» Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:38 pm
Level 27, with maybe 35,000 gold (I forget how much I have on hand.) However, I have a heap of stuff stashed in Breezehome, including lots of enchanted weapons and armors that I could sell as well as a horde of ingredients for potions and heap of materials for smithing. I've spent a great deal of money buying ore and ingots for smithing to raise my smithing skill. (It costs a lot less for me to buy a pile of materials and make a bunch of helmets to raise my smithing skill than what it would cost to pay someone to train me through that same number of skill levels. I think one day I gained like fourteen smithing levels all at once, and for what it would have cost to have the guy up at Skyforge to train me just three smithing levels.)