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Worst Master Writ Ever? (Share Your Master Writ Horror Stories!)

Illurian
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I got this Master Writ the other day, and I thought it was ridiculous:

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9 trait set, Nirnhoned, Rare style (30-50k for the motif on TTC)...

...For 20 writ vouchers? Are you kidding me? I know it only requires Epic tier but still! Considering a 5 trait set with a worthless trait (in terms of cost) in an easy to get motif (racial style for example) in Epic tier can fetch anywhere from 6-10 vouchers, why should this one only give 20?

Have you guys had horrendous Master Writs? Share your experiences!
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  • Eyesinthedrk
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    It’s not great that’s for sure. But if you have the motif then it’s just a 5k fort nirn. So it’s really not that bad.

    For me the worst is the gold wrothgar food writ. 20k to 30k worth of perfect roe for 10 vouchers. You can’t even give that one away.
  • Mic1007
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    Got one for the Pelinal Set, a Legendary Nirnhoned Sword, in the Yokudan Style. I think I vomited at the sight of it. :p
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  • xenowarrior92eb17_ESO
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    35 vouchers legendary great sword with nirn trait from torugs pact with buoyant armiger style =.=
  • Linaleah
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    at least that writ in OP is for armor. I have gotten one of those for a WEAPON. also a fave was twice born star in militant ordinator.... for 6 vouchers.
    It’s not great that’s for sure. But if you have the motif then it’s just a 5k fort nirn. So it’s really not that bad.

    For me the worst is the gold wrothgar food writ. 20k to 30k worth of perfect roe for 10 vouchers. You can’t even give that one away.

    on PC AN at least, for nirn has dropped to under 2k lately, so yeah... not AS bad. weapon nirn is still 10k+
    Edited by Linaleah on January 17, 2018 5:22PM
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  • Tan9oSuccka
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    Linaleah wrote: »
    at least that writ in OP is for armor. I have gotten one of those for a WEAPON. also a fave was twice born star in militant ordinator.... for 6 vouchers.

    I get these a lot. Even requiring BA.

    Sure would be nice to have. Never see a single BA motif drop. Not a dang one.

  • FinneganFroth
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    Recently got one for a 7 trait weapon that was epic and bouyant armiger for 6 vouchers. I just threw that crap away. Basically, anything bouyant armiger I throw away on principle.
  • WhitePawPrints
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    I have most motifs unlocked and yet half of the master writ vouchers are for the few holes I have in the motif books. And ver since I filled the vast majority of them, the master writ drop rate plummeted.

    The worst I’ve gotten was a legendary armor piece for like 14 vouchers for Redistributor for Xivkyn. In fact I think by far the most master writs I get are for Redistributor. It’s wxtremely annoying.
  • SisterGoat
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    I got this today. 6 vouchers for one of the rarest motifs in the game. I donated it to one of my guilds.
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  • magictucktuck
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    HAHA i just did a 45 writ for a SEDUCER BOW gold yesterday.... easy as pie :)

    EDIT: also was Infused, not even nirn or anything
    Edited by magictucktuck on January 17, 2018 6:27PM
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  • phileunderx2
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    My ps4 crafter gets these things all the time. Usually woodworking an 8 or 9 trait set and militant ordinator style. 6 vouchers.
  • Agobi
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    Got one yesterday....10 vouchers for a Psijic Ambrosia Potion

    Gave me an incentive to buy the missing pages though :D
  • Draxys
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    The worst ones to get are the ones that use precious resources like potent nirn and perfect roe.

    And getting buoyant armiger styles are dumb too, with it being so rare it doesn’t sell well.
    Edited by Draxys on January 17, 2018 7:33PM
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  • Silver_Strider
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    Anything that involves IC crafted sets. That trek to IC is hassle enough, the extra gank risk just makes it even more annoying.

    Personal worst
    Legendary Nirn Shield of Armor Master, Redoran style.
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  • Dubhliam
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    This is perfectly normal.

    The number of traits needed to craft has little to do with the reward, if at all.

    The Nirn trait plus rare motif bump the craft from the usual 5 or 6 Vouchers to 20.
    If you had the writ drop in required legendary quality, it would multiply generously.

