Gold plays a significant role in almost every MMORPG, including The Elder Scrolls Online. However, to earn a lot of gold, you don’t necessarily have to farm actively. We will share tricks that allow you to gain more gold with your normal gameplay routine.
What does passive mean? We at MeinMMO have already revealed in a guide how you can actively farm gold in ESO. There are specific grind spots, crimes, trading, and other farming methods. But these require that you actively work towards your gold and adjust your playstyle.
Instead, we want to give you tips that allow you to gain more gold without having to farm actively. We will now present 7 of them to you.
Salvage equipment instead of selling it
During your adventures in ESO, you will be bombarded with all kinds of equipment. This accumulates in your fairly small inventory and is often sold to merchants for a few gold coins.
However, it is more effective to salvage the equipment at one of the crafting stations. By doing so, you will receive:
- Raw materials
- Improvements
- Style gear
These are often worth much more than if you had sold the armor as is. Be careful: it can also happen that you have rarer equipment. This should then be sold, of course.
If you want to maximize your profit from materials, you can also benefit from certain bonuses from Champion Points, such as “Meticulous Disassembly” in the “Skill” tree and unlock new passive bonuses for disassembly with your skills.
Afterwards, you will naturally need to sell them to players or can use them yourself to craft something. Additionally, there’s the side effect that you also level up your professions through this, so you can benefit from a complementary tip.
Refine raw materials first
A tip from the crafting side is to refine found raw materials before selling them. Iron ore becomes iron ingots, raw hide scraps become raw hide. Again, you can easily earn more money without much effort.
Passive materials through crafting
Through crafting, you can unlock a special skill that passively supplies you with materials daily. Each profession has such a collection effect. You can simply skill them if you have skill points left and thus improve your daily income.
More gold through Champion Points
If you really don’t want to do anything for your bonus gold, you can invest leftover Champion Points from the “Skill” tree into the talent “Golden Fingers.” This simply increases your gold income passively by up to 10%.
Take loot from the environment and hope for furnishing plans
Whenever you are in a dungeon in ESO, you should keep your eyes peeled. There are often hidden chests, cabinets, and other objects that you can open. And these objects often contain truly interesting treasures, including furnishing plans.
These plans can be used personally or sold. When sold, they often bring in a lot of money.
Also, there’s a bonus with Champion Points that you can unlock, such as increasing the quality of items in chests or the chance of additional furnishing plans. The great thing about housing in ESO is that it not only has an aesthetic effect but also some practical items that you should definitely acquire.
Spend PvP currency wisely
If you are not much involved in PvE and dungeons to benefit from the furnishing items, you can use PvP and earn a lot of money with the right tricks.
You earn two currencies through PvP:
- Battlegrounds and Cyrodiil give you AP
- Imperial City rewards you with Tel Var and some AP
If you want to earn gold here, you need to be a bit more active and check which materials and items are currently particularly valuable. The goal should be to earn one gold per AP as well. Nevertheless, you will first collect the AP through your adventures in PvP. However, be aware that some items become bound to the character upon purchase, while others are tradeable.
The YouTuber Arttea shows how the conversion of money works. She also advises keeping an eye on current prices:
Collect antiquities
With Greymoor, antiquities were introduced into the game. Through this, you can earn items for housing as well as mythical equipment. However, the system also provides items that can earn you gold, including:
- Style materials that can only be acquired through antiquities and are still somewhat rare
- Indeko – Runes
- General equipment that can be sold or salvaged
This makes antiquities a lucrative area of the game that can be passively utilized, such as while you are questing, exploring, or completing other tasks in the world.
How did you like the tips? Do you have additional tips that we should add to this guide?
In 2021, the new expansion Blackwood will be released for ESO. We have summarized all the important information here:
ESO: Everything about the new expansion Blackwood and the content in 2021.
