ESO TRADING TIPS: Understanding TRADING GUILDS In ESO 

Whoever voiced as Karen deserves an Oscar award. The references to byugloss and basement youtuber also deserve a chefs kiss 😂

“Congrats guys, we won a trader in mournhold!” is the message I woke up to from one of my social guilds that I’m in. I was super excited because we were a pretty new guild. We didn’t really have a whole lot of funds to get a trader so it was a bit surprising... I launched the game and traveled to the guild trader, and I found our trader deep within the mournhold OUTLAW REFUGE. Nonetheless, still a nice guild so I didn’t mind the little “jebait” lol

ngl i don't even care about guild traders, just here to hear the intros and listen to the asmr content

Wow, this video is long. Don't worry fam I got you. If you would like to skip to a specific part of the video, I'll leave the timestamps here: (also if you aren't PC NA read below:) 0:00 Karen.exe 1:27 Overview 3:08 Understanding your market/what sells well in your guild's location 7:37 Understanding your guild's culture 10:40 Understanding guild's dues and fees 11:51 Understanding your guild's history and reliability 14:02 Tl;Dr If you have any questions about trading guilds, feel free to ask away in the comments :) **NON PC NA: I play on PC NA so evidently the data that I am presenting to you is derived from that platform. However, while the actual zones for the "best" trading spots may differ across platforms, the information on trading patterns and whatnot is still relevant. For example, on PC EU, Vivec city is the best place to trade, whereas the best spot is Mournhold on PC NA. The things that I was talking about when referring to Mournhold in this video, would therefore be applicable to Vivec for you PC EU gamers. Hope that clears things up :)

A couple of points from my experience and thats just my experience, I am no expert: 1) Get a good mix/balance of trading guilds, especially if you sell many different items. For example, if I play for a couple of hours, I get 90 items, for example, I need at least 3 guilds then to sell those items, 30 items per guild. If I have guilds in bad spots, I wont be able to offload them for a good price. Another aspect - how often do you play. if you play every day, you 99% probably will have items to sell every day. So you need guilds in good spots and you need to price your items appropriately so that they sell quick enough but also so that you dont lose revenue because you are undercutting some trader who is seriously dumping item you are trying to sell. Dont go for all 5 guilds with 200k contribution per week. Also dont go for 5 guilds in Outlaws refuge just because you cant get enough sales to get in those top guilds, use your head and sell or resell so that you can get into at least 1 good guild. Add more guilds, if you need it. 2) Sometimes, just ignore those dumpers and undercutters and concentrate on TTC + Arkadius + MM analysis to determine the best price. For example if you want to offload a lot of items quickly, I suggest you use the TTC minimum RECOMMENDED price (not the same as minimum price ever sold!!!!!), round it up, but dont do precise numbers. So for example, you try to sell something, TTC recommends minimum unit price 265. Round it up to 300. But sell for 299 price. That way you will avoid a lot of competition who will sell for 300 precisely. If you want to get a good profit and dont mind waiting, then use MM suggested price, but always CHECK THE GRAPH for outliers that might be pushing the price way up or way down. You can then decrease the MM suggested price by 1 gold which can help massively, especially with mats. 3) You can also check for pricing trends in the MM graph. If most of the dots are going upwards lately, the VALUE is going up, but the MM price is lagging behind. The same with downward trends. Dont buy motifs for 100k just because the MM price says so, if the VALUE is going down (and it usually does), plus you can always check guild traders for discounts. If you are selling specific items like Mothers Sorrow, use TTC to determine where you want to stand price wise and how long are you willing to hold that item (max 30 days remember ;) 4) As Arttea said be careful with guild choice, location, longevity, if its a DLC zone/ Chapter zone / Base game zone / all of it matters. And just because a guild says they have the best spot and you should contribute 200k per month to that guild and pay 20k fee for not hitting the target doesnt mean thats a good guild or a good spot for trading. Two types of guilds fall into this category - social guilds who sometimes get together enough money to usurp a good spot, but will most likely lose it the next week. Second type is just weird people being weird or overestimating their guild and/or the spot. For example Rimmen. It was a good spot when Elsweyr was out, not anymore, imo, most people have moved on, not so much traffic anymore so yeah 150 or 200k contribution in Rimmen? No thank you. Remember that the guild only gets 3,5% of your guild sales, not the 7% that tooltip says in guild store, so it takes a lot of members and a lot of sales to get good spots AND keep them. 5) Finally, if you want to undercut your own guild mates, then dont do it by absolutely dumping the item and decreasing the value, because people from other guild traders will follow you and dump their items as well. A good example is people farming for motifs and then dumping them for half the market price just to get a quick sell, which makes no sense. If you want to undercut someone - 1 gold difference is enough. Literally 1 gold is enough, because in TTC.com you can filter by price, and it doesnt matter if its 1 gold or 10k gold difference. Doesnt matter if the item is worth 1 million or 1k.

