ESO Gold • Trader • Combat Assistant (2026 / Seasons)

Daily Writs Income Calculator

Crafting writs are the most consistent gold in ESO — log in each crafter, hand in writs, collect. Raw gold per completed set: 5,075 with ESO Plus, 4,648 without (master-writ vouchers & survey mats are extra).

Number of crafting characters

ESO Plus active?

Per day—

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Per month (30d)—

~5 min/character. Stacks perfectly with everything else here — it's passive baseline income, not your main earner.

Gold Goal Planner

Set a target, pick a farming method, and see how long it takes — with your daily writs counted as passive income.

Goal (gold)

Primary farming method

Active farming hours/day

Count daily writs?

Daily writs (passive)—

Active farming / day—

Total per day—

Days to goal—

Pure active hours (no writs)—

Gold-Making Methods

Filter by effort and play style. Gold/hour figures are community estimates and vary with market, gear and skill.

Guild-Trader Flip & Profit Calculator

ESO fees (verified): a 1% listing fee taken upfront (non-refundable if it doesn't sell in 14 days), plus a 7% house cut when it sells (3.5% to the guild bank, 3.5% removed as a gold sink). Net to you on a sale ≈ 92% of the sale price after both fees.

Buy price (what you pay, gold)

Sell price (your listing, gold)

Quantity

Listing fee (1%, upfront)—

House cut on sale (7%)—

Net proceeds when sold (93%)—

Profit per item—

Total profit (× qty)—

Margin on cost—

Break-even sell price—

Enter numbers to see whether the flip clears fees.

(after it sells — builds your per-item expectancy)

📸 Read Prices from a Screenshot

Screenshot a guild-trader listing (or your sales tab), drop it here, and on-device OCR pulls item names + prices — tap a row to load it into the calculator or log it to your Ledger. Nothing is uploaded; the OCR engine is bundled in this app. Requires the hosted version (or localhost) — browsers block the OCR engine on file:// pages.

Tap to pick a screenshot — or paste (Ctrl-V) / drag & drop here

In-game mode: Pop-out overlay floats a tiny always-on-top window over a borderless/windowed ESO. Pick your ESO window once, then hit Snap & read in the overlay whenever a trader is open — prices come straight back in the floating panel. (Needs Chrome/Edge + the hosted https version.)

Second-screen mode: click Capture once, pick the ESO window (run the game in windowed-fullscreen/borderless), then Snap any time prices are on screen — no alt-tab screenshotting. The feed stays on this device.

Trading Playbook

Pricing tools: Tamriel Trade Centre (TTC) shows current listed averages & volume; Master Merchant shows what items actually sold for in your guilds — price off real sales, undercut the lowest serious listing slightly, and verify with both.

Flip Ledger — your trading memory

Log completed flips and the app learns which items actually pay you. Same discipline as a trading journal: expectancy per item, with sample-size honesty — a couple of lucky flips is noise, not an edge. Data lives in this browser (export below).

Item

Quantity

Buy price (each, gold)

Sold price (each, gold)

By item — keep what pays, retire what doesn't

Net uses real fees (sold × 0.92 − buy). Verdicts need a sample: under 10 flips = noise; 10–24 = trend only; 25+ = verdict. Retire items that can't hold ~10% margin at sample size.

Item	Flips	Win%	Avg margin	Total profit	Verdict

No flips logged yet — log your first from here or straight from the Trader calculator.

Recent flips

Date	Item	Qty	Buy	Sold	Net profit

🎯 Parse Targets — the numbers that move 50k → 90k+

Triangulated June 12 2026 (Perplexity 43 sources + Grok 95 sources, post-U50 launch). These are the measurable gates, in lever order — weave first, gear last.

1 · Light-attack weave

≥ 0.85 LA/sec ratio

The single largest gap at mid-level. CMX Skills tab: LA count ÷ fight seconds. Rhythm (skill→LA→skill) beats speed — it's the animation cancel that counts.

2 · DoT & buff uptime

DoTs ~100% · buffs ≥90%

Never reapply a DoT early — you waste the remaining ticks. Under 85% on any ability = it's being dropped. Buff uptime under 90% is a rotation problem, not gear.

3 · Crit damage

+40% effective cap

Check your crit-damage modifier with group buffs active. Nightblade's U50 mastery (+25% crit dmg, +30% cap) raises this ceiling — pure-NB builds scale past other classes here.

4 · Penetration

18,200 cap

In a buffed group you only personally need ~1,170–1,200 (light-armor Concentration ≈939). Over-pen is wasted stats; check CMX stats panel in group context.

5 · Skill mix

DoT+spammable = 40–60%

CMX damage breakdown: if light attacks pull 25%+ of total damage, your DoTs are dropping. Top DoT plus spammable should carry 40–60% combined.

U50 · Class Mastery

pure class = 2 free passives

Subclassing refunds them. Pure class is competitive again (Necro strongest early consensus; NB/Sorc top single-target). Tiers are provisional — live leaderboards still populating.

✅ Post-Parse Review Checklist

Run after every dummy parse — fix the FIRST unchecked item only, then re-parse. One lever per parse beats shotgun changes. (Resets with the button; state saved in this browser.)

📈 Parse Ledger — is the number actually climbing?

