Start digging up treasure chests then swapping skills using soul stones
After I find and start digging up a treasure chest while I have GM cartography and mining can I recall home before the chest is fully unearthed and swap out my cartography and mining with more combat and magic skills, recall back to the chest, and continue digging it up? Or do I need to keep the cartography skill at GM so the t-map will continue to work?
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Please make the Grizzled Mare a 5 slot mount, it's incredibly rare and deserves it. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this simple addition.
I just run when chest fully up, hide to brake contact then draw them off one by one.
I just have 110 archery with 90 tactics for fighting skills but still only need help with level 7s.
The spawn can be nasty all at once but one at a time is doable.
As for your method I'd have to try to be sure, but once you know exactly were the chest is you don't need mining to dig it up so it should work. (check out "Jacob's Pickaxe" +10 to mining and digging t-chest don't count as uses)
You do have an hour after digging it up to kill the spawn and loot the chest so time is not really an issue.
See you out there treasure hunting
Miles Revelstoke
Pacific
I run 0 mining and finding the chests isn't difficult with practice. I usually find it in 2-3 digs and very often on the first dig.
That amounts to about a 10-15 x 10-15 step area to search, depending on your mining skill. Mark the 4 corners (use a mapping program, a sextant, the displayed location feature in EC, or the -where command of UOA to find coordinates) with bandages, etc. Then start searching the box like you were mowing a lawn ordoing a sonar search for the Titanic, starting on the corner the chest appears closest to. And, some people claim they can even match up maps with the EC map to be able to find the spot first dig with 0 mining every time - I don't believe them.
With 100 mining, you should only have to dig 3-4 times each pass, and make 1-4 passes (shifting 3-4 steps up/down each pass). For 0-50 mining, you probably will have to make 6-8 digs per pass, and shift only one square up/down. It typically takes me about 1 to 10 digs to find a map with 60+ mining and holding a jacob's pickaxe.
In the past when I tried decoding the t-map then swapping cart out I was no longer able to read the t-map when I was in my house but I can now. They might have fixed something in pub 100.
The good news is my scenario works:
I was able to
1. Decode the t-map at my house
2. Swap out GM cartography for GM Inscription
3. Go to where the treasure should be
4. Start digging around with GM mining until I found the spot
5. Stop digging before the chest appeared
6. Recall back to my house
7. Swap mining out for focus
8. Recall back to the chest area
9. Dig from 4 tiles away (which eventually reduced down to 1 tile)
10. Fully dig up the chest
11. Begin blasting away at the guardians with chain lightning as a fully powered up mage.
Eh? That's what I do. I have the size of the maps set to very large in EC, and eyeball it against the radar map, lining up trees and rocks until they match (little yellow dots on the maps, outcroppings of rocks, etc).
L6 and L7's were harder for me at first, the maps were so small and scaling didn't work. But eventually I added these two lines into the UIVariables section of my character profile: (they're essentially the same commend, but the latter seems to stop working and the first one I added only last week to fix it). So yes, I often hit the dig on the first try in the EC.
Of course, I've probably done tens of thousands of maps over the years, it's my favorite activity. I have two treasure hunters, one used to have provo but changed over to Mysticism and Spellweaving, the other is a tamer. Both solo L7's regularly.
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Full template is: GM cart,lockpick, magery,mining. 115 spellweave, 120 myst, 85 focus. There's a video on my youtube channel if anyone wants to see how the template works, google: May Kinoles making holes version 2 - map is a level 6 in Malas.
I dont have a davies locker but marking everything with 100 mining on the ec client is really fast.
I’ll dig up the chest, and use the split second delay to trigger hiding with my tamer off screen. Run up and drag off and take down the guardians. Then I bring a character with Packies through a gate and just shovel everything in and sort later. What I don’t keep gets unraveled or tossed for cleanup points.
Has made me quite a pretty penny thus far, and I can solo even level 7s, though they can be a little annoying.