OMG, I REEEEEALLLY want that ship house that travels around Tamriel to different ports!!!!!!! I wonder if ESO has lifted the ban on buying houses with gold for Crowns?

** Never mind, with the going exchange rate I couldn't buy it with gold either, lol. I will try again next year.

The ship does not travel. It stays in Vastyr. When you interact with the ship's wheel, it lets you exit to a your choice of 3 or 4 different dock destinations (like the port in Vulhkel Guard). When you get off the ship in one of those non-Vastyr locations you simply appear on the pier and your shiphome is not in sight. I don't have the house but someone showed me how the wheel works.

Yeah; that sounded exciting to me to be able to pop out on different ports! I just have to wait for next year when it goes on sale again. (can't afford it this year).

The current Undaunted events concludes Sep 19.

The final 3d quarter event is a new event. Telvanni something and requires Necrom. This new event will offer the final fragment for the passion dancer costume and begins Sep 28.

Update 40 goes to PTS on Sep 18 and Update 40 goes live (on PC) Oct 30. It does indeed feature the anticipated master crafting table (one for each of the 4 crafting professions). It looks like the mechanics will be to 'feed' attuned tables into the master table. The objective is so that full service guild halls only need 4 tables instead of the current sea of tables.

Looked at the Update 40 PTS notes and a couple things jumped out:
- Master Attunable Tables (one per each of the four crafting professions) will cost 1500 writ vouchers and require you to be a Grand Master Crafter.
- The endless list prequel questgivers are mostly being moved to less obtrusive (more out of the way) places so they are not so much in your face. Buffy is delighted, for example, that the irritating 'Leramil the Wise' ("Proxy, fate has plucked you. . . . ") has been evicted from Buffy's graht oak in Valenwood so she can no longer pester Buffy every time she runs in and out of the tree (many times a day). She did Leramil's quest as a magplar but that was all she could handle. She'll probably never do the quest on any of her other variants.

Plenty more stuff in the PTS notes but not too much in the way of combat changes. More info here: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/di...s-v9-2-0#latest

Four stations at 1500 vouchers a pop is 6000 vouchers. I hope they aren't bound on purchase, or we have no way to contribute them to the guildhall.

Grand Master Crafter is not as hard as it was, as they made True Style Master trivial with AWA, and the other contributing achievements were easy anyway. I have it on both servers, so I'll check them out on PTS as soon as I get back to the US. I think Fleur has enough vouchers for one, and Im sure Laurie does.

Buffy's not a Grand Master Crafter so I don't figure she can buy those new tables. She's 9 trait on all but only learns style motif's she comes across. She won't farm or buy them. So our hope is that she can directly donate writ vouchers to a Grand Master Crafter - and hopefully, mALX is one. That all said, the master tables are only a one time purchase. I'm figuring you still buy regular tables to 'feed' to the master ones and Buffy can, of course, buy regular tables.

What I'm getting from the ESO crafting forum is that writ vouchers cannot be traded and those on PTS are reporting that the new master tables are bind on pickup.

Oh no. I just went on the PTS to check one more thing, and in the tool tip for the master stations it says that only the owner can add stations.


I have a Master Crafter on NA and the vouchers that I have been piling up in anticipation of the new stations, but I can't think of a way to use them for our guild hall. I hope there's something I have missed.

Misa actually is a Master Crafter; there should be a banner hanging in the Guild Hall bragging about her being one, lol.

Oh gosh; I was kind of hoping they would sell the Master stations in the Crown Store; urgh. So it looks like Misa has to get to work doing Master Writs again, urgh.

I haven't checked them out yet, my PTS update today failed and is in the process of being repaired.


It might take me a while to come up with all those Writ Vouchers, I hate to admit that I spent what I had down on recipes for furnishings that Misa didn't have and wanted.

The clamour for the removal of BoP has statered on the PTS forum. I hope they listen, but fear they won't.

BoP? Birds of Paradise?

Bind on Pickup

(not the vehicle, this is not tying it on your truck).

(and I actually DO have a pickup truck now, and coincidentally it has several sets of ratchet straps in the bed just waiting to be used, lol).

Yeah, I really hope they change that before launch; but don't see that happening. I am so very sorry I used up all my Writ Vouchers last year; at the time I had no idea they would ever do anything about the crafting table issue (doubted they ever would). I couldn't have bought even one table with what I had; but would have at least had a start on it.

