Finding specific recipes needed for writs? Impossible?

prax07 · May 2016

Giving proviosing another reluctact try, and I'm finding it impossible. Just got a writ to make venison pasty and honey rye. I of course don't have those two recipes, and searching the myriad guild traders is the really impossiblevpart, like trying to find a micro needle in a haystack. Is tgere an easier way to find specific recioes? It's like ZOS doesn't want anyone to craft with how truely terrible it is to find specific items on vendors. How do you guys do it? About to throw in the towel on this and destroy every ingredient I've ever collected. On the xbox one, in case it matterrs. And no, not a member of a guild and no friends that play.

AGrz5585 · May 2016

I believe when thieves guild launched they added all provisioning recipes to the Brewer npcs in taverns

Turelus · May 2016

AGrz5585 wrote: »

I believe when thieves guild launched they added all provisioning recipes to the Brewer npcs in taverns

Yes. All the green recipes needed for writs are now sold by NPC's.

prax07 · May 2016

I'm at a brewer right now and those aren't there, just ones I already have for nut brown ale and clarified wine. Screw it I'm done with crafting in this game, it shouldn't be this stressful.

Ritzey01 · May 2016

I believe it might be the chef NPC's that sell them.

AntMan100673 · May 2016

Yep, the brewers sell the drink recipes and the chefs sell the food recipes

cjhhickman39 · May 2016

They do sell some but having the same problem they don't have the one I need checked both chief and brewer

Ritzey01 · May 2016

May need to go to a higher level area then, because they sell all of them required for writs in the level appropriate zone.

NBrookus · May 2016

You can also check guild stores. Much cheaper than the NPCs.

kungmoo · May 2016

the recipes they sell is based off your provisioning skill, not the zone you go to

disintegr8 · May 2016

I got most of my missing recipes through guild traders, just checked every trader as I found them. It would be nice if they came up with a search tool that covered all traders instead of you having to travel all over the place for them.

I think the higher level recipes are easier to come across - before I hit level 30 or 35 I hardly ever found a recipe. There are still a couple of low level writ recipes I did not have but all my chars provisioning writs now require vet level 15 food/drink and I had all of those recipes before I needed them for writs.

The other thing is that provisioning writs are the only ones your character does not have to make - only deliver them. So you can find a friend or guild member to make a supply for you.

Articulemort · May 2016

Finding recipes is actually quite easy. Just look in backpacks for the proper level zoned area. For instance, if you are making level 1 recipes, go to bleakrock if your in ebonheart pact, or whatever your factions starting area is. Level 2 recipes are in stonefalls, so on and so forth. To grind for them, find an area where a few backpacks are near a way shrine, search the backpacks then fast travel to the way shrine to refresh the backpacks and search again. Continue to you find the recipe you need. I will tell you certain recipes especially writ recipes can go for a lot of gold, if people know what they are.

BenevolentBowd · May 2016

I did some checking on this recently.

All chefs and brewers sell writ recipes
The vendors offer recipes for your current recipe improvement passive level and the one below it.
The vendors stop at recipe improvement 5 (bug?)

My provisioning writ guide includes all the recipes you need for each faction and the location of the recipe vendors in the writ turn-in towns. Also, I have just recently started to include the prices of the recipes as well. Perhaps, it will help.

http://benevolentbowd.ca/esotu/eso-provisioning-writs/

CosmicSherpa · May 2016

Generally I've found all the recipes in the inn/bar nearest the location of where I got the writ. E,g I picked provisioning up in riften, went to both bars/inns/taverns in riften and they had the recipes. Same in stormhaven and belkarth and wrothgar.

I only just started on provisioning again after giving up as couldn't find recipes. Now I'm finding recipes everywhere.

Cosmic