2019 Best Money Making Methods?

zaria

Thrusts-His-Spear wrote: »

Telvar. I can make 1 mil in 3 hours. But it is not for the faint of heart. Basicly you farm district bosses and buy hakejio with them. Each hakejio sells for roughly 12-14k atm. The problems come in when there is an enemy Zerg around or worse a Zerg of your own faction. Solo a district boss with 4x multiplier and you get 12k telvar. Do that for all 6 districts you should end up with around 40k telvar for one loop. That's 8 hekeijo for 14k each. Do the math it's quick money but not easy

This, the other high skill way is to farm new dlc dungeons in HM for motifs.

Some are time based. The anniversary event is an obvious one. Made 6 millions in the last one granted 2 was from an single motif I got from the Elsweyr prologue daily coffer.
Then new stuff comes up for sale it often sell idiotic high like that motif, same with gear like spell strategist sold very well at the start.

juhislihis19

starkerealm wrote: »

juhislihis19 wrote: »

Oh and learn what's the current market price on different items.

In example, I bought a Ravaging Dagger for 7k and sold it immediately at 70k.

Flipping can make you a lot of money, but it's very inconsistent. It's also very easy to lose your shirt trying to flip stuff if there's no market, even if the theoretical price is enough to turn a profit.

Agreed. It's very time consuming to brief through Guild Traders, ie. farming materials is somewhat guaranteed way to make gold without any risks. Don't have to be a good PVP/PVEer either.

Commancho

Daily crafting. It both supports your budget and healthy economy on the server. It requires time and efforts, but it pays back.

mocap

March of Sacrifice HM runs if you have team. Also, NEVER sell blue and purple jewelry, decon them for mats for "new" jewelry writs.

AndyMac

Agree with others - crafting writs are a great farm even on days when the gold drops are few. I do them on 6 toons with all but one at max level for most things - I get at least one gold temper pretty much every day on each toon. Sometimes multiple gold tempers. Plus you get mats, surveys and more than enough decon items to level more crafters quickly.

I hoard gold mats, and they seriously add up from writs. If I was selling each time one dropped, I'd make a great return for almost zero effort.

I have a 9 trait crafter so research traits cost almost nothing and master writs start to drop sooner rather than later. These can be done with your free mats from writs and refining from surveys and the voucher items sold. Or just sell the writs.

Either way - more gold. Can't think of much that beats it on a consistent basis.

I've just done Master Angler and Perfect Roe drops and sells OK , but it's a hella boring and grindy way to get a payoff

I couldn't recommend it except as a side benefit from getting the achievement.

SoLooney

You make millions fast just doing writs, the gold mats, actual gold, master writs, surveys.

Sell everything in a guild store and not to mention you will be self sufficient in a lot of things

SeaGtGruff

As far as doing writs, note that the specific daily writs repeat after a certain number of days, so you can save some time by crafting multiple copies of the requested weapons, armor, jewelry, enchanting glyphs, provisions, and alchemy potions.

If a given character is being developed as a crafter, it's definitely worth it to invest SPs into the Alchemy and Provisioning passive skills that let you create multiples of the food, drink, potions, and poisons, partly because this helps you save on how much of the raw materials you need to use, and partly because it saves you from having to manually craft multiple copies-- which is certainly easy enough to do with the recent changes in the crafting UI, but still. This especially comes in handy if you get a Master Writ where you're supposed to craft 16 of a potion or poison, or 8 of a food or drink, since you don't need to use up as many raw materials to do those writs.

Anyway, if you've already crafted stuff days in advance, then each day when you accept the daily writs you just need to turn in the stuff instead of having to spend time crafting it.

You can also make a good bit of gold by making the rounds and stealing stuff each day, then selling it to a fence, until you reach your daily limit. If you steal beyond your limit, you'll need to wait until 10 PM EST (adjust for DST or time zone) before you can sell the rest of it, so stealing ahead of time can be a way to save time, but then you also need to balance that against the inventory slots that the stolen loot takes up.

Aside from daily writs and daily thievery, there are also all those daily jobs for the guilds and DLC zones.

kind_hero

redspecter23 wrote: »

Writs are your best gold per minute right now unless you want to factor in lucky drops that go for tons of gold. Get all 18 toons up to max writ levels to start then at that point, you could work on a second account just for writs, but not too many people go that far. 18 toons worth of writs is about an hour, maybe less if you go fast so it does eat up time each day that you could be doing other things.

Doing writs on 18 characters or coupling that with a second account sounds extremely boring. I would rather farm mats all day

I say it depends on how much gold you are aiming for. If you just want to have some extra gold for a luxury furnishing that you really like or to afford something very desirable from a trader, selling raw mats or tempers for a few weeks can be enough. If you want millions than yes, do writs and sell the master writs for gold. Some people have a lot of time so they like to study the market (TTC) to see what is hot and play with the market, sell stuff that is in high demand, flip expensive items, etc. A friend of mine made millions flipping certain motifs and rare blueprints. There are collectors who pay millions for a certain rare blueprint...

Zer0_CooL

-Play PvP, wait untill good stuff is for sale at the golden, buy that stuff, wait 2 months sell that stuff.

-Certain overland set items are worth a lot, farm worldbosses in these zones to get the weapons.

