Are equipment crafting writs more profitable than selling the mats?

LeeroyGankins

Some context here, PC NA temp alloy price 9-10k, rosin around 4k, wax around 6k

After accounting for the mats provided by surveys,

Are doing the 3 equipment writs more profitable than just selling what the mats you collected?

On average and over many runs.


Doing them for 2 weeks myself, got some nice stash of gold mats to sell, BUT, it still seems I'd make more selling just the mats.

Trashyratchet

LeeroyGankins wrote: »

Some context here, PC NA temp alloy price 9-10k, rosin around 4k, wax around 6k

After accounting for the mats provided by surveys,

Are doing the 3 equipment writs more profitable than just selling what the mats you collected?

On average and over many runs.


Doing them for 2 weeks myself, got some nice stash of gold mats to sell, BUT, it still seems I'd make more selling just the mats.

Personally, I've been doing a ton of writs for a long time. It's to the point that I keep a speadsheet of what I need to make and only do writs every other day. 1 day is pickup day, then the next I make one stop at each bench and craft yesterday's writ and today's at the same time. Then turn in a batch, pick up today's and turn those in. The prov and alch. can be made ahead of time in huge stacks and you can just pluck them out of the bank with each character, so that saves stops at a bench.

Now, my writs are probably out of hand and an intervention may be in order. I turned in 76 writs two days ago but only made 24 stops at crafting tables. I made about 50k gold, just from turning them in. I will do that again today. So I make about 175K a week just turning them in. I have found that the biggest thing that made me money was not even selling the improvement mats and whatnot (you can get those from hirelings as well), but it's the fact that I don't ever have to buy materials of any kind to make a new armor set or gold out my dropped gear. Money not spent is money earned as well. I've golded out multiple sets on 10 max toons and haven't spent money to do it.

There are a lot of things that drop from writ boxes that you can sell as well. Frost Miriam sells well, you can make a few thousand making the glass armor motif pages with the pieces that drop, you can sell flowers if you don't need them, etc.

So, if you are doing a lot of endgame content and crafting and improving a lot of gear, doing writs can save you a ton of gold.

If you are mostly farming and making money, then it may or may not be the way to go, I'm not sure. Just thought I would share my writ obsessed experience with you. 10 characters with all gold gear and 5.7 mil in the bank, without ever farming materials other than surveys.

Nestor

LeeroyGankins wrote: »

Doing them for 2 weeks myself, got some nice stash of gold mats to sell, BUT, it still seems I'd make more selling just the mats.

When One Tamriel hits and about all we will be able to farm is Ruby Mats, the prices will drop to the basement, so Writs will be more profitable than they are now.

LeeroyGankins

Trashyratchet wrote: »

LeeroyGankins wrote: »

Some context here, PC NA temp alloy price 9-10k, rosin around 4k, wax around 6k

After accounting for the mats provided by surveys,

Are doing the 3 equipment writs more profitable than just selling what the mats you collected?

On average and over many runs.


Doing them for 2 weeks myself, got some nice stash of gold mats to sell, BUT, it still seems I'd make more selling just the mats.

Personally, I've been doing a ton of writs for a long time. It's to the point that I keep a speadsheet of what I need to make and only do writs every other day. 1 day is pickup day, then the next I make one stop at each bench and craft yesterday's writ and today's at the same time. Then turn in a batch, pick up today's and turn those in. The prov and alch. can be made ahead of time in huge stacks and you can just pluck them out of the bank with each character, so that saves stops at a bench.

Now, my writs are probably out of hand and an intervention may be in order. I turned in 76 writs two days ago but only made 24 stops at crafting tables. I made about 50k gold, just from turning them in. I will do that again today. So I make about 175K a week just turning them in. I have found that the biggest thing that made me money was not even selling the improvement mats and whatnot (you can get those from hirelings as well), but it's the fact that I don't ever have to buy materials of any kind to make a new armor set or gold out my dropped gear. Money not spent is money earned as well. I've golded out multiple sets on 10 max toons and haven't spent money to do it.

There are a lot of things that drop from writ boxes that you can sell as well. Frost Miriam sells well, you can make a few thousand making the glass armor motif pages with the pieces that drop, you can sell flowers if you don't need them, etc.

So, if you are doing a lot of endgame content and crafting and improving a lot of gear, doing writs can save you a ton of gold.

If you are mostly farming and making money, then it may or may not be the way to go, I'm not sure. Just thought I would share my writ obsessed experience with you. 10 characters with all gold gear and 5.7 mil in the bank, without ever farming materials other than surveys.

You're right, it's definitely not a losing deal from that prospective. You still get nice tempers to kit out all your chars and it's viable in that sense. Depending on market conditions selling mats/doing writ may not be too far different.

LeeroyGankins

Nestor wrote: »

LeeroyGankins wrote: »

Doing them for 2 weeks myself, got some nice stash of gold mats to sell, BUT, it still seems I'd make more selling just the mats.

When One Tamriel hits and about all we will be able to farm is Ruby Mats, the prices will drop to the basement, so Writs will be more profitable than they are now.

Oh ye and temper price probably going up too.

nine9six

If I had a ton of Wrothgar Survey Maps, would I be better to not make use of them until after 1 Tamriel?

Decado

Trashyratchet wrote: »

LeeroyGankins wrote: »

Some context here, PC NA temp alloy price 9-10k, rosin around 4k, wax around 6k

After accounting for the mats provided by surveys,

Are doing the 3 equipment writs more profitable than just selling what the mats you collected?

On average and over many runs.


Doing them for 2 weeks myself, got some nice stash of gold mats to sell, BUT, it still seems I'd make more selling just the mats.

Personally, I've been doing a ton of writs for a long time. It's to the point that I keep a speadsheet of what I need to make and only do writs every other day. 1 day is pickup day, then the next I make one stop at each bench and craft yesterday's writ and today's at the same time. Then turn in a batch, pick up today's and turn those in. The prov and alch. can be made ahead of time in huge stacks and you can just pluck them out of the bank with each character, so that saves stops at a bench.

Now, my writs are probably out of hand and an intervention may be in order. I turned in 76 writs two days ago but only made 24 stops at crafting tables. I made about 50k gold, just from turning them in. I will do that again today. So I make about 175K a week just turning them in. I have found that the biggest thing that made me money was not even selling the improvement mats and whatnot (you can get those from hirelings as well), but it's the fact that I don't ever have to buy materials of any kind to make a new armor set or gold out my dropped gear. Money not spent is money earned as well. I've golded out multiple sets on 10 max toons and haven't spent money to do it.

There are a lot of things that drop from writ boxes that you can sell as well. Frost Miriam sells well, you can make a few thousand making the glass armor motif pages with the pieces that drop, you can sell flowers if you don't need them, etc.

So, if you are doing a lot of endgame content and crafting and improving a lot of gear, doing writs can save you a ton of gold.

If you are mostly farming and making money, then it may or may not be the way to go, I'm not sure. Just thought I would share my writ obsessed experience with you. 10 characters with all gold gear and 5.7 mil in the bank, without ever farming materials other than surveys.

I'm the same I do it on almost all my chars and I make a profit from just turning them in, but since I also earn a huge amount of gold mats I no longer need I also see to friends at a discounted rate when they need them, so that brings in even more money, overall very profitable for what takes roughly an hour a day

LeeroyGankins

So the verdict is,,,definitely worth it after One Tameri drops

BenevolentBowd

nine9six wrote: »

If I had a ton of Wrothgar Survey Maps, would I be better to not make use of them until after 1 Tamriel?

According to the patch notes, Survey Maps will be rarer but drop much more. If you have the space, you might want to save them.