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Mount & Blade II Bannerlord How to Increase Skill Fast

I had the idea to collect all strategies and tips on how to progress skills as fast as possible.

If you have found a good way to increase a skill, then I will add it to this list.

Please do not state the obvious like “increase trade by trading a lot” or “increase engineering by building a lot of siege engines”.

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How to increase skill fast

Skills

One Handed
Two Handed
Polearm

Bow
Crossbow
Throwing

Riding
Athletics
Smithing

Scouting
Tactics
Roguery

Charm
Leadership
Trade

Steward
Medicine
Engineering

How to increase skill fast

One Handed, Two Handed and Polearm

  • When you siege a castle or city, build a battering ram. After destroying the door, the enemy usually stands there in a square formation. The men at the side usually wont attack you so you have a fast kill rate.

Bow and Crossbow

  • Sieges. Build a battering ram. Enemies will wait in the court without doing anything. When you stand on the wall you have the high ground and can easily aim at their heads even at great distance. More distance + headshot = more exp.

Throwing

  • Didnt test it, but throwing rocks down a wall when your castle is besieged seems to give insanely good exp.

Riding

  • During a siege battle, order your troops to retreat, then put something on your “a” and “w” key and be afk for some time.

Athletics

  • Same as for Riding, but unfortunately you cant walk in circles without manuelly intervention. Ive not tested yet wether walking against a wall works.

Smithing

  • All of the the perks “Steel Maker” are the way to go. Massive exp. (Better let a companion learn the “curious” perks. Smelting doesnt give as much exp.)

Scouting

  • Assign yourself the clan role of scout and whenever you discover a hideout you gain scout xp. If you see a bandit, then theres probably a hideout nearby.

Tactics

  • When you’re in an army and in a fight controlling a group of soldiers, telling them to do things like change formation might raise it. (Can somebody confirm that this is true?)
  • Winning battles if you are outnumbered.

Roguery

  • Raiding villages
  • Sell prisoners

Charm

  • If you lead your own kingdom, earning influence with the policy “council of commons” is very easy. You can use this influence to increase the influence of a clan in your kingdom. This increases your charm skill very fast. An own kingdom is not necessary, however you need at least a few fiefs to earn enough influence to make this effective.
  • Let enemy lords flee after you won the battle.
  • Join armies, talk with generals daily, give them cheap items or money.

Leadership

  • Try to lead an army of your companion parties as much as possible. Its free anyway.

Trade

  • Buy goods and sell for a profit. You can use workshops to increase demand for a good in a town. Coast towns often make salt that inland towns buy. Towns surrounded by trees make hardwood that some desert towns buy for a lot. There’s a town in the north that buys horses for a lot. Towns right next to mountains can make possibly both iron and silver ore that towns with no mountains by them might buy for a profit.

Steward

  • Very easy to progress if you rule your own kingdom and therefore have a lot of fiefs for your own. Build as much projects as possible and spend money to boost building time. (Money is kinda useless in end game anyhow)

Medicine

  • Put your expensive troops in a garrison and recruit cheap troops. Assign yourself as a surgeon and simulate fights against weak enemies like bandits or looters. Do not recruit to many men so that more get wounded. Then heal them in settlements.

Engineering

  • When a faction is nearly eliminated, buy a lot of food and siege a castle as long as possible.

It’s end. I hope “Mount & Blade II Bannerlord How to Increase Skill Fast” helps you. Feel free to contribute the topic. If you have also comments or suggestions, comment us.

Written by One Winged Angel

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3 thoughts on “Mount & Blade II Bannerlord How to Increase Skill Fast”

  1. Just so you know. You only get Roguery for selling prisoners when you sell them manually, (ie, choosing the prisoners to be sold)

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  2. Hi guys, best way to increase trade fast is to have about 1.5k mule, 500 Sumpter horses and 5 too 10mil in the bank.
    Go to Ocs Hall and wait for a caravan, when it is just outside the entrance of the city. Go in the city and buy all Sumpter horses and mules then leave the city and sell all your mules to the caravan, go back to the city and sell all Sumpter horses, then out again and buy all your mules back from the caravan. Go in city again and buy all Sumpter horses again. Back to the caravan and sell all mules(only mules) and repeat. I went from level 175 to 275 in 1 hour but you loose about 7mil, but with smithing it is easy to make money.

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