And as always, there's nothing you can do to speed that up, except buying research scrolls for crowns.

Yeah, I won't do that, lol. I can't say I didn't hope to get one in my crates this morning, but no such luck; I think (or hope) they are researching faster than the regular armor and weapons did though.

Those last trait research times are ridiculous. Nearly a whole month?! Come on!

I legit just had to walk to the Augury Basin and read the Jewelry Crafting skill book there to max it out. lol

But yeah, it'll definitely go faster than the others, considering there are only 18 traits to research as opposed to 126 of Blacksmithing or Clothier (Woodworking has only 54 and that always went by a lot faster)

How grindy is it t get a crafting skill that high?

I remember the early days of RF Online, where it was insanely grindy to get your character to level 50. Grouping the best mobs you could find earned something like .0125% per kill.

The more equipment items you deconstruct, the quicker your crafting skill lines raise.

For Provisioning and Alchemy: They raise by creating meals or potions =

Alchemy - get the highest level water or poison your character can use and make potion after potion or poison after poison; but your skill only raises if it is a valid potion or poison.

Provisioning - find a recipe at the highest level you can craft (I think it will be 1-10 when you first start out, so do a level 10 recipe) = craft it over and over again.

Get certified in any crafting you want to raise the skill level on, and do Writs daily; they bring your levels up faster too.


** By the way, we are having a lot of trouble reaching you in game to send you the furniture = it isn't showing you at all on the server. Are you by chance playing on the European server? We are all on the North American server; and can't interact with anyone on another server; that is the only cause I can think of for why you aren't showing up on the game yet.

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Nope, I'm on the NA server from good 'ol Pennsylvania. I wasn't able to play yesterday, though (took pops to see Star Wars as a late father's day gift [after work]), so I likely won't be on until this evening.

Yes, Kane, like mALX said. I've sent you an in game PM, friend request and guild invite but no indication that you've received them yet.

I will make it a point to log in tonight. Life just gets busy sometimes, and sadly cuts into my game time.

With the crafting skills, it's not so much the grind to level the skill, so much as the wait for research. You need to learn the traits (infused, sharpened, etc.) for two reasons. One is to apply them to things you make, and the other is eligibility to make crafted equipment sets, where you can't attempt the crafting unless you know a number of traits for each item. The first trait you learn takes several hours, and the times get longer for each subsequent one, up to a month for the ninth. You can only learn one at a time, to start with, in each craft. However, with skill points invested, you can later manage two or three at once, and get a (small) reduction in research times.

You'll reach 50 and probably Rank 10 in each craft, and still know only five or six traits on each item, just because that's the part you can't speed up. After six months of playing my crafter knows the full nine on only one item - shields. Nine traits on everything takes about a year of logging in at exactly the time the research completes, so you can start another, or in reality, longer.

Alchemy, provisioning, and enchanting are all different. In Alchemy, if you have enough supplies, you can learn all the effects in less than an hour, and then make enough poisons to raise your level quickly. The limiting factor will likely be skill points (go find skyshards for those). Provisioning again needs enough ingredients to make all the recipes, but you can buy the ones needed for the writs, and pay for them by doing the writs. Then keep making the best stuff until you level up and can do better. Food/drink is quick and doesn't fight back. Enchanting is again a question of gathering enough runes to learn from, and using each one at least once. They're levelled, so you grow into them, but any character can gather any rune at random (except for one that you don't need for max level).

Collecting/buying all the motifs to satisfy master writs then piles on top, with ZOS adding more just when you're close to completion.

tl;dr Crafting is infinitely grindy! Leaves insanely in the dust. But combat levelling is much faster. You can theoretically hit level 50 in a few hours, because others can help you with the kills. As long as you do enough, you get credit.

You actually don't need to be online to receive mail or invites, they go to your "Notifications" tab. It might just take a while to have your account show up online, so far it isn't showing any account for you when I type in your name.

@Kane
Don’t think we are trying to pressure you to join or anything. We are there when you are ready.

Right, agreed. Joining the Guild makes it easy to get anything you need because we just stick anything we don't want into the Guild Bank and all the members just take what they want out of there. But don't feel pressured to join. It is there for any members of this Chorrol site if they want to join it, but no one has to join it.

