Hypothetically, how much gold could you personally make in a 30 day period...

BlackEar · January 2017

In the area of 5 million if it was my main focus, I would say. Never tried, though. Just saving as I go.

rotaugen454 · January 2017

Another way to look at it is gold per hour. Not everyone can put in two or more hours per day.

tplink3r1 · January 2017

I can easily make near 500k in a couple of hours by farming public dungeons.

Prof_Bawbag · January 2017

This thread kinda puts to rest the "I did it the hard way" malarkey we've all been reading lately regarding the crowns v in-game gold argument. Yeah, I had to totally break my balls to get that 2m by farming *** for a day or 2. My poor hands are covered in calluses now.

Lukums1 · January 2017

Farming in Crag for nodes you can get approx.

20 Tempers
20 Wax
20 Rosin
10+ Kuta
5+ Nirn Crux
5+ Potent Nirn

+ the materials from farming the above equating to about 1000+ materials in Leather, Cloth and Metal.

The above "could be done in a day"

7 Hours of farming netted me the below: for reference.

19 Temper
18 Wax
15 Rosin
19 Kuta
18 Fortified Nirn Crux
14 Potent Nirn Crux

Approx 800 in all cloth, leather, metal.

So could 1mill + be done? I'd say easily. Even if you did 2-3 hours of mat farming every now and then throughout that month.

lillybit · January 2017

Before I found a good trade guild I'd make around 100k a week just questing and vendoring everything.

Now I sell any divine/impen/sharp stuff I find and spend the odd hour here and there picking up higher value items (purple spinners jewellery is a favourite, as they're not too hard to get) and it's picked up quite a bit, even though I've been spending most of my time in dungeons so not getting much to sell.

Think I've made about 600k since the new year so could probably do a million easily but not sure I could manage as much as five.

The real question is whether I would have the patience to solely make gold and the answer to that is definitely no!

starkerealm · January 2017

Danikat wrote: »

I actually have no idea. I've never paid attention to how long it takes me to make gold, and it depends on how much time I have, which varies a lot from month to month.

I guessed about 25,000, but I have no idea if that's accurate.

For a CR160+, 25k is a reasonable haul from doing your dailies on a couple of characters. Usually I pull around 5-10k a day, from an hour or so of derping around and running quest dailies, just vendor trashing what I grab.

If you're actually digging in and looking for useful stuff, farming... you can pull down between 500k and 1m a month pretty comfortably (assuming you have somewhere to sell it).

If you're engaging in aggressive flipping, the sky is the limit, if you're on the ball.

jedtb16_ESO · January 2017

half a mil a week without too much effort.

the trick is harvesting and farming things that will sell.

Egonieser · January 2017

Bryanonymous wrote: »

If you lost everything you had except your level, started over from scratch, and all you focused on was making gold for 30 days and nothing else, how much do you think you could make? This is a personal question to you alone in your available time and in whatever method you feel would be best for you. Let's see how hard making gold is to the community.

Million easy. I make nearly 80k a day and that's just casually playing, mostly selling crafted stuff and foods/potions and drops I've come across. I could easily make a lot more if I put some effort into it, but alas I don't and can't be bothered, for now anyway.
If housing update offers anything worthwhile I might start doing it, but for now I'm just piling all the gold in the bank without much use for it.

Runs · January 2017

Pretty sure I could aim for 10m if I was really inclined

Here's my last 7 weeks

This is mostly me getting rid of unwanted materials and a few BoE items. I expect my sales will be going down as I will be selling less materials and instead hoarding them in anticipation of update 13. Last weeks sales would have been about 40% lower, but I managed to find and sell a sharpened sword of mother's sorrow.

magnusthorek · January 2017

I think most of you who answered are still considering you would still have your BiS gear.

Farming top gear or rare motif wouldn't be an easy task, unless you group with someone (I tend not to).

Danikat · January 2017

starkerealm wrote: »

Danikat wrote: »

I actually have no idea. I've never paid attention to how long it takes me to make gold, and it depends on how much time I have, which varies a lot from month to month.

I guessed about 25,000, but I have no idea if that's accurate.

For a CR160+, 25k is a reasonable haul from doing your dailies on a couple of characters. Usually I pull around 5-10k a day, from an hour or so of derping around and running quest dailies, just vendor trashing what I grab.

