Crafting Research Durations

Emagenation · April 2014

Evening

Hoping someone can help

Is there any way of knowing how long the next craft research will take. I;ve looked in several places and mostly it just says 'can take days' whereas what i've found is more:

PIR Duration
0 6hrs
1 12hrs
2 24hrs
3 2 days
....
(PIR=Previous items researched for item trait)

Also when the craft skill boosts quote 5% craft research reduction etc., how do skills affect these times?

Any help would be great?

everseeing_njpreub18_ESO · April 2014

From what I've seen it doubles each time, 6hrs, 12hrs, 1 day, 2 days, and I've heard (though haven't gotten to this point yet) 4 days, etc. Ive tried to find out myself as well but havent seen a definite list. At this point mine has doubled each time.

The skill reduces it 5%. 24 hours becomes 22.8 or so... far as i can tell.

TJBs_Sharrarp · April 2014

This is what it is I believe, please correct me if im wrong

Item 1-6hrs
2-12hrs
3-24hrs (1day)
4-2 days
5- 4 days
6- 8 days
7- 16 days
8- 32 days
I found it on the website below and so far for me it is correct. It also should help you with the question about the 5%.

http://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Traits#.U0WYGvldVDN

Ithug · April 2014

32 days is still ****** long :P

TJBs_Sharrarp · April 2014

Ithug wrote: »

32 days is still ****** long :P

Ya i agree but with the 20% off research time it is "only" 25.6 days so thats a little help. lol

SadisticSavior · April 2014

It might actually be faster to just create an alt and level them up and research the last trait.

Jirki88 · April 2014

SadisticSavior wrote: »

It might actually be faster to just create an alt and level them up and research the last trait.

Please explain this reasoning? This sure wouldn't help for the sets that require eight researched traits. Because if research is account-wide... it won't matter, the research spots will be busy. And if it isn't, your alt will face the same problem eventually. o.o

Celtic_Wolf · April 2014

having the multiple research slots would help more, i'd think

Kuratla · April 2014

We do have multiple research slots. Get a 2nd at rank 8 in the skill (iirc) and a 3rd some time later. I'll end up stopping around 7 traits on each item until they are all done and then start the 8s. Since... as far as I've seen, there is no set gear that requires 7 or more traits to make. I'm sure they are out there somewhere but I haven't found those crafting sites yet.

Emagenation · April 2014

Thanks for the feedback... greatly appreciated as I now have an idea of times

SadisticSavior · April 2014

Jirki88 wrote: »

Please explain this reasoning?

A new character would only need 6 hours to research the trait, as opposed to the many weeks a Master would require to do it.

Jirki88 wrote: »

This sure wouldn't help for the sets that require eight researched traits.

That is true if your goal is getting all eight traits instead of the one trait.

sociald100ub17_ESO · April 2014

honestly half of the traits you are probably never going to use. so do those last when possible.