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Chubby Hound
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Chubby Hound
Achievement won on 19 Nov 11
TA Score for this game: 2,407
Posted on 17 November 11 at 15:23, Edited on 20 November 11 at 12:26
This solution has 51 positive votes and 8 negative votes. Please log in to vote.
Once the Dark Brotherhood questline has been completed, you may do an infinate amount of quests for the Night Mother. Each quest takes 5 mins maximum, and will net you 800 gold every turn. My math isn't great but it should take around 125 turns if starting from zero gold.

EDIT:
I have since found a way that is MUCH more effective but may take time to get the nessesery items to do so, so just a pre-warning. Enchanting Iron Daggers with Banish makes them worth around 1.7k each with 100 speech (can use speech exploit in Riften) and since blacksmiths always have Iron Ingots and Leather Strips, you can craft as much as you like!
AnnieGoesRawr Achievement not yet won. Negged because you havent won this achievement and because your guide is neither fast nor efficient. Maybe you should gain the achievement before you start telling others how to complete it. Also you just spoiled part of the game for me--now I can't be surprised when I complete the Dark Brotherhood questline. Lastly, you said "my math isn't great but it should take...". What does that have to do with this achievement? Please leave out the little quirks about yourself and stick to the facts of the achievement. Aye I wish I could neg you twice bro.
Posted by AnnieGoesRawr on 18 Nov 11 22:46:38
Loguns RAW @ above comment
easy mate he didnt give anything about the dark brotherhood quest away, and he was just saying his calculation might not be right, it is though so it dosent matter, plus he is not telling you how you have to do it he is giving you an option if you decide to do it that way which your obviously not going to.
Posted by Loguns RAW on 19 Nov 11 07:16:47
Loguns RAW i hate it when people vote negatively like this... negative voting should be if the guide dosent work, cos thats what it is a guide, its not like your being forced to do as he says
Posted by Loguns RAW on 19 Nov 11 07:18:30
True XenoBlade Upvote because AnnieGoesRawr is a douche bag, thought he is right in saying it's not fast or particularly efficient. It a solution none the less which will get the achievement in the long run.
Posted by True XenoBlade on 19 Nov 11 13:11:57
AC3x0FxSPADES Anniegoesrawr needs to relax... or get off of TA at the very least. No room for little sociopaths running around expecting people to post their guides to your own standards. And there are no spoilers, so please, sit on it and twist.
Posted by AC3x0FxSPADES on 21 Nov 11 01:20:34
Talespin123 Gotta agree, Anniegoesrawr is a blathering idiot. What can you NOT be surprised about when you complete Dark Brotherhood quest line now? That there are additional quests you can do? WOAH, stop the presses! MAJOR SPOILER! So, Chubby Hound's math might now be great, but your ability to follow any kind of logical reasoning is even worse.
Thumbs up to Chubby. Thumbs down to Annie.
Posted by Talespin123 on 22 Nov 11 08:14:47
xElite Shogun anniegoesrawr is a fucking loser. Your solution is helping me better than what I was doing.
Posted by xElite Shogun on 23 Nov 11 06:25:06
Jerick85 /points at AnnieGoesRawr and laughs.
Posted by Jerick85 on 23 Nov 11 09:10:01
Tulisas Thong This is why haters don't usually post cause they know they end up been the laughing stock, think im gonig have to abuse that speech exploit now!
Posted by Tulisas Thong on 24 Nov 11 18:26:50
funkym0nkey77 I got this achievement naturally at the same time I hit 40 hours playing time, you can use tricks but there's no need, I didn't, just pick up every expensive item you see and sell it! Good guide though
Posted by funkym0nkey77 on 27 Nov 11 19:16:06
Subliminal Cuts Hey man I have been doing the iron dagger trick for some time now but I have been using turn undead which has a decent value but not what you said. Do you know if there are any certain finds of banish items?
Posted by Subliminal Cuts on 12 Dec 11 14:28:27
Prattalmighty came here to see if anyone posted the Banish tactic and here it is, works quite well. I haven't been too focused on it but when I get the chance I do 20 or so at a time,l sitting around 50k right now. Just add that not only having speech at 100 but actually filling in the skill tree to the top helps a lot after you've invested in the stores and each have more money for you to gain after selling the daggers.
Posted by Prattalmighty on 15 Dec 11 01:08:46
Apartment Wolf good solution I would just add: don't forget if your married (as I am to Ysolda) go talk to her every once in a while and ask her "has the store made any money?" and I get around 2000 per time I return after doing quests (:
Posted by Apartment Wolf on 15 Dec 11 11:20:29
cartland222 where do you find the banish enchantment ?
Posted by cartland222 on 07 Jan 12 08:00:35
Chubby Hound I was destroying enchanted items to learn their enchantments and i bought an expensice sword from the blacksmith in Whiterun and destroyed it. Sorry for the lack of info on the finding of said enchantment, but i hear you can get it somewhere during the Thieve's Guild questline.
Posted by Chubby Hound on 08 Jan 12 12:31:47
nerd434 You can find an enchanted weapon from the Fletcher in Solitude. It should cost around 4,000, if he doesn't have it first time, wait 48 hours and try again!
Posted by nerd434 on 21 Jan 12 19:47:31
PuckJunkie I don't think there is a banish weapon that you always get during the Thieves' Guild. I didn't get one. I found mine at the fence in Windhelm, but I'm pretty sure it was a random spawn. (Note, fences only appear after you do something specific).

