Alpha,
If you are already dumping points in to mage/magic things then I would dumping points into smithing and enchanting is a waste.

The best way to make a character is focus the points on a very few skills, max them and play the character to its strengths.

Personally I think magic less effective overall to weapons and armor.

Good point except that with enchanting you can create armor, robes and rings that boost your magic skills and magic regeneration. But as a Mage, alchemy would be kind of useless.

Well I only have a few points in to magic so far. Small amount of Conjuration and Restoration since my basic battle tactic is to summon a creature, let it start fighting for me then walk up behind the enemy and axe him in the back. That tends to upset them so they start attacking me, so I just use my heal spells to keep me alive long enough for the two of us to kill it. Works pretty well.


I found the Steed Stone last night and wow, what a huge help that is!


I also got my smithing up to around 50'ish. Made me a set of dwarven heavy armor and enchanted it. I got my enchanting up to around 40'ish.

I was just creating Iron Daggers the whole time. Is there a point where I am going to need to switch to something more difficult, such as Dwarven daggers?

I would then enchant them with turn undead and sell them back to the smiths so I could buy out the rest of their ingots. They ran out quick. Do I just keep doing this, then do the wait for 2-24 hour periods so they replenish their stock, then rinse and repeat?

I see myself running out of soulstones pretty fast. Is there a good place to get a lot of them?

The mage's college has soulgems everywhere. Just loot them from everyone's room. Also, when you finish the Mage Guild's questline, you'll have easier access to some more of them. I never once bought a soulgem.

STEAL EVERYTHING!!! SELL, SELL, SELL!!!! Seriously, I looted Skyrim blind.

Alpha...what mat said. I forgot that most of the soulgems are empty. There are spells that will fill up the gems if you cast it on an enemy before they die that are great. There are also weapons that do the same thing. Whatever has "soul capture"...listed in the description will fill 'em up.

Yeah, I had a TON of the lesser ones that I filled up with the Soul Trap spell. I used up all of them on my iron daggers last night. Now I need to head back to the Mage's college to restock.

go through the thieves guild quest so you can unlock the fences who carry 4000 gold. also as you work your way through it opens up merchants in the guild. you can ultimately sell stuff and get 9000+ gold in one shot in the guild.

but keep an eye out for weapons that send dudes back to oblivion. buy if you can. it's a worthwhile investment for enchanting and making an iron dagger go from being worth 5 gold to over 1000.

Nice... the daggers I enchant now with turn undead sell for 250, so 1K a pop would be nice. I could even buy my house then!

After doing all that I still have 130k that I really can't figure out how to spend... And can't really get rid of.

I need to get back into this game. I just have a voice in my head saying I cannot! Not! until I finish Dark Souls. Don't know why I have this mental block going on.

I spend all my money on training to help level me up. Some guys will retrain you after you hit higher levels. When you get to higher levels like 80 plus in some sill it costs like 4k to train the level. Well worth it thou IMO.