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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• It isn't a duplicate because the accepted answer is no longer valid.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 It is 2 years old with obsolete answers, and new answers will be buried below much older and outdated answers.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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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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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.

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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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It's the ability everyone would love to unlock in real-life, so here's how The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim gave birth to the hilarious Speech 100 meme. It speaks to the quality of Skyrim that a game that was first released back in 2011 is still being talked about to this day. Bethesda Softworks ( Fallout 4 ) created a sprawling fantasy sandbox for players to explore, where no two playthroughs are ever the same.

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One of the upgradable skills in Skyrim is speech, with a higher level opening up more dialogue options. This can be particularly useful for bringing down prices with merchants, bartering or persuading NPCs to give up particular information during a quest. Naturally, maxing out this ability and reaching level 100 is a very useful skill for players to have, and it quickly spawned the Speech 100 meme.

The joke behind this  Skyrim meme involves someone who comes out with a particularly witty comeback or can convince anyone they're telling the truth, regardless of how outrageous the lie. The meme first became popular when attached to a photo of a real-life escaped prisoner managing to convince a police officer he was just out jogging. Naturally, the memes become more exaggerated, outlandish and dark from there.

Like the "Who Created Kirby" meme or the Get Out challenge, it's strange to see how something can evolve into a meme that just keeps running. In the case of Speech 100, there are a lot of hilarious examples out there, so it's a meme that will likely continue for a long time to come. The meme extends to other Skyrim skills too, such as Illusion 100 or Sneak 100.

On that note, Speech 100 is clearly a good skill to acquire in Skyrim itself, though it can be a grind reaching that level. That are some in-game exploits that be used to reach this level faster, though the honest way to Speech 100 is buying and selling a lot of items, with repeatedly buying and selling expensive gear one method of getting there quickly.

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Skyrim's Speech skill fills two roles in the gameplay. First, it helps your Dragonborn to make more money through higher prices selling to shopkeepers, cheaper buying prices when Haggling, selling stolen goods, and can even let you permanently increase the gold available to a merchant for bartering. Second, it helps with Quest progression by giving you a chance at passing dialog option checks and advancing a quest by persuading, intimidating, or bribing. This also allows you to bribe your way out of trouble with guards, if your bounty is low enough.

Raising the Speech Skill When you sell an item to a merchant, you get skill experience based on the cost of that item. It only counts for the first item, so sell expensive stacks of items one at a time. If you have extra money, it may be cheaper to sell and buy back items from a merchant repeatedly to gain experience than to make use of one of the Speech trainers. Of course, passing speech checks with questgivers and bribing guards also gives Speech experience, and quite a lot of it.

As you level Speech, your purchasing prices will gradually improve. Many dialog options can be used successfully at a low level of speech. You unlock the ability to pass harder speech checks at 25, 50, 75, and 100. Most speech checks can be passed at level 50 Speech.

Ogmund in Markarth is an Expert speech trainer; the Master is Giraud_Gemane from Solitude's Bard's College. As noted above, you may be better off buying and selling items back to the merchant, as your Speech skill rises - in particular if you take Perks from the Speech tree.

Skyrim Speech Skill Perks

There are nine Perks for the Speech skill, requiring 13 points to fully master the tree. There are essentially two branches here. The left will improve your Haggling interactions with Merchants, the right with Questgivers and guards. I do not much bother with the right path myself, though Bribery could be handy for a Thief or otherwise Evil build. The thing is, there are limited uses of Persuasion and Intimidation, aside from easing the requirements of speech checks, allowing you to experience new reactions out of Quest NPCs.

Haggling (5 ranks, 10/15/20/25/30% better buy/sell prices) (level 0/20/40/60/80 Speech Skill required) Since it helps both buy and selling prices, this can seriously tip the scales in your favor when dealing with Merchants. Higher profit margins making potions, smithing, etc. can be found here. Don't underestimate the gameplay value of more money - you may not see direct damage or survivability increases, but it lets you afford the best items available for your level, earning you those goals indirectly.

Allure (level 30 Speech Skill required) Gives you 10% better prices when dealing with the opposite sex. When you have the next Perk, you can take advantage of this fully thanks to being able to sell any item to any shopkeeper.

Merchant (level 50 Speech Skill required) Can buy/sell any kind of item to any Merchant. This vastly opens up your selling options and can help you make more money in less time.

