Ancient Knowledge: This passive ability no longer decreases the cast time of your Destruction Staff Heavy Attacks by 5/10%. Instead, it grants you a bonus as long as you have one Destruction Staff ability slotted. This bonus depends on your staff type:
Flame Staves: Increases your single-target damage dealt by 4/8%.
Frost Staves: Increases the amount of damage you Block by 10/20%, and reduces the cost of Block by 15/30%.
Lightning Staves: Increases your Area of Effect damage dealt by 4/8%.
Tri Focus:
This passive ability now taunts the enemy after you use a fully-charged Frost Heavy Attack.
This passive ability now causes your block to drain Magicka (instead of Stamina) and stops your Magicka Recovery (instead of Stamina Recovery) while blocking when you have a Frost Destruction Staff equipped.
The Telvar Merchants allows PVP’ers and PVE’ers who have obtained Telvar Stones in the Imperial City a means to purchase various items.
Summary
General Telvar Merchant offers a means to obtain crafting material without harvesting nodes.
The General Merchant stocks Consumables, Materials, and Miscellaneous Items. These include Xivkyn Polymorphs, Sigil of Imperial Retreat, Waxed Apothecary’s Parcels, crafting materials (cloth, metal, wood, runes, alliance style stones, and soul gems)
One of our favourite ESOTU Community Ambassadors and YouTuber/Streamer has posted a current video on the essentials of crafting writs. If you are wondering about writs and want a good primer, her video is worth the view. Duration: ~11 minutes.
With the release of Shadows of the Hist, the highest tier writs and Survey Map were tweaked to use only the highest level materials. Unfortunately, the maps were bugged and still rewarded lower tier materials. Fortunately, that issue was patched.
On the positive side, the clothing survey maps saw an upgrade with the inclusion of leather nodes in the form of trapping nodes.
Many crafters agree that there is still room for improvement. Some writs are asking for four or more items to be crafted. These writs are not worth doing as the rewards result in a net loss of materials and little to offset the cost.
Truewavesound posted on the forums their crafting data from last week.
I have been recording the results of my max level crafting writs for the last week in an effort to decide whether I should continue to do them.
Although the sample size was small and assuming the gold items were sold on the market, Truewavesound’s conclusion was that doing the writs were profitable (average of the three professions was about 18,500g profit.)
To be an effective crafting consultant, one must be aware of the changes to the weapons you create from the basic of materials.
