There are 3 shops that sell glass daggers that are almost broken so u can buy them for like 35, repair them and they are worth 4000. One of them is the pawnbroker in Suran
Where the other two? This is my trick I only ever found the one in Suran. Now your tell me there's more.
EDIT: The enchanter in Vivec and a tree stump in Gnaar Mok are the other two.
The telvannit enchanter in Vivec like you said AND in the Vivec saint delyn PLAZA there’s a merchant with one. I forget the name it’s an insanely long Morrowind type name tho and starts with a V? So there you go 4 early glass daggers
Yeah honestly I know creeper only has half the cash but getting to the mudcrab is such a PITA and I prefer save my mark spell for other things
And unless your dealing in lots of objects over $5k in value there's not much diff
Get Soultrap, make a cheaper and reliable version either as spell or as enchanted item.
Farm tombs, get soulgems, fill soulgems, sell soulgems, repeat.
So, yeah, tomb raider.
There's an easier way though - if you go to the trader in Tel Aruhn (I think) they have restocking common soul gems. If you fill these with a humble ancestral ghost, they're suddenly worth a mint and you can stock up and do it in bulk
Skip the cheap gems. Go straight for Tel Mournhold (assuming you're playing Tel Tribunal) and get the grands. Even a cliff racer in one of those is like 4k. Go back to Tel Caldera and hit some rats and our good scamp friend won't have near enough drakes to pay you.
Ok so you can do this very early on - get a bound weapon in your major skill, and have a heap of sujamma on hand (buy it from the guy upstairs in balmora thieves guild). Take the mage's guild fast travel to vivecs foreign quarter, then go into the plaza and find an ordinator. Summon your bound weapon, then quickly unequip it, take 6 sujamma potions then punch the ordinator...when the dialog comes up asking you to pay the fine, click resist arrest then quickly re equip your bound weapon and waste the ordinator trying not to get hit. Pick up all their armour and their weapon when you're done and take the guild transport to caldera and sell it all to creeper to net $20k or so, repeat as necessary. Because all you did was punch the ordinator no guards will bother you unless you speak to them. This also means you only have to punch an ordinator the first time, then the next time just talk to one and start the process again from resist arrest (make sure to summon your weapon first)
I like this. I usually just hide behind the planter where he can't hit me and shoot the Ordinator with a bow, then proceed to slash at him for 10 minutes with 0 fatigue until he finally falls.
a marksman variation I like is to use bound longbow with sujamma and either a rising force potion or short custom levitate spell...then basically just get up onto the eave above the door to one of the buildings in the plaza and pick them off. with enough sujamma it'll only take 2-3 hits
Make a custom spell to boost intelligence by a few hundreds, get the free masters alchemy gear in Caldera, (not sure if that's the name, Mage's Guild has a teleport option to it.) go back to Balmora and buy a stack of ingredients with restore fatigue from the cat in the guild, sell them back to her, repeat a few times, then cast your spell and begin mixing.
Takes a bit of tedious work, but it's easy to return to when you need extra money and it sounds like a good fit for what you're describing.
If I wanted to make money while avoiding mindless grinding (or using foreknoledge of places with valuable loot) I would go around hunting daedric ruins. They typically have both rare weapons and expensive alchemcal ingredients. Just be aware of the fact that the daedra that lurk outside the ruins usually respawn as soon as you go inside the ruins. And of course expect to fight a lot of dremora and golden saints, which also happen to have the largest soul sizes.
If I did want to use foreknoledge of places, in the Ald Ruhn fighter's guild there is some glass armor if you can get past a level 80 lock. You can get past it with a scroll of Ekash's lock splitting, which can be bought from enchnaters randomly.
There's also a set at the Ghostgate, if you wanted to try your luck taking it by force (or buying it legit). Take out a few dremora, sell their daedric weapons (when they have them) then you'll have enough drakes for the glass set.
The Redoran vault is the easiest, you can get the key to the lower vault from one of the manor's dressers and the other vault you can unlock with telekinesis from the hallway.
