ESO Golden Vendor Items Week 50

BasP

This weekend, the Golden Vendor offers:

• Grundwulf (Arm Cops / Epaulets / Pauldrons, Infused / Impenetrable, 100,000 gold / 200,000 AP)
• Thurvokun (Arm Cops / Epaulets / Pauldrons, Infused / Impenetrable, 100,000 gold / 200,000 AP)
• War Maiden (Ring, Arcane, 125,000 gold / 225,000 AP)
• Way of Air (Ring, Robust, 125,000 gold / 225,000 AP)
• Essence Thief (Ring, Robust, 200,000 gold / 375,000 AP)
• Noble Duelist's Silks (Ring, Arcane, 200,000 gold / 375,000 AP)

I believe Essence Thief is nice for PvP and Noble Duelist can be good for (solo) Heavy Attack builds? Though in the case of Noble Duelist you'd preferably use the body pieces, which makes the the ring less useful.

XSTRONG

Essence of Thief really good set for some pvp builds and Solo pve but who will buy it for 200k gold when on pseu it costs 40k to upgrade to gold quality?

TaSheen

Thanks BasP!

XSTRONG wrote: »

Essence of Thief really good set for some pvp builds and Solo pve but who will buy it for 200k gold when on pseu it costs 40k to upgrade to gold quality?

Someone who doesn't do crafting, someone who doesn't own Summerset of course....

LalMirchi

Thank you BasP

XSTRONG

TaSheen wrote: »

Thanks BasP!

XSTRONG wrote: »

Essence of Thief really good set for some pvp builds and Solo pve but who will buy it for 200k gold when on pseu it costs 40k to upgrade to gold quality?

Someone who doesn't do crafting, someone who doesn't own Summerset of course....

So how do that person get a gold weapon?

Juju_beans

Thank you. Gonna pick up those crit shoulders for my stash for my alts when they grow up

Calastir

With the game economy being as bad as it is, I can't afford to keep up with these weekly sales any more.

robpr

XSTRONG wrote: »

Essence of Thief really good set for some pvp builds and Solo pve but who will buy it for 200k gold when on pseu it costs 40k to upgrade to gold quality?

It's more of 'pay to bypass the stickerbook hunt' kind of deal, not the upgrade cost.

BasP

robpr wrote: »

XSTRONG wrote: »

Essence of Thief really good set for some pvp builds and Solo pve but who will buy it for 200k gold when on pseu it costs 40k to upgrade to gold quality?

It's more of 'pay to bypass the stickerbook hunt' kind of deal, not the upgrade cost.

Yeah, I was contemplating buying it myself for that reason because I don't do a ton of dungeons and hadn't done WGT before.

In the case of Essence Thief, buying Unidentified Essence Thief Items for 80 Tel Var per piece from the vendor in the Daedric Embers Trophy Vault might be better suited for that purpose though (unless someone only needs the ring I suppose). It's what I ended up doing, and now my Essence Thief sticker book is almost complete after spending only 2160 Tel Var or so. I got a ring in the second coffer I opened as well.

WhiteCoatSyndrome

Thank you!

Desiato

Most pvp players I know consider the Golden Vendor in dire need of an update.

What changed? Jewelry used to be 20x more expensive to upgrade to gold and undaunted shoulders are now curated, resulting in a much lower undaunted key cost.

Regardless of whether some players still find it useful, the items offered are now objectively and significantly less valuable. This is important because of the role the Golden Vendor is intended to play in rewarding pvp players and encouraging new players to try pvp.

I think revamping the Golden Vendor would be a good opportunity for ZOS to explore ways to allow players to spend more time pvping and less time grinding dungeons -- which would help drive ava and bg usage.