Level up your skills in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim quickly and easily with these tips.
Published by Liam @ PC Game Spotlight 3 years ago
Want to know how to level up skills in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim? Skills take a good while to level up in Skyrim, so players may be wondering how to power-level certain ones – like crafting – before anything else to play the way they want for longer. While trying to reach smithing level 100 before endgame is futile, there are ways to speed up the process.
The Best Ways to Level Up Skills
There are opportunities for Skyrim skill trainers to give the player's character free skill points in many of the skills offered in Bethesda’s open-world game. Some of those can be maxed out even before escaping Helgen keep. Others require additional requirements, like completing the main story quest, reached at the end of the main Skyrim Quests. If players are running out of things to do in Skyrim, they can level up their crafting skills first so they can spend more time making money with one of the best crafting skills and increase their taxable income.
The Fastest Skill to Level in Skyrim
To reach this milestone, players need to use skills that give them plenty of opportunities to take skill points away from their leveling system. The best one we’ve found is Lockpicking. It takes only a few items obtained early in the adventure to reach this milestone. Equip a pick, an amulet, and the Key to the Solitude Gate, then find the shack with the treasure chest, and immediately open the lock. After doing this a few times, players will gain all the skill points they need to reach level 100 within 30 minutes of starting a new playthrough.
The other skills players can use this method on are:
Sneak: The easiest skill to level, players gain it automatically just by leveling up after speaking to Danica after Helgen. They don’t even have to go out of their way to sneak. They can reach level 100 minutes after starting a new game.
Archery: Players can attack the Greybeards in High Hrothgar, shoot them once, then run. The entire attack takes only a second so they can reach their goal pretty fast. At the earliest, they can reach their goal in 3.2 days, which is just perfect to complete the game’s story.
Alchemy or Enchanting: Players can Fortify their Alchemy or Enchanting skills by using the Fortify Alchemy or Fortify Enchanting potions. Every alchemist or enchanter needs them every once in a while.
Smithing: Players can drink a Fortify Smithing potion before tempering gear at a grindstone or workbench.
Speech: Players can sell items and choose the Persuade or Intimidate dialogue options. If they didn’t hold on to a potion from Fortify Speech earlier, they can find a Speech trainer.
Light Armor: Players can keep stealing the money back after they get levels.
Heavy Armor: If players can commit to the Companions questline, leveling up Heavy Armor is super easy. If they can’t, they can find a trainer and grab the money back after they start leveling.
One-Handed and Two-Handed: Players can hit Ralof or Hadvar in the opening few minutes of the game. Now, they can hit a horse to gain the skill instead.
Block: Players can shield-bash non-hostile NPCs. They can get extra armor spikes, which make shield-bashing more powerful against armored opponents. For a quick fix, they can make Vegetable Soup and attack a horse for an additional 7.5% bonus.
Destruction: Players can use destruction spells that don't require an active Dragon Shout. It only takes 70 seconds per cast to hit fully charged destruction spells when the Impact perk has been acquired, resulting in a 8,400 Dragon Soul per day – or 12,810 if players choose the Impact and Destruction perks that they can get as part of the final-tier Talon of Akatosh Dragon Priest Mask armor set.
Alteration: Players can cast Water Breathing or Telekinesis on a horse repeatedly. This is as much out of the way as dodging attacks while claiming the damage bonus. They can reach level 100 in 255 days.
Conjuration: Players can cast Soul Trap repeatedly on a corpse or horse. This is slightly more boring, but we’re looking for the fastest way to gain levels…
