I think I helped level mine picking chests in Khenarthi’s Roost in between fence cool down. There are tons of chests there and you get XP toward the line picking the chests. Can’t force, though, from what I remember. I just put on music and picked chest after chest.

I’m not sure if it’s the most efficient way, but it’s a way.

goldenarcher1 wrote: »

Pickpocketing also levels this skill,but won't power level it.

Well if i am not midtaken, selling stolen goods also gives points.
So go to sentinel docks in alikr, there its super easy to stel a lot of stuff, and then sell it in a hideout.

"power level" no. But you can find areas that have an abundance of items you can easily steal. Bring invisibility potions -- use when you get caught. Do your thieving near an area that gives you quick/easy access to a fence (selling items as well as paying your bounty in case the guards want to kill you).

Yes, here's the closest thing you will get to a ledgerdemain power level:

1. Go to Khenarthi's Roost, on the east side of the island (near that skyshard on the east). There's an area with 30 or so sheep and 2 shepherds (there's also a roving shepherd that shows up occasionally).

2. Murder the shepherds (if you have Blade of Woe, that prevents you getting a bounty, but it's not critical either way). You can pick-pick-stab if you want to.

3. Kill all the sheep. Loot all their bodies. Wait for them to respawn, rinse and repeat for about an hour.

4. Now you have STACKS of stolen guts, hide, and meat. It's not going to make you rich, but you can now easily just stop by a fence once per day and launder up to cap (for like 100 gold, because you're laundering provisioning ingredients or bait) along with selling up to cap, too.

There's a few other sheep to the west of that area with tons of sheep--if you are bored waiting for the respawn, you can go back and forth between the two areas.


The other thing to do is find a decent rotation for stealing that actually makes you gold--I like the houses on the outer perimeter of Rivenspire, personally. Do a rotation, port out, port back, do it again, etc. etc. There's one house in Rivenspire that has 3 locked doors, after killing the owners you can unlock all 3 doors for ledgerdemain XP (and progress on that one housebreaking achievement).

Why do you need to powerlevel it? It is not a gate to any content.

Steal from containers and fence till the light fingers passive becomes available, then spec into those and start pickpocketting since it raises the skil much faster. Pickpocketting without passives is horrible so don't do it right from the start.

What I've actually done is training my chars the slow way up till 16+. I allot a few minutes each day, steal everything I find in containers on the Daggerfall docks and the 2 ships anchored there, then fence in the outlaw refuge which is on the peer. The location is quite nice since the containers are unguarded. I do this every day for a few weeks 30-40 items a day. I'm only interested in raising the skill for the sneak cost reduction passive and I don't want to spend on the others.

I do have one char who has all the pickpocketting passives as well as the one from TG line which reduces witness awareness. He's well suited to the role since he's a Khajiit NB with 5 Night Mother's Embrace 5 Night Terror 2 monster pieces all medium for the thieving spec. Just like the others he's fully combat capable PvE & PvP wis3 and crafter but the thieving specialization is extra since it only takes 13 skill points out of a total of 370+

Mine ranked up really fast while I was doing the Thieves Guild quests and dailies.

Probably talking about Hadran’s Caravan. On PC NA it’s like the worst kept secret, and because so there are better locations.

The boats in Daggerfall traveller. No guards there and close to the refuge.

Khajiit often sends her little ones on short nautical expeditions when they are working on this skill line yes.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

hadrans is garbage. there are quest instanced locations with much better rates on npc

Nothing even comes close to the efficiency of stealing easy things (particularly ingredients from barrels) and then fencing/laundering them.

You can go chest hunting or pickpocketing as people suggest, but in terms of time spent per point gained, they are miles away. So, yes, you can level it without time-gating. But you can't efficiently level it without time-gating. (At least, I wouldn't consider any of the suggestions in this thread to be anywhere close to resembling "efficient" by my standards.)

Just be patient and wait for the daily fence resets. It's not like anyone needs maxed legerdemain anyway.