Often overlooked master writs for power leveling - Enchanting and Provisioning

Frayton · May 25

Just a little tip to power level for the next patch.

Alchemy is the most recommended master writ for power leveling, but the cheapest writs to buy and craft are provisioning and enchanting especially if you're already maxed out in those skill lines.

Hakeijo and perfect roe writs tend to be the cheapest to buy from guild stores but they're also the most expensive to craft. Avoid them unless gold is no object for you or you don't mind using your own supply to power level.

RealLoveBVB · May 25

Provisioning and enchanting writs give less XP compared to all other master writs for some reason.

ApoAlaia · May 25

RealLoveBVB wrote: »

Provisioning and enchanting writs give less XP compared to all other master writs for some reason.

Not anymore.

That was changed a few patches back. Now all master writs give max XP.

DenverRalphy · May 25

Can't speak for the other servers, but on PSNA Enchanting writs are the worst to buy if you take cost per voucher into consideration. The same can be said about provisioning writs as well, but not as extreme.

Treeshka · May 25

Alchemy is good for power levelling new chars and their skill lines. Since you only need to grind the Alchemy craft line and that is about it.

Subclassing system is account wide so you can use your master crafter character to make Woodworking, Blacksmithing and Clothing writs and grind the skill lines for subclassing. No need to burn through Alchemy materials or buy Alchemy writs. Generally Alchemy writs are much expensive then the regular equipment writs.

freespirit · May 25

I use jewelry master writs for power levelling because they are pretty good for vouchers numbers versus gold cost.

Provisioning/Alchemy/Enchanting give very low numbers of vouchers in comparison.

Obviously some jewelry ones I avoid mainly "infused" even Dawn Prism can be found cheaply these days.

When considering gold/voucher cost I know certain items brought with vouchers still give very good returns when sold!

Sordidfairytale · May 25

freespirit wrote: »

I use jewelry master writs for power levelling because they are pretty good for vouchers numbers versus gold cost.

Provisioning/Alchemy/Enchanting give very low numbers of vouchers in comparison.

Obviously some jewelry ones I avoid mainly "infused" even Dawn Prism can be found cheaply these days.

When considering gold/voucher cost I know certain items brought with vouchers still give very good returns when sold!

Another good reason to use Jewelry Writs is they do not require a motif or style to complete.

katanagirl1 · May 26

A guildie of mine does alchemy writs because they take up less inventory space, I think.

I can’t say from experience, I don’t care to grind away like that and just level naturally.

Hapexamendios · May 26

I use Alchemy and Enchanting master writs to level new skill lines on characters. I have tons of mats.

Renato90085 · May 26

it ready going to raise the price

Frayton · May 26

RealLoveBVB wrote: »

Provisioning and enchanting writs give less XP compared to all other master writs for some reason.

All master writs give the same XP now, but I wonder if a lot of people still think this. That would explain why I can always find provisioning and enchanting master writs for much cheaper than alchemy.

RealLoveBVB · May 26

When did they change that? That's always such things that are not mentioned in natch potes and get ninja-changed...

lagrue · May 26

Servadei wrote: »

RealLoveBVB wrote: »

Provisioning and enchanting writs give less XP compared to all other master writs for some reason.

All master writs give the same XP now, but I wonder if a lot of people still think this. That would explain why I can always find provisioning and enchanting master writs for much cheaper than alchemy.

Alchemy Writs are cheaper in materials to complete on average, thus cost more gold.

The most expensive writs to finish in terms of materials are the cheapest to buy in Gold. That's why Jewelry Writs dominate the low ends of the searches - the material value to voucher ratio is seen as not worth it even when you consider the EXP.

All the 40 Voucher Provisioning Writs use atleast x2 Roe which is expensive and hard to justify. The Enchant ones mostly use Prismatic Glyphs which are also expensive and much rarer. You'll get the worst return of Gold/Materials:Writ ratio doing these (alongside jewelry).

