During my journeys throughout Tamriel, I have often heard young apprentice provisioners grumble to their masters about needing more information relating to their daily writs. This brief compendium identifies the list of provisioning writs and the approximately level they are offered.
Summary
One of the many things an inhabitant of Tamriel can do is to become a certified Provisioner located in their starting area.
Certification in their crafting profession is not required to reach maximum level. However, writs offer a chance to earn new recipes (including purple recipes) and rare provisioning materials. After level 10, crafters can be certified without have to do the introductory quest.
The recipes given to a player doing the daily writs depend on a number of factors. These include Crafting Level, Skill Points assigned in the Provisioning Skill Line, and if certain regions of the game have been unlocked.
Most crafting masters and scholars agree, the consumable writs offered the best rewards. Fortunately, Masters only require the finished crafted products and do not care where they come from. An efficient adventure who wants to benefit from writ rewards can buy the crafted items or only need to learn the necessary recipes once.
Knowing which recipes are used for writs provides the crafter and adventurer alike a greater sense of their value and rarity.
Note: Currently, updating content for 2.6.x and applying more consistency with my other writ documents.
Contents
- Certification
- What are the Writ Recipes?
- Where do I find Writ Recipes?
- Aldmeri Dominion
- Daggerfall Covenant
- Ebonheart Pact
- All Factions
- Writ Recipes in Alphabetical Order
- Chefs and Brewers in Writ Turn-in Towns
Certification
Within your starting town (Davon’s Watch, Auridon, and Daggerfall), there will be a master consumables crafting master (Danel Telleno) in the Mages’ Guild that will offer you the quest to become certified in Alchemy. Certification unlocks the daily writs posted on the nearby writ board. For more information, see Crafting Dailies.
What are the Writ Recipes?
The daily writ quests offered by the consumables notice boards in your faction regions and common regions (Coldharbour, Craglorn, etc.), will depend on your the regions you have unlocked and the number of skill points invested in the provisioning line passives. For each “writ level”, there are six writ recipes: 3 Food, 3 Drinks. Each day the notice board will offer one of three groups of recipes for the crafters writ level. The pairing of the recipes do not appear to change.
The writs reset at the same time as the other daily quests (pledges, trials, and other repeatable quests) at 2300h PT/0200h ET.
Where to find Writ Recipes?
For those starting the craft of provisioning, a few of the starter writ recipes will be given to you during crafting certification. The recipes can be purchased from any chef (food) or brewer (drinks) vendor. However, they can often found around Tamriel in container’s that would most likely have recipes stored in them (Desks, Cabinets, Drawers, Backpacks, Urn, Trunk, Chest, etc.) and some humanoid mobs.
Tip: The vendors will sell recipes based on your current recipe improvement level and the one before it. Exception: The last writ group recipes can only be found in the world, rewarded as writ rewards, or from other players. Also, you will only be offered recipes for your allegiance if the recipe is level 35 and lower.
