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While out and nigh adventuring in Tamriel, you are spring to come across resource nodes for things like wood, ore, and plants. While at first glance information technology may seem pretty straightforward, Elder Scrolls Online handles material gathering in a slightly different style than other MMOs — and so hither's our beginner's guide to gathering materials.

Materials are naturally used in crafting, which allows you to fashion gear for your character. A character can technically learn all crafting-related skills, but it requires an immense amount of Skyshards and Skill Points. One specific category of crafting passive affects your gathering, yet — the first ane for each skill:

  • Alchemy: Solvent Proficiency
  • Blacksmithing: Metalworking
  • Clothing: Tailoring
  • Jewelry: Engraver
  • Woodworking: Woodworking
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Materials spawn in a unique way in ESO. Instead of specific types of materials spawning in specific areas — for example, Copper Ore spawning in beginner zones in World of Warcraft — ESO uses a grapheme-specific organisation. The nodes yous see in-game are based on your Grapheme level and your Passives level.

As an instance, if you are a level 50, CP 160 actor and you take level i Metalworking, if you come across a mining node the node will have a 50% chance to be Iron Ore (the lowest level mining node,) and a 50% chance to be Rubedite Ore (the highest level mining node.) This ensures that yous always have a chance to obtain level-appropriate resources for Writ completion. This also means that you lot can technically gather high-level crafting materials from low-level, less populated zones — so if a zone is overpopulated or you're finding competition for your nodes, simply caput to whatsoever different zone.