My husband came across a level 35 drink recipe that is of purple quality and gave it to me. I'm not certain there are gold quality recipes, since the skill points only allow 3 points in that line (and I thought the final point said something like "allows player to use purple quality recipes). I'm not sure how common they are, but I've never personally come across one myself. I've also had level 50 provisioning for some time now, since she obtained it at level 19. Just keep searching and hope for the best!

I found a purple VR Drink recipe yesterday I found it in Ravenwatch Castle in Rivenspire (as DC VR1 player)

I think i read somewhere that there are also 1-time use recipes. Might be just a rumour though and can't find the link right now.

carazvaneb17_ESO wrote: »

I bought a VR5 purple food recipe a few days ago and have been making food since with it. Not sure exactly where they drop (since I never saw any until then but my guess because of that is high VR zones - I bought the recipe in VR1 zone)

Ok well thats good to know they do exist. I'll just have to keep looking/keep my eyes open for one on sale.

I found a purple drink recipe in a urn during my jaunt thru Chateau of the Ravenous Rodent.

I forget where I found the recipes I have but I have a couple purple ones. It wasn't in cold harbor and wasn't in a group dungeon either.

I have had a purple recipe drop, but it was for level 30 or 35, so I sold it for 3k gold. Im not yet in the true veteran zones yet though. Im VR1 and still finishing up quests in Coldharbour and my faction zones.

But if they are in the game, good luck finding dome of the stupid rare materials.

I haven't been fortunate enough yet to find one. Got my fair share of blue recipes though.

I am curious as to why there are SO many duplicate recipes for the exact same level. I have personally been looking everywhere, in 3 trade guild banks and stores for even a glimpse of any purple food or drink to be anything other than level 35. I can currently make 6 different purple quality recipes, and every single one is level 35. What is the purpose? Are these different faction? If so, why do some of the mats require fairly commonplace materials, and some require the dreaded Oats or Tomatoes? ...

On a side note... I TRULY hope that if gold food were to be added, which does not seem to be the case as of yet, that it can only be obtained through a quest which the crafter must complete in a solo instanced area. ***SKYRIM SPOILER COMING*** I think it would be rather entertaining to do it in almost the same fashion as in Skyrim when the player impersonated the Gourmet and make a meal for the Emperor in the Dark Brotherhood quest line, but instead let's have it in Cheesemonger's Hollow and cook for everyone's favorite Daedric Prince of Madness, Sheogorath! But, the reason behind having to quest for it, is so that the random meatbag who ends up being the lucky sod who happens to find them in the game and cannot himself make food and has no skill into it cannot do one of 2 things...
1) Use it and have it become a wasted recipe, this aspect of provision baffles me btw... Players should not be able to learn a recipe at all unless he has the skill points spent and/or the provisioning high enough to do so.
2) Hold onto it and charge a player enough gold to make them have to borrow gold from friends which makes not only the crafter but also friends completely broke and making himself exceedingly wealthy in the process, because the levels of greed I have seen in this game are beyond imaginable.

I have the purple vr5 sweetroll recipe and a couple other vr5 purple drink ones. One level 35 purple food one. I found all of them well before the stealth container nerf, not a thing motif or purple recipe-wise since. The sweetrolls take oats..which only come from provo mails. I have gotten exactly 6 oats in two weeks of provo mails on two level 50 provo characters. The provo mails until the change today did not matter which character opened them. I would receive the same mats on the level 12 as I did on the vr10. Luckily before I had found the vr5 recipe I had been stockpiling my oats. Down to 120 hours or so of food buff time atm. Both the main provo and alt have all 3 points in hireling.

Natjur wrote: »

Found a lot drop of bosses in the private (instanced) dungeons. At least one per instance run.

lmao.....I never get anything from the bosses but about 10 gold! Thats just a flat out insult as far as I'm concerned. Some of the bosses kill me several times before I actually beat them and all get for all that effort is 10 fricken gold....its such a serious disappointment!!! So happy that I killed such a hard boss then loot for a complete buzz kill! When you kill a boss there should ALWAYS be some sort of a decent to awesome treasure drop.
Yups, almost 100% of my boss kills end with me only getting 10 gold from bosses in single player instance zones. Every time it happens I'm like "WTF is that all about? Only 10 gold for all that effort and deaths?" Finally kill the damn boss and 10 gold to show for it. Thnx Zenimax.......I'm rich now....yay ~sarcasm~

kelly.medleyb14_ESO wrote: »

Has anyone compiled a list of these recipies?

I know the vr5 food recipes are Consummate Honey Brittle, Sweetroll, and Honey Pudding. Besides the Eye-Opener I'm not sure what the other two drinks are though.

well I came here for pointers on where to farm recipes, and just getting upset again because people like Blade_07 expect to have everything instantly. i would like to thank the vast majority of people who here who seem to understand these are difficult to obtain... while stating, also, that if your reaction to not getting everything in the first 2 months of an MMO like that of Blade's, you are seriously in the wrong genre of gaming.
console games will gratify you in usually 8 hours or less. a good american rpg in a couple weeks. MMOs are designed to take exorbitant amounts of time on purpose. we can't craft a full set of 8 trait gear on our own really (unless we industriously leveled 3 toons to work on the same sets but each one doing separate traits...which still, imo, way more time consuming work-wise)... 1 piece of 8trait by itself is a minimum wait of at least 50 days... but you expect that purple recipe in 60 days or less? seems its rarity is working as intended imo to keep the ability of obtaining it on par with stuff with hard time-gates.

if the few amazing things in this game are 8 trait sets and OP food...then they will take the majority of us a us a while to obtain...and that is the point. so stop making angry threats like on every other thread just cause this game--like all MMOs--didn't hand you all the VR5 recipes immediately...personally i like that this is "work" and waiting and patience...it's what it should be.

and i disagree with putting gates on the use of recipes, which someone else stated. it keeps it from becoming a horded, purposely farmed,exploited moneymaker. if only certain people could use them, it elevates the value almost instantly in the casual gamers' eyes. i've already witnessed 2 VR5 recipes sell for more than i want to say (some people don't realize how much these purple recipes sell for right now, i'm sure). i don't want to see them become as common as daedric/AE motifs either tho, so hopefully zos doesn't wildly overcorrect like the ups and downs with motifs. i'm sure we will see more of these sooner either thru patience or correction, but hopefully not many..and hopefully not because of the angry people who spam forums with hate constantly...

Somebody was openly offering 1 million gold yesterday + 100k gold finder's fee to the player that found a seller. This is how out-of-control purple recipes are getting. Wonder what Chinese website he got that million gold?

from what you have seen, the purple recipes (for food) are located around the maps veteran level? are more often found in dungeons level veteran?