So now the only way to make gold is to wander the map for days??

Bigevilpeter

The best ways to make gold:

1-Refining mats for gold tempers (you farm zones for days just to refine 1000 mats for like 3 yellow tempers, the mats themselves are so cheap now)
2-Getting ingredients for potions (Running around the map for days again, just to get enough ingredients for potions)
3-Farming world bosses for that very rare weapon ( Running around between 3 wold bosses and a dolmen all day)
4-Running around farming world bosses for motifs.

Playing dungeons, Trials, VMA (actually playing the game) almost makes no money.
Its too boring it to do the mentioned things and its not actually playing the game, currently I am just spending money and making very little.

There has to be a reliable way to make good gold from dungeons and trials.

I don't pvp much but I think its even worse in PvP because of potion usage.

VoidBlue

Only reason one would need gold is to not wander the world gathering those yellow tempers, those rare weapons or those motifs.

NewBlacksmurf

Wellall while you could just run dungeons and trials...

Vet trials give an item weekly but I think the best gold make strategy is just to kill and loot, or steal everything you can and sale it.

Personally I've never gained much from only doing dungeons and trials.

My personal opinion was that motif hunting was the absolute best money maker of all time.

Unsent.Soul

I've been a pack rat since day 1. Not your typical pack rat either. I've horded all my crafting mats across all professions since I've started playing.

With the craft bag it only helps since I now have an endless supply and infinite bag space for mats.

I do all 6 writs on 4 characters and hsve hirelings for all 8 of my characters.

I sell motifs, glass fragments, refined mats, provisioning mats, flowers!, runes... etc. I've made a killing selling these items. It takes a little time but every day I log on I'm getting 100k + just from the time I haven't played. Im in 2 trading guilds that aren't in prime spots but keep a 30/30 items listed at all times.

At OP, gold is the easiest thing to come by in this game. You could spend 10 minutes picking flowers in hollow city and make 10k +.

It's about finding what sells best and works for you, don't be lazy, be organized and know prices by looking at other stalls.

I'm on xbox so I don't have the luxury of addons. I'll have several million saved by the time housing comes out. If I see a sword that's stupid over priced, but I want it, I'm not going to farm a world boss, I'll buy it.

idk

@Bigevilpeter

I make plenty of gold just playing the game. Pledges, trials and quests add up

Kram8ion

Wandering the map is the point
Welcome to ES

Jeremy

Bigevilpeter wrote: »

Playing dungeons, Trials, VMA (actually playing the game) almost makes no money.

You can rack up quite a bit of gold by doing dungeons. Selling all those weapons/armor/potions you find to an NPC can add up.

Rohamad_Ali

I make more farming one area . I don't like wandering for money .

Unsent.Soul

Jeremy wrote: »

Bigevilpeter wrote: »

Playing dungeons, Trials, VMA (actually playing the game) almost makes no money.

You can rack up quite a bit of gold by doing dungeons. Selling all those weapons/armor/potions you find to an NPC can add up.

You can sell the essence potions (stam/health/mag) to players as well via a guild trader.

It's not much, but more than what you'd get from an NPC

FriedEggSandwich

If I run dungeons all day I make lots of money, it's only vma that drains my gold.

disintegr8

ZOS have seriously broken the trading economy with the huge influx of gear and the switch to BoP. You only need gold to by mats, tempers and food/potions, which can all be obtained by farming anyway.

I am glad I made my gold before the changes but I now have nothing to spend it on. Might as well get rid of gold.

Jeremy

Unsent.Soul wrote: »

Jeremy wrote: »

Bigevilpeter wrote: »

Playing dungeons, Trials, VMA (actually playing the game) almost makes no money.

You can rack up quite a bit of gold by doing dungeons. Selling all those weapons/armor/potions you find to an NPC can add up.

You can sell the essence potions (stam/health/mag) to players as well via a guild trader.

It's not much, but more than what you'd get from an NPC

If I belonged to a guild with access to the guild traders I would try that.

Since I play casually (meaning I don't play this game consistently and take breaks) I have given up on trying to sell my stuff like that. The larger trade guilds frequently remove players who are not active full time.

I'm not saying I blame them. It's the system design that is at fault not them. I just got tired of trying to find new trade guilds to sell my stuff at every time I returned to the game.

KingYogi415

Clearly ZOS wants this game to be a korean grind fest.

All end game PVE makes no gold.

Welcome to Elder Farming Online!

Only people who make real gold is the big boys who buy everything, then jack up prices.

leepalmer95

KingYogi415 wrote: »

Clearly ZOS wants this game to be a korean grind fest.

