tips for making gold?

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO · December 2019

git gud and do carries.

WilliamESO · December 2019

Making 15 000 000 each weeks i'll never farm raw mats or do carries it's a waste of time get good

Anotherone773 · December 2019

ArchMikem wrote: »

CaptainVenom wrote: »

Try doing crafting (and master) writs, since it awards a nice amount of gold per completed quest. Selling writ items (like crafting stations) could be a good idea, too.

Thats only lucrative if you do writs on a ton of Alts. The full payout on one character is just 4.2k. And thats i think with the 10% extra gold from ESO Plus.

What i found is pretty simple is Imperial city runs. Clear your branch of the sewer down to the center and back. Do like two laps and vendor everything you looted, you'll have picked up a ton of Ornate items netting you over 10k easy.

its actually 4,641 gold( 663 gold per profession with ESO+) if you including jewelry. On even just 10 characters that is 46k a day. That doesnt seem like much but that really is just the pocket change part. You take a stack of surveys to a zone and you can collect about a thousand units or materials in 5-10 minutes. You then refine all that and sell the results. Off 30 characters you can make 10-15 mill a month. 4 mil of that is off turning in the dailies alone. and that doesnt include the writs or selling the various items you get.

Its very grindy though to be efficient enough to do that. I tried it with far fewer characters and it was to grindy for me. I do it sometimes for a few days when i want to boost my income or resources.

xxthir13enxx · December 2019

https://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Alliance+War+General

This is my Fave gold dye
You get it from the War General Achievement

Asardes · December 2019

Yea, if you take into account everything, a maxed out character can bring in 20K in total per day from crafting writs and hirelings.

AgaTheGreat · December 2019

JJBoomer wrote: »

I've always gotten by farming/selling raw mats. But prices for rubedite mats have plummeted. It doesn't bring in the gold like it used to. And the time it takes doesn't have enough return anymore. Plus I want to break into bigger gold numbers.

What are some current and reliable methods, that don't involve vet dungeons, or trials?

Become a PVE GOD with specialty in vas HM. Sell carries, farm VAS to get jewellery to decon and potential polymorphs.

Poly on PS4 EU is about 5m. You can easily do 5 - 6 runs in a row, provided you've got a good group.

Most of my gold comes from carries and everything PVE related.

WiseSky · December 2019

WiseSky wrote: »

General_Zeranth wrote: »

I fish for my gold.

I have one "flex" character spot to create an alt, fish until I get the Master Angler achievement, then filet the fish for Roe and sell the Roe.
I don't filet a single fish till I have my title then I delete the alt and start all over again.
I've got it streamlined down to maybe 3-4 days per title and I make anywhere from 400-900k per run depending on Roe counts.

It's not a bad way to do it.

Wait what... 3-4 days to get the Master Angler Achievement????

WTF?

@General_Zeranth

Is that even possible ?

Asardes · December 2019

Well if you have 3 other people to fish with you constantly you will get the achievement for each zone pretty fast. I mostly go alone because I don't like grouping for overland activities, so it takes me longer, more like 5-6 hours in total for each zone. I still don't have it on any of my characters. I have always found more interesting and profitable activities to do so it's being pushed back. I still need to do the last 3 AD areas: Greenshade, Malabal Tor and Reaper's March for it. Got all DLC fishing achievements, save IC (missing 1 blue fist) and Southern Elsweyr which I haven't started.

Kadoin · December 2019

Never spend any gold.

Asardes · December 2019

Kadoin wrote: »

Never spend any gold.

Well being self-sufficient about upgrade materials and consumables (potions, food) reduces your spending to almost nothing. For example I only spend gold on Nirncrux - I want to research all traits on every character and do those master writs - and Hakeijo - I don't farm TelVar but I buy them discounted at IC event when others farm to last me the whole year. I also buy style pages occasionally. On any given stretch I probably make 5-10 times more than I spend.

General_Zeranth · December 2019

@WiseSky
xD In my case yes cause I literally have medical issues that limit or prevent me sleeping and currently no job due to my states terrible job market. So lots of time on my hands to fish just about endlessly.

Edit: It's almost always late on the fourth day though. I've only ever had enough luck to get it once late on the third day.

vgabor · December 2019

Its really simple, you need just need to do these two things:
- sell stuff to vendors, other players (via guild traders or directly)
- steal/farm/craft/find more stuff to sell