Probably useless information, but.... There are two writ boards. You don't get all the writs for all the crafts from one message board. If your characters are certified to do all the crafting writs, the arrows should show up above the message boards.

^^^ This. There was a change a few updates back-- right after the Anniversary Event, I think, or maybe during it-- such that you can now do only 1 Alchemy writ per character per day. It caused quite an outcry in the forums at the time.

The old way it worked was, you could grab the crafting writs before reset but put off doing them if you were short on time. The next day you could do the previous day's writs which you'd picked up, turn them in, and then grab another set of writs for that day. This is still possible to do with the other six writs, but it's no longer possible with Alchemy.

Apparently it was possible to exploit the old way that Alchemy writs worked so you could pick up, complete, and turn in a lot of Alchemy writs each day. There must have been some players who were exploiting this to an extreme degree, such that they were able to farm large numbers of the Anniversary Event reward coffers each day, so ZOS put a stop to the exploit.

Anyway, you should note that you can't always do 2 days of writs on the same day in the old way-- which is still the current way for everything but Alchemy-- because if the first set of writs are for the same items as the current day's writs then they'll count as the current day's items when you turn them in, even if you'd actually picked up the writs last week, last month, or last year but didn't get around to turning them in until today.

For example, if you picked up a Woodworking writ last year that called for 2 Restoration Staffs and 1 Shield, but for whatever reason you didn't turn in that writ until today, you won't get a Woodworking writ for today if today's writ calls for 2 Restoration Staffs and 1 Shield, since the items you turned in today for last year's writ will be counted as fulfilling today's writ even though you never actually picked up today's writ yet.

Actually, I take that back. Couldn't pick up an alchemy, on a second round of surveys today.

Does anyone know if this got fixed in the patch?

Considering all other crafting dailies can be carried over for a day but this one can’t, I’m going to continue to call it a bug.

Lydawobbles wrote: »

Considering all other crafting dailies can be carried over for a day but this one can’t, I’m going to continue to call it a bug.

I would say the actual bug is with the Armory. You could use the Armory to save a spec with no points in Alchemy. Turn in an alchemy writ. Add 1 point to Alchemy. Do another writ at the higher alchemy level. Turn it in. Add 1 point to Alchemy. Do another writ at the higher alchemy level. Repeat until max alchemy level. Then, load your Armory spec with no points in Alchemy and begin again. This was painfully broken. You could get nearly endless gold and endless alchemy reagents and endless alchemy master writs, etc. And during the Anniversary Event, it meant almost endless reward boxes.

It was one of the biggest exploits in the history of the game. It needed to be fixed and fixed fast. This fixed the exploit. Did it fix the underlying bug with Armory and alchemy writs? No. But we don't know the complexity of that bug or how fixing it might impact other areas of how the Armory works or how crafting writs work or how daily quests work.

They turned a potentially game-breaking and economy-breaking exploit into an isolated minor annoyance. Will they fix the minor annoyance of one-alchemy-writ-turn-in-per-day? Maybe. But it is unlikely to be high on the priority list.

(I am guessing this exploit was around for years but you needed to continually spend gold to respec your skill points. And that respec shrine gold outlay was enough of a barrier to entry and barrier to profit margin to keep people from engaging in it. But once the Armory added a de facto way to respec skill points for free, the exploit usage skyrocketed.)