    And I agree this should be the formula for rewards: the value of the materials used should be the backbone of every writ worth.
    Which means: 2 Hemming, 3 Embroidery, 4 Elegant Lining, 1 Leviathan Scrimshaw, 1 Fortified Nirncrux and 15 Ancestor Silk.
    The value of all items listed here is less than the value of a Voucher when reselling Rolis items (approx 1000 gold per Voucher on PC EU).

    Trait research and motif knowledge are once and done, they are considered investments into future profit.
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  • Ardan147
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    The ones that require perfect roe, simply because the rewards do not even come close to justifying the value of the materials needed to craft it. Hopefully with the next update they'll be replaced by writs that are actually worth doing. (If the writs for Psijic Ambrosia or Orzorga's Smoked Bear Haunch awarded 40 vouchers instead of 10, they would be worth doing).

    I will agree that the equipment crafting writs that require rare styles (or 9 trait sets) should be worth more writ vouchers, to make up for the fact that they can be harder to sell as not as many people will be able to do them.

    Mic1007 wrote: »
    Got one for the Pelinal Set, a Legendary Nirnhoned Sword, in the Yokudan Style. I think I vomited at the sight of it. :p

    How many writ vouchers?

    I myself could easily craft that one, but it would have to be worth enough vouchers to be worth doing so. Problem is, if you can't craft it, it could be rather difficult to sell.
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  • Wreuntzylla
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    Dubhliam wrote: »
    This is perfectly normal.

    The number of traits needed to craft has little to do with the reward, if at all.

    The Nirn trait plus rare motif bump the craft from the usual 5 or 6 Vouchers to 20.
    If you had the writ drop in required legendary quality, it would multiply generously.

    And I agree this should be the formula for rewards: the value of the materials used should be the backbone of every writ worth.
    Which means: 2 Hemming, 3 Embroidery, 4 Elegant Lining, 1 Leviathan Scrimshaw, 1 Fortified Nirncrux and 15 Ancestor Silk.
    The value of all items listed here is less than the value of a Voucher when reselling Rolis items (approx 1000 gold per Voucher on PC EU).

    Trait research and motif knowledge are once and done, they are considered investments into future profit.

    Even if folks don't agree, they might agree that today's super rare motif is tomorrow's celestial. They can't code based on guild trader prices, because guilds regularly fix prices even between each other. So, how to code vouchers based on motif?
  • Dracofyre
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    i got 5 master writs in a row that i cant afford to make, all cost more than +100K to 300k if i get those motifs learned.

    now i curse devs, they dont have common sense by putting unfinishables writs for months, i tried to sell on auction, it went unsold, and my guild got outbid by bot-script runner guilds.

    we need regulated proper master writs that we already learned to do.
    seem devs dont care and they seem supporting bot runners.
    there must be better way to "learn new motifs" beside blowing 3-4 months work to gather golds.

    auction format is the most HATED in all the online games known to exist, many MMOrpgers said eso auction is the worst of all. reason why? they dont listen to players and claim it was set in the rock.

    auction and drop rates need to get redo. we want more accessable.
  • Amadis001
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    I just buy the motif pages I need for ones like OP got. It's a good excuse to complete my collection. It's not really fair to include the one-time cost of acquiring the motif in the cost of the vouchers you get from it. But yes, I do try to sell or otherwise just dump the small ones that require BA pages. It's not that I would mind paying for them; but they are just too hard to find... not worth the effort right now for a few vouchers.
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  • Haquor
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    I accidently accepted a 98 voucher writ for a legendary buoyant armiger style legs that i didnt have the motif for. Cheapest i could find was 150k for the motif so it was an expensive 98 vouchers.
  • starkerealm
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    Anything with an IC set for 6 or 7 vouchers. Bonus points when it's Akaviri.
  • Prof_Bawbag
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    Anything needing a tri rune or perfect roe. They're instantly binned.
  • I_killed_Vivec
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    Anything needing a tri rune or perfect roe. They're instantly binned.

    Absolutely, fishing trips are for roe for my potions.

    And I don't like using nirn unless I'm particularly flush with it.

    Anything requiring a trip to IC gets saved up until I have the time to go there, though my guild has a crafting station tuned to Redistributor. But some crafting stations are near wayshrines... others definitely aren't!

    And I've given up on poisons. I've been bitten too many times by making a potion that should meet the requirement but for some reason doesn't (can't remember the full details but there's one involving Defile where you can choose between 2 plants that produce the same potion - however one is accepted, the other isn't).

