Your probably aware of this but thought i'd add to the posts. 5 second delays on abilities and long load screens in keeps.

Ping rates all over the place(also higher than usual on average), and as of last night travelling to other players in your group in the same zone frequently doesn't work at all. You get the animation and the loading screen, but you don't go anywhere. For reference it's not just me, a lot of people in my guild last night were having this same problem during one of our zone clears. Multiple disconnections from battlegrounds. Battleground performance the past couple hours has been awful. People jumping all over the place, ability delays.

I've already power cycled everything. I've done tracert's to all the usual suspects. My connection is fine. My ISP is fine. Whatever is causing this it's not on my end.

Overload in any shape is the worst ultimate. This is a fact. Here is proof and numbers to back up this fact.

Fact 1.
OVERLOAD OFFERS LITTLE TO NOTHING UPON USE.
Overload use to have a clear cut advantage to slot and use as a class ultimate. Which was a third bar. Which could be useful for any build. Now overload true purpose is pure damage. With a lackluster 2m increase in range or a very small extra magic return of 1102. THIS IS THE WORST MORPH ULTIMATE OPTION WITH DAMAGE IN THE GAME. THERE IS VERY LITTLE USEFUL ANYTHING FROM THE MORPH.

Fact 2
OVERLOAD HAS THE WORST BURST POTENTIAL as a ultimate classes burst. Yes, it's TRUE. Why because ALL CLASSES CAN LIGHT ATTACK FOR DAMAGE during ultimate.

Let's look at classes signature ultimate. Interm of damage.

Overload damage 1131
Death stroke 1315
Dragon leap 1726
Radial sweep 824 plus 2 sec 410 damage for 6 sec
Sleet storm 455 8 sec(major protection)
Frozen colossus 985(major vulnerability)

This is the numbers overload is 1131. The 1131 equal your light attack damage. Keep in mind that all classes received light attack damage PLUS THE DAMAGE ABOVE.

Fact 3
When you add utility plus ultimate burst of class ultimate plus light attack. Overload is seriously underperforming.
Overload has a almost nonexistent utility function. Overload has a luck lackluster damage compared to the extra damage all classes get after use of ultimate with light attack. THESE FACT PROVES OVERLOAD IS THE WORST ULTIMATE IN THE GAME.

Sorcerer is a amazing class. The class skill can provide some amazing SINGLE player burst. However the ultimate is TERRIBLE. the sorcerer overload utility identity is lost. The heavy attack range is poor to almost unuseable. The damage is lackluster. GIVE OVERLOAD A UNIQUE PURPOSE. heavy attack range something. Overload is without a doubt the worst ultimate. PLEASE STOP NERFING AND START BUFFING OVERLOAD.

Can we please get rid of the 200 Transmute Crystal limit, I have hundreds of these things on my characters which is a huge waste of item space.

If the Champion System were to be Reworked into something completely new, or scrapped in its entirety. How would one go about replacing it with something that all players can use.

In my opinion, I would rather see the champion point system reworked into something entirely new.

Such questions include:

• How would you approach the system.
• How would one find a way to eliminate the power creep.
• How would it appeal to each playable class in both PvE and PvP.

Pretty sure I’m missing a few questions but still, the current issue in the eyes of the community by far is the champion point system administering power creep which needs to be eliminated at some point to an extent.

Hello regarding the post https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1133/~/what-ports-do-i-need-to-open-for-the-elder-scrolls-online?

Steam


TCP / UDP Ports 27000 through 27015
TCP / UDP Ports 27015 through 27030
TCP / UDP Ports 27014 through 27050
TCP / UDP Ports 27031 through 27036
TCP / UDP Ports 27036 through 27037
TCP / UDP Ports 4380

Do you notice how it says 27000-27015 and then 27015-27030 how [27015] is repeated twice? I cant save it in my router because it's used twice so what i did is 27000-27050 instead of any of the 27000 ports. Is this okey? or must it be exactly as told and if so is there anyway that i can add the exact ports on my router even though it won't save cuz some ports cant be used twice.

Players constantly spam streak and convert, abilities that are in themselves overpowered for the cost. Streak is a huge aoe, hard CC, does decent damage, is a gap closer that requires no target, meaning it works as both an offensive and defensive ability and is used by stamina (the same reason petrify had a huge cost increase), the current 50% increase in cost is not enough, the ability should have a cost increase of 100% every time it is cast out of cooldown and the base cost increased by 1k. Likewise on Convert, the Ability is too often spammed, remove the channel from this ability as well as the instant resource return and make it like siphoning/leeching strikes, giving the full resources at the end or throughout then time of the buff. This would help improve sorc sustain in PVE and stop the spamming of a poorly balanced ability.

