kylewwefan wrote: »

Did alikr desert, Auridon, bangkorai yesterday. I’m totally deleting the rest of enchanting ones. They’re just a waste of time.

Kuta on pc fetch 4k each atm and they drop like crazy

I love the surveys. Generally I will just bank them unless it is in a zone I'm working on. At some point I will grab surveys for a particular zone, usually once I have at least 4-5 for that zone, then go out to collect them. The helper app I use on my tablet has their locations so I'll plot out a route and get to it. It's a very good way for me to keep a stockpile of mats without needing to farm so much.

Treasure maps, I don't particularly like. Frequently I put in a fair bit of time to find them without much usable return. I've been collecting all of mine but don't really go through the effort unless the zone is one with drops I want. Such as Mother's Sorrow/Deshaan. I've been known to give away surveys to people who ask about them or list a few in the guild bank. I have seen people sell them but the price is so low I usually don't even bother.

I need to do these in the day I get them. Yes, I *really* need to do these on the day I get them. One of these days, I will actually start doing these on the day I get them...

Soon.

doomette wrote: »

barney2525 wrote: »

Ri_Khan wrote: »

5 pages of lazy players crying about free mats gets necro'd, why?

Yeah. It's weird. People get free stuff and complain it's too hard. Come to my house and hand it to me.

Now, I understand the complaint of the Console users. I doubt I would do surveys without the addon. But if you are on PC, it's free stuff. A lot of the locations are literally right next to wayshrines. If you are on console, check google to see if there are maps out there. At least your searching could be quicker.

Or get The ESO app. I like that it actually describes the location, as the in-game map zoom is often inadequate (okay, and I need new glasses). I find it much more convenient than looking it up on my laptop.

This, the ESO app is the best thing ever for console players. Marks surveys, skyshards, delves, mage books, public dungeons, treasure chests. Has a thing for alchemy where you put in what traits you want in your potions and give a list of all possible herb combinations. Also has maps for all the delves and public dungeons.

Cpt_Teemo wrote: »

Mostly just do it for the tempers, and 4.6k gold per character a day i don't have time to go back and forth to the same spot multiple times every day, i get like 30 Surveys a day or something

What do you mean you get 30 a day? How many wrote a day are you doing? You can only have 15 chars and each char doesn’t get a survey a day.

If you’re doing them on multiple accounts why?!

I am so confused right now.

tmbrinks wrote: »

IzzyStardust wrote: »

Cpt_Teemo wrote: »

Mostly just do it for the tempers, and 4.6k gold per character a day i don't have time to go back and forth to the same spot multiple times every day, i get like 30 Surveys a day or something

What do you mean you get 30 a day? How many wrote a day are you doing? You can only have 15 chars and each char doesn’t get a survey a day.

If you’re doing them on multiple accounts why?!

I am so confused right now.

Writs have about a 12.5% drop rate 1 in 8. So 30 a day would be 240 writs... only 6 drop surveys, so I'd say 40 characters.

That being said. I like collecting writs. Tons of mats, refining gives lots of gold mats. I don't know why you wouldn't collect them. Writs are virtually self-sufficient with the surveys + mat return changes with Wraithstone

I just - so anyone has time to do 3 accounts worth but NOT to pick up the surveys. *boggle*

I hate doing surveys but it's an evil I have to do. I'll get the mats to do crafting writs with and the gold mats which I cannot refuse

I don't pick all at once since it becomes very mind numbing to do so. Last year I left all pile up for 6 months, then picked them up in 5 consecutive days and it was painful. So I decided to let them stack for 6 months in any given zone, then collect 4 zones every month. My schedule is:

1) January/July: Alik'r, Craglorn 1, Craglorn 2, Craglorn 3
2) February/August: Auridon, Bangkorai, Coldharbour 1, Coldharbour 2
3) March/September: Deshaan, Eastmarch, Glenumbra, Grahtwood
4) April/October: Greenshade, Malalal Tor, Reaper's March, Rivenspire
5) May/November: Shadowfen, Stonefalls, Stromhaven, The Rift
6) June/December: Vvardenfell, Wrothgar 1, Wrothgar 2, Wrothgar 3

It takes around 3-4 hours to do that, and 1 hour to refine, so around 4-5 hours in total. The pickup day is the Sunday closest to the start of the moth. For example this year the pickup days were 30.12 (1), 03.02 (2), 03.03 (3).

With the new changes in Wrathstone I get 15 units refunded each time I do a writ, so the cost per writ has decreased from ~40 to ~25 units. I also recover materials from the intricate items I deconstruct - only jewelry is still worth selling to guild traders, since it's still 750-800 gold per item, but others are just ~150 so for me it's not worth wasting a slot with them. I also pick up materials as I go after sky shards, quests, books on my characters - all are maxed out crafters already so I pick maximum tier materials only - they eventually get promoted to combat ready as they fill their skills and passives with those. On top of that I deconstruct all silk items, some of the wood ones - those materials are still expensive, around 30-35 gold per unit - as well as any items that are blue or better quality and/or contain rarer style materials, unless they are part of a set, have good traits and can go on sale on guild stores; if they don't meed any of the condition they get sold to NPC. I pick up everything but since I have 200 bag slots on all characters with only 50-100 taken up by gear and consumables, so I only need to do bag cleanup at the end of the day, and it takes 1-2 minutes. Since Wrathstone dropped my materal stocks have barely decreased, and extrapolating by the usual survey drop rate I may actually gain a surplus at the end of this month when I'll pick up the next series of surveys 31.03 (4). So surveys are definitely worth doing.

Just use the add on that tells you exactly where they are.

Takes a few seconds. Deleting them is just throwing away gold. The jewellery crafting surveys are amazing for making quick money.