First, get blade of woe from the gold coast/DB sillline, easy if you mange to pickpocket the first door on the right as you enter the town, he's alone, kill him off, use an edict to clear bounty (or tidy your inventory and head to a guard or fence in outlaws).

Once you get the blade of woe, you pickpocket the easy ones three times, the hard ones, twice (cause, even if you didn't pickpocket it, when you sell it to a fence it will still count on your legerdemain), make sure to get as many pardon editcts as you can (safeboxes or notice board (countess addon)) Pickpocket whenever you're sure no guard is near, and just pay off the bounty and let em take it if you're caught, at first ;D

Pickpocketing is the fastest way, like aim for little cities/settlements with no unkillable guards ;D And pick every lock you can!

Okay, the Gold Coast it will be then.

I always do the ships in daggerfall. Takes between 15-20 minutes to steal enough to hit your daily allotment of laundering and selling even if you take the time to run back to the thieves den to unload. A good mix of stuff so you can usually launder materials and sell everything else. You can get close to a level a day but that will be true wherever you steal from because of the cap on amount you can unload.

well, the most profitable way is doing resource gathering rounds in Hew's Bane and picking locks of chests along the way. Hew's Bane is full of resources as well as full of chests. If that gets boring make a thieving/pickpocketing round in Abbah's Landing until your fence limit. Should get you to 10 pretty fast

fetito666 wrote: »

How do I improve quickly the "legerdemain" skill line from 6 to 10?

Do I still stuff and sell it? Which places are recommended?

Thank you!

Hi @fetito666 this guide by @Anemonean is epic https://roguesfolio.tumblr.com/guide

In essence, focus on maxing out the number of things you steal per day, items. Find a boat or a market (Riften is ok) and ensure you skill point the passives to hand in more per day. And pick pocket too obviously.

You'll hit it in no time

House in the middle of Wrothgar where everything is stealable and there are no NPCs present. One full pass will get your bags to 80%. Do a dungeon and repeat.

I lvl’d Legerdemain to 20 in around two weeks with this method.

There's this hourglass-shaped yard of the Order of the Hour in Kvatch if you follow the street to the east. There are always four fast-respawning guards (of the killable sort), one smith and two civilians there.

I tend to pickpocket everybody twice, then kill them. The guards are far enough apart so that they will not see each other be killed. One of the civilians moves around a lot and thus may be a tad more difficult to pick clean; he usually is the first to go whenever I'm doing an Order farm run - just be sure to check if he's in a spot where the guards cannot see him.
This yard is a pretty good legerdemain farm IMO. And you often find other players waiting there; most of them don't decline a group invitation so farming is even faster.

EDIT
The unkillable city guards never come to this yard. It's really safe. If you don't have the means to quickly get rid of your heat level, just wait in the yard if you want to.

Sanctum74 wrote: »

The apple orchard in Betnik, Craglorn is also good. The apples are stackable and the thieves den to sell them is right there. The apples also respawn each time you exit the thieves den.

It's Belkarth and yes I found it useful seeing as pickpocketing is terrible while your legerdemain is low. Put your first points into the fence/laundering skill that ups the limit you can sell/fence daily.

I got a farming character to max by just farming treasure chests and whatever theives troves I came across. Took about a month.

This is by far the most amusing thread I've stumbled upon in a long while.
Useful, too. Being a maxed legerdemain, I still did not know the Belkarth apples hint

Sennecca wrote: »

As well as stealing and fencing..No one has mentioned that it levels by picking locks?? buy yourself a lot of cheap lock picks and go out and pick away. xp scrolls and potions go for all type of experience too don't they?

edited to add: if you get the add on harvest maps it will show u all of the treasure chest locations. just read the instructions .

There is only one type of actual XP. You do get a small amount of XP from picking locks, so the scrolls and potions will affect that. But they won’t affect increases in Legerdemain (or any other guild line), which works like a kind of reputation, or things like crafting inspiration.