Updated for Q1 2026! The goal here is to help you get to that next level of trading. I also focus on this sort of information often on my livestream at twitch.tv/jhartellis
This should help to keep you in the know of the best current in-game ESO markets.
Spot prices on PC/NA:
Tempering Alloy: 5,900g (47.2k for legendary upgrade) — down 8% Quarter-over-Quarter (from Q3)
Dreugh Wax: 8,200g (65.6k for legendary upgrade) — down 51%
Rosin: 900g (7.2k for legendary upgrade) — down 10%
Zircon Plating: 2,700g (10.8k for epic upgrade) — down 23%
Chromium Plating: 11,000g (88k for legendary upgrade) — down 9%
Kuta: 2,500g — down 11%
Decorative Wax: 790g — up 72%
Mundane Rune: 440g — up 7%
Heartwood: 720g — up 38%
The markets seem to be bouncing off of capitulative lows with a lot of announced quality of life changes coming with U49 in early March, including the return of 30-day guild store listings. Expect volatility with Event Tickets and daily login rewards being folded into the Trade Bars system. It generally seems like the flood of upgrade mats from daily logins may be ending. Account-wide outfit slots and greatly increased furnishings limits in smaller homes should boost demand for style pages and furnishings respectively. Mimic Stones being available for Trade Bars may lower costs of furnishing crafting.
Tamriel Tomes will have additional impacts on the markets, with a wide array of currency rewards potentially competing.
Free respecs and other reduced upgrade costs will lessen gold sink effects while mounts for gold from various stablemasters will be a large new gold sink. Expect an initial demand shock for gold while people fill out their mount collections.
General Advice
Daily crafting writs reliably generate valuable upgrade materials, sealed writs, and surveys. Level up your crafts to 50 and put Skill Points into Metalworking/Tailoring/Aspect/Engraver/Woodworking in order to have the highest chance of getting gold mats. Slot the Plentiful Harvest perk for surveys.
Writ Vouchers
Attunable stations: 166,000g (664g/voucher or 611g/voucher after 8% fees)
Research Scrolls: 2500g (833g/voucher or 766g/voucher after 8% fees)
The Writ Voucher market currently seems to be relatively stable. Expect there to be more demand for Writ Voucher items with the increased furnishing limits.
Big stacks of consumables (like bundles of Attunable stations) are generally the most profitable and the most effective use of sales slots. Keep in mind that anyone trying to fill out the Grand Master stations needs upwards of 80 of each of them.
Vitamin RNG with purple furnishing plans can give above-market returns. Use TTC to identify temporary shortages of other Writ Voucher offerings (such as folios) to get great returns.
Filters using AGS, MM, and WritWorthy can be a great way to quickly sort out good sealed writs on the guild traders. Doing sealed writs efficiently with addons is an amazing way of gaining CP while also freeing up value from your craft bag from otherwise awkward materials.
Alliance Points
Dawn-Prism: 7,900g (0.4g per AP) (do not buy these–this is just a baseline)
Random gear is almost always the best way to go, often getting a nearly 1:1 ratio. Vicious Death (from the Specialized Gear Vendor in Cropsford at 12k AP per box) is a good pick. Deadly Strike boxes from Bruma is another okay choice. Gear is generally quite illiquid, and you may be best using AP for unique items for yourself such as Achievement Furnishings.
Tel Var
Hakeijo: 13,500g (2.7g per TV) (do not buy these–this is just a baseline).
Superb Imperial Reward boxes will give random piece of potentially good gear (and you’ll likely pick up bound Xivkyn polymorphs for yourself). Alternatively, buy specific sets from the Tel Var Armorer merchant. Current great opportunity is to buy the tradable blue Unidentified containers–Powerful Assault is the only popular used set and goes for about 8:1, though you can get much better rates going for any of the other sets and selling rare weapons for the sake of stickerbook progress.
Crafted/Overland Gear
Crafted sets that are selling well with highest volume listed first:
Julianos
Order’s Wrath
Tide-Born Wildstalker
Hunding’s
New Moon Acolyte
Wretched Vitality
Clever Alchemist
Heartland Conqueror
Use Dolgubon’s Lazy Set Crafter to stay on top of listings as they sell. I always recommend making gear in rarer, sexier styles and with Kuta-level enchants–it can give a major edge over more basic listings, selling more quickly or at higher margins.
A few other sets of note:
Healer’s Habit (DSA)
Briarheart (Wrothgar)
Hexos’ Ward (Deadlands)
War Maiden (Vvardenfell)
Macabre Vintage (West Weald)
Rallying Cry (PvP)
Golding out in-demand best-traited weapons is a great way to boost sales and get extra value from upgrade mats. Consider changing the enchant too to make it grab-and-go ready.
Crafted Furnishings
Housing is still a relatively bright spot in the market and more of an emphasis as ESO matures. Use the HearthHome Filter addon to identify gaps in the market for craftable furnishings with little to no presence on the guild traders. A premium of 50-100% over craft cost is a good target.
Calendar
Be sure to check out in-game event such as Golden Pursuits as well as anything that may give Event Tickets, Trade Bars, and Tome Points going forward. Heart’s Week will be the last Event Ticket event, so try to max at 12/12 to go into the new system with 1200 Trade Bars. Tome Points will be redeemable for a variety of high-value rewards.
Also check out the monthly Crown Store Showcase to figure out when various Undaunted monster masks will be farmable. Always best to get the shoulders from the blue RNG boxes from the respective Pledge stores for 1 Undaunted Key each.
Misc
A few houses worth buying just for the tradable furnishings:
-Kragenhome for 69,000g gives Dark Elf Bed of Coals worth ~125,000g.
-Autumn’s Gate for 60,000g gives Firelogs, Flaming worth ~135,000g.
-Ald Velothi Harbor House for 322,000g gives a Shed, Well, Sillar Stone items, and more worth at least double.
Piecing together fragments into runeboxes can be a good way to add value. You can use my list here to search for missing pieces.
Make the most of your limited sales slots. Sell only great items, and stack them together whenever possible. Relist often for better visibility and the opportunity to adjust pricing.
Stay Spicy!
-JHartEllis