Tips and Tricks: Making Money

WildRaptorX

I need a lot of advice on how to make gold and I would like to try out as many methods as possible.

Last night I spent 400k on about 30 furnishings, (I don’t even own a house yet) and I will continue to buy furnishing I like. I want to have stable coin and methods of earning coin so when the weekend luxury vendors appears I can purchase his stuff if I want them.

I’ve tried pickpocketing and it’s was fine but slow and searching urns etc in delves is RNG based.

Someone let me in on their secret locations and methods - I’ll be grateful!

worir5

You can use Tamriel Trade Centre to find cheap items and if you can buy them fast enough you can sell them for a higher price and make some profit, also collecting crafting nodes can get you a lot of money quickly, especially if you are lucky and get rare materials (like tempering alloy, worth 5-6k each)

MartiniDaniels

A lot of toons and making crafting writs of them, income is overflowing. A little bit tedious to do it every day and it takes some time to lvl chars (for low level char writ reward is small), but amount of gold and gold tempers allows you to forgot about any other kind of gold grinding and run gold food/tri-pots buy all motifs you want etc without worrying about being bankrupt.

Floliroy

Crafting Quest and carry some Craglorn Guys ftw

barney2525

doing writs, depending on your level, is around 400g per writ. do all 6, its 2400. do it on as many characters as you want each day it adds up fast.

Best part is if you don't put any points into crafting on your alts, the writs always are the same low level despite paying out higher for your level. Easy to make and at least for wood. cloth/leather, and iron, the reward gives you back more mats than it took to make the 3 pieces. Plus you have the possibility of getting surveys.

depending on number of characters, easy 10k - 15k per day -

Freakin_Hytte

Daily writs my friend, I have 10 chars and make about 1 million from just the gold award from writs. Then you also get *** tons of goldies from writs and all the surveys you do.

If you're an experienced trader you can go around and find items that are being sold under the normal price. I one time found a cipher being sold for 150k and sold it one min later for 1,2 mil. But mostly you might earn 10k and up for each item from doing that.

Or just farm for different popular sets, flowers and such also works fine.

ArchMikem

Find out what the current day's dungeon pledges are and farm them, preferably on a healer or tank for fastest queue times. Run them over and over until you fill your inventory then vendor all the trash and ornates you looted. Repeat as much as you want.

Camatoo

quick question to the crafting writs.

Do they scale with your character level? or your crafting level?

Michae

I tried many things and I must say that combo of doing writs, then getting surveys and then deconstructing the mats in search of gold tempers is the best way to go. Just level up at least one character to the master crafter level to get a better drop rate from deconstructing mats and also you'll get master writs as a bonus (you can sell them or do them yourself).

WoppaBoem

Camatoo wrote: »

quick question to the crafting writs.

Do they scale with your character level? or your crafting level?

Crafting level

WoppaBoem

Farming, farming, find the best spot (ball foyen) learn a route, and keep walking this for a couple of hours or days and you will be loaded. I do this for week in a row like every 3 months. Than 1 week banks me enough gold to play for a long time and buy any expensive item I feel like I need.

Matthew_Galvanus

Camatoo wrote: »

quick question to the crafting writs.

Do they scale with your character level? or your crafting level?

i think its to your character level? not 100% sure

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO

Matthew_Galvanus wrote: »

Camatoo wrote: »

quick question to the crafting writs.

Do they scale with your character level? or your crafting level?

i think its to your character level? not 100% sure

the gold reward is 100% character level, i get the same ~4k from all 7 writs on my main toon who is max level crafting as the other 11 do with no skill points or anything into the skill lines all all 810 cp+. cheaper too, the lowest tier is pretty much self sustaining, so it is all profit.

XDark_One13

The you items need to craft depends on your character’s crafting, but the gold you earn scales to character level.
Max level characters make 604 gold per writ even if you are crafting tier 1 items for writs.

THEDKEXPERIENCE

Just be like me and have the only master crafter on XBox who also PVPs regularly. Then spend 100k AP on Dawn Prisms, turn them into jewelry for training and log in to an extra 25k per piece every afternoon.

Or don’t cause I like my business.

Insco851

If you pvp- purchase boxes with AP of hot build items and sell in a trader.

barney2525

Camatoo wrote: »

quick question to the crafting writs.

