Jewelcrafting Profession for ESO

Roneth

JEWELCRAFTING
Like the name suggests, this profession allows players to create beautiful jewelry within ESO. As with other crafting professions, it is necessary to extract raw materials into craftable ingredients. Gemstones are required and are extracted from ore. Ten ore of the same type are consumed per prospecting attempt in an attempt to extract 1-5 gemstones. This will destroy the ore in the process. The Prospecting passive will improve your chance of extracting gemstones. You will also require precious metal (copper, silver, gold, and platinum) to construct the base item, such as: crowns, rings, and necklaces. The constructed base item will have 1-3 sockets for gemstones, depending on player skill level.

There are seven levels of gemstone quality, namely Normal, Fine, Flawless, Perfect, Radiant, Illustrious, and Exquisite. Gemstones bought from vendors will always be of Normal quality. Quality can be increased with polishing. Polishing is synonymous with Tempers from Blacksmithing. The Polishing Expertise passive will increase your chance of improving items with polishing. Gemstone Cuts are synonymous with Traits, whereby adding special properties to the crafted item. Players will learn Gemstone Cuts via Jewelcrafting Recipes, which can be found throughout the world of Tamriel (highest level recipes will be dropped from bosses). There is a wide assortment of recipes and have various levels of rarity, namely Fine, Rare, Epic, and Legendary. The Jeweler Design passive will allow the use of said recipes. Here is a possible layout...

Craft:
Jewelcrafting Station (consists of a grinding wheel, calipers, chisels, and hammers)

Base Item (equipment slot):
Crown (head)
Ring (finger)
Necklace (neck)

Example of a beautiful crown;
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/ImperialCrownOfIndia2.jpg

Precious Metal:
Copper Ingot
Silver Ingot
Gold Ingot
Platinum Ingot

Precious Gemstone:
Citrine
Opal
Jade
Amethyst
Aquamarine
Topaz
Sapphire
Emerald
Ruby
Diamond

Gemstone Quality:
Normal (Default)
Fine
Flawless
Perfect
Radiant
Illustrious
Exquisite

Gemstone Cut (learned from Jewelcrafting Recipes):
Round – Increase Stamina
Oval – Increase Weapon Attack Speed
Marquise – Increase Armor and Spell Resistance
Pear – Increase Armor and Spell Penetration
Heart – Increase Health
Emerald – Increase Weapon Enchantment Effect
Princess – Increase Monster Experience
Trillium – Increase Weapon Critical
Radiant – Increase Magicka
Cushion – Increase Spell Critical

The gemstone cuts;
http://images.forwallpaper.com/files/images/4/43d8/43d87d37/843069/gem-cut-chart.jpg

Jewelcrafting Skill Line (passives):
Prospecting (Rank I): Improves the chance of extracting gemstones from ore
Prospecting (Rank II): Greatly improves the chance of extracting gemstones from ore
Prospecting (Rank III): Maximizes the chance of extracting gemstones from ore

Polishing Expertise (Rank I): Increases the chance for improving jewelry
Polishing Expertise (Rank II): Greatly increases the chance of improving jewelry
Polishing Expertise (Rank III): More than doubles the chance to improve jewelry

Jeweler Design (Rank I): Allows the use of Fine Jewelcrafting Recipes
Jeweler Design (Rank II): Allows the use of Rare Jewelcrafting Recipes
Jeweler Design (Rank III): Allows the use of Epic Jewelcrafting Recipes
Jeweler Design (Rank IV): Allows the use of Legendary Jewelcrafting Recipes

Stonesetting (Rank I): Can create jewelry with Citrine
Stonesetting (Rank II): Can create jewelry with Opal
Stonesetting (Rank III): Can create jewelry with Jade
Stonesetting (Rank IV): Can create jewelry with Amethyst
Stonesetting (Rank V): Can create jewelry with Aquamarine
Stonesetting (Rank VI): Can create jewelry with Topaz
Stonesetting (Rank VII): Can create jewelry with Sapphire
Stonesetting (Rank VIII): Can create jewelry with Emerald
Stonesetting (Rank IX): Can create jewelry with Ruby
Stonesetting (Rank X): Can create jewelry with Diamond

Hireling (Rank I): Hireling will send you low quality gemstones
Hireling (Rank II): Hireling will send you low-to-medium quality gemstones
Hireling (Rank III): Hireling will send you medium-to-high quality gemstones

Thoughts/Opinions?

Kalann_Pander

Would be nice, certainly, but ZoS has a lot of more important stuff on their plate right now. Once the bugs are corrected, and gameplay is stable and balanced, then will be the time to introduce new things, including something like Jewelcrafting

Phantax

Definitely yes.
Can't understand why this wasn't in the game from the start. They said they wanted crafting to be a major part of this game and then make it so out of the 10 items you wear 3 of which you cannot craft yourself?
WT....

FrauPerchta

Something similar should have been in since the planning stages of the crafting system.

Tannakaobi

Phantax wrote: »

Definitely yes.
Can't understand why this wasn't in the game from the start. They said they wanted crafting to be a major part of this game and then make it so out of the 10 items you wear 3 of which you cannot craft yourself?
WT....

It's simple, they want some things to add in at a later time to keep people interested.

Mablung

Jewelry crafting does not fall in line with ES lore. So no.

Evergnar

I'm all for it. Don't wait too long Zos.

Roneth

Mablung wrote: »

Jewelry crafting does not fall in line with ES lore. So no.

If no one in Tamriel can craft jewelry, where does it come from? lol

Qutayba

I imagine it was left out by design. It will most likely be added in an expansion or patch. So far, jewelry can be enchanted, but they don't have the same kind of trait system as armors.

DenverRalphy

Mablung wrote: »

Jewelry crafting does not fall in line with ES lore. So no.

