Takes so long to gold your gear...

Katahdin · March 2016

Artjuh90 wrote: »

Katahdin wrote: »

Artjuh90 wrote: »

Katahdin wrote: »

I've been playing since beta and I've just gotten enough to gear one character. I tried hirelings for kutas, I got one in 6 months for 2 hirelings. Finding one while harvesting is like winning the lotto. Once I got my crafter leveled, I was farming voidstone like crazy and I was barely getting one per 1000. That's right THOUSAND. RNG hates that character and it's an Imperial....

I gave up for a while. Will try again when I get another character that can decon. Hopefully that one will have better luck.

do the enchanter writs. you get them each other day prehaps? don't be lazy and expect full gear to fall in your lap plz

I hardly think I was lazy with the amount of stuff I farmed and deconed to get basically nothing back. After days/weeks of this I got tired of grinding it and needed a break.

deconing doesn't EVER give you kuta's read plz.

@Artjuh90
I never said it did. YOU learn to read plz.

*edit* And actually if you decon a yellow glyph you can get a kuta.

N0TPLAYER2 · March 2016

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

Katahdin wrote: »

I've been playing since beta and I've just gotten enough to gear one character. I tried hirelings for kutas, I got one in 6 months for 2 hirelings. Finding one while harvesting is like winning the lotto. Once I got my crafter leveled, I was farming voidstone like crazy and I was barely getting one per 1000. That's right THOUSAND. RNG hates that character and it's an Imperial....

I gave up for a while. Will try again when I get another character that can decon. Hopefully that one will have better luck.

I have sold probably 30 Kuta in the last week since the DLC dropped, and I have another 100 in my bank. I have far more than I could ever use and I have at least one set of gold gear on 4 toons. All are from writs. Hirelings are only worth it these days if you have the skill line maxed out, but definitely worth it nonetheless. They give you other stuff worth selling, and its totally passive. They definitely dont send gold mats like they used to, but I still get a handful of them every week.

I hate to even post this, but if everyone did enchanting writs, kuta would be worthless. I do it on 4 toons and get get 8-10 kuta a week, sometimes more if I get lucky on some surveys. It has become my main source of income. The only gold mat I ever have to buy is wax, but that is only because I have so many alts. If you are consistent with doing writs on a few toons every day, mats simply arent an issue.

Well, after grinding up one guy to do top level enchanting writs I said never again. The cost to buy glyphs and decon was outrageous!

But, a friend is working a second guy up, and this post has convinced me to do the same. I have been running low on kutas and 12-14k on Xbox is insane.

Hope499 · March 2016

leepalmer95 wrote: »

davidtxr wrote: »

It's part of the game the grind

Like the mage guild/ fighters/ undaunted/ skills/ skill points/ skill lines/ 1-50/ v1-v16/research grind/cadwell's isn't enough xD

So you want less to do in a game?

I cant even begin to understand that.....If the Division had half as much to do as ESO I probably wouldn't be back here so fast.

Mojmir · March 2016

its gonna get better in thieves guild, lots of nodes to farm at max level if you have the passives maxxed out,im getting mad phat lewts

Morozov · March 2016

Mady wrote: »

As I promised ....My farmspot:

(This is Wrothgar)

lol, my map looks the exact same as yours with all the nodes recorded on it

jrgray93 · March 2016

I don't get it. I play very passively anymore. I log in, maybe do my dailies, maybe grind a bit, maybe farm a bit, and that's it. 10 hours or so a week? Yet I make so much gold, this is no problem at all. Join a good trading guild. Sell extra materials you gather over a week or so. Ancestor Silk, Rubedo Leather, and Rubedite Bars alone are worth a ton. Herbs go from anything between 10 and 300 each. You'll have that money in no time. I have 1.1 million gold doing nothing right now, and that's just from passively acquiring it.

BalgusFlinn · March 2016

Katahdin wrote: »

I've been playing since beta and I've just gotten enough to gear one character. I tried hirelings for kutas, I got one in 6 months for 2 hirelings. Finding one while harvesting is like winning the lotto. Once I got my crafter leveled, I was farming voidstone like crazy and I was barely getting one per 1000. That's right THOUSAND. RNG hates that character and it's an Imperial....

I gave up for a while. Will try again when I get another character that can decon. Hopefully that one will have better luck.

Do writs, i get 1 kuta every 2-3 writs on avg./toon

dday3six · March 2016

Do Writs, put points in hirelings, pick up all resource nodes (tempers can drop from any level), also be very active in guild stores. It honestly takes less time to farm gold than anything else. It doesn't take that long really, most people are just horribly inefficient at it.

Docmandu · March 2016

AzraelKrieg wrote: »

I don't even bother making my gear gold at this point. New gear gets released every 3 months or so so why put in the effort.

