Here’s just a small video guide on how to make money in Elder Scrolls Online titled: Making Gold with Hirelings and Crafting Writs. I’m making 20,000 a day no problem and here’s how!
Big thanks to Medg and Codogg the money making Bonnie and Clyde of ESO.
Great video Deltia. thanks again for sharing your ESO experience. I find myself changing specs regularly as I really only play 1 toon. I will be filling all character slots tonight and working on getting them all certified and hirelings due to this video.
Thanks again
Appreciated the technique of splitting your extraction and production skills, hadn’t thought of that.
Ok, so if I understand right, the dailies for blacksmithing, clothing, and woodworking are not worth it, but alchemy, provisioning, and enchanting are?
Plus, having 3/3 hierlings is worth it for bs, cloth, and wood, but not the other 3?
I am a bit confused.
I say yes to your first question. I can sell a stack of mats for 700 gold while the quest turn in uses about 50 mats, plus time, but little chance to gain more mats. The hirelings are very worth it as it’s free resources in the long run. I do enchanting and alchemy on my characters.
So, hirelings for all of them?
It doesn’t hurt, just passive income over a long period of time.
Great video Deltia, I’m quite interested in trying this out, but I have a newbie question. You mentioned it would cost about 20k gold per character to max the hirelings. Is there anyway you would be willing to go in to detail about how that’s done? I have about 100k gold saved up and i’d be willing to drop all of it to max some characters out. Thanks!
Best way is to just buy 1500 Voidstone, Voidcloth, and the wood. Then have someone or yourself craft it all and decon on another character. 4500 mats, that’s where the expense comes from.
Thanks a lot, I appreciate the quick response! Does the quality of the items produced matter? Or can they all be white?
Are you aware of any changes to inspiration gains? I was excited to try this after work and went and bought 1,500 voidcloth to test it out on a character. I had a friend craft me the VR10 sashes with them (your earlier guide said it was the best ratio) and they were only giving 1352 inspiration per deconstruct. It takes 1,238,595 inspiration to get to level 32 I believe, which would require me to make 917 sashes or use 12,838 voidcloth. Am I missing something? =(
Wow probably not. Is it the same ratio if you use VR 14 Sashes as it’s higher?
VR10 and VR14 seems to be the exact same. What I’m doing now is actually using a trait….in some guild stores I can get some for 1g each it seems and that way the inspiration is 4416 which is quite a bit better. But even with that, it will take me probably 40k gold just to get 1/3 hirelings maxed for each character so 120k per character =(
Let me ask my friend how he did it as he only paided 20k somehow.
That would be awesome. I will try my best to patiently await your reply 😉
Don’t forget about me 🙂
I just mailed my friend in game so we should hear something soon.
What I found is that you do not get full inspiration for the high level mats when you are low level in a particular craft. What I did was level the craft to around level 12 using lower level mats, then I changed to the higher level mats. I found VR1 mats to be the best for this, but any mat lvl 36 or up should be effective if it is cheap. For example to level clothing to 32 on a brand new character I would buy a bunch of Topgrain Hide or Kresh fiber and craft VR1 sashes or belts with my main crafter, put them in the bank and decon them with my alt. Once I reach around level 12 in clothing I would buy a bunch of Void cloth or shadow hide and repeat the process until the alt reached level 32 clothing. Also, it is best to craft a small item at the lowest level possible, so for voidcloth make a VR10 sash, voidsteal a VR10 dagger, nightwood a VR10 bow. Don’t make a VR14 cuirass for example. This is the most efficient mat to inspiration method (with a few exceptions but those are for the lowest tier materials which you will not be using for this method). I did this a long time ago but I recall it costing around 60K for all three armor/weapon crafts, so on average around 20K each. Woodworking is cheaper so the other two are a bit more expensive. I just checked the stores and you can find plenty of mats for 500-800 which is what I was paying when I did this. I did not pay more than 800 per stack and that was only if it was late at night and I was at level 30 and wanted to get it done. Don’t forget to search the out of the way guild stores too, not just the popular ones.
I recommend starting with clothing, I find it to be the most valuable because dreugh wax comes in two packs, and they seem to arrive more often than the other gold mats. I would estimate that the average clothing/woodworking/metalworking hireling mail is worth around 1000 gold, sometimes you may get nothing of value, other times you may get two wax and two lining currently worth around 5K. This method has a snowball effect and once you get enough hirelings coming in you will eventually have more gold than you can find affordable mats. I used to check the stores each day and buy any cheap mats that I needed instead of doing it all at once. That gives people time to stock more mats. If you are not finding cheap mats then it will be more expensive, but if you plan to play the game for a long time it will pay off over time. You can also grind for decon gear, a great place if you have a VR character with good AOE is cold harbor, find a place with lots of zombies and kill them for gear, that is a pretty good way to get a craft to level 12 without spending much gold, if you can do it without wearing armor it will be free because you will not have to repair.
Also, if you have a new alt and want to get him or her skill points for hirelings quickly you can run around getting skyshards. If you are under a certain level (5 I think) you can rez for free, so run around to delves and overworld shards that are harder to get to and if you die, rez for free and run to the skyshard while you are a ghost. Try to avoid finding new places because that gives you XP and you will eventually out level the free rez. This is a bit cheap I know, and I did not know about this method at the time, so I ran around to all of the easy to get overworld skyshards and picked up those. You can also have a friend run you through the group challenges for up to six skill points.
Ok that makes sense to me. Thanks a lot for your detailed response. I greatly appreciate it! Hopefully I can find the willpower to do this for all of my alts haha.
Why getting the materials out of the bank? You can use materials stored in the bank for creating stuff. At least i can do that. And again saved 5 minutes a char :p
For getting the right enchant, i use the “merlin the enchanter”mod. Easy to see what runes you need to use.
What mod are you using in your bank for sorting the materials?
Nothing really. Sounds like that’s fairly viable?
Silly of me. You get that stuff out of your bank because writ says “get x times stuff blabla”. 😀
This strategy may be less profitable in 1.6, there is a major nerf to hirelings in the 1.6 PTS notes: “Significantly decreased the chance to receive gold boosters, gold aspect runes and purple provisioning ingredients from hireling mails”.
Refining raw mats has been buffed so if you still get raw mats from the hirelings that will help to offset it some.
This makes me so sad =\ I just got all of mine to 32 clothing and was working on woodworking…literally every cent I’ve had went into that! Pretty bummed out, I guess let me know if you ever come across another way to receive reasonable passive income.
I have 5 chars on level 32 in every crafting line…I am less than happy (to put it mildly) by this announcement.
Hi Deltia, one thing I find speeds up executing writs is to work on a two day cycle. Day one I just grab the writs from the board. Day two I craft, turn them in, grab another writ and repeat. Back to day one. I leave my alts by the board so that first day takes just 10 minutes to grab fresh writs and hireling mats for everyone.
Good tip thanks.
Anyone know what the expected value of a hireling is now? I stopped leveling up the crafts on my alts once the nerf announced, yet it seems I’m getting vastly more blue/purple mats than before on the toons I did get 32 clothing on, so i’m wondering if the expected value remains relatively the same and if I should continue to level to 3/3 hirelings?
I’m new to the game but am enjoying crafting on my main as I level. I am uncertain if I am wasting skills by putting them in my crafting rather than my offense and defense abilities. Can at max level I have enough skill points to max out everything on my character?
Yes but you’ll be very limited to multiples roles or specs. I don’t.
Bumping this thread into 2016.
Just for clarification:
Enchanting Potency level does not matter (as it does with Blacksmith, Woodworking, etc.), but Extraction does for better Aspect stones through a hireling?