Gold drops from monsters,containers ect need to change

SlyFox1979 · April 2014

this makes no sense to me at all why i'm finding a few gold here and there on monsters including bosses but the repair bills you get from damaged gear and even dying is way more costly then the gold your gaining from quest rewards and monster drops & containers.

I currently am TRYING to save to do a respec and its not helping that i can't save enough gold because of the repairs,travelling with wayshrines,dying ect.
if i'm the only one really concerned with this problem i'll be damned.
currently my bill to respec i think is near 6k gold and i can't save that up to save my life and i'm currently lvl 30 sorc

what i'm asking for is devs to increase gold drops. its impossible for me to save up for respec or buy anything big when i'm bombarded with repairs,deaths and very little gold income from other sources aside from quest rewards.

this is one of many problems i have with this game but i figure post them here and address them one at a time maybe somebody in zenimax will change things.

crush83 · April 2014

You're going to hear a lot of "newb respecs are so cheap already L2P". My condolences.

Personally, I think respec should be free, with a cooldown, and the restriction that you have to be in town to respec. Skyshards should give you extra attribute points, rather than skill points.

This would encourage people to learn their class better, instead of being stuck with whatever crappy build they come up with on their first attempt.

Knottypine · April 2014

I feel your pain. I have no idea how much playing people are doing to accumulate so much wealth. Repairs are super expensive. So far I've been avoiding repairing all together and just craft new gear since it's much cheaper. But my fear is once high level, gear will become more specialized and will become much harder to just craft new sets.

SlyFox1979 · April 2014

I'm using the 3pc warlock set and some decent gear nothing is crafted mostly quest rewards and monster drops and this stuff is getting stupid expensive and like i said my respec every time i check on it its going up so when i do finally respec i will be broke as hell.

yeah i do agree have restrictions of being in town only and respecs should be free or at least really really cheap. i just checked my respec is now 6100g for skill points alone. what the hell ?

everytime i use a wayshine to travel the price seems to go up now the price from where i was in one of the lower zones to elder root went up from 109 to 175g as i was going to check no respec price so effectively i lost some gold that would've been a little closer to affording my first respec and made it even harder.

stefaan.de.wasch1b16_ESO · April 2014

Knottypine wrote: »

I feel your pain. I have no idea how much playing people are doing to accumulate so much wealth.

Personaly I'm doing rather well financialy just by deconstructing gear I find and remaking it into items and selling those to vendors. Oke sometimes you'll have to buy the style mats but those cost 15 gold and selling the stuff for 36+ means over 100% pure profit

Ofcourse items you find with "sells to vendor for xxx %" you just sell outright as there's some nice profit on those.

If you tap every resource node you see you'll end up with quite some cash if you turn it into items and you'll slowly level you crafting skills

Crafting is an often forgotten virtue in all the Elder Scroll Games... well from III on at least.

SlyFox1979 · April 2014

stefaan.de.wasch1b16_ESO wrote: »

Knottypine wrote: »

I feel your pain. I have no idea how much playing people are doing to accumulate so much wealth.

Personaly I'm doing rather well financialy just by deconstructing gear I find and remaking it into items and selling those to vendors. Oke sometimes you'll have to buy the style mats but those cost 15 gold and selling the stuff for 36+ means over 100% pure profit

Ofcourse items you find with "sells to vendor for xxx %" you just sell outright as there's some nice profit on those.

If you tap every resource node you see you'll end up with quite some cash if you turn it into items and you'll slowly level you crafting skills

Crafting is an often forgotten virtue in all the Elder Scroll Games... well from III on at least.

well i've been collecting mats to level crafting and breaking items and recycling mats so never sell to venders so selling armor/weapons is wasting materials to me but i see your point in making some gold but this is why i'm complaining about other ways to get gold and the fact the bosses and all we kill on our adventures don't drop squat.

Sinoby · April 2014

While I agree, that gold drops from mobs should increase, I'll try to give you some hints:

There is no point in sticking to specific sets until you get to VR, better just upgrade gear when you can from quests, or try to craft your own gear.

Join a trade guild,and sell set items and blues on the guild shop.

Gather resources, I'd suggest to specialize in one-two professions to save inventory space. Sell all spare materials in either guild bank or using zone chat of appropriate zone. It is not hard, and you get decent amount of money.

Best of luck

Daverios · April 2014

No issues here only change I would like it auto looted coin. Annoying to have to loot a body for 3gold.

Highly suggest not paying for way shrines. You can use for free if at a wayshrine. You probably spent more on fast travel than a respec would be.

ijRoberts · April 2014

Why are you paying to travel? If you travel from wayshrine to wayshrine it's free.

Mace · April 2014

I feel like I'm in crazy town.
I'm almost VR 4 and I haven't had a repair bill much above 2k.
Maybe I'm just not paying attention.

Dalriaden · April 2014

I've respec'd 3 times. I'm pretty happy with my dk for now but it's possible I'll respec again in the future. Quest, make 200-600 gold per turn in. Mobs drop gold, they also drop items such as armor or weapons that instead of deconstructing I vendor when I'm poor. Making 10k in a day is easily doable just from quests and vendoring everything you pick up.
Making gold in this game is so much easier then WoW and therefore it's prices for repairs are inflated.

