Richest Players In The Game

tmbrinks · October 2020

RABIDxWOLVERINE wrote: »

I’m not the richest but I have 2.2 mil that I have no idea what to do with so for all the people with multi millions what is the point of obtaining that much gold?

I use mine to get things I really don't want to spend a lot of time farming for.

The monster mask style pages for example. I don't want to run Bloodroot Forge dozens of time to try and get the new Earthgore Helm Style page.

For those that enjoy doing it, who will do it to make gold themselves, I'll happily pay for them to farm it, and to just buy it from the guild stores, so they can get their gold, and I save myself that time.

Munkfist · October 2020

tmbrinks wrote: »

RABIDxWOLVERINE wrote: »

I’m not the richest but I have 2.2 mil that I have no idea what to do with so for all the people with multi millions what is the point of obtaining that much gold?

I use mine to get things I really don't want to spend a lot of time farming for.

The monster mask style pages for example. I don't want to run Bloodroot Forge dozens of time to try and get the new Earthgore Helm Style page.

For those that enjoy doing it, who will do it to make gold themselves, I'll happily pay for them to farm it, and to just buy it from the guild stores, so they can get their gold, and I save myself that time.

Completely agree here. I use my gold for the conveniences. If I want something, or a friend/guildie want something, it's almost always attainable and I have no issues paying someone else to farm it up.

I hoard most of my gold, but what I do budget to spend is spent on good deals, potential flips, housing, or friends/guildies.

volkeswagon · October 2020

i think the richest players are Ronald Gump and Will Bates.

Shaie · October 2020

Stinkyremy wrote: »

BleedMe_AnOcean wrote: »

Use alts as mules, which will become easier in November.

What's happening that will make alt storage easier in November? I've been out of the news loop...

VaranisArano · October 2020

Shaie wrote: »

What's happening that will make alt storage easier in November? I've been out of the news loop...

The new gear collection system, where you can reconstruct gear in your collection for transmute stones.

So I can get rid of those old sets of Netch's Touch I've been hanging onto with the faint suspicion that it'll become the meta as soon as I delete them, and then reconstruct them if they ever do come back in style.

James-Wayne · October 2020

Is this richest by gold ONLY or total worth because I have for example 183k Rubedo Leather which if I sold would be worth a lot but I don't sell anything I keep it all.... or maybe that is a different video!

IndianaJames7 · October 2020

I don’t like bringing this up much since I think it is rude to flex on others, but after years of this game I have accumulated well over 100k gold.

Edit: and that’s just on my main character, I also have an alt with upwards of 15k too.

MJallday · October 2020

Couple of guys in my guilds have 45milion plus (Xbox eu)

Not sure if that qualifies

CaffeinatedMayhem · October 2020

RABIDxWOLVERINE wrote: »

I’m not the richest but I have 2.2 mil that I have no idea what to do with so for all the people with multi millions what is the point of obtaining that much gold?

Earlier this week I had finally saved 10million, was debating which house(s) I would buy to finish my collection of the gold-purchased homes.

When the event bundle was released I realized purple furnishing plans were going to jump in price, so i spent 6 million and almost finished the Solitude collection.

Having a large bank account makes fun stuff possible. Of course, now I won’t be able to buy anything for another 6 months or so. xD

anitajoneb17_ESO · October 2020

MJallday wrote: »

Couple of guys in my guilds have 45milion plus (Xbox eu)

Not sure if that qualifies

I don't think it qualifies.
People with this sort of gold amount (I'm one of them) will be probably be the richest players in their respective social guilds, but will be considered "low average" in any half way serious trading guild.
This is plenty enough to do whatever you want and beyond ingame, though :-)

wolfie1.0. · October 2020

Rezdayn wrote: »

James-Wayne wrote: »

Is this richest by gold ONLY or total worth because I have for example 183k Rubedo Leather which if I sold would be worth a lot but I don't sell anything I keep it all.... or maybe that is a different video!

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While it would be an interesting idea... I dont think that you will be able to pull it off. With how competitive guild traders are how much a guild has in their war chest is as closely a guarded secret as you can get. You can estimate how much a trader is worth.. but you would be lucky to get how much a guild has from them.

Canned_Apples · October 2020

I'm poor because a crown scammer cheated me out of 825k and zos won't refund me the gold. even after I submitted video proof.

tonne.backlinderb16_ESO · October 2020

Canned_Apples wrote: »

I'm poor because a crown scammer cheated me out of 825k and zos won't refund me the gold. even after I submitted video proof.

Same happened to me but i only lost 450k

Nomadic_Atmoran · October 2020

Avoranti wrote: »

This is interesting to me. I‘ll assume the owners of the bot accounts are the richest in game.

