I know that we have to read some books in order to get book furnishings from certain treasure chest maps.

There is also a list of books we need to read in order for the book furnishings to drop from Infinite Archive.

Is there a list somewhere of all these books (and any other hidden pre-requisites)? I've had treasure chest maps in my inventory forever, but I can't figure out if I unlocked everything. Is there an addon perhaps? Or an official ESO page with a compiled list?

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I wish this wasn't part of the game.

Or the game gave us an optional setting to "lock" treasure chest maps that don't have a full loot table available. It would be a waste to use them if furnishings are not part of the loot table.
It would also give us peace of mind that we really did unlock everything so we can go ahead and use the treasure chest maps.

There are a lot of furnishings where players can blow a bunch of maps trying to get them... but they mistakenly thought they unlocked the hidden pre-requisites. Or many players who haven't heard about this since it is primarily learned about via word of mouth.

Yeah, there are also a lot of PvP players that would choose Vengeance over GH. I am going to probably just switch to Vengeance, as well. GH's neverending meta chase will not be any better. I am so bored everyone instantly playing the most absurd builds every patch and everyone same build more or less. And that builds can do everything, never sacrificing a single thing. I am looking forward to some sane PvP again in ESO.

ToddIngram wrote: »

Less than 1 in 5 PvP mains will play vengeance. If you take a poll of PvP mains you'll see this is the case.

Even if that would be the case now (and i am not saying it is), Vengeance will still have a better future than GH. Vengeance may be picked up by new players. Do you see any possibility that any new player would play GH and say "Oh, PvP is very interesting in this game. Let me try it for a while" ? And also players wont be like "Ok, i learned PvP in Vengeance and lets move to GH and have a challenge!". They will most probably just stay in Vengeance and never set foot on GH with Vengeance having their own PvP veterans.

GH and Vengeance are quite different game modes with different gameplay right now. GH is being very tedious even for the players that are playing in Cyrodiil since years. I dont think any new player will enjoy getting hit by 6 different abilities (each 5k - 10k+ at death recap) from someone outside your screen at the same time without a single animation playing the moment they set foot on Cyrodiil. GH will never grow in population. It has shrinked last years and it will just continue to shrink. Because some people are going to leave like every game and game mode and when you have no new players to replace them you can do the math.

It is not really about being veteran or being skilled, etc. That doesnt really have to translate to chaotic gameplay GH has. GW2 has much slower and strategic combat, there are PvP veterans there, as well. Just a different kind of gameplay.

Its basically Necro and Sorc that desperately needs a rework I'm afraid there gonna botch the Sorcerer rework later this year since the class needs ALOT more than just an update to the visuals unlike DK, Templar, NB. For some reason Sorcerer can never get nice things in this game and has been treated the worst of the starter classes. Necromancer and Sorcerer need the refresh this year don't know why they did Werewolf.

As it turns out @spantifical has compiled such list:

https://www.spantifical.com/lootable-lorebooks

She also has publicly accessible houses with the entire collection of lorebooks to make player's live easier .

If you visit her 'library' and read the books there you will obtain the required eidetic memory that enables you to 'loot' them yourself from their various sources.

dk is fine and overpower
nb need buffs in pve and nerf pvp
necro need bug fixes
sorc need fix,they have highest hit at dummy ,but in real combat is weakest
templar tank need love
warden are reworking
arcanist still overpower and waiting nerf
what i miss?

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).

It can be said louder but not clearer. It is nigh time that this gets a QoL pass.

Personally I have given up on furniture leads that come from treasure maps because the drop chance is hilariously low.

Tangentially related, hyperioxes has a handful of builds on his website that are suited to solo every single WB in the game providing that the player doesn't have any accessibility-related issues that prevents them from using them.

I have soloed The Prime Cataloguer myself a number of times. The spawn mechanics (where it spawns shielded copies of itself and one has to run around to the four corners of the arena, multiple times 'per wave' if one doesn't have the DPS required to defeat the copy in one 'shield drop' cycle) makes it exceedingly tedious to defeat but is more a matter of patience than anything else. It only has one 'gotcha' mechanic and is clearly telegraphed.

Of course the fact that is tedious and time consuming to solo only compounds the frustration of the risible drop rate of the lead.

Asking people for help is often not an option either; is not a particularly enticing proposition given that it doesn't drop anything remarkable and is likely to be a multi-session affair.

There is also the additional compounding frustration of players that didn't much care for the lead and are there out of good will getting the lead and one remaining 'leadless'.

I experienced this multiple times on my ''''''chase''''' - as they like to put it - for the 'Twitching Eyeball' lead.

People came, people got the lead, people left because ICP can get incredibly tedious even if one only runs it up to the encounter with the Gravelight Sentry; in the end I had to solo it - thanks **** companions can interrupt - another 18-20 times until I got the wretched thing.

I have heard 'respecting player's time' mentioned in streams on a few occasions, please make it so because this is not it.

Diminish wrote: »

Coming from someone who spent upwards of 18 hours straight picking flowers in Shadowfen to get the Tide-Glass Beads for the Harpooner's Wading Kilt I personally think the drop rate on leads is fine. Most of them you get rather quickly (some would argue, too quickly). Don't take this the wrong way OP, but I don't see why a change to the drop chance is necessary because someone is having an issue getting their 3rd one to drop... If anything, overworld could use even more extremely rare items, rather via leads or not, to give people a reason to hang out in various zones more. Outside of a few very rare furniture items in just a couple zones, there really isn't anything to put a bunch of long-term farming into.

Mythics are nothing compared to antiquity furnishings. Their RNG is much more favourable than those for furnishings, and I've never spent more than a week farming for a Mythic. Also one never needs multiple copies of a mythic, unlike furnishings.

I fail to see why housing enthusiasts should be discriminated against in this game. Why should we be the ones burdened with impossible-to-obtain items? Our time is no less valuable than others'.