How are you making gold?

dharbert · December 2014

I'm telling you, Dwemer Motifs, and you'd better do it before everyone and their dog has the entire set. I easily make 20k per day just from this. That's 600k per month just for 2 to 3 hours game time per day, from a single source.

WillhelmBlack · December 2014

Don't mean to troll but what do you want gold for? If it's for rare items just go out there and quest for them or make them yourself

cote-bmsb16_ESO · December 2014

Gorthax wrote: »

cote-bmsb16_ESO wrote: »

I noticed a lot of the white armor and weapons have the ornate trait (sells for more compared to blue items), you can find them sitting on tables and such. Selling random set items for reasonable prices in the guild stores help. The motifs drop rate is lower in lower in newbie zones, better off farming in the Rift or dungeons.

I thought they made those items worthless, just able to pick up to say you can interact.

I was picking up these white items in dungeons (EH) last night. Some of them were just useless, but a handful of 'em had the ornate trait.

Sord · December 2014

I personally do some shopping around on the not so popular vendors, look for set items that are wanted that someone is selling for 500 gold or less. I am in 2 big trade guilds and I turn around and sell them for 1k-5k through out guild vendors. I also make sure any level set item I get I sell based on going price and then sell for a little less to sell it and make some gold off it. Find a good spot to kill mobs and make a farming toon. Farm junk gear and stuff and in no time (2 hours) you should 5k-10k gold based on level and type of junk (this includes selling stuff on vendors).

If you want to farm Dwemer motifs do the fighters guild quest line and at around lvl 20 you take a portal to (forget the name) some dwemer ruin just don't complete or talk to the fighters guild person (many colors) and search every container. I would use a Dragon Knight as a farming toon. You should get 1 motif every other run, plus you get a lot of junk (possibly some low level warlock gear that sells for 500 gold a pop easily.)

It takes time and dedication but it will pay off if you just stay at it.
Good luck to you.

Nestor · December 2014

Gorthax wrote: »

*EDIT* I couldnt even find motifs after 3 hours of logging out and back in...... to his day I have NEVER found a motif in any container. Seriously It is why I stopped looting containers. Been playing since launch and looted containers all the way up to a month ago. Just finally gave up.

I don't know what it is about Motifs, but I trip over them just farming two buildings in Wayrest Leveling zone. I am searching for that Imperial Motif that I destroyed in the first week back when I was not looking for Motifs....

So, right now I have more than 30 motifs still on a mule (all Blues) so if you want, I can sell you a complete set of the first 9 for 1000 gold plus COD. Or individuals for 150 Gold COD included. And, just to be fair, there is a Guild Kiosk in Daggerfall that is selling blue motifs for 125 to 200, the other traders are above 200 to 500 for some blue ones.

spryler · December 2014

I farm herbs in Upper Craglorn. I also hit up the other nodes hoping for some Nincrux as a bonus. The advantage of Upper Craglorn is that even if you run across other farmers, they are usually only focused on the Nincrux nodes (cloth, ore, wood).

The secret to these games is doing multiple things at a time. Take my example up above:

Primary objective (trying to stock up on potions)
- farm herbs

Secondary objectives
- farm Nincrux from ore/iron/wood nodes and from killing creatures that drop hides
- farm Runes
- get xp for championship points (killing mobs that drop hides)
- watch for people advertising for a DPS for AA/HRC

As you can see, I am working on multiple objectives at one time. So even if I have a terrible day with herbs, I still get a Nincrux or a Kuta or at least some xp. If you go out with the sole objective of finding herbs, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. My 2 cents.

poodlemasterb16_ESO · December 2014

Gorthax wrote: »

poodlemasterb16_ESO wrote: »

Darlgon wrote: »

Hunh? You have to be a troll.

I wander around, do quests.. sell ornate stuff to vendors, try to sell blue and above to my one trade guild, decon green and under for my main, who does clothier/blacksmith/wood and send the other mats to alts who are doing that craft. Have yet to have to buy anything from a trade guild, except maybe an item to fill one of my 3 research slots. (I currently have items on an alt for him to research, except wood, which all I need is Nincrux traits.)

Alchemy is a waste, as heal/magic/stamina VR5 pots are raining down on my level VR9 mains head. I am over 100 each on the VR1 ones.

