Ways to make gold other than crafting

Oreyn_Bearclaw

Cirantille wrote: »

bmnoble wrote: »

To be honest the other options for making gold tend to be hit and miss and rely heavily on RNG, that is why a lot of us do daily crafting writs for a reliable income source that takes a bit over an hour a day.

If there was some easy time efficient way to make the same amount of gold we would all be doing it instead or as well.

Selling crowns is probably the fastest but only if your rich and feel like wasting some of your money.

Selling carry runs of various content anything from Skyreach for xp grinding, to group content which requires an organized group, selling carry runs for vet content for vast sums but you only get your share of that vast sum, which for some people a few runs can be enough to pay for what they need for a week or more.

Other than that farming popular overland sets no guarantee you will get a good piece and takes a lot of time investment.

Thieving either making money by fencing stuff on multiple characters or laundering motifs and furniture plans your lucky enough to find while pickpocketing.

Daily quests for the motif drops to sell usually the newest zones have the most valuable motifs early on, like that new Wayward guardian motif at the moment.

Converting AP into gold via buying gold rings, triune trait mat, PVP motifs.

Converting Tel var into gold by buying those alchemy satchels and selling the mats, selling the Hakejo runes.

Fishing for perfect roe.

Decon all gear you don't need or want to give away to group members, from group content, certain DLC style mats can be worth a lot especially the ones used in popular furniture.

Farm mats in overland, suppose to be a new mythic item coming that further increases the chance of a double drop might be worth looking into.

Can't really think of much else of the top of my head.

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

If you have done crafting on 18 toons, then doing daily crafting writs on all of them is going to be about as efficient as you get with in game activities.

You can certainly play the flipping game, but that does take some skill, capital, and comes with some risk.

You can also look for trade partners if you have gold on one server but want it on another.

If your goal is really to be rich, a minimum wage job with the proceeds going to crown sales is admittedly hard to beat, but that seems a bit silly for a game if I am being honest.

Yeah, I was just wondering if there is something faster
But I know what you mean
It is reliable at least, which is why I done it every day for the last year
I did find such a kind soul (I love ESO community really ) who brought me some money on NA (I gave on EU) so I built my crafting business there too

By Crafting Business, do you mean doing writs? Or do you mean actually holding yourself out as a crafter for hire?

If you are going to spend one hour a day to make gold (about how long it takes to do 18 toons if you dont fool around), then there is no better activity in game then doing 7 daily writs on all your characters. Every farming activity, whether its picking flowers, selling telvar or or gear drops, whatever, are all going to net somewhere in the same range. The market determines the price of those items by how easy they are to acquire in terms of time spent. There are certainly outliers, and some things come with a higher skill requirement which might mean they fetch more gold, but most will tend to even out. All are going to generate less in an hour than just doing writs over the long haul (sure you might get really lucky with drops once in a while).

If you mean holding yourself out as a crafter, well, I stopped doing that about a year after launch. Everyone and their mother is a 9 trait crafter. It really comes down to selling mats, as most people just wont pay much for you to press a few buttons, and to be candid, its a massive headache dealing with people that have no idea what they actually want. Its easier just to sell excess mats in a trader. There is some money to be made if you have a guild trader and don't routinely fill the slots. You can sell research items. They do sell, but not for a ton these days.

amgame308_ESO

Pickpocketing and safeboxes is not the way. It takes too long and you can only fence 140 items a day. Any video saying otherwise is made of lies.

PizzaCat82

Might be able to get 40-50k an hour doing speed runs of Malabal Tor or Reapers March public dungeon but you'll need to be geared for it, and its entirely dependant on how many people are in there doing the same thing. (farming for gold and drops)

MooseKnuckles88

I haven't read all the comments, but I find that there's money to be made doing pvp as well.

Cirantille

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

Cirantille wrote: »

bmnoble wrote: »

To be honest the other options for making gold tend to be hit and miss and rely heavily on RNG, that is why a lot of us do daily crafting writs for a reliable income source that takes a bit over an hour a day.

If there was some easy time efficient way to make the same amount of gold we would all be doing it instead or as well.

Selling crowns is probably the fastest but only if your rich and feel like wasting some of your money.

Selling carry runs of various content anything from Skyreach for xp grinding, to group content which requires an organized group, selling carry runs for vet content for vast sums but you only get your share of that vast sum, which for some people a few runs can be enough to pay for what they need for a week or more.

Other than that farming popular overland sets no guarantee you will get a good piece and takes a lot of time investment.

Thieving either making money by fencing stuff on multiple characters or laundering motifs and furniture plans your lucky enough to find while pickpocketing.

Daily quests for the motif drops to sell usually the newest zones have the most valuable motifs early on, like that new Wayward guardian motif at the moment.

Converting AP into gold via buying gold rings, triune trait mat, PVP motifs.

Converting Tel var into gold by buying those alchemy satchels and selling the mats, selling the Hakejo runes.

Fishing for perfect roe.

Decon all gear you don't need or want to give away to group members, from group content, certain DLC style mats can be worth a lot especially the ones used in popular furniture.

Farm mats in overland, suppose to be a new mythic item coming that further increases the chance of a double drop might be worth looking into.

Can't really think of much else of the top of my head.

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

If you have done crafting on 18 toons, then doing daily crafting writs on all of them is going to be about as efficient as you get with in game activities.

You can certainly play the flipping game, but that does take some skill, capital, and comes with some risk.

You can also look for trade partners if you have gold on one server but want it on another.

If your goal is really to be rich, a minimum wage job with the proceeds going to crown sales is admittedly hard to beat, but that seems a bit silly for a game if I am being honest.

Yeah, I was just wondering if there is something faster
But I know what you mean
It is reliable at least, which is why I done it every day for the last year
I did find such a kind soul (I love ESO community really ) who brought me some money on NA (I gave on EU) so I built my crafting business there too

By Crafting Business, do you mean doing writs? Or do you mean actually holding yourself out as a crafter for hire?

If you are going to spend one hour a day to make gold (about how long it takes to do 18 toons if you dont fool around), then there is no better activity in game then doing 7 daily writs on all your characters. Every farming activity, whether its picking flowers, selling telvar or or gear drops, whatever, are all going to net somewhere in the same range. The market determines the price of those items by how easy they are to acquire in terms of time spent. There are certainly outliers, and some things come with a higher skill requirement which might mean they fetch more gold, but most will tend to even out. All are going to generate less in an hour than just doing writs over the long haul (sure you might get really lucky with drops once in a while).

If you mean holding yourself out as a crafter, well, I stopped doing that about a year after launch. Everyone and their mother is a 9 trait crafter. It really comes down to selling mats, as most people just wont pay much for you to press a few buttons, and to be candid, its a massive headache dealing with people that have no idea what they actually want. Its easier just to sell excess mats in a trader. There is some money to be made if you have a guild trader and don't routinely fill the slots. You can sell research items. They do sell, but not for a ton these days.

Yeah I meant the writs,
You don't see so many people requesting crafters, you are right.
And even when they do, outfit system made styles easier to be used so it does not pay much...

Nowa133

C'mon, the most profitable way is selling crowns and everybody knows it. Some get huge sums by just selling the sub's crowns. You get more than 700k for your 1650 crowns monthly. (425 gold/1 crown) Fun how in other plataforms is 100/1...

JKorr

Simply picking flowers, mining ore, wood, and fiber nodes can get you quite a bit of gold.