The one variant of the blacksmithing writ should NOT cost almost twice as many materials. Wtf is up with that? Often doing bs writs on four toons depletes more than boosts my reserves--especially since survey rates were nerfed.

Boxes of low level mats in the reward pool are just insulting, too.

"One Writ every day, sends the Kuta my way"

MarrazzMist wrote: »

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.

Honestly the only thing I ever get gold wise is Kutas. I havent seen a Temper or a Dreugh Wax in ages. Most of the time I get a worthless empty soul gem, a green enchantment that I forget to breakdown for a week, maybe a Kuta. The Alchemy one is usually some water and one or two agents. Blacksmith is usually a box of ingots I have no need for, a item that ill sell rather than break down and MAYBE a survey. Same for Woodworking. Clothier I havent done in ages because most of my characters use light armor and so its too expensive and time consuming to use what I do have. And Provisioning, with over 300 recipes now its rare to actually get a recipe that I dont already have.

At this point I mostly use the writs for the quick gold. But even thats getting to the point where its not worth it.

jaburns wrote: »

All of my characters are max CP. So, every time I do a writ- I'm rewarded with a box full of cotton or yew or steel ingots. They're not even in the raw form- so there's NO CHANCE to get legendary items from refining them, either! I understand the idea behind rewarding lower level mats (since you can no longer farm them once you surpass the lower levels)... but let's face it: You reach the CP ranks within a week or so these days. So, effectively... you're getting useless material.

If I recall correctly- the rewards from writs were better as well. If I did all six writs, I usually would get at least ONE legendary material and ONE survey. Now they're few and far between. Do I have really bad RNG- or are writs pretty frackin' useless these days?

Because of this, I've stopped doing writs altogether. I still get plenty of raw mats by gathering my own as I adventure through the world. Fewer surveys, fewer tempers and boxes of refined mats (often worth less than it cost to do the writ) are no good to me.

Total waste of time.

They were fine before, so why they felt the need to change them, I don't know.

Another 2 Golds today and have about 8 Surveys banked. At least im good at something in this game

Slylok wrote: »

The writ I think most needs help is provisioning. It needs to pull from recipes you know. I pretty much stop trying for those since I rarely have the recipes it calls for and I never can find them on any merchants. No other craft has that issue.

You're not finding them on merchants because chefs and brewers sell them. Find those, all the writ recipes are there, to the highest level you're able to craft them anyway.

I would just like to stop getting one of the same 6 green recipes almost every day as a reward, and I wish it would only ask me to craft cp150 recipes instead of random cp 10 or 50 ones on my max provisioners.