So I got this wonderful little master writ today.



Now the set is fine, but for only 18 vouchers, I would expect something like this to ask for a trait and motif that aren't as freaking rare as they are. It's not even that Nirnhoned is 'rare' because you don't need to research the other eight traits before it now, but simply because of how rare the trait mats are. The same goes for Telvanni.

Lower-value master writs should NOT ask for rarer traits, sets that require 7+ traits, or rarer motifs. It's also frustrating to get the odd writ for 20-30 vouchers asked for Legendary level stuff; even the 40-ish ones should still ask only for Epic. As it is, the writs are too random in what they ask for as opposed to the number of vouchers they give. Is it too much to ask for a system that brings what you put into the writ in line with what you get in return?

For one, master writs shouldn't call for Legendary items until somewhere around the 80-100 voucher area. They also shouldn't start calling for higher-trait sets or rarer styles until perhaps around the 50-60 area? Definitely not for a master writ worth only seven vouchers for example. And no writ wanting Nirnhoned should give less than 50-60 writs, either, give or take a handful. Basically, ZOS needs to sit down and make different 'pools', with easier writs giving fewer vouchers and the actual harder ones giving more. I know a lot of people will probably disagree with this, saying, "Oh but I love my 200 voucher writs that only ask for a vanilla style and trait and a 2-trait set!" The only problem is you get the higher-value easy writs much less often than you do the lower-value harder ones. Writs that are worth less than say 40 vouchers should never ask for 9-set traits with DLC dungeon styles and Nirnhoned, for example. It would be up to ZOS to create the different tiers of writ worth, such as 4-7, 8-20, 21-40, and so on, and then assign those tiers the various requirements, but I'm sure it can't be too awfully hard to come up with something that makes sense and actually rewards people based on the requirements of any given writ.

Which brings me to another point. I thought that having more traits and recipes learned, and having more runes translated, and so on, meant that you were supposed to get master writs more often. Except I can a week or longer without getting a single one. And most of the time when I do get a writ, it's for one that ranges from 4-7 vouchers. This needs reworking as much as the above point does; if you have more traits and everything learned, then you should not only get master writs more often, you should get the higher, more rewarding ones more often, because clearly you can do them. At the same time, people with fewer traits or recipes or runes or whatever should be getting more of the easier writs, since obviously if they only know 5 traits on a piece, they aren't going to be able to make a TBS writ asking for that piece. Now that's not to say someone with more traits should never get lesser writs and someone with fewer traits should never get better writs. I'm just saying what you have learned should actually make a freaking difference in the writs you get, which from what I've seen since this system was implemented...it doesn't seem to matter in the slightest.