All end game PVE makes no gold.

Welcome to Elder Farming Online!

Only people who make real gold is the big boys who buy everything, then jack up prices.

Why do people need gold if their end game?

If you want to make a new character grind mats or such to gear it, then done.

You get get alchemy mats via pvp now as well.

What do people do with their gold? Do they stockpile it or something?

People grind stuff to buy other stuff that they cant be bothered grinding..

Ankael07

Grinding in the same place over and over doesnt sound any better to me .

disintegr8

leepalmer95 wrote: »

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What do people do with their gold? Do they stockpile it or something?

People grind stuff to buy other stuff that they cant be bothered grinding..

Yep, we grind for what we don't need so we can sell it to pay for the stuff we do need but can't get or can't be bothered farming for.
Since 1T the only gold I have spent is for equipment repairs, bank/backpack space and golden vendor items.

acw37162

Yes, you have to play the game to earn gold

runagate

Farming mages, fighters and undaunted quests I'm making 100ks. Course, might be because I was doing em on 12 characters. Doesn't take long. Even the dolmens ones unless you get a zone with out of the way dolmens. Even just selling the garbage in the reward box. It really adds up. 100s of ks of gold.

ericprydz82ub17_ESO

If you only run vTrials you will blow through gold/mats quick but beyond that you shouldn't need much to get you by.

dem0n1k

Since One Tamriel I have been doing undaunted dungeon pledges (just Maj & Gilerion) every day & I have racked up ~200k gold doing so. I only spend gold on armour repairs, horse training & the listing fees for guild traders... so it slowly just accumulates.

I made over 500k before One Tamriel farming Alliance War motifs in Cyrodiil.. so I have that as a buffer to spend on monster hats at the golden vendor. Other than that... what is there to spend gold on? Most of the sets I want are BoP so I have to farm them myself. The sets that are not BoP are usually easy to get anyway.

LegacyDM

Save your money for housing. Condo in the heart of rawlka will probably be going for 5+ mill...

STEVIL

Bigevilpeter wrote: »

The best ways to make gold:

1-Refining mats for gold tempers (you farm zones for days just to refine 1000 mats for like 3 yellow tempers, the mats themselves are so cheap now)
2-Getting ingredients for potions (Running around the map for days again, just to get enough ingredients for potions)
3-Farming world bosses for that very rare weapon ( Running around between 3 wold bosses and a dolmen all day)
4-Running around farming world bosses for motifs.

Playing dungeons, Trials, VMA (actually playing the game) almost makes no money.
Its too boring it to do the mentioned things and its not actually playing the game, currently I am just spending money and making very little.

There has to be a reliable way to make good gold from dungeons and trials.

I don't pvp much but I think its even worse in PvP because of potion usage.

Actually... you are just wrong on 1 thru 4.

Wrong.

None of those make any serious money.
Not one.

They harvest money off other characters.

In the game money is made by running quests, writs etc. It can also be made in sizable quantities by c4afting and selling to npc vendors in certain circumstances.

The game economy grows when more wealth is added, not when the same pile of gold keeps shifting hands.

FriedEggSandwich

STEVIL wrote: »

Bigevilpeter wrote: »

The best ways to make gold:

1-Refining mats for gold tempers (you farm zones for days just to refine 1000 mats for like 3 yellow tempers, the mats themselves are so cheap now)
2-Getting ingredients for potions (Running around the map for days again, just to get enough ingredients for potions)
3-Farming world bosses for that very rare weapon ( Running around between 3 wold bosses and a dolmen all day)
4-Running around farming world bosses for motifs.

Playing dungeons, Trials, VMA (actually playing the game) almost makes no money.
Its too boring it to do the mentioned things and its not actually playing the game, currently I am just spending money and making very little.

There has to be a reliable way to make good gold from dungeons and trials.

I don't pvp much but I think its even worse in PvP because of potion usage.

Actually... you are just wrong on 1 thru 4.

Wrong.

None of those make any serious money.
Not one.

They harvest money off other characters.

In the game money is made by running quests, writs etc. It can also be made in sizable quantities by c4afting and selling to npc vendors in certain circumstances.

The game economy grows when more wealth is added, not when the same pile of gold keeps shifting hands.

This is a good point; the npcs are the only ones that can print money.

probablyafk

Its too boring it to do the mentioned things and its not actually playing the game, currently I am just spending money and making very little.

There has to be a reliable way to make good gold from dungeons and trials.

I don't like doing dungeons and trials. There should be a better way of getting gold equipment by farming in the wild. It's not fair that people who do harder content get all the good equipment.

