Dark Anchors and equipment drops for crafting

[Reskal]

My question is: the chest at the end of a dark anchor event, can it contain equipment with all traits i want to research in crafting ?
Or are there some traits, that never drop at the dark anchors ?
Because i want to research all traits and wonder if its enough to farm dark anchors.
Thanks in advance.

[Andrey]

Anchor chest is a source of jewelry (rings, necklaces). Their traits are always the same (+health for heavy sets, +stamina for medium, and +mana for light).
Traits on armor or weapons can be random.
Some traits never drop in overland content or have specific sources. Nirnhoned (armor and weapons), most of jewelry traits.
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Nirnhoned
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Jewelry

[Reskal]

So is "nirnhoned" the only weapon and armor-trait i cannot get from anchors ? I still have 20 or 30 traits to get

[Andrey]

Yes. But i dont know if anchors are good source of weapons and armor items - never thought about it. Usually i do quests, maybe dungeons and get new traits in the process. It becomes slow, less unknown traits remain. Also you can buy items from guild traders (for some small money of course. no need to buy expensive set items just to research a trait).

[Reskal]

Ok, good to know, ty !

[Zayrownd]

you will get only like 3 of all the traits for jewelry in that way, cuz bloodthirsty, infused and other jewelry traits are obtained in other ways

for armor and weapons you wont get any nirn trait

[Alessondria]

You can ask in a guild for someone to craft you low level research gear. Older crafters would be happy to send you what you need for research.

A tip though. Invest full points into the researcher crafting skill with EACH crafting tree and do not take it off. Your final research project would take around 6 months without thee tiny research boost ESO+, researching scrolls and that perk can give.

Nirn trait is only got by completing a quest in Craglorn, and you can only select 1 nirn item for each character. Gathering the trait material, or buying it, and having a crafter make you an item for research is thee only way to get them.

Jewelry crafting also has some special trait materials that only drop from certain activities like Trials, PvP, master crafting writ shop and stuff. You need to have access to Summerset to do stuff with jewelry crafting. So you cannot gain everything but nirn though RNG dolmen drops.

EDIT: delves and 4 player dungeons drop the most gear items. Much faster to get research gear. Check with guild traders too or ask in chat if you do not mind that.

[Oubley]

Originally posted by Zayrownd:

you will get only like 3 of all the traits for jewelry in that way, cuz bloodthirsty, infused and other jewelry traits are obtained in other ways

for armor and weapons you wont get any nirn trait

is that a change? I thought they dropped nirnhorned stuff particularly in what was it Craglorn?

haven't played in super long time and thinking of booting back up.

[PCkukac]

You get 1 random nirn wheap/armour in Craglorn for MQ. Ask in guild to kraft with this trait, or buy them from guild stores.