So after a brief bout of insanity and two very patient friends I managed to hit 50 provisioning at character level 17. at about 1:25 AM est on Monday morning. Out of idle curiosity anyone else manage to get it sooner?
What? Did you play day and night without stopping to even eat or go to the loo?
And maybe you only raced around looking for stuff to harvest? Anyway, grats to you
Like most people I've found a few max level recipes that require mats from Cyrodiil and ranks to consume. Those recipes however do require a full six (at least i think its 6) points in the provisioning level/refining skill to craft as well. As far as the stats on them go I'm going to agree with Clive on the numbers, wait till you see your first epic/purple recipe stats that raise all 3 though.
I hit lvl 50 provisioning sometime yesterday. I spent 12 or 14 hours on each of the first 2 days farming boxes and stuff. So far i have over 75 recipies and such. I am only lvl 12 BTW. I have farmed almost alot of it but have had a few lvl 15+ people sending me some of the higher end goods to make the blue foods since they have the best exp when crafted.
Those recipes however do require a full six (at least i think its 6) points in the provisioning level/refining skill to craft as well.
That is correct, they require 6 skill points in the level, and that still doesn't even get you blue tier recipes, you need at least 3 more for that I believe.
Best to set aside a character as a dedicated provisioner for that. You really don't want to do that on more than one character.