So I'm new and....

TheFlyingRocket · July 2015

Elders Srcolls Online is Awesome, loving every moment, a game with a story line

(was playing destiny before this lol). But I have been wondering what is the best way to leave up and make money? I also see people running around with some amazing pets How do you get them? as I haven't found a place to buy them yet. Anyway any advice would be great.

God-eater · July 2015

Level up - just play

Money - steal from cities and fence the goods at Outlaws Refuge

Pets - Crown Store in your menu

Welcome and enjoy! ☺

JD2013 · July 2015

Money is kind of irrelevant at the beginning. You get new gear so often that you don't really need to repair, and the only real thing to save for is a horse. Mobs and quests are good for these, as is joining a guild store to sell crafting stuff at sensible prices.

A couple of pets came as rewards for subscribing, one was from beta, you can get a Dwemer spider pet in one of the dungeons on DC side, others can be bought in the crown store for crowns.

Thymos · July 2015

TheFlyingRocket wrote: »

Elders Srcolls Online is Awesome, loving every moment, a game with a story line (was playing destiny before this lol). But I have been wondering what is the best way to leave up and make money? I also see people running around with some amazing pets How do you get them? as I haven't found a place to buy them yet. Anyway any advice would be great.

leave up and make money?

Well.. not sure what you mean by leave up, but making money is real easy.

You make money easy by selling the stuff you pick up while questing. The pets are in the crown store, check that out, it should be one of those things you can view when you're looking at all the different menus.

Neirymn · July 2015

You have to buy vanity pets from the crown store with real money, only one pet can be obtained in game at the end of a quest.

Kaitona · July 2015

Best thing to do when you're new is to create threads on the forums with a descriptive title. Your title requires people to click on it to get an idea of what it's about when you could have named it 'New player: how to make money?'. That way, people who are interested in helping you or want to know the same thing are going to click on your thread. It's kind of annoying to click on a thread that is poorly named only to find out its just another thread asking for something that is raised on a daily basis. Just some food for thought.

GreenSoup2HoT · July 2015

Crown Store is where you buy pet's. It cost's Real life money for "Crown's".

Leveling is easy. Just do your zone/main story quest's. There are plenty of guide's on google.

Gold is also easy. Find yourself a trader's guild and sell quality stuff. Motif's/Ingredient's/Crafting Material. You can also sell all the "grey" gear you find on your travel's for a bit of coin.

As for the "Best" way to level and gain gold, it come's down to play time as well as efficiency. If you are standing around being slow you won't get far.

I would say to take your time and enjoy the game for what is it. I flew through the game on console and now have to wait for more Content to come out (IC DLC).

Aeladiir · July 2015

1. Ways to level up:
a.) Doing quests: Takes time, but it's fun and the content is highly above average for MMO games. It will take hours but that's how The Elder Scrolls Online is supposed to be played.
b.) Grinding: Killing mobs over and over and over and over... You can reach max level in about a week if you do it right.
c.) Buying experience potions via the Crown Store: These potions (you may be able to craft them when you get richer) will give you experience boost from killing mobs and completing quests. You'll level 50% faster that way. They've got a time limit.

2. Make money:
a.) Thieving and selling stolen items to the fences. It is fun!
b.) Farming and selling materials. Not as fun but you can do it while exploring - which is fun!
c.) Know the market. Join a trade guild and buy things that are being sold for less than they're actually work. You can they but those things and resell them for more money.
d.) Become a vampire or a werewolf: You may have to pay to be bitten by someone first, but biting everyone for 5k (or more!) each week will give you some additional income.

3. Pets:
You can buy pets via Crown Store, which is accessible in the game. When you go to one of the menus (i.e. inventory), you will see a bar at the top of the screen. Find a Crown icon and you'll be able to see everything - from experience potions, mounts, convenience items, costumes, etc.
Note that if you wish to buy something in Crown Store, you will have to pay real money for it. Pets cost around 400 Crowns.

Hope that helps!

UrQuan · July 2015

Best way to level up? The depends on your definition of best. If you just mean the fastest, then find a place with high mob density, a good respawn rate, and grind mobs. By my own definition of it, though, I'd say the best way to level up is to explore everywhere, fight what you find, and do all of the quests you come across. It's one of the faster ways to level (not as fast as grinding mobs, but faster than PVP or running group dungeons), and IMO it's a lot of fun.

As far as the pets go, if you're talking about the familiars, clannfears, and twilights you see following some characters that will actually fight alongside them, those are only available to sorcerers as part of one of their class skill lines. If you're talking about the non-combat vanity pets that follow people around (cats, dogs, scuttlers, mudcrabs etc) some of those can be purchased in the Crown store, some of them were loyalty rewards that aren't available anymore, some are rewards for people who played the beta, and some were codes that came with certain merchandise (which may or may not still be available). Oh, and one of them (the dwemer spider) can be earned in a public dungeon in Bangkorai.

Tolmos · July 2015

Join a guild and sell some of your junk off, as well. I usually split my items in my inventory between items with a trait and items with just an enchantment. The trait items either get researched or sold off to a guild store, the rest get deconstructed.