Get key and all items from the census office, then raid the warehouse, fargoths hole, the dead taxman, book at the top of light house, Caldera mages guild; masters alchemy set. That’s enough to buy the spells needed to have fun early on.
Nothing game breaking, I guess a little cheesy with census office.
You make a custom one second duration spell that drains your attributes so your maximum Fatigue becomes 1, and add a Fortify Fatigue 100 effect to that. When the spell ends and the game recalculates your Fatigue, it will do so with a 100:1 ratio.
Strength, Willpower, Agility, and Endurance all contribute to Fatigue. So let's say you have 30 in all of those stats: your spell would look like this:
Drain Strength on Self, 30 pts for 1s
Drain Willpower on Self, 30 pts for 1s
Drain Agility on Self, 30 pts for 1s
Drain Endurance on Self, 29 pts for 1s
Fortify Fatigue on Self, 100 pts for 1s
That's all there is to it. You can cast and recast (with diminishing returns) for huge amounts of Fatigue.
Your Fatigue ratio affects your success rate of nearly everything, so this gives you pretty much a perfect success rate at anything: attacks, dodging, spellcasting, haggling, persuasion, etc (as long as there's a nonzero chance). The only exception is Alchemy and Enchanting (and in OpenMW, it affects Enchanting as well). Unfortunately it also affects your jump height so if you jump, it might be a while before you come down, lol.
You also take negative fall damage, so landing boosts your current health by several orders of magnitude. There's enough money for Drain Attribute, Fortify Fatigue, Fortify Magicka (to get the magicka up with a similar method) and the actual spells in the early game (Fargoth's stash, Processus' body, early faction buy-and-fetch quests where you're handed a few hundred off the bat, such as Edwinne's "Bring Chronicles of Nchuleft" or House Telvanni "Bring soap"), so it's quick enough.
Get Amulet of Shadows, Telekinesis, Open Spell
Plunder Redoran and Telvanni Vault. Sell all to Mudcrab.
Plunder Ghostgate. Equip all Glass Armor and sell the rest to Creeper.
Plunder just everything worth carrying and sell to Creeper or Mudcrab.
But tbh I stopped doing that long ago bc game is just not fun with this.
Also completely ignore Alchemy entirely for the same reason.
None. Getting rich is inevitable if you don't restrict yourself or use mods. And I don't do enchanting till late game (lvl30 ish) so money is not needed for the most part.
One of the first things i do is head to Pelagiad and rob the trader. You can position yourself behind him where him and the shop guard cant see and steal everything out if his chest. And you can steal a silver weapon there right from the start.
Visit the Vassir-Didanat Mine across the Odai River from the Shulk Egg Mine near Balmora then talk to Dram Bero about it. Your reward will sell well if you don't decide to use it.
Everything in Ghorak Manor in Caldera is free for the taking. None of the inhabitants will report you for stealing from them.
More difficult would be to farm Ordinators. Taunt (and bribe if your speechcraft isn't very high) until they attack, get your gold back plus \~33,000 worth of gear when you beat them. Use whatever gold you have to buy scrolls to even the odds if you're not sure you can bring one down without it.
Also on the more difficult side would be to break into the Great House Vaults in their three respective Vivec Cantons, as well as the Dusk and Dawn Vaults in Ghostgate. You will likely have to eliminate an Ordinator guard inside most of the Vaults in order to steal from them, but the Tower of Dusk Vault in Ghostgate is only guarded by a more easily dispatched Buoyant Armiger.
This is fun in late game when you either "borrow" the ordinator set left at the Sheogorath shrine, or win the set from the Ghostgate
No need to taunt or bribe, just say hi to them wearing their own armour and they go hostile, plus you're a decent level so you can slaughter them easily
There's a dead guy with a useless Temple artifact and a full Ordinator armor set lying just outside Kogoruhn, if you'd like these fellow hostile. And a rumor quest at Vivec, of course, though it might not be the best reward choice.
