HumbleThaumaturge wrote: »

Kelinmiriel wrote: »

I don't see any reason why you have to obtain all the leads within 30 days for an antiquity that is collected in parts. Once you've gotten a piece, you have it in your antiquities journal. That doesn't have an expiration date.

If it worked the way you interpret it, nobody would ever be able to collect the Ebon Dwarven Wolf mount. That doesn't have 5 parts. It has 17.

From PTS patch notes v6.0.0: "Leads expire 30 days after you obtain them. (Of course, you can always obtain them again)."

But the leads allow to dig a part, and that part, once dug, belongs to you without any time limitation. Which means that you don't have to have ALL leads valid in your inventory in order to get a premium rewards that comes in parts, but all parts of it.
The way I understand things, leads are time-limited, not parts, and premium rewards are made from parts, not leads.

Am I wrong ?

I seem to have missed where we're told in game that leads expire after 30 days and where to find the timer for each lead. I've just redone the intro quest on a new PTS character and tried to read everything that appeared on screen. I didn't see any mention of a timer in a tutorial note or quest dialogue. I didn't even get any note about leads at all when I found one, whether the basic blue treasure leads or the ones for motifs and such. I can't find any timers whatsoever under any Journal > Antiquities entry.

If you only put a comment in the patch notes that leads expire after 30 days, but you don't ever tell anyone that in game and fail to include relevant timers, you're going to be flooded (rightfully so) with support tickets from frustrated and confused players who find they're missing leads.

Please just ditch the lead expiration. It's going to be far more frustrating to your players and your support team than it's worth.

If you insist on keeping the expiration, then make sure the timers are accessible and accurate in both keyboard and gamepad modes. There have been too many cases where gamepad users have been given false, incomplete, or different information for no reason, like current Cyrodiil population bars being different when switching between modes, milegates being marked passable when they're not, timers being given in whole days rounded up rather than days and hours, etc.

I have found a dig site and have tried excavating the mound four times. You only get 9 chances and then have to find where the dig site has relocated to. I find this to be very annoying. This is way too much of a grind. This is on the first item I have tried to find in the wilderness. I can understand this on valuable items, but on a scrimshaw tooth that will be vendored? Not sure this is going to work for me.

My leads keep disappearing. I've caught the lead for Bouyant Steel three times tonight and it's unavailable for me to scry. Am I doing something wrong, is it a known issue?

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

chadtrusty_ESO wrote: »

My leads keep disappearing. I've caught the lead for Bouyant Steel three times tonight and it's unavailable for me to scry. Am I doing something wrong, is it a known issue?

Are you high enough scrying level to actually attempt the scry, @chadtrusty_ESO?

Another thing to check is if you successfully scryed already and haven't actually excavated the artifact.

While that sounds like something I would do, the specific leads I'm looking for are Bouyant Steel and the Inert Anemone Inlay, for the Thrassian Stranglers. If I had found them I'm guessing my progress towards the Thrassian Stranglers would show those pieces as complete not telling me to find a new lead.