Crafting Guide

As a crafter in the Elder Scrolls Online, you can perform a daily quest for each of the crafting skills. As these tasks take time, we have some tips to optimize your daily crafting writs. By following these tips, there will be days where you just have to pick up the daily crafting writs and go the the delivery boxes to finish the quests, without having to go to any of the crafting tables.

Alchemy and Provisioning crafting

Consumables can easily be crafted up-front to build up a stock. If you need to craft a consumable for a daily writ, just make sure you craft multiple items at once. This is especially easy for alchemy and provisioning as those won't take up more inventory space as long as you don't have more than 200 of each item in stock (else it will take up another slot in your inventory). Take note that depending on the level of the Brewer and Chef skills for provisioning and the Chemistry skill for Alchemy, you don't need to craft 200 items. For example, at the maximum Chef level, crafting one dish results in 4 dishes, so to craft 200 items in advance, you only have to craft 50.

What items you need to craft depends on your rank in the corresponding skill line and for provisioning writs even what your alliance is. The easiest way is to just create more of an item when you get a crafting writ and you don't have the required item in your inventory.

If you are still levelling a crafting skill, you should not craft too much in advance, as the moment you reach a higher crafting rank (the first skill in a crafting skill line), you are required to craft items of a higher level or even totally different items.

If you increase a rank in provisioning and you don't have the recepy required for a daily crafting writ: all recepies for the daily crafting writs can be bought from cooks and brewers who can be found in various towns and cities in or near Inns in Tamriel.

Enchanting crafting

The daily enchanting writs always ask for the same three types of armor glyphs:

  • White Stanima glyph: Deni + Ta
  • White Magicka glyph: Makko + Ta
  • White Health glyph: Oko + Ta
The only difference is the potency rune to use, which depends on your rank in Enchanting (the first skill of the enchanting skill line).

These glyphs can also easily be crafted in advance. Always make the same amount of glyphs of these three so you have enough for a few days. As every glyph takes up one slot in your inventory, you can't make too many in advance. (I have maximized my crafters' inventory slots and I craft 5 of each glyph in advance).

Furthermore, you also need to provide some rune stones as part of a daily crafting writ. Make sure you have enough of those in stock as well.

Equipment crafting

Blacksmithing, Clothing, Woodworking and Jewelry items for daily writs can also been crafted in advance. The items you have to craft are always the same three combinations in the same order (though where in the order you start depends on your character):

Blacksmithing:

  • 1 helm, 1 dagger and 1 pauldron
  • 1 cuirass, 1 sword and 1 greaves
  • 1 greatsword, 1 sabaton and 1 gauntlet

Clothing:

  • 1 robe, 1 breeches, 1 epaulet
  • 1 hat, 1 shoe, 1 sash
  • 1 helmet, 1 arm cops, 1 bracers

Woodworking:

  • 2 bows, 1 shield
  • 2 restoration staves, 1 shield
  • 1 inferno staff, 1 ice staff, 1 lightning staff

Jewelry:

  • 2 necklaces
  • 3 rings
  • 1 necklace and 1 ring

The level of the items is always the first bracket of the highest level you can craft at the moment (unless you increase a rank while having a daily writ active, then it remains the level of the rank you were at at the time you activated the writ). For example, rank 2 of Blacksmithing (Metalworking II) allows you to craft for level 16-24 (steel armor and weapons). In this case, the daily blacksmithing writ asks for level 16 items.

This means you can also craft equipment in advance. Note though that each item takes up an inventory slot. The easiest is to craft only items in advance when your stock of items is empty. That way, you don't have to craft any new equipment items for your daily writs in the next few days. For example, when I am asked to craft 3 rings, I will instead craft 7 rings and 3 necklases, which means that I enough jewelry in stock for today and the next three days. You can use the Daily Crafting Calculator to calculate the amounts you have to create for different amounts of days.

Remark

Regarding equipment crafting and enchanting crafting, this only works perfectly if you do daily crafting writs every day. The moment you skip a day, you'll break the sequence and will have to craft some items even though you have others still in stock.

Tip when using multiple crafters

If you have multiple characters who are crafters and do the daily crafting writs, it might be handy to synchronize them so that you only have to restock for one (or a few) characters each day. For example, I have four crafters that I do daily crafting writs on. For that reason, I craft all possibile equipment items plus another set of the one that is asked for today (so that I end up crafting for four days meaning that for this character I won't have to craft again the next three days). The next day, I do this for my second crafter, the day after that for my third crafter, etc. This creates a flow where I only have to craft equipment items for one crafter each day.

If you have a different amount of crafters, or want to craft for other amount of days, you can use the Daily Crafting Calculator to calculate the amount you have to create.

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