Soarora wrote: »

The majority of recipes are worthless. Like, 100 or less gold. You can price check using Tamriel Trade Centre or ESO-Hub.

If anyone saw me struggling to remember how to do hyperlinks, no you didn’t!

Price doesn't denote if I can get it a second time. Like if vendoring it for that 100g makes it gone forever

There are hardly any recipes/crafting plans in the game that aren't random drops that you can get over and over again. The only ones I can think of are a handful that come as quest rewards for one particular questline in Wrothgar where you're helping a chef gather ingredients for a special dish.

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

UrQuan wrote: »

There are hardly any recipes/crafting plans in the game that aren't random drops that you can get over and over again. The only ones I can think of are a handful that come as quest rewards for one particular questline in Wrothgar where you're helping a chef gather ingredients for a special dish.

i think those are bound too, so you cant even sell them on a guild store lol

i think i tried to do that once by running those quests with an alt i had no intention of doing crafting on, but after the first recipe was given it was marked as bound lol

Orzorga's quest recipes
are indeed tradeable.

There are only a couple of recipes worth holding onto because the others you can easily find again or buy. The ones worth keeping are generally Gold ones (except for Psijic Ambrosia, that one is like 2-3k) along with Jewels of Misrule.

Maps, if you aren't interested in Antiquities or don't have Greymoor, can just be sold since the Chests from them rarely contain anything useful.

If you have Motifs Chapters, look them up and see if you like how they look. If they do hold on to them until you can use them, if not check their prices by using either TTC or asking someone to do a PC (price check) in Zone chat.

A LOT of Motif Chapters are fairly cheap these days, like around 5-7k or less, mostly older ones. The ones that are expensive tend to be newer ones or ones that are Antiquities only obtained via Treasure Maps, like Ancient Daedric.

I have a reasonably simple system for handling recipes, plans, and motifs. The crafter gets first dibs on everything, always. If they know it and it's worth a decent amount of gold, then I'll usually sell duplicates on guild traders, but I shoot for one character who is capable of crafting everything (kind of like how filling the stickerbook is a goal for some). If the recipe isn't worth much (most are 100g or less on PC NA), then feed it to an alt. If all alts know it, then stick it in a Guild Bank (unless there are already multiples in the Bank) or take my 9g and be done with it. The exception is purple/gold Provisioning recipes. Those will always go to alts until everyone knows the recipe since those are what determine their chances for getting Provisioning Master Writs. Once everyone knows a purple/gold recipe, then extras get sold on a guild trader or put into a guild bank (don't care about stacks in this case because of the Master Writ potential; someone will find them useful at some point).

Motifs are more situational. If it's a motif that drops from overland zone dailies or is otherwise easy to get (lookin' at you, New Moon Priest), then I'll feed those to alts and sell on guild trader (cheap) after that. Pricier stuff is "first one to the crafter and others to the guild trader." The major problem with motifs on alts is that individual chapters don't matter; it's only when you get all 14 of them that you get a benefit. It would be nice if it the benefit happened when a particular craft got filled, though. So learning the chapters for Staves, Bows, and Shields helps Woodworking Master Writ drops, learning the motifs for melee weapons helps for Blacksmithing drops, and learning the armor chapters helps for Clothier. That way it's much less of an all-or-nothing proposition.