Should i do daily writs on all characters?

KharnTheUndying

Just started doing daily writs on my two vets and a few lower level characters ranging from 5 to 46,is it worth it too login into each one eveyday to do he daily writs or should i just do it on crafters?

Ch4mpTW

Yes. Always. How do you say no to free: Gold, CP, mats, and anniversary goodies?

FloppyTouch

For this event yes for other days no unless they are all 50 in each craft then yellow tempers and survey maps seem to drop more plus exp pages and master writs.

Vaoh

I certified my first character today

Decided to fully certify 7 characters in total for this event.

jeedrzej

I have 15 characters. Daily writs are my only source of money. I can do via them 1 milion per week.

pdebie64b16_ESO

I do crafting dailies on 12 chars atm, the only difference with maxed out crafters with all passives is a chance of master writs and tempers.

Maxed out crafters doesnt have an improved change to get motifs or other goodies from the event boxes.

Ch4mpTW

jeedrzej wrote: »

I have 15 characters. Daily writs are my only source of money. I can do via them 1 milion per week.

Yeah, people really don’t understand just how much gold they’re letting go down the drain for every character that they don’t do daily writs for. Per character you get something like 3.8k or 4k gold (in straight-up gold), plus a chance to receive legendary quality improvements (e.g. Dreugh Wax). Then on top of that, you have a chance to receive “Master Writs” which can sell for a fair amount of gold. Plus a chance to get surveys, whuch will lead you to more raw materials to refine.

Now then, let’s step back and examine things from a mathematical perspective. Let’s say you have 12 characters. That’s 45.6k to 48k per character you’re pulling in a day. If you ya have 14 characters? That’s 53.2k to 56k a day. Just from daily writs alone. Lol. You doing that 7 days a week...? That’s 372k to 392k a week. Lmao. Do I need to post the math for a month and so on?

And mind you, that’s just for doing the daily crafting writs. Not even selling anything, and or looting anything.

XoxHANNIBALxoX

I've been playing near on three years and I've only just started doing them this last week while the event has been on and I'm kicking myself that I've never done them before now.

Stabbina

While I aggree to everything said about the benefits of doing as many writs as possible, I still only do them on one character.

Why?

I enjoy seeing new things. Because of this I love exploring. I want to explore the entire map, all lore (books, notes, gossip, ...). I want to explore all available skills and their synnergies. ESO offers excellent opportunities to to this, so I do this whenever I can.

Obviously, when I am standing at a crafting station doing writs, or when I'm facing yet another (often longlasting) logon screen, I don't see much of the rich environment or lore, and it is certainly less fun than annihilating anything that moves with my awesome skill combinations

zaria

Ch4mpTW wrote: »

jeedrzej wrote: »

I have 15 characters. Daily writs are my only source of money. I can do via them 1 milion per week.

Yeah, people really don’t understand just how much gold they’re letting go down the drain for every character that they don’t do daily writs for. Per character you get something like 3.8k or 4k gold (in straight-up gold), plus a chance to receive legendary quality improvements (e.g. Dreugh Wax). Then on top of that, you have a chance to receive “Master Writs” which can sell for a fair amount of gold. Plus a chance to get surveys, whuch will lead you to more raw materials to refine.

Now then, let’s step back and examine things from a mathematical perspective. Let’s say you have 12 characters. That’s 45.6k to 48k per character you’re pulling in a day. If you ya have 14 characters? That’s 53.2k to 56k a day. Just from daily writs alone. Lol. You doing that 7 days a week...? That’s 372k to 392k a week. Lmao. Do I need to post the math for a month and so on?

And mind you, that’s just for doing the daily crafting writs. Not even selling anything, and or looting anything.

Yes but this require you to use a lot of skill points. Now if you have an retired character you can make him an dedicated crafter.

Asardes

In general they're not worth unless they are at maximum tier on level 50/CP160 character because:
- unless you have a craft bag, doing multiple tiers will turn into a nightmare because you have to stock several different tiers of materials, the problem gets even hairier for consumables, since you have to have the multiplication passives in the craft tree in order not to waste materials (Brewer, Chef, Chemistry); even with craft bag is not easy since some materials are pretty rare, unless you gather them each time, which is rather time consuming
- provisioning requires recipes for each tier; you can buy them from vendors, but they are rather expensive. If you chose to go bulk pre-crafted, note that there are 6 x 2 food & drink combos you have to provide for, meaning 12 slots taken in bank.
- the monetary reward scales to your level, hence it will be lower for low level characters and may not cover the cost of the materials, especially for light armor writs
- lower tier writs have greatly reduced chance of giving legendary materials, while the chance for maximum tier ones is ~30%
- only the top tier ones give master writs
- if you do them for leveling crafting skills, the method is really slow, it is in fact much faster to feed maximum level glyphs and trash gear through the bank from your CP160+ character and deconstruct them; alchemy and provisioning level fast enough anyway.