Plus; I don't know why; but I just always assumed if they ever did the universal table thing that they would just sell them in the Crown Store for 5K each or something. I remember telling Acadian a couple years ago that I would be willing to pay 5K each for something like that = just assumed it would at least be an option, urgh.

Is a master crafter the same as a grand master crafter?

You get "Master Crafter" for doing just one master writ. Grand master has to do 100, plus a whole bunch more, includingb styles, traits etc.

Oops. Just looked since I don't pay much attention to achievements. Buffy attained Grand Master Crafter in 2022. Guess that's what comes from playing a long time.

One achievement I know she'll never get (not that we care) is Master Angler. Buffy just can't bring herself to drop a line in 'foul' waters. And if she won't eat what she catches, why bother?

Whoops, I meant Grandmaster Crafter. Elke has the thing she needs to do the thing.


I fiddled with the new stations a bit, and they are very cool. It was fast and easy to add attuned stations. Then at least on the gamepad interface you have to know where the set you want to craft comes from, otherwise it's quite a bit of searching. Fun new memory game?


I'm seeing folks talk about donating master writs plus the mats needed to craft them to their guild hall owners. That seems a good way to get around the BoP issue. Fingers crossed that they'll change that and we can just donate the stations.

That leaves the guildhall owner providing the style knowlege to make them. It's a step in the right direction, but not the big one. Jewelry writs may be an answer, as there is no style in those. But the latest changes to Jewel crafting may make mats an issue.

On EU, Fleur knows a lot of them, and the spare writs are already in the guild bank, but NA is short of bank space, and we don't want to dump writs on Misa if she can't do them, or she'll be short of inventory/bank space.

BoP has to go!

The latest PTS update has changed the requirements to get the master crafting tables from Grand Master Crafter down to Unsurpassed Crafter (100 master writs). A tiny move in the right direction but not a peep about what people are asking for (remove bind on pickup so they can be donated to guild hall managers).

Thank you for the update, Acadian!


At this point I'm just saving Master Writs and collecting mats until we know how best to help. Sure hope they reconsider the BoP situation!

The reworking of Jewelry crafting may help us. Mats are being upgraded 10 for one, but the old writs are not being invalidated. That could mean that with enough old writs (giving high voucher returns) made with the upgraded mats, the 6000 target is in reach.

A typical old blue jewel writ paid 28 vouchers, and consumed 2 iridium platings. Now the upgrade will take 3 platings, like the blue upgrade for any other craft, but that's effectively 3 old grains. If those writs still pay the 28 vouchers, I have a lot of them, but was always short of iridium to do them. So I'm going to hoard the iridium until the update drops, and it gets multiplied by ten, and then Fleur will do all those writs. On NA, I'll have to send it all to Misa, but that method should work. It's still over 200 writs, but in reach.

New jewelry writs will be maybe 10 for a purple one, and blues won't drop any more, just like the other crafts. But if the old ones are still going to be good, keep them until U40 drops, and gather all the platinum you can. Do jewelry dailies for the writs and platings/grains to max what's possible when the update comes. Iridium can drop from lower-rank writs, but my characters don't have that option any more.

Looking ahead, it appears that the event line up for 4th quarter might be as follows:

- Witches Festival (Oct-Nov)
- Gates of Oblivion (Nov)
- New Life 2023 (Dec-Jan)

The fourth and final passion dancer blossom morph will be a big bear mount. https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Hoardhunter_Ursauk

Witches Festival is Oct 26 - Nov 7. Two tix for the first boss you kill each day. First fragment available for the big fancy bear mount. More info here: https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/64847

Thank you, Acadian! Yay for Witches Festival!

Looks like I missed the Passion Dancer Outfit. The Impressario won’t have the last piece I need.

Well that's no good! It is a pretty cute outfit and dyes well. Oh well, I'm sure the fragments will become available again with the Impresario or her flunkie at some point.

New event incoming - Gates of Oblivion. Focused on Blackwood, Deadlands and the relevant DLC dungeons. Event runs Nov 16-28. Full details here: https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news

Buffy will basically pick up her two daily event tix by doing a Blackwood daily delve quest. And she'll grab the 2nd fragment for the big bear mount.

Long maintenance on Mon Nov 28 so the current event has been extended a day - https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/di...ation-extension

These festivals are new to me. When I played NA last, they didn't exist. When I played EU last, none went on.

And I'm addicted to housing. Needs more gold.