Thank you so much Arttea, all your guides are super helpful and i think they should be "mandatory" for all serious ESO players. this one in particular is so eye opening to me, a 6 year ESO veteran. You deserve a lot more recognition and fame for what you do! ❤🎉

We need more trading videos! Always super helpful info

tysm, we joined a few weeks ago n thoroughly enjoy eso. this headsup will be most helpful when deciding on trader guilds...ur tuberstyle is refreshing! 🐉💅🏽

Excellent tips! For the most part I just chill with FGM1 and FGM2 for my trading needs, the Grey Manes for questing, dungeons and trials (because it is filled with older folks, like me!) , the Cutthroat Mutineers for dungeon delving, and now your very own TTS guild. All of them offer me something different, and it is important to learn to understand what the specific guild is about. You’ve put together an excellent video. I’ll be sure to save this one to my library for future reference!

since i am not only new to ESO but MMORPGs as a whole , your guide come really handy. For the time beeing i try the non guild options but to know what to look for and how to do stuff in the future is making the sttart so much more enjoyable. THX

That intro is hysterical 😂 I don't know how you deal with that kind of stuff. I am just starting to get into trading and housing and your content is just excellent. Thanks! 👍

omg, I love you, thank you for all the work you put into your videos, thats amazing

Arttea your content is the perfect blend of useful information and comedic value. I applaud you. 😎👏

This is the best information I have ever received about guilds and guild traders! I had no idea about most of this and I have been in trading guilds for over a year now! Thank you so much for this!😊

Thanks for the sweet roll =). I just found your channel today and as a fellow active PC NA player, your information is spot on and insightful. I subscribed today and look forward to watching more of your videos (so far I have watched 3 of your trader flipping videos.) Thanks for all the info and witty humor.

As a fairly new player I found this so informative and helpful. Thank you so much 🥰

If I wasn't already subscribed I'd sub for that intro alone 😂

LOL fun video! Love your humor! Great info.

Your videos are fire - entertaining plus solid content. I feel like you're the snl of eso :)

That intro was perfect. Some of the best motif flipping that I've done was stuff I've gotten from Murkmire lol Always a gem or 2 in the less popular areas if you're patient enough

This is hella helpful, thank you

Great info yet again Artie!

another informative video, laid out in an entertaining way

Thanks. Lots of good advice for people who are looking to start selling items using a trading guild.

not only the videos are useful and informative (and quite funny), they for some reason help me get through hard times in my life and I sincerely thank you for that

I've watch a couple of these videos of yours, great quality and I like the frank-ness of them. I wanted to learn how to make gold and to look for a trader guild. But it occurred to me that my working hours wouldn't allow me to be sucessful. I work 3-5 days a week, 12 hour shifts. So IF my days off included 4+ hours a day dedicated to just maintaining my sales it might be possible, but I use my days off for errands, sometimes get called for more overtime, spend time with the family etc. Life things. So I may have to just stick with casual guilds and find ways to make gold with them. Thank you, and God bless you as well. Subbed :-)

I’ve come back to the game after a long gap and am also Very Old, so I’ve forgotten everything I ever knew. These vids are brilliant for getting me back up to my (albeit slow) speed. thanks!

Woohoo, sweet roll!! ✌️❤️

Love the intros to your videos :))

*watches Arttea's new video to learn more about trade guilds and hopefully get gud at stacking the cheddar* *dies from laughing at the intro before learning anything* 😂 But for real, awesome video and information, thank you!

Thanks!! I’m just getting into guild trading and it’s intimidating. I’ve been binging your videos to learn all I can. You do a great job and you’re very helpful!!

Darn... Those are some hefty dues for a casual starter..... I'll have to think about what I want and can manage besides my normal daytime job and projects that I have going on. Thanks for all the tips about guilds :)

I’m not going to be looking for a trading guild for a while (especially with the console UI fix likely not coming until Blackwood in June) but your voice is super chill and your videos are always high quality content

You are hilarious! Love it!

I had to like just for the intro 😄.was looking for vid to send to friend rather than explaine so went to my girl with fun vids. Hug

Lol this really makes me like the good ol grand exchange in Runescape. This is real market and sales kinda stuff that I am not made for. I dont even know where my two guilds traders are 😂😂

Recently joined Tamazon in stormhaven on xbox and ive made 200k in motif and set sales just through the blackwood event alone 😀, trying to break a million lol in my dreams, maybe if i get a great mothers sorrow inferno staff or something similar lol im so bad i dont know what im doing half the time and i always find myself back at your videos for good farming spots, so thank you for making trading a more approachable means of gettin gold 🙏

Ah Artea just love you content , i made my first million yesterday following your advice so, i would have been there sooner, but i like spending on fashion

Great video and sure to help as I just joined two trade guilds! Also what chest style is that? Looks awesome!

