Well DOH!! I'm sure that you can figure out how to find/get the ingredients for whichever recipe you decide to use. Title is not misleading; you just wanna gripe for the sake of griping.

Move along.

predkill29 wrote: »

bbritton8883525_ESO wrote: »

Well DOH!! I'm sure that you can figure out how to find/get the ingredients for whichever recipe you decide to use. Title is not misleading; you just wanna gripe for the sake of griping.

Move along.

It kinda is misleading, it more like 3 hours to get the ingredients then 30min make the food.

Then it's not misleading if it's 30min to make the food. If he would make a guide on how to gather ingredients that would be, more or less, stupid.

Thanks for this post, I'll follow this and start make some badass food!

It is a very generic guide and just states the obvious. List the available recipes in the level ranges people need to use to get them to 20, 30, 40, 50, and which locations they should be checking containers or other sources for those recipes. Then, list the specific ingredients needed for said recipes so people know what to keep or what to pass on so they don't fill their inventory with a bunch of useless ingredients they won't need for this 30 minute leveling process.

And yes, the title is very misleading because it leads people to believe they can get to 50 provisioning just starting out with no materials on hand and no recipes learned yet, then they click the link and see a guide that expects them to have hours of work already done to do this 30 minutes of crafting. Again, it's just something stating the obvious and telling people what to do after they already did the ground work and I'm sure know what to do, not really a guide.

You can also do it without even spending a skill point. All you need is a low level recipe and 10,000 of each ingredient. See how that doesn't help much.

OP thank you so much!

I get asked about provisioning a lot, and instead of explaining it all over each time, I can now link to this thread. It is very simple, short and well explained.

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To people who wonder where or how to farm or buy ingredients: some can be bought at vendors, guild traders and it can be farmed in ingame containers and on tables. Purple ingredients come from writ rewards and hireling mails and are not farmable. Perfect roe ingredient can be obtained by filet the fish you fish, such as salmon....

This is great for the late in life provisioners like myself. I have a few (75+) recipes from some various levels and I recently have been stocking ingredients on one of my alts. So when I'm ready I'll need to consult a real guide on the locations of the ingredients I need for my specific recipes in my inventory and make sure that none of them need the same ingredients. I believe that my other low level alts will not have as easy of a time with this.

Rev Rielle wrote: »

Perhaps @bbritton8883525_ESO you could amend your guide and add in a comprehensive list of where to gather said items. Now that would extremely worthwhile I'm sure.

I do apologize for taking it for granted that everyone would understand that this was just for the crafting portion. As far as which recipes to use and which ingredients to use; you can pick whichever recipe that you want for that specific level.

Green recipes in general are really cheap and easy to acquire. As far as the ingredients go; for the small amount of each ingredient that you need for each recipe, you can either buy them or steal them from containers.

If you are buying them, check prices on provisioning materials and choose a recipe that uses cheap mats. You can find a list of the provisioning recipes and their respective ingredients here 1.6 Master Provisioning Recipe List.

If you plan on stealing the mats needed for this task, be prepared to spend more time doing it this way. A quick way to get these mats would be to find a dwelling that has a lot of barrels, crates, and sacks to loot/steal. If you are in a building when you do this, the fastest way to farm these mats is to log out to character select screen and then back in. This will reset some/all of the containers for you. Keep doing this over and over until you get what you need. There are also added benefits of doing this as well. Containers can contain motifs and also other recipes. Blue/purple recipes can sell for a good penny. Get a few of these to sell and then buy your mats for a quicker turnaround. Also, any mats that you steal can be fenced which will increase your legerdermain skill as well.

With this information; I hope that you will be able to level your provisioning in a reasonable amount of time. I personally purchased the mats and then levelled my craft. I was able to go from beginning to end in around 30 minutes. I apologize for any confusion this may have caused.

Looking back; I wish that I had gone the steal/fence route so that I could have gotten some motifs/recipes and also levelled my thieving skill at the same time.

Good luck everyone!

Thanks for the guide.

I have been too busy to complete my own provisioning guide and this post provided the missing info I needed to collect: The quantities of materials.

It is now complete.
http://benevolentbowd.ca/games/esotu/esotu-spoiler-provisioning-leveling/

Any comments / feedback would be appreciated.

Thank for the guide ! Still works as of today ! For those who complain it is more than 30 mins please understand that this guide is for those who already have the ingredients and recipes but not sure how to go about it and achieve 50 Provision fast and efficient. And for the guy who said you have to press x on the fire everytime, theres this add on called Multi Craft, which he mentioned in the thread, and can be found on Minion. It allow you to key in the number of food/drinks to craft and you can just chill back while the exp kicks in. Thanks alot once again !