Do you have a dedicated crafting character?

krachall

iannotinbjing

umm ... what about,

Yes, my main character is my crafter, it's not at all complicated (what else am I gonna do with all those skill points from Cadwell's silver and gold!)

that's the one that would get my vote

EvilCroc

Sorta. One of my characters is more of a crafter but all can craft and my crafter can adventure

My main is my crafter. She knows all motifs. has many achievements etc.
My alts are... well, they can craft low-tier items and they do crafting writs with iron/maple/jute

psxfloh

Other. It's complicated.

there's enough skillpoints in this game to have all crafting skills maxed out and be proficient in one or even two roles.

only annoying thing is when you want to change your spec (or maybe only one morph!) and you have to redo all your crafting skills as well..

Edit: I would've taken "option 1", but my dedicated crafter is also the character I do the most pve stuff with, so the "little or nothing else" part just doesn't fit!

Tasear

iannotinbjing wrote: »

umm ... what about,

Yes, my main character is my crafter, it's not at all complicated (what else am I gonna do with all those skill points from Cadwell's silver and gold!)

that's the one that would get my vote

This^

Gythral

Sorta. One of my characters is more of a crafter but all can craft and my crafter can adventure

Main is the master crafter
everyone else crafts to feed the main master writs, surveys etc

Linaleah

Other. It's complicated.

other. my main is my crafter, but also an adventurer and achievement hunter. my alts can technically craft, but in reality for the purposes of crafting, they are writ mules. otherwise, their skill points go into combat abilities and such.

crafting on a master level in this game is very time consuming endeavor, so having more than one character for that is something i don't have spoons for. but at the same time - its not really complicated either. she does the most, becasue its the character i play the most

M_Volsung

Other. It's complicated.

I have one character and she handles everything.

aaisoaho

Other. It's complicated.

My main is my crafter. I feed her all the motifs she doesn't know and she has 9/9 traits studied on every profession. She's also a stam sorc and I use her as a farmer and as a PVE DD. I chase all the achievements on her and I've done most of the PVE content with her (exceptions: Vet Trials and some Vet DLC dungeons). My alts are either work-in-progress or a finished character. Only full-level alt I have is my mag sorc, who I drag occasionally on the PVE content and he doesn't craft so much. Only fully leveled crafting skill on him is alchemy.

Sharee

Other. It's complicated.

One of my characters(first one) can do all crafting, but i also play it normally. Other characters usually have alchemy maxed so i dont have to switch when i need more potions in cyro and the pop is locked.

static_recharge

Other. It's complicated.

Not complicated. My main is my crafter, DPS and my achievement hunter.

FrancisCrawford

Sorta. One of my characters is more of a crafter but all can craft and my crafter can adventure

As I see it:

• There always needed to be a single main blacksmithing/clothier/woodworking crafter, to share motifs.
• With the introduction of furnishing recipes, there needs to be a single "main crafter", period.
• A "main crafter" needs a lot of skill points. So there has to at least be a lot of adventuring in his past.
• Unless you're in a guild with a great set of attuned crafting stations (which I am, actually), your main equipment crafter needs to be able to survive travel to numerous different locations.
• Whoever uses crafting maps needs to be a high-level crafter and also needs to be able to survive travel to numerous different locations.

In my case:

• My original Molag-Bal-defeating main character is my main crafter.
• He's not exactly my top endgame character, but at the moment he's one of only three who's completed a DLC dungeon.
• Before the Anniversary event, I had two characters who were top-tier in all crafts and also were able to adventure. Now I have three (alchemy aside, which is irrelevant since your level doesn't affect what you gather).
• A lot of my characters were at some time my main for one or more consumable crafts.
• My main crafter could also become one of my major combat characters again, for example if I decide I want a sorcerer tank.
• If so, he might run low on skill points, and other characters might take over duties such as breaking down gear or brewing potions.

leeux

Sorta. One of my characters is more of a crafter but all can craft and my crafter can adventure

I have a total of 4 characters with 9 traits learned and 10/10 on all crafting professions, and enough skill points in passives too to craft and temper stuff.

But from those 4 only 1 of them has enough motif knowledge to craft anything I'd like, and hence is my dedicated crafter, since I don't play the game with her, well, mostly. As she hasn't enough skill points to spend in combat passives and useful extra combat abilities/skills I'd need to consider her fully specced

Also, another one of my 4 chars (but different than my equipment crafter) is the one that knows almost all the provisioning recipes in the game (I believe he's at 500ish recipes atm. and I still need to do CwC content for the recipes I can get there), and hence he's my dedicated chef/brewer

I'm slowly catching up with recipes on my other chars, but most of them are very rare and will take me several years to finish them, as I don't like to buy them... I prefer to find them. That's why I still use and maintain my dedicated provisioner char for when I have the need to cook/brew stuff.

EDIT: typos and clarification

TelvanniWizard

Yes. One character does all my crafting and little or nothing else.

Except for provisioning and alchemy, wich are done by my main.

zaria

Other. It's complicated.

psxfloh wrote: »

there's enough skillpoints in this game to have all crafting skills maxed out and be proficient in one or even two roles.

only annoying thing is when you want to change your spec (or maybe only one morph!) and you have to redo all your crafting skills as well..

Edit: I would've taken "option 1", but my dedicated crafter is also the character I do the most pve stuff with, so the "little or nothing else" part just doesn't fit!

