Skyrim Special Edition Legendary Skills

The concepts of power-levelling, grinding, and min-maxing your character have been an essential part of the Elder Scrolls series since its earliest days - and the inevitable streamlining we saw with Skyrim's release was never going to stamp it out. Much of the game's extraordinary longevity can be attributed to the fun that can be had at the higher levels, with the more interesting or outlandish skill perks unlocked.

This particular guide will take you through everything you need to know about levelling up both your character and every single individual skill as quickly and efficiently as possible.

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A word of warning though: because enemies are themselves levelled in Skyrim - meaning their strength is tied to your own overall character level - power-levelling can make your life considerably harder in combat, particularly if you prioritise non-combat skills early on. We recommend you take frequent breaks from power-levelling to go clear some dungeons and explore, or at least focus on raising some combat-related skills from time to time, alongside the rest.

How to level up in Skyrim

Before diving into the specifics of each skill, it's worth taking a quick moment to explain how exactly Skyrim's levelling mechanic works.

Your character in Skyrim has both an overall level and a set of individual levels for each of the 18 skills. Those skills are roughly broken down into three disciplines, displayed under the starsigns for the Thief, Mage, and Warrior in-game, although aside from the benefits of the Standing Stones - which we'll discuss below - there's little other reason to worry about which 'class' your chose skills fall into.

That's because, unlike the Elder Scrolls games before it, Skyrim's levelling system is goverened almost entirely by your usage of the skills themselves. All characters level up their skills at the same speed with use, and as such you're able to, eventually, reach the maximum level of 100 in every skill tree.

Speaking of which, each individual skill has it's own skill tree that grants various Perks to the player. Levelling up your skills a certain number of times will level up your character, and each time your character levels up, you'll unlock a Skill Point to spend on a Perk within any skill tree of your choice. What Perks you can unlock within each skill tree is goverened by both that skil's level, and your progress along the tree itself.

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With that in mind, you'll likely have two separate objectives when looking to level up: getting stronger in a certain skill, in order to do more damage with a bow or craft more potent potions, for instance; or unlocking a specific Perk within a skill tree, such as the additional 100 carry weight granted by the Extra Pockets Perk in the Pickpocket tree.

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Where things get really interesting is the knock-on effects that levelling up some skills will have on others. The most frequently seen example is the combination of Smithing and Enchanting, which can also earn you a considerable amount of money and some Speech experience too, whilst a maxed-out Enchanting skill, for instance, can also make it significantly faster to level just about any Magicka-based skill.

When you've been through our tips for preparing ahead of the grind, below, you can find all of our skill-specific levelling guides here:

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The fastest way to level 100 in every skill

Although skills will of course increase with regular usage, some are still far easier to level than others: archers, for instance, might find that thier Light Armor skill is almost never levelled because they're mostly taking out targets with one- or two-shot kills from stealth, whilst conjurers might find that their Conjuration skill is only trickling upwards because of how rarely they'll actually need to summon a new companion in battle.

Fortunately, there are several steps you can take in-game, before you start grinding a skill, that can get you summoning Atronachs and prancing around the wilderness in weightless Light Armor in no time:

Max your Enchanting, Alchemy and Smithing skills before you do anything else - The most important method for levelling is prioritising Enchanting and Smithing. Enchanting, in particular, is the key, with Smithing and Alchemy proving to be helpful additions that are also most efficiently levelled alongside Enchanting too. We strongly recommend using our Enchanting, Alchemy and Smithing levelling guide to max Enchanting at the very least, before you dive into grinding any other skills.
Use Guardian Stones - The Warrior, Thief, and Mage Stones, located in a cluster Soutwest of Riverwood, increase your Combat, Stealth, and Magic skills 20% faster respectively (and are stackable with the rested bonuses below). The Lover Stone (incompatible with the resting bonuses below) increases all skills 20% faster meanwhile, which is better if you're looking to simply play through the game naturally or will be levelling two or three multi-discepline skills at the same time (such as Heavy Armor and Restoration).
Take a nap - There are three bonuses available for sleeping in certain scenarios before you power level. 'Rested' grants a 5% bonus to skill experience for 8 hours after sleeping in someone else's bed. 'Well-Rested' grants 10% for 8 hours after sleeping in your own bed, and 'Lover's Comfort' grants 15% for 8 hours after sleeping with your husband or wife for a full night. Read our how to get married in Skyrim page for help getting this particular bonus.
Find the Aetherial Crown to combine a Guardian Stone and Rested bonus - Normally, when you activate one Standing Stone, the previous bonus is removed. With the Aetherial Crown equipped however, the power which would normally be removed is transferred to the Crown instead, meaning two powers are available at a time. You can acquire the Aetherial Crown as one of three options for a reward, after completing the Dawnguard quest 'Lost to the Ages'. To add a Rested bonus too, you can active the Lover Stone, then the Stone you wish to combine with it, whilst wearing the Crown to store it. Next, remove the Crown, acquire your Rested bonus, then put the Aetherial Crown back on, and you'll have all three combined for a frankly huge levelling boost.
Get grinding - For those hard-to-level skills, like the aforementioned Light Armour example for archers and assassins, you'll want to focus down on levelling that one in particular if you want to make progress. We've assembled guides for the Crafting Skills, Mage Skills, Warrior Skills, and Thief Skills separately, for you to peruse at your discretion.

