How much gold makes you "rich" ?

Grymvild

Hello everyone,

I have not gotten so far with the game yet but I'm curious to the question in the topic.
I've played WoW for a very long time, just starting out with ESO to have something new and fun to explore. In WoW though, I've been very "well off" in the last two epansions, having more gold than I really know what to do with.

But what makes you "rich" in ESO? Right now I've only gotten to 14 at highest and I've played three characters so far, just testing out what feels good, so to me any amount of gold is a pretty big sum in this game.

So what about you folks who have played for longer? How much gold would you say makes a person "rich" in ESO?

TheValar85

10 mill is a good start

essi2

I have 2.5M, which from the pre-homestead housing poll we had is apparently nothing.

Voxicity

Dropped 13 mil on houses, now back up to 5 mil

I'm poor as fudge

SHADOW2KK

I am poor atm, only 10.5 million gold, bought some houses for myself and gifts for friends.

Woe is i

Crowzer

57 days of played, only 500K gold. Poor as hell!

Cpt_Teemo

I consider myself average poor I guess, came back to game in December off and on till now from 3 months after the original launch of quitting so that's like 1 1/2 years about or a bit longer.

Came back to game with about 800k and only all basic motifs learned, and since then I have every motif learned now besides the Armiger one and the 2 store crown exclusives since I didn't have enough crowns at the times. Have about 2.5m gold trying to save up for a manor, and also bought Hundings large house recently for the 1.3m I think it was.

I'm not real sure how much all those motifs ran me but i'm sure it costed nearly 10m or more over time

Marabornwingrion

I have 4 millions and I feel poor

Tryxus

SHADOW2KK wrote: »

I am poor atm, only 10.5 million gold, bought some houses for myself and gifts for friends.

Woe is i

Where's my gift?

X3ina

As long as you can afford testing new sets (which cost alot btw), and buying new motifs you're not poor. Housing is another topic because even in RL you can't afford yourself new house every day or week.

Master_Kas

I consider myself rich when I'm above 200k gold so I guess its diffrent from person to person. xD

But I'm a simple man, I just need some potions to pvp

Franieck

Depends on what you consider "rich". If there isn't anything you want to spend gold on and you have 200k just sitting around, I'd consider you rich already! I have 850K, nothing to spent on, saving it for new motifs, hats, costumes and feel pretty rich !

Grymvild

Interesting.

I would have thought it would be more than around the 10m mark like people here seem to say.

I came to that conclusion because the early levels of gold seem fairly high. You get a couple of thousand gold at very low levels very fast. I've looked at the guild traders a bit and it's seemed that some materials which I've already found (Like Kuta) are in the low thousands already.

I've thought about it similarly to having gold in WoW where you pretty much get to ~10k gold by hitting max level just through selling things you find to the vendors. Here though, I feel like I'll get 10k very very quickly.

I was thinking more along the lines of 50-100m being "rich" to some degree. But for you folks to come here and point out 10m as a number surprises me to some degree.

Though I don't know how easy it is realistically to get gold here in the end. Just seems like gold is very available at a low level. Perhaps it won't scale up so high at higher levels. I'll have to see.

Kurkikohtaus

There's "character-rich" and then there's "housing-rich".

If your goal is to buy the big houses and decorate them all, then the sky is the limit, you'll need tens-of-millions of gold to do that.

However, if your goal is to deck out your first cp160 character in guild-trader purchasable gear-of-the-moment, you will need:

• 5 pieces of armor (head and shoulders should be farmed)
• 2 weapons (or more, if dual wielding)
• 3 pieces of starter jewelry (i.e. Willpower, Agility)
• up to 14 gold Glyphs to fine-tune enchantments

With regards to the tier of item improvement (blue, purple, gold), there are the following possibilities:

• buy the gear from guild trader at gold quality - gear costs more but no further costs incurred
• buy the gear at a lower quality and improve it yourself with purchased mats - lower initial cost, but material costs may fluctuate
• buy the gear at low quality and improve it with farmed mats - you're laughing

As there is maintenance at the time of this post, I cannot check in-game for an example of how much this would cost, might do that when the servers are back online. Or would anyone hazard to take a guess at this? Say with the Necropotence set?

The point is, that if you can spend that much gold and still have plenty left over for normal day-to-day activities, then you are "character-rich", in my opinion.

SHADOW2KK

Tryxus wrote: »

SHADOW2KK wrote: »

I am poor atm, only 10.5 million gold, bought some houses for myself and gifts for friends.

Woe is i

Where's my gift?

Oh noes, do you want a house too? lol

Cpt_Teemo

Fyi if you find this don't let anyone scam you out of it worth about 1.5-2m

Sirvandal

Over 500 million.

Tryxus

SHADOW2KK wrote: »

Tryxus wrote: »

SHADOW2KK wrote: »

I am poor atm, only 10.5 million gold, bought some houses for myself and gifts for friends.

Woe is i

Where's my gift?

Oh noes, do you want a house too? lol

Oh no, I alrdy worked my posterior off for my Chateau

SHADOW2KK

Tryxus wrote: »

SHADOW2KK wrote: »

Tryxus wrote: »

SHADOW2KK wrote: »

I am poor atm, only 10.5 million gold, bought some houses for myself and gifts for friends.

Woe is i

Where's my gift?

Oh noes, do you want a house too? lol

Oh no, I alrdy worked my posterior off for my Chateau

Good on you mate

Kay1

1M, that amount is very big and you can already get a looooot of stuff.

chess1ukb16_ESO

Sirvandal wrote: »

Over 500 million.

Lusty

10 coins

chess1ukb16_ESO

Kyle1983b14_ESO wrote: »

Fyi if you find this don't let anyone scam you out of it worth about 1.5-2m

At least

SlayerSyrena

I have a few potatoes, a goat and some carapace.

Nestor

No amount of In Game Gold will ever make me feel rich. Its not like the Ferrari dealership will take them as a down payment.



As for the game, I am coming up on 10 Million and I still won't spend more than 5K on a Motif Chapter.

TheDarkoil

Before bop was forced on most sets I'd say a good 500k was enough to kit yourself out with a top end set, once in a while I'd see a few sharpened staves go up to about 150k on their own but they were fairly rare. So I'd say rich was about 1 million. Now with player housing I don't even think 5 mil can be considered rich.