Once you get certified in a crafting specialization, you'll have access to daily writs for that craft. Writs provide opportunities to level your crafting skills, make a bit of gold, and be rewarded with crafting materials. As you move up in crafting tiers, the writ rewards become better.

So, yes, certification does serve as a tutorial, but it also has another purpose.

Of course you can craft and master your crafts without doing the certification and daily writs but it's a quick and relatively easy way to gain crafting materials, XP, and gold as long as you have the materials in stock to craft the requested items.

Be aware though, that as you spend skill points into increasing your craft lvl (to be able to craft with the next tier of materials), you're daily writs will increase with it, to use that new material. But the rewards will also be greater. The trait gems alone are a great reason to do these for weapon and armor crafts. Especially early on in your crafting because until you've been breaking down items for awhile to get a good stockpile, they're not easy to come by. Even then, certain ones will run out quicker and it's nice to have another way to earn more.

This is how you can also gain crafting surveys which are maps to high quantity material nodes. So if you get a Blacksmith Survey you will get a map like a treasure map which will show you a place to mine ore that will give you about 7+ per node instead of the usual 3ish. If that makes sense.

If you're doing provisioning, this is a good way to get more recipes and is one of the very few ways to get the ingredients you need to make purple recipes, Frost Miriam and Brevez Juice (spelling?), aside from getting the hireling or buying it from other players.

Suisyo wrote: »

This is how you can also gain crafting surveys which are maps to high quantity material nodes. So if you get a Blacksmith Survey you will get a map like a treasure map which will show you a place to mine ore that will give you about 7+ per node instead of the usual 3ish. If that makes sense.

If you're doing provisioning, this is a good way to get more recipes and is one of the very few ways to get the ingredients you need to make purple recipes, Frost Miriam and Brevez Juice (spelling?), aside from getting the hireling or buying it from other players.

Which has a net result of *seriously* not being worth it.

Classic example. Daily Level 50 Woodworking Writ - Make 3 Ice, 3 Lightning and 3 Fire staves.

Over 100 pieces of Nightwood to complete.

Reward? A CHANCE at getting a survey which MAY get back HALF of the wood you invest to do this writ.

More often than not, you'll get a grey/green and perhaps a single mat.

The consumable writs (Alchemy/Provisioning/Enchanting) can yield a reward that's in line with the mats spent to complete them.

But for Woodworking, Blacksmithing and Clothing? Oh dear god no. Total waste of time doing those.

There's already a number of discussions on this :

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/138192/writ-rewards

TLDR : Don't bother with writs outside consumables. They're not worth the effort.

IDK, crafting is just something else to do....have fun with it until I get pissed LOL.....but I think it is worth it

I like writs Like Suisyo said, there are quite a few benefits. The XP and surveys are why I still do them at v5, with all crafts maxed. Some may think it's a sinkhole for Skill Points, but it definitely depends on how you play the game. If you enjoy crafting, then go for it! And if you're like me, a completionist, you definitely want to do writs, as there are achievements involved (and helps you max your crafts quicker, which also carry achievements/dyes). But if you're more into hack-and-slash it may seem like time, energy, and skill points wasted.

Khenarthi wrote: »

Plus, if I understand right once IC goes live equipment writs will give a chance of getting a glass motif fragment to restore - which should be the way to get the new motif. Please someone correct me if I misunderstood. The actual motif stone is malachite and has a chance of dropping in treasure chests.

So here is a reason to do the equipment writs... the prices of those fragments, specially at launch, will be crazy high. Best to just do your writs if you want to learn the motif.

This sounds vaguely familiar. I remember reading something about the materials for Glass Motif will only be available through deconstruction.

Khenarthi wrote: »

Plus, if I understand right once IC goes live equipment writs will give a chance of getting a glass motif fragment to restore - which should be the way to get the new motif. Please someone correct me if I misunderstood. The actual motif stone is malachite and has a chance of dropping in treasure chests.

So here is a reason to do the equipment writs... the prices of those fragments, specially at launch, will be crazy high. Best to just do your writs if you want to learn the motif.

Yeah.. bout that.. even if your char is level 50 crafting, dont expect any of those frags unless that char ALSO has access to Craglorn to do the turnins. Game seems to lock you on level 40 writs until then.

BTW, on live, I get 1400ish Vet XP for turnins. On PTS, I get 3300ish. Both with the ESO plus XP enhancement running.

Actually, on launch, people were leveling characters ONLY crafting. Not sure if its still possible.

The only writs i bother with like others are the provisioning ones.

Gimme those purple pages!