How are you making gold?

Gorthax

Serious question as since launch I have NOT been able to make gold let alone afford some of these insane prices for mats, potions, and other things. So can someone enlighten me as to how they are getting so much gold to afford this stuff?

I thought "hey alchemy would be neat! people need potions!" *goes and tries to farm mats* "wow this is boring and I am not finding anything" *goes to kiosk and looks at prices then does some math* "huh....1k profit......still cant afford the prices though for such little pay out"

*decides to do zone shout and gets a reply* "1199 for FIVE mats.....good day sir"

Either this economy is just screwed up or something is wrong. I try getting mats but it is so boring and very unpredictable. People say go to coldharbour and run in circles, but there are at least 5-6 people all racing each other in circles for mats (main city). Then if you do get to one somehow someone beats you there and bugs you out and now you cant collect any of the mats (E button is grayed out at every node).

I havent actually used potions in over a month(maybe longer).......unless it is the vr1 pots I find. So is there some secret spot people are finding these things or are people seriously wasting hours upon hours for ONE stack of mats then selling them at very r3tarded prices?

Is there some other method of getting lots of gold? Or should I have just took advantage of the gold exploit back in the day...... Because as it sits right now there is no way I can afford any of these things. Bought two stacks of pots after breaking down and giving up on farming mats, and now I am broke....again.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

ers101284b14_ESO

I sell stuff on the guild store and vendor my loot drops. Make plenty of money. I don't farm mats I just pick them up as I go along. Right now I'm farming dolmens and found plenty of aspect runes around those.

Sharee

I pick my own alchemy mats (something to pass the time in queue) and make my own potions. Make my own armor. Cook my own food. Have plenty of bag space. Got all horses i need...

Really, only thing i need gold for is buying empty soulgems.

dharbert

Gold is extremely easy to come by. Farm Dwemer Motif pages. Farm resources in Craglorn. Make triple stat pots and spell power pots. Join a large trading guild that has a kiosk.

You may not like grinding or farming, but it's the only way you are going to get large amounts of gold.

Gorthax

Sharee wrote: »

I pick my own alchemy mats (something to pass the time in queue) and make my own potions. Make my own armor. Cook my own food. Have plenty of bag space. Got all horses i need...

Really, only thing i need gold for is buying empty soulgems.

I try to make my own potions by farming mats but it is so damn boring and like I said unpredictable. I run and run and never find the ones I am looking for (collect everything i see) and after an hour of non stop running I still dont have a good collection of mats nor the ones I want.

I would love to cook my own food, but my hirelings SUCK! They dont give me the ingredients I need and like alchemy the mats are just so insanely priced. 2600 for a oat?

Xjcon

So you think someone is going to tell you that they just sit still and gold rains in on them? Everyone who has gold has put in lots of effort.

SlayerSyrena

I sell all named items I don't use (make sure you belong to a successful Trade Guild first), I am maxed in all crafts and make my own gear/food/glyphs/potions and I search for hot items like Dwemer Motif pages and etc ... to put up in the guild store.

Once in awhile I'll make V14 glyphs or V5 food to sell as well. As for crafting, I just gather my mats while I quest. It's not a big deal and between that and hirelings I usually have what I need for all my crafting.

Been saving for a long time to buy the promised new mounts (which I wish there was an ETA on). Other than repairing my gear, and buying unique gear once in awhile from a guild store, I don't spend my coin much and have been able to save a good amount.

Gorthax

dharbert wrote: »

Gold is extremely easy to come by. Farm Dwemer Motif pages. Farm resources in Craglorn. Make triple stat pots and spell power pots. Join a large trading guild that has a kiosk.

You may not like grinding or farming, but it's the only way you are going to get large amounts of gold.

Farming dwemers yielded no results for me after 2 hours of doing it. I think I am cursed lol

*EDIT* I couldnt even find motifs after 3 hours of logging out and back in...... to his day I have NEVER found a motif in any container. Seriously It is why I stopped looting containers. Been playing since launch and looted containers all the way up to a month ago. Just finally gave up.

