RichVR
3884
But you are not wrong, sir.
Don’t ask me why but I’ve been putting time into Alchemy and Provisioning daily writs (quests). The provisioning ones are infuriating in that they ask you to make something that you probably don’t have the recipe for, so you have to either scour all the guild stores looking for recipes or hit up containers and hope you get a drop.
Another annoying part of the whole process is that the lowest recipes only show up on the starter islands (I read this and am not 100% sure it’s true but I believe it!). So if you want to make, say, baked potato for a quest, you have to go back to newbieland to try to get the drop.
I heard also that when you complete the provisioning daily that you often get a recipe as part of the reward … and it can be the recipe you just used. Fun!
On another topic: I see Dolmens and Delves are often pretty crowded, and so you can complete them without much trouble. On the other hand, there’s Public Dungeons. Do people go into the Public Dungeons much? Can you do a group finder thingy to get a random group for those or do you need to be more active in organizing a group for them? The one I ran across is pretty out of the way, so I don’t think people will go there in the normal course of their travels.
They can be pretty empty but because the bosses drop certain pieces like gloves I think, you can often find people looking to complete their sets…it will depend on the zone and what the 3 overland item sets are though. When I was farming spinners in Malabar Tor, the public dungeon was packed.
Alchemy is relatively easy to level and nice to get up to 50 so that your potion duration is 47 seconds. Provisioning is a pita.
I wouldn’t bother with provisioning writs until you’re maxed out on provisioning, and it’s really easy to max it out (takes about 15-20 minutes maybe) Find recipes in guild stores for each level (ie. a level 10 recipe, a level 20, 30, etc.) that uses easy to find ingredients (fish and cheese are great.) Then, just keep cooking. Once you are at a static level, writs always ask for food from a pool of 6 recipes, so you can just cook up a bunch of those 6, and pull the from the bank for each writ. (Caveat: I haven’t done any writs since from before One Tamriel update, not sure if anything’s changed.)
Oh yeah, finally this addon is a must. Even with this I’m too lazy to do writs most of the time, but I’m at 0 tempers now so maybe I should start again.
Public dungeons are pretty easy to solo, so you don’t really need a group for them (especially if you’re playing magplar or stam sorc once you’ve unlocked most of your skills) The bosses in public dungeons have a chance to drop set weapons, so as Vic said they may be pretty busy in certain zones. A properly traited weapon from certain sets (ie. spinners, spriggan, elegant) can fetch hundreds of thousands of gold. Delves you won’t see many people farming beyond plunder skulls, because they can only drop feet or belt set items.
RichVR
3888
Is it just me or is the map problematic at times? I would love to be able to zoom in more. Doing the Wrothgar harpy mission. The terrain around the fort is a maze. I look at the map and I’m the giant arrow next to the tiny tower. WTF?
@soondifferent I tried that addon and it seems great but I can’t seem to get it to work. It never popped up when I went to the Alchemy table… looked in the keybinds and didn’t see anything for it. Should it just show up when you hit the table and have a writ? I do have another crafting addon, I wonder if there’s some sort of conflict.
Hm, sounds possible, I’ve never had an issue with it.
Daagar
3891
I went into Cat’s Eye Quay last night. Apparently I’m a luddite, because I had no idea how you pronounce ‘quay’, so it was very strange to hear it said aloud.
Later, I came across two NPC’s arguing about the correct pronunciation of ‘quay’. I about fell out of my seat laughing.
Oghier
3892
That writ addon does not work for alchemy or provisioning. It’s awesome for the equipment writs, though.
Well that explains it. Poo!
RichVR
3894
Finally killed the damn tree! Even with something like 20 other people, it took forever. I had to spend all of my gold on greater soul gems. And now it’s time for the boss fight. That should be easy, right?
Durr, you’re right, I never do Alchemy writs (hate the surveys) and I have enough writ food stockpiled in my bank to outlast a siege.
Basically a daily crafting task you can perform to get earn some money, some crafting XP, some materials/loot and a chance for
- gold tempers <-- you’d never use these until you’re at max level and 160CP, but they’re worth ~4-10k gold each
- surveys <-- basically a treasure map of sorts, you go that location on a map and there’ll be lots of materials to harvest there.
Or I probably should have just linked to this instead.
RichVR
3898
So a guy named Lord Dickbutt sent me a notice to group. I just sighed heavily and logged off. Life is too short.
So I spent a bunch of time in Orsinium last night (which is beautiful by the way).
After playing Skyrim, I realize why I’d not been clicking as hard with ESO is because I wasn’t embracing my pure love of the battlemage. Sure, my sorc had some fun spells and staves, but I was forgetting the up-close and personal nature of it all when a spell didn’t stop a bad guy entirely, so I switched up my second staff for some one-handed swords, and then could switch between a staff and spells for range and swords and spells for melee.
OMG I am having so much more fun now. I feel like I’ve clicked with my character, finally, and I just wanna play more more more.
RichVR
3900
Sneaking around for the Dark Brotherhood is so much fun. Especially with the Blade of Woe. And looking like a skeleton from the Witch quest. I am become Death.
@BrianRubin so glad you’re getting into the groove. Lot’s of fun to be had.
I’ve been so out of the loop with ESO I have no idea where Orsinium is… but it looks great!
It’s Orc country, basically.
It’s almost been one year since it was released, so there’s actually an upcoming Orsinium event (as well as a sale.) It’s probably the best DLC they’ve done, so well worth your money.
Also, double vMA weapons! Guess I’m heading back to that crazy place.
