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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Game » consists of 11 releases. First released on Nov 11, 2011

The fifth installment in Bethesda's Elder Scrolls franchise is set in the eponymous province of Skyrim, where the ancient threat of dragons, led by the sinister Alduin, is rising again to threaten all mortal races. Only the player, as the prophesied hero the Dovahkiin, can save the world from destruction.

what to buy w/ $$$$

#1 Posted by BoFooQ (527 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

So I easiely have at least 10,000 in gold and was wondering what great stuff people have found to buy. I'm the kind of person to pick and sell everything, but it seems like I've got nothing to buy. currently I'm buying grand soul gems of people so they have enough moeny for me to sell them my stuff. smithing and enchancting seems to be the way to go, so where do I spend my cash????

#2 Posted by BraveToaster (12588 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

Buy a house in every village.

#3 Posted by MikkaQ (9721 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

Buy a house to store your shit, then spend the rest on training.

#4 Posted by Commisar123 (1760 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

Yeah a house is the only real major investment you can make in that game.

#5 Posted by matthias2437 (981 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

This game hands you money like its nothing to be honest. I own every house in the game with every upgrade, bought the materiel to make every single piece of armor/weapons in the game and still have over 100k. I don't think I have dropped bellow 15k since level 10. But yeah I would recommend a house, or if you plan on making Daedric armor then buy a shit load of ebony ingots and daedra hearts.

#6 Posted by ChaosDent (191 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

You can easily spend 8000 gold on skill training every level. That's what I've been devoting most of my money toward.

#7 Edited by BlinkyTM (1054 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

Probably a house, training, and armor. A house in Solitude costs 25,000 gold. I don't know why, but when I spend over 5,000 gold on something I feel shame. I also feel like I need to make all the money back that I just spent lol. That guy at Skyforge is such a rip off, he's charging me 4,000 gold a level for smithing. I refuse to pay that much gold! It also annoys me when I see an NPC with 12,000 of my gold. Is it wrong that I let an NPC die and after everyone walked away I took my money off their corpse and left them naked?

Whenever someone that I don't like dies I just take their clothes and leave them there. Don't you judge me!

#8 Posted by Starfishhunter9 (323 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

Training and more houses

#9 Posted by Robo (666 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

I've got 80000G burning a hole in my pocket at the moment. Gonna blow some of it training up a few areas.

#10 Posted by Soapy86 (2429 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

Which house is best?

#11 Posted by Skald (4366 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@Soapy86: Proudspire Manor in Solitude, I believe.

#12 Posted by BoFooQ (527 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

I buy alot of training, whenever possible I buy all I can than sell as much as possible back to same guy to get my money back. I have the house in whiterun and have been using that as my home base. since I going through the companian quests its where I head to ready up for the next quest. p.s. I have loaded my house with as many skulls as I could carry home, it looks great

#13 Posted by Starfishhunter9 (323 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@Skald said:

@Soapy86: Proudspire Manor in Solitude, I believe.

How much does that one cost?

#14 Posted by Vexxan (4554 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

10k ain't that much, you can easily spend that on 5 skill-ups every level.

#15 Posted by Subjugation (4339 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@Starfishhunter9 said:

@Skald said:

@Soapy86: Proudspire Manor in Solitude, I believe.

How much does that one cost?

25,000 gold I believe.

#16 Posted by ColinWright (730 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

Save up to 100k for the achievement then go Scrooge McDuck all over that shit.

#17 Posted by TheHT (8164 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

I use money only for buying things to disenchant or buying ingots for smithing.

#18 Posted by JoeyRavn (4418 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

Iron Ingot + Leather Strips = Iron Dagger.

Iron Dagger = +Smithing.

+Smithing = Good.

Go.

#19 Posted by Rusputin (75 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@JoeyRavn said:

Iron Ingot + Leather Strips = Iron Dagger.

Iron Dagger = +Smithing.

+Smithing = Good.

Go.

Then enchant said daggers, and make more money. But yeah... 10k+ is usually what 5 skill points via training cost. Buy a house to store stuff, then keep raking in the monies in the meantime.

