How can we make gold

ArgonianAustin · January 2017

I and my twin brother have played this game the first day out on console and as dedicated players I think we deserve a beautiful manor. But even if we pool our gold together to save up it will takes ages. I want to know the secret to making gold out of thin air. We've played for so long and we think 100k is like impossible. Will we have to give up on these dream houses and live in small homes. Someone teach us the ways please and thanks.

K4RMA · January 2017

farm telvar and sell hakeijo, u can make upwards of 700k a week if you grinded heaps

Travestynox · January 2017

Check out this thread for some sound advice. Good luck!

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/307707/tips-on-making-money

Drummerx04 · January 2017

What are you doing to make gold right now? Sell items in a guild store. tempers sell very well.

Kevin_of_Devinshire · January 2017

I make a killing on crafting writs, keeping my guild vendor stocked with anything (surprising what ppl will buy), dailies, running the dolmens, and resource gathering. No tricks, daily, just start with writs, then restock your vendors, run dolmens or other dailies and get the resources as you move around. And make sure you price check to make sure you are selling for a good profit. Eventually you will get to were you have more free time because you have a stock pile of stuff to sell. Then repeatedly clearing 100k every few days will be a cake walk.

leepalmer95 · January 2017

ArgonianAustin wrote: »

I and my twin brother have played this game the first day out on console and as dedicated players I think we deserve a beautiful manor. But even if we pool our gold together to save up it will takes ages. I want to know the secret to making gold out of thin air. We've played for so long and we think 100k is like impossible. Will we have to give up on these dream houses and live in small homes. Someone teach us the ways please and thanks.

Farm popular item sets
Farm raw mats and either sell them raw or refine and sell the tempers
Farm TV stones then sell haikejo's or turn into alchemy mats and sell them

alephthiago · January 2017

Well, i do farm craglorn dailies everyday and so far could net 1-2 motifs/day worth probably 50k each, just dont overdo it because the market....oh crap....nevermind

S1ipperyJim · January 2017

This is an extremely useful guide to making gold in ESO: http://tamrielfoundry.com/2016/08/selling-and-the-eso-economy-part-1/

I'm not the biggest trader as I find it boring but personally I find a quick way is to farm high value bind no equip items, I used to farm lich items which sold quickly for 200-500k gold (NAPC) before one tamriel but now they are a little too easy to get. I currently farm spriggans sharpened one handers which sell for 250k-1m depending on the buyers and your negotiating skills, these can be farmed at a rate of about 1 a day in Bangkorai 3 world boss rotation. Another possibility is the Aethiric Ciphers which are currently on the market for 5m each, Aethiric dust is 50k each. Having said that I can't really suggest a great way to farm these as it very rare.

Narvuntien · January 2017

Join a guild... Sell mats.

Loot everything.
Steal things.. steal lots of things you have a fence limit use it.

nordsavage · January 2017

I'd tell you but the more you have the less mine is worth.

Drelkag · January 2017

Sell mats, steal your fencing limit each day.

Bobby_V_Rockit · January 2017

reapthetempestrwb17_ESO wrote: »

This is an extremely useful guide to making gold in ESO: http://tamrielfoundry.com/2016/08/selling-and-the-eso-economy-part-1/

I'm not the biggest trader as I find it boring but personally I find a quick way is to farm high value bind no equip items, I used to farm lich items which sold quickly for 200-500k gold (NAPC) before one tamriel but now they are a little too easy to get. I currently farm spriggans sharpened one handers which sell for 250k-1m depending on the buyers and your negotiating skills, these can be farmed at a rate of about 1 a day in Bangkorai 3 world boss rotation. Another possibility is the Aethiric Ciphers which are currently on the market for 5m each, Aethiric dust is 50k each. Having said that I can't really suggest a great way to farm these as it very rare.

Been running it for 4-10 hours a day for 6 days and not a single sharpened one hander

susmitds · January 2017

Look out for temper sellers in zone. Some people exploited tons of temper around a year ago. Now they sell those at around 50% market price during times when most people aren't online to avoid reports. You can sell those at 10-15% higher than market price if you are in big trading guilds. I can sell around 1 million gold worth of profit in a week with only few minutes of work.

