Online:Crafting

In Elder Scrolls Online, there are seven crafting professions. Skill points are needed to fully develop crafting skills, but you are not limited to a single profession, and can choose to dabble in all of them, or specialize in a few professions. To craft, a crafting station of appropriate kind must be found.

Crafting materials can be gathered from the world, such as plants or ore, or looted from enemies. The primary use is to create items, however several crafting skills allow extracting of materials from items or researching traits they possess, which destroys those items. Some even let you improve existing items.

Professions

• Alchemy: The practice of binding of two or more Reagents with a Solvent to make potions and poisons.
• Blacksmithing: The art of converting raw materials into and improving upon heavy armor and metallic weapons.
• Clothing: The art of converting raw materials into and improving upon light and medium armor.
• Enchanting: The practice of binding Runes into Glyphs used to enhance weapons, armor, and jewelry.
• Jewelry Crafting: A skill added by the Summerset chapter which allows the crafting and improvement of Jewelry.
• Provisioning: The art of converting Ingredients into ingestible Foods and Drinks.
• Woodworking: The art of converting raw wood into and improving upon Staves, Bows, and Shields.

Skill points

The table below shows the amount of skill points required in order to max out each profession skill line.

Order	Profession	Skill points required
1	Alchemy	21
2	Blacksmithing	26
3	Clothing	26
4	Enchanting	23
5	Jewelry Crafting	18
6	Provisioning	25
7	Woodworking	26
Totals:	All	165

Crafting Stations

Crafting Stations are places at which you can partake in the crafting professions. Each type of crafting station is most commonly found at a particular type of store: alchemy stations are found at apothecaries, blacksmithing stations are found at smithies, clothing stations are found at smithies and clothiers, enchanting stations are found at chironasia, and woodworking stations are found at carpentries and some smithies. Cooking fires for provisioning are most commonly found in inns and camps. Jewelry crafting writs are inconsistently placed, but can usually be found in major cities. Besides that, special Crafting Sites are always equipped with blacksmithing, clothing, jewelry, and woodworking stations for crafting items in specific Sets.

Blacksmithing, clothing, and woodworking stations craft items with specific styles. A style can be used if the corresponding crafting motif is known for that item. The order that crafting stations list the available styles is unfortunately not obvious.

Refinement

After being harvested from resource nodes, raw materials for four different crafting professions (blacksmithing, clothing, jewelry crafting, and woodworking) may be refined, 10 at a time, into 7-10 refined craftable items, averaging an 85% recovery rate. For instance, if a player were to refine 10,000 raw blacksmithing ores, they could expect to get an average of 8,500 refined items. In addition to craftable items, refining raw materials will also yield trait items and upgrading items, which can improve the quality crafted items (such as armor, weapons, or jewelry). At the maximum skill level of the "extraction" skill for each profession, the likelihood is as follows (the same between all professions):

Temper/Tannin/Plating/Resin quality	% chance per raw material
	Extraction 0	Extraction 1	Extraction 2	Extraction 3	Ext 3 + Meticulous Disassembly
Fine	1.00%(?)	1.15%(?)	1.31%(?)	1.50%	1.69%
Superior	0%	0.96%(?)	1.09%(?)	1.25%	1.41%
Epic	0%	0%	0.66%(?)	0.75%	0.84%
Legendary	0%	0%	0%	0.50%	0.56%

Each increased level of the relevant extraction skill (Metal Extraction, Unraveling, Jewelry Extraction, and Wood Extraction) as well as the Champion Craft perk Meticulous Disassembly seem to increase the chance of getting improvement materials by 12.5% past the previous skill/perk level. These appear interchangeable; for instance, if a player had Extraction 2 and Meticulous Disassembly, it would be equivalent to having Extraction 3.

Note that this is not the chance of getting a single upgrading material or the chance of getting any number of upgrading materials, but an averaged drop rate over a long period of time. For instance, if a player with fully leveled Extraction skills, but without Meticulous Disassembly, were to refine 10,000 raw blacksmithing ores, they could expect to get an average of 150 Honing Stone, 125 Dwarven Oil, 75 Grain Solvent, and 50 Tempering Alloy.

Certification

Seven skills in ESO are eligible for Certification. When you reach level six a new notice will appear on the noticeboards in all major cities. The notice states that master crafters are willing to share their knowledge on crafting for free, which will allow you to complete writs. There are two master crafters, Millenith and Danel Telleno, who can certify you in three professions each.

With the Summerset chapter, the seventh skill - Jewelry Crafting - was added. It can only be learned from Felarian and his associated quest in Alinor, which requires the chapter to visit.

Crafting Writs

• See main article

Inspiration

All seven crafting professions use Inspiration for leveling purposes. Each profession uses the same amount of inspiration for all ranks as shown in the below table. Higher crafting ranks allow you to create higher level products and unlock more passive abilities in each profession. Inspiration is gained from performing crafting activities, such as creation, improvement, extraction, and refinement, as well as by completing writs. You gain more inspiration by crafting or deconstructing higher quality products. You can increase the amount of inspiration you earn in a few ways. 45 Champion Points can be allocated in the Craft skill tree towards the Inspiration Boost passive perk, increasing gains by 30%. Playing as an Orc also grants you a natural 10% boost to inspiration via their innate Craftsman skill.

Rank	Inspiration Required for Next Rank	Total Inspiration for Rank
1	640	0
2	3995	640
3	6920	4635
4	8900	11555
5	10560	20455
6	13040	31015
7	16360	44055
8	17960	60415
9	21880	78375
10	24400	100255
11	26900	124655
12	29400	151555
13	30200	180955
14	31000	211155
15	32600	242155
16	34200	274755
17	35800	308955
18	39610	344755
19	43420	384365
20	45750	427785
21	48080	473535
22	50500	521615
23	52920	572115
24	55560	625035
25	58200	680595
26	61280	738795
27	64360	800075
28	67660	864435
29	70960	932095
30	74700	1003055
31	78440	1077755
32	82400	1156195
33	86360	1238595
34	90980	1324955
35	95600	1415935
36	100440	1511535
37	105280	1611975
38	116280	1717255
39	128600	1833535
40	135200	1962135
41	141800	2097335
42	149280	2239135
43	156760	2388415
44	164647	2545175
45	173073	2709822
46	181840	2882895
47	191080	3064735
48	200760	3255815
49	211320	3456575
50	-	3667895

Bugs

• While crafting, the server can sometimes time out because it sees you as not moving. Initially, this may take a while, but the times can become quite short after repeated logins. ^?
  • Regularly exit the crafting station and move around, then resume your crafting.