1. Two of the best ways to make money are joining a guild and selling materials and sought after gear or selling every piece of trash gear you find to a merchant.
2. Check out Alcast's website for some good build for end game and PvP. As for grinding builds, not a lot out there.
3. To craft sets you need to know traits. Traits can be researched from gear you loot and there is a research tab on the crafting UI. It is the second last tab.
4. Two ways; either do content such as quests and dungeons or grind. Getting CP is the same way as getting levels.

1. I make most of my money through selling items in the guild store, doing daily crafting writs and selling ornate items. I haven't used theft as a means of income ever, as with the bounty system you can easily lose more than you make.

2. Youtube is a pretty solid place for any type of build.

3. Crafting stations, if you want specialized crafting sets, you'll need to find them. There is typically three special crafting stations per zone and you'll need to have researched the required amount of traits before being able to craft that set. Check the ESO wiki, has all the information there.

4. Gaining experience. You start earning champion points after level 50.

psychotic13 wrote: »

Tbh this forum is more aids than the game, you won't find any hope asking people here lol

...So far you are the only one like that. Others are giving great info.

Well, welcome back, and whoa there...

Your timing may turn out to be impeccable, and not in a great way.

You can still familiarize yourself with the current state of the game:

1. Kill things, vendor everything. This won't make you millions, but you'll come out ahead. You can also sell things in chat or via guild vendor, but just NPC vendoring everything you don't intend to wear will net you enough gold to function.
   
   Depending on how far along you are, the first 10k takes forever, after that it's hardly ever an issue again.
2. Alcast is good, as mentioned. Tamriel Foundry has builds of all kinds for magicka, stamina, and all roles and functions.
   elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Elder+Scrolls+Online+Wiki is an excellent source for skills/gear, etc.
   en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Online also has lots of good info.
3. Crafting requires research. The initial pop-up gives more detail when you activate a crafting station. They likely show 'empty' because the Have Items / Have Knowledge boxes are checked. Also know there are four different icons at top, one pair for the set items and one for standard, each having one for weapons/armor respectively.
   
   You can also get crafting writ certified by reading the writ board near most any crafting station in town. This will unlock a more detailed crafting tutorial for the appropriate craft.
4. Lastly, hit level 50 on at least one character, then do stuff. You'll earn CP's automatically (only on L50+ characters), get enlightenment (it's explained when you unlock 50), and you'll have a catch-up mechanic that will make it easier to earn these at lower levels, as the name implies.

*Last word of caution: a major update is slated for June 6th, which will likely change (again) many aspects you are trying to refamiliarize yourself with, including gear, skills, etc.

So, while you can get used to some things again now, you might hold of on making gear until the update takes place. (You can still research traits in the meantime.)

Skyreach is a location in Craglorn (which you can now reach at under level 50 as long as you can get to the second city of your alliance and board the wagon there). Usually 'skyreach carry's' are advertised in craglorn zone chat. Enlightenment is essentially 'rested xp' as some games have, the idea that when you are offline, you store 'potential' for experience that increases the amount of xp you get when you do adventure for an amount of time/xp that is determined by the amount of time you were logged off.

Alassirana

I just came back about a month ago myself after being gone since the beginning. Quite the difference vs how it was released.

Just doing quests and dolmens is a good way to make gold. There are often dolmen groups running through zones attacking them over and over. I've made a good amount for my low level characters that way. There are plenty of places you can scrounge, steal, etc., and not get caught. Just be patient, but even in a room full of people you can still take things and not be detected.

2. All I know is that "hybrid" builds are a no-go. I imagine at 50+ that's significant, my highest character is 36 right now. But they've already given a couple good options. It is hard to surf through sites though, some of them are based on pre- 'one tamriel' era which was much different.

3. you can research traits on gear you pick up or don't use anymore. For each of the three gear crafting skills (blacksmith, clothing, woodworking) there's even an option (second to last) for researching more than one item at a time for just one skill point. You can pick up the traits fairly quickly that way for whichever character you want to learn them. The only blueprints that I've seen are for making furniture and recipes for provisioning (food and drink). When you use a crafting station, the "triangle" with the 3 circles option is where you research. Just scroll through and you'll see anything you're carrying and anything in your bank is up for both research and deconstruction.

4. Since I'm not 50+ I can't say much about it. All I know is that you get champion points for just leveling once you hit 50. The "max" usable points is 600 as I understand. Supposedly, that will increase once morrowind is released in June, but I've only heard it spoken, not confirmed.