GaldorP · January 2017

The easiest way to get gold is to farm items that are in high demand and sell them to other players or buy underpriced items from guild stores and resell them.

The most common ways how you actually generate new gold for the ingame economy: Gold quest rewards, gold dropped from humanoid monsters, gold you get by selling equipable items and junk to NPCs, gold you get by selling stolen items to a fence, gold from treasure chests.

akl77 · January 2017

Farm motifs, 10k easily each. Rare one goes 50k.
Can't farm? Buy cheap, sell high.

OldGamerESO · January 2017

All the ideas here are great, and there are many more. Gold falls off of trees in ESO. But conversely, it sounds like what you really want to do is accumulate gold. That means not spending it. If you have played for 2 years and don't have 100k then you must be spending it like water. Golding all your weapons and armor, etc. You also can't do PvP and trials all day long and make money. Those are mostly gold sinks.

So
Step 1: control spending. bring it down to aminimum
Step 2: don't spend your time on non-gold making activities... like PvP and trials (although telvar farming can work)
Step 3: Use any of the many techniques people mention above.

If you played 2-3 hours a day and concentrated on this you would have 1m gold in a week

Some other techniques:

Build a set of prosperous gear, get the champion points for treasure and go farm public dungeons.
Have crafting characters that have max hirelings
Get the Tamriel Trade Center plugin and the Master Merchant Plugin so you can know the value of things.
Assuming you have max crafting skills, sell gear you loot to vendor over 50g but deconstruct the rest and then sell the mats.
Map all the treasure chests in a zone and then cycle through them, Master chests are gauranteed purple zone set item
Run a daily random dungeon. You get free purple item in mail afterword. If have gotten 20-30k items that way
You need to be in some trading guilds and keep it stocked or the only money you will ever make will be gold you loot and vendor. Get Awesome Guild Store plugin to assist with that.

TheShadowScout · January 2017

ArgonianAustin wrote: »

How can we make gold

...alchemists have been asking themselves the same for centuries now...

Seriously?
One - stealing for starters. Steal smart, fence it, get some budget for #3.
The good stuffs (rare crafting motics and such), sell in a guild store.

Two - farm other rare stuff to sell in the guild store.
Hard to get crafting motivs/recipes are good. Nice item drops are good. Rare crafting materials (style, trait, tempers) are good.

Three... trade. Buy things sold under price, sell them for more. Takes a bit of legwork, and a good deal of knowledge, but people have been getting rich with this (the right addons help, or so I am told)

As you can see, all three are dependent on a guild store - both to have a well placed one to sell, and on knowing what goes for how much in general.
Welcome to the traders life, the best way to riches in ESO!

Draxys · January 2017

OldGamerESO wrote: »

All the ideas here are great, and there are many more. Gold falls off of trees in ESO. But conversely, it sounds like what you really want to do is accumulate gold. That means not spending it. If you have played for 2 years and don't have 100k then you must be spending it like water. Golding all your weapons and armor, etc. You also can't do PvP and trials all day long and make money. Those are mostly gold sinks.

So
Step 1: control spending. bring it down to aminimum
Step 2: don't spend your time on non-gold making activities... like PvP and trials (although telvar farming can work)
Step 3: Use any of the many techniques people mention above.

If you played 2-3 hours a day and concentrated on this you would have 1m gold in a week

Some other techniques:
Build a set of prosperous gear, get the champion points for treasure and go farm public dungeons.

Have crafting characters that have max hirelings

Get the Tamriel Trade Center plugin and the Master Merchant Plugin so you can know the value of things.

Assuming you have max crafting skills, sell gear you loot to vendor over 50g but deconstruct the rest and then sell the mats.

Map all the treasure chests in a zone and then cycle through them, Master chests are gauranteed purple zone set item

Run a daily random dungeon. You get free purple item in mail afterword. If have gotten 20-30k items that way

You need to be in some trading guilds and keep it stocked or the only money you will ever make will be gold you loot and vendor. Get Awesome Guild Store plugin to assist with that.

