The game changes enough that you are welcome to ask questions like these even if there are some oldy moldy posts somewhere.

1. You need a bazillion skill points, lol.

Smith: 25
Wood: 25
Cloth: 25
Runes: 21
Pots: 20
Grub: 23
Bling: 17

Total: 156

However, that’s max skill points in the lines. There are plenty to skimp on. Do you really need keen eye to see nodes? When you finish trait research you can get some back...12?

My total for a max crafter who IS still researching and uses hirelings but skips other unnecessary passives: 129

2. It’s viable to split crafting up a bit. You can do equipment on one, and consumables on other(s). When skill points were rarer I used a sorc to move alchemy and enchanting off my main. That can be a solution if you find yourself strapped.

But yes, if you want to be a furniture crafter you’ll end up investing a lot into all lines anyway. If I were starting over, I’d just pile everything onto my main. I like playing him, so I’d see harvesting every point as a fun challenge.

3. You ONLY receive master writ voucher quests when you do max level writs in that discipline (max skill points invested in the rank). In other words, rubedite in metals. Once you’re doing top level writs you are in an RNG for a master writ reward. These are very rare. If you do six writs daily, expect one or two per week. Some weeks you will get none.

Your RNG chances are increased based on your knowledge in that discipline. For equipment this means total traits researched and total purple/gold motifs learned. Enchanting is trait knowledge. Alchemy is trait knowledge. Provision is purple recipes learned. But don’t let this discourage you...it’s not a massive difference between a new crafter and a learned crafter. There are insane people who track thousands of writ rewards, and it works out to a “stupid” crafter doing six writs earns 1 voucher per day, a medium crafter who knows many traits but few motifs earns 3/day and a master crafter with tons of motifs earns 6/day.

If your goal is to play the master writ game and do tons of these, then the fastest/cheapest route is to use several alts to do writs, and spend time teaching them traits but skip motifs. Two alts who are experienced in 6-8 traits tend to do better than one master.

4. If you never noticed, when looking in guild stores at recipes, if the character doesn’t know it thenitem will say “unknown” at the top. This can be one way to search stores quickly.

A trick for recipe collectors is to use alts to do *lower* level provision writs. Each day your reward container has one recipe from that level range. This will fill in gaps pretty quickly. I have six alts permanently doing lower rank provision writs because those recipes aren’t common and they’re worth a lot. This disqualifies them from earning master writs, but the drop rates on food are tiny and the recipes are worth way more than the writs.

5. I level everything on every character because...why not? When I have a new character they become my deconstroctor for a while, especially the intricate items from writ crates. I then have them do trait research. My main makes a line of iron divines items, and banks them, and I check each time I log in and push them through trait research. Most new characters I play not vet with their crafting skills leveled, and with 6+ traits known.

I have keen eye on my farming alt, because he has 70 extra skill points. It’s a little helpful on alchemy. I use it mostly to quickly hone in on writ survey nodes. But these are pretty unnecessary...the nodes are pretty noticeable.

6. Crafting can be really profitable.

Writs will return a variety of valuable stuff. Lots of gold tempers...these alone should more than pay your rent in a trade guild. Then doing six writs daily you get $4k gold. Lower level recipes are worth like $5k blue or $20k purples. In enchanting I turn my kuta rewards into truly superb armor glyphs and sell for $7k. Then you get the lower level materials crates...these add up and are valuable. I turn frost Miriam into stacks of food to sell, why not.

With Summerset landing there will be tons of people come back to the game. You could use half a guild store to sell a specific craft armor set like Julianos or Hundings. I used to sell armor all the time, purple at $10-$15k per piece for medium. Make one helmet and shoulder (because of monster sets) and two of everything else and put it into your guild store after checking prices.

Furnishing also sell well. The strategy is to find a few recipes that do well, not to make a bazillion different things. When you find an item that moves pretty well, make a stack of 20 then have an alt replenish items as they sell. Like I have a redguard table that has a tablecloth that people like. It makes $3.5k profit per sale. I keep it stocked in three guild stores, and sell a couple a week.


Hope,that helps. If you have addl questions, use @davey1107 in your reply so that I get a system notice.