. I don't care how good/bad TES6 is, I'll be throwing my money at it as soon as they will take it!

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@@Retired_Geek_Woman haha you and me both then, we will be doing a brand new lets play of it at the same time 😁

[@ashiagefa646]

It comes to how long you want to play a single character, leveling up sneak is the worst in a long playthrough, the enemies will be very strong and you will still be having low damage, leveling up combat skills is acutally second best, because later you need a way to go beyond default damage, best is to start out maxxing enchantment, then feel free to go with any style you wish

[@mike-thegamingdad]

A combination of levelling archery and getting the perk which gives you 3x sneak archery damage means kills can be 1 shots. Likewise the one handed or dagger perks (6x and 15x damage respectively) are equally as deadly, the latter especially, that's pretty much always going to be a one hit kill at 15x damage, but you are reliant on staying in sneak mode to kill, so the style of play can be only be that thief/assassin style play. It's no use for a two handed warrior, or a mage. I wouldn't say its a weak playstyle in the long run, it's actually very strong, it's just specific. But yes if you.level enchanting, alchemy etc, you can make any gear you want that'll be very strong and then do anything

[@Spckeck]

Picking all 5 locks, the 3 cages, the cell on the left as you go down the hall, and the one on the right will lvl lockpicking once.

[@Trephining]

Yeah, it took me until my fourth play through I think before I realized that I should just be running right past those and not picking any of them.

[@anthonyo4346]

Stay crouched while ranking up one handed and you will also rank up sneak.

[@Aarix_Tejeha]

You can get breeze home free. Wait till he goes to sleep, wake him up and ask for the home, before he takes the gold, turn to his dresser, and place the gold there. You'll get the keys and deed.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Wow that's crazy! 🤣

[@artsyork3915]

2nd playthrough and i have to say this is an excellent guide.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thank you glad you found it useful 😁

[@sethharris813]

Make sure to also catch the salmon jumping up the waterfalls in the river flowing from Riverwood to Whiterun. This will give you precious salmon roe which is arguably one of the best alchemy ingredients. Combine it with garlic and nordic barnacle to make a potion of water breathing that has a crazy resell value AND alchemy experience. Just catch em when they're jumping out of the water to go spawn upstream. Like a bear does. Also if we're talking anniversary edition then I've also added a new leg to my first missions in and around the starting area. I go and immediately get the Staff of Hasedoki. It's one of the best items in the whole game and you can get it at its full power at level 1 right out of Helgen. I recommend doing it before levelling too much as the enemies you encounter will be kind of a pain. Then at my leisure I go to get the Staff of Worms and Bloodworm Helm in Gallows Hall. These are also immediately available and will be of infinite value. Sometimes it pays to do Gallows Hall before getting the Staff of Hasedoki as the thrall power from Staff of Worms will make it much easier.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thanks for sharing those are great tips, I've used that specific alchemy combination a lot before 😁👍🏻

[@Andarus]

I will NEVER understand people that min-max in Skyrim. If there is any Game to NOT min-max, its Skyrim...

[@AnimeCultist15]

