Any tips?

Post » Sun Sep 23, 2012 3:28 pm

For making money quickly
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Antonio Gigliotta
 
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Post » Sun Sep 23, 2012 3:20 pm

Thieves Guild
Dark Brotherhood
Prowler's Profit (if you take the time to get it)
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Chris Duncan
 
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Post » Sun Sep 23, 2012 2:53 pm

try to buy/find weapon with banish enchantment once you have it learn the enchantment get bunch iron dagger put the enchantment with lesser soul gem on them and they will each cost about 2000 so you will be able to sell them on average for like 700
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Daniel Holgate
 
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Post » Sun Sep 23, 2012 8:27 am

Thanks and what's prowlers profit?
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Damien Mulvenna
 
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Post » Sun Sep 23, 2012 2:23 pm

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Prowler%27s_Profit
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Emilie Joseph
 
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Post » Sun Sep 23, 2012 12:11 pm

Looting from dungeon crawling and exploration is probably the fastest way, if one doesn't have a decent Alchemy and/or Enchanting skill. Then there is chopping wood. If sold to the Mill (Hod in Riverwood) it equates to 1 gold per second spent chopping.
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Post » Sun Sep 23, 2012 6:25 pm

Spoiler
After you collect all the 'mysterious gems', the pink stones floating in gold cases. Collect them all and finish the quest for it, after the quest you get Prowlers Profit significantly increasing the number of gems you find. Alot more gems...
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Syaza Ramali
 
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Post » Sun Sep 23, 2012 1:06 pm

Also, try to get http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Transmute_Mineral_Ore spell and all of http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Stones_of_Barenziah gems.
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Alina loves Alexandra
 
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Post » Sun Sep 23, 2012 2:58 pm

If you want to make money by enchanting and selling the items you enchant, then waterbreathing is a good effect to go for - because there's no magnitude or duration, waterbreathing enchanted items will be the same value if enchanted with a petty soul or a grand soul - it's a good way to make money from petty soul gems (provided you know the soul trap spell or have a weapon with that enchantment, so that you can fill all the petty soul gems you find or buy). If you want to make money from enchanting, buy the first waterbreathing enchanted item you find and destroy it to learn the enchantment, and use all your petty souls to enchant low-value loot that you find, you'll make your money back in no time.
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Post » Sun Sep 23, 2012 9:39 am

At the lowest lvl's I usually chop wood, pick up all the "sellable" food-stuffs, wine, mead and armor. I tend to stay away from weapons unless they are enchanted or a high value one or I want it. I do work on the farms ( which also counts as helping in that area) Pick alchemy ingredients ( even if my character isn't going to do alchemy, I just sell the ingredients) I also make stews and other foods which can then be sold or used and won't lvl the character up.

But then again I don't like lvl'ing up my characters by using any of the crafting to much. You gain lvl's but not "combat" skills and your enemies are scaled acording to your lvl... so it's not great haveing low skills and a higher lvl. unless you like that kinda challenge. Some do
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Post » Sun Sep 23, 2012 5:53 pm

Alchemy and enchanting are probably the two biggest, easiest ways to make money in the game. Run around outside Whiterun killing things for their skins and fill petty soul gems, and collect alchemy ingredients while you do it. Make leather armor, enchant it and sell it. Make the most expensive potions you can make, sell them. Lather, rinse, repeat. Thousands and thousands of gold in about two hours of time.
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Richard
 
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Post » Sun Sep 23, 2012 8:06 pm

Alchemy and enchanting are quick ways to make money. There's also prowlers profit.
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Peter P Canning
 
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Post » Sun Sep 23, 2012 2:22 pm

Dragon bones.

Or scales, if you plan on using the bones for crafting.
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Post » Sun Sep 23, 2012 9:33 am

Spoiler
After you collect all the 'mysterious gems', the pink stones floating in gold cases. Collect them all and finish the quest for it, after the quest you get Prowlers Profit significantly increasing the number of gems you find. Alot more gems...

That's probably the slowest way of making money, and by the time you get it you'll be stinking rich anyway.

It's not the most expensive potion, but the ingredients creep cluster, mora tapinella, and scaly pholiota are widely available in Eastmarch and The Rift. Mix them together and you'll make a ton of money.
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Esther Fernandez
 
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Post » Sun Sep 23, 2012 6:32 pm

I was going to say, "Don't die", but you actually mean tips...as in money.

My Nord alchemist makes plenty of money just from picking plants and hunting butterflies while out traveling, then selling the potions. The only thing keeping him from having a money vault like Scrooge McDuck is paying for training. When you're out and about, just keep an eye out for anything that can be used for alchemy. I don't target ingredients for the more profitable potions specifically, but it is nice when I come across them.

As dungeon loot and dragon bones will fill up an adventurer's inventory in a hurry, I prefer the lighter weight of alchemy potions as a money source than selling dungeon loot. Most of the time, the only thing keeping me from making more money is when I can't find merchants with any money left to buy my potions. It helps quite a bit when I get the speechcraft perk to sell any item to any merchant, and then the ability to invest in their shops.
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Post » Sun Sep 23, 2012 6:59 pm

Blue Mountain Flower + Blue Butterfly Wings is a decent potion to make some money with early on, and when you're Achemy is higher, because they're very easy to find all over the place.

Giant's Toe + Wheat is a really good one, if you're into killing Giants.
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