Best Gear to Craft .... & then sell !

eMKa8 · August 2020

Hi everyone

I was wondering what the best gear or weapons you should try to craft in order to sell with decent profits.
I currently am almost at the 9th trait researched so i can definitely craft a lot , in the hopes of selling it via trader guilds.

What would be the best strategy to do so ? Best to sell Everything in blue or in purple or in gold ?

I was thinking of crafting law of julianos soon however not sure if it really makes it worth doing it

Anything else (like potions or glyphs or ...) that are worth crafting , only to sell later ?

Would love to hear all your ideas!

Zer0_CooL · August 2020

Best things to craft and sell are potions, glyphs and nirnhoned Weapons/armor for analysis.

Crafting and selling itemsets is an option but i wouldn't upgrade them to gold, since its quiet risky in ccase you wont sell them.

Atm. i think NMA is better to sell than julianos. Or ancient dragonguard.

eMKa8 · August 2020

Zer0_CooL wrote: »

Best things to craft and sell are potions, glyphs and nirnhoned Weapons/armor for analysis.

Crafting and selling itemsets is an option but i wouldn't upgrade them to gold, since its quiet risky in ccase you wont sell them.

Atm. i think NMA is better to sell than julianos. Or ancient dragonguard.

Nma stands for ?
Do you even know how to get the nirnhoned trait ? I dont know where to find those items ... let alone research it (unless paying 20k for a useless staff ;-))

Bergzorn · August 2020

eMKa8 wrote: »

Do you even know how to get the nirnhoned trait ? I dont know where to find those items ... let alone research it (unless paying 20k for a useless staff ;-))

Zer0_CooL wrote: »

Best things to craft and sell are potions, glyphs and nirnhoned Weapons/armor for analysis.

hint hint ...

woufff · August 2020

eMKa8 wrote: »

Do you even know how to get the nirnhoned trait ? I dont know where to find those items ... let alone research it (unless paying 20k for a useless staff ;-))

Nirncrux for the Nirnhoned trait is farmed in Craglorn, it drops (rarely) from any farming you can do there.

A lot of players (myself included) can make items for research, if you can provide the necessary Potent or Fortified Nirncrux.

eMKa8 · August 2020

Ok cool thanks for the info !

eMKa8 · August 2020

Bergzorn wrote: »

eMKa8 wrote: »

Do you even know how to get the nirnhoned trait ? I dont know where to find those items ... let alone research it (unless paying 20k for a useless staff ;-))

Zer0_CooL wrote: »

Best things to craft and sell are potions, glyphs and nirnhoned Weapons/armor for analysis.

hint hint ...

Haha , i did not mean the researching part of nirnhoned.
I actually meant the trait , where to find it. Wouff did reply to it already though ;-)

erliesc · August 2020

woufff wrote: »

eMKa8 wrote: »

Do you even know how to get the nirnhoned trait ? I dont know where to find those items ... let alone research it (unless paying 20k for a useless staff ;-))

Nirncrux for the Nirnhoned trait is farmed in Craglorn, it drops (rarely) from any farming you can do there.

A lot of players (myself included) can make items for research, if you can provide the necessary Potent or Fortified Nirncrux.

Is there a page or list showing any advantage for using nirncrux or nirnhoned vs other traits relative to use in sets? I can't see much advantage gold-wise to making and trying to sell nirncrux or nirnhoned items due to the cost of them. Easier to just sell nirncrux or nirnhone instead of making something. Might be some improvement over other attributes...but have seen no stats on it.

Taleof2Cities · August 2020

erliesc wrote: »

woufff wrote: »

eMKa8 wrote: »

Do you even know how to get the nirnhoned trait ? I dont know where to find those items ... let alone research it (unless paying 20k for a useless staff ;-))

Nirncrux for the Nirnhoned trait is farmed in Craglorn, it drops (rarely) from any farming you can do there.

A lot of players (myself included) can make items for research, if you can provide the necessary Potent or Fortified Nirncrux.

Is there a page or list showing any advantage for using nirncrux or nirnhoned vs other traits relative to use in sets? I can't see much advantage gold-wise to making and trying to sell nirncrux or nirnhoned items due to the cost of them. Easier to just sell nirncrux or nirnhone instead of making something. Might be some improvement over other attributes...but have seen no stats on it.

The stat difference is minimal between Nirnhoned and Reinforced, @erliesc ... so small that it’s probably good to plug your specific build into the UESP build editor and check out the trait options.

https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/UESPWiki:EsoBuildEditor

We sent feedback in to ZOS during PTS asking why Nirnhoned was nerfed considering how rare it is to obtain. No response.

