I have about 60k worth of coins in my account. I am currently carrying around 37k in my backback... so i am pretty well off at the moment

I buy and sell stuff occasionally, loot trunks when I see one, have hirelings on 6 characters. Played since early access and I have around 1.5 million in coins and maybe 1 more million more in gold+epic crafting mats. But I never really actively farmed for money, it just keeps rolling in.

I feel the issue here is how there's nothing to spend money on at level cap. I make my own food and potion. I have the mounts and the motifs. Than of course hirelings bringing me golden stuff x2 a day. There's like no place where you can dump money, nothing to save up for. Might sound like a luxury problem, but it's a bit boring.

Zhoyzu wrote: »

Shader_Shibes wrote: »

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!

lol how do you even get hacked?

Several contacts of mine got hacked back in may/june. Most of the targets were somewhat rich and they weren't all as lucky with the refunds as Zhoyzu.

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.

By the eight, that's a lot of gold. O.O

Nestor wrote: »

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.

nice write up - but you must be in more than 5 trading guilds - 30 sellling spots are not enough to run the business like this or you are lucky beeing in a trading guild that runs a store in craglorn