Gold making

Rinira · January 2017

Yes I'm sure this has been asking to death but I was curious o how others manage to make gold.I don't have access to any of the DLC content so that is out of the question and for now probably really putting a damper on anything I could really do. Yes stealing is an option but apparently one of the best areas is in a DLC pack so I can't exactly do that heh. I never understood selling materials in this game. I have to join a trading guild for that correct? Just sort of hoarded materials over the years and never looked into how to make gold.

imnotanother · January 2017

Zone chat is the place you can sell some wares if you are not in a trader.

JKorr · January 2017

You have to join a guild that has a trader if you want to sell at a guild store or kiosk. I have one "trading guild", and another guild that usually has a trader every week. Neither one has any requirements or dues; voluntary raffles and auctions.

You can always sell items in zone chat.

Pick flowers, farm mats and either sell the raw ones, or refine them and sell the tempers. Tempers aren't cheap right now, and after housing hits they are liable to go a lot higher; the master writs require some items to be made gold.

Farm dolmens/trials/dungeons/bosses and either sell the gear that isn't bound, or decon it and sell the mats and tempers.

Rinira · January 2017

I was trying to avoid the dungeons thing, I don't have a lot of free time and I'm very low level after starting over again haha. ^^: been stealing to try to earn gold but that method seems like it will be quite a few years before i can afford anything haha.

Ourorboros · January 2017

With the new motif requirements for Master Writs, demand will likely go up for motifs. In particular, older motifs that were a pita to farm and are now rare on guild traders for both those reasons (older and pita). Many of those are from DLC. Craglorn motifs, guild dailies for Draugr, and Glass would be best bets for you.

Soella · January 2017

The higher your legerdemain the higher chance to get green/blue items when you are stealing, so in a few days it becomes better. Keep only greens and blues, so you can get 14 K/day from stealing. Before DLC my favored spot to steal was the inn in Evermore.

Join trade guild, if you are low level and don't have experience with trading - herbs are your best bet. With time you'll learn how to get more from your sells.

Zlater · January 2017

You can farm overworld sets, for example a gold sharpened spinners sword can sell for around 200-300k.

Rinira · January 2017

Yeah I'm still kicking myself I didn't hold onto the motifs when I had a TON of them back in the day.. :< I may have a few floating around I don't need but I'd have to hunt for where I stashed them.

I may try to find a trading guild.. I'm sure someone there may be willing to talk me through stuff if I have questions too. ^^;

Though I didn't know that the higher your legerdemain is the better chance of greens and blues. I should have though. My first vrank1 had it pretty high and that character got rares all the time.

andreasranasen · January 2017

Taking your gear off and pick a corner in Wayrest is one option

JKorr · January 2017

Rinira wrote: »

I was trying to avoid the dungeons thing, I don't have a lot of free time and I'm very low level after starting over again haha. ^^: been stealing to try to earn gold but that method seems like it will be quite a few years before i can afford anything haha.

That doesn't matter much anymore. All the normal level content is cp160, and you are scaled to it. You can take your just out of coldharbor still wearing prison jammies and using the default weapon character to any area in the game.

Apherius · January 2017

you can do 15K per day by stealing stuff

Personnaly i think that the Best area is the Stormhaven city .

Gandrhulf_Harbard · January 2017

Rinira wrote: »

Yes I'm sure this has been asking to death but I was curious o how others manage to make gold.I don't have access to any of the DLC content so that is out of the question and for now probably really putting a damper on anything I could really do. Yes stealing is an option but apparently one of the best areas is in a DLC pack so I can't exactly do that heh. I never understood selling materials in this game. I have to join a trading guild for that correct? Just sort of hoarded materials over the years and never looked into how to make gold.

I am not in a Trade Guild - anything I don't want, or don't have room for gets sold to a vendor.
I have made approx 350k in the last 4 weeks, and all I do is daily Crafting Writ, daily Fighters Guild, Mages Guild and Undaunted Solo quest. Then just stick to completing the open world content that I have not so far done.

All The Best

Kalante · January 2017

i just bought an agility robust ring for only 750 gold from one of the traders in glenumbra. Selling it now for 30k. There that's how you make money.

