Best ways to accumulate gold in ESO - how rich are you?

Gyudan · October 2014

Lord_Draevan wrote: »

Lots of people got millions of gold in the early game by duplicating/selling high-value items.
Also by farming valuable Styles and selling them before the drop rates got nerfed.

I hope that all those players got banned.

I have around 3M in bank at the moment, 10 different 42K horses, all bank/inventory upgrades on my 8 characters, many full legendary sets to choose from and enough materials left to craft all the potions, foods and gear that I will ever need.

In ESO there is very little to do with gold after you've upgraded your inventory and horses. I hope the devs add some kind of useful gold sink like housing in the not too distant future.

Cazic · October 2014

Nestor wrote: »

If I need to make a quick 20K, I farm public dungeons or the road outside the Vile Lab (although that will get nerfed with 1.5 for VR2 and above). In about an hour I can loot enough to sell to Vendors for base price to get 20K. I will keep the Blue and better items, or any set items I might get to sell in the Guild Stores.

Sounds good, thanks.

On that note, what are your guys' guidelines for which items to vendor, and which to auction, etc?

Since I've got my crafting skills up high enough to craft all my own gear for use, I basically follow this:

Common/junk items - sell to vendor
Green items - dismantle for crafting mats and exp
Green items with traits - research or sell to vendor
Blue or better - dismantle if i need tempers, or sell in guild store

Of course there are a lot of variables so the above rules don't apply all the time, but generally I keep those in mind when unloading my loot.

Ganacampo · October 2014

The most I had with one character was 42k to buy a horse.

Most of my characters are pretty poor.

itsBishop · October 2014

Cazic wrote: »

On that note, what are your guys' guidelines for which items to vendor, and which to auction, etc?

I tend to vendor everything blue and below, as I rarely run low on green/blue refining materials and I find the time investment it takes to list/monitor minor items on the guild store is not worth the payout. Of course, you should research what you can when you can. Nestor's suggestion about farming public dungeons and/or Coldharbour is spot on. The ability to level skill lines while farming loot is what makes this worthwhile.

Nestor · October 2014

Cazic wrote: »

On that note, what are your guys' guidelines for which items to vendor, and which to auction, etc?

It all depends. If I am leveling a crafter by deconstructing things, then it all gets deconstructed. If I need upgrade mats, then Green or better gets deconstructed, sell the Whites. If I want to make gold, I follow the guidelines above.

Now, as to Guild Stores, where you get a much better price for most items that are worth selling. If it's rare I sell it in the Guild Stores. If it's common, it gets Vendored.

I will sell common jewelry for 100 for non set items, set jewelry for 200 gold, unless it's rare or desired, then I check the stores and price accordingly.
Motifs, I have one copy of each in case I ever make another crafter, but all other motifs I sell.
I will sell mats for 600 to 800 or so.
I also make items just for people to research traits that I sell for 200 gold.
I never sell alchemy or provisioning stuff, but if I did, it would be at a Guild Store.
I also sell Glyphs in the Guild store, the ones I make that is, the ones I find get deconstructed.
I have never sold upgrade mats, but if I did, it would be in the guild stores.
I sell Green Recipes for 25/27, blue ones for 50, purple ones for whatever I think I can get.
Set armors I will sell for 500 gold or so, again checking stores to get a price range. Pay attention to the level of the items when pricing, VR stuff sells for more than L20 stuff of the same set.

MissBizz · October 2014

I am just starting to make money, but thank goodness for imperial edition or I probably still wouldn't have a horse. Depends on your play style I guess. What hindered me is I was crafting in all professions on an alt (that I actually also play) so I never sold gear. It was either kept for research or deconstructed. Now I am starting g to sell food, potions, and excess mats therefore I am making more money.

michaelb14a_ESO2 · October 2014

LonePirate wrote: »

@Cazic You should cancel the listing in the store and relist it at a higher price. If it is the Consummate Breton Stew recipe, I will pay a nice price for it.

Those no longer drop in the game

Cazic · October 2014

MissBizz wrote: »

What hindered me is I was crafting in all professions on an alt (that I actually also play) so I never sold gear. It was either kept for research or deconstructed.