If you're actually digging in and looking for useful stuff, farming... you can pull down between 500k and 1m a month pretty comfortably (assuming you have somewhere to sell it).

If you're engaging in aggressive flipping, the sky is the limit, if you're on the ball.

And if your highest level character is level 27, you're not sure what dailies are, what to farm or where to find it and you don't have a decent trade guild to sell it to even if you did? How much do you estimate it'd be possible to make then?

And what if you hate farming and would rather do anything else instead of doing the same thing over and over and over because it might eventually pay off?

danno8 · January 2017

Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

This thread kinda puts to rest the "I did it the hard way" malarkey we've all been reading lately regarding the crowns v in-game gold argument. Yeah, I had to totally break my balls to get that 2m by farming *** for a day or 2. My poor hands are covered in calluses now.

Yah you gotta just ignore people who think the house prices are too high. Small and medium are affordable for anyone who just plays the game a few hours a week even. It may take a few weeks but you'll get it.

And the manors? Well if you want the fancy huge estates you will have to wait longer and/or play more. Makes perfect sense to me. Point is it's not unattainable by any means, even for casuals.

Preyfar · January 2017

I made a little over 2.2 million in a single a week recently. My stats for ETC on PC-NA in one guild was just over 1.5mil in one guild alone. Stockpile enough gold mats over time and you can liquidate a ton of them for mad, fast profit quickly. Doing writs every day on 8X all maxed out crafters really helps, too.

Morbash · January 2017

If I went HAM, I could likely pull 5+ million within a month.

scorpiodog · January 2017

*IF* I logged in EVERY DA&Y for 1 hour per day: 10 writs * 5k/writ * 30 days = 1.5 million just for the gold from the writs.

That's assuming 10 Max level characters.

That isn't counting any sales of mats you get from refining surveys , etc.

So if you are dedicated and play every day, 1.5 million isn't too difficult.

Oh, and it's assuming you have the mats. I have stacks of them from hirelings.

NewBlacksmurf · January 2017

well basically ppl wont say it but ya know...u could have a trading guild right

And require weekly deposits for access and kick anyone who doesn't give their weekly amount....bid one lower cost trader spots and keep the rest

cause that actually happens

so anywhere from 1 mil to 10 mil or more depending upon due and trader bid costs

*The above is why I don't belong to trader guilds who charge.

Buffler · January 2017

ive made 4mill in last 10 days from buying low and selling high gold mats.

Oreyn_Bearclaw · January 2017

scorpiodog wrote: »

*IF* I logged in EVERY DA&Y for 1 hour per day: 10 writs * 5k/writ * 30 days = 1.5 million just for the gold from the writs.

That's assuming 10 Max level characters.

That isn't counting any sales of mats you get from refining surveys , etc.

So if you are dedicated and play every day, 1.5 million isn't too difficult.

Oh, and it's assuming you have the mats. I have stacks of them from hirelings.

You would run out of mats pretty fast. Hirelings dont give you enough on their own to sustain writs, not even close. You also need about 70 skill points per toon and they must be at level 50 in all crafting lines. This is not exactly trivial to do.

A lot of people will point to Writs, which I am a big fan of. What people leave out is that your typical gameplay will support 1-2 characters doing writs. I personally do them on 8 toons, which is approx 32k a day just from turning in the quest. The problem is that this is not sustainable. You will absolutely need to purchase (or spend a lot of time farming) Silk and Rubedite pretty frequently, and occasionally, nirnroot. The rest seems to be pretty self sustaining (I buy a stack of Oko like every 6 months).

I absolutely believe they are profitable, especially after factoring in gold mats, but you need to figure in the input costs. I make about 225k a week from turning them in, and probably spend 50k about every 10 days to buy mats to feed the habit. But again, that is just the gold. The mats makes them much more valuable. So thats like 750k a month, plus probably 8 gold mats a day (average about 1 per toon, maybe a little less).

It takes me 37 minutes to do writs on 8 toons. I do very little else for gold in this game other than sell the occasional unique item I find. I am closer to 8 figures than I am to 6. Haha.

If I was starting from scratch all I wanted to do was make gold, I would just farm nodes for gold mats. I think its not hard to make 30-50k an hour doing that, so then it just comes to how much time you got. You can make tons of gold flipping stuff, but you can also lose your shirt. It also requires that you have some seed money.

