Making Gold in ESO
There are many ways to earn gold in ESO, some are automatic, looting enemies, rewards for quests, daily login rewards etc, below we have put together some of the best ways we have found for making a lot of gold quickly.
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Sell your Materials
Search your crafting bag. There will be items in there you won't ever need and items you need but have a surplus of. Retrieve those items or some of them by right-clicking and choosing retrieve, you can select how many you wish to move over to your main inventory. Here I am retrieving Elegant lining to sell for example.
Some of the best to retrieve and sell are those mats needed to craft styles. For example, Amber Marble is used to craft the style hollowjack, if you have 100 of those and you don't intend to craft that style then why not sell them, they go for around 220 each, so that would give you a cool 20K gold.
Any materials used in crafting sell well, especially mats to upgrade gear to legendary, like Tempering Alloys (6K each), Dreugh Wax (14K each).
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2. Overland Gear
Look for armour that you pick up from the overland, if any have the divines trait keep it for selling (or using), it will be worth considerably more than other traits.
3. Deconstruction
Deconstruct everything except ornamental, the latter can be sold to a vendor for around 280 gold each. When you deconstruct you will receive many of the original components used in the construction of that item and these go into your craft bag for later selling or use. Champion Points: In the craft tree select and use Meticulous Dissasembly to ensure you gain the most from deconstruction. You can slot this before you deconstruct and then go back to your normal setting after deconstruction.
4. Alliance Points
If you've got plenty of alliance points (AP) then go to Bruma in Cyrodill to the Armour Vendor there.
This vendor sells lots of sets but the one you are interested in is Deadly Strike. You will buy an unknown piece of Deadly Strike for 50K AP (sometimes on sale) and if you are lucky you can open it to find you have the daggers, these sell for over 200K. Other set pieces fetch between 2K and 100K, the higher value items being with the divines trait.
You will want to choose a campaign where your alliance controls Bruma or you may find you are attacked before you can even get there!
5. Crafting Writs
In every town you can find your daily crafting writs, these are quick to do, no more than 5 minutes and will net you 5K gold as well as a ton of crafting mats often including upgrade tempers like Chromium plating, Tempering Alloy and
Dreugh Wax. You can do these on each of you characters if you like, I've heard of some people running these on 50 characters and they make millions of gold a week, it all depends if you want to make your game more like a job or not, I don't but many enjoy it and it is extremely lucrative.
You will also gain master writs occasionally, you can use these to craft master items and get writ vouchers, e.g. 250 writ vouchers will get you and attunable crafting station which you can use or sell for around 250K gold. Or you can just sell the master writs themselves, some can be worth a lot!
6. Special Vendors
There are two special vendors in the game, the ESO Golden Vendor, Adhazabi Aba-daro is a special Khajiit merchant known as “The Golden” who can be found in Cyrodiil Alliance Border Keep only on weekends. She arrives at midnight GMT on Friday night/Saturday morning, and is available until 12 noon GMT on Mondays. She sells legendary gear from various sets including monster sets, sets from dungeons are bound on pickup but the rest are tradeable.
Zanil Theran (pictured) is the luxury furnishing vendor found in Coldharbour in the Hollow City at the weekends he sells a range of goods that change each week, from plants to chairs and some really weird and wonderful stuff in between.
The items that sell the best on the trader tend to be those with animations, something you can activate for an effect. These are great to buy and hold on to for a while as most people buying to sell will list them immediately when they are flooding the market so the price will be lower, wait a few months and then sell them when there are very few left in traders.
7. Fishing
Fishing in ESO is a relaxing break from the pressures of dungeons and can can be very lucrative. When you find a fishing spot make sure you use the correct bait for that type of water.
When you have around 100 fish, filet them by double clicking on each fish in your inventory, if you are lucky you will find PERFECT ROE worth 40,000 gold each. You can find other things besides fish from recipes to loot.
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8. Loot Everything, collect everything
You can find motifs in backpacks, I found an aetherial dust in some wormwood once worth 600K, you can collect Luminous Inks from resource nodes worth 10k each, and columbine is over 1.2K each. When you've collected a few hundred of an item, I'd go up to 500 for each such as Platinum, refine it and you can often earn 3-6 chromium plating, for wood you get rosin, for ore, you get tempering alloys. Champion points: Make sure you use Plentiful Harvest to increase what you find from resource nodes by up to 50%, Master Gatherer can be slotted before you head off collecting as this speeds up the gathering time by 50%, and it's a good idea to slot Treasure Hunter as you often find treasure chests when resource farming, this increase the value of items from chests. Make sure you have Fortune's Favour also maxed out.
9. Thieving
Oh, the thief's life is an easy one, until you get caught! Join the Thieves Guild and the Dark Brotherhood, level them up, then go off thieving. For pickpocketing the rule is to pickpocket twice then blade of woe for the last item, all NPCs only carry 3 items. You may want to stow your companion as some of them don't like you committing a crime. Champion Points: There are several points here for thieving, but the two important ones are INFAMOUS and CUTPURSE'S ART, to increase the value of things you pickpocket and how much the fence will give you for them.
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More ideas will be added below, have fun and get rich
Mathius Mordred