This, my main is also the crafter magsorc healer and dps with pvp skills works as she has all skyshards and all the quest and dungeon skill points.
Lots of skills you never use, don't put points into them.

AlienatedGoat

Sorta. One of my characters is more of a crafter but all can craft and my crafter can adventure

I have 8 characters, all level 50 in all crafts.

Only one is my main master crafter. He has the 9 traits, the motifs and all the crafting achievements. The others crafting abilities are really only for gameplay purposes (like medicinal use) or for farming purposes.

Aliniel

Sorta. One of my characters is more of a crafter but all can craft and my crafter can adventure

My main character is the Alpha and Omega. He can do anything.

Chaos2088

Other. It's complicated.

All my characters are crafters.

munster1404

Sorta. One of my characters is more of a crafter but all can craft and my crafter can adventure

Dedicated crafter (First character) with most motifs, he's also the one doing the refining and deconstructing since he has those passives maxed out. I have always regretted this choice since I don't play the first character anymore. Made the mistake of using him to unlock some of the rare motifs and now I'm stuck with him. Lol.

Sigma957

Other. It's complicated.

My main is my crafter but can also kill stuff quite easily as well, not really complicated lol. All the motif,recipes etc go to him first and then the rest go into guild store.

Asardes

Other. It's complicated.

It's not spread around, but replicated to some degree, and combined with storage:
- One character knows all motifs, traits, has all enchanting, alchemy & provisioning passives, knows all recipes, learns all the furnishing blueprints, will get jewelry crafting leveled firs, and start research on the traits ASAP when Summerset drops. He also has multiple DD and Tank specs in PvE (veteran dungeons and trials) and has a couple of PvP builds as well.
- 4 more have some cheaper motifs learned (Alliance styles, Daedric, Ancient Elf, Barbaric, Primal, Mercenary, Hollowjack), are almost done researching the traits, have enchanting passives, some of them also have the alchemy and provisioning ones, they know common green, blue and even some purple recipes, learn the green furnishing blueprints, will start leveling jewelry crafting after I finish with my first. They have multiple PvE and PvP setups, and are fully playable as well. All 5 have 360+ skill points.
- Another 9 are just basic crafters, with skills leveled, the main passive specced, same styles learned, they also learn the same type of recipes and blueprints once the previous ones have learned them. They also act as temporary or long term storage for different items, for example the first 5 store things such as master writs, enchanting surveys and PvP related items such as siege gear, 2 store monster sets and arena weapons, one stamina & tank BoP sets, another magicka BoP sets. They are not currently playable since they only have ~70 skill points each, just enough to spec crafting and a few combat skills, but no passives; they're only good enough for overland content. However they do have all relevant skills and skill lines fully trained to 50, morph, rank IV but that's unspecced and I can respec into it if I decide to make them combat ready by starting to collect more skill points.
- All 14 do writs daily, which results in a steady supply of surveys, legendary tempers and master writs. The 15th I've just made and it stores mostly BoE gear while I train riding, as I've done for the previous ones. I will level it during the next event in October and will become just like the other 9 basic crafters.

OrdoHermetica

Other. It's complicated.

My main character is also my crafter. There are more than enough Skill Points out there to fully level all the crafting trees and also be good in a scrap.

phaneub17_ESO

Sorta. One of my characters is more of a crafter but all can craft and my crafter can adventure

All 15 characters have 50 in every profession except enchanting, only the first 3 have 50 in that the rest go up to 32 for 3/3 hireling. My main gets all the first Motifs, the rest I get spread around to increase the chances of them getting Master Writs.

inclinations

Other. It's complicated.

Voted Other, but its not complicated.

My main has 367 spent skill points and 40 to spare for whatever might come in the future. I pve, pvp and have mastered all crafts.

TheShadowScout

Sorta. One of my characters is more of a crafter but all can craft and my crafter can adventure

When I started playing, I made an orc templar girl as dedicated crafter... but... then she grew on me... and I promoted her to "actually RPing with that character"...

adriant1978

Other. It's complicated.

Started out with separate crafters, realised what a chore it was loading each in turn to get hireling mail and check research, and hated having to multi-buy motifs. So I started a new character who has now taken over all my crafting.

They are not "dedicated" in the sense that they do nothing else though. Still do combat, quests, dungeons with them.

maltinkilic

Other. It's complicated.

My main is crafter. I play with her the most. Collected all skyshards with her. Done all the skill quests with her. She cleared all the dolmens. She is tamriel hero and a master angler and many many more.

Turelus

Other. It's complicated.

My main is my crafter, I am trying to get others levelled in crafting as well but am pretty lazy about doing it with extra characters.

Enslaved

Sorta. One of my characters is more of a crafter but all can craft and my crafter can adventure

My crafter can PvP and PvE as well. And my other chars can pretty much all craft enchantmens, usefull food and drinks, and any alchemy potion/poison.

DieAlteHexe

psxfloh wrote: »

there's enough skillpoints in this game to have all crafting skills maxed out and be proficient in one or even two roles.

only annoying thing is when you want to change your spec (or maybe only one morph!) and you have to redo all your crafting skills as well..

Edit: I would've taken "option 1", but my dedicated crafter is also the character I do the most pve stuff with, so the "little or nothing else" part just doesn't fit!

Same here.

Still_Mind

Sorta. One of my characters is more of a crafter but all can craft and my crafter can adventure

My main is my master crafter.

Also got crafting skills on alts for the writs, but none are really dedicated.