I have paid for all the upgrades on two horses, and really have not bought all the bank/bag slots an my four alts because I didnt want to keep up with that much inventory. I feel rich with my six figures in the shared bank because I dont have to worry about whatever you are worried about buying. At VR9, it feels like money is pouring out of the heavens, even with only 77 gold quest rewards occasionally (usually 300).

I sell or destroy those found pots. They are pitiful. My Alchemist keeps my little army and my son's NB in the best of potions. My new NB is aimed at potion guzzling and I can get 2 into a fight these days. Always tri pots of various kinds.

I buy stuff constantly from Guild Vendors, hell I can make a small profit on Crafting Writs these days without searching out any mats at all, I just buy em'. They take literally 5 minutes that way, unless you get a Survey which is golden.

see I havent done a survey yet....me and mats dont get a long and I hear that they are pretty pointless to do.

There are mats everywhere. I just pick em' up as I quest. That would keep me in enough stuff to feed my crafter army by it's self even if I bought nothing.

Put points into the Keen Eye perk and they will be obvious. Only the Enchanting Runes, which are obvious, don't benefit from this perk.

derpsticks · December 2014

There is always something someone wants. Gear from certain trials or dungeons, certain traits or crafted gear, certain jewelry and weapon glyphs, rare motifs and recipes, raw materials sell well and are easy to farm, certain rare provisioning ingredients, etc. Many of these items can be found for sale at reasonable prices in bulk and then resold either in smaller stacks or used to create another item that sells for more.

Personally I don't play the potion game, I collect what I need as I go and only ever buy ingredients if the price is too good to be true. I have a few stacks of the rare flowers in my bank and only use them as I run low on inventory pots. This helps me limit their consumption a little.

Learn the prices of all the runes and improvement materials. Offer to make people improved set armor, gear for trait research, and sell dropped gear when you can list the entire set at the same level, buy certain green and blue set pieces from stores, upgrade them, and resell them at a markup.

You will have to farm some things. Farm what is fun for you and dont farm what is in the most demand unless you can put up with the additional people. Farm during weird hours when less people are online. List your sales right before peak hours, shop other peoples sales after a maintenance or large patch, and delist and relist unsold items after a week or two with a new price.

Dont waste store listing space on anything less than 1k that wont sell quickly. Dont sell things a lot of people have or can get a stack of quickly.
Dont sell items on a store that is surrounded by other stores selling the same thing too often. Find your own unique type of item to sell based on everyone around you.

Observe trends within item types.
Observe demand in zone chat.
Observe where players spend their time.
Observe where players dont spend their time.

Most of all, be productive.

Nestor · December 2014

spryler wrote: »

If you go out with the sole objective of finding herbs, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. My 2 cents.

The first rule of MMO's, if your looking for it, it can't be found.

Berevez (sp?) Fruit is one example. Had it coming out of my ears, stopped grabbing it when I saw it, and even finally destroyed a 100 stack to make room on my provisioning mule. Two days later I get my first a Provisioning Writ that asks me to make something with that very same fruit. Could not find it anywhere. Searched 4 zones of containers, nada. Finally found some in a guild store (stack of 50 of all things). The very next day and every day since, I see the fruit in every third or fourth container.

So, look for things when you don't need them, if you want to find them.

poodlemasterb16_ESO · December 2014

derpsticks wrote: »

There is always something someone wants. Gear from certain trials or dungeons, certain traits or crafted gear, certain jewelry and weapon glyphs, rare motifs and recipes, raw materials sell well and are easy to farm, certain rare provisioning ingredients, etc. Many of these items can be found for sale at reasonable prices in bulk and then resold either in smaller stacks or used to create another item that sells for more.

Personally I don't play the potion game, I collect what I need as I go and only ever buy ingredients if the price is too good to be true. I have a few stacks of the rare flowers in my bank and only use them as I run low on inventory pots. This helps me limit their consumption a little.

Learn the prices of all the runes and improvement materials. Offer to make people improved set armor, gear for trait research, and sell dropped gear when you can list the entire set at the same level, buy certain green and blue set pieces from stores, upgrade them, and resell them at a markup.

You will have to farm some things. Farm what is fun for you and dont farm what is in the most demand unless you can put up with the additional people. Farm during weird hours when less people are online. List your sales right before peak hours, shop other peoples sales after a maintenance or large patch, and delist and relist unsold items after a week or two with a new price.

