Now that I am level 50 Provisioning. I will give a newbie tip.

Love_Daggerfall

Lets say imagine this:
You just looted the two Ships in Daggerfall and your backpack is full of stolen food.
So you go to the Pub fireplace and cook as much as you are able.
You will see there is still uncooked food in your backpack.
You can't just buy any recipes.
You need to buy Recipes from Guild traders that will cook the uncooked food in your backpack.
When buying Recipes a very lot of them you will not be able to use until your maxed out.
To get around this when selecting a recipe from the Guild list make sure all the words are green.
If any of the words are in Red you can't use that Recipe just yet.
I hope this tip helps newbies clear there whole backpack when cooking raw foods.
Thank you.

GreenhaloX

Oh man.. provisioning is one of the easiest thing to do, but it's one of the hardest to level up, at least before level 20. Before level 20, it's just slow going cooking up tons of chicken breasts and pork (constantly having to roam the coast like in Wrothgar and kill tons of those poor chub loons and horkers) and only getting a wee bit of movement on leveling. Seems it's leveling up a bit quicker since I finally reached level 20 and able to level up to recipe 2. So, I have hope now. I take it that level 3 recipe and upwards will be much quicker.. but I'm also thinking ingredients for higher levels recipes may not be as easy to find as recipe 1 and 2.

helediron

IIRC Chicken Breast is for level 1 character. You have to make a thousand of those. But if you select a recipe for level 15, you need to make less than hundred of those. Recipes for level 1 AND for level 15 players are both at recipe improvement 1, so cookable by anyone, but they have tenfold difference in XP.

susmitds

Make Orzorga's Triple Trifle and Orzorga's Frothgar. Trust me, they are all the food and drinks you would ever need. You can make at low levels also.

Love_Daggerfall

GreenhaloX wrote: »

Oh man.. provisioning is one of the easiest thing to do, but it's one of the hardest to level up, at least before level 20. Before level 20, it's just slow going cooking up tons of chicken breasts and pork (constantly having to roam the coast like in Wrothgar and kill tons of those poor chub loons and horkers) and only getting a wee bit of movement on leveling. Seems it's leveling up a bit quicker since I finally reached level 20 and able to level up to recipe 2. So, I have hope now. I take it that level 3 recipe and upwards will be much quicker.. but I'm also thinking ingredients for higher levels recipes may not be as easy to find as recipe 1 and 2.

What gave me a level boost at low levels was money from selling at the fence.
I used that money to buy 400 fish that l cooked into fish sticks.

JamieAubrey

My craft bag in chock full of 600/500/300 + etc of unused food and by now full of mould after months of lying in a bag

Love_Daggerfall

JamieAubrey wrote: »

My craft bag in chock full of 600/500/300 + etc of unused food and by now full of mould after months of lying in a bag

LOL (unused money)

AntMan100673

The only problem with levelling provisioning, particularly early on when you don't have many bag/bank upgrades, is storing all the ingredients (if you sub this isn't a problem). Within each skill level there are different levels of recipes, you need to be making the highest level recipes you can to keep it levelling up at a decent rate. Chicken breast and roast pork are both level 1 recipes (the lowest within skill level 1) which is why making those took you so long to level up

Mureel

Love_Daggerfall wrote: »

Lets say imagine this:
You just looted the two Ships in Daggerfall and your backpack is full of stolen food.
So you go to the Pub fireplace and cook as much as you are able.
You will see there is still uncooked food in your backpack.
You can't just buy any recipes.
You need to buy Recipes from Guild traders that will cook the uncooked food in your backpack.
When buying Recipes a very lot of them you will not be able to use until your maxed out.
To get around this when selecting a recipe from the Guild list make sure all the words are green.
If any of the words are in Red you can't use that Recipe just yet.
I hope this tip helps newbies clear there whole backpack when cooking raw foods.
Thank you.

You can buy cheap green recipes for each level group, at the inn in the level corresponding town. Drink ones from brewer and the food ones from the cook.

So if you are provisioning lvl 20-25 should be stormhaven I believe. I cannot double check as I cannot log in but yeah.

