So if i am willing to spend 236 thousand in game gold i can

linuxlady · October 2020

do the two writ vouchers for dro-m'athra shoes and bracers that will earn me a whopping 18 writ vouchers (oh boy!)

Or i can do the three jewelry crafting writs using the mats i have and earn about 250 writ vouchers

???

which will i do... such a conundrum

zvavi · October 2020

Or you could sell the mats you have, and the master writs, and buy master writs of styles you have, gaining more gold and vouchers in the process. Win win.

markulrich1966 · October 2020

jewelry writs, there are now and then purple with 193 or even over 200 vouchers. I think those have the best ratio.
Sometimes you get a gold jewelry writ, dropping 394 vouchers, extremely rarely one that drops ~600 (maybe once a year). But those are only interesting I think if you do writs on 10 characters each day, so that you literally "swim" in platinum platings.

If you do not need vouchers urgently right now, wait until you get such a high reward writ.
It would be disappointing to spend 3 Zircon plating and get just like 80 vouchers, if you could get more than 200 for them.

starkerealm · October 2020

linuxlady wrote: »

which will i do... such a conundrum

Neither. The jewelry payout is worth way less than the materials that went into it. Dro-M'athra is an unusual style, but there are a lot of crafters out there who know how to craft it, and would snap that up if they saw it.

Alternately, you could just stick a pin in it, leave it in your bank, and when the Anniversary event swings around again, grab the Dro-M'athra peices you're missing at a fraction of their normal price.

RaddlemanNumber7 · October 2020

I just delete Master Writs I cannot do with the stuff I already have. Problem solved. No worries.

linuxlady · October 2020

markulrich1966 wrote: »

jewelry writs, there are now and then purple with 193 or even over 200 vouchers. I think those have the best ratio.
Sometimes you get a gold jewelry writ, dropping 394 vouchers, extremely rarely one that drops ~600 (maybe once a year). But those are only interesting I think if you do writs on 10 characters each day, so that you literally "swim" in platinum platings.

If you do not need vouchers urgently right now, wait until you get such a high reward writ.
It would be disappointing to spend 3 Zircon plating and get just like 80 vouchers, if you could get more than 200 for them.

i do in fact do daily crafting on 20 toons, 10 on each account and while each account has a 9 trait crafter (on eu servers) i only do the crafting writs for vouchers on one of them and i have over 30 gold platings between the two accounts and was considering just a few minutes ago how much i could make if i sold the gold platings..... close to 3 million... increasing my in game gold by 50%

yah i may save the dro-m/athra style ones then like the other one said, until an event... i did the jewl ones... one was 193 for purple, and one was 26 and another 28 for blue. i mean i have the style stones and the platings so why not make bank on all those refinings of those survey maps...

I'm close to buying my seventh cpmplete set of set crafting stations..

markulrich1966 · October 2020

linuxlady wrote: »

markulrich1966 wrote: »

jewelry writs, there are now and then purple with 193 or even over 200 vouchers. I think those have the best ratio.
Sometimes you get a gold jewelry writ, dropping 394 vouchers, extremely rarely one that drops ~600 (maybe once a year). But those are only interesting I think if you do writs on 10 characters each day, so that you literally "swim" in platinum platings.

If you do not need vouchers urgently right now, wait until you get such a high reward writ.
It would be disappointing to spend 3 Zircon plating and get just like 80 vouchers, if you could get more than 200 for them.

i do in fact do daily crafting on 20 toons, 10 on each account and while each account has a 9 trait crafter (on eu servers) i only do the crafting writs for vouchers on one of them and i have over 30 gold platings between the two accounts and was considering just a few minutes ago how much i could make if i sold the gold platings..... close to 3 million... increasing my in game gold by 50%

yah i may save the dro-m/athra style ones then like the other one said, until an event... i did the jewl ones... one was 193 for purple, and one was 26 and another 28 for blue. i mean i have the style stones and the platings so why not make bank on all those refinings of those survey maps

yes, myself I store the platinums for rare cases to sell them when I urgently need gold, e.g. if there is some extraordinary new at the luxury furnisher. I bought 15 windmills (200k each), that was such a situation.

I need writ vouchers just rarely as I am no guildmaster, so I need no attunable crafting stations (the writ voucher sink).
So I get enough vouchers from purple jewelry writs and sell the platinum platings.

Bucky_13 · October 2020

JC writs aren't worth doing unless you need writ vouchers badly, the gold/voucher cost is usually higher than most items from the vendor that are sold in guild traders.

If you miss the armor pieces from Dro-m'athra, then that's a one time cost. And most of us who do master writs aim to have as many motifs unlocked anyway. I'd rather collect those motifs than waste money on a JC writ that will always be too expensive to create.

If they'd been purple WW writs then that would be another thing since those aren't worth doing either due to the value of mastic.