FriedEggSandwich · January 2017

Not in any trading guilds so would have to earn it by selling to vendors. If I run dungeons and sell all loot I can make about 10k per hour. Theoretically if I ran dungeons for 8 hours a day for 30 days thats 2.4 million gold. That's just in theory though; aint no way I'm running dungeons for 8 hours, even for one day.

kargen27 · January 2017

Quite a while back I wanted to donate one million gold to our guild for an anniversary celebration raffle. Didn't want it to break me though so started knowing I wouldn't use gold or resources I already owned. If I remember right it took me eleven days. I know it was less than two weeks because two weeks was all the time I had.

Wasn't a lot of fun though because mostly I just like goofing off in game, so not sure I would do that again.

scorpiodog · January 2017

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

scorpiodog wrote: »

*IF* I logged in EVERY DA&Y for 1 hour per day: 10 writs * 5k/writ * 30 days = 1.5 million just for the gold from the writs.

That's assuming 10 Max level characters.

That isn't counting any sales of mats you get from refining surveys , etc.

So if you are dedicated and play every day, 1.5 million isn't too difficult.

Oh, and it's assuming you have the mats. I have stacks of them from hirelings.

You would run out of mats pretty fast. Hirelings dont give you enough on their own to sustain writs, not even close. You also need about 70 skill points per toon and they must be at level 50 in all crafting lines. This is not exactly trivial to do.

A lot of people will point to Writs, which I am a big fan of. What people leave out is that your typical gameplay will support 1-2 characters doing writs. I personally do them on 8 toons, which is approx 32k a day just from turning in the quest. The problem is that this is not sustainable. You will absolutely need to purchase (or spend a lot of time farming) Silk and Rubedite pretty frequently, and occasionally, nirnroot. The rest seems to be pretty self sustaining (I buy a stack of Oko like every 6 months).

I absolutely believe they are profitable, especially after factoring in gold mats, but you need to figure in the input costs. I make about 225k a week from turning them in, and probably spend 50k about every 10 days to buy mats to feed the habit. But again, that is just the gold. The mats makes them much more valuable. So thats like 750k a month, plus probably 8 gold mats a day (average about 1 per toon, maybe a little less).

It takes me 37 minutes to do writs on 8 toons. I do very little else for gold in this game other than sell the occasional unique item I find. I am closer to 8 figures than I am to 6. Haha.

If I was starting from scratch all I wanted to do was make gold, I would just farm nodes for gold mats. I think its not hard to make 30-50k an hour doing that, so then it just comes to how much time you got. You can make tons of gold flipping stuff, but you can also lose your shirt. It also requires that you have some seed money.

I have my characters staggered in equipment crafting skill levels to distribute the use of materials. I noticed I get almost the same amount of Gold from a Max Level Character turning a writ in Stonefalls as a Max Level Character in Craglorn. I think the gold and equipment rewards scale off the characters' level. not the Writ Level. Also now don't the surveys scale off of the character opening them? So if you do a writ in Iron and turn the survey over to another character with max Blacksmithing, I *think* you will get Rubedite.

But yeah, it's not fun for me to do it every day. It's more like once a week for me, so my mats pile up more for that reason. But I could definitely do it for a 30 day period to save 1.5 million if I had the motivation - but probably not sustainably at the same rate for longer than that.

PurifedBladez · January 2017

Can easily make 100,000 a day.

geonsocal · January 2017

and now a word from our "common" player...I average around 200k a month (unfortunatley I end up spending about 100k a month)...took me almost a year to get to that point...just regular playing...never sell any mats, just lots and lots of pvp and some pve gear..

if i really wanted to earn though, it would take me about an hour or so a day visiting all the guild stores and reselling "high-end" stuff at a profit...doing that, I might be able to pull in around 500k per month...

KochDerDamonen · January 2017

With no effort, just doing guild and craft dailies. If I do anything else, 1million in that time period is just as easy

aLi3nZ · January 2017

Considering I made 1.4m in 4 days. I guess over 10m if I try

I have expensive spending habits though and to make that much gold I need another 2 or 3 dedicated players to help and they will also get the same amount of gold. If you are 561 dps please add me on pc na. @ali3nz Need more gold farming friends. A good group of 3 or 4 can make around 120,000 per hour. I won't share my tricks here though. All legit and takes skill.

starkerealm · January 2017

Danikat wrote: »

starkerealm wrote: »

Danikat wrote: »

I actually have no idea. I've never paid attention to how long it takes me to make gold, and it depends on how much time I have, which varies a lot from month to month.

