Often overlooked master writs for power leveling - Enchanting and Provisioning

Ishtarknows · May 29

GimpyPorcupine wrote: »

Veinblood1965 wrote: »

Darn, my secret is out! I've been doing this for years. Save up all my applicable writs, wait until an event, pop an exp scroll and take a new toon to level 50 along with most skills in an hour or two. Did learn a few things though, good post.

It's a good technique, but you hit 50 without many skill points and then either have to buy skyshards or run them down.

Adventure zones stories (Fargrave, The Reach, Southern Elsweyr) give really good XP and lots of skill points, and can be done quickly if you don't get distracted by the side quests.

It's far easier to run round gathering skyshards on a CP level character with Ring of the Wild Hunt and cowards gear than doing the same on a sub 50 with slow as treacle mount speed

Veinblood1965 · May 30

GimpyPorcupine wrote: »

Veinblood1965 wrote: »

Darn, my secret is out! I've been doing this for years. Save up all my applicable writs, wait until an event, pop an exp scroll and take a new toon to level 50 along with most skills in an hour or two. Did learn a few things though, good post.

It's a good technique, but you hit 50 without many skill points and then either have to buy skyshards or run them down.

Adventure zones stories (Fargrave, The Reach, Southern Elsweyr) give really good XP and lots of skill points, and can be done quickly if you don't get distracted by the side quests.

True, that part does suck. What I've done is hit the easy ones first. Public dungeon main bosses and skyshards in all zones I can solo. That picks up a lot of them. I get my character bit by a vamp ASAP and then get it to level four vamp ASAP so I can sneak past most mobs in the public dungeons and go straight to the sky shard and the main boss. Then follow that up by going to easy to get to skyshards that I know about that are near or in main cities. Does take some time though but those two usually get me the skill points I need to complete my build. I'll need to check out those zones you mentioned though!

GimpyPorcupine · May 30

Ishtarknows wrote: »

GimpyPorcupine wrote: »

Veinblood1965 wrote: »

Darn, my secret is out! I've been doing this for years. Save up all my applicable writs, wait until an event, pop an exp scroll and take a new toon to level 50 along with most skills in an hour or two. Did learn a few things though, good post.

It's a good technique, but you hit 50 without many skill points and then either have to buy skyshards or run them down.

Adventure zones stories (Fargrave, The Reach, Southern Elsweyr) give really good XP and lots of skill points, and can be done quickly if you don't get distracted by the side quests.

It's far easier to run round gathering skyshards on a CP level character with Ring of the Wild Hunt and cowards gear than doing the same on a sub 50 with slow as treacle mount speed

That's true. But I haven't had a new character since Apocrypha, and I had saved up all the mount speed scrolls from login rewards, so I wasn't incredibly slow out of the gate. Also, I can use War Mount and Gifted Rider CP even before 50.

The second Arcanist (and 20th character) that I rolled, I didn't actually start playing for several month after rolling, other than to level crafting, research traits, and get enough skill points to do so. (Not that crafting takes long to level when you've got 18 crafters dropping CP150 intricates into the bank for decon.) So I had 60 mount speed and no concern about mount stam thanks to War Mount. Cyro immediately at L10 for a couple of quick skill points, spend 1 to get Major Gallop.

I'm not claiming it's the most efficient way to level, but I've done it many times and I always get to 50 with plenty of skill points.

exiars10 · June 2

PC EU - master writ market is beyond crazy for double XP event.

So many sellers jacked up prices of Alchemy writs. Sellers asking for 50k

. Really?

However, I managed to buy a lot of cheap Enchanting and Provisioning writs, and much less Woodworking, Clothing, and Blacksmithing as I lack a lot of motifs as I don't care about them.

There is no pricing rule about trading guild locations. It's all over the place. I managed to buy under 3k price in top locations like Elden Root or Rawkhla, and I saw insane prices in the middle of nowhere. Some locations are constantly empty.

Also, it seems nobody buys Jewelry writs and neither me. There is a huge oversupply almost at every trader.
Another huge supply are Provisioning writs with Perfect Roe and Enchanting with Hakeijo rune (to nobody's suprise

) as obviously nobody buys them. What's even crazier is how some sellers put huge prices on those. Probably hoping somebody would fall for it because it has big price so it must be really good, right?

sleepy_worm · June 2

I found that almost all of the left over JC writs were Infused, which on PC-NA usually runs about 1.7k gold-per-voucher, an awful ratio. And the cost to craft per writ is high enough that it's not ideal for pure XP reasons.

Jewelry does benefit from not requiring style knowledge, though.

ganzaeso · June 2

When leveling a skill line also make sure all skills for that skill line are on your active bar as it increases how much XP the skill line receives.

ganzaeso · June 2

sleepy_worm wrote: »

I found that almost all of the left over JC writs were Infused, which on PC-NA usually runs about 1.7k gold-per-voucher, an awful ratio. And the cost to craft per writ is high enough that it's not ideal for pure XP reasons.

Jewelry does benefit from not requiring style knowledge, though.

Auribic Amber is one of the few resources that ZOS has failed to flood the game with.

@ZOS_Kevin

This resource should be considered for addition to the writ voucher vendor as psijic portal farming can not keep up with the generation of sealed jewelry writs requiring the infused trait.

Frayton · June 2

exiars10 wrote: »

PC EU - master writ market is beyond crazy for double XP event.

So many sellers jacked up prices of Alchemy writs. Sellers asking for 50k . Really?

However, I managed to buy a lot of cheap Enchanting and Provisioning writs, and much less Woodworking, Clothing, and Blacksmithing as I lack a lot of motifs as I don't care about them.

There is no pricing rule about trading guild locations. It's all over the place. I managed to buy under 3k price in top locations like Elden Root or Rawkhla, and I saw insane prices in the middle of nowhere. Some locations are constantly empty.

Also, it seems nobody buys Jewelry writs and neither me. There is a huge oversupply almost at every trader.
Another huge supply are Provisioning writs with Perfect Roe and Enchanting with Hakeijo rune (to nobody's suprise ) as obviously nobody buys them. What's even crazier is how some sellers put huge prices on those. Probably hoping somebody would fall for it because it has big price so it must be really good, right?

Smart move buying up enchanting and provisioning. Alchemy writs always skyrocket, but enchanting and provisioning always stay cheap.

Frayton · June 3

Logged into PCNA to find enchanting and provisioning writs at 45k! I guess they're not so overlooked for power leveling anymore lol.