Dont waste store listing space on anything less than 1k that wont sell quickly. Dont sell things a lot of people have or can get a stack of quickly.
Dont sell items on a store that is surrounded by other stores selling the same thing too often. Find your own unique type of item to sell based on everyone around you.

Observe trends within item types.
Observe demand in zone chat.
Observe where players spend their time.
Observe where players dont spend their time.

Most of all, be productive.

I'm not sure what the potion game is. Like Enchanting, Alchemy allows much better potions than any you can find in the world. As well tri pots are far more effective than random potions found about the place.

Rawl'kha has perhaps the best set of Guild Vendors in the game and the competition there is fierce, The things people need are the same everywhere and I will often check all the Rawl'kha vendors and get a bit cheaper price on any item I might want, because that lot is so competitive.

Nestor · December 2014

poodlemasterb16_ESO wrote: »

Rawl'kha has perhaps the best set of Guild Vendors in the game and the competition there is fierce, The things people need are the same everywhere and I will often check all the Rawl'kha vendors and get a bit cheaper price on any item I might want, because that lot is so competitive.

Hmm, I find the Rawl'kha vendors to be the most expensive in game, I check there first (it's my crafting hub) but then check some other rural guild kiosks that are near Wayshrines and usually find them much cheaper there. This is mostly for research items and crafting mats.

I do have to chuckle at the Kiosk group in Daggerfall. All of the Kiosks but one list Blue Motifs for 300 to 500 gold, but one has them listed starting at 125 (and I have seen a few for less than a 100 there) but that same kiosk has Purple Motifs for more than the other Kiosks near it do.

Chuggernaut · December 2014

Killing stuff, and selling their items.

Heishi · December 2014

It's pretty much been said, but I usually get about 1-2k/hr on my low lv alts 3-5k/hr on my low vr char.

Most of it is through questing. Additionally what I do is since my crafter has most of the research done (except nirn) is sell anything white.

Everything else I breakdown, even dropped set pieces. Anything ornate also gets sold.

I keep two stacks of each cloth and metal mats, one stack of wood mats. This helps gain money and helps inventory management.

I keep one stack of traits and styles (more for inventory management than money). 2 stacks of resins.

My crafter has most of the motifs so additional ones of those get sold on the guild store (with a kiosk).

I don't get as into it as I once did. In other MMOs I used to do a lot of buying extremely low, usually in bulk where applicable, then resell it.

When I was REALLY into it and being a cut-throat skeever's rear, I would buy low and resale undercutting the common price, making less profit but selling much more.

I don't really do that so much any more though.. I'm become more fair and helpful over the years, not taking games so serious.

DeLindsay · December 2014

@Gorthax, when I log into ESO tonight, if you're on, talk to me and I'll share a couple ways I make gold that's chill but VERY profitable. Outside of a few trade secrets there's the obvious:

Farm rare Motifs (15-30K Barbaric/Primal, 25-50K AE/Daedric).
Have all (8) Characters with 3/3 Hirelings, especially BS/WW/Cloth (Legendary Tempers 2-2.5K each, Kutas 3-6K each).
Sell Legendary Glyphs (~5-6K each).
Troll the Guild Kiosks to buy low/sell high (you have no idea what some people list for almost nothing).
Sell Triad/SP/WP pots, most other pots don't sell well enough.
Sell the mats FOR pots (~110g each).
Sell Nirnhoned researched items (~12K each).
Sell Nirncrux you farmed up (6-10K each).
Vendor ALL White/Green/Blue drops instead of using for decon.

All in all, watch trade in zones like Rawl'Kha (pretty much the busiest trading hub) to see what people are buying/selling and the prices. It's fairly consistent and it gives you a great idea of what profit you can make on certain items. It also lets you know what it a hot item to troll Guild Stores for.

deepseamk20b14_ESO · December 2014

Money isn't that important in this game, which I like. Most of the mats for my legendary gear were bought but I also got a lot from hirelings. I've only broke 120k once. Under 100k now but I don't pve at all. Most of my cash comes from selling everything I get in PvP through mail rewards

someuser · December 2014

I am not rich by any stretch (I might have nearly 100k gold total) but I find money is easy to come by via farming resources (wood/metal/cloth/leather) as I'm questing to which I refine (to get any temper / traits drops) and then sell things in stacks of 100.

