9 1/2 hours to do crafting surveys

Armatesz · April 2018

Never thought as many surveys I did today would take this long to do, and an hour to refine them as well. Amount of surveys is well over 400. Been saving them for quite a while and curious if others have had this happen as well?

Note for those thinking to suggest an addon I am on Xbox one, I cannot have addons.

Metafae · April 2018

Yes, this is normal now that surveys are more "fun" as the devs put it, by making them drop for all areas in tamriel.

As a writ doer, I really was getting bored with the convenience of all my surveys being in the same zone, I really enjoy traveling around the whole of tamriel to harvest my surveys that previously didn't take too long given they were all in one spot.

I don't see why anyone would complain about it.

Waffennacht · April 2018

I just trash all of em

phaneub17_ESO · April 2018

I miss them all being in Craglorn, it made getting Nirncrux so much easier.

Aurielle · April 2018

Waffennacht wrote: »

I just trash all of em

*triggerred*

But... but... all those hundreds upon thousands of raw 150-60 CP mats! All those gold tempers! All those kutas! All those alchemy reagents!

Kiralyn2000 · April 2018

Only had ~95, myself. Took more than a little time.

But now I have to refine 2.3k ruby ash, 2k ancestor silk, 1.8k rubedite, and 1.6k leather.

Mirelurk · April 2018

Saw a useful tip on the forums the other day. Get to the survey spot, pick up the nodes, port to a house you don't own, walk out the door and you are back at the spot with nodes refreshed.

It saves riding some indeterminate distance away and back which can be a real pain in some swampy or forested zones.

zaria · April 2018

Mirelurk wrote: »

Saw a useful tip on the forums the other day. Get to the survey spot, pick up the nodes, port to a house you don't own, walk out the door and you are back at the spot with nodes refreshed.

It saves riding some indeterminate distance away and back which can be a real pain in some swampy or forested zones.

Faster to just ride 100 meter away and return i think.

Sigtric · April 2018

Waffennacht wrote: »

I just trash all of em

Me too. I don't have the patience to collect them and they just take up space.

akl77 · April 2018

Why are you piling them up? Just go survey daily after the writs.

Brrrofski · April 2018

akl77 wrote: »

Why are you piling them up? Just go survey daily after the writs.

Because of the anniversary event. Smashing writs on as many characters possible for gold boxes also resulted in a lot of surveys.

Redterrier · April 2018

I divy them up by alliance and give them to the alt that is highest level in that alliance, since they have more wayshrines uncovered. I still have the odd zones out collecting dust in the bank though.

dan958 · April 2018

I only craft on 1 character, so I don't get too many surveys. I generally save them up to I have about 10 or so before doing them.

Mureel · April 2018

zaria wrote: »

Mirelurk wrote: »

Saw a useful tip on the forums the other day. Get to the survey spot, pick up the nodes, port to a house you don't own, walk out the door and you are back at the spot with nodes refreshed.

It saves riding some indeterminate distance away and back which can be a real pain in some swampy or forested zones.

Faster to just ride 100 meter away and return i think.

No; sometimes they don't refresh

RaddlemanNumber7 · April 2018

I have over a hundred surveys still to pick up after the event. But there's no hurry. A few here, a few there and they'll soon be gone.

Armatesz · April 2018

Mirelurk wrote: »

Saw a useful tip on the forums the other day. Get to the survey spot, pick up the nodes, port to a house you don't own, walk out the door and you are back at the spot with nodes refreshed.

It saves riding some indeterminate distance away and back which can be a real pain in some swampy or forested zones.

I'm pretty sure I probably was the one that posted the teleport to a home you don't own trick.

Armatesz · April 2018

Also for those wondering... yes my arm hurts because of an hour long refining process.

UrbanMonk · April 2018

Armatesz wrote: »

Also for those wondering... yes my arm hurts because of an hour long refining process.

@Armatesz - get the addon "Multicraft"

Aurielle · April 2018

Mirelurk wrote: »

Saw a useful tip on the forums the other day. Get to the survey spot, pick up the nodes, port to a house you don't own, walk out the door and you are back at the spot with nodes refreshed.

It saves riding some indeterminate distance away and back which can be a real pain in some swampy or forested zones.

You can also just log out and log in again. No need to mess around with finding a house to port to, and the same number of load screens.

Yuls · April 2018

I have around 1200 in my bank, and only do them if I have more than 10 of the same location. Or never. Not looking at you , alchemy surveys.

Asardes · April 2018

I usually wait till I have several hundred as well. The reason is they do stack in multiples, so it eases the task of collecting them. There's only a limited number of them, since each alliance zone has 5 x 15 = 75, Coldharbour, Craglorn, Wrothgar and Vvardenfell have 3 x 5 x 4 = 60, so a total of 135 surveys. I can fit all of those in a character's inventory once I put everything but the worn gear and a few other things in bank, and everything I collect goes straight to the craft bag so I can keep going. If I have multiples, after I collect I get about 50 m away, then they reset and collect again, minimizing the travel time. I only collect every 2-3 months for this reason, and I do it over several days, alphabetically, by zone, in order to not get burned out by it, and so it doesn't interfere much with my other in game activities. The last time I collected was about a month ago, and I managed to get ~30K unrefined materials. I've refined them and gotten ~180 gold tempers of all types out of them. I'd say about 1/3 of materials used up in writs are eventually refunded as surveys and intricate items; so it helps keep them profitable in the long run. When not collecting surveys I go to more secluded guild kiosks where I can buy refined materials in bulk at a steep discount. When you don't get surveys, you get lower level materials. I had trouble selling those above vendor price, but with many people doing writs doing the event I ended up selling dozens of stacks of those during the event, for reasonable prices. Overall crafting is indeed a very profitable activity.

ssorgatem · April 2018

Armatesz wrote: »

Mirelurk wrote: »

Saw a useful tip on the forums the other day. Get to the survey spot, pick up the nodes, port to a house you don't own, walk out the door and you are back at the spot with nodes refreshed.

