Making Gold.

kongkim · December 2015

People always say they have so much gold in this game.
But right now my pockets are running dry faster then i get new gold..

So what is some of the fastest and best ways to make gold in ESO

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Bebopgroove · December 2015

Loot everything. Sell everything.

imnotanother · December 2015

Bebopgroove wrote: »

Loot everything. Sell everything.

Do some stealing as well.

TheShadowScout · December 2015

At veteran ranks, you'll get a nice influx of gold just from basic questing, but at lower levels it can get a bit iffy now and then.
But... crime pays quite well if you avoid getting caught, even at low levels. So, burglar houses, steal everything not watched, and dash to the outlaw refugee to sell it all... except purple motivs/recipes, those are rare enough to bring a good price, lauinder and find a guild store. Don't bother with the blue motivs, most people will find those all on their own just doing their general questing.

Another way is gathering... especially in dwemer ruins. Those motiv pages can bring a decent penny in a guild store, and the scrap for frames is annoying enough to grab that you might find some who'd rather buy too. Same for fishing to sell that rare perfect roe, or once you get to the veteran ranks, gathering in craglorn for the nirncrux, though those two have a less favorable time/income ratio.

Doing writs is generally easy money, and if you get motiv pages... I'd reckon those would sell just as well as any if not better.

The main thing about gold in ESO is, there aren't all that many gold sinks come the endgame. Once you maxed your backpack, bank and horse, its all earning (unless you try and big for guild traders). So at some point you will just bank your income, and bank it, and bank some more... easy to amass a big pile after a while, if you never have much to spend it on.

altemriel · December 2015

grind IC sewers, sell the trophies that drop from the monsters, in guild store

kongkim · December 2015

TheShadowScout wrote: »

At veteran ranks, you'll get a nice influx of gold just from basic questing, but at lower levels it can get a bit iffy now and then.
But... crime pays quite well if you avoid getting caught, even at low levels. So, burglar houses, steal everything not watched, and dash to the outlaw refugee to sell it all... except purple motivs/recipes, those are rare enough to bring a good price, lauinder and find a guild store. Don't bother with the blue motivs, most people will find those all on their own just doing their general questing.

Another way is gathering... especially in dwemer ruins. Those motiv pages can bring a decent penny in a guild store, and the scrap for frames is annoying enough to grab that you might find some who'd rather buy too. Same for fishing to sell that rare perfect roe, or once you get to the veteran ranks, gathering in craglorn for the nirncrux, though those two have a less favorable time/income ratio.

Doing writs is generally easy money, and if you get motiv pages... I'd reckon those would sell just as well as any if not better.

The main thing about gold in ESO is, there aren't all that many gold sinks come the endgame. Once you maxed your backpack, bank and horse, its all earning (unless you try and big for guild traders). So at some point you will just bank your income, and bank it, and bank some more... easy to amass a big pile after a while, if you never have much to spend it on.

Good post

But a few questions. Where do i get the nirncrux from?
Also i have alot of plants. So do plants for tripots still sell the best or have that changed?
The dwemer motiv pages can thay be found at any level of dwemer ruins? Or is there some ruins that is better then others?

Also i do have both DLC so its an option aswell

MaxwellC · December 2015

Best thing to do is level crafting skills like enchanting and alchemy. I'm leveling alchemy now as that's what people need the most (Potions).

kongkim · December 2015

MaxwellCrystal wrote: »

Best thing to do is level crafting skills like enchanting and alchemy. I'm leveling alchemy now as that's what people need the most (Potions).

But do people buy the potions? Or the mats to make them?
Whats modt gold in? Also if potions sells good what type sells the best?

Bfish22090 · December 2015

Make an EP or DC character and gank AD in the Axe of Belzhara sewers

Sausage · December 2015

IC is still quite good, you can sell stack of 20 mats for 7k or so.

eliisra · December 2015

You need a good trading guild to sell your stuff. Get a vendor addon to learn pricing. Make sure to always have stuff listed. That's crucial and how I'm sorta rich(16 million gold atm).

Check what's in high demand and go farm it. There's cycles. Stuff that currently sells well and fast, can for example be: agility robust rings, willpower arcane, Ancient Orc + Akaviri motifs, columbine, gold wax and alloy, kuta, rubedo leather, xp potions and nirhoned armor/weapon trait stones.

Large sums of money doesn't come naturally in ESO, not any more. In the past you would run into some rare motif or fancy gear drop and bam rich. But now you have to take an hour or two and farm stuff. Can also farm guild stores and zones for under priced items, than sell them normal price. But not a reliable way of making money, because you're kinda depending on other players making mistakes lol.

Septimus_Magna · December 2015

Kuta's sell for 9-10k each, you can get them easily by doing daily enchanting writs.

Monster trophies can be farmed easily in IC sewers.
Agility trophies (Bloody Claw/Monsterous Tooth) are worth the most.
Willpower trophies (Dark Ether/Bone Shard) are also worth good money.
Endurance trophies (Mark of the Legion/Planar Armor) are not worth that much.

V15 mats (leather, ingots, silks and water) sell pretty good.

For potions people usually want tri-stat, magicka/stamina immovable or detect pots.
But I think its better to sell the raw materials though.

If you have 1 skill point into the Legerdemain Trafficker passive you can sell 110 stolen items each day.
Usually I make around 5-6k from doing that, sometimes more if I get lucky with green and blue items.

In general I make at least 50k gold each week without farming anything (30/70 ratio between pve/pvp).

RizaHawkeye · December 2015

kongkim wrote: »

People always say they have so much gold in this game.
But right now my pockets are running dry faster then i get new gold..

