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Are you satisfied with Alchemy farming.
Armitas
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I get to play for a little over 2 hours a day on the week days and all day during the weekend. However I find myself having to farm alchemy flowers for over 1 hour a day just to keep up with my pot usage by waking up early before work. I probably spend about 9-10 hours farming flowers a week and I can barely even cover my own usage with that. I feel like I am spending far too much time picking flowers when I have an alt to level and a cap character to maintain.
My farm spot is great, my rotation through it is Optimal. With every flower I can see the next flower to pick up.
Alchemy farming could be shortened in several ways.
1) 2 flowers per node
2)Chance at 2 or 3 flowers per node
3) 5 pots per craft rather than 4.
The poll question is this. Do you feel the amount of farming time required to keep up with your competitive pot usage is appropriate? Obviously peoples pot usage will vary drastically so here I am referring to pot usage under competitive gameplay.
Edited by Armitas on October 22, 2014 3:26PM My farm spot is great, my rotation through it is Optimal. With every flower I can see the next flower to pick up.
Alchemy farming could be shortened in several ways.
1) 2 flowers per node
2)Chance at 2 or 3 flowers per node
3) 5 pots per craft rather than 4.
The poll question is this. Do you feel the amount of farming time required to keep up with your competitive pot usage is appropriate? Obviously peoples pot usage will vary drastically so here I am referring to pot usage under competitive gameplay.
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Are you satisfied with Alchemy farming. 126 votes
Alchemy farming requires too much time to fulfil my competitive pot requirement
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The time spent farming alchemy ingredients is apporpriate to my competative pot requirement.
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I just want to see the results.
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Weberda✭✭✭✭✭
✭The time spent farming alchemy ingredients is apporpriate to my competative pot requirement.Looks to me as if your potion consumption is extreme. I spend maybe 8 hours/week max flower picking and the rest in PVP. I make enough potions for myself and a few friends.Fernwood, EP Haderus NA
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Armitas✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭Alchemy farming requires too much time to fulfil my competitive pot requirementLooks to me as if your potion consumption is extreme. I spend maybe 8 hours/week max flower picking and the rest in PVP. I make enough potions for myself and a few friends.
Might be. PvP is what burns them for me. I go through a lot of tripots. I can't even spare a few for a friend so I make them health/stam/weaponcrit for their pvp.
If you were the only one using your pots how many hours a week would you need?Edited by Armitas on October 22, 2014 3:39PMRetired.
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✭The time spent farming alchemy ingredients is apporpriate to my competative pot requirement.Your pot usage is way, way too much. Learn to survive without having to drink a tri-health every 15 seconds.
Unless you are going for a world record time, you also don't need to be spamming spell damage pots in Trials.4 -
Armitas✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭Alchemy farming requires too much time to fulfil my competitive pot requirements7732425ub17_ESO wrote: »Your pot usage is way, way too much. Learn to survive without having to drink a tri-health every 15 seconds.
I'm fighting twice my numbers and more. I use less when the numbers are more even. I guess a lot of it has to do with the campaign.Retired.
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Ra1ne✭✭The time spent farming alchemy ingredients is apporpriate to my competative pot requirement.I usually do my farming in a long stint ~3hr grind once a week, gives me more than enough for potions(only create with full stacks), anything left over gets put aside until I have a 'spare' full stack, which I then sell.
Ive found levelling an alt generally provides a good influx of herbs, so maybe you can set aside your regular playtime for 1-2 nights and spend this farming a 'backup' stockpile, which would then give you chance to level your alt, and pick herbs with them whilst you level.1 -
Weberda✭✭✭✭✭
✭The time spent farming alchemy ingredients is apporpriate to my competative pot requirement.I have 3 pots on the Q bar that I use for different situations. The tri-health one I usually reserve for those moments where "Oh crap, I need to get out of here quick" occur in PVP.Fernwood, EP Haderus NA
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✭The time spent farming alchemy ingredients is apporpriate to my competative pot requirement.Might be. PvP is what burns them for me. I go through a lot of tripots. I can't even spare a few for a friend so I make them health/stam/weaponcrit for their pvp.