Referring to your step 2, pvp does have the potential to be profitable, though it is currently only profitable for people who can climb the leaderboards. With lots of AP comes the ability to sell AP and sell the leaderboard/town vendor items. In the homestead patch, however, pvp has the potential to be more widely profitable, as we will be able to spend 5k AP to get a bag that will drop an item from one of the zone drop sets.

Tandor · January 2017

Sadly, the housing system is really geared towards those who spend their time farming and trading, which excludes a sizeable chunk of the playerbase. The question is whether they will be catered for by reasonable pricing in the Crown Store as an alternative means of buying a decent house when you don't have a few hundred thousand gold or more - which you won't have if you don't farm and trade.

Gargath · January 2017

ArgonianAustin wrote: »

We've played for so long and we think 100k is like impossible.

Are you both the kind of players who don't bother to bend over and pick materials from the ground?
I've made a first milion with my backbone in pain, and I'm not even a subscriber

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OldGamerESO · January 2017

Tandor wrote: »

Sadly, the housing system is really geared towards those who spend their time farming and trading, which excludes a sizeable chunk of the playerbase. The question is whether they will be catered for by reasonable pricing in the Crown Store as an alternative means of buying a decent house when you don't have a few hundred thousand gold or more - which you won't have if you don't farm and trade.

I am not sure I agree with that. First of all we don't know what "most people do". Only the game developers know that. You can't count the people on these forums. We are the crazy rabid few.

Here is a counter theory to your statement:

You know when you do random pugs and you get people in weird armor, poor class knowledge, stand in fire and can't tank/heal/dps? That most people.
You know how every single dolman, delve, public dungeon, quest hub, town and city are crammed with people? Those are the customers.
At E3 Bethesda said they had 8 million unique players. I am guessing that 7.9 million of them basically do questing, achievements, RP, explore the world, level alts, farm and trade.
Where does the gold come from? It only gets created out of thin air a few ways: killing monsters, vendering stuff you get from monsters, quests and treasure chests. Everything else is just moving stuff around between players.

Tandor · January 2017

OldGamerESO wrote: »

Tandor wrote: »

Sadly, the housing system is really geared towards those who spend their time farming and trading, which excludes a sizeable chunk of the playerbase. The question is whether they will be catered for by reasonable pricing in the Crown Store as an alternative means of buying a decent house when you don't have a few hundred thousand gold or more - which you won't have if you don't farm and trade.

I am not sure I agree with that. First of all we don't know what "most people do". Only the game developers know that. You can't count the people on these forums. We are the crazy rabid few.

Here is a counter theory to your statement:
You know when you do random pugs and you get people in weird armor, poor class knowledge, stand in fire and can't tank/heal/dps? That most people.

You know how every single dolman, delve, public dungeon, quest hub, town and city are crammed with people? Those are the customers.

At E3 Bethesda said they had 8 million unique players. I am guessing that 7.9 million of them basically do questing, achievements, RP, explore the world, level alts, farm and trade.

Where does the gold come from? It only gets created out of thin air a few ways: killing monsters, vendering stuff you get from monsters, quests and treasure chests. Everything else is just moving stuff around between players.

I never mentioned "most people".

Now, if you want to counter my argument that only those who farm and trade can expect to have the several hundred thousand gold necessary for the kind of housing that consists of more than a single room then by all means do so, I'd be interested to know.

susmitds · January 2017

Tandor wrote: »

OldGamerESO wrote: »

Tandor wrote: »

Sadly, the housing system is really geared towards those who spend their time farming and trading, which excludes a sizeable chunk of the playerbase. The question is whether they will be catered for by reasonable pricing in the Crown Store as an alternative means of buying a decent house when you don't have a few hundred thousand gold or more - which you won't have if you don't farm and trade.

