I tried looking for similar questions to this one but was unable to find any. I'm wondering if theres someone that knows how to make real money in Skyrim. I don't have dawnguard or hearthfire. My blacksmithing is around 80, maybe 82ish, and ive tried mining kolskeggr mine and selling the gold ore to pavo but that seems really slow due to the respawn rate of the mine. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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If you have high speech skill as well as smithing a lot money can be made by using the "Transmute" spell to turn all your iron ore and silver ore into gold ore. Then smith that into jewellery (if you have gems I'd use them) and sell those to Belethor or other traders. You will need to have some of the speech skill perks and a reasonable level or you will lose money, not gain it.
Make sure you don't smelt the iron before using transmute because the spell only works on ore.
You could also spend time killing strong enemies (Dragons mostly) or doing thieves guild/Dark Brotherhood quests because they are very profitable.
Lastly, if you are willing to glitch a little there is a Whiterun glitch (works on all platforms). Which is shown here. There is an alternate way of getting out of Whiterun by hopping on a barrel along the wall near the Warmaidens, but this method should work.
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