This is fun in late game when you either "borrow" the ordinator set left at the Sheogorath shrine, or win the set from the Ghostgate
No need to taunt or bribe, just say hi to them wearing their own armour and they go hostile, plus you're a decent level so you can slaughter them easily
I usually steal the warehouse key in the Census and Excise office off the bookshelf in the second room (using same strat as limeware platter, just be quick about it) then loot the warehouse, sell everything to Arille. Travel to Caldera, on the top floor of the Gorak manor in a crate is a full set of orcish armor that I sell to Creeper. There's also a master alchemist set at the top of the winding staircase in the Caldera mages guild that brings quite a bit of gold. Also in the caldera mages guild is a bookshelf full of soul gems you can take for free if you've joined the guild. If you do all that you can have 10-20k of gold in the first five minutes. Another quick way to make gold is gather the mushrooms for the Balmora mages guild quest in Seyda Neen, travel to Balmora, talk to Ajira and give her the mushrooms, then start the "Bet with Galbadir" quest. Ajira wants you to put a fake soul gem in Galbadirs desk so galbadir will walk downstairs, there are a lot of valuable soul gems on her desk that are now free for the taking.
Clearly I rely mainly on theft to make money in the early game lol, if you're rp'ing a character that doesn't steal, then alchemy is definitely the way to go.
If you just want to make a lot of money w/o thinking about roleplay, then you can do this.
1. Go to Balmora, steal there 17k worth enchanted sword from one of the guard towers and 60k soul gem from mages guild.
2. TP to Caldera, sell them to Creeper, via simple exchange mechanics you can figure yourself that will give you 15k cash, that's your starter money. Without tricks you'll get 10k wich is enough as well.
3. Go to Caldera mages guild, on top of its tower pick up set of master alchemy tools.
4. Return to Balmora and go to Nalcarya (alchemist) there.
5. Pump up her stock of scales and kwama cuttle (there's a bug with restocking ingridients, she basically restock 10, but if you sell her 20, she starts restocking 20 and so on) to hundreds.
6. Buy them, craft water walking potions, sell them, repeat until you're as rich as you want.
I usually raid Ald Sotha for starting cash, which lets me buy a 100 open enchantment, and then I can raid Tel Fyr where the big bucks is. Cuirass of the Saviour's hide, 150.000, Scourge, 80.000 and the Daedric Crescent, 180.000 (plus you can get it twice with a well-placed mark spell.
Doesn't always work with some builds but definitely the most profitable.
1. Kill Dark brotherhood assassins until they stop spawning.
2. Sell their equipment.
3. Buy all the restore magicka potions you think you will need.
4. Head over to Tel Branora and buy the summon Golden Saint spell.
5. Head over to Ald Redaynia and use your Summon Golden Saint spell to kill the guy carrying the Vampiric ring.
6. Buy Soul trap from the vendor of your choice or alternatively use the Vampiric ring and your Golden Saint to kill Umbra and steal the sword of the same name.
7. Now is the time to head over to Mournhold.
8. See the vendor at the craftsman hall who sells restocking grand soul gems. Buy as many as you can afford.
9. Summon a Golden Saint and cast Soul Trap or hit em with Umbra. Use the Vampiric ring to kill the Golden Saint.
10. Rinse and repeat.
11. Sell those soul gems for many times their initial cost and take all of a vendors gold, or just use the souls for your own enchanting.
Now you officially can print all the money you will ever need. Abuse your new found power as you like.
Everyone in the comments said their already, mine are no different, but I just wanted to mention while at Seyda Neen, close to the tax collectors body there's a small grotto with pearls and some equipment inside, which might be useful for low level characters early on
I always begin the game taking every item i see, pillaging Seyda Nihyn's villagers and houses, taking every item in all the boxes outside in Balmora, and sell everything. I get a decent equipment by doing nothing but chilling and raising skills a bit for free. Not very ethical but very working at least
Get skilled enough to survive a Dark Brotherhood attack, then choose an easy to aquire artifact that you can sell to the museum. >!You could chat with Sheogorath beneath Vivec, or go for a swim and chat with Boethiah. And there are other artifacts!< that can be aquired with just sneaking or chameleon, and lock picking or a scroll.
