I am a bit confused on how this works if someone could explain it to me please. So for Crafting you have to research different stuff to be able to make certain items. What is the best way to manage your time to always be researching something? Just keep breaking down as much equip that you find as possible and returning to a craft station after the time is up to start more research?

You have to research traits separately for every item type you can craft, but you can only research one thing at once PER CRAFT. But if you're doing more than one craft, say woodworking for staves and cloth for armor, you can have research going on both a staff type and an armor type at the same time.

IMO it's best to save your research time for the items you're actually going to use on that char; for instance, if you're a cloth wearer, research traits on cloth armor but not leather. One reason for this is that there are crafting stations in the world where you can make armor sets with special properties; but you need to have researched two traits (any traits will do) for each item you want to create in that set, and you need three set items to get the effect. So you might in fact want to strategize to make sure you get two traits on each of three items before branching out.

To ensure you always have something to research that is actually useful to you, make sure to save the items you find of the types you use that have traits you don't know yet; DON'T break them down, extraction is a different process from research and if you extract them you can't research them.

If you get a good item with desirable traits and want to wear it, that's fine; just remember when you replace it to research it rather than extracting it or vendoring it.

You can spent skill point in the corresponding craft skill to research 3 item at once, it will also reduce the time by 20%.

Researching takes forever, because not only does it take a long time, but there are a hell of a lot of things to research in each category.

So keep the researching going. Since it keeps counting the hours even when you log off.

It's hard to prioritize the items you really want to research first, because you don't know what item you'll get next. And when you do get something you want to research you'll likely be already tied up researching something else.

One thing I forgot to mention is that it really helps to belong to a guild. You can ask folks to send you green drops of the right type with the traits you want, and you can use the guild bank as a repository for all the trait gems... put in the gems you get that you can't use, withdraw the ones you need.

Also, green drops of all sorts that you can use for trait research are not that plentiful in the regular surface world, but fairly plentiful in public dungeons and even more so in instances. So put your dungeon running shoes on

Understanding it a bit better, I guess I just need to actually see some of these traits and the lists of stuff you can research.

I don't plan to craft much until I'm high level, but I should be atleast researching as much as possible during my level to 50 right?>

yes that would save you a lot of time once you do start crafting

Can see em all here: http://esohead.com/crafting

Not all, but most of the reference stuff you'd want for the game is already online In some cases, on mulitple websites.

I have a question for you Srikandi, how does one actually start researching a trait? I never got round to figuring it out, and was always wondering how to start researching those traits.

one of the tabs at the top of the crafting window is research

one is crafting, one is research, one is extraction, one is improving

i did not see where we could create jewelry on any of the different crafting tables. i was wondering if maybe crafting jewelry was for later on at higher levels?