BlackSparrow · January 2017

In addition to what others have been saying about legerdemain, pickpocketing generally gets you green items over white, which means it's higher risk, higher reward. I love the dock workers in Vulkhel Guard for this, because they're easy to pickpocket, and if you mess up, the single guard is easy to avoid and it's just a quick run up the beach to the Refuge.

Really, one experienced thief character can make 100k a week with maybe an hour a day, so if you want to grind up a bit of gold, that's what I recommend.

Gedalya · January 2017

Zlater wrote: »

You can farm overworld sets, for example a gold sharpened spinners sword can sell for around 200-300k.

Does it drop gold or do you have to improve it?

Tommy_The_Gun · January 2017

Well If you want to get a lot of gold fast and you are not in trading guild - invest some skill points in "Legerdemain". Upgrade "Trafficker" to max - you can fence 140 items daily per character.
I am able to get like 9.000 - 12.000 gold in 30 min / 1 hour (RNG dependent) per day.

Just find a good spot that has a lot of containers and less NPC and no guards. Log-in, steal, log off, repeat. Then go to fence and sell all stolen items. Profit.

btw. Prices of stolen items at fences are always the same - they are not dependant of you character level.

AlnilamE · January 2017

Gedalya wrote: »

Zlater wrote: »

You can farm overworld sets, for example a gold sharpened spinners sword can sell for around 200-300k.

Does it drop gold or do you have to improve it?

It does not drop in gold.

OP, as others have said, stealing is a good way. I'm not sure what this DLC area is that's so good, but there are plently of other places that are easy to steal from and are not DLC.

The guild dailies are also good, as you get junk along the way to vendor (and possible set pieces). If you don't want to join a trading guild, you can always just keep an eye on zone chat and if someone wants to buy something that you have, you can sell it to them.

ricam · January 2017

You can also join trading groups on facebook. There are groups for each platform that are very active. It's also a good place to find a guild invite.

Asardes · January 2017

A relatively quick and risk free loot circuit is the port in Daggerfal and the 2 ships anchored there. I even completed the "Black Market Mogul" achievement running that every day for 10-15 minutes, without any ledgermain passives. But stealing gets boring really fast. I make constant money from quest rewards, mob drops, both directly and indirectly - selling the white and green non-set drops and even set drops with bad traits. Set traits that have good traits I improve to blue and sell on guild shops. I also sell the intricate items for 200 gold each since people buy them to train their chars crafting skills faster. That stuff is cheap, but the turnover is quite high. In some days I can sell 50-60 cheap items on 3 guilds. I also sell more expensive stuff, like motif books or pages I already have. I tend to make 300-400K a week but I had weeks with 1M or more net profit.

Stovahkiin · January 2017

I was worried that this would be a thread in which someone suggests that we get the ability to literally make gold septims.. needless to say, I'm glad I was wrong; carry on.

jlboozer · January 2017

I farm dreugh wax, in the farm spot I use I average about 2-3 wax every 45 mins...I won't tell you where it is on here, but if you're on ps4 NA add me and I will show you my farm location (jlboozer), I've been playing this game for only about 3 months and I'm sitting at around 2 million gold because of dreugh wax and rubedo leather(and the awesome trading guild I'm in)

Oreyn_Bearclaw · January 2017

Everyone is going to make gold in different ways. If you have mats to sell, you are far better off finding a trader. Unless you are selling Gold Mats at below M.M. pricing, Zone Chat just isnt the way to go.

The simplest way to make gold is it farm raw mats, decon, and sell what you get. If you are decent at PVP, then imperial city is also pretty lucrative. Personally, I do Writs on 8 max crafters every day, but that takes some effort to build towards. If you have gold, you can try to play the market and flip goods. This can be very profitable, but has risk and requires knowledge of market prices. Trial farming is also not bad now that we get undaunted plunder.

Ulfgarde · January 2017

There's so many easy ways to make gold in this game.

