Black. Market. Mogul.

Nordic_Pirate

If there was ever an achievement that was absolutely ridiculous, it is this one. Is there anywhere in the game that has a better chance of dropping higher quality loot?

rhapsodious

Nobles and other affluent NPCs drop higher quality items.

Just gotta stick to it, man. That royal purple is absolutely worth it.

Shadzilla

rhapsodious wrote: »

Nobles and other affluent NPCs drop higher quality items.

Just gotta stick to it, man. That royal purple is absolutely worth it.

You mean that purple on my twice fang? Yea it's pretty dope. Literally a 50 hour achievement, minimum. There are much more time consuming achievements though.

Enemy-of-Coldharbour

rhapsodious wrote: »

Nobles and other affluent NPCs drop higher quality items.

Just gotta stick to it, man. That royal purple is absolutely worth it.

I was so happy when I finally got it!

Nestor

I have noticed that Picking Pockets can give better loot. I noticed also that it does not seem to matter if they are a beggar or a noble or something in between, you can get Greens from all of them. But your higher social level NPCs do tend to give up more Greens and Blues overall. Also, if your first pick is a Green, the second and third have a good chance of being that too, first being White, that is usually all you will get. I do tend to only grab the first two items as I will only pick at 80% chance or better.

Linaleah

this achievement took forever. ....

worth it. easier with an addon deleting treasures of selected value for you, so that you only fence higher ticket stuff and don't have to go over your inventory periodically to delete white treasures manually. easier on max level character with maxed legerdemain/thieves guild skill line. haven't found that nobles drop better items. have found above though to be true. I did the Anvil/Kvatch route when working on it, but pretty much anything will work. farming Vvardenfell for new motifs, doing runs of orcinium castle, heck looking the two ships in Daggerfall harbor over and over. just stick to it, and you will get it eventually - at least you are getting some gold while you are doing it :P

lillybit

I'm combining this with pickpocketing for the Morrowind house motif but still have a loooong way to go!

Personofsecrets

Grand Overlord

platonicidealgirlfriend

just dump all whites and hit the fence limit everyday and you'll get it in around 3 months.

Cynnalia

Yeah, this takes some serious farming, but I was determined to get it because I REALLY wanted the giant pile of gold coins on the deck of my Master Angler boat. lol And, yes - the dye is gorgeous on the right materials!

At about 575,000 gold accrued over the years without actively trying, I finally set out to get this achievement -- it took me about three weeks of doing nothing but fencing 140 items every day, with at least 40% of the items blue or higher, filling out what I had to with green. I ended up picking pockets of poor, innocent NPCs in an out-of-the-way village. I'm sure they were glad to see the last of me when my pickpocket-pickpocket-stabby spree finally ended...:D

firedrgn

If you maxed 140 ×250 28 days is about the fastest you can do it. Seems like way more than 50 hour achievement.

emilyhyoyeon

the achievement was very easy for me to get. Once one of my characters got 20 ledgerieamaineae, she could easily pickpocket the altmer monks or whatever in Auridon who drop a lot of greens and blues.
I sold an average of 20-25k worth of items per day with 1-2 hours of stealing the items. I got it within 60 days of starting and only did for the dye since it's my favorite color.

Nordic_Pirate

Where do you guys go to get that much stuff? I've been running around Wayrest, and Hallin's Stand so far and I'm not getting a whole lot.

s7732425ub17_ESO

The dye is amazing. And you literally get 1 million gold for doing the achievement- also amazing. Took me ~2 months of fencing ~20k or more per day.

Linaleah

Nordicly_Responsible wrote: »

Where do you guys go to get that much stuff? I've been running around Wayrest, and Hallin's Stand so far and I'm not getting a whole lot.

my fave places to steal - as follows.

Non DLC:

Daggerfall city, there are two ships sitting at the docks, they are empty inside, so no need to stealth. look everything, go to the refuge right outside the docks, fence, come out, rinse repeat. if it feels too monotonous, can also go into a cluster of houses close to the wayshrine inside the city, loot the furnishings there (there are residents, inside them, but they can be pick-pocketed/ assassinated - added bonus, you can work on an achievement for breaking into houses)

DLC areas:

Scarp keep. a LOT of furniture to loot inside, most of it away from guards, so minimal stealthing. refuge is right outside of the keep.

Anvil and Kvatch. I tend to start with anvil and port to Kvatch as refuge is just outside of it. go into every house. have to stealth though especially inside gold coast trading company offices. but.. there is a LOT of furniture to loot there and houses usually have either one resident total, or one per floor, making it easier to pick pocket/assassinate them.

still figuring out fave routes in VVardenfell as I have mostly been focused on urns there.

edited to add, on recommendation from guildie, I've been using dustman addon. helps to speed up things a bit, by auto deleting stolen items of your choice, making inventory management easier.

Nordic_Pirate

Linaleah wrote: »

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Nordicly_Responsible wrote: »

Where do you guys go to get that much stuff? I've been running around Wayrest, and Hallin's Stand so far and I'm not getting a whole lot.

my fave places to steal - as follows.

