So i've found a way to get to 100 smithing SO easily. It's also quite simple too, all you need is 5500 gold, 1 gold bar, and 1 flawless diamond. To get a gold bar and a flawless diamond, follow these videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUR3eXgSTT0 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQOCfFTQ3bI. Getting the gold bars can be a bit out of the way, but you can use this glitch to travel faster with your horse while in the water: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JWM-iWOEEw.

so, once you have your gold bars and flawless diamond, you're going to want to spend that 500 gold to hire Jenassa. She's a dark elf mercenary inside the drunken huntsman inside of whiterun. Your companion doesn't have to be Jenassa, it just has to be someone that will be willing to pick up stolen items, and since she's a mercenary and available from the beginning of the game, she's a safe bet.

once you get Jenassa, you need a good place to do it, where there aren't any npcs too see you stealing, so you should buy the breezehome in whiterun. I used it and found it to be perfect.

once you have all the prerequisites taken care of, you're going to do the duplication glitch. This glitch is really buggy, and in all honesty, I'm not even sure how it works. First, watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqyLEHGH9rw. Now that you have a simple understanding on how it's done, im going to explain to you how to duplicate a large amount of items. The glitch removed all of the bonuses from his item that he put on (enchantments, smithing reinforcements, etc.) and was on the ground as just the plain item. This glitch also removes the amount dropped, so you will always find that when you come back to the location to retrieve the items off of the ground, there will always be one. So never drop a stack.

step by step, you need to go into your house, drop your gold bars and flawless diamonds, at this point, you should have at least one. If you have 5 or more, which gives you the option to drop all of them, one of them, or any number inbetween. You're going to want to drop them one at a time. This may sound tedious at first, but there is a workaround. Once all the items are on the ground, you're going to tell Jenassa to wait. As long as she's waiting, you're golden. (btw pro tip, if you hold the triangle button, or whatever you use to interact with things, it will automatically open the companion command prompt. you may have to be standing back from your companion, though.) after you have Jenassa wait, have her pick up ever item that you want to duplicate. Once she picked them up and is waiting, leave your house. Now you're in whiterun. Once outside, fast travel to whiterun. Again, I don't know how this glitch works, but once you've fast traveled, this next part will work. Now, after you fast traveled, enter breezehome. You should find Jenassa standing there with the items that she picked up on the ground. Pick up the items that are on the ground and take the items that are in Jenassa's inventory. It gets buggy here, as the items in her inventory will be marked as stolen, or eventually will be, which is why you need a mercenary. You just rinse and repeat this until you get the desired amount of flawless diamonds and gold bars. * One thing to note is that once you have all the picked up the items in and they're in your inventory, when you go to drop all of them in one pile, they will all be dropped individually. So once you hit 5+ of the items, just say drop all. They will be dropped as if you individually dropped them, making this process much faster. You have to be careful though, as sometimes there can be a few that haven't separated. Just pick up the ones that are in a stack and drop them individually.

once you have a large amount of the items, you can go make yourself some diamond necklaces that sell for 1200 a pop! these will help you get rich and, since they sell high, they will net you a very large amount of smithing xp.

a TL;DR/clarification of these instructions, enter breezehome > have Jenassa wait > drop items individually > have Jenassa pick them up > exit breezehome > fast travel to whiterun > enter breezehome > pickup items and take the duplicated items from Jenassa > repeat

There was a duplication glitch thread a couple months ago. It's not new. sorry.

You could also just get a follower, tell them to pick up everything Dwarven, smelt it, get 500 Dwarven Ingots, and make Dwarven Bows. All with 3 bonuses.

I found that the fastest way is to be a vampire necromage, use the warrior stone + the lover stone (aetherial crown) + ancient knowledge + lover's comfort and making jewelry.

Fastest way IMO is to invest as many perks in it as possible, then buy all the materials from every smith you meet, make stuff, sell it back, repeat. Even faster with Ancient Knowledge + Warrior Stone + Lover's Comfort.

Or just mine a ton of iron, use Transmute repeatedly (and level Alteration while you're at it) and make so much jewelry you can practically buy a castle with it.

Smithing is the easiest tree to max out anyway, Even faster with hearthfire an dawnguard.

So why use a glitch when it only takes about 3 hours to max if you spend that time on only smithing.

If you're going to cheat anyway, just use the restoration loop to create a fortify smithing 95347278850% potion and improve a few weapons with it. You can legendary your smithing multiple times while you're at it.

That's what I did. I used it on Dragonbone Warhammers. Within 10 minutes, I already made Smithing Legendary 10 times.

Not new and Meh, doesn't interest me. I don't use exploits.

I did not know the restoration loop provided extra xp for smithing, which is a bit silly as it certainly does for alchemy.

Interesting.

My dedicated legendary skill is alteration, as getting that up with detect life is exceedingly easy and I need no perks of that tree.

omg i can't believe i forgot about that! lol u could've just gotten two ingredients for fortify restoration with a smithing equip and gotten it sooo much faster! omg i cant believe i forgot about that!

You forgot the last step where you then come to the forums and complain that the game is too easy.

So true.

works with speech too, sell an expensive potion and it will raise to 100

Why even faster with these DLC s?

I ask because I own both and don't see how it makes it easier.

The only time I ever thought I found one of the glitch/ exploits(usually someone on YouTube beat ya to it) was on my first playthrough, I found I could raise conjuring and one handed rather quickly by summoning a wolf with one hand them killing it with the other with a sword or whatever. I went on YouTube but no one else was posting anything like it. Not sure if it still works as I don't like to use exploits, feels like cheating and leaves me unsatisfied.

The Aetherial Crown, smithing arrows...and something else...

Aetherial crown? Can't say I've came across this yet. I'm guessing it's side quest related as I have already done the MQ.

Read a book called the Aetherium Wars (a copy is in Ft Dawnguard) to start.

Every "how to get 100 smithing" tip boils down to "doing a tonne of smithing", well duh.

This is the most unique one I've seen by far, but still in the end is doing heaps of smithing. It's not that I expect there to be a way to cheat, I just wish people would stop making youtube videos and forum threads acting like they do have a way to cheat, only to then advise "do heaps of smithing".

Sounds boring. And I am Not reading all of that [censored]

So you post that instead? Could've just ignored it.

I certainly could have

Because in Hearthfire, you need to smith nails, hinges, locks and fittings, and lots of them for building the houses and furnishing them. Creating these items increases your Smithing skill.

In Dawnguard, I think you can gain the ability to smith crossbow bolts if you join the Dawnguard, though don't quote me on that.