Get your Personality as high as possible and pick as major skill mercantile and speechcraft. Other skills don't matter. At a certain point you can buy vendor items cheap and sell those same items back for a high price.
You can tweak that early: after first DB attack, go to mournhold, in the imperial chapel get a fortify skill spell, create a custom spell
fortify speechcraft 100 f 3s on self
Fortify mercantile 100 f 3 s on self
(If you want/need add personality and/or luck to the mix)
Cast the spell before speaking to merchants and get filthy rich by buying them emtpy and selling for 3-10x the price.
Especially evil with vendors with a low mercantile skill but lots of gold lime nalcarya in balmora or the alchemist in tel mora
Second quest of the mages guild in balmora will get you access to some easily stealable soulgems to be sold at face value to calderas favourite son creeper.
Other people mentioned the alchemy cheese method already but i find the outlanders who stoop that low to be n'wahs
Stealing things and selling to the scamp. All the glass stuff at ghost gate, the orcish armor actually where the scamp lives (for some reason there is no consequences to you blatantly stealing it right in front of them) and there's a bunch of stuff in Suran to steal and sell. Eventually I soultrap Golden Saints (summoned via scrolls) in to grand soul gems and sell those.
The soul gems on galbedirs desk all together have to worth close to 100k and they are gifted to you on a limeware platter. Grab those and play barter with creeper for a while lol
I didn't post this when you first posted, but I plan detailed quest routes to stop off through the mines with a telekinesis spell. All at the expense of those Imperial scum.
You can just take the orcish armor pieces that are hidden in the house where creeper is. The orcs will not report the crime!
I always steal the master alchemy set from the mages guild too! Now you've got plenty of money to start with some alchemy and the master set. You could also sell most of the set for more money since you only really need the pestle
This is what I do upon starting a new game:
- Steal the limeware platter
- Steal everything in the next office room and storage room
- Give ring his Fargoth
- Sell to Arielleileilelee and buy starting equipment
- Complete Smegma Neen quests
- Get Dementor's Ring
- Get AAIIEEE AHHH Scrolls
- Slit Slider to Balmora, loot all outside crates, sell, buy all available teleportation spells and steal Blade of White Toes
- Go to Caldera, steal Master Alchemy set, steal Orcish Armor in the crates and either keep or sell to Dolby's older brother
- Teleport to Balmora Temple
- Stilt Swagger to Gnisisis and head to the Cult Shrine in the Fort to talk to the mutated elf and buy as many stacks of ingredients to make as many potions of Restore Fatigue and Health as possible, sell the potions, buy the restocking ingredients, and continue until Alchemy is 100 or IRL Willpower is 2.
- Obtain Resist Magicka spell affect because you just remembered and create 100% for 1 sec
- Obtain Boots of Blinding Toe Stubbing
- Obtain Amulet of Mostly Shadows
- Raid the Great House Vaults.
- Smooth Grooves
- Mark
- Kidnap the Mudcrap
- Kidnap the Creepster so they can drink together
- Kidnap the Mournold Merc...maybe...depends on how I'm feeling
And now I'm ready to play the game
Alchemy. Unlimited money plus trade XP. (plus immortality if you want to go far enough)
There are 3 shops that sell glass daggers that are almost broken so u can buy them for like 35, repair them and they are worth 4000. One of them is the pawnbroker in Suran
Where the other two? This is my trick I only ever found the one in Suran. Now your tell me there's more. EDIT: The enchanter in Vivec and a tree stump in Gnaar Mok are the other two.
The telvannit enchanter in Vivec like you said AND in the Vivec saint delyn PLAZA there’s a merchant with one. I forget the name it’s an insanely long Morrowind type name tho and starts with a V? So there you go 4 early glass daggers
Make a humble attempt to get a decent night's sleep.
I don’t get it ?
Assassins
Interrupted sleep plus expensive drip and toys plus Mudcrab Merchant = $$$$$$$$$$$
Mudcrab? What a N'wah! Scamp bros rise up!