Investor (level 70 Speech Skill required) Investor allows you to give a Merchant 500 gold, which will permanently increase the funding available to them. That means you can make more in less time, as you won't have to visit as many shopkeepers to empty your inventory. This will also help you sell the game's more expensive items at a profit, as many shopkeepers won't have enough gold available to cover them.

Fence (level 90 Speech Skill required) Allows you to barter stolen goods with any Merchant you've invested in, turning them into a Fence. Incredibly helpful for Dovahkiin with sticky fingers or professional thieves.

Master Trader (level 100 Speech Skill required) Every merchant gains 1000 Gold for Bartering. If you bother to go all the way to Fence, you should absolutely grab this when you hit 100 Speech.

Bribery (level 30 Speech Skill required) Allows you to bribe guards to ignore crimes, so long as your bounty isn't too high.

Persuasion (level 50 Speech Skill required) Persuasion attempts are 30% easier, allowing you to pass more dialog checks with a lower level - this is only for Persuade-type interactions.

Intimidation (level 70 Speech Skill required) Intimidation is twice as likely to succeed.

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100/Master Level Speech - Extremely Fast!

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North of Riften is a location known as the Black-Briar Meadery. Travel there, and look for the shopkeeper known as Ungrien. Approach him to talk, and select the option "Tell me about Mavan Black-Briar." From here, you have a set of dialogue options based on your personality skill; one of the options, "Come on, get the truth off you chest. (Persuade)" is what you should select. From here, the conversation begins a never-ending perpetual circle where you can select "Tell me about Mavan Black-Briar." again and go back to the persuade dialogue option. Continuously press the speech button through the conversation to level up as much as you want!

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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.

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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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TROOOOOOOLLLLLL INNNNNNNNNNNNN THE COMMENTS!It's gettin pretty sassy up in hiyah.

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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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The skill of persuasion can be used to get better prices from merchants and persuade others to do as you ask.

Speech is a skill in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and is one of the six skills that falls under The Thief playstyle. This skill is a combination of both Speechcraft and Mercantile skills of previous Elder Scrolls games and replaces them. Speech may also help with quests by unlocking special dialogue interactions, including Intimidate, Persuade, Bribe, Mock, Brawl , and more.

Governing Guardian Stones : The Thief Stone

• 1.1 Types of Speech
• 4.3 Trainers
• 5.1 Bribing guards
• 5.2 Persuading guards
• 5.3 Learning bonuses
• 5.4 Repeatedly buying and selling
• 5.5 Persuade the toll road bandit
• 5.6 Persuade and intimidate Calcelmo
• 6.1 Ahkari's merchant inventory
• 6.2 Intimidate Anton Virane
• 6.3 Intimidating Sabjorn
• 6.4 Intimidate Nelacar
• 6.5 Persuade Ungrien
• 6.6 Persuade Ulfric Stormcloak
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Usefulness and function

Speech directly affects the prices paid when buying from and selling to merchants , even without the assorted perks . At 0 Speech, merchants sell items for 3 times their base price, and buy for a third of their base price. At 100 Speech, merchants will sell items for twice their base price and buy them for half as much. Alternatively, Speech can be used to persuade people into doing things or divulging crucial information. Bribes made are also governed by Speech. There are 65 male and 45 female merchants in Skyrim, so Dragonborns interested in Allure have an advantage if they choose to be female.

Types of Speech

• Barter (buy/sell)

The following are the perks that become available to select as the skill is leveled up:

† The way Investor seems to work is that the 500 gold ends up in the shopkeeper's personal inventory rather than the store inventory. Also, it seems like any gold in the shopkeeper's personal inventory is added to the store gold when calculating how much they can buy. This means two things:

Prices are computed by the following:

• At 0 skill and no perks the price factor is 3.3
• At 100 skill and no perks the price factor is 2
• At 100 skill and all perks the price factor is 1.42857.

Skills over 100 have no effect.

The speech skill increase depends on the base value of the item traded or the difficulty of the bribe or persuasion. When selling items, it is not actually required to receive any gold, only that the transaction takes place. The skill increase only occurs once per transaction. In order to optimize leveling, expensive items in groups of 6 or more should be sold individually, rather than all at once.

The following books provide a permanent one-time increase to the Dragonborn's Speech skill. See each book's page for a list of possible locations.