And you can join 5 guilds (yes, 5). So, make 2 or 3 trading guilds and you can sell on their "guild store" up to 30 items each guild. In the main zones for each alliance (auridon, glenumbra, stonefalls) there are always guilds recruiting for trading and otherwise. As far as your bank, it is shared amongst all your characters. Your characters don't have a personal bank/vault. Oh and if you're a subscriber (ESO+) your crafting bag is shared server-wide. So, anything in it can be accessed for crafting by all your characters. Fairly useful and worthwhile thing. (I've seen plenty of people exclaiming how that crafting bag is the only reason they are a sub. lol)

Good luck, I'm still learning too, but it is fun and going well. Much different than at the beginning.

Yeah, I've gotten addons, and I have a few level 50 characters. I was just looking for a way to get back in the game, especially with gold.The info here will be a major help. Thanks.

The odd bit is that I started back into this game with a champion level of 30, and all the gear I had on me was cl30. So far I haven't found better than my 2 year old gear. That seem right?

1. How do I earn money? In the last 2 days I've played, I've looted maybe 2k worth of gold and items, but I've spent ~ 4k on clearing my name. How do people make gold with this system in place?
Fastest way is going around to all the guild traders in the world, buying stuff that is on sale below avg price and reselling. If you don't have enough gold to buy stuff, then you can pick alchemy flowers in Coldharbour, craft potions to sell, make stacks of green CP 150 food and vendor them or fence lots of stolen green/blue items etc. You can search for deals using Master Merchant and Awesome Guild Store add ons.

2. What's a good site on character builds? I am not seeing a lot of information on the Google, so I'm not seeing a lot of diverse builds out there. I just want a good mage I can solo grind with.
This forum, Tamriel Foundry, youtube. For grinding build I would just use any sustain sets ( Seducers, Magnus, Willow's Path, Alteration Mastery, Lich, Transmutation, etc), ideally everything with Training trait and upgraded to purple quality. You can get 80-90% XP boost from all purple training gear, 50-150% boost from scrolls or XP potions, 10% ESO Plus, 10% from being in group with 2 people, 10% from pledge of Mara and up to 13% XP boost from Enemy Keep bonus if you are in Cyrodiil.

3. How do I craft new gear sets? Before all you had to do was find a location for that set and craft it there, now when I visit sites, they are empty. I was told you now have to find crafting schematics, but is it just all 100% rng?
If you install Craft Store add on, it will port you to the nearest wayshrine for every crafted set station. Crafting schematics are only for furniture (housing stuff).

4. I see there is this new champion system. What's the best way to get champion levels?
Grinding is always fastest (Skyreach, Imperial City Sewer, Cracked Wood Cave, public dungeons etc), but there is a catch up mechanism now, so you earn them pretty fast when you have low CP just by playing the game normally in PVP, dungeons, quests etc. It's not necessary to grind anymore unless you are in a hurry to reach CP cap.

A word about bounties. Make sure in your game settings that you turn off autoloot on stolen items, and that you turn on "prevent attacking innocents". These two settings will really help you from getting unintentional bounties. If you want to steal things to make money, do the following first:

- Max out the passives in the legerdemain and the thieves' guild skill lines that make stealing much easier. Everyone gets the legerdemain line, but you need the thieves' guild dlc to get their skill line.
- Make a set of medium armor to put on while stealing. There are medium armor passives that make you a lot harder to detect. There are also gear sets that make you harder to see while stealthed.

As for bounties, you never have to pay them. Bounties go down over time, even when you are logged out. If you rack up a bounty, go get a bite to eat, or play another character for awhile, or go somewhere where there are no guards. There is a passive in the thieves' guild skill line that makes your bounty go down much quicker, and is definitely worth getting if you intend to steal a lot.

Perhaps the easiest way for a new character to make money is resource farming. You would be surprised at how much materials sell for (some herbs like nirnroot sell for over 200g each, and are always in demand). Install the add-on TTC (
Tamriel Trade Center), as it will show you the market value of items when you look at them in your inventory. For even more money, up your crafting skills, and put points into the refining passive for ore, wood, and cloth/leather. Refining raw materials gives you quite a bit of legendary crafting mats, which sell in the 1000's. Even refining tier 1 mats will give you these legendary items. As a side note, the best way to level crafting is deconstructing all your drops. Never try to level your crafting skill by creating things.

Another easy way to make money is to do the daily figher/mage/undaunted quests (note that I said quests, not pledges). They are very quick to do, and give you a lot of ornate items as a reward that vendor for quite a bit of money. Plus you have a chance to get a Draugr motif page that sells for over 10k.