  • FinneganFroth
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    Anything that involves IC crafted sets. That trek to IC is hassle enough, the extra gank risk just makes it even more annoying.

    Personal worst
    Legendary Nirn Shield of Armor Master, Redoran style.

    Umm, for IC sets just join a crafting guild that has a house with all crafting sets in it. Problem solved. Most major trading guilds have these resources.
  • MinuitPro
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    I'd just be thankful to get Master Writs... I think I've gotten them 1% of the time and the max was 7 vouchers.
  • f047ys3v3n
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    The worst are the perfect roe ones. They take $20k worth of perfect roe and yield ~8k of writ vouchers. These have a value of -$12k each. Oddly, you can actually still sell them though for so little it is pretty much not worth doing so.

    The second worst are tri rune glyphs. These I think are 21 vouchers and cost $13k to make. They are slightly better than an even trade but not much.

    Third worst are non-ninrhoned, legendary writs. These are about 45 writs for $30k. This is not much better than an even trade and what a pain in the but if they also take a morrowind motif. In that case they are worth very little to sell.

    All of the above writs I always sell along with any writs that I do not know the motif to. No writ is really worth enough any more to buy a motif to do it. Further more, writs are not worth enough and their drop rate dosen't scale enough to really be worth fortifying a crafter with knowledge for the purpose of getting and doing writs.

    Beyond this, any 2 voucher alchemy is just a lot of work for the payoff since auto crafter can't do it.

    Any exotic (motif that costs more than 10k) style writs are a pain because they don't sell for much since few folks have bothered to learn those motifs.

    What I really want is the 257 voucher legendary ninrnhoned weapons of a style that counts as rare but is not, like celestial, dromatha, or DB.

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    Just look at that sexy beast. That would sell for a lot.... Especially after dragon bones drops and everybody realizes they need to buy master writs to get their storage. Master writs are going to double or tipple in price. Of course, I got that back in the pre-morrowind days before the mega nerf on gold equipment writ drop rates. Still, I have some stashed to sell with dragon bones. I'll make me some bones from that.
    Edited by f047ys3v3n on January 17, 2018 9:03PM
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  • Carbonised
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    One man's junk is another's treasure.

    I love the Armiger, Nirn writs from IC sets, and I buy them all from guild traders, especially because they don't cost as much as the others.

    So don't be so hasty to disregard something just because you can't use it ;)

    the only ones that are objetically really bad are the bear haunch/ambrosia ones, and the ones that call for Hakeijo. No one wants to do those.
  • starkerealm
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    f047ys3v3n wrote: »
    The second worst are tri rune glyphs. These I think are 21 vouchers and cost $13k to make. They are slightly better than an even trade but not much.

    More like 17, last time I saw one. They're okay if you spend a lot of time in the IC and have a few spare runes, but not something I'd hunt down. I've done a few just to mark ruby potency off the list, but those are not a good deal.
    f047ys3v3n wrote: »
    Third worst are non-ninrhoned, legendary writs. These are about 45 writs for $30k. This is not much better than an even trade and what a pain in the but if they also take a morrowind motif. In that case they are worth very little to sell.

    It depends. These can range anywhere from around 40, up to around 150 (highest I remember seeing was 123 on a Divine Legendary Staff). It depends on the internal value of the motif and the set it's asking for.
    f047ys3v3n wrote: »
    Beyond this, any 2 voucher alchemy is just a lot of work for the payoff since auto crafter can't do it.

    Fun thing about those, you can actually precraft then turn them all in at once. It's not worth it to grab 2 vouchers worth of potions and run over to Rolis. But if you're making a trip with precooked materials for six or seven of them, you can knock them out almost instantly. At that point, Lazy Writ Crafter's failure is just a minor setback, since you can pump those puppies out.
  • gminkalis_ESO
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    My worst ones are the enchanting writs that give back 5 vouchers but need the Prismatic trait. On xbox the Hakeijo runes run 12-14k each.
  • xb1LL_mr_sir_LL
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    never paid attention for the worst sealed writs. if its not profitable i put in the trader. always sell in a day or two.
    best one for me 327 vouchers though.
  • Joy_Division
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    If you have the armor set known, those writs aren't too bad.

    The worst is without a doubt the provisioning ones that ask you to chalk up 2 Perfect Roes for a lousy 10 vouchers. That's a bad deal no matter how you slice it.
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