ESO Summerset Jewelry Crafting, Leveling

A concise guide to level up jewelry crafting for max level players.

See also first part, jewelry crafting basics.

[bctt tweet="Leveling jewelry crafting takes 120 green cp160 to level 30, then 180 purples to 50. #Summerset #ESO @TESOnline"]

Leveling

My estimate of optimal leveling of cp160+ character and ESO+ is something like this:

• Open the inspiration passive in Tower CP constellation. It increases the crafting xp from deconning by 20% and increases the level-dependent max xp from items by 15%.
• Decon whatever white or low level jewelries at first levels. But watch out white cp160 intricates.
• Open the Jewelry Extraction passive at levels 4, 22, 32.
• Save blue and purple cp160 jewelry.If you decon them too soon you get only fraction of their potential xp.
• Level up only with greens until level 30. You lose most of their xp but they are abundant and let you push through the low levels..
• You need about 120 green cp160 jewelries to levek 30.
• Then decon all blues.
• Start deconning purples at level 32.
• The xp required from 30 to 50 is 2.7M. That is roughly 180 purples.
• But of course decon everything you get after level 32. Greens give 80% xp from purples.
• If you can avoid reading bookshelfs in Summerset and your jewelry crafting is beyond 45, decon until you are at beginning of a level. Then visit major toewns and their largest houses and read all bookshelves. There are books that advance jewelry crafting and you have a good chance of getting few free levels..
• Save intricate cp160 to last levels. They seem to give always the cap xp on any level. They are best at level 49 giving 28288 xp each.

The leveling from 1 to 30 takes 1M crafting xp and from 30 to 50 it takes 2.7M crafting xp. Level 30 is significant divider because there you can start deconning blue cp160 jewelry without clipped xp. Purples give full xp after level 32.

[su_private]Table columns:

• Xp to next: How much crafting xp you need to earn to advance to next level.
• Max item xp: This is a level-dependent cap of xp from a single item. E.g. deconstructing a golden CP160 ring gives only 1117 xp at first level, but beyond level 28 it gives over 10000.
• Increase: This is current level's required xp divided by previous level requirement.

[/su_private] Partial xp cap table from live. Crafter is cp900+, ESO+ and inspiration passive from cp tower. 5: 1918 6: 2828 7: 3172 8: 3515 9: 3775 10: 4024 11: 4430 12: 4815 13: 5335 14: 5844 15: 6042 16: 6219 17: 6791 18: 7363 19: 7675 20: 7976 21: 8863 22: 9349 23: 9713 24: 10077 25: 10431 26: 10774 27: 11762 28: 11874 29: 11874 (green cp160 no longer clipped) 29: 13249 (blue cp160) 30: 13500 (blue cp160 no longer clipped) 30: 13748 (purple cp160) 31: 14268 (purple cp160) 32: 14710 (purple cp160 no longer clipped) 33: 14710 (purple cp160) Here a purple cp160 jewelry gives 14710 xp. On PTS it gave only 9335 xp. There is a difference of missing 20% xp buff from CP passives. But on top of that it seems that xp was increased additional 30% from PTS.

Xp from items

Rings and necklaces give same xp.

CP160 jewelry xp:

• Green: 11874
• Blue: 13500
• Purple: 14710

[su_service title="Update 2018-05-24" icon="icon: info"] Currently Alik'r dolmen train seems to be the best way to level up jewelry crafting. It gives one ring every few minutes. The Geysirs in Summerset don't seem to rotate fast enough, although they tend to drop one to three rings per spawn. Psijic motifs don't seem to drop easily, even to level 10 psijic character. The new crabs drop nothing. Fishing near geysirs has not brought anything. [/su_service]

I fear ZOS again turned everything to grindy horror. I stopped camping the geysirs and moved to Alik'r.

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