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    The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

    Game » consists of 30 releases. Released 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/ $$$$

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    #1  Edited By BoFooQ

    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????

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    #2  Edited By BraveToaster

    Buy a house in every village.

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    #3  Edited By MikkaQ

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

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    #4  Edited By Commisar123

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

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    #5  Edited By matthias2437

    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.

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    #6  Edited By ChaosDent

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

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    #7  Edited By BlinkyTM

    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!

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    #8  Edited By Starfishhunter9

    Training and more houses

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    #9  Edited By Robo

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

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    Which house is best?

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    #11  Edited By Skald

    @Soapy86: Proudspire Manor in Solitude, I believe.

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    #12  Edited By BoFooQ

    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

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    #13  Edited By Starfishhunter9

    @Skald said:

    @Soapy86: Proudspire Manor in Solitude, I believe.

    How much does that one cost?

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    #14  Edited By Vexxan

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

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    #15  Edited By Subjugation

    @Starfishhunter9 said:

    @Skald said:

    @Soapy86: Proudspire Manor in Solitude, I believe.

    How much does that one cost?

    25,000 gold I believe.

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    #16  Edited By ColinWright

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

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    #17  Edited By TheHT

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

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    #18  Edited By JoeyRavn

    Iron Ingot + Leather Strips = Iron Dagger.

    Iron Dagger = +Smithing.

    +Smithing = Good.

    Go.

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    #19  Edited By Rusputin

    @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.

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    #20  Edited By arkasai

    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.

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    #21  Edited By TheDudeOfGaming

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

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    #22  Edited By Ravenlight

    Level your Speechcraft to 70 and invest in NPC stores.

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    #23  Edited By briangodsoe

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

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    #24  Edited By project343

    @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.

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    #25  Edited By fugie7

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

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    #26  Edited By Pop

    @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.

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    #27  Edited By ki11tank

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

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    #28  Edited By BlinkyTM

    @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

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    #29  Edited By xjay

    @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 :)

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    #30  Edited By wubb

    @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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