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In The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim , merchants have a limited pool of gold they can use to buy loot from players, and they rarely pay the full value of anything the Dragonborn sells. The best way for players to deal with both of these problems is to raise their Speech skill.

A high Speech also has other benefits. Sometimes players get chances to persuade, bribe, or intimidate characters into doing what they want, and if they succeed they can quickly complete quests or avoid dangerous combats. All of this makes Speech a valuable skill for any Skyrim build, and this guide will explain both how to raise the skill quickly and which perks are worth buying.

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Best Speech Boosting Tips

Speech is part of the Stealth skill group , so choosing the Thief Stone blessing will boost Speech gains by 20 percent.
Players get Speech experience for every transaction they perform with a merchant, and the amount of experience is based on the real value of the item bought or sold. Skyrim counts a group of items ( like a stack of potions or ingredients ) as a single transaction with the value of a single item, so players who want to boost Speech should sell stacks one item at a time.
Crafted items like potions, armor, and enchanted items are more valuable than their raw ingredients. Since Speech improves faster when selling more valuable items, players can make a lot of money while boosting Speech by buying ingredients from merchants, crafting items from them, and then selling the results back to the merchants.
With the previous point in mind, players can use the Enchanting exploit to create vastly powerful items worth incredible amounts of gold, and then earn huge amounts of Speech experience by selling them.
Once players have money to spare, a fast way to boost Speech is to buy and sell the same item or group of items from a merchant over and over again.
Players can minimize the money lost from repeated transactions by using items and potions with Fortify Persuasion and Fortify Barter. Fortify Persuasion boosts Speech directly, while Fortify Barter is more effective but only improves merchant prices. Speech stops improving prices once it reaches 100, but Fortify Barter can keep boosting the numbers until merchants buy items at 100 percent value and sell items at 105 percent value. Skyrim makes it impossible to get prices better than these.
Merchants only have so much gold to spend , but they refresh this gold when they open for business each day.
Passing persuasion, intimidation, and bribe checks is another way to improve Speech. If players commit a small crime like picking a lock on a forbidden door in front of a guard or stealing an item worth less than 10 gold, they can run up to every guard in the area and convince them to look the other way. However, players must have 75 Speech to pass the persuasion check (or 53 with the Persuasion perk), or pay a bribe each time. Paying the bribe requires 30 Speech and the Bribery perk.
The Master skill trainer for Speech is Giraud Gemane, the Dean of History in the Bards College of Solitude.

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The Best Speech Perks to Take

Haggling improves buying and selling prices by 10 percent the first time, but the extra Haggling perks only add 5 percent each. This means the perk maxes out at 30 percent. However, Haggling is a Fortify Barter effect rather than a Fortify Persuasion effect, so it still makes a difference once Speech reaches 100.

The right branch perks are Bribery , Persuasion , and Intimidation . Bribery allows players to bribe guards to ignore their crimes, but joining the Thieves Guild also provides access to this ability . Either way, bribing a guard only clears a bounty if it's for a recently committed crime the guard saw or had reported to them.

Persuasion is more useful because it lowers the Speech needed to pass checks by 30 percent. This means players can pass an impossible 100 Speech persuasion check with just 70 Speech. Intimidation doubles the chance of an intimidation check working, but players need 70 Speech and the other perks just to buy it.

The first perk on the left branch is Allure . This adds another 10 percent boost to merchant prices, but only if the merchant is the opposite sex of the Dragonborn. It's a decent bonus, but it's situational.

After Allure is Merchant , which may be the single most important perk in the Speech tree . Players with Merchant can sell and buy any kind of item from any kind of merchant, making all of them as useful as a general goods seller. Players with this perk can even buy items from a merchant's personal inventory, but not keys and not the clothes off their backs.

Investor allows players to pay certain merchants 500 gold, and from then on the merchant will start each day with 500 more gold than normal. Investable merchants tend to be the ones who own shops rather than stalls. This perk only tends to be useful during the late game when players start finding and crafting items that would be too expensive for merchants to buy normally.

After Investor comes Fence . With this perk, players can sell stolen goods to any merchant, not just fences. This perk is supposed to apply only to merchants players have invested in, but thanks to a bug it applies to every merchant.

The final Speech perk requires 100 Speech and all the other left-branch perks. Master Trader adds 1000 daily gold to almost every merchant in the game. This makes selling loot much faster and simpler, but it's not as useful or game-changing as other 100-skill perks .

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Is there a faster way to level Speech in Skyrim? [duplicate]

There used to be a way to level Speech quick by talking to Ungrien in Riften and using the Persuade option many times, but it was patched. Is there any faster way of boosting Speech? I'm at 67 on Speech now.

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One more thing I couldn't delete the patch in my xbox 360. – LEO Commented Aug 22, 2015 at 1:48
It isn't a duplicate because the accepted answer is no longer valid. The other answers are a bit lacking. UESP links in my answer basically has all the tried and tested ways to level speech. – Nelson Commented Aug 24, 2015 at 7:02
1 @Nelson - Answer acceptance doesn't mean much - votes matter more. Besides, the questions ARE identical, if you have a problem with the answers on the other question then you should update them or post your own there. (Be sure to preserve the original point of the answer when updating, don't change a 'no' to a 'yes' for example). Leave a comment requesting an update and downvote the ones that are completely wrong, even if they were right before. – Robotnik ♦ Commented Aug 24, 2015 at 7:58
The other issue is the age of the "duplicate" question. It is 2 years old with obsolete answers, and new answers will be buried below much older and outdated answers. – Nelson Commented Aug 24, 2015 at 9:21
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By far, the fastest way possible is to throw money at a Master Speech Trainer .

However, if you do not have a large amount of money, you can instead make really expensive items (Alchemy, Blacksmith, Enchanting) and selling them. There are additional methods of training available.

I think the easier way, on the long process, is to sell stuff to merchant. Not just expensive things but pretty much any junk you can get your hands on and can be sold. The percentage is low but it adds up.

You can also try to buy and sell the items back to the merchant... you lose some money but it can be really helpful towards levelling up your skill.

A very effective way to level up your speech is to steal from the guards and then persuade them to overlook it. This will only work once if it's the same guard. So only once per guard.

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Skyrim Thief Skills - how to max Sneak, Speech, Pickpocket and Lockpicking

The best, fastest ways to level 100 in Skyrim's stealth-based Thief skills.

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.

If you are playing the 2021 Anniversary Edition, we have explainers on features such as fishing .

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The fastest way to max level Lockpicking and Pickpocketing

The fastest way to max level sneak and speech.

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.

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.

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.

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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Did this today, found it out on another site though. Remember to keep pressing X (or whatever it is in Xbox/PC) to skip what he says every time.

found it out on another site

Now my Altmer will go from pompus douche bag to pompous douchebag with a way with words.Thanks a lot, cheater.

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Thats amazing. Another way to train like archery and heavy Armour is to join the companions and get them to follow you around. Talk to them and tell them to train you in a skill for money. Pay them and then after ask to see the inventory and you get to take your money back. Its pretty sick

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You can do the same thing with Dirge in the thieves guild about his name.

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