I do writs on 8 chars. 9th is on the way. Altough I have to admit it is really time consuming.

I do max level writs on like 3 of my alts, the rest are all Tier 1. This way, they get all the mats they need for the writs from the writs.

I am not chasing Gold Tempers, so it works for me. I also have no real need for Master Writs as I have all the things I can buy with WVs.

I max the crafting levels of all of my characters because it's easier to transmute a piece or improve gear quality when you get a new gear drop for it, rather than having to transfer the piece to your bank or a chest, then log onto your crafter to do it. You only need to research the salient skills too, so it's not that bad (impen and infused on PvP toons and divines/infused for PvE toons). I also max their cooking and alchemy to make it easier to keep my potion habit well-fed.

Why not? Researching crafting only takes a moment to set up, then it's just a waiting game. Sure, the last few traits take forever to learn, but waiting for a timer is easy if you're thinking long-term. Gathering the Skill Points to support max crafting can take a while longer to complete, but that's why I get my alts set up researching asap. So if you plan on sticking around the game for a while, why not max crafting? And once you have one master crafter, it gets much easier to elevate all of your other alts to that level; just have your master make whatever they might need and toss it in your bank for them.

I currently have 7 alts that have maxed all crafting skills to do master writs. I have another four that are just about ready to join them. Then I have another four that I just got started who are ages away from being ready, but have been getting their researching taken care of; research is more hands on when they're just getting started as you have to check each one daily rather than weekly. I find it easier to train up alts in clusters like that as small groups are easier to manage everything at once.

Really, it just boils down to a few questions:

• Do you like crafting?
• Do you like having alts?
• Are you planning on sticking around?

Edit: Unlike most of what I hear other players do, I do not like to level my crafting by doing the lower-tier writs. I never touch writs until I'm ready to do the max tier ones (saves you the effort of chasing low tier resources needed, which can get costly). While you're questing or doing your other game stuff, toss everything you get in the bank. Max level stuff is best for this. Decon it all on the alts you're training up. By the time you've finished getting the Skill Points needed for one to be set up, the next alt will have reached 50 in many of their crafting skills (Blacksmithing, Clothier, and Woodworking). They'll be off to a good start for Enchanting and Jewelry Crafting, but to hit 50 on those, you'll need your main crafter to make a bunch of max level purp runes and Platinum Rings and bank 'em, then finish getting your next alt up to 50 on those. Don't worry about Alchemy or Provisioning until you have gathered enough Skill Points to rank those up at once; they're super easy to get up to 50 in minutes as long as you have the Skill Points ready.

I max mine out for the gold tempers. To this day, I don't think I've ever bought gold upgrade mats, and I've got dozens of sets in gold and have done thousands of vouchers worth of master writs. That being said, it's a big time investment to get all your toons enough skill points to pull it off. I've been playing for 2-2.5ish years now, and a significant portion of those 2500ish hours are just farming skyshards and public dungeons on alts.

Joosef_Kivikilpi wrote: »

55k a day with 12 characters + surveys and gold material.

i'll do you 3 better...about 67k on 15 characters. Also, if you have access to Summerset, do the writs at the Alinor stations, they're all clustered together in one huge room (including cooking fire and jewelry station) and amazingly easy to go through quickly. They're also close to the writ turn-in location. Beyond that, both bank and Wayshrine are not far away either. Also, if you're on a PC, use Dolgubon's Lazy Writ Crafter addon. With that, you can not only automate 5 of the 7 stations (all but alchemy and provisioning), but the automation will complete each individual writ faster than you can do it manually. The addon can also optionally auto-open the writ rewards as you get them, for more time saving. With these couple steps, the worst part of the process becomes the loading screens between chars...

PS: one final tip. If you do them every other day, you can do two day's worth of writs at a time. Each char will take a little bit longer, but much less than double the time, because you're only doing the writs twice, but you're still doing single loadscreens on each character, and only every other day. This will save more time too.

Matchimus wrote: »

Depends on time available to you and will it take u away from you actually enjoy doing in game. Personally, once is enough. Repeatative behaviour sucks the fun out. I go for variety. I play for a few hours each day and by the time I have done a bit of this and a bit of that...my day is over.

understood, and that's also a matter of personal preference...it's generally best to do what you enjoy in the game...among other things, i'm a hoarder from the stand-alone games, so this particular repetitive behavior doesn't suck the fun out at all...for me...

Parthrax0923 wrote: »

I just started doing writs on my crafting alt lately, but I was wondering if I should max the rest of my characters' crafting to do writs on them also. What do you guys do?

I do on all 8 toons everyday, u get mats - gold - writs - empty soul gems - intricates - surveys...

Next updates I heard we will get our lvl mats for doing master writs so it sounds better than ever.

Remember doing writs on all 8 toons will give you more than 200k weekly (remember u need to have them on lvl 50 regardless of their crafting skills level, you still get same gold ammount).

I do all 15 of my chars every other day so I don't have to bother with the writs every day since each day is a new set, but yeah its definitely worth it around 4.2k per char a day in gold + whatever writs and gold mats you get

They key thing is the level of the character, not the skill level. You will run out of mats pretty quickly if they are all PvP 50 in skill.

luton0watford4 wrote: »

They key thing is the level of the character, not the skill level. You will run out of mats pretty quickly if they are all PvP 50 in skill.

I think they want to change that with update 21 so you mostly get mats for your crafting level. I'm not sure if that will be enough to sustain mats, though. We'll see.

Do it in preparation for the Anniversary event, after that it's not worth it for me.

Yes, I do max crafting writs on all my 14 toons. It’s time consuming (especially since I’m a peasant console player) but the rewards are worth it 😊

Personally, no. Why? I stopped doing writs on alts simply because gathering all the surveys is a nightmare for me.