I've maxed clothing and enchanting on all 15 characters, and the same will soon be true of blacksmithing and woodworking. Jewelry is a work in progress. I max alchemy when I get around to it.

The vast majority of my characters also have most or all possible hirelings.

What isn't necessarily worth it is investing the time to get enough skill points to max out the crafting passives. Right now, I only have two characters who are fully combat-ready AND also have their relevant crafting skills maxed out. The rest almost all fit one of those categories but not both; which of the categories they fit changes from time to time with a respec.

It's really up to you to decide if it's worth it. All of my 15 characters are maxed out in everything except jewelry but I don't do writs on all of them.

If you enjoy crafting and have use for the rewards, surveys and master writs you get, then yes.
If you'd rather spend that time in front of a test dummy seeking out higher DPS, or would rather be killing people in Cyrodiil - then probably not.

I'd rather uninstall than log in and out of 8 characters every day. That's like 30-60 minutes spent in load screens alone. You could make the same amount of gold just farming for 30-60 minutes on one character. Load screens give me anxiety.

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.

That's the best answer I used to do writs x 4 every day. I noticed it really started wearing hard on me. Run in circles, click buttons, run to the bank, sit through loading screens x4. It got really old. I did writs on my main only for about a month after. I'm down to zero toons per day now, and it feels great! I log once a week or as my bank space runs out to decon CP 160 stuff on my newest alt.

If you tend to burn out quickly on anything, writs will light rocket fuel under that feeling. Writs are lucrative, but whether they're worth it really depends on what you enjoy. First and foremost, this is a game. Entertainment. Don't forget to have fun!

I do writs on 2 toons daily, sometimes more. I have maxed out provisioning and alchemy so I can make food, potions/poisons on that toon rather than having to swap toons all the time. I do bring the others up to 50 and put points into keen eye, hireling and the one so you can upgrade using less mats. If there's an event I'll do writs on all my toons, 8 now but will be 9 when new class comes out.

SignsOfTheTimes wrote: »

You will spend half a day doing surveys after a month

I stash my surveys. I have a lot of unused surveys. 10-15 is typical for the crafts where I actually occasionally use some. In enchanting and alchemy the stacks are in the 25-50 range.

Yes it is absolutely worth it. Doing writs daily on 15 toons for almost a year now and it is crazy amount of gold. Ill share some experience with you, whats important and such

1. Using Dolgubon writ creator helps a lot. For cooking and alchemy just have a stack of each item in your bank and have check "take items from bank" enabled. This way I do writs on 15 toons in 35 minutes in Vivec. Alinor is fine too

2. Character level matters. On level 50 you get 4600-4700 gp from all daylies, so its better to max them out

3. Dont put all 6 points in cooking, max level writs are messed up and you rarely get anything useful. Better leave them at say cooking 4, youll get a lot of blue recipes for 1500 and purple for 5000. Cooking 3 is the same price but items are tied to your alliance so its not very convinient

4. Even if you cant max out a craft (Jewelry i.e.), than do lvl 1 writs. Gold reward is the same and youll get plenty of Surveys, their drop chance is irrelevant to writ level. Though it is very profitable to do level 50 Jewelry now

5. To max out a profession (except cooking and alchemy) craft tier 9 (void) items on your main, until level 20 youll get absolutely the same exp from white void dagger and golden rubedite intricate whatever. For jewelry and some other professions now it is cheaper to craft tier 10 items right away. Pump your profession to level 40 this way, then you can deconstruct everything you come across or just buy some intricate items. Dont forget to deconstruct what you get from writs also