INB4 “SoRc NeRf ThReAd”, most people are bandwagon meta hopping petsorc players anyway, as its virtually unseen out of a zerg when its not the best solo class.

I tend to think of Bosmer as being a bit like Druids, or Flower Fairies, with their love of (and deep affinity with) plants.

So, I was pretty happy to discover the Nordic Bather's Towel, which (even though I think it's supposed to be leather?) can look like leaves, or the petals of a giant flower, especially with certain dyes:







However, with it being a bathing towel, rather than a dress, it also has the down side of showing a sliver of one buttock, at the back...

Which doesn't really bother me, too much, but can (apparently) give some people the wrong idea about the character and/or the person playing it.

So, I would like to put in a request for a version of this Towel, which is slightly longer at the back and (although not long) could be referred to as a dress (Petal Dress, or something), rather than a Towel.

It could also cover the midriff a bit more, or not; I don't really mind too much about that, personally.

I'm not looking for another long, demure, cloth dress; as there are plenty of them already.

As I say, I love the nature theme, hand made (/thrown together!) feel and also, quite like the freedom of the short Bather's Towel (as opposed to a longer dress), in general, but if something similar could be created, which is very slightly less x-rated, that would be ideal.

Thank you for our consideration.

I’ve developed a very interesting build that uses the Undaunted Infiltrator and Undaunted Unweaver sets in tandem. The concept is fairly similar to Xynode's Easy Sorc, but it's a bit different (it's not a Sorc build, for one, and it uses different sets) and I'm more focused on PVP.

The Basics

The concept is fairly simple: You want to buff up your heavy attack damage as much as possible, and then proc off balance on the enemy in order to just melt them with lightning heavy attacks. This build actually can really melt people. And you can basically ignore Magicka sustain in your build entirely, because you'll actually gain Magicka during your damage combo. You also can potentially build for a good bit of defense without giving up very much damage.

The basis for the build is as follows:

You run the Undaunted Infiltrator and Undaunted Unweaver sets. When procced, each of these sets adds just over 1100 damage to each tick of a channeled lightning heavy attack. There are 4 ticks. So, between the two of these, you add about 9000 damage to your lightning heavy attacks--which are do damage in an AOE. When an enemy is off balance, the damage they take from heavy attacks goes up 70% (80% if you've got the exploiter passive). Therefore, on an off balance enemy, these two sets combine to add over 15,000 damage to your heavy attacks--and that number is higher the more additional damage buffs you have on your heavy attacks. Regardless of class, the concept is to do one of two things: (1) proc the two sets and then pump in large AOE damage from a distance with your heavy attacks, or (2) get in and proc off-balance on someone and absolutely melt them. Since you're a heavy attack build, your sustain will be great. And the fact that you'll be topped up on magicka a lot will really help your defense, along with the fact that you can build for a lot of defense without losing much firepower.

At the moment, I'm using it on my Magplar, but I think the MagDK may be even better for it due to Molten Armaments. I'll describe below what I've built so far (along with some possible alternatives), then also describe what I plan to do with this on my MagDK once I've leveled him, and also give a brief description of how this has worked in the BGs I've played with it.

Magplar Build

The idea with the Magplar is basically to use Restoring Focus as a cheap and effective way to proc Undaunted Unweaver, and use Toppling Charge to stun and proc off balance (as well as proc Undaunted Infiltrator if need be) all in one. The basic combo would be Restoring Focus --> Purifying Light or Reflective Light --> Toppling Charge --> 1 or 2 heavy attacks --> maybe Radiant Oppression. And in terms of defense, if you're put on the defensive, you'll typically have a really high magicka pool left and Extended Ritual, Living Dark, and Honor the Dead, so it's very survivable.