Mike0987 · September 2020

These days there are none to craft and sell. Too many crafters... Use to make a million gold a week doing it though, till they made it were you could simply purchase your crafter which took me well over a year to get to 9 trait. Now I scrape by selling dropped items.

Zer0_CooL · September 2020

@erliesc

If you sell an item set, you better go for an other trait. A potential costumer more likely wants to pay less and then transmute it or wants an other trait in first place.

What i was talking about is to sell nirnhoned items for people who need them for research.

eMKa8 · September 2020

Mike0987 wrote: »

These days there are none to craft and sell. Too many crafters... Use to make a million gold a week doing it though, till they made it were you could simply purchase your crafter which took me well over a year to get to 9 trait. Now I scrape by selling dropped items.

You can purchase a crafter ???
Seriously?

That is so wrong. That wouldnt even be fun!
I wouldnt enjoy cheating the game by buying stuff which gives me a serious competitive edge over other players

newtinmpls · September 2020

The best sets to make and sell for profit are furniture

eMKa8 · September 2020

newtinmpls wrote: »

The best sets to make and sell for profit are furniture

Really ? Are there really that many players willing to pay that much for homestead articles?

MoonlightShadow · September 2020

I make quite a bit selling crafted furniture. It is not my primary source of income but it does well enough to keep doing it.

Beardimus · September 2020

eMKa8 wrote: »

Zer0_CooL wrote: »

Best things to craft and sell are potions, glyphs and nirnhoned Weapons/armor for analysis.

Crafting and selling itemsets is an option but i wouldn't upgrade them to gold, since its quiet risky in ccase you wont sell them.

Atm. i think NMA is better to sell than julianos. Or ancient dragonguard.

Nma stands for ?
Do you even know how to get the nirnhoned trait ? I dont know where to find those items ... let alone research it (unless paying 20k for a useless staff ;-))

It's not a useless staff, you are missing the point entirely....

The point of it is precisely what you want to do. To make gold.

You buy the staff for 20k, research it, then YOU can make and sell staves for 20k.......

Personally there are way better ways to make gold that try to sell generic sets.

eMKa8 · September 2020

Beardimus wrote: »

eMKa8 wrote: »

Zer0_CooL wrote: »

Best things to craft and sell are potions, glyphs and nirnhoned Weapons/armor for analysis.

Crafting and selling itemsets is an option but i wouldn't upgrade them to gold, since its quiet risky in ccase you wont sell them.

Atm. i think NMA is better to sell than julianos. Or ancient dragonguard.

Nma stands for ?
Do you even know how to get the nirnhoned trait ? I dont know where to find those items ... let alone research it (unless paying 20k for a useless staff ;-))

It's not a useless staff, you are missing the point entirely....

The point of it is precisely what you want to do. To make gold.

You buy the staff for 20k, research it, then YOU can make and sell staves for 20k.......

Personally there are way better ways to make gold that try to sell generic sets.

Like ...?
What are the better ways?

MoonlightShadow · September 2020

Not going to tell you all the ways I make gold. Dont' want even more competition

One of the better ways to make some gold is to do the daily crafting quests (4.5K per character per day). They have a decent gold payout, and from the materials that drop when you are top level on everything, for example you get the chance at Chromium grains. Those sell for a lot. The alchemy one can drop mats worth a lot too. Again, making furniture to sell can also do ok. Especially certain types / styles of furniture sell very well.

If you are adventurous, farm the dungeon with the monthly style drop (CofH2 this month). Those will sell at a good price too. Basically I found that I just enjoyed the game, and kept an eye on what drops to see what is worth selling. Get some addons, or find websites to help you figure out what is worth selling and what is junk. Deconstruct everything, sell the mats. And so on.

If you are dead-set on crafting gear in order to make gold, then I would suggest hanging around in active zones and watching chat. People are often messaging in chant that they want gear crafted. That way you make something that people actually want, and you get paid right away. Right now you could invest a lot of gold worth of materials into making something in a crafting set, but then the meta changes and what you crafted become an expensive piece of recycling.

FlopsyPrince · September 2020

Do the crafting dailies. Deconn everything for mats, except perhaps the money items. (After maxing out all crafting actives and passives.)

You will make a lot in gold just doing the dailies, more for more characters. Lots of pain finding skillpoints for them, but I am in the middle of that now for about 11 on each server (PS4).

I can easily get up to 1 million gold in a short while if I don't get tired of crafting.

Forget any other "easy way" to make money. Some probably exist, but will be held tightly to keep others from making it less profitable or ZoS nuking it.