Treasure Map Question: To use or to Sell?

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Kirin Folken

Dalayan Elder
(hopefuly this is a ok forum for this post, didn't really seem like it belong in the quest forum)

I tryed searching for treasure maps on the fgorums and found alot of post from 2 years ago that didn't have to much info :( Seems treasure maps have changed alot since 2 years back.


IC:
Anyways long story short I aquired a Easy Treasure Map from a Shady Character inside Paw. I think she was jsut Bribe me not to slay her, the softer side of me winning out. The Liodreth quickly ran away after handing me this scoll.

The question I have now.. Should I search for this fabled treasure, or sell it off to some fortune seekers. It seems the going rate for such a scroll is about 150pp. Which I could use to greatly increase some of my gear. However.. is the treasure at the end worth more then the 150pp I wonder?

OC:
Basicly do you think its worth it to try and get the treasure myself? and what am I going to be required to have for a group? is it possible to solo a treasure? Duo? I know you need shovel and a bash (which I have both).

From what information I could find the maps are level dependent in tiers. Currently I would get a Tier 2 map, however if I wait a 1-2 more levels I would kick over into Tier 3.

Need some input....
 
At your level I don't think you could duo an Easy map. Easy treasure maps are usually done by people level 60+. Also there is some good info on treasure hunting on the wikipedia.
 
According the Wiki it looks like I could, since my Tier is 30-39 range. So the mobs should be about my level... what I didn't know was how many of them spawn. That could be a issue....

Has anyone tryed doing a Treasure map at lower levels?? or does everyone just keep them for there 60+s to run?
 
simple tmaps can be fun, but I would wait until you are 38-39 and get a group of 37-39s together to do it, be sure to have good CC.
 
There are waves of mobs that spawn each time you dig for the treasure, and until the chest actually spawns. Several mobs spawn with each wave, hence Allie's suggestion for good crowd control. Treasure maps were not designed to be duo'd, and I'm pretty sure it's not possible for appropriately geared level 37-39 characters.
 
Ok , thanks everyone for the imput!

I wanted to get the info before I ended up wasting my map. Since its my first Treasure map I think I will just use it. Might as well see what its like (getting a group together of course.. since theses are my first toons they are definitly not twinked).
 
I would say use it, it's fun.
Find another couple of chars at your level: the mobs that will spawn are in the 35-39 range, and the map can spawn up to 3 at a time...
 
Well just did my treasure map.

6 Man group all 35 except my shaman at 38.

Not to bad, tough and a few deaths but we made it. Got 2 items.. a range slot candle and a belt. Some gems it also drop a No Drop Gold Metal Sheet.... we had no clue what it was for.

The tough part was the second wave had a Froglok in it.. Chained something that Flurryed, nearly killed the entire group when flurry flash up since veryone even squishes were beating on it since it was the last mob.

One of the other people had a treasure map same level so we tryed it out..

WE got our butts handed to us hardcore. The First wave of guardains had to level 39 snakes with a very nasty dot posion. We defeated them thou with no deaths, the second wave however.. Spawned 7.. yes 7.. we got 6 Night Hunters (those wolfs) and another wolf with a different name. Those wolfs DPS is VERY high, and the different named one summoned. Our Enchanter died after hitting them with mez due to the odd name one not being mezed it just summoned him and then the rest broke mez and ate him alive.

My shamany died next trying to heal the enchanter.. so fo course when he died I got the aggro..

Our shadowknight had FD , and I manged to hit a boat realy fast (it was in storm seas) there were only 3 of them left (one was the odd named one), even with my pet and FM we only droped one before it ate the shadow night, my pet and me again. The group called it quits after that since most of us had ot head out.

All in all I realy love the idea of the treasure maps.. I just wonder about the diff. The first one wasn't bad It hink it was right on.. the second map (same group, same diff of map) was totaly over board spawning level 38-39 Mobs and in a Pack of 7 with a summoning mob.

Not sure if it was just a bug and we some how got a double spawn, as other have mention you seem to get 2-4 per wave on the low diff maps.

I will definitly be intersting in doing other maps.. but I do wonder if they are balanced around a normaly geared group. As we had some people packing some twink gear (not uberly twinkor alot but definitly some gear they should not have at that level) and had some issues in a few spots.

More Treasure Maps will tell thou if it was just a bug or how they all pan out.
 
Well yeah, the flurrying mobs were the surprise I was trying to hide :keke:.
And yeah, I've also had like 5 or 6 in camp.
What's curious too, is that once, it gave us the emote of mobs spawning, and none did. So I guess it from 0 to 6 or 7....
The simple maps are definitely to be tried in the highest level range of the map. I would have said a 37-39 grp for you.
Well, on the first TMap I opened, we were all around 31-32, and hoping it would scale to our level. We still stayed something like 2hours trying every possible trick to make it, and left an insane amount of corpses :monocle:. Finally, we came back at 39 ;).
 
Ah, you meant a Simple map, not an Easy one. I agree with you on the difficulty of some lower tier maps. I had tried a few simple maps in the 30-40 range when I was there and wiped every time.

If you can find a group to finish a map I would say go for it. There is some pretty good loot, and the chest usually drops enough platinum and vendor trash to pay for the cost of the map.
 
That's pretty much the reason I encouraged you to get a group in the high 30s (37-39). I'm glad you had success with your first one, but I think you'll be pleased to see the second one will be much easier with higher level toons. Otherwise, expanding your group to 12 wouldn't hurt either.
 
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