The only time Provision and Enchanting is actually worth the material cost for the EXP is when you do the 2 Voucher ones that don't use any rare materials. But atleast on PC NA, you will not usually find those reasonably priced or en masse in traders. All you will find is 40 voucher writs asking for Orzorga's/Psygics and requiring x2 Roe, etc.

scrappy1342 · May 26

DenverRalphy wrote: »

Can't speak for the other servers, but on PSNA Enchanting writs are the worst to buy if you take cost per voucher into consideration. The same can be said about provisioning writs as well, but not as extreme.

this is because no one is buying alch/enchanting/provisioning writs for vouchers. they are buying them for XP

DenverRalphy · May 26

scrappy1342 wrote: »

DenverRalphy wrote: »

Can't speak for the other servers, but on PSNA Enchanting writs are the worst to buy if you take cost per voucher into consideration. The same can be said about provisioning writs as well, but not as extreme.

this is because no one is buying alch/enchanting/provisioning writs for vouchers. they are buying them for XP

Yeah I get that. I'm just sayin that they're not overlooked, so much as they're just cost prohibitive when alch writs run much much cheaper because they're so much more abundant.

ApoAlaia · May 26

RealLoveBVB wrote: »

When did they change that? That's always such things that are not mentioned in natch potes and get ninja-changed...

Update 40:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/7982317/#Comment_7982317

Look for 'Updates to Quest XP and Gold Rewards'.

SkaiFaith · May 26

Can anyone tell with precision how many master writs need to be completed to take a subclassing skill from 1 to 50?
Possibly with the condition being only +150% from a scroll and nothing else, since at console launch there won't be any XP event running...
Thanks in advance

joergino · May 26

SkaiFaith wrote: »

Can anyone tell with precision how many master writs need to be completed to take a subclassing skill from 1 to 50?
Thanks in advance

Exactly twice as long as it would take to advance a "normal" class skill.Hope this helps.

SkaiFaith · May 26

joergino wrote: »

SkaiFaith wrote: »

Can anyone tell with precision how many master writs need to be completed to take a subclassing skill from 1 to 50?
Thanks in advance

Exactly twice as long as it would take to advance a "normal" class skill.Hope this helps.

XD
1.459.938 XP points are needed for a normal class skill line is the info I found online.
So should be 2.919.876 XP points for a subclassed skill line from 1 to 50.
Right?

I'm not sure how many XP points master writs exactly give and how the 150% bonus applies: it always seemed to me that it gave me less than what I would expect from mobs kills...

(Sure I could use a scroll now and see it myself but I don't want to waste it. I don't have PTS so it would have been nice if anyone knew.
EDIT: also, I am enlightened for 4 millions ATM so I would not know how much XP I gain without it - enlightenment doesn't count for subclassed skills)

Cooperharley · May 26

RealLoveBVB wrote: »

Provisioning and enchanting writs give less XP compared to all other master writs for some reason.

They're all 100% equal XP wise.

The reason people don't use provisioning and enchanting as often as alchemy is because theyre often much more expensive to do with many requiring hakeijo (tri stat) runes for enchanting or asking you to craft ambrosia.

Alchemy is GOATed

ApoAlaia · May 26

SkaiFaith wrote: »

joergino wrote: »

SkaiFaith wrote: »

Can anyone tell with precision how many master writs need to be completed to take a subclassing skill from 1 to 50?
Thanks in advance

Exactly twice as long as it would take to advance a "normal" class skill.Hope this helps.

XD
1.459.938 XP points are needed for a normal class skill line is the info I found online.
So should be 2.919.876 XP points for a subclassed skill line from 1 to 50.
Right?

I'm not sure how many XP points master writs exactly give and how the 150% bonus applies: it always seemed to me that it gave me less than what I would expect from mobs kills...

(Sure I could use a scroll now and see it myself but I don't want to waste it. I don't have PTS so it would have been nice if anyone knew.
EDIT: also, I am enlightened for 4 millions ATM so I would not know how much XP I gain without it - enlightenment doesn't count for subclassed skills)

With ESO+ and 150% XP scroll/pot each MW gives 43786 XP.

If is a 2XP event (which U46 release Monday should be) then is 60627 XP.

Also with the new green CP node you only need to add 8570% more XP (sorry I royally screwed up the math there).

Also according to this post (which is consistent with my experience) the skill line gains a proportion of the total XP, affected by how many skills of that line you have slotted and in the case of weapon/armor skill lines whether you have a relevant weapon/how many pieces of the relevant type of armor equipped:

https://www.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/comments/oa37wy/while_leveling_up_a_skill_line_does_it_level_up/

In the case of individual skills/morphs is 25% of the total earned XP.

In the case of the skill line itself I am unsure; from that post it would seem that it was 'earning' 37.5% of the total XP with 5 skills slotted (on the active bar) but in all likelihood is 'x% base gained plus y% for each skill slotted'.