Non DLC:

Daggerfall city, there are two ships sitting at the docks, they are empty inside, so no need to stealth. look everything, go to the refuge right outside the docks, fence, come out, rinse repeat. if it feels too monotonous, can also go into a cluster of houses close to the wayshrine inside the city, loot the furnishings there (there are residents, inside them, but they can be pick-pocketed/ assassinated - added bonus, you can work on an achievement for breaking into houses)

DLC areas:

Scarp keep. a LOT of furniture to loot inside, most of it away from guards, so minimal stealthing. refuge is right outside of the keep.

Anvil and Kvatch. I tend to start with anvil and port to Kvatch as refuge is just outside of it. go into every house. have to stealth though especially inside gold coast trading company offices. but.. there is a LOT of furniture to loot there and houses usually have either one resident total, or one per floor, making it easier to pick pocket/assassinate them.

still figuring out fave routes in VVardenfell as I have mostly been focused on urns there.

edited to add, on recommendation from guildie, I've been using dustman addon. helps to speed up things a bit, by auto deleting stolen items of your choice, making inventory management easier.

Great insight, thank you!

16BitForestCat

As others have said....It is soooo worth it! I actively farmed it earlier this year. When I started, I only had about 200K on the progress bar, even though I'm a serial criminal looter. When I began actively farming it, I got the remaining amount in only a few weeks. I did it by exclusively looting safeboxes--they never drop white items, and you're much less likely to be slowed down by avoiding guards due to bounty because it's typically less risky to break into a safebox than to pickpocket someone. Plus, safeboxes tend to respawn very quickly, so you can do a loop and hit them over and over again. My inventory slots were maxed out at 200, which helped because I could typically loot so many green/blue/purple items in a very short time that even just selling the most valuable ones first, it'd still take me days to get all the stolen goods out of my inventory. That's even with my fencing slots also maxed.

Just takes time and patience. And maybe a stack of counterfeit pardons if your sneak's not that great and you rack up a bounty. (I did mine on my medium armor Bosmer, so getting caught was pretty rare.)

Nordic_Pirate

16BitForestCat wrote: »

As others have said....It is soooo worth it! I actively farmed it earlier this year. When I started, I only had about 200K on the progress bar, even though I'm a serial criminal looter. When I began actively farming it, I got the remaining amount in only a few weeks. I did it by exclusively looting safeboxes--they never drop white items, and you're much less likely to be slowed down by avoiding guards due to bounty because it's typically less risky to break into a safebox than to pickpocket someone. Plus, safeboxes tend to respawn very quickly, so you can do a loop and hit them over and over again. My inventory slots were maxed out at 200, which helped because I could typically loot so many green/blue/purple items in a very short time that even just selling the most valuable ones first, it'd still take me days to get all the stolen goods out of my inventory. That's even with my fencing slots also maxed.

Just takes time and patience. And maybe a stack of counterfeit pardons if your sneak's not that great and you rack up a bounty. (I did mine on my medium armor Bosmer, so getting caught was pretty rare.)

Great point on the strongboxes! I think I'll stick to that strategy. I'm only at 125k :-(

Apherius

Best purple

16BitForestCat

Nordicly_Responsible wrote: »

Great point on the strongboxes! I think I'll stick to that strategy. I'm only at 125k :-(

Best of luck! I was surprised at how quickly the achievement counter was filling after I switched to doing safeboxes. It's still a bit of a slog, but much less of one when you're no longer dealing with white items or waiting on pickpocket success alerts to reset.

I don't have a list of "best safebox places" but I had the best luck with Dhalmora (Bal Foyen) and Shornhelm (Rivenspire). In Shornhelm specifically, there's one house that has three entry doors, each with an Advanced-level lock (great for leveling up Legerdemain!) and the inside often has two Advanced safeboxes. One of the doors is in the backyard, where guards never patrol and the two nearby NPC's aren't very observant. I like to hit that house first, then do a loop to the other houses in town and just do the loop as long as I like. My guy, on the other hand, likes to just do the Advanced house. He'll pick all three doors for the Legerdemain experience since he's still leveling it, then loot any safeboxes inside, then go to the nearby Outlaws Refuge to reset the door locks/maybe end up in a new instance where the safeboxes are already inside the house.

CGPsaint

I earned this on one of my toons, just farming Khajiit Skooma Bubbler Plans! I only fenced blue/purple items, up to the daily limit, each day, up to and beyond the achievement! The dye is definitely one of the nicest in the game.

Nordic_Pirate

CGPsaint wrote: »

I earned this on one of my toons, just farming Khajiit Skooma Bubbler Plans! I only fenced blue/purple items, up to the daily limit, each day, up to and beyond the achievement! The dye is definitely one of the nicest in the game.

How does one farm this way?

Nordic_Pirate

Apherius wrote: »

Best purple

Is that minotaur style?

FloppyTouch

I just started this a few weeks ago I’m at 140k I have a long way to go. I’m selling about 15k a day is that too low? I can only sell 120 items out of skill points

fastolfv_ESO

overlord purple or go home

Runschei

FloppyTouch wrote: »

I just started this a few weeks ago I’m at 140k I have a long way to go. I’m selling about 15k a day is that too low? I can only sell 120 items out of skill points

I have black market mogul on four characters, it's not that hard if you really go for it. With Thieves Guild, Dark Brotherhood and legerdemain all maxed out I sell 140 items with an 10% increase of price on the items. I only sell green and higher quality items so daily I usually get around 23-25K. If I want to I can gain as much as 40K, it just takes a little while longer to do.

