crowns to gold?

Suter1972 · August 2016

Is there any way to convert crowns to gold ingame?

I bought a load of crowns to get DLC but having read the reviews the base game is huge and a bit overwhelming for a newbie. The feedback on the DLC doesn’t seems that great either. I bought a camel and a pig and have it all sat there, yet in game im scraping around collecting 6 and 7 gold here and there.

newtinmpls · August 2016

Nope.

OTOH what you need is income; if you are willing to farm (either materials, or stealing over and over) I'm told it's not that hard (I have absolutely no patience for it, tend to decon EVERYTHING that I get, so I just had to get used to being broke.

Pandorii · August 2016

Suter1972 wrote: »

Is there any way to convert crowns to gold ingame?

I bought a load of crowns to get DLC but having read the reviews the base game is huge and a bit overwhelming for a newbie. The feedback on the DLC doesn’t seems that great either. I bought a camel and a pig and have it all sat there, yet in game im scraping around collecting 6 and 7 gold here and there.

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As far as I know, there's no way to transfer crowns to gold, at least not directly. You can purchase items that might save you gold. For example, you could buy riding speed upgrades for your mounts and save the little bit of gold you would have to pay every day to upgrade it. Similarly, you could buy bank space upgrades, which cost in-game gold otherwise. You could buy a motif instead of having to buy it with gold.

Suter1972 · August 2016

Pandorii wrote: »

Suter1972 wrote: »

Is there any way to convert crowns to gold ingame?

I bought a load of crowns to get DLC but having read the reviews the base game is huge and a bit overwhelming for a newbie. The feedback on the DLC doesn’t seems that great either. I bought a camel and a pig and have it all sat there, yet in game im scraping around collecting 6 and 7 gold here and there.

I loved this part...

As far as I know, there's no way to transfer crowns to gold, at least not directly. You can purchase items that might save you gold. For example, you could buy riding speed upgrades for your mounts and save the little bit of gold you would have to pay every day to upgrade it. Similarly, you could buy bank space upgrades, which cost in-game gold otherwise. You could buy a motif instead of having to buy it with gold.

Haha yes I didnt want to just rock up as a Breton with a glowing guar and a beetle as a pet, just didn’t seem right as I like to have a bit of back story (RP etc).

I spent the whole evening trotting calmy around daggerfall between craft stations, buying bank space etc chopping wood and picking lowers while everyone ran around like headless chickens all around me. Some high level people even found the need to run up to me, flash of light and show me how impressive their glowing spikes are while I stood and watching. I even did a spot of fishing and got attacked by an assassin. Still managed to haul the fish out though, he wasn’t having that. That’s the last time I follow a random dog to a river. I went from helping begger who was whining that ‘no-one helps the beggers’ to walking straight into the castle and having banter with the king of daggerfall (before more assassins ruined the party.

Overall quite a surreal second evening in the game lol

But on topic, thanks for the advice. Bank space etc is proving essential even at level 8 as im fast collecting a load of useless crap/materials

DrkHunter86 · August 2016

Suter1972 wrote: »

Is there any way to convert crowns to gold ingame?

I bought a load of crowns to get DLC but having read the reviews the base game is huge and a bit overwhelming for a newbie. The feedback on the DLC doesn’t seems that great either. I bought a camel and a pig and have it all sat there, yet in game im scraping around collecting 6 and 7 gold here and there.

Golds hard too come by early on but it gets better at higher levels. Once you hit 50 and unlock cp you should get a decent amount. Crafting writs help too. Collect every crafting material you can and consider joining a trade guild. I make close too 100k a week from this adding gold conversion would break the in game economy.

carljokl · August 2016

I think writs are your friend. Their payout is quite a bit higher than you would get from quests at the same level. Provisioning can be relatively easy.

As said, allowing people to buy anything that can be sold for gold or gold directly would have implications on the economy.

I might suggest if you are buying crown packs to weigh that up with ESO Plus membership. You get a regular amount of crowns with this. You get 1500 crowns per month. The price of 1500 crowns is similar to a months worth of ESO Plus.

The crafting bag could take a lot of pressure off your storage. I found in the early days most of my money was spent on storage. You get an experience boost too and the DLC. It can be more cost effective than buying everything individually with crown packs but that depends on your spending patterns.

carljokl · August 2016

I say this as someone who fell into the trap of buying a bunch of Crown packs, buying the DLC....only later to decide just to go ESO Plus and realise I could have saved quite a bit if I did that in the first place.

For my side as regards making money I am in a kind of an in between stage. I don't have to scrimp for gold the same as a new player but the highest amounts of money seems to be made from crafting and selling high level gear or selling some of the most rare commodities in the game. I am not far enough along to do either...yet. It can be an eye opener hearing top end players talking about selling things for hundreds of thousands or sometimes a million gold. Imagining everything I could buy with that kind of money.

DPG76 · August 2016

carljokl wrote: »

I think writs are your friend. Their payout is quite a bit higher than you would get from quests at the same level. Provisioning can be relatively easy.

As said, allowing people to buy anything that can be sold for gold or gold directly would have implications on the economy.

I might suggest if you are buying crown packs to weigh that up with ESO Plus membership. You get a regular amount of crowns with this. You get 1500 crowns per month. The price of 1500 crowns is similar to a months worth of ESO Plus.

The crafting bag could take a lot of pressure off your storage. I found in the early days most of my money was spent on storage. You get an experience boost too and the DLC. It can be more cost effective than buying everything individually with crown packs but that depends on your spending patterns.

you also find more gold (bigger amounts) in game with ESO plus
if not you can craft your gear with Prosperous trait or ask someone to craft , it's a small boost
steal as much as you can everywhere
good luck

AntMan100673 · August 2016

Early on in the game the only important things to buy are a mount, bag and bank upgrades and then you just need enough income to pay for riding training. Once you reach higher levels and may need to buy stuff you'll find gold is easier to come by

DrkHunter86 · August 2016

AntMan100673 wrote: »

Early on in the game the only important things to buy are a mount, bag and bank upgrades and then you just need enough income to pay for riding training. Once you reach higher levels and may need to buy stuff you'll find gold is easier to come by

Yea golds not too important untill you hit vet ranks/cp. Really only necessary for buying things you can't craft yourself. So if you wanna save be a master crafter

Suter1972 · August 2016

So I did the writs last night. Didn't have many materials so a bit of graft needed early on. Then I got a load of resources as a reward which has made things easier.

Hardest part now is not gold as such, it's finding better gear in vendors ( guilds seems better) but it's either unknown (npc) or lvl 50 so no use yet. I'm relying on drops from quests now.

AntMan100673 · August 2016

Don't bother buying gear at low levels as you out level it quickly. I just used drops up to level 50, then a guildie made me my first set of armour

Beardimus · August 2016

The awesome thing about the timing of your post @Suter1972 is the forum is currently outraged about some Crown purchase lottery boxes for in game content that it might be P2W, I'm surprised they haven't jumped on this thread fast

Sadly no. But just take comfort that over time, you will have the gold to do all you need. As per others comments things you can do - Daily Writs (at top tier you earn 4000 gold a day) steal things and sell / fence them, join trading guilds and buy cheap / sell high or sell items you find, rare things, set items. Pick one craft and unlock it all and sell the Gold things. I.e. I did enchanting first, and sold Kutas for 15k a piece. Then used that money to trade items, buy cheap, split up bulk buys and sell high, etc and over a few months made some.good money to buy all that I need.

Upgrading your mount you can do with Crowns. That saves you buying bank and bag upgraded so that's a good idea. Capacity is king.