It could be 25% base and then 2.5% per skill slotted (inferring that the base is always the same) but that is just one of the possible answers.

Someone better than me at math can probably work out x% and y% in a blink. I'm just not very good at math.

SkaiFaith · May 26

ApoAlaia wrote: »

SkaiFaith wrote: »

joergino wrote: »

SkaiFaith wrote: »

Can anyone tell with precision how many master writs need to be completed to take a subclassing skill from 1 to 50?
Thanks in advance

Exactly twice as long as it would take to advance a "normal" class skill.Hope this helps.

XD
1.459.938 XP points are needed for a normal class skill line is the info I found online.
So should be 2.919.876 XP points for a subclassed skill line from 1 to 50.
Right?

I'm not sure how many XP points master writs exactly give and how the 150% bonus applies: it always seemed to me that it gave me less than what I would expect from mobs kills...

(Sure I could use a scroll now and see it myself but I don't want to waste it. I don't have PTS so it would have been nice if anyone knew.
EDIT: also, I am enlightened for 4 millions ATM so I would not know how much XP I gain without it - enlightenment doesn't count for subclassed skills)

With ESO+ and 150% XP scroll/pot each MW gives 43786 XP.

If is a 2XP event (which U46 release Monday should be) then is 60627 XP.

Also with the new green CP node you only need to add 85% more XP.

THANK YOU very much!

I forgot about the green CP. It gives 15% boost to skill lines XP, right? Awesome

Should just need 57 master writs, if I'm not mistaken (out of double XP events).

Orbital78 · May 26

I prefer jewelry writs, but they do require time to train up traits. Most of my alts have all the traits now though.

ImmortalCX · May 26

Is experience given related to the number of writs rewarded?

Thoriorz · May 27

Yes yes, I currently have 400 writs ready, Mythical Ambrosia + xp event and beautiful slightly over 60k xp for one writ is home.

Frayton · May 27

ImmortalCX wrote: »

Is experience given related to the number of writs rewarded?

If you mean vouchers rewarded, then no. A master writ worth 2 vouchers gives the same XP as a master writ worth 300 vouchers. It's the quest itself that gives you XP not the master writ.

sleepy_worm · May 29

At the risk of ruining the market for myself...

Take a look at this writ. AwesomeGuildStore says the price is green, which means below average, but it is actually a very bad deal.

Writs give you a flat amount of XP per master writ done, not per voucher earned. So you're paying 13k gold for one XP reward. Also, the materials used to craft this specific writ would run you about 50k gold.

It might reward a lot of vouchers, but at 1.5k gold-to-voucher total, it's just not worth crafting for either vouchers or XP.

Our next example (why hello there, Ninja Squirrels) pops up at the bottom of the list, usually a bad sign. Big red numbers -549%, but this is actually not a bad purchase.

It only gives 2 vouchers, but if you are buying master writs to level XP, this does not matter. What matters is that you're only paying 5.5k gold for one shot of quest XP. Compared to alchemy master writs, this is a huge discount.

Also take a look at the materials required. Only 127 gold of materials will be needed to craft this. It might only give 2 vouchers, but for leveling, this master writ is an absolute steal.

With alchemy writs selling for 7-15k each, finding any craftable writ for 2-5k is a much better deal. Enchanting writs are quite easy for any character to craft. Provisioning is a little trickier, requiring knowledge of a recipe, but your main/crafter should probably know it, so they are fine for CP grinding.

Veinblood1965 · May 29

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.

karthrag_inak · May 29

Enchant and provisioning are the easiest.profs to get to 50 on alts - you get the full experience benefit of player-made glyphs if your main makes them for an alternative on the same account, and you can power level provisioning really easily too, j7st uses a bunch of cheap ingredients.

Of the three alchemy is actually the most potentially difficult since there aren't many non- max solvents available unless you farm them.

karthrag_inak · May 29

Also, khajiit's advice to anyone wanting to power-level via writs, is keep your eyes on the prize. If leveling is the goal, don't worry about the vouchers or the price-per, and expect to pay money, perhaps even extra, to get what you need. Gold comes and goes, but cp is forever, yes?

Besides, if goal is writ vouchers, AEPs aren't really the most worthwhile route anyway.

Khajiit is sharing this as a cp3600 with all possible class and weapon lines maxed on all 20 characters in the account. Here's a picture of khajiit's current voucher stash, (and this is after building a full guild hall from vouchers over the years). Nevermind the survey count in the picture.

GimpyPorcupine · May 29

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.