• Biography of the Wolf Queen
• 2920, Second Seed, v5
• A Dance in Fire, v6
• A Dance in Fire, v7
• The Buying Game
• Oghma Infinium – choosing the Path of Shadow increases all Thief skills, including Speech, by five.

The following quests increase or help to increase the Speech skill:

• Tending the Flames for the Bards College awards the Dragonborn with the ability , Gift of the Gab , which increases the experience gained in Speech by 15%.
• Steal the Staff of Arcane Authority for Malur Seloth in Winterhold .
• Collect a Mammoth Tusk for Ysolda from Whiterun .
• Jump from Bard's Leap Summit at Lost Valley Redoubt south of Rorikstead, survive, and speak to the Bard's Ghost at the bottom.
• Retrieve the Finn's Lute for Inge Six Fingers at the Bards College in Solitude. This also increases the Light Armor , Sneak , Lockpicking , Pickpocket , and Alchemy skills.
• Revyn Sadri (Common): Sadri's Used Wares , in the Gray Quarter of Windhelm
• Dro'marash (Adept): Khajiit Caravans
• Ogmund (Expert): Markarth , can be found inside the Silver-Blood Inn
• Giraud Gemane (up to 90 – Master): Bards College , Solitude
• Ronthil (Expert) Castle Volkihar

Leveling tips

Bribing guards, persuading guards.

Similar to the above method, after progressing far enough into the Thieves Guild questline, the Dragonborn can commit a minor crime, such as failed pickpocketing or stealing. Once the crime has been committed, the Dragonborn can go up to a guard and initiate the "Wait, I know you." dialogue. Any option (aside from resisting or submitting to arrest) should be available to persuade them to overlook it. Though the guards says they will not let it slide the next time, they will never attack or arrest the Dragonborn (unless the submit or resist dialogue option was chosen).

Note: This will not remove the bounty, it will just stop the conversation peacefully, while slightly improving Speech. This can then be done to all of the guards in a Hold , but it should not be repeated on the same guard, as this can cause the option to go away. Instead, all the guards should be cycled through with the dialogue. This is especially useful at medium-high levels, since nothing has to be paid or sold, and the risk is practically zero.

Learning bonuses

Wearing the Aetherial Crown , obtain the blessings from the Lover Stone and the Thief Stone , and combine with Gift of the Gab and any rested bonuses (remove crown/lover stone before resting) will make leveling up Speech even faster (65% with the rested lover's comfort bonus, 60% with well rested). Note that only the Lover and Thief Stones, and Gift of the Gab may be used if the Dragonborn is infected with lycanthropy , as werewolves do not benefit from resting bonuses.

Repeatedly buying and selling

To increase the efficiency of this method get all the learning bonuses above, sell items in groups of 6 or more individually, get a necklace with the Fortify Barter enchantment or an Amulet of Zenithar , activate the Shrine of Zenithar , get The Gift of Charity and take a Haggling potion .

Get a large amount of high value items, in total the value should be tens of thousands of Septims or more. Stolen items are fine. If you have a large pile of otherwise useless items as the result of levelling Alchemy , Enchanting , Pickpocketing or Smithing that is perfect. Keep in mind that you will sacrifice these items to level Speech. Find a merchant who accepts your items. If your items are stolen this should be a fence and if you get better prices from the opposite sex make sure your merchant is. Now sell them items until the merchant runs out of gold. Now buy one or two items back. You will probably pay several times more than they gave you for it, but the seller has gold again. Sell the merchant some more items until they run out of gold again. Repeat this until you run out of items. This allows you to work around the otherwise limited gold merchants have because you are effectively giving it to them.

Persuade the toll road bandit

Persuade and intimidate calcelmo.

Those who deliver a Dwemer item to Calcelmo may both persuade/intimidate for a better deal and exit the conversation before selecting either, "Sold. Here you go. (Gain ___ gold)," or, "Not good enough. I'll hold onto this. You'll need to find another one." Intimidation requires 40 Speech to be successful; persuading requires 50. Each option can be performed once per item brought to him.

Leveling tips (glitches)

Ahkari's merchant inventory.

In Dawnstar , Ahkari's merchant inventory can be accessed through a glitch (see page for details). After placing all gold in the chest, all the items in inventory can be sold to the merchant. Doing this will give back the gold put into the chest. Afterward, the items can be retrieved from the chest and the process repeated forever. The net is no change to gold or items, but an increase in Speech skill.