My item setup is not 100% ideal yet. But in an ideal world, I think you'd have an Undaunted Infiltrator staff, two pieces of Undaunted Infiltrator jewelry, and an Undaunted Infiltrator chest piece. You'd then have Undaunted Unweaver hands, belt, legs, and boots, along with an Undaunted Unweaver jewelry piece. You then want one light and one heavy piece for a monster set. I'm using one piece Pirate Skeleton and one piece Lord Warden, just for the permanent resistance bonuses, but that's up to you, and there are many other solid options. Since it's PVP, I think having all the armor be impenetrable is ideal (though I've only got four impenetrable pieces on this build at the moment). In terms of enchants and jewelry/weapon traits, this is kind of up to you. I've tested it with: (1) all magicka glyphs on my armor except one health glyph; (2) all spell power glyphs on my jewelry; (3) all arcane traits on my jewelry; and (4) a precise weapon. However, a huge component of your damage is from the two sets, and that damage isn't affected by spell damage or magicka. So you could add some protective or healthy traits to the jewelry, and/or some more healthy or prismatic defense glyphs on the armor, and not lose a ton of damage. You could even run stamina recovery glyphs to help with breaking free and whatnot. You could also put Bloodthirsty glyphs on, since that would scale with the damage from your sets. In terms of the weapon trait, Precise is just what dropped for me, but I actually think Precise and Sharpened are clearly your two best bets, since they'll actually affect the Infiltrator and Unweaver set damage. On the back bar, I’ve got Precise since, again, that’s what dropped, but Defending may be better.

In terms of Mundus, I think The Lover is the best. Again, spell penetration actually affects the Infiltrator and Unweaver set damage. So do the crit damage and crit chance bonuses from The Shadow and The Thief, but I think The Lover is a bit better.

In terms of race, I'm a High Elf with this. I think that's probably the best one, since it helps your overall damage more than any other race (though I think Khajiit is probably very close), actually helps a lot with stamina sustain from the Spell Recharge passive, and I believe that same passive's 5% damage reduction applies when heavy attacking. But there are other options that would be good as well. Dark Elf would work. Khajiit would work because the critical damage scales with the set damage. And Nord would actually be decent to add some bulkiness.

In terms of food, I think tri-stat food is best. You certainly don't need magicka recovery from your food/drink.

For potions, it will ultimately depend on what you've got on your bar. You could cover Major Prophecy, Major Sorcery, and immovability with your skills--in which case you'd use tri-stat potions. But you could also leave a gap in your skills that you fill with a potion if you’d like. I’ll note that I think Major Prophecy is more important than Major Sorcery here because it scales with the set damage.

I'm not listing CP here, since I've tested this exclusively in BGs and so I haven't put much of any thought into the CPs.

For skills, here's what my bar looks like (with some discussion of alternatives below):

Front Bar: Restoring Focus, Toppling Charge, Honor the Dead, Reflective Light, Radiant Oppression, Eye of the Storm
Back Bar: Extended Ritual, Radiating Regeneration, Honor the Dead, Living Dark, Elusive Mist, Life Giver

There's a lot of flexibility there though. The only real must-haves are Restoring Focus, Toppling Charge, Honor the Dead, and Extended Ritual. A few thoughts on the skills below:

- I like to double bar Honor the Dead because I find it helps me react to burst damage just that little bit quicker, but you can definitely slot something like Purifying Light on the front bar instead.
- Especially if you slot Purifying Light, you could perhaps switch out Reflective Light for Inner Light, but I probably wouldn't (the reason I say you'd especially do that if you've got Purifying Light is that you definitely want at least one ranged Magicka ability you'll use on the front bar, to proc Undaunted Infiltrator).
- You could also swap out Radiant Oppression for Structured Entropy. Major Sorcery isn't actually a huge boost to your heavy attacks on this build, so it's not strictly necessary to have it, but it's a very good ability. I do get some use out of Radiant Oppression, but Structured Entropy could be better overall.
- Rapid Regen is probably better than Radiating Regeneration for PVP. But I also use my Magplar to heal dungeons, and don't want to switch the morph.
- Elusive Mist is surely better than Race Against Time--I'm just not a vampire. But I think I probably will make this character a vampire, in order to use Elusive Mist.
- The front bar ult is really up to you. I like Eye of the Storm and I think it synergizes very well with this build since you can cast it, then use Restoring Focus and Toppling Charge to proc your two sets and gap close and stun right as Eye of the Storm starts going off. But Crescent Sweep would be good, as would Devouring Swarm and the Mage's Guild ult.
- You could potentially get away with going sword and board on the back bar, and replacing Life Giver with Spell Wall. You'd no longer be able to run Regen, but that would open up a spot for sure for Structured Entropy and you'd at least get a bit of a heal over time from that.

Magicka Dragonknight build

For the most part, this build would be the same as above. I think it would be even stronger than the Magplar, but I've not yet tested it out and there would be downsides compared to the Magplar.

The main difference is just the skills. MagDKs would obviously use Molten Armaments. This would add massive damage to the already hard-hitting heavy attacks. I've not yet leveled my MagDK, but I think the damage on this would be extremely high. The way you'd proc off balance is Empowering Chains --> Fossilize --> Lava Whip (either morph).

