The best way to get a mount?

Vael19 · May 2016

Hi there I am a new player and I was looking at how to best get a mount in the game! I see many low level players on horses, yet no idea how they managed to get them that early. The base price for a horse seems to be 10.000 gold pieces from stables, so I was just wondering, is there a quest or anything that help you get a mount or is buying it the only way?

Also, I am not bothered if buying is the only way, I have a few thousand gold saved up already but as stated, if there is an easier way, I'd like to know!

Thanks in advance.

Panth141 · May 2016

The easiest way?

Buy one on the Crown Store

Vael19 · May 2016

Haha, I prefer playing the game to earn something, but thanks.

RandalMarrs · May 2016

That's your choice, cough up 10k or purchase in the crown store.

JuZ · May 2016

All your mounts are accessible by all your characters so if someone has a 2nd or 3rd character they have access straight away at level 3 to everything.

Do a few quests, use the gear that's dropped to save money and pretty quickly you'll get enough gold to buy a 10k horse.

AntMan100673 · May 2016

^this

A lot of those low level characters are probably alts for higher level players.

Or they could be genuine low level players that have been given gold by higher level players

Prabooo · May 2016

10k you can do easily doing quests and selling all loot

AlphaCrucis · May 2016

I got my horse with the Adventures pack when i purchased the game, so had it from the get go

THBronx · May 2016

Vael19 wrote: »

Hi there I am a new player and I was looking at how to best get a mount in the game! I see many low level players on horses, yet no idea how they managed to get them that early. The base price for a horse seems to be 10.000 gold pieces from stables, so I was just wondering, is there a quest or anything that help you get a mount or is buying it the only way?

Also, I am not bothered if buying is the only way, I have a few thousand gold saved up already but as stated, if there is an easier way, I'd like to know!

Thanks in advance.

Yeah 10k or Crown Store, i'd say go for 10k, it's easy to make that money later. For now, just keep saving money, don't ever buy gears from npc vendors bcoz it's all overpriced, just use the gear you drop from mobs and that's it!

Rosveen · May 2016

AlphaCrucis wrote: »

I got my horse with the Adventures pack when i purchased the game, so had it from the get go

The Adventurer's Pack doesn't come with a mount. Perhaps you're thinking of the white horse from the Imperial Edition?

Jim_Pipp · May 2016

Hijacking this thread-

What pets and costumes are accessible to new players who prefer not to use the crown store yet? There is a dwarven spider pet in a daggerfall covenant group dungeon and some costume rewards for vet ranks? Anything else?

Turelus · May 2016

@Jim_Pipp

If you go to your collectables screen I believe it actually shows you what items you can earn in game without the store.

From the top of my head it's the following:

Dwarven Spider
Scamp (Imperial City Expansion Sewers central event)
Horver (Imperial City Expansion group dungeons achievement)
One pet for loyalty reward for purchasing each expansion and going to that zone.

Vael19 · May 2016

Hey all

Thanks for the responses. I did not realise horses share between characters, that's awesome. Also thanks for the tips about selling gear you find and never buying armour from NPCs!

I will just save up the 10k gold then, since it's not that much.

Happy gaming
Vael

Volkodav · May 2016

Vael19 wrote: »

Haha, I prefer playing the game to earn something, but thanks.

If you buy one at a stable ingame they cost 42000 gold.If you upgrade to Imperial Edition,you get the white horse for 1 gold.
If you buy them ingame,you'll have to purchase crowns with real money.

Volkodav · May 2016

JuZ wrote: »

All your mounts are accessible by all your characters so if someone has a 2nd or 3rd character they have access straight away at level 3 to everything.

Do a few quests, use the gear that's dropped to save money and pretty quickly you'll get enough gold to buy a 10k horse.

What horse is only 10k? I paid 42000 for my black horse.

Vael19 · May 2016

Volkodav, there is a 10.000 gold piece horse for sale in the stables too. Also, I already have half the gold for that one right now.

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Sorrel_Horse

CherryCake · May 2016

@Vael19 did you manage to do it? Do you have Orsinium? Because there is a good place to steal things, also by grinding if you wish. Are you on PS4 EU? Because if so I would be happy to give you those 10.000. No tricks or anything, but I remember when I didnt have a horse or knew how to make any money in game and it was a real pain running in Cyrodill after my team and getting killed by pesty nightblades ;__;

Vael19 · May 2016

EstelioVeleth wrote: »

@Vael19 did you manage to do it? Do you have Orsinium? Because there is a good place to steal things, also by grinding if you wish. Are you on PS4 EU? Because if so I would be happy to give you those 10.000. No tricks or anything, but I remember when I didnt have a horse or knew how to make any money in game and it was a real pain running in Cyrodill after my team and getting killed by pesty nightblades ;__;

Hey Estelio! I didn't farm for it so not at 10k yet but I'm getting there. I have been entertaining myself stealing items and slipping past guards to sell them, which gives a reliable amount of coin. Didn't dip into PvP yet but I happen to be a nightblade myself.

