Official Discussion Thread for "Dig Up Tamriel’s History with the New Antiquities System"

ZOS_SarahHecker · April 2020

This is the official discussion thread for the "Dig Up Tamriel’s History with the New Antiquities System" blog article.

Discover the new Antiquities system in this latest Greymoor preview!

SantieClaws · April 2020

Does this mean eventually we might get a shovel as a home furnishing yes?

It is fairly hard to excavate ancient ruins with a plow and a hammer alone!

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Pyr0xyrecuprotite · April 2020

Not sure if it's just me, but the new Antiquities video (linked within the article) didn't play for me on Chrome, only on Edge.

Dagoth_Rac · April 2020

How hard are the mini-games? From what I understand, they come in quality levels like other items (white-green-blue-purple-gold), and are unique to player (i.e., not like treasure maps, where you can google the location). So, are the gold ones freakishly difficult? Is it going to take you days and days and hundreds of attempts to solve the more difficult mini-games? I don't want them to be brain-dead easy, but I also do not want them to be aggravating!

TheStarfighter · April 2020

I hope we will have backpacks on costume like on the trailer !

Currently on PTS the antiquarian robes (the one on the picture above) it doesn't have any backpacks and the one we can't see above is so nice...

Olauron · April 2020

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

How hard are the mini-games? From what I understand, they come in quality levels like other items (white-green-blue-purple-gold), and are unique to player (i.e., not like treasure maps, where you can google the location). So, are the gold ones freakishly difficult? Is it going to take you days and days and hundreds of attempts to solve the more difficult mini-games? I don't want them to be brain-dead easy, but I also do not want them to be aggravating!

The ultimate difficulty of scrying with all available tools is OK. Those who are not into such games can 'win' only one focus out of 6 with ease and then will need to search 6 locations instead of one. You can always make another try to improve scrying result.

You have multiple tries to dig item using excavation. Even if you are bad at it, you can dig at least main item.

Ingenon · April 2020

Pyr0xyrecuprotite wrote: »

Not sure if it's just me, but the new Antiquities video (linked within the article) didn't play for me on Chrome, only on Edge.

The linked video plays for me on Edge, Chrome, or Firefox, all on a Windows 10 computer.

Looking forward to trying Antiquities when it becomes available on PS4!

Aliyavana · April 2020

I wonder if the boethra statue is her in ohmes-raht form

RPGplayer13579 · April 2020

Any ideas on how useful these items for the Specific roles or tasks?

Like,

Healers
Thieves
Tanks - PvE
Assassins
Crafters
Vampires
Werewolves
Unarmed Characters
Fishing
Etc...

RPGplayer13579 · May 2020

As you can see I have multiple characters. Can I have it where only one or two characters focus on the Antiquities and share what they find with the other characters or is it, everyone, for themselves?

Starlock · May 2020

The scrying interface looks much better than what we saw in some of the early previews!

Phaedrathallassa · May 2020

If I find a lead on one character will I have a way to transfer it to my master antiquarian? For example I do more dungeons on my tank, but he doesn’t have extra skill points to max out the passives, so if he finds a lead in a dungeon could I somehow send it to my crafter?

All leads being in journal sounds simple enough at first but greatly reduces player flexibility!

Olauron · May 2020

Phaedrathallassa wrote: »

If I find a lead on one character will I have a way to transfer it to my master antiquarian? For example I do more dungeons on my tank, but he doesn’t have extra skill points to max out the passives, so if he finds a lead in a dungeon could I somehow send it to my crafter?

All leads being in journal sounds simple enough at first but greatly reduces player flexibility!

Leads are account-wide. You will see all found leads on any character. You can scry the lead on one character and excavate this lead on another.

VerboseQuips · May 2020

I have a question about antiquities. There will apparently be a way to check a zone progress, and leads will be account-wide... Does this mean we'll eventually reach a point where all the antiquities will have been found, and then there will be nothing to do anymore, on any character, in the antiquities system. If such a point is reached, how do we progress in the skill lines with other characters? And how do we find additional Indeko runes and motif pages?

Olauron · May 2020

VerboseQuips wrote: »

I have a question about antiquities. There will apparently be a way to check a zone progress, and leads will be account-wide... Does this mean we'll eventually reach a point where all the antiquities will have been found, and then there will be nothing to do anymore, on any character, in the antiquities system. If such a point is reached, how do we progress in the skill lines with other characters? And how do we find additional Indeko runes and motif pages?

Most antiquities can be found many times (you need lead every time), the exception are mount parts. I think it is possible to level up skills on scrying and digging treasure items that are available from start on every zone (green, blue and purple). On my NA character I got level 6 just on green and blue items. Note that the biggest progress of skill lines is from the antiquity achievements. Actual scryings and excavations give much less progress to skills.
Indeko runes are bonus items that can be found in addition to the main antiquity. Bonus items are random items, you can't search for them using Augur, you have limited turns to dig them.
Motif pages are antiquities (main items to be found). It looks like leads to motif pages are found in chests from treasure maps in appropriate alliance zones.