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How much gold makes you "rich" ?

Grymvild
Grymvild
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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
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    10 mill is a good start :dizzy:
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  • essi2
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    I have 2.5M, which from the pre-homestead housing poll we had is apparently nothing.
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  • Voxicity
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    Dropped 13 mil on houses, now back up to 5 mil

    I'm poor as fudge
  • SHADOW2KK
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    I am poor atm, only 10.5 million gold, bought some houses for myself and gifts for friends.

    Woe is i :p
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    LvL 50 - Dragon Knight DC [PC-EU] = Tenakha Khan = (Stam DK)
    LvL 50 - Templar DC [PC-EU]] = Blades The Disgruntled = (Stamplar)
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  • Crowzer
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    57 days of played, only 500K gold. Poor as hell!
    Edited by Crowzer on June 5, 2017 11:39AM
  • Cpt_Teemo
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    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
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    I have 4 millions and I feel poor :D
  • Tryxus
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    SHADOW2KK wrote: »
    I am poor atm, only 10.5 million gold, bought some houses for myself and gifts for friends.

    Woe is i :p

    Where's my gift? :p
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  • X3ina
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    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.
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  • Master_Kas
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    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 :smiley:
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  • Franieck
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    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 !
    Edited by Franieck on June 5, 2017 11:44AM
  • Grymvild
    Grymvild
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    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
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    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
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    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 :p

    Where's my gift? :p

    Oh noes, do you want a house too? lol
    Once I was a lamb, playing in a green field. Then the wolves came. Now I am an eagle and I fly in a different universe.

    Been taking heads since TeS 3 Morrowind..

    Been enjoying PvP tears since 2014

    LvL 50 - Dragon Knight EP [PC-EU] = Illuvutar = Ex The Wabbajack = (Stam DK)
    LvL 50 - Night Blade DC [PC-EU] = Legendary Blades = Evil Ninja/Dueller = (StamBlade)
    LvL 50 - Sorcerer DC [PC-EU] = Daemon Lord = (Mag Sorc)
    LvL 50 - Dragon Knight DC [PC-EU] = Khal-Bladez = (Mag DK)
    LvL 50 - Dragon Knight DC [PC-EU] = Tenakha Khan = (Stam DK)
    LvL 50 - Templar DC [PC-EU]] = Blades The Disgruntled = (Stamplar)
    LvL 50 - Night Blade DC [PC-EU] = Ghost Blades = (Assassin)
    LvL 50 - Night Blade DC [PC-EU] = Malekith The Shadow = (Mag NB)
    LvL 50 - Warden DC [PC-EU] = Crimson Blades = (Stamden)

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

    item-115028-1-5.png
  • Sirvandal
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    Over 500 million.
  • Tryxus
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    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 :p

    Where's my gift? :p

    Oh noes, do you want a house too? lol

    Oh no, I alrdy worked my posterior off for my Chateau :p
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  • SHADOW2KK
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    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 :p

    Where's my gift? :p

    Oh noes, do you want a house too? lol

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

    Good on you mate :)
    Once I was a lamb, playing in a green field. Then the wolves came. Now I am an eagle and I fly in a different universe.

    Been taking heads since TeS 3 Morrowind..

    Been enjoying PvP tears since 2014

    LvL 50 - Dragon Knight EP [PC-EU] = Illuvutar = Ex The Wabbajack = (Stam DK)
    LvL 50 - Night Blade DC [PC-EU] = Legendary Blades = Evil Ninja/Dueller = (StamBlade)
    LvL 50 - Sorcerer DC [PC-EU] = Daemon Lord = (Mag Sorc)
    LvL 50 - Dragon Knight DC [PC-EU] = Khal-Bladez = (Mag DK)
    LvL 50 - Dragon Knight DC [PC-EU] = Tenakha Khan = (Stam DK)
    LvL 50 - Templar DC [PC-EU]] = Blades The Disgruntled = (Stamplar)
    LvL 50 - Night Blade DC [PC-EU] = Ghost Blades = (Assassin)
    LvL 50 - Night Blade DC [PC-EU] = Malekith The Shadow = (Mag NB)
    LvL 50 - Warden DC [PC-EU] = Crimson Blades = (Stamden)

    Guild Master of The Bringers Of The Storm.
    Harrods


    Member Of The Old Guard
    PC Closed Betas 2013

    PC Mastah Race

    Anook Page anook.com/shadow2kk

    Been playing since Beta and Early Access

  • Kay1
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    1M, that amount is very big and you can already get a looooot of stuff.
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  • chess1ukb16_ESO
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    Sirvandal wrote: »
    Over 500 million.


    :)
  • Lusty
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    10 coins
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  • chess1ukb16_ESO
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    Fyi if you find this don't let anyone scam you out of it worth about 1.5-2m

    item-115028-1-5.png

    At least
  • SlayerSyrena
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    I have a few potatoes, a goat and some carapace.
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  • Nestor
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    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.
    Edited by Nestor on June 5, 2017 12:14PM
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  • TheDarkoil
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    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.
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