I know that we only "need" one character to reach level 10 but many of us "want" to complete this on all our characters.

Think of it this way. What if once we reach Max Undaunted on one character all the rest then lose one of their daily pledges the same way we lost the purple leads with Antiquities? Now it would take longer to raise the skill line, but for what reason?

Tales of Tribute rank raises for all characters on an account regardless of which character is playing. Companions level for all characters on an account regardless of which is playing them. Antiquities already has account bound features so there is a precedent for doing something similar with it.

They could give us a choice whether to max the level or not on our new characters, similar to how we can choose to repeat the ToT tutorial or not. This way those that want to skip the leveling grind can, but those that want to do the skill line individually still can.

SaffronCitrusflower wrote: »

No reason to level antiquities on more than one toon.

'Keen Eye for Chests' is a perfectly good skill to have on all 18 of my characters and a perfectly good reason to level antiquities on all of them.

Agreed SilverBride! ugh, exhausting! And just to see that glowy chest for me! Green and Blue leads make for really slow grinding.

Taggund wrote: »

They could also move Keen Eye: Treasure Chests to a lower level of excavating from 7.

This would be a good start but those of us who want to reach level 10 on all our characters still have a long tedious grind.

disintegr8 wrote: »

Level 10 is not a necessity on all characters. Level 7 for easier to see chests is good, level 9 for the extra visibility range is nicer, but as long as at least 1 character is level 10, you're good. Out of 18 characters, I have 1 at 7, 6 at 9 and 2 at 10 - all of which are my most used characters.

Leads don't have to be scried or dug up straight away, so changing characters mid-session just to dig them up is just wasting time. Wait until you have a few leads collected and simply assign a session to doing them.

I thought so too for a while, but you can only carry one lead of a type at a time. I noticed that the first month after scrying was introduced - I had gotten a gold lead, a little while later a random lesser color, and then a duplicate of the gold lead.

I specifically remembered the first one because I looked at it for detail when I got it, and than within 15 minutes I got the duplicate.

Obviously I only had one copy of the lead in my lead list. If I had let my leads accumulate for days - I'd never have noticed or remembered the 2nd drop as a duplicate of an existing lead. No telling how many duplicates don't register in the list or in people's minds when one drops several days after the first one is still on the list.

I have 6 characters levelled up to 10, one is on 9 and needs only a couple of leads to make it the rest of the way, 3 more on 7 each and 1 on 6... It's really not been that bad.

Actually one of the most annoying things was getting the characters to level 2 so they could all get Trowel and reliably dig up the purple leads provided that my scrying account does them:, because before that, you can only really dig up green or blue leads, purples are mostly out of reach without at least 1 point in Trowel: once they're at 2, it's really not too bad getting them to 4, where they get Heavy Shovel and can now reliably dig up Master level leads. And those two skill points are the ONLY ones you need to excavate any non-Ultimate leads reliably: all else is gravy.

Sure, sometimes the lead is in an area that the character hasn't been yet. So tag the nearest wayshrine en route, if there's a local sidequest, do it and mark the area "cleared" so you don't have to do it again... The base-game purple furniture leads are ten a penny, I now have SO many Ebony Fox Totems, Ashen Infernace Gates, Greensong Gathering Circles, and so on...

SaffronCitrusflower wrote: »

No reason to level antiquities on more than one toon.

Ehhh Treasure Chest sight is helpful.