Does anyone know what affects the gold reward for the daily crafting writs?

jjsmall009 · January 2018

Is it character level? The crafting skill line level? Or do you need to put skill points into the first skill of each crafting tree?

I'm looking to make some easy money on all of my alts and was curious the best way to get the most gold from the daily writs.

FrancisCrawford · January 2018

Character level only.

On a max character I get 664 gold per writ.

Without checking carefully, I believe that as a general rule the other returns on the writs exceed the cost. The possible exception is clothing writs made with ancestor silk, because ancestor silk is expensive and dreugh wax isn't.

jjsmall009 · January 2018

Thanks. Guess it's time to level a bunch of alts to 50.

davey1107 · January 2018

The real value of writs is in the non-gold rewards. I haven’t calculated it recently, but last time I did the equipment writs return an average of $2500 after material costs at full guild store prices.

Regardless...because higher rank writs return better non-gold rewards, that’s the first way to make better money. Your ornate items will be worth more, intricates produce higher value mats, you get gold tempers more often,,etc.

Kevin_of_Devinshire · January 2018

I never understood this either. I have 12 cp810 crafting toons and I get from 3,400 - 4,000 per toon. It's never the same.

phaneub17_ESO · January 2018

As an Imperial, I get 670 gold per turn in. Guess that 1% bonus really does count lol.

Feric51 · January 2018

Kevin_of_Devinshire wrote: »

I never understood this either. I have 12 cp810 crafting toons and I get from 3,400 - 4,000 per toon. It's never the same.

Are some of your characters Imperial, or did you notice this back when prosperous gear was still a thing that may have been affecting it?

3,400 vs 4,000 makes me wonder if you're only doing 5 writs on some days unknowingly. I know there was a bug once in a while where if you did writs back to back one of them (provisioning I think) wasn't resetting. Also, the gold received icon in the lower left of the screen rounds to the nearest hundred. I don't think it's ever exactly 4,000 gold for all six writs.

If it's none of those possibilities then I have no idea.