Newcomer question. 3 millions gold worth Manor. How to safe up for it?

SHADOW2KK · August 2017

3 million is nothing, pocket change.

So easy to make gold in the game through legit means.

Plenty of guides out there for making gold honourably OP..

Gilvoth · August 2017

zenimax, can you please start making normal homes? like just 1 or 2 room houses for low cost?

buttaface · August 2017

Keep in mind as a newer player that lots of the ways to make gold fast don't do squat towards giving you CP. So, IMO, it's best to find a middle ground. For example, zombies drop lots of worms and guts, which sell on guild traders for 3000g per 200. Now, you can go and farm goats somewhere and get 200 guts in a couple of minutes... but 0 CP/exp, or you can farm zombies, get far less gut yield, and high CP yield. Getting the ratio of gold/CP right, and the yield is a matter of experimentation.

Look for areas with high node concentrations in fast spawning mob camps where the mobs drop sellable mats or possible high demand sets. Pick the nodes while killing the mobs.

MOST OF ALL... having a TRILLION gold in a game that YOU AREN'T PLAYING BECAUSE YOU BURNED OUT ON MINDLESS FARMING isn't really of any benefit, is it? So whatever you do, make it always about having fun too and not just farming. This is subjective. Am I going to do writs on 8 characters a day (or even two lol)? The H no, I already have an actual JOB. Some people don't mind it though. Subjective.

Nestor · August 2017

I have been playing since release, recently hit 10.5 Million. Here is how I did it

1. Just do a Zone, selling all the loot you get to NPCs will net you 25K to 35K per zone after repairs after doing the content. See Number 6 for some drops.
2. Farm a Public Dungeon, some are better than others but I can net 5K gold in 30 minutes just from NPC Drops in some of them, not counting what loot I get to sell or vendor. Some are much lower in the gold per Mob Group, so pay attention.
3. Legerdemain, filling your bags with White, Green and Blue Loot will net you 5K to 15K or more, each day, on each character.
4. Farm and sell in guild stores Alchemy Reagents and Mats. Some flowers sell for 100 to 300 Gold, each.
5. Do low level crafting writs on high level characters, you get max gold and top tier material surveys if you do the surveys on a skilled character.
6. Farm Zones for desired gear in the Impenetrable, Divines, Infused (Large Pieces), Sharpened, Precise and Training traits. Farm Dolmens for Purple Jewelry for those sets. Decon, research or vendor the off trait and green/blue jewelry.

Those are just a few ways to make gold

Note, I don't play the game to make gold, I just shed excess inventory. If I focused on it, I would have a lot more.

Denyiir · August 2017

Are you max level? Did you finish guilds quest lines? Did you finish DLCs? If the answer is no, then forget about farming gold and just play the game and enjoy it. By the time you finish everything you'll sit on few hundred thousand gold.

If you finished everything tho, then joining trading guild is first and the most important thing you should do. Second is download MM addon (PC only).

starkerealm · August 2017

dwemer_paleologist wrote: »

zenimax, can you please start making normal homes? like just 1 or 2 room houses for low cost?

...those exist. Usually they run around 50-70k. But, that's honestly pretty reasonable for an account wide unlock of a home.

CaffeinatedMayhem · August 2017

Feanor wrote: »

The real question is why you'd want a 3 million gold house when you can do absolutely nothing with it.

Because you can decorate it, put crafting stations there, target dummies for practice, banker/merchant/fence

If you can't think of anything to do with a large house, why do you want one?

Cpt_Teemo · August 2017

thatlaurachick wrote: »

Feanor wrote: »

The real question is why you'd want a 3 million gold house when you can do absolutely nothing with it.

Because you can decorate it, put crafting stations there, target dummies for practice, banker/merchant/fence

If you can't think of anything to do with a large house, why do you want one?

Also the question is, is it better to hoard gold or to spend it?

kargen27 · August 2017

TheHarshWinter wrote: »

Ok i got it. But how to trade? I am bad at spamming chat with WTS WTB. Using guild store. Hm. I cannot find any auction feature here. Seems like only guildstores existing.

And noone can place a contract on it like "buying 100500 ingots of salt" so i could just click "sell" I have to create my own offer and wait. Did i get it right? U have to set the best price and wait till someone buy your wares?

The best answer here would be to get into a trading guild. Probably not a top tier one to start because they require minimum sales and other things. Even a social guild with a trader in one of the out of the way spots would be a good start. If you are in a guild that doesn't have a trader you can still put stuff in the store for other guild members to purchase.

I usually list the common items slightly higher than the average price and they still sell fairly quick. Rare items I list at the higher prices. If it is an item that hasn't sold for quite a while I'll jack up the price quite a bit and hope. I'm not in a hurry to sell though so can take a chance listing things higher.

Think ahead for long term sales. During the festival where all kinds of motifs were dropping prices really dropped. I saved all the motifs I got during that event and have just started selling them. One that was selling for around 2,500 gold during the event I sold for 28,000 gold last week. When a new motif comes out there is a short span of time where you can sell it for a lot of gold and then prices will drop quite a bit. When prices drop don't quit farming the item. Get several of them then sit on them for a month or two. Eventually the price is going up again.

Most important though is get in a guild that fits where you are at in terms of trading. You can ask in zone chat for an invite to a trading guild. Just make sure they don't have outrageous requirements when joining.

