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Mention using a Banker to hold everything, then each Alt can just access the Banker. Helps if they are all in the same Alliance for Provisioning

Zombie Farming can provide plenty of gear to decon for Style Mats.

Original 9 Style Mats sell for 15 Gold, do not pay more than that at Guild Stores. I have seen common style mats listed for 50 or 80 gold each, buy from Crafting NPCs if that is the case.

Well written, hope its helpful for people. What I do (on PC, but without add-ons) is somewhere between your options. I craft 3 days worth of stuff at a time (other than alchemy and provisioning) as yet another level of compromise between efficiency and inventory. Bonus is that it's always the same items, so I don't have to pay attention to which characters are where in the cycle, they just make the same items every time.

Glad you were able to get to is. Still strange that it won't work on your phone though

Hotdog_23 wrote: »

The only thing I will need to learn to do is not sell what I am holding to turn in for writs. Wish we could mark gear as not to sell but turn in for writs.

This is a very good point. I've developed the habit of looking to see if an item was made by someone before selling. And even then I've occasionally still had to buy stuff back.

As for the Pick up, save and drop off tomorrow technique. I was trying that for a bit. I found there was a few things that made it difficult for me.

1. Trying to remember if I"m on an on day, or an off day.
2. Trying to remember if I need to do my horse or not.
3. I still had to do the same amount of thinking about which pieces I needed to make, and it was different each time anyways.
4. Different alts start at different days. So things get wonky pretty quick.

Not that there's anything wrong with the strategy, I just found it wasn't a particularly good fit for the way I do writs.

I'd definitely recommend trying the switch to single sets. It takes a few times to memorize which sets go with which, but once I had that list in my head, it became very easy to whip through a days worth of crafting. It sound like you've already got the individual sets locked down, so matching them up as a whole should hopefully be quick to pick up.

I also feel like the next update is going to invalidate all but the pre-crafting methods anyways. Which I'm quite excited for. From the sounds of it, we're going to be able to kind of auto-craft based on the active quests, meaning I'll have to do 0% thinking when making a single daily.

I still won't want to do this for all my alts, as the pre-crafting is still faster, but hurray for more QoL improvements in the crafting space!

I'm on XB and found that pre-crafting works best for me. But I don't do crafting writs every day any more, except on my main, as it still takes a lot of time loading in/out on alts. So, I've gone to just doing them on the weekend. Since my alts have plenty of bag space, I'll craft 2 of each "set" on a Friday and then am able to turn them in for two weekends. Then, the following weekend I'll craft enough for two more weekends (Fri/Sat/Sun).

I'll try out the new system with the update to see if it works better for me to just go in with each character, pick up the writs, and just go to each station to craft. It may be that I'll still only do them on weekends for all alts, but we'll see if it ends up being faster than pre-crafting. I've got it down pretty well, now, where I don't think in sets (sword, cuirass, greaves, etc.) but rather sword, greatsword, dagger, cuirass, sabatons, gauntlets.... It ends up being faster than creating the sword, cuirass, greaves set, then the greatsword, sabatons, gauntlets set, etc.

Stinkyremy wrote: »

I have always wanted to pre craft and have done it for a few chars at some points including just grabbing writs and doing 2x writs per day but inventory space has always been an issue as the alts are mules, mainly for monster gear.

I also used to do this Technically I still do, but it's much more organized. I don't play all my alts, but I have designated them all as "going to be a". So for example, one of my alts is "going to be stamplar". And then I have them hold onto all of the related sets as I go along. As long as I don't go too nuts with the sets (I think my healer is the worst.. holding onto almost 10 full sets) there is still enough room to do the optimized version of my crafting still.

I also have a spreadsheet that I use to help keep track of which toon has/needs which pieces of which sets.

It really helped me stay organized about what gear I actually need vs which gear I might need.

Although even with that, all my chests are still full of random gear sets that the sticker book is gonna let me wipe off the map. I am VERY excited for this change

Stinkyremy wrote: »

A tip though (although I am not using it right now) is to keep surveys in the bank rather than on an alt. Yes that is a lot of bank space but every alt can dump in the bank. use your chests for gear (atm I am using chests for surveys but will switch when next patch drops.

There's about 150ish slots used for surveys. When I get them from my alts, I do put them into a bank, but then pull them out on my toon that I used to hold them. He's following the speedy g build from alcast: https://alcasthq.com/eso-fast-gold-farming-build-pve/ so it's best for him to do them vs my other guys anyways. (Or on my main with the ring of the wild hunt.. so many zoomies)

Also, I consider anything in my bank as taking space away not just from one toon, but from all toons. So if you have 10, then those 150 is really like stealing 1500 slots from everyone. Ok, not really, but an over full bank makes it feel like I have to do more inventory management than I already do.

Stinkyremy wrote: »

Obviously goes without saying that to level an alts crafts it's as easy as dumping all intricate gear you find while playing into the bank and deconstructing on the alt when you do writs.

This is exactly what I do For jewelry, I also pass along all the white ones (even ornate).

