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Gold seems to be hard to come by
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DenMoria✭✭✭✭✭
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Yes. Easy if you want to be a thief. Not gonna do it. I am not a thief. I've played RPG's for almost 20 years now and NEVER played a thief. Never. It's just me.I still can't figure out how people are saying, "Early on, gold is hard to come by" when in fact, it is NOT... IF you put effort into earning it. The problem is, most players don't want to spend time in the game outside of questing, so they won't farm mats to sell at Guild Traders and thereby make tons of gold.
Covered that by stating, "Early in the game (Levels 1 through 30), gold seems to be scarce, unless you're an accomplished guild trader."
It's dead simple, if they can be bothered to try
LIke i said, steal, launder, sell rest to fence
sell laundered goods on a guild store, not hard to do
Log out/in .. do again
Rinse & repeat, not best fun in the world but you make enough to keep yourself in bag/bank space etc easy
Illegal activities are a choice, not an obligation.
I'll just have to settle for being poor.
Making gold in this game is a choice. You can choose to be poor or you can choose to use the advice that many people have provided for you here in which case you'll be fine. Your running around doing quests so you might as well gather resources while your there. Pick up everything and sell it. You seriously won't be poor, unless your just lazy.......
True. While I won't steal, the advice on all the mats has been great! I'm opening up a bank account tonight so that I can stash the blues, greens and golds I've been finding for a little bit until I can decide what to do, I'm on my way to a clothier certificate and I've been making decent coin just by looting (I made 3,500 last night alone) and I'll deposit some of that as well.
I haven't quite figured out the crafting yet, but have figured out how to disassemble things!
All the advice has been incredibly helpful.
Oh! And I REALLY need to join some guilds. I just get so involved in play that I forget about it.
Thank you everyone!0 -
DenMoria✭✭✭✭✭
✭Sheesh guys. Maybe I'll just settle for being poor and not being able to carry anything. It seems like so much work to be rich! That's so unAmerican! At least, once I build this one up, my alt will be a legacy and start off with lotsa mula and stuff.
I will tell you that my first two characters were broke. Not broke in that they could not afford the basics, but none of the good stuff. They were deconning every thing, learning traits and spending skill points on crafting, building up the bank and personal bag space and leveling a horse. They never had much money, I think I amassed about 20K after all was said and done and they became proficient crafters (max level, 6 traits known at the time, now they know 8 going on 9).
However the two characters that came after? They were rolling in the dough as all they had to was vendor stuff. My crafters made them gear that made them deadly. I mean, you put a set of Blues on a L4, nothing in the game is going to stay alive at that level.
So, think of your first character or two as the parents who immigrated to this country, worked hard, skimped and saved so their children could go to college and get a good paying job. Then think of your second, third and so on characters as the children who benifit from parents hard work.
I like that! I'm still on my first serious toon so I'm just learning.
Going to go about opening up a bank account and creating a family so that I can start building.
All this advice has been great. I really need to learn crafting (although I'm about to get my clothier cert). Just discovered the Chilly Manor (something like that) and it has all kinds of crafting tables in the basement. I like that place.0 -
ThePonzzz✭✭✭✭✭
✭One thing in this game you need to realize is the first 50 levels, you don't need to buy much. You can survive, and survive well, on just random drops. You don't need to buy equipment much at all. If repair costs are getting you down, save spare sets. But even if you're not finding much, you only need about 1500g every 3 levels to buy green BoE.
Beyond spending, the best thing to do is just harvest all nodes you see. Right now, fishing lures are a hot item to sell for each gold. Even undercutting most sellers, you can make about 10g a lure. If you have the patience for it, fish for perfect roe while the market is still there. Some people claim a 100:1 rate, but I'm seeing about a 200:1. Them the breaks about a RNG.
