Skyrim Tips and Tricks

• You don't have to spend time catching butterflies and picking flowers to get easy alchemy money. You can buy all the inexpensive ingredients merchants sell. Save the game. Kill the merchant. Reload the game. There will be a new set of items for sale! You can also wait 42 hours or fast travel to different cities' alchemists. Alchemy is easy money and can provide powerful bonuses to any other skill in the game.
• Poisons are powerful; the effects stack if you hit multiple times with lingering damage health! Paralysis poison is over powered. Slow poisons make being an archer easy. Weakness to magic poisons are great for mages. Add them to favorites for faster use.
• You can have two weapons poisoned at once. Equip and poison one at a time then equip them both.
• Use invisibility to get close easy. Drink a fortify one handed to hit hard. Sneak attack.
• Use poison of weakness to poison as first hit so all other poison hits are more effective.
• Use frenzy poison to make non killable NPCs attack you. You can fight them forever and gain XP.
• Waiting instantly refills health/stamina/magicka. Just hit 't' then enter. Wait 42 hours for shop keepers to replenish gold (24 + 18).
• At level 40 Pickpocket there is a perk that lets you reverse pickpocket and give people poisons. They will use them and either die or run out.
• Each poison lasts one hit but there's a perk to make them last two hits.
• You can sprint by holding alt in PC
• Hit twice 'r' to sheath then yield bow so you don't waste an arrow if it's drawn.
• hold 'c' to autowalk.
• You can hit 'y' when prompted to hit yes or no. Useful for when you're smithing 10,000 iron daggers.
• Get the lovers stone as early as possible, it gains all skills 15% faster. You can also get blessings from shrines and well-rested bonuses from inns.
• Map with all skyrim locations
• Get a house as early as possible.
• If you marry, your spouse gives you money from their shop.
• You can play without killing anyone.
• Dungeons and chests scale to your level. If you only level single damage abilities the game is pretty easy. Mages only need destruction and followers. Coming back to chests gives good loot if you leave them to higher levels. You could play as level 1 khajiit with no armor and go through several quests without problem. Claws have bonus attack and make level one enemies easy to beat but don't give XP. Leveling gives better gear but also harder enemies.
• Giving money to (non-drunken) beggars gives you a very good temporary bonus to speech. Give your local bum a dollar before buying and selling those high priced items.
• f5 = quicksave. f9 = quickload. You can make quick save middle mouse click. middle mouse click is also great alternatively for shouts.
• Use explosive spells in the ground in front of magical shields. They will take full damage.
• Everything outdoors is pretty easy. Find a steep ledge or rock and attack the creature with magick or arrows. Lightning is instant hit, has long range and needs no distance calculation.
• loading screen tips.
• You can fast travel on a horse while over encumbered and they can also climb mountains much easier. Alt to sprint also works for them.
• Roaming around whiterun there's a lot of blue mountain flowers, wheat and blue butterflies. That's a very expensive combination to use in alchemy.
• Put a bucket over a shop keepers head. You can steal all their items and level sneak. In the beginning of the game you can repeatedly sneak attack the NPC that helps you through the dungeon.
• You can carry things holding down e and moving your mouse. You can carry things to other rooms and steal them easier.
• Give items a hotkey by clicking a number key in the favorites menu.
• Cooking is over powered. There's no point in putting points in stamina.
• Potion of regen stamina is much better and stronger than using potions to restore X points of stamina.
• Don't let your stamina completely run out. It will not regenerate for a few seconds if it does.
• Torches make lockpicking easier and followers can automatically equip them when it gets dark.
• Followers can carry infinite weight if you tell them to pick things up
• Console commands. Infinite carry weight, revive your horse and followers. Teleport anywhere. Sometimes the game glitches and you need the console. Sometimes you just want to walk through walls to see if you're missing something ;).
• Followers will equip things you give them and use healing potions.
• Calm spell makes for easy sneak attacks
• there is a mod that increases skyrims framerate. "TESV Acceleration Layer offers CPU optimization, massive possible performance increases, now in SKSE plugin format".
• Wild life run from you. Frenzy spell will make deer and elk attack you.
• If over encumbered you can put things in skeletons and carry a lootable bone.
• You can get an attack dog from Markath. You can have a follower and a dog at once. You can use carriages for easy travel to cities.
• You can use shouts in town and towns people will tell you were to find more.
• Don't forget to shout at mages as it will stop their spells. Shouting can knock people off cliffs and make things easier to steal.
• You can steal letters from the courier to find new locations.
• You can equip the pickaxe to mine faster. The color of the ore indicates the gems.
• Banish daedra enchantment is worth the most money so buy it if you can afford it
• You can kill anyone without consequence if you make them frenzy and attack you first.
• silverside perch + skeever tail + salt pile = damage health + ravage health + damage stamina regen
• canis root + impstool + river betty = damage health + paralysis
• deathbell + pine thrush egg + salt pile = slow + weakness to poison
• You don't need the best performing poison, just make a lot and favorite it. Something like deathbell + red mountain flower is easy to come by.
• Sell only one item at once if you have many expensive items stacked otherwise it doesn't count towards speech.
• Links: leveling exploits, how to become skyrim vampire / pros and cons, how to become werewolf / pros and cons, Which merchants have most gold. Effecient money making, mods make the game a lot better
• Watch people sleep for awhile before you kill them. You will be rewarded with a creep cluster.
• Ok I lie. That's not true.