-Build a stam char with lot of speedbuffs and dmg, farm the public dungeon in reapers march. (pocket trader is needed here)

-Do the crafting writs on at least one char on a regular base

-Build a nightblade, with some speed and reduced detection, max out the (thievs guild?) passive to increase the daylie sale
limit for stolen goods, go rob some houses make about 20k gold a day.

kwando

I made my gold by buying mats I've always done it in every mmo. In eso you go to tamrieltradecentre.com buy in mats that are cheap you have to be fast and sell them later for a better price. After a certain time you will notice what mats are selling fast and which aren't gonna take some time I suggest starting with a budget of 200k min.

GhostofDatthaw

@Swordbreaker did you PvP?

ArenGesus

I realize this isn't as fast as other methods, but I recently created a farmer/thief character and wanted to take him for a spin after getting DB, thieves guild and legerdemain leveled. So I went on a pick pocket spree.

What I noticed is that if you can find a spot that offers a continuous circuit of NPCs where the first you rob/kill is spawning as you're finishing off the last of them, you are apparently given green/blue treasure from a limited loot table. So, I ran around killing the same 10 or 12 NPCs for a couple of hours and just kept deleting all of the white stuff. I think I only filled around 70 inventory slots because repeat green/blue items would stack. So with those 70 inv slots, I accumulated hundreds of blue/green treasure items - 3 days of hitting max fence, or roughly 60k in gold .

None of that includes the blue recipes and diagrams (or whatever they are) that can be sold on guild traders once I price them out. I don't know how many of those I have, maybe 20 inventory slots filled with some stacks. So anyway, not super fast, but it's a thing you can do. Not sure if it's more or less effective than just farming mats though, never bothered to price it all out for comparison.

MakoFore

- daily writs on as many toons as possible
- farming motifs by doing vet hm dlc dungeons.

BNOC

Thrusts-His-Spear wrote: »

Telvar. I can make 1 mil in 3 hours. But it is not for the faint of heart. Basicly you farm district bosses and buy hakejio with them. Each hakejio sells for roughly 12-14k atm. The problems come in when there is an enemy Zerg around or worse a Zerg of your own faction. Solo a district boss with 4x multiplier and you get 12k telvar. Do that for all 6 districts you should end up with around 40k telvar for one loop. That's 8 hekeijo for 14k each. Do the math it's quick money but not easy

^ This is the best money making in game, away from buying crowns.

It's 14.3k Per solo boss kill though so you get 85k per full loop.

It's incredibly easy and at the speeds you can acquire telvar now, even a 50k loss (you're carrying 100k) is so redundant. Bosses, when you're comfortable, take 2 minutes in CP and up to 5 in no-Cp, so most people who bank at say 60k (50k profit) are losing 2 boss kills worth of stones when they die - About 10 minutes of your time at a stretch.


Alternatively, there are ore loops (like Hew's Bane, I won't share others) that you can farm 1.5 - 2k ore/jc per hour, which sometimes translates into decent money, depending on luck - Though, incredibly boring.


Nobody can make more money than a TV farmer in an hour doing writs, but like the above farm, it's a totally safe and isn't dependant on skill and or confidence.

Aitako

Whats thr best place for doing daily writs fast? have 16 toons ^^

Alcast

- Farming Motifs in vet dungeons and selling them
- Carry people through vet dungeons
- Carry people through vet trials
- Daily Writs
- Farm Materials, refine them, sell gold mats

The easiest way to farm money is by farming materials and selling them in my opinion, like I describe in the Gold Farming Guide.

Kadoin

The Golden makes a bit of gold for me...sometimes.

yRaven

For the lazy, have 8 Characters Master Crafter + Do daily writs = +/- 30K a day

For the chad, have 8 Characters Master Crafter + Do daily writs + Hirelings + Survey + Sell every gold mat you get = 100K+ a day

For the Reman Cyrodill = Do all above + Do some master writ + Exchange vouchers for expensive things to sell = Infinite money

Asardes

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

If a given character is being developed as a crafter, it's definitely worth it to invest SPs into the Alchemy and Provisioning passive skills that let you create multiples of the food, drink, potions, and poisons, partly because this helps you save on how much of the raw materials you need to use, and partly because it saves you from having to manually craft multiple copies-- which is certainly easy enough to do with the recent changes in the crafting UI, but still. This especially comes in handy if you get a Master Writ where you're supposed to craft 16 of a potion or poison, or 8 of a food or drink, since you don't need to use up as many raw materials to do those writs.

For the normal writs you can turn in consumables crafted by someone else. I never bothered investing in chef & brewer on more than one character, since I don't really have to do. I learn the recipes on a single one, and maybe learn some cheap ones that are not worth selling on guild stores on the others. The former also crafts the 3 foods and 3 drinks needed for the daily provisioner writs, and deposits a stack of 100 in bank. When I do writs on those, they pick those consumables from there.

AndyMac

Aitako wrote: »

Whats thr best place for doing daily writs fast? have 16 toons ^^

Crafting area near Vivec City imo - all craft stations, quest boards and drop off in a small circuit.

Heyodude

the economy is so oversaturated 1 real life dollar is worth hundreds of thousands of gold. Im not saying you should buy gold, i am saying that it is very cheap to do so.

deepseamk20b14_ESO

Any quick way to level alts crafting?

MLGProPlayer

Flipping is pretty much the only effective method still available. You used to be able to farm materials and sell them, but material prices are currently in the gutter thanks to bots.