Eso Easy Items to Grind for and Sell 2019
Joining a guild with a trader is the simplest way to make passive income in the Elder Scrolls Online. There are several items that you should consider listing as often as possible.
1. Style Materials
Style materials are pretty easy to get. Most of the DLC dailies drop a specific style mat, and it's fun to get people together to farm them. You do have a chance to get any of the mats when breaking down the corresponding gear that drops in zone. Always check the gear's style.
Clear out your craft bag of the following for quick cash:
- Hackwing: Complete Murkmire dailies, or break down the Elder Argonian Gear (like off-trait Bright Throat's Boast body pieces).
- Shimmering Sand: Kill dragons. Also complete the dragon daily in Rimmen.
- Culanda Lacquer: Complete Summerset dailies, or break down Sapiarch gear.
- Palladium: Break down Ancient Elf gear.
Use the Crown Mimic Stones from the freebie crown crates to craft specific styles and break them down for a moderate chance of receiving the specific mat.
2. Alchemy Reagents
All alchemy reagents can be picked up in any zone, or bought with Tel Var in the Imperial Sewers (Wax Apothecary's Satchels). Mats to look out for include:
- Cornflower
- Columbine
- Beetle Scuttle
- Mudcrab Chitin
- Butterfly wings
- Torchbug Thorax
- Lady's Smock
- Clam Gall
- Dragon Rheum
- Lorkhan's Tears
3. Furnishing Mats
Furnishing mats are found while picking up nodes. Heartwood (wood) and mundane runes (enchanting) are most valuable, although the others are worth something as well.
4. Overland Gear
There are meta overland gear sets in ESO. Once you figure out what they are (Plague Doctor, Mother's Sorrow, Briarheart, Spinner's, Bright Throat's Boast, etc.), you can try your luck at farming out popular pieces.
Also consider saving up AP from PvP and Battlegrounds to buy popular unbound gold jewellery from the Golden, who shows up on weekends in Cyrodil. The sellable overland jewellery sets will almost always be Bind on Equip. Remember, if you see Bind on Pickup, it can't be traded (but it's usually cheaper, and you can break it down for the Chromium)!
5. Master Writs
Master Writs, a reward sometimes given for completing crafting dailies, sell for an easy 300-500g per voucher on the Xbox 1 NA server (unless it's pre-patch jewellery – then it's fairly worthless).
Or complete the writs yourself, and use the vouchers to buy gold recipes and other rare items from Rolis Hlaalu. They aren't bound, so you can flip them.
6. Intricate Gear
Intricate gear is used for breaking down and levelling your crafters' skills. I list all the Intricate loot I get in my daily crafting rewards and make a modest profit very quickly.
7. Psjijic Ambroisa Recipes
To make a basic, gold Aetherial Ambrosia recipe – which goes for about 30-35k gold on the Xbox server, currently – you need seven Psijiic Ambrosia Fragments, which also drop when turning in crafting dailies.
If you do your crafting dailies regularly, you'll frequently find a fragment or two in the rewards. Stash them in your bank, because other people will frequently list theirs at 2-3k. Once you have most, cheaply nab the ones you need from traders, or just be patient and wait for them to drop.
8. Treasure Maps
If there is a zone that doesn't have dolmens, you can safely assume that people will want the treasure maps. These otherwise annoying drops are another "sell low and lots" item – just 100-200g each or so, but they'll go fast.
9. Spare Recipes and Furnishing Plans
Every time you find a recipe or plan that you already know, list it in your trader. This is especially true for urn farmers. I use the Xbox Sales History app to track prices.
10. Furnishing Items
There is a very specific market for furnishing items. Things like white furnishings and event-specific drops don't sell for very much. But then you have rarer furnishings – items that can only be stolen from NPC's pockets, made with expensive mats from uncommon plans, or found while pillaging dungeons.
Luxury furnishings are purchased from the weekly vendor who shows up inside the grocer's building in Coldharbour. Look for big items (especially structures), items that move or interact, and items that light up. Anything sparkly or pretty is also a safe bet. You can't go wrong selling lux items because once that week is up, they're gone for the rest of the year.
Gold master crafter furnishings – which you can get from Rolis Hlaalu (Mastercraft Mediator) and Faustina Curio (Achievement Mediator) – are also a rich market. Just be beware anything that requires Chromium or Aetherial Dust to craft. Most structures and DLC furnishing items tend to sell well and have a good profit margin.
11. Gold Mats and Other Crafting Materials
There's always a demand for gold mats. Kuta, especially, are popular with players who like to adjust their builds. Getting these items is relatively easy, as they drop either from refining raw materials (like ore), or in your crafting rewards/daily crafter's mail.
Other improvement materials such as lower level woodworking resins (pitch, turpen, and mastic), blacksmithing tempers, jewellery platings, enchanting aspects, and clothier tannins are valuable, too, especially to furnishers.
12. Trait Items
Trait stones like Auribic Amber, Potent Nirncrux (found by picking up nodes in Craglorn) and Dawnprisms (buy with AP at any Battlegrounds merchant) all sell for quite a lot because they're harder to get.
13. Motif Chapters
I recommend reading motifs to improve your odds of getting gold mats and master writs while completing your crafting dailies. But know that other people in pursuit of the same goal are always looking to buy, so there's a huge market.
Get motif chapters as a turn-in reward for most zone dailies, as well as in backpacks, lockboxes, picked pockets, Psijic portals, treasure chests, and DLC veteran dungeons.
14. Runebox Collectibles and Runebox Pieces
Runeboxes in ESO come from various places. There are runeboxes that come from killing Molag Bal in the Imperial Sewers, or turning in Gladiator Proofs in PvP, as well as overland runeboxes that are farmed out by collecting pieces from DLC zones' public dungeons.
There are many event-specific runeboxes, and these generally aren't worth very much. But collectibles like costumes and pets tend to sell well because they take time to farm.
14. Provisioning and Potions
Provisioning items are an interesting one. On one hand, PvPers will buy the more useful recipes such as:
- Dubious Camoran Throne
- Solitude Salmon Filet
- Spring-Loaded Infusion (also used for levelling)
- Witchmother's Potent Brew
- Pack Leader's Bone Broth
- Disastrously Bloody Mara
- Clockwork Citrus Filet
- Arteum Takeaway Broth
Or just opt to sell the rarer ingredients: Bervez Juice, Nightshade, Perfect Roe, Columbine, Daedra Hearts, flour, garlic, and Beetle Scuttle.
Potions have a specific niche – usually Immovable and Invisibility pots for PvP, and tri-stat pots for PvE. I'd personally skip the trash pots, aka the cheap potions that drop whenever you kill enemies in dungeons and overland content.
15. Misc. Items
There's all kinds of random things that you can list on your trader, from stacks of lockpicks and filled soul gems, to pre-crafted enchanting glyphs and hand-crafted armour. These things tend not to be top-sellers, however, and I generally avoid listing them in favour of things that sell more reliably.
FYI: If you're on the Xbox 1 NA server, and you're looking for a guild with a free (reliable!) trader, Cottages and Courtyards is actively seeking active members to share the housing addiction.
What are your favourite easy items to list for sale?
Here's what to skip listing in your trader, too.
Source: https://esoforpotatoes.home.blog/2019/08/04/ten-items-you-should-always-keep-on-your-eso-trader/