I also farm sought after ingredients for provisioning (pay close attention to the ingredients used to make magika potions / foods, especially VR1 +) as well as glyphs.

Of course any Warlock rings (or apparel in general) you might get loot is always worth something.

Doing the crafting writs (atleast at VR2) gives 600g for finishing... Dungeons ranked VR1 or higher drop grand soul gems which you can easily fill yourself (if empty) and sell for nice $$$ as well.

Lastly, I try to join as many major and active trading guilds as I can so, when I am looking for something, I always pay the least amount possible (there can be wide fluctuations in prices between guild stores) while at the same time selling my wares in guild store that don't have much of what I'm selling so I can charge a premium.

*edit*
Another tip is to search for certain hot ticket items in guild stores (like warlock rings or certain glyphs) in which someone low balled in their selling price, buy it, and re-list it for the proper amount. I made 1000s of gold off other's work by doing this

Jack-0 · December 2014

Just from one character completing Cadwell's gold I think you'll end up earning something in the region of 3-400k from quests, even allowing for modest spending on a horse etc... You can make 3k from quest rewards alone in 30-60 minutes from doing 10 Cyrodiil dailies, depending on which town you pick in Cyrodiil. Cheydinaal or Bruma are pretty quick and pretty convenient for EP at least.

Crafting writs, as others said = fast gold, frees up bank space from using up mats you've had stored for months and rewards you with the occasional survey that bags you more useful resources.

Unless you need lower end stuff for training, only ever farm for mats in Upper Craglorn. Every item you harvest there has a chance to yield a potent or fortified nirncrux which you can sell for around 7-15k or save for yourself so that you can get more nirnhoned trait items for research.

I never really make much money from selling to other players but earn more than enough to maintain my own characters with the above.

Gorthax · December 2014

I said it once before in this thread and I will say it again. THANK YOU for all the help

I have some new strategies to try ^_^ I greatly appreciate all the assistance!

AlnilamE · December 2014

I didn't get a chance to comment, but I was very happy with all the helpful suggestions in this thread.

I don't "farm" per se, but I pick up everything on my path on my way to doing something else. Or do short runs of mats gathering in spots I know are plentiful. Or go through one dwemer ruin (preferably one where I get loot from the mobs). I also love treasure chests and I know where quite a few are located.

Let us know how it's going! And wishing you a purple or Imperial motif soon!

otis67 · December 2014

I pick up all the raw mats i see and sell them. You will make quite a bit by doing that.

kallistiGAD · December 2014

I make money farming alchemy mats. Since farming for alchemy is typically very boring and tedious, most people just buy the mats off chat or guild stores so I can usually make a tidy little profit. My advice, get the HarvestMap addon and turn off grass in your graphics settings. Turning off grass will help you discover a whole load of alchemy ingredients and HarvestMap marks any discovered ingredient nodes on your map so you can return quickly and pick them again when they respawn (works with all the nodes, including ores and fishing spots even). After running through a zone discovering nodes and picking them, I'll usually run through 2 more times (about an hours worth of work) picking up all the ingredients from the marked areas on my map. Then turn around and sell them for a quick profit. Unrefined ores and mats (like raw cotton) will always sell for more than the refined ones (due to the experience boost from refining the materials) and will usually sell pretty quick. I make around 6k per night running these for a pretty low level of time commitment (only about an hour).

Then of course questing, motiff farming (had a LOT of luck recently and stumbled on 2 dwemer pages just looting everything in the fighters guild quest dwemer dungeons), and selling vendor junk. I have never really been wanting for gold.

Hope that helped a bit.

LonePirate · December 2014

The city quests in Cyrodiil pay 302g each and many of them can be completed in 2-3 minutes each. There are five quest hubs in Cyrodiil, each with 9-10 daily quests each. When you add in the gold and the loot dropped from mobs, you can easily make 7-8K an hour for 2-2.5 hours every day.

Knootewoot · December 2014

Not. I have around 400k. I don't see anything i need to buy. So it's 400k and i get around 3-4k each day just PvPíng. But i only play 2-3 times a week so thats 9-12k per week.