The MagDK's damage would be much higher, but it would have a more drawn out process to create off balance. Whereas the Templar can gap close, stun, and proc off balance all with one skill, the DK would require three skills to do all of that. Therefore, the MagDK would have to play a little less aggressively, because if you get aggressive against a group, you could be punished before you've really had a chance to do much. Of course, the MagDK can actually do almost as much damage heavy attacking at a distance as a Magplar could against an off balance enemy (50% bonus from Molten Armaments vs. 70% bonus from off balance).

The MagDK also doesn't have quite as strong of survival tools this patch. Again, though, you can stay back and still deal massive damage, so it may not be harder to survive overall.

Finally, the MagDK would have a bit more of an annoying time proccing Undaunted Unweaver. There's no real obvious cheap stamina ability for the MagDK to spam in PVP to proc the set. You could use Vigor, even though it'd be a pretty weak heal on a magicka character. The best option may just be Noxious Breath though. You'd often just be using it on nothing, but it can get really cheap, and if you use Molten Whip, then having Noxious Breath as part of your setup would make your burst stronger. Your stamina sustain would take a hit from having to use Noxious Breath a bunch, but you'll get 990 stamina each time you use Fossilize and Molten Armaments. You could take a stamina recovery glyph in a jewelry piece as well if you find it's an issue--the lost spell damage won't be a huge deal.

Here's what I'd think the skills could be:

Front Bar: Noxious Breath, Empowering Chains, Molten Whip, Fossilize, Molten Armaments
Back Bar: Efficient Purge, Rapid Regen, Coagulating Blood, Volatile Armor, Elusive Mist, Life Giver

There are other ways to do it, but there's a bit less flexibility than on the Magplar, since your combo requires basically everything I listed on the front bar. If the Empowering Chains --> Molten Whip --> Fossilize combo is too unwieldy, one thing I might try is replacing Fossilize with Stone Giant. Stone Giant is a worse ability, but it may be that Molten Armaments is enough damage to basically melt people from afar if I can just stun them. And if they happen to be close, I could still proc off balance (albeit maybe a bit less reliably than you can with Fossilize since you don’t have the immobilize after the stun). This wouldn’t be as good in a 1v1, but it’s possible it’s better in a group context where you don’t necessarily want to be jumping in and taking time using two abilities before really doing your damage.

How It Has Worked For Me

I've played this with my Magplar. The results have been pretty good. I'm far from the best player—so I do come across players who are simply better than me. But I have had very good games with it. And I’ve managed to win 1v1’s against players that I can absolutely tell are better than me.

A few thoughts on it:

- The damage is good. If people are pretty squishy, they can basically be deleted by a Purifying Light/Reflective Light --> Toppling Charge --> 1 heavy attack and then maybe a couple ticks of another heavy attack or Radiant Oppression. People who are tankier can sometimes survive and get away if I attack them at full health, but not if I’ve got any support with me and typically not if they don’t have some kind of get-out-of-jail-free card (as in, cloak, streak, etc.) or catch me with a stun when my stamina is low. If they can’t find some way to get away or to keep me stunned for a while, it’s extremely difficult for someone to live through two off-balance heavy attacks and an execute. If they live through it, then they’re a pretty tanky build and have dumped away a lot of resources to survive, while I’ve literally gained magicka. I can't wait to see what the damage from the MagDK is like, since it's going to be significantly higher.

- The magicka sustain is incredibly good. You get over 7.2k magicka back from a heavy attack against an off balance opponent in no-CP. This means your damage combo literally gains you magicka. And if you kill people with your heavy attack—which you will—you’ll get another 3600 magicka back from the destruction staff passives. The only time you can really run out of magicka is if you’ve really been put on the back foot by people for a very long time. Overall, it’s the best magicka sustain I’ve ever had on any build that does even remotely similar damage.

- The stamina sustain is actually really good for a magicka build. You’ve got Restoring Focus. You’ve got the High Elf passive that will almost always restore stamina, since your magicka will be high. And you’ve got the Undaunted Unweaver set giving you over 2k extra stamina to work with. You’ll be using Restoring Focus more than is necessary (in order to proc Undaunted Unweaver), so the net stamina return on it isn’t quite optimal, but this is still one of the best magicka builds I’ve played in terms of stamina sustain. And honestly, given how a lot of your damage doesn’t scale with the spell damage stat, I’m thinking of possibly adding a stamina regen glyph or two to my jewelry, just to basically make this build incredibly strong against CC.