As for guild traders being “hacked” or whatever... no, but they have to be getting manipulated some how, at least on ps4. Lots of guilds who normally have traders haven’t been able to obtain them lately for some reason and keep losing out to guilds no ones heard of. When you look in their traders they have nothing of value. So it brings into question how are they out bidding known trade guilds?

Lastly, a question, what’s the gold cap? I assumed from watching pts streams that it’s 999,999,999 but someone shared an image via Facebook of a player with 7 billion gold. How is that even possible?

Gold Sellers. Ran into this recently in Deshaan with players listing green furnishing recipes for 500k or more.

Dragonnord · October 2020

So if I'm the richest player in the game but I don't provide a video then I'm not the richest player in the game even when I am?

I mean, what if I don't provide proof? I'm forced to provide a video (so my in-game info made public) or the community will think (erroneously) that other 5 players are richer than me?

newtinmpls · October 2020

RABIDxWOLVERINE wrote: »

I’m not the richest but I have 2.2 mil that I have no idea what to do with so for all the people with multi millions what is the point of obtaining that much gold?

That makes sense.....

Granted, I would never come close to such a number, but I always have ideas of what to do....right now I have some types of furniture that I would love to learn "more of the plans for" (Telvanni lighting fixtures for one) and even when I can find them, I can't always afford them.

I do regularly donate to my guilds; and maybe they don't "need" the money; but in the case of 3 guilds who do bid on traders, I suspect it comes in handy or at least slightly useful.

I prefer to purchase houses (or whatever) with in-game gold rather than crowns, and frankly I don't trust scammers. Heck if I was going to try and "buy" in-game currency, it would be gems (because there is a cool green winged moth I would like for a pet) but...

1-I don't trust not to be scammed

2-There doesn't seem to be any way to gift or otherwise trade gems/gem items (I've tried gifting a gem thing from one of my accounts to another - it was not enabled/possible).

Occasionally I would like to afford some of the really cool dropped sets in traits that I would like (and I have a total weakness for the "named pieces" even if they would have to be trait-transmuted); but mostly I just get what I can, and upgrade or change traits when I can.

I would so like to have two more entire sets of Darloc Brae (one with magicka weapons, one with stamina) but I can't even imagine how much that would cost to buy - and I'm not having the best luck with farming....so it's a work in progress.

zaria · October 2020

Munkfist wrote: »

Danksta wrote: »

Munkfist wrote: »

Saucy_Jack wrote: »

CaffeinatedMayhem wrote: »

Some of these same people also consistently buy crowns at a steep discount, in guild chat; 100:1 when PC/NA is at 200:1.

I just don't know HOW they're doing that, or WHO would sell at such a steep discount. When crowns were 200 per, I asked everywhere if anyone was willing to sell for 180 per, and heard only crickets. But 100 per? What would even be the benefit to the crown seller in that transaction?

Would definitely spend a lot more at 100 per, need to find some of these people 😮

That's the going rate on PS4/NA

Craziness. I've seen a few sellers at 110-140, but few and far between (PCNA). Was sitting ~150 per for awhile, but with the new crates and such, it's sitting steady at 200-250 per now. Many, many millions spent :P

Gold are more expensive on consoles. At lest for PC gold is also more expensive in EU. First is probably that PC has mods who make farming gold or trading easier.

CleymenZero · October 2020

Sergykid wrote: »

Stinkyremy wrote: »

40k daily easy on 8 toons just doing daily writs which take 10-20 mins

it's 600 gold per quest. 7 quests = 4200 gold. 8 chars = 33600, where is 40k from?
and it's not entirely 10-20 mins. Your materials will end at some point and you have to go use the surveys which take hours.

You get a lot of gold mats from writs and the character limit is 18 characters so during Anniversary event, I get 75k+ per day plus gold mats so the cost of mats is more than covered.

CaiWenji · October 2020

Unknown_Redemption · October 2020

Im not sure where this falls with the richest people. This is about 2 years of flipping and 18 characters doing writs. Im pretty sure some folks have more than a billion.

Munkfist · October 2020

Definitely at least a few in the billion+ range, but that's a nice hoard yourself! More than most will ever see or attempt to reach.

Unknown_Redemption · October 2020

I wanted to hit 1B, but I sorta lost momentum when most big ticket items started to diminish. I might give it until the end of the year then finally make a crafting hall... I know that will cost at least 60m.

Iarao · October 2020

Avoranti wrote: »

This is interesting to me. I‘ll assume the owners of the bot accounts are the richest in game.

As for guild traders being “hacked” or whatever... no, but they have to be getting manipulated some how, at least on ps4. Lots of guilds who normally have traders haven’t been able to obtain them lately for some reason and keep losing out to guilds no ones heard of. When you look in their traders they have nothing of value. So it brings into question how are they out bidding known trade guilds?