Yeah, that is basically the issue I've run into as well, when it comes to substantially increasing my funds. Sometimes it's hard to decide which items to reserve for crafting, and which to sell. I've balanced it fairly well, I think, so I've never been too poor and my chosen crafting skills are at a reasonable level. But like you said, it all depends on your play style - those who devote a lot of time and have several alts will of course have more gold.

ExiledKhallisi · October 2014

Public dungeons are good. for money runs dont decon anything sell it all.

But there are places.... that most people just dont blurt out loud to avoid it being nerfed.

Most gold I have ever had was 540k

starlizard70ub17_ESO · October 2014

Cazic wrote: »

Is provisioning very profitable in general?

I currently do smith/cloth/woodwork and don't find there's much money to be made there from the items I actually craft. Maybe I should take up provisioning on the side.

I make ok money selling high end tri-pots and provisions. but I found the biggest advantage about maxing alchemy and provisioning was the gold I saved making my own stuff instead of having to buy them

thesilverball_ESO · October 2014

You can easily burn though gold pretty quick if you want in this game but I find it's not hard to acquire either. Crafting/grinding dungeons and then selling, etc especially with higher level loot will gain gold pretty quick. I'm not a crafter and have probably spent 150K so far and still have 120K available. Most of my gold has been from selling loot that I acquired from PVE questing but I also know a good grind will net gold quickly if done right.

ryanmjmcevoy_ESO · October 2014

To the multiple people who brought up tri-pots for making money: you make more money by selling individual ingredients than you do tri-pots. The trip-pots are sold at a loss compared to the prices of the ingredients. You only make money on tri-pots if you farm all your reagents, and even then you'd be better off selling those for more money. The alchemy market is all kinds of screwed up.

Surfinginhawaii · October 2014

Gyudan wrote: »

Lord_Draevan wrote: »

Lots of people got millions of gold in the early game by duplicating/selling high-value items.
Also by farming valuable Styles and selling them before the drop rates got nerfed.

I hope that all those players got banned.

I have around 3M in bank at the moment, 10 different 42K horses, all bank/inventory upgrades on my 8 characters, many full legendary sets to choose from and enough materials left to craft all the potions, foods and gear that I will ever need.

In ESO there is very little to do with gold after you've upgraded your inventory and horses. I hope the devs add some kind of useful gold sink like housing in the not too distant future.

Damn, you're like the Warren Buffett of ESO

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Ourorboros · October 2014

I'm surprised that more people don't have lots of gold. I recently hit 1 million g until I bought a few nirnhoned items for research. It's easy enough to make gold consistently using enchanting, alchemy, and provisioning, as well as selling select mats and tempers. And there is little need to spend gold except on repairs. My bank is not maxed out, both my horses are the 1g Imperial. If I sell an Ancient Elf motif I found recently, I should be back to a million. I hope future upgrades will afford me a chance to spend some

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spryler · October 2014

The best way to make gold in these types of games is to NOT spend gold. Start tradeskills early and work on them as you level. Only use dropped or crafted gear (farmed/hireling ingredients only).

It is a rare day when I spend any sizable amount of money on anything.

I started the game well after the launch so I got a late start. I have two v14 characters. I leveled one up to v11, then restarted and leveled the other up to v14. Then I went back and leveled the v11 up to v14. I did this by doing Caldwell Silver and Gold on both chars, then Craglorn Grinding. They both barely hit v14 last weekend, so very recently.

I have around 180 k gold, just saved up from selling items/completing quests. I got a very slow start though. I was constantly buying bag and bank space. I also deconstructed EVERYTHING for awhile so I didn't get income that way for a long time. But now I have 4 characters that are 3/3 hirelings in Blacksmithing, Clothing, Woodworking, Enchanting and Provisioning.

Become self sufficient. Don't spend money.

Leeric · October 2014

ryanmjmcevoy_ESO wrote: »

I'm not very good at making money, being that alchemy is not a money maker, but I'm very good at saving my money.

