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Best way to make money?

Soloson1
Soloson1
Soul Shriven
Just wondering Im in need of quick money and was wondering the best way to spend my time and to be most efficiant.
thanks
  • Cogo
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    Play the game....
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  • ZigZagZorzi
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    Join a trade guild, farm mats, keep them raw dont refine and sell, if you do refine keep your purple/gold tempers let them build up and sell them gold tempers are a good way to make gold, otherwise PvP be in the top 40 and sell what legendary weapon you get

    And the guys who posted above me is a ***
  • Ourorboros
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    Do a lot of quests, don't spend money on any non-essentials.
    Gather and sell raw mats in a guild store. Sell set items in chat or guild store.
    Sell non-set equipment and other trash to vendors.
    Become a good thief, greens and blues will get you money in a hurry.
    Edited by Ourorboros on April 9, 2015 3:05AM
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  • Natjur
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    Stacks of raw resources sell for the most at the moment 2k+ per stack.
    Farm materials and sell the rare materials (the refined do not sell well)

    High level players buy them to process them for the rare crafting templars.
  • Cuyler
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    @Soloson1
    Start a character, straight grind or quest grind. Kill every mob you come across, pick up every piece of loot you see, vendor everything except purples (decon purples for the mats) once your bags are full, repair, rinse and repeat. You should net at least 250k by the time you hit v14.

    You can average about 5k/hr which is much faster than farming mats and waiting for things to sell in the guild stores.

    Eventually along the way you'll pick up rare items, those you'll want to sell in the guild stores (i.e. most used recipes, nice sets, alchemy ingredients, aspect runes, etc.)

    Do this on 4 characters and you'll be apart of the ESO millionaires club ;) and have all the characters to play as well. Or you could just keep going on one character, but that's no fun.
    Edited by Cuyler on April 9, 2015 6:43PM
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    Video from Deltia's Gaming 3 weeks ago:
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  • Rynier
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    The best way for me to start was looting armour and weapons . Deconstructing them and selling the mats in either the Map chat or guild store. Looting the bags saw me net a purple 750 gold item that I sold pretty quickly.

    Between our 3 friends we easily racked up 10K gold each the last week simply looting for the first 30 min on loading in. The bank normally has about 500 gold worth of loot in the main room . in the town South Auridon.


  • F7sus4
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    Sell Sanctum Ophidia trial drops.
  • MikeMoss
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    Hi

    I just kill a lot of stuff.

    My character is level 25 and I have about 23,000 gold and nothing to spend it on.

    Later there will be things to buy from guild stores, but right now the only thing I pay for is repairs and empty soul crystals.

    My drops have been much better then what I can buy from merchants.

    Mike
  • Fruitmass
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    Ourorboros wrote: »
    Do a lot of quests, don't spend money on any non-essentials.
    Gather and sell raw mats in a guild store. Sell set items in chat or guild store.
    Sell non-set equipment and other trash to vendors.
    Become a good thief, greens and blues will get you money in a hurry.

    Pretty much all this. Especially the thieving part because as a side benefit you can net small bits of xp for lock picking and likely pick up stuff like motifs and recipes you can turn around and sell to other players.

    And if it's a new character you'll save yourself some cash by using any food, potions and gear you find while stealing to outfit yourself.
    Edited by Fruitmass on April 21, 2015 10:25PM
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  • Ley
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    MikeMoss wrote: »
    Hi

    I just kill a lot of stuff.

    My character is level 25 and I have about 23,000 gold and nothing to spend it on.

    Later there will be things to buy from guild stores, but right now the only thing I pay for is repairs and empty soul crystals.

    My drops have been much better then what I can buy from merchants.

    Mike

    Just imagine how much more money you'd have if instead of repairing, you just replaced your broken gear with fixed gear you loot and get from quests.
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  • F7sus4
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    MikeMoss wrote: »
    My character is level 25 and I have about 23,000 gold and nothing to spend it on.
    Please keep in my that you'll be spending 25000-75000k for a single piece of your end-game gear, not counting improvement materials etc. If you won't improve your way of getting money, you'll end up complaining on how everything is "expensive" etc. Always take advices from millionaires, m'kay? :smiley:
  • Soulharvester
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    Soloson1 wrote: »
    Just wondering Im in need of quick money and was wondering the best way to spend my time and to be most efficiant.
    thanks

    Deltia gaming has a nice templar video, Im using that now and can make some money pretty quick in between archer episodes.

