Do blacksmith, woodworking and clothing master writs even drop anymore?

jssriot
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I have 5 toons that have their crafting profs maxxed and do the highest tier writs. My main crafter is 9-trait everything and knows all pre-CWC motifs except Bouyant, and never gets bs, ww or cl writs anymore. Sometimes one of my alts would get a bs, ww, or cl writs, usually one of the piddly 5-7 vouchers ones, but nothing in weeks. Meanwhile I get those alch and ench writs for 2 vouchers each all the time. It's extremely discouraging and it's just a waste of time and mats to do writs everyday at this level if the master writs drop is this pathetic. It didn't start out like this and I'm tired of having to go buy other people's writs when ZOS said the drop rate would reflect the amount of time and dedication you put into your crafter. Well I did--research, motifs, recipes, passives, achievements, everything--and here I am, having buy other people writs because I can't get enough vouchers on my own to do anything. How the bleep am I suppose to collect enough vouchers for a transmutation table when all I can get is 2-voucher writs?

And this isn't even touching on how so many writs award far to few vouchers for the mats and skill required for them.
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  • BenevolentBowd
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    Yes, I've been averaging at least 1 50+ voucher writ a day for a while now. Lots of 6 - 7 writs.
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  • MilwaukeeScott
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    No.

    The new Transmutation Table cost 1250 writ vouchers.

    Hence, no more writs for us!!
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    All I see is hate and rage from people who don't understand how to.....
  • Taleof2Cities
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    Make sure you have this checklist covered:

    - All traits learned
    - All crafting achievements in the specific trade unlocked.
    - Full purple motif books all learned ... or as many as possible learned.
    - Doing writs every day
  • Solypsys
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    Make sure you have this checklist covered:

    - All traits learned
    - All crafting achievements in the specific trade unlocked.
    - Full purple motif books all learned ... or as many as possible learned.
    - Doing writs every day

    You can only get writs in styles you know? When did that start?
  • Nebthet78
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    Make sure you have this checklist covered:

    - All traits learned
    - All crafting achievements in the specific trade unlocked.
    - Full purple motif books all learned ... or as many as possible learned.
    - Doing writs every day

    It doesn't seem to make a difference.. I found that since they announced the date for the release of CWC, my master writs have gone down from 1 every 3 days to 1 every week, IF I'm lucky.

    They have most definitely reduced them.
    Far too many characters to list any more.
  • redspecter23
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    Nebthet78 wrote: »
    Make sure you have this checklist covered:

    - All traits learned
    - All crafting achievements in the specific trade unlocked.
    - Full purple motif books all learned ... or as many as possible learned.
    - Doing writs every day

    It doesn't seem to make a difference.. I found that since they announced the date for the release of CWC, my master writs have gone down from 1 every 3 days to 1 every week, IF I'm lucky.

    They have most definitely reduced them.

    My writ drops have gone up since they announced the release of CWC therefore they have most definitely increased them. Anecdotal evidence FTW!
  • kargen27
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    Solypsys wrote: »
    Make sure you have this checklist covered:

    - All traits learned
    - All crafting achievements in the specific trade unlocked.
    - Full purple motif books all learned ... or as many as possible learned.
    - Doing writs every day

    You can only get writs in styles you know? When did that start?

    Nah you can get writs in styles you do not know. You have a better chance of them dropping based on the motifs you have learned.
    and then the parrot said, "must be the water mines green too."
  • Linaleah
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    Make sure you have this checklist covered:

    - All traits learned
    - All crafting achievements in the specific trade unlocked.
    - Full purple motif books all learned ... or as many as possible learned.
    - Doing writs every day

    covered. know all but CWC and militant ordinator. every once in a while even before CWC came out, I would get 5 -7 writ here and there. once a month maybe I get something that is 40+ never have I seen any of the 200+ writs. wait.. I may have seen one once.. the first day writs were added to the game, before I knew what they were, and when I was still in a middle of researching traits and learning motifs.

    obviously those are still dropping, since I see them on guild traders all the time, bought a few as well. they are just not dropping for most of us.
    dirty worthless casual.
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  • Linaleah
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    Solypsys wrote: »
    Make sure you have this checklist covered:

    - All traits learned
    - All crafting achievements in the specific trade unlocked.
    - Full purple motif books all learned ... or as many as possible learned.
    - Doing writs every day

    You can only get writs in styles you know? When did that start?

    you get a higher chance of getting writs, supposedly, the more motifs you know.
    dirty worthless casual.
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  • KingMagaw
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    The system is definitely broken, from my experience of doing writs on 11 characters, daily, with various motif and trait knowledge, my main being known all motifs apart from the new CWC ones ones now.

  • Urza1234
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    Randomly got a 47 BS writ today on a 3-trait crafter. I get lots of 5-7 writs.
  • TheShadowScout
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    jssriot wrote: »
    Do blacksmith, woodworking and clothing master writs even drop anymore?
    Yes.
    Just got one yesterday.

    But... I would think they may drop in a very, very low frequency compared to the consumable crafting writs - if you don't have a insane number of motivs learned...
  • Mirelurk
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    I get probably 20 Master Writs a week across 5 toons ... drop rate doesn't seem to have changed for me.

    Got a staff for 300+ vouchers a couple of days ago ... Militant Ordinator.
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  • Beardimus
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    I've had more recently than ever before, in particular big ones 150,300 which i haven't seen for an age. RNG man
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  • Pele
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    Master writs are still dropping for me.

    I have 3 toons that can get master writs.

    One toon is my main crafter and knows almost every motif and a ton of recipes, diagrams, blueprints, etc. lots of rares. 9 traits.

    My other 2 characters know just the basic playable race motifs and not much else. They're both ~6 - 7 traits.

    My main crafter rarely gets any master writs and has never gotten a double-digit master writ.

    My other two toons get the majority of all my master writs and all my double-digit voucher master writs.

    The moral of the story: RNG is a ***.
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