Unlike the guild skill lines and skyshards which give players immediate access to what they think they need to do end game content, the only real benefit to having multiple characters at max crafting beyond your main crafter is to be able to do more max tier writs.

So buying crafting skill lines might be great for players who want to run writs on all their characters every day, or want to farm loads of Anniversary rewards, but beyond that there's no reason to purchase crafting skills since you've already got one crafter.

Dusk_Coven wrote: »

bmnoble wrote: »

The slow boring method of making hundreds of daggers, rings etc.. will now be practically instant provided you have the bank space and one maxed out crafter.

I thought this was deprecated? Reddit poo-pooed it saying it was cheaper to sell the mats and buy intricates.
And Intricates still sell like hot cakes, so either there are a lot of startup crafters, or people just like levelling their crafters? Not clear for what because the gold you get is the most reliable thing and that's independent of crafting skill. Materials from writs and Hirelings I suppose?

Depends its not something you should do on your first character, its true it can cost a lot more but there are people out there who are impatient/leveled up the crafts on many alts before and have lots of gold to spend so its easy to just clear out the guilds stores of the cheaper listed refined mats you need and just use an add on to auto craft enough gear to fill your inventory, transfer it to your bank, rinse and repeat until you fill your bank, switch to the alt then decon it all.

Had a guy in one of the guilds I am in, wanted to max out blacksmithing, it was his first character, he had bought all the Rubedite ignots and style mats using gold he acquired from thieving, I gave him a hand for about half an hour, making him daggers, then trading them to him so he could decon them. Got a small tip at the end of it, didn't bother me was just using an add on to auto craft the daggers for him.

For him it was a matter of being able to upgrade his own gear to gold, that was the only reason he was in a rush to level the skill line.

the auto craft changes will make that process extremely fast.

As for intricates selling fast they always do, I would often go around to nearly every trader and buy out every intricate listed at or below 200 gold and still needed more. On more than one occasion had the seller contact me to clear out their stock.

Had to get an add on, to auto open and loot the mail, would have gone insane otherwise.

Except for leveling Jewelry crafting, I never bought Jewelry intricates, I bought refined platinum in bulk in zone chat, made CP150 rings and leveled 17 of my Jewelry crafters that way with a bit of Jewelry from dolmens and my own intricates from crafting writs. It took awhile true but I got it over with and quickly made my gold back, Jewelry crafting is probably my biggest gold earner out of all the crafting skills.

Got 18 characters now that have all their crafting skills maxed out, why? for daily writs, 18 max level characters 4648 gold per character per day of writs, then all the goodies out of the writ boxes to sell on guild traders. That makes me a reliable supply of gold each week.

bmnoble wrote: »

Mate its incredibly easy to level those skill lines with gold and with the multi crafting being added it will be easier than ever.

Same with Enchanting and Provisioning those will get even quicker to level, since you could decon all the glyphs in your inventory instantly, or make a large number of food and drinks in one button press.

Does deconning/crafting in bulk give inspiration for each piece deconned/crafted or for the one button press?

Jayne_Doe wrote: »

bmnoble wrote: »

Mate its incredibly easy to level those skill lines with gold and with the multi crafting being added it will be easier than ever.

Same with Enchanting and Provisioning those will get even quicker to level, since you could decon all the glyphs in your inventory instantly, or make a large number of food and drinks in one button press.

Does deconning/crafting in bulk give inspiration for each piece deconned/crafted or for the one button press?

This will make leveling enchanting on all my alts exceedingly simple if so.

Just craft 100-ish purple glyphs in one second on my main, log into alt, decon said glyphs instantly on alt - immediate huge level jump!

Largest time sink will be depositing them in the bank and loading screens....

Not to mention leveling provisioning and alchemy just became 1 second - 2 minutes skill lines depending on how frugal you want to be with raw mats.

FlopsyPrince wrote: »

Will this new "feature" ignore the skill point cost for all those? Do you still have to have the skill points? Do you end up with negative skill points? Or will it be like you earned a bunch more skill points and can still get more in the game?

I think this is just speculative that it might be coming.

All you are paying for is the immediate moving to level 50 on the skill bar. Any skill points you'd need would still have to be gotten in the game (or purchased with the skyshard packs that have already been introduced)

Being able to purchase max crafting skill lines on the crown store would have a significantly detrimental effect on the economy and one that I hope we will never see. Most of us who have multiple alts in game who have max level crafters have done so with significant time and investment in the game, where we can reap the benefits of our efforts by selling some of the tempers and mats by doing multiple crafting writs each day and selling the extra mats through the guild vendors.

Someone only having one max level crafter going in and creating a bunch of alts and then purchasing the max crafted skill lines through the crown store would probably be a great boon for ZOS, but it would put the economy in chaos.