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How much gold do you have?

Mayrael
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Could you please describe if you have more gold than you need, just enough, a little too little, or is there never enough gold? What do you spend the most on?
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"Difficulty scaling is desperately needed. 9 years. 6 paid expansions. 24 DLCs. 40 game changing updates including A Realm Reborn-tier overhaul of the game including a permanent CP160 gear cap and ridiculous power creep thereafter. I'm sick and tired of hearing about Cadwell Silver&Gold as a "you think you do but you don't"-tier deflection to any criticism regarding the lack of overland difficulty in the game." - @AlexanderDeLarge

How much gold do you have? 253 votes

Over 1.000.000.000
5%
Exeter411Deathgigglemeekmikophileunderx2agelonestarpaperwhiteAshrynHeelieFeakyCarlos93boi_anachronism_h9dlbSaffronCitrusflowerPanderbander 14 votes
500.000.000-999.999.999
3%
JoeCapricornRavensnutWolfkekssau02adgMithgilDjbutevalenwood_veganxbluerosesx 8 votes
100.000.000-499.999.999
13%
KikazarusupfreespiritZenodilParasaurolophusReverbShoegarshackDrScott59DojohodazNeoKatheriahFrancisCrawfordAnnieKtmbrinksKlauthWarthogredlink1979DukeCybranYandereGirlfriendjohnjetauWiseSky 33 votes
50.000.000-99.999.999
14%
NestorKhenarthizariaGroufanitajoneb17_ESOguulhondelinkshadyjane62LiedekeLady_SleeplessOberon45MrGarlicdeano469sp_korshunMiyukiShibaSeminolegirl1992ihazzitHamish999lemonizzlevgabor 36 votes
10.000.000-49.999.999
26%
PinesyJarndyceDarcyMardinWuffyCeruleiloaganb16_ESOValveHansKflizomicashandybjSFxxKANExxSaint-AngePathMashilleAndromeaKartalinVulsahdaalBatmannaVaranameekeyceeCGPsaint 67 votes
5.000.000-9.999.999
9%
chessalavakia_ESOdaryl.rasmusenb14_ESOkypranb14_ESODanikatlion_heart_2000ub17_ESOpavlaprovazrobwolf666Alpheu5Psychpsych13EmmagoldmanJierdanitcarthalisjaws343El_BorrachoPeacatcherN3CR01hiziumNoSoupFenris_ArainaiSnamyap 25 votes
1.000.000-4.999.999
16%
adyreonb14_ESOXelyumBlazynTreselegantCave_CanemXarcsunshineflamemenedhynbongtokin420insd16LadyHeloiseemilyhyoyeonSyiccalTheImperfectMAEKInaya1BenTSGKiralyn2000NyassaVStanxEnemoriana 41 votes
500.000-999.999
3%
SuddwrathAtreyixCastagereADarklorecrjs1GiuliettaJessieGoesBoomAthyrium93 8 votes
100.000-499.999
3%
HolycannoliKendaricphaneub17_ESOKallykatYe_Olde_CroweHlanuDarthCuddlefluffMesiteSandandStarsNotoriousBTK 10 votes
I'm broke :(
4%
AuroranGoldenEagleTylerDurdenRaptorRodeoGodjtm1018LugalduLalMirchiellmarieVulkunneNorthwoldderkaiserlicheChubaNinja 11 votes
  • Braffin
    Braffin
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    5.000.000-9.999.999
    As I refuse to buy from guild traders due to the flipping pest, the amount I have is more than enough. After buying the houses there is nothing left to spend it for.
    Never get between a cat and it's candy!
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    Overland difficulty scaling is desperately needed. 9 years. 6 paid expansions. 24 DLCs. 40 game changing updates including One Tamriel, an overhaul of the game including a permanent CP160 gear cap and ridiculous power creep thereafter. I'm sick and tired of hearing about Cadwell Silver & Gold as a "you think you do but you don't" - tier deflection to any criticism regarding the lack of overland difficulty in the game. I'm bored of dungeons, I'm bored of trials; make a personal difficulty slider for overland. It's not that hard.
  • TaSheen
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    5.000.000-9.999.999
    I have plenty - the total selected is across 3 accounts, both pc megaservers.
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    "But even in books, the heroes make mistakes, and there isn't always a happy ending." Mercedes Lackey, Into the West

