There is a Summon Assistant Addon that I use. When I come back from the drop off, I summon the merchant, I use an addon that auto junks Ornate items, then sells my junked items to a merchant. So, I activate the merchant, junk is dropped. Then activate the Banker, which puts away the Merchant, and drop all the Intricates and other items to be sold into the bank. I do this on each character. Then on the final character for the crafting sessions, I go to the bank and sell what I am going to sell. If you don't have assistants, find a convenient merchant, and use Vivec for the outdoor banker. But, Vivec will have the longest logging times.

Also, I use the Intricates to level my Alts rather than sell them. You can decon from the bank, so no need to withdraw. You are making plenty of gold from the writs themselves, and Top Tier crafters have the best Temper return, and get Master Writs.

In Alinor, it takes me 2:15 to complete the circuit and return to the crafting boards* and about 2:30 for Rawkla. What takes the most time is logging off and on to the next character, that is another 2 to 3 minutes. It helps to not have addons like Master Merchant on the Alts that are not going to list items for sale, or, really, any Map addons.

As for traits, you can research from the bank too, so make them on the main, so the two or three items that you are going to research and put them in the bank. Make it easy on your self and do the same traits and items on each alt as you go through. So you would make say, 9 Precise Daggers, 9 infused Chests, 9 Reinforced Boots, or whatever. Then as the timers run out, make another batch. Do the traits in some order that makes sense to you.




* (or outside if I have done that quest that puts the annoying Starlight Bride singing NPC in the crafting area)

I recently finiahed 8-trait research on my 17x non-crafters who all started knowing a few random traits.

My "system" worked out surprisingly well. There is an add-on that tells you which characters know specific traits. After clearing your main bank (easier with eso plus)...

Craft all of a specific item and trait needed for all of the characters that need that research. (E.g. 8x precise dagger). Repeat on as many different items as possible, focus on the traits unknown by your .ost experienced crafter, before filling up your main bank.

I was surprised how quickly the first 5 traits unlock, almost every other day I had to restock the bank, but it felt a real achievent to tick off "every character knows divines"

I'm not familiar with CraftStore addon. I use AI Research Grid, but I don't know if it would make managing 9 crafters any easier than CraftStore. I like AI Research Grid because I can see the research (and motif) progress of any character from any character, all laid out in an easy to read grid.

FriedEggSandwich wrote: »

I'm not familiar with CraftStore addon. I use AI Research Grid, but I don't know if it would make managing 9 crafters any easier than CraftStore. I like AI Research Grid because I can see the research (and motif) progress of any character from any character, all laid out in an easy to read grid.

Craft Store does the same thing, although not as elegantly as AI Grid, which I used back in the day.

The only issue, if you run both addons, the tool tips and indicators can get a bit weird

Feric51 wrote: »

As far as researching goes, I’m on console so had to use a more manual method without the aid of addons. I created a spreadsheet page for each character and printed them off as hard copies. Because I did this some years after creating most of them, their individual research was all over the map with regards to items/traits.

My system involved leaving the spreadsheet cell blank for unknown traits, and an “X” in the known traits. While researching I would put one “leg” of the X in the respective cell and then put the second leg on it once the research was complete. I also respecced to max out the research passives on all my alts during this time so I could have three items going at once.

I also kept a note in the spreadsheet margins of the date when the next research slot would open up and how many slots in the event there was more than one.

Once this system was in place I would start my rotation on my main crafter and look through the sheets to see what items and traits needed crafted for alt research; craft and bank them after doing my writs, then progress through the alts doing the needed research. I also noted what item each character was supposed to be researching any given day so I didn’t accidentally research an item on Alt “2” that was meant for Alt “7”. I also focused on the shortest timer traits first (IE - if a character had 6 traits already done in daggers, but only 2 traits in axes, swords and maces, I wouldn’t do anything in daggers until the rest were caught up so I could keep the research timers synchronized as much as possible.

Anyway, I’m sure PC has a lot more user-friendly tools to help keep track of that stuff.

I didn't get that fancy, but most of my alts (20+) have all traits researched or almost all traits researched, even Jewelry. I did ignore the latter for quite a while.

I really wish consoles had a better way to manage this and didn't require lots of swapping to have my main craft needed research gear, especially since bank space is limited. I regularly run out of bank space (since I decon on either my main crafter on the platform (NA or EU) or one I am still leveling up). That is why I have suggested an ability to research something known on another one of my characters, paying the appropriate mat costs to make the thing to research. That would remove unnecessary relogins and probably reduce the load on the servers.

I forgot to mention I have 2 accounts and one of them has ESO+. The main account with ESO+ makes handling matts very easy since they all go in the craft bag. I try to keep anywhere between 10 - 20,000 of each of the top tier matts for Blacksmith, Cloth, Wood, Jewelry. I have thousands of matts for provisioning. It's never been a problem. Every so often I need to buy enchanting and alchemy matts but I don't keep near as many of those. The account without ESO+ is a bit more tedious. I try to keep 2 to 4 stacks of each top tier matt in my bank. I don't do provisioning on that account. Sometimes I do alchemy but it's a bit tricky. I still try to keep multiple of premade items for alchemy so I don't need to do it all the time.

myskyrim26 wrote: »

Dear crafters, I have 2 questuins:

1. I have 1 main crafter who knows all traits for all weapons, gear and jewelry. My idea is to learn all traits on my other 9 characters. For now all 9 alts know a few various traits. I try to craft them items for research, and here comes the mess. It is so hard to track everything! I use CraftStore addon. But still it is difficult to care for all 9 alts. How do you handle your crafters? Are there some tricks to make life easier?

2. I always did my crafting dailies with 1 main crafter. Now I'm up to involve my other 9 characters in dailies. I know that I can craft food and alchemy in advance with my main. I use Lazy Writ addon to speed up things. Yet the process still takes a lot of time. Especially when it comes to getting reward coffers: I need to sell Ornate items, place Intricate into guild store and so on. Is there a way to speed up all things?

Thanks in advance!

I use Research Grid Ai.

To be fair, if you always researched the same traits on all your alts, it would make it easier to keep track all of them.

Firstmep wrote: »

To be fair, if you always researched the same traits on all your alts, it would make it easier to keep track all of them.

Please clarify what you mean here. I am close to knowing everything on on all 22+ of my alts, but it is a pain, especially now when I have to swap to make the final items. (With load screen times and such.)

FlopsyPrince wrote: »

Firstmep wrote: »

To be fair, if you always researched the same traits on all your alts, it would make it easier to keep track all of them.

Please clarify what you mean here. I am close to knowing everything on on all 22+ of my alts, but it is a pain, especially now when I have to swap to make the final items. (With load screen times and such.)

I think he means have all alts researching the same trait on the same item at the same time. In otherwords, if you have 22 alts working on research then all of them would be researching well-fitted gloves at the same time. That way you could just make 22 well-fitted gloves without needing to guess who needs what. I didn't do it that way. I just trader hop and buy whatever is 200g or less for research other than Nirn. It's doesn't really take anymore time than crafting and passing out to alts.