Provisioning advice needed!

netch_a_sketch · June 2015

Okay, so I decided to make a character for provisioning. The problem is that there are so many food materials that they dont all fit in my inventory and bank, and I don't have the recipes for a lot of ingredients, and finding the recipe for the crafting writ seems nigh impossible sometimes.
Any master provisioners out there got some advice? Tips for starting out would be helpful too (:

God-eater · June 2015

Expand your bank and bag as much as you can, do the horse training every day.

Beyond that, create a mule to hold excess mats - especially the ones you can't use yet.

If you have a friend you trust, mail excess mats to them and have them return the mail - 30 days of free storage there.

That's all I've got. I feel your pain, tho - my provisioner is also my enchanter and alchemist. Muay space issues.

Johngo0036 · June 2015

Here is my advice for what its worth,

Get a 2 recipes (1 Food, 1 Drink) that is the highest you can make with your provisioner,

When looting, loot ONLY the materials you need for those recipe's,

Level until you can make a higher level recipe and do the same there Until you max Provisioning,

Then choose a few recipes that you will focus on making,
and keep only those ingredients,

for writs you can find most the ingredients right there in town,

UrQuan · June 2015

Sell/give away/destroy the ingredients you don't have recipes for (or upgrade your inventory).

Do the provisioning writs every day. If a writ calls for a recipe you don't know, don't waste your time trying to hunt it down, just ask guildies/friends if they have the recipe or can craft the food/drink for you (you don't have to craft it yourself to turn in the writ, but it has to be crafted by a player). If so, great you can do the writ, if not just abandon it and hope that the next day you'll have better luck with the new writ.

Whenever you're at a guild trader check to see if they have cheap recipes, and if they do buy any that you don't already know. I know that any time I get recipes I already know (mostly as rewards from writs, as every single writ turned in gives you a recipe) I just list it in my guild's store for the base price (so 27 gold for a green recipe, 30 for a blue) in the hopes that someone will need it and be happy to find it cheaply. I'm sure some of my recipes probably get bought by people looking to flip them for a profit, but I hope that a lot of them are bought by aspiring provisioners who just need to know the recipes...

Nestor · June 2015

Jazzius wrote: »

Okay, so I decided to make a character for provisioning. The problem is that there are so many food materials that they dont all fit in my inventory and bank, and I don't have the recipes for a lot of ingredients, and finding the recipe for the crafting writ seems nigh impossible sometimes.
Any master provisioners out there got some advice? Tips for starting out would be helpful too (:

There are 50 total Provisioning Ingredients in the game, too many to hold on a base character. However, for 2400 gold, you can have 20 more slots. So, make that upgrade. Then you can have one provisioner.

Now, you will need about 20 to 25 skill points to fully flesh out the Provisioner, so you might want to run the first zone with this character to get those skill points then spec them into a Chef so you can fully skill up the line as you level it.

Note, you can level provisioning from 1 to 50 in about 30 minutes if you have enough ingredients and a few recipes.

While knowing a bunch of recipes is good and all, and I chase all of them myself, you really only need to know a green Health, Stamina and Magic recipe for each level or two, a couple of Blues for each level or two and the Purples you don't need to really learn until you start seeing L40 recipes and better.

Provisioning Writs are a great source of Recipes, especially Blue and Purples, so do those. Plus you get back way more mats than you put in. You will really build up your larder from Writ reward containers. Hirelings are a good source of ingredients too.

SpAEkus · June 2015

As far as storage goes, I started Alt-crafter-mules from beta as I intended to be a crafter first. Get the cheap bag upgrades and start feeding a horse as mentioned above.

For Provisioning details here goes:

Check in chat or with Guild members for a Provisioning Kit if you want to get it done all at once. The kits are sold with 4 recipes and all required ingredients to level 1-50 in a few clicks. Lots of people selling them since Ambrosia started.

Otherwise you will get the most IP from the following levels of recipes. Only need green versions to level with these. There is no extra IP from Blue or Purple recipes. You only need 3 skill points to actually level provisioning to L50, using the recipe levels below. You only need L48 to get a 3/3 provisioning hireling and receive 20x ingredients twice a day.

Level 15 Recipe - 4500/4950 IP - Recipe Improvement Passive 1
Level 25 Recipe - 7500/8250 IP - Recipe Improvement Passive 2
Level 35 Recipe - 10500/11550 IP - Recipe Improvement Passive 3
Level 45 Recipe - 13500/14850 IP - Recipe Improvement Passive 4

Note: IP/IP = Not subscribed/+10% Bonus subscribed IP

Level 45 recipe is the highest recipe you can make before Level 50 Provisioning after which you get no more IP anyway.

If you are going to work the writs here is some more detail:

Provisioning writs at each level I-VI will request 2-3 of the recipe food/beverage for each level of writ.

In my experience the first 4 Prov writs you do will establish the required 2xfood/2xbeverage for that writ on that character. From then on you can pre-make and store the writ requirements on the character.

Each Level of Writ will pull from a level range of recipes.

Writ I - L1-15
Writ II - L20-25
Writ III - L30-35
Writ IV - L40-45
Writ V - Vr1
Writ VI - Vr5/Vr10

Writ level is determined by Recipe Improvement passive of the character only. However the Character must have quest access to ColdHarbor for Writ V and Craglorn for Writ VI. Other wise the max level writ for L50 provisioning skill is capped at Writ IV.