Just finished Cadwell's Gold with Unna. Now she can take a rest while we try and get Blossom up to L50, and crafting mastery. Unna's hit 50 in Blacksmith, mainly from keeping herself equipped before Laurie could, but we're not in any hurry in the others. She' sent a few skill points in crafting just because she hasn't much else to do with them.

Blossom hasn't done much adventuring, just going off collecting surveys and skyshards, but she has quite a bit of the land mapped out, as we always try to discover all the wayshrines as we go. Hopefully that will help her get through the questlines a bit quicker as we level her up.

We're also getting close to having enough gold to but Mathiisen Manor. Then Laurie can use some of the larger furnishing pieces she knows, and we'll have somewhere to put crafting stations.

Grats to the new Golden Girl!

HHHHHHHHHHH

So now I'm getting Hates to complete the Imperial City questline. I would have done all 4 districts I had left to do at once, but I thought going into the Imperial Prison dungeon and leaving would speed up the process of me returning to the Alliance Base. All it did was send me back to Shadowfen. :v

So I only completed the Noble's District. Tomorrow (or later, depending how I feel) is the Arena, since IIRC it's the OTHER annoying one to complete, and then the last 2.

After that, the only thing I have to cross off my "Should Have Done This Years Ago" list is complete the White Gold Tower dungeon with all 3 Squad members. Just for the story.

This post has been edited by monkeyemoness: Apr 30 2018, 10:32 PM

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I guess I'm finishing it today.

This post has been edited by monkeyemoness: May 1 2018, 12:02 AM

After my time in Cyrodiil, listening to all the NPCs and the quests, I honestly have to wonder what the point of the Alliances is anymore lol

The game seems to have forgotten about them, too, since they dont' seem to be a concern past PvP as far as the player character and the storylines are concerned

This post has been edited by monkeyemoness: May 1 2018, 03:34 AM

I guess it's time for Laurie to start researching Nirnhoned. I have several Nirncrux from the Jubilee boxes, so can someone convert my mats to research items, while I go foraging for more Nirncrux?

And while I'm asking, what's the best strategy here? I'm thinking that I first do the research on a character that can do so quickly, as it's their first trait, and then have them pass it on. So my calculations should include an extra Nirncrux for that "first crafter" to use up, as well as the ones the master crafters will want.

Since Nirncrux is so expensive and rare to find in the world, I only taught my Master Crafter the Nirncrux traits; but that is just me.

You'll need 12 Potent Nirncrux (7 Blacksmithing, 5 Woodworking) and 22 Fortified Nirncrux (14 Clothier, 7 Blacksmithing, 1 Woodworking) for a single character, which costs almost 200k gold altogether if you don't find it yourself. (At around 12k for Potent and 2.5k for Fortified)

Unless you're wanting the trait as soon as possible, it's probably best to stick to a single crafter. When I learned the trait, I was exploring Craglorn so I got free pieces to research as well as the material from farming. You get a grand total of one random piece per character for completing the entire Craglorn questline. (MUCH easier to do these days, but Lower Craglorn still has Grouped content to deal with)

I'll have to check, but the Jubilee event gave me about 6 Fortified, and 3 Potent. I haven't found any from harvesting, despite several trips for surveys. So I guess you're right about not using any more than I need to.

Apart from the one item per character I can get from doing the quests, which with my luck will be the same one each time, do I have to trade for all the research pieces?

You can either buy pieces to research at guild stores or you can get any one of us that knows the trait to make you a research piece in exchange for the corresponding Nirncrux (so, like, asking for a Nirnhoned heavy chest and giving a Fortified Nirncrux to make it with). I had another player make most of mine using this system. :U Because I just remembered I never actually finished Craglorn before I completed my research LMFAO pre revamp Craglorn was so bad

EDIT: Y'know, I never got to experience the game before Nirnhoned was as widespread as it is today. I get the feeling the new traits for Jewelry Crafting will be just like that when it finally drops. At least for people like me that don't participate in too many game activities beyond questing and crafting.

This post has been edited by monkeyemoness: May 1 2018, 10:25 PM

No, as long as you have the nirncrux for each piece you want to research, any of us will be glad to make you the pieces you want next. Acadian writes to me once every month or so and gives me the nirncrux in a PM telling me what pieces to make that he is going to research next = I just make them and mail them back to him in a PM. That is how I learned too; a friend from the TESAlliance site made them all for me, I just sent her the nirncrux.

Wow I wish there were a way for you to decide what Champion level you shoot up to when you hit 50.

Barring that I wish there were a way for you to exclusively find the lowest tier of material that will spawn for your character.

Overleveling thanks to the event is starting to show its downsides.

Unna needed a bit more mahogany than she had for her crafting writ, so we decided to go to Craglorn to look for some, as we might pick up a bit more Nirncrux in the process. Got a lot of Rubedite, Ancestor Silk, Ruby Ash, Rubedo Leather Scraps, and alchemical ingredients, runestones etc. but neither of the things we went looking for.

Where's a good place to look for something else, and end up finding those?

