If you are not inclined to farm it yourself use gold to buy it instead. As for researching nirnhoned at the end of your list that is your mistake for choosing well-fitted, sturdy, weighted, charged, powered, etc.. over it. One other thing, I have two nine trait crafters and learned early on to split the work load until they over lap in researched traits. For example with clothing I split medium and cloth between the two alts. With wood working I divided three staves to one and 2 staves and shields to the other. On metal I obviously split armor and weapons.

I buy the stuff! I have neither patience nor time to pick up every flower and rock in Craglorn on the off chance some one left some nirn there. Sure I found a couple by happenstance - but not once ever when looking for it. Go figure. I look for a good"ish" deal through a trader and then give it to a benevlolent guildie to make me some gear to research. And the world turns.

Now I have crafted my final gear, i respec and only put it to level 9 in clothing, blacksmithing and woodworking, I now get surveys in craglorn and everywhere I go I collect nightwood etc to get nirn

MasterGohan wrote: »

Ah the nirncrux farm... I purposely didn't get Orsinium so that my highest level writs are dropped off in Craglorn. That way I can keep 10/10 in everything and still get the good surveys. I farm Craglorn daily just to get enough material for the day's writs but I usually get a nirncrux a day. Some days are better than other. I didn't get one today but I got 3 potents and 2 fortified yesterday.

Really?! So guess I'll just let my sub run out for a while heh heh. Sorry, ZOS

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

I have yet to find a single weapon or armor with nirnhoned, I have two chars farming the group delves and whatever humanoids they can take out in the outdoors, but I haven't seen anything with it. I have plenty of the trait crafting material however. I'm kind of in the same boat, I have everything at 8/9 with only nirnhoned missing so yeah once I do get it the research time is going to be insane.

Um, there are only two ways to get a nirnhoned item in this game:

1. Complete the main Craglorn story quest and receive one random nirnhoned item for research.
2. Crafted by a player.

So you'll get one research item from doing the Craglorn story quest. All other research items must come from other players. Either you farm the nirncrux and give it to a friend or guildie or someone and have them craft an item for you, or you just buy an item from a player.

When nirnhoned was first introduced, people got their one random trait, and then got the other research traits by trading with other players--it was a social game, like trading collectible cards. These days, there are lots of players who know all the nirn traits, so you just contact them and give them the nirncrux or gold and they make a research trait for you.

Now, this will be changing with the Dark Brotherhood update, where there will now be a chance of getting nirnhoned item drops from certain rewards (like leaderboard rewards or the final vMA chest). But until DB is released, nirn research requires interaction with another player. Which fits in with the whole theme of Craglorn being end-game multiplayer/group content.

Gargath wrote: »

Yesterday I found 2 pcs. fortified nirncrux in some random urns inside Night Mother Gaze set crafting cave (Eldbjorg's Hideaway) in vet. Riften. I didn't complete any writs on this alt.
I wonder if this was just huge luck or it's somehow normal to find nirncrux there...

There is a very, VERY small chance nirncrux drops where other trait stones could drop. Was it urn or perhaps heavy sack?

helediron wrote: »

Gargath wrote: »

Yesterday I found 2 pcs. fortified nirncrux in some random urns inside Night Mother Gaze set crafting cave (Eldbjorg's Hideaway) in vet. Riften. I didn't complete any writs on this alt.
I wonder if this was just huge luck or it's somehow normal to find nirncrux there...

There is a very, VERY small chance nirncrux drops where other trait stones could drop. Was it urn or perhaps heavy sack?

Definitely the urns, I've never seen a heavy sack inside crafting stations btw.

Believe it or not, but it's a fact and truth. I have no reason to brag myself about my super luck. Both nirncrux are already sold, so best will be to forget about this anomaly and do not add it to the list of reported places .

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

I have yet to find a single weapon or armor with nirnhoned, I have two chars farming the group delves and whatever humanoids they can take out in the outdoors, but I haven't seen anything with it. I have plenty of the trait crafting material however. I'm kind of in the same boat, I have everything at 8/9 with only nirnhoned missing so yeah once I do get it the research time is going to be insane.

You wont find a weapon or armour with it on. The only place you can get such an item is finishing the Craglorn main quest, as the final quest reward. (one per character)

Why is potent so hard to come by? I have farmed about 9 Fortified but only ever found 1 Potent.

I have two characters doing all Craglorn writs (except provisioning) and another doing the Craglorn Enchanting writ. Yesterday I did 6 different Craglorn survey maps (and one of them twice as I had 2 maps) for the return of 1 Fortified. Considering you do not get a map every time you turn in a writ, there is not a lot of reward for your efforts.

I have to agree with that ^^, but don't get me wrong, the drop rate is horrible. It's just that the RNG is worse!

I have 8 characters that all do daily writs and have the same hirelings. 2 of the 8 consistently get better stuff in every regard. I thought it would eventually even out, but since launch it has not varied for those 2 getting better results.

OP I think I did a survey once, when it came out...

Never done it again and I don't care for it, if I need Nirn I buy it.

Gold is acquired easily enough

Mysticman wrote: »

With the changing coming to with DB to Nirmcrux the damand for Potent Nirmcrux will drop dramatically, the trails that will now give you the most damage is Sharpened if you put 66 cp points in Elfborn if not then Precise is better.

I don't think you even have to go as far as putting the 66 points into elf born for sharpened to be better than Nirn. I tested both traits on the pts with 31 points into elf born and consistently did higher damage with the sharpened trait.

I hope ZOS does something special to Potent Nirmcrux. It makes no sense that the rarest trait is now mediocre.

I farmed extensively as a stress reliever after work as the mindlessness of the activity was relaxing, and was looking more for the raw materials than nirn. After a couple of weeks, I ended up with 19 potents and 40 fortifieds, selling quite a few in my trading guild. I would have some incredibly good runs and some with nothing. At the end of the day, I see it more as a way to build up mats for refinement and the nirn is just a nice parting gift. It can be frustrating, as it took me 3 days of farming before I actually found any (I started questioning if I was needing a quest completed)... but it is there. I have yet to receive any from farming mobs, urns, etc. All were from wood, cloth, and ore nodes.