Availability of Kreshweed.

JARTHEGREY · April 2023

Hi. One of my characters requires Kreshweed for the Daily Writs - until I can upgrade to the next level. I have a few Clothier Surveys I can do but I noticed that the Materials are spread 2 / 2 / 2 with other materials - so I only get around 2x 18 Kreshweed each Survey.

I was just wondering if anyone knew of an area that Kreshweed grew in the wild, so to speak?

Cazador · April 2023

It'll appear anywhere that any plants that drop light armor materials are. It may appear more or less based on your character level and your crafting rank. No crafting material drops more in any particular spot.

kringled_1 · April 2023

Generally speaking, both open world nodes and surveys are split between 50% materials at your craft level (the level you can craft at, kreshweed), and 50% at your character level (whatever makes gear at your characters level, ancestor silk if you're CP 150 or higher) . Clothing surveys are also split between leathers and fibers.
You could also pick up kreshweed from guild traders, or ask someone who does a lot of crafting - the return boxes give back some lower level mats that pile up in people's craft bags.

vsrs_au · April 2023

Try adjusting your map filters so not many icons are selected, and ensure the clothing icon is selected. Then just head for any location with these icons. If you're on PC then use a mini-map, that helps find them quickly.

phaneub17_ESO · April 2023

On new characters, I leave them at 1/10 and continue to do dailies on that until they have deconned enough items to 50 before investing points into it. That way its either Jute/Rawhide or Ancestral/Ruby for their crafting dailies. It seems self-punishing to go up incrementally up, especially when you cross into the CP range materials if you're already over 160 CP on the account.

vsrs_au · April 2023

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

On new characters, I leave them at 1/10 and continue to do dailies on that until they have deconned enough items to 50 before investing points into it. That way its either Jute/Rawhide or Ancestral/Ruby for their crafting dailies. It seems self-punishing to go up incrementally up, especially when you cross into the CP range materials if you're already over 160 CP on the account.

I started crafting for the first (and only) time in December, and I did it the incremental way, so I couldn't agree more with your proposed method!

In fact, for alchemy, I noticed this problem even more, because there are 3 consecutive 'Solvent Proficiency' levels (48, 49 and 50) where the required solvents change every level, so I leveled up from 47 to 50 between 2 daily writs to avoid this nightmare.

Codeman1976 · April 2023

The only way to ensure you get one type of cloth from cloth nodes 100% of the time is to have an account that is within that level (aside from buying from others) and invested into said craft at said level. As Kringled-_1 the drop rate of materials while farming is split between character level and invested skills in said craft.

JARTHEGREY · April 2023

Hi. Thanks for the replies. I'm on xbox console so I'm not able to manipulate the map as suggested, and I wish I had thought of or known about the tip for leaving the characters at level 1.

Makes perfect sense now but too late. Guess I'll just purchase it from Guild Traders.

Thanks anyway.

DinoZavr · April 2023

You can always downgrade your craftskill levels
- the easiest way to do this is using the Armory (but keep on mind that loading the blank profile will clear your werewolf/vampire state if you ever have got a bite) -simple free reset. Armory is free. you just need any housing to deploy it.
- using skills rededication shrine, this will cost you gold. There are four of such shrines: three in the Alliance Capitals and the fourth one (most conveniently placed) is in the Vivec City.

Tiath · April 2023

DinoZavr wrote: »

but keep on mind that loading the blank profile will clear your werewolf/vampire state if you ever have got a bite

You can avoid that by using the shrines (or scrolls) once, to reset skills and stats while keeping your curse, then save a new Armory slot with just the curse for future free respecs without needing to get bitten again.

ghastley · April 2023

If you have a writ that requires a specific level of material, but your character is not at the matching level, just abandon it and take a fresh one. The new writ will require material you can harvest.

katanagirl1 · April 2023

ghastley wrote: »

If you have a writ that requires a specific level of material, but your character is not at the matching level, just abandon it and take a fresh one. The new writ will require material you can harvest.

The writ always matches your character crafting skill level, doesn’t it?

I think OP has just run out of the proper level crafting mat to do the writ.

lillybit · April 2023

If you're collecting surveys it'll be Kreshweed 50% of the time but if you run out of the area and back without touching any of the nodes they should respawn again so you can do this til you get Kresh.

It definitely works for Alchemy anyway so don't see why it wouldn't for the others too!

redlink1979 · April 2023

JARTHEGREY wrote: »

(...) I was just wondering if anyone knew of an area that Kreshweed grew in the wild, so to speak?

Clothing mats can be found in all the zones, despite of your char's level.
But resource nodes do respawn faster in starter zones (Stros M'Kai and Betnikh; Khenarthi's Roost; Bleakrock Isle and Bal Foyen). You should try farm there for a bit.
If you farm in Craglorn, resource nodes respawn at the "normal" speed but there you will have a chance to get nirncrux either.

Mik195 · April 2023

redlink1979 wrote: »

JARTHEGREY wrote: »

(...) I was just wondering if anyone knew of an area that Kreshweed grew in the wild, so to speak?

Clothing mats can be found in all the zones, despite of your char's level.
But resource nodes do respawn faster in starter zones (Stros M'Kai and Betnikh; Khenarthi's Roost; Bleakrock Isle and Bal Foyen). You should try farm there for a bit.
If you farm in Craglorn, resource nodes respawn at the "normal" speed but there you will have a chance to get nirncrux either.

True, but if you need ore on Xbox, you should try somewhere else. I've had entire days where there was no ore available on the starters because bots were sitting on every node. The botting problem is real on Xbox NA.

littlemanb16_ESO · November 2023

ghastley wrote: »

If you have a writ that requires a specific level of material, but your character is not at the matching level, just abandon it and take a fresh one. The new writ will require material you can harvest.

Thanks for the hint, I have the exact same problem with the Kresh Weed writ. I have erroneously destroyed one of the items I had crafted for the writ, and now I'm beyond that level and can't find Kresh Weed anymore. I'll just abandon the writ as you suggested.

LiesySchwarz · November 2023

JARTHEGREY wrote: »

Hi. One of my characters requires Kreshweed for the Daily Writs - until I can upgrade to the next level. I have a few Clothier Surveys I can do but I noticed that the Materials are spread 2 / 2 / 2 with other materials - so I only get around 2x 18 Kreshweed each Survey.

I was just wondering if anyone knew of an area that Kreshweed grew in the wild, so to speak?

I have a couple of suggestions. 1st level up by deconstructing as many intricate as you can (public dungeons drop loads). 2nd as soon as available invest skill points in your hirelings (available for each crafting type, except jewellery). If you have multiple characters, you’ll soon have loads of mats. Happy gaming!

Araneae6537 · November 2023

lillybit wrote: »

If you're collecting surveys it'll be Kreshweed 50% of the time but if you run out of the area and back without touching any of the nodes they should respawn again so you can do this til you get Kresh.

It definitely works for Alchemy anyway so don't see why it wouldn't for the others too!

In my experience, the clothing, blacksmith, and woodworking surveys are always 50% your crafting level and 50% your character level.