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Best way to make gold?

  • darthsithis
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    oh and sell your monstrous tooth, or just grind for the rings of agility.

    same goes for bone shards and willpower stuff.

    dedicate a whole day to farming alchemy mats in my super secret spot (starter islands) and you'll have more columbines than all of kansas combined.

    also, refining in craglorn has the highest yield of gold items. Idk why but it does. so do it there. farm iron ore in the roost, refine in the crag.

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  • raidentenshu_ESO
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    Insert the prosperous trait on all of your crafted armor.
  • darthsithis
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    lol. 20 gold instead of 14 from trash mobs!!
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  • Runs
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    lol. 20 gold instead of 14 from trash mobs!!

    23(or 24 if they properly round up 23.52) gold instead of 14 if you are in all legendary(including a shield).
    Edited by Runs on August 15, 2016 12:36AM
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  • SameMeteor26
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    Host RGB I made 200k in 2 hours
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  • Junipus
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    Roll Imperial and rake in the millions
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  • Wrecking_Blow_Spam
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    A good way of making gold is buying low and selling high. I bought a mace other day for 10k for myself but I could've easily got 80k for it. There's lots of bargains like this.

    Also I personally haven't done this but if you where to check guild stores daily for the lich set, I'm pretty sure you'll get a few pieces for cheap and rake in big money.

    Daily writs.

    Farming tel var/ agility and willpower.

    Farming trails (if you can get in a group) selling any BoP valuables like Vicious Serpent pieces.

    Stealing/killing

    Farming raw mats to either sell or refine, farming alchemy ingredients.
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  • Banana
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    Do all the hard content that drops good stuff. Sell
  • GreenhaloX
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    Oh yes, you will make a lot of gold with what I call "time over effect" saleable, which is selling refined and crafted goods. These do sell very well, but the downside is you must first go around harvesting, then have to refine the raw materials, then go find a bank and then place those on the guild stores. You would then have to wait until it is sold. Although it still a lot faster, but it is much like the mortgage or real estate business in real life. You just locked in a deal from a prospective buyer/homeowner on a house or just processed somebody for a home loan, but you have to wait and go through all the different steps and processing until the house actually closes or for a loan to get approved until you actually get paid. However, when you do get paid, it is bookoo bucks. Similar to what the gold you will receive when someone does purchase your refined and crafting goods. Same with purple and gold-end items. It is pricey, but rewarding when someone actually purchase those high-end items of your.

    So.. to actually make gold fast, the best way is to pick up every weapons, armors, jewelries and whatnot drops from kills, from treasure chests, from thieves troves (if you already started the Thieves' Guild quests and unlocked the ability to open the thieves troves) and when you're almost or maxed out in your inventory, go sell the non-stolen loots to a merchant, and of course, the stolen loots to a fence.. then press repeat, repeat and more repeat. You will stack up bookoo gold in no time flat! You can easily rack up to 5k gold within 30 minutes to an hour.

  • Zerok
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    It depends of your level.

    For a low level:
    - Steal & fence stuff
    - Go fishing and sell perfect roe in zone chat or guild store
    - Play the trading mini-game

    For a max level player:
    - Do crafting writs each day
    - Do trials and sell set items you get in guild store
    - Farm materials in battle leveled zones
    - Play the trading mini-game
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  • raasdal
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    For a modest fee of, let's say 100.000 Gold, i will teach you the secret to making millions. Just email the 100k ingamge to @getscammed, and i will sent you the tutorial video, on how to make millions in a few hours!
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  • GreenhaloX
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    Zerok wrote: »

    For a max level player:
    - Do crafting writs each day
    - Do trials and sell set items you get in guild store
    - Farm materials in battle leveled zones
    - Play the trading mini-game

    Again (aside from the writs, which can be very quick if you already have all the materials on hand/in your inventory and can just go and craft it), these are time over effects and will eventually bring in good amount of gold, but are still not the fastest route to rack up a lot of gold in a short period of time.
  • Lysette
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    I think before starting to want to make a lot of gold in this game, first ask yourself, what you need the money for. When I asked myself this, I found, that there is pretty much nothing in this game - for me - where i would have to spend a lot of gold. So to me the answer to the question is - you won't need a lot of gold, it is just a number on your account, but not really useful.
    Edited by Lysette on August 16, 2016 2:14PM
  • Jailbirdy
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    What is the best or fastest way to make lots of gold?

    you can try begging for it on the forums, last time, people sent the guy over 100k, lmao
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  • GreenhaloX
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    Lysette wrote: »
    I think before starting to want to make a lot of gold in this game, first ask yourself, what you need the money for. When I asked myself this, I found, that there is pretty much nothing in this game - for me - where i would have to spend a lot of gold. So to me the answer to the question is - you won't need a lot of gold, it is just a number on your account, but not really useful.

