Cost of hiring a crafter who has all motifs

Tigermonkey · March 2015

Well it does depend "what it is worth to you" but as one who has spent many ours over quite a few months since pre-launch to develop a crafter who has all motif styles and nearly all traits (8 in all & 9 in most) across every craft (all maxed out for skill) why would you resent my wanting that valued? If it is just the motif I share your reservation but most people want specified styles, aspect & crafted set (some take heaps of aspect research) so it should probably be priced by all of those but espectially the number of aspects in the requested sets. That is the bit that will take you months or years to replicate yourself.

stefan.gustavsonb16_ESO · March 2015

Note that you just responded to a post that was ten months old. Please check the date of the last post in the threads, or you will end up necroing threads all over the place.

farrier_ESO · March 2015

For people in guild, I'd do it for cost of mats alone. But for non-guildies, yeah, that's a fair price.

SLy_Kyti · March 2015

Kuratla wrote: »

Kililin wrote: »

How is this cheater able to craft full 8 trait sets?

Kuratla wrote: »

So in one of my trade guilds, a crafter said that he had all motifs and could make any blacksmithing gear you could want.

3k for rare pattern is ok, it is really just an compensation for spending the time to craft you something.

Pretty sure he meant any level up to VR10 and any motif, not any craftable set gear. Not enough time has passed in the game for people to have even just 1 eight-trait item researched.

What a what? ....I can't even.... I just...

FYI there are many of us that have the capabilities to make a full set of EIGHT trait armors and weapons in game. We've been researching and resetting research carefully. It is quite an investment of time management to get that research cooking asap. We've also (as I have) invested in several sets of rare racial books to be able to craft on an alt for say weapons, another for armor. The return on this investment has proven time and again to be negligible, as players expect me to drop what I am doing and make their gear essentially for free. I think one should count themselves lucky to find a crafter able and willing to drop their gameplay in order to accommodate you. They have spent skill points where you have not (and perhaps lack many damage skills) and while I personally planned from early launch to do this to make money, while you PvE or AvA for coin, let's help their continued viability by tipping your crafter's accordingly. Otherwise they may re spec, then who would you go to?
p.s. I sell six & eight trait rare gear for at least 800-1000 each piece easily. Its been the going price for months.

Dekkameron · March 2015

3000 seems alright. I imagine that also includes travel to the set piece crafting stations too which can be quite a hassle.

farrier_ESO · March 2015

Yeah, I've got everything but nirnhoned in all crafting lines, plus most of the nirnhoned heavy either researching or researched, and I started late. I've got about half the nirnhoned armors, all told. And others with more money have been researching faster and more efficiently.

Shader_Shibes · March 2015

I craft anyone gear for free, providing they give me the mats. If they want to tip me then fine, but i have enough gold to be not bothered about more gold.

Artemiisia · March 2015

for me it depends, if I know them or not, if its guildies, if its newbies and such, how much they want to have done, and such.

my ww bite abit of topic but still, I have never sold that.

Robbmrp · March 2015

The biggest thing I've seen while crafting is that people forget they are in a trade guild and want things for free or at very little cost. When your in a normal PvP guild and supply every single material including style and trait stones 3k for 5 pieces of the same set imo would be a little high. Traveling to one Set station doesn't take very long and your only looking at 5-10 minutes of travel/crafting time.

On the other hand, when people take a half hour to figure out what they want then 3k isn't an unreasonable amount. The best thing that people can do is be organized with their orders. Have the style and traits determined ahead of time to minimize crafting times. I'm not saying anyone in this post is doing that, just a general comment

Robbmrp · March 2015

rajaniemiorama_ESO wrote: »

huntgod_ESO wrote: »

Some of you guys really like to take a pretty simple question and really complicate the hell out of it.

Give a man a fish....

Slap a man with a fish and he'll smell like fish the whole day!

Nestor · March 2015

SLy_Kyti wrote: »

What a what? ....I can't even.... I just...

FYI there are many of us that have the capabilities to make a full set of EIGHT trait armors and weapons in game.

FYI This thread was from May 2014, so at that time, unless you took advantage of the exploit that allowed for instant research, you would not know 8 traits on anything (well, maybe one item)

wraith808 · March 2015

SLy_Kyti wrote: »

Kuratla wrote: »

Kililin wrote: »

How is this cheater able to craft full 8 trait sets?

Kuratla wrote: »

So in one of my trade guilds, a crafter said that he had all motifs and could make any blacksmithing gear you could want.

3k for rare pattern is ok, it is really just an compensation for spending the time to craft you something.

Pretty sure he meant any level up to VR10 and any motif, not any craftable set gear. Not enough time has passed in the game for people to have even just 1 eight-trait item researched.

What a what? ....I can't even.... I just...

FYI there are many of us that have the capabilities to make a full set of EIGHT trait armors and weapons in game. We've been researching and resetting research carefully. It is quite an investment of time management to get that research cooking asap. We've also (as I have) invested in several sets of rare racial books to be able to craft on an alt for say weapons, another for armor. The return on this investment has proven time and again to be negligible, as players expect me to drop what I am doing and make their gear essentially for free. I think one should count themselves lucky to find a crafter able and willing to drop their gameplay in order to accommodate you. They have spent skill points where you have not (and perhaps lack many damage skills) and while I personally planned from early launch to do this to make money, while you PvE or AvA for coin, let's help their continued viability by tipping your crafter's accordingly. Otherwise they may re spec, then who would you go to?
p.s. I sell six & eight trait rare gear for at least 800-1000 each piece easily. Its been the going price for months.

Look at the date on the OP.

This was a major necro.

MissBizz · March 2015

Lupinemw wrote: »

See if you were in my guild I'd do this for free if you were supplying the Mats. Thats the whole idea of a decent guild you support each other and help each other advance along.

^This.

Our guild has quite a few crafters, many (including myself) which know all the motifs. We even supply the mats (up to green) if the guild bank has them. In this case the guildmate may need to only supply the racial stones. Although I must say, crafting a full set can take an exceptionally long time between travel to/from the bank and usually at least 2 crafting stations (which are never conveniently right beside a wayshrine). I think for someone crafting for a profit, this price seem on the high end of fair. It can also take a really long time if the person ordered is new and therefore doesn't know what details they need to tell you.

newtinmpls · March 2015

Depends on who you talk to and 'is it worth it' to you.

By paying that much you contribute to an atmosphere of that sort of price/expectation.

On the other hand, I had someone I didn't really know help me with crafting two entire sets of Primal for a newer character I was running, declined anything (I sent some materials) just because he was that nice of a guy.

For me, no I won't run right over to a crafting station (I can do seducer & nights silence in woodworking, blacksmithing & clothier) (I can do all the basic styles, and my clothier can do Imperial) but give me a few days and I'll be happy to do a full set for anyone up to about 30th level for nothing (I have ridiculous amounts of most materials up to that level) and send it to you.

If that's too long (you play/level faster so it wouldn't work) then it's not a good deal for you. Then a more expensive but quicker crafter becomes a better option.

SexyVette07 · March 2015

Especially for one of the rare motifs, I would never expect to have it done for free. Not to mention research times for each trait. 3k for an entire set of armor is cheap.

Seriously, 3k is nothing....

Panda244 · March 2015

If you have the materials, I'll do it for free. If you don't have the materials, it's going to cost you whatever the materials cost. By materials I mean the upgrade materials, the rest is to damn easy to find, the only material aside from upgrade mats I'd charge for is a Dwemer Frame.

So yeah.

newtinmpls · March 2015

SexyVette07 wrote: »

Seriously, 3k is nothing....

Where are all these rich players? If I have 5-600 I'm thrilled.