Nestor

Gorthax wrote: »

Serious question as since launch I have NOT been able to make gold let alone afford some of these insane prices for mats, potions, and other things. So can someone enlighten me as to how they are getting so much gold to afford this stuff?

At VR Ranks, mobs drop 19 to 50 gold (depending on number of entities and finesse) so I can amass huge amounts of gold just playing the game. I have a character that started out Caldwells Gold in DC starter islands at 20,000 gold and they now have 60,000 gold and only have done the first quarter of Glenumbra. (there was an item I sold in a guild store for 10K that is part of that haul, so 30,000 gold from mobs, vendoring loot and quests alone)

Prior to that, find a Public Dungeon that is around your level an go in and kill mobs and loot them. Save the items you can research, and vendor the rest. Most people only vendor the Whites, but I also vendor the greens as I have Green upgrade mats coming out of my ears. I decon the blues and better for the upgrade mats. The rest goes to the game Vendors. Doing this you can make 5,000 to10,000 gold an hour after repairs, or more. And get some nice skill upgrades along the way.

Gorthax

Xjcon wrote: »

So you think someone is going to tell you that they just sit still and gold rains in on them? Everyone who has gold has put in lots of effort.

Umm no. If you are just going to come in here and think thats what I am saying then please do not come and reply. I am merely asking why is the economy screwed up, how are people making so much gold to afford this stuff ( are they playing all day every day?), and why can I never find any mats I need for the crafting I want to do to AVOID buying everything at such high prices.

I have spent a good chunk of my game time, many times, trying to find mats. I find some yes but not the ones I need for my crafting. The ones I need I find very very rarely. This is all I am asking/saying. I am not saying I want gold to rain down on me for just standing still.

I have put time into trying to make gold and I am always broke.

Nestor

Gorthax wrote: »

I would love to cook my own food, but my hirelings SUCK! They dont give me the ingredients I need and like alchemy the mats are just so insanely priced. 2600 for a oat?

You don't need Oats or Tomatoes really.

There are two VR5 recipes that require either Tomatoes or Oats to make. Those only come from Hirelings. However there is a third VR5 Consummate recipe that does not require these things and can be made with stuff you find in the game and it gives you the same HSM amounts.

Also, Blue Recipes always use stuff you can find in the game and they give you two of the attributes, just pick which two you want.

poodlemasterb16_ESO

My Vampire Witch was making about 3000g an hour at VR levels. My lowly new level 26 NB makes about 1200g an hour these days.

Questing and nothing else. I have never sold anything in this game.

Beesting

I know someone that made 6 million just selling all the gold and purple mats the hirelings brought them since launch. Just one day at the time.
So that is what you could have had if you would have made vet in 3 weeks, and leveled up to 32 on all alts, all skills...

I ended up with 350 k after the first 5 months just selling traits for researching, as everyone needed them back then. Selling around 20 items a day for 550 gold profit seemed a good idea back then. I have since moved on and up to trading stuff people want now, like the nirnhorned stuff and legendary glyphs, etc. Last month i sold for millions and made a nice profit after tax. However, it was very time consuming, i only play a bit in the evening after work and on the weekends so i let go of that now. I made a post "letting go" even, i hated the addictiveness of it all...

But i guess if i was in your shoes, i would go into a vet level public dungeon, like razzaks wheel and just kill the dwemer stuff over and over. The v10 loot is worth a lot to vendor and the scraps are 500 gold each.
Also i would go to the last vet zones as they are emptier than craglorn and there are stacks of voidcloth and nightwood there, selling easy when you join a guildstore that has a good trader.

Getting 100k should be easy and fun that way!

O yes and a pro tip: never pay to travel to a wayshrine and never destroy anything, sell it all to the vendor or use it to level up your hirelings, so you have all your gold mats for free.

Sallington

I wait for my hirelings to bring me gold mats and sell them for 2.3-2.5k each.

Other than selling those, just playing the game.

Darlgon

Hunh? You have to be a troll.