The starting recipes, for example, can be found in the following regions
- Auridon, Khenarthi’s Roost
- Bleakrock, Bay Foyen, Stonefalls
- Betnikh, Stros M’Kai
Aldmeri Dominion (<40)
Writ Level 1
(Recipe Improvement Proficiency 1)
| Pair | Food | Drink |
|---|---|---|
| Group A | Chicken Breast: Poultry | Mazte: Rice |
| Group B | Banana Surprise: Bananas | Four-Eye Grog: Wheat, Seaweed |
| Group C | Baked Potato: Potato | Red Rye Beer: Rye |
Rewards:
- Provisioner’s Pack I (2 Provisioning Ingredients x 5, 2 Provisioning Ingredients x 10 , 1 Green Recipe or rare chance of blue or purple recipe)
- 1,000 Inspiration Points
Turn-in Locations
Writ Level 2
(Recipe Improvement Proficiency 2)
| Pair | Food | Drink |
|---|---|---|
| Group A | Whiterun Cheese-Baked Trout: Fish, Cheese | Mermaid Whiskey: Barley, Seaweed |
| Group B | Garlic Pumpkin Seeds: Pumpkin, Garlic | Treacleberry Tea: Comberry, Metheglin |
| Group C | Nibenese Garlic Carrots: Carrots, Garlic | Barley Nectar: Barley, Honey |
Rewards:
- Provisioner’s Pack II (2 Provisioning Ingredients x 5, 2 Provisioning Ingredients x 10 , 1 Green Recipe or rare chance of blue or purple recipe, rare chance Frost Mirriam x 4, and rare chance Bervez Juice x 2)
- 1,000 Inspiration Points
Turn-in Locations
Writ Level 3
(Recipe Improvement Proficiency 3)
| Pair | Food | Drink |
|---|---|---|
| Group A | Elinhir Roast Antelope: Game, Millet | Sorry, Honey Lager: Wheat, Honey |
| Group B | Cyrodilic Pumpkin Fritters: Pumpkin, Millet | Spiceberry Chai: Comberry, Ginger |
| Group C | Chorrol Corn on the Cob: Corn, Seasoning | Spiced Mazte: Rice, Ginger |
Rewards:
- Provisioner’s Pack III (2 Provisioning Ingredients x 5, 1 Provisioning Ingredients x 10 , 1 Green Recipe or rare chance of blue or purple recipe)
- 1,000 Inspiration Points
Turn-in Locations
Daggerfall Covenant (<40)
Writ Level 1
(Recipe Improvement Proficiency 1)
| Pair | Food | Drink |
|---|---|---|
| Group A | Baked Apples: Apples | Lemon Flower Mazte: Rice, Lemon |
| Group B | Carrot Soup: Carrot | Golden Lager: Wheat |
| Group C | Fishy Sticks: Fish | Surilie Syrah Wine: Surilie Grapes |
Rewards:
- Provisioner’s Pack I (2 Provisioning Ingredients x 5, 2 Provisioning Ingredients x 10 , 1 Green Recipe or rare chance of blue or purple recipe)
- 1,000 Inspiration Points
Turn-in Locations
Writ Level 2
(Recipe Improvement Proficiency 2)
| Pair | Food | Drink |
|---|---|---|
| Group A | Pellitine Tomato Rice: Tomato, Saltrice | Seaflower Tea: Lotus, Seaweed |
| Group B | Alik’r Beets with Goat Cheese: Beets, Cheese | Gossamer Mazte: Rice, Isinglass |
| Group C | Breton Pork Sausage: White Meat, Seasoning | Ginger Wheat Beer: Wheat, Ginger |
Rewards:
- Provisioner’s Pack II (2 Provisioning Ingredients x 5, 2 Provisioning Ingredient x 10 , 1 Green Recipe or rare chance of blue or purple recipe)
- xxxxxx Inspiration Points
Turn-in Locations
Writ Level 3
(Recipe Improvement Proficiency 3)
| Pair | Food | Drink |
|---|---|---|
| Group A | Cinnamon Grape Jelly: Jazbay Grapes, Seasoning | Torval Mint Tea: Mint, Honey |
| Group B | Garlic Mashed Potatoes: Potato, Garlic | Mulled Wine: Surilie Grapes, Metheglin |
| Group C | Senchal Curry Fish And Rice: Fish, Saltrice | Nereid Wine: Surilie Grapes, Seaweed |
Rewards:
- Provisioner’s Pack III (2 Provisioning Ingredients x 5, 2 Provisioning Ingredients x 10 , 1 Green Recipe or rare chance of blue or purple recipe, rare chance of Frost Mirriam x 4, rare chance of Bervez Juice x 3)
- 1,000 Inspiration Points
Turn-in Locations
Ebonheart Pact (<40)
Writ Level 1
(Recipe Improvement Proficiency 1)
| Pair | Food | Drink |
|---|---|---|
| Group A | Grape Preserves: Jazbay Grapes | Clarified Syrah Wine: Surilie Grapes, Isinglass |
