I have been consistently getting the correct types of items from treasure chests since ZOS fixed the passive several patches back, on PC NA.

Which platform and server are you on?

PS4 eu
I thought the passive would improve the quality of items you got, meaning green to blue, etc

Find the part in this where ZOS talks about Treasure chests for a better exaplantion of what the Treasure Hunter passive actually does. https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/3412914#Comment_3412914

rpfc1009 wrote: »

Thanks for the help everyone, but maybe I didn't explain myself properly.
I'm getting set items, but what isn't happening is the quality of those items isn't being improved.
Both the notes on the link sent and the description on the cp tree, clearly state that the quality of items would be improved.
But all I'm getting is green items that under the cp treasure hunter passive should be upgraded to blue quality.
I'm not talking about standard items but of set items that never drop in white quality, but start at green.
If treasure hunter was working for me, I wouldn't be getting things like green necro rings or green jerkin of martial knowledge, because they would be upgraded to blue

You misunderstand how it works:
Treasure Hunter: Reduced the chance of receiving a second set item, but the chest will still always have an additional item in it if you have this passive (typically a blue-quality item, with a chance of it being either purple or another piece of the aforementioned item sets).

Alright, here's the data for what I said above. After all, the plural of anecdote is not data. If you were farming for chests in my instance of Wrothgar, I'm very sorry. Your lack of loot was all for science!

Methodology: I farmed chests on a character with the Treasure Hunter passive and recorded loot in terms of non-set piece, quality, and set piece quality. I have no desire to spend the inordinate amount of time farming chests in order to get decent numbers of Advanced and Master chests, so you are just going to have to deal with the small numbers that are fair from statistically significant. I had 1 painting drop, so its hard to judge anything by that. There were plenty of other loot types including treasure maps, but I'm only recording set pieces since that's on topic for the thread.

Total chests farmed: 53
Quality: 30 Simple, 16 Intermediate, 4 Advanced, 3 Master

Simple Chests: Simple chests dropped a variety of items. They could drop non-set greens, non-set blues or a set green in addition to a non-set green or blue. Non-set greens dropped from 14/30 chests, non-set blues dropped from 16/30 chests, so I suspect the drop rate is 50/50. Set piece greens dropped from 11/30 chests or 36%, so I suspect that green set pieces drop about a third of the time. There were no blue set pieces from any simple chests.

Intermediate Chests: 16/16 intermediate chests dropped 1 non-set blue and 1 blue set piece. 100% of the intermediate chests had a blue set piece. I did get 1 purple painting from an intermediate chest.

Advanced Chests: 4/4 advanced chests dropped 1 non-set blues and 1 purple set piece.

Master Chests: 3/3 master chests dropped 2 non-set blues and 1 purple set piece. I know I've gotten more than one set piece from these in the past but I didn't see that on these runs.


Testing to see if your Treasure Hunter Passive is working: With this data, I'd suggest that the easiest way to check is to open some intermediate chests, as the percentage was the most consistent over a larger data set. Nevertheless, my results are pretty clear that you should expect to get green set pieces from simple chests about a third of the time.