Intimidate Anton Virane

During the Dark Brotherhood quest " Recipe for Disaster ," Anton Virane can be intimidated repeatedly to level Speech. This can be accomplished by:

• When talking with him, after saying, "For the Dark Brotherhood, that can be easily arranged. (Intimidate)," he will respond, "The Dark Brotherhood?."
• If the conversation is immediately exited, the Dragonborn can begin to talk to him again and quickly skip through most of the conversation.
• Exiting the conversation at the same time as before increases Speech.

This can be repeated forever.

Intimidating Sabjorn

During the " Dampened Spirits " quest, the Dragonborn can loop a conversation with Sabjorn to quickly level Speech. To do this:

• A conversation with Sabjorn can be started (this must be during the quest).
• When Sabjorn says that the Dragonborn will not be paid until the job is done, the intimidate option can be chosen.
• The conversation should be immediately exited when he begins his sentence (PC = Esc or Tab).
• This can be repeated as needed.

Intimidate Nelacar

During the Daedric quest "The Black Star," the Dragonborn can continually intimidate Nelacar in the Inn in Winterhold. When he asks "Who sent you?" choose the Intimidate option and immediately exit the conversation. This can be repeated indefinitely.

Persuade Ungrien

At anytime the Dragonborn can enter the Black-Briar Meadery where you will encounter the shop attendant Ungrien . Confront him and then repeatably persuade him to tell the truth about how he feels about his employer Maven Black-Briar. This glitch can be repeated indefinitely.

• You must have at least a Speech level of 25 to make him cough up the truth, if not then you can use the bribery option until persuasion is effective. If persuasion is not effective then Speech is not increased.
• This bug has been apparently fixed by means of version 1.9, however, if in offline mode on Xbox 360 or you have neglected to accept this patch or any before it. Then the glitch will be operational.

Persuade Ulfric Stormcloak

During the quest " Season Unending ", Ulfric Stormcloak can be persuaded to attend the peace council. If immediately left in dialogue following the persuasion attempt, the option can be used again.

Some items increase the Speech skill or bartering. These include:

• Amulet of Dibella
• Amulet of Articulation
• Masque of Clavicus Vile
• Glibness potions (+20 to +50 Speech for 60 sec)
• Haggling potions (10% to 25 better prices for 30 seconds)
• Thieves Guild Hood (prices are 10% better)
• Guild Master's Hood (prices are 20% better)
• Daedric Armor (wearing a full set raises the chance of successful intimidation checks by 10%)
• Volsung (Mask) (prices are 20% better)
• Jester's Clothes / Cicero's Outfit
• Amulets of Haggling (12% to 25% better prices)
• Amulet of Zenithar (10% better prices)

In addition, two blessings can be granted:

• The Shrine of Dibella grants +10 Speech for 8 hours
• The Shrine of Zenithar grants 10% better prices for 8 hours

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“ The Speech skill is used to get better prices from merchantes and persuade, intimidate, or even bribe others. — Game description

Speech is one of the eighteen skills that is available in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim . Speech is used to haggle, barter, persuade and intimidate. Speech is a skill all characters will use, unless actions are taken to avoid buying/selling or persuading.

• The Mercantile skill from the previous game was removed and combined with speechcraft, hence the skill speech.

Perks [ | ]

Trainers [ | ]

• Dro'marash , at the Riften stables
• Revyn Sadri , in Windhelm
• Ogmund the Skald , in Markarth
• Giraud Gemane , at the Bards College in Solitude
• Ysolda will increase Speechcraft for a Mammoth Tusk (one-time)
• Ronthil at Castle Volkihar , only in the Dawnguard DLC

Skill books [ | ]

• 2920, Second Seed, v5
• Biography of the Wolf Queen
• The Buying Game
• A Dance in Fire, v6
• A Dance in Fire, v7

Apparel [ | ]

• Amulet of Dibella
• Amulet of Articulation

There is also apparel for Fortify Barter .

Exploits [ | ]

• Talk to Ungrien , in Riften, in Black-Briar Meadery behind the front desk, say "Tell me about Maven Black-Briar." Then say "Come on, get the truth off your chest.(Persuade)" over and over until your speech is to 100. This has since been patched.

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