Speaking of Windhelm, it's the perfect place to do this. You can level smithing and enchantment and get money all at once: the smithy is about 20 feet from the enchanting table, and you can sell daggers to both the smith and the fence (although note that you will still be making far more daggers than they can afford to buy). Just finish all the Thieves' Guild stuff first, find a weapon with Banish to disenchant (... of Banishing, ... of Annihilating, ... of Expelling), and you're set. Alternatively, the next most valuable enchantments are Paralyze, Absorb Health, and Stamina Damage, in that order.

I'd edit your solution, the initial method you gave is inferior to the follow-up. You'll get this achievement just playing through the game, so anyone coming here is only interested in getting it fast. Over 100 quests is anything but. Also, note that the gold reward is levelled, so it's not 800 for everybody. It was 1,000 per quest for me when I got that far (~L35), but even so I am not about to bother with it. Heck, it might be faster to just play the game.
Posted by PuckJunkie on 01 Feb 12 16:27:39
scareface1970 HA just got the achievement it was hard but i have it. Not spending any money to horses or wapons all saving it. But now i can give it all away on horses and good wapons and stuff. BTW: good guide :)
Posted by scareface1970 on 19 Feb 12 21:39:30
Railer 505 You mentioned completing the Dark Brotherhood questline... you should also mention that you get 20000 gold for doing so - making your guide effectively for 80000 not 100000.
Posted by Railer 505 on 27 Feb 12 17:31:50
Chubby Hound You must use the 20,000 to upgrade the sacntuary in Dawnstar before you can do the quests.
Posted by Chubby Hound on 27 Feb 12 23:05:26
TinCanMcBucket Hey, just a question. I need 100k in my pocket or the total earned must be 100k to get this cheevo?
Posted by TinCanMcBucket on 02 May 12 12:00:49
Chubby Hound 100K in your pocket :)
Posted by Chubby Hound on 02 May 12 21:30:51
I Thumbsy I agree with most of the comments the angry mob has been putting up about AnnieGoesRawr, but I gotta agree with the "spoiler" comment. First sentence tells you that you'll be receiving quests from the Night Mother after having completed the Dark Brotherhood questline. Even so it doesn't explain how you get to that point, it is still a spoiler. It would be like saying, "You need to use the (item) that you get from completing the (questline) missions." You may not have spoiled the story itself, but now the reader knows that they will be receiving (item) after finishing those quests. Same thing here. The solution here eliminates the gamer's imagination as to what's going to happen once they finish the DB questline. The answer is just handed to you... Since DB isn't the only one with recurring quests, it could have been written, "A number of questlines will continue to give you quests even after you complete the questline, so an infinite amount of money can be made there." Not being a hater, just pointing out the obvious that has somehow been overlooked by the masses.
Posted by I Thumbsy on 05 Jul 12 20:42:15
Lord Jayse If you don't want spoilers for the game, don't search for how to obtain achievements on this website. There are so many achievements that require certain parts of the story to unravel, if anyone honestly thinks that they can search on this achievement or any other achievement without the possibility of getting a spoiler is incredibly mistaken.

Its just like if you don't want to see spoilers for a movie, don't go looking at the Wikipedia Page.
Posted by Lord Jayse on 14 May 13 15:02:57