Skyrim Overpowered Character Guide

For all you brawn-over-brains devotees who think Alchemy is a waste of time, guess what? One of the most important things you're going to want to do is get your Alchemy skill to 100. Put down the great axe and start gathering ingredients. To do this easily, the very first thing you'll want to do is activate the Thief Stone, located at the Guardian Stones point on your map, just south west of Riverwood. This stone will give you a bonus 20% experience whenever your Alchemy Skill goes up.

Once the stone is activated, you'll want to buy, gather and find all the giant's toes and wheat you can find to create potions of Fortify Health. This concoction is the Alchemy equivalent to iron daggers, and is the recipe most easily spammable. Once your Alchemy is at 100, be sure to plop five perks into the initial Alchemist perk and grab the Benefactor perk too. You'll need these later.

It isn't a coincidence that I called the Fortify Health potions the iron daggers of the Alchemist. Iron daggers are the most easily spammable item at a blacksmith forge, for a couple of reasons, and the main piece of equipment you'll want to keep spamming to get Smithing to 100. The best way to do this is travel to Whiterun because there are three possible blacksmith vendors to buy ingredients from.

Iron ingots, iron ore, leather and leather strips are the items you'll want to start hoarding. You can buy these from Adrianne Advenicci and Ulfberth War-Bear at Warmaiden's and Eorlund Gray-Mane at the Skyforge. Once you've got the ingredients, create as many iron daggers as you can and sell your results. You'll get all your money back from purchasing the ingredients when you sell the daggers back.

If you wait 48 hours, game time, the vendors' stock will replenish and you can rinse and repeat. Be sure to grab the Smithing perks that correspond to the armor you plan on wearing. I went for Deadric, but light armor wearers will want to grab Glass or Dragon. Above all, you'll want to grab the Arcan Blacksmith perk, so you can improve magical items, not that you'll need to after this though.

The last of the skills you want to get to 100 is the Enchanting skill. Before anything, make sure you have the Mage Stone activated, located at the Guardian Stones location on your map, the same place you activated the Thief Stone. This will grant you a bonus 20% experience whenever you level up in Enchanting. Next up, you'll want as many petty soul gems as you can get. You can either buy these, wait 48 hours and buy more, or you can equip a companion with a Soul Trap weapon and load him or her up with all your empty soul gems. Before long you'll have a hoard of soul gems.

Once you're high enough in Smithing, instead of immediately selling those daggers back to purchase new ingredients, you'll want to head over to Dragonsreach. Using your plethora of soul gems, and the experience bonus from the Mage Stone, enchant your iron daggers with whichever enchantment you find yields you the most money. I use Paralyze, that way I can get all my money back and then some. Take that economy.

Be sure to move up the Enchanting skill tree to grab Insightful Enchanter and Extra Effect. You'll also want to drop five perks into Enchanter.

Once your skills and perks are all set up, create yourself a set of crafting gear. You'll need four pieces of gear, but a piece of chest armor can't be enchanted with Fortify Alchemy. Because of this, you'll want to double enchant a helmet, some bracers, a ring and a amulet with Fortify Alchemy and Fortify Smithing. Doing this will grant each piece with a 25% bonus to created potions, armor and weapons.

Wear this set of armor whenever you create anything.