Gold farming for someone who hates crafting?

Shadowspawn42 · September 2020

Does anyone have any suggestions for gold farming for someone who *** hates crafting and doesn’t have access to a trade guild? Also, if you have a suggestion, do you mind explaining exactly how it works? Like I always see people say to farm X dungeon, but I don’t know if they mean to get materials to sell, or literally just get gold, or?? I’m open to any suggestions, I just want to understand what I have to do exactly. Thanks!!

Sylvermynx · September 2020

Can't help you. I LOVE crafting. There are people who say steal everything. *shrug* I don't go there myself.

Shadowspawn42 · September 2020

Lol it’s just so tedious though!

Sylvermynx · September 2020

? I don't find it tedious. I craft on numerous characters, on two accounts, on both PC servers. It doesn't take that long - hmm.... I spend about an hour in the morning. Then I spend the next 6 -7 hours doing whatever else is on the books - right now antiquities - but of course my fun isn't likely to be your fun.

If you don't find crafting fun, don't bother?

Shadowspawn42 · September 2020

That’s sort of why I was asking for gold farming that doesn’t involve crafting

Ackwalan · September 2020

There's always motif hunting. Also, if you have enough people you sell runs in the harder content.

Mindcr0w · September 2020

Yep, motif farming. Every dlc zone has daily quests that will give you reward boxes 100% of the time. The boxes have a chance to drop motifs specific to that zone. Many motifs will sell for a good amount.

Also thievery. Find a good spot with multiple npc's that respawn. Pickpocket each npc twice, then blade of woe them and loot the corpse. Fence green or higher quality items, destroy white items. If you have your fence interactions maxed you can get 15 -20k a day per character with this method.

FrancisCrawford · September 2020

Gold comes through quest rewards, selling stuff to other players, and selling stuff to merchants/fences. (And occasionally from log-in rewards.)

Gold from quest rewards usually tops out at ~2000 gold for 3 quests. That's pretty slow going unless the quests are those for crafting writs.

Selling stuff to other players can be done via trading guilds that have high-traffic locations, guilds (whether or not they're trader-centric) that have traders in low-traffic locations, and via zone chat. You've ruled out the first option, but how do you feel about the other two?

Outside of that you can just kill things and vendor the loot, generally in the same places people would advise you to go to grind XP (because in both cases you want to kill lots of mobs). That probably works a lot better if you have a merchant assistant.

If you enjoy stealing, then you may well also enjoy the Thieves Guild quest line and activities. The Covetous Countess grind doesn't pay off as well as crafting writs, but it's somewhat OK and infinitely repeatable.

Grinding the regional green and blue antiquities for vendorable items is also infinitely repeatable, and pretty fast on Arteum. Grinding antiquities all over Tamriel also makes ~300,000 gold one time only, if I'm remembering the pricing correctly.

Banana · September 2020

Sell some crowns

alainjbrennanb16_ESO · September 2020

i pvp and buy gold jewelry, motifs, or gear that sell with ap for most of my gold

Starlight_Whisper · September 2020

Antiques

Please especially do during event 😃

Everstorm · September 2020

Played quite a few MMO's over the last two decades. ESO's crafting system is the only one that I find tolerable. Like would be too strong but I don't mind doing it and it actually has uses for me in the rest of the game.

MrBrownstone · September 2020

Antiquities. Even farming dungeons (for motifs etc) requires a trading guild so you can sell them. Of course you have the option to sell on zone chat but it's not the easiest thing. Currently I'm doing antiquities for the event and realize that i'm making a lot of money.

But why don't you have access to a trading guild? It's really easy to find one. One of my friends farmed popular PvPs sets during Midyear Mayhem and by selling them on a guild Store he made 4 million Gold in 3 weeks, it was crazy.

spartaxoxo · September 2020

Kill bosses in ICP (pvp zone) for telvar and sell mats, fo a chest farming loop in a place with a popular Overland set (just ride around on a horse opening chests) and sell gear in zone, do dailies for motifs, antiquities and stealing

Majkiy · September 2020

Farming dungeons yeald me 2 mil this month. I play for a few hours. Best is to farm dungeon motifs, some goes for high prices. Also picking up all the trash loot makes some decent coin. Decontrusting the purple stuff and selling mats after.

HowlKimchi · September 2020

I feel you. I wish there was a valid way of making money by actual doing combat in PVE. Antiquities and Crafting don't use our character's combat skills and abilities to make money.