Love_Daggerfall

Mureel wrote: »

Love_Daggerfall wrote: »

Lets say imagine this:
You just looted the two Ships in Daggerfall and your backpack is full of stolen food.
So you go to the Pub fireplace and cook as much as you are able.
You will see there is still uncooked food in your backpack.
You can't just buy any recipes.
You need to buy Recipes from Guild traders that will cook the uncooked food in your backpack.
When buying Recipes a very lot of them you will not be able to use until your maxed out.
To get around this when selecting a recipe from the Guild list make sure all the words are green.
If any of the words are in Red you can't use that Recipe just yet.
I hope this tip helps newbies clear there whole backpack when cooking raw foods.
Thank you.

You can buy cheap green recipes for each level group, at the inn in the level corresponding town. Drink ones from brewer and the food ones from the cook.

So if you are provisioning lvl 20-25 should be stormhaven I believe. I cannot double check as I cannot log in but yeah.

I didn't stick to the campain on this one.

Graydon

Crafting Bag = super fast super cheap level 50 Provisioning.

GreenhaloX

Yeah.. it was hard working and not smart working. I don't know, maybe I wasn't looking hard enough, but I didn't find any recipe level 2-19, but found lots of improvement level 4-6 and even found some blue and purple recipes. Since I had purchased the recipe improvement 2 (after reaching level 20), a recipe showed up in the chef store. Oh well, it seems to be going a bit quicker now. I'm just looking to get to improvement 6 so I can do the blue and purple recipes I have waiting.. to boost health and stam to the 5 and 6K.

Love_Daggerfall

Mureel wrote: »

Love_Daggerfall wrote: »

Lets say imagine this:
You just looted the two Ships in Daggerfall and your backpack is full of stolen food.
So you go to the Pub fireplace and cook as much as you are able.
You will see there is still uncooked food in your backpack.
You can't just buy any recipes.
You need to buy Recipes from Guild traders that will cook the uncooked food in your backpack.
When buying Recipes a very lot of them you will not be able to use until your maxed out.
To get around this when selecting a recipe from the Guild list make sure all the words are green.
If any of the words are in Red you can't use that Recipe just yet.
I hope this tip helps newbies clear there whole backpack when cooking raw foods.
Thank you.

You can buy cheap green recipes for each level group, at the inn in the level corresponding town. Drink ones from brewer and the food ones from the cook.

So if you are provisioning lvl 20-25 should be stormhaven I believe. I cannot double check as I cannot log in but yeah.

I didn't stick to the campain on this one.

AntMan100673 wrote: »

The only problem with levelling provisioning, particularly early on when you don't have many bag/bank upgrades, is storing all the ingredients (if you sub this isn't a problem). Within each skill level there are different levels of recipes, you need to be making the highest level recipes you can to keep it levelling up at a decent rate. Chicken breast and roast pork are both level 1 recipes (the lowest within skill level 1) which is why making those took you so long to level up

I just put in two 15 hour days playing to get to level 50. Either way works.

Love_Daggerfall

Graydon wrote: »

Crafting Bag = super fast super cheap level 50 Provisioning.

I will think about investing in this for sure.

Love_Daggerfall

GreenhaloX wrote: »

Yeah.. it was hard working and not smart working. I don't know, maybe I wasn't looking hard enough, but I didn't find any recipe level 2-19, but found lots of improvement level 4-6 and even found some blue and purple recipes. Since I had purchased the recipe improvement 2 (after reaching level 20), a recipe showed up in the chef store. Oh well, it seems to be going a bit quicker now. I'm just looking to get to improvement 6 so I can do the blue and purple recipes I have waiting.. to boost health and stam to the 5 and 6K.

I been boosting health a lot so l could open all the world at a very low level for cheap trade deals.

Lightninvash

When I was leveling up my crafters provisioning I got a recipe that I would use on him that was blue quality for hp and stamina and bought 2-300 of the mats I needed for him. I think there were only 2 mats to make the food. I bought the mats which were rather cheap and crafted like 6-700 things of food(with the passives). I found that much faster than traveling around to maybe find the ingredients to what you can cook.

xilfxlegion

The vile manse in malabal tor.

loot all of the food on the main floor, and the top floor, and then go to the fire in the kitchen and cook it all. then go to the basement to queue the cut screen, and go back up and do it again. you can get to level 50 in less than an hour.

GreenhaloX

xilfxlegion wrote: »

The vile manse in malabal tor.

loot all of the food on the main floor, and the top floor, and then go to the fire in the kitchen and cook it all. then go to the basement to queue the cut screen, and go back up and do it again. you can get to level 50 in less than an hour.

