Quickly Level Legerdemain - The Apple Method

Preyfar

Need to level Legerdemain fast? It's rather easy, and can be maxed with minimal time investment (for the most part).

Each stolen item you sell or launder gives 1 point for Legerdemain. The more you sell, the more you launder, the faster Legerdemain levels. To do so swiftly and with minimal risk you can use the Apple Method. South of Belkarth, Craglorn you'll find a lake with some docks, and by these docks... apple baskets. Tons and tons of apple baskets (25 in all). Each basket has the chance to drop up to 3 Apples and up to 2 Decorative Wax. Loot all the apple baskets, log out and back in to reset them, loot again. Repeat as needed.

A single run can usually net about 40-50 apples, and it takes of 2-3 minutes per run.


Not bad for about 25 minutes of farming, eh?

Why the Apple Method?
A disclaimer: This is not a profitable way to level Legerdemain. This is about mass harvesting apples make hitting the daily a breeze. It's one of the fastest methods in game of doing so. Apples can be gathered in stacks of up to which means you can massive amounts of apples and not have to worry about inventory management.

The ONLY limitation to power leveling Legerdemain is the daily cap on fences. At base level, you can earn up to 100 points in Legerdemain a day through Fences (50 stolen items, 50 launders). Put 1 point into Trafficker (a Legerdemain passive) and that number shoots up to 220 potential in Legerdemain a day (110 stolen items, 110 launders). With Trafficker fully maxed you can earn up to 280 points (140 stolen goods, 140 fenced items). A single skill point will allow you to maximize your stolen apples per day, and max out Legerdemain in no time.

Bonus: Cloth, wood, rune and heavy sack nodes all spawn near the apple baskets. Freebies while you farm.

Risks
One guard and one generic NPC do patrol the baskets but they're easy to avoid. If the guard spots you there's a bridge to the southwest that you can hide under to shake 'em off fast.

FloppyTouch

Will try

The_Protagonist

Thanks for sharing, pretty effective way indeed. I would add, that any other ingredients will also be effective, where ever we are visiting a town for decon or guild sales or repairs etc. just make sure that every bag, basket, drawers are looted.

Preyfar

The_Protagonist wrote: »

Thanks for sharing, pretty effective way indeed. I would add, that any other ingredients will also be effective, where ever we are visiting a town for decon or guild sales or repairs etc. just make sure that every bag, basket, drawers are looted.

Yeah. The main reason this works is just by volume. Each apple basket can contain up to 5 items, and with 25 baskets available, that's a lot in a short area, fast runs. You can pilfer/loot/steal just about anything anywhere else if that's your goal. This is mostly just about getting the most items to sell in the shortest amount of time.