Crafting help

Dwermer · May 2015

Hi
I was wondering, if there were helpful links for crafting of other crafts like, 'Myrron's Guide to ESO Blacksmithing'?

I am especially, thinking of alchemy and enchanting. I struggle with putting together the correct agents to making potions and enchants and wonder if there is a list to help people know exactly what to use for each potion, especially for leveling the individual craft and doing writs

Any advice would be gratefully received
thanks

helediron · May 2015

There are some guides like in Tamriel Foundry, but they are not so detailed and somewhat outdated. Best help comes from addons. E.g. Potion Maker, Merlin and Multicraft help tremendously. They can be found in esoui.com . I use post-it addon to help with writs.

Ourorboros · May 2015

Potion Maker is a good alchemy add-on. Quick Enchanter does the same thing for enchanting. There are many websites with info, I tend to use USEPWiki

Septimus_Magna · May 2015

There is an useful add-on, Potion Maker, to help with Alchemy combinations.

To level enchanting I would advise deconstructing every glyph you can find. And craft glyphs, trade them with someone else who has crafted gylphs and deconstruct them. If you deconstruct glyphs crafted by someone else you level up really quickly, especially if you deconstruct green/blue or higher quality glyphs.

You can find all the runestone translations here

SpAEkus · May 2015

The guides and addons listed above will help you determine what ingredients/runes to use.

It takes 3,667,895 IP to level any craft from 1-50.

For Alchemy the formula is simple. All IP is based on the level of the water and not the ingredients that you use. Each level of water gives a set number of IP. Only use two ingredients, no extra IP is given for three.

Natural - 1500 IP
Clear - 5000 IP
Pristine - 8000 IP
Cleansed - 12000 IP
Filtered - 16000 IP
Purified - 20000 IP
Cloud Mist - 20000 IP
(Add +10% IP if subscribed)

So just make enough of each water level to advance to the next and make enough of each and you are done. Use the cheapest ingredients you can get (Bought or Harvested) and have at it.

For Enchanting each level of Aspect/Potency rune gives different levels of IP from crafting and decon. Essence runes do not affect IP levels.

There are IP penalties for lower skill levels and especially for Gold glyph decon.

Here is some of the last data per glyph but it is not complete.
Glyph Decon IP data

Nestor · May 2015

Dwermer wrote: »

Hi
especially for leveling the individual craft and doing writs

Any advice would be gratefully received
thanks

For Leveling Alchemy, first thing to do is eat each ingredient you don't know the first trait on. That way you learn it. Then, combine reagents that have the same properties to get a potion. Also, be aware that Filtered Water is a rare drop. Well, if your on level to use Filtered Water (40's mostly) then you can find it rather easilly. It is below or above the level needed for Filtered that it gets real hard to find as compared to all the other waters. So, you end up making a bunch of L30 potions as that water is more availible and skip most of the grinding with Filtered Water.

Also, use the Mushrooms (except for Namira's Rot) to make negative potions so you preserve the reagents that make positive potions for your use. Mushrooms are cheaper to buy, and grow at the base of trees, so easy to find.

As for Foods, if you have any Blue Recipes, go buy the ingredients and just start making stacks of foods or drinks. You don't need Blues for this, but you level up faster making them (I think, but the foods are more useful). Drinks have questionable value (though a Regen Character is more viable now) so you can use up those ingredients first, then the food ingredients.

As for doing Writs, once you get about 5 to 10 of them done in a craft line, they become self supporting for the most part. In that the stuff you get back is more than what is asked for, and you can make more than what is called for so you only have to brew or cook or mix every 2 to 4 writs. This applies only to Consumable Writs, Equipment Writs, you will put in far more than you get out, so plan accordingly.

helediron · May 2015

I made an experiment when leveling another enchanter. I used only glyphs dropping from mobs while leveling another toon through VR ranks. It took two weeks to go past skill level 40 just by deconstructing dropped glyphs. Most of the glyphs were VR5..VR9 and part of them were green. The last five levels probably are easier to get by farming potency8..9/denata..rekuta runes. But to get enough of enchanting does not really need trading any more.

An alchemist needs roughly a 100stack of each water and about 1000 flowers. Never calculated exactly.

Provisioner needs a recipe making level 15 food/drink to bypass skill level 20. After that rest is easy.

Farming is the most needed "skill" in crafting.

Dwermer · May 2015

hi all

thanks for the feedback and advice

SpAEkus · May 2015

Nestor wrote: »

As for Foods, if you have any Blue Recipes, go buy the ingredients and just start making stacks of foods or drinks. You don't need Blues for this, but you level up faster making them. Drinks have questionable value (though a Regen Character is more viable now) so you can use up those ingredients first, then the food ingredients.

@Nestor

Did you actually get more IP from a Blue recipe? When I checked them recently I re-verified all the greens and they were exactly 1/2 IP from pre-1.6. I didn't bother with Blue or Purple because before they made no IP difference.

I'll need to run them again if that changed to update my spreadsheets.

Nestor · May 2015

SpAEkus wrote: »

@Nestor

Did you actually get more IP from a Blue recipe? When I checked them recently I re-verified all the greens and they were exactly 1/2 IP from pre-1.6. I didn't bother with Blue or Purple because before they made no IP difference.

It seemed like I did, but may be it was only because they were higher level. The Blues I had at the time were making things in the 40's. I have only had Blue low level recipes with the new provisioning system, and all my provisioners are now maxed (the ones I want maxed anyway).

But, Blues make better foods to use, so the grind out put is worth something. Nobody buys Green Foods unless they have a Writ to fulfill.

SpAEkus · May 2015

Yes, I rarely make greens for use as well, although some of the VR10 Greens seem to sell for PVP.

helediron · May 2015

I didn't check if blues are better for IP but i doubt it. Nevertheless i have leveled few provisioners after rehaul just with green recipes. The recipe level is surely most important IP source. E.g. there is a huge difference of IP between recipes making food/drink to level 5 and to level 15, tenfold IIRC. Both are available to lowest rank. So i suggest to increase the first skill when you can and then find any recipe(s) that make food to highest level you can with the new rank.

Woolenthreads · May 2015

Nestor wrote: »

Filtered Water is a rare drop. Well, if your on level to use Filtered Water (40's mostly) then you can find it rather easilly. It is below or above the level needed for Filtered that it gets real hard to find as compared to all the other waters.

Seriously? Whenever I do the occasional container search through the Hollow City "Filtered Water" seems to be in a quarter of them. Now you've made me curious to know if there's a market for it

Tallowby · May 2015

Dwermer wrote: »

Hi
I was wondering, if there were helpful links for crafting of other crafts like, 'Myrron's Guide to ESO Blacksmithing'?

I am especially, thinking of alchemy and enchanting. I struggle with putting together the correct agents to making potions and enchants and wonder if there is a list to help people know exactly what to use for each potion, especially for leveling the individual craft and doing writs

Any advice would be gratefully received
thanks

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