How Scribing World With Alt Characters
Alternative Character or alt character is a term for all of your characters that isn’t your main character. Your main character is usually the one you play and like the most, but some people don’t have a main character at all and instead play equally on multiple characters.
You DO NOT need to complete any Scribing Quests on your alt character to be able to earn Luminous Ink and Scripts IF one of your characters has completed all of the Luminary Wings.
Scribing System account wide unlocks- only need to complete once
Completing the Luminary Wings will unlock Sigils, that are account wide, but what does it mean? As an example, when you unlock Sigil of the Indrik, this means all of your characters will get Luminous Ink from monsters without doing any Scribing Quests.
You only need to do the Luminary Wing questlines once and all of your alts are able get Luminous Ink and Scripts!
Focus, Signature and Affix Scripts won’t drop from the daily quests until you complete it’s wing mentioned below. Once you’ve completed a Luminary Wing you can start grinding scripts for all of the characters you want to use the ESO Scribing System on.
Account wide unlocks
- Wing of the Indrik
- Allows Luminous Ink to rarely drop when defeating monsters for all of your characters.
- Wing of the Gryphon
- Adds Focus Scripts as possible rewards from daily Delve quests, daily Mages Guild quests, and PvP Rewards for the Worthy for all of your characters.
- Wing of the Dragon
- Adds Signature Scripts as possible rewards from daily World Boss quests, daily Cyrodiil quests, and daily Fighters Guild quests for all of your characters.
- Unlocks the Mages Guild Subsidized Script chase for all of your characters.
- Unlocks the Class Mastery Signature Script chase for all of your characters.
- Wing of the Netch
- Adds Affix Scripts as possible rewards from daily World Event quests, daily Imperial City quests, and daily Undaunted quests for all of your characters.
- Allows Luminous Ink to rarely drop when harvesting crafting materials on all of your characters.
- Wing of the Crow, the Final Quest
- Unlocks Grimoire: Soul Burst for your first character (no need to buy) and your other characters can buy it from the Scholarium Merchant for 10,000 Gold.
Scribing System character specific unlocks – need to do on all characters
You will be able to get Luminous Ink and Scripts on all characters immediately after you’ve completed the Luminary Wings mentioned above on one character. You will not be able to access the Scribing Altar to Scribe Skills until you complete the Second Era of Scribing, Tutorial Quest. The Scribing Tutorial Quest takes approximately 5-10 minutes to complete.
You do not need to complete any Scribing Quests on your alt character to be able to earn Luminous Ink and Scripts IF one of your characters has completed all of the Luminary Wings.
The biggest Scribing Grind comes from acquiring all the different Scripts for your alt characters. The tutorial quest gives you three free Scripts: Magic Damage, Lingering Torment and Breach. The other free Scripts you earn with your main Bound Focus Script: Healing, Bound Signature Script: Sage’s Remedy, Bound Affix Script: Resolve and Bound Affix Script: Off Balance can be bought from the Scholarium Merchant for 10 Gold (not 10k, just 10 gold).
Scripts are not account wide. You will need to farm or buy each script separately for each of your characters but you are able to deposit them into your bank to give them to your other characters.
The Scribing Vendor (Scholarium Merchant) Chronicler Firandil prices change when you’ve bought the Grimoire or Script on one character.