I just find it annoying a merchant can fix my gear but I can't build my own repair kits.

redwoodtreesprite · April 2014

A suggestion I have given in another MMO, modified to fit this game:

Join a couple large trade guilds, ones with a lot of members and an active guild store. Collect everything, bust down the wood, cloth and hide stuff, and post the ore. I have been consistently selling the lowest tier of unprocessed ore for 1K a stack. This adds up.

Arsenic_Touch · April 2014

The gold drops are fine. Adding more will just inflate the economy. You already get quite a bit of gold from questing and selling items. Learn to manage your items better. Sell off profession items you aren't leveling, break down the greens you find. It adds up. Also, don't get attached to lower level items, it's cheaper to replace them instead of repair them. So make a new set of armor every so often instead of breaking of repair it.

SlyFox1979 · April 2014

well i'm currently having trouble getting materials together to make myself some new gear. my focus on crafting to master is enchanting,clothier,woodworking two out of those three will be my masters not sure which yet but i am have trouble getting mats and once i do and i try to upgrade them into greens or blues it usually fails and i lose what i made which really blows.

Natjur · April 2014

At V2, mobs drop 5 gold and ever fourth kill, they drop at least item that sells for 70+ gold

But repairs cost 2k.... still getting 10k an hour from just normal play (doing quests)

Once you have maxed out a tradeskill 'breakdown' bonus. Breaking down a green has a 90% chance of getting a 'green' upgrade part, which sells well to players still. So I only sell 'whites' to the merchants and break the rest down.

Moloyo · August 2014

Yeah... You can make gold in ESO, sure. Most of it grinding motifs or raws and selling it to other people who actually plays the game. You run a dungeon and you have to pay 10 times more for repairing your armor than what you got from mobs. Even if you didn't die.
Stop licking Zenimax's butt in EVERY decision without even considering if it's a good one or not

Xnemesis · August 2014

Respec on Monday when the patch drops they will be dirt cheap for a few weeks supposedly.

Artemiisia · August 2014

in the upcoming feature around champion levels, they talked about, being able to put points into getting more gold from mobs drops, how much they didnt mention.

Though, you will probably never be able to have that as your main source of income in the game.

SirAndy · August 2014

How much jute do you really need? Store a few stacks in the bank and then, after extracting mats from raw jute, sell additional stacks for 400 gold each.

Sell all white loot items (except if they have a trait you need to research).
By now, your craft should be at an level where white items don't give you any noticeable XP anymore when deconstructed, so turn them into money.

Collect provisioning mats and turn them into food and drinks and turn around and sell that to vendors. Invest a skillpoint or two into making multiples and you got some easy money right there. Provisioning mats are stupendously plentiful ...

;-)

Natjur · August 2014

(1) NEVER pay for a teleport, just use the port to guild member option which will move you to a wayshrine and then port from there for free. If you are playing for a teleport you are doing it wrong.

(2) Damage to armor (excluding deaths) is based on exp received and level of armor compared to your level. Not how much your getting hit.
If you kill mobs for hours that give no exp, and your armor is the same level as you, your armor will not be damaged. (unless you die)

But if your getting lots of exp, your armor will be dead in hours. Also if your armor is more then 5 levels difference to your level, it will break within 1hr of killing.

So.... if your leveling fast, don't repair, armor means little anymore, just ignore it or if your a trade skiller, make a new set every 5 levels. Do not waste money on repairs.

Dubah · August 2014

TBH, ive never had any issue with cash, constantly repaired never sold any crafting items to anyone or any merchant, questing and killing made more than enough money for me, and when i say more than enough i mean i had that 17k horse by about level 18 and still at level 50 i walked away with about 100k, maybe a little more. I don't know what you are doing maybe the gear you are wearing is too low of a level cause i think, and dont quote me on it, that gear decays faster if you are over its level (by 5 or something like that). I would recommend crafting, when 1 set of my armor broke i just made a new set for free instead of reapiring until i hit 50 thats when i actually started to repair armor... I'd give whatever you are doing a second thought, also i hear there will either be a reduced cost or free respec coming soon with the 1.3 patch... No idea if its been confirmed or not

Taleof2Cities · August 2014

Xnemesis wrote: »

Respec on Monday when the patch drops they will be dirt cheap for a few weeks supposedly.

Yes, they said the respec would drop for a few weeks due to all the skill changes ... this is your chance!

Auralia · August 2014

It is crazy and too expensive, I think like some other games the respec should cost a percentage of your total gold.

GFBStarWars · August 2014

shouldn't make money from gold drops.

Delte · August 2014

I make all my own armour and weapons now at veteran rank 2 and the repair bills are not that bad. I sell alchemy potions I make, quest and look for resources and I am making money hand over fist. Just last night with 3 hours play I made 3k gold from just questing alone.

Most days I log on to find 3 or 4 mails from the guild store saying my items have sold.

DontBeAfraid · August 2014

Auralia wrote: »

It is crazy and too expensive, I think like some other games the respec should cost a percentage of your total gold.

what?
i currently have over 3million gold. u want me to pay like 30k for a repair or what?