Everyone said that alchemy was the hardest skill to train up, so I've been using all my trainings on that. Apparently though, Babette will only train me to level 90?

Is there any way to get her to train us up another 5 levels so I can top myself off with skill books, or am I doomed to do these 5 levels by eating random crap?



Second question: After alchemy, what's the most tedious of the following skills to train up:

Alteration
Conjuration
Destruction
Enchanting
Pickpocketing - I practice on Lydia every time I go to the house, but it's still slow going.
Illusion
Smithing
Two-handed
Restoration

Which of these is the most tedious to level? I'd like to use my 5 trainings per level and want to put them to use where they'll do the most good.

Thanks in advance for the help!

I leveled up my pickpocket from 30-80 in just one in-game night. Try it on people sleeping.

Imo Enchanting, but after you have enchanting, any other skill in the game becomes much easier to use/lvl.

Well you could always try making potions instead of just eating. It's still really slow, but you can always wait/fast travel to buy ingredients until you're full up and then make as many as you can. And for me:

Easiest
Pickpocketing
Smithing
Illusion
Enchanting
Alteration
Conjuration
Restoration
Destruction
Two-Handed
Hardest

I usually end up wearing a shield and I just dislike using a two handed weapon. I'm sure it's not that hard to level, but like I said I just don't use them often. Try to pickpocket jewelry or gems. You'll have a high chance and get a level up most of the time for the first several levels.

90 is the maximum amount of training you can buy in this game.
You will need to make potions to increase youre Alchemy further,or at least for any kind of significant skill increase,but it will take awhile.

Thank you.

I don't suppose anyone knows an efficient and easy potion to create that won't consume all the good components we want later?

Do the Oghma Infinium quest, it gives you 5 skill ups to every skill of one of the three branches (Warrior, Thief, Mage)

The more valuable the potion you're creating is, the more experience you get for making it. Try and make potions with multiple effects, they tend to be worth the most. While the skill does level up slowly, it increases a moderately fast amount if you use the Thief Stone and you make valuable potions.

Alteration: Easy. Use Telekinesis and Detect Life (make sure you are actually detecting life) together and it levels up extremely quickly. This is a very magicka-hungry method, however, so be sure to use Alteration reduction equipment, drink magicka potions, or wait often.

Conjuration: repeatedly cast soul trap on a corpse or conjure things like a Dremora Lord over and over while in combat. Keep in mind that the more powerful the thing you summon is the more experience you get (not the case in Morrowind/Oblivion)

Destruction: use equipment that reduces magicka consumption for Destruction, preferably up to 100%. Just use the most powerful spells you can, make sure to buy more powerful spells as they're available. Moderately difficult, not too bad.

Enchanting: extremely easy to raise in conjunction with Smithing. Go to a dwarvern ruin, kill stuff and get a whole bunch of soul gems, smith a whole bunch of daggers, and enchant them. Make sure you activate the appropriate guardian stones for maximum gain. Relatively easy.

Pickpocket: Extremely easy. You get more experience for more valuable and heavier objects. I just enchanted some equipment that raised my pickpocket and sneak skills. and went from town to town stealing stuff. Got the skill from ~15-100 in around in hour or so.

Smithing: Very easy. Go mining for iron ore, smith them into ingots, and make daggers (you need leather strips too, which are easy to get as long as you grab the pelts from the animals you kill. That, or just buy leather, strips, or pelts.) Great synergy with leveling Enchanting, see above.

Two-Handed: Not too difficult. Just use the Warrior guardian stone and two-handed weapons. I don't what effects how much experience you get (maybe you get more for doing more damage, I dunno)

Restoration: I always use my training points for this and for Alchemy. You only get experience if you heal yourself when you're hurt. I'm sure you can raise it faster if you spam turn undead spells, but I have never tried it.