When I start a new game I usually like do as follows: Stay on level 1, make it to whiterun collecting gold, butterfly wings, and snowberries, unlock the whiterun stables and head to either solitude, dawn star, markarth, or even all 3, and loot the khajiit chests and if you can, grab any gear that lessens illusion cell cost and raises magika, now head back to whiterun, and run west, to the sleeping tree camp, collect the tree sap from the tap attached to the tree and then head into the cave, you need to be quick when you do this but I usually rush straight to the chest and loot the sap in there and then quickly collect the note on the orc which will start the quest to turn in the sap for money as well as whatever sap he has on him. Now I head to whiterun, hire the dark elven woman from the drunken huntsmen and then go back outside, now I start the duplication glitch, storing any extra items in one of the barrels outside of war maidens, as well as leveraging off of the ability to store extra sap in the barrels until I have about 1000 in my inventory, then I wait till daytime to find ysolda, tell her you found the orcs note and she offers you the option to turn in tree sap , this will instantly give us 150,000 gold as they sell for 150 for her as she pays an extra 50 gold as a personal deal. Now this is where we go to dragonsreach and speak to farengar, who should be able to sell us the muffle illusion spell, then we go to tel mythrin, and pay neloth for enchanting training, using all those septims we earned , it’ll get to a point where the 5 levels no longer levels your character up, when this happens, just spam the muffle spell and wait and spam and wait and so on, to increase your level illusion skill points until you can level up again and unlock 5 more level ups, this will get you to level 90 in no time, no I usually go back to whiterun and duplicate grand soul gems and whatever item I have 2 of, until I have about 60 of each, and simply go to dragonsreach and enchant the items as well as learning enchantments, this ends up taking under 5 minutes, and the sweet thing is, even if you don’t have the enchantments you’d like to put on your own gear, you’ll still have roughly 70,000 gold to go around every general goods and clothing store in Skyrim, where you’re bound to find the sweet enchantments you need. Now I go to riften, and go into the river surround in the city and catch Abecean longfins and Cyrodiilian spadetails until I’ve got roughly 25 of them each. Now I return to whiterun and go to arcadias couldron, where I’m going to pay her for training till I’m at level 30, now I go into my menu and use my skill points on enchanting to unlock the first 5 perks, and the skill enchantment buff perk, as well as the alchemist as much as I can, and level up my tree till I select benefactor. Now I enchant a helm, a ring, and braces with the alchemy enchantment for 25% stronger potions, and create a resto potion and enchanting potion as well, I usually do this so when I’m doing the resto glitch, I can check in on my enchanting potion estimate to ensure it doesn’t make it passed 4000% as that’s usually too broken and the game becomes less fun, I like my health capped at about 3500, then I make some way overpowered enchanting potions once I’ve got my game friendly ones so I can have gigantic amounts of magika and stamina. Now I use one of the giant enchanting potions to enchant a piece of clothing with the smithing enchantment, with this, my smithing will fly to level 100 if I so much as enchant an iron dagger, and then I sell that same iron dagger to Adrianne or Eorland in whiterun, which will level my speech up to 100 instantly as well. I usually accomplish this within 2 hours of gameplay, with the longest part of this being the duplication of the sleeping tree sap At this point I have: 100 Alchemy 100 enchanting 100 smithing 100 speech And then I usually go on to perform the alteration and destruction exploits, spam rally in blue palace for illusion levelling, and violate a mud crab with soul trap for conjuration, which can be done in the space of 45 minutes depending on how quick you travel to the destinations required That’s 8 skills to level 100 in the space of 3-3.5 hours After this I usually activate the warrior stone and then start my playthrough, and my combat skills seem to level up in no time at all as I play the game. This makes playing the vanilla game so fun, and even on legendary difficulty, you experience the thrill of an amazing character, without being too broken to die, as well as earning trophies for your accomplishments, there’s really no better feeling than

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Very nice, some alternative methods there I've not seen before 😁👍🏻

[@AnimeCultist15]

@@mike-thegamingdad yes , nothing wrong with the way you do it though brother, it’s a very crafty and effective method and probably less annoying and boring than my method. everyone’s got their style, ultimately I think we can all agree Skyrim is a beautiful game, and I consider everyone who plays it, kinsman ahahah 💪🏽 👑

[@RaptorRed79]

If you have the anniversary edition it would be more worth while to get the house outside of Whiterun. I believe it comes fully equipped. i find it's a better deal the Breezehome inside Whiterun.

[@prarambhaaryal6621]

Plantation golden hill is the way to go

[@devastatingd3306]

Great guide! Thanks for taking the time.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thank you and no problem at all 😁👍🏻

[@devastatingd3306]

So many great guides. I'd love to see a playthrough, starting from one of your build guides or this one.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@devastatingd3306 have you seen any of the let's play series yet? We are up to about episode 13 of that I think. Its survival mode focused but I try and talk through my decision making as I go. And it follows a fairly similar path to the steps I follow in this video here, you just get to see the whole lot unedited.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@devastatingd3306 have you seen any of the let's play series yet? We are up to about episode 13 of that I think. Its survival mode focused but I try and talk through my decision making as I go. And it follows a fairly similar path to the steps I follow in this video here, you just get to see the whole lot unedited.

