Tips on How to Make Gold on Console

THEDKEXPERIENCE

I’ve been meaning to make this post for weeks now, but with yet another multi-page economy thread going on I figured now is the right time for it.

Please note that I have never GM’d a trade guild. My tips will not make you the richest person in Tamriel but you can absolutely make a few hundred grand a week. I highly encourage anyone with other tips to also chime in. Frankly I don’t care if someone moves in on my territory. It’s a game and I’m smart enough to adjust if need be. Happy to help the ESO poor out there.

Sub Level 50 - Just play the game. Use your time to level skills and worry about gold later. There is literally nothing you can buy at this stage that you absolutely need.

Champion Status - You do not need to wait until CP160 to farm for gold or play the market. Certain mats may be gated from you but trait gems will not be.

Trait Gems vary in price from nearly useless (a stack of 200 going for 3000 gold isn’t paying off your student loans to the Mages Guild) but at the top end they can bring a crazy high amount.

Are you a PVPer? Buy dawn-prisms with your AP. They commonly go for 20k on console.

Are you a master crafter? Buy Guilded Wax. It sells for 30k.

Ultimately the best tip I can give anyone is simply to take inventory of how you play on a day to day basis and sell those rewards to players you have never interacted with. PVP players make gold selling to PVE players and vice versa.

Another tip is to get into a big guild in good spot. 70k for a month sounds massive ... it’s not. That’s what I make in an average day almost exactly.

Do you have a craft bag? Do you really need 2400 alkahest? Do you really need 4600 rekuta? Are you ever going to use those Chromium Grains? If you never expect to use it, sell it.

Use your 30 spots. List things to sell. You’re better off selling an item for 90% of it’s expected price than to never sell it at all.

Do you have a max crafter? Do you already have thousands of rubedo leather? Well you have enough, so start vendoring dropped loot. 74 gold is better than 1 new mat that you’ll never use.

These are just a few very small tips. Feel free to try them yourself if you’re ESO poor. Please add on anything you may deem helpful.

Kel

I have 13 characters. Only one master crafter, but as far as daily writ turn ins go, my others don't have to be max. In fact they are all low level. (In crafting)
Still, the gold turn in with ESO+ and the cp perks are 5.1k for all daily writs.

That's almost 70k gold per day, no trade guild required. More characters of course mean more gold.

Pro's are a ton of surveys for raw materials, useful to either sell or use for your own crafting purpose.

Con's are it's not the most entertaining of activities.

But if you don't have a trade guild and you don't like selling over zone chat, crafting dailies can make you some good gold.

cynicalbutterfly

Here's a tip, if you got two stacks of something you don't need or normally use, sell it. Doesn't matter what it sells for. Every bit adds up over time. Always do your daily writs for mats and your dailies for zones. Daily writs give about 5k total. Zone dailies have a chance to drop motifs or other rare things.

Got an extra motif? Sell it. Average motif rate is 10k each (on console and depending what it is ofc). That's 10k in your pocket that you didn't have before. On the subject of motifs, I only use motifs on one character, my master crafter. Everyone else is considered extra motifs and get sold. Reading a known motif on an alt only adds the lore (which I don't need unless I really want it).

Another pro tip, if you have food or alchemy mats, sell in low quanities and be careful what you sell. There are hot ticket items that sell quick and low ticket items that take forever. Why? Because the hot tickets are used primarily for writs or potions (people use these for dungeons and trials). So become aware of what these are. Why in low quanities? Would you spend 10k on a whole stack of a food mat that you only need once every few weeks? Probably not. I've had more success selling in low quanities than I have in larger.

You can also sell set gear. Certain ones sell pretty good. But this all depends on the current market. To make gold, I typically sell white gear to my merchant and keep everything else to be deconned for mats. I've even sold green gear to my merchant for quick cash. Just have to be careful I'm not selling something I haven't collected for the stickerbook. May not seem like much but all that adds up.

Overall though, the best asset out there is a guild trader. Get into a guild with one and you're set. Find out what the average prices are for items by visiting different trader locations. Base your price on that average. Personally, I typically sell much lower than the average. For example, torchbugs typically go for 400g each. I sell for 200g each. If I sell 20 at a time, that's roughly 4k in my pocket. That's 4k I got for doing nothing but my normal questing and grabbing mats along my merry way. I rarely ever mat farm on purpose. I typically grab mats as I'm heading to a quest location or while I'm doing my zone dailies. You'd be amazed at how much you gather by doing this. It also helps to put points in the first tier of Keen Eye on all your crafting skills. Some nodes can be difficult to find without the sparkle.