Stinkyremy wrote: »

A point to the guide that could be added is where is the best place in all of tamriel to swiftly do writs and level horses?
I currently use deshaan for all my chars but the horse journey is too long. I can't think of where the best place to do writs and train horses would be as I only really ever done writs in all EP zones on my main while leveling, first zones on alts, craglorn for max writs then defaulted to deshaan when they allowed us to use any zone for writs.

For best location, I prefer Vivec City in Vvardenfell. A lot of people write it off because it's not intuitive like Alinor, but it's got a bunch of perks for me. Number #1. No doors. Anywhere. All stations, Stable, Bank. All out in the open.

I hit the equipment writs board, then if I need to, the clothing, blacksmithing and woodworking (in that order).
Switch sides of town and pick up the consumables board then the provisioning (it's one of those hlaalu metal stove ones), enchanting, jewelry and alchemy (if needed).
Then the drop off is just down the docks.
I like it because there is absolutely no doors anywhere. Banker is there, horse is really close by.
Also, there's no bard in town, so no annoying repeating songs.
Heck, even zone chat (on my server) isn't usually too awful.

There are a couple of cons though. If you need any of the following, you have to go into the awful maze of the city.
- Pack Merchant (I usually max out my alts all at once.. 180k, but they'll pay me back over time)
- Chef / Brewer (For writ recipes)
- Outfit station

But I can live with those cons. I tend to start new toons out in Alinor anyways, so they can get certified in Jewelry. So I do the pack merchant and pick up my first recipes while I'm there.

Alinor is a solid second choice (Stable is far, bank has a door), but the crafting section on its own is #1
Rimmen is third. (Provisioning is in a weird spot, bank has a door)

Not sure of any base game locations that don't have some serious flaws though. Usually it's because they're too spread out.

I might do a new post just talking about the pro's and cons of some of the places to craft across Tamriel though. So ty for the suggestions / feedback!

If you are doing writs on consoles, I have created a tool for you to calculate and summarize all the items needed to pre-make daily writs for up to 15 days.

http://benevolentbowd.ca/apps/eso-craftingwrit-calc.php

The easiest number of days to pre-makeis 9 days. Just make 3 of the blacksmithing, clothing, enchanting, jewel crafting, and woodworking items requested for the first 3 days of the writ (if you don't want to use the tool). This will be much easier after the next update with the filters to be implemented at the crafting tables.

Since the alchemy and provisioning stuff are stackable and can be made by any account, make a stack (size up to you) of the 4 - 8 alchemy recipes and the 6 provisioning recipes.

Best to have all the provisioning writ crafters at the same level save on inventory space. I recommend having them at the max proficiency level as it only takes 5 minutes, 2700g, and 5 skill points to level to rank 50. Alliance faction only matter if the crafter is between proficiency 1 to 3.

My favourite crafting location is Vivec City. No doors, no loading screens, and I can get free reagents from the shadowy supplier after turning my writs in nearby.

BenevolentBowd wrote: »

If you are doing writs on consoles, I have created a tool for you to calculate and summarize all the items needed to pre-make daily writs for up to 15 days.

http://benevolentbowd.ca/apps/eso-craftingwrit-calc.php

The easiest number of days to pre-makeis 9 days. Just make 3 of the blacksmithing, clothing, enchanting, jewel crafting, and woodworking items requested for the first 3 days of the writ (if you don't want to use the tool). This will be much easier after the next update with the filters to be implemented at the crafting tables.

Since the alchemy and provisioning stuff are stackable and can be made by any account, make a stack (size up to you) of the 4 - 8 alchemy recipes and the 6 provisioning recipes.

Best to have all the provisioning writ crafters at the same level save on inventory space. I recommend having them at the max proficiency level as it only takes 5 minutes, 2700g, and 5 skill points to level to rank 50. Alliance faction only matter if the crafter is between proficiency 1 to 3.

My favourite crafting location is Vivec City. No doors, no loading screens, and I can get free reagents from the shadowy supplier after turning my writs in nearby.

That's a handy dandy little tool ya got there

Good to know my favourite spot is BenevolentBowd approved.

Also, unrelated, but thanks for all the work you do with the luxury vendor. It's invaluable to us housing folks, and is greatly appreciated! I check it every weekend

doomette wrote: »

allhailskippy wrote: »

There are a couple of cons though. If you need any of the following, you have to go into the awful maze of the city.
- Pack Merchant (I usually max out my alts all at once.. 180k, but they'll pay me back over time)
- Chef / Brewer (For writ recipes)
- Outfit station

-Constant gurgling of NPCs being murdered
-Always seems to have a few dingdongs dueling right in the middle of the crafting zone

But I agree, Vivec City is the best. I do sometimes switch it up and go to Rimmen if I don’t need mount training. Awesome bard is there and the tables are in an alphabetical circle (minus alchemy and provisioning but I maintain a stack of those ones).

Ah yes, the constant gurgle and fighting folks are a definite con. Fortunately I've tuned both of those out already.

Only thing that still drives me a bit nuts is the pets that block the drop off boxes. But I suspect that may be an issue everywhere.