How long did your first daily crafting writs session for multiple crafters take ?

vsrs_au

Having just certified 7 alt crafters (I created them all on the weekend, having only had 1 character since I started playing ESO in April 2020), I just did my first daily crafting writs session on all 8 characters (my main's a grand master crafter, so she's been there, done that, got the t-shirt, etc.). It took me 65.5 minutes, an average of 8 min 11 sec per crafter. That included the crafting, delivery, opening the writ boxes and opening the shipment boxes.

As the alts have only just started, I also ended up having to buy a 1 or 2 recipes for the provisioning, which slowed me down a little bit. I do have some banked recipes, but just couldn't be bothered going to the bank to find whether I'd banked the ones I needed for that day.

Now I just need to get faster at it, LOL!

katanagirl1

It takes me about 5 mins per character, I’m doing 6 characters now.

That’s on PS5, when I did them on PS4 it took a few minutes more on each toon because of much longer loading screens.

Hotdog_23

Pretty much quit doing them for a while because of the time it takes. Have plenty of writ vouchers, mats and all crafting stations. Play time in game taking around 90 minutes with 18 characters was just too much and not enough time left to actually play the game.

What would really help console players would for us to be able to auto open the boxes we receive and take the contents automatically. Still don't understand why this is not an option we choose in setting.

Also, really wish I could go to a crafting station and have the option to craft all writs needed for that station with a single press of a button, rather than select each item individually and then hit craft.

Stay safe

LunaFlora

i don't know i don't time it exactly.
i think all 18 characters takes 3-4 hours for me, though it might be a little less on ps5 now. and with 20 characters it'll be different.
haven't tried it yet since i got to 20.
each character takes about 5 minutes so if i do it nonstop it should take 100 minutes

edit to add: probably a little more due to a few seconds of loading so like two hours?

HedgeHugger

You can get it down to a couple of minutes per character on console, so long as not a lot needs making that day.

Multi making items helps a lot, but tends to be no good if you actually want to do any sort of content and pick stuff up!
Making items in 3's or 5's, rather than singularly. Or you could do the maths and work out how many you need for the week, or month. No doubt there are guides telling you exactly how many you need to make.

Open your boxes once a week or so. Leaving it until you have no more spaces is a headache and time consuming to sort.

If you go this route I would recommend you keep at least one character unencumbered by daily stuff to actually play with.

I used to spend multiple hours a day just doing dailies, did this for a couple of years! , got it down to around an hour for 15 alts.
One day I just decided enough was enough and stopped the daily grind! Now I do them occasionally, if I feel like it.

I now plonk my crafters on surveys to pick up when I remember

HedgeHugger

Blackwood, VVardenfell and Solitude were my towns of choice to do the dailies in. Quickest 3 in my opinion.

VVardenfell is all outside, has an outside bank, several shops and a stable right next to the wayshrine.

vsrs_au

HedgeHugger wrote: »

Blackwood, VVardenfell and Solitude were my towns of choice to do the dailies in. Quickest 3 in my opinion.

VVardenfell is all outside, has an outside bank, several shops and a stable right next to the wayshrine.

Funny you should mention Vvardenfell: this week, I noticed a major drawback of Vivec City for leveling provisioners: if you don't have the recipes handy, the nearest chef and brewer are in the labyrinthine depths of Vivec City (one of the cantons, I forget which). One of my crafting alts is a dunmer and I originally planned to base it at Vivec City, but decided on Davon's Watch instead. The brewer and chef (with their recipes) aren't exactly close to the crafting area, but at least I can find them without getting lost.

harvey07

i do about 15 a day and previously (three weeks ago got new super fast computer) it took about 10 mins each due to loading screens. now takes just 3-4 mins.

i do not craft alch or prov daily...i keep a stack of each one needed in bank and the addon opens/grabs/closes for me. to keep it simple all crafters are either lvl 1 or max lvl in that profession...except for jewelry...they are all max no matter the character level.

this stream lines it all since i do not need to keep different mats for 10 levels of a profession.

tomfant

1.5 min per character from start to cleared inventory, not including loading screen time. Alchemy and provisioning precrafted in bank. Using lazy writ crafter addon. All crafting caracters have a ring of wild hunt for faster movement. My crafting daily place is Vivec because everything is close together and there is a no loadingscreen bank in the middle.

phaneub17_ESO

With max carry capacity of 215 craft 96-100 of each food, drink, potion, and poison per character. Then 20 rings, 15 necklaces, 10 bows, 10 resto staves, and 5 of everything else. That covers 15 days worth of daily writs. You login, grab quests off the boards, turn in, log off; each character is in and out in 2 minutes tops. With 18 characters I'm done in about 40 minutes, you collect the boxes either at the end of each week or when all 15 are done. This generates around 1.4 million gold not including the vendor trash from the boxes. Mournhold in Deshaan is my spot, the boards and turn in locations are close to each other.

