Market has crashed because things are more readily available and people can’t be bothered using the basic guild store interface and/ or spending 3h searching for one item.

You have to wonder if the backwards UI isn’t a further attempt at directing people toward the gem/CS. Well, you don’t really, since it’s pretty obvious that it is.

Since i like to gold all my gear for all my toons, and constantly respeccing them, and trying new build, i'm mostly broke but try to keep some saved in case I see something on the golden vendor I'm too impatient to farm for.

I have 15M +

I also have 200 motifs that i am now selling, so this should go up.

Vahrokh wrote: »

Of course. CCP hired a IRL economist to make EvE Online the most realistic economy in a game ever.
ZOS hires (for real, they announced some weeks ago) people with experience in betting and nickel&dime players.

Perhaps. But EvE Online is all about that (and "player interactions are the 'content'"), meanwhile ESO is just another PvE MMO that only needs a basically functional economy.

Around 2.5 million basically from playing the game. I have never been in a trade guild and very rarely ever buy anything. The gold is simply what has accumulated over time from quests, rewards etc.

Anne13 wrote: »

If I said over 100m would you believe me lolz

Yes, I made over 300m+ during only MW expansion when I came back to the game

Between 100k and 1.5 million depending on how long it is since I bought a new house or went on a furnishing shopping spree. Once I bought a cheap house, just about 130k. And then I spent 350k on trees alone.

I've played since PC launch and probably have approaching 100K spread across two accounts. I'm not a trader and my characters remain largely self-sufficient.

Just over 11m across 8 chars and I have a crafting bag that is bulging at the seams.

My household is more-or-less self sufficient these days, so I do not have to buy in very much on a regular basis.

I do not 'grind', do trials, dungeon runs or participate in 'power-selling'. The funds have slowly accumulate from simply playing the game, questing and not rushing everywhere. All my chars do node harvesting on their way to a destination - usually on foot. They like to rummage through all the sacks, crates and containers in dungeons. If a Dolmen is up whilst passing, they will join in the fun.

My outgoings are fairly low, the biggest expense being on Motif Chapters that are obtained in Group Dungeons, Trials or from Thievery. I wait to buy them when prices fall to a more reasonable level. My main crafting char knows every in-game obtainable motif except for the two recent additions. I sell off any duplicate rare motifs at my excellent main Guild Trader.

I will buy a Monster Helm or a Shoulder from the Golden but only if it is something that will be very useful for one of my chars. Playing mainly solo, I found that BiS gear was useless for me, without the buffs and debuffs one gets from the other members of the team. I have to balance DPS with Healing and Tanking to keep one foot out of the grave!

Having a comfortable amount of gold is reassuring for me because I do not have to rely on RL money to obtain items from the Crown Store.

Currently only got 2.5 mil.

Armatesz wrote: »

Smartest advice I can give here. Never disclose how much money you have at any given time because it can discourage others when they hear about how quick your money influxes up.

Lol. That's not my problem. When I see people begging for money i just think to myself how dumb must they be in a game where making money is easy as farting.

Got my Count title/achievement with gold, not crowns. Got all the available motifs during the anniversary event, not in too much of a hurry to get the new ones. I keep enough on-hand in case the weekend vendors have something irresistable. I have 21 houses and won't buy any more until I decorate the existing. So I don't really have much to spend on currently.

my sweet spot is 1 mil in my emergency stash + whatever amount I'm in progress saving for a larger purchase. play long enough and its very doable to have that much without being super awesome heavy market player or anything like that. i mean... a chunk of my weekly income comes from simple task of quickly running through crafting writs on alts once a day (you get the same gold at rank as you get at maxed out crafting)

in any case, this poll is very flawed as there is a great deal of difference between someone like me who spent the last month or so saving up the 3 mil i have in addition to my 1 mil emergency stash... and someone who is sitting on 10 mil plus.. and yet someone else who is sitting on 100 mil plus.

technically, we are all in that same area of last selection of the poll... and yet.. we are most certainly definitely not even remotely in the same ballpark of wealth or speed of accumulating aforementioned millions, so... /shrug

I have less than 1 mill on average in actual gold. But if I sold my craft bag to npc merchants I could come out with 3 or 4 mill.