Dusk_Coven wrote: »So basically everyone is now a jewelry Hireling. And every account is 1-18 hirelings. Hmm...
It's a good improvement, gonna lower price of these thing little by little.
RedBull_IR wrote: »BIG!!! thumbs up from me! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Addressing scarcity is a step in the right direction.
having checked the new writs on the PTS, I can say that most of them short of Triune will be worth doing for me (thanks for removing swift BTW)
but my concern is the same as many others, in that the scarcity of Zircon is what I worry about the most. right now I've got about 48 Zircon in comparison to about 26 Chromium, and so if (when?) I get an excessive influx of purple jewel writs suddenly I'm going to run into the problem of a lack of Zircon.
(this is also actually low-key an issue I am starting to have with purple woodworking writs, although those materials are much more affordable.)
that said, the advent of a JC hireling could potentially alleviate the issue, because for most people it looks like the issue is more the rarity of purple than the rarity of gold, and that many people understand/are fine with the rarity of gold, for the most part.
just my 2¢ on the matter. in summary: Zircon is where JC is getting bottlenecked, and based on that, as well as remarks from other players in this thread/forum, that seems to be where the problem needs to be addressed the most/soonest.
Hopefully these changes in this week's patch notes will help that some. Will have to wait and see on the drop rates.
having checked the new writs on the PTS, I can say that most of them short of Triune will be worth doing for me (thanks for removing swift BTW)
but my concern is the same as many others, in that the scarcity of Zircon is what I worry about the most. right now I've got about 48 Zircon in comparison to about 26 Chromium, and so if (when?) I get an excessive influx of purple jewel writs suddenly I'm going to run into the problem of a lack of Zircon.
(this is also actually low-key an issue I am starting to have with purple woodworking writs, although those materials are much more affordable.)
that said, the advent of a JC hireling could potentially alleviate the issue, because for most people it looks like the issue is more the rarity of purple than the rarity of gold, and that many people understand/are fine with the rarity of gold, for the most part.
just my 2¢ on the matter. in summary: Zircon is where JC is getting bottlenecked, and based on that, as well as remarks from other players in this thread/forum, that seems to be where the problem needs to be addressed the most/soonest.
Hopefully these changes in this week's patch notes will help that some. Will have to wait and see on the drop rates.
So the odds of getting a grain have increased (a certainty at rank 5) and we can get green, blue, purple or gold grains dropping now. So does that increase or decrease the chance of getting gold materials?
John_Falstaff wrote: »I'm also curious if the fact that multiple grain types can drop now means that chance for gold grains have actually decreased. I do welcome more readily available purple platings, for one, but generally it might be a hidden move to decrease availability of gold platings, not increase it.
BenevolentBowd wrote: »I just started doing JC writ testing on PTS.
I have a couple of questions for my fellow crafters.
- Do the items (intricate / ornate) reflect the crafters adventure level or crafting proficiency? It appears to be the adventure level.
- Are improvement items always supposed to drop every time in the reward box? If so, I've had one case where I didn't get one.
Thanks.
I'll be doing 36 jewelry writs everyday on pts for a whole week to trest these new drop rates. The first day of testing yielded a 41.6% drop rate of chrome grains. I'm hoping I just got lucky cause that's double of what the current 20% live drop rate is and imo WAY to rewarding.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tlCLhGo6NqKHd2mbsZYUOK_-WELiC0a_G3AQJfOmkHk/edit#gid=0
Lord_Eomer wrote: »Guaranteed Grain from Crafting Writ is a fair change but will unbalance jewellery crafting market.
Taleof2Cities wrote: »How many writs did you do to test, @Zulera301, just out of curiosity?
Dusk_Coven wrote: »Lord_Eomer wrote: »Guaranteed Grain from Crafting Writ is a fair change but will unbalance jewellery crafting market.
It's probably fine IF (big IF) ZOS's benchmark is for people to really only play one toon or maybe maintain a small number of alts.
So if their stats show most players do only that and aren't seriously alt-farming, and are not likely to start up a sweatshop of orc crafters just for jewelry, then they might be happy to just ignore the repercussions and let the market sort itself out.
Theoretically, it could work out. Worst case we are no different from the current situation, except that people who insist on waiting for enough plates from their daily writs will get the master writs done at "no cost".
Would be very nice if they gave us some context on their benchmarks and assumptions though. @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_RobGarrett
Added in a 2nd day of testing. 42 total tier 5 JC writs.
Dusk_Coven wrote: »
Dusk_Coven wrote: »
Huh...interesting. I admit that when opening the JC writ coffers, I only pay attention if there is a grain, a swift research piece, or a survey. Never really looked at the other rewards, except, of course, for the useless master writs.
Added a 3rd day of results. 63 total Tier 5 JC writs
ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »This is the official feedback thread for the improvements made to Jewelry Crafting Master Writs. Specific feedback that the team is looking for includes the following:
- Do you feel these writs are worth completing?
- Do you anticipate doing these once the update goes live?
- Do you have any other general feedback?
f047ys3v3n wrote: »Not a chance, but maybe they will be worth 2k gold instead of 25 gold and will be worth selling at least.
f047ys3v3n wrote: »Just remember, we told you that all this would happen when you added a 10x multiplier but you all didn't listen and now your crying because nobody is doing anything with the entire system and you spent time and funds making it. I don't know what to tell you, learn middle school math maybe?
I'm still concerned about the presence of the Triune style stone. Either remove this from the drop table for Master Writs, or decrease the AP price for it. 100,000 AP is the price of a cheap Akaviri Motif or 5 x the cost of a Forward Camp or Recall Stone. It's too expensive to show up in a blue Master Writ which only gives 28 writ vouchers.[/list]