With my main the only things precrafted are the provisioning and alchemy stuff, I manually craft everything else so I can do other activities while my alts are preoccupied with full bags. I do this when I'm taking a soft break from the game since I actually enjoy playing my alts. Usually do 15 days, sub 1 month of ESO Plus before collecting the boxes, do another 15, then do a final 12; I spend the last 3 days cleaning up. My main goes about deconstructing, refining, clearing out surveys, and master writs. By the time it's over I have restocked my mats, accumulated around 5 million gold, and have around 20+ chromium plating. Do this 2-3 times a year, usually coinciding with certain game events like the anniversary and zeal of zenithar.

Afterwards I go back to my normal gameplay.

Twig_Garlicshine

90 seconds per character.
Includes banking/vendoring.
PC = automated play by addons (in a lot of game areas).

wolfie1.0.

Pc has clear addon advantages and can be done between 1- to 5 minutes per character depending on if you pre-craft gear or you visit all of the stations. Biggest complications are load screens, DCs, and storage if you intend to play a character.

HedgeHugger

vsrs_au wrote: »

HedgeHugger wrote: »

Blackwood, VVardenfell and Solitude were my towns of choice to do the dailies in. Quickest 3 in my opinion.

VVardenfell is all outside, has an outside bank, several shops and a stable right next to the wayshrine.

Funny you should mention Vvardenfell: this week, I noticed a major drawback of Vivec City for leveling provisioners: if you don't have the recipes handy, the nearest chef and brewer are in the labyrinthine depths of Vivec City (one of the cantons, I forget which). One of my crafting alts is a dunmer and I originally planned to base it at Vivec City, but decided on Davon's Watch instead. The brewer and chef (with their recipes) aren't exactly close to the crafting area, but at least I can find them without getting lost.

Didn't consider needing recipes or ingredients. Having the guild stores near could help with that.
Solitude has an outdoor recipe shop, and one indoors for brewer recipes.
Once you are set up in that way VVardenfel is probably the quickest, still :P

vsrs_au

tomfant wrote: »

1.5 min per character from start to cleared inventory, not including loading screen time. Alchemy and provisioning precrafted in bank. Using lazy writ crafter addon. All crafting caracters have a ring of wild hunt for faster movement. My crafting daily place is Vivec because everything is close together and there is a no loadingscreen bank in the middle.

I'm considering using Dolgubon's addon, because it currently takes me about 50 minutes to do 7 writs each for 8 crafters.

Does anyone know if it's possible to exclude writs with certain ingredients? I want to always skip the alchemy writs that ask for violet coprinus and imp stool, because (as others have mentioned elsewhere in this forum), mushrooms never appear in the writ rewards, and so over time the stocks decrease, unless you keep farming them.

The only sure way I know of to skip certain alchemy writs is to ensure that the potion/poison in the writs I want to skip are never in my inventory when I do the daily writs. That way, the writ doesn't auto-complete and then I can just cancel the writ when I see that it asks for mushrooms. I don't know if this approach would work with Dolgubon's addon, though, because it requires me to view the alchemy writ and then cancel it.

Just to clarify: I want to be able to do 6 of the 8 different alchemy writs, and only skip the 2 that ask for mushrooms.

NoSoup

Less than a minute per crafter. Obviously Dolgubon's addon makes a world of difference.

vsrs_au

An update: I installed Dolgubon's Lazy Writ Crafter, and updated its settings for my main and 7 alts. I did my daily writs on the main and 6 alts, then installed this addon and used it on the last char's daily writs, and was pleasantly surprised with it.

