I don't know if theres anything on this glitch yet but if you go to riften, inside the black briar meadery and talk to the bartender and keep clicking the persuade option it raises your speech very fast! i went from 25 to 100 in about 20 mins.

Or if you want to abuse the game, just use the console. Derp; why play the game if you cheat?

Meh.. I'll spend my perk points in other areas

Time well spent, I guess. In that time my char is lucky to walk from Markarth to Karthwasten.

Cheats. Hints, and Spoilers... maybe?

Would save you the "You are [censored] for cheating." responses.

And then you can walk outside and use your mighty silver-tongue to defeat that Bandit Chief in full Orcish armor because the game recognized you're now level 34.

How the F else would you get your speech from 20 to 100?

I lol'd.

Legitimately, or with the console.

Or tediously, by selling arrows one at a time.
Its not a cheat per se. Its just very, very mindnumbing.

I made the mistake of farming my levels in Fallout before. I won't ever do it again.
Nice find for those who want to ruin their game though.

Well tbh, it sounds like an exploit of an option that should close after using it once. I'd have to see the dialog though. But in all honesty it isn't that hard to train. I raised mine pretty fast just selling off crap from raiding dungeons. On my merchant file it shot up even faster because I improve and enchant everything before selling it.

Lol, the fact that there is now apparently a 'legitimate' way of levelling to some forum users is laughable.

Honestly they should make Speech more worthwhile, while making it so that the only way to level is by actually using an NPC to train it, and not give it XP for selling/buying.

Speechcraft would be fantastic if the Speech responses connected to it actually had any sort of impact on quests.

Assuming, of course, OP was is using the PC and not the console version.

This sounds more like a "cheat" for helping the enemies pound you into the ground the next time they see you.

I suppose if you were already uber-over-powered to them then this might be an OK way of leveling your speech while also restoring some balance.

I don't see why you're all shunning this, isn't this an RPG, a game where you do whatever you please whenever you please because your singleplayer experiance has no effect on anyone else? Why does it infuriate you so?

This will be relevant, and funny:

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So I guess that means Speech can now be added to the "easy 100" skill list without console commands, next to Sneak, Lockpick, Block and all the skills that followers can train you in. Woo.

Skills you can power-level easily:

Sneak, Speech, Lockpicking, Pickpocket, Smithing, Enchanting, Alchemy, Alteration, Illusion, Restoration, Conjuration, Destruction, One-handed, Two Handed. You can max all of these without leaving town or actually fighting anything in various ways (all are about as much fun as chewing on dirt, watching paint dry and getting kicked in the junk at the same time).

Blocking if you set it to easy and give yourself some +Health regen enchants while backed in to a corner you can lock down the block button and afk to 100.

That just leaves armor skills, which you can just pay your way to 100 if you care.

You can technically max everything except block and the armor skills without ever leaving Whiterun without touching the console if you really wanted to, it would just be really, really, really boring.

Funny because its true!

Thanks for posting this. I was tired of trying to knock out the last three points.

I don't read much fury in any of these responses. I know I don't care whether anyone else does it. I won't be using it myself for a very long time because I think its counter productive in the role playing sense, in the power leveling sense (because the effect on your enemies will be more powerful than the effect on yourself), and in the "its obviously a glitch so doesn't feel any different from just using the console" sense.

Mostly I read the tone of the responses as "OK but why would you?"

Maybe a long time from now, when I'm basically done but just want to push a character to all 100s for the heck of it, this might sound like a tempting short cut that is perhaps marginally more satisfying than using the console to do it. Maybe.

Its not quite true though. Bleak falls barrow for example the only difference between lvl 5 and level 25 through to 81 is the bandits directly outside are outlaws and highwaymen in a mix of fur hide and scale armour with a max of orcish weaponary. Inside most of the Draugr are just that Draugr with only 2 or 3 increased to Restless and the normal Restless inCreased to Wrights. One Draugr is removed and replaced with a Frost Troll and the boss at the Word Wall stays the same. No Draugr Deathlords or Death Overlords are put into the instance.
Also from doing some cheating and running around at level 81 (thanks to player.Advskill) Ive yet to come across a banit chieft in anything above Steel Plate.

So i can safe with 100% truth that the leveling system in skyrim is no where near as punishing as Oblivions ( the though of facing a group of Draugr Death Overlords that would also level with you is just plain frightning)

I dislike power leveling, so I won't be doing that :/