The end result is that I netted, as a pre level 20 character, almost 3k-4k a day. Quantity over quality was my friend- selling tons of level 5-15 items for 150-200g each. Once I amassed too many mats to keep in my bank, I started selling stacks of those off for cash too.

I pretty much always had gold during my low levels like that. I didn't do any fancy market flipping... just sold excess.

TheFlyingRocket · July 2015

With leaving up I was meaning it there is a fast way and/or a slow way to level up. I just want to make sure I am not doing it the slow way at the moment I just going through the all the mission. Back in Destiny when I started a new character, I would jump straight to PvP instead of doing the store line, as it is faster to level in pvp (if you are good at pvp). So i was wondering if their is a similar thing in ESOL for future character. on my first I always play a game all the way through the proper way. But I have a feeling I will have more then one.

Reeko · July 2015

Another tip: sell items in the guild traders that have the rare/high sought after traits like infused, divines and nirnhoned.

Thymos · July 2015

Reeko wrote: »

Another tip: sell items in the guild traders that have the rare/high sought after traits like infused, divines and nirnhoned.

@Reeko not sure how a new player is going to be able to sell nirnhoned items...

Reeko · July 2015

Thymos wrote: »

Reeko wrote: »

Another tip: sell items in the guild traders that have the rare/high sought after traits like infused, divines and nirnhoned.

@Reeko not sure how a new player is going to be able to sell nirnhoned items...

Good point however that just makes it that much more of a valuable tip. What if he sees an item for cheap with nirnhoned? Now he knows to buy that up and start making copys to sell and make profit!

UltimaJoe777 · July 2015

TheFlyingRocket wrote: »

Elders Scrolls Online is Awesome, loving every moment, a game with a story line

Yes it is awesome

TheFlyingRocket wrote: »

I have been wondering what is the best way to level up?

Grinding in a single area for awhile despite having already killed everything there already is rather slow growth so the best way to grow is simply play the game which has been said already but by play the game I mean do quests, kill named enemies, take out Dark Anchors at Dolmens with enemies your level or close (can repeat as often as you want for equal xp gain but they tend to get crowded and xp hard to get as a result, especially when high levels are on the scene...), Delve into Dungeons (see wut I did thar?

) and clean them out, explore to discover new locations... Do all of this and not repeat any of it (except Dolmens) and you will level just fine. Don't forget to visit your starter Islands also (or Island if you're Aldmeri).

TheFlyingRocket wrote: »

I have been wondering what is the best way to make money?

At low levels stealing is your best friend. Steal all the Green-letter and Blue-letter "Treasures" you find to fence at an Outlaw Refuge. Green go for 100 gold a piece and Blue 250. Without Passives you can fence 50 items a day for a net gain of at minimum 5000 gold. Questing is also decent cash and grows as you do, especially Crafting Writs.

TheFlyingRocket wrote: »

I see people running around with some amazing pets. How do you get them?

Vanity Pets which are novelty only and do nothing but follow you and make noise depending on what they are such as a cat that meows or a duck that goes moo.

TheFlyingRocket wrote: »

I haven't found a place to buy them yet.

That's because they are only available in the Crown Store.

TheFlyingRocket wrote: »

any advice would be great.

Your welcome and as a bonus I threw in the grammar checks XP

Arunei · July 2015

Reeko wrote: »

Thymos wrote: »

Reeko wrote: »

Another tip: sell items in the guild traders that have the rare/high sought after traits like infused, divines and nirnhoned.

@Reeko not sure how a new player is going to be able to sell nirnhoned items...

Good point however that just makes it that much more of a valuable tip. What if he sees an item for cheap with nirnhoned? Now he knows to buy that up and start making copys to sell and make profit!

Uh...are you talking about duping? Because that's not allowed and it can get your account banned. I don't even know if it's possible to dupe things anymore, though as far as I know it's not. If this is what you meant it's terrible advice and I strongly recommend you not tell people to do that.

If you mean something else then you may wish to reword your post, because when you say "making copies", duping is the only thing that comes to mind.

starkerealm · July 2015

Reeko wrote: »

Thymos wrote: »

Reeko wrote: »

Another tip: sell items in the guild traders that have the rare/high sought after traits like infused, divines and nirnhoned.

@Reeko not sure how a new player is going to be able to sell nirnhoned items...

Good point however that just makes it that much more of a valuable tip. What if he sees an item for cheap with nirnhoned? Now he knows to buy that up and start making copys to sell and make profit!

So, cheap nirnhoned will run more than a horse... so he finds cheap nirnhoned and is somehow able to obtain and research it. Then he needs nirncrux... which also costs more than a horse. Once you get over those stages it is easy money, but... I sense a problem here.

RazzPitazz · July 2015

If you are crafting much expect to stay broke for a while.

OzJohnD · July 2015

Best way to level ? ..... slowly

starkerealm · July 2015

RazzPitazz wrote: »

If you are crafting much expect to stay broke for a while.