Alchemy can be a very profitable profession. If you make the VR5 Bugloss/Columbine/Mountain Flower tri-pot, you can sell a stack of them for 8K-10K in Cyrodiil. You will need to decide if that is worth the time needed to farm 25 of each plant along with 25 Cloud Mist.[/quote]

Ill let you on a little secret, go to craglorn, farm mats. They have a lot of flowers and cloud mist. More so that any other zone I've been to. Upper Craglorn especially.

Erock25 · October 2014

Gyudan wrote: »

Lord_Draevan wrote: »

Lots of people got millions of gold in the early game by duplicating/selling high-value items.
Also by farming valuable Styles and selling them before the drop rates got nerfed.

I hope that all those players got banned.

I have around 3M in bank at the moment, 10 different 42K horses, all bank/inventory upgrades on my 8 characters, many full legendary sets to choose from and enough materials left to craft all the potions, foods and gear that I will ever need.

In ESO there is very little to do with gold after you've upgraded your inventory and horses. I hope the devs add some kind of useful gold sink like housing in the not too distant future.

Did you make a majority of your gold from crafting for other players? I can craft a lot of stuff but I just can't find a market of reliable customers. I have about 100k gold and have only purchased 1 horse and a few legendary glyphs.

Sublime · October 2014

Gyudan wrote: »

Lord_Draevan wrote: »

Lots of people got millions of gold in the early game by duplicating/selling high-value items.
Also by farming valuable Styles and selling them before the drop rates got nerfed.

I hope that all those players got banned.

I have around 3M in bank at the moment, 10 different 42K horses, all bank/inventory upgrades on my 8 characters, many full legendary sets to choose from and enough materials left to craft all the potions, foods and gear that I will ever need.

In ESO there is very little to do with gold after you've upgraded your inventory and horses. I hope the devs add some kind of useful gold sink like housing in the not too distant future.

How did you manage to get so much gold together? O.O (Just curios)

Mountain_Dewed · October 2014

The easiest way to make gold is on the ground. There is stuff growing everywhere and all you have to do is go pick it up. It may get boring to do but even doing while questing can make you at least 1k and hour and that's not bad if you always seem to be in need of funds.

Always right down what you see players asking for in chat, this is when I started always being ahead on gold and not worrying anymore because I started keeping what players asked for and sure enough, someone would ask for it later and I would have a stack(100) to sell and there ya go, 1k-10k usually depending on what it was ofc.

I have figured out other ways also but some things can't be shared or the gold goes away.

timidobserver · October 2014

Enchanting was extremely profitable when the game launched. I made a couple 100k just from buying mats off of guild stores and selling enchants. However, the desperate people that will undercut until all value is lost eventually got their enchanting leveled up and now there isn't really any value in doing it unless you farm your own mats.

Now, I pretty much just do vet dungeons/trials and set whatever set items I find that have some value.

PBpsy · October 2014

Dirt poor but mostly self sufficiency in this game. I make everything for myself and I crafted quite a few legendary sets and have no problem crafting purple sets whenever I want to experiment. I do not like trading at all so I like that I can do everything myself .The only thing is that some of the end game like DSA just doesn't pay for itself.One DSA run costs me ~5k even if I don't die much.

LunaRae · October 2014

Leveled up my Templar from V1 - V6 from Cyrodiil dailies ONLY. 300gold per quest turn in, 50 quests (rounded) per day, 3 days to level up from one VR to the next = 750 dailies x 302gold per turn in = 226,500gold in 15 days (roughly 2.5 hours of game time to finish 50 dailies).

Zhoyzu · October 2014

i collect, gather, acquire, craft everything myself. so i dont know how much gold i have. i give some away from time to time to friends in need. never tallied it all up though

Gyudan · October 2014

Erock25 wrote: »

Did you make a majority of your gold from crafting for other players? I can craft a lot of stuff but I just can't find a market of reliable customers. I have about 100k gold and have only purchased 1 horse and a few legendary glyphs.