Do they scale with your character level? or your crafting level?

Both

the amount of gold you get on turn in is based on your character level

the actual items you have to craft, and therefore the mats you need to use are based on the points you put into the craft.

this will make you more gold on turn in, but it does get a bit more complex.

I'm lazy. I don't put any points into crafting on my alts. I'm happy with my 2500 per alt per day and knowing I never have to worry about running out of a specific mat or needing to find a new recipe

rotaugen454

I pull in 60k per day spent crafting on all my characters. I just spent 600k on buying some gear for a new character, figuring it would take a week and a half to get back. I would not have done that before I found out how profitable crafting is once you get it all set up.

vgabor

stealing and pickpocketing, easily 15k+ daily per character

Matthew_Galvanus

BTW, if you really want to expedite daily crafting writs, get the Lazy Writ Crafter Add-On by Dolgubon, it will autocraft your writs for enchanting, Jewelrycrafting, Clothier, Woodcrafting, and Blacksmithing, you'l still have to do cooking and alchemy manually, though if you click the writs button in alchemy it'll pull up the mats to make the potion/poison (provided you know the potion you're trying to make)

rotaugen454

Matthew_Galvanus wrote: »

BTW, if you really want to expedite daily crafting writs, get the Lazy Writ Crafter Add-On by Dolgubon, it will autocraft your writs for enchanting, Jewelrycrafting, Clothier, Woodcrafting, and Blacksmithing, you'l still have to do cooking and alchemy manually, though if you click the writs button in alchemy it'll pull up the mats to make the potion/poison (provided you know the potion you're trying to make)

Assuming they are on PC, I couldn’t agree more. I breeze through crafting quickly because of these. I have Summerset and all the crafting is in one giant room.

THEDKEXPERIENCE

Suffice to say that there are a lot of ways to make gold if you’re willing to put the time in. Here are a few general tips.

- Take note of how you play (are you a PVE or PVP player?) and sell the stuff you don’t need for the other half the game to those who do need it. Impen gear, for example, will always be popular with PVPers.

- Before posting something ask yourself, would you buy it?

- ABU ... always be undercutting. 10% off the going rate will sell something in hours, days or even weeks ahead of the standard rate. Time is money and each slot out of 30 taken up by something you aren’t selling is a waste of both.

- If you post something to a trader and it sits for more than say 4 days, take it down. The likelihood is you wouldn’t sell it in 30. Do you like buying things that have been sitting around for 2 weeks? Most people see that and think that they can find a better deal.

- Don’t flood the market. If you happen to be someone lucky enough to have the market cornered on something (as I stated earlier I’m one of the very few people on XBox who has the ability to make triune rings and afford the dawn prisms) it does you no good to post 10 of them at once. Just post one or two per day. You control the supply. Make them demand it.

- Never post anything without checking the going rate. Never deconstruct anything until you check the going rate. I just found out yesterday that I had 150k+ of runebox fragments in my main toon’s inventory for the last 2 years. Never got around to collecting all 7 pieces so I went to deconstruct them. But first I checked and the cheapest one was worth 40k. I had no idea.

fgoron2000

WoppaBoem wrote: »

Camatoo wrote: »

quick question to the crafting writs.

Do they scale with your character level? or your crafting level?

Crafting level

The crafting writ quests you're given to complete will scale to the crafting skill's first passive, not the crafting skill's level, but the XP and gold received from turning in these writ quests will scale to the character level. I have level 50 characters who have not fully leveled a few of the crafts yet, however, although they're given the low level writs to complete based on their low passives, they still receive the same XP and gold for turning them in, as they do for the other writs that they already have maxed out.

Sheezabeast

On PC NA the GM of Spicy Economics, Jhartellis, he streams a lot, and he often hosts gold making tricks and tips streams where he teaches you how to flip items for example, and he answers questions from the stream. It’s very helpful! On twitch he is also Jhartellis. I’m not plugging him to be obnoxious, he really helps lots of people doing this.

fgoron2000

Freakin_Hytte wrote: »

Daily writs my friend, I have 10 chars and make about 1 million from just the gold award from writs. Then you also get *** tons of goldies from writs and all the surveys you do.