We kind of liked the idea of it just being friends, and people that understood us and knew us from here pretty much knew both us and our characters before ESO even came out; so we feel comfortable with each other.

But no one is pressured to join, I will automatically add you as a welcome visitor at the Guild Hall as an honorary member regardless because you are friends here and at Haven (but you won't be able to use the Guild Bank. without being a member).

Oh, don't worry, I would love to join you folks! I've been in guilds and clans in other games, so that isn't even a thing.

I should definitely be receiving, though...I am already friends in-game with Lapuaboy from Haven, and he didn't have any issues looking me up.

I'll try again when I get on later,

You'll find quite a few things in ESO that just can't be done solo. Like researching the Nirnhoned trait, where there are 40-odd items to learn it for, but the game only lets you have one piece per character to learn from, and you can't have that many characters. Your only option is to trade pieces with other players.

Some dungeons require a group, and they're much easier with folk you know. Those are all optional, but sometimes you want the unique loot they offer.

Sounds like I have many things to look forward to!

I think the actual time it takes to research each is faster too though. I've got a lot of the rings and just had to wait 4 days between. Someone said 30 days wait for the last one, and that is actually a short time compared to how long the last Armor/Weapon ones took.

Congrats on reaching 50 in Jewelry crafting though! (I also used that book, I found it when I was picking up the Summerset Isles crafting stations, lol).

30 days is the cap for any research, if you have the right passive for that skill. ESO+ reduces it a further 10%, I think, it's not clear which order those apply. So the 8th trait and the 9th are almost the same duration, because the 8th is just under the cap with ESO+, and the 9th is capped.

If you were researching with characters that didn't have the cap passive, the 9th would be 64 days!

Well, outside of research times, I think I'm set for Jewelry mastery. :v

Just bought rings and necklaces with the Bloodthirsty, Harmony, and Triune traits for the Crafting Monkey, and I'm counting on Swift dropping from writs eventually. (today was my first Tier V writ, so nothing yet)

I could have made you the Bloodthirsty one for your researching as of today; and if you wait till my research is done I'll be able to make you the Swift if you or I have the stone to make it. (I'll have to look and see what I have and what it takes).

For me the Infused and Protected traits dropped by the dozens, so did the three basic traits (Arcane, Healthy, and Robust) = but after that I would have had to bu

Normally if you have the stones, someone will make you the research item you need for free; so (to me) it all just depends on how much difference in price there is between buying just the stone or buying the item already made from the Guild Traders, lol.

I'm pretty sure the items on average are running about 25,000; I haven't priced the stones yet.

Yeah, at first I was thinking of just buying the Trait stones, but I was able to find the actual jewelry for sale cheaper than the stones themselves. (around 18-19k, depending on the trait, with Triune going for around 24?) I probably lucked out in that I bought jewelry that was just put up for sale, though.

I know this because I refreshed the trader and the person had added more of them between then lol

Anyways, thanks for the offer! I dunno if I'll need Swift right away, considering I still have six things to research, but I'll send word if I do.

So far I've just got the ring in Swift, but will be glad to make you one if you need and one of us has the stone, lol.

I think they are getting that Swift jewelry and stones out of doing trials in Summerset.

Wow, 18-19K is a good price! The lowest I've seen is 22K, but most were 25. Still, it is worth the cost to get the item. And if you farm the stones, you can make and sell the jewelry for researching and make a small fortune, lol.

All requests accepted!

WOO HOO!!!

Welcome to the guild, Kane! I've changed your 'rank' so you have full access to the guild bank and stuff now.

Sounds good, thanks Acadian! I'm starting to get the hang of everything and was exploring outside of Daggerfall tonight. It's a beautiful game and the quests are fun!

Khajiit will send you a FR on the morrow.

Here is a couple screenshots of the Rosy Lion Inn room and how I had mine decorated just in case you were looking for suggestions,



https://imgur.com/a/cphWMAD

I'll be looking for it!

Oh wow - that is nice and cozy looking. Something like that will do nicely until I have a real amount of gold!

