If you're including the rewards like the possibility of getting legendary mats and selling them along with selling the master writs you get, depending on the average voucher price which on EU seems to be 1.5k per voucher atm and you got the highest master writ voucher drop per normal writ you did then you could easily make over 300k from selling all that + the gold gain from completing them.

So hypothetically a lot.

Making that much purely from writs alone is.....unlikely though. Ive got 4 writ characters and only seem to get 1 master writ every 2 days and with the low voucher writs being more likely to drop than the high voucher ones not as much its kinda meh.

So id say based off my own experience around about 50k is reasonable. (if low master writs + legendary mats included + per character) maybe more.

If you're talking purely from the gold you get from turning in the writs then probably 3k reward gold per character 3k x 8 = 24k. Thats assuming you round up the gold to 500 exact per writ. So thats not exactly accurate but a estimation. Its roughly accurate though for all 6 writs.

I used to have the costs dialed in on my spreadsheet... Found an old revision with it still on...

At those prices for the mats, I was only guaranteed to make 10k gold doing them on all characters. But that didn't include survey maps and gold upgrade mats recieved. At15g per mat of each 4 types I would be at a 1k gold loss, again before the bonus items. I only used the prices of the mats for the equipment writs, even though I did all 6 writs on each character because the costs to do the consumable writs are trivial in comparison. So the reward gold is based on all 6 but my cost is only based on the 3 equipment.

The formula for daily cost was 8*((Woodprice*88.3)+(Metalprice*85.7)+(Clothprice*60)+(Leatherprice*20.5)) Those were the average daily amounts needed to craft at that proficiency, it would be slightly more now since I have proficiency 10 on all my characters now...

Even at a slight loss you are making money on the gold upgrade mats.... and even more so if your one of the no good dirty dealing wanna be master crafters that sells their master writs instead of doing it themselves like a good honest master crafter would do.

-edit- It was also great before 1T because the survey maps where guaranteed to be where you turned in at, which is why I was set at 9 proficiency for those sweet Craglorn survey maps which gave me more than a fair share of Nirn.

Runs wrote: »

Even at a slight loss you are making money on the gold upgrade mats.... and even more so if your one of the no good dirty dealing wanna be master crafters that sells their master writs instead of doing it themselves like a good honest master crafter would do.

I see what you did there.

Not all of us have any reason to do them. Not everyone wants to use housing atm. I also cannot be bothered to use a ton of tempering alloys for 80 odd vouchers. Got other things I need to do with them lol.

FYI The ones I get I give to a friend so she can get vouchers for things she needs in the housing the rest I sell because we want to buy a guild house and the master writs pull in a lot.

Runs wrote: »

At those prices for the mats

This is the key.
Mats prices fluctuate greatly and quickly. So do the prices of the various rewards you get from writs (ambrosia fragments, glass motif fragments, tempers, master writs, nirncrux, etc.)

Whatever survey anyone did two months ago, or even two weeks ago is not valid anymore. Whatever survey anyone does now will not be valid in two months or even two weeks.

At the moment many people are into housing and farm a lot of mats to get housing mats. As a result many people do writs because the mats are already available to them as a by-product of their farming, or because they're cheap to buy, or because they don't "lose" money by not selling the mats and using them for writs instead. As an additional factor, people do all possible writs because they want master writs - either for vouchers or for resale.

As a result of everyone doing writs, there are far more gold tempers on the market than before and the prices drop heavily. (-50% on alloys within 6 weeks for instance), in spite of tempers being required for a number of master writs.

If things remain as they are, people will eventually have their houses reasonably furnished to their taste, will have gathered most furnishing recipes, and will get tired of farming. There will be less people doing writs, master writs will be less sought after, prices for them will drop. And there will be less people farming. Mats prices are likely to go up a bit.

Now if ZOS introduces or tweaks one or several craftable sets and those become best-in-slot (Not saying ZOS will do that here, it's for demonstration purposes only) then many people will have those crafted and mats prices will rise again. Which in turn will influence greatly the cost/benefit result of the crafting writs.

TL/DR : the benefit of doing crafting writs varies according to a lot of factors related to the evolution of the game's design and the players' reaction to that evolution. It cannot be answered once and for all and any study will only be valid for the moment when it's done. If you want reliable information, gather your own data, make your own spreadsheet and follow-up your own writs.