favorite and easiest ways to make 100k : V

» Sun Dec 11, 2011 7:44 pm

I am at about 25 thousand gold. It was today that I decided to start saving up for my 100k achievement. Should I sell all of the enchanted weapons I have stocked up, potions I've made, etc? How else do you all suppose I should get that last 75 thousand septims?

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:39 am

Start chopping wood.

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 9:29 am

The Dark Brotherhood.

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 2:47 am

I made 40k going to every single house/person in Skyrim's stronghold's and stealing/pickpocketing stuff. You may wanna try that.

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 3:39 am

I actually haven't done that yet, How much do you get? I mean i know I picked this guys tiny little fields for his wheat and he gave me 50 gold. Is it that easy?

edits: Ohh yeah, I think I made 5,000 from the treasure the tortured lady told me about

and yeah, stealing sounds like fun

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 4:41 am

I was expecting a guide but okay. It's best you get married then keep waiting, the money your wife makes adds up over time.

» Sun Dec 11, 2011 7:32 pm

It is. almost every person in the walled cities will earn you about 500-1k. Easy picking.

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:31 am

It's like 5 to 10th gold per piece of firewood. I was just kidding. That would be insane. But you could I guess.

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:07 am

Speech perks plus alchemy... easy money

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 2:25 am

Kill
Loot
Enchant
Sell
Throw in a Mortar and Pestle in there occasionally.

» Sun Dec 11, 2011 6:48 pm

Making money is only hard if you just want to sell things to one specific vendor instead of going around to all of them in the world/town to clear our their gold.

Kill some dragons. They drop around 300gp every time; plus up to 3 scales and 3 bones, which sell for almost 200gp per unit.

» Sun Dec 11, 2011 6:54 pm

Hmm thanks for the advice, get a wife, chop wood, steal, make potions, etc. Sweet. Once i get all of that money, hmm maybe ill give each beggar 100 septims lol

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 4:57 am

Oh, there's also this. Type this in the console, if you're on the PC...

Spoiler

player.additem 000000A 1000000000

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 4:50 am

I make a lot of my money smithing. The trick is to mine ore or collect scrap metal from Dwemer ruins instead of buying it. My brother and I are particularly fond of smithing Dwarven bows, upgrading them, then selling them. They use few materials and have a good value/weight ratio. The downside is that selling them can be time consuming. I don't know if this is the *best* way to do it, but it works for me. If you want to skip the smithing steps, looting helmets and bows are both a good way to go, as they have a high value for a relatively low weight.

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:41 am

My thief makes money like a monster.

Alchemy and pickpocket, my friend. Pickpocket gold from every NPC, for starters. You can also buy every alchemy ingredient from a alchemy vendor, make potions, and sell them. Continue doing that, and you'll be in the same boat as me: 100 potions (literally, that's not an exaggeration, it's an estimate) for about 100 gold each, and nowhere to sell them.

Unless you take the Speech perk where every vendor buys everything, and then you'll be rolling in alchemy-induced profits.

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 2:18 am

Oh, there's also this. Type this in the console, if you're on the PC...

Spoiler

player.additem 000000A 1000000000

You are all about the console huh? :geek:

On topic.....the gold you can make stealing is pretty good. My thief thrives stealing stuff, although I have a mod that allows any vendor to take stolen goods. Although, I'm only sitting at 6K because I buy bows I can not seem to steal along arrows and lock picks.

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 10:57 am

Making money is only hard if you just want to sell things to one specific vendor instead of going around to all of them in the world/town to clear our their gold.

Kill some dragons. They drop around 300gp every time; plus up to 3 scales and 3 bones, which sell for almost 200gp per unit.

God I hate this system. It just adds tedium to have to wait or travel to a dozen vendors to unload a few potions you made. There has to be a better way to limit the money people make without just trying to bore them away from doing it.

» Sun Dec 11, 2011 11:30 pm

get a wife.. get a bounty.. 1k bounty ~8 days in jail.. 8 days inn jail = 800g.. so.. kill 125 people (125k bounty), serve your time.. collect

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 10:38 am

The dark brotherhood is good money, startig out you get 600 gold per contract and 1.2k gold for the more bigger ones, i think there about 5-6? but you spent on maying your bountys off, or keep it if yo udont care, bu nearing the end of the quest line you will receive 20k gold, i would explain more but i dont want to spoil it

, the theives guild is good also

» Sun Dec 11, 2011 11:57 pm

Easy way to make 75k? Raid a few Dwemer ruins, craft all the Dwemer metal into bars, make Dwemer items, then enchant and sell them.

» Sun Dec 11, 2011 8:05 pm

Oh, there's also this. Type this in the console, if you're on the PC...

Spoiler

player.additem 000000A 1000000000

Does A work? I thought it was F.

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:43 am

God I hate this system. It just adds tedium to have to wait or travel to a dozen vendors to unload a few potions you made. There has to be a better way to limit the money people make without just trying to bore them away from doing it.

It's certainly better than old school RPG merchant systems where merchants do not respawn goods or cash, making getting certain items/gold far, far more difficult.

You only need to do what I suggested above if you don't have the Speech perks to increase merchant gold as well as sell every item type to any merchant. The most any merchant will have on them is about 2750 with all applicable speech perks. I have yet to find an item, even a heavily improved and enchanted item, sell for more than 1900 gold.

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 1:38 am

Dark brotherhood quest line or that stupid glitch

Cheers

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:29 am

Dark brotherhood quest line or that stupid glitch

Cheers

Get iron daggers
Get common soul gems
Enchant them with the "Banish" enchant.
Sell daggers for 1.2k without any speech perks.
Before I was selling them for around 650 then it jumped to around 1.2k somehow.

» Sun Dec 11, 2011 7:24 pm

Get iron daggers
Get common soul gems
Enchant them with the "Banish" enchant.
Sell daggers for 1.2k without any speech perks.
Before I was selling them for around 650 then it jumped to around 1.2k somehow.

You get better prices based on your relationship with the merchant and your speech skill, without any perks.