Be sure to check the guild bank for plans. You can spend a lot of gold at the guild stores on those. We won’t have any really hard to get ones, but it saves waiting for them to drop for you.

Yikes, housing is an expensive addiction! Luckily for Buffy, she's addicted to clothes and bling apparel instead.

I'm more in need of materials as I don't have the skill points atm to put in crafting.

Next event is Jan 18-30 and based on doing dailies in any of the IC, Hews Bane, Wrothgar or Gold Coast. New year, new morpho pet and new stuff to morph it into. Details here: https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/65367

Buffy's approach will likely be doing a daily delve or WB quest in the Gold Coast. The morpho pet is an imp so She'll get the frags and make one of those and start building frags for another. The first thing you can morph it into is an ugly set of head/body markings so she'll pass on that and see what the next quarter offers.

As Update 41 is now on the PTS I took Unna for a run through the preview of the Prologue quest we'll be getting soon, and took a tour of the new houses.

As expected the prologue is mainly a tour through delves in the base zones and Morrowind that everyone has. Very similar to the one for Greymoor, including the "follow the trail" parts, except of course the markers are green, not red. I didn't like the references to Necrom, which left me thinking it would make no sense to anyone who hadn't done that chapter. It may be that some thing play out differently if you haven't done the prior content, but there was a lot of "I remember you from ... " in the dialogue.

The houses are oversized, of course. The unfurnished version of the Sword Singer's Redoubt has 73 lighting furnishings, and it's still dark in there. It also has two large tower buildings completely inside the property that you apparently can't enter. I haven't yet checked if you can build bridges to them, and enter at the top. It's also very close to Twin Arches, so it doesn't add any convenience for travel.

The plus feature is that it has entrances in two zones, like Sweetwater Cascades, and the Aik'r zone needs an extra way in.

The other has no path to the entrance. You have to swim there, and then climb a ladder. The grounds are nice, but you'd want to demolish half the buildings and replace them, but you can't. People are already discussing how to wall off the area with the existing structures.

New furnishings include a rowboat, and it's a blue level item. That makes me think that a plan to build them will drop, and it won't just be Crown or Achievement vendor sourced. Lots of other stuff, much of which is styled for the new houses, but there's Apocrypha things, too.

By the way, if anyone struggles to unlock the daily Orsinium (DLC) reward,

Going to Fargrave unlocked it for me on EU

Going to Northern Elsweyr unlocked it for me on NA

One of the more bizarre quirks I've seen!

I may have been the first to report that, as I switched to Fleur to collect it right at turnover. I tried zones for Collected chapters, and Unlocked by ESO+ ones, without finding a pattern. Now both NA and EU are unlocked, I can’t test further. For example, it may matter whether the wayshrine used is automatically unlocked or whether you need to find it during your first visit.

Bizarre is right! I had that glitch, and wayshrining to Arkzthand Caverns in Blackreach fixed it.

Luckily I did not, and could claim in Deshaan. A lot of forum posts suggested Fargrave, but that doesn't help non eso plus players.

Jester Festival up next - Mar 28 - Apr 4. Details here: https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/65591

In case anyone's interested, the Golden Vendor has Stormfist Shoulders as part of their stock this weekend

Back to back events! Next us is Anniversary Jubilee Apr 4 - 23. Frags for the next morpho-thing (a personality). Three tix per day just for eating a slice of cake! Details: https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/65753

There's a new 'Celebratory Dance' on sale in the Crown Store. It looks absurd on Buffy but absolutely screams, 'Jerric!'

Gaaaaaah!!!! *mALX runs to Crown Store to see new dance ... *

Jerric can't wait for the next guild meetup!!

Oh no! Do I need to disband the guild?

Too late for that,

Whitestrake's Mayhem is the next event. Though details/dates have not yet been posted on the official forum, ZoS stated Jul 25 - Aug 6 and that sounds correct. Here is a snip of how to earn event tix from the last one:

You could earn a total of 3 Event Tickets per day during this event.
2 tickets by completing any Cyrodiil or Battlegrounds daily quest.
1 ticket by completing any Imperial City District daily quest.


Buffy is banking up scouting missions to have ready for turn in, though she'll also have to do a few during the event.

This week in the Infinite Archive Filer Ool is selling the Inkwood Box lead for 5,000 Archival Fortunes. This lead is for a fragment of the Music Box, Glyphic Secrets antiquity. It drops from Tales of Tribute reward coffers.