- The survivability is good. It’s a light armor build and doesn’t have a massive amount of health, so obviously it’s not the highest survivability possible. But with the defensive monster set combo I’m using along with Restoring Focus obviously always being up, the resistances are actually pretty good. Toppling Charge gives you minor protection for 6 seconds. You’ve got Extended Ritual, Living Dark, Regen, and Honor the Dead—all great defensive abilities. The resto ult is a fight reset basically. And I think Elusive Mist will add a lot of survivability once I get it. The key, though, is really the sustain. It’s basically impossible to catch me without a boatload of magicka to use to survive. There were players that were better than me that were able to get the drop on me and kill me a few times, but it typically would take them a very drawn out fight to do it when I’m pretty sure they’d have done so quicker against me on another build. There have also been some people that have been able to burst me down quickly, but that’s mostly just been lethal arrow and poison injection causing desyncs. I did play one stamden who repeatedly burst me down quickly, but that player was really good, and it was also in my first game on the build when I had no impen gear, no defensive monster set (so my resistances were over 5k lower), and wasn’t using the resto ult. As I mentioned above, though, I think one could build in more survivability into this build without actually giving up a ton of damage.

Final Notes

This is a very long post, but I do have some thoughts on this for PVE as well. I don’t think the Magplar would be very good with it since the benefit of being able to gap close, stun, and set off balance with one ability doesn’t really matter in PVE. However, I think the MagDK would be quite good. You’d use a Maelstrom lightning staff, with an Undaunted Infiltrator staff on the back bar. You'd proc Undaunted Unweaver with Beast Trap--which is a great ability anyways and is on the Easy Sorc build too. This would be similar to the Easy Sorc build, but with fewer shock abilities to proc off balance, but Molten Armaments for a permanent 50% heavy attack damage bonus. That should equal more single-target damage against bosses than the Easy Sorc can achieve, and probably still more AOE damage against groups of trash mobs, especially if someone else is using lightning damage. I think it would be very strong.

I also note that the Easy Sorc build uses Infallible Mage. I've read that that set only affects the damage on the last tick of the lightning staff's damage. I don't have it to test, but I did watch Xynode's latest Easy Sorc video, and I believe he said that too. If so, I do wonder whether a build using Infallible Mage is outdamaged by a build with Undaunted Unweaver, despite Infallible Mage having better bonuses otherwise for DPS. If not, then, if you're able to get it, Infallible Mage would be optimal over Undaunted Unweaver, and this would basically become a DK version of the Easy Sorc. Either way, you could slot Mystic Orb instead of Daedric Tomb (which Xynode suggests as an alternative anyways), Eruption instead of Liquid Lightning, Volatile Armor instead of Boundless Storm, Inner Light instead of Bound Armaments, Dampen Magic instead of Hardened Ward, and Molten Armaments instead of Mage's Wrath. In other words, the skill setup would basically be the same except you slot Molten Armaments instead of the execute.

The best link I can find for Bow/Bow

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/381498/everything-needed-to-know-about-bow-bow-in-pve-dragonhold-update/p15

I really enjoy playing the underdog class, and mag warden has been my favorite for some time...but the double bow build really seems to take the cake. At least for me. Don’t worry, I’m enjoying the challenge!

I’ve got my character geared to the teeth. Well at least I thought it was wearing Relequen and Tsovkins, I got the warband bow that I was very excited for. Then I see Lokke is now the BiS.

Converted my StamSorc to double bow because it was my least played character and trying to create an interest in it.

I get to the point of hitting a little north of 30k 6mil dps and figured “this thing might be cool” So it’s time to go terrorize the group finder pugs with it! It’s a terror alright. I’m terrible with this character. How TF can I hit 32k on a dummy and suck this bad in dungeons?

You know these unsuspecting dungeon delvers we’re cringing the first snipe they heard go off. It’s every bit as bad and noticeable as a sorc whomping out daedric mines every 5 seconds.

I waited for it and sure enough here it comes. Your group members voted to kick you from the party. I don’t blame them. It was pretty bad. But why? How is it so bad? My ice warden hits 29k dps and wrecks stuff, blazing through content no problem. This double bow felt like it did 12k outside the dummy. Wtf. Maybe I possibly need to learn how to play it better? For now, I just left a lasting impression that most every double bow player I’ve ever seen is flipping terrible and I added to that statistic.

I have heard going with a necromancer or warden is better, but I’m trying to get some interest in this stam sorc, for me personally.

Rocking Relequen/Warband/Stormfist VMA backbar

Hail,Pi, SoulTrap : swap, lethal arrow bound armaments proc. Clan fear and atro ultimate

Sounds simple right. It is. It got what I generally consider good enough damage on a 6 mil dummy. Then I go to play it and it really bad. Why? Think I may have a Lokke bow lying around I can try hoping it may make some difference.