Lastly, a question, what’s the gold cap? I assumed from watching pts streams that it’s 999,999,999 but someone shared an image via Facebook of a player with 7 billion gold. How is that even possible?

within about 1yr of game dropping, i heard the that someone on eu was a billionaire. he was gm of 5 trading guilds.

Iarao · October 2020

Lysette wrote: »

Bucky_13 wrote: »

Lysette wrote: »

Sergykid wrote: »

Stinkyremy wrote: »

40k daily easy on 8 toons just doing daily writs which take 10-20 mins

it's 600 gold per quest. 7 quests = 4200 gold. 8 chars = 33600, where is 40k from?
and it's not entirely 10-20 mins. Your materials will end at some point and you have to go use the surveys which take hours.

It's still roughly 40k because you occasionally get gold tempers and stuff which worth has to be added to the normal payout. The 10-20 minutes figure though is void - I guess he has never really done it - it takes more than an hour to get it done.

I do daily writs on 12 characters, it takes me roughly 40 minutes, but I don't rush or use all the time savers in the addon so it can be done in 30 minutes if I wanted to. 8 toons in 20 minutes is very realistic, it will boil down to how long the load screens take. Without addons it does take far longer.

Indeed, I'm not using any add-ons - it takes me nearly 2 hours for 16 characters. But that includes as well emptying all the gift boxes and list stuff, which I want to sell, in the guild store, paying for training of my mounts in stables and such - so it isn't purely crafting writs. And as well buying trait items, which my characters need for research, setting up the research and so.

if you are on pc, get lazy writ crafter addon.

Iarao · October 2020

Saucy_Jack wrote: »

CaffeinatedMayhem wrote: »

Some of these same people also consistently buy crowns at a steep discount, in guild chat; 100:1 when PC/NA is at 200:1.

I just don't know HOW they're doing that, or WHO would sell at such a steep discount. When crowns were 200 per, I asked everywhere if anyone was willing to sell for 180 per, and heard only crickets. But 100 per? What would even be the benefit to the crown seller in that transaction?

i have heard that some gms of trader guilds sell crowns to help cover trader cost. perhaps they just needed to get a buyer right then?

Iarao · October 2020

wtlonewolf20 wrote: »

what you really want to do is look at what Peoples Net Worth is, and then look at their liquidity and long term assets. Also you would have to find a way to value items such as achievements and collectibles to find true value.

in short i don't think your going to get an honest answer.

hard to get a net worth as most dont track what they paid for something

VaranisArano wrote: »

Shaie wrote: »

What's happening that will make alt storage easier in November? I've been out of the news loop...

The new gear collection system, where you can reconstruct gear in your collection for transmute stones.

So I can get rid of those old sets of Netch's Touch I've been hanging onto with the faint suspicion that it'll become the meta as soon as I delete them, and then reconstruct them if they ever do come back in style.

wow really? i do the same with gear

cuz you KNOW it will be meta the drop after you decon it.

Iarao · October 2020

VaranisArano wrote: »

Shaie wrote: »

What's happening that will make alt storage easier in November? I've been out of the news loop...

The new gear collection system, where you can reconstruct gear in your collection for transmute stones.

So I can get rid of those old sets of Netch's Touch I've been hanging onto with the faint suspicion that it'll become the meta as soon as I delete them, and then reconstruct them if they ever do come back in style.

this now begs the question: what do i do with my 9 storage accts??? (all purchased at deep sale prices)

Iarao · October 2020

Canned_Apples wrote: »

I'm poor because a crown scammer cheated me out of 825k and zos won't refund me the gold. even after I submitted video proof.

Nomadic_Atmoran wrote: »

Avoranti wrote: »

This is interesting to me. I‘ll assume the owners of the bot accounts are the richest in game.

As for guild traders being “hacked” or whatever... no, but they have to be getting manipulated some how, at least on ps4. Lots of guilds who normally have traders haven’t been able to obtain them lately for some reason and keep losing out to guilds no ones heard of. When you look in their traders they have nothing of value. So it brings into question how are they out bidding known trade guilds?

Lastly, a question, what’s the gold cap? I assumed from watching pts streams that it’s 999,999,999 but someone shared an image via Facebook of a player with 7 billion gold. How is that even possible?

Gold Sellers. Ran into this recently in Deshaan with players listing green furnishing recipes for 500k or more.

well there may be a few, but yeah, that kind of stuff is def someone who has bought gold out of game and is looking to get it delivered via the sale of extremely overpriced stuff.

Heady · October 2020

Saucy_Jack · October 2020

I can tell you that the way NOT to become rich is to learn all the furniture plans. Only 26 to go, but goodness, that's a big goldsink.