[@devastatingd3306]

​@Mike - The Gaming Dad I am following the Let's Play! The Survival mode must be throwing me off. Great series so far tho!

[@trevorbakerNUGGA]

When farming rolof my suggestion is to crouch with the highest base damage one handed weapon the axe equipped and a damage spell in the left hand. Crouch behind rolof and hit him for stealth attack damage leveling sneak and one handed. Wait in between strikes as sometimes it will stop counting for stealth if you repeat too quick. Stealth levels super fast btw for perk points, unleash your full mana bar into him with your spell to level your magic

[@johnnywells7510]

wow this was impressive and narrated very well and entertainig

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thank you very much 👍🏻😁

[@maunaowakea777]

I would love to see you do this video for the anniversary edition on survival mode!

[@mike-thegamingdad]

I can definitely add that to the list! I've been thinking about doing some sort of survival mode guide/walkthrough

[@chadalpha7983]

Adrienne's little quest is actually really good to finish, she almost always gets killed by vampires and you get an inheritance

[@gbirdnonsense1084]

Another reason to run with the stormcloaks at least out kt Helgen, is to get a bed to stay in at Riverwood. This is welcome especially if you're in survival mode

[@fletch4231]

I usually go the route of a heavy armor nord with strong ungha bungha weapons with magic :P I might try a more focused build next time I happen to play

[@lunarcontact]

Great tips but doesnt take anniversary fully into account. For instance, grabbing hilda early to summon and carey is huge. Also Goldenhills. And proventus’ wuest for Invisibility bow etc

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Yeah I think I got too bogged down in focusing on what you could do in the immediate vicinity of whiterun city. But yeah the bow is a good shout, I also thought some of the new armors would have been good to put in this, you can start the battle of champions quest from whiterun and that has some of the best armor in the game available right at the start

[@uselesstuber5005]

Subscribed :)

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thank you I appreciate it!

[@mazroon]

Another thing you can do is raid Faendals house after you befriend him.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Haha I do love how a small favour for someone in Skyrim = take all my stuff for free!

[@omarzakoc4943]

Dude not sure if you will read this but thank you for this

[@mike-thegamingdad]

No problem buddy glad you found it useful 😄👍

[@Leto85]

That's interesting: normally when you get the Dragonstone before getting the quest from Faendal, Delphine and her unique book won't be there. But in this video she was. Has this been patched?

[@poolhall9632]

The best start is to never go see the Jarl in White Run, so the goddamn dragons don't attack you 😅

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Haha that is very true, my latest save I've not even done Bleak Falls Barrow and it's so nice to not walk out of a building to a dragon attack 😂

[@poolhall9632]

@@mike-thegamingdad I actually only recently started playing Skyrim and I'm in my early 40s. I'm not sure how I missed this game, but I'm certainly making up for it now. Subbing! Edit: used to live in Chalfont St Peter, Bucks UK 😉

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@poolhall9632 thank you for the sub I appreciate it 😁 I'd love to go back and be able to play this game as a new player. Not jealous at all 😉. Ah nice, I'm front the north west originally, but I live on Yorkshire now with my family. I don't think I've been to Chalfont before, don't know Buckinghamshire that well, but I had a friend that lived in Aylesbury so I've been there a few times. Think that's further north. And of course I've been to the concrete jungle that is Milton Keynes many times 😂

[@poolhall9632]

@@mike-thegamingdad you'll have to go a bit further south of Milton Keynes to get to Chalfont. It's not too far off Watford where the M40 meets the M25. Still my favorite place I've lived. My only regret is becoming a Tottenham supporter as a child 😓 hahah. My second team is Huddersfield town - for Sir Patrick, Capt Picard. Cheers!

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@poolhall9632 Hopefully Spurs will get that elusive trophy soon 😉 it could be worse though, I support my hometown Bolton, we've had a really rough few years 🤣. Good old Patrick Stewart! 🙌🏼

[@pallegantzhorn3742]

It might be true that going with Ralof is better when entering the castle, BUT i you go with Hadvar you get access to much better loot from his uncle in riverwood, like free iron ore bars from his smith. ofc you could just steal it, but if you wanna play as a honest char, i highly recommend hadvar instead

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Nice thats awesome 😄

[@toragirsl1441]

Big fan of how efficient this is! Don't think I've seen that many quest markers in Whiterun before lol Valdr's dagger is this good? I always thought it wasn't so just stored it.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

It is better early on, it does lose value the further along you get as the critical hit doesn't scale with the weapon, its based off the dagger's base damage. Its still not a bad dagger I think, especially for a mage where you might not carry a weapon but its good to keep a dagger just in case you ever need it!