I create this poll to put some attention to the situation when class which is absolutly best support in game, who can indefinitely heal up himself whole group, provide resourses and most important buffs...also after Elsweyr launched - has best surviveability in game, best or one of the best sustain in game, very nice damage, fast cc charge (withh offbalance built in), fast range cc (spear), chiepest in game aoe burst ultimate (without casttime), resists and general tankiness (blocking and another passives, rituals), autodebuffing healing and damaging everyone "Living Darkness" and can't be debuffed because of Extended ritual...

If someone will want to call this "complaining", create please a table, where in one column u will write all strong sides of each class, in another one weak side...result will be interesting i garantee...I play on mag and stam templars and I'm bored and annoyed. Easy mode for me, especially at magplar last 3 patches. Battlegrounds show this very clear - 1 magicka templar completly changes the balance of whole match. But there are veryoften groups of 3 or 4 magplars at the same team. Premades gone and it's very nice... now time to take a look at class balance

Discuss.

Trying to get information on how ZoS/Bethesda define griefing, if they even cover the matter.

Still searching through the TOS, but decided to see if I was re-inventing the wheel first and see if there was something actually out there I could refer to.

Thanks!

Im curious to know what your goals were in the past that you did achieve and what new goals have you set for yourself now, going forwards.

Do you have goals that just seem out of reach, for reasons?

What would be the most satisfying achievement for you to get? It might even be an achievement you made up for yourself.
I'm not specifically talking about achievements set by zos that show up on our journal achievements( you can share those here too afcourse) but anything you are working towards .It could even be getting a specific piece of gear or saving a certain amount of gold or doing your first vma clear.

Thanks for your replies 😊😊😊


Thank you all for your awesome comments it made my day reading them all 😊😊😊

Well, we're able to duel basically where ever right and it's just an option right well here's an idea

How bout make an option/toggle in settings or whatever and make it to where you can enable OpenWorldPVP..?? what's bad about the idea? it's just a random thought idc if it was added or not. technically this is just a discussion post about the idea lol

So, I was beginning to track the rewards that were dropping for me from doing my writs daily. I do writs on 27 characters a day (36 of them now!!), so I felt like I would have enough data to over ride any "noise" that was in the data from random RNG. I was initially tracking it on a spreadsheet, when I began to talk to a friend who writs add-ons, at the possibility of creating an add-on to track the drops of each. This led me to be searching the ESOUI add-ons, and come to find out, that Dolgubon's Lazy Writ Crafter (BEST ADD-ON EVER FOR DOING WRITS!!!! Love you @Dolgubon ) has been tracking this information for me for a while now. I just had to parse it out of the output that it gives me in chat. So I took the data and plugged it into Google Sheets to come up with some data about the drop rates of the major rewards from doing crafting writs.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yQDUjYNQVsIFl0ktkbkSlfYPkzP6pgCOTMQ-qCuzfaI/

*Spreadsheet has data about the returns from several crafting professions
1. Refining - Drop rates of Gold, Purple, Blue, and Green improvement materials, along with prices to purchase raw materials at to "break even"
2. Writ Rewards - Summary of the percentages of drops for "big" drops from doing daily writs. Data is aggregate across all characters, some of whom have limited motif knowledge, some that were learning traits while data was collected
3. Requirement/Writ Profits - FOR MAX LEVEL WRITS ONLY - Rotation of writ requests, materials needed, as well as profit analysis based on my own recorded drop rates
4. Master Merchant - Prices of the relevant items needed either to do writs, or writ rewards, to evaluate profits/costs. Updated every few weeks or so when I remember.
5. Remainder of the tabs are just where I record my individual information that the other tabs pull from.

A couple of notes about the data:

