Treasure Chests.. why are they even here?, just garbage.

Crom_CCCXVI

It could be such a fun thing, but they are essentially worthless, I'm in multiple big guilds and half of us destroy them. Can you have one of your ZOS analytical guys looked into that for a few minutes, and realize that hardly anyone bothers with them?

Would it be so crazy to put a Kuta, or Temper.. maybe a few thousand gold? Something actually worth it. I just did 5 in Elsweyr, a blue ring I get from killing regular stuff.. I think I have an unused character carrying well over 100 that I'm probably never going to do...

you guys are missing an opportunity to add something fun and meaningful. (almost as bad as my daily reward food and potions, because no one I know uses those either since they are weaker than the stuff I make myself)

Tasear

Why not random piece of furniture from zine on rare occasion from them?

Tasear

Or treasure chest only rewards

Nestor

Are you talking the CE maps that came with the new content? We get those with every chapter. And I think the adventurers pack.

Anyway, their purpose is to get you out exploring the new zone's out of the way places. They have never offered anything better than Generic Blue drops and a few other Mundane things.

If your talking regular treasure maps that get looted from things like Troves, then it all depends on if the zone drops something you want.

majulook

The chest are fine, items found set pieces from the zone. Some depending on the zone are worth thousands of gold, and in high demand.

Malachite can be found in treasure chests or in Undaunted Exploration Supplies.

Paintings for houses can be found in treasure chests.

Spartabunny08

Agreed, make it fun please...

Kagukan

I don't feel they are worthless but I do feel there should be more value to them.

jlmurra2

In zones that have good equipment sets drop like Orsinium (Briarheart), Glenumbra (Werewolf), or Rivenspire (Necropotence), treasure hunting is much more exciting. Of course overall it would be nice to have an improvement.

Tandor

I find them very useful, as well as a bit of fun when you come across them. If you're a high level elite player I can appreciate they're pretty a waste of time so best left, but for others they provide useful gear (the Trainee gear in the starter zones are excellent for quite a few levels, certainly until you have researched enough traits to make your own) , or failing that they're useful for deconstruction.

I have no problem with them being improved, but for many players they - as with the daily login rewards - are likely to be far from worthless.

SirAndy

They are OK with the Treasure Hunter passive but i wouldn't mind if they had a bit more of an actual "Hey, i found something special!" feeling to them.

Veinblood1965

Having recently rolled a new toon and playing him like a newby not help from any mains at all I can tell you the treasure chests are nice just for the armor alone. We've forgotten what it is like to be a new player I'm guilty of it also. As a new toon it's hard to get a full set of anything.

VelimOrthic

Same with big bosses. I know trials and dungeons have set pieces, but what about all the other quests. Some of the biggest bosses ones are portrayed - by the story writing at least - as being super powerful and important. To go through a long fight with all that dialogue and at the very end there's just a bunch of ordinary junk laying around is very anti-climactic. As is always having to get the best rewards - gold and one ordinary item - from the quest giver. "I'm back mom/dad. Did I do good? Can I have an ice cream now? Molag Bal only had 12g and this worthless scrap of metal".

lardvader

I think they are usually fine as long as I farm in a zone that drops useful gear and I have the CP passive TH.

Regarding the CE chests they are just crap unless you just started. Even so pretty useless.

Muzzick

WB drops I find to be consistently more useless

ManwithBeard9

Free gold, free mats.

MartiniDaniels

Well, I'm selling all my regular treasure maps and they are going out quite fast so I guess there are people who enjoy searching them.
but CE maps just garbage, it's a mockery to receive that as "a bonus" for something bought with crowns or $$$.

Bealeb319

Treasure chests are plenty useful

Knightpanther

I get a shed load of stuff from chests, keep yer mits off um

Be safe

Bekkael

If any of my guilds has a trader for the week, I list them, otherwise treasure maps aren’t worth my time or my inventory slots. I destroy them. Loot in this game is mostly garbage anyway, tbh. Crafted anything is always better.

srfrogg23

Treasure chests are fine as long as you aren't "farming" them. Which, incidentally is the reason for why they don't contain super valuable materials and thousands of gold. People already spend hours running a circuit around chest spawn points.

Shift your perspective OP. Think of them as less of a "main attraction" and more of a "nice surprise".

jaws343

From farming treasure chest this week with Elswery maps, I have made close to 500K from them alone. People who think treasure maps are trash are delusional. They are guaranteed set pieces. In zones with good gear, it is highly profitable. You could spend 10K on a bunch of treasure maps for Rivenspire and easily make 2 or 300 on just selling the necropotence gear you find. And even more if you pick up staves or purple jewelry.

redgreensunset

Confused newcomer. Which treasure chests are we talking about? The ones from the treasure maps? Or the ones you come acrosss randomly in the landscape and you need to pick the lock on? A third form of chests I am not yet acquainted with?

Addition: I personally as a new player find both the two first nice for a bit of equipment, crafting stuff and gold. Might find the, trash when I get to endgame but at the currentpoint I find them good

Wolfpaw

ESO treasure map drop-meh, another looted item to destroy.

RDO treasure map drop-Hellya! Lets do this.

Wolfpaw

jaws343 wrote: »

From farming treasure chest this week with Elswery maps, I have made close to 500K from them alone. People who think treasure maps are trash are delusional. They are guaranteed set pieces. In zones with good gear, it is highly profitable. You could spend 10K on a bunch of treasure maps for Rivenspire and easily make 2 or 300 on just selling the necropotence gear you find. And even more if you pick up staves or purple jewelry.

I imagine you have cp unlock for treasure hunter?

Unless a set item jewelry is purple, or that necro has bis traits, a crap trait set item is decon-1-2k tops.

300k?, maybe with infused necro fire staff×3, purp jewelry, 8h farming, 20+ maps?

AlnilamE

Please note that there is a difference between treasure map chests (which is what you are talking about) and actual treasure chests that can be found in the world (which is what your thread title made it sound you were talking about.)

I personally like both, and I have found that they definitely add up over time.

twev

Kagukan wrote: »

I don't feel they are worthless but I do feel there should be more value to them.

Treasure chests in the wild are too numerous.

They ought be more rare, and have better stuff in 'em.

And instead of just sitting around in the open, they ought look like someone was trying to hide or bury them.

IzzyStardust

Aetheric dust and ciphers should be rare drops in chests.

EQBallzz

jlmurra2 wrote: »

In zones that have good equipment sets drop like Orsinium (Briarheart), Glenumbra (Werewolf), or Rivenspire (Necropotence), treasure hunting is much more exciting. Of course overall it would be nice to have an improvement.

Agreed. If they are in a zone that has desirable set pieces the treasure chests can be more valuable but overall they should increase the value of the chests..scaled to the type of chest of course. Like an advanced chest with a chance to have 10k gold (or whatever).

Oliwaltony

PS4 user here, I went and used all my 3 CE treasure maps, which are supposed to garantee a drop piece from the in-zone sets, and didn't got 1 in all 3 chests. So yeah, thanks ZOS for giving me 3 useless treasure map with my collector upgrade, very appreciated (not)

geonsocal

lots of stuff to do in the game...using treasure maps isn't one of them for me...heck, i'm not really motivated anymore to even collect the material from survey reports...i kind of wish i could give away/sell those too...

Iarao

MartiniDaniels wrote: »

Well, I'm selling all my regular treasure maps and they are going out quite fast so I guess there are people who enjoy searching them.
but CE maps just garbage, it's a mockery to receive that as "a bonus" for something bought with crowns or $$$.

yeah it is a leftover from way back when. before set pcs, generic gear was it. you were based on color, trait and the glyphs you put on it.