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Are you getting enough surveys to replace the materials you spend? Maybe it's my bad RNG, then.

It's worth it just for the gold tempers. In my experience, there is about a 30% chance to get a gold temper from a max level writ.

Baconfat79 wrote: »

It's worth it just for the gold tempers. In my experience, there is about a 30% chance to get a gold temper from a max level writ.

Really? I don't even remember when is the last time I've got a gold temper from a writ. I don't do them every day, but still... I'm more lucky with refining.

I do all 6 max level writs daily, I get 1-3 legendary item daily, hardly ever 0.
Survey has been reduced which I'm happy with, cos I hate it, annoying to have to go somewhere else and search.

alexkdd99 wrote: »

I have noticed a fairly large decrease in number of surveys I am getting. Maybe my luck just changed, that's the thing about rng it is hard to tell whether they lowered drop chance or you are just having bad luck.

It's not just your luck. I do mutiple writs on multiple characters daily and I've received 2(two) surveys in the last two weeks.

i run 45 writs a day.
surveys are abt 1 in 10 but now have twice what they used to.
golds are like 1 in 10 too maybe more, hard to say, cuz i dont watch that often so it may be more but not less.

No question about consumable writs, they are solid worthwhile and profitable.

low level equip writs, tier-1, again no question worthwhile since on EVERY writ you get either a survey (loads of tier-10) or a box (25 tier-1 mats almost completely replacing your used mats) and on top of that an item (ornate to seel or intricate to decon 50-50 chance of your tier-1 or your char level), a style token and then gold and xp and insp (keyed to char level not writ level iirc) You are effectively burning style tokens and 2-6 tier-1 mats at most for all the goodies.

The tier-2 thru tier-9 dont have as much experience with in the new paradigm so cannot say.

But in my experience with a lot of writs done by chars since 1T changes, all consumable writs, tier-1 erquip writs and tier-10 equip writs are absolutely profitable and worth it unless you consider mats and gold and gold quality tokens to be of no value.

I stop doing writs after One Tamriel changes, hardly getting gold tempers and survey (Why random location?)

And low level junk is a stupid idea!

#DailyWritsAreDead

They're still the most reliable way to get Gold Tempers, but my god, the cost to reward ratio is terrible.

At One Tamriel, they halved the drop rates of Surveys, doubled the yield of Surveys, and spread them all throughout the game. I think this is pretty solid evidence that whoever was in charge of updating writs was on PCP at the time.

MasterSpatula wrote: »

They're still the most reliable way to get Gold Tempers, but my god, the cost to reward ratio is terrible.

At One Tamriel, they halved the drop rates of Surveys, doubled the yield of Surveys, and spread them all throughout the game. I think this is pretty solid evidence that whoever was in charge of updating writs was on PCP at the time.

Surveys got increased by ~ *2.5. So, it's actually slightly better than it was before. Your average node before would drop 7 to 8, now it's 20, and can double to 40 with one of the Champion passives.

Clothing is a little harder to explain now. It used to be 6 cloth nodes, now it's 4 cloth nodes (so 80 cloth) and 2 leather nodes (which seem to drop 20-28 pieces each, and again can double).

But... for raw mats... it really doesn't matter anymore. Before 1T, there were only a few places you could actually get tier 10 mats. But, now, any 160 or higher can get tier 10 mats ANYWHERE. So, this means it's actually easier to get those materials than before, and it actually undermines what made the tier 10 equipment writs so appealing in the first place.

I've never gotten a gold temper and I have not seen a survey since before One Tamriel. I'm not sure why I bother.

If you think they're a waste of resources for you then just don't do the writs and you can spend your time doing something else instead. That's a win for you.

Less people doing writs means a lower supply of gold mats as less people have extra to sell. It also means higher demand as less people are able to cover their own requirements. That means my extra gold mats will sell for more. That's a win for me.

Win, win, everyone's happy :-)

Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

MasterSpatula wrote: »

They're still the most reliable way to get Gold Tempers, but my god, the cost to reward ratio is terrible.

At One Tamriel, they halved the drop rates of Surveys, doubled the yield of Surveys, and spread them all throughout the game. I think this is pretty solid evidence that whoever was in charge of updating writs was on PCP at the time.

I think it's because the devs want most of us to use more of the zones. I mean, did anyone ever have any need or desire to return to most of the low level zones? They obviously began that process with the new sets that drop within specific zones. It's why they introduced more set drops, give us random surveys, did what they did with the current festival, the new dailies and so on. They want more players out of Mournhold, Grahtwood etc and more people using the actual zones, especially zones that are considered meh.

I can only speak for myself, but I can't remember the last time I even visited the likes of Eastmarch before this festival began or 1T.

The only reason I returned to low level zones before was for flash leveling Werewolves or for Dark Brotherhood assassinations.

They're just barely worth it for me. I do all six on 3 characters and have hirelings on a total of 6, so that combined with picking up every node I come across on my way to and from places is the main reason I gain more than I lose.