* Alt account does not have access to Summerset, so there is no Jewelry Crafting data for it (Gained access with release of Elsweyr, so is leveling JC line)
* Jewelry drops were changed after the release of Summerset, to only include Chromium Grains (they initially included Terne, Iridium, and Zircon), so the drop rate is artificially low for Jewelry Chromium Grains
* This data stretches back approximately a year, pre-Summerset release, my main account was therefore leveling up Jewelry Crafting through the data collection, as well as researching traits in Jewelry, this will bring down the drop rates for Jewelry crafting.
* For a majority of the data collection, Jewelry Writs were done at 8 a day at level 5 (Platinum), and 7 a day at level 1 (Pewter), this will also bring down the Chromium grain collection (but not surveys, it appears)
* All crafters know the 9 basic racial styles, all 4 base game purple, as well as Hollowjack and Skinchanger motifs.
* 15 crafters are full 9-trait, 15 are full 8-trait, the last 6 are learning traits.
* All crafters know all traits for Alchemy (with the exception of Clam Gall and Powdered Mother of Pearl and Dragon Bile and Blood on some), and all stones for Enchanting translated (a few are missing Hakeijo)
* For provisioning, crafters are only learning the purple recipes that drop from doing provisioning writs as I accumulate them. They also all know the Psijic Ambrosia gold recipe, since I have gotten thousands of fragments for that as well. This is why the drop rate of provisioning is so low, since only 1 character knows all the purple/gold recipes. I have started doing Tier 2/3/4/5 provisioning writs to gain access to drops of other purple recipes, which will slowly be learned by characters.

*The alt account was created during this time frame, so all the leveling of the skill lines, as well as the trait research and motif learning was all done while they were doing writs, which is probably why the drop rates on the alt account are slightly lower than those on the main account. Other than surveys which seems to be pretty consistent across both accounts.

I'm just sharing this here so that people who are looking for information about drop rates have a place to find this. I'll plan on periodically updating the spreadsheet every couple of weeks as I collect more data from doing writs.

*It appears that surveys have an approximately 1/8 chance of dropping while doing a writ. This is consistent at all levels of writs.
*It appears that the drop rate for a gold improvement material is a little under 30% (will have to check more on Chromium, but the recent tracking seems to support a similar drop rate)
*Alchemy/Enchanting master writs drop the more commonly, probably due to the ease of getting the drop rate highest (at about 1/7, or 14%)
*Without most motifs, the drop rate for Blacksmithing/Woodworking/Clothing master writs appears to be around 1/15 or 6% (but going up to about 1/10, or 10% with some basic motif knowledge)

EDIT: ADDED on 3/9/19

Added another tab to the document to try and determine profit from doing writs on a daily basis. It looks like writs on a single character will net approximately a 467k profit per month.

By necessity, some things needed to be estimated while creating it.

I used MM numbers from PC/NA (I'm in 3 trade guilds in 3 different locations, all with more than 50 million a week in sales guild wide)

I used values calculated from the drop rate of the writs that I've been tracking.

Master writs were valued based on a voucher sell price of 650g/voucher.

UPDATED: 7/24/19

EDIT 8/11/19

With Scalebreaker's release on PC tomorrow 8/12, data has updated with the last of the writs that will be done for this patch.

*notes

1) Master writ drop rate seemed to go up, I believe this is due to the sheer number of motifs some of my characters learned during the anniversary event.

2) Provisioning rates were low. 6 new characters who knew virtually no recipes probably bought this down some.

3) Chromium rates are still artificially low for the overall (alt account only has 4 characters doing max level writs) it's at nearly 25% for the main account.

4) Survey rates might be off because of bugs early in Elsweyr.

5) Individual rates for accounts can be seen on other tabs at the end, just didn't want to clutter the initial pages.

1 year ago tomorrow, I started collecting data about the drop rates of the rewards from writs, as well as the results from refining materials to hopefully build a spreadsheet with some concrete, hard data to help determine what the drop rates are for those activities.

I shared those in this thread
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/459690/tracking-daily-writ-reward-drop-rates-refining-rates

And the data has been posted publicly here
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yQDUjYNQVsIFl0ktkbkSlfYPkzP6pgCOTMQ-qCuzfaI
for all to see/use/etc.

Thanks to those that have asked questions, used the spreadsheet, I've refined it over the year, adding in things as they changed (grain drops from jewelry writs for example).

Just wanted to share some statistics from the year for what I've done.

Writs:
92,598 total writs on the year.

Gold Improvement Materials Received:
3,917 Tempering Alloy
3,977 Dreugh Wax
3,882 Kuta
3,961 Rosin
1,579 Chromium Grains (Alt account was leveled for much of the year, hence the lower amount, also did not have access to Summerset until Elsweyr launched)

These alone have an approximate value of 72,841,000 gold based on current MM prices on PC/NA

Master Writs Received:
2,035 Alchemy
1,214 Blacksmithing
1,143 Clothing
1,908 Enchanting
510 Provisioning
1,292 Woodworking
937 Jewelry
Drop rate varies quite a bit based on knowledge, but upper bound seems to be about 15% when all traits are learned in Alchemy/Enchanting.

Surveys Received
1,695 Alchemy
1,751 Blacksmithing
1,766 Clothing
1,673 Enchanting
1,740 Woodworking
1,179 Jewelry
Pretty consistent drop rate between 12.1% and 12.7% for these.