@Tandor
I am not sure I agree with that. First of all we don't know what "most people do". Only the game developers know that. You can't count the people on these forums. We are the crazy rabid few.
Here is a counter theory to your statement:
You know when you do random pugs and you get people in weird armor, poor class knowledge, stand in fire and can't tank/heal/dps? That most people.

You know how every single dolman, delve, public dungeon, quest hub, town and city are crammed with people? Those are the customers.

At E3 Bethesda said they had 8 million unique players. I am guessing that 7.9 million of them basically do questing, achievements, RP, explore the world, level alts, farm and trade.

Where does the gold come from? It only gets created out of thin air a few ways: killing monsters, vendering stuff you get from monsters, quests and treasure chests. Everything else is just moving stuff around between players.

I never mentioned "most people".
Now, if you want to counter my argument that only those who farm and trade can expect to have the several hundred thousand gold necessary for the kind of housing that consists of more than a single room then by all means do so, I'd be interested to know.

Man, stop spending gold altogether. Do things which require minimum investment compared to the output such as thieving, questing, even casual PvP and PvE. You will have 1 million in a few months.
Also, MMOs are supposed to work socially. Trading is nothing but the ancient tradition of barter. And it's not hard. The small things like selling motifs, intricate items, mats add up very fast.

Tandor · January 2017

susmitds wrote: »

Tandor wrote: »

OldGamerESO wrote: »

Tandor wrote: »

Sadly, the housing system is really geared towards those who spend their time farming and trading, which excludes a sizeable chunk of the playerbase. The question is whether they will be catered for by reasonable pricing in the Crown Store as an alternative means of buying a decent house when you don't have a few hundred thousand gold or more - which you won't have if you don't farm and trade.

@Tandor
I am not sure I agree with that. First of all we don't know what "most people do". Only the game developers know that. You can't count the people on these forums. We are the crazy rabid few.
Here is a counter theory to your statement:
You know when you do random pugs and you get people in weird armor, poor class knowledge, stand in fire and can't tank/heal/dps? That most people.

You know how every single dolman, delve, public dungeon, quest hub, town and city are crammed with people? Those are the customers.

At E3 Bethesda said they had 8 million unique players. I am guessing that 7.9 million of them basically do questing, achievements, RP, explore the world, level alts, farm and trade.

Where does the gold come from? It only gets created out of thin air a few ways: killing monsters, vendering stuff you get from monsters, quests and treasure chests. Everything else is just moving stuff around between players.

I never mentioned "most people".
Now, if you want to counter my argument that only those who farm and trade can expect to have the several hundred thousand gold necessary for the kind of housing that consists of more than a single room then by all means do so, I'd be interested to know.

Man, stop spending gold altogether. Do things which require minimum investment compared to the output such as thieving, questing, even casual PvP and PvE. You will have 1 million in a few months.
Also, MMOs are supposed to work socially. Trading is nothing but the ancient tradition of barter. And it's not hard. The small things like selling motifs, intricate items, mats add up very fast.

I realise those are the options, and that's in the main what I and doubtless others have been doing for almost 3 years. However, without the farming and trading part of it we won't have got much in the way of gold accumulated, and that's without buying stuff either. I abhor the guild trader system and don't use it for buying or selling. That's my choice, and you'd be perfectly entitled to judge me over it in relation to the need for gold to buy houses. However, my point is simply that the housing system is geared towards those who farm and trade, and that is clearly the case. The intention is obviously that the Crown Store will provide an alternative option for those who wish to buy into the housing system without having the gold means to do so, and I just hope that its pricing reflects that and isn't pitched at an absurdly high level in real money terms.

OldGamerESO · January 2017

@Tandor , Yes you didn't say "most people" but you did say "a sizable chunk" of people don't farm and trade. That's the part that we don't really know. Also, "farm" can something less than mindless grinding. If you log in and go to a zone and work that night on "clearing it" (i.e. every dolman, all delves, its public dungeon, all POI, main quest) and kill everything you see and harvest every herb, stone and tree then are you "farming"? The net result is the same... you make a ton of money.

