The thing is, however, that consoles don't have that option, but still should. As many people really doubt beth would be able to get mods for consoles like they said they would, it would maybe be fair to give us a choise to powerlevel. For the same reason, I think we should be given back a scroll dupe glitch or something simular, because we have to atleast go and the thing we have to dupe rather than just spawn them.

I get why and how the thief skills can be easily maxed that way, as well as smithing, enchanting and restoration. Haven't used any Alteration or Illusion magic myself yet, but I presume Alteration spells don't really work that much like Armor then, skill-leveling-wise? (As in, you need to get hit to level it.) How can you easily level One- and Two-handed though? Or Destruction and Conjuration for that matter? From what I've experienced to level those you need to actually deal damage with them.

Block can be easily leveled in Whiterun, too. You can equip a shield during a brawl or a fight with one of the companions (part of the questline) and just block their blows safely.

~. Player.setav Speechcraft 100.

Sounds exactly like power-leveling your smiting with iron daggers =]

Speech and Alchemy level slow, and that's good. I'm surprised Smithing wasn't just as slow. Alchemy for me isn't even level 45 and I've made a trillion potions.

speech level 100! one hand and sneak level 20.
good luck

well ..., would someone mind to tell me how to power-level sneak?

there's a good reason for smithing being faster
in order to play "normally" you need to make a bunch of potions
ingredients are everywhere

not so much with smithing, you don't need 12 swords at once if you just do quests and stuff
and the ingredients aren't as abundant as with alchemy (last I checked ingots don't grow all over the place everywhere in the world)

it all makes perfect sense
unless you're powerleveling
but that doesn't really make sense anyway XD

Some skills like Speech, Smithing and Enchanting, IMO, increase too slowly to make increasing them "legitimately" any fun or use.

If you only smith things when you need them, you won't ever get very far in Smithing. If you only smith things by mining ore yourself and/or don't make Iron Daggers, you will take a long time to get smithing up to a high level.

No one "legitimate" would create enchanted items so frequently for Enchanting to get to 100 at a rate comparable to other skills. You can use recharging enchanted items to increase Enchanting but not everyone uses enchanted items.

Speech increases at a terribly slow rate compared to other skills due to the low frequency of speech challenges, and I don't see selling arrows one by one as any more "legitimate" than this speech challenge spam.

I'm level 25 with something like 50 in smithing
never really went around to make stuff I don't need
did upgrade the occasional armor before selling it
but I never ever had to go around buying up everything to make tons of stuff I don't need

at the rate I'm going I have no worries it will level up just fine without having to do any boring tedious grinding
and that's just the way I like it

My speech is at 80. I paid for 5 points of training from that bard guy and I got a boost from the ghost for jumping bard's lookout at one point. I think that is 10 points total outside of normal levelling. The rest all came from selling stuff and doing persuades, intimidates, bribes in conversations. Granted this took the whole life of my character but I never felt like I needed it to be high level.

You can punch a guard say that your with the guild and here is 400 gold.. Then steal the gold back.. You gain Pickpocket and Speech

360 users.

All the console players will get right on that.

Edit: Beat by a few seconds above ^

So Smithing is worth the powering up because your be able to make the best armor early on, its worth power leveling and the same goes with enchanting because selling those daggers you made to get 100 smithing has to be worth it.

To level offensive skills you do need to do damage with them somwthing I stumbled across (accidentally), was a large group of essential NPC's. It was in the palace in Solitude, there were numerous Jarls and their guards present and my light armour skill and two-handed skill are now both in the nineties after an hour fighting in there. For me there were so many Jarl's present because I was a little ways into the Stormcloaks questline and had captured Whiterun

Alteration - Detect Life (or using the Equilibrium -> Heal loop)
Illusion - Muffle
Conjuration - Buy a horse and cast soul trap on it

Destruction, One-hand, and Two-hand (oh and archery) - Kill your own summons, or as someone else mentioned beating on NPCs that don't die.

Why jump on the OP over this? It's useful information to those who wish to receive it. I'll probably use it myself while trying to hit 46 so I can pursue questlines without getting the inferior scaled rewards.

Nobody has to use it if they don't want to. Please leave your self-righteousness at the door.

thanks to the op for the tip! i am going to give it a shot. anyone who has a problem with this can keep it to themselves, games are designed for entertainment and entertainment is subjective, don't worry about how other people are entertained, focus on yourselves.

as others have said, make sure you have the necessary combat skills before you start maxing non-combat skills. you will get destroyed, even on adept. i would recommend one combat skill in the 80's before power leveling everything else.

that is a lot of button presses with the meadery guy. i found speech to level acceptably through normal loot and sell routines. this glitch would be good to knock out the last 10-15 levels though, if one is so inclined.