#20 Posted by Arkasai (680 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

It'd be awesome if they let you drop your gold so you could litter every inch of your houses in gold coins. Though I guess if you really wanted to do that you could use console commands to spawn a bunch of gold...though even that might not work cause I'm pretty sure it goes straight to your inventory.

#21 Posted by TheDudeOfGaming (5879 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

Buy soul gems, with which you will increase your enchanting skill. Which in turn will make you invincible. Have fun.

#22 Posted by Ravenlight (7102 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

Level your Speechcraft to 70 and invest in NPC stores.

#23 Posted by briangodsoe (454 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

Iron Ignot and leather straps. A lot of them. Trust me on this.

#24 Posted by project343 (2660 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@Subjugation said:

@Starfishhunter9 said:

@Skald said:

@Soapy86: Proudspire Manor in Solitude, I believe.

How much does that one cost?

25,000 gold I believe.

+10,000ish for upgrades.

#25 Posted by fugie7 (1103 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@Soapy86: well the cheapest house is in whiterun. but if your rich you can get a better house in another town.

#26 Posted by Pop (2265 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@BlinkyTM said:

Probably a house, training, and armor. A house in Solitude costs 25,000 gold. I don't know why, but when I spend over 5,000 gold on something I feel shame. I also feel like I need to make all the money back that I just spent lol. That guy at Skyforge is such a rip off, he's charging me 4,000 gold a level for smithing. I refuse to pay that much gold! It also annoys me when I see an NPC with 12,000 of my gold. Is it wrong that I let an NPC die and after everyone walked away I took my money off their corpse and left them naked?

Whenever someone that I don't like dies I just take their clothes and leave them there. Don't you judge me!

I don't know if it works with all NPCs but you could just pickpocket your money back just do it in small chunks I think it's harder with over 500 gold or 5000 gold. Also if your companion can train you in combat or w/e you can train stuff then ask to trade and take your money back :D.

I have 80k gold and 100 in smithing :D. And like 40 dragon scales and bones in my home, I'm gonna drop each gold coin 1 by 1 in my house and see how that looks it's probably going to crash the game, I want someone to mod the inventory so when I choose how many of those items I want to drop I press 1 and not drag that thing all the way to the left.

#27 Posted by ki11tank (624 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

really whatever you want unless you want the $100,000 achievement.

#28 Posted by BlinkyTM (1054 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@Pop said:

@BlinkyTM said:

Probably a house, training, and armor. A house in Solitude costs 25,000 gold. I don't know why, but when I spend over 5,000 gold on something I feel shame. I also feel like I need to make all the money back that I just spent lol. That guy at Skyforge is such a rip off, he's charging me 4,000 gold a level for smithing. I refuse to pay that much gold! It also annoys me when I see an NPC with 12,000 of my gold. Is it wrong that I let an NPC die and after everyone walked away I took my money off their corpse and left them naked?

Whenever someone that I don't like dies I just take their clothes and leave them there. Don't you judge me!

I don't know if it works with all NPCs but you could just pickpocket your money back just do it in small chunks I think it's harder with over 500 gold or 5000 gold. Also if your companion can train you in combat or w/e you can train stuff then ask to trade and take your money back :D.

I have 80k gold and 100 in smithing :D. And like 40 dragon scales and bones in my home, I'm gonna drop each gold coin 1 by 1 in my house and see how that looks it's probably going to crash the game, I want someone to mod the inventory so when I choose how many of those items I want to drop I press 1 and not drag that thing all the way to the left.

Should take a screenshot of it. I have low pickpocketing so I just wait for them to die :P

#29 Posted by xjay (6 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@JoeyRavn said:

Iron Ingot + Leather Strips = Iron Dagger.

Iron Dagger = +Smithing.

+Smithing = Good.

Go.

I pretty much maxed smithing in 45 mins using this, the vendors have the iron/leather so it's pretty easy to do :)

#30 Posted by wubb (277 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

@TheDudeOfGaming said:

Buy soul gems, with which you will increase your enchanting skill. Which in turn will make you invincible. Have fun.

Yep. I hit 100 a day or two ago and it does make the game extremely easy. Guess I should up the difficulty, but it is fun to walk around dominating all comers like a god.

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