Enchanter Surveys are bad, delete yours today or prove me wrong.

Dr_Con

in the past 30+ I've done all I got is 1 kuta and they don't even drop mundane runes. I've deleted all of the remaining ones I have as they are a waste of time and space and you lose money by running them (you could just harvest a random corn flower or columbine to get greater than the value of a 6 protean rune nodes). I'm better off farming normal rune nodes

i urge others to delete their enchanter surveys as well unless you're a new player who doesn't have basic runes in abundance.

El_Borracho

That's some bad RNG. I get Kuta about once every 4 surveys

Dr_Con

El_Borracho wrote: »

That's some bad RNG. I get Kuta about once every 4 surveys

Still, the effort in doing these is not outweighed by the gains. The fact that mundane runes don't drop is also a huge deterrent from actually doing these, as you make more off mundanes in a few enchanting nodes than you would from getting a kuta in one out of every four surveys as Kuta are cheap.

If there was a chance of an indeko or hakeijo, or mundanes were added to the loot table, then I wouldn't be advocating for people to delete their enchanting surveys. But as it stands now, you are better off farming normal enchanting nodes than you are doing these surveys.

Dawnblade

I do some, skip others, and while my RNG isn't as bad, it isn't like these are the best surveys either.

The few that are located right off wayshrines I do when I have a few stacked up for the same spot.

The ones in god-awful annoying places that require lots of travel or swimming get deleted.

Tornaad

But Ember loves it when I do surveys. Sorry, making Ember happy is more important.

Destai

I reached a point where I'm only doing Alchemy, Clothing, and Jewelry surveys. Those are the only materials I feel like I'm lacking from just playing the game and doing the usual deconstruction.

whitecrow

I enjoy doing surveys as a way to just travel round and explore. It would be stupid to delete them.

Dr_Con

whitecrow wrote: »

I enjoy doing surveys as a way to just travel round and explore. It would be stupid to delete them.

And that's what I feel the other surveys are for! As I had these in abundance, so too do I have the others in abundance. When the chest fills up, I find a common zone among my surveys and go to complete them, but these ones in particular are bad. Woodworking ones are pretty bad due to the cost of ruby ash right now, as are blacksmithing ones, but I still do them.

Enchanting surveys have entered a whole new tier of their own, they are trash tier. You are spending your time to get junk runes.

Oreyn_Bearclaw

Wont delete, but they are certainly of the lowest priority. At one point, I had over 100 Wrothgar enchanter surveys. Finally did them all last summer. I still have close to 2k total surveys of all types that are sitting in my bank. Last summer I knocked out all the DLC zones, but the base game zones are still there and the DLC zones are piling up again. Never know when you might need them.

If Antiquities have taught us anything, hold on to your surveys. Got one of the Oakensoul leads in about 30 seconds doing blacksmithing surveys in Glenumbra.

Dr_Con

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

Wont delete, but they are certainly of the lowest priority. At one point, I had over 100 Wrothgar enchanter surveys. Finally did them all last summer. I still have close to 2k total surveys of all types that are sitting in my bank. Last summer I knocked out all the DLC zones, but the base game zones are still there and the DLC zones are piling up again. Never know when you might need them.

If Antiquities have taught us anything, hold on to your surveys. Got one of the Oakensoul leads in about 30 seconds doing blacksmithing surveys in Glenumbra.

I don't know if the chance of a new lead coming out is enough of an incentive to take up precious inventory space, but you clearly have inventory space to spare and hedge on additions requiring these. For me, it's still a pass, but I'm glad we both agree that these are lowest priority (to you this means put them aside, to me it means delete them)

Mesite

I only did mine when I had the ESO+ trial but the rest of the time they clog up my bank or inventory. Very brave to delete them though. What if the others were the lucky surveys? You might have been rich now.

shadyjane62

I always delete them I get more Kuta from random runestones than I ever got from a survey.

TaSheen

I gather everything, doesn't matter to me, I have lots of stuff but I love to farm mats so no, I'm not deleting anything except for a few different ones that are just a PITA to get to.

Dr_Con

Mesite wrote: »

I only did mine when I had the ESO+ trial but the rest of the time they clog up my bank or inventory. Very brave to delete them though. What if the others were the lucky surveys? You might have been rich now.

I don't know what you classify as rich but I'm a node harvester and nearly a master crafter who also does PVP. I have loads of transmutes and nirncrux, potent and fortified, as well as enough mats to gold several sets of gear. When I last looked at my mundane rune collection I think I had more than 1 or 2 mil gold in value. I also run treasure chests when bored and sell some more obscure items for high profit at guild traders, I have about 100 rewards for the worthy waiting to be opened as well all from PVP, and a bank full of items that need only be listed to get profits ranging from tens of thousands into the millions.

The only luck I've had is realizing that these are trash surveys and deleting them. Unless ZOS decides to buff them, these will forever remain trash surveys. What they should do is add a psijic portal spawning on chance of harvesting a protean rune, or change the loot tables entirely.

Dr_Con

TaSheen wrote: »

I gather everything, doesn't matter to me, I have lots of stuff but I love to farm mats so no, I'm not deleting anything except for a few different ones that are just a PITA to get to.

Take it from me dude, unless you're new to the game and don't have many of the essence or aspect runes and refuse to buy them at guild traders (potency runes you can just buy at npc vendors so I won't waste time talking about them beyond this), you're better off deleting them or running normal rune nodes. You have a higher chance of Kuta at them and the chance of mundane runes, and they may even respawn as psijic portals that give you a small chance for hakeijo as well as zone loot items.

