» Tue Apr 02, 2013 7:24 am Since Bethesda has decided to be a buzzkill for console players and patch the glitch, I figured I'll share my wisdom with my fellow exploiters. This will allow you to create a backup save where you use the Oghma Infinium to max all skills to 100 without leveling up BEFORE doing many of the game's titled quests. Though some Miscellaneous may need to be performed, depending on your playing preferences.
Step 01: Make sure your game is either unpatched, or patched before 1.9, as it nullifies the OI glitch.
Step 02: Start a new game. Choose your race and gender carefully, because you're pretty much stuck with them as long as you want to enjoy the exploit after the 1.9 patch. Altering the face just requires 1000 gold and a trip to the face changer in the Ragged Flagon in Riften. Ideally, doing one save of each gender/race would be the way to go, but that's pretty time consuming. But if you're hardcoe and wanna do it that way, more power to ya.
Step 03: Finish Unbound and go to Riverwood as the game pushes you. Then go to Lucan Valerius' shop and get and do the Golden Claw quest. It's less of a hassle to get the Dragonstone now because you're gonna need it and the loot you get from Bleak Falls Barrow and Lucan's reward comes in handy later.
Step 04: Level up to Lv. 15 and accumulate roughly 6,000 gold. There are various ways to do this without starting any titled or misc quests
Step 05: Find Septimus Signus' outpost and acquire the Daedric Quest "Discerning the Transmundane." But rather than go to the hassle of fighting through Alftand and Blackreach and the large numbers of Falmer and Dwarven automatons, just find the Tower of Mzark(south of Dawnstar, and south-east of the Hall of the Vigilant) and use the platter glitch to glitch through the gate and pull the lever to open the door permanently. Then pull the other lever to go down to the lower part of the tower and transcribe the lexicon for Septimus, and grab the Elder Scroll when you're done, because it has a role in other quests and this is convenient.
Step 06: Take the transcribed Lexicon back to Septimus and get the essence extractor. Now, you go elf-hunting. Easiest way to go is hit up the random bandit hideouts for Wood Elf, Orc, and Dark Elf blood. And the Halted Stream Camp has a dead High Elf you can take blood from all the way in the back in their pitfall. And for Falmer, go back to Mzark, exit into Blackreach and kill one, then go back. And voila, you'll have all you need to acquire the Oghma Infinium.
Step 07: Now that you have the Oghma Infinium in hand, go back to Whiterun and speak to the Jarl, he'll take you to Farengar and you give him the Dragonstone. Before Irileth shows up again, run over to the Jarl and he'll permit you to purchase property in the city. This important to do if you want to enjoy the Dragonborn reveal in each replay. If you don't care, and feel you need to sell dragonbones/scales to make the 6,000 gold, go ahead and slay the dragon first.
Step 08: Purchase Breezehome from Proventus and the living room furnishings. Go to your new home and perform the glitch on the bookshelf. Get all skills to level 100 WITHOUT going into the skills menu, which would force you to level up. You'll know you've hit 100 in all of a certain path when the glitch doesn't give you a notice of the skill going up. Then just move on to the next path until you're done.
Step 09: Make two saves. One for backup, and one for your current playthrough.
Step 10: After you make your save, go into the skill menu and you'll shoot straight from level 15 to 81 all at once. You can allot your Magicka/Health/Stamina boosts according to your desired build. Then allocate your skill points as you wish.
Step 11: Enjoy the entire game as the biggest badass in Skyrim. And when you're done and want to play the game over from a different build and allegiances, just reload the backup save and either make a new save for use or overwrite the existing use-save(Do not overwrite the backup save. Keep it, cherish it.)
And that's all there is to know for creating a Master Oghma Infinium Backup save to continue enjoying the exploit even after 1.9
