How to Power Through Every Skill in Skyrim and Become A Super Saiyan

Part 1: Basic Beginners

Need: a weapon

Get: Faendal, Golden Claw, Dragonstone, Transmute Mineral Ore

Kill: Everyone

Any race, although High Elf is a good option for the magic trees; starting skills in magic are high, 50 extra Magicka, and a power to quickly recharge Magicka for spells. If you want a bonus to combat instead, choose Nord or Orc. Khajiit is also a good option, since they gain bonuses to stealth trees.

Oh boy, another glorious dragon-filled day in Skyrim. Awake, almost die, jump through a roof, and head into the Keep.

Once you get into Helgen Keep, thwack every enemy with weapons to increase your skills in weapons, regardless of which race you chose. Lockpick every cage to increase your lockpicking by one skill, and loot basically everything.

Reach the bear, where whichever companion will start to sneak.

Now comes the fun part: Set difficulty to Legendary and thwack Hadvar or Ralof with a one-handed weapon while sneaking. They’re essential characters, and if successfully snuck, it’ll raise your Sneak skill, along with your One-Handed.

Level up as many times as you wish; I go for about four or five. Pick perks in Sneak and weapon trees when you do, and divide increases between Stamina and Health. Sneak should be at about level 50 or 60 by now, although if you really want to push, you can go to 100.

Finally get out of the cave. Go to the Guardian Stones and pick the Warrior Stone.

Go to Riverwood, talk with Faendal and deliver a letter to Valerius’ daughter in the trader shop, talk with Lucan Valerius about the Golden Claw, sell your stuff, get Faendal as a companion, and ask him to train you in Archery. Ideally, you should be ready to level up when you do this, since skills can only be trained five times per level.

Since he’s a companion, you can just ask him for your money back, and repeat the process. This can only go up until Archery is at 50, and then you can either let him go or keep him.

Go to Bleak Falls Barrow, run past enemies or sneak-archer them, get the Golden Claw and the Dragonstone, loot everything, go back to Riverwood, wrap up the Golden Claw quest and get a bunch of gold, sell your loot except for potentially useful items, and head off to Whiterun.

Once you pass the Speech check and gain a level in that, go up to Amren. He’ll tell you about his family sword lost in Halted Stream Camp, northwest of Whiterun.

Waddle off to the camp, snipe everyone or whack them upside the head, and in the final room you’ll see a spell book for Transmute Mineral Ore. Grab it and learn the spell.

“It’s a surprise tool that’ll help us later.”--Mickey Mouse

Go back to Amren and get leveled in One-Handed and Block. Nice.

Go to the Hall of the Dead and go to the room in the back of the main hall, where all the crypts are.

On the bottom of the left staircase: UwU what’s this?

*Unusual Gem added*

*climax of Kira theme starts playing with tormented screaming*

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Part 2: The Crown of Barenziah

Need: 24 stones?

Get: Prowler’s Profit

Kill: yourself

Hitch a ride to Riften and enter the city. Business as usual--

“Never done an honest day’s work for all that coin you’re carrying, eh, lad?”

*DID YOU JUST ASSUME MY GENDER???!!!!*

Obliterate Brynjolf.

Reload a save and return to him. Enter the Thief’s Guild as usual and become a full-fledged member by tormenting the civilians of Riften for money.

Once Goldenglow Estate is started, go to Vex and begin the quest No Stone Unturned.

“I want to die.”--Idubbbz

Luckily there’s a great hack for PC users. When picking up the stone, there’s a delay between the click, the addition to your inventory, and the verification in the quest. So that means you can spam [E] as fast as you can and gain multiple copies (2-4 or 5) of the Stone from a single Stone. Use with (Slow Time) for best results.

I wonder if we can abuse this…

Locations of easiest Stones: Stony Creek Cave, House of Clan Shatter-Shield, Palace of the Kings, Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary, Dainty Sload, Reeking Cave (during the Diplomatic Immunity quest in the main storyline) Markarth Treasury House, Understone Keep Dwemer Museum, Mistveil Keep Jarl’s Chambers, Dragonsreach Jarl’s Chambers, and Kodlak Whitemane’s bedroom. Pick and choose. If you’re not satisfied with however many Stones you got, reload a save and try again. Three or four times is easy enough.

Once the quest recognizes all the Stones have technically been collected, return to Vex. Oops, silly me! I forgot! You need to retrieve the actual crown next! Inside a three-layer cave filled to the brim with Falmer.

Why are we still here? Just to suffer…

Go to the cave and ignore most of the Falmer. If you can.

10% pain, 20% pain, 15% concentrated power of pain, 5% pain, 50% pain, and 100% reason to remember the pain.