It's actually in Reaper march. I tried that, but didn't work too well for me. I guess I only had the recipe level 1 at the times. So, there was not much ingredient for my recipe. I guess, not having the right recipe, you're stuck in roaming around looting or killing for ingredients. Oh well.. it works. I'll get it another go at the manse, though and see what happens.

Love_Daggerfall

Lightninvash wrote: »

When I was leveling up my crafters provisioning I got a recipe that I would use on him that was blue quality for hp and stamina and bought 2-300 of the mats I needed for him. I think there were only 2 mats to make the food. I bought the mats which were rather cheap and crafted like 6-700 things of food(with the passives). I found that much faster than traveling around to maybe find the ingredients to what you can cook.

Yes buying mats is the way to cut down time.

Love_Daggerfall

GreenhaloX wrote: »

xilfxlegion wrote: »

The vile manse in malabal tor.

loot all of the food on the main floor, and the top floor, and then go to the fire in the kitchen and cook it all. then go to the basement to queue the cut screen, and go back up and do it again. you can get to level 50 in less than an hour.

It's actually in Reaper march. I tried that, but didn't work too well for me. I guess I only had the recipe level 1 at the times. So, there was not much ingredient for my recipe. I guess, not having the right recipe, you're stuck in roaming around looting or killing for ingredients. Oh well.. it works. I'll get it another go at the manse, though and see what happens.

Nice to read both sides of a teaching.
I'm off to bed goodnight.

Runs

To be honest you are much better off buying 4 recipes(lvl 15,25,35,45) all can be found cheap, and then buying the mats to make enough of the lvl 15 to get your skill to 20. I believe that number is around 77, it's been a long time. Then buy enough mats to use the lvl 25 recipe to get you to 30. Somewhere close to 100 times. The 35 recipe to get you to 40, something a little over 100 but don't think more than 120. The 45 recipe will take you to 50, this one you need to make a bit more of but I know its less than 200. If you have CP, the inspiration boost helps a bit too.

Doing it this way will cost around 5k gold on NA PC... The time saved, is well worth the cost.

Just what ever anyone chooses to do please do not let it be fishy sticks. When I see people buying fish in large quantities to level provisioning with fishy sticks I want to slap. The fish stick recipe gives the lowest exp as it is a lvl 1 food so you need to craft more, which means more time. And not just a little more time, a LOT of time. Even i

Love_Daggerfall

Runs wrote: »

To be honest you are much better off buying 4 recipes(lvl 15,25,35,45) all can be found cheap, and then buying the mats to make enough of the lvl 15 to get your skill to 20. I believe that number is around 77, it's been a long time. Then buy enough mats to use the lvl 25 recipe to get you to 30. Somewhere close to 100 times. The 35 recipe to get you to 40, something a little over 100 but don't think more than 120. The 45 recipe will take you to 50, this one you need to make a bit more of but I know its less than 200. If you have CP, the inspiration boost helps a bit too.

Doing it this way will cost around 5k gold on NA PC... The time saved, is well worth the cost.

Just what ever anyone chooses to do please do not let it be fishy sticks. When I see people buying fish in large quantities to level provisioning with fishy sticks I want to slap. The fish stick recipe gives the lowest exp as it is a lvl 1 food so you need to craft more, which means more time. And not just a little more time, a LOT of time. Even i

For simple uneducated foke.
Just cook everything you buy or steal.
We can't do the maths.
Just put in 30 hours provisioning over a week and you will have maxed level.
We need to keep it simple for us who have less brains then the others.

Eugenstash

GreenhaloX wrote: »

Oh man.. provisioning is one of the easiest thing to do, but it's one of the hardest to level up, at least before level 20. Before level 20, it's just slow going cooking up tons of chicken breasts and pork (constantly having to roam the coast like in Wrothgar and kill tons of those poor chub loons and horkers) and only getting a wee bit of movement on leveling. Seems it's leveling up a bit quicker since I finally reached level 20 and able to level up to recipe 2. So, I have hope now. I take it that level 3 recipe and upwards will be much quicker.. but I'm also thinking ingredients for higher levels recipes may not be as easy to find as recipe 1 and 2.

I always felt horrible slaying horkers in Skyrim. If only they looked more closely to hag ravens. That would help me sleep better at night.