Leveling up Provisioning in the Elder Scrolls Online is a bit tricky, it might take a while the first time because you have to farm ingredients and recipes (or buy them in the guild stores) and figure out how to do it, which will be shown in this guide. However, once you understand the concept of leveling up Provisioning, it will take no more than 10 minutes if you already have all the necessary materials.
Inspiration
Inspiration is the experience you gain to level up all crafting skill lines in ESO. There is only a few ways to increase your actual Inspiration experience.
- 10% "Inspiration Boost" from the ESO Plus Membership
- 30% “Inspiration Boost” Champion Point perk, acquired by spending 45 points.
ESO Plus Inspiration Boost
ESO Plus is the subscription that Elder Scrolls Online offers, there is a lot of benefits to it and one of it is the extra 10% Inspiration boost that you get.
Champion Points Inspiration Boost
In the Craft tree of the Champion Points system you can find a perk called "Inspiration Boost" that will increase your Inspiration experience gained by 30%.
What about other Experience Boosters?
Experience boosters such as Ambrosia Drinks or Experience Scrolls don't have any effect on the Inspiration experience gained.
Leveling Provisioning
Lets take a look at how you can level up Provisioning in ESO. You can see in the list below, what kind of recipes you should look out for, once you find a recipe, it will show what sort of ingredients you need to craft the food or drink.
- Craft Level 15 Food/Drink until you reach provisioning level 20.Spend a skill point in the Recipe Improvement Passive
- Spend a skill point in the Recipe Improvement Passive
- Craft Level 25 Food/Drink until you reach provisioning level 30.Spend a skill point in the Recipe Improvement Passive
- Spend a skill point in the Recipe Improvement Passive
- Craft Level 35 Food/Drink until you reach provisioning level 40.Spend a skill point in the Recipe Improvement Passive
- Spend a skill point in the Recipe Improvement Passive
- Craft Level 45 Food/Drink until you reach provisioning level 50.
You will need:
- 3 Skill Points (+ additional 2 to unlock CP160 recipes and and an additional 3 to unlock up to gold quality food/drinks once, you reach Level 50 of the skill line)
- 1 Level 15 Recipe + 74 (or 95/80/87) of each ingredient
- 1 Level 25 Recipe + 60 (or 77/64/70) of each ingredient
- 1 Level 35 Recipe + 71 (or 92/77/84) of each ingredient
- 1 Level 45 Recipe + 98 (or 127/106/115) of each ingredient
The recipes have to be bought in a Guildstore, makes sure to check out the more popular places on your server, they usually have plenty of low level recipes. These recipes require two ingredients each so you also don't have to worry about farming/buying too many ingredient either.
Level 15 Drink & Food Recipes
Drinks
- Gingerose Tea
- Green Scourgut Tea
- Isinmate Infusion
- Kelp Kaveh
- Old Clear-Eye Whiskey
- Red Hippocras
- Sourflower Tea
- Sweetberry Tonic
- Tawny Port
Food
- Balmora Cabbage Biscuits
- Deshaan Honeydew Hors D’Ouevre
- Fried Green Tomatoes
- Pan-Fried Trout
- Port Hunding Cheese Fries
- Rabbit Millet Pilaf
- Spicy Beet Salad
- Stir-Fried Garlic Beef
- Stuffed Grape Leaves
Amount of crafts to unlock the next tier of recipes:
- 74 – With ESO+ and CP passive
- 96 – Without bonus
- 80 – With CP bonus only
- 87 – With ESO+ bonus only
Level 25 Drink & Food Recipes
Drinks
- Athlete’s Guzzle
- Busy Bee Brew
- Enlightenment Tea
- Ginger Wheat Beer
- Ginseng Sling
- Honey Rye
- Mead de Menthe
- Mermaid Whiskey
- Thrassian Chai
Food
- Cantaloupe Bread
- Cheese Pork Schnitzel
- Chicken and Biscuits
- Cinnamon Gorapples
- Eidar Radish Salad
- Green Bananas with Garlic
- Potato Rice Blintzes
- Rihad Beet and Garlic Salad
- Salted Cod
Amount of crafts to unlock the next tier of recipes:
- 60 – With ESO+ and CP passive
- 77 – Without bonus
- 64 – With CP bonus only
- 70 – With ESO+ bonus only
Level 35 Drink & Food Recipes
Drinks
- Crystal Clarity
- Nereid Wine
- Pink Profundity
- Puckermint Tea
- Rihad Qishr
- Rye-In-Your-Eye
- Seaberry Tonic
- Sorry, Honey Lager
- Winter Rose Tea
Food
- Apple Cobbler Supreme
- Bruma Jugged Rabbit
- Camlorn Pork Sausage
- Clan Mother’s Banana Pilaf
- Crispy Cheddar Chicken
- Indoril Radish Tartlets
- Rimmen Raisin Cookies
- Roasted Beet and Millet Salad
- Twice-Baked Potatoes
Amount of crafts to unlock the next tier of recipes:
- 71 – With ESO+ and CP passive
- 92 – Without bonus
- 77 – With CP bonus only
- 84 – With ESO+ bonus only
Level 45 Drink & food Recipes
Drinks
- Camlorn Mint Tea
- Dreugh Spit
- Jasminger Tea
- Lemonic Invigoration
- Shimmerene Tonic
- Sour Gin Fizz
- Sweet Dreams Tea
- Sweet Scamp Mazte
- Whiskey Sour
Food
- Akaviri Pork Fried Rice
- Blacklight Oxen Meatballs
- Dragonstar Radish Kebabs
- Mage’s Gorapple Porridge
- Melon-Chevre Salad
- Mistral Banana Bread
- Savory Thorn Cornbread
- Solstheim Elk and Scuttle
- Vvardenfell Ash Yam Loaf
Amount of crafts to unlock Level 50 of the Provisioning skill line:
- 98 – With ESO+ and CP passive
- 127 – Without bonus
- 106 – With CP bonus only
- 115 – With ESO+ bonus only
Recipe Examples of Level 15, 25, 35 and 45 Drink
Here you can find some of the Recipes the Provisioning Guide recommended, you can see a lv 15, 25, 35 and 45 recipe.
You will most likely level up more characters in the future,
so it doesn't matter when you have too many ingredients or recipes,
store them in the bank or on a character so they are ready to use when
you create a new character. If you have ESO+ Membership all ingredients
will get stored in the crafting bag anyway, that way they don't take up
any space. Later you can start doing crafting writs, you will get
increased quality writs when you have all your crafting maxed out and
they can also drop valuable rewards. More about writs in a separate
guide about Crafting Writs.