Linaleah · August 2017

starkerealm wrote: »

dwemer_paleologist wrote: »

zenimax, can you please start making normal homes? like just 1 or 2 room houses for low cost?

...those exist. Usually they run around 50-70k. But, that's honestly pretty reasonable for an account wide unlock of a home.

or... apartments that are single room and cost like 10 to 13 k. the one in mournhold is actualy pretty big, all things considered.

altemriel · August 2017

TheHarshWinter wrote: »

Hi, honestly I am not a new to this game, but the most gold I ever had in my pockets was 9 k(Had to buy horse)

So I am just curious how to safe money from quests, craft and other activities for this estate? I make 4k a day max. Not spending money on repairs/armour etc. Doing everything with a blacksmithing and other craft perks. So I am sure that I am not sinking money.

The questions is, how long will it take me to earn 3 000 000 if I get only ~4 000 a day. Calculator says 750 days. Or more than 2 yars because I need furniture too.

I saw people boasting that they get 500 k a day. Here is a real question: how did you earn 500 000 gold a day without CE?

Any tips? Because most of the forum threads here are useless tbh.

you need either a decent build or a decent group, then go farm bosses, public dungeons (drops there are tradable), delves, dolmens or run around and farm materials and sell it all in guild store then (if you are on pc, get master merchant addon and awesome guild store addon)

this one knows also a special move, to get lot of gold, khajiit she did it for her house (Hunding`s Palatial Hall), but not many people like it, it is working, no cheating, this one can explain to you in mail if you write her

starkerealm · August 2017

Linaleah wrote: »

starkerealm wrote: »

dwemer_paleologist wrote: »

zenimax, can you please start making normal homes? like just 1 or 2 room houses for low cost?

...those exist. Usually they run around 50-70k. But, that's honestly pretty reasonable for an account wide unlock of a home.

or... apartments that are single room and cost like 10 to 13 k. the one in mournhold is actualy pretty big, all things considered.

Yeah, my significant other owns that one. She's got it filled with floating books and scamps... so, I tend to stay away.

ZOS_Mika · August 2017

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iiYuki · August 2017

I would just suggest buying it with crowns if your looking at spending months farming but if that isn't an option, level crafting, farm areas for rare drops or just gold. I would also point out the bigger houses require various achievements unlocked to buy them with gold, but crowns override that.

Gilvoth · August 2017

i look forward to the day where i will have an NPC spouse.
in a normal size dunmer house in balmora. [not a mansion]

zenimax, can you please start making normal homes? like just 1 or 2 room houses for low cost?

lasertooth · September 2017

I was like you before I got into housing, I only made about 4K a day. Now I make between 60-100k/day just selling furniture. I'm in a guild trader in a main city and I pay 10k/week in dues.

If I farmed/sold my gear drops, I would make a lot more money. Blue items of a bis set sell within hours for 10k+. The problem is it takes time and effort to learn the market. I know the furniture market because it's what I do everyday. So I stick with furniture.

1.) join a guild trader in a main city
2.) scroll through sales history and write down the items that sell over 10k
3.) pick a category that interests you (armor, motifs, furniture, etc) and visit all the guild traders looking at what is listed in that category and for how much.
4.) find great deals and flip certain items if you come across any. For example, I've found rare blue furniture recipes (redguard padded sofa) that were listed with all the other blue recipes for 5k. Flipped it and sold it for 90k in 2 hours.
5.) i price my items very low so they sell fast, and as soon as something sells I travel to a bank and post additional items for sale. Never log off with fewer than 30/30 items listed.
6.) never list something for sale without knowing the price of that item in your current guild trader as well as the guild traders around you. For example, I went to mournhold to buy a stack of heartwood. There were a bunch of stacks listed for 40k-60k that had just been listed, but there were also stacks 25 days old that were 20k. The people who listed the heartwood for 40k were lazy and didn't check the price of heartwood before listing it. They wasted an item spot because they won't be selling that stack of heartwood for 40k anytime soon.

I hope this helps you. Good luck!!

Barberu · September 2017

Had more or less the same objective myself but not as full time focus, more like a long term goal while doing other things....

After saving 2.5 mils, i got pretty fed up and bought at 300k house to start playing with housing....

OMG, glad I did....

Except if you have already tons of mats and recipes, i spent over 1.5 Mils buying recipes and mats for the house and it is not finished yet...
Probably closer to 2-2.5 mils though, knowing that blue and purple items, i usually crafted 2 or 3 spare and sold them.

Saving 3.8 Mils to buy the manor as the first house is suicidal... As you will probably need 2 to 10 mils to furnish it...

So answer to both question about how to save and how to buy the manor: start slow, save what you can, enjoy the journey

doslekis · September 2017

Bouldertree refuge is a great starter home at a reasonable cost. You get two snugpod sized rooms with a decent sized yard, where if you manage your space well, get creative, and build up into the air, you'll have more than enough space.

That home sells for about 200k I think. The real problem is when you try and furnish it. You need all 6 crafting at max to make the bulk of furniture, and you need a lot of motifs. The mats to make the furniture can get quite expensive too.

Achievement furnishings are very cool but very expensive. Bouldertree refuge cost me 200k but I've easily spent over 1m gold in furnishings, including crafting tables and target dummies for it.