How important is crafting for someone that's pve solo?

[Slim_Cognito]

I just want to experience all the story content as I love the ES lore, don't care about pve or having the absolute best gear, as long as I get to have a fair and easy time with all the later pve contents thats story related. I'm planning on finishing the base game questline before buying the other chapters. Lv 14 mag templar and lv 29 mag sorc.

Crafting just seem to take up so much time and even inventory space when I could be out there questing and exploring the world. So I'm wondering how important are crafting? Will I get stuck or have a hard time somewhere down the line without leveling any of the crafting skills?

[cReap89]

Well.. the choice is upto you.. there won't be much of a difference whether you go ahead with crafting or not... However, you might need to consider two things if you skip crafting career in eso:
1. Crafting gears will become costly as you reach end game and want to try your own specific build (But will not majorly impact your gameplay reason being you can earn lots of gold to buy crafting service from people)
2. usually people tend to level up atleast Alchemist profession for the sake of Medicinal use passive

Good Luck!

[Bouma]

Crafting is a huge time sink and if you are just interested in the story you wont need it.

[Lemonidas of Sourta]

Crafting is a great way to earn money. You can just mass craft popular PVE and PVP sets with the required meta traits, improve their rarity to purple and then sell in a trade guild for oodles of money.

Even if you don't want the money, you definitely, at one point, will have to improve the rarity of your set to gold tier. In which case you will need requisite improvement chance skills without which you will have to use an extra 3 or 4 rare crafting materials (that's an extra 100 or 150k worth of materials you're using).

You could obviously bypass this by asking your guildmates to improve and craft stuff for you. Many are happy to help as long as you provide the materials.

My advice? At least level it up via crafting trash stuff, refining raw materials and doing writs.

[Turtleswatter]

No, you don't need to do crafting. As you go through the game most armour & weapons drop for you and at CP160, as others have said, either you can buy, get someone to craft you a set, or farm one for yourself.

However, I would research and deconstruct any clothing, jewellery, armour and weapons. - even if you just sell the results to an NPC. The reason for this is that it takes over a year to research all nine traits in every discipline. So if you do change your mind later in the game and you haven't researched, you've more or less burned your bridges.

Later on I would put a few points into provisioning and alchemy. The potions you can craft are much better late game than the ones that drop.

[lilac]

if you dont have eso plus it is not worth the effort

[Mike Hawthorne]

I've played the game since beta and never trained any crafting, I felt the points spent were better spent on my combat and healing skills.

[Null]

the only crafting you can ignore is cooking, alchemy and enchanting. Other craftings you have to level up to max, because untradeable gear that you farm in trials and dungeons is in most cases only purple, so you have to upgrade that gear to gold grade on your own.

[Katmorphous333]

For solo not whatsoever.