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Thieves Guild Armory Station.
Thoriorz
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Hi, I just finished the 3/3 codex at this station, and for those of you trying to do the same, here's how I farmed it.
I got 2 Leads from the Heist quest. Leads can drop from both the purple coffer and the blue one (if you don't complete the Heist at that time).
But practically all of the remaining 13 Lead drops came exclusively from Thieves' Trove, and specifically only in Hew's Bane zone (I skipped Glenumbra—it didn't seem like a suitable place to me...).
My route:
I basically started at one point, and the red line shows the route I took as I simply drove around possible Thieves' Trove spawn locations. One of these routes took me 5–7 minutes (along the way, I only picked up Violet Coprimus when I spotted one now and then, or Psijic Portals—nothing else. just mount and sprint, sprint, and sprint.), and I opened 1–3 Thieves' Troves on one full route. Of course, I was farming during "off hours," hoping there wouldn't be too many other players in the zone doing the same thing as me...
What do I think? Well, the worst part was the 1/3 codex—I spent about 4 hours on that. The 2/3 and 3/3 codexes were noticeably easier (maybe earning the achievement increased the chance of a Lead drop?). In total, I needed about 7 hours for the 3/3 Codex. If you have time to play during off-hours, I'd say that's ok, but farming this when there are more people in the zone who are after the same thing as me would be a huge pain, and ZOS should consider where to place Leads in the future, in my opinion.
So good luck to everyone who's farming this station!
I got 2 Leads from the Heist quest. Leads can drop from both the purple coffer and the blue one (if you don't complete the Heist at that time).
But practically all of the remaining 13 Lead drops came exclusively from Thieves' Trove, and specifically only in Hew's Bane zone (I skipped Glenumbra—it didn't seem like a suitable place to me...).
My route:
I basically started at one point, and the red line shows the route I took as I simply drove around possible Thieves' Trove spawn locations. One of these routes took me 5–7 minutes (along the way, I only picked up Violet Coprimus when I spotted one now and then, or Psijic Portals—nothing else. just mount and sprint, sprint, and sprint.), and I opened 1–3 Thieves' Troves on one full route. Of course, I was farming during "off hours," hoping there wouldn't be too many other players in the zone doing the same thing as me...
What do I think? Well, the worst part was the 1/3 codex—I spent about 4 hours on that. The 2/3 and 3/3 codexes were noticeably easier (maybe earning the achievement increased the chance of a Lead drop?). In total, I needed about 7 hours for the 3/3 Codex. If you have time to play during off-hours, I'd say that's ok, but farming this when there are more people in the zone who are after the same thing as me would be a huge pain, and ZOS should consider where to place Leads in the future, in my opinion.
So good luck to everyone who's farming this station!
PCEU
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DenverRalphy✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭I think the drop rate itself actually isn't so bad overall. Each time I went out of my way to focus on it, I finished within a couple of hours. My third round this morning I finished in about an hour and a half. Though I attribute that efficiency to having rehearsed and refined my 9 trove loop the first couple times.
The biggest hurdle is acquiring the troves before another player can snipe them from you.
Edited by DenverRalphy on June 20, 2026 12:09AM0 -
decaffeinated✭✭✭There are thieves troves spawned anywhere in game? That's news to me. I've tried to farm it and can't find more than 1 trove per hour that's up.0 -
Nemesis7884✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭decaffeinated wrote: »There are thieves troves spawned anywhere in game? That's news to me. I've tried to farm it and can't find more than 1 trove per hour that's up.
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FlameDark✭✭✭✭✭decaffeinated wrote: »There are thieves troves spawned anywhere in game? That's news to me. I've tried to farm it and can't find more than 1 trove per hour that's up.
There are addons that show you where they are supposed to spawn on the map if you need help finding where they spawn. They are fixed locations that they do not share with anything else. But their respawn time is ridiculously long. Especially when they are being farmed. When I was looking for troves even before the armory station (for the one music box piece) I was finding more psijic portals then troves, and I was using the addon to help me find them! So, it's no surprise that blind searching you only found one an hour.PC/NA CP 1100 - PvE
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DenverRalphy✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭decaffeinated wrote: »There are thieves troves spawned anywhere in game? That's news to me. I've tried to farm it and can't find more than 1 trove per hour that's up.
There are addons that show you where they are supposed to spawn on the map if you need help finding where they spawn. They are fixed locations that they do not share with anything else. But their respawn time is ridiculously long. Especially when they are being farmed. When I was looking for troves even before the armory station (for the one music box piece) I was finding more psijic portals then troves, and I was using the addon to help me find them! So, it's no surprise that blind searching you only found one an hour.
It's not the respawn timer so much that it's the number that can actually exist versus how may possible spawn locations there are in any given zone. Making the respawn time seem a lot longer than it actually is. For example, suppose there are 100 possible trove spawn locations, but only 20 actual troves. When you loot a trove, waiting around for it to respawn is almost always fruitless because there are at best 81 other possible locations that trove can respawn.
[edit] Caveat.. I used completely made up numbers for illustration purposes.Edited by DenverRalphy on June 20, 2026 12:56PM0 -
Nemesis7884✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭where does the hood drop? heists or thieves troves? finding conflicting info and havent gotten that one neither from countless of both...0 -
DenverRalphy✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Nemesis7884 wrote: »where does the hood drop? heists or thieves troves? finding conflicting info and havent gotten that one neither from countless of both...
All 5 leads can drop from heists, and they can all drop from troves.
Edited by DenverRalphy on June 20, 2026 1:59PM2 -
Nemesis7884✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭DenverRalphy wrote: »Nemesis7884 wrote: »where does the hood drop? heists or thieves troves? finding conflicting info and havent gotten that one neither from countless of both...
All 5 leads can drop from heists, and they can all drop from troves.