If you're an experienced trader you can go around and find items that are being sold under the normal price. I one time found a cipher being sold for 150k and sold it one min later for 1,2 mil. But mostly you might earn 10k and up for each item from doing that.

Or just farm for different popular sets, flowers and such also works fine.

Just curious on your math for the gold you get from your daily crafting writs. I have 15 (don't have the new extra yet) fully leveled characters and when I do all 7 writs on all 15 characters, the gold I receive from all of them together is roughly in the neighborhood of about 66k to 67k per day. BTW, I'm a sub, so that 67k already includes the 10% gold bump. Without ESO+, that number would be closer to 60k. I'm not sure where you got your 1 million number from.

fgoron2000

rotaugen454 wrote: »

Matthew_Galvanus wrote: »

BTW, if you really want to expedite daily crafting writs, get the Lazy Writ Crafter Add-On by Dolgubon, it will autocraft your writs for enchanting, Jewelrycrafting, Clothier, Woodcrafting, and Blacksmithing, you'l still have to do cooking and alchemy manually, though if you click the writs button in alchemy it'll pull up the mats to make the potion/poison (provided you know the potion you're trying to make)

Assuming they are on PC, I couldn’t agree more. I breeze through crafting quickly because of these. I have Summerset and all the crafting is in one giant room.

in addition, the bank and outlaw are not far from that room...

tmbrinks

Daily crafting writs. I do them on 36 characters now a day. Average profit, based on PC/NA prices is over 12 million gold a month

This is assuming that I sell all the things that I get, I complete the master writs that drop, and sell items from those. (trashing the jewelry crafting one)

It does take a long time to set up your characters to be able to do the max level writs. But it is 4.6k gold per day per character just for doing them (at max level), plus whatever materials you get that you can sell.

tmbrinks

Matthew_Galvanus wrote: »

BTW, if you really want to expedite daily crafting writs, get the Lazy Writ Crafter Add-On by Dolgubon, it will autocraft your writs for enchanting, Jewelrycrafting, Clothier, Woodcrafting, and Blacksmithing, you'l still have to do cooking and alchemy manually, though if you click the writs button in alchemy it'll pull up the mats to make the potion/poison (provided you know the potion you're trying to make)

If you have the banker assistant. You can put the Alchemy (there are only 8 different crafted ones used) and the Provisioning (only 6 used) in your bank and the add-on will pull them out automatically for you.

If you don't have the banker, you can keep a stack of each on each character (will take up 14 inventory slots though)

Oreyn_Bearclaw

+1 for doing writs. My total account value, gold, craft bag, houses, other currencies, is over 9 figures at this point. It’s almost all from writs. It’s not a get rich quick scheme, but it is steady income in gold, mats, and writ vouchers. It takes some time to get things leveled, but it should be a priority if you want to adopt an expensive habit like rare furnishings.

I actually recently retired from writs after the last event. I looked at my bank and was like, I could play for 20 years on the gold and mats I have at this point. Haha

WildRaptorX

Thank you guys for the writ suggestion! Luckily I have one max crafter so I’ll get on those dailies!

Freakin_Hytte

fgoron2000 wrote: »

Freakin_Hytte wrote: »

Daily writs my friend, I have 10 chars and make about 1 million from just the gold award from writs. Then you also get *** tons of goldies from writs and all the surveys you do.

If you're an experienced trader you can go around and find items that are being sold under the normal price. I one time found a cipher being sold for 150k and sold it one min later for 1,2 mil. But mostly you might earn 10k and up for each item from doing that.

Or just farm for different popular sets, flowers and such also works fine.

Just curious on your math for the gold you get from your daily crafting writs. I have 15 (don't have the new extra yet) fully leveled characters and when I do all 7 writs on all 15 characters, the gold I receive from all of them together is roughly in the neighborhood of about 66k to 67k per day. BTW, I'm a sub, so that 67k already includes the 10% gold bump. Without ESO+, that number would be closer to 60k. I'm not sure where you got your 1 million number from.

I forgot to put each month in there, so I make about 1 mil gold each month. Of course I don't make 1 mil each day from writs lol. I get something between 30-40k per day. So I get between 0,9-1,2 mil gold per month