Overview
Learn how to quickly level your character of any class! Optimal for level 45-80, but around 30 will work as well! Enjoy!
Introduction + Overall
After doing a guide on how to level up a character using a few spells (guide here), I’ve decided to create a guide with this far more effective way. Notice that this would be best for a level 45-80 character, but might work for a strong level 30.
Now, what you’re going to do, is simply craft a bunch of Jewelry, and then enchant them with a strong soul gem and enchantment. I recommend doing this in Whiterun, since there’s both a Blacksmith and an Enchanting Table there.
Crafting jewelry
What you want to do is, to get a good amount of Gold Ore/Ingot (more about how below), and preferably also some valuable gems. Then head over to a Smithing Forge or Anvil. Scroll down to the “Jewelry” tab, and craft some Gold Necklaces/Rings with gems. Always craft the most valuable jewelry available (unless you’re standing with the choice between Gold Ring (2), and Gold Necklace (without any gems), then craft the 2 Gold Rings, since the values combined (75+75=150) is higher than the Necklace’s value of 120. Now on to how to get all this stuff:
Getting gold
Start by heading to Halted Stream Camp north-north-west of Whiterun (beware of bandits). It is the best source of Iron Ore, PLUS it holds a special spell book called Transmute. The Transmute spell lets you transform Iron Ore into Silver Ore, and Silver Ore into Gold Ore. Do NOT turn the Iron Ore into Iron Ingots at a Smelter. The Transmute spell only works on ores, not ingots.
Now you should have a good amount of Gold Ore, ready to Smelt, but if you’re in need of more Gold, head to the Iron Breaker Mine in Dawnstar for more Iron to transmute.
Getting gems
When you mine the Iron Ore from Halted Stream Camp, you have a chance of getting gems. That’s pretty much it. I believe that the rarer the ore, the better the gems, but I’m not sure, but that doesn’t matter anyway, since you’re just gonna be mining Iron Ore.
Enchanting
Now that you’ve crafted a bunch of valuable Gold jewelry, head to an Enchanting table (e.g. the one in Dragonsreach). Here you want to enchant the jewelry with the Sneak bonus. AND with the strongest soul gems (Grand, Black and Greater).
To get the Sneak enchantment unlocked, disenchant another item with it (you might be able to steal one from under Grelka’s Stand in Riften).
Simply buy the Soul Gems from Farengar or other Court Wizards around Skyrim (eventually from the College of Winterhold).
Getting souls
Now, all the gems you buy might not be filled with a soul, so to fill up the gems, simply do this:
To fill the Black soul gems (very rare), kill a human or an elf. A bandit would be optimal. The Black soul gems also take any other Grand soul, but they are really hard to get, so a Bandit would be best.
To fill the Grand soul gems, head to Giant’s Camps or simply walk around Whiterun Hold looking for Mammoths. A Grand soul gem cannot hold a Human Soul, so Mammoths are the best way of getting them filled.
While fighting and locating the Mammoths, you’re bound to meet a hostile Giant or two. Use this opportunity to get some Greater soul gems filled: Giants hold Greater souls. So does bears and other enemies.
Remember that you must put a Soul Trap spell on the Bandits, Giants and Mammoths before killing them to capture their souls.
Conclusion
Just shortly, here’s what you need to do again:
Craft valuable Gold jewelry with gems using the Transmute spell. Then enchant them with Sneak bonus, using a strong soul gem (Grand or Black, Greater is accepted). After this, sell the items to Merchants and Wizards around the world of Skyrim.
What this does, is increasing your Smithing, Enchanting, and Speech skills. Remember to make the skills Legendary whenever they reach 100, to keep getting XP.
If your character is not capable of dealing with multiple Giants and Mammoths, don’t use this method, unless you have other ways to get Soul gems.
I hope this helped you! Please be nice in the comments!