| Group B | Roast Corn: Corn | Nut Brown Ale: Barley |
| Group C | Chicken Breast: Poultry | Bog Iron Ale: Yeast |
Rewards:
- Provisioner’s Pack I (2 Provisioning Ingredients x 5, 2 Provisioning Ingredients x 10 , 1 Green Recipe or rare chance of blue or purple recipe)
- xxxxxx Inspiration Points
Turn-in Locations
Writ Level 2
(Recipe Improvement Proficiency 2)
| Pair | Food | Drink |
|---|---|---|
| Group A | Redoran Peppered Melon: Melon, Seasoning | Bitterlemon Tea: Bittergreen, Lemon |
| Group B | Battaglir Chowder: Greens, Millet | Eltheric Hooch: Rye, Seaweed |
| Group C | Venison Pasty: Game, Flour | Honey Rye: Rye, Honey |
Rewards:
- Provisioner’s Pack II (2 Provisioning Ingredients x 5, 2 Provisioning Ingredients x 10 , 1 Green Recipe or rare chance of blue or purple recipe)
- xxxxxx Inspiration Points
Turn-in Locations
Writ Level 3
(Recipe Improvement Proficiency 3)
| Pair | Food | Drink |
|---|---|---|
| Group A | Stormhold Baked Bananas: Bananas, Cheese | Maormer Tea: Rose, Seaweed |
| Group B | Jerall View Inn Carrot Cake: Carrots, Flour | Sour Mash: Barley, Lemon |
| Group C | Hare In Garlic Sauce: Small Game, Garlic | Rye-in-Your-Eye: Rye, Metheglin |
Turn-in Locations
Rewards:
- Provisioner’s Pack III (2 Provisioning Ingredients x 5, 2 Provisioning Ingredients x 10 , 1 Green Recipe or rare chance of blue or purple recipe)
- xxxxxx Inspiration Points
All Factions (40+)
Writ Level 4
(Recipe Improvement Proficiency 4)
| Pair | Food | Drink |
|---|---|---|
| Group A | Mammoth Snout Pie: Red Meat, Flour | Two-Zephyr Tea: Rose, Lemon |
| Group B | Skyrim Jazbay Crostata: Jazbay Grapes, Saltrice | Blue Road Marathon: Guarana, Isinglass |
| Group C | Cyrodilic Cornbread: Corn, Flour | Gods-Blind-Me: Yeast, Isinglass |
Rewards:
- Provisioner’s Pack IV (2 Provisioning Ingredients x 5, 2 Provisioning Ingredients x 10 , 1 Green Recipe or rare chance of blue or purple recipe)
- 6,000 Inspiration Points
Turn-in Locations
Writ Level 5
(Recipe Improvement Proficiency 5)
Once the crafter has obtained the required proficiencies and unlocked the higher level regions (Coldharbour — Main Quest Line and Craglorn — Veteran Rank 1) will be challenged with more difficult recipes and deliveries.
| Pair | Food | Drink |
|---|---|---|
| Group A | Orcrest Garlic Apple Jelly: Apples, Garlic | Grandpa’s Bedtime Tonic: Guarana, Ginger |
| Group B | West Weald Corn Chowder: Corn, Millet | Comely Wench Whisky: Rye, Ginger |
| Group C | Millet-Stuffed Pork Loin: White Meat, Millet | Aetherial Tea: Jasmine, Metheglin |
Rewards:
- Provisioner’s Pack V (2 Provisioning Ingredients x 5, 2 Provisioning Ingredients x 10 , 1 Green Recipe or rare chance of blue or purple recipe, rare chance of Frost Mirriam x 3, rare chance of Bervez Juice x 3)
- 8,000 Inspiration Points
Turn-in Locations
Writ Level 6
(Recipe Improvement Proficiency 6)
| Pair | Food | Drink |
|---|---|---|
| Group A | Fresh Apples & Eidar Cheese: Apples, Cheese | Khenarthi’s Wings Chai: Jasmine, Honey |
| Group B | Pickled Carrot Slurry: Carrot, Saltrice | Arenthian Brandy: Surilie Grapes, Lemon |
| Group C | Argonian Saddle Cured Rabbit: Small Game, Saltrice | Sipping Imga Tonic: Ginkgo, Lemon |
Note: Max level crafters are noticing that every day the RNG randomly assigns either the CP 50 writ or the CP 150 writ, and once that is decided, you receive whichever writ for that level is due up in the rotation for that day. Also, it seems that the the rotations are linked to each other on a daily basis. I have not been able to discern a pattern outside of this and it does appear whether you get a CP 50 or CP 150 writ is completely random.