I guessed about 25,000, but I have no idea if that's accurate.

For a CR160+, 25k is a reasonable haul from doing your dailies on a couple of characters. Usually I pull around 5-10k a day, from an hour or so of derping around and running quest dailies, just vendor trashing what I grab.

If you're actually digging in and looking for useful stuff, farming... you can pull down between 500k and 1m a month pretty comfortably (assuming you have somewhere to sell it).

If you're engaging in aggressive flipping, the sky is the limit, if you're on the ball.

And if your highest level character is level 27, you're not sure what dailies are, what to farm or where to find it and you don't have a decent trade guild to sell it to even if you did? How much do you estimate it'd be possible to make then?

And what if you hate farming and would rather do anything else instead of doing the same thing over and over and over because it might eventually pay off?

I'm honestly not in my trade guild at the moment. I took a leave of absence when I was getting ready to move last year, and haven't asked for a re-invite... which I probably should, with this coming in.

As I recall, for a level 27, you're going to have a hard time pulling in more than 5k a day from normal play. Gold drops increase based on your level, as does the value of vendor trash you pick up. At 160 or higher, just selling the random crap you get in drops to vendors can easily net you 10k a day. This is without farming, by the way. Just running quests, killing monsters, poking your nose in the occasional delve or public dungeon.

Dailies are all over the place, marked with blue quest icons. Depending on the kind of content you want to engage in, you've got a lot of options. Usually, I do the guild set. That's three of them, available in each capital (though Mournhold's are the most conveniently placed). Bolgrul will send you to a delve, and ask you to do something in addition to killing the boss. Alvur Baren will send you to a public dungeon's group event, and ask you to retrieve an item from it. Finally, Cardea Gallus will charge you with finishing three dolmen in a zone. You can run each of these quests once a day (technically, you can pick up one quest from each, but you can theoretically run all 15 versions of these quests each day, if you can find a way to get the others shared to you). The reward chests will include three pieces of ornate gear (each). Which works out to roughly 1500 (again, for a CR160+), before factoring in the loot you got from running a delve, mucking around with the public dungeon, and taking down the dolmens. Knocking out all three will usually take around 30 to 40 minutes. And you can run these on as many characters as you want.

Wrothgar has two daily sets. One will send you to a delve (it's similar to Bolgrul's quests, but you never leave Wrothgar), and the other will charge you with taking down one of the world bosses in the zone (it used to be pretty common to see players running all six of these in a single go, though I don't know if this still happens).

The Gold Coast has two. One will send you to either delve. The other will send you to either world boss. You can run all four of these, if you've got a friend who has the other one that day. It's still fairly common to see group callouts for the world bosses.

Additionally, every city in Cyrodiil has 10 daily quests. These tend to be fairly dull. "Kill ten rats," "go grab a thing for me and bring it back," "take drugs; kill a bear." The interesting part is when hostile players get involved.

I'm actually forgetting a few others, like the undaunted pledges (dungeon dailies). But, in general, when I say, "run your dailies," I just mean pick two or three, run them, and get on with your life. Not grind constantly.

Calboy · January 2017

F all for me. All I do is pvp and ZOS does not allow you to earn gold while pvping, aside from some mail every now and again with a laughable amount.

Jeremy · January 2017

Bryanonymous wrote: »

If you lost everything you had except your level, started over from scratch, and all you focused on was making gold for 30 days and nothing else, how much do you think you could make? This is a personal question to you alone in your available time and in whatever method you feel would be best for you. Let's see how hard making gold is to the community.

Probably around 500k. Maybe 700k.

But that's if I saved all my gold. That means no upgrades on my bank/backpack or splurging at the guild trader.

S1ipperyJim · January 2017

Lukums1 wrote: »

Farming in Crag for nodes

Since Craglorn doesn't drop Aetheric Ciphers or Dust, (Ciphers sell for 5 million, dust 50,000 each) wouldn't it be better to farm the non DLC zones for mats, or in your experience is the drop rate too low to worry about Aetheric drops?