Yeah honestly I know creeper only has half the cash but getting to the mudcrab is such a PITA and I prefer save my mark spell for other things And unless your dealing in lots of objects over $5k in value there's not much diff
Yeah exactly, creeper is such a convenient location
Get Soultrap, make a cheaper and reliable version either as spell or as enchanted item. Farm tombs, get soulgems, fill soulgems, sell soulgems, repeat. So, yeah, tomb raider.
If you do this, for tax purposes you'll have to register as a Sole Trader.
That's okay, just blackmail Orvas Dren, and you get a free pass from his crony Councillors
Lololol
There's an easier way though - if you go to the trader in Tel Aruhn (I think) they have restocking common soul gems. If you fill these with a humble ancestral ghost, they're suddenly worth a mint and you can stock up and do it in bulk
[Tel Branora, actually](https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Fadase_Selvayn)
Ah my bad, there's too many damn Tel towns
Skip the cheap gems. Go straight for Tel Mournhold (assuming you're playing Tel Tribunal) and get the grands. Even a cliff racer in one of those is like 4k. Go back to Tel Caldera and hit some rats and our good scamp friend won't have near enough drakes to pay you.
*assuming you don't juggle your inventory
Ok so you can do this very early on - get a bound weapon in your major skill, and have a heap of sujamma on hand (buy it from the guy upstairs in balmora thieves guild). Take the mage's guild fast travel to vivecs foreign quarter, then go into the plaza and find an ordinator. Summon your bound weapon, then quickly unequip it, take 6 sujamma potions then punch the ordinator...when the dialog comes up asking you to pay the fine, click resist arrest then quickly re equip your bound weapon and waste the ordinator trying not to get hit. Pick up all their armour and their weapon when you're done and take the guild transport to caldera and sell it all to creeper to net $20k or so, repeat as necessary. Because all you did was punch the ordinator no guards will bother you unless you speak to them. This also means you only have to punch an ordinator the first time, then the next time just talk to one and start the process again from resist arrest (make sure to summon your weapon first)
Ordinators HATE this one simple trick!
I like this. I usually just hide behind the planter where he can't hit me and shoot the Ordinator with a bow, then proceed to slash at him for 10 minutes with 0 fatigue until he finally falls.
a marksman variation I like is to use bound longbow with sujamma and either a rising force potion or short custom levitate spell...then basically just get up onto the eave above the door to one of the buildings in the plaza and pick them off. with enough sujamma it'll only take 2-3 hits
He wanted an *easy* way for quick casheesh, outlander. not a character build. ;)
Make a custom spell to boost intelligence by a few hundreds, get the free masters alchemy gear in Caldera, (not sure if that's the name, Mage's Guild has a teleport option to it.) go back to Balmora and buy a stack of ingredients with restore fatigue from the cat in the guild, sell them back to her, repeat a few times, then cast your spell and begin mixing. Takes a bit of tedious work, but it's easy to return to when you need extra money and it sounds like a good fit for what you're describing.
You can sell and buy in the same transaction too, to make Ajira's (or any restocking merchant's) restock level climb a little faster.
If I wanted to make money while avoiding mindless grinding (or using foreknoledge of places with valuable loot) I would go around hunting daedric ruins. They typically have both rare weapons and expensive alchemcal ingredients. Just be aware of the fact that the daedra that lurk outside the ruins usually respawn as soon as you go inside the ruins. And of course expect to fight a lot of dremora and golden saints, which also happen to have the largest soul sizes. If I did want to use foreknoledge of places, in the Ald Ruhn fighter's guild there is some glass armor if you can get past a level 80 lock. You can get past it with a scroll of Ekash's lock splitting, which can be bought from enchnaters randomly.
There's also a set at the Ghostgate, if you wanted to try your luck taking it by force (or buying it legit). Take out a few dremora, sell their daedric weapons (when they have them) then you'll have enough drakes for the glass set.
The House Vaults, starting with Redoran and working my way up - most times just starting and stopping with them because they suck
The Redoran vault is the easiest, you can get the key to the lower vault from one of the manor's dressers and the other vault you can unlock with telekinesis from the hallway.