To twitch stream your awesomeness versus non-uber geared players while playing the most OPed classes/builds in the game perhaps.

crislevin · March 2016

I only have enough purple, I only have half to 1/3 of the golden matt needed for my eventual gold gears.

reften · March 2016

difference between purple and gold is nearly negligible.

crislevin · March 2016

reften wrote: »

difference between purple and gold is nearly negligible.

Good point, I probably will never golden my gear, just because there is no end to future, better gears.

RedRoomGaming · March 2016

Mady wrote: »

leepalmer95 wrote: »

Running around grabbing nodes, it what roughly every 200 will net you a gold temper?

Man it's going to take a while to get 13 alloys/ 37 wax...

Plus the kuta..

Damn it zos.

Well, it took me about 3 days of hardcore farming (around 6-8h a day) to get 3500 of v16 light/heavy mats and ~ 100 wax/alloys. I could sell half of the alloys and buy more wax. So I could make 2 whole new sets on gold. I think it's pretty okay.

Please send me a message of where you got this much?

seaef · March 2016

Oh_Skrivva wrote: »

Hirelings is a nice passive way to get mats. Writs is almost guarantee a gold mat. I do writs every day on 14 toons. Get at the least 8 gold tempers a day. Plus chance for survey to get enriched nodes that nets tempers from refining raw mats. I have a surplus of at the least over 300 of each gold temper. Temp alloys being the most I have (500+). I'm a hoarder lol. No need to sell them anyway since I have all the gold I need (9 million). I geared 7 of my v16 toons with gold everything.

First thing I do with a new character is put points in hirelings. Best.Investment.Ever.

Mady · March 2016

RedRoomGaming wrote: »

Mady wrote: »

leepalmer95 wrote: »

Running around grabbing nodes, it what roughly every 200 will net you a gold temper?

Man it's going to take a while to get 13 alloys/ 37 wax...

Plus the kuta..

Damn it zos.

Well, it took me about 3 days of hardcore farming (around 6-8h a day) to get 3500 of v16 light/heavy mats and ~ 100 wax/alloys. I could sell half of the alloys and buy more wax. So I could make 2 whole new sets on gold. I think it's pretty okay.

Please send me a message of where you got this much?

@RedRoomGaming Hey, I shared a screenshot of my map in this thread

Eshelmen · March 2016

1. Get Level 50 on Blacksmith and Clothing
2. In Wrothgar, farm Rubedo, Silk and Rubedite (Level 10 mats.) You'll get about 75 level 10 mats to about 200 level 9 mats)
3. Sell your stacks of level 10 mats and keep the gold mats that you've refined. You'll skyrocket your regular intake on gold mats.
Stacks of level 10 gear mats always sell well and will definitely help fund you along the way for getting your gear gold.

Also get in to a good guild with good crafters.
They will help you if you show you're dedicated.

crislevin · March 2016

If you can buy 200 raw Matt for 3k, do it. After selling refined matt, cost is only 2k.

RedRoomGaming · March 2016

Mady wrote: »

RedRoomGaming wrote: »

Mady wrote: »

leepalmer95 wrote: »

Running around grabbing nodes, it what roughly every 200 will net you a gold temper?

Man it's going to take a while to get 13 alloys/ 37 wax...

Plus the kuta..

Damn it zos.

Well, it took me about 3 days of hardcore farming (around 6-8h a day) to get 3500 of v16 light/heavy mats and ~ 100 wax/alloys. I could sell half of the alloys and buy more wax. So I could make 2 whole new sets on gold. I think it's pretty okay.

Please send me a message of where you got this much?

@RedRoomGaming Hey, I shared a screenshot of my map in this thread

Shame I'm on ps4 so nodes cannot be shown/recorded on this way. I will use your map though as a starting point.

starkerealm · March 2016

leepalmer95 wrote: »

Molec wrote: »

Are you new to the game? This has been the case since launch 2 years ago..

Do i look like i'm new?

Yes. In fact, I know you are, because I remember when you joined and were crying about how overpowered players who'd played the game longer than you were in PvP.

Getting upgrades to gold isn't that bad, if you're actually crafting. If you're not crafting, and never refining materials? Then, it could be a problem.

Takes-No-Prisoner · March 2016

Mady wrote: »

As I promised ....My farmspot:
(This is Wrothgar)

This is pretty great you found a good spot to farm in. Farmspots work really well. I have a spot I grind Kutas at and once got 4-5 kutas from the spot over the course of 3 hours. I don't have the stomach to grind that hard for Aspect runes all the time but man its awesome when you can get kutas from them!

Curtdogg47 · March 2016

Pretty much what I did was farm Matt until I had enough to craft my V16 armor and weapons. Improved them as high as I could. Then farmed/ refine and sold them until I could upgrade to gold. I noticed for me I get way rosin in refining than anything else. So once I had my bow done. I started selling rosin and had the gold to buy the remaining in no time. Its a process for sure. But if you don't mind spending gold you get there a little quicker.