I wander around, do quests.. sell ornate stuff to vendors, try to sell blue and above to my one trade guild, decon green and under for my main, who does clothier/blacksmith/wood and send the other mats to alts who are doing that craft. Have yet to have to buy anything from a trade guild, except maybe an item to fill one of my 3 research slots. (I currently have items on an alt for him to research, except wood, which all I need is Nincrux traits.)

Alchemy is a waste, as heal/magic/stamina VR5 pots are raining down on my level VR9 mains head. I am over 100 each on the VR1 ones.

Oh, and my main has keen eye one skill only on each of the TS, so he provides all the mats to my crafting alts.

I have paid for all the upgrades on two horses, and really have not bought all the bank/bag slots an my four alts because I didnt want to keep up with that much inventory. I feel rich with my six figures in the shared bank because I dont have to worry about whatever you are worried about buying. At VR9, it feels like money is pouring out of the heavens, even with only 77 gold quest rewards occasionally (usually 300).

Darkrogue671

I make most of my money in PvP. There is gold that is given to you each time you are given a worthless item. After a decent session, it's not unreasonable for me to get 9-15 items and rack up 500+ in gold. Plus, the ones I don't decon I can sell to make up another 500+ gold. You figure in about 5 days, that's a cool 1000+ you made in addition to the participation bonus you get at the end of the campaign whether you won or not. If you win, then you get BIG money.

And I didn't have to farm or make anything. But some "watery tart threw a sword at me" instead!

Slurg

Xjcon wrote: »

So you think someone is going to tell you that they just sit still and gold rains in on them? Everyone who has gold has put in lots of effort.

Gold rains in on Slurg! But half of it goes back into buying more Kuta to make those gold glyphs to sell. And leveling enchanting was a pain, especially in the old days. You really can't get ahead without a good bit of effort especially if the RNG is not on your side.

Darkrogue671

Gorthax wrote: »

*EDIT* I couldnt even find motifs after 3 hours of logging out and back in...... to his day I have NEVER found a motif in any container. Seriously It is why I stopped looting containers. Been playing since launch and looted containers all the way up to a month ago. Just finally gave up.

I couldn't agree more. After update 3, I haven't found a single motif. That is why I think we should have a motif decon bar that tracks the number of items for a particular motif. Fill the bar, you learn the motif. If you know the motif already, your bar is already filled!

Back-engineering has it's reward. If it's that much of a big deal, i'd spend the skill point for Back-Engineering on crafts!

poodlemasterb16_ESO

Darlgon wrote: »

Hunh? You have to be a troll.

I wander around, do quests.. sell ornate stuff to vendors, try to sell blue and above to my one trade guild, decon green and under for my main, who does clothier/blacksmith/wood and send the other mats to alts who are doing that craft. Have yet to have to buy anything from a trade guild, except maybe an item to fill one of my 3 research slots. (I currently have items on an alt for him to research, except wood, which all I need is Nincrux traits.)

Alchemy is a waste, as heal/magic/stamina VR5 pots are raining down on my level VR9 mains head. I am over 100 each on the VR1 ones.

I have paid for all the upgrades on two horses, and really have not bought all the bank/bag slots an my four alts because I didnt want to keep up with that much inventory. I feel rich with my six figures in the shared bank because I dont have to worry about whatever you are worried about buying. At VR9, it feels like money is pouring out of the heavens, even with only 77 gold quest rewards occasionally (usually 300).

I sell or destroy those found pots. They are pitiful. My Alchemist keeps my little army and my son's NB in the best of potions. My new NB is aimed at potion guzzling and I can get 2 into a fight these days. Always tri pots of various kinds.

I buy stuff constantly from Guild Vendors, hell I can make a small profit on Crafting Writs these days without searching out any mats at all, I just buy em'. They take literally 5 minutes that way, unless you get a Survey which is golden.

Psychobunni

I dedicate a certain amount of time each week to farming mats. Flowers/wood/iron/cloth. I make my own pots and sell everything else that I don't specifically use myself. (armor/weapon mats I refine first, purple/gold tempers sell better than the mats)
I also hit a few different prime locations for motifs/purple recipes and sold those but have been saving them as of late for give away prizes.

