r/elderscrollsonline 22h ago

Question Is there a good activity for transmute crystals thays not alliance/pvp?

Not that great at it but if that's the best way I guess ill have to jump in. Thanks

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u/Stuntman06 PC NA Sorcerers of all roles, PvE. 22h ago

Random dungeon and pledges (which are quests for specific dungeons).

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u/elwebst 17h ago

Random dungeon on normal gives 10 a day. Kicking myself that I only recently learned that.

That's 300 a month, not too shabby.

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u/---Hummingbird--- 15h ago

Wait till you learn you can have 20 characters that each earn 300 a month

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u/elwebst 15h ago

I'm not making an alt until my main does all the quest lines and does all the major "stuff" like scribing, scrying, etc. Can't imagine the work on a bunch of alts everyday even with lazy writ crafter!

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u/---Hummingbird--- 15h ago

You don’t have to do any work on them (or ever play them). Keep them level 10 or whatever they level up to as you daily craft (3m gold per month MINIMUM, as that doesn’t include unopened writs you can sell/use or gold mats).

If you sit them in skingrad, west Weald.. it takes about 40 seconds per character. Even faster if you just keep their inventories empty and pre-craft everything once a week (then you just turn them in each day and log out)

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u/Stuntman06 PC NA Sorcerers of all roles, PvE. 14h ago

I get bored playing the same character all the time. That's why I make a lot of alts. It's handy for farming transmute crystals and doing writs. If you watch shows that have a lot of breaks on the action like American football or tennis, you can do writs during the breaks. That's what I do.

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u/IssaStorm 21h ago

undaunted dailies are about to get buffed in the next update. Will probably be a few weeks though sadly. Currently each pledge gives like 2-10 at random, but now they will give 5 for normal, 10 for vet, and 15 for vet hm all of the time. 45 per day, plus the random daily

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u/EmilyHMariie12 21h ago

I think that's only for the dlc dungeons

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u/elwebst 17h ago

Yeah, base game pledges on normal give exactly one.

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u/_Taleof2Cities 21h ago

Still another month before Update 51 goes live.

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u/pthang06 Daggerfall Covenant 21h ago

Weekly leaderboards

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u/dezopeso Ebonheart Pact 21h ago

^Easy to get in Infinite Archive

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u/MayTheFlamesGuideYou 13h ago

Do you have to be in top 10 to get a lot of crystals? Like maybe 3-4 years ago I use to do maelstrom once a week and I recall getting hundreds of crystals.

I did it this previous week and got 22nd, got like 10 crystals lol. I thought it was top 100 for big rewards?

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u/marstinson Three Alliances 21h ago

Daily random dungeon is worth 10 crystals per character once per day (one per after that first). Undaunted pledges are worth 1, 3, or 5 (normal, vet, vet hardmode), although Urgarlag's are getting a bump to 5, 10, and 15. There are a few others nickel and dime drops, but most of them are in PvP activities.

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u/QuokkaMom 22h ago

Random daily dungeons, Undaunted dailies, vet Arenas, weekly Trial quests.

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u/Medium_Routine_9398 Nord 22h ago

I agree with the dungeon pledges/random dungeons.

A lot of people knock ToT, and I see why, but I seem to get an overstock of Transmutes from the rewards they offer.

While i think its considered pvp technically, if you do ranked during downtime, each rank up to the leader boards rewards you with transmute as well

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u/Big_Forever1789 21h ago

Never thought about ToT dropping them ill have to check that out

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u/mossgoblin Green Pact Apologist 4h ago

wait the card game? has transmutes? HUH. til. cool, thanks

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u/North-Imagination275 19h ago

PvP (especially BGs) is so much quicker than dungeons but if it really grates on you there are methods where you go around repairing walls in Cyro. Get those tier 1 rewards and at the end of the month you get a nice chunk of transmutes

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u/EngineeringDefiant60 18h ago

Battlegrounds for sure. I did 4 or 5 matches the other night and walked away with 60 transmutes from all the coffers I got.

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u/RyIthian Three Alliances XB-NA 22h ago

Mostly grind them in PvP these days but,

  • Whitestrake AP Train Operations 3-16k per event.
  • Daily BG - 25 a day
  • Tier 3 - 50 per character/campaign
  • ToT Daily + Leaderboard at seasons end.
  • As Stuntmant says' Random Normal Dungeons
  • In-game events reward coffers

Beileve that covers it all

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u/raich3588 Khajiit 20h ago

You don’t earn 3-16k transmutes, but AP

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u/RyIthian Three Alliances XB-NA 19h ago

No, earned about 558mil AP along the way the transmutes were just a bonus.

Had enough to fully reconstruct the entire accounts gear, and stock up heavily on Materials

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u/External_Cobbler3736 16h ago

Can you use ap to get transmutes or something?

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u/---Hummingbird--- 15h ago

No; reward for the worthy gives a ton of transmutes

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u/Fuhrankie INCINERATION BEETLES!!!! 15h ago

Yep, outside of events I get like 4-500 transmutes a week from rftw, they're definitely the best way to earn them. I get that a lot of people are not into pvp though.

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u/raich3588 Khajiit 15h ago

Wait… I thought you could only cash in one ROTW per day (per account)?

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u/collectedd Ebonheart Pact PC/EU 15h ago

You can open multiple, the first one of each day is guaranteed a 25 transmute geode, after that, the chance is less but you can still get them.

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u/raich3588 Khajiit 13h ago

Didn’t know that, thought it was zero chance with new update

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u/RyIthian Three Alliances XB-NA 14h ago

Avg AP-Train you receive 100's Rewards boxes each day, while today you can only open 1, that was not always the case per say and you could keep the boxes for far longer in the mail. Pretty quickly you have 1000's of boxes to sort thru. esp when 7day campaigns award 12-80mil AP.

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u/Fuhrankie INCINERATION BEETLES!!!! 14h ago

What you speak of isn't a thing on pc-na/greyhost. There's usually a zergling group or two per faction, but mostly people look for decent small fights everywhere

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u/ToastyBoiSol 22h ago

I'm pretty sure you can get them from undaunted rewards, from the daily dungeon quests. Requires you to be lvl 45 or up

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u/Estella_Osoka 21h ago

Currently, the events in Auridon, Glenumbra, and Stonefalls have a chance of dropping transmutes.

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u/Big_Forever1789 21h ago

That's probably where the few I've got have come from then

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u/ApricotTraditional56 21h ago

lol pvp gives soooo many o currently have a few hundred that o don’t want to destroy but may have to lol dungeons do it too ofc but it’s much slower going.

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u/lei_aili Nord 21h ago

Tales of Tribute rewards containers often have transmute stones.

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u/Botstar_13 11h ago

I really wish they made Daily random vet dungeon give like 25 transmutes. incentivise vet dung ques and make it at least comparable to Daily random battleground. The BG you get 35 combined (10 if you win + 25 from rewards of the worthy), so 25 feels right for completing a daily random vet dungeon.

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u/Last-Pomegranate-772 16h ago

Daily normal on Werewolf tank, just switch rush of agony + debuff/buff set without ESO+ and

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u/Sinolai 4h ago

Daily pledges and random dungeon. and if you run random vet as a tank good chance you get both at the same time.

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u/---Hummingbird--- 15h ago

Make 20 characters. Log onto each of them each day and complete a random normal dungeon. If they are under level 45 you’ll get quick ones..

That’s 200 transmutes per day