Day 1: CP 50 - Pickled Carrot Slurry\Arenthian Brandy or CP 150 - Hearty Garlic Corn Chowder\Markath Mead
Day 2: CP 50 - Argonian Saddle-Cured Rabbit\Sipping Imga Tonic or CP 150 - Lilmoth Garlic Hagfish\Hagraven’s Tonic
Day 3: CP 50 - Fresh Apples and Eidar Cheese\Khenarthi’s Wings Chai or CP 150 - Firsthold Fruit and Cheese Plate\Muthsera’s Remorse
Rewards:
- Provisioner’s Pack VI (2 Provisioning Ingredients x 5, 2 Provisioning Ingredients x 10 , 1 Green Recipe or rare chance of blue or purple recipe)
- xxxxxx Inspiration Points
Turn-in Locations
Writ Level 7
(Recipe Improvement Proficiency 6)
| Pair | Food | Drink |
|---|---|---|
| Group A | Lilmoth Garlic Hagfish: Fish, Garlic | Hagraven’s Tonic: Ginkgo, Ginger |
| Group B | Hearty Garlic Corn Chowder: Garlic, Corn | Markarth Mead: Barley, Metheglin |
| Group C | Firsthold Fruit and Cheese Plate: Jazbay Grapes, Cheese | Muthsera’s Remorse: Bittergreen, Metheglin |
Rewards:
- Provisioner’s PackVII (2 Provisioning Ingredients x 5, 2 Provisioning Ingredients x 10 , 1 Green Recipe or rare chance of blue or purple recipe)
- xxxxxx Inspiration Points
Turn-in Locations
Writ Recipes in Alphabetical Order
- Aetherial Tea (1350g)
- Alik’r Beets with Goat Cheese (540g)
- Arenthian Brandy (1350g)
- Argonian Saddle-Cured Rabbit (1350g)
- Baked Apples (270g)
- Baked Potato
- Banana Surprise
- Barley Nectar
- Battaglir Chowder (540g)
- Bitterlemon Tea
- Blue Road Marathon (1080g)
- Bog-Iron Ale
- Breton Pork Sausage (540g)
- Carrot Soup (270g)
- Chicken Breast (270g)
- Chorrol Corn on the Cob
- Cinnamon Grape Jelly (810g)
- Clarified Syrah Wine (270g)
- Comely Wench Whisky (1350g)
- Cyrodiilic Cornbread (1080g)
- Cyrodilic Pumpkin Fritters
- Elinhir Roast Antelope
- Eltheric Hooch (540g)
- Firsthold Fruit and Cheese Plate (1350g)
- Fishy Stick (270g)
- Four-Eye Grog
- Fresh Apples and Eidar Cheese
- Garlic Mashed Potatoes (810g)
- Garlic Pumpkin Seeds
- Ginger Wheat Beer (540g)
- Gods-Blind-Me (1080g)
- Golden Lager (270g)
- Gossamer Mazte (540g)
- Grandpa’s Bedtime Tonic (1350g)
- Grape Preserves (270g)
- Hagraven’s Tonic
- Hare in Garlic Sauce (810g)
- Hearty Garlic Corn Chowder
- Honey Rye (540g)
- Jerall View Inn Carrot Cake (810g)
- Khenarthi’s Wings Chai (1350g)
- Lemon Flower Mazte (270g)
- Lilmoth Garlic Hagfish
- Mammoth Snout Pie (1080g)
- Maormer Tea
- Markarth Mead
- Mazte
- Mermaid Whiskey
- Millet-Stuffed Pork Loin (1350g)
- Mulled Wine (810g)
- Muthsera’s Remorse
- Nereid Wine (810g)
- Nibenese Garlic Carrots
- Nut Brown Ale (270g)
- Orcrest Garlic Apple Jelly (1350g)
- Pellitine Tomato Rice (540g)
- Pickled Carrot Slurry (1350g)
- Red Rye Beer
- Redoran Peppered Melon (540g)
- Roast Corn (270g)
- Roast Pig (270g)
- Rye-in-Your-Eye
- Seaflower Tea (540g)
- Senchal Curry Fish and Rice (810g)
- Sipping Imga Tonic (1350g)
- Skyrim Jazbay Crostata (1080g)
- Sorry, Honey Lager
- Sour Mash
- Spiceberry Chai
- Spiced Mazte
- Stormhold Baked Bananas (810g)
- Surilie Syrah Wine (270g)
- Torval Mint Tea (810g)
- Treacleberry Tea
- Two-Zephyr Tea (1080g)
- Venison Pasty (540g)
- West Weald Corn Chowder (1350g)
- Whiterun Cheese-Baked Trout
Chefs and Brewers in Writ Turn-in Towns
Food recipes are available for purchase from any Chef Vendor. Drink recipes are available from Brewer vendor.
