How to get income as a Thief?

Post » Sat Jun 09, 2012 7:02 pm

pickpocketing. everyone seems to have a small piece of valuable jewellry on them. join the TG for extra income.

Pickpocket is lucrative, jarls palace and some shops are also good, one quest in the thief guild is also good, you can to steal hundreds of beer bottles.
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MARLON JOHNSON
 
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Post » Sat Jun 09, 2012 5:56 am

Now, before you 14 year old break your zipper from the thought of being a smart ass, I know the the general answer. Steal no doubt. But what ? Lately I have been just raiding towns. Raiding as in..Enter, wait till night, loot all the stores, sell it to people who will buy stolen goods.

What I really want to know is? What do you guys do?

Actually this was something that was a problem starting back with Morrowind. In Daggerfall you could steal from the stores and then sell it back and you steal some reallly good stuff. In Morrowind they thought it would break the economy so they started only putting out crap for you steal and that crap wasn't worth much. I didn't get better with Oblivion nor with Skyrim.

They won't put expensive stuff out for you steal anymore and for me it keeps me from enjoying and wanting to play a thief in the game. If I can't steal expensive stuff and then sell it for what's it worth than why even bother stealing anything at all?
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Post » Sat Jun 09, 2012 1:04 pm

Join the thieves guild. They have an endless series of random jobs giving 300-500 for each job. And the jobs are quick. Go to a specific house and find 3 specific brightly colored objects sitting on the shelves withou being seen, or go to a specific house and plant an item you are given in a specific chest. With quick travel you could do a job every 10 minutes all day.

Or you can sell Iron Daggers with Banish or Absorb on them for 2500+ a pop by the bucket loads and has a sad because your vendor ran out of money after 2 of the 2000 you have in your pocket.
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Post » Sat Jun 09, 2012 8:46 am

Now, before you 14 year old break your zipper from the thought of being a smart ass, I know the the general answer. Steal no doubt. But what ? Lately I have been just raiding towns. Raiding as in..Enter, wait till night, loot all the stores, sell it to people who will buy stolen goods.

What I really want to know is? What do you guys do?
I dont understand the question. Do you want to know some targets to steal? Or do you want to get rich.

Becoming rich is an universal procedure and does not involve any stealing. Selling selfmade potions and enchanted iron daggers is where the money is. (feels like a cheat, i dont use it)

Becoming rich through stealing is a bit difficult in the beginning since you either need a merchant who buys stolen goods, or invest in the Speech Tree. Just pickpocket everyone. They have lots of relatively expensive items.
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Post » Sat Jun 09, 2012 7:18 am

Or you can sell Iron Daggers with Banish or Absorb on them for 2500+ a pop by the bucket loads and has a sad because your vendor ran out of money after 2 of the 2000 you have in your pocket.
That's how mages make money... not thieves.

Also... what I tend to do is keep a stack of enchanted daggers on me (5-10) giving me 10-20k in trade goods I can use to buy anything I want from any smith or general store (usually general stores as they have stuff for mages) Of course, I always sell em off if they have money too... but I don't worry about selling all of them. I just sell what I can, as I can, without going out of my way, and everytime I buy stuff get my money back :)
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Post » Sat Jun 09, 2012 11:33 am

Having to save and reload based on a random chance is quite tedious though.




Yeah, too bad you can only sell it for 300 gold though.

It isn't quite that bad. I think at early levels with a low Speech you get around 35%. So a 2,000 coin item will net you somewhere in the neighborhood of 700; which is okay because as far as I know there aren't any shops that carry 2000 worth of gold until you can invest in them, which can't happen until much later in the game.

Find soul gems, enchant loot with them, sell them. You can start doing that from day one.
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Post » Sat Jun 09, 2012 5:19 pm


Becoming rich through stealing is a bit difficult in the beginning since you either need a merchant who buys stolen goods, or invest in the Speech Tree. Just pickpocket everyone. They have lots of relatively expensive items.

Go straight to riften... join thieves guild... get instant access to fence who will buy stolen goods.

You get a 2nd fence in Winterhold further down the TG questline as well.

Now that you have a fence, you can steal all kinds of crap and sell it.

The more you sell, the higher your speech.