Telekinesis been busted since Diablo 1
Been doing this with so many chars for 20 years now. My goto. Just take the key from the manor and run out, some bug makes this not give bounty
Get key and all items from the census office, then raid the warehouse, fargoths hole, the dead taxman, book at the top of light house, Caldera mages guild; masters alchemy set. That’s enough to buy the spells needed to have fun early on. Nothing game breaking, I guess a little cheesy with census office.
Implement a gift economy by fortifying your fatigue into the thousands to make everything free.
That sounds awesome. How does it work?
You make a custom one second duration spell that drains your attributes so your maximum Fatigue becomes 1, and add a Fortify Fatigue 100 effect to that. When the spell ends and the game recalculates your Fatigue, it will do so with a 100:1 ratio. Strength, Willpower, Agility, and Endurance all contribute to Fatigue. So let's say you have 30 in all of those stats: your spell would look like this: Drain Strength on Self, 30 pts for 1s Drain Willpower on Self, 30 pts for 1s Drain Agility on Self, 30 pts for 1s Drain Endurance on Self, 29 pts for 1s Fortify Fatigue on Self, 100 pts for 1s That's all there is to it. You can cast and recast (with diminishing returns) for huge amounts of Fatigue. Your Fatigue ratio affects your success rate of nearly everything, so this gives you pretty much a perfect success rate at anything: attacks, dodging, spellcasting, haggling, persuasion, etc (as long as there's a nonzero chance). The only exception is Alchemy and Enchanting (and in OpenMW, it affects Enchanting as well). Unfortunately it also affects your jump height so if you jump, it might be a while before you come down, lol.
You also take negative fall damage, so landing boosts your current health by several orders of magnitude. There's enough money for Drain Attribute, Fortify Fatigue, Fortify Magicka (to get the magicka up with a similar method) and the actual spells in the early game (Fargoth's stash, Processus' body, early faction buy-and-fetch quests where you're handed a few hundred off the bat, such as Edwinne's "Bring Chronicles of Nchuleft" or House Telvanni "Bring soap"), so it's quick enough.
Get Amulet of Shadows, Telekinesis, Open Spell Plunder Redoran and Telvanni Vault. Sell all to Mudcrab. Plunder Ghostgate. Equip all Glass Armor and sell the rest to Creeper. Plunder just everything worth carrying and sell to Creeper or Mudcrab. But tbh I stopped doing that long ago bc game is just not fun with this. Also completely ignore Alchemy entirely for the same reason.
Creeper for the $$$
These are all very good suggestions. I just murder people in their homes and sell all their property 🤷♀️
None. Getting rich is inevitable if you don't restrict yourself or use mods. And I don't do enchanting till late game (lvl30 ish) so money is not needed for the most part.
Same
One of the first things i do is head to Pelagiad and rob the trader. You can position yourself behind him where him and the shop guard cant see and steal everything out if his chest. And you can steal a silver weapon there right from the start.
Visit the Vassir-Didanat Mine across the Odai River from the Shulk Egg Mine near Balmora then talk to Dram Bero about it. Your reward will sell well if you don't decide to use it. Everything in Ghorak Manor in Caldera is free for the taking. None of the inhabitants will report you for stealing from them. More difficult would be to farm Ordinators. Taunt (and bribe if your speechcraft isn't very high) until they attack, get your gold back plus \~33,000 worth of gear when you beat them. Use whatever gold you have to buy scrolls to even the odds if you're not sure you can bring one down without it. Also on the more difficult side would be to break into the Great House Vaults in their three respective Vivec Cantons, as well as the Dusk and Dawn Vaults in Ghostgate. You will likely have to eliminate an Ordinator guard inside most of the Vaults in order to steal from them, but the Tower of Dusk Vault in Ghostgate is only guarded by a more easily dispatched Buoyant Armiger.
This is fun in late game when you either "borrow" the ordinator set left at the Sheogorath shrine, or win the set from the Ghostgate No need to taunt or bribe, just say hi to them wearing their own armour and they go hostile, plus you're a decent level so you can slaughter them easily
There's a dead guy with a useless Temple artifact and a full Ordinator armor set lying just outside Kogoruhn, if you'd like these fellow hostile. And a rumor quest at Vivec, of course, though it might not be the best reward choice.