Danikat · October 2020

If the only reason you'd buy the motif is to be able to do the writ then no, it's not worth it. It would be much better to sell the writ and use your gold, materials, time etc. on other writs which use styles you already have.

But as other people have said dro-m'athra is a pretty popular style so lots of crafters will choose to learn it for other reasons, either because they want to use it themselves or so they can sell pieces in that style to other players, or both. There's also people who simply want to collect as many motifs as they can.

For those people the cost of the motif is negligable because they either already have it or would buy it regardless of the writ, so they only need to consider the cost of the materials involved. For them it's (probably) worth doing, but for you it's not.

So sell it to someone who does want to do it and do other writs yourself.

Donny_Vito · October 2020

Don't fall into the trap of feeling like you have to complete these writs/surveys/other-continuous-grinds. Selling/deleting them can sometimes be just as refreshing for clearing out your inventory and getting all these tedious TODO's off your list.

linuxlady · October 2020

My sole motivation isnt to have all the motifs but to have all the set crafting stations... When i run across these motifs for equipment that cost in excess of 50k i just gotta ask how this benefits my goals... doesnt seem to really...

starkerealm · October 2020

linuxlady wrote: »

My sole motivation isnt to have all the motifs but to have all the set crafting stations... When i run across these motifs for equipment that cost in excess of 50k i just gotta ask how this benefits my goals... doesnt seem to really...

It depends on where you're at, as a player. I racked up something like 3.5k vouchers last night. But, I'm also in a position where I'm only missing pages from, maybe, 8 or 10 motifs total. And out of all the writs I did, I was only missing pages for, maybe, 4 of them.

zaria · October 2020

RaddlemanNumber7 wrote: »

I just delete Master Writs I cannot do with the stuff I already have. Problem solved. No worries.

Why not sell it? Think voucher price is going up because of transmute station will be much more useful.
Then you can buy some others.

zvavi · October 2020

zaria wrote: »

RaddlemanNumber7 wrote: »

I just delete Master Writs I cannot do with the stuff I already have. Problem solved. No worries.

Why not sell it? Think voucher price is going up because of transmute station will be much more useful.
Then you can buy some others.

Holy cow I forgot, Ty for reminder.

pod88kk · October 2020

zvavi wrote: »

Or you could sell the mats you have, and the master writs, and buy master writs of styles you have, gaining more gold and vouchers in the process. Win win.

*ding ding ding*

We have a correct answer

idk · October 2020

starkerealm wrote: »

linuxlady wrote: »

which will i do... such a conundrum

Neither. The jewelry payout is worth way less than the materials that went into it. Dro-M'athra is an unusual style, but there are a lot of crafters out there who know how to craft it, and would snap that up if they saw it.

Alternately, you could just stick a pin in it, leave it in your bank, and when the Anniversary event swings around again, grab the Dro-M'athra peices you're missing at a fraction of their normal price.

This. There is no conundrum.

jaws343 · October 2020

Reading this thread makes me feel like I have been drastically losing gold on Dro-M'athra motifs whenever I have some. I usually list them for like 5K because they are so abundant and drop a lot in the dungeon. And during the anniversary event.

zaria · October 2020

jaws343 wrote: »

Reading this thread makes me feel like I have been drastically losing gold on Dro-M'athra motifs whenever I have some. I usually list them for like 5K because they are so abundant and drop a lot in the dungeon. And during the anniversary event.

Looks like the price has skyrocketed, it used to be <10K for other than chest parts.
Guess fewer runs MoL today than before we got Sunspire and newer trials.
now boots is 95K as cheapest.
https://eu.tamrieltradecentre.com/pc/Trade/SearchResult?SearchType=Sell&ItemID=&ItemNamePattern=Crafting+Motif+35:+Dro-m'Athra&ItemCategory1ID=&ItemTraitID=&ItemQualityID=&IsChampionPoint=false&LevelMin=&LevelMax=&MasterWritVoucherMin=&MasterWritVoucherMax=&AmountMin=&AmountMax=&PriceMin=&PriceMax=&SortBy=Price&Order=asc&page=3

Looks like you get one if weakly trial reward even in normal so it might be an smart guild event.

Danikat · October 2020

linuxlady wrote: »

My sole motivation isnt to have all the motifs but to have all the set crafting stations... When i run across these motifs for equipment that cost in excess of 50k i just gotta ask how this benefits my goals... doesnt seem to really...

You're right it doesn't benefit your goal.

ZOS have no way of knowing what your personal priorities are currently, therefore they cannot ensure you only recieve items which help with them (and probably wouldn't even if they could, because they want players trading items as well as using them). However you have been given two solutions to the problem already:
1) Sell that writ to someone who does want it
2) Delete it

Tabbycat · October 2020

If the motifs are too pricey or the writs require nirncrux weapons, I just sell them. Then I use the gold to buy different writs. Works out nicely.