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Treasure maps should be as implied: containing treasure. Maybe you can find some home furniture indicative for having belonged to some felled lord who stowed away his very last remaining treasures? Dried flowers, a portrait, a hand mirror, or a yellow quality sword?

If we're going to go through the extra steps to find 'treasure' why not make it a special experience as opposed to finding a rando chest somewhere that could've fallen off a wagon and could contain anything from a bunch of onions to ancestral armor?

Someone when through the trouble to hide this treasure chest and make cool sketches to indicate where it is, why not make it have something worth while in it?

I would love it if they added blue/purple food recipes and furniture plans and motif pages.

Only treasure maps that I actually use are the ones for Cyrodiil

I second this. Maybe not the 10% chance at gold items but maybe 1%. The style mats having a chance to drop would be okay as well, because it's a chance. It's not guaranteed.

Treasure maps should be something worth it. I mean someone went through the trouble of stashing their precious loot in a chest and burying them, plus it takes some skill to also draw the maps themselves. But as it is, receiving a treasure map is more like a pain in the bottom than a prospect of something good inside. I usually don't even bother with them until I start having so many that they make an impact in bag space. By then I have to 'waste' a couple of hours going around to collect them. And what do I get from them? Some malachite, soul gems, and loads and loads of decon trash. And a painting to add to the dozens just like it in my bank. Hardly worth the effort of crossing the world to fetch.

I mean sure, the set piece may, may be good, or rare, or valuable. But based on the unholy RNG we all know for sure it's going to be trash anyway. Even worse is the Trainee set that is guaranteed for starter zone maps. It's a good set for people grinding a new character but for those who have them all maxed it's an automatic guarantee that there's absolutely nothing in that chest worth the effort.

While we're on the subject of treasure maps I'll have to add how horribly disappointed I am with the Vvarfenfel CE treasure maps. I've been keeping them in my mail box since Morrowind dropped to save bag space while I didn't actually go and play the expansion. However the other day my quick finger grabbed them by mistake. I was hoping them being 'special' coupled with the completion of the Morrowind quest line would increase the chance for a BA motif. Turns out I wasted the time crossing the island on foot to find a bunch of TRASH. There wasn't even a single set piece of the Morrowind gear in them. Only 116 gold and four blue ruby ash lightning staves of ice (or comparable stuff). What an absolute waste of time.

Bloodtruffle wrote: »

Someone when through the trouble to hide this treasure chest and make cool sketches to indicate where it is, why not make it have something worth while in it?

@Bloodtruffle

Storymaster wrote: »

Currently, finding treasure maps in the game is useless. I remember getting excited back in March of 2014 when I would loot a treasure map, but those feelings are long gone now. A treasure map chest is no different from a regular treasure chest.

I often open them and wonder why someone bothered to hide the chest. I rarely get excited over treasure maps anymore. I find the survey reports to be a more valuable use of my time.

Storymaster wrote: »

Some items to potentially include in Treasure Map Chests could be:
• Chance for rare furniture plan drop
• Chance for yellow gear drop
• Chance for rare motif style item
• Chance of yellow temper drop
• Minimum of 1 piece of purple gear guaranteed to be found in chest

I like these, but removed the percentages. ZOS can determine that, as long as they get away from the trademark "one drop per server per decade" rule of thumb. It does no good if they add special stuff to the treasure chests, but make it so rare that the chests remain unchanged, for all intents and purposes. Of course, this would mean that treasure map drop rates are nerfed so that we never see them again.

Regarding motifs... If a zone has DLC related zone motifs, these are what would be found there. DLC motifs should not be found outside of the zone. Otherwise, any motif not specific to a DLC zone. I would allow all motifs that drop in the game, without restriction.

Storymaster wrote: »

ADDITIONAL - Please get rid of the lock difficulty having any bearing on what is inside. It's unrealistic and only makes sense from a metagaming perspective. As the son of a locksmith, I can tell you that some locks eat you alive and some don't and that the quality of the lock has very little bearing on how hard it is to pick. Whomever is putting their stuff in the chest isn't going to have this innate ability to suddenly make the chest's lock more difficult to pick because of the contents either.

For normal treasure chests, lock difficulty should determine content quality. Don't confuse lock difficulty in the game as being anything related to the real world. Since you are the son of a locksmith, I already know that you know that lock picking does not work that way. Locks in this game do not function as real world locks. The purpose of the difficulty is to (1) make a variable level of challenge, and (2) to allow for a corresponding level of reward.

I say leave overworld chest difficulty and rewards alone.

Eyesinthedrk wrote: »

All sounds great to me. After one afternoon where I spent hours riding my horse through cyrodiil to get 8 garbage chests, I vowed to never do another treasure chest again. Won’t even bother to clog up my trader slots with them.

@Eyesinthedrk after looting his 8th garbage chest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7gIpuIVE3k

Agreed - They need a buff - They might help you find gear - but its easier to just buy straight from traders. They really need improvement in drops eg motifs, craftings mats, plans, rare items etc would be a welcomed change.

Even the bad ones sell for 200g on my guild traders. I like to use them as an excuse to go out into the world and get distracted in the scenery, or just kill any living creature around.

Agreed, as of right now treasure maps are a waste of time and bag space...

I think there should be some unique loot for sure from treasure maps! For instance chance drops for treasure chest only furniture maybe, or things like that.

Maybe even a small chance to get a large sum of gold, or even yellow temper mats like you mentioned. Nirncrux as well would be cool.

Really just more interesting and worthwhile loot, maybe even have it give overland sets? Maybe even unique a treasure chest exclusive set or something?

There's a lot that could be added to make things more interesting, so yeah I agree we need some more worthwhile stuff from them.

Treasure maps = gold + decon fodder for alts.