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Reconfigured Scribing has me very confused.

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I am having difficulty finding a comprehensive explanation of the changes made to scribing since its release with West Weald. The things I had done previously to farm scripts no longer seem to work. i.e. doing zone dailies and visiting mages guild halls. Are there new ways or are they just random drops now?
  • Desiato
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    It hasn't changed.

    https://alcasthq.com/eso-scribing-grind-guide/
    https://alcasthq.com/eso-mages-guild-script-chase-guide/

    Make sure you do at least the first stage of the quest on each new character you wish to scribe with -- after completing the full quest on one character per account, that is.

    Edited by Desiato on 11 July 2025 03:03
    spending a year dead for tax reasons
  • DoofusMax
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    Scripts from zone dailies will only drop after you have completed certain wings of the Scholarium. Focus scripts drop from Mages Guild dailies and from delves dailies in expansions after someone completes the Wing of the Gryphon. Signature scripts drop from Fighters Guild dailies and from WB dailies in expansions (Cyrodiil board missions, too) after completing the Wing of the Dragon. Affix scripts drop from Bolgrul's delve daily and from World Event dailies in expansions after completing the Wing of the Netch. Note that not all expansions have World Event dailies, but most of them have delve and WB dailies (Hew's Bane is weird). The nine scripts in the Mages Guildhalls (three of each) are not repeatable, although one character can pick them up, put it in the Bank, pick up another, put it in the Bank, etc. They will not stack and they are account-bound.

    AFAIK, and unless something changed in today's update, they continue to drop as they always have. They're curated until a character has learned all the scripts which can drop from that source and will be RNG afterward.
    I'm fresh out of outrage, but I could muster up some amused annoyance if required.
  • Aislinna
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    Something not intuitively clear is that there are only 3 guaranteed script drops (one focus, one signature, one affix) per account per day, after that it's a 25% drop rate. Curation is based on the character you are farming on. Check out this video for more detail, starting at timestamp 6:46:

    https://youtu.be/uSKcdnMK6BE?t=406
  • DoofusMax
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    Aislinna wrote: »
    Something not intuitively clear is that there are only 3 guaranteed script drops (one focus, one signature, one affix) per account per day, after that it's a 25% drop rate.

    Almost there. It's one guaranteed drop per daily type (Cyrodiil might be different; I don't go there much) per account. So you can get two guaranteed Affix scripts per day by doing Bolgrul's daily and one expansion World Event daily. After those guaranteed drops, it's 25% chance per daily per character, but scripts will still be curated for the character opening the coffers.

    I'm fresh out of outrage, but I could muster up some amused annoyance if required.
  • Aislinna
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    DoofusMax wrote: »
    Aislinna wrote: »
    Something not intuitively clear is that there are only 3 guaranteed script drops (one focus, one signature, one affix) per account per day, after that it's a 25% drop rate.

    Almost there. It's one guaranteed drop per daily type (Cyrodiil might be different; I don't go there much) per account. So you can get two guaranteed Affix scripts per day by doing Bolgrul's daily and one expansion World Event daily. After those guaranteed drops, it's 25% chance per daily per character, but scripts will still be curated for the character opening the coffers.

    You and the ESO Stream Team member disagree, I personally don't know enough to argue who is correct.

  • HatchetHaro
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    DoofusMax wrote: »
    Aislinna wrote: »
    Something not intuitively clear is that there are only 3 guaranteed script drops (one focus, one signature, one affix) per account per day, after that it's a 25% drop rate.

    Almost there. It's one guaranteed drop per daily type (Cyrodiil might be different; I don't go there much) per account. So you can get two guaranteed Affix scripts per day by doing Bolgrul's daily and one expansion World Event daily. After those guaranteed drops, it's 25% chance per daily per character, but scripts will still be curated for the character opening the coffers.
    Aislinna wrote: »
    DoofusMax wrote: »
    Aislinna wrote: »
    Something not intuitively clear is that there are only 3 guaranteed script drops (one focus, one signature, one affix) per account per day, after that it's a 25% drop rate.

    Almost there. It's one guaranteed drop per daily type (Cyrodiil might be different; I don't go there much) per account. So you can get two guaranteed Affix scripts per day by doing Bolgrul's daily and one expansion World Event daily. After those guaranteed drops, it's 25% chance per daily per character, but scripts will still be curated for the character opening the coffers.

    You and the ESO Stream Team member disagree, I personally don't know enough to argue who is correct.

    There are a total of 9 curated Scripts guaranteed each day per account, 3 each of Signature, Focus, and Affix.

    PvP sources: 1x Rewards of the Worthy (Focus), 1x Cyrodiil town or mission board quest (Signature), 1x Imperial City district quest (Affix)
    Guild sources: 1x Fighter's Guild daily (Signature), 1x Mages Guild daily (Focus), 1x Undaunted Delve daily (Affix)
    DLC Zone sources: 1x Zone Delve daily (Focus), 1x Zone World Boss daily (Signature), 1x Zone Incursion daily (Affix)

    Keep in mind that these Scripts come from the coffers that are rewarded upon quest completion, so you are free to complete more than 1 each and stockpile them to open on subsequent days.

    You are also guaranteed 1 additional curated Affix script each day per character by completing a Random Daily Dungeon on that character.

    Edited by HatchetHaro on 16 July 2025 12:21
    Best Argonian NA and I will fight anyone for it

    20 Argonians

    6x IR, 6x GH, 7x TTT, 4x GS, 4x DB, 1x PB, 4x SBS, 1x MM, 1x US, 1x Unchained
  • DoofusMax
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    Excellent. I don't PvP, so those ones weren't on my radar, but I did completely forget about the daily random dungeon. Thank you for the catch.
    I'm fresh out of outrage, but I could muster up some amused annoyance if required.
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