I just added an entry to the housing thread that includes a picture of my Rosy Lion room. That coffer is the one you get as a level-up reward at 18, and you can place an instance of it in each home you own. They share content, so it makes a useful mailbox between your characters. At the same level, you can also select an Imperial bed as a reward.

Stuff should be in your mail next time you get in game!

mALX, you're my hero!




Ooh, I like the look of that coffer. That will definitely be useful for storing crafting supplies.
Speaking of which, I might make a crafting alt. Rakaand is losing inventory and bank space!

Juggling inventory is the reason I have 8 characters now, most were "Bank Mules" who were there to do nothing but stand in the bank hold inventory. A lot of it was crafting materials, but I also have trouble throwing away good armor sets, lol.

When they added the "Craft Bag" with Plus membership it was one of the greatest things for my game that they have done on an update, I don't know what I'd do without it now, I don't think I could go back to having to count all my crafting inventory as slots in my bank or character's holdings again!

Am I right in thinking that without ESO+ materials have a stack limit (like lockpicks and soul gems) to further annoy?

They have always stacked in 200's - even before the Craft bag was added.

But in the craft bag, stack sizes are much larger. I have several saying 1.5k or more. Since the bag doesn't have limited slots, there would be no point in 200 item stacks there. What I really meant was that without the craft bag, you'd have multiple stacks, taking up multiple inventory slots. As monkey does, I believe.

Yeah lmao

It's how I decide when to sell extra materials, so at least there's that.

Correct; just like it used to be before they created that Craft Bag. If you ever retrieve any items from those large stacks in your craft bag, you'll notice it only withdraws in stacks of 200.

The only thing I've ever retrieved from the craft bag - instead of just using it - is Nirncrux. I live in dreams of having enough to exceed a stack.

I never thought of it before, but...have to join you in that dream,

I am a Shields motif away from finishing the Sapiarch style but of course I can never get it to drop nor can I get someone to trade for all the extras I have. I'd buy it but I already bought like 4 of them for Jo'zira to finish his set. Ugh. Tomorrow I'd have done the World Boss daily 30 times with the entire Squad. (The Delve daily has since reached 30) At least I'm getting Jewelry to deconstruct????

In other news, I remembered that "Eolan" is pronounced like "Olan" or "Alan" and since it's of Irish origin I learned that it can also be "Owen" I'm sticking to Alan Remember kids, don't give your characters names you don't know how to pronounce.

Then I won't bring my Dwemer ghost character Mzthlft to EOS. I don't think it's even possible to pronounce it. Fortunately Dwemer is not a playable race, which makes not doing so easier.

I figure I'm safe with Buffy. Although. . . Sanguine did refer to her as Buffet once. . . .

Sanguine probably uses auto-correct.

Khajiit has a Dwemer character, Razak Mzalf. He’s also a vampire.

Blossom just hit L50, and that meant that her armour, which was decent for level 46 when she got it, is now totally useless, and she might as well be naked.

She's hiding in Mournoth Keep until Laurie can make her a big-girl set.

To be fair, Dwemer names are created by Bethesda and don't actually have a pronunciation guide. Why doesn't Bethesda have a pronunciation guide? Bethesda, explain. Why can't your voice actors pronounce names consistently, either????

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Anyways, I got someone to trade Sapiarch motifs with and not only have I finally unlocked the full style for Outfits, but the Squad has finished their respective crafts' motif collection. The Crafting Monkey only needs four more to finish his. Now I remember why I decided to focus on the Crafting Monkey, but I wanted Jo to have this motif first so, yeah. lol Psijic and Pyandonean will go directly to the CM.

Today in Tamriel...
Witch Brenna sent Valaste of the Mages Guild on an indefinite vacation in the Shivering Isles, and received a nice book in the process!

Jerric has been wandering around Cyrodiil having a good old time. So far the only things on two legs that have attacked him were a giant (who Jerric thought was a statue) and some Dominion guards. Turns out you can't just stroll into town on dead lizard's note delivery business unless the town is controlled by your faction. Jerric is not great at keeping track of such things, so there was one regrettable elf-killing incident. Enemy players have treated him as a fellow adventurer. Hopefully that will continue. He's having a blast.