Intro was funny AF!!!!

So I subscribed a little under a month ago and your videos have changed the game for me. I started at about 80k but now I have 528k in the bank and thats after spending 200k-220k on various motifs over the past week.

Hmm...as someone that got here via a YT Rec, I got very different things from this video than others. As someone(a 50 y.o. grandma🤗) that didn't read the comments before playing, I didn't get the point of the opening segment at all, and in fact almost stopped the vid right there(which would have been tragic!). It was only after reading comments that I learned it was part of your unique opening 'shtick', which made me appreciate it more. 😺 And... I found the information you laid out in the vid to be very helpful! It explained more clearly what had been confusing me with some of my trading guilds. See, I wanted to do trading but I don't want the majority of my time playing the game to be just farming gear to sell. That makes your 'game' just another job that you pay for the privilege of doing! So I thought I would just get one guild in a major hub and I would be set. Yeah... that doesn't work very well. Even though I was letting MM tell me what price to use, my stuff wasn't selling and I wasn't meeting their minimum quotas. This vid really helped me figure out what I was doing wrong. Thank you so much for that. Thanks muchly, and I hope you (and everyone else here🤗) has a safe, healthy and wondrous day/month/year. Love to all.❤🤍❤🤍❤=🇨🇦

that intro music reminds me fixed gear bike building videos :)

Once again, great video. Would love to know if you could make one for easy ways to farm/make money off of Ancestral Reach motif. Do you know an easier way to do it besides thieves troves and chest luck farming for maps? If so what's the best routes. Anywhom, just a suggestion :)

Loool I love Arttea videos... buuuyygglooooossss lmmaaaoo. Every time I pick one up I chuckle 🤭

Fantastic video! Is there a website for current prices? Unfortunately I play on PS4

Very helpful thank you but very Complicated ☺️

I know this is a fairly old video for some and I just started playing This video is super helpful even tho I am still confused on the whole guild think for this game but I was wondering what costume is that your wearing at 12:50

6:34 like for the 5k dps on a godslayer run xP

It’s interesting that you place Rawl’kha and Mournhold above Vivec in PC/NA. In PC/EU, Vivec City is the highest earning trade location in the game, with The Camel Smugglers guild netting over 1B gold per week during peak events. Just a thought. Great video and loving your channel!

For how small the player population is in this game it still shocks me that guild traders are still a thing. You would think that centralizing the traders market into something similar to what WOW or Runescape has would be a better and more efficient way of trading. Since switching to consoles this and the lack of add-ons has been my biggest issues with the game so far. Most traders hardly if ever get visited in my experience outside of the major trading towns which is a shame because it allows the more popular markets to raise their prices since people normally don't want to waste their time traveling to out of the way traders.

1:04 *points at tv* I know that guy !

I’ve been in a great trading guild that is in dagger falls…it’s a great guild with no pressure to farm your life away and no fees involved…I contribute what I can..but I’ve made over 50 mill there…a good guild in a good location is key…and even more so if the leader and officers are good…which my guild I feel are the best!

Absolutely Love your humor and vids.. 👊🏼🌈🦄

Spit out some chocolate milk when she said in the 'outlaws refuge.'

Awesome!! You have an extremely informative video... Which has led me to the conclusion I shouldn't join a guild lol Maybe if I can commit to this game for more than a month I'll consider these tips and actually join one.

Ayyyyy, shout-out to Sorcery! I've been in UU for a while, we share the same guild hall as LA.

Hi so I just started playing the game in earnest and I clicked out of sheer curiosity. I think my brain just melted.

Where you obtain that vuolet skin, Artea? (around 4:30)

Those are some solid tips. 😀 my bank is bursting with writs to sell and I will definitely be using this wisdom to clean things up 😁 One thing I have always wondered is what it looks like when a guild tries to secure a trading spot. 🤔 I wonder if its as stressful as I am imagining 😅

OMG the first few minutes of this video is hilarious. Well done. Yea I'm going to watch the rest but damn girl that was funny.

I just want to sell extra style pages I sometimes get from loot and events. Do I have to join a trading guild for that? Will a normal guild with a trader be enough?

I am in three of the trading guilds in rawl'kha pc na

is there any point in joining a trading guild as a very new player? I want to buy/sell on the 2nd hand market, thats like all I enjoy in MMOs

Might seem crazy, but almost all the gear I sell, is at 5k. It works I get lots of sales. It's mostly PvP gear and I could probably get more for it, but I like the idea of just having everything at one price. Keep in mind I do up the price for certain high demand items. Also, if I sell in bulk, the per unit price is less. That is how it works in the real world when conducting business. Buy one, pay more, buy ten pay less per item. I used to sell glass smoking utensils, when I bought them, I would buy at a certain price and then retail it at a higher price, but if the bulk price wasn't low enough I wouldn't buy.