    Ahhh, yes.. true to a point. It can definitely be about necessity. However, I would have to debate the usefulness aspect. You need gold to purchase the items on the guild stores that you want; particularly the weekend golden vendor. You need gold to reset your skills, attributes and the likes. You need gold to level up daily for your mounts at the stablemaster. You need gold to reset your bounties. You need gold to repair all your armors. Also, if you have a guild, you definitely need a lot of gold for the weekly bidding. Additionally, people just want to have more on hand or in the bank for convenience purposes. It doesn't matter if it's ESO, relatively speaking, acquiring and increasing gold or money is a big part of any game. You need gold, period.
  • Ch4mpTW
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    Bromburak wrote: »

    That's how I feel on console, when people be asking whether or not I'm a transfer (because that's important to some people) and be trying to diss and stunt on me. Then I whip out the Striped Senche mount, and suddenly people are acting like they know me and we are boys.
    Edited by Ch4mpTW on August 16, 2016 2:59PM
  • Khenarthi
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    GreenhaloX wrote: »
    Lysette wrote: »
    I think before starting to want to make a lot of gold in this game, first ask yourself, what you need the money for. When I asked myself this, I found, that there is pretty much nothing in this game - for me - where i would have to spend a lot of gold. So to me the answer to the question is - you won't need a lot of gold, it is just a number on your account, but not really useful.

    Ahhh, yes.. true to a point. It can definitely be about necessity. However, I would have to debate the usefulness aspect. You need gold to purchase the items on the guild stores that you want; particularly the weekend golden vendor. You need gold to reset your skills, attributes and the likes. You need gold to level up daily for your mounts at the stablemaster. You need gold to reset your bounties. You need gold to repair all your armors. Also, if you have a guild, you definitely need a lot of gold for the weekly bidding. Additionally, people just want to have more on hand or in the bank for convenience purposes. It doesn't matter if it's ESO, relatively speaking, acquiring and increasing gold or money is a big part of any game. You need gold, period.

    While I don't disagree... It's easy to make gold, and leaves more than enough for all you mentioned.

    Skill and attribute resetting: how often is this needed, really? I must have done it 4/5 times maximum, and that's with the character I have played since launch. Skill resets even allow choosing "morphs only", and cost less than they did before.

    Mounts: 250g a day, which you easily get as a quest reward in lowbie land.

    Bounties: unless you're an axe murderer killing everyone in sight, they reset easily enough after a while while you play some place away from town guards (or with another character). Or you can use the nifty pardon things frm TG.

    Armour repair: costs are less than the money made from.mobs and their drops. Also, equipment writs often reward repair boxes.

    Undaunted vendor: meh, infused items. I got them as drops already (show me divines instead pls).

    Guild bidding: good sink if you have money to spare. There are guilds with no mandatory fees as well, and I drop something in those dearer to me when I remember.

    I admit to having 12 characters with inventory slots fully upgraded, and bank fully upgraded, and a couple of million gold in bank just because there's nothing left to buy. I will splurge on new motif pages, but since I gather and refine my own materials, and craft my own gear, after a while the gold just builds up naturally.
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  • DeadDealer
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    all such topic is very suspicious for me
    like beginner goldseller trying to ask advices
  • Enemy-of-Coldharbour
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    Run trials and sell the loot. I made 180,000 off of one Hel Ra Citadel run the other day.

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  • cjthibs
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    Only supernova nucleosynthesis can make gold.
  • Lysette
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    GreenhaloX wrote: »
    Lysette wrote: »
    I think before starting to want to make a lot of gold in this game, first ask yourself, what you need the money for. When I asked myself this, I found, that there is pretty much nothing in this game - for me - where i would have to spend a lot of gold. So to me the answer to the question is - you won't need a lot of gold, it is just a number on your account, but not really useful.

    Ahhh, yes.. true to a point. It can definitely be about necessity. However, I would have to debate the usefulness aspect. You need gold to purchase the items on the guild stores that you want; particularly the weekend golden vendor. You need gold to reset your skills, attributes and the likes. You need gold to level up daily for your mounts at the stablemaster. You need gold to reset your bounties. You need gold to repair all your armors. Also, if you have a guild, you definitely need a lot of gold for the weekly bidding. Additionally, people just want to have more on hand or in the bank for convenience purposes. It doesn't matter if it's ESO, relatively speaking, acquiring and increasing gold or money is a big part of any game. You need gold, period.

    Yes, but that is not what I would consider "lots of money" - I see a million gold and up as "lots of money" and you do not need those. And if you have that amount of gold on your account - this just shows, that you do not have a use for it and it is just a pointless number then.
    Edited by Lysette on August 16, 2016 4:46PM
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