To get a master writ quest you have to be completing max level writs, which means that the character needs to have all points invested in the first passive of that craft line. Lower level writs will never spawn a master writ quest.

The chance of getting a master writ is increased by the character’s “knowledge” in those skill lines. For equipment, this is motifs known and trait research. Enchanting is how many rune traits have been discovered. Alchemy is reagent trait discovery, and provision is purple and gold recipes known. HOWEVER...in my experience doing writs on ten characters, the knowledge thing doesn’t effect the odds much. My alts still get a ton of writs, and I don’t teach them motifs or purple recipes past the really common ones that aren’t worth much.


To level an alt faster

To get your alt(s) leveled up, start pushing all decon tasks to them. If your main does writs, their intricate item rewards will provide super fast leveling. Your main can make some junk blue or purple glyphs to decon (the special will be as much as if another player made them). For provision, just grind recipes. For alchemy, if you have a little bank or reagents, refer to “sunshine daydreams guide to efficient eso alchemy leveling” (google it) for a step by step guide to leveling this with as few mats as possible.

And don’t forget - if you have 90+ champion points, your alts will want to spend 30 in the leftmost green CP tree to get the 20% inspiration boost. That’s your crafting leveling currency, and the buff will be really helpful!


Which lines to focus on

Alchemy is your best bet. Assuming you have a stockpile, you can level this up to fifty in an hour and start master writs right away. The master writ quests are always piddly 2 and 5 vouchers, but the investment is cheap. Make sure your alt learns all reagent traits while leveling, then you’re good to go.

Enchanting is probably the second best line for an alt. It takes forever to level it...when I level an alt, I save up a lot of purples and burn through them. It’s spendy, but doing it one green glyph at a time is boooooring. Top level enchant write produce a lot of 2 and 7 voucher quests.

Provisioning will NOT give you many master writs. I get like 4 vouchers a month with ten characters. If your alt is doing writs they might as well level provision, carry the 12 recipes and do the writs...but it’s for gold and mats, not really the master writs.

The trade skills are probably a secondary focus. It takes a long time to level them. They’re generally worth it, but I never rush grind an alt. Decon everything with them, learn traits on items made by your main (because...why not) then when they level up you can do top writs. They’ll get mostly 5-7 voucher quests, but my alts sometimes pull legendary quests too.


Trade the writ quests

Don’t forget that master writ quests can be sold/purchased. The going rate on my server is about $1k/voucher. If you’re generating a lot of master writs you can’t do...ormwhich are expensive...just sell them and buy better quests. I mention this because people don’t consider this option. I’ve gotten like ten akaviri and militant ordinatior 5 voucher quests this year. That’d be 500k AP just for the stupid style mats. I sell these writ quests, then buy one 50 voucher quest. I lost a little gold, but it saves time and money in the long run.