Yeah, this. The stuff you do to advance crafting will directly work against building up cash. So you can make money or learn to make stuff. That said, crafting is a legitimate path to some of the best end game gear. But, it's not cheap.

Reeko · July 2015

Arunei wrote: »

Reeko wrote: »

Thymos wrote: »

Reeko wrote: »

Another tip: sell items in the guild traders that have the rare/high sought after traits like infused, divines and nirnhoned.

@Reeko not sure how a new player is going to be able to sell nirnhoned items...

Good point however that just makes it that much more of a valuable tip. What if he sees an item for cheap with nirnhoned? Now he knows to buy that up and start making copys to sell and make profit!

Uh...are you talking about duping? Because that's not allowed and it can get your account banned. I don't even know if it's possible to dupe things anymore, though as far as I know it's not. If this is what you meant it's terrible advice and I strongly recommend you not tell people to do that.

If you mean something else then you may wish to reword your post, because when you say "making copies", duping is the only thing that comes to mind.

You jumped to the wrong conclusion my friend. By "making copys" i simply ment crafting the item again with the trait on it. I just shortened it. When you reasearch a dagger with nirnhoned, then make(craft) a dagger with nirnhoned, is that not a copy?

starkerealm · July 2015

Reeko wrote: »

Arunei wrote: »

Reeko wrote: »

Thymos wrote: »

Reeko wrote: »

Another tip: sell items in the guild traders that have the rare/high sought after traits like infused, divines and nirnhoned.

@Reeko not sure how a new player is going to be able to sell nirnhoned items...

Good point however that just makes it that much more of a valuable tip. What if he sees an item for cheap with nirnhoned? Now he knows to buy that up and start making copys to sell and make profit!

Uh...are you talking about duping? Because that's not allowed and it can get your account banned. I don't even know if it's possible to dupe things anymore, though as far as I know it's not. If this is what you meant it's terrible advice and I strongly recommend you not tell people to do that.

If you mean something else then you may wish to reword your post, because when you say "making copies", duping is the only thing that comes to mind.

You jumped to the wrong conclusion my friend. By "making copys" i simply ment crafting the item again with the trait on it. I just shortened it. When you reasearch a dagger with nirnhoned, then make(craft) a dagger with nirnhoned, is that not a copy?

It is, but it'll also cost you roughly 15-17k, to make 20k. I mean, it is a way to make money, but it's also very expensive with a pretty serious resource investment.

Reeko · July 2015

starkerealm wrote: »

Reeko wrote: »

Thymos wrote: »

Reeko wrote: »

Another tip: sell items in the guild traders that have the rare/high sought after traits like infused, divines and nirnhoned.

@Reeko not sure how a new player is going to be able to sell nirnhoned items...

Good point however that just makes it that much more of a valuable tip. What if he sees an item for cheap with nirnhoned? Now he knows to buy that up and start making copys to sell and make profit!

So, cheap nirnhoned will run more than a horse... so he finds cheap nirnhoned and is somehow able to obtain and research it. Then he needs nirncrux... which also costs more than a horse. Once you get over those stages it is easy money, but... I sense a problem here.

On console i have spotted nirnhoned for as low as 5k gold. Not everyone knows its value.

starkerealm · July 2015

Reeko wrote: »

starkerealm wrote: »

Reeko wrote: »

Thymos wrote: »

Reeko wrote: »

Another tip: sell items in the guild traders that have the rare/high sought after traits like infused, divines and nirnhoned.

@Reeko not sure how a new player is going to be able to sell nirnhoned items...

Good point however that just makes it that much more of a valuable tip. What if he sees an item for cheap with nirnhoned? Now he knows to buy that up and start making copys to sell and make profit!

So, cheap nirnhoned will run more than a horse... so he finds cheap nirnhoned and is somehow able to obtain and research it. Then he needs nirncrux... which also costs more than a horse. Once you get over those stages it is easy money, but... I sense a problem here.

On console i have spotted nirnhoned for as low as 5k gold. Not everyone knows its value.

ooooh o.o

Reeko · July 2015

RazzPitazz wrote: »

If you are crafting much expect to stay broke for a while.

I got to 50 in most of my crafting skills and i have been upgrading my bank slots (currently next upgrade is 60k) and i have yet to consider myself "broke". I think it is just a matter of getting into a decent trade guild and selling items with trait that you can make that you don't see anyone else selling.

starkerealm · July 2015

Reeko wrote: »

RazzPitazz wrote: »

If you are crafting much expect to stay broke for a while.

I got to 50 in most of my crafting skills and i have been upgrading my bank slots (currently next upgrade is 60k) and i have yet to consider myself "broke". I think it is just a matter of getting into a decent trade guild and selling items with trait that you can make that you don't see anyone else selling.

Trade guilds help a lot. As in you can get rich that way even while being a crafter.

Being able to vendor garbage pickups, and not having to worry about leveling your crafting is a huge boon, though.

Reeko · July 2015

True. I'm sure i would have alot more gold if i had neglected my crafting.