This allows me enough gold to do whatever I have needed, I'm not trying to get rich. I have also seen complaints about flower prices in the guild stores in craglorn zone chat lol, and well...I'm simply not going to sell what I spent my time picking to the zone spammer who wants to buy for 100-120 per when I know I will get 180-200 per in the guild store(s). I belong to 3 busy trade guilds and use an addon that averages the prices of sales and gives me the calculation to sell for. So that is a huge help and beats the "can I get a price check on yadda yadda"

Gorthax

Nestor wrote: »

Gorthax wrote: »

I would love to cook my own food, but my hirelings SUCK! They dont give me the ingredients I need and like alchemy the mats are just so insanely priced. 2600 for a oat?

You don't need Oats or Tomatoes really.

There are two VR5 recipes that require either Tomatoes or Oats to make. Those only come from Hirelings. However there is a third VR5 Consummate recipe that does not require these things and can be made with stuff you find in the game and it gives you the same HSM amounts.

Also, Blue Recipes always use stuff you can find in the game and they give you two of the attributes, just pick which two you want.

wow i did not know this this is why I made this thread to find stuff out ^_^ I GREATLY appreciate all the help I know what I need to do now ^_^ I must find a dungeon that i can just slaughter without getting a super high repair cost >_> and start looting stuff again lol maybe my luck will change after such a long break of searching :P

Gorthax

poodlemasterb16_ESO wrote: »

Darlgon wrote: »

Hunh? You have to be a troll.

I wander around, do quests.. sell ornate stuff to vendors, try to sell blue and above to my one trade guild, decon green and under for my main, who does clothier/blacksmith/wood and send the other mats to alts who are doing that craft. Have yet to have to buy anything from a trade guild, except maybe an item to fill one of my 3 research slots. (I currently have items on an alt for him to research, except wood, which all I need is Nincrux traits.)

Alchemy is a waste, as heal/magic/stamina VR5 pots are raining down on my level VR9 mains head. I am over 100 each on the VR1 ones.

I have paid for all the upgrades on two horses, and really have not bought all the bank/bag slots an my four alts because I didnt want to keep up with that much inventory. I feel rich with my six figures in the shared bank because I dont have to worry about whatever you are worried about buying. At VR9, it feels like money is pouring out of the heavens, even with only 77 gold quest rewards occasionally (usually 300).

I sell or destroy those found pots. They are pitiful. My Alchemist keeps my little army and my son's NB in the best of potions. My new NB is aimed at potion guzzling and I can get 2 into a fight these days. Always tri pots of various kinds.

I buy stuff constantly from Guild Vendors, hell I can make a small profit on Crafting Writs these days without searching out any mats at all, I just buy em'. They take literally 5 minutes that way, unless you get a Survey which is golden.

see I havent done a survey yet....me and mats dont get a long and I hear that they are pretty pointless to do.

Gorthax

Darkrogue671 wrote: »

Gorthax wrote: »

*EDIT* I couldnt even find motifs after 3 hours of logging out and back in...... to his day I have NEVER found a motif in any container. Seriously It is why I stopped looting containers. Been playing since launch and looted containers all the way up to a month ago. Just finally gave up.

I couldn't agree more. After update 3, I haven't found a single motif. That is why I think we should have a motif decon bar that tracks the number of items for a particular motif. Fill the bar, you learn the motif. If you know the motif already, your bar is already filled!

Back-engineering has it's reward. If it's that much of a big deal, i'd spend the skill point for Back-Engineering on crafts!

LOVE this idea!

driosketch

By selling stuff through my guild kiosk. I've also been farming dwemer pages and frames, not obsessively, buut like one trip through the first ruins in DC once or twice a night. I find some regular motifs and low level recipes which are always a quick seller if you price right. A lot of people sell the ones they find off their max level characters, which your guild bank probably has stacks of for free. But lower level, and especially the mid level ones can fetch a nice inflated price.