Thanks for the video. I still have a lot to learn. I joined a popular guild in mournhold was selling a lot but they kicked me out. I couldn’t figure out why they didn’t say or give me a warning. Then it dawned on me my status was set to offline and I had forgotten about it. I think that’s why they kicked me out.

Great vid, I know I would have loved to have had this when I started trading! I also had to double back and rewatch that hilarious intro. I can relate to offering free help to people online, having a minority not listen and muck stuff up, and then have them blame me. Sad but it feels good to laugh it off haha.

Great vid, the intro was gold 🤣🤣 What motifs are you wearing at the end?

Yo new Arrtea vid Pog Pog Pog Pog Pog Pog

The intro had me ☠️☠️☠️

Here for the comedy gold

Im on ps4 and have not been able to buy from the guilds. I have an option to look at all wares but it does not let me in the item list/menu. Is there a ps4 eso expert that could help me? I would be grateful for any help

I love that bugloss is just a meme in your vids now lol. That said, I’m upset that ZOS is sticking to guild traders. I would love for them to implement an actual auction house

Any good trading guilds on Xbox US server?

The first guild trader I bought from was in the thieves den in Clockwork City because I finally figured out the search function. Where can I collect my sweet roll?

I didn’t know Aubrey plaza played eso. Nice.

Hahahaaaaa that intro though!!!

Got a sweet roll Pog 🧁

lol i'm new to the game and my guilds trader in in Mirkmire. But in all honesty I've been selling stuff just fine, been playing a week just hit 50 the other day and just hit 1 million gold. Idk if that's good but it seems to be a decent amount.

When guilds set up shop in places like boondock outlaw refugee locations, do they have legitimate expectations of selling to anyone other than their own guild?

OMG, I was in the thieves den in Murkmire just last night and noticed there was a guild trader in there and I just thought "good luck down here".

what's that? almost 15 minutes of ESO stonks and comedy? Hell yea! I was part of a Rawl'kha trading guild for a few years and kind of burnt out, then i moved to a guild with a trader in the Greenshare outlaw refuge....and yea i started to go broke real quick from selling just nothing at all. Then i found a nice happy medium, current trading guild moves around a bit between Rimmen, Vivec and sometimes Elden Root. I call this method of finding a trading guild the Goldilocks method :)

There are servers where vivec isn’t far and away the best spot? I’m really surprised by that.

Basement RU-vidr lmao, doesn't this technically mean that you are based? xD, thanks for all the guides and the fun video from now and then :)

Location, location, location : )

Chaotey sent me here ;)

I'm going to go buy a bunch of stuff from the Murkmire outlaws refuge later because now I feel bad for them... If it's cheap I'll just buy all their recipes and gift them to my friends 😃

“In the outlaws refuge........” lmfao

2:59 Eastmarch Trading Guild 💪

I think I understand the system but It just feels so convoluted for new traders that don't have market niches yet Recently i downloaded 10 mmos looking to be a trader in all of them, I have about 1500 hours in Gw2 and got to be a master crafter there and started flipping on my last 100 hours I'm playing pokemmo now and I'm always flipping and breeding/crafting mons for profit I do have about 500 hours in ESO, I used to play casually exploring and questing and I dropped the game but was looking to get back for the market alone looking to get some flips done and level up all my crafting skills once and for all, I've been watching a lot of your videos because they're very good content, but still I haven't been able to wrap my head around eso market yet ;~; I have 0 guilds, about 100k gold and the goal to flip

LMFAO, loved the acting in the beginning.

I am looking for a trading guild in Vivec. Would you be able to recommend yours? I prefer a guild that asks for the dues they need rather than one that is constantly telling people they won’t be able to keep the trader unless people donate lots extra.

more ppl should shop like me. i get on ttc and run all over the place for what i need. im all about going into the out of the way places and buying stuff (like beeeewglawse). i make a crap ton at our trader in wayrest so if i dont buy from our store i try to give the new guilds a little business. im definitely in the minority of consumers in tamriel though.

The Byugloss Chronicles

Hmm, fine. Have my subscription

I actually just had to look up what ERP is. I'm very old! A whole hour?!!

Ahhhh, I get the new-gloss thing now lol lol lol lol

Which dyes are on the outfit at 5:46?

Imperfect Cleavage (trading guild) has super low requirements and they're always either in Alinor, Vivec city, or rawl'kha

How are you selling Key fragments for 600 each? Aren't they worth like 150g each?