Skyrim Tip #73 Loading Time

To decrease loading times, load the save file directly rather than pressing continue at the start menu. Hoarding (read: junk-collecting) also increases loading time.

Skyrim Tip #72 Leveling Alteration (Detect Life/Dead)

The Alteration Spell Detect Life levels up your Alteration spell by how many people you “see” with it. For example, let’s say it takes ten minutes to level up your Alteration skill when you can see one person. If you can see two people, however, it will only take five minutes.

Skyrim Tip #71 No Stone Unturned Quest Glitches

Thieves Guild Quest No Stone Unturned has a glitch where the Stones of Barenziah won’t stack after you bring them to Vex. However, there is a secondary glitch where if you retrieve all of the stones before showing them to her, Torvald’s Cave (where the crown is) won’t open. This can be fixed by either showing them when you’ve only got 20 stones or so. This can also be fixed by a third glitch where you Whirlwind Sprint through a plate at the closed doorway and back.

Skyrim Tip #70 Weighted Pedestals

If you’re in a dungeon and you see something on a pedestal, don’t take it unless you really want it. It probably sets off some trap.

Skyrim Tip #69 Weather Matters

A stormy night provides better sneaking than a clear, starry night.

Skyrim Tip #68 Lost in a Dungeon?

Are you dungeon delving and unsure of where to go next? Check your local map for any unexplored openings.

Skyrim Tip # 67 Gimme That (Forge)!

If you try and use something that someone else is using, they’ll stop immediately (like smelters or forges).

Skyrim Tip #66 Quicker Mining

Did you know you can mine manually by smacking ore pockets with your pickaxes?

Skyrim Tip #65 Safe Chests

 None of the Thieves Guild Chests in the Thieves Guild respawn, so all of them are safe to store things in.

Skyrim Tip #64 Shock Magic (And Hawks)

The quickest way to kill a hawk is with magic, especially lightning magic (which jumps to nearby targets if you miss).

Skyrim Tip #63 Atronach Souls

Storm atronachs can have their souls captured. They have greater souls.

Skyrim Tip #62 Leveling Illusion

   If you want to level up your Illusion skill quickly, it’s pretty effective to just cast muffle or illusion repeatedly while you’re walking around.

Skyrim Tip #61 Leveling Smithing

If you’re leveling up your Smithing skill by crafting Iron Daggers, then you’re wasting your materials. Smithing levels by the value of the item created, so it’s far more effective to craft the most valuable items (with the least amount of materials). This means crafting armor, bows, and jewelry.

Skyrim Tip #60 White Kids

In Skyrim, there are no redguard children. Redguard couples (somehow) have Nord children.

Skyrim Tip #59 Dungeons and Traps

Delving dungeons? Keep your eyes to the ground for pressure plates and tripwires. Don’t think you can just run around if you’ve got the Sneak perk that makes you invincible to them: your follower will most certainly step on them and hurt you both. Also keep an eye out for long hallways with sudden, wide openings or rooms that are long to the left or right, but thin. The kind of room that you walk past and a battering ram hits you.

Skyrim Tip #58 Extra Damage

After completing the quest The Heart of Dibella, you get an ability called “Agent of Dibella” which gives you 10% more damage to members of the opposite gender. Since a very large portion of the enemies you’ll face are male, this is very useful for female characters. I also happen to know that in another one of Bethesda’s games, Fallout 3, 90% of the human enemies are male. Just to let you know where the ratio probably is.