What does lore have to do with it? It's a game mechanic, not a change in history or storyline.

kimboh

Great work @Roneth I'm really looking forward to spell crafting too.

AlexDougherty

It's a bit skillpoint heavy the way you've set it up, 23 skillpoints needed, and only the hirelings would be optional.

I would rejigg the stonesetting side, and give some other aspect to invest in, otherwise it's an all or nothing skill.

Innocente

This was originally planned by Z/B for inclusion into the game, but the rush to push ESO out the door caused it to be canned. Thank you for Beta Testing Elder Scrolls Online for the upcoming Console release.

daneyulebub17_ESO

It sounds like one of those nice things they purposefully kept out to have in their back pocket for an expansion.

I would like a farming option too.

mutharex

Mablung wrote: »

Jewelry crafting does not fall in line with ES lore. So no.

IIRC you could craft them through Blacksmithig

Amsel_McKay

This seems to much like EQ, I would like them to add it but using nodes already in game, we already have too many items in drawers to add another 40+ items that can drop in there.

Roneth

Amsel_McKay wrote: »

This seems to much like EQ, I would like them to add it but using nodes already in game, we already have too many items in drawers to add another 40+ items that can drop in there.

Jewelcrafting would only require a handful of new ore nodes, such as:

Copper Ore
Silver Ore
Gold Ore
Platinum Ore

Amsel_McKay

Roneth wrote: »

Amsel_McKay wrote: »

This seems to much like EQ, I would like them to add it but using nodes already in game, we already have too many items in drawers to add another 40+ items that can drop in there.

Jewelcrafting would only require a handful of new ore nodes, such as:

Copper Ore
Silver Ore
Gold Ore
Platinum Ore

Oh I see that now with the gems coming from already found in game gems.

Mablung

mutharex wrote: »

Mablung wrote: »

Jewelry crafting does not fall in line with ES lore. So no.

IIRC you could craft them through Blacksmithig

I thought that was by modding?

poochie

Blacksmithing already has like what 14 armor-weapon traits same with clothing and woodworking has like 6. I'd either give it to woodworking or enchanting. Be nice if it was separate from the others but I think the time to learn traits should be sped up by 50% if its just 2-3 items. That or give the player the ability to learn more than 1 trait per item at a time. I'm loaded with armor-weapons for blacksmithing and clothing on MC and alts and its getting ridiculous to find space to put stuff I pick up anywhere. Like if I learn all traits on one item then that should let me learn 3 traits on a item type at a time. That would speed things up so that I can start melting stuff down and making space.

Spiritreaver_ESO

@ the OP

Very nice write-up. While i personally would be all for it(though as has been said i think, seems just a tad heavy on the skillpoint investiture front) i think there is a simpler solution. Just add a tab onto the Blacksmithing station interface.

Since beta i always felt it odd that Blacksmithing was the only one of the 'gear' crafts that didn't have a real secondary item-type that it covered. Woodworking has wooden weapons and shields, Clothing covers Light and Medium armor sets; while Blacksmithing just does metal stuff. Just makes a certain sense, to me anyways, to have all this metal jewelry with all the other metalwork.

Bookwyrm

I would absolutely love to see jewelcrafting added to the list of crafting professions.

I really loathe just selling off all my old rings/necklaces. I'd save them for future jewelcrafting (that I'm almost certain we'll see eventually), but bank/inventory space is so low right now that it's unwieldy to save all those bits of jewelry on top of everything else.

As someone else mentioned, farming could also be fun. It'd be a nice companion to provisioning and player housing (should we see this in the future as we hope to). I'd also like to see fishing be implemented properly--maybe not as a "profession" (the way the game has them set up with costing skillpoints and whatnot...which is fine for the crafting professions, but I dunno 'bout fishing or farming) but still as a useful skill--it should also be a companion to provisioning.

Roneth

Bookwyrm wrote: »

I would absolutely love to see jewelcrafting added to the list of crafting professions.

Agreed!

Phantorang

I thought that was Spellcrafting, its coming in a later patch, but I guess im wrong, spellcrafting is something else?

Carnage2K4

Mablung wrote: »

Jewelry crafting does not fall in line with ES lore. So no.

Most ridiculous comment in the thread... I hope you're all over the threads where Vamps are a pillar of the community providing their curse to the needy and how Cyrodiil looks pre-Talos.

Anvos

Not sure, as jewelry is as much about the enchant you put on it as the item itself, so I'm not sure it should be an independent skill line.

phaneub17_ESO

Mablung wrote: »

Jewelry crafting does not fall in line with ES lore. So no.

I think we got spoiled in TES IV: Skyrim because you can craft jewelry there.

However we don't need new ore lines, the current ones should easily suffice as it gives you more uses to burn through it instead of just vendoring stack after stack or trying to find a buyer for it.

Talemire

Speaking from my 15 years of MMORPG gaming experience, most amazing ideas like this are never implemented. We are lucky to even see semi-hot issues addressed, let alone an entire new system. Quite unfortunate, yes, but until a game like EQN comes out, don't hold your breath, man!

Roneth

Talemire wrote: »

Speaking from my 15 years of MMORPG gaming experience, most amazing ideas like this are never implemented. We are lucky to even see semi-hot issues addressed, let alone an entire new system. Quite unfortunate, yes, but until a game like EQN comes out, don't hold your breath, man!

I hope Zenimax makes this profession a reality soon.

Azzuria

Very well thought out.

Would very much like to see Jewelcrafting with or before Spellcrafting.

Thanks for your efforts.

Krovax

My guess is, jewelcrafting will be added to enchanting. It's a pain in the bum to xp and would make that line more easily to achieve. Also I wouldn't have to respec to still have all crafters on my main char