https://ninja614.com/eso-antiquities-leads-and-sources/

I find this guide to be helpful.

To build on what ninja's website says:

People usually level scrying + excavating Artaeum until at least Scrying rank 5, when you can get purple leads. Then, it's fun to go zone by zone, because each zone gives you a free green lead, which gives you a free blue lead, which gives you a 1-time-only purple lead. Collect all these "free" leads and you unlock a lead worth 100k.

Once you get Scrying rank 7, you can do SOME gold leads. You can do all Mythic item pieces, and some gold furnishing leads. IMO, this is a perfect time to farm Mythic items, since each Mythic item has 5 gold leads, and each lead gives +10 Scrying/Excavating. Not the fastest, but great multi-tasking. I got from rank 7 to 10 Scrying just by doing Mythic items, and a few zones here and there.

Remember to use the Scrying Tool to locate Dig Sites. Add it to your quickslots, really speeds up the grind.

Mr_Walker wrote: »

I just hope that we don't get, say 4/5 parts for a mythic, and then hit the 30 days and it all just disappears. Can anyone confirm this is/is not the case?

Leads that weren't worked on will expire after 30, not the dug items/parts. Once it's dug, it's yours - kind of like fragments for collectables.

Something else I've noticed while leveling alts is that the alt doesn't need a high level in order to dig something up, just to scry it and all the xp is tied to the dig. You can have a max character do the scrying, then swap to an alt to do the digging. The alt gets all the xp. This may or may not be possible due to the difficulty of the dig, but you can typically push a bit further than normal. I've dug up purples at level 1 on alts and dig ultimates on mid level alts (10 xp same as master tier).

Mr_Walker wrote: »

KMarble wrote: »

Mr_Walker wrote: »

I just hope that we don't get, say 4/5 parts for a mythic, and then hit the 30 days and it all just disappears. Can anyone confirm this is/is not the case?

Leads that weren't worked on will expire after 30, not the dug items/parts. Once it's dug, it's yours - kind of like fragments for collectables.

So I assume from this if you have 10/17 parts dug up for the Wolf Mount, after 30 days, the lead for the mount no longer shows up, but next time you collect a fragment lead, the lead reapperas once more, and after you dig your new piece you now have 11/17?

I'll let you know in a couple of weeks, but what I expect to happen is that the lead for the mount will still be there, but there will be nothing "Available to Scry" for it, because you either dug up the leads you had, but they expired.

Remember that once you find a lead and dig it up, you have the lore for it, so it won't disappear from the reference in the Scrying menu.

Personally I don't see how the "get to 10 in three hours" is possible. I started in Arteaum and stayed there until about level 3. I then traveled to all the other small zones and did all the leads in them, including antique maps and any leads from treasure chests, nodes, thieves troves, etc.. Once I had done those I went to the next small zone. By the time I was done I was level 10 with some nice furnishings and a couple really great gold leads.

I didn't rush, per se, but it is all I did when I was online and I think it took me a week, playing only a few hours a day. I liked doing it this way because I DID get enough rewards to feel like I wasn't grinding and something to look forward to when I hit level 10.

Mr_Walker wrote: »

I just hope that we don't get, say 4/5 parts for a mythic, and then hit the 30 days and it all just disappears. Can anyone confirm this is/is not the case?

dont worry i maxed out a while ago and got all mythic...getting the leads for a specific mythic took me between half a day and 2 days

Nestor wrote: »

Icy_Waffles wrote: »

I’m really struggling with gold leads- the dig site due to the bug it’s really difficult at level 7

@Icy_Waffles

If you are on console, wait for the patch coming soon that fixes Gold Digs

If you are on PC, well, I held off on golds until i got the increase in Dig Time, too much luck is needed to get the correct direction to dig because of how the Scrying works at the higher levels.

When is this patch coming to PS4?

Mr_Walker wrote: »

KMarble wrote: »

Mr_Walker wrote: »

I just hope that we don't get, say 4/5 parts for a mythic, and then hit the 30 days and it all just disappears. Can anyone confirm this is/is not the case?

Leads that weren't worked on will expire after 30, not the dug items/parts. Once it's dug, it's yours - kind of like fragments for collectables.

So I assume from this if you have 10/17 parts dug up for the Wolf Mount, after 30 days, the lead for the mount no longer shows up, but next time you collect a fragment lead, the lead reapperas once more, and after you dig your new piece you now have 11/17?

I'm not quite sure what you're asking, so forgive me if I give you the wrong answer.

Using your example, you have 10 dug parts for the wolf. Those aren't leads anymore, those are "fragments" (to use the game's terms). You won't be able to collect more leads for those parts you've already dug (until you have the full item. This is inside parenthesis because I'm not sure if you can find leads for the wolf once you complete the first. It's possible to do this with the music box, for example).

If you have more leads for the wolf that you didn't dig up in time, they'll expire and vanish from your account. You'll have to find them again.

Let's say you let the lead for the head expire, finding the lead for the legs, for example, won't bring the lead for the head back. You will need to find it again.