I have thought about Alchemy, but my Alchemy level is under 10, and the main attraction of Clothing is that it uses some of the same materials, and so I wouldn't have to spend as much on backpack and bank upgrades.

alchemy isnt that hard to level, easy to gather the plants as you go. the worst bit is finding the appropriate waters to use for each level. it does take bag space, but since you are leveling up you use them as you find them and sell off the potions. and keep the storage needs down that way. I admit you do find alot of potions from drops so its not as useful as provisioning, which is great. if you dont want to be bothered by the inv storage then you can still buy pots and food from vendors or guild store.

i started off as a heavy armor tanky char so worked on my blacksmithing for that and the weapons. it became more useful to wear light armor and use staffs so have been working on my clothing for the armor and woodworking for the staffs. I think they all can be useful but take alot of work and space.

like i said, you can buy most stuff from other crafters but to me its part of the game to work on my own crafts and be self sufficient.

one note, after finish leveling the craft, storage gets much easier as then you only need to store one stack of each mat and trait stones, those can then be shuffled to a closet alt and only brought out when you need to make something.

Censorious wrote: »

reggielee wrote: »

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I admit you do find alot of potions from drops so its not as useful as provisioning, which is great. if you dont want to be bothered by the inv storage then you can still buy pots and food from vendors or guild store.
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This isn't entirely true.
The pots you can buy from vendors or that drop have the same names but they are not the same potions.
This is one of the badly screwy facts in the game.

Take the 'health potion' the standard version (drop) gives you a health boost and health recovery for x seconds.
The crafted potion of the same name, same icon, (can't tell them apart when buying), actually gives you a boost and recovery of all three stats - it's more properly called a rejuvenation potion but for some reason Zos has neglected to differentiate.
Other potions are similar. The crafted version of the crit potion also boost spell and weapon power for example.

The other small issue is that dropped potions come in many levels between the decades, abut you can only craft on the decades.

So the names are the same, the levels are different, AND if you do craft the pots with the ingredients in a different order - they don't stack either.

No, not a game breaker, but just one more way to fill your inventory with a dozen 'similar' items all in unique slots. It mostly hurts when you put stacks with '2' items into quickslot, and you have 11 stacks of '2'.