    PC NA, PC EU (non steam)- four accounts, many alts....
  • FantasticFreddie
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    1.000.000-4.999.999
    I have 1.2 million, it's not quite enough to buy the new house unfortunately
  • Kendaric
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    100.000-499.999
    Roughly 300k between 27 characters (18 on PC EU and 9 PC NA). Most of my gold goes into motifs/style pages , furnishing plans and of course houses.
      PAWS (Positively Against Wrip-off Stuff) - Say No to Crown Crates!. Outfit slots not being accountwide is ridiculous given their price. PC EU/PC NA roleplayer and solo PvE quester
    • thorwyn
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      10.000.000-49.999.999
      About 40 mio in gold. No clue what to do with it.
      And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
      And if there is no room upon the hill
      And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
      I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
    • KlauthWarthog
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      100.000.000-499.999.999
      About 200 million gold, and nothing I care about to spend it on.
    • ihazzit
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      50.000.000-99.999.999
      I have it spread across 3 accounts as I used to be involved in a couple trade guilds but they were too serious and I don't have the time anymore. I purchase things here and there that I think are fair priced but rarely do I search for anything specific. It's my opinion that if you want to have the majority of items out there that can be purchased with gold then you'll need easily tens of millions over time. If you use gold to purchase available homes then at least 100 million over time.
      If you are angry about anything in this game you are only punishing yourself.
    • Taggund
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      50.000.000-99.999.999
      More than I need. Stopped doing daily writs on multiple characters as there is not a need to earn more. I also mostly stopped using guild traders other than the ones I'm in to buy as it is such a pain to use them. It will be nice to have some new items on the golden vendor (supposedly) and having a new house that can be bought with gold.
    • Kendaric
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      100.000-499.999
      thorwyn wrote: »
      About 40 mio in gold. No clue what to do with it.

      Well.... if you don't know what to do with it, I'll take a few millions off your hand ;)
        PAWS (Positively Against Wrip-off Stuff) - Say No to Crown Crates!. Outfit slots not being accountwide is ridiculous given their price. PC EU/PC NA roleplayer and solo PvE quester
      • Dark_Lord_Kuro
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        10.000.000-49.999.999
        About 12 million wich is more than enough on console
      • AzuraFan
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        1.000.000-4.999.999
        Just over 1 million. I don't sell stuff in a guild store, so I never have much gold.
      • Elrond87
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        3m atm but it ranges i go through phase of selling only then buying only few hundred mil to 1mil, spend most on furnish and motifs
        PC|EU
        cp2698
        20 characters
      • Katheriah
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      • Jarndyce
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        10.000.000-49.999.999
        As a casual player playing since beta, over 18 million on 15 characters. I don't use guild traders very often.
      • logan68
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        10.000.000-49.999.999
        i've built mine up through writs and selling mats. I love my guild i've doubled my gold since i joined them earlier this year. I of course want more just cause its really my end game.
      • phaneub17_ESO
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        100.000-499.999
        It usually sits around here, I buy a lot of furnishing plans and materials. As a solo player without any guilds, I can make 750k a week so getting it back isn't an issue, in a month its back to 3 million then I go splurging it all over again.
      • Nestor
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        50.000.000-99.999.999
        I just broke 50 Million this morning.

        I dont play the economy, i just shed excess inventory
        Enjoy the game, life is what you really want to be worried about.

        PakKat "Everything was going well, until I died"
        Gary Gravestink "I am glad you died, I needed the help"

      • valenwood_vegan
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        500.000.000-999.999.999
        Since I can't buy crates with it anymore... a lot.
      • emilyhyoyeon
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        1.000.000-4.999.999
        in GOLD like liquid assets I have only about 2m right now. I spend a lot of money on house furnishings. If I never bought any house stuff, I'd probably have about 20m.
        IGN @ emilypumpkin
        Zirasia Firemaker, imperial fire mage & sunbather
        Deebaba Soul-Weaver, argonian ghostminder & soul gem collector
        Tullanisse Starborne, altmer battlemage & ayleid researcher

        BLACK HAIR FOR ALTMER PLEASE (hair color cosmetic pack)
      • Dr_Con
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        50.000.000-99.999.999
        can easily make more if required, just don't see a need to. I'm not into cosmetics or housing that much, but I will buy some gold vendor jewelry if I think I'll use it some point.
      • Michae
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        1.000.000-4.999.999
        I usually go up to 10 million, then go on shopping spree. Right now I'm at 3,5 million and I'm working it back up, but honestly there's nothing much I'd like to spend it on.
        "I bear the cruel weight of certainty. Total, absolute, relentless certainty. People rarely comprehend the luxury of doubt... the freedom that comes with indecision. I envy you."
        Sotha Sil

        @Michae PC/EU
      • Kallykat
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        100.000-499.999
        I could maybe scrape together 100K if I shake down all my characters. Maybe.