Tomorrow I'll use it on all 8 chars. Since I started daily writs on the 7 alts early last week, I've been averaging roughly 50 mins for the daily writs on all 8 chars, and I'm hoping this addon will drop that time considerably. The 50 minutes also includes a quick run to the stables.

vsrs_au

I used Dolgobun's addon today for my main and 7 alts' daily writs, and it took about 38 minutes this time, instead of about 50. But as I mentioned already, that includes a trip to the horse stables for each of the 7 alts. If we subtract that, it's probably roughly 32 minutes, or 4 minutes per character. At least the writs won't eat up so much of my time now.

I could probably reduce that even more by basing all the crafters in, say, Vivec City, but I wanted to make things more interesting, and so my orc does her crafting in Orsinium, the dunmer in Davon's Watch, and so on, keeping to a theme of each race's "home" region. That way, I have more variety in what I see while doing the writs.

vsrs_au

34.5 minutes for 8 crafters today (including visit to stables for the 7 alts)

It's a very useful addon.

My only slight complaints is that (a) the enchanter crafting popup doesn't show the count of available mats, like the other craft popups, and (b) there's no option to log the crafting sessions to the chat window. I'd like to see this: just a summary of what was crafted and how many mats it took, and also what was extracted from the hireling mails, and what was extracted from the writ boxes and shipping boxes.

tmbrinks

vsrs_au wrote: »

34.5 minutes for 8 crafters today (including visit to stables for the 7 alts)

It's a very useful addon.

My only slight complaints is that (a) the enchanter crafting popup doesn't show the count of available mats, like the other craft popups, and (b) there's no option to log the crafting sessions to the chat window. I'd like to see this: just a summary of what was crafted and how many mats it took, and also what was extracted from the hireling mails, and what was extracted from the writ boxes and shipping boxes.

Use Postmaster add-on for the hireling rewards (turn off the auto hireling loot option in LWC and have that add-on do it), it'll output to chat.

In chat type /outputwritstats will show you your total items received since you've been using the add-on. Could reset it daily to see your daily gains.

The materials used are on fixed cycles, my spreadsheet in my signature has it for tier 1 and max tier writs (for tracking the profit differences between the tiers). @BenevolentBowd has them for all tiers on his website

vsrs_au

tmbrinks wrote: »

vsrs_au wrote: »

34.5 minutes for 8 crafters today (including visit to stables for the 7 alts)

It's a very useful addon.

My only slight complaints is that (a) the enchanter crafting popup doesn't show the count of available mats, like the other craft popups, and (b) there's no option to log the crafting sessions to the chat window. I'd like to see this: just a summary of what was crafted and how many mats it took, and also what was extracted from the hireling mails, and what was extracted from the writ boxes and shipping boxes.

Use Postmaster add-on for the hireling rewards (turn off the auto hireling loot option in LWC and have that add-on do it), it'll output to chat.

In chat type /outputwritstats will show you your total items received since you've been using the add-on. Could reset it daily to see your daily gains.

The materials used are on fixed cycles, my spreadsheet in my signature has it for tier 1 and max tier writs (for tracking the profit differences between the tiers). @BenevolentBowd has them for all tiers on his website

Thanks. I see your point about the materials used, and I've made my own notes on the cycle of writs for each craft.

Postmaster sounds like a good option to keep track of the hireling mails, I don't suppose there's something similar to auto-open the writ reward and shipping boxes and log what gets extracted?

tmbrinks

vsrs_au wrote: »

tmbrinks wrote: »

vsrs_au wrote: »

34.5 minutes for 8 crafters today (including visit to stables for the 7 alts)

It's a very useful addon.

My only slight complaints is that (a) the enchanter crafting popup doesn't show the count of available mats, like the other craft popups, and (b) there's no option to log the crafting sessions to the chat window. I'd like to see this: just a summary of what was crafted and how many mats it took, and also what was extracted from the hireling mails, and what was extracted from the writ boxes and shipping boxes.

Use Postmaster add-on for the hireling rewards (turn off the auto hireling loot option in LWC and have that add-on do it), it'll output to chat.

In chat type /outputwritstats will show you your total items received since you've been using the add-on. Could reset it daily to see your daily gains.

The materials used are on fixed cycles, my spreadsheet in my signature has it for tier 1 and max tier writs (for tracking the profit differences between the tiers). @BenevolentBowd has them for all tiers on his website

Thanks. I see your point about the materials used, and I've made my own notes on the cycle of writs for each craft.