So what is some of the fastest and best ways to make gold in ESO ?

Really, @kongkim, be patient. I used to feel the same way, particularly since it takes me forever to level a character. For my EP character, I was always short of gold during the first three zones. But this yesterday, I made 10k gold in a day in Shadowfen. As you level up, you really will start making more money than you need from quests.

Lightninvash · December 2015

My old guild used to sell crafted 8-9 trait sets to people for money. there are plenty of people who do not craft that you can sell to. also you can sell items that have traits for researching purposes to those starting to craft.

Heindrich · December 2015

Buy Low, Sell High.

The richest players I know are all traders.

Shadesofkin · December 2015

I dunno, I keep myself afloat which is all I really care about, and I do so through minimal trading. Join one of the big trader guilds if you can...otherwise find a place with humanoid mobs and grind that.

Malmai · December 2015

You will get money when you achieve Master Grinder Title!

reguvin · December 2015

As a Former Richest Player on PC

I must say that you need to Trade but the Trading System is Ruined and the Prices have been Ruined as well

Acrolas · December 2015

Dedicate each of your eight characters to doing something profitable.

One quests, one does writs, one steals, one collects and crafts stacks of weapons/armor to sell, at least two know treasure paths and have the 50% bonus gold passive from CP, one is a bank alt for things to sell off...

Individual money-making is tedious. But if you treat your account as a team (because they kind of are), you can casually make at least tens of thousands of gold a week.

ajwest927 · December 2015

Sell Crafted weapons and armors with trait.
Craft enchanting glyphs that is least blue or better, you can charge more if they are spell damage or fire resistance. Craft tri-pod potions those sell like hot cakes.

Heindrich · December 2015

reguvin wrote: »

As a Former Richest Player on PC

@reguvin

That's a bold statement. How could you possibly know?

Merry · December 2015

Old skool rules:
1. Kill everything you see.
2. Loot everything you kill.

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Cazzy · December 2015

altemriel wrote: »

grind IC sewers, sell the trophies that drop from the monsters, in guild store

I have a few of each from my brief run in the sewers. I don't even know what they're for or even how much they're worth

Autolycus · December 2015

Many good suggestions here. I would add that materials you can buy with telvar stones (such as ancestor silk, rubedite ingots, rubedo leather, lorkhan's tears, and even enchanting glyphs) can fetch a pretty good price if you spend a noteworthy amount of time in IC.

If you spend a lot of time in Cyrodiil, you can buy the Akaviri motifs with your AP and sell them to PvE players for gold. They're worth a pretty penny right now.

TheShadowScout · December 2015

kongkim wrote: »

Good post But a few questions. Where do i get the nirncrux from?
Also i have alot of plants. So do plants for tripots still sell the best or have that changed?
The dwemer motiv pages can thay be found at any level of dwemer ruins? Or is there some ruins that is better then others?

Also i do have both DLC so its an option aswell

Nirncrux has a very small chance to drop with any material gathering in upper craglorn (wood, ore, fabric, even alchemy plants - havent found any with enchanting runes or water yet, but sometimes in heavy sacks...). If you are careful, you can farm most nodes without aggroing any of the mobs, some of which are still somewhat tough...

Plants are still okay to sell, but not that pricey, since almost all can be easily farmed.

Yes, dwemer pages can be found in any ruin. If you check every single container. The more containers, the more chances for one to hold a page, thus the bigger the ruin, the better. They reset on a timer, so it depends... on average, I find one per two dwemer ruin sweeps...
The scrap is rare drops from dwemer constructs, so ruins that are all dwemer (and not nerfed, like some got when people farmed them too much) are best - and you have to go with ruins as close as possible to your character level, of course, because... drops. EP has sone nice dwemer ruins, though they also got drop-nerfed the most (Deshaan, Rift), DC has some good ones in Alik'r, and a great one in Bangkorai, AD regions... fugeddaboudit. Pick whatever is best level for your character, I'd say.

IC has some really nice things, vault key drops, vault gear and TV stone-bought stuff, but also some really vexing aggrivations through gankmeister central status. If you can deal with that, you can make a good penny there. But most people will find it too difficult, especially when they get ganked while fighting some mobs too often...

Wrothgar can be good if your crafting skills are maxed for the elusive V15 mats, and there is those ancient orc motiv pages from the two public dungeons that are rare enough to get a good price, not to mention the sand for its style material from emeterial gathering nodes (much like nirncrux, but higher drop chance)...

DaniAngione · December 2015

Heindrich wrote: »

reguvin wrote: »

As a Former Richest Player on PC

@reguvin

That's a bold statement. How could you possibly know?

He doesn't.
That's the point where I stopped reading his advice.

Volkodav · December 2015

Sell Mats.Gather and sell tons of mats.

Nifty2g · December 2015

Gold used to be really easy to get but now its pretty difficult

kongkim · December 2015

There is a lot of really good things in here. Thx alot all

joker0137 · December 2015

I sell mats mostly, I don't really thing people want potions that I could make because everyone is looking for things tailored just for then. So mats sell well and it lets other plays make what they want and improve their own crafting skills. You don't always need rare or purple items to make gold.

altemriel · December 2015

Cazzy wrote: »

altemriel wrote: »

grind IC sewers, sell the trophies that drop from the monsters, in guild store

I have a few of each from my brief run in the sewers. I don't even know what they're for or even how much they're worth

get these two addons:

Master Merchant
Awesome guildstore

one of them is for searching in the guild store and the other one shows you (when you open guild store and hover your cursor on that item you want to sell) the sales of that item and shows you the best price that you can sell it for.