        How do people have so much gold? I'm hearing writs and guild traders. Is that really it? I feel like I'm missing something more.
      • Lumenn
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        About 15m. I just spent 8m and 11k crowns on a house build, but I like to keep about 20m, which is more than enough for console.
      • TaSheen
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        I've been playing for six years this month. I have spent some gold on gear, and a few houses, some furnishings, the occasional motif. I don't even do writs on more than a couple characters on my first two accounts, and only one on my third account (so 8 and 2 - because I play all three accounts on both PC megaservers).

        For instance - I don't have any use for the "house for gold" in this chapter because it's Dunmeri. So not my thing at all. And the ship house will be crowns - I'll buy it eventually (unless it's limited time - then I won't buy it at all probably).

        There's just not a lot for me to spend gold on....
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        "But even in books, the heroes make mistakes, and there isn't always a happy ending." Mercedes Lackey, Into the West

        PC NA, PC EU (non steam)- four accounts, many alts....
      • Ashryn
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        Over 1.000.000.000
        I answered wrong and picked the wrong category since I didn't have my glasses on. I'm almost 50 million. I do spend at guild traders for furnishing plans or for the occasional motif, bought some houses with gold that I really don't need, and wish that there was more in the game to spend gold on. I could make a ton more gold easily, but really, there isn't much point. I do wish there was an easy way on PC to convert gold to crowns without placing trust in random strangers or having to download Discord.
      • FeedbackOnly
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        30 million without selling crowns

        Bought 3300 crowns at 1:1300 recently so was higher before shopping spree.

        😝 I still won't pay for wayshrines unless I want to treat myself to something extra special.
        Edited by FeedbackOnly on June 11, 2023 5:13PM
      • WithMyLaserGun
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        Kallykat wrote: »
        I could maybe scrape together 100K if I shake down all my characters. Maybe.

        How do people have so much gold? I'm hearing writs and guild traders. Is that really it? I feel like I'm missing something more.

        Check out Arttea on YT, her tips might be able to help you :smile:
      • CGPsaint
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        Sitting on around 35m in gold, which is more than enough for the time being. My main crafter knows all provisioning recipes, and all available motif chapters, so the only thing that I have left to spend gold on is a handful of furnishing plans that are eluding me. Gold is just gold. What I really enjoy hoarding is completed Writ Vouchers, of which I'm currently sitting right around 80K banked. I've been lazy recently, but I have somewhere around 250-300 master writs that I need to find the time to complete.
        "Some enjoy bringing grief to others. They remind M'aiq of mudcrabs—horrible creatures, with no redeeming qualities."
      • LannStone
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        Around 100 million on PC NA
        More than I need other than watching the numbers go up
        Did I choose the right category?
        It's hard to read with all those zeroes
        For example, 100M to 500M would have been a lot easier to comprehend
        Also, I believe PC and console need to be separate, since they're entirely separate economies

        Edited by LannStone on June 11, 2023 6:30PM
      • chessalavakia_ESO
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        Kallykat wrote: »
        I could maybe scrape together 100K if I shake down all my characters. Maybe.

        How do people have so much gold? I'm hearing writs and guild traders. Is that really it? I feel like I'm missing something more.

        Writs are horrendously excessive in the amount that they reward for the effort required both when it comes to gold and materials.

        With Guild Traders, you can make money by flipping or providing things that people want.

        For example, the recent Chapter added some new public dungeons and one of the drops from the new public dungeon is a
        Lost Graht-Oak Acorn.

        If you collect enough of them you can get a cute squirrel pet.

        However, the way public dungeon drops are set up is that the first drop from public dungeons comes easy each day and then after that it's a horrible grind.

        Thus, players that are in a hurry to get the squirrel will pay a bunch of gold to get other players drops. Right now on PC the cheapest one is like 70,000 gold.

        So, you can make a sizeable chunk of money in likely less than five minutes if you are willing to burn your accounts easy daily public dungeon drop on an item you'll just sell.

        (Do note that every day the price will drop as more will go up for sale and you'll start to run out of people willing to pay big premiums to get the items because they'll already have the amount that they want)

        Another example would be that an event late this month/early next month is coming that drops a new style of armor and weapons.

        YVpEkfyRzKi2RpzDVt07KEMtIIX9Hi37JoVjVjZj_xlarge.jpg

        If you do the event and get the drops every day and sell them rather than using them yourself, you'll likely be able to make a few million.

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