Hmm weird, all other leads i got quite quickly but for the last one, the hood, ive do ne four heists and opened around 10 troves without success.0 -
allochthons✭✭✭✭✭
✭DenverRalphy wrote: »
It's not the respawn timer so much that it's the number that can actually exist versus how may possible spawn locations there are in any given zone. Making the respawn time seem a lot longer than it actually is. For example, suppose there are 100 possible trove spawn locations, but only 20 actual troves. When you loot a trove, waiting around for it to respawn is almost always fruitless because there are at best 81 other possible locations that trove can respawn.
This. I camped a few troves because I was doing chores or reading or dishes or...
One respawned in 20 minutes. One spawned in 90, one I waited over 2 hours with no spawn. It's not set. It's the number of active troves in a zone and randomly spawning in the set locations.
ETA: My RNG is awful on this one. I've been doing heists on two characters a day, not a single lead. I've been farming the troves in both zones for hours (a similar route to Thoriorz in Hews), and I'm only up to 3 total on the first station. I'm finding plenty of troves. The leads just don't drop. I even tried a character that doesn't have antiquities leveled because there was a rumor years ago that those characters could have better drops. Nope. High frustration for the drops on the Armory and Summerset furnishings.
Edited by allochthons on June 20, 2026 4:13PMShe/They
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method__01✭✭✭✭✭same here.done about 25 heists ,opened a lot of Troves in Hew's Bane and Glenumbra and im 4 leads EU and 3 NAPC EU/NA /// PS4 EU/NA
Vasanha
This one hears nothing. Sees nothing. This one only sweeps.
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SkaiFaith✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭I spent the afternoon and evening farming troves and got all the 5 leads but just one time, over 4-5 hours.
I really hope filling codex won't take another 10 hours of farming troves.
To anyone who has filled the codex - does this really become purchasable at the achievement vendor in Glenumbra? Because I've checked its inventory and the item isn't even present locked in the list.Edited by SkaiFaith on June 20, 2026 10:30PM"..........Anyway, here's how
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FlameDark✭✭✭✭✭DenverRalphy wrote: »decaffeinated wrote: »There are thieves troves spawned anywhere in game? That's news to me. I've tried to farm it and can't find more than 1 trove per hour that's up.
There are addons that show you where they are supposed to spawn on the map if you need help finding where they spawn. They are fixed locations that they do not share with anything else. But their respawn time is ridiculously long. Especially when they are being farmed. When I was looking for troves even before the armory station (for the one music box piece) I was finding more psijic portals then troves, and I was using the addon to help me find them! So, it's no surprise that blind searching you only found one an hour.
It's not the respawn timer so much that it's the number that can actually exist versus how may possible spawn locations there are in any given zone. Making the respawn time seem a lot longer than it actually is. For example, suppose there are 100 possible trove spawn locations, but only 20 actual troves. When you loot a trove, waiting around for it to respawn is almost always fruitless because there are at best 81 other possible locations that trove can respawn.
[edit] Caveat.. I used completely made up numbers for illustration purposes.
Huh, I did not know that! Thank you Well that just makes farming these even worse. I really hope we don't get too many more of these type of leads that come from Troves. Or they will need to make some changes with the amount that can spawn, and the timer itself too. PC/NA CP 1100 - PvE
◆Arondael - Level 50 Magicka Necromancer ◆ Valyndrae (MAIN) - Level 50 Magicka Sorcerer ◆ Mithaedrun - Level 50 Stamina Arcanist
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DenverRalphy✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭To anyone who has filled the codex - does this really become purchasable at the achievement vendor in Glenumbra? Because I've checked its inventory and the item isn't even present locked in the list.
It's found at the Hew's Bane achievement vendor.
Edited by DenverRalphy on June 20, 2026 10:49PM1 -
SkaiFaith✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭DenverRalphy wrote: »
Thank you very much for the info! Nice.
Guess the guide I've read online was wrong."..........Anyway, here's how
to tell if your RPG
sign is cheap" - Tony(?)1 -
Nemesis7884✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭im really confused about the leads...the first 4 leads i all found with opening 1 or 2 thieves troves - but for this last lead i have done 10 heists now and opened over 50 troves and havent received it...seems weird0 -
Gabriel_H✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Nemesis7884 wrote: »im really confused about the leads...the first 4 leads i all found with opening 1 or 2 thieves troves - but for this last lead i have done 10 heists now and opened over 50 troves and havent received it...seems weird
They seemed to have flat lined the drop rate from the method they have used the last couple of years. It looks to be higher overall than pre-Gold Road, but the ~100% chance on 1st iteration is gone.PC EU
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Nemesis7884✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Nemesis7884 wrote: »im really confused about the leads...the first 4 leads i all found with opening 1 or 2 thieves troves - but for this last lead i have done 10 heists now and opened over 50 troves and havent received it...seems weird
They seemed to have flat lined the drop rate from the method they have used the last couple of years. It looks to be higher overall than pre-Gold Road, but the ~100% chance on 1st iteration is gone.
its just weird that all leads are easy and then the last one is uber difficult1 -
Gabriel_H✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Nemesis7884 wrote: »Nemesis7884 wrote: »im really confused about the leads...the first 4 leads i all found with opening 1 or 2 thieves troves - but for this last lead i have done 10 heists now and opened over 50 troves and havent received it...seems weird
They seemed to have flat lined the drop rate from the method they have used the last couple of years. It looks to be higher overall than pre-Gold Road, but the ~100% chance on 1st iteration is gone.
its just weird that all leads are easy and then the last one is uber difficult
Where are you farming?PC EU
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Nemesis7884✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Hews bane where all other leads dropped here too so id assume this one tooEdited by Nemesis7884 on June 21, 2026 4:38PM0