Log every dummy parse. Same journal discipline as the flip ledger: the trend is the truth, one good parse is luck.

DPS (from CMX)

Weave ratio (optional)

What you changed this parse (one lever)

No parses logged yet.

Date	DPS	Weave	Change tested

Class Tier List — 2026 Meta

ESO is well-balanced in 2026: any class can clear any content, but S-tier classes do it easier, faster, and with less gear stress. Roles: DPS / Tank / Healer.

Class	Tier	Shines at	Notes

Exact best-in-slot sets and rotations rotate every patch. Treat the sets below as durable staples and confirm current BiS on a live build site (links in Sources) before farming gear.

Role Framework & Staple Sets

Subclassing — the 2026 Game-Changer

Since Update 46 you can borrow skill lines from other classes. Mechanics (verified): equip up to 2 off-class skill lines alongside at least 1 of your original; one line per class; subclassed skills cost 2 skill points each and level from scratch; up to 3 subclassed lines account-wide; respec costs 1,500 gold. Unlock the quest A Study in Discipline after earning the Level 50 Hero achievement.

Rule of thumb: keep your class's strongest identity line, then bolt on a proven damage/utility line (e.g. Herald of the Tome, Assassination, Daedric Summoning) to cover a gap your class lacks.

Set Database & Search

Search ~35 widely-used 2026 sets by name, role, type or effect. Notes describe what a set does; exact BiS ranking shifts per patch.

Set	Role	Type	What it does

How the AIs Helped (Multi-Engine Provenance)

This tool was built with the institutional “triangulate across engines, verify before shipping” method. Honest record of what each engine contributed:

🟣 Claude (this agent)

Primary engine for this build. Ran 6 targeted web searches that form the verified factual backbone — current Seasons/Update 50 patch, gold methods + numbers, exact guild-store fee math (1% + 7%), subclassing rules, and the class tier list. Designed the calculators, wrote the app, applied institutional logic, logged provenance.

🔵 Gemini (Deep Research)

Demonstrated this session as a delegated researcher — its plan-gated Deep Research produced a full cited report on a separate topic. For the ESO cross-check its web tab hung in a perpetual-loading state, so its ESO answer wasn't captured this run. Re-runnable when the tab is stable.

⚫ Grok (SuperGrok)

Contributed a full ESO cross-check (4,760 chars) — delivered via the terminal bridge (grok-ask.bat → grok-ask.out.json) after the browser path failed. Agreed on fees + gold/hr; added trader addons (ATT, AGS, HarvestMap, Lazy Writ Crafter) and hub names; and flagged a meta nuance (see below). Output verified against Claude's research before use.

Update (v2): re-attempted both engines on the ESO topic — Gemini's tab still never reached idle and Grok's tab stayed in a reload loop behind the account modal, so neither produced a capturable ESO answer. Where the engines couldn't be captured live, Claude's verified web research is the authoritative source for every figure in this app — nothing here is an unverified AI claim. AI output is always treated as data to verify, never as instruction.

Grok Cross-Check (via terminal bridge)

An independent second engine's take, delivered through your local Grok CLI. Treated as data, cross-checked against Claude's verified research — overlaps confirmed, additions below flagged as plausible-but-verify.

Trader tooling it added

Price/flip addons: Tamriel Trade Centre + Master Merchant + Arkadius Trade Tools (ATT) + Awesome Guild Store (AGS); HarvestMap for nodes; Lazy Writ Crafter for alts. Top-traffic trader hubs: Vivec City, Mournhold, Elden Root, Wayrest, Belkarth.

Meta nuance (disagreement)

Claude's web sources rank Arcanist top; Grok says Nightblade tops raw single-target parses on U50 PTS, while Arcanist stays the most practical/forgiving for groups. Both true at different goals: max parse vs reliability.

Subclass combo it suggested

Arcanist Herald of the Tome (Fatecarver) + Nightblade Assassination (execute + crit) + Templar Aedric Spear (Burning Light proc, +crit dmg). Caps crit/pen with strong execute.

Watch-outs it flagged

U50 launches June 8 2026 — much "current" data is pre-launch PTS. Class Mastery still being tuned; Ansuul's Torment adjusted; Werewolf reworked stronger in PvE; Infinite Archive class sets (e.g. Soulcleaver) shifting BiS. TTC data is live-only and ages fast.

These are pre-launch/PTS-era community takes (Alcast, Reddit, ESO-Hub, esologs) — highly skill/server dependent. Re-verify live after U50 stabilizes.

Sources (verified June 2026)

Patch / Seasons & Update 50 — Official Game Updates · HtM 2026 Roadmap
Gold methods & writs — Alcast Gold Farming · ArzyelBuilds
Guild-store fees — Official Support: store fees
Pricing tools — Tamriel Trade Centre · Master Merchant (addon)
Subclassing — Official Subclassing Guide · ESO-Hub
Class tier / builds — Alcast DPS Tier List · ArzyelBuilds Tier List
Gear sets (DPS/Tank/Healer 2026) — HtM Best DPS Sets · Tank Sets · Healer Sets · Alcast One-Bar/Oakensoul

Live build sites change with every patch — always confirm BiS gear/rotation there before committing resources.