Farm rare weapons like Mother's Sorrow, Spriggan, Spinner, etc. that can fetch you high prices of 400-800k. Vendor the crap drops you get from that farm and you can easily make 100k a day if you farm a lot. If you manage to get all crafting skill lines to 50 and do writs everyday on all 8 or 12 of your characters, that's also an easy way to make loads of gold overtime.
You could also farm raw materials and grind 800-1,000 ore an hour. Do all your Craglorn, DB, and Trials dailies and you can get a crapton of motifs as well.

It just takes some time and luck.

starkerealm · January 2017

JKorr wrote: »

Rinira wrote: »

I was trying to avoid the dungeons thing, I don't have a lot of free time and I'm very low level after starting over again haha. ^^: been stealing to try to earn gold but that method seems like it will be quite a few years before i can afford anything haha.

That doesn't matter much anymore. All the normal level content is cp160, and you are scaled to it. You can take your just out of coldharbor still wearing prison jammies and using the default weapon character to any area in the game.

However, your gold drops scale with your level. So unless you're planning to get there by stealing, your level is relevant.

Tandor · January 2017

What's also relevant about your level is that if you are low level then you don't need gold as there's nothing you need to buy anyway.

Rinira · January 2017

I'll be keeping all of these tips in mind for sure ^^ thanks everyone. Though I am still a rather low level on my new character I do have a high level character I haven't played in years. I was trying to aim towards earning enough gold to get one of the new houses when they are released.I don't have faith that I'll have the amount ready for when they release but hey I can give it a shot.

I just haven't really enjoyed the dungeon content or least what I have experiences in the past for this game so I was worried I'd be stuck struggling through that for things.. glad I don't have to do that. As far as a trading guild goes.. I need to find one that is laid back without expecting too much from me heh. Two kids makes my play times hectic at best.

I am glad to hear that there is a lot of things I didn't think of or that are even mentioned in the so called guides for gold making in ESO. Most of them seem to mention the same thing or areas or things to do. While stealing is on the least they don't really cover all that much on it.

fgoron2000 · January 2017

Rinira wrote: »

I was trying to avoid the dungeons thing, I don't have a lot of free time and I'm very low level after starting over again haha. ^^: been stealing to try to earn gold but that method seems like it will be quite a few years before i can afford anything haha.

for low level, I'd advise you don't overlook the crafting writs...low levels will get about 1500-1800 in gold on a daily basis, if you do the 6 writs, as each will earn you about 250-300 in addition to XP to level your PC, inspiration to level your crafting skills, low-level gear for deconstructing/selling, and crafting mats themselves...also, if you have other alts, you can do those same writs on each of the other alt chars for 1500 per char per day...

you can also go to vulkel guard's guard house at the one end of the beach...inside, you can steal anything in here...it's stolen goods, but there's nobody but other pc's that ever go in, so nobody to catch you stealing...that means that you also do not need to crouch, so you can go thru more quickly. Another thing about that building (as well as other barrel/keg displays) if you hit a barrel that has a tap, you appear to only get white drinks...they will level with you, but still only as white quality...OTOH, the barrels without the taps will yield either food/drink mats or treasures...those are the ones to hit if you're looking to make gold...early on you will get mostly/only whites for 40g, but as you go on, you'll get more of the 100g greens, and even the occasional 250g blue treasures...once since OT started, I even got a purple treasure once for either 1200 or 1500...I've never seen anything in that room tho', except white drinks, food/drink mats, and treasures...for motifs, gear, and other things, you'll need to go elsewhere...oh, PS...it took me a couple months playing before it occurred to me...in the back of the room, make sure to jump up on the platform to reach the 4 barrels in the back that you can't reach from the floor in front of the platform...

Mattock_Romulus · January 2017

Kalante wrote: »

i just bought an agility robust ring for only 750 gold from one of the traders in glenumbra. Selling it now for 30k. There that's how you make money.

....Freeze in Couldharbour bro... I paid 200k for mine back in the day when... we had to walk uphill in the snow

starkerealm · January 2017

updegramub17_ESO wrote: »

Kalante wrote: »

i just bought an agility robust ring for only 750 gold from one of the traders in glenumbra. Selling it now for 30k. There that's how you make money.

....Freeze in Couldharbour bro... I paid 200k for mine back in the day when... we had to walk uphill in the snow

Difference is, yours were perfect traited.

EDIT: Nevermind, so was theirs.