The best I can tell you is to hunt for motifs by doing the repeatable quests for every zone. It's feast or famine though. You either get motifs or you dont. But, If you're good at PVP, I'd suggest you do Imperial City. It's probably my favorite game mode in any MMO ever. You actually earn more based on how skilled you are on your character. You use the telvar you get to buy whatever sells well. There are lots of trade guilds that are casual that dont require quotas. Join one and sell alchemy mats you purchase using the telvar you farm in IC. It's quite stable and profitable.

nukk3r · September 2020

Majkiy wrote: »

Farming dungeons yeald me 2 mil this month. I play for a few hours. Best is to farm dungeon motifs, some goes for high prices. Also picking up all the trash loot makes some decent coin. Decontrusting the purple stuff and selling mats after.

This. Hardmodes of DLC dungeons drop a guaranteed motif page. If you do the latest ones and the hardest ones, armor pieces can go for 40k-200k depending on a piece.

Tenthirty2 · September 2020

Sylvermynx wrote: »

Can't help you. I LOVE crafting. There are people who say steal everything. *shrug* I don't go there myself.

If you have access to the new DLC start doing Antiquities, it's farming but kinda fun and the gold value of many really adds up.

Dragon farming in Southern Elsweyr is the next best thing imo.
There is almost always a bunch of crazy ppl running between North and South dragon spawns, just check the map and follow the players.

Found this by accident and ended up running with everyone for 3 hours the first time, it's crazy fun!

Just make sure you go there with PLENTY of free inventory space, some soul gems and a ranged weapon like a bow, etc.

Donny_Vito · September 2020

Pay attention to patch notes and other high valued overland sets (e.g. Mothers Sorrow), as they are good earners. Before this last patch, I went and got a lot of War Maidens stuff really cheap and then when the demand went up after patch I sold them at a higher price. Granted, I used a Guild Trader but the concept is still the same if you decide to advertise in zone chat. ZoS does a good (or bad, depending on your mentality) job of changing up sets so there is always some gold to be made as people will change up their sets/gear after a patch to get better DPS/support.

Tenthirty2 · September 2020

Meant to quote-post the OP, whoops.
(Where TH is the edit post option???)

Donny_Vito · September 2020

You use the telvar you get to buy whatever sells well.

This is also really true. As you can buy Alchemy Mats (and get Clam Gull and Powdered Mother Pearl) for 500 telvar, the turn-around rate is amazing. The problem: other people farming the same thing, so limited supply especially during prime-time.

Sylvermynx · September 2020

Tenthirty2 wrote: »

Meant to quote-post the OP, whoops.
(Where TH is the edit post option???)

Next to the post number, little gear icon. Click to get the edit option, highlight, click to edit.

Kungfu · September 2020

@Shadowspawn42
What **DO** you enjoy doing?

That's the first question.

mairwen85 · September 2020

HaruKamui wrote: »

I feel you. I wish there was a valid way of making money by actual doing combat in PVE. Antiquities and Crafting don't use our character's combat skills and abilities to make money.

Start a duelling club and place wagers on the winner. If you set it up, remember the house always wins.

Tandor · September 2020

Sylvermynx wrote: »

Tenthirty2 wrote: »

Meant to quote-post the OP, whoops.
(Where TH is the edit post option???)

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BXR_Lonestar · September 2020

I used to do this before I joined a trading guild. Go level up both your thieves guild skill line (you need the DLC for this) and your ledgerman skill lines. You'll want both maxed to maximize your number of fences and your haggling bonus. Then you can go to the ships at Daggerfall and loot the ships of stolen goods, then use the ships themselves to travel to the harbor of Davon's Watch where you loot THOSE ships, then go back to Daggerfall and those ships should be reset again. You keep doing this till your stocked full of mostly green, blue, and the occasional purple stolen loot and then you just keep logging in on that character, fencing your max amount of items every day. You can make around 150-180k gold a week per character you do this on pretty easily.

Along the same lines, you can also do this: Same thing, max your thieves guild skill line and ledgerman. Then there is this caravan place in Reaper's March where you will often find players committing large scale murder on the NPC's located there. All you need to do is get in with the Killer's group and you can pick up all of the drops without getting a bounty (be careful not to be seen if you don't want a bounty yourself!). You stay there till your completely full of goodies and you can park your guy at a fence and sell your stolen loot to the fence every day.

