How do YOU make gold?

Danikat

I make most of my gold through doing daily crafting writs (only on one character) and through being in a social guild which sometimes has a trader. We never get a trader in a central location, but there's also no requirement to sell a certain amount or pay fees or whatever, and the extra crafting materials, recipies and intricate gear I list almost always sells. I'm not sure how much of the sales are to guild members or random passers by, but I'm sure Tamriel Trade Centre helps get around the remote location by letting people know stuff they want is there.

I don't make a lot of gold, but it's more than I'd get otherwise and it's very low effort. It's easily enough to save up over time for some big purchases. And if I need more I have 2 characters who can do stealing runs.

Runefang

Daily writs on 12 characters selling everything I get from them that I don’t need.

Whenever I have the room in my 2 traders I also flip items.

iiYuki

Daily writs, sell the gold materials and sealed writs. I also flip items of the guild stores, mainly materials.

driosketch

I farm events, and sell the valuables in a guild trader. On occasion, run a trial with my guilds and score something that will sell for a lot. I keep a certain level of craft mats and sell the excess, especially gold mats.

But on the other side, I manage my gold well. For instance, even though I collect motifs, I wait for an event with high drops before I go shopping.

ChickenCrack

im not a farmer at all so i get my gold from plunder runs and crafting...

Hellvlad

1) Get yourself to be a trading guild guild master
2) Charge a flat fee to each member
3) Profit

Guyle

steal lunch money

Oreyn_Bearclaw

joedraper24b14_ESO wrote: »

Title.

I see all of these awesome houses and then the price tag that comes with it. Then seeing the youtube videos of people fully furnishing these things and it's amazing really.

Since returning to eso and seeing my terrible gold count, I've been making sure to do daily writs on a couple toons. It seems to add up slowly but surely.

How do YOU make gold?

Only issue in your statement is the word "couple". Do writs on 12-15 toons for a few months, and you will never worry about gold again. I get that you wont be able to do that overnight, but that is the best way for stable and reliable income in this game.

Your other options: Pick your favorite farm and sell what you find or try to flip items. These can be better in the short term, but in the long run, that time would be better spent leveling another crafter. If you grind to 50 (takes 5-6 hours) you will have enough skill points to do all the max level writs. The more max level crafters you have, the faster you can level the next one. In other words, getting your 3rd toon ready for writs takes way more time than your 10th. The mats you generate from writs can help level the next one.

I stopped doing writs about 9 months ago, but I was very consistent for a few years there. Actually did them on a few toons last night for the first time since out of sheer boredom. I have more Gold and Gold mats than I could spend in 10 lifetimes in this game, and my house has everything you could possibly need.

fred4

PvP and IC boss farming (preferably solo) -> Tel Var -> Hakeijo -> Gold quality Truly Superb Prismatic Defense enchants -> Guild Trader -> Gold and fulfils my weekly trading requirements.

fred4

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO wrote: »

Carries.

That one simple word hides cheap Skyreach carries to vet Blackrose Arena carries worth half a million to a million per run. If that's something you can do and enjoy, I imagine you've got it made.

Tannus15

Daily writs on PC are by far the easiest way to just harvest gold. Just get the best addon ever, Dolgubon's Lazy Writ Crafter

650 gold per hand in * 7 is 4.6k gold plus gold mats plus surveys plus master writs plus ornate items per character.
10 characters? 46k+ gold per day.

Keep in mind, the crafting level is irrelevant.
As long as you are character level 50 you get the full 650 gold per hand in. The crafting skill lines help the other stuff, but in raw gold terms, you can have 0 skill points put into crafting and still get 4.6k gold.

This is also the best way to get anniversary rewards for doing daily quests. 10 characters = 70 reward boxes.

kargen27

Lately I have been doing dailies in Clockwork City because the Apostle motif sells decent and I'm having good luck with the drop rate. I used to make a lot of gold purchasing furniture plans with vouchers I got from master writs the selling in guild trader. When waiting for a group to form I fish and sell any Perfect Roe I get.

If I get motifs or other things during an event that I don't need I put them away for a few months then list them for sale when I think prices have gone back up. I sometimes offer up a stack of materials but not often. Right now I am sitting on a lot of siege equipment that I will start putting in the trader in a couple of months.

Last night I was on a character that I changed skills on and needed to level them. I went to the Rivenspire public dungeon and ran around there killing bosses hoping to get Necropotence gear that I could sell. Basically I play the game and when just goofing off in game I do it in areas that might drop something valuable.

cheifsoap

joedraper24b14_ESO wrote: »

cheifsoap wrote: »

trading guild

I need to figure out how trading guilds work. I've only ever been exposed to an auction house in wow. Are there any resources you could point me to explaining trader guilds from beginner to advanced?

So before I go in to it I have to explain how traders work in this game. In this game each town or city has n number of traders, these traders are bid on at the end of every week. Some cities are better than others simply due to having higher traffic. Those cities are typically each alliances stronghold: Deshaan, Grahtwood, and Stormhaven. With that said, the idea behind a trader guild is that these guilds are player made guilds where their members pay a weekly fee (or weekly dues), that fee is collectively applied at the end of the week to bid on a trader.

Banana

I let people watch

zaria

Daily crafting writs, selling stuff i find and the events especially the anniversary event, made 5 million during last year anniversary.

