Personally, I would say;

Do not craft until you're at max level. Every time you level up, new gear drops. So I've been playing pretty hardcore for about four weeks now and I saved almost all crafting materials.

Once I hit VR16 I have enough there to craft myself a full daedra set of heavy armour.

The best way to level your crafting skills is to decon every drop item that you get. You don't really get any inspiration (craft skill XP) from crafting gear, you get much more by deconning it. You can also run daily writs, which give decent inspiration and also reward gold tempers which can be saved for later or sold in guild traders ( I recommend saving them).While you level up, you can wear drop sets, they will do just fine until you hit lvl 50 or you can try crafting some sets if you want to try them out and have enough traits unlocked, upgrading them no further than blue quality, you will be outleveling too fast to justify upgrading them further. You will also want to pick up every raw matt you come across and refine it. This drops tempers that are used to upgrade items in quality which you should hoard especially the gold ones (These are expensive on PC where I play, and from what I see on the forums they are insanely expensive on the consoles)

The other thing you want to do with crating is learn every trait through researching. This is important so that you will be able to produce sets in the game you have to have X number of traits unlocked on each piece in order to be able to craft it. For example, Hundings Rage a set popular with stamina NB's requires 6 traits unlocked on each piece you craft. Start learning traits right away, because each triait you learn on each piece doubles the time required to research it, with the last trait requiring 30 days to learn.

To maximize your crafting, you will want to take all the passives in the skill lines. The keen eye passive makes raw amtts much easier to see in the game put 1 point in this skill, more than that is unnecessary. The extraction skills allow you to get higher quality items from the gear you decon and raw matts you refine. The hireling passive delivers crafting matts and tempers to your mail once or twice a day. Each skill line also has a passive that shortens the research time and allows for researching up to 3 items at a time, at start you can only research 1 at a time. Lastly there is a passive that improves your chance of improving items with tempers.

As far as different styles of armor (altmer, bosmer, ancient orc, daedric, etc.) they are unlocked by reading motif books. The 9 basic racial styles are larned by reading 1 book with the racial style of your crafting alt being unlocked by default. There are 5 racials (Barbaric, abcient elf daedric, primal, and imperial) that are unlocked with rarer motifs. All other exotic styles are unlocked 1 page at a time, with each page representing 1 piece of gear. (for example dwemer swords) The exotic motifs are found in various ways depending on which style you are pursuing. I recommend making your equipment crafting alt an Imperial, if you have the Imp edition of the game, simply because that way you do not have to learn that style and can then sell any Imp motifs that drop for you. They currently go for about 40,000+ on PC NA.

Vonovosi wrote: »

The best way to level your crafting skills is to decon every drop item that you get. You don't really get any inspiration (craft skill XP) from crafting gear, you get much more by deconning it. You can also run daily writs, which give decent inspiration and also reward gold tempers which can be saved for later or sold in guild traders ( I recommend saving them).While you level up, you can wear drop sets, they will do just fine until you hit lvl 50 or you can try crafting some sets if you want to try them out and have enough traits unlocked, upgrading them no further than blue quality, you will be outleveling too fast to justify upgrading them further. You will also want to pick up every raw matt you come across and refine it. This drops tempers that are used to upgrade items in quality which you should hoard especially the gold ones (These are expensive on PC where I play, and from what I see on the forums they are insanely expensive on the consoles)

The other thing you want to do with crating is learn every trait through researching. This is important so that you will be able to produce sets in the game you have to have X number of traits unlocked on each piece in order to be able to craft it. For example, Hundings Rage a set popular with stamina NB's requires 6 traits unlocked on each piece you craft. Start learning traits right away, because each triait you learn on each piece doubles the time required to research it, with the last trait requiring 30 days to learn.

To maximize your crafting, you will want to take all the passives in the skill lines. The keen eye passive makes raw amtts much easier to see in the game put 1 point in this skill, more than that is unnecessary. The extraction skills allow you to get higher quality items from the gear you decon and raw matts you refine. The hireling passive delivers crafting matts and tempers to your mail once or twice a day. Each skill line also has a passive that shortens the research time and allows for researching up to 3 items at a time, at start you can only research 1 at a time. Lastly there is a passive that improves your chance of improving items with tempers.

As far as different styles of armor (altmer, bosmer, ancient orc, daedric, etc.) they are unlocked by reading motif books. The 9 basic racial styles are larned by reading 1 book with the racial style of your crafting alt being unlocked by default. There are 5 racials (Barbaric, abcient elf daedric, primal, and imperial) that are unlocked with rarer motifs. All other exotic styles are unlocked 1 page at a time, with each page representing 1 piece of gear. (for example dwemer swords) The exotic motifs are found in various ways depending on which style you are pursuing. I recommend making your equipment crafting alt an Imperial, if you have the Imp edition of the game, simply because that way you do not have to learn that style and can then sell any Imp motifs that drop for you. They currently go for about 40,000+ on PC NA.

wow thanks for the reply that is all very helpful info and i will bookmark this so i can come back and re read when need be, i figure i will start over on ebonheart as i hear its the better alliance to choose, and try a different play style i normally only play as NB but the templar has been catching my eye lately.

Prabooo wrote: »

jigglefruit wrote: »

im level 15 im a nightblade i use duel wield and bow dont know how i should set up my skill tree nor how i should set up my gear

So I assume you are a stamina build. Invest all attribute points into stamina, focus on damage. For bow: Snipe is your strongest single target attack, Arrow spray is a helpful AoE, Scatter Shot is a good knockback. For dual wield: Flurry is the strongest single target, Whirlwind your favorite AoE, and Hidden Blade your only ranged attack in this skill tree. As a nightblade you have plenty of options in your class (Assassin's Blade, Teleport Strike, Veiled Strike and Drain Power have stamina morphs). As for crafted gear, I suggest http://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Set+Bonus+Crafting+Locations for more info, depending on your playstile you can mix different gear items to benefit from their bonuses.

thannks for the reply and the link i found a nice build on that website and think i will use it for a new character

PrinceBoru wrote: »

Oldmanlawlor wrote: »

Personally, I would say;

Do not craft until you're at max level. Every time you level up, new gear drops. So I've been playing pretty hardcore for about four weeks now and I saved almost all crafting materials.

Once I hit VR16 I have enough there to craft myself a full daedra set of heavy armour.

I respectfully disagree.
Having to catch myself up in some crafting skills was a pain in my green Dunmer arse.

Just play the game.
It takes time.
A lot of time.
Once you surrender yourself to that notion, you can relax and enjoy the game.

Preface any question you have with "ESO" on Google.
Use skyshard & lore book maps on the web.
Search these forums, etc., you know the drill.

Just keep on exploring Tamriel and everything will fall into place.
There is no hurry.
The game is too beautiful to hurry.

was literally just sitting here thinking to myself about what you just said lol, the more i play the more i learn and figure out like anything else, just needed some footing on the basics of my build and the links provided were very helpful. Thank you for all the help to anyone who has responded to my question, the ESO forums are unlike any ive used before, people are usually rude and tend to be unhelpful. thanks to everyone anyone ever feels like playing im making a new character as a fresh start on the ebonheart pact (believe thats how its spelled) i play on xbox one but probably going to try out pc quite soon ill leave my GT below if anyone would like to add me for grouping up or giving me more insight on the game feel free to add me.

GT: jiggle fruit

jigglefruit wrote: »

thanks for the reply, wont i need to increase stuff in the crafting skill lines? for that type of armour?

Here is what you need to know about crafting at lower levels in this game

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/2510887