Giraffon wrote: »

I get a lot of 2-5 voucher jobs. They aren't really worth the trouble for the vouchers, but the XP and gold is OK given it only takes a few moments to put them together if you have the resources.

About once every 2 weeks I'll get one that's 20-80 vouchers, but the rest of the time it's 2-5. I'm trying to put set gear crafting stations in the guild hall and at 250 vouchers a pop it's a pretty slow process. I've given some thought to just buying up writs from guild traders, but I don't want to spend all that gold and then turn around and burn through legendary mats on top of it.

Hold on.... there are some writs that give 20-80 vouchers????

I had a 315 voucher writ during the first month of "Master" writs, it was for a legendary Trice Born piece with nirn trait. At the new drop rate, I hope to have a complete attunable crafting station done sometime before construction of the new Foreign Quarter in Vivec is complete...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe in the patch notes somewhere it is mentioned that Master Writ drop chances are impacted by YOUR knowledge in that craft, defined by the amount of motif research you have completed. For consumable crafting the Master Writ drop chance is dependent on how many recipes you have discovered or how many runes you have discovered.

I believe that only impacts your chances of receiving a Master Writ, and has NO EFFECT on the quality of Master Writ you receive (i.e. a Writ for 7 vouchers vs. one for 115 vouchers).

Thrasher91604 wrote: »

So every time they add new motifs, your chance goes down, including store motifs, until you get them? That is what it seems like.

That would be a likely assumption as to what's actually happening, but they claimed that our chances would only ever improve not lessen as we learned more and more motifs...

I agree. During early access the motifs were dropping regularly for Vardenfell dailies. Once live the drop rates have become abysmal.

Giraffon wrote: »

And for those of you that are waiting for those big drops doing consumable writs...don't. It's not gonna happen. You want the big ones, you gotta do the armor and weapons.

Yes, alchemy writs are either 2 vouchers (for 20 poisons) or 5 vouchers (for 20 potions).

Provisioning writs are mostly for 2 vouchers with an occasional writ around 10 vouchers if the recipe uses perfect roe, so it'll cost you 2 perfect roe to complete (with max investment of skill points to make 4 food/drink at a time as the master writ will require 8 items).

Enchanting writs are usually 2 vouchers. 13 vouchers if it requires a Hakeijo for an epic quality rune (usually considered not worth it) or 40 vouchers if it requires a Hakeijo and a Kuta for a legendary rune.

Meanwhile equipment writs are for 5-6 vouchers if it's an epic item that doesn't require a nirncrux and a bit more if it requires a nirncrux. Bump the voucher total up again if it's for a legendary item. A lot more again if it is a legendary item and if it also requires a nirncrux; this'll be one of the few cases with a very large total of writ vouchers. Blacksmithing master writs pay slightly better in terms of vouchers than clothing or woodworking, but will require a greater gold cost to complete as metal improvement materials are more expensive.

EDIT:
TLDR: if it pays more vouchers, it'll use more expensive materials to complete.

Thrasher91604 wrote: »

So every time they add new motifs, your chance goes down, including store motifs, until you get them? That is what it seems like.

that is NOT correct, I was missing well over 100 motifs, and I was getting great writs 157 and 91 etc on a regular basis, so I though just as you did. so I went out all picked up all of the motifs that I needed, once that happened, I started to get crap and still do. so do spend much time or money trying to collect motifs, it will not help master writ drops and you will start getting a bunch of 2 and 3

Thrasher91604 wrote: »

So every time they add new motifs, your chance goes down, including store motifs, until you get them? That is what it seems like.

Store motifs aren't in the mix. Only 2 to date so far. Knowledge does affect your chance. I also haven't been getting master writs as much. Oddly enough my lower tier crafters get higher writs then my master crafter. She hasn't seen a writ above 10 vouchers in 2 weeks.

Best I have gotten was 257, it was easy to craft too, I just sold it cause I have no interest in housing, I got my ebony motif, im perfectly satisfied.

Most I ever seen was 345, was insane.

But yea, I noticed I been getting less Master Writs and the ones I do get are worth 2-6 vouchers for the most part. Ill get the occasional 50-200 writ, but master writs are worth butt now, not as much profit anymore.

I also do it on 3 characters

I like to think they look at our comments occasionally so hopefully the feedback from this post is helpful. I'm pleased that changes have been made to revitalize the crafting part of the game (maybe crafted armor will get an overhaul someday!) but have been a little disappointed with the lack of writs and their low value. A lot of the writs are in the guildstores now for less than 1K per voucher but who wants to throw away 8 gold temps for 7 - 15 point writs.