skyrim what sould i get? and how to make money?

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I just played normally and only looted jewelry and enchanted items. If I found better armor or weapons, I would splice together an enchantment on my now outdated gear and sell them. Even with a horrible Speech skill, I would absolutely clean out every merchant I went to. Just enchant all of the jewelry you find. It frees up space used by soul gems, it levels you up, it never diminishes the value of jewels (but a low level won't improve by much either), and it's not like you're going to use it anyway. Smithing is good because it can also improve weapons and armor, but in my experience it doesn't level up too fast and the materials are annoying to find.

I played a Stealth Archer, because it's fun and it absolutely broke the game. You really want to limit your gear like this:

-your armor (make sure it is all matching. Don't have Dwemer boots and a Steel chestplate, just use an all Steel set, because a perk in both Armor trees rewards you with using the full set)
-your weapon, favorited
-your backup weapon of a different class (Mage/Archers should use swords or daggers, Melee should have a bow)
-a few potions you actually will use. Why would you hold on to Fortify Magic if you never casted a Destruction spell? Why would you hold on to a Drain Health potion if you never intend on using it? This really should come down to a few Restore Health and Restore Stamina potions, sell everything else

Everything that you think you might be able to use later, like an armor piece that you don't have a full set for or crafting materials, store it. Otherwise, if you've gotten to Level 14 and still haven't used it, what makes you think you are going to use it later?

 

[luckshot]

Loot everything. You will be making constant trips to merchants but that will break up the combat

Also take up smithing and enchanting as others have said to turn ok armor into great to use or sell

 

[Jamash]

im a level 14 tank and i can take on alot of things but not more then one giant. so i need to know how sould i make money?

I don't really understand the connection between a lack of money and not being able to take on more than one Giant at Level 14... it's not like you can pay Giants to leave you alone.

Your inability to combat Giants isn't something money can solve, there's nothing you can spend money on that can make you tougher or make the Giants do less damage.

You just need to level up more and increase your Heavy Armour and Smithing skills. Even the most basic armour can reach the 80% armour cap of 567 (for 4 pieces) to 667 (for one piece).

At Level 14, even if you had infinite money the better armours (or ingots) won't start appearing in shops or in the game as loot, so you need to increase your level to make the better armours appear, but even then it's better to make your own and focus on Smithing and Heavy Armour to make the most of the even the most basic armours.

Realistically, at Level 14 there's not much chance that someone playing as a Tank could take on multiple Giants as you're unlikely to have the Health pool or Heavy Armour skill to take more than a few hits, plus you be having to heal yourself constantly.

If you really want to take on the Giants at a low level, don't be a Tank, attack them from range and avoid getting hit. If you do want to take on Giants as a Tank, then level up some more and wait until your armour rating is closer to 567-667 (which is when you have the maximum of 80% damage reduction).

 

[DEAD34345]

Very early in the game, pick up everything that has a value at least 10 times its weight and sell it all whenever you finish quests or leave dungeons. When you find yourself getting over-encumbered all the time even while selling everything, switch to only picking up things worth 20 times their weight, then 100 times. By the time I was level 10 or so my only real problem was finding merchants with enough money to buy all my crap, so then I just stopped collecting things together (apart from one-of-a-kind artefacts, which I keep to display in one of my many homes). Many, many hours and levels later, and I've yet to ever run low on money.

This is what with every kind of character, and it works no matter what paths you go down. I don't think money has ever been a serious concern in any Elder Scrolls game, and I've played the lot. Then again, maybe my compulsion to loot anything and everything of any worth in RPGs isn't quite as universal as I thought.

 

[GundamSentinel]

You also want to try to find stuff weights less but is high in value. Who cares about a 36lb warhammer worth 1500 when you find flawless gems from $600-$1000 that only weight 0.5lb.

This is very important if you want to loot efficiently. Early game I only pick up stuff where the value is at least 50 times the weight. Later only stuff that's worth 100 times the weight. By the time I switch to 200 times the weight I'll have enough money to buy Cyrodiil.

 

[SeeIn2D]

Take my gold. Take all of it. I don't need any of it. I have 250,000 gold and it is WAY too much so have all except maybe 2,000 incase an interesting weapon pops up at a vendor. But as far as weapons and armor goes, get Volendrung for your weapon (assuming you have a single two handed weapon equipped) which can be acquired like so: http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/The_Cursed_Tribe. For armor I'd say get the Ebony Mail: http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Ebony_Mail_%28Skyrim%29. Hands get the Ironhand Gauntlets: http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Ironhand_Gauntlets. Feet try to get Daedric Smithing and get the Daedric Boots, there really aren't any great heavy armor unique boots. For a helmet again I'd say go for the Daedric Helmet. As far as ring and necklace go, I'd say get the Gauldur Amulet for the necklace and then for the ring just find something with a decent enchant on it or put a decent enchant on something unenchanted yourself.

 

[Jynthor]

Just go exploring and sell your loot, I have made over 100.000 gold just playing the game, frankly if you are in need of money in Skyrim, you're doing something wrong.

 

[Overusedname]

I got A LOT of my dosh from smithing. And don't be afraid to treck back to dungeons and collect all the discarded weapons you missed.

Enchanting is also the best school of magic for you to focus on. You'll be able sell things at a high price, but more importantly you'll be able to be a FAR stronger tank with some the benefits you can put on your gear. Pick-pocketing can make things pretty easy as well, though it was never something I focused on. And it has a LOT of risk, obviously. Unless you already have good stealth, try smithing and enchanting.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

There's an orc stronghold in the East where you can easily mine lots of ebony. So my advice is grind smithing up, forge self ebony gear, then:

Clear dungeons.
Take all the weapons and armour.
Use high smithing skill to upgrade the loot. (This can easily double the value)
Sell.
Rinse and repeat.

 

[LiquidQuartz]

Moneywise: AlchemyAlchemyAlchemyAlchemyAlchemyAlchemyAlchemy

seriously when you get good in the skill you'll pretty much be forced to put perks into speech for increased merchant gold or start hoarding damage magicka regen potions, (they are worth the most) >.>

 

[iron stomp]

tyvm everyone