LadyNalcarya

probablyafk wrote: »

Its too boring it to do the mentioned things and its not actually playing the game, currently I am just spending money and making very little.

There has to be a reliable way to make good gold from dungeons and trials.

I don't like doing dungeons and trials. There should be a better way of getting gold equipment by farming in the wild. It's not fair that people who do harder content get all the good equipment.

1)Research crafts
2)Farm and refine mats
3)Do crafting dailies for more mats and golden tempers
4)...
5)Profit: you have a set of golden gear that is good enough for any content in this game without even touching "harder content". +You can sell extra tempers and buy the jewelry, or just farm one of 1T sets.

raglau

probablyafk wrote: »

Its too boring it to do the mentioned things and its not actually playing the game, currently I am just spending money and making very little.

There has to be a reliable way to make good gold from dungeons and trials.

It's not fair that people who do harder content get all the good equipment.

I am not sure if this is a joke or a troll but if it's serious, well, you can't be serious.

Just as in real life those of us who do the 'harder content' get more money, the same in games. You get out what you put in, that's the point of playing a game.

HawkStan

End gamers dont need gold? Are you joking me.
Lets take a look:
I raid 2 or 3 nights a week. All of em are progression vmol. We usually kill 2 bosses, wich is around 4-5 undaunted plunder. This hardly makes up for the repair cost.
I use +-250 pots a raid, = 750 pots a week. (Yes, nb)
End gamers are mostly min/maxers. What does that mean? They want perfect gear. EVERY SINGLE PATCH.
Most end gamers have multiple caracters, including different roles.
Most major patches mean every single caracter needs new gear. Upgrading all this gear is insanely expensive.
End gamers theory craft and test. Testing needs different gear sets ect.

Before 1T this worked out decent by selling some good gear from trials, but thats not a thing anymore.

So i have to farm over 200 wax and over 100 alloys every single major patch? No thanks, i play eso, not farming simulator

Cherryblossom

what you going to spend all this gold on?

Bigevilpeter

Cherryblossom wrote: »

what you going to spend all this gold on?

Gold mats and potions mainly, though if they made these items acess easier then i wouldnt need to buy them

Stopnaggin

leepalmer95 wrote: »

KingYogi415 wrote: »

Clearly ZOS wants this game to be a korean grind fest.

All end game PVE makes no gold.

Welcome to Elder Farming Online!

Only people who make real gold is the big boys who buy everything, then jack up prices.

Why do people need gold if their end game?

If you want to make a new character grind mats or such to gear it, then done.

You get get alchemy mats via pvp now as well.

What do people do with their gold? Do they stockpile it or something?

People grind stuff to buy other stuff that they cant be bothered grinding..

I use my gold to buy motifs for my master crafter. Those tend to get expensive. I also use gold to buy stuff I need from other players in trials. Like the VO rings that don't seem to drop for me.

Bop, leveled mats and now an apothecary vendor in IC, sure makes it hard to find that niche of item to sell. Tri-pots still sell, as well as cp160 mats but at much lower prices than before. Crafting has very few sets that are in demand, they may not be purposely tanking the economy but non the less they are getting there. I used to sell cp160 leat her for 15-20k per stack, it sell for maybe 8k now. But hey I can sell Psijjic ambrosia frags for 200k right.

They are slowly killing the game, I just hope they can reverse this trend before it gets out of hand.

leepalmer95

Stopnaggin wrote: »

leepalmer95 wrote: »

KingYogi415 wrote: »

Clearly ZOS wants this game to be a korean grind fest.

All end game PVE makes no gold.

Welcome to Elder Farming Online!

Only people who make real gold is the big boys who buy everything, then jack up prices.

Why do people need gold if their end game?

If you want to make a new character grind mats or such to gear it, then done.

You get get alchemy mats via pvp now as well.

What do people do with their gold? Do they stockpile it or something?

People grind stuff to buy other stuff that they cant be bothered grinding..

I use my gold to buy motifs for my master crafter. Those tend to get expensive. I also use gold to buy stuff I need from other players in trials. Like the VO rings that don't seem to drop for me.

Bop, leveled mats and now an apothecary vendor in IC, sure makes it hard to find that niche of item to sell. Tri-pots still sell, as well as cp160 mats but at much lower prices than before. Crafting has very few sets that are in demand, they may not be purposely tanking the economy but non the less they are getting there. I used to sell cp160 leat her for 15-20k per stack, it sell for maybe 8k now. But hey I can sell Psijjic ambrosia frags for 200k right.

They are slowly killing the game, I just hope they can reverse this trend before it gets out of hand.

Join a proper guild and all the trial gear is shared.

Farm motif's yourself