Tresure Maps

[OMega_ARcane]

Cool. Do you have any tips for someone JUST starting out I've dug up PLENTY of maps and I find them all the time. I remember hearing back in 2.X you could only do 1 per (X) not sure if it was week or day or something like that. Any restrictions that I should know about? Do you need to bring potions or something like that? I am also aware that you need a party to clear most stuff. Can you do cross world? Also, how does it work? Do you kill a mob, get a chest, roll on loot, rinse and repeat?

[Abelfei]

Cool. Do you have any tips for someone JUST starting out I've dug up PLENTY of maps and I find them all the time. I remember hearing back in 2.X you could only do 1 per (X) not sure if it was week or day or something like that. Any restrictions that I should know about? Do you need to bring potions or something like that? I am also aware that you need a party to clear most stuff. Can you do cross world? Also, how does it work? Do you kill a mob, get a chest, roll on loot, rinse and repeat?

Ok so Im going to just start this so I can edit it.

You can have 1 map open at a time, so most people bring 2, with 1 open and 1 in inventory. When you decipher the map it gives you a location, and you go and find it using the dig command. When you find it open the treasure and mobs will pop, about 3 waves usually. When the mobs are gone the map user goes back to chest and opens for random rewards distributed to party members, with the occasional rollable chest, which are usally average loot. Depending on loot rules, I do FFA, and everyone rolls need. Also when opening the chest you have a small chance at recieving a portal. If you get portal, it takes you to the underground, either Aquapolis or Unzair depending on which map.

From here, there floors 1-7. You complete a wave of mobs and then it gives you a chest, again with random loot assigned, and the chance at loot in a rollable chest. Alot of the times, the rolled loot can be anywhere from 10k to 10 million on my server, depending on item and server. Then the map user picks left or right door, which is RNG, to see if they get next floor.

Both maps have variables on each floor, a boss that can randomly appear along with normal mobs, and when you kill he gives random materia, and treasure goblins or stickywhiskers depending on map, that have to be killed asap to get crystals, shards and gil etc..

As each floor gets higher, the mobs get tougher, but not much, and also the odds of rollable loot increases. Floor 6 and 7 seem to always to give loot. Also the gil rewarded gets up to 100k for the final floor.

If you get a Thiefs map for Unzair, that will grant a rollable chest every floor guaranteed, but has 3 doors to choose from intead of 2. It also has a lottery game where you can keep doubling up loot by picking higher or lower on a card game, but this is very rare and random.

My biggest tip: give them time. Do 8-20 at a time to really see the rewards. I have done maps and sometimes walk away with 500k, sometimes 15 million. Dont get frustrated if you dont get the loot, keep doing maps, it will come. You might spend 4 hours and barely get portals and then boom, you get a bunch of portals and go far in the floors. Last weekend I did maps for 12 hours straight and made about the same, 12 million. 10 million of that was in the last 2 maps. Just be patient and they will give back. Also, besides farming them, look at price on MB, usually they are well worth buying for the return.

As for restrictions, just on farming them as a gatherer, not on actually using them.

No cross world parties, sorry. MY map static does lvl 70's with 4 people and lvl 60's with 3, however this is less than most other groups. I see alot of 5-7 man groups for 70's, and 4-5 for 60's. Just keep in mind, the more ppl in party, less random loot and the more people to roll against on the pricey stuff. Conversely, they also take longer to complete, so there is a balance.

[Abelfei]

If you transfer to Sargatanas I am in a nightly map static ..... haha.