Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-16093571-20130825053428/@comment-50.24.10.22-20170120115230

Post Necromancy!!! Fast money out of the gate.

Step one: Finish the intro to the game.

Step two: Pick flowers, berries, and other plants while walking to Whiterun make sure to get at least 50 of two different types. The more  ingredients  the  better; and if you're having trouble just walk along the roads in the direction of Falkreath while picking. Make sure to collect body armor, and anything valuable, off of anyone who attacks you.

Step three: Sell everything except the ingredients and weapon you are using. If you're not already at Whiterun fast travel there. Pay the carriage to take you to Solitude.

Step four: Each of these cities has an alchemist's shop run by a lovely lady poisoner. Angeline's Aromatics ( Solitude ), Arcadia's Cauldron (Whiterun), Grave Concoctions (Falkreath). All three have alchemy labs,  ingredients  for sale, and buy potions. You now start making potions. Sell the products of your work to the shop's owner and use the money to buy more ingredients, but keep them cheap at first. Keep doing this while fast traveling between the holds to refresh the shop's inventories and gold. Your alchemy and speech skills should power level as a side effect of your wallets growth and you should put those points in alchemy, not speech. The Alchemist, Poisoner, and Physician perks are very useful. If you run out of money go to step five.

Step five: As with all 'get rich quick' plans your gold may flounder as you cannot buy more  ingredients  than you need. To fix this just go walking. Yes, it is just that easy. Ingredients  can be found growing in abundance along every road in Skyrim and those roads are generally safer to travel to than most locations. Once you have a small pile of plants fast travel back to the holds and start again. As an extra hint watch for how much the potions you make are worth. Eventually, potions worth more than 1,400 should be a norm for you. Don't worry that the shop owner will only pay you 400 per  potion. Y ou can easily make enough gold to buy their whole inventory. Note that they may have less gold than one your potions is worth. Just sell it anyway and get all the gold they have. I'm sitting at around 57,000 gold in my inventory and will probably pop the Gold Touch achievement when I feel like it.

Remember to have fun.