Tandor · January 2017

OldGamerESO wrote: »

@Tandor , Yes you didn't say "most people" but you did say "a sizable chunk" of people don't farm and trade. That's the part that we don't really know. Also, "farm" can something less than mindless grinding. If you log in and go to a zone and work that night on "clearing it" (i.e. every dolman, all delves, its public dungeon, all POI, main quest) and kill everything you see and harvest every herb, stone and tree then are you "farming"? The net result is the same... you make a ton of money.

I stand by my comment, 10% would be a sizeable chunk, but "most" would have to be more than half - so the difference was critical. However, that's best left

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You only make a ton of money if you trade through a guild what you loot and harvest. If you run multiple characters, for example, and remain largely self-sufficient by passing stuff between your characters according to their need, then the option to sell stuff is much more limited - and that indeed is the main reason I don't do guild trading. In nearly 3 years of playing the only things I've had surplus that were capable of being sold would have been a couple of common motifs, and that simply doesn't support membership of a trading guild. Everything else has been used or deconstructed. I am, of course, playing casually so that clearing a zone would take weeks not a night, but my commitment to the game over that period of time has nonetheless been such that I'd like to think I could get something better than a single small one room house in the 50-75,000 gold bracket which is what I'm looking at. That's where I hope the option to purchase through the Crown Store will come in, but only if the prices aren't beyond all reason.

Bryanonymous · January 2017

It takes some dedication to earn a lot of gold. The manors are a reward for those efforts. There are plenty of other houses for players who did not care about getting rich.

Tandor · January 2017

Bryanonymous wrote: »

It takes some dedication to earn a lot of gold. The manors are a reward for those efforts. There are plenty of other houses for players who did not care about getting rich.

Oh absolutely, I'm not concerned with the manors. They are largely for the most successful traders and some guilds that want to use one as a guild house. I also think they're very unimaginative as they're simply a copy of existing buildings. I dread to think what the Crown price for those would be, fully furnished

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randolphbenoit · January 2017

We have banks, so why can we not get a BANK LOAN for a house?

Bryanonymous · January 2017

randolphbenoit wrote: »

We have banks, so why can we not get a BANK LOAN for a house?

THEDKEXPERIENCE · January 2017

ArgonianAustin wrote: »

I and my twin brother have played this game the first day out on console and as dedicated players I think we deserve a beautiful manor. But even if we pool our gold together to save up it will takes ages. I want to know the secret to making gold out of thin air. We've played for so long and we think 100k is like impossible. Will we have to give up on these dream houses and live in small homes. Someone teach us the ways please and thanks.

I make 25 to 50k+ a day generally. Here are some tips.

- 5k a week for an out of the way trader is a rip off, but 10k a week for a trading guild in a major hub is a steal. A great trader in a place like Elden Root or Mournhold is one of the main keys. Usually I'll move 5 to 10 items a day ranging in price from 1k to 15k with the occasional 50k+ sale.
- Sell only what people want and need. No one is going to but CP 120 training gear. Items I sell frequently are crafting mats, provisioning mats, treasure maps, gold upgrade mats, and impenetrable CP 160 gear.
- Undercut! Undercut! Undercut! Posting something 1 gold under the lowest price won't make it sell much faster. Posting something 20% under the lowest price will. Always see what things are going for in your guild store before posting.
- If you see an item is 20 days old understand that someone priced it too high. Base your prices on items less than a week old, preferably even less than a day old.
- Do your writs and farm, and also buy ESO plus to house it all. Sometimes you'll have days where you don't have enough cool stuff to sell, so dip into your crafting bag.
- Before dipping into your crafting bag make a year's worth of food and potions, and upgrade everything you need. Its pointless selling columbine or Tempering Allows if you're gonna need them next week.
- Above all else, stop spending money unless it's on long term investments. Buying potions might sound good (and people do buy them) but they are used once and gone. At least a motif will last forever.
- Lastly, the only thing that has shown to consistently maintain and increase in value are Tempering Alloys. Too many things need them. In the last year they have gone from 8k (on XBox) to 16 to 22k. I'd be surprised if you can find one next year for less than 30k unless ZOS makes a sweeping change.