Am I Wrong About Crafting Dailies?

DreamyLu

I do every day the cloth/blacksmith/wood/jewel/alchemy. Thanks to the lazy crafter addon it's a matter of a few minutes so that's easy gold and I like to get the alchemy survey for some more columbines.

I don't do enchanting because it's not covered by the addon (no automatic crafting) and I don't do provisioning because in the town where I craft, the cooking fire is inside an outlaw refuge at some distance: too much for my legendary laziness.

Side note: I'm a resource farmer so mats are no worries for me.

karthrag_inak

DreamyLu wrote: »

I do every day the cloth/blacksmith/wood/jewel/alchemy. Thanks to the lazy crafter addon it's a matter of a few minutes so that's easy gold and I like to get the alchemy survey for some more columbines.

I don't do enchanting because it's not covered by the addon (no automatic crafting) and I don't do provisioning because in the town where I craft, the cooking fire is inside an outlaw refuge at some distance: too much for my legendary laziness.

Side note: I'm a resource farmer so mats are no worries for me.

enchanting is definitely doable with lazy writ crafter - in fact even provisioning and alchemy are now supported. Furthermore, for alchemy and provisioning you can pre-craft full stacks of the 6 potential craftables and store them in bank, and get them out when you need them. those stacks should last months.

Ilumia

What an activity has of value to you is for you to decide, but it's a great question, because it means you're considering it without mindlessly doing something just because others do it

Here's my reasoning:

They're good for earning gold - mostly if you're also in a trading guild and you can sell the master writs you don't want to do yourself. They're also great for earning legendary tempers if you want your gear golded (mind you, you don't necessarily need that to go quite far in most content. I recently reached arc 10 in a duo archive run again, and I've only got golded weapon and jewelry - I simply forgot to gold gear after testing if the build worked for me).

With thay said, however, I can't stand the time waste of daily writs. I've stopped doing them because I feel like I'm wasting my life. I started eso in the open beta, and have watched the game churn out more and more time sinks - like dailies of different kinds, endeavors, golden pursuits and so on - sure they all come with rewards, but to me it doesn't feel so meaningful when a lot of it yields so little for the time I spend. I sometimes enjoy gaming, but not when my time is worth so little (aka it takes a lot of grinding and farming to be able to do the stuff I really have fun with). I have a life with stuff I like making progression in (studying, learning fantastic new things and becoming smarter, reading, cooking, spending time with nice people and family, gardening and woodworking and creating things of value to me), I don't want to loose all that meaningful time to low-value endless digital chores. What I do want when gaming is meaningful progression and entertainment in a time frame that doesn't mean neglecting real life. For some people daily crafting is a means to that progression, and for some doing that will end up robbing them of the joy that the entertainment was supposed to provide in the first place.

Evaluate what eso is to you, what you feel like you enjoy doing, and if this is necessary to get there, and what amount of time it costs, and then factor in what you'd otherwise have spent that same time doing (for instance another entertainment activity like a game or book, or other long term life goals you really want too).

Horace-Wimp

bmnoble wrote: »

Will never understand people deleting surveys...

I will never understand why ZOS won't make them stackable. Even with ESO+ it's possible to run out of Inventory and bank space with all the items that ZOS won't make stackable. Hardcore playing to be sure.

I'll probably spring for a month of Plus and then just set aside a day to do them all so the mats go into the Crafting Bag then rinse repeat after the next Event that has them drop like candy again.

But I'm not above deleting them. And Writs, Motifs and anything else that falls under the "Maybe Someday" category.

JavaRen

Horace-Wimp wrote: »

I will never understand why ZOS won't make them stackable.

But surveys do stack....

Sarannah

Crafting dailies do give you gold and resources, but many forget that if you do them at the highest crafting skilllevel you will also burn through materials really fast. Especially jewelry crafting is basically a break even.

If you are only doing crafting dailies for the gold/materials, it is better to do them at skilllevel 1 as that is easier to maintain. If you need writ vouchers or are never low on the highest crafting materials, it is better to do them at the highest skilllevel.

PS: Currently doing crafting dailies every day due to wanting to find out how high the new master writ envelopes stack.

tmbrinks

JavaRen wrote: »

Horace-Wimp wrote: »

I will never understand why ZOS won't make them stackable.

But surveys do stack....

They do, but there are 186 unique ones now, so for somebody who only does daily writs on one or two characters, it would appear that they might not stack.

Horace-Wimp

JavaRen wrote: »

...But surveys do stack...

I guess there are so many different surveys that drop that I have had the bad luck to either not noticed stacked or just have not received duplicates. I will do a better job of looking for stacked.

Thanx for the tip!

Ilumia

Horace-Wimp wrote: »

JavaRen wrote: »

...But surveys do stack...

I guess there are so many different surveys that drop that I have had the bad luck to either not noticed stacked or just have not received duplicates. I will do a better job of looking for stacked.

Thanx for the tip!

The same trick as they just did for master writs would work here too. 1 type of unopened for each crafting type minus provisioning which never had them. 186 stacks is suddenly only 6 stacks, until you open them. Should not be a problem for people who want to do them immediately, and the people who don't, will save up to 180 inventory slots and the hassle of managing that mess (I know I hate that waste of an entire characters inventory).

katorga

Crafting writs are a money maker, but I get sick of them after a while. I'll go months doing them and months not doing them.

I primarily do them for yellow crafting mats, which I use because I'm always trying new sets. I never sell yellow mats any more.

I sell most of the writs, but do the high voucher ones.

I sell all of the ornate items, they never last more than 24 hours on the trader.They don't sell for much, but the volume makes up for it.