And don't be mislead with people saying millions of gold can be earned later on. If you're a casual player, you can expect to make millions. I've been playing since launch and only recently got 1 character to VR14. In that time, I've probably made about 3 million gold. I've maxed my bag, maxed my bank, and I have 3 Ravanger pieces I bought (2 bands and a pendant). I'm sitting on about 500k and I feel that's a safe number at end game. I make about 100k a week usually, but the glyph market has dried up, and that's where I tend to make my gold.
Is it slowly than a lot of games? Sure. But it's 100% feasible to earn enough gold to get what you want if you take the time to do it.1 -
DenMoria✭✭✭✭✭
✭One thing in this game you need to realize is the first 50 levels, you don't need to buy much. You can survive, and survive well, on just random drops. You don't need to buy equipment much at all. If repair costs are getting you down, save spare sets. But even if you're not finding much, you only need about 1500g every 3 levels to buy green BoE.
Beyond spending, the best thing to do is just harvest all nodes you see. Right now, fishing lures are a hot item to sell for each gold. Even undercutting most sellers, you can make about 10g a lure. If you have the patience for it, fish for perfect roe while the market is still there. Some people claim a 100:1 rate, but I'm seeing about a 200:1. Them the breaks about a RNG.
And don't be mislead with people saying millions of gold can be earned later on. If you're a casual player, you can expect to make millions. I've been playing since launch and only recently got 1 character to VR14. In that time, I've probably made about 3 million gold. I've maxed my bag, maxed my bank, and I have 3 Ravanger pieces I bought (2 bands and a pendant). I'm sitting on about 500k and I feel that's a safe number at end game. I make about 100k a week usually, but the glyph market has dried up, and that's where I tend to make my gold.
Is it slowly than a lot of games? Sure. But it's 100% feasible to earn enough gold to get what you want if you take the time to do it.
Great insights! Thanks so much.0 -
Robbmrp✭✭✭✭✭
✭Sounds like your on a great start to gold making
Enjoy the game! NA Server - Kildair1 -
DenMoria✭✭✭✭✭
✭Thanks everyone! While I don't (and won't) steal, the mats farming and colour coding is working, as well as the bank account and multiple toons.
Now I just need to figure out crafting and join some guilds and I'll be good to go!0 -
ADarklore✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Perhaps it is just me, but I actually ENJOY farming. It is extremely relaxing, although sometimes competitive, but it's all good. Nothing better than coming home after a long, stressful day and just mindlessly running around collecting mats. I also only farm in one area, regardless of my level I always go back and farm that one area, and have a route I follow; like I said, mindless. But half the fun comes later when you post everything on the Guild Trader, sign off, then the next time you sign on your screen lights up with all the sales... yes, I do use the Master Merchant add-on.
For me, farming is like the game within the game, except this time you are rewarded with currency for your fun.CP: 2112 ** ESO+ ** ~~ ***** Strictly a solo PvE quester *****
~~Started Playing: May 2015 | Stopped Playing: July 2025 | Returned: March 2026~~0 -
Nestor✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Perhaps it is just me, but I actually ENJOY farming.
I for one am happy people like doing this. I farm sporadically and when I am going from one quest to another I will harvest the nodes I see, but not as a dedicated activity. So, I am one of those who support the farmers by buying the mats you sell.
Enjoy the game, life is what you really want to be worried about.
PakKat "Everything was going well, until I died"
Gary Gravestink "I am glad you died, I needed the help"1 -
DenMoria✭✭✭✭✭
✭JacksonCarter13 wrote: »450k two weeks of legerdemain an hour a day boom done
From what I was reading. Legerdemain is stealing, no?
Anybody can get rich illegally (okay, not everybody, there are some really stupid criminals), but, the sense of accomplishment (and exhaustion) from doing it legitimately!0 -
ADarklore✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭So, I am one of those who support the farmers by buying the mats you sell.
And farmers like me appreciate your support!!
Edited by ADarklore on June 26, 2015 5:51PMCP: 2112 ** ESO+ ** ~~ ***** Strictly a solo PvE quester *****
~~Started Playing: May 2015 | Stopped Playing: July 2025 | Returned: March 2026~~0
