How did you become ESO rich?

Fang_of_Lorkhaj

I'm always interested in finding out how players make their Gold fortunes within The Elder Scrolls Online universe.

For me I made my ESO fortune by farming tons of mats and selling the end game mats for a set price.

What's your story?

humpalicous

Selling regents, materials and divine set pieces in guild stores has been the most rewarding way of making a passive income in this game.

I just scour the overland, picking up all regents, nodes and rune stones I can find, then I sell them. Pretty straightforward. I also tried stealing stuff and selling to fences, and sure I saw some profit but got tired of it very quickly.

Grinding is also one of the reasons for my gold fortune, but takes forever to actually see a significant increase in capital.

All in all, sell alchemy, smithing, clothing, woodworking and enchanting stuff and you'll be rich

Keep_Door

Im not. I make alot of gold but i spend more it just as fast. I dont even know why or how.

WhiteCoatSyndrome

Trade guilds. I haven't specialized in any one thing, but I first realized just how much gold could be brought in about the time the Glass motif first dropped, by selling Nightwood. It still boggles the mind; I couldn't keep it stocked for more than fifteen minutes.

aaisoaho

First I got into trading guild by selling 20x potent and 15x fortified nirncrux. This way I got my first 500k. Then I started to farm a lot of crafting materials (from Craglorn AND Khenarthi's roost). And well, when I want easy money, I farm mats. I've also tried farming overland sets and made some coin from 'em. At the early days of homestead patch, I farmed furniture recipes.

Nowadays I'm not in a trading guild because I've been 6 days at home since the beginning of June. Almost all of my gold has been spent, I used my gold to buy Imperial Large home and many crafting motifs.

Elsonso

Selling nirncrux back when it was valuable.

paul_j

Killing monsters and selling the loot to merchant. Made a stamplar who can kill things fast while armor is completely broken. Make about 40k a hour lol

Jamascus

There's more to virtual life than gold.

Fang_of_Lorkhaj

Jamascus wrote: »

There's more to virtual life than gold.

Well duh. LARP IS LIFE in eso

Fang_of_Lorkhaj

humpalicous wrote: »

Selling regents, materials and divine set pieces in guild stores has been the most rewarding way of making a passive income in this game.

I just scour the overland, picking up all regents, nodes and rune stones I can find, then I sell them. Pretty straightforward. I also tried stealing stuff and selling to fences, and sure I saw some profit but got tired of it very quickly.

Grinding is also one of the reasons for my gold fortune, but takes forever to actually see a significant increase in capital.

All in all, sell alchemy, smithing, clothing, woodworking and enchanting stuff and you'll be rich

I 100% agree. I make at least 200k+ a day from the same method minus the divine set farm

Narvuntien

Well i am only a middle class home owner....

Mostly made my money selling mats, which I can't hoard since I am not subbed for the craft bag, and I got a bunch from master writs in that first week or so they were out as well.

strikeback1247

Nirncrux farming in craggy.

Reverb

By selling everything new, and not keeping or collecting things for myself until prices bottom out. The first days of something g being newly released (ambrosia recipe frags, glass page frags, furniture plans and artwork, all new motif pages, etc) trade for tens or hundreds of thousands of gold at first. I've gotten a few million that way over the years.

Another ~25k daily is made doing writs. That adds up fast.

Khenarthi

I made most of my gold by questing, vendoring junk, thieving/fencing, and not buying stuff from other people (except for motif pages, because I can't be bothered farming).

All my game time is spent having fun (questing or going on thieving sprees), most of the time in gear I crafted and improved all by myself. Although I'm also keeping a few dropped sets for variation, I only "gold" my gear if I plan on using it for group content. Everything else is fine in purple.

jwjackson5674

Selling new motifs when they first come out. Great money maker.

Vapirko

I've prob made about 5 million or so in a year and spent it all. Just farmed sets, mats, etc, not going out of my way to farm extra at all.

coop500

I'm not rich but I do earn plenty of money selling the Gold Coast motifs from the daily quests. Some of those sell for like 7K to even 10K

SoLooney

Selling my Breton Templars body in 3 capitals. EZ money.
on the side, i farm mats

Voxicity

Getting lucky on sharp weapon drops

deepseamk20b14_ESO

I make money in spurts. Usually thieving or doing a solid week of PvE only. I'm a hoarder. If I was to actually sell all my mats I farm I'd have millions and millions of dollars hahaha.

RouDeR

Best profit ingame for PS4 : telvars around 100k per hour which result in 250k gold .

chess1ukb16_ESO

Farmed and farmed and farmed in 2016 but pumped it all back into my Trade Guild at the time (about 40m).

Now I have many many times that amount of gold and just farm and trade for fun rather than to ensure i have enough gold to meet the next bid

AcadianPaladin

Not rich but comfortable. Primary income is from questing and dungeon diving (selling loot to normal venders). This relatively low but steady income stream is complemented by not spending much gold either. My character diligently gathers what she finds as an adventuress but she's neither a farmer nor a merchant.

code65536

My biggest source of income in recent months has been farming vRoM HM and vCoS HM for the SotH motifs. Takes us about 20 minutes to earn a guaranteed motif that sells for anywhere between 25-80K (they used to sell for 50-100K, but over the months the market has slowly saturated). I've probably farmed a couple hundred chapters over the past half year. In its heyday, it was probably the best time-to-gold ratio in the game.

Next will be doing max-level writs on multiple characters every day.

Before Morrowind, I also had a lot of income from the Undaunted Plunder in vet trials--almost 2.5 million from vMoL alone. Though that's slowed to a trickle, since the Morrowind nerfs mean that we need to be more careful about group composition and selective about who we bring, so there's a smaller pool of available players who can do impromptu ad-hoc runs, and many folks are busy with vHoF anyway (which has a far worse time-to-gold ratio than vMoL).

Sixsixsix161

The second or third day I started playing back in early 2015, I got a gold/yellow drop - a dwarven motif I think.

It sold for a little over 43K.

Since then, I've sold some motif and other things, but nothing big. I left later that year, and returned 4-5 months ago.

I pickup ore, wood, runes, and a few other mats and sell them, mostly to merchants. Not a lot of players purchase via chat.

I've made about 100K since I returned (I had more, but spent about 45K a month ago purchasing the War Maiden's set).

Betsararie

I have millions. I've farmed mats, farmed popular set pieces, and flipped items.

Right now I'm just sitting on my millions. Making gold is just a fun acitivity for me in the game.

I actually prefer to farm for overland sets (for myself) if I ever need to. Though I usually end up farming half of it, giving up, and then just buying the rest.

GrumpyDuckling

Crafting Ashen Grip and Farming Buffer of the Swift, then selling them both for insane prices

FrancisCrawford

Each crating alt can be good for 1000s per day, in crafting writs and hireling emails. How many thousands depends on which writs you do, whether you count the value of the mats and other things you keep, etc.

I've sold a lot of recipes, motif pages, etc. One just has to pay attention a bit to learn what prices things will really sell for; Master Merchant and TTC are just provide evidence in that assessment, rather than actual answers.

Buy low/sell high is fun, but it doesn't really arise that often for me.

Lots of drops sell for 500-1000 gold each.

I used to sell a lot of items for trait research in Rawl'kha, at 5-700 a pop. I don't know how well that would work now.

Cpt_Teemo

Selling BA + Sharp weapons atm, even though everything slow atm cause of the pvp event.

Ulo

Every time i do get any notable amount of cash i seem to end up spending it. Not sure what i spend it on it just seems to all slowly filter out my wallet without me noticing, alot like real life really.

Runschei

Pickpocketing, stealing and killing.