[@toragirsl1441]

@@mike-thegamingdad ok will consider it in the future. I only started playing Skyrim earlier this year but I love it, wish id discovered it a lot earlier!

[@chilboswaggins5500]

I curse my high elf with a bit of superstition. He always carries that lucky dagger at his hip, but only fights with either fists or the bound bow. The dagger provides no luck boost for finding valuables, but he keeps it handy just in case. After all, the girl who gave it to Valdr was mauled to death by bears & spriggans shortly after removing it from her inventory. My elf would rather be thought a superstitious fool then a dead one.

[@SargeWolf010]

When it comes to builds I have 2h Orc, Rising of The Shield Hero Nord [soon], Mythra The Huntress Wood Elf Archer, and Magic Jack [Magic Johnson parody] Jack of all Magickas but Master of none 😅

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Haha I like that last one 🤣🤣

[@TheGreatPanicker]

At the start of the game, at the shrine of talos, where the thalmor agent is...could you farm him for the 1 piece of enchanted item he always has? Like, approach him, quicksave, then check him and if he has nothing, reload the game and check him again until he has something good?

[@mike-thegamingdad]

hmm I'm not too sure actually, I've had a look onlin and can't find anything re. when his inventory is actually set. I know that random loot is picked via a script which just selects something from a list. But it would depend when that list is selected from. If its at the location then yeah you could save beforehand and just keep retrying. If its say for example when you leave the cave with Ralof or Hadvar, this would be more annoying. I'd have to play test this to be sure!

[@TheGreatPanicker]

@@mike-thegamingdad Yeah, I am gonna try it on a new playthrough. You go all the way to where the agent's body, stand right in front of him, quicksave, then look in his inventory and if you don't get something good, simply reload the game and look again. Keep doing it until something good shows up.

[@chilboswaggins5500]

I have a hunch you'd have to do far enough away that the corpse hasn't spawned yet. I apply this concept to joining the college. The only spell I'm interested in buying at the gate is Conjure Flame Atronauch. I save by the inn so I'm not too close. That way when she wants me to buy healing hands, fear, fireball etc, I can load up and throw the dice again. I simply have no specific experience trying to reroll the inventory at that Talos shrine & cannot guess the distance for your save. I speculate further than that bandit camp with the mage robe & one handed skill book.

[@damiancurran1762]

what's the point of going to Agatha's house only to disenchant in whiterun

[@joeschmo2693]

Why pick up skill books early? It's easy to level most skills at that point anyway, plus, you can get double value later by going through the Raven Rock mine .

[@RealBradMiller]

I'm not entirely sure I understand what you mean, how do you get double value from skill books in Raven Rock Mine?

[@joeschmo2693]

@@RealBradMiller Take the quest from the old dude in the mine (the one who has Glover Mallory's pickaxe) to find out what happened to his Grandfather. Go all the way through to find the book on the lectern at the end. It takes you to another dimension, you fight some weird critters, then you get to pick from 3 attributes. Take 'Scholar's Insight' (something like that - the 3 choices are described). Of course, if you're in the Thieves Guild, get the pickaxe from the old man and give it to Glover to get the badass thief's gear.

[@RealBradMiller]

@@joeschmo2693 Thanks for all the info! I appreciate it. 👍😁

[@joeschmo2693]

Check out Major Slack Videos - he's got a ton of helpful Skyrim walkthroughs.