The only thing I might have regretted is deleting the craglorn enchanting surveys as it seems nirncrux is spawning off of more things now (I saw some post that swears columbine drops nirncrux now, so maybe runes do as well)

Kiralyn2000

Dr_Con wrote: »

in the past 30+ I've done all I got is 1 kuta and they don't even drop mundane runes.

Because not everyone only cares about those two rune drops?

(and yeah, why would I ever buy runes - or anything else - from guild traders?)

NordSwordnBoard

I won't buy a chapter for a bot companion or a card game. I will buy a chapter for a survey bot, even at reduced return rates for the surveys. Maybe a new merchant who exchanges them for you, taxing you for saving you irl time.

Vevvev

It's a whole bunch of crafting materials in a small place. I typically don't have the time to run around the country side looking for materials so they're what I use for crafting materials almost exclusively. Saves time, and I rarely use my Kutas anyway so I got quite a big stockpile growing.

SilverBride

I gather all my surveys as soon as I finish my daily writs every day. Since the only thing I craft is furnishings almost everything I gather can be sold for pure profit with very little effort.

h9dlb

I delete all surveys except jewelry. Take too long and I have better things to do with my game time

TheGreatBlackBear

Enchanter surveys are just alchemy surveys if we couldn't reroll them for columbine/cornflower. May too many outcomes with not enough valuable ones.

Oreyn_Bearclaw

Dr_Con wrote: »

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

Wont delete, but they are certainly of the lowest priority. At one point, I had over 100 Wrothgar enchanter surveys. Finally did them all last summer. I still have close to 2k total surveys of all types that are sitting in my bank. Last summer I knocked out all the DLC zones, but the base game zones are still there and the DLC zones are piling up again. Never know when you might need them.

If Antiquities have taught us anything, hold on to your surveys. Got one of the Oakensoul leads in about 30 seconds doing blacksmithing surveys in Glenumbra.

I don't know if the chance of a new lead coming out is enough of an incentive to take up precious inventory space, but you clearly have inventory space to spare and hedge on additions requiring these. For me, it's still a pass, but I'm glad we both agree that these are lowest priority (to you this means put them aside, to me it means delete them)

Yeah, a moderate percent of my bank storage is devoted to stacks of surveys. Easy to dump them on an alt if I need to do some inventory shuffling, but they certainly take up more space than I would like. At my max, I was at about 3k surveys. I got through about half last summer (basically all the DLC zones), but they have been piling up again since. I do have max inventory, bank, 18 toons, and all storage boxes, so really dont have that much of a storage crunch these days. Stickerbook helped a LOT in that department, and I really cant play without the craft bag.

If you told me I had to delete one type of survery, it would certainly be Enchanting. They should buff to include better drops, more Kuta, and throw Hakeijo and some others in their as well. That said, I simply dont need more Kuta. I have about 1500 of them and at most a brand new meta build takes 14 of them. I probably wont make a hundred more complete builds during my time in tamriel.

tmbrinks

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

Dr_Con wrote: »

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

Wont delete, but they are certainly of the lowest priority. At one point, I had over 100 Wrothgar enchanter surveys. Finally did them all last summer. I still have close to 2k total surveys of all types that are sitting in my bank. Last summer I knocked out all the DLC zones, but the base game zones are still there and the DLC zones are piling up again. Never know when you might need them.

If Antiquities have taught us anything, hold on to your surveys. Got one of the Oakensoul leads in about 30 seconds doing blacksmithing surveys in Glenumbra.

I don't know if the chance of a new lead coming out is enough of an incentive to take up precious inventory space, but you clearly have inventory space to spare and hedge on additions requiring these. For me, it's still a pass, but I'm glad we both agree that these are lowest priority (to you this means put them aside, to me it means delete them)

Yeah, a moderate percent of my bank storage is devoted to stacks of surveys. Easy to dump them on an alt if I need to do some inventory shuffling, but they certainly take up more space than I would like. At my max, I was at about 3k surveys. I got through about half last summer (basically all the DLC zones), but they have been piling up again since. I do have max inventory, bank, 18 toons, and all storage boxes, so really dont have that much of a storage crunch these days. Stickerbook helped a LOT in that department, and I really cant play without the craft bag.

If you told me I had to delete one type of survery, it would certainly be Enchanting. They should buff to include better drops, more Kuta, and throw Hakeijo and some others in their as well.

I collect all my surveys on one character, so not taking up bank space. I collect surveys when I get a stack of 10 in one location, except for enchanting now. I have some sizable stacks of them. If I run low on Oko (which are needed to do the writs, double any other essence rune) I'll go collect a big stack of them.

Amottica

Their value is lower than surveys for the other crafts. There is nothing to prove right or wrong. It comes down to a personal choice to do them, horde them, or delete them.

Faulgor

El_Borracho wrote: »

That's some bad RNG. I get Kuta about once every 4 surveys

I'm not sure I've ever gotten a Kuta from surveys, and I've been playing since beta.

They really are the worst.

Hapexamendios

I decline to delete them. My RNG hasn't been nearly that bad. Get a kuta about every 5-6 surveys done.

acastanza_ESO

Yeah, Alchemy is the only one that's really actually worth doing.

HedgeHugger

The Oko is most precious recently. I drip Kuta, oko is rare

Tornaad

I have to thank you for this thread. Thanks to this thread I actually took a look in my craft bag and realized that I can just sell a few Kuta's and get the houses I want to purchase next.

Grizzbeorn

How 'bout you play the game the way you want to play it, and don't tell others how to play?

Remathilis

They are great for helping get "Harvest X Runestone" endeavors.

Checkmate