If you were the only one using your pots how many hours a week would you need?[/quote]
Actually the amount of hours can be lessened obviously by farming hi-yield areas like the Alik'r Desert (Goat's Head Wayshrine), the Northpoint area in Rivenspire, and maybe one of the starter islands. I just send 1 or 2 of my toons through there once a week and I'm good (maybe 6-8 hrs. total).
Think I'm finally starting to get a little low on Bugloss though. I try to keep the keep ingredients at around 100 units in inventory.
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Armitas✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭Alchemy farming requires too much time to fulfil my competitive pot requirementI have 3 pots on the Q bar that I use for different situations. The tri-health one I usually reserve for those moments where "Oh crap, I need to get out of here quick" occur in PVP.
I'm half stamina half magicka so I need both stats. But my drive for columbine etc has left me with stacks and stacks of other pot mats, like spell pots, weapon pots, and detect pots.
I try to sell my extras so I can buy my mats but I spend about as much time sifting through all the guild vendors as I do straight farming. I might try to find an alchemy buddy that I can do 1-1 exchanges with.Retired.
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✭The time spent farming alchemy ingredients is apporpriate to my competative pot requirement.Imo the balance should be with average consumption, which I believe for average consumption the material farming for alchemy is balanced. Above average, even drastic, consumption should require above average, even drastic, farming to maintain. Especially considering alchemy's skill point investment is less than the hard crafts and the player can create 4 items with a single craft.0 -
Athas24✭✭✭✭The time spent farming alchemy ingredients is apporpriate to my competative pot requirement.I think the time farming is fine. I just want more Alchemy potion options and more ingredients out there that are usable.
It seems very limited to the expansive list of options in other TES games. I also want friggin poisons to be usable on weapons and such. Edited by Athas24 on October 22, 2014 4:07PM0 -
skeletorz_ESO✭✭✭The time spent farming alchemy ingredients is apporpriate to my competative pot requirement.I think everyone needs to increase their pot usage
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✭✭The time spent farming alchemy ingredients is apporpriate to my competative pot requirement.The main problem for me was getting enough water, at the appropriate level, the plants were easy to get. Especially once I had a chart showing what properties each one had (meant it was easier to get a potion with a specific effect)People believe what they either want to be true or what they are afraid is true!
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✭✭✭✭✭However I find myself having to farm alchemy flowers for over 1 hour a day just to keep up with my pot usage ....
I only use the potions that the game drops. What are you doing that requires so many potions? It's a rhetorical question to make you think about how you approach the games combat.
That being said, it would be nice if some nodes gave more then one flower. Perhaps a passive that gives a chance for more reagents from a node. This could replace the hireling that is missing from Alchemy.
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✭✭✭✭Alchemy farming requires too much time to fulfil my competitive pot requirementAlexDougherty wrote: »The main problem for me was getting enough water, at the appropriate level, the plants were easy to get. Especially once I had a chart showing what properties each one had (meant it was easier to get a potion with a specific effect)
The water I buy. I bought about 3 stacks of cloud mist for 900 each. Oh my life would be miserable if I had to farm those too.Retired.
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Armitas✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭Alchemy farming requires too much time to fulfil my competitive pot requirementI just want more Alchemy potion options and more ingredients out there that are usable. It seems very limited to the expansive list of options in other TES games. I also want friggin poisons to be usable on weapons and such.
Yeah like stinkhorns, why only 1 good trait? Would love to have a spell crit, weapon power, magicka recover. That would work great for destro staffs.Retired.
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PlagueMonk✭✭✭✭✭The time spent farming alchemy ingredients is apporpriate to my competative pot requirement.Don't do the crime it you can't afford the time.