MurderMostFoul

All of my characters run a Flower Shop as a side business.

Linaleah

stealing and fencing, crafting writs, selling off whatever excess motifs/furnishing patterns/mats i end up with while playing normaly. (I'm too lazy to farm specifically to sell, but still managed to save up more then enough gold to buy plenty of houses)

guild traders work very similarly to auction house, back when you had 3 different auction houses in wow (alliance/horde/neutral goblin). main difference is - you need to be a member of the guild whose vendor you'd like to list your items with. the better the location (like capitol cities for example) - the faster you sell, but it often comes with a cost of minimum sales and/or weekly fees. no idea if you used auctioneer addon, but ESO has something sorta similar in combination of master merchant and Tamriel Trade Centre. helps with figuring out what prices you want to set your items at.

stealing has daily limits, but you can do that on multiple characters. I would stick to looting cupboards as its easier not to get caught - vs pickpocketing. unless you are looking for specific items that can ONLY be found via pickpocketing. I have DLC's so my fave places to steal through are in DLC zones (palace in Orcinium city or Anvil/Kvatch), but Daggerfal city ships are a good place to start and has a fence right outside.

edited to add - with crafting dailies, you do not need to put any points into crafting in order to be able to make max amount of gold. gold rewards are based on character level, not crafting level. I typically precraft things like potions and food on my actual crafter and just grab them out of the bank as I'm going through daily rotation (lazy writ crafter is awesome for that). at crafting rank 1 - you are virtually self sustaining as you get back more mats than you spend to do the dailies. can take couple of weeks to reach that equilibrium, but you do eventually reach it.

jd24

cheifsoap wrote: »

joedraper24b14_ESO wrote: »

cheifsoap wrote: »

trading guild

I need to figure out how trading guilds work. I've only ever been exposed to an auction house in wow. Are there any resources you could point me to explaining trader guilds from beginner to advanced?

So before I go in to it I have to explain how traders work in this game. In this game each town or city has n number of traders, these traders are bid on at the end of every week. Some cities are better than others simply due to having higher traffic. Those cities are typically each alliances stronghold: Deshaan, Grahtwood, and Stormhaven. With that said, the idea behind a trader guild is that these guilds are player made guilds where their members pay a weekly fee (or weekly dues), that fee is collectively applied at the end of the week to bid on a trader.

Linaleah wrote: »

stealing and fencing, crafting writs, selling off whatever excess motifs/furnishing patterns/mats i end up with while playing normaly. (I'm too lazy to farm specifically to sell, but still managed to save up more then enough gold to buy plenty of houses)

guild traders work very similarly to auction house, back when you had 3 different auction houses in wow (alliance/horde/neutral goblin). main difference is - you need to be a member of the guild whose vendor you'd like to list your items with. the better the location (like capitol cities for example) - the faster you sell, but it often comes with a cost of minimum sales and/or weekly fees. no idea if you used auctioneer addon, but ESO has something sorta similar in combination of master merchant and Tamriel Trade Centre. helps with figuring out what prices you want to set your items at.

stealing has daily limits, but you can do that on multiple characters. I would stick to looting cupboards as its easier not to get caught - vs pickpocketing. unless you are looking for specific items that can ONLY be found via pickpocketing. I have DLC's so my fave places to steal through are in DLC zones (palace in Orcinium city or Anvil/Kvatch), but Daggerfal city ships are a good place to start and has a fence right outside.

edited to add - with crafting dailies, you do not need to put any points into crafting in order to be able to make max amount of gold. gold rewards are based on character level, not crafting level. I typically precraft things like potions and food on my actual crafter and just grab them out of the bank as I'm going through daily rotation (lazy writ crafter is awesome for that). at crafting rank 1 - you are virtually self sustaining as you get back more mats than you spend to do the dailies. can take couple of weeks to reach that equilibrium, but you do eventually reach it.

This was so so helpful. Thank you both.

Kiralyn2000

Poorly


(writs, vendoring extra loot, a bit of fencing)

Salix_alba

I make my money the old fashioned way

Jenzi

Writs, mats and motifs.

chess1ukb16_ESO

Became a member of the Trade GM Mafia

Akrasjel

Trade

jd24

Salix_alba wrote: »

I make my money the old fashioned way

Delivering milk in 5 gallon milk cans up hill both ways in the snow to and from school on foot?

barney2525

There's gold in this game?


huh

Salix_alba

joedraper24b14_ESO wrote: »

Salix_alba wrote: »

I make my money the old fashioned way

Delivering milk in 5 gallon milk cans up hill both ways in the snow to and from school on foot?

another oldie but goodie. But no wrong Quote ask your parents what it means

RABIDxWOLVERINE

zaria wrote: »

Daily crafting writs, selling stuff i find and the events especially the anniversary event, made 5 million during last year anniversary.

Please explain how you did this? I could use 5 more mil lol

Soris

Imagine IRL a few months of farming nets you millions.


woah..

Bobby_V_Rockit

Selling materials, I sell stacks of any and all mats for 2400 lol, got like a 500k gold last week

Haquor

No kidding. Consistently around 200k a day from doing writs on 18 characters. Include gold quest reward, selling gold mats and master writs, mats from surveys. It really is rediculously profitable if you have a lot of alts.

I mean the quest reward for the writs alone is over 80k a day on 18 characters and on PC with addons it takes like just over 1 minute per character for me.