How many archival fortunes have you gained in total?

Sarannah · September 4

How many archival fortunes have you gotten in the IA in total? And what did you spend them on?

Here's my fortune spending habits:
-So far I have bought the style pages for 15k every week, which for a total of 44 weeks is 660k. (IA release on PC EU was october 30.)
-Have also bought every IA upgrade, which is a total of 115k. (Unless I'm mistaken.)
-Bought leads(5k) which I still needed, which is about one per week on average. So for 44 weeks this comes down to 220k.
-Have also bought all clues for ToT, for a total of 76k. (19x 4k fortunes)
-Bought companion gear for a total of about ~500k.
-Bought treasure maps for the ancient daedric motif style, for a total of 160k.
-Have 604k fortunes left.
Total fortunes gained: ~2335k fortunes total.

Just wondering how other players are experiencing the archive, and the results of that effort.

PS: You do not have to be 100% precise or accurate, a rough estimate will do.

fizl101 · September 4

Not sure how many, but I have bought all upgrades, the weekly motif, a couple of leads (3 or 4 maybe?) a few of the provisioning sacks (again 3 or 4). Probably a total of 40 or so of the 'things' that gives collectibles , the big furnishing that you can buy like a giant tv ball and have about 500k left

Treeshka · September 4

I am probably around three millions. Spend it on many things, including Companion gears and Provisioning boxes.

Grec1a · September 4

185,000 - just enough for the skeever pet and one lead, plus 5k I'm keeping in reserve in case another good lead comes up.

TaSheen · September 4

None. Not my kind of content at all.

Syldras · September 4

Since Archive was released, I play enough to get 2000 currency per week to buy the 2 weekly book furnishings for 1000 each. Sometimes a book has been offered before, then I'm lucky I save 1000 and only have to play enough for another 1000 until the following week for the next 2 books...

And that's it. How many weeks is it now? It's easy to calculate how much I've earned by that.

Sooner or later I'll have to save 5000 somehow since there's one lead I need which I will definitively not get by its original means, although I guess it will probably end with me running through the Archive like crazy for a few days once I see that lead show up on a Tuesday.

There's also a bit of other furniture I'm interested in, but since these are permanent offers, I don't hurry to get them. So far I couldn't be bothered enough to amass the neccessary amount of currency.

It's not like I dislike Archive, I also find it useful for companion levelling, but I just don't find it that interesting either. If it weren't for the books and the one missing lead, I probably would only play it very, very occasionally.

jaws343 · September 4

Not sure on the amount, but I pretty much have everything. Outside of the IA set style pages that I am still collecting. But I buy them when there isn't a rotating page I need. And I buy any rotating pages that show up that I do not have. Plus, at the beginning, I was spending a lot on set pieces and fragments and the upgrades.

ellmarie · September 4

Only about 5000 or so. I've only ran it once or twice. Someday I'll do it to fill some of the sticker book or for achievements. But if it doesn't get me much else as in furnishings or other stuff I want, I won't focus on it.

LunaFlora · September 4

i have no idea exactly.
maybe 200 or 300k?

probably something like that

Hrolthar · September 4

Maybe 20k. I have 12k now but I’ve bought a couple of things so maybe I’ve amassed around 20k. Not sure though.

AzuraFan · September 4

Probably about 40k since it was released. Because there's no save feature, I rarely venture into the IA.

Personofsecrets · September 4

Maybe a couple of hundred thousand. Most of which were wasted on Upgrades and Scribing abilities.

Syldras · September 4

I've had a look; I think it's week 45 since release now? So I must have gained around 90.000.

IncultaWolf · September 4

Around 400k, I spent a lot getting the soulcleaver mask motif

skyrimfantasy · September 4

Zero, I've never even entered IA. I dislike missing so many furnishings/leads but hands aren't up to that playstyle these days.

Necrotech_Master · September 4

i have no idea, but probably at least 1-2 mil range

ive also bought almost every monster style page that showed up, a few hundred thousand on public dungeon collectibles, probably close to 100-150k on treasure maps and provisioning satchels, and occasionally leads i still need codex entries for

in the 2 weeks after U43 launched i made at least 300k fortunes lol

ESO_player123 · September 4

Definitely not in the millions that other players gathered (I play only with a companion and rarely go past arc 3). I have about 500K now.
Bought all upgrades except the latest one (the watcher). Bought some books (sometimes multiple copies), 2 Infinite Archive Index, Replica for my library and some other furnishing I think, one lead that I was missing, 2 or 3 scripts (when scribing was released, before I realized that there is absolutely no reason to buy them). So far, none of the mask/shoulder motifs were interesting to me. So, I have not bought a single one.

