Motif Pricing and Gold Weapons

ESOMark · May 2017

Hey everyone I have two questions today and any help would be awesome!

I have around sixty motifs just chilling in my bank including celestial, thieves, dark brotherhood, Minotaur and plenty more and was wondering if there's a forum with how much all these go for because I'm looking to sell.

Also, I have purple nmg dagger and was looking to gold them out and was wondering how to make them gold? (Sorry if that question is kind of obvious or easy cause someone crafted me the purple daggers.)

Thanks!

Taleof2Cities · May 2017

Hey There, @ESOMark!

- You have a couple of options with the extra motifs:

The most obvious option is the one you mentioned ... selling them. If you don't want to spend the time announcing and selling the motifs in zone chat, the best option is to join a trading guild. In a trading guild you can list all the motifs you want to sell at the guild's trader (as well as specify the price you want to sell each one for).

The other option for motifs is to keep them and use them on your Alt characters. If you want to go for equipment master writs some day, then each character will want to have as many full motif books learned as possible ... to boost your chances of receiving master writs.

- To gold out a purple Night Mother's Gaze dagger, simply take it to a blacksmith station and select the "improve" tab from the crafting user interface (UI). You will need at least eight (8) gold tempering alloys for a 100% chance to improve the dagger to gold. If you don't have skill points invested in your blacksmithing temper expertise passive, it could mean a lot more tempering alloys ... so you may want to make sure your temper expertise skill is three out of three (3/3).

There is a debate between master crafters on whether below level 50 weapons should be golded out. That may not apply to you ... but nonetheless golding out any weapon or equipment is certainly expensive. Take a brief moment to review if your NMG dagger really needs that small stat boost for gold. For CP160 it's probably fine ... anything lower than that is your call of course. You may have a surplus of gold tempering alloys which makes the issue easier to decide.

Nestor · May 2017

The best way to find out what something sells for is to go shopping for that item. You don't have to hit every kiosk in the game, in fact you can find out an average price by hitting the kiosks in a major trading center (Grahtwood, Wayrest, Mournhold, Craglorn). Once you have an idea, then you know what to list it for.

One thing the guild kiosks are saturated with Motifs at the moment, I have a hard time moving what I have listed for decent prices. So, you have to sell for less now than what they could sell for in the future, or put them on a mule to hold for later sales.

As to improving a weapon to gold. Maybe. First, the Tempers to do this can be very expensive, figure 48,000 gold if you have the passives to as much as 120,000 Gold if you don't for a Dagger. Double that if you dual wield, so 96,000 to 240,000. Even given that I have 300 to 400 of each Gold Temper in my inventory, I still don't gold a weapon unless I know it is one that will be pried from the corpse of my character when they shut the servers down.

Wreuntzylla · May 2017

Nestor wrote: »

The best way to find out what something sells for is to go shopping for that item. You don't have to hit every kiosk in the game, in fact you can find out an average price by hitting the kiosks in a major trading center (Grahtwood, Wayrest, Mournhold, Craglorn). Once you have an idea, then you know what to list it for.

One thing the guild kiosks are saturated with Motifs at the moment, I have a hard time moving what I have listed for decent prices. So, you have to sell for less now than what they could sell for in the future, or put them on a mule to hold for later sales.

As to improving a weapon to gold. Maybe. First, the Tempers to do this can be very expensive, figure 48,000 gold if you have the passives to as much as 120,000 Gold if you don't for a Dagger. Double that if you dual wield, so 96,000 to 240,000. Even given that I have 300 to 400 of each Gold Temper in my inventory, I still don't gold a weapon unless I know it is one that will be pried from the corpse of my character when they shut the servers down.

https://tamrieltradecentre.com/

I find this site useless for bargain hunting but great for getting a general idea how much something is selling for.

ninti · May 2017

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

Hey There, @ESOMark!
The other option for motifs is to keep them and use them on your Alt characters. If you want to go for equipment master writs some day, then each character will want to have as many full motif books learned as possible ... to boost your chances of receiving master writs.

Yeah, don't do that. You will never make your money back with that.

brantkin · May 2017

To figure out what things sell for, i use a combo of master merchant, it's an addon. I also use tamerial trade center's website so i can get an overall general feel for the economy and find what the lowest prices are vs medium and high etc.

A combo of those two will prove useful making sure you don't get completely ripped off and screwed over. Or hike the price up so high no one will buy it. While also saving you hours and hours of time looking around a bunch of different guild stores trying to understand the value of items.

Taleof2Cities · May 2017

ninti wrote: »

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

Hey There, @ESOMark!
The other option for motifs is to keep them and use them on your Alt characters. If you want to go for equipment master writs some day, then each character will want to have as many full motif books learned as possible ... to boost your chances of receiving master writs.

Yeah, don't do that. You will never make your money back with that.

Really??

I just sold three (3) attunable crafting stations for $400k each a few days ago using master writ vouchers.

OutLaw_Nynx · May 2017

If you can get master writs..