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.

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 wrote: »

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

But surveys do stack....

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 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).