Postmaster sounds like a good option to keep track of the hireling mails, I don't suppose there's something similar to auto-open the writ reward and shipping boxes and log what gets extracted?

You could use the option to "Valuable Reward Alert" to chat to just visually see when you get something of value.

I use lootlog to do the same thing, showing notable loot, for surveys, master writs and gold improvement materials (and clam gall and powdered mother of pearl).

There's an addon called "unboxer" that sounds like it might be able to do what you're asking, but I have not used it myself.

BenevolentBowd

tmbrinks wrote: »

vsrs_au wrote: »

34.5 minutes for 8 crafters today (including visit to stables for the 7 alts)

It's a very useful addon.

My only slight complaints is that (a) the enchanter crafting popup doesn't show the count of available mats, like the other craft popups, and (b) there's no option to log the crafting sessions to the chat window. I'd like to see this: just a summary of what was crafted and how many mats it took, and also what was extracted from the hireling mails, and what was extracted from the writ boxes and shipping boxes.

Use Postmaster add-on for the hireling rewards (turn off the auto hireling loot option in LWC and have that add-on do it), it'll output to chat.

In chat type /outputwritstats will show you your total items received since you've been using the add-on. Could reset it daily to see your daily gains.

The materials used are on fixed cycles, my spreadsheet in my signature has it for tier 1 and max tier writs (for tracking the profit differences between the tiers). @BenevolentBowd has them for all tiers on his website

Well, the fastest I've done writs on a character without addons from writ boards to turn-in was about 8 secs. With the prep time included, it averages out to around 1m 30s.

If you want to specialize characters to do writs, it just takes a lot of inventory space.

As already mentioned, the most you can prepare in advance is approximately 15 days (depends on what your crafting proficiencies are on your characters). Some profession require variety of items at higher levels). If you want to optimize character based on the number of inventory slots you have, you can use this tool (https://benevolentbowd.ca/apps/eso-craftingwrit-calc.php ).

With addons, grab lazywritcrafter (LWC) and postmaster. Next, turn on multicrafting setting on LWC to 5. I'll also set LWC to deposit all my surveys in my bank to be collected by a dedicated survey character (2k+ surveys and counting). In 3 days, most of your professions will be done for the next two weeks. In 6 days, your provisioning will be set. Finally, in 8 days, you will have all of your alchemy writs will be ready.

Jewelry and Woodworking is a bit of a pain because they request multiple items. They are listed below

Jewelry
Total Number of Slots Needed: 35
Rings: 20
Necklaces: 15

Woodworking
Total Number of Slots Needed: 45
Bows: 10
Inferno: 5
Ice: 5
Lightning: 5
Restoration: 10
Shields: 10

Since I don't have a craft bag and haven't maxed out my packs yet on Xbox, I will go for 3 to 6 days. This leaves room for all of the reward boxes and I can open the boxes later.

BenevolentBowd

vsrs_au wrote: »

tomfant wrote: »

1.5 min per character from start to cleared inventory, not including loading screen time. Alchemy and provisioning precrafted in bank. Using lazy writ crafter addon. All crafting caracters have a ring of wild hunt for faster movement. My crafting daily place is Vivec because everything is close together and there is a no loadingscreen bank in the middle.

I'm considering using Dolgubon's addon, because it currently takes me about 50 minutes to do 7 writs each for 8 crafters.

Does anyone know if it's possible to exclude writs with certain ingredients? I want to always skip the alchemy writs that ask for violet coprinus and imp stool, because (as others have mentioned elsewhere in this forum), mushrooms never appear in the writ rewards, and so over time the stocks decrease, unless you keep farming them.

The only sure way I know of to skip certain alchemy writs is to ensure that the potion/poison in the writs I want to skip are never in my inventory when I do the daily writs. That way, the writ doesn't auto-complete and then I can just cancel the writ when I see that it asks for mushrooms. I don't know if this approach would work with Dolgubon's addon, though, because it requires me to view the alchemy writ and then cancel it.

Just to clarify: I want to be able to do 6 of the 8 different alchemy writs, and only skip the 2 that ask for mushrooms.

That's one of the drawbacks I found with automated alchemy writ tools. Few give you the option to pick your reagents. I just make a large stack on my master crafter using cheaper mats and drop them in the bank. Alchemy and provisioning writs are the only writs that don't require the writ items to be crafted by the character for the quests. Lazywritcrafter will also grab writ items you need if they are in your bank.