RUN. Follow the marker until you reach the accursed thing, nab it, and escape with as much loot as you can find. Along the way, pick a bunch of mushrooms. No time like the present.

Return to Vex--hecking finally. Keep your stupid crown. What we get and what we want is a special perk called Prowler’s Profit. It gives multiple precious gems in basically every container you open, including urns in dungeons and pockets you pick. This is what was in that special suitcase in Pulp Fiction.

Now get the Shadow stone, sleep in a bed for a 30% skill speed increase, and pickpocket pretty much everyone in the major cities. The more important they look, the better, and precious gems level you up pretty good--low weight, high value. It’ll be tough at first, but nothing a quicksave can’t fix. Soon picking pockets will be second nature, and wealth will be yours with minimal effort. As an added bonus, you can pickpocket Alchemy, Block, Armor, and Restoration trainers, get your money back, and train and level up for free. Repeat and continue until you get Pickpocket 100, and make sure you get the Extra Pockets perk. We’re going to be carrying a lot. Continue to divide increases in Health and Stamina.

In no time at all, you’ll be rolling in gold, rubies, sapphires, diamonds, emeralds, amethysts, and garnets. This is crucial in the following segment.

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Part 3: Riches to Riches

Need: Prowler’s Profit, Transmute Mineral Ore, patience

Get: gud

Kill: Time

After accumulating plenty of gems, move onto crafting skills.

Remember the Transmute Mineral Ore spell? Now is the time to put it to good use. First, you need iron or silver ore. You can either mine it yourself from abundant iron mines, or buy it from blacksmith vendors.

Here’s another handy glitch: after buying and selling everything you want from your vendor and depleting their money and supplies, quicksave, give ‘em a good whack, and reload the save. Voila! Their inventory is full again.

Then use the Transmute Mineral spell to turn iron into silver, and then silver ore into gold ore. If you run out of Magicka, wait an hour to replenish it. Smelt all that ore into gold bars, and smith yourself a bunch of jeweled gold rings and necklaces.

Smithing is increased by the value of the item made, so we can’t just churn out iron daggers forever. Gold rings? That’s a far better investment. Continue until you get a buttload of jewelry and your smithing has been raised by about 50 levels.

Next, head to Dawnstar in a wagon. Y’all already know what’s about to go down.

Ideally, you should wait until the Khajiit caravan is parked outside the borders. You know their entire inventory? We’re going to steal all that--in the middle of town.

Head to the Iron-Breaker mine entrance, and next to three rocks, crouch and jiggle the camera until you get the option to search a phantom chest. This chest has the entire cat’s inventory. Take all the enchanted items, soul gems, expensive potions, ingredients, gold, and lockpicks.

Remember the merchant glitch from earlier? Use that on the kitties, and then look at their inventory. The hidden chest will now be refilled.

Repeat until you get a ton of everything you want. If you become overencumbered, head to the nearby Jarl’s throne room and disenchant everything. This’ll also increase your Enchanting, which is what we’re going to level up next.

With all of the filled soul gems you have, enchant all your jewelry. It doesn’t have to be complex or anything, just keep on enchanting. This part requires a lot of patience and dedication. If you run out of rings, get some more ore using the merchant glitch and smith them. If you run out of soul gems, use the merchant glitch on the Khajiit or the court wizard and get more.

Eventually, you’ll max out both your Smithing and Enchanting. Get the perks in the Enchanting tree until you get the twin effect. Then gather many different outfits (head, neck, ring, arms, chest, feet) and put enchantments to reduce the cost of using Magicka for each magic tree. If done right, a single outfit will make the Magicka cost for two trees (like Destruction and Alteration) 0, and you can cast those spells for free.

But before we can power level those, let’s get to Alchemy.

Grind 40 Alchemy. Salt and Moon Sugar=fast XP, and you can usually train and pickpocket Arcadia in Whiterun for this. (Remember when we powered Pickpocket earlier?)

You need three baseline investments into the first perk, Alchemist, along with Physician and Benefactor. You also need a complete set of crafted high-enchanted Alchemy gear (Head, Ring, Arms, Necklace). Finally, you need a lot of Salt, Abecean Longfin, and Cyrodilic Spadetail, which you can get from fish barrels or the merchant glitch. Pay for these items with the enchanted jewelry you made.

Once this starts, it cannot stop, so make a save. Make a Fortify Restoration potion, unequip your Alch gear, drink the potion, reequip your gear, and make another Fortify Resto potion. Repeat. Bake, get naked, get high, repeat. The strength of the potion will exponentially increase, and that affects the potion’s value, which affects the speed of your leveling.

After making a dozen or so of these potions, your Alchemy will be at 100. The Fortify Resto potions you made can elevate you to a Daedric Lord-level of power and are worth more than the continent of Skyrim itself. And if you sell one of these potions to a vendor, it’ll immediately level your Speech to 100 too, since it’s determined by the items you sell, not what you buy.

