Bad RNG. As simple as that.

MonkLoHan wrote: »

Been doing all six dailies for a month now on two characters and havent seen received any master writs. What gives? Is this just bad luck or is anyone else having this issue?

One character is lvl 50 in all crafts and still no master writs. Could it be due to me having 4 old ones in my inventory that I have yet to complete (due to not knowing the motifs)?

Pretty sure having some in inventory doesn't matter. If you accept them, then sure you can't accept any more until you complete those accepted. I regularly wait until I have a dozen or more in inventory before I make all the items required and then accept a MW of each type and turn it in, then accept next MW's and turn in, repeat until all turned in.

They seem to hit the rates with a big nerf every year around new chapter time. With all the motifs I added during the yearly anniversary event my rate seems to have gone down.

As long as you have your skills maxed I would say it is rng. My main crafter went 3 weeks with nothing while my secondary crafters picked one up everyother day, then my main grabbed a decent clothing writ and back to back 40's from provisioning over the last two days, so likely it is just rng.

Your characters also have to be above lvl 50, not only their crafting abilities. As far as I know if your character is under lvl 50, no matter all your crafting skills are maxed you will not get a master writ.

FastBen wrote: »

Your characters also have to be above lvl 50, not only their crafting abilities. As far as I know if your character is under lvl 50, no matter all your crafting skills are maxed you will not get a master writ.

No, this isn't true. Beeing Level 50 in the craft is enough for masterwrits. (I own 3 low-level Mastercrafter)

Talk about crazy rng... It took me over a year to get provisioning master writ drop. Before you ask yes I am level 50 in provisioning and all crafts save for jewelry.

Meanwhile the others drop pretty regularly. Thankfully I do get alot of alchemy/enchanter ones. Very easy to complete those.

testd4n1 wrote: »

jcasini222ub17_ESO wrote: »

Talk about crazy rng... It took me over a year to get provisioning master writ drop. Before you ask yes I am level 50 in provisioning and all crafts save for jewelry.

Meanwhile the others drop pretty regularly. Thankfully I do get alot of alchemy/enchanter ones. Very easy to complete those.

My ONLY provisioning master writ is for a staggering 2 writ vouchers... kinda broken lol.

I always get the same 2 and they are 40 each. (Sadly, they take 2 perfect roe each)

In my experience, the level of the skill is not the factor; rather having the top-tier passive. You need to be maxed to use the highest quality resource(s) in your daily writ for a master writ to drop.

I could go into detail on each separate crafting line but I think you get the idea... you need to be able to craft the best possible item.

A few questions:
1) Do you actually have all the points invested in the main crafting line passive, so the ordinary writs you receive are actually done at maximum tier? Only maximum tier writs have a chance of dropping master writs as rewards.
2) Do you have many traits researched on your character? Having all traits researched in a profession increases the chances of getting writs by 10-15% from my experience.
3) Do you have motifs learned on that character? Motifs known (you need to know the whole motif) do increase the chance of getting master writs, but not as much as traits researched.
3) Do you have all reagent properties discovered in Alchemy? This is actually easy to do, and it increases the chance by 20-30% at least from my experience.
4) Have you translated all glyphs in Enchanting? Same as above, the drop rate increases a lot, for me those 2 types of writs drop like candy on all characters.
5) Do you have provisioning related achievements (Master Chef, Recipe Compendium) and a number of purple and gold recipes learned? Note that only half your writs will have a chance to drop master writs since half the time will ask for CP50 food/drink, and the other half will ask for CP150 food/drink and only the latter has a chance of dropping master writs
6) Do you have other general crafting achievements (harvesting, refinement, tempering, master writs done) ? There's some proof that those also contribute a small amount towards the chance of getting master writs.
http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Crafting_Achievements

From my experience master writs do drop regularly. I'm doing ordinary writs every day on 14 characters one of which has all recipes, all traits researched and most motifs, 3 more have almost done researching traits , 2 more are about halfway researching them, while the remaining 8 have few if any traits researched; all 13 know only the basic motifs learned (blue books, purple books, Mercenary & Hollowjack) and some others I've gotten from free crates and I already knew. All have alchemy properties and glyph translation done, most have the provisioning achievements done as well, and they are slowly learning the cheap CP50-100 purple recipes that also drop from ordinary writs but they are too cheap to be worth selling on guild stores.

Over the last 2 months I've gotten about 5K vouchers worth of writs (using the voucher count function in Daugubon's Lazy Writ Crafter addon). That's an average of about 6 vouchers/character/day. So I suspect there's a systematic mistake you're doing, not just bad RNG, for example not fully allocating points in your skills (#1).

Not sure if it existed before but this last chapter they stated that Writs would have a better chance the more rare motifs you know. I think they lowered the RNG chance for regular level 50 crafters and raised it for those that know a lot of styles.

My main crafter that knows 50+ styles and usually gets at least one Master writ a day in at least one profession. My other two that are are level 50 in everything but only knows the basic motifs I think I have gotten one each since Summerset launch.

I have yet to ever get a writ award above 90 and I do 4 sets daily. Since Summerset my main crafter has gotten one for 45 and one for 15, the rest have been from 2 to 7. I want to know how these folks get 350 writs when I've never seen one besides being listed in a guild store.

on a side note, 5 years now and I have yet to get a full gold motif in the wild. (that includes beta and launch dates)
so your RNG is not the only one that sucks.

TheCyberDruid wrote: »

Elsterchen wrote: »

No, this isn't true. Beeing Level 50 in the craft is enough for masterwrits. (I own 3 low-level Mastercrafter)

Level 50 in the craft skill is not enough. You need to do the max tier writs which means you need to put enough skill points in the 'main' crafting skill to get them.

Sure you are right, level 50 in the craft as well as the main crafting skill maxed out. But your characters level does not need to be level 50 (and for those asking how to get the necessary skillpoints: fastes way is to skip questing/grinding levels and just go searching for overland skyshards. On alts its a matter of ~ 8h (training gear/weapons/ XP bonus/ rapid maneuver at level 10 / 120 CPs in lover), or level up to 22-24 solemly by unlocking locations as you search for skyshards (no fighting required))