Here's a quick table listing the Warrior, Thief, and Mage skills (note that some whilst Archery is listed as a Combat skill, it is affected by the Thief Stone, although it's seen as bug by many and may be fixed in the new Remastered edition's release):

Warrior Stone	Thief Stone	Mage Stone
Block	Archery	Alteration
Heavy Armor	Alchemy	Conjuration
One-Handed	Light Armor	Destruction
Smithing	Lockpicking	Enchanting
Two-Handed	Pickpocket	Illusion
Sneak	Restoration
Speech

By following those steps above, and then taking a look at our round up of the best ways to max Crafting Skills, Mage Skills, Thief Skills and Warrior Skills you'll be well on your way to crafting that Legendary Armour, banishing the undead and pickpocketing guards' weapons with ease.

Always seen as the dark arts of Elder Scrolls games, Thief skills are, in fact, surprisingly applicable to most playthroughs in Skryim, and maxing your Lockpicking, Pickpocket, Sneak and Speech skills - or at least quickly levelling them to a certain perk you have your eye on, like Extra Pockets, can be massivley helpful.

Here, we'll be talking you through the best ways to max your Thief skills in Skyrim as quickly and efficiently as possible - but we also strongly recommend you take a look at our Skyrim power-levelling hub page and our Crafting skills guide in particular, for some extremely helpful tips for speeding up the process.

The fastest way to max level Lockpicking and Pickpocketing

How to reach level 100 Lockpicking

Lockpicking and Pickpocket are two skills which often go hand-in-hand - probably because, to gain access to locked doors, there's normally a choice available to the player: lockpick the lock, or pickpocket the key.

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Lockpicking experience is granted for two things: succesfully opening locks, whereby experience is levelled according to the difficulty of the lock, or by breaking lockpicks, which gives a smaller, flat amount of experience regardless of the lock difficulty.
To level Lockpicking then, you can either head to a location which has a large number of difficult locks to open, such as the Dwemer Museum in Markarth, or you can simply find a lock where the starting position won't open it, buy a huge amount of lockpicks, and get breaking.
Breaking huge numbers of lockpicks is, we believe, the slightly faster option overall. You can buy lickpicks from Thieves Guild members and fences, or alternatively you can in fact use the Skeleton Key, awarded from a latter quest in the Thieves Guild storyline - which we explain how to start in our Faction quests guide - which is unbreakable, but still awards experience for 'failed' attempts to pick a lock.

How to reach level 100 Pickpocket

Pickpocket is one of the harder skills to power-level, but it's also one of the fastest to level up in terms of the experience you gain from each attempt.. if you get it right.

The amount of experience gained from pickpocketing and item is based on that item's value, rather than anything like weight or percentage chance of success.
Bearing that in mind, the most efficient items to steal are gems and jewelry, as they're high in value but low in weight - which means a higher chance to steal, as weight determines difficulty.
One mini-exploit for levelling Pickpocket is to repeatedly steal the Strange Amulet from Calixto Corrium, during the quest Blood on the Ice, as you can immediaely re-sell the amulet to Calixto for 500 gold - which is also one of several great ways to earn gold in Skyrim.
Another slightly cheesy way to level Pickpocket is to use the age-old exploit of purchasing Pickpocket training from a trainer, and then stealing your money back. This levels the skill in two ways at once, but will slow down significantly at higher levels.

The fastest way to max level Sneak and Speech

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How to reach level 100 Sneak

Sneak is another tricky one to level up without an exploit, but fortunately there are a few things to bear in mind which can make it a little easier for you.

Sneak experience is awarded for being undetected in sneak mode, and for landing sneak attacks. Sneak attacks grant the most XP, based on the damage dealt, whilst sneaking near hostile enemies or NPCs with items they own nearby will level you faster than sneaking near a friendly or neutral NPC.
The fastest way to level, then, is to fully land a sneak power attack combo on a durable NPC like Shadowmere.
You can also level your Sneak to 100 during the game's tutorial section - although this will leave you drastically under-levelled for combat against your enemies - by walking into a wall near the bear in the tutorial cave. The good ol' fashioned rubber band trick, or a weight on your W key, can let you do this while AFK if you really want to.
Goldenglow Estate's external area, which is full of guards - providing you don't kill them during the Thieves Guild quest - is a great area to sneak around amidst multiple holstile enemies. Forts occupied by bandits or the Thalmor are another option.

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How to reach level 100 Speech

Finally, yet another difficult to grind skill, Speech. Formerly Speechcraft, Speech is based on your verbal interactions with NPCs. Fortunately again, we've managed to gather a few tricks for levelling it up with relative ease.

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Speech is levelled by buying and selling items, and successfully using the Persuade, Indimidate, and Bribe dialogue options.
Buying and selling items levels Speech according to the item's value, and will only every grant you experience for one item per transaction - meaning you should always sell items one at a time if you want to raise your Speech level.
One method is to buy training from trainer-merchants, who also buy and sell goods, and who will then have far higher gold reserves for buying your more expensive items.
If you have a large amount of gold saved up, you can sell and re-buy your most expensive items, which, bearing the markups in mind, will leave the merchant with a massively increased stash of gold for puchasing. Then, you can sell huge amounts of items - remembering to do so one at a time - to level up your Speech. This complements your Enchanting skill levelling particualrly well, as with that method you'll have huge numbers of enchanted items to sell, too.
Finally, there is a Speech exploit involving a dialogue loop with a shop-keeping in Riften. Head to the Black-Briar Meadery just north of the town and talk to Ungrien. Select the 'Tell me about Maven Black-Briar' dialogue option, and after heading through all the chit-chat the 'Come on, get the truth off your chest. (Persuade)' option, which will soon take you back to the start of the conversation and round in an infinite loop. This is, probably, the fastest way to level the skill, although technically an exploit rather than an intentional mechanic.

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