FloppyTouch

Runschei wrote: »

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FloppyTouch wrote: »

I just started this a few weeks ago I’m at 140k I have a long way to go. I’m selling about 15k a day is that too low? I can only sell 120 items out of skill points

I have black market mogul on four characters, it's not that hard if you really go for it. With Thieves Guild, Dark Brotherhood and legerdemain all maxed out I sell 140 items with an 10% increase of price on the items. I only sell green and higher quality items so daily I usually get around 23-25K. If I want to I can gain as much as 40K, it just takes a little while longer to do.

Looks like I have to reset skill points then to get more passives 23-25k would make things go a lot faster then 15k a day.

Also it takes about an hour to get that much stuff does that seem like a reasonable time?

Runschei

FloppyTouch wrote: »

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Runschei wrote: »

FloppyTouch wrote: »

I just started this a few weeks ago I’m at 140k I have a long way to go. I’m selling about 15k a day is that too low? I can only sell 120 items out of skill points

I have black market mogul on four characters, it's not that hard if you really go for it. With Thieves Guild, Dark Brotherhood and legerdemain all maxed out I sell 140 items with an 10% increase of price on the items. I only sell green and higher quality items so daily I usually get around 23-25K. If I want to I can gain as much as 40K, it just takes a little while longer to do.

Looks like I have to reset skill points then to get more passives 23-25k would make things go a lot faster then 15k a day.

Also it takes about an hour to get that much stuff does that seem like a reasonable time?

Depends how you run I guess. I have a special route that I do every day, as in I do the exact same thing every day. I loot the same crates and containers, and I kill the same npc using Blade of Woe. I guess my route takes me about 20 minutes or so. I'll check it today

FloppyTouch

Runschei wrote: »

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FloppyTouch wrote: »

Runschei wrote: »

FloppyTouch wrote: »

I just started this a few weeks ago I’m at 140k I have a long way to go. I’m selling about 15k a day is that too low? I can only sell 120 items out of skill points

I have black market mogul on four characters, it's not that hard if you really go for it. With Thieves Guild, Dark Brotherhood and legerdemain all maxed out I sell 140 items with an 10% increase of price on the items. I only sell green and higher quality items so daily I usually get around 23-25K. If I want to I can gain as much as 40K, it just takes a little while longer to do.

Looks like I have to reset skill points then to get more passives 23-25k would make things go a lot faster then 15k a day.

Also it takes about an hour to get that much stuff does that seem like a reasonable time?

Depends how you run I guess. I have a special route that I do every day, as in I do the exact same thing every day. I loot the same crates and containers, and I kill the same npc using Blade of Woe. I guess my route takes me about 20 minutes or so. I'll check it today

Damn 20 mins that’s fast <.< I’m killing the same 7 npc over and over doing the pick pick stab thing

Runschei

FloppyTouch wrote: »

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Runschei wrote: »

FloppyTouch wrote: »

Runschei wrote: »

FloppyTouch wrote: »

I just started this a few weeks ago I’m at 140k I have a long way to go. I’m selling about 15k a day is that too low? I can only sell 120 items out of skill points

I have black market mogul on four characters, it's not that hard if you really go for it. With Thieves Guild, Dark Brotherhood and legerdemain all maxed out I sell 140 items with an 10% increase of price on the items. I only sell green and higher quality items so daily I usually get around 23-25K. If I want to I can gain as much as 40K, it just takes a little while longer to do.

Looks like I have to reset skill points then to get more passives 23-25k would make things go a lot faster then 15k a day.

Also it takes about an hour to get that much stuff does that seem like a reasonable time?

Depends how you run I guess. I have a special route that I do every day, as in I do the exact same thing every day. I loot the same crates and containers, and I kill the same npc using Blade of Woe. I guess my route takes me about 20 minutes or so. I'll check it today

Damn 20 mins that’s fast <.< I’m killing the same 7 npc over and over doing the pick pick stab thing

As a vampire magica nightblade I can run in stealth and permacloak around the city If you want to I can make a detailed route on how I run and where I run

Robo_Hobo

I did pickpocket sprees in Skywatch/Windhelm, it wasn't too hard, but it did take a long time. At best I could get to the daily max cap with around 16-25k worth of gold in about a half hour on my nightblade perfected for thieving.

I know because I usually did that on my lunch break from work, which, after counting time driving home and back, logging in, etc. from my one hour break, left me with just over a half hour to do it all in. It took awhile to be able to finish it on time, but I got there. The trick is not to care if you get caught. Don't wait for the green highlight, just spam pickpocket everybody and just outrun the guards and get back to picking pockets. You can lose the guards from 2 cloaks and outrun the detection thing they throw at you if you have the right sneak speed buffs. Although of course that's only for night blades, I imagine it's a lot more complicated for other classes in that regard.