6. Master writs are very important part of the drop, and their drop chance depends on your knowledge in given craft:
a. Alchemy - learn all ingridients, it is good to do it after alchemy 40, youll be near 50 after learning everything. Addon "Potion maker" helps a lot
b. Cooking depends on number of purple and gold recipes youve learned, though it is not relevant now as top tier quests are broken
c. Enchanting - learn every rune to max out writ drop. Your last move is to craft Hakeijo + Repora + Kuta on every twink, then sell it, youll lose nothing. Lower level potency runes you can easily buy from Enchanter NPC for 100gp
b. Other trades - Number of motifs and traits matter. Learn daedric/barbaric/Ancient Elf/Primal, they are dirt cheap. You can also learn some other cheap motifs like Hollowjack. Learn traits on all your twinks, at least 8 in every item, it matters a lot and cost nothing, nirn on armor is very cheap too. Just craft items on your main and put them in your bank. Addon "Craft store" helps a lot in tracking traits.
c. Jewelry - just dont bother

7. Everything listed above affects Writs drop chances not their quality. Quality is just a random but the more you get in total the more good ones there will be

8. Also dont fordet to invest in hirelings - thats a lot of purple tempers and occasionaly golden ones too. On 15 toons I get at least 1 golden temper per day. Note that skillpoints in the first passive in a given craft affect the quality of hireling raw mats

9. To craft master writs you can use Dolgubon again. Just right click on every writ and select "craft", dont take the quest yet! Then the addon will autocraft everything at once which greatly reduces legwork

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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?

Depends on your play time.

I do them on one daily, that's like 90k income. If you have the time to do on all toons that's a mill a month plus all the mats etc.

I don't have that luxury of time.when i play i wanna play so one guy is my max. And you can make bigger money faster by doing some decent trading.

In events like the writ events people go insane and do on all alts to bur out and honnestly any form of grinding bores me, i play to have fun.

So it depends on your time and motives

I've been working on maxing out all 15 of my toons since last year's anniversary, with mixed feelings at different times. If you leave their skills on Tier 1, they don't produce high-tier mats with their hirelings, BUT they use up a full day's allotments of top tier mats. It's been a bit of a dance as I got some leveled up and others still on lower tiers, trying to keep from running out of mats and having to farm constantly lately just to make my daily writs (I refuse to buy from farmers, they are the ones making it take longer for me to just get my own dang stuff). However, in the next update they are going to be making changes to the mats that we get as rewards from daily writs, and I think that will ease that problem.

EVEN with the trouble keeping up with mats, it's been worth it to me in dreugh waxes, chromium grains and other high-level drops; I stopped paying attention for a few months and discovered to my surprise I had several hundred dreugh wax, for instance. It's also about 75k gold (maybe more) per day steady income once your toons are all leveled over 50, I'll find out when mine all are. I've been looking forward to the anniversary event since last year's, though. That will be my real test of how worth it it's been.

One thing to remember is that gold rewards are based on character level. Low level writs are guaranteed profit if you are level 50+. That is not necessarily true if you are level 6.

Also, stockpile consumables in your bank and craft them on a character with the 4x passive. By stockpiling potions and food/drink, you can completely avoid crafting those. If you have Lazy Writ Crafter, it can just pull the consumables you need from the bank.

The trick is finding the happy medium where you feel like you get benefit without it becoming a chore.

If you place extra points as you have them, you at least always have the opportunity available should you wish it.

FTR, provisioning (and I believe alchemy) are the only two that actually don't require direct crafting by the character in question. You can make stacks of food (the specifics repeat) on your main, and simply withdraw and turn in on alts.

Tan9oSuccka wrote: »

In my opinion, outside of surveys and the gold, no.

If you don’t know a pile of motifs, the master writ values are crap. (In my experience).

A lot of master writs right now (on PC/NA) are at the point where I'm not sure they're worth the trouble to do. I AM doing them when I need to clear inventory space, but I'm not jumping through hoops to train up my alts in various traits to maximize the master writ drop rates.

That said, I'm hoarding all my enchanting master writs for rapid leveling of character skill lines during double XP events. For the New Life Festival I just did that for one character, using alchemy writs, but I also missed much of the festival due to holiday travel. I'll do more the next time there's an XP event for which I'm actually around.