How to get decent amounts of provisioning ingredients? (I'm on XBOX)

NoaKenobi · May 2017

I'm an intermediate player, about to hit CP 150 tonight I'd imagine. I wanted to work on my provisioning crafting skill next--I'm still collecting skyshards to get more skill points, but already filled in woodworking and blacksmithing, so clothing and provisioning are next on my list.

I'm currently level 20 in provisioning. It seems relatively straight forward to level the skill.

The videos I watch about how to power level it, and so on show just going to guild traders and buying ingredients that way.

But being on XBOX, and having looked at a few Guild Traders myself, the guys on the videos seemed to be finding incredible buys, whereas it's fairly pricey to buy stacks of ingredients on XBOX.

I grab stuff out of as many crates as I can reasonably grab, but even so I just don't have the kind of supply of ingredients I was hoping to now that I'm 2 or so months into my gameplay.

If I just have to make more gold so I can afford to buy the ingreds, that's fine... but I wanted to make sure there wasn't some other easy way to farm ingredients that I don't know about and am too ignorant to ask the right question to some of my guildmates to map out a relatively efficient path forward from here.

Any guidance would be very much appreciated. Thank you.

Noa Kenobi

TamrielSaviour215 · May 2017

In all honesty, it should be very easy to farm ingredients. Just go into any delve and grab stuff from every barrel, crate, and sack. I ALWAYS grab everything I can and its almost impossible to run out. I have so many ingredients from this method that I could probably not make a grab for two weeks and it wouldn't make a dent. Literally, EVERY crate, sack, and barrel. You'd be surprised how quickly it adds up.

Then experiment with which recipes give you the most boost on leveling. If you can find some blue recipes keep pumping those out. At worst, if you run out of those ingredients for the blue recipes, just buy those.

Fleshreaper · May 2017

There are good delves and then there are really good delve to go grocery shopping in. Really good ones. The delve right out side of Daggerfell, the start of the public delve in Shadowfen, and the delve west of Riften.

Beardimus · May 2017

Just grab as you go easiest way, farming the big ships on the map is cool tho they have a load. Or market stalls if you want to level legerdemain

Mureel · August 2017

Which containers drop things like Jasmine and the other provisioning blossoms?

SydneyGrey · August 2017

Mureel wrote: »

Which containers drop things like Jasmine and the other provisioning blossoms?

Sacks drop those.

Going through bandit delves and setting your character to "auto-loot" gets you a TON of provisioning ingredients.

Nestor · August 2017

TamrielSaviour215 wrote: »

Then experiment with which recipes give you the most boost on leveling. If you can find some blue recipes keep pumping those out. At worst, if you run out of those ingredients for the blue recipes, just buy those.

Green recipes give the same amount of inspiration as blue or purple or even gold recipes. No need to waste the mats for leveling making the more complicated recipes. Just make the highest level green recipes you can. You can buy those at a chef or brewer if you can't farm them.

Darlgon · August 2017

Frankly, my provisioner was my first alt to hit 10 in Lagerdamien. Steal and launder everything in crates and barrels. CROTCH and DONT BE SEEN. Massive amounts of free provisioning supplies ensue.

Edit after reread.

NoaKenobi wrote: »

I grab stuff out of as many crates as I can reasonably grab, but even so I just don't have the kind of supply of ingredients I was hoping to now that I'm 2 or so months into my gameplay.

I take it from the above you are not an ESO Plus with craft bag? With limited space, you may want to hold off til you have other crafts leveled up. Personally, I HAVE a prov alt BECAUSE of storage, started before the craft bag. I could fill all her slots with prov ingredients and could not leave the bank for lack of bag space. That said, during that time, my main hit EVERY bag, crate, barrel and urn in EVERY dungeon, put everything in shared and swapped to my prov alt to store it, to make more room to transfer more. It meant putting 50 plus prov mats into the bank and swapping characters around about once an hour.

Darlgon · August 2017

Nestor wrote: »

TamrielSaviour215 wrote: »

Then experiment with which recipes give you the most boost on leveling. If you can find some blue recipes keep pumping those out. At worst, if you run out of those ingredients for the blue recipes, just buy those.

Green recipes give the same amount of inspiration as blue or purple or even gold recipes. No need to waste the mats for leveling making the more complicated recipes. Just make the highest level green recipes you can. You can buy those at a chef or brewer if you can't farm them.

You sure about that Nestor? I received massively more inspiration from doing blue recipes than green. (I was watching my insp bar. I typically got double or triple the insp for making a blue vs green.) Plus, I could sell the blues. Purple stuff required too expensive components.

medusasfolly · August 2017

Prior to the craftbag, the go to place to farm provisioning ingredients was Ilessan Tower in Glenumbra. Go in, farm everything, logout, login, repeat.