But I guess the current event is an exception. I had 10 maximum level & tier crafters doing writs every day, mainly for legendary materials and master writs, and the bulk of my reward boxes came from those, but I also have other 5 low level characters 15-35, which, although they are certified and I do have a craft bag, I simply didn't bother to employ due to the complications.

Slick_007

yes

Beardimus

Yes if you want stuff
No if you want to enjoy gaming in limited play windows.

Karm1cOne

I might recommend every other day. Pick them up every day, and turn in double every other. It seems to save some time, and I don't feel like it's quite the time suck every day. This and craft food and pots in bulk in your bank.

WhiteCoatSyndrome

For the event definitely. I try to squeeze them in before work, so my normal playtime isn't interrupted.

lardvader

I've been on and off doing this for almost 2 years now. In periods I don't if I have limited time or don't need gold mats. I usually do lots of writs when I need gold, vouchers and mats for upgrading gear.

For the event most def! Easy way (and fast on PC) for getting boxes.

Jameliel

Only during events that reward dailies with boxes. Otherwise you can make a lot more gold faster in other ways.

Tandor

Only if you enjoy doing them, otherwise what's the point in playing a game if it just becomes a chore?

Slurg

Some of my best jubilee box rewards have come from level 1 crafters. Need more Jute!

It’s only worth doing crafting writs on non-crafters for events like this where you get something extra, in my opinion.

Violynne

Ch4mpTW wrote: »

Yeah, people really don’t understand just how much gold they’re letting go down the drain for every character that they don’t do daily writs for.

I stopped doing daily writs because I found them annoying. Craft here, run across Tamriel to drop them there.

I only recently discovered we can now drop off writs where we craft them, which should have been available on day 1.

Because of this simplistic change, I'm actually doing daily writs again. I can now have them completed within 30 minutes because I use one character to craft them all, then bank the copies so the others turn them in.

Works for all except pots... this one seems randomly generated.

Reverb

Unless you have something against gold and mats, yes. But if it starts to feel too much like a chore to keep up, you can stop.

KraziJoe

Depends if you like to hoard your mats. It can deplete your mats pretty quickly so choose wisely.

xilfxlegion

yes. nice starting the day with 48 anniversary boxes

Spacemonkey

i think its a question of in-game-gold vs real-life-time

(for those saying they dont understand why it isnt everyone that does all writs on all character slots)

if I have an hour to play, I want to actually play, not grind writs. Regardless of events.

Vaoh

Violynne wrote: »

Ch4mpTW wrote: »

Yeah, people really don’t understand just how much gold they’re letting go down the drain for every character that they don’t do daily writs for.

I stopped doing daily writs because I found them annoying. Craft here, run across Tamriel to drop them there.

I only recently discovered we can now drop off writs where we craft them, which should have been available on day 1.

Because of this simplistic change, I'm actually doing daily writs again. I can now have them completed within 30 minutes because I use one character to craft them all, then bank the copies so the others turn them in.

Works for all except pots... this one seems randomly generated.

@Violynne are they always the same across all characters? Does alliance affect this at all? I’m new to writs but am doing them on 7 chars (6 DC, 1 AD) for the sake of the event. It would help a lot to craft it all on one character.

neverwalk

15 Imperial master crafters make 60k gold from doing writs each day, and no killing.

Vostorn

I do the everyday, no matter the level of my character. You will always get more gold than what you spend (except for alchemy when it asks for some expensive alchemy reagents).
I don't spent points into blacksmith/clothing/woodworking unless I can max it to level 10. I keep surveys in bank and go get it with my maxed crafter as the mats are levelled with gatherer.

Vaoh wrote: »

Violynne wrote: »

Ch4mpTW wrote: »

Yeah, people really don’t understand just how much gold they’re letting go down the drain for every character that they don’t do daily writs for.

I stopped doing daily writs because I found them annoying. Craft here, run across Tamriel to drop them there.

I only recently discovered we can now drop off writs where we craft them, which should have been available on day 1.

Because of this simplistic change, I'm actually doing daily writs again. I can now have them completed within 30 minutes because I use one character to craft them all, then bank the copies so the others turn them in.

