code65536 wrote: »

They sure spent a lot of effort fixing a "feature" that nobody wanted--they closed a lot of loopholes for the non-decon of jewelry. Lot of effort put into screwing over long-term players and devaluing the things they earned pre-Summerset.

But actual jewelry crafting issues, like writ inspiration and master writ reward values? Two incremental patches later into the Live release, still not a single peep.

Sure tells you where their priorities are, eh?

A bit salty but sadly there is a voice of truth in it.

or what



really you expected otherwise?

Haven't even noticed it since I only starting doing them yesterday on 5 characters, one of which is already fully trained, but I did notice you get soul gems, which is rather odd. As far as I've seen from other craft skills, the inspiration from daily writs is negligible, about the same deconstructing a base maximum level item of that type. So leveling jewelry crafting by writs alone will take ages.

While we are on the topic of potential JC bugs, they need to look at the temper drop rate for various writ tiers. The top tier writs don't appear to drop gold tempers at a higher rate than tier 1 writs. BS, WW and cloth all have about 30% gold mat rate on max tier writs. JC is hovering at around 1% - 2% from what I'm seeing. It's possible that's working as intended but I hope not. There is currently very little incentive to do a max tier writ compared to a tier 1 writ. Master writs are pixelized toilet paper. You use more mats and get back fewer compared to tier 1. You have no greater chance at higher tier materials or surveys from what I'm seeing. You don't even get inspiration for mid tiers currently. These factors all add up to a hot mess.

redspecter23 wrote: »

While we are on the topic of potential JC bugs, they need to look at the temper drop rate for various writ tiers. The top tier writs don't appear to drop gold tempers at a higher rate than tier 1 writs. BS, WW and cloth all have about 30% gold mat rate on max tier writs. JC is hovering at around 1% - 2% from what I'm seeing. It's possible that's working as intended but I hope not. There is currently very little incentive to do a max tier writ compared to a tier 1 writ. Master writs are pixelized toilet paper. You use more mats and get back fewer compared to tier 1. You have no greater chance at higher tier materials or surveys from what I'm seeing. You don't even get inspiration for mid tiers currently. These factors all add up to a hot mess.

I have only done one maximum tier so I assumed I was just unlucky no getting a chromium grain from it, but if this is the case, then I won't really bother investing points in the skill for the other crafters when they level the skill and just keep them at tier 1 for the surveys, and them pick them up on the skilled one. This may be intended, since legendary quality jewelry is readily available from trials. Any mildly competent player can run a vAA in about 15 minutes, and decon the jewelry from there for about ~50% chance of a chromium grain, assuming he has all the passives. Also I don't remember getting any chromium grains from refining, though I have probably refined ~300 dusts until now (I'm not a farmer, so this was collected as I went by).

Niliu wrote: »

Might help if you posted this is the right area of the forums. General chat isn't for bugs

This has been reported in the Bug Reports section of the forums. And the Crafting section as well as the PTS section. There are multiple threads in each and zero acknowledgement from ZOS.

I'm in agreement with the others here; we paid for Summerset and ZOS can't even take 30 seconds to recognize there is a problem.

Lake wrote: »

This Jewelry writ bug was reported as far back as May 19th on the PTS.

It's kind of weird how nobody from ZOS has acknowledged it so far, despite all the threads & bug reports. Even if it's last place on their priority list, a short "we know" message would suffice.

If it's not intended but makes the game more enjoyable or less grindy, it will be hot patched, ASAP. If it's not intended but makes the game less enjoyable or more grindy, it's a new feature or will take months to patch.

I guess it takes a thread in General to get bugs fixed.

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Hi everyone, just wanted to confirm this is a bug and we're currently testing a fix for it. If everything passes, we'll include it in our next incremental patch. Thank you!

Lake wrote: »

This Jewelry writ bug was reported as far back as May 19th on the PTS.

It's kind of weird how nobody from ZOS has acknowledged it so far, despite all the threads & bug reports. Even if it's last place on their priority list, a short "we know" message would suffice.

Might as well start abusing each other in the thread, seems to be the only way ZOS pays any attention to forum posts and it’s usually just to say they’re trying to keep the thread ‘on-topic’.
*eye roll*

I’ve been looking forward to jewelcrafting since release, was a bit salty when I first got the game that it didn’t exist.

In its state right now the effort and time to level it isn’t worth the reward. Not even close.