Forum: gaming.stackexchange.com
Tags: <the-elder-scrolls-5-skyrim>
Title: Can I refund a perk point?
Question: While leveling in Skyrim I put a perk in a tree, but now I feel like it is wasted, since I've found blowing things up with spells is much more fun than stabbing things with a giant sword.   Is there anyway for me to recover the wasted perk? I'm on the PC so I was guessing console commands could help.

Answers:
sents: text: If you are on PC, you can use the console to add and remove perks.
text: Finding a perk
text: id:
text: help [name of perk] 4 help Armsman 4 Removing a perk player.removeperk
text: [perk
text: id]
text: player.removeperk 00079342
text: Adding a perk
text: player.addperk
text: [perk
text: id]
text: player.addperk 00079342 Notes:
text: You can use the PageUp/PageDown keys to scroll the console.
text: Use double quotes when searching for a perk with a space: "Steel Smithing" -yx
text: The UESP has the perk id for all the skills.
text: -Mark
text: Trapp
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/6914/Arkive
score: 32
sents: text: You can remove perks you currently have by using: player.removeperk perkid To find out the id of the perk, type this in: help "perk name here" 0
text: This will bring up a list of all items matching your query (hopefully it contains the perk in that list).
text: To add a perk: player.addperk
text: perkid Note: for perks that have multiple levels, you will have to remove all the perks for those skills to clear it out.
text: i.e. one handed has 5 levels, the way skyrim tracks that is to add a perk for each level, so there are 5 different perks for one handed.
text: To redistribute your stats, you can use: player.setav stat value
text: However this will not persist across saves, to do that use: player.modav stat amount_to_modify_by That can be used to set all skills and stats.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/3917/l I
score: 13
sents: text: There is no way to reset your perks on the Xbox 360 without the Dragonborn DLC, and no way to do it on the PlayStation 3 until Bethesda releases Dragonborn for that console, but you can redo your perks in the PC version of the game by using the console commands : player.removeperk <perk ID>
text: player.addperk
text: <perk ID>
text: Where <perk
text: ID> is replaced with the code for the perk you want to change.
text: The UESP Wiki contains a list of these codes.
text: Careful with these: they have been reports that they will brand you a cheater and prevent you from gaining any achievements, but this is disputed.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/None/
score: 8
sents: text: If you have the Dragonborn DLC, play through the main DLC questline.
text: One of the rewards of completing
text: the At the Summit of Apocrypha quest is: A book that transports you to Hermaeus Mora's realm, and allows you to reset perks at the cost of one Dragon Soul per tree.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/6274/Iszi
score: 5
sents: text: You can get the skill up to 100, make it legendary to make the skill 15 again.
text: The perks you dumped into it will be removed and you can reuse them
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/65406/Guest
score: 5
sents: text: Alternatively to cheating, there are other options:
text: Get yourself killed, your perk won't be saved.
text: Quit the game abruptly without saving, your perk won't be saved.
text: Although not really fair, you could return to a previous save game.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/998/Tamara Wijsman
score: 2
sents: text: For PC.
text: An easy solution related to all perks, so you can basically recreate your char:
text: This mod will remove all perks and add the right ammount removed as perk points:
text: Ishs Respec Mod
text: If there remain any perks after the above mod being used, use the console to remove them (as explained by Arkive post , you can even create a bat file to make it easier later on) and use this mod: Perk Point Potion to get the right ammount of perk points back.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/45976/Aquarius Power
score: 1

Summary of the answers:
You can use the console to add and remove perks on a PC. Also, if you get yourself killed, your perk won't be saved.
Console commands, Mods, and some in-game strategies could serve as a solution.