Works for all except pots... this one seems randomly generated.

@Violynne are they always the same across all characters? Does alliance affect this at all? I’m new to writs but am doing them on 7 chars (6 DC, 1 AD) for the sake of the event. It would help a lot to craft it all on one character.

I've noticed provisioning recipes will be different depending on the alliance (at least at low level).
Alliance doesn't change anything for the other crafts.

There is a rotation of what you will need to craft. It is not synced between each char. One can have to craft daggers, another one can have to craft a sword.
However, it is always in the same order (A -> B -> C -> A ->. B -> C). Once you have to craft something you already had to, you have finished a cycle and can predict what you will need to craft the next day.

Anotherone773

Ch4mpTW wrote: »

Yes. Always. How do you say no to free: Gold, CP, mats, and anniversary goodies?

But its not actually free. You have to spend resources to do the writs and if your doing multiple characters you burn a lot of resources. I think its around 40 refined resources per equipment writ. So you dont actually make that much off writs unless you get master writs to drop.

For this event do them everyday, otherwise i do them as acquire material through normal play. IE: I dont by mats and i dont go out of my way to farm them. If its convenient to hit a node while do other stuff i do, but i dont grind the mats so i can support writs on multiple characters daily. All you would be doing is farming mats and doing writs.

Vostorn

Anotherone773 wrote: »

Ch4mpTW wrote: »

Yes. Always. How do you say no to free: Gold, CP, mats, and anniversary goodies?

But its not actually free. You have to spend resources to do the writs and if your doing multiple characters you burn a lot of resources. I think its around 40 refined resources per equipment writ. So you dont actually make that much off writs unless you get master writs to drop.

With the surveys, you do.

One survey is worth more than 100 raw ressources.

Also note that shipments contain 25 refined materials related to the skill line with a random level between one and your craft level.
This means that if your blacksmith level is 1/10, you only need iron ingots and you get either a shipment containing 25 iron ingots or a survey.
For clothing, it's 50% jute / 50% rawhide (even if there are two quests requiring jute and one requiring rawhide, that's why jute is more expensive than iron ingots and rawhide).

jedtb16_ESO

have been doing crafting writs on 11 toons since the start of the event (normally only do one or two a day) tbh it's beginning to feel a bit like having a job again.

but, if you want a chance at all the shiny things, you have to jump through the hoops. i must say my craft bag has benefited from all the bits and pieces i've received - nirn stones, perfect roe, style mats and so on.

Vaoh

Vostorn wrote: »

I do the everyday, no matter the level of my character. You will always get more gold than what you spend (except for alchemy when it asks for some expensive alchemy reagents).
I don't spent points into blacksmith/clothing/woodworking unless I can max it to level 10. I keep surveys in bank and go get it with my maxed crafter as the mats are levelled with gatherer.

Vaoh wrote: »

Violynne wrote: »

Ch4mpTW wrote: »

Yeah, people really don’t understand just how much gold they’re letting go down the drain for every character that they don’t do daily writs for.

I stopped doing daily writs because I found them annoying. Craft here, run across Tamriel to drop them there.

I only recently discovered we can now drop off writs where we craft them, which should have been available on day 1.

Because of this simplistic change, I'm actually doing daily writs again. I can now have them completed within 30 minutes because I use one character to craft them all, then bank the copies so the others turn them in.

Works for all except pots... this one seems randomly generated.

@Violynne are they always the same across all characters? Does alliance affect this at all? I’m new to writs but am doing them on 7 chars (6 DC, 1 AD) for the sake of the event. It would help a lot to craft it all on one character.

I've noticed provisioning recipes will be different depending on the alliance (at least at low level).
Alliance doesn't change anything for the other crafts.

There is a rotation of what you will need to craft. It is not synced between each char. One can have to craft daggers, another one can have to craft a sword.
However, it is always in the same order (A -> B -> C -> A ->. B -> C). Once you have to craft something you already had to, you have finished a cycle and can predict what you will need to craft the next day.

Okay ty!

And just to be sure, that means there are *three* total different rotations of gear to create for each Blacksmithing/Clothing/Woodworking?

I’ve already gone ahead and crafted 40 of each of the six different potions that I’ll be asked to craft, 40 of each food/drink that might be asked of me, and 5 of each glyph that I might need. All is stored in my bank.

So this means I can craft all of the items for the three different gear rotations per Blacksmithing/Clothing/Woodworking and store those in my bank as well?

If so this process just got much easier