[@-Shibbi]

12:17 what the best way to know ingredients effects and what to combine? I'm pretty sure there is wiki for this. But I want try in game myself, just need some tips about alchemist Also it seems like any rpgs, speak to npcs & pick side quests as much as possible in early game before doing main quest

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Hey usually in game it's just about trial and error over time, discovering potions as you go. You can also eat an ingredient to learn the first of 4 effects. There is a perk (I think it might be called Experimenter) where you can eat ingredients and get more effects although it's quite far along the skill tree by which point you'll normally have done a load of alchemy anyway. If there is a specific potion or poison effect I want to know the ingredients for I usually just Google it. There are quite a few articles now listing potions. There are so many in the game lol.

[@-Shibbi]

@@mike-thegamingdad okay if you say there are so many of potions then I will look for them on google after I'm tired of trial and error xD Thanks for the answer!

[@Trephining]

There is also at least one book, possibly more than one, I think it is called something like "An Herbalist's Guide to Skyrim" maybe, something like that. And that book will tell you some properties of some ingredients. Occasionally you will come across alchemical Recipes, whether in loot, or available for sale from some merchants. But they are fairly uncommon. If you're serious about figuring out the alchemy ingredients' uses on your own, I suggest firing up Excel and planning out a basic little spreadsheet to make some simple notes in as you test ingredients in your gameplay. If you start out primarily by testing the most commonly available - from harvesting or for purchase affordably - ingredients, then you'll come across a number of useful recipes soon enough. From there, your notes and some simple logic will guide you. As you test things, note what works, what doesn't, what it produces, etc.

[@petervlcko4858]

Now you sell your battery acid which you concocted 😂😂😂

[@zachhawkins5005]

If you talk to Sven first, he does the fake letter from fendall

[@Alexandru1996_]

Helpful for new players, but not really optimised....like why recommend to spend points in sneak perk tree if maybe someone wants to be a warrior or a mage?

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Hey yeah the perk points are totally up to the player, I just wanted to show if you put the first one in sneak, this is a great way to level up sneak (and the right side of the tree is where the damage multipliers are, very OP early on if you employ sneak). But yeah won't be needed for some play styles 😁

[@1dontnoah]

You’re hilarious bro

[@mrwizard1522]

“You won’t be able to carry everything” are you challenge me

[@mike-thegamingdad]

😂

[@bryanx0317]

Nobody seems to talk about saving skill books untill you are higher leveled. You can even order your followers to pick them up so you aren't forced to read them. This way you can save them on a book shelf untill your level 95 😉

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Yeah thats a very good tip, I didn't know about the follower trick until recently

[@chokesmc]

"Give her what for!" 😂

[@hectorparks8618]

I love this dude, your voice is great and you got some great commentary

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thank you!

[@maunaowakea777]

when training with faendal, how were you only at level 2 if you were already at 100 sneak?

[@maunaowakea777]

I always have trouble with this because I am already at level 7 or 8 and don't get a new level after training and so have to level up first before resuming.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

That is an excellent spot! When pulling this together on my initial playthrough I'd forgotten to show the stealth trick before the bear and I didn't have an auto save to go back to, so I used a different save to show the sneak clip with the bear in the place that it should have been. I don't know if its visible anywhere else but my character's name is Bolg and I'm an Orc on the bear bit, but the rest of this video I was a breton or a nord I think. If you look at the fist fight in the pub I've got human hands, definitely not an orc 🤣. Like I say excellent spot though!

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@@maunaowakea777 yeah thats quite normal I think if you have been levelling beforehand, I usually just keep faendal for a bit, at least until Lydia, and every level up just get your 5 free levels then 😁

[@devastatingd3306]

Any chance your potion recipes are posted anywhere?

[@mike-thegamingdad]

The ones I've used in general across my videos? I don't have a list written down anywhere, but funnily enough I'm working on a specific alchemy guide at the minute. So I'll put lots of stuff in that

[@devastatingd3306]

@@mike-thegamingdad Can't wait!

