Surveys: Receiving Less Than Normal

Korah_Eaglecry

First, let me admit that I've only noticed this on Blacksmithing and Woodworking Surveys. I never use the amount of mats for Enchanting or Alchemy that I use for Blacksmithing and Woodworking. So Im never at a point where I need to turn to the Surveys for that. In fact my Enchanter/Alchemist is sitting on a ton of Surveys right now because of the lack of need to go collect on them. And Ive never really bothered with the Clothing Writs for whatever reason. It just never felt beneficial as the other writs. Or might of just been out of sheer laziness running multiple writs.

But since Morrowind I've noticed a sudden drop off in the appearance of Blacksmithing and Woodworking Surveys in writ rewards. My usual cycle of crafting is that I do the writs with a pool of 600-700 ingots/stacks of wood. All the while collecting Surveys and going out and purposely farming whatever I need for gear separately of my stock of mats. This usually allows me to go quite a while before having to replenish my stock for crafting. Giving me more than enough time to stock enough surveys that with one trip out to collect on them I can easily restock what Ive used over the last month or two or more.

But for the last 3 or so months Ive barely seen any Surveys and Im now constantly going out to gather materials for crafting. Almost every few days compared to going a month or more. Now its quite possible that Im just in a rut with RNG but this has been going on for a number of months and what little Ive received in the way of surveys have quickly been consumed by the ever grinding wheel of crafting.

Im just unsure if this is something thats localized to my account/character or if this is something that others are noticing. Ive recently began to question if I even want to bother continuing with crafting writs because of the increasing difficulty in trying to fulfill them and the lackluster rewards.

Whiphid

Too few surveys, especially woodworking seems to be sparse (but that might be my perception, cause my stock of ruby ash is always smaller than my stocks of anc silk and rubedite). I keep getting boxes with useless materials, because people were complaining about not being able to farm mats for lowbie crafting (instead of just asking said lowbies to farm their own mats in the first place).

Korah_Eaglecry

Whiphid wrote: »

Too few surveys, especially woodworking seems to be sparse (but that might be my perception, cause my stock of ruby ash is always smaller than my stocks of anc silk and rubedite). I keep getting boxes with useless materials, because people were complaining about not being able to farm mats for lowbie crafting (instead of just asking said lowbies to farm their own mats in the first place).

Yeah its definitely problematic. But that was a issue they created with One Tamriel that they didnt forsee being an issue. No reason to further punish Crafters for doing the writs by reducing the drop chance of surveys if thats the case. Blacksmithing/Woodworking/Clothing take up the most mats to make a simple item for turn in. The amount of surveys appearing in rewards was at a nice balance where you didnt get them all the time but you got enough that when your pool of supplies ran out you had enough to replenish it. It was a nice cycle.

agingerinohio

I found that my low level alts with no points in crafting tend to get survey drops. Not my master crafter though.....which is pretty odd.

zaria

agingerinohio wrote: »

I found that my low level alts with no points in crafting tend to get survey drops. Not my master crafter though.....which is pretty odd.

My low level crafters pulls way less surveys than the master, so few its not cost effective to do them.
Master crafter surveys is also way down, getting to the point there crafting writs stop beeing economical.
Stopped doing clothing writs as the raw materials cost is over 2K.

SolidusPrime

zaria wrote: »

agingerinohio wrote: »

I found that my low level alts with no points in crafting tend to get survey drops. Not my master crafter though.....which is pretty odd.

My low level crafters pulls way less surveys than the master, so few its not cost effective to do them.
Master crafter surveys is also way down, getting to the point there crafting writs stop beeing economical.
Stopped doing clothing writs as the raw materials cost is over 2K.

I'm at this point now....master writs have dried up...surveys have dried up. I skipped doing them today because it just isn't worth it anymore.