PelinalWhitestrake wrote: »

I like buying shiny things.

Edit: Bet the last votes are mostly wistful thinking.

Actually, no. The poll needed to go further, like

1-3 Million
3-5 Million
5-10 Million etc.

I know a couple of friends who also keep 3-9 million and some other, who own 50 million. PC EU, if this means anything.

15 characters worth of writs a day (sometimes 29 characters) nets me 70k alone. Add in anniversary motifs and the random valuable recipe, I do okay. But mostly I just don't buy things aside from respecs and houses (I own 10 for-gold ones). It takes away from the hoard.

Left4Daud wrote: »

I just have a question for all the multi-millionaires out there...

Do you spend gold on maxing out motif / recipe knowledge on more than one character?

If so, is it worth it? Do you get enough master writs to justify spending millions of gold and hours of farming filling out motif knowledge on more than one character?

I'm just curious.

No. At most, in the 4 years of the game, I've spent 500k on any of these things. My main has learned motifs and recipes only, I do not farm them myself for profit (I can't do dungeons in general), I do not buy anything over 20k, and I pride myself on being self-sufficient. If I need something I truly cannot get (like those dungeon motifs) I'll wait until prices drop. Anything new and shiny is not for me. I'll get there, no worries. My other characters are all level 50 crafters (not all JC yet ofc - but the others) and get master writs which my main does. Costs me nothing. I've heard the whole "playing the market" argument and I just laugh. Can't be bothered, I'm a dragon, I hoard, that's all.

Worked my but off farming things to sell when housing and Morrowind came out.

As others said: it is getting harder to make gold since the anniversary event crashed the motif market and everyone trying to make gold is forced into too few other things to sell.

I suspect crashing the market was intentional and is working as intended. There were too many people buying things with gold (houses, motifs, funiture) instead of crowns and gems.

Joke is on them. I won't buy a house with crowns that I can get with gold. Just takes longer it I wont buy at all.

I usually have around 1mil+ in my bank. The jubilee event this year really gave me a lot of gold. And now I put every 50k in my bank, but I do spend some for motifs and houses. Otherwise I'm a huge penny pincher.

Phil Murphy would be salivating if he saw this thread.

Kind of broke atm. Traders seemed to take a dump right now and not a lot of stuff is selling except new motifs and new resources, research jewelry etc. Can't even make money off of gear sets anymore. Even the good stuff sells really cheap.

FinneganFroth wrote: »

I know this poll is biased in that it only represents forum users that read this post, but wow. Something is wrong with the economy when the majority of users vote as multimillionaire. There just isn't enough in this game to spend gold on. I'm really hoping that changes.

Eh, 50% isn't a majority.

But yeah, the poll does point out that there's an economic issue or two, when half the population has "more money than god" and the other half is basically broke.

And "more things to spend money on" isn't a great solution, because the folks that can just print money as fast as they like will buy the new thing and keep building up 10's of mil more, and the broke people will just stare at the list of Things We Can't Buy getting longer and longer.

I've always had tons of gold. The farm life kinda chose me. For real like I own every vanilla home and there's not much to spend my 20m on after that. Motifs maybe. I end up donating alot of my funds to my rl spouse, and then my main trading guild.

Any of you multi millionaires willing to help a peasant like me lol

Eh... I'm around 12m at the moment. I don't work as hard on making gold for myself anymore. I don't have all the houses but I have the ones I want. I'm self sufficient with all my mats. Nowadays if I get something cool, I'll put it towards my guild first. Like this Friday my guild auction will have a Fang Lair chest motif, worth around 350k on PS4 NA right now. When it dropped for me last night, my first thought was for the auction instead of selling it. That is why I don't make gold like I used to

I don't do guild trading, if I have a spare recipe or motif or something I know other players might want I'll list it on my guild store, but we don't have a trader so it's just for other people in my guild. As a result I make gold relatively slowly compared to a lot of people on this forum, and I only save it until I have enough for the next thing I want to buy.

As a result I rarely get over 50,000, although I have had over 400,000 (when I was saving to buy a house), and at some point I want to buy the Summerset town house so I'll have to get over 1 million gold.

Cpt_Teemo wrote: »

I also messed up quite bad thinking the JC would be worth it so I spent 17m on getting all 15 of my chars to max JC the first week of launch bad idea lol

hehe. I also debated doing this but thankfully had a gut instinct that jewellery legendary writs, if followed the same example as Clothing etc would be bad to make, for the foreseeable future.


I play ESO on an account basis, not a character one. 15 characters, all maxed in crafting (Apart from Jewellery), doing double writs every 2 days. Almost all have the 50+ motifs achievement, the achievements for harvesting and ones for refining (Surveys ftw).

The main problem i am witnessing is this:


New players joining the game. Get put off by the massive grind to catch up with some of the older accounts. Many quit.

ZOS keeps putting band aids on this and making events like with the Anniversary boxes giving motifs and gold items. So many (People who play with 1 main char) still have 100's of motifs they are slow selling from this that is has crashed the whole market. In my eyes it was unwise to reward harder to get items by doing a daily normal, or crafting writ.

On top of this, older accounts, like mine, just snowball gold daily. Only reason i sell items is to keep in my top end guilds, there is little to no need for gold at this point and has become quite stale tbh.

It also, plays on my mind, me playing harder content like farming vFH, vBF, vSC etc when why bother, just wait and do your daily random normal/crafting writ when event comes around.


I have over 10 houses easily, everyone used as storage for LUXURY items i am hoarding and reselling. Housing isn't even a gold sink in this game as it is a time waste. A 700 item cap on an instanced event is like MMO 2010 and gives little to no customisation.

Can anyone on ps4 na spare 90k? You will be rewarded beyond your wildest dreams, no kidding. Psn is newfordorder.

Govern yourself accordingly.