Updated for February 2024! 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: 26,700g (213.6k for legendary upgrade) — up 16% Month-over-Month
Dreugh Wax: 48,500g (388k for legendary upgrade) — up 10%
Rosin: 4,300g (34.4k for legendary upgrade) — up 10%
Zircon Plating: 7,400g (29.6k for epic upgrade) — up 4%
Chromium Plating: 27,500g (220k for legendary upgrade) — up 4%
Kuta: 8,900g — up 5%
Decorative Wax: 970g — down 12%
Mundane Rune: 1950g — down 3%
Heartwood: 2760g — down 11%
The market is pretty stable with a bit of a bump for most mats after the holidays (including the first increase in Jewelry Crafting mat values since the overhaul). The Global Reveal of Gold Road as well as initial U41 changes and testing don’t seem to indicate much for the markets.
New players from this past year are starting to mature towards collecting mid-priced items.
As always, do your daily crafting writs to 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: 580,000g (2320g/voucher or 2134g/voucher after 8% fees)
Research Scrolls: 7400g (2467g/voucher or 2269g/voucher after 8% fees)
The Writ Voucher market is pretty stable. U41 will bring some new legendary furnishing plans like usual, but nothing else.
Big stacks of consumables are generally the most profitable and the most effective use of sales slots.
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: 33,400g (1.67g per AP) (don’t buy these–this is just a baseline)
Random gear is almost always the best way to go, often getting a nearly 2:1 ratio. Vicious Death (from the Elite Gear Vendor at the base camps) is a GREAT pick. Deadly Strike boxes from Bruma are still incredibly popular. Potentates from Vlastarus is another good bet.
Tel Var
Hakeijo: 93,400g (18.9g per TV) (don’t 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 Equipment Lockbox Merchant–sets like Powerful Assault and Shield Breaker can have whopping yields, close to 25:1-30:1 on average. Alternatively, you can buy the Impenetrable armor pieces straight up from the other vendors.
Crafted/Overland Gear
Crafted sets that are selling well with highest volume listed first:
Order’s Wrath
Wretched Vitality
Daedric Trickery
Druid’s Braid
Julianos
Hunding’s
New Moon Acolyte
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)
Rallying Cry (PvP)
Golding out in-demand best-traited weapons is an amazing way to boost sales and get extra value from upgrade mats. Consider changing the enchant too to make it grab-and-go ready.
Calendar
February 2024 calendar log-in rewards feature 525 Seals of Endeavor in the first week as well as 5 Gloomspore Crown Crates from Days 9-13. Plus a Bright Moons Dragon Imp Pet on Day 14. Big month! 100k of Alliance Points on Day 21 may depress AP vendor prices a bit.
Whitestrake’s Mayhem should start later in February. Might be an odd time with some pre-U41 siege/repair change hype.
Nerien’eth mask is briefly farmable from February 1-8 from Crypt of Hearts II.
Lady Thorn’s mask will also be available February 5-12 from Castle Thorn.
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 over 300,000g.
-Autumn’s Gate for 60,000g gives Firelogs, Flaming worth ~300,000g.
-Cliffshade for 255,000g gives both Firelogs, Flaming and Firelogs, Charred worth ~500,000g total.
-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 at least once a week for better visibility and the opportunity to adjust pricing.
Stay Spicy!
-JHartEllis