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  Feric51

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  Now that you've put the points into the alchemy passive requiring you to use filtered water, it should theoretically show up in water sources 50% of the time.
  
  All raw crafting materials spawn at an approximately 50:50 ratio to your crafting passive rank and your character level. Now understand that 50:50 is controlled by RNG, so not always a direct reflection.
  
  That being said: you just now reached character level 40 - which should correspond to filtered water dropping from water sources. Since your writs are asking for filtered water, this also means you have put enough points into the alchemy passive to be at Rank IV - which would also induce nodes to drop filtered water.
  
  So if both of these just happened, then at no other point before now would the game have generated filtered water for you to loot. But going forward, all nodes (until you reach level 50/CP10) and/or improve your alchemy profession to Rank V, should drop filtered water.
  
  Another possibility that hasn't been addressed is: Are you actually looting the proper sources for water? You simply stated the game has not made it available to you, but have you actively been trying to harvest it? Alchemy water solvents come from three sources that I know of:

  1. The water skins found near crates or campsites and other areas of npc activity.
  2. Pure water nodes (the bubbly things in larger bodies of water)
  3. Certain containers such as urns and possibly some containers typically containing provisioning ingredients

  
  I'm not trying to sound condescending, it sometimes is just a simple thing that gets overlooked.

  Feric51
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  April 2019

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  tmbrinks

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  Nestor wrote: »

  Shakenmoon23167 wrote: »

  Didn't say I couldn't use or make potions with filtered water.
  The game has not made filtered water available to me.
  I can purchase from Guild Trader and craft but that puts the cost over the top.

  
  Do you mean you expect ZOS to pay you the gold it costs you to buy the materials to satisfy the writs? That's funny.
  
  Besides, your overlooking selling the Flowers you get in the reward container that you can sell for far more than a bottle of solvent

  
  To be fair. The cost of the "lower" tier solvents/oils are quite a bit more expensive than those at higher levels due to supply. Most people do not keep their Alchemy at ranks 2-7 (either at 1 or 8), and certainly most people do not keep their characters at level 40.
  
  To the OP, now that you are at rank 5 and level 40 as a character, the water nodes will drop the appropriate materials for you. As others have said, when your character level and crafting level differ, your nodes will be split approximately 50/50 between the two types.
  
  Hope this answers your question.

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