Just destroy sealed jewellery writs?

cyberjanet · October 2018

It seems I get one or two of these every single day, far far more than I get of any other kind of sealed writ. And they are all impossibly expensive to make. I started off selling them for next to nothing, but even at 30g per voucher they are now all bright red on Master Merchant. Is there any hope these will ever become affordable to make, or do we just destroy them?

RaddlemanNumber7 · October 2018

I destroy them. There's no possibility that I'll have sufficient tempers to complete any of them in the foreseeable future. From my perspective purple and gold tempers are far more valuable for upgrading my own toons' jewellery. I don't need writ vouchers. I already have more writ vouchers than I can usefully spend.

Grimm13 · October 2018

Not worth doing or selling. Delete them like most do. Doubt ZOS even tracks how many are done and they so no care to fix these to make them worth doing.

Runs · October 2018

The ones I have been keeping are as follows...

Any Epic worth over 95 vouchers. I wont do these yet, but saving incase the prices of mats drop
Any legendary over 300 vouchers. I am currently only doing the 461 voucher ones, and the others in this category are being saved again incase prices of mats drop.

Any that don't fit the above get destroyed.

-Edit to add- I am saving these on an alt account dedicated to holding my master writs. I would probably delete all the epics if I only had one account and try to sell the above 300 voucher legendary ones except the 461 vouchers.

Feric51 · October 2018

I did one legendary one worth 407 vouchers for the simple reason to get the legendary jewelry crafting achievement and bank a few extra vouchers. Other than that, I've been selling them for generally 50-100g per voucher. They keep selling, so someone out there must be a glutton for punishment. Either that, or a connection to a bot lord with plentiful supply of tempers.

I also traded a 378 voucher writ the other day for my last needed Dremora motif chapter (bows), since I didn't feel like running Maelstrom Arena for the fourth time only to get RNG-ed with my 4th Dremora legs chapter. So there is that.

TheCyberDruid · October 2018

Epic over ~100 and legendary over ~400 vouchers are 'worth' doing if you have most of the mats. Otherwise it's accept > abandon as it's faster than destroying them

tmbrinks · October 2018

I've been keeping most of my post-Wolfhunter ones, with the higher voucher values, simply because I have the space on a storage alt that I have. I sold the pre-Wolfhunter ones for like 15-20g a voucher, and somebody bought them, for some reason.

As stated by others, I've done a couple of the ones that are >375 vouchers for gold. 1 for the achievement, and a 461 voucher one for the vouchers, as I'm trying to outfit my house with all the crafting stations, and 461 vouchers goes a long way to that!

As for the rest, I'll just hold onto them for the time being, but if i start to run out of space, I'll probably just destroy, as it looks like the prices for the materials has somewhat stabilized. (might even go up a bit with new patch with all the magicka dps upgrading their spell strategist jewelry when they get it from RotW)

anadandy · October 2018

I just sold most of my hoard for pennies on the dollar (a.k.a cheap). I didn't make that much gold but it was liberating.

PromiscuousNun · October 2018

I'm keeping the higher level ones in a dedicated storage chest at my house. You never know, in the year 2026, I might be short on some vouchers

Did make some for the achievement tho! And a 450+ is still tempting….

As someone said here, they do seem to drop quite alot in comparison to other masterwrits.

Good luck and have fun!

redspecter23 · October 2018

I keep epics for 100 and legendaries for 400+. I still haven't done any of them, but those at least have some future potential. Any of the others I sell for 1g out of disgust.

qbit · October 2018

I’ve made one. It’s was for 40 something vouchers I think at 1100 gold per voucher. Which is not good. No profit in that at all. But I had no other writs and needed a lot of vouchers at that time. And I had the tempers, but they’d have been better spent on upgrading my own stuff. I think that’s the angle with jewelry writs. Those get dropped a lot but the others are very small numbers of voucher per writ. Which is especially taxing on a player with only one toon.

Parrot1986 · October 2018

I’m keeping them all as I have trust that ZoS will make them viable......