Before long you can increase your speech perks to use any merchant... adding MUCH convenience and speed to your loot selling runs.
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Post » Sat Jun 09, 2012 3:54 am

And a good thief always remembers to pickpocket a trainer after purchasing a skill. For example, I would often go to Eorlund (at the Skyforge) to get smithing training, and after I spent that days money on my training I turned around and stole all that money right back. This works for all trainers. And since my character is a thief I have no moral qualms about it. :devil:
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Post » Sat Jun 09, 2012 5:31 am

By thieving?
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Post » Sat Jun 09, 2012 2:42 pm

Alternatively, if on the PC you could try..

1. Press Tilde key, (` button left of 1 on most keyboards).
2. Type "player.additem 0000000F 1000000" (Minus the quotation marks).
3. There is no step 3.
4. Profit.


Seriously though, go with pickpocketing, or just dungeon crawling, i found while leveling my thief/archer (Currently level 48) i actually didn't need much coin anyway, and that what i did need, i just picked up from quests.

Doing bounties the jarls set out is very good for cash as well as doing the Thiefs guild quests.
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Post » Sat Jun 09, 2012 8:46 am

Alternatively, if on the PC you could try..

1. Press Tilde key, (` button left of 1 on most keyboards).
2. Type "player.additem 0000000F 1000000" (Minus the quotation marks).
3. There is no step 3.
4. Profit.

:banana:
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Post » Sat Jun 09, 2012 8:19 am

Now, before you 14 year old break your zipper from the thought of being a smart ass, I know the the general answer. Steal no doubt. But what ? Lately I have been just raiding towns. Raiding as in..Enter, wait till night, loot all the stores, sell it to people who will buy stolen goods.

What I really want to know is? What do you guys do?
Ummmmmm there is a perk that allows you to sell stolen stuff to everyone. derp.
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Post » Sat Jun 09, 2012 12:45 pm

Alternatively, if on the PC you could try..

1. Press Tilde key, (` button left of 1 on most keyboards).
2. Type "player.additem 0000000F 1000000" (Minus the quotation marks).
3. There is no step 3.
4. Profit.


Seriously though, go with pickpocketing, or just dungeon crawling, i found while leveling my thief/archer (Currently level 48) i actually didn't need much coin anyway, and that what i did need, i just picked up from quests.

Doing bounties the jarls set out is very good for cash as well as doing the Thiefs guild quests.
Could you offer any more of a boring answer? You could type in something to end the game, but that kind of defeats the purpose of playing a game >_<.
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Post » Sat Jun 09, 2012 7:54 am

By thieving?

HAHA, what did I say? I told you some kid would still have the nutsack to post that comment. even though I stated that exactly, in my first sentence. Seriously, kids these days
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Post » Sat Jun 09, 2012 12:07 pm

I just break into shops and clean out the safes (houses aren't worth the time). When I want a thrill I use my lurker abilities to slaughter a group of bandits in their sleep :devil: . Pretty good loot at higher levels. Also, joining the Thieves Guild is a must, but the Dark Brotherhood is way more fun, I wish it had a more elaborate quest-line :dry: .
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Post » Sat Jun 09, 2012 2:35 pm

I didn't read all answers, but I can tell you how i have fun playing as a thief.

- Fight face-to-face only when it's really necessary (Sneak + One Handed \ Archery), i usually use quick save and quick load.
- But to be prepared to a "[censored] just got serious" fight I fight some random Bandit's Fortress to up my One-Handed + Light Armor
- Steal ALL the Jewles that i can find in a city and sell it (Speech {REALLY HIGH} + PickPocket + Sneak)
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Post » Sat Jun 09, 2012 8:05 am

Join the thieves guild. They have an endless series of random jobs giving 300-500 for each job. And the jobs are quick. Go to a specific house and find 3 specific brightly colored objects sitting on the shelves withou being seen, or go to a specific house and plant an item you are given in a specific chest. With quick travel you could do a job every 10 minutes all day.
This and pickpocketing.
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Post » Sat Jun 09, 2012 10:41 am

HAHA, what did I say? I told you some kid would still have the nutsack to post that comment. even though I stated that exactly, in my first sentence. Seriously, kids these days

I'm in my 50's and I would have said the same thing. If you have trouble getting income as a thief, well then that's just embarrassing...
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Post » Sat Jun 09, 2012 3:51 pm

Joining the thevis guild will access a fence to buy stolen goods.
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Post » Sat Jun 09, 2012 10:28 am

Joining the thevis guild will access a fence to buy stolen goods.

And

Spoiler
All the fences gain the most amount of gold (4000), if you complete the special quests
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