Also, I am on PC EU, so I don't guess I can accept your money, sadly!

Thanks for the offer though.

bryanhaas · May 2016

Vael19 wrote: »

Hi there I am a new player and I was looking at how to best get a mount in the game! I see many low level players on horses, yet no idea how they managed to get them that early. The base price for a horse seems to be 10.000 gold pieces from stables, so I was just wondering, is there a quest or anything that help you get a mount or is buying it the only way?

Also, I am not bothered if buying is the only way, I have a few thousand gold saved up already but as stated, if there is an easier way, I'd like to know!

Thanks in advance.

Join a trading guild and sell alchemy reagents you can make quite a bit.

NBrookus · May 2016

Volkodav wrote: »

JuZ wrote: »

All your mounts are accessible by all your characters so if someone has a 2nd or 3rd character they have access straight away at level 3 to everything.

Do a few quests, use the gear that's dropped to save money and pretty quickly you'll get enough gold to buy a 10k horse.

What horse is only 10k? I paid 42000 for my black horse.

The brown horse is 10k.

AnnieBeGood · May 2016

Even if you get a horse - you run faster at first. So every day go to the stable and buy a speed lesson for 250g. Full speed takes 60 days.
By the time you can afford the horse, you will at least move faster than you can run.

code65536 · May 2016

Steal and fence.

The gold you earn from quests, kills, vendoring lootables, etc. all scale to your level. In other words, you'll only get pocket change at low levels. Those activities don't become lucrative until much later.

Stolen goods, however, are the same value at all levels (though it does scale a little, in that you have a higher chance of looting more valuable items from later zones), so at low levels, theft is by far the best way to make gold. (Though at high levels, it's not that good.)

Danikat · May 2016

Quick summary of options:

Gold:
Brown horse for 10,000g
Other colours for 42,000g

(Contrary to what some out of date websites will say all these horses have exactly the same stats and can be trained to exactly the same level as any other mount.)

Imperial Edition
If you buy the Imperial Edition (either the boxed version, the digital version or the crown store upgrade) you will have instant access to a white horse. You used to have to buy it from the stables for 1g, but now it will simply be unlocked in your collections when you create your first character (or when you buy the upgrade).

Crown Store
This is the only way to get mounts which are not horses. Which mounts are on offer changes regularly and prices vary between mounts. If I remember correctly the cheapest are 900 crowns.

Which is best?
That's up to you. Buying one with gold is just a matter of time, whereas the others will cost real money. But if you want one immediately, want something other than the 4 horses sold for gold or if you're subscribing or buying the Imperial Edition anyway then another option may be better.

dodgehopper_ESO · May 2016

Vael19 wrote: »

Hi there I am a new player and I was looking at how to best get a mount in the game! I see many low level players on horses, yet no idea how they managed to get them that early. The base price for a horse seems to be 10.000 gold pieces from stables, so I was just wondering, is there a quest or anything that help you get a mount or is buying it the only way?

Also, I am not bothered if buying is the only way, I have a few thousand gold saved up already but as stated, if there is an easier way, I'd like to know!

Thanks in advance.

@vael19 When the game started the only 'special' horse was the Imperial Horse that came with the Imperial version of the game (also had Imperial as an optional race and some other knicknacks). All of that being said, the fastest horses, the horses with the best stamina, and the horse with the best carrying capacity (they were all separate back then) had to be purchased at 32,727 gold or something like that. I actually purchased those horses back then. The game has changed a bit since then but 10,000 gold isn't as bad as it would seem and its well within your capacity to earn. You can defer your crafting skills and sell white quality junk that has no traits. Everything with traits or green+ is worth breaking down though. If you're lazy you can sell all of that stuff too though. Sell blue motifs on trader guilds (join one if you need money). Purple motifs you might want to hold onto, particularly if you like the motif and want to craft it later. The same can be said of recipes for provisioning. Sell sell sell. It all quickly adds up.

Volkodav · May 2016

Vael19 wrote: »

Volkodav, there is a 10.000 gold piece horse for sale in the stables too. Also, I already have half the gold for that one right now.

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Sorrel_Horse

Are you on Pc? AD?
I might be able to help you out with that.

Meier · May 2016

JuZ wrote: »

All your mounts are accessible by all your characters so if someone has a 2nd or 3rd character they have access straight away at level 3 to everything.

Do a few quests, use the gear that's dropped to save money and pretty quickly you'll get enough gold to buy a 10k horse.

Yeah good idea, but you need repair and charge items, and it spend money in all characters, if you not repair can't use the items properly and mobs kick you.

imapogostick · May 2016

I've seen a lot of people give money to players without horses who just start up in pvp so maybe pvp a little and people will throw you a couple k

GivvumBoane · May 2016

Buy the cheapest one. They are all the same except for cosmetic differences