  • djnapstyb14_ESO
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    Sell crack
    EP FOR LIFE
  • failkiwib16_ESO
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  • failkiwib16_ESO
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    Soloson1 wrote: »
    Just wondering Im in need of quick money and was wondering the best way to spend my time and to be most efficiant.
    thanks

    That reaaaally depends on your level, how you play the game and what guilds and friends you have. There are items between 27g and 100,000g you can farm and sell.

    I can earn 3k a day or 300k a day. depending on what I do.

    What is your lvl, how much money are you aiming to get, what do you need the money for? It might be faster and easier to farm the items you may want, instead of collecting the money to buy them.
    Edited by failkiwib16_ESO on April 24, 2015 1:04PM
  • Victus
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    MikeMoss wrote: »
    Hi

    I just kill a lot of stuff.

    My character is level 25 and I have about 23,000 gold and nothing to spend it on.

    You have all bank slots upgraded too? That total cost is 767,300.

    It's pretty much what I am working on right now.. have 180 bank slots and will continue to earn money to unlock them all. Then when that is done, is when the true saving (for endgame gear) will begin.
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  • jircris11
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    when i need coin i sell raw mats. iron/jute and such goes for 16-20g each if you know the right buyer. so a stack of 200 nets around 2k. and there are 3 items you can farm so that is 6k within 2-3 hours. its nothing amazing but it works.
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  • failkiwib16_ESO
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    jircris11 wrote: »
    when i need coin i sell raw mats. iron/jute and such goes for 16-20g each if you know the right buyer. so a stack of 200 nets around 2k. and there are 3 items you can farm so that is 6k within 2-3 hours. its nothing amazing but it works.

    You can get more for your raw materials, depends on where and who or how you sell it.
    Edited by failkiwib16_ESO on April 25, 2015 3:08PM
  • Donum-Dei
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    Honestly....

    Is not joining a guild or a group or killing a 100 npcs.

    Go and steal objects that are 100 or 250 value on coins, (those are green and blue items) and sell them to the thief guild, I think the amount of stolen items that you can sell is 50 items per day, so steal as much as you can until it tells you that you have reach the capacity of the stolen items you can sell in the thief guild. Believe me you will be in 40 50k in no time.

    P.s. That is the most effective way of getting coins as fast as you can, there is no better way.
    Edited by Donum-Dei on April 25, 2015 3:28PM
  • Davadin
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    if u level up thief, u can fence over 130 items a day.

    i can earn 10k per hour just by thieving.

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  • newtinmpls
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    Ley wrote: »
    Just imagine how much more money you'd have if instead of repairing, you just replaced your broken gear with fixed gear you loot and get from quests.

    I don't care for the dropped items (mostly - the Warlock is the one big exception) I prefer to craft - and as soon as I find a good set crafting station I use that.
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  • thesongoftimeb14_ESO
    These guys got it all wrong. I am currently at 3 million gold, and I did it by buying stuff from Guilds at a low price, and then listing them in other guilds at a fair price. Example.... buy a purple v14 healer ring at 25k, and sell it for 35k. I have a million examples that are the same result, you can figure it out. I have plenty of selling tips too, but that would cost you. lol
  • Septimus_Magna
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    Selling vr14 martial knowledge seems a good way to make quick money, Im currently at 950k and all my 4 gear sets are mostly gold quality, its easier to make money than to spend it imo. The best help is the Master Merchant add-on which shows the value of items sold in guild stores.
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  • failkiwib16_ESO
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    Well sell improvement materials for blacksmithing. The greens and blues sell good in areas with mixed lvls, purples and gold sell good in vet only areas. Don't sell them overpriced, and you get them ripped off of you..
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