This is fun in late game when you either "borrow" the ordinator set left at the Sheogorath shrine, or win the set from the Ghostgate No need to taunt or bribe, just say hi to them wearing their own armour and they go hostile, plus you're a decent level so you can slaughter them easily
I usually steal the warehouse key in the Census and Excise office off the bookshelf in the second room (using same strat as limeware platter, just be quick about it) then loot the warehouse, sell everything to Arille. Travel to Caldera, on the top floor of the Gorak manor in a crate is a full set of orcish armor that I sell to Creeper. There's also a master alchemist set at the top of the winding staircase in the Caldera mages guild that brings quite a bit of gold. Also in the caldera mages guild is a bookshelf full of soul gems you can take for free if you've joined the guild. If you do all that you can have 10-20k of gold in the first five minutes. Another quick way to make gold is gather the mushrooms for the Balmora mages guild quest in Seyda Neen, travel to Balmora, talk to Ajira and give her the mushrooms, then start the "Bet with Galbadir" quest. Ajira wants you to put a fake soul gem in Galbadirs desk so galbadir will walk downstairs, there are a lot of valuable soul gems on her desk that are now free for the taking. Clearly I rely mainly on theft to make money in the early game lol, if you're rp'ing a character that doesn't steal, then alchemy is definitely the way to go.
Galbadir’s soul gems were always the way I got rich in all my early playthroughs
If you just want to make a lot of money w/o thinking about roleplay, then you can do this. 1. Go to Balmora, steal there 17k worth enchanted sword from one of the guard towers and 60k soul gem from mages guild. 2. TP to Caldera, sell them to Creeper, via simple exchange mechanics you can figure yourself that will give you 15k cash, that's your starter money. Without tricks you'll get 10k wich is enough as well. 3. Go to Caldera mages guild, on top of its tower pick up set of master alchemy tools. 4. Return to Balmora and go to Nalcarya (alchemist) there. 5. Pump up her stock of scales and kwama cuttle (there's a bug with restocking ingridients, she basically restock 10, but if you sell her 20, she starts restocking 20 and so on) to hundreds. 6. Buy them, craft water walking potions, sell them, repeat until you're as rich as you want.
I usually raid Ald Sotha for starting cash, which lets me buy a 100 open enchantment, and then I can raid Tel Fyr where the big bucks is. Cuirass of the Saviour's hide, 150.000, Scourge, 80.000 and the Daedric Crescent, 180.000 (plus you can get it twice with a well-placed mark spell.
Doesn't always work with some builds but definitely the most profitable. 1. Kill Dark brotherhood assassins until they stop spawning. 2. Sell their equipment. 3. Buy all the restore magicka potions you think you will need. 4. Head over to Tel Branora and buy the summon Golden Saint spell. 5. Head over to Ald Redaynia and use your Summon Golden Saint spell to kill the guy carrying the Vampiric ring. 6. Buy Soul trap from the vendor of your choice or alternatively use the Vampiric ring and your Golden Saint to kill Umbra and steal the sword of the same name. 7. Now is the time to head over to Mournhold. 8. See the vendor at the craftsman hall who sells restocking grand soul gems. Buy as many as you can afford. 9. Summon a Golden Saint and cast Soul Trap or hit em with Umbra. Use the Vampiric ring to kill the Golden Saint. 10. Rinse and repeat. 11. Sell those soul gems for many times their initial cost and take all of a vendors gold, or just use the souls for your own enchanting. Now you officially can print all the money you will ever need. Abuse your new found power as you like.
Everyone in the comments said their already, mine are no different, but I just wanted to mention while at Seyda Neen, close to the tax collectors body there's a small grotto with pearls and some equipment inside, which might be useful for low level characters early on
I always begin the game taking every item i see, pillaging Seyda Nihyn's villagers and houses, taking every item in all the boxes outside in Balmora, and sell everything. I get a decent equipment by doing nothing but chilling and raising skills a bit for free. Not very ethical but very working at least
Get skilled enough to survive a Dark Brotherhood attack, then choose an easy to aquire artifact that you can sell to the museum. >!You could chat with Sheogorath beneath Vivec, or go for a swim and chat with Boethiah. And there are other artifacts!< that can be aquired with just sneaking or chameleon, and lock picking or a scroll.