DoofusMax · September 4

That's an easy one: zero (or "very darned few"). I don't do IA, but probably did it once, right after it released and was still called "Endless Archive," just to see what it was and then called it a day when I ran out of lives.

oldbobdude · September 4

Idk for sure. Couple million anyway. Spent most of that on stuff the two vendors have. Some leads, mystery verses, upgrades etc…

SeaGtGruff · September 4

I haven't checked (is there a place where we can see this?), but I've earned enough to buy several pieces of class set gear for my main character-- not the full set yet, but perhaps half of them. I don't think I've spent them on anything else yet; I don't buy furnishings from vendors, or antiquity leads which are available through other activities.

code65536 · September 4

Probably somewhere between 1.6 to 2m, but spread across two accounts on two servers.

Kappachi · September 4

Unless there's some kind of tracker in game then i have no idea. Currently working towards the 25000 fortune thing that would give 3 verses/visions per choice.

CGPsaint · September 4

Rough estimate would be somewhere between 1.25-1.50 million endeavors. I farmed the gear for myself and banged out all of the achievements, and then only ran if friends or guild mates needed a buddy to run with. I guess I'll be farming again for the new gear drops and achievements.

Hapexamendios · September 5

No idea. I didn't count.

joergino · September 5

Exactly 1780. Two miserably failed runs, never went in there again.

katanagirl1 · September 5

I don’t know, I currently have about 40k fortunes but I have bought a few leads (maybe 5) and a couple of books, nothing else. I don’t run it often so I am holding those that are left for the leads I still need.

MrCray78 · September 5

About 4 Millions Archival Fortunes 🫣

Sarannah · September 5

Yeah, it isn't possible to see how many fortunes you have gotten in total, as there is no counter. A rough estimate works.

It is fun to see how different we all approach the archive, even how different we are spending the fortunes we gained.

joergino wrote: »

Exactly 1780. Two miserably failed runs, never went in there again.

Don't give up, the place is a lot of fun! The archive requires specific builds to function in there, as you have to rely on the visions and verses.

runa_gate · September 5

About 1.5 million I'm guessing, based on what I've spent and have at the moment. Not exact but certainly in the ballpark.

I spent a TON on Scripts for all 20 characters every time they were available from Filer Ool, and still track what the merchant offers when it flips every Tuesday morning for my guildies

I bought some Provisioning Sacks from the other merchant for rubyblossom, perfect roe and ciphers when @Tatanko first noticed they dropped frequently

I considered buying equipment packs but having almost filled the stickerbook for 3 classes already for the new IA sets I figure I'll get them inevitably anyway

I did impatiently buy erroneous maps and the other thing for IA cosmetics but regretted that and now still get those fragments, and the mount fragments, which I store away out of spite due to being annoyed that I still get them, in my housing storage

I try to drag people into IA, of any skill level, all the time so I can get them fortunes and gear drops - it seems we're evenly split between people who could use a ton of fortunes but can't really get them solo, and those of us with far more than we know what to do with

BTW get the new Upgrade for doing 30 marauder/bannerman daily quests. The Tool summons a filer to fight with you which does AoE stun/knockbacks and good damage and is lots of fun

If you get the Marauder quest and can't solo them or don't have a tank to help, just drop it and see if you get the other, easier one the next day, or on alts, it's worth it

Necrotech_Master · September 5

runa_gate wrote: »

About 1.5 million I'm guessing, based on what I've spent and have at the moment. Not exact but certainly in the ballpark.

I spent a TON on Scripts for all 20 characters every time they were available from Filer Ool, and still track what the merchant offers when it flips every Tuesday morning for my guildies

I bought some Provisioning Sacks from the other merchant for rubyblossom, perfect roe and ciphers when @Tatanko first noticed they dropped frequently

I considered buying equipment packs but having almost filled the stickerbook for 3 classes already for the new IA sets I figure I'll get them inevitably anyway

I did impatiently buy erroneous maps and the other thing for IA cosmetics but regretted that and now still get those fragments, and the mount fragments, which I store away out of spite due to being annoyed that I still get them, in my housing storage

I try to drag people into IA, of any skill level, all the time so I can get them fortunes and gear drops - it seems we're evenly split between people who could use a ton of fortunes but can't really get them solo, and those of us with far more than we know what to do with

BTW get the new Upgrade for doing 30 marauder/bannerman daily quests. The Tool summons a filer to fight with you which does AoE stun/knockbacks and good damage and is lots of fun

If you get the Marauder quest and can't solo them or don't have a tank to help, just drop it and see if you get the other, easier one the next day, or on alts, it's worth it

a lot of the reason some people have huge amounts of fortunes is going to further arcs also drastically increases the amount of fortunes you earn

arc 1 clear is ~2000 fortunes (+/- a bit due to random things such as scamps and bonus portals)
arc 4 clear is ~15k fortunes
an arc 6 or 7 (dont remember which) clear is ~60k fortunes for the run (or around 30 arc 1 clears worth)