If you want a supply of mushrooms, unlock the dark brotherhood shadowy supplier.

https://benevolentbowd.ca/games/esotu/theorycrafting-shadowy-supplier/

karthrag_inak

Takes khajiit perhaps 3-4 mins plus a min per swap for each character. This one now has 20 7 prof master crafters, and it takes perhaps 1.5 hours to get to everyone. Sometimes a bit more, if some shiny fun things cross khajiit's path as he works.

EDIT : That is using LWC, and pre-crafting all provisioning and alchemy requirements.

BenevolentBowd

If I'm feeling really hardcore. I'll setup my laptop next to my computer and alternate doing writs on my two PC accounts during the loading screens. heh.

vsrs_au

Thanks for all the useful replies, everyone, much appreciated!
When I've leveled up the 7 alt crafters to level 50, I'll turn on the auto-withdraw from bank and pre-crafting options, and then just watch the gold roll in. It will be even better once I've fully trained their horses, then I can skip the stable visits.

vsrs_au

My 7 alt crafters are still only in the early stages of each craft, and I'm already seeing the benefits!

For example, just now, after passing all the crafting surveys from my alts to my main, I just visited 6 jewelry surveys on my main, and got 907 platinum dust from them, which gave me
- 4 chromium grains
- 4 zircon grains
- 9 iridium grains
- 21 terne grains
- 763 platinum ounce

I'm pretty happy with that, even though the extraction rate could have been a bit better.

ShadowPaladin

Hi vsrs_au...

If you do have maxed out your inventories on all your chars you can pre-craft the provision and alchemy items for each char and store them in their inventories. With that you can skip the walk to the bank everytime you do the crafting dailies and only need to go to the bank once your inventories are full with stuff you want to store or sell .

Also you should really think about placing all your chars in one place like Vivec, Alinor or Rawl'kha. With that you would reduce loading times and you would have short ways (if you place them in a place where there are short ways ).

With all of that it takes me around 35-40min to get through 11 chars crafting dailies in Alinor. The thing which takes the most time for me are the loading screens, since I am still using a HDD instead of a SSD .

vsrs_au

ShadowPaladin wrote: »

Hi vsrs_au...

If you do have maxed out your inventories on all your chars you can pre-craft the provision and alchemy items for each char and store them in their inventories. With that you can skip the walk to the bank everytime you do the crafting dailies and only need to go to the bank once your inventories are full with stuff you want to store or sell .

Also you should really think about placing all your chars in one place like Vivec, Alinor or Rawl'kha. With that you would reduce loading times and you would have short ways (if you place them in a place where there are short ways ).

With all of that it takes me around 35-40min to get through 11 chars crafting dailies in Alinor. The thing which takes the most time for me are the loading screens, since I am still using a HDD instead of a SSD .

Thanks. I plan to switch to pre-crafting for the alchemy and provisioning writs, bank the pre-crafted items, and just let DLC addon withdraw the items and start the quests. I'm going to wait until the alt crafters are fully leveled up in alchemy, though (they're already all at level 50 in provisioning, that was easy to do, just go on a cooking spree).

Djennku

I have 18 max crafting toons (soon to be 20) and it takes me just under an hour on PCNA with Lazy Writ Crafter. I do my writs in Leyawiin, and have timed it to be about 2 mins per toon from logging in to one, to being logged in and loaded to the next. So it's more like 1.5 mins per toon to log in, craft, turn in writs, empty inventory and gold onto pocket banker, and logout.

Nestor

I use LWC and Summon Assistant and Junk Handler. Takes me just over 2 minutes in Alinor per character. I have never liked Vivec, cant get into the rythym of that place. Vulkhel Guard or Rawkla or Deeshan are my change of scenery alternatives. I off load everything needed to my banker assistant. Then, on one character I do Guild Store listings. My speed farmer gets all the Surveys and Treasure Maps.

I activate the Writ Boards
Pop my banker who hands me the potions and foods.
Hit the Enchanting and Gear Stations where LWC automates crafting.
Drop off the results.
Pop my Merchant then the Banker
Then Log to next character

Outside of events that salt the Reward Coffers, I rarely do crafting writs on more than the character I play each day. I used to cycle through 8 to 10 every day. Now since I have almost a full ration of Alts that can do writs, it is too much time to spend on chores.