I think you mean crafts lol but yeah one of the best ways is to get someone to help you. You get MUCH more inspiration deconstructing/extracting equipment and glyphs someone else made.

Alchemy and Provisioning are easy enough to do alone though if you have enough materials.

Also if you have at least 89 Champion Points you can use Inspiration Boost. Orcs also earn more Inspiration than other races.

WldKarde wrote: »

Wise words from the people who have responded!


My 2 cents....all of the above....and while you are doing that...just enjoy the game!

Believe it or not, they will level themselves as you enjoy the journey

This is true according to my experiences as well. Or at least mostly true.

All but enchanting. That one required a focused effort outside of the normal routine of adventuring for me to master.

For clothing, woodworking and blacksmithing, buy some intricate or ask in guild if someone has some high level pieces gear of equipment with the intricate trait to decon.

Alchemy, craft potions/poisons, make sure to use the highest solvent for your current level (water/oil).

Provisioning, make sure to grab some blue recipes, ingredients en masse, and start cooking, when you can, start cooking the blue recipe, instead of fishy sticks. Make sure to use the highest recipe quality that you can craft with your level of skill (e.g. you have enough skill to craft recipe for lvl45, stop using the one for lvl30 and start using that one). Blue food gives more xp than green, purple food gives more than blue, but the ingredients cost more, so, it's better to just stick to the blue recipe. There is no difference between food and drinks, they give the same xp, so, doesn't matter what you find, as long as it's blue and for your current skill level.

Enchanting, don't even bother to make stuff, just decon every glyph you find, and, if possible, ask friends to craft you high level glyphs to decon.

Enchanting and Alchemy, every time you discover an ingredient property or a rune property, you get extra xp, so, make sure you use different kinds of runes and, at least one time, all the ingredients. Also, failed potions give no xp, make sure to use ingredients that can make a potion, try to google a list of ingredients/runes traits.

Alchemy is very easy to level up, especially now that you have ingredients for poisons as well. There is no difference between potions and poisons, they give the same xp, but, meh, dunno, maybe you can try to sell the poisons you make, so, there's that.

Also, make sure to do the daily writs, they give xp as well as monies.

Happy trail.


PS- When you ask people to make you stuff, remember to provide ingredients and mats necessary.

And, yes, traits for weapons/armor are important, more important than the skill itself, because the custom sets require a number of traits for the piece you want to make (e.g. a Hunding Rage chest piece will require you to have 6 traits for chests pieces). The whole point of leveling up crafting skills is to make high level crafted sets, and it takes forever to research, unless you're ESO+, and even then, it can take up to 30 days (real time) to research a single trait, so, yeah, as the guy above me said, start ASAP.

Just about to level up my alchemy then I'll have them all at 50. Got stacks of flowers, water etc, I'm not even gonna sell my 130 columbine, though I was tempted a while back when my gold was running low lol

Clothing, blacksmithing, and woodworking: buy a crap ton of intricates to break down or pick up any you get and do writs.
Alchemy: poisons are easy to make, gather mats for, and can make you some nice coin by selling whatever you make to merchants.
Enchanting: break down green, blue, or purple glyphs made by other players. Do writs.
Provisioning: Buy recipes according to your skill level and make a crap ton of the food and sell those foods to merchants. Blue foods give more experience.

My advice is - deconstruct everything you can and do researching from the start. Do writs too.

Do all the skill points quests in the 1-50 game, as well as silver and gold Cadwell. Main quest, fighters guild, mages guild, undaunted and Orsinium.....level up as you go but these skill points will end up as awesome because having 250+ is a good place to be.

Cloth, wood and blacksmith - just literally decon everything from dungeons, quests, etc BUT always, always, always check what you can research first. Hitting level 50 is only part of these three.

Alchemy....takes time or money. Because it takes time, I'd suggest just harvest and buy ESO plus for a crafting bag.
Provisioning.....easiest if you collect food from any and al containers as you play as well as recipes. Do some writs too and get the skill unlocked to recieve mats each day. Max it out.

Enchanting.....start early but concentrate on deconnimg thing at your enchanting level and only craft things that have a "?"

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

Do all the skill points quests in the 1-50 game, as well as silver and gold Cadwell. Main quest, fighters guild, mages guild, undaunted and Orsinium.....level up as you go but these skill points will end up as awesome because having 250+ is a good place to be.

This. Just re-spec'd one of my toons to be my dedicated crafter, and I had 245 skill points to play with. Filled all of the professions skills out, plus whatever skills I'd need to protect myself while farming, and still had a quite a few left over. Gotta start spending gold on bag space, though. Provisioning ingredients and Alchemy reagents take up a ton of space.

When finish your "main" crafter, make sure all of your alts level Provisiong to 50 (do the daily writs in Wrothgar); this will net you gold and possibly ambrosia recipe pieces (sell the duplicates). I also recommend level a few of the alts to 50 alchemy as well, as the raw materials are easy to come by while adventuring - this also adds to the daily 'free' gold.

One more thing, for all of your toons, decon items on all of them are level 32 in woodworking, BS, and clothing (even echanting if want). That is enough to get the 3/3 hireling...I currently have 10 alts, which are as described in this post. I make close to 8,000 gold per day in writs and selling stuff I won't use. Not to mention a complete and utter tidal wave of gold raw materials.

For the consumable writs, make your stuff in advance - the food, potions, glyphs - it does save time. If you headquarter your toons in Wrothgar, the daily writ grind takes about 15-20 minutes total to get the daily writ quest, turn it in, and train your horse! (and that's for 10 toons...you mileage may vary if you have more or few toons).

moonio wrote: »

Make alts as storage space and park them in the bank, then you can easily transfer items as and when you need them

Or become an ESO+ member and you won't have to worry about bank alts...unless you can't afford the $15/month subscription. Back in the day, that was a thing but not any more with the advent of crafting bag. One of the best things they added to the game.

drakhan2002_ESO wrote: »

moonio wrote: »

Make alts as storage space and park them in the bank, then you can easily transfer items as and when you need them

Or become an ESO+ member and you won't have to worry about bank alts...unless you can't afford the $15/month subscription. Back in the day, that was a thing but not any more with the advent of crafting bag. One of the best things they added to the game.

This is the reason i subscribed! Never have to worry about space for mats, major space saver

wayfarerx wrote: »

• ESO+ gives +10% enlightenment
• The Inspiration Boost champion passive gives +20% enlightenment
• Daily crafting writs reward you with enlightenment
• For the equipment skills deconstruct everything you find
• For alchemy and provisioning acquire a bunch of ingredients and craft like crazy
• Also for alchemy and provisioning, keep putting in skill points as you level up and craft the highest-level items you can
• For enchanting find a buddy (or use an alt) and create / trade / deconstruct glyphs
• Also good for enchanting to create the highest level glyphs possible, higher quality glyphs help too

BONUS: Start researching traits yesterday.

awesome advice, wish i had done some of that when i leveled up my crafts, it wouldn't have taken 18 months.

Asardes wrote: »

danno8 wrote: »

The worst part of levelling crafting is waiting on research for Blacksmithing, Clothing and Woodworking. It will take you basically 6-7 months to get it all done.

Nope, it takes more than one year. I have been researching since the beginning, got the passives relatively early one, and still have researched nirned on just about half of blacksmithing and clothier items. Woodworking is way shorter since the number of items is less than half, 6 vs 14 in the other professions. That one I finished indeed in about 6 months.

Oops, you are right. Basically Woodworking can be 7 months, blacksmithing and clothing is around twice that.

This is why I can never switch my crafter to anything other than the character I currently am using. It just takes too much time to relearn everything.