Totally agree. Most people use either dropped sets or crafted ones that are already improved to gold. So what's the point in getting/buying/collecting motifs right now?

Stopped bothering collecting the motifs as no new crafted sets in ages

One of the biggest problem we have had is getting the last part Of the nine traits is the nurnhond.... We have literally taken months to get what little weapons and armor we have researched in it. And we have spent hundreds of gold buying it from guild stores.

We wish the Developers would just put the Traits in the Crown Store, like the Mimic stones, we would rather give money to support ESO then to the Gold Farms in game.

Also they need to make a repeatable quest to get the armor and weapons to drop more for researching, the one shot story quests is not enough to get everything, even if you have eight alts, you still do not get all the items you need.

The Nirncrux stones are such a rare drop that in the three months of harvesting nodes we have about six of them. Still can't craft all the armor yet. And when you look at the stat boost the nurnhond will give you it's not going to make you so OP that you can solo a word BOSS.
So we do not understand why Nurnhond is such a rare drop, not to mention the only way to get the armor and weapons is in the one time quest.

So please developers put the nurnhond armor and weapons in the game to drop off of mobs, or at least world bosses, maybe in chests, or in a repeatable quest.
Put the nurnhond stone Traits in the Crown Store like the Mimic stones.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

The addition of ever more new motifs makes me think that ZOS have two potential changes coming down the line.

1) Gear Level Increase so that we can use those new motifs on new cap crafted gear.
And / Or
2) Some kind of Cosmetic System so that we can equip gear cosmetically and keep our existing gear for stats, set bonuses.

Without one, or both, of those New Motifs make no sense whatsoever.

All The Best

Surgee wrote: »

Karivaa wrote: »

Have you read the patch notes?

Is something there about morphing armours that I've missed?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think what @Karivaa is referring to is the new motivation for having motifs that is unrelated to actually crafting in those styles.

To increase your chance of getting a master writ, a writ that drops in the reward boxes of regular writs and requires the crafting of a specific item that has a set and style requirement and usually asks for gold quality, you need to have high crafting achievements. For provisioning, it means having as many recipes learned. For clothcraft, woodworking, and blacksmithing it means having the motifs learned.

It seems like ZOS was aware of the problem with lack of need for motifs, so they created this artificial need for them that maybe will pass the tide until they figure out the crafted to drop armor balance thing or have an actual restyle system.

Surgee wrote: »

I love the motif diversity that ESO provides, but crafted sets are just too weak to bother. On the other hand, the sets that drop from mobs and bosses usually look awful and there is no way to change their style. That's why most players run around in costumes, trying to hide their ugly armour sets.
Can we get an option to re-style the armour using something similar mimic stones?
I've bought so many amazing motifs from crown store before I realised how crappy the crafted sets are....

This should have been done months (if not years) ago.

Crafted sets are weak?

TBS, NMG, Hunding's, Julianos... There's some good sets that can be crafted.

Re-style & Re-trait options for mastercrafters, that's what we need

Speaking from an end-game perspective the current style system needs a huge overhaul.

I use exactly zero crafted pieces of gear in my setup, so those really expensive motifs I spent gold and time on are effectively useless because I am stuck with terribly styled dropped gear, so much so I haven't not worn a costume in about a year because I can't make my character look any good.

A transmogrification system is so badly needed in the current game. As more and more motifs are added it becomes ever more essential, especially if the trend of dropped being superior to crafted gear continues.

Pandorii wrote: »

Surgee wrote: »

Karivaa wrote: »

Have you read the patch notes?

Is something there about morphing armours that I've missed?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think what @Karivaa is referring to is the new motivation for having motifs that is unrelated to actually crafting in those styles.

To increase your chance of getting a master writ, a writ that drops in the reward boxes of regular writs and requires the crafting of a specific item that has a set and style requirement and usually asks for gold quality, you need to have high crafting achievements. For provisioning, it means having as many recipes learned. For clothcraft, woodworking, and blacksmithing it means having the motifs learned.

It seems like ZOS was aware of the problem with lack of need for motifs, so they created this artificial need for them that maybe will pass the tide until they figure out the crafted to drop armor balance thing or have an actual restyle system.

Karivaa wrote: »

Pandorii wrote: »

Surgee wrote: »

Karivaa wrote: »

Have you read the patch notes?

Is something there about morphing armours that I've missed?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think what @Karivaa is referring to is the new motivation for having motifs that is unrelated to actually crafting in those styles.

To increase your chance of getting a master writ, a writ that drops in the reward boxes of regular writs and requires the crafting of a specific item that has a set and style requirement and usually asks for gold quality, you need to have high crafting achievements. For provisioning, it means having as many recipes learned. For clothcraft, woodworking, and blacksmithing it means having the motifs learned.

It seems like ZOS was aware of the problem with lack of need for motifs, so they created this artificial need for them that maybe will pass the tide until they figure out the crafted to drop armor balance thing or have an actual restyle system.

That is what I was referring to. I spent 100k on inperial motifs yesterday due to the upcoming changes.

This. I spent 400k gold on random motifs last night. Here is an example of a master writ (prepare for some heads to explode).

Craft the following...

CP 160 LEGENDARY Seducer's Resto Staff in Nirnhoned and Celestial.

Let that sink in.

Don't be surprised when master crafters are charging you 800,000 gold for a table.

Gandrhulf_Harbard wrote: »

The addition of ever more new motifs makes me think that ZOS have two potential changes coming down the line.

1) Gear Level Increase so that we can use those new motifs on new cap crafted gear.
And / Or
2) Some kind of Cosmetic System so that we can equip gear cosmetically and keep our existing gear for stats, set bonuses.

Without one, or both, of those New Motifs make no sense whatsoever.

All The Best

There is absolutely no reason whatsoever to do a gear cap increase. All that would accomplish is frustrating all of the people who spent literally hundreds of hours grinding for their gear and getting it to gold quality, only to have one patch suddenly make all of their hard-earned gear completely useless.

Style change is one of many, many, many features that the devs can implement without throwing acid in the players' faces.

Both things need to happen, really...

• Buff crafted sets
• Allow us to change the style of any armor piece to any known style (this could exclude monster helm/shoulder sets and it would still be fine).

I offered my services as a master crafter to someone earlier and then immediately felt stupid. Duh.

The easiest thing, one would think, would be to implement a wardrobe system. They already have the basic framework in the game, all they have to do is tweak it a bit and motifs become more than checkboxes on an achievement list again.

Please no... when they did that in diablo it made the game suck even more. Just make crafted sets better other wise you really make motifs worthless