Pangnirtung · March 2016

leepalmer95 wrote: »

Running around grabbing nodes, it what roughly every 200 will net you a gold temper?

Man it's going to take a while to get 13 alloys/ 37 wax...

Plus the kuta..

Damn it zos.

I have my two main characters all in gold and plenty of kutas, etc. in the bank.
Things are fine the way they are.

Dubhliam · March 2016

postlarval wrote: »

Oh_Skrivva wrote: »

Hirelings is a nice passive way to get mats. Writs is almost guarantee a gold mat. I do writs every day on 14 toons. Get at the least 8 gold tempers a day. Plus chance for survey to get enriched nodes that nets tempers from refining raw mats. I have a surplus of at the least over 300 of each gold temper. Temp alloys being the most I have (500+). I'm a hoarder lol. No need to sell them anyway since I have all the gold I need (9 million). I geared 7 of my v16 toons with gold everything.

First thing I do with a new character is put points in hirelings. Best.Investment.Ever.

These hirelings and/or writs are a great investment for casual gamers.

But if you can spend more than 2 hours on ESO per day, you would be much better off just farming. 9 skill points is a lot for a chance to get gold tempers once a day.

Duiwel · March 2016

Your biggest problem is gathering the gold mats & my biggest problem is deciding what style I want for my gold mats

Everybody's got problems it seems

rotaugen454 · March 2016

Duiwel wrote: »

Your biggest problem is gathering the gold mats & my biggest problem is deciding what style I want for my gold mats

Everybody's got problems it seems

I got 99 problems, but Kutas ain't one of them...

seaef · March 2016

Dubhliam wrote: »

postlarval wrote: »

Oh_Skrivva wrote: »

Hirelings is a nice passive way to get mats. Writs is almost guarantee a gold mat. I do writs every day on 14 toons. Get at the least 8 gold tempers a day. Plus chance for survey to get enriched nodes that nets tempers from refining raw mats. I have a surplus of at the least over 300 of each gold temper. Temp alloys being the most I have (500+). I'm a hoarder lol. No need to sell them anyway since I have all the gold I need (9 million). I geared 7 of my v16 toons with gold everything.

First thing I do with a new character is put points in hirelings. Best.Investment.Ever.

These hirelings and/or writs are a great investment for casual gamers.

But if you can spend more than 2 hours on ESO per day, you would be much better off just farming. 9 skill points is a lot for a chance to get gold tempers once a day.

A day? I'm lucky if I can get 2 hours a week!

kendellking_chaosb14_ESO · March 2016

With all the mats you get you can make it to green gear and sell it people will buy it use the money to get your own gold mats.

revonine · March 2016

I just do my writs every day and I'm sitting on 16 Kuta's, 18 Wax, 17 alloy, and 20 something Rosin atm. I just made my magblade a proper PvE set too. I did get lucky with 5 Kuta's in a Heavy Sack though =D

Search every Heavy Sack you find btw.

leepalmer95 · March 2016

revonine wrote: »

I just do my writs every day and I'm sitting on 16 Kuta's, 18 Wax, 17 alloy, and 20 something Rosin atm. I just made my magblade a proper PvE set too. I did get lucky with 5 Kuta's in a Heavy Sack though =D

Search every Heavy Sack you find btw.

I could really use the Kuta's xD Damn rng, I've have 3 enchanting maps in the last 3 days, was hoping for the double, double kutas drop

Only need 4 more kuta's though, got my alloy's for my swords, now i need 8 more alloy's. 40 more wax xD

Oh and mage guild 10, undaunted 10 and 2 more vet levels (got 7 today).

The grind is real.

revonine · March 2016

leepalmer95 wrote: »

revonine wrote: »

I just do my writs every day and I'm sitting on 16 Kuta's, 18 Wax, 17 alloy, and 20 something Rosin atm. I just made my magblade a proper PvE set too. I did get lucky with 5 Kuta's in a Heavy Sack though =D

Search every Heavy Sack you find btw.

I could really use the Kuta's xD Damn rng, I've have 3 enchanting maps in the last 3 days, was hoping for the double, double kutas drop

Only need 4 more kuta's though, got my alloy's for my swords, now i need 8 more alloy's. 40 more wax xD

Oh and mage guild 10, undaunted 10 and 2 more vet levels (got 7 today).

The grind is real.

Should have done Mages Guild as your moving through the zone's on the way to 50. I've got to level 8 just as I hit V1 on my Templar. I know AD is the only faction that can get 10 before vet levels though. I didn't collect all the misc books either.

Ye RNG is a kicker. Might get nothing from enchanting for days. Then in one turn in 1 get rewarded with one Kuta, and a suurvey and said survey grants me 2 more Kuta's. Has happened more than once. I was on a serious streak of getting legendary tempers from all my writs for like 4 days, then the luck dried up

Sewer grinding?