Tip: If you have not unlocked writ level 4 (Level 40+ recipes), the vendors will only sell recipes for your alliance writ recipes. For example, you will find Grape Preserves Recipe on sale as a member of Ebonheart Pact and will not see Baked Apples Recipe (DC).
| Town | Location | Chef | Brewer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stonefalls, Davons’ Watch | The Watch House | Mathis Uveran | Nela Sethri |
| Stonefalls, Davons’ Watch | The Fish Stink | Hectur the Fish | |
| Deshaan, Mournhold | The Flaming Nix | Surond Redoran | Guroanii Orethi |
| Deshaan, Mournhold | Royal Bazaar | Chef Freki | Dururo Hlan |
| Shadowfen, Stormhold | Coin Brothers’ Cornerclub | Sureeus | Six-Coins |
| Eastmarch, Windhelm | The Sober Nord | Fertab | Buram Fire-hearth |
| Eastmarch, Windhelm | Oaken-Hull’s Emporium | Fintholor the Brewmaster | |
| The Rift, Riften | The Withered Tree | Wilrek Snow-Shod | Leaks-When-Struck |
| The Rift, Riften | Marketplace | Alskar | |
| Auridon, Vulkhel Guard | Salted Wings Tavern | Hizala | Parmanir |
| Grahtwood, Elden Root | Outside Inn | Mararha | Enthilin, Inthithil |
| Greenshade, Marbruk | The Parchment and the Horn | Braghul | Eldumoril |
| Malabal Tor, Velyn Harbor | Trader’s Rest | None (Vulkwasten, Baandari Trading Post) | Benieth |
| Reaper’s March, Rawl’kha | The Waxing Crescent | Duzal-ja | None (Arenthia) |
| Glenumbra, Daggerfall | The Rosy Lion | Xavier | Grobert Dantaine, Phelain Bertault |
| Rivenspire, Shornhelm | Dead Wolf Inn | Coquina Plouff | Gerrald Chriane |
| Stormhaven, Wayrest | Cloudy Dregs Inn | Leobois Viliane | Annabelle Lemaitre |
| Bangkorai, Evermore | Anchor’s Point Inn | Thibauld Edilitte | Mortine Langey |
| Bangkorai, Evermore | The Stalls | Escabert Berri | |
| Alik’r Desert, Sentinel | Sisters of the Sands Inn | Zerdesht | Shabaga gra-Uzguk |
| Coldharbor, The Hollow City | The Shining Star | Afareen | Thorvar Voljar |
| Craglorn, Belkarth | Crossroads Tavern | Egeria | Ogondarr |
| Wrothgar, Orsinium | The Greedy Gut | Obgurob | Batorabesh |
| Wrothgar, Orsinium | King’s Cornerclub | Yakhu | Roxanne |
Related
- “Master Provisioning Recipe Conversion List“, The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited, Official Forums
- ESO Master Provisioner Cookbook
- List of Provisioning Writ Ingredients, Reddit
References
- “Provisioning Writ Recipes for All Factions“, The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited, Official Forums
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“One Tamriel Max Provisioning Writs Decoded“, The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited, Official Forums