I also sell extra mats and runes I have. I usually sell half stacks at 1.75-2x the vendor sell to price, because our kiosk is in a low level zone, so convenience is the key to moving inventory. I also sell drop set items I find where even bad ones may sell for researching. Small time stuff, but it adds up.

Gorthax

Slurg wrote: »

Xjcon wrote: »

So you think someone is going to tell you that they just sit still and gold rains in on them? Everyone who has gold has put in lots of effort.

Gold rains in on Slurg! But half of it goes back into buying more Kuta to make those gold glyphs to sell. And leveling enchanting was a pain, especially in the old days. You really can't get ahead without a good bit of effort especially if the RNG is not on your side.

lol I hate my hireling....i have never got a single gold mat for enchanting since launch >_> RNG hates me....it hated me in the hours upon hours I invested into D3, and it is now following me into this game >_< both games I have played since launch....granted my luck is slightly better in ESO

Gorthax

Darkrogue671 wrote: »

I make most of my money in PvP. There is gold that is given to you each time you are given a worthless item. After a decent session, it's not unreasonable for me to get 9-15 items and rack up 500+ in gold. Plus, the ones I don't decon I can sell to make up another 500+ gold. You figure in about 5 days, that's a cool 1000+ you made in addition to the participation bonus you get at the end of the campaign whether you won or not. If you win, then you get BIG money.

And I didn't have to farm or make anything. But some "watery tart threw a sword at me" instead!

I pvp lol but my interest in the broken system is currently fading......especially as a sorc

cote-bmsb16_ESO

I noticed a lot of the white armor and weapons have the ornate trait (sells for more compared to blue items), you can find them sitting on tables and such. Selling random set items for reasonable prices in the guild stores help. The motifs drop rate is lower in newbie zones, better off farming in the Rift or dungeons.
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Gorthax

Darlgon wrote: »

Hunh? You have to be a troll.

I wander around, do quests.. sell ornate stuff to vendors, try to sell blue and above to my one trade guild, decon green and under for my main, who does clothier/blacksmith/wood and send the other mats to alts who are doing that craft. Have yet to have to buy anything from a trade guild, except maybe an item to fill one of my 3 research slots. (I currently have items on an alt for him to research, except wood, which all I need is Nincrux traits.)

Alchemy is a waste, as heal/magic/stamina VR5 pots are raining down on my level VR9 mains head. I am over 100 each on the VR1 ones.

Oh, and my main has keen eye one skill only on each of the TS, so he provides all the mats to my crafting alts.

I have paid for all the upgrades on two horses, and really have not bought all the bank/bag slots an my four alts because I didnt want to keep up with that much inventory. I feel rich with my six figures in the shared bank because I dont have to worry about whatever you are worried about buying. At VR9, it feels like money is pouring out of the heavens, even with only 77 gold quest rewards occasionally (usually 300).

I troll you not my friend @Darlgon‌ . I am being dead serious.

reften

Crafting writs. Farm some mats for 30 minutes, do the 6 crafting writs (i'm level 50 with all of them), after a while you see the same requests and can easily stock up on the requests, anyway, 600 gold each, plus items and maps that get you bonus materials and items that sell for 100+ gold. I'm making 4k a day just on these.

Gorthax

cote-bmsb16_ESO wrote: »

I noticed a lot of the white armor and weapons have the ornate trait (sells for more compared to blue items), you can find them sitting on tables and such. Selling random set items for reasonable prices in the guild stores help. The motifs drop rate is lower in lower in newbie zones, better off farming in the Rift or dungeons.

I thought they made those items worthless, just able to pick up to say you can interact.

Gorthax

oren74 wrote: »

Crafting writs. Farm some mats for 30 minutes, do the 6 crafting writs (i'm level 50 with all of them), after a while you see the same requests and can easily stock up on the requests, anyway, 600 gold each, plus items and maps that get you bonus materials and items that sell for 100+ gold. I'm making 4k a day just on these.

600 gold for a crafting writ? hmmm