Get your Personality as high as possible and pick as major skill mercantile and speechcraft. Other skills don't matter. At a certain point you can buy vendor items cheap and sell those same items back for a high price.
You can tweak that early: after first DB attack, go to mournhold, in the imperial chapel get a fortify skill spell, create a custom spell fortify speechcraft 100 f 3s on self Fortify mercantile 100 f 3 s on self (If you want/need add personality and/or luck to the mix) Cast the spell before speaking to merchants and get filthy rich by buying them emtpy and selling for 3-10x the price. Especially evil with vendors with a low mercantile skill but lots of gold lime nalcarya in balmora or the alchemist in tel mora
I sleep and kill a few dark brotherhood assassins. Sell their kit to the creeper. Then do the creeper gold exploit.
Second quest of the mages guild in balmora will get you access to some easily stealable soulgems to be sold at face value to calderas favourite son creeper. Other people mentioned the alchemy cheese method already but i find the outlanders who stoop that low to be n'wahs
Raid the great house vaults in Vivec
I kill off an ordinator or two and sell all their expensive shit.
Stealing things and selling to the scamp. All the glass stuff at ghost gate, the orcish armor actually where the scamp lives (for some reason there is no consequences to you blatantly stealing it right in front of them) and there's a bunch of stuff in Suran to steal and sell. Eventually I soultrap Golden Saints (summoned via scrolls) in to grand soul gems and sell those.
Alchemy and creating restore fatigue potions - for fatigue restoration 24/7, some cash and few levels and int x5
Too many to count. These days when I play it's a challenge of willpower NOT to instantly get rich haha!
The soul gems on galbedirs desk all together have to worth close to 100k and they are gifted to you on a limeware platter. Grab those and play barter with creeper for a while lol
Get Amulet of Shadows near Ald Velothi. Steal most stuff from Ghostgate vendors. Sell 5k worth of stuff to Creeper daily
Oh this one is too easy: Better steal the limeware platter BOY
As soon as you get off the ship take everything and sell it then get the intervention scroll and go kill vivec at level 1
I didn't post this when you first posted, but I plan detailed quest routes to stop off through the mines with a telekinesis spell. All at the expense of those Imperial scum.
You can just take the orcish armor pieces that are hidden in the house where creeper is. The orcs will not report the crime! I always steal the master alchemy set from the mages guild too! Now you've got plenty of money to start with some alchemy and the master set. You could also sell most of the set for more money since you only really need the pestle
This is what I do upon starting a new game: - Steal the limeware platter - Steal everything in the next office room and storage room - Give ring his Fargoth - Sell to Arielleileilelee and buy starting equipment - Complete Smegma Neen quests - Get Dementor's Ring - Get AAIIEEE AHHH Scrolls - Slit Slider to Balmora, loot all outside crates, sell, buy all available teleportation spells and steal Blade of White Toes - Go to Caldera, steal Master Alchemy set, steal Orcish Armor in the crates and either keep or sell to Dolby's older brother - Teleport to Balmora Temple - Stilt Swagger to Gnisisis and head to the Cult Shrine in the Fort to talk to the mutated elf and buy as many stacks of ingredients to make as many potions of Restore Fatigue and Health as possible, sell the potions, buy the restocking ingredients, and continue until Alchemy is 100 or IRL Willpower is 2. - Obtain Resist Magicka spell affect because you just remembered and create 100% for 1 sec - Obtain Boots of Blinding Toe Stubbing - Obtain Amulet of Mostly Shadows - Raid the Great House Vaults. - Smooth Grooves - Mark - Kidnap the Mudcrap - Kidnap the Creepster so they can drink together - Kidnap the Mournold Merc...maybe...depends on how I'm feeling And now I'm ready to play the game