It saves riding some indeterminate distance away and back which can be a real pain in some swampy or forested zones.

I'm pretty sure I probably was the one that posted the teleport to a home you don't own trick.

Alternatively... just logout and login again.

Dasovaruilos · April 2018

Mureel wrote: »

zaria wrote: »

Mirelurk wrote: »

Saw a useful tip on the forums the other day. Get to the survey spot, pick up the nodes, port to a house you don't own, walk out the door and you are back at the spot with nodes refreshed.

It saves riding some indeterminate distance away and back which can be a real pain in some swampy or forested zones.

Faster to just ride 100 meter away and return i think.

No; sometimes they don't refresh

They always refresh if you go far enough, which isn't much far either.

Some spots were bugged a while back, but were fixed AFAIK, like the Glenumbra enchanting spot that had one node hidden and would only respawn after you logged out.

But all the others always respawn. I always wait until I have 5 surveys for the same spot and just ride away for a few seconds and return.

FloppyTouch · April 2018

I save them up until I have enough to get min of 1000 unrefined mats. It takes me about 2 hours to collect them all and about 1-2 times a month I do them. Only good thing about this is i have a ton of free tempers and have memorized all there locations so i can get it done much faster.

I miss them all being in wrothgar but like the increase to Mats you get per survey very much worth doing and the time it takes to do it.

Aurielle · April 2018

FloppyTouch wrote: »

I save them up until I have enough to get min of 1000 unrefined mats. It takes me about 2 hours to collect them all and about 1-2 times a month I do them. O ly good thing about this is i have a ton of free tempers and have memorized all there locations so i can get it done much faster.

I miss them all being in wrothgar but like the increase to Mats you get per survey. Very much north doing and the time it takes to do it.

This. If you do your surveys regularly, you can be completely self-reliant AND make a lot of gold.

Armatesz · April 2018

ToxicPAWS wrote: »

Armatesz wrote: »

Also for those wondering... yes my arm hurts because of an hour long refining process.

@Armatesz - get the addon "Multicraft"

I am on xbox one, I cannot do addons. Kind of wish people realized there are console people on here.

Armatesz · April 2018

ssorgatem wrote: »

Armatesz wrote: »

Mirelurk wrote: »

Saw a useful tip on the forums the other day. Get to the survey spot, pick up the nodes, port to a house you don't own, walk out the door and you are back at the spot with nodes refreshed.

It saves riding some indeterminate distance away and back which can be a real pain in some swampy or forested zones.

I'm pretty sure I probably was the one that posted the teleport to a home you don't own trick.

Alternatively... just logout and login again.

and experience long loading issues that happen with logging back in over and over? I don't think that is the best one there. Learned that lesson from doing flour farming.

sdtlc · April 2018

Armatesz wrote: »

ToxicPAWS wrote: »

Armatesz wrote: »

Also for those wondering... yes my arm hurts because of an hour long refining process.

@Armatesz - get the addon "Multicraft"

I am on xbox one, I cannot do addons. Kind of wish people realized there are console people on here.

We have signatures ^^

Armatesz · April 2018

sdtlc wrote: »

Armatesz wrote: »

ToxicPAWS wrote: »

Armatesz wrote: »

Also for those wondering... yes my arm hurts because of an hour long refining process.

@Armatesz - get the addon "Multicraft"

I am on xbox one, I cannot do addons. Kind of wish people realized there are console people on here.

We have signatures ^^

I am sadly just figuring this one out >_>' I suck...

Haquor · April 2018

Armatesz wrote: »

Never thought as many surveys I did today would take this long to do, and an hour to refine them as well. Amount of surveys is well over 400. Been saving them for quite a while and curious if others have had this happen as well?

Note for those thinking to suggest an addon I am on Xbox one, I cannot have addons.

I definately save and stack mine up until i need either the bank/bag space or the mats. But the most ive ever spent completing including refining is around 3.5 hours with addons.

And i hate it.

9 hours is a massive mission.

DieAlteHexe · April 2018

Aurielle wrote: »

FloppyTouch wrote: »

I save them up until I have enough to get min of 1000 unrefined mats. It takes me about 2 hours to collect them all and about 1-2 times a month I do them. O ly good thing about this is i have a ton of free tempers and have memorized all there locations so i can get it done much faster.

I miss them all being in wrothgar but like the increase to Mats you get per survey. Very much north doing and the time it takes to do it.

This. If you do your surveys regularly, you can be completely self-reliant AND make a lot of gold.

Made my first million this way. It's why I cringe when I see people deleting.