Provisioning, Master Chef ESO

Brynnza

I don't know if anyone has noticed but Provisioning levels ridiculously fast.
By level 10 I had attained level 25 Provisioning, while all other trades sit at about level 5.
I can make the finest sweet rolls in Skyrim I guess. Woo.

shapelyzombie

The trade skills are very poorly balanced. I hope they will fix that in time, but expect nothing in the near future. I am focused on cloth on my main, and have my husband giving me all of his cloth. Still, I somehow have twice that skill in alchemy just by burning off excess mats I pick up along the way.

GorstyUK

I'm just concentrating on provisioning & blacksmith. I think provisioning levels so fast due to the amount of mats available for pick up I'm flying through the levels, we should have a cook off as my rolls taste good to lol

Brynnza

Haha certainly, who will be our Pete and Manu? After all, what is a cook off without charismatic judges!

Rancunier

It's intentional. Not every skill is intended to be as hard as every other. Food is cheap and you consume a lot of it, so making food is relatively easy. That said, the best food in the game will require you to spend points in the skill tree.

Weapons and armor on the other hand are much more restricted and ultimately more powerful, hence the leveling of these skills is much harder and expensive and takes much longer (especially to get the many traits).

Brynnza

By the sounds of the latest patch notes, it may not be as intentional as you think, getting high tier recipes (level 15-20) at level 5-10 would have a lot to do with why it is so easy to level - something they have changed according to.

ironicsilence

Shame to see that "bug" fixed, I made a lot of coin selling those higher level recipes

Rancunier

Brynnza wrote: »

By the sounds of the latest patch notes, it may not be as intentional as you think, getting high tier recipes (level 15-20) at level 5-10 would have a lot to do with why it is so easy to level - something they have changed according to.

You will still be able to get those recipes by buying them from other users, and if the mats to make the items are dropping for you then you will easily be able to level provisioning at low levels Getting 25 or 30 by level 10 is not that hard, compared to Blacksmithing or Tailoring or Woodworking (nor should it be).

tbmorrisonb14_ESO

Provisioning, and in some ways Alchemy, are soft crafts. ESO wants to make Provisioning easy to encourage everyone to participate.

Abeille

IT IS RAW GIVE ME YOUR APRON AND GET OUT OF MY TAVERN
- Gordon Ramsay, lvl 50 Breton

I am glad this is getting fixed. I will spend more materials leveling it up, and since they are everywhere a sink for them is really needed.

defilade__ESO

Brynnza wrote: »

I don't know if anyone has noticed but Provisioning levels ridiculously fast.
By level 10 I had attained level 25 Provisioning, while all other trades sit at about level 5.
I can make the finest sweet rolls in Skyrim I guess. Woo.

They balance this out by making recipes with ingredients your cannot find anywhere, like oats and tomatoes for Consummate drink and food level 35 recipes

wizzerd_lg_ESO

Abeille wrote: »

IT IS RAW GIVE ME YOUR APRON AND GET OUT OF MY TAVERN
- Gordon Ramsay, lvl 50 Breton

This Pork Soup is dry...

reggielee

you may make lvl 50 in provisioning i n short time but good luck finding higher tier recipes and mats to use for it

Pyatra

defilade__ESO wrote: »

Brynnza wrote: »

I don't know if anyone has noticed but Provisioning levels ridiculously fast.
By level 10 I had attained level 25 Provisioning, while all other trades sit at about level 5.
I can make the finest sweet rolls in Skyrim I guess. Woo.

They balance this out by making recipes with ingredients your cannot find anywhere, like oats and tomatoes for Consummate drink and food level 35 recipes

Also Purple recipes are seriously hard to find.

Reivax

reggielee wrote: »

you may make lvl 50 in provisioning i n short time but good luck finding higher tier recipes and mats to use for it

So true. I reached level 50 just making level 20 and lower food/drink.
I have spent my first couple of days in Shadowfen and have only found 1 level 30 recipe.

huntgod_ESO

I so read this as Provisioning Master Chief...

Now all I can picture is Master Chief in an apron with a spatula and a butcher's knife.

Natjur

I only make one thing
Invigorated Honey Pudding
(Increase Max Magicka and Stamina by 312 for 1 hour)
It takes Honey Comb (common), Imperial Stock (Buy from NPC) and Onion (uncommon) to make.

I will never bother with the V5 purple versions as the 'extra' parts they need are too rare to bother with.

I have a 70 onion and a few stacks of Honey Comb so I should be well-fed for a while.

The Tier 3 (purple) recipes 'appear' broken as SOME of the parts are from hirelings only (Oats and Tomatos) which means purple Bread/Pies and Soup/Stews are worthless (too costly to make)

This means the ONLY purple food recipes worth making are Grilled ones. They use Garlic & Pepper and both are farmable.

Now if you have the Grilled V5 food recipe.... I know that would sell well.

Natjur

Pyatra wrote: »

Also Purple recipes are seriously hard to find.

I got mine from instanced group dungeon boss drops

TirielsWhisper

I'm not sure my Hireling would know a Tomato if it hit him in the face. I have it maxed out, but all I ever get from the little jerk is grapes and hops. :-\

Locke_ESO

Natjur wrote: »

Pyatra wrote: »

Also Purple recipes are seriously hard to find.

I got mine from instanced group dungeon boss drops

Any idea what dungeon it was or what level you were when you got it?

eNumbra

Using one of the crafting XP add-ons was pretty eye-opening.

Was getting about 9,000 xp per crafted recipe on the same character that was getting ~900 for similar level enchanting glyphs.

Obviously they're trying to balance based on scarcity of material and effect on character ability, but when my main hit lvl 50 Provisioning at level 23 or so there's probably something wrong.

Now if only they'd fix the provisioning drops in vet areas we'd be golden.

wizzerd_lg_ESO wrote: »

Abeille wrote: »

IT IS RAW GIVE ME YOUR APRON AND GET OUT OF MY TAVERN
- Gordon Ramsay, lvl 50 Breton

This Pork Soup is dry...

Always wondered how bad a cook someone has to be for a soup to turn out dry.

leandro.800ub17_ESO

Are there legendary recopies?

ragdollyspannerb16_ESO

I've found 3 recipes and been given a fourth, it's a pain the rear

Gisgo

Provisioning levels up like crazy then you are stuck when you have 178 beef steaks and cant find anyone on Tamriel selling some lard.

mark.markandb16_ESO

TirielsWhisper wrote: »

I'm not sure my Hireling would know a Tomato if it hit him in the face. I have it maxed out, but all I ever get from the little jerk is grapes and hops. :-\

I guess I must be one of the lucky ones. I levelled 2 characters so that I got 2 hirelings to level 3. On my second day I was sent 4 x tomatoes.

Hang in there....it will happen

Thete

GorstyUK wrote: »

I'm just concentrating on provisioning & blacksmith. I think provisioning levels so fast due to the amount of mats available for pick up I'm flying through the levels, we should have a cook off as my rolls taste good to lol

I don't think so. You get far more inspiration for making a single food item than blacksmithing a single item of the same level. The same applies for alchemy, you can level it as fast as you like. I put next to no effort into that and it's my second most advanced skill (after provisioning of course).