[@kruksog]

I need a version of this video for when youre around level 50. My initial build has become pretty OP so it feels like i should switch to something else, but ive already invested so much into what im already doing. I dont know. Level 50 is around the time i start losing interest in my playthrough. Id love some help with that. I want to actually finish a character. Like, through all the DLCs + main + ebony warrior. I just always lose interest around this time.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

If the game has lost its challenge, which can happen in Skyrim as its easy to abuse the levelling mechanics, then you can always raise the difficulty. I wouldn't say you need to change build style, unless you are bored of playing that way. Although there's nothing stopping you going down the jack of all trades route. My very first playthrough was like that and to this day its still probably the one I've put the most hours into. What have you done so far and what else is there to do? You could try role play your save a little, that's usually fun to be quite rigid in your does and don'ts If you find you stick around the same area, up and move. Buy a house elsewhere and pretend you've moved. Get a huge bounty and then up and leave for Solstheim and bunker up there and do all those quests or something lol. You could seek out quests which would benefit a new playstyle and do those. So for example you could try playing as an alchemist and do quests which benefit alchemy like A Return to Your Roots. Or play as a paladin and pick up the quest which takes place at the lighthouse. You get a bonus to healing spells through that and then you could play that way for a while. Do you generally do the same stuff e.g. always the companions and mages college but you've not really done all daedric quests before etc? If so then do those. I'm a bit of a completist so things like trophies spur me on. Are there any trophies you don't have, e.g. the werewolf/Vampire ones? Could you get those and bring lycanthropy into your build

[@kruksog]

@@mike-thegamingdad you're such a good poster. Thanks for the response. It is very much appreciated.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@@kruksog no problem at all 😁

[@nathanswayne9381]

I never see anyone grab the basket with a bunch of eggs on it for alchemy ingredients. 🤔 The basket by the health potion, before leaving the store room. It has 4 or 5 eggs in there.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Oh yeah the one on the floor, I know the one you mean, always forget that is there 😁👍🏻

[@Saint.222]

I love the video, but I'm extremely confused how you got to level 8 so quickly, I went through every step before you got to level 8 in the video, and I was only at level 2? Also, when I went to the bandit places in the first part of the video it glitched my game so now I can't finish the quest where I talk to Gerdur in Riverwood. I can talk to her, but the quest still says I need to do it even though I've tried 4-5 times. Which is extremely confusing.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thanks I'm glad you enjoyed it! Are you referring to the bit where I show which perks in the sneak skill to take? When pulling this together on my initial playthrough I'd forgotten to show the stealth trick before the bear (where you sneak up behind Ralof near the cart and attack him) and I didn't have an auto save to go back to, so I used a different save to show the sneak clip with the bear in the place that it should have been. If you look at my character's name in the level 8 clip its Bolg and I'm an Orc, but the rest of this video I was a breton or a nord I think. If you look at the fist fight in the pub I've got human hands, definitely not an orc 🤣. Having said that though, if you do some levelling of one handed on Ralof right at the start after killing the two soldiers (getting one handed to level 40 should only take about 15 mins) and then taken sneak to level 50 using the sneak trick before the bear, you will easily hit level 8+. That's such a shame about the glitch! I've ever encountered that before, I've had quest logs not complete though even though done its really annoying. At least its early enough that you could start the save again? Sorry I can't help that bit 😔

[@Krazyrs]

you can turn it up to legendary in the first cave and let rolaf tank for you and easily hit lv4-5 without power leveling sneak or 1hand

[@Saint.222]

@@Krazyrs Ok, thank you!

[@popguy2815]

Does Live Another Life work with AE?

[@shellymars9961]

Yes. Nearly every mod works with Anniversary Edition. AE is essentially just the Special Edition with the addition of four free Creation Club offerings. The "modpocalypse" so often talked about in hysterical click-bait KZbin videos never existed.

[@ModdingNewbie]

Now it should. Back in January they hadn't released the updated version of the Skyrim Script Extender yet. Now they have, so all of our favorite mods should be working again.

[@puppydood]

I can’t find this bandit camp at 4.15. I accidentally found Pinewatch, but can’t find the camp. Any pointers?

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Hey after you go past the rock on the left (you should be facing south at this point) just head in a straight line, it's pretty much due south from that large rock.

[@puppydood]

@@mike-thegamingdad Thank you muchly!

[@isaiahtorres4029]

Sold my enchanted stuff earlier Bc the video said sell ever you don’t need😐

[@kelseywilliams6264]

How are we supposed to find the place if you do a cut scene and then all the sudden appear at wherever I’m supposed to be looting…

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Which location is it you need help finding?