Banana · October 2018

Yep. Destroy all.

Aeslief · October 2018

They are trash.

I have done only one of these, and that only to get the gold jewelry achievement.

I have also observed I get JC writs dropping at least twice as often across 11 toons doing crafting dailies. They infuriate me. Each JC writ that drops is a daily reminder to be deeply skeptical of paid content features in the future.

OrdoHermetica · October 2018

I have WritWorthy, so I only do ones that are equal to or less than 1,000g per voucher. Granted, those are the exception rather than the rule, but they're worth doing. Ton of vouchers for comparable (if on the high end) cost per voucher of other master writ types.

For the majority of them, though, I hold onto ones that are worth several hundred vouchers in hopes that someday JC will be adjusted further. I use all the rest to troll one of my guild masters by sending them to her as "donations for the guild auction." She responds by sending me bile and grease, and pelts me with mudballs every time she sees me in public. And so the battle continues.

Feric51 · October 2018

[quote="OrdoHermetica;c-5573617"]I have WritWorthy, so I only do ones that are equal to or less than 1,000g per voucher. Granted, those are the exception rather than the rule, but they're worth doing. Ton of vouchers for comparable (if on the high end) cost per voucher of other master writ types.

For the majority of them, though, I hold onto ones that are worth several hundred vouchers in hopes that someday JC will be adjusted further. I use all the rest to troll one of my guild masters by sending them to her as "donations for the guild auction." She responds by sending me bile and grease, and pelts me with mudballs every time she sees me in public. And so the battle continues.[/quote]

That's my general rule of thumb too. I'm on console, and don't have addons to do the math for me, but the principle is still the same.

My only problem with jewelry writs, as opposed to the other professions, is I actually have to spend that gold out of my savings to acquire the materials. The other profession master writs might have a per-voucher cost associated with the materials necessary, but I have such a stockpile that I don't actually notice the impact to my bank account. I'd much rather do a legendary woodworking master writ worth 46 vouchers (>1k/voucher) with no actual gold cost, than a 461 legendary jewelry writ at ~1k/voucher that costs me 400k+ gold just to purchase the platings...

Linaleah · October 2018

90% of them, at least - add to junk>destroy all junk. fastest method to get rid of them that I found.

high voucher legendaries do sell when priced low enough, guess cause people want that dye/achievement

high voucher epics, if they are not swift - donate to guild.

they are just to darn expensive to craft.

Katahdin · October 2018

So far I've deleted all under 50 writ vouchers. Probably going to start deleting all less than 100 if my storage for them gets too full.

Mr_Walker · November 2018

I love all the "2" enchanting writs, and also the "6" alchemy writs. I use them and an XP pot to level up FAST. I collect 30 or so at a time, craft 'em all, and off we go.

Bloody great, and the rewards stack up. not that I'm all that interested in much the vendor has, but....

Arunei · November 2018

At least most of the JC master writs I see anymore are Epic and worth 60-70 vouchers to start. I do get the occasional ones for 30 or something but those are rare. Granted, even the Epic dust/plating is still fairly expensive, and I've got at least 8 or so Epic-level JC writs sitting around, which means getting these all the time is still expensive as hell compared to other master writs of equal voucher value.

Even with the changes to how JC works, it's still a 10:1 ratio in terms of tempers for JC compared to the other equipment crafts. I know I personally have hoards of mats for the other equipment crafts, but even then those are also used for Furniture. Which also applies to JC blueprints. So there are three different things vying for mats that come split into 10s, which makes doing JC master writs even more of a hassle.

They really need to either ditch the 10 Dust:1 Plating ratio and just make Plating drop in whole pieces like other tempers do, or make the temper Dusts a lot more common. ZOS needs to realize it's not just improving actual gear people are using these mats for, and locking JC crafting behind artificial difficulty like they have to make it seem like a rewarding grind for getting Gold jewelry is just making this more of a headache than it should be for people who just want to do the master writs and craft nice Furniture.