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SirAndy wrote: »

sfradenb14_ESO wrote: »

No change

I just played with my level 22 DC alt last night and most of the time i get 2g-3g per mob.
;-)

This, and in VR zones I am getting 4-5 gold a kill

It's too bad they don't drop things other than gold that you could, you know, sell.

Weird, just last night I was getting 3 to 16 gold per multiple Mobs on my level 38 playing in Reaper's March and Malabal Tor. Single mobs usually give 1 or 2 coins.

Still, your not going to make money killing things in this game. Selling loot and quests are the way to get gold.

Gold is so easy to make in this game if one uses half his working brain... If mobs would drop more gold then the game would be full of bots farming gold...

Sure, the mob drops 5 gold. But it often also drops a green item i can sell for 50-60 gold at vr9. I have 150 inventory slots atm and i still have to often go to town to drop off the load of white/green junk i accumulated.

sfradenb14_ESO wrote: »

Uh, hello? ZOS, I asked a question and your not bothering to reply? That's quite rude.

But then again, customer service is certainly NOT one of your strong skills. Nor is programming, or fixing bugs, or prioritizing game repairs, or conceptualizing game systems, or living up to stated promises. Hmmm, what ARE you good at?

You posted a question on a forum. A question directed, apparently, at the whole company. Not generally a good way to get a reply.

Want to get a reply from a moderator? Send a pm; all of their names start with ZOS_

If you want gold, do quests or craft and sell. The sword-fodder level of grunt troops never have more than a few gold on them. Even the captains/commanders usually have only 10 or 12. Killing dozens of enemies might get you experience but it isn't going to make you rich.

DeLindsay wrote: »

sfradenb14_ESO wrote: »

Uh, hello? ZOS, I asked a question and your not bothering to reply? That's quite rude.

But then again, customer service is certainly NOT one of your strong skills. Nor is programming, or fixing bugs, or prioritizing game repairs, or conceptualizing game systems, or living up to stated promises. Hmmm, what ARE you good at?

You also got multiple correct responses from players. And you are sadly mistaken if you think ESO had the lowest coin drop rate of all MMO's. Besides as others pointed out you don't go out and kill 16K things to buy something for 16K gold, you do stuff like turn in quests that reward 35-400g+ each, sell things that drop from those same enemies, sell the stuff you loot from things like barrels and crates and resource nodes, etc.

NO.

I want him to kill 17k mudcrabs per horse.

While I don't agree with the direction ZOS keeps going with the economy, creature drops are actually pretty decent. Going out into a like-level zone, you can easily amass 100 items and about 200 - 1000g in an hour. The items can either be sold or broken down from there to gain more gold or materials you can sell. This is coming from a nightblade who doesn't spam AoE and kill things very fast. I'm sure others more efficiently could do better.

At VR1, it's definitely not 1g unless you're getting partial kill experience. Solo is always 4g to 5g.

Normal monsters drop lots of items which can be sold to NPC for about 50 gold each (average of weapons, armors and jewelry at VR 1). Then they also drop junk like Foul Hide, Ectoplasm, Deadra Husk, Roots, etc. which sell for up to 9 gold each. 2 minute intersection quests give you 75 gold as rewards (at VR 1), side quests around 300 gold each, larger quests up to 600 gold each. Daily quests in Cyrodiil (take about 3 minutes per quest) give you up to 300 gold each. Each Columbine, Bugloss, Lady's Smock, Mountain Flower you pick up is worth 100 gold to other players. Each chest you open has up to 67 gold inside + at least one item worth 50 gold or more. Each ressource node you farm in Craglorn has at least 10 gold worth of materials (a stack of 100 refined materials is 400 gold when you sell it to the NPC + you have a chance to get rare materials which you can sell to other players for a good price [purple and legendary improvement mats]). Each Rekuta or lv 9 potency rune you find is worth about 500 gold to other players. A lv 3 Hireling sends you materials worth about 500-1000 gold (average) per day.

And these are just the most obvious ways to gain gold It's not that hard to make some gold in ESO (But yes, buying your first horse and all bank updates later can take some time; about 20-30 hours until you can afford your first horse; don't repair your gear and just replace broken items by new items you find up to lv 50 so you don't lose any gold on repairs).

sfradenb14_ESO wrote: »

Uh, hello? ZOS, I asked a question and your not bothering to reply? That's quite rude.

But then again, customer service is certainly NOT one of your strong skills. Nor is programming, or fixing bugs, or prioritizing game repairs, or conceptualizing game systems, or living up to stated promises. Hmmm, what ARE you good at?

Your attitude is precious. If you want to contact customer support, direct the question in the customer support section or open a ticket, but don't think that stomping your feet in the general discussion subforum is going to get a CS response.

DeLindsay wrote: »

You also got multiple correct responses from players. And you are sadly mistaken if you think ESO had the lowest coin drop rate of all MMO's. Besides as others pointed out you don't go out and kill 16K things to buy something for 16K gold, you do stuff like turn in quests that reward 35-400g+ each, sell things that drop from those same enemies, sell the stuff you loot from things like barrels and crates and resource nodes, etc.

@DeLindsay
Sorry to highlight your post, but ESO players really need to start thinking a bit.

ESO IS an interactive MMO. Like it or not. Wanna make gold? Then do it! How? Up to you.

That's why quests give like 600 gold each.

sfradenb14_ESO wrote: »

Seriously zos, 1 gold piece a kill? Really? I figured it was because I was a low level char, so kept at it until I hit VR 1. No change. 16,000 things have to be killed just to get a mount. Could you please inform me as to why this drop rate is the worst in any game I have ever played?

maybe also sell the loot? and u get between 1 and 120 gold each mob..
this post is just.. wow..

Getting gold in ESO is really simple. All you have to do is grind, and grind, and grind. Did you buy ESO for questing, running dungeons, PvP? Then get a nice blanket because you'll be living on the street now.

All people saying "L2P Making 500K a day selling raws". Sorry, I didn't realise we were playing a korean game where grinding was the core game.
Run a dungeon (public or group): even if you didn't get killed once, you'll have to pay more for repairs than what you get from the mobs. Sure, you could play a mule and sell every VR item for it's 40 gold price...

It's pretty unimmersive killing a VR boss in an epic tomb full of "treasures" and he dropping 2 gold... You can get gold from the guild store, sure but with a gold drop so low from mobs in order for you to be rich, others have to be poor.

If you're gonna compare this to WoW remember that in WoW you don't have to sell every dirty sock you find in order to repair. And the ammount of gold from killing a 1 lvl mob is not even similar that from killing a lvl cap boss..

HurlinMerlin wrote: »

Looks to me that they have their l33t pick pocket skill maxed out at level 50... how else could they possibly keep pulling money from the wallet of such an unhappy subscriber!!

Some of us preordered, and took the really bad decision of paying for 6 months. Yeah, shame on us