It's pretty easy gold if you don't like crafting and don't have access to a trader guild.

faeeichenlaub · September 2020

If you hate crafting and have no use for mats, farm nodes and sell them raw.

The fact they have chances to drop tempers. Makes the raw items worth selling at any level. Get in a trader guild.

Nestor · September 2020

Most of the responses in this thread assume you have a Guild Store, with a Kiosk, to offload your loot for Gold.

Since you said you are not in a Trade Guild, here is your Road Map:

1. Find an Undead Farm Location, they are squishy and respawn quickly. Run your patterns looting the corpses until your full, vendor the loot you get. Rinse Repeat.

Most original zones have an Undead spawn area, some are denser than others. Once you figure out how to pull in 10 to 20 mobs at a time and AoE them down, you can get pretty efficient at this.

2. Steal and Fence. There are quite a few areas in the game where you can farm lots of owned containers, and a few areas where you can pick NPC's pockets with low risk.
3. Do Quests.

The above is in descending order of efficiency with regards to gold per hour, and based on having no trade guild.

Obsidian3 · September 2020

Farming Tel Var in Imperial City is a good

Farming Alliance Points in Cyrodiil

Chest farms in Rivenspire & Deshaan. ZoS hasn't ruined Necropotence and Mother's Sorrow gear yet.

Crimson Cove Public Dungeon, the mobs seem to drop more gold there than any other public dungeon, so go in there and thrash away. (BRING BACK PROSPEROUS GEAR).

Farming raw mats. Top 3 best zones to farm Kenarthi's Roost, Deshann & Rivenspire. (with Rivenspire & Deshaan you can combine chest farm with raw mat farming for extra $$$)

If you are doing raw mat and/or chest farms, I highly recommend maxing out Psijic Skill line, better chance for Psijic Portal drops, which can drop cool stuff.

As said before Dragon Hunts are great,

Abyssal Geyser hunts in Summerset (Sell that Culanda Lacquer)

Oreyn_Bearclaw · September 2020

Shadowspawn42 wrote: »

Lol it’s just so tedious though!

All farming is tedious if I am being candid. When people talk about crafting, the real question is how does it generate gold. There are very few crafters these days that make a bunch of gold actually crafting gear for others. Years ago, there was decent money it, but now it is not hard to find a crafter willing to do it for next to nothing if you provide the mats.

People make money from crafting by doing crafting writs. The reason that everyone suggests it is that it is arguably the most efficient way to make gold. Crafting writs on a character take 3-5 mnutes (less on PC with addons), and you will get 4500 or so gold, and anywhere from 0-5 gold mats. There simply isnt a better way to generate gold from an efficiency standpoint unless you get unusually lucky on drops or you have a REALLY good eye for flipping goods in a trader (requires a guild trader). Nice thing about writs are that gold mats are the one thing that doesnt really require a trader to sell. Priced fairly, they sell in zone chat very fast. You also get a host of other stuff

Almost everyone that I know that is worth 8-9 figures in ESO has done/still does crafting writs very consistently. I stopped. I did them for years, but I have so much gold and my crafting bag is so full that i could play this game for years and never need to farm anything but specific gear.

tmbrinks · September 2020

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

Shadowspawn42 wrote: »

Lol it’s just so tedious though!

All farming is tedious if I am being candid. When people talk about crafting, the real question is how does it generate gold. There are very few crafters these days that make a bunch of gold actually crafting gear for others. Years ago, there was decent money it, but now it is not hard to find a crafter willing to do it for next to nothing if you provide the mats.

People make money from crafting by doing crafting writs. The reason that everyone suggests it is that it is arguably the most efficient way to make gold. Crafting writs on a character take 3-5 mnutes (less on PC with addons), and you will get 4500 or so gold, and anywhere from 0-5 gold mats. There simply isnt a better way to generate gold from an efficiency standpoint unless you get unusually lucky on drops or you have a REALLY good eye for flipping goods in a trader (requires a guild trader). Nice thing about writs are that gold mats are the one thing that doesnt really require a trader to sell. Priced fairly, they sell in zone chat very fast. You also get a host of other stuff

Almost everyone that I know that is worth 8-9 figures in ESO has done/still does crafting writs very consistently. I stopped. I did them for years, but I have so much gold and my crafting bag is so full that i could play this game for years and never need to farm anything but specific gear.

^ This.

OP, If you want to know how much gold can be made doing writs... open the spreadsheet in my signature