( FOUND ) The Mystery of the Petrified Oak Loop lead location ! HUB + 1 Million Gold Bounty

WeylandLabs

The winner of the Bounty is @K9002 Congrats on the 1 million gold ! ✨

Tommy_The_Gun

How many strongboxes are there in Murkmire in total ? 5 ?

tomfant

Jep, there's just a few. Nothing learned from the Shadowfen dissaster.

Peppo_Lives

i'll wait a month or two, no rush

K9002

I got it! Big thank you @Shokasegambit1

Tommy_The_Gun wrote: »

How many strongboxes are there in Murkmire in total ? 5 ?

10 in Lilmoth, 4 in Bright-Throat village, 2 in Alten Meerhleel, 3 in Dead-Water village.

zaria

Grizzbeorn wrote: »

Oh, great.
Not a fan of Murkmire...

The main quest is nice, but not much else to do and its not an loot box heavy area.
And remember the grind for the music box.
Now this is an biz item for WW.

Dagoth_Rac

ZOS design meeting: "What would require spawn camping like the Kilt disaster but has much much less spawns than water plants in Shadowfen?"

spartaxoxo

Someone should really farm miregaunts in Murkmire to see if they also drop there. IIRC some leads that drop from safe boxes also drop from mobs

Faulgor

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

It's in the cards, probably.

I wish. Current rewards are complete crap, and anything would be a better source for leads than safe boxes. Or ore nodes. Or a single world boss.

For being an "accessibility" mythic, the competition for lead drops makes this one exceptionally hard to access.

Tommy_The_Gun

K9002 wrote: »

I got it! Big thank you @Shokasegambit1

Tommy_The_Gun wrote: »

How many strongboxes are there in Murkmire in total ? 5 ?

10 in Lilmoth, 4 in Bright-Throat village, 2 in Alten Meerhleel, 3 in Dead-Water village.

Um... that is definitely enough, and for sure no one will camp them lol /S

It will be worse than Shadowfen. Because with Shadowfen leads for Harpooner's Wading Kilt the ones who farmed it were mostly end-game PvE-ers, then ones that do hardcore vet tirals.

But Oakensoul ? Literally every player farms this lol. PvE, PvP, solo play... every one.

Stx

Safe boxes? Are you [snip] kidding me?

ZoS knew this was going to be a popular item... so I guess they are just a company of trolls.

I'm disappointed that this was discovered on day 2 when I was at work. I stayed up until 1 am hoping to find it but by the time I can play tonight the 15 boxes in murkmire will probably have dozens of players camping each one. SO fun!

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Tommy_The_Gun

So basically... all normal regular people who have a job and can only play at certain hour, will have to wait for like a (at best) 1 month till stuff will return to normal (Ball group at a boss or 15 people spamming "E" over a where save box spawns is not normal).

Also... we will just have to hope that the mythic item itself is not going to be nerfed by the time it will be obtainable.... and something tells me it is gonna get wrecked pretty hard with a nerf sledge hammer...

DarrowLykos

Good job putting it in a lockbox, like you didn't know it would be a clusterfrak around the few lockboxes in Murkmire lol well played ZOS well played...

Ascarl

Worst location possible.

YandereGirlfriend

There's still a lot of mystery surrounding this lead.

For example:

1. Some have claimed that you can get the lead without being the one to initially pick the lock - others dispute this
2. Some have claimed that the lead drops from Treasure Chests and Thieves Guild Troves
3. Some have claimed that it drops from the Miregant, as mentioned above

We need a lot more information before the true extent of this trainwreck is known.

jaws343

Tommy_The_Gun wrote: »

So basically... all normal regular people who have a job and can only play at certain hour, will have to wait for like a (at best) 1 month till stuff will return to normal (Ball group at a boss or 15 people spamming "E" over a where save box spawns is not normal).

Also... we will just have to hope that the mythic item itself is not going to be nerfed by the time it will be obtainable.... and something tells me it is gonna get wrecked pretty hard with a nerf sledge hammer...

I am actually kind of glad in a way. Gives me time to prep my build that will use this ring, while farming for other antiquity leads first.

FeedbackOnly

Anyone see if city ash part was true?

Freelancer_ESO

FeedbackOnly wrote: »

Anyone see if city ash part was true?

I think you'd have to run it like 40x to be highly confident it was wrong.

I ran it twice and didn't get anything but, that hardly means much considering RNG.

Stx

YandereGirlfriend wrote: »

There's still a lot of mystery surrounding this lead.

For example:

1. Some have claimed that you can get the lead without being the one to initially pick the lock - others dispute this
2. Some have claimed that the lead drops from Treasure Chests and Thieves Guild Troves
3. Some have claimed that it drops from the Miregant, as mentioned above

We need a lot more information before the true extent of this trainwreck is known.

Until we see videos or screenshots... I wouldn't believe 2 or 3. We would definitely know by now if it dropped from a boss or treasure chests, just my opinion.

Holycannoli

Tommy_The_Gun wrote: »

So basically... all normal regular people who have a job and can only play at certain hour, will have to wait for like a (at best) 1 month till stuff will return to normal (Ball group at a boss or 15 people spamming "E" over a where save box spawns is not normal).

Also... we will just have to hope that the mythic item itself is not going to be nerfed by the time it will be obtainable.... and something tells me it is gonna get wrecked pretty hard with a nerf sledge hammer...

Oh it's a prime candidate for a nerf if I ever saw one.

Can't wait to see the poopstorm tonight after work lol. Be sure to take screenshots to remember this moment!

Arato

This is one of those decisions that shows that ZOS truly hates their playerbase or are totally inept and don't get that crowds of people spawn camp the boxes with autolooting addons that are faster than anyone can interact with the box.

rbfrgsp

Arato wrote: »

This is one of those decisions that shows that ZOS truly hates their playerbase or are totally inept and don't get that crowds of people spawn camp the boxes with autolooting addons that are faster than anyone can interact with the box.

You think? To me it looks like they know all of these things, they know that they have designed a truly OP item as a way to sell the new chapter to powergamers, and they have built in a natural throttle to ensure the item remains scarce until it has been sensibly nerfed.

Arato

rbfrgsp wrote: »

Arato wrote: »

This is one of those decisions that shows that ZOS truly hates their playerbase or are totally inept and don't get that crowds of people spawn camp the boxes with autolooting addons that are faster than anyone can interact with the box.

You think? To me it looks like they know all of these things, they know that they have designed a truly OP item as a way to sell the new chapter to powergamers, and they have built in a natural throttle to ensure the item remains scarce until it has been sensibly nerfed.

That's what PTS is for.

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