There are several ways of making Gold in ESO. While you can earn gold when casually exploring, questing or clearing dungeons and delves this is not very effective. There are other better, dedicated ways to make Elder Scrolls Online Gold that can help you become rich fast. All of these methods are easy to complete Solo!
Farming Chests for Gold
Similar method to the previous one but this time you are running around opening chests instead of killing enemies. After you have identified the items you want to get, visit the appropriate area and start looking around for chests to open. In areas without Dark Anchors or other World Events, this is also the only way to get valuable jewelry from Sets like Briarheart or Bright-Throat’s Boast.
Addons that reveal chests locations are helpful for this method. To be truly effective you should also unlock the Treasure Hunter and Fortune’s Favor Champion Points Skills. The Keen Eye: Treasure Chests Passive from the Excavation(Antiquities)Skill-line will help you notice chests easier.
Harvest, Mine and Collect all Resources
Not going to craft? That's fine, but you should still collect those resources you see laying around. You can turn them into vendors for moderate amounts of money, or even better, try to sell it to other players. Other players will surely be trying to craft items, and they will always be in search of materials to do so. If you can find one of these players, you might be able to offload all your items for a greater price, or even establish a working relationship, as they can make you things in exchange for you bringing in the base material.
Crafting
If you were considering crafting as a way to make gold, you were in the right mindset. You just need to know what to craft. Lately I've discovered that alchemy and provisioning are incredibly high-yield professions and so is furniture crafting. Heck, you can sell a lot of furniture pieces for thousands of gold per unit, you just need the skill. And by skill, I mean skill points invested into CP, and knowing where and how to get your hands on furniture recipes.
How to Make Gold with Stealing
Stealing in ESO is not only fun to do but also one of the best ways to find valuable Motifs and Blueprints. Your real profit from stealing comes from the stolen items you fence but also from the items you launder and sell later for gold. Sell only the most valuable items to a Fence for a better profit. Visiting newer zones is better for making Gold. To be truly effective you will have to invest time and advance a few skill lines, like Thieves Guild, Legerdemain and Vampire.
The use of a dedicated Thief character will help you make a lot more gold from stealing. If you are interesting in playing as a Thief in ESO you can take a look at my Cloak and Dagger Thief Build.
Materials
The second step is materials. This is the most tedious part of this method. But, I also have a bit of fun while doing it. You need to purchase the materials to make the item you plan for crafting.
For the Jewels of Misrule, I need to get one Rose, one Mint, one Lotus, one Columbine and one Bervez Juice. This is where the journey begins. You travel all around Tamriel, visiting Guild Traders and purchasing the materials that you’re looking for.