[@brynyolfxd3010]

Always choose ralolf .. 12 years later and hadvar is STILL bugged .. leave with him and do civil war as imperial ... once finished every single time you go to whiterun hadvar will be there sniffing your rear all over town like an obsessed creeper follower ... can always go to solitude to join imperials later

[@mike-thegamingdad]

😂

[@7131lexie]

I mean you can take everything but you just can't run 😂

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Very true 😅

[@jtotero1999]

When i talk to the archer, he didnt give me the option to make a trade, after doind the camila quest

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Hey are you playing with the mod USSEP by any chance? (Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch). I don't have that installed but I believe it patches the ability to trade inventories with followers

[@jtotero1999]

@@mike-thegamingdad I have the game on a switch, I have all the dlc I think because the console its, you know (I don't want to say it because of nintendo xd), but I don't have any mods added. Maybe its because I need to upgrade a level previous the last archery trainmen (5 level) and I don't have the xp to upgrade yet, maybe that is, sorry for my English

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@jtotero1999 it's okay don't worry about it 😁 Okay yeah maybe try that 👍🏻 The only other thing it could be is if the quest has been completed, but siding with Sven (refusing to lie for Faendal). That makes Faendal hostile towards the player.

[@jtotero1999]

@@mike-thegamingdad I will try, I do that side quest, but siding with faendal and not with Sven I will try and tell you, thank you o much for your response and guide! And last question, should I sell all the gems I have? or its better to keep them for the future?

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@jtotero1999 no you are okay to sell all your gems, they are a good source of gold early on so you can buy yourself a house 😁🙌🏼

[@seanm3463]

This mentions zero anniversary edition content

[@madyak6669]

I'm playing the anniversary edition on Xbox one and faendal is never in riverwood

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Oh wow really? I've never played on XBox One. Whereabouts is he? Or haven't you found him? Sometimes he has been near the logs at the back of Riverwood but generally he is around that bridge or stood near the mill. If its night he was in his house

[@madyak6669]

@@mike-thegamingdad just isn't in the town or the surrounding area(apparently he goes hunting sometimes). I keep going back after a few days, but still nothing. Oh well😀

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@@madyak6669 hmm strange 🤣. I don't know if there is a way of entering console commands on XBox (It might just be a PC thing) but if you can, and type "" then type "moveto player". That will transfer him to your location. That number is his unique code. The you will see what he is doing (of if he'd been killed by a bear lol)

[@davidn90]

I'm Soo pissed. Nintendo charged me sixty bucks for Skyrim, and it's not even anniversary

[@mike-thegamingdad]

oh man that blows 😪 can you raise that with them and get the correct version?

[@davidn90]

@@mike-thegamingdad the anniversary edition never launched for the switch. Only the dlcs. I really wanted to suplex some bandits too.

[@Trephining]

@@davidn90 you'll have to find some real life bandits to suplex

[@Julivity]

Instructions were unclear and I sold the enchanted items before I could disenchant them 😢

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Ah sorry buddy!

[@cjc2611]

I just wanna say about 75% of the way through this video and it's translated into 6 hours of game play.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Ah thats good, when I made this I think it took about 5-6 hours in total but I knew where I was going next and stuff as I've probably done it 100 times 😂😂

[@cjc2611]

@Mike - The Gaming Dad great video man, it's helped alot. However, I must say for those that didn't get some combat stats to 100 right out the gate- some things are still very much out of reach like the bandit camps and the hagraven.

[@devastatingd3306]

I'm glad someone said so. I was wondering how much actual gametime this is...

[@scottpascoe562]

Recently started another play through and killed Anise. Not long after I was attacked by hired thugs from Moira! All I took was one fucking soul gem ffs

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Ah the dreaded hired thugs. I had 3 sent to my by Farengar of all people for stealing a key so I could unlock the Whispering Door. He then tries to act like nothings happened the next time I see him!

