There are four major pain points associated with Antiquity Furnishings where the leads come from zone Treasure Chest Maps:

1. Leads are locked behind rare maps, which have a low drop rate, effectively double-locking such leads through "RNG nesting."
2. Poor chance of getting desired leads due to low drop rates, artificial throttling of second and third leads, increased rarity for purple and gold leads, and a large pool of potential leads from the same source.
3. Codex hurdle for buying additional Antiquities from the Achievement Vendor (when this hurdle does not exist for recreating Mythic gear)
4. Antiquities that cannot be purchased from an Achievement Vendor, even when the requisite codex is complete.

Subsequently, we suggest the following remedies:

1. Improve the drop-rate for rare maps from Unopened Maps, preferably by making the zone where maps are opened by a player the location for the map received.
2. Increase the drop rate for Antiquity furnishing leads and remove the artificial throttling of leads for the second and third lead to drop.
3. Eliminate the need for Codex completion and allow Antiquity furnishings to be purchased after the first successful acquisition of any Antiquity furnishing.
4. Add the green and blue quality Antiquities to the Achievement vendors for the zones where they can be excavated (i.e. West Weald, Solstice, Telvanni Peninsula and Apocrypha).

Solstice Treasure Maps are back in the Infinite Archive merchant Ool's offerings for sale this week:



It's doubtful that many players still have Archival Fortunes left from the last time.

Re: Solstice maps for sale at Filer Ool week of May 12 - 19, 2026 –
I wish this could reach all of the (usually-newer) players who don't know:
https://moonpile.tumblr.com/post/808642600457338880/info-treasure-map-antiquities-leads-02-2026

hf trying to get 424,000 Archival Fortunes

I won't be going in IA at all. Who cares anymore

Against my better judgement, I bought 18 Solstice Treasure Maps (36,000 Archival Fortunes) from the IA vendor this week. The result? Zero (0) leads.

The Solstice Treasure Maps returned to the IA vendor, Ool, sooner than anticipated. So I hadn't built up as much of the IA currency with Night Market and other things taking up so much time. Probably for the best since I had forgotten how angry Solstice makes me. Double-locked Antiquities is an absolute waste of time and Archival Fortunes.

Thoriorz wrote: »

To be honest, I'd like to know what the devs think about this problem (at least for me, this is a problem), because the average player doesn't have tens of millions to spend on maps if they want to complete the codex, and trying to complete the codex with unopened maps is like trying to get struck by lightning in the Sahara...

@ZOS_Kevin Hi, could you tell us if the developers are considering any changes, or what their opinion is on this?

After spending over 100 million gold on Apocrypha, Telvanni Peninsula, West Wealed and Solstice Treasure Maps, I still have three Solstice furnishing antiquities for which completing the codex isn't worth the effort. The fact that IA sells maps for Archival Fortunes tells us all we need to know about what the Devs think--they know there's a problem and they don't care.

At this point, I don't plan to buy any more maps or open any of my "unopened treasure maps" ever again. Nor will I sell them. I'll continue to let them stack indefinitely, until such point as maps can be player-curated for a specific zone and/or the lead drop rates have been addressed satisfactorily. Or until my inventory of unopened maps makes it impossible to play, at which point I'll just quit the game altogether.

Contraptions wrote: »

Pretty sure I saw Gina or something say the devs noted this issue back in Feb. The fact that nothing has changed since then means that the current situation is intended. They're a massive resource sink, and they like it that way. Terrible really.

Nod, I'm kind of stressed that nothing has clearly been stated about this. Just a line in one of the roadmaps would be nice.

Seriously, some of the best furnishings are locked behind this Gatcha systems that makes even REAL Gatcha games jealous.
It's just a bit frustrating that they create these nice furnishings, then don't give us a 'reliable' way of farming them.

I agree with the earlier comments about Furnishing being the only place where this is the case. Mythics only require digging a lead once, and saving up a few transmutes (that you get from tons of sources) and you can clone that mythic as much as you want. Yet for furnishings, we have to go through multiple levels of RNG for EACH time we need to dig an item, AND we need to do this THREE times in order to purchase. That just feels wrong.

Can't create a system like that, and then say you want to see all the wonderful creations people create with these furnishings, that they can't actually obtain.

Well at least we've been getting decent furnishing plans lately. Those are something we can actually obtain.

PS I do like how readily leads in Night Market have been dropping, so that's an improvement, but it doesn't solve the map based lead issue.

onyxorb wrote: »

Well at least we've been getting decent furnishing plans lately. Those are something we can actually obtain.

The drop rate for the Solstice furnishing plans was better than it had been in a while. But I hate to break it to you, the Ancient High Elf Ornate structural plans coming with U50 have a very low drop rate, akin to the plans that dropped from Necrom and West Weald. On the PTS, the drop rate was less than one (1) plan for every twenty (20) Summerset Daily Recompense boxes opened (1 in 20 or 4.6%) for the 305 coffers I opened.

Thoriorz wrote: »

Now imagine this: let’s say you’re grinding IA and patiently waiting for the vendor to sell the specific maps you want—right?—and then you go for a ten-day vacation with your wife and kids for example (for example, from Monday through Thursday of next week), and that very week, the vendor in IA happens to have exactly the maps you want. So you’re totally screwed, yknow. And you can wait another weeks, months, or whatever.

I hope this is hypothetical, but I'm supposing it's not.

Semi-related question: One of the Oakensoul leads drops from ore nodes in Glenumbra. Does this include those found via blacksmithing surveys, or is this another QoL improvement that ZOS could make?

Thoriorz wrote: »

MidnightDuel wrote: »

Thoriorz wrote: »

Now imagine this: let’s say you’re grinding IA and patiently waiting for the vendor to sell the specific maps you want—right?—and then you go for a ten-day vacation with your wife and kids for example (for example, from Monday through Thursday of next week), and that very week, the vendor in IA happens to have exactly the maps you want. So you’re totally screwed, yknow. And you can wait another weeks, months, or whatever.

I hope this is hypothetical, but I'm supposing it's not.

It’s just a hypothetical scenario, but I can imagine that something like that could happen to someone, yknow.

Something similar happened to a friend of mine with one of the purchasable leads for mythics and then with one of the scripts. FOMO can be very real and turn into actual missing out with rotating and short-time inventories.

What leads are people trying to get from those chests? I only know of one for the "forest skin" in galen i think

Ordinator199 wrote: »

What leads are people trying to get from those chests? I only know of one for the "forest skin" in galen i think

There are three tapestries and a fresco furnishing that drop from West Weald treasure maps. Coming up on two years later, I'm still at 1/3 for all of them.

Down to 95 leads myself, 41 are from treasure maps, 44 are multipart leads (14 eligible to drop currently) which make most of my remaining leads annoying. My progress in leads has been stalled for months and it's definitely exhausting. Really hoping for some news on lead QOL/progression system.