Yet another JC writ post (with ideas)

WIZZARD2K

Some jc writs I've received recently:

A recent woodworking writ for comparison:

A recent blacksmith writ for comparison:

In order to bring the jc writs into the line of something people might actually want to craft, either triple the reward, or drop the quality of improvement required one tier. Even with the improvements made to JC (and I'm a fan of everything from the dust in ore nodes, to grains from daily writs, to the improvement cost reduction) writs are still just a disappointment. I'd rather get a survey, because that at least is worth the effort. Anything over ~900g/voucher is lost money on PC/NA as you can buy anything you need at that rate.

stitchesofdooom

we just need more platings. Platings become more rare and harder to acquire the higher the quality. I did a post in this already but basically this plating grains thing needs to die. Either that or deconstructing rings should return platings, not grains and 10 grains should refine into multiple platings, the same way wood, metal etc refine.

Nestor

Yes, the whole Grains thing needs to go and Platings need to drop like Tempers do.

Xerikten

well the last two jewelry writs I have received, one today and the other sunday had 394 and 422 vouchers. so they do exist.

db0ssman

The last few epic writs I recieved were around 140 vouchers and the last legendary I received was 386. I think you have bad luck or those are from before the last update.

Runs

db0ssman wrote: »

The last few epic writs I recieved were around 140 vouchers and the last legendary I received was 386. I think you have bad luck or those are from before the last update.

Out of 15 toons I get daily standard trait epics that are in the 30s, daily standard trait legendaries that are in the 100s. I get the better traited high voucher ones too but mostly I get the low crap.

Either way I have made my piece with them. They drop so often you can pick the good ones to save and do, and just delete the bad ones.

db0ssman

Runs wrote: »

db0ssman wrote: »

The last few epic writs I recieved were around 140 vouchers and the last legendary I received was 386. I think you have bad luck or those are from before the last update.

Out of 15 toons I get daily standard trait epics that are in the 30s, daily standard trait legendaries that are in the 100s. I get the better traited high voucher ones too but mostly I get the low crap.

Either way I have made my piece with them. They drop so often you can pick the good ones to save and do, and just delete the bad ones.

Yeah, the 400 voucher legendary and 140 voucher epic writs are barely worth doing. I can't imagine even considering wasting my time on scraping together the mats I'd need for a legendary to get 100 vouchers back. That's like spending 3,000 gold a voucher to complete it.

karekiz

stitchesofdooom wrote: »

we just need more platings. Platings become more rare and harder to acquire the higher the quality. I did a post in this already but basically this plating grains thing needs to die. Either that or deconstructing rings should return platings, not grains and 10 grains should refine into multiple platings, the same way wood, metal etc refine.

For me its really easy to find legendary plating. The rarest seems to be purple plating for me. This is guild store wise.

Panomania

Xerikten wrote: »

well the last two jewelry writs I have received, one today and the other sunday had 394 and 422 vouchers. so they do exist.

ok....so lets take a look at that. Right now a single voucher is worth between 800 and 850 TOPS in gold (figured by seeing what voucher purchasable items sell for, divided by the number of vouchers it takes to get them). So at 422 vouchers you're looking at 358K in cash, being VERY optimistic! And I GUARANTEE you the cost to craft that writ is at least 410K gold, if not 425. So craft that writ and IMMEDIATELY you lose 60K+ gold.

JC MASTERS WRITS ARE GARBAGE! They need to completely change them or simply stop rewarding them. I'd be OK with the later....it would cease being a reminder of just how out of touch or incompetent ZOS devs are.

Panomania

Oh, and by way of comparison blacksmithing masters are 1/5th to 1/3rd the cost to craft per voucher.

redspecter23

It's much closer than it was in the past. That doesn't necessarily make it good though. A few things I'd change would be to up the number of vouchers for healthy, robust and arcane. The multiplier associated with the other traits makes the 3 base traits very undervalued (voucher wise) by comparison. There is absolutely no way I'm doing an epic healthy ring for 30 vouchers when an infused one (with less than 1k additional cost) will reward 60+.

If they ever decide to add a hireling, it may reduce the overall rarity of gold mats very slightly, but could improve supply of purple mats a noticeable amount, making the epic writs a bit more valuable.

These two changes might be what it takes to make the majority of the jewelry master writs a bit more reasonable.

Kanar

Easiest fix would be for 10 grains to refine into 6-10 platings, just like raw mats.

Armatesz

Gold jewelry master writs are currently not worth doing, there are some purple that are partially worth doing but only if their value is greater than 97 and are the 3 basic and infused. Otherwise add another 20 writs and it is meh. A lot of people sell jewelry master writs pretty cheap so make sure to check which ones they are having. But tbfh clothier master writs are far easier to do than jewelry ones.