They are rare, although they supposedly fixed a bug that was causing them to drop less often than intended. I suspect it may have to do with the fact that roughly 50% of the time, you don't get a top tier writ to complete. I don't know if that is intended or not, but it's been that way since OT - roughly a 50% split between getting a Tier 5 or Tier 6 writ. If MW's only drop from top tier writs, then your chances of getting a Provisioning MW is reduced even further.

To my knowledge people said getting master writs in provisioning requires having all or as many of the purple recipes as possible. I wasn't getting any. I thought I had em all til I went guild shopping. Missing so many low level ones, that run for $50k+ in guild stores for a lvl 25 purple and such. Kills me

Ackwalan wrote: »

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

Ackwalan wrote: »

Master Provy writs are rare, because you don't need to buy DLC's or have ESO + to go to a crafting station to complete them.

While I'll withhold from outright calling this a troll post ... you can find a friend or guildie that has DLC crafting stations in their home. That way you can still finish your writs without needing the DLC content yourself.

The rarity of provisioning writs is directly related to your mastery of (purple) recipes and achievements ... not because the devs willfully decided to lower the drop rate.

Even if you know someone that has the crafting station in their house, you will still need to know not only the correct trait, but enough traits to unlock the set. A problem that is just not there for master provy writs.

Alchemy and enchanting don't need DLCs nor sub either, and they have high drop rates.

ScytheNL wrote: »

As a N00b... Why are writs so popular? I saw another topic the other day where people were doing all their writs first thing when they log on. Why? What's so good about the rewards?

Regular writs are a really good way to earn inspiration to level crafting skills and to get high-quality materials like tempers, kutas and epic (purple) provisioning ingredients. Master writs yield vouchers for housing items.

If you have a crafting alt, you can make it very efficient. Max level writs ask for one of a known handful of items which you can craft in advance. I keep a dozen of each kind of food, glyph and potion needed to satisfy these writs on my crafting alt. He is parked in Craglorn. All I have to do on most days is log in, pick up the three consumable crafting writs, and walk over to the turn-in location to collect my rewards; three writs done in one minute. For equipment crafting, I make what I need each day, so it takes five minutes. Between two toons, I can easily complete 12 crafting writs and reap all the rewards in 15-20 minutes if I don't start fussing with my inventory. I've never calculated it, but my daily take from these must be worth at least 10K on average, and some days it can be 50K.

And that's without scoring a Master Writ. I'm sure I've sold 750K worth of of Master Writs since Homestead launched. I keep the ones I can craft and sell the rest. Big ones easily worth more than 100K each. I sold one really big one for for 450K about a week after Homestead launched.

I'm happy to report that when you have all the provisioning purples, the drop rate is about the same as enchanting or alchemy.

I run writs on 16+ toons a day due to the anniversary event. I wait until I have 20ish master writs in inventory before running them. Further, in order to knock out the achievements, I funnel all the master writs to one toon until it hits 100, then the next, and so on.

I tend to do the consumables together first, as there are more of them and less travel. I typically run out of alchemy master writs before either of the other two. Prov and enchanting has been about the same. However, I consider that difference within the noise.

Anectodal for sure, but if people are interested, I could keep count.

I recently got a 10 voucher master provisioning writ. Was super excited. Called for psiijic ambrosia. Cool, I can make one of those even though it will mean not selling my perfect roe for 10K, worth it! Accepted the writ to discover it wanted 8, not 4, which I was expecting (probably silly me, right). So 20k worth of material. Won't do that again.

There are still quite of few mid level purples I don't have but do have most recipes.

ScytheNL wrote: »

As a N00b... Why are writs so popular? I saw another topic the other day where people were doing all their writs first thing when they log on. Why? What's so good about the rewards?

Because of the anniversary. You get an anniversary box and those have a lot of valuable stuff in them.

Jayne_Doe wrote: »

Wreuntzylla wrote: »

I run writs on 16+ toons a day due to the anniversary event. I wait until I have 20ish master writs in inventory before running them. Further, in order to knock out the achievements, I funnel all the master writs to one toon until it hits 100, then the next, and so on.

Whew...16+ toons?!? I'm getting exhausted just doing them on 8 each day.

EDIT: I know you're aware of this, but I wanted to point it out to others that currently the MW vouchers aren't transferrable, so if you complete MWs on different toons, your vouchers will be spread out over your characters and unable to be accumulated all together in the bank. So it'll be harder to amass a certain number for the larger ticket items.

Yeah, it's all I have been doing aside from a few Cyrodiil hub quest chains for more boxes. I'm past burned out, but I get between 10-20 motifs a day (which I funnel to crafters), and on one weekend day ended up with something like 30. Plus the recipes, plus the furniture mats, plus the nirnroot in bunches of 20, plus the gold mats plus the style mats.... It's a bit crazy seeing as how rare everything used to be.

Edit: As an aside, if you decide to clone stations, start with Orgnums. I think half my master writs take me to the fighters guild forge.

Heck I have like ten or more in bank I can't even do yet. Wish they'd reduce research times.