If you want to drink pots like they were water then either suck it up or spend your precious gold on buying pots from those who DO have the time.2 -
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✭✭The time spent farming alchemy ingredients is apporpriate to my competative pot requirement.AlexDougherty wrote: »The main problem for me was getting enough water, at the appropriate level, the plants were easy to get. Especially once I had a chart showing what properties each one had (meant it was easier to get a potion with a specific effect)
The water I buy. I bought about 3 stacks of cloud mist for 900 each. Oh my life would be miserable if I had to farm those too.
Yeah, if I wasn't clevelling multiple characters using all the crafts (about three or four each not all on each character) I'ld probably buy the water too, but at the minute I'm on a bit of an economy drive (won't bore you with trhe details of why).Edited by AlexDougherty on October 22, 2014 7:08PMPeople believe what they either want to be true or what they are afraid is true!
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ryanmjmcevoy_ESO✭✭✭Alchemy farming requires too much time to fulfil my competitive pot requirementIn addition to farming being time consuming, I also dislike that there is no money in Alchemy. You only pick Alchemy up to save money, not to make money. The pots are all sold at a loss given the prices of ingredients in guild stores.
The only exception is if crafting is your main focus in the game; if you farm the ingredients then selling your pots does make you money, but still not as much as just selling the ingredients could net you.
If they fixed Alchemy farming either by adding a hireling or more reagents per node, I think the reagent prices would drop and Alchemy could become a reasonable way to make money.3 -
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Suru✭✭✭✭The time spent farming alchemy ingredients is apporpriate to my competative pot requirement.Not a problem for me persay,
Currently satisfied, 4 hours a pvp mean you have some free time to farm, maybe any hour or so (urrgghhh, that time of the week again fml, time run in circles and get on my knees over and over again). It requires some work on your end as a player to keep to your competitive needs. Not like PVP doesnt not give you gold now. More you pvp, more you have, and the more youll need. Incase you have to buy. Although every buff mentioned in the OP would just make me ...unnffff. Too good haha.Edited by Suru on October 22, 2014 8:57PM
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Elvent✭✭✭✭Alchemy farming requires too much time to fulfil my competitive pot requirementI wouldn't mind seeing 1-4 flowers per node drop.0
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✭The time spent farming alchemy ingredients is apporpriate to my competative pot requirement.To be honest, I find farming for herbs to be fairly efficient if I compare it to what I have to do to find the right provisioning ingredients and, even more so, blacksmithing tempers.Please stop making requests for game features. ZOS have enough bad ideas as it is!2 -
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✭I just want to see the results.Simple yes and no would have been better choices..
That said, i think Alchemy is just fine, it takes some time but i dont want things handed to me. I do not sell my potions, i use them myself or give away so i dont think i like it for competition reasons. I just like some hardship, more work, more gain is logical and very good formula to get more satisfaction from end results.l>>PC-EU Mostly PVE. Played since BETA<<1 -
Alchemy farming requires too much time to fulfil my competitive pot requirementMan id love to find some good spots to harvest. By all means PM me the locations! Me love you long time if you do 0
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✭✭The time spent farming alchemy ingredients is apporpriate to my competative pot requirement.I think alchemy is perfectly balanced as it is. If you don't want to farm flowers, buy them. If you can't afford them, don't drink potions and stop whining.
Not everything should be easy. Wearing full legendary gear isn't for everybody and the same goes for potions.Wololo.3 -
Sylvyr✭✭✭✭✭The time spent farming alchemy ingredients is apporpriate to my competative pot requirement.You're a pot fiend. If you're going to use them that much then yeah, you're going to need to farm or buy them. I don't want the game to become like I have to drink a pot constantly. If you do that by choice good for you, now support it, don't ask for mats to drop like crazy for everyone to support it. Besides, it would really devalue pots on the market too, like we need to see more of hey this is something that used to be worth 500g now it's worth 5g.
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✭✭The time spent farming alchemy ingredients is apporpriate to my competative pot requirement.Oh look, flowers.
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✭✭✭✭Alchemy farming requires too much time to fulfil my competitive pot requirementTalking about it on the PvP fourms. Looks like a lot of PvPers are at 200 tripots a day. Some at 400 a day!Edited by Armitas on October 25, 2014 5:05PMRetired.
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