Treasure Map Topic

[Dark-Saviour]

I really liked the idea of treasure-hunts, but I've got to say, I'm a bit underwhelmed by the execution.
The 18-hour restriction is annoying as these things go fairly quickly, so they can never be anything more than a minor distraction.

More than that though, it's the 'Find treasure'->Kill Mobs->Profit (Or die and get nothing for 18 hours) sort of set-up. Really would have liked the 'hunting' part to be more pronounced, and rather than having mobs guarding the treasure, it'd be fun to have some sort of minigames you have to complete to get the prize. :-(

Still probably one of the better parts of the update though. :-\

[Seraphita]

I did a Boarskin map last night and I got some eagle feathers, some garbage crafting items, some gil and an athereal cobalt celata.

[Curagaja]

Just did one of my own and helped somebody with theirs. Both peisteskin maps. Three people in party.

First reward:
Free-fall: 250 Ice shards, 5 HQ Astral rocks, 5 HQ Spruce logs, 4 Sprigs of HQ thavnairian mistletoe
Gil reward: 1692 gil
Tomestone Reward: NONE
Loot-table reward: 1 Chinchilla Hide

Second reward:
Free-fall: 200 Ice shards, 1 HQ Astral rock, 2 Spindles of HQ Twinthread, 2 Sprigs of HQ Thavnairian mistletoe
Gil: 1692
Tomestone reward: NONE
Loot-pool: 1 Frosted glass lens

Keep in mind I was capped mythology from running CT forever to get my piece of gear, so there probably was a mythology tomestone reward but I could not obtain it.

[Anapingofness]

So wait can you do each of the three gathering professions every 18 hours? o-o Also I've been having pretty poor luck finding a map as a Botanist.. Though it was nodes about a certain level and it wasn't the unspoiled nodes? Sorry for the noobish questions haven't had a lot of time to prod into this >_<

You can an get the maps from lvl40+ nodes.
It is one map per 18hrs. It doesn't matter which one you use to get your map. Also, you can only have one deciphered map at a time.
However, you can actually decipher more than one map per 18hrs since the maps are tradable/sellable.

Hope that helps! ^^

[KiraJ]

On shiva the lvl 50 maps sell for 23k on auction house, does anyone understand how it could possibly be useful to buy such maps for 23k when the rewards will never get anywhere near that gil amount? Or are there special drops which are very rare but people hope on getting them?

[Thagyr]

On shiva the lvl 50 maps sell for 23k on auction house, does anyone understand how it could possibly be useful to buy such maps for 23k when the rewards will never get anywhere near that gil amount? Or are there special drops which are very rare but people hope on getting them?

The Tonberry pet.

[Dyvid]

On shiva the lvl 50 maps sell for 23k on auction house, does anyone understand how it could possibly be useful to buy such maps for 23k when the rewards will never get anywhere near that gil amount? Or are there special drops which are very rare but people hope on getting them?

Straight gil you're going to lose money. The value is drops and how lucky you are. It's really going to depending on your server and it's economic market value.

[Sotek]

Really wish they'd add maps to the lot table as a low % chance. You do a Boarskin map, there is a low chance you can get a Peisteskin Map as a reward; that would make these feel like actual hunts maybe. Well, that and removing "GO TO THIS ZONE" from the map, that completely ruins any sense of a hunt... >_>

Also wish the 1 Map every 18 hours per character was per Disciple of Land, instead.

[Ksenia]

They need to increase the timer on them. 4 minutes for the Morbol AoE or Chimera kite turns it in to dungeon boss fight without the dungeon. I enjoy them for the most part but I've had them time out even though we beat them on some of the AoE spammers.

[Lyrinn]

The Tonberry pet.

And Bluebird.