[@scottpascoe562]

@@mike-thegamingdad Same happened to me with Belathor. I stole the skill book from his store, two days later the thugs arrive and are quickly dispatched as per usual. I show up to sell my junk, not a word lol. Such a silly game

[@rhiannonkelley3626]

half of this stuff wont work for my game like the cheat with archery. i went yo orphan rock no witches.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Hi again Rhiannon! Are you playing with any mods installed by any chance? The unofficial skyrim patch patches a ton of shortcuts/cheats. I think it removes gold from followers inventories, thats the only reason I can think of why the Faendal trick won't work. Orphan rock I've just had to google as the witches always been there for me, have you started the quest 'Blessings Of Nature' in Whiterun? According to google the witches appear if this quest is in your log, without it its an empty location which I did not know! Danica in Whiterun starts this quest for you if you speak to her . Hope this helps 😁👍

[@trevorbakerNUGGA]

Farming rolof for 100 in one handed…I’m at 48. Pray for me brothers

[@mike-thegamingdad]

🤣🙌 good luck!

[@trevorbakerNUGGA]

@@mike-thegamingdad so something I discovered (and you may want to add to your video) is that where you say to farm 1 handed smacking rolof you can also farm destruction magic if you have the appropriate starting spells among other spells based on character creation, and in that same room I maxed sneak to 100, no need to wait until the cave with the bear for that.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@@trevorbakerNUGGA ah excellent, don't think I've ever tried destruction magic before. You can also do two handed if you pick up the axe in the torture room and at least some archery until your arrows run out. I think eventually I'll update this to include more content as I kept it very whiterun centric and beginner friendly but there's lots of other useful stuff. Thanks for the suggestions appreciate it 😁👍

[@trevorbakerNUGGA]

@@mike-thegamingdad I didn’t even think of leveling 2 handed as well 🤦‍♂️, I wanted to boost many little skills till they got more grindy so I could get a good perk point boost at the beginning. Friendly advice if anyone does the destruction magic, get the cheaper spell casting perk asap for it, makes it faster as it’s so much slower than even 1 handed was with rolof

[@trevorbakerNUGGA]

@@mike-thegamingdadI’m back at it again, doing a dark elf for a vampire play through. That rolof grind is rough 😂

[@hotpopcorncake]

where is the backpack?

[@mike-thegamingdad]

I found a few of them in Halted Stream Camp just north of Whiterun, they were in the dresser at the end of the mine. You can also buy them from most city vendors, or craft them using a corundum ingot and 3-5 leather I think

[@hotpopcorncake]

@@mike-thegamingdad Strange i can't find them. I'm trying this place though you mean where they hunt down elephants' area. you get to find the dead elf in the spiky room?

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@@hotpopcorncake yeah thats the location, I found them in the dresser towards the back (its to the right of the table where the spellbook transmute mineral ore is), but maybe its a random drop. If it is, I've also had them pop up for sale in some shops like the breton in whiterun, and I double checked and they can be crafted as well

[@hotpopcorncake]

@@mike-thegamingdad btw in whiterun how to activate by opening the closet in dragon keep?

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@@hotpopcorncake Hi do you mean the Whispering Door quest inside dragonsreach? I believe in order to do that quest you need to be level 20 and have completed Dragon Rising, then ask the innkeeper and abour rumours and she will give you a rumour about the Jarls children. You can open the door in the basement at the end of this quest after talking to the Jarls kid a few times and then getting the key from either the Jarl or the Wizard.

[@DustySiren]

16:25

[@zion5637]

I noticed you never use a horse...?

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Not this early on no but it's a fair comment, it would be worth picking one up at the end of the video as at that point we'd start to venture a bit further afield 👍🏻. Not sure if you have watched any of the let's play series but I somehow forgot the horses even existed for about 8 episodes. We've since got one and are very attached to them now 😅

[@ronniecorbett6306]

I changed your likes to 667...... Your welcome. Peace

[@mike-thegamingdad]

thank you! 😁

[@rogerjohnson7888]

It's hard to listen to your videos. I love the help but, The way your voice drones on and on in a monotone sound makes me think, You should be a hypnotist................. Just saying...

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Damn my parents for raising me in the north west of the UK and condemning me with this accent 😅 will try harder next time 🤣

[@dewaynehickman4996]

He did not tell us where he found the #1 treasure map at .

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Hi there its in this video at 5:30 😁, after the dead thalmor agent at the shrine, east from there is a bandit camp. There are 3 bandits and 1 of them carries it.