Wait, so treasure maps are on an 18 hour cooldown?

[Omedon]

So, there's a line of red text in the treasure maps section in the patch notes mentioning an 18 hour cooldown. I could have sworn I'd read somewhere that there were degrees of ownership of a map leading to allowing a player to do them all day, just not have more than one active at a time or some such.

Are we really confined to an 18-hour cooldown on treasure maps? That's kinda ridiculous.

Like, what if we fish, harvest, and mine seperate ones?

[ispano]

It means you can only FIND a map every 18 hours. If you get a map from say Botany, you won't be able to get another for 18 hours. If you get a bunch, you can do them all in a short period, just can't gather them up that quick.

[Omedon]

It means you can only FIND a map every 18 hours. If you get a map from say Botany, you won't be able to get another for 18 hours. If you get a bunch, you can do them all in a short period, just can't gather them up that quick.

So... it's basically a singular "daily quest" for people that level gatherers? That's... I mean I really wanted to gather and do them all day long.

[Ricky]

So... it's basically a singular "daily quest" for people that level gatherers? That's... I mean I really wanted to gather and do them all day long.

Sorry bro, you are only allowed to have fun in the game you pay a monthly fee for on their terms

[Alhanelem]

So... it's basically a singular "daily quest" for people that level gatherers? That's... I mean I really wanted to gather and do them all day long.

The rewards are likely such that its worthy of being a daily thing rather than a spam it all day thing.

[Sotek]

The rewards are likely such that its worthy of being a daily thing rather than a spam it all day thing.

I doubt it. The rewards they listed:

All party members will receive rewards such as EXP, gil, Allagan tomestones, elemental shards, and gear. The contents of the treasure chest will vary depending on the type of treasure map.

EXP. Worthless.
Gil. Picture shows 423 Gil, I assume this is the second best map even though there is a party (the recommendation is just a recommendation), hardly worth running out to look for. Room for improvement? Sure, but I doubt the highest tier of map will suddenly skyrocket that Gil.
Tomestones. Philosophy are ridiculously common, Mythology have a cap.
Elemental Shards. Thanks, I guess?
Gear. Yay. If it's high quality gear I'll be pleasantly surprised, assuming it's even gear we can sell. Though I guess that doesn't matter if you're just selling the map itself.


Seems awfully reminiscent of ANNM so far... Except they missed off crafting materials, if you could get some Potash from this it would have been good, though like I said, Philosophy are ridiculously common now. The only materials that I see having any major value though, are the new ones, and those all seem to be Housing focused (even ignoring everyones rage, I don't expect the furniture market to take off until personal housing hits), and unless they're rarer than current Unspoiled materials, they're worthless. Heck, high quality materials are the only ones with real value now, and furniture certainly doesn't seem like it'll be requiring high quality materials... Ideally this could have been something like ISNMs and Wootz ore, but there is nothing like that in this game currently, and there wont be because RMT... Sigh...

This is still something I'll enjoy, but the rewards really don't look great... Maybe the gear will surprise me, though... Still somewhat disappointed though, for the most part I don't bother with regular nodes unless I need Shards/Crystals, I was really hoping, given its completely random nature, that Fishing could benefit from this anywhere, but instead I'll have to go out of my way to visit a non-profitable Fishing hole and have to deal with the completely random nature of it, for something that almost assuredly isn't going to pay off... Not to mention keep track of a bizarre 18 hour lock out, if they've added that to the timers menu it's all good though, but so far the timers menu isn't really living up to the name...

[Luso]

Buy some from the market boards. I'm sure there will be players who will gather these to sell.

[Omedon]

Buy some from the market boards. I'm sure there will be players who will gather these to sell.

I mean, I know that's an option and all... but I leveled all 3 gatherers to 50 so I would not have to buy "From the land" items.

[Boohiss]

Buy some from the market boards. I'm sure there will be players who will gather these to sell.

Another buff for the RMT gil sellers! Hooray!

[Nuinn]

Unfortunately only one item found per 18 hours, unless you make an alt, level it to 15, pick a gatherer class and level it to 50 as well @___@ Shame, Treasure Hunt seems fun. I wish they just made the probability of finding a map while gathering extremely rare without the artificial lockouts. On the other hand, so much of the stuff in ARR is (or will with this new patch) revolve around artificial lockouts :/