Why is the Master Crafting Tables not unlocked for all the houses?

Studpuffin · July 16

A Decorator's Disappointment: The Harsh Reality of Master Crafting Tables

As an avid builder and decorator in ESO, housing is my absolute passion. Because I am constantly working on new builds and buying expensive furnishing plans, I am almost always broke. To compensate, I’ve been religiously saving my hard-earned writ vouchers from Rolis Hlaalu to finally purchase the Master Crafting Tables.

Historically, whenever I could afford it, I would buy a set of attunable tables, attune them, and integrate them directly into the custom designs of my various homes. When I finally saved up the 6,000 writ vouchers required to purchase the full set of Master Crafting Tables from Faustina Curio, I was incredibly excited.
Then, the reality of how these tables actually work set in, and my mind was absolutely blown by two massive design flaws:

1. It Completely Destroys Your Existing Decor
To load the attunable tables into the Master Crafting Table, the system completely consumes your existing attunable tables. I thought surely I was missing something. Why would a feature designed for convenience force decorators to tear down the carefully integrated attunable tables from their existing builds just to "feed" the Master Table without having something in return to fill those empty spots with.

2. They Are Single-Placement Items, Not Account-Wide Unlocks
Despite the staggering 6,000-voucher total (1,500 vouchers per table), you only receive one single physical copy of each Master Crafting Table. They are not unlocked account-wide in your housing editor. If you want a Master Crafting Table in more than one of your homes, you have to grind out that massive stack of vouchers all over again.

For a community that spends so much time, gold, and real money on the housing system, this feels incredibly punishing. It would make infinitely more sense if buying a Master Crafting Table unlocked it as a collectible template—similar to how a furniture vault concept work—allowing us to place them in as many of our homes as we please once unlocked.
As it stands, this system forces a terrible compromise between having a functional crafting hub in one home and maintaining the beautiful, personalized workshops we've built across our other properties. ZOS desperately needs to rethink this.

LunaFlora · July 16

personally i like that i have the option to have multiple of the same Grandmaster crafting station in my house.
Collectible furnishings are awesome, but only one per house is annoying for some furnishings, like the Aeonstone.

Also they were made specifically so we could save space in our houses and actually decorate them instead of having roughly half of the house be Attuneable crafting stations.

katanagirl1 · July 16

It sure would be nice for them to be collectibles so you could place them in multiple houses, but some players have already obtained multiple copies so their hard work would be undone. Also, I have never heard anyone complain that they were taking up less space, it is so much better than a sea of tables lined up in rows. I never wanted that so I used a guild member’s house to do my writs until the GMC tables came out.

By the way the reason the individual tables are fed into the GMC tables is because of the hard work (and gold and/or vouchers) that went into obtaining them that other players made before the GMC tables came out.

Just by doing a few master writs every day I already have about half the number of vouchers needed to buy another set. This is a long term goal, not something that can be done quickly unless you plan to spend a lot of gold. With enough crafters, you can generate enough master writs yourself without having to buy them.