Blossom's doing the Wrothgar quests, as well as trying to catch up to Laurie in the crafting skills. Now that Laurie doesn't need the inspiration from deconstruction, she's getting all the crew's collection, and advancing quite well. We just have to make sure she has enough of those CP10-140 mats that nobody ever uses, so she can do the writs for the levels she passes through. Like monkey, we have the problem of nobody else collecting them but Blossom, and when she goes up a level, the timing has to be right. The only saving mechanism is the returns from higher-level writs. Unna (metals only) and Laurie both provide some, although rarely the right ones.

And one more milestone: 1 million gold in the bank! Mathiisen Manor is getting close!

Late edit: The bank is empty and MM is ours (No, Taminwe, you have to share!) Of course, it's rather empty right now.

This post has been edited by ghastley: May 3 2018, 02:24 PM

I'm sure that frequency of requests represents the drop rate for Nirncrux.

Since I got the 6 fortified +3 potent from the Jubilee boxes, I'm at a bit of a loss as to the best way to use them. Laurie has a master writ for a shield that could pay for her next crafting station, but I can't decide if we should start research on other items asap, or wait for writs that need it. I can see a case for learning it on the items she can do so fastest (i.e. the ones she knows least traits for), as the writs requiring other traits would be lower value.

I don't think it has to do with the drop rate as much as how slow researching goes at the later stages when you've learned almost all the traits for each item.

But you can research nine at a time, three each for woodworking/smithing/clothier. The month the final trait takes would overlap with other items. Of course, only Acadian would know the whole story.

I'll likely send you a request for that shield tonight. Still trying to decide which other pieces take priority.

Today I discovered that Lucius has run out of Skill Points, and there are no Skyshards or Public Dungeons left to grab them from save for Cyrodiil Skyshards.

Ugh. Summerset is still a few weeks away.

EDIT: Time for a trip to a Plane of Oblivion :v

This post has been edited by monkeyemoness: May 4 2018, 01:48 AM

I need to find out how to convince the RNG gods that I'm not looking for something. I still haven't got any Nirncrux from harvesting in Craglorn (just from the Jubille boxes), and I'm having almost the same luck now with Rogues' Soot in Hew's Bane, which is an ingredient for the Jester's Pavilion. (Taminwe would like to use that for the crafting location at Mathiisen Manor.) Laurie went hunting for over an hour and got precisely one. She did come back with a large selection of other materials, so we're not complaining.

She made Blossom a new set of Medium Hunding's Rage Training, so she'll be properly equipped for the Guild meet. That replaces a set of Death's Wind Heavy, which was good for keeping alive while foraging, but wasn't otherwise appropriate.

Having some chapters of the Outlaw style learned increases the chances of finding the soot, if you didn't know already. Getting anyone who's learned at least one look for them increases the droprate a bit, IIRC.

=

So after quite a bit of grinding this past week, Lucius finally mastered the equipment crafts. Sad thing is that he didn't exactly lack any materials thanks to what went into grinding them in the first place: trawling Craglorn for nodes and chests. At least that's over, and now he only finds one type of node.

Gonna keep having him do writs until he masters the consumables and gathers enough gold to buy his last backpack upgrade. Racists that they are, the people who hand those out give him six more gold than a non-Imperial would get from writs, which does build up.

With that out of the way, I have to think about making someone other than the Crafting Monkey my main Jeweler. He's still the "main" crafter, but his inventory is already cluttered up, and I'd also like to have at least one other character do the dailies, well, daily. (He's also "canonized" as the guy who makes their furniture.) I sort of wanted to make Ruben the Squad's jeweler, but I sort of prefer it if it's someone I already log onto daily. I've also considered Jo'zira, but I'm waiting to see if Spellcrafting's going to happen after all. Eolan's 100-Strength hotdog fingers probably aren't up to the task, so maybe Xochtl?

Since Laurie only has the three Outlaw Motif pages we got during the Jubilee, we thought we'd better get some more. Syvarra of the Deep killed her several times, and then dropped a duplicate page. Laurie stomped off in disgust, and found some Rogues Soot on her way back to Hew's Bane. Still a bit short, will have to try again, so we did a delve instead, (Sharks Teeth Grotto) and got nothing but the achievement and a skyshard. I think I missed looting the boss, because he was buried under the sub-boss.

Laurie got re-spec'ed (via level-up scrolls) after that, as she'd rather have been a tank all along. She made herself some Heavy Song of Lamae, and farmed for some Green Pact, as she was doing that area for Silver. I took her back to Syvarra, to see how she'd do with the new build, but nobody else was around, and although she lasted much better, she got ground down for lack of offence. We did pick up another Soot on the trip.

Taminwe is going the other way, and dropping the shield for another blade. Since she's still low-level, I'm not going to do a re-spec, and she'll just pick up the other skills, like Unna did with Medium Armour. I need to design a build for her that suits better than the stealth-oriented one the Level-up Advisor wants to use. She likes being conspicuous. I'll have Laurie make her some new gear, especially the swords. She's outgrown her current things.

This post has been edited by ghastley: May 7 2018, 02:07 PM