You can also use this glitch to make potions for Enchanting and Smithing and make an enchanted weapon thousands of times stronger than it should be, and to upgrade it at a grindstone so a wooden sword really does become “sharp enough to cut through a God.”

“A weapon to surpass Metal Gear.”--Revolver Ocelot

If you’re counting, that’s around 5 skills out of 18 we’ve raised to 100, not including Sneak, if you chose it.

“But I’m not done yet!”--Billy Mays

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Part 4: Sorcerer Supreme

Need: Enchanted gear, Muffle, Telekinesis, Circle of Protection, Soul Trap

Get: UNLIMITED POWER!

Kill: The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim

Get the Mage stone power, sleep in a bed you own, and get to work on these individual ways to level up.

Illusion: Equip your OP Illusion gear and purchase Muffle from the court wizard. Cast Muffle with both hands in quick succession. Keep it up, keep it up, keep going until you reach level 100. Don’t bother getting any perks to reduce spell cost for any of the spells, by the way.

Restoration: Same basic method here. We’re too low-level to power-level immediately, but we can fix that. First, head to the wind wall in High Hrothgar and constantly injure yourself by walking into it, then heal yourself. This is a very lengthy process, so I recommend also training under the Master-level trainer in the College of Winterhold during your Pickpocketing spree way back up. Once you’re level 65, purchase the Circle of Protection spell from the College of Winterhold trainer and cast that over and over again. It’ll take a long time, but it’s guaranteed to level you up passively.

Conjuration: This is another well-known method. Kill anything living and cast Soul Trap on the corpse over and over again. This is tedious, but keep at it. You’ll get to level 100 soon enough if you persist.

Alteration: The Mineral Ore spell levels you up a little bit, and entering combat with a low-level creature and casting a flesh spell over and over is a moderate way to increase it. But by far my favorite method is to get your hands on the Telekinesis spell, which is guaranteed to be found in a cell in the brewing rooms in Redwater Den. You don’t even have to be a vampire to enter the room. Just stroll in, get to the cell, and nab the book. Telekinesis on its own levels up Alteration quite a bit, but my preferred method is to break the game’s brain.

Use the Telekinesis spell to pull any random item close to you, then go to the map and fast travel across the map. If done correctly, you should be able to level from 15 to 100 in one go. This is also a method I use to level up indefinitely and gain more and more perk points.

Destruction: I’ve never done this personally, but Shadowmere from the Dark Brotherhood is basically indestructible. Level up Destruction by casting high-level Destruction spells at Shadowmere the horse. This can also work with Archery and One-and-Two-Handed weapons, although it’ll be incredibly tedious to whack on a horse for hours at a time. Get the Warrior stone before you do this and get a good night’s rest in your home for a 30% increase in leveling speed.

Now, can we please stop here? Aren’t we powerful enough?

WRONG.

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Part 5: Jack of All Trades

Need: Armor

Get: Nothing

Kill: ?

Light and Heavy Armor can be leveled by just taking hits and damage in battle, so it’ll be pretty passive already. Just switch armors if you’re getting higher in one than another. If you really want to speed things along, use the aforementioned storm wall in the Restoration method and keep healing yourself.

Finally, we come to Block. One could purchase training from the Companions or use actual experience, but the way I did it, I didn’t even need any training. I just stood there.

I headed to Deepwood Redoubt and began to slay my way through enemy forces. One of the Forsworn sprinted into a side corridor and activated the trap that released the swinging axes in the corridor. I was on one end and she was on another, and neither could come close.

So she fired from her bow. I blocked each of them with my shield. And the more I stayed there, the more my Block skill increased. So I just stayed there doing nothing but hold my shield up. If my health got too low, I’d use Restoration. Block went up and up until I was at level 100. Then I sprinted at her and cut her down.

I’m not sure how to best replicate the circumstances. I’d recommend saving your progress until you get it right, though.

And with that, it’s done! Every single skill, completed in the minimum amount of time!

Except for one.

FFFFFFFFFFFFF… Lockpicking. As usual! Useless useless useless useless!

Just… *sigh* get the Skeleton Key, don’t return it, pick a bunch of Master Locked chests in the Dwemer museum, and open every other lock you come across.

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Summary

Guaranteed simple fast lvl 100 increases: Smithing, Enchanting, Alchemy, Speech, Pickpocketing, Illusion, Conjuration, Alteration, Destruction, One-handed, Two-handed, Sneak, Archery

Not as simple or guaranteed to power: Light Armor, Heavy Armor, Block, Restoration

Annoying but will eventually reach it: Lockpicking