Since Jewelry Crafting Writs started
3,600 Jewelry Writs done
Received
Terne: 562 Grains; 9 Platings
Iridium: 1310 Grains; 10 Platings
Zircon: 1037 Grains; 8 Platings
Chromium: 861 Grains; 4 Platings


Refined Materials
1,069,480 total raw materials refined over the year.

Improvement materials Received
16,231 Green
13,423 Blue
7,850 Purple
5,252 Gold
These were pretty consistent as a whole with the expected (1.5%, 1.25%, 0.75% and 0.5% drop rate) (They were 1.52%, 1.26%, 0.73% and 0.49% respectively)

Hopefully this tracking has been useful for some of you.

Happy Holidays to all!

*Updated for Elsweyr*
FYI, CAUTION AGAINST RUNNING VAMPIRE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. VULNERABILITY BASED DMG IS SUBTRACTING FROM YOUR PERCENTAGE BASED MITIGATION. SEE SECTION BELOW FOR MORE INFO
After seeing 100 threads asking for templar build ideas and questions about the class, I think it was time we updated Blabafat's old templar thread!

Here was his old intro from Thieves guild/IC for those that are curious:
And most of this write up was his. I am updating it and to include additional sets (along with links to other informational threads).

Templar Class Skill Lines

Aedric Spear

Dawn's Wrath

Restoring Light



Some other skills and ultimates I recommend.

Other skills


Other Ultimates



Gear and Traits Recommendation:(Magicka)

Gear
Traits:

Type of Armor

Weapons:


Additional Information


Champion Points

Consumables
Enchantments/Attribute Points

Mundus Stone

Races

Vulnerabilities and you:
From the guy that tests everything, it was found that "Minor Protection, Major Protection, Major Evasion, Minor Evasion, Vampire Mists, and probably other sources yet to be tested SUBTRACT from Vulnerability regardless of the sources of the Vulnerabilities." What this means is that, if your enemy against your templar vamplar had Engulfing Flames, Vampire Rank 4, Minor Vulnerability and Way of Martial Knowledge, these 4 would stack in a additive way, for a total of 53% extra damage taken. But so for example against Mist form, instead of being DMG*1.53*0.25=0.3825 as it is currently thought of occuring, its DMG*(1+(53-75)/100)=0.78. Which is obviously a HUGE difference.

All other sources of mitigation have yet to be tested but I was told that Armor does NOT work this way and is still multiplicative. And non of the ones after DMG shields are affected either, so block based mitigation is still multiplicative. There is a test of if you use other sources of mitigation together, how do they interact, cause for example, using Mist Form and Minor Protection has Mist form be Subtractive but Minor Protection is multiplicative. "This means, once there is no Vulnerability left then they are not adding into each other, but what decides what mitigation sources goes first? Those are things left to be tested as well as the giant pain in my ass that is CP." Doing the math, 15k attack is only 11700 under the new equation. The old is 5737, in the example above.

It will include things like sorc lighting status effects, ele weapon debuff, anything that basically deals its dmg as extra debuff. What it wont include is minor/major maim, which was determined to happen BEFORE all mitigation, so the value you get out of maim is always 15/30%. Crit resists happens before this as your target has to determine its crit before mitigation of any form happens. Keep an eye for the Dmg Mitigation Thread updated with this info soon.

Useful Links:
Defensive Set Mitigation Thread:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/383840/math-pvp-defensive-set-comparison-impreg-brass-pariah-riposte-more/p1

Dmg Mitigation Thread:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/279426/damage-mitigation-explanation-updated-for-murkmire/p1

Templar Feedback Master Thread:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/416459/class-rep-templar-feedback-thread/p1

Buff and Debuff List Thread:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/284053/buffs-and-debuffs-a-full-list-updated-for-summerset/p1

Useful/Informative PVP Videos:
Hope this helps! And please add your thoughts to the thread (I will add some info since I missed ALOT).

Hi all,

recently I bought a set of golden Bright Throat Boast's jewelry, and I'm wondering what's the most effective setup to use it ? Should I leave it in the Arcane trait and combine it with Crafty Alfiq, or should I transmute it to Infused (with mag power glyphs in both cases) and pair it with New Moon Acolythe (and Balorgh's perhaps) ?

I'd want to use it either on a Breton Magplar or a High Elf Magsorc (non-pet).

TIA for your opinion.

/EDIT: I want to use it for small scale and group play in Cyrodiil

Your probably aware of this but thought i'd add to the posts. 5 second delays on abilities and long load screens in keeps.