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Scrying and Excavation need a look see
DigiAngel
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So right out the gate: I don't do any furniture crafting. None. I don't care about my "home" (didn't in Skyrim either). This is an RPG, not the Sims. SO...that being said, I've had to abandon 3 times now the purple excavation site in Craglorn because I JUST COULDN'T FIND THE THING...all told I spent about 2 hours looking. AND THEN...after diggin up a purple in Shadowfen...I get a furniture thing. Can't sell it, can't trade, so I get to destroy it. Either make the finds worth it, or make the area's smaller....I doubt I'll even bother any more with scrying/excavating after this.
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danno8✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Scrying and Excavating are nearly mindless once you have the right passives.
I've never had any issue finding or excavating anything. I mean even if you fail you just get endless chances to try again.
Is it the searching or the digging you are having a hard time with? Did you know you can quickslot the searching tool (antiquarian eye or something) and it will point you in the right direction once you are in the blue area on your map? 30s cooldown.4 -
Mayrael✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Just a tip. When you go to your inventory, you have quickslots tab and there Tools subcategory. Place Antiquarian's Eye on a quickslot and once you reach a excavation area you can use it to check the direction you need to go to find the exact digging spot.
When it goes to rewards that's just a matter of preference TBH.Edited by Mayrael on February 24, 2021 5:26PMI'm done with this game because of ZOS pushing us into Vengeance, because they don't know how to fix Cyrodiil.4 -
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✭"can't sell it, can't trade, have to destroy it"
Or, you know, put it in one of your player houses as what it's supposed to be, FURNITURE. For display.
However I do also believe that antiquities should be able to be traded between players.
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Starlock✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Thank you Mayrael...I did not know that...will give that a shot later today!
This will help for the Craglorn ones, but the Craglorn ones are just... they're bad. I went and did that while trying to get antiquities up on a second character and the region for the search zones is just HUGE. Worse, the search zones often include the group only areas which must makes the entire thing an incredible PITA. None of the other alliances had such giant and frustrating search regions. Even with slotting the eye, prepare for a PITA unfortunately.0 -
3rdpig✭✭As someone who's done a lot of antiquities, including Ring of the Pale Order and Ring of the Wild Hunt I honestly felt it was more tedious than difficult. I max out the thing in Scrying that gives the big snowflake shape batch of matched hexes and max out the number of moves. In Excavations I max out the time allowed and the number of times I can use the eye, and max out the small shovel and brush. I rarely have to search more than 2 areas and usually find the dig pretty fast. I haven't failed at an excavation in a long time. The worst part was farming the Psijic island over and over again till I could get to level 5. Now that was tedious! And farming the one lead in dead man's hollow public dungeon must have taken 2-3 hours.1
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✭Completely agree 3rdpig...not a question of difficulty, just...ya...tedious indeed.0 -
Mik195✭✭✭✭✭Coldharbour and Hews Bane have dig sites that aren't in the marked area. So if the tool sends you outside the marked area just follow the comet and the dig site should be close. I think it was the Court of Contempt and every dig site was outside the marked area.1 -
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✭Thank you Mik195...will be trying the slot the eye later today. And Nukk3r I have no idea what you mean
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✭✭✭✭✭What I do for those Craglorn group areas (yeah, PITA for sure) is abandon when one of those pops, and rescry until I get out by Dragonstar, or Belkarth, or Skyreach Wayshrine area. You can abandon and rescry forever....3 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Sylvermynx wrote: »What I do for those Craglorn group areas (yeah, PITA for sure) is abandon when one of those pops, and rescry until I get out by Dragonstar, or Belkarth, or Skyreach Wayshrine area. You can abandon and rescry forever....
Wait... wait...
wait.
Abandon? What? WHAT?! That's a THING?!
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✭✭✭✭✭Um. Yes it's a thing. You don't HAVE to accept the first scry. Either hover over the lead after scrying, click X to abandon, and Space to scry; or right click on it, then right click again to get the option to scry again.1 -
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✭Just a tip. When you go to your inventory, you have quickslots tab and there Tools subcategory. Place Antiquarian's Eye on a quickslot and once you reach a excavation area you can use it to check the direction you need to go to find the exact digging spot.
When it goes to rewards that's just a matter of preference TBH.
swear I did not know/understand this for the first 2 weeks.. LOL.0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Sylvermynx wrote: »Um. Yes it's a thing. You don't HAVE to accept the first scry. Either hover over the lead after scrying, click X to abandon, and Space to scry; or right click on it, then right click again to get the option to scry again.
Uh... I'll have to see what all those things mean on something not a keyboard when I get the chance. There is no "hover over" or "clicking" for some of us. If this is a thing that can be done on PC/Mac and not on console I'm... there's going to be some annoyed going on.0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Sylvermynx wrote: »Um. Yes it's a thing. You don't HAVE to accept the first scry. Either hover over the lead after scrying, click X to abandon, and Space to scry; or right click on it, then right click again to get the option to scry again.
Uh... I'll have to see what all those things mean on something not a keyboard when I get the chance. There is no "hover over" or "clicking" for some of us. If this is a thing that can be done on PC/Mac and not on console I'm... there's going to be some annoyed going on.
Oh gosh. I didn't realize you were on console. Yeah, I don't know how that would work there. The words Abandon and Scry are on the screen lower right with the X and Space in "button" form beside them. I sure hope you find the options somewhere - it would be really bad if console doesn't have those but PC does.
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✭✭✭✭✭Sylvermynx wrote: »Um. Yes it's a thing. You don't HAVE to accept the first scry. Either hover over the lead after scrying, click X to abandon, and Space to scry; or right click on it, then right click again to get the option to scry again.
Uh... I'll have to see what all those things mean on something not a keyboard when I get the chance. There is no "hover over" or "clicking" for some of us. If this is a thing that can be done on PC/Mac and not on console I'm... there's going to be some annoyed going on.
It should be the same method you use to select the antiquity you want to scry.
On PC, opening the menu frees the mouse, and we hover over the antiquity and the menu options show up.QuebraRegra wrote: »Just a tip. When you go to your inventory, you have quickslots tab and there Tools subcategory. Place Antiquarian's Eye on a quickslot and once you reach a excavation area you can use it to check the direction you need to go to find the exact digging spot.
When it goes to rewards that's just a matter of preference TBH.
swear I did not know/understand this for the first 2 weeks.. LOL.
Same!
And I've told this to several guildies who did not know it. It's such a life changer!The Moot Councillor0