It's weird but kinda funny. All these big touted quality of life changes this year. The big banner thing for this year. So many of the changes are like monkey's paw versions of what we asked for. You better lead RNG? Have leads that last a year before expiring, good luck finding them. Treasure maps are clogging up our inventory. Can they maybe stack like surveys do? Here, have your maps stack peasant, but if you wanna see what map they are, you are back in the same boat. Cool changes sure. But I'd like to know how they got to these conclusions from what the community asked for. Like a game of telephone.

Furnishings leads should not be so hard to get, period. If you wanna punish yourself, feel free to wander the zones you think need to be populated, be the change you want to see.

Treasure chest leads should just not be a thing. I shouldn't have to randomly get a map, open it and randomly get the zone I want and then have a low random chance to get the lead. That's random-ception dude. It might be a war crime.

LunaFlora wrote: »

the free version of the current Tamriel Tome has 8000 Seals, enough for 1 Apex tier mount

They all say 16000 Seals I thought.

I’m something like a Antiquities Hunter, and this system is pretty much the main thing I enjoy about the game. I started playing ESO in mid-2024 and took one long break (about 8 months) during which I didn’t play at all. Right now, my codex its 3/3 for all things, and I have good idea how hard it was to do that.

In this system, Lead drops are highly random; some things can be done "easily" at 3/3, while for others the grind is insanely long, even if the given Lead drops from harder content.

For example, Lead for furnishing that drops from dragons in North Elsweyr. I had to kill around a hundred dragons for the second codex entry, and I needed about the same number for the third (I don’t remember the exact numbers—it’s been a while—but I know it was a real pain grind). Dragons aren’t that easy to farm; they have a ton of HP, and not many people go there anymore, so you’re often on your own, etc.

Leads for Apocryphal Well—I opened more than 500 Treasure Maps and still didn’t get 3/3 codex. It wasn’t until Pan Tamriel event (which gave better chances of dropping Leads from Treasure Maps) that I managed to get 3/3. Without it, who knows if I would’ve ever put together a 3/3. It’s pure pain when you consider that you’re practically at the mercy of the market because you can’t really farm the exact Treasure Maps you need (not counting IA). In my opinion, Apocryphal Well Leads is one of the worst things in the whole Antiquities.

Generally speaking, the leads from Treasure Maps need to be reworked somehow because they’re really not good right now.

But aside from a few exceptions, I really like this, and it’s something I really enjoy in ESO. I also have to say that in the last Solstice zone, gring wasn’t that difficult, and I think Leads drop better (I don’t know if it’s just me or if the devs manage better Leads drop rate), and gring for the Solstice Antiquities 3/3 codex wasn’t too much of a pain, not counting the ones from Treasure Maps. I spent around 15 million gold on Leads from Treasure Map for Solstice (I was buying maps for around 20-30k each).

So I hope the devs have Antiquities in mind and that we’ll see some nice changes in the future (especially when it comes to Treasure Maps).

Devilon wrote: »

PS. If it was my call - I'd remove Grey Host completely and make access to Vengeance for ESO+ only. And rework the pvp sets as vanity items with improved looks.

Then we are lucky it isn't your call, because a lot of players (and that includes players with ESO+) would leave the game entirely if they did that.

In the Late Middle Ages, chair-like constructions with a chamber pot underneath did exist. So I don't see why something like that should not exist in ESO. Let alone lots of the things we see in game are not actually medieval.