Sublime wrote: »

How did you manage to get so much gold together? O.O (Just curios)

I made maybe 200-300k selling Way of the Arena gear back when it was supposed to give 400 armor. I crafted a few dozens of other sets as well but mostly for guildies and for free. There isn't much profit to do from crafting, unless you enjoy riding from one crafting station to another, switching characters and asking the same questions again and again to figure out what your client wants.
Now I just collect materials from hirelings and sell what I can through guild stores.
There is some gold to be made from lucky jewelry drops in the veteran dragonstar arena as well (healer and footman sets).

Audigy · October 2014

Cazic wrote: »

Hey all,
What are some of the best ways you've found to accumulate gold in ESO?

What is the most gold you've had?

I was talking to a friend last night who was surprised that I could afford to buy a second horse for ~40K. He just hit VR1 and said he's never had much more than around 20K gold. That seems pretty low, so I'm sure there's room for improvement there.

The most I've had at one time was around 65K, then I bought a horse and respec'd a few times. Now I sit around the 20-30K mark at VR3. I feel that's decent but not great either. Pretty sure I've read others stating they've made millions - though I am pretty causal compared to some.

Most I had was 11k, I bought a bank slot and went down to 0 or so

I am still without a horse, guess I belong to those who are poor

Qyrk · October 2014

I've made 250k in the last two days just farming for collectibles (for the achievements) - deconning raw mats and selling tempers, selling vet glyphs (even I undersell at 50g a piece), sell every single item in the bag.

Brought my net gold to 750k - highest I've gone so far.

Shader_Shibes · October 2014

Currently have about 460k on my main. Reason is, i was hacked, lost all my goods and ZOS refunded me about 650k. I did have a lot of legendary, epic etc mats though and about 250k gold. My provisioning and enchanting alt (VR13) has about 60k, my other alt, VR4 has 100k and my lvl 29 alt has 20k+.

I remember selling 2 epic motifs a while ago to one dude for 200k, good times!

Unknown_poster · October 2014

Sublime wrote: »

Gyudan wrote: »

Lord_Draevan wrote: »

Lots of people got millions of gold in the early game by duplicating/selling high-value items.
Also by farming valuable Styles and selling them before the drop rates got nerfed.

I hope that all those players got banned.

I have around 3M in bank at the moment, 10 different 42K horses, all bank/inventory upgrades on my 8 characters, many full legendary sets to choose from and enough materials left to craft all the potions, foods and gear that I will ever need.

In ESO there is very little to do with gold after you've upgraded your inventory and horses. I hope the devs add some kind of useful gold sink like housing in the not too distant future.

How did you manage to get so much gold together? O.O (Just curios)

Its not that difficult if you've been playing since the beginning. I have around 2 mill spread out among my characters. I have 6 active that I play. I get 30 crafting mails every 12 hours and I log on a pretty regular schedule to collect em. I get a stack of wax every couple weeks and a stack of rosin and tempers about once a month just from the mails and refining the mats that come in the mails. Sell the stacks of mats for 250k for wax and 300k for the other two. As mentioned above, once you've maxed the bank, bought any extra horses you feel like, and splurged on anything else that is fotm, there isn't anything to really spend gold on. I run trials on two toons once a week for the weekly, and since they're pretty much on farm now the repair costs are nothing. Take the two skill points in the soul line and never use a shard. Unless you die more than once an hour. Which would explain why you're having gold accumulation problems.

Sablemane · October 2014

Eight alts, I hover around 100k.

someuser · October 2014

Cazic wrote: »

Hey all,
What are some of the best ways you've found to accumulate gold in ESO?

What is the most gold you've had?

I would imagine the best way to get gold in ESO is to loot EVERYTHING, learn what to keep and what not to keep, and sell stacks of alchemy/provisioning mats as well as any extra goodies from deconstructing (blacksmith/clothing/woodworking) in the guild store (important to join atleast 3 major trading guilds IMO).

Obviously you can also earn money via farming or by selling rare loot from questing... I suppose it just comes down to how serious you are about making fake money

Personally, I have somewhere in the range of 50k-60k on hand... been playing since pre-release... though I don't play hardcore at all... ESO is just something I do for fun.