Treasure Hunter Build
Recently returned (as in an hour ago) after about a 10 year absence.
Would like to pick up my true Hunter that I started before I left.
Skills are:
Musicianship
Provoke
Peacekeeping
Magery
Would like to pick up my true Hunter that I started before I left.
Skills are:
Musicianship
Provoke
Peacekeeping
Magery
Cartography
Lockpicking
Eval Intel
Is that still a viable build?
Lockpicking
Eval Intel
Is that still a viable build?
Comments
with the new maps what level can a mid level player solo
So, it sounds like Treasure Hunters need to be more focussed on the craft these days...I think I like that.
What builds do you guys use?
When it comes to gear, Cache, Hoard, and Trove all have the exact same quality of equipment. The harder maps just have more of the gear.
The kicker with t-map gear is the quality of the gear is dramatically affected by the quality of the chest (and by Luck). You can get Boss level gear from Gold t-chests (Cache, Hoard, Trove), but it is pretty rare.
With 100 Cartography you'll mostly get a Gold Cache chest, which means you'll mostly get a chance at a high roll, but you'll only get 12 of those chances (12 pieces of gear in a Cache.) Your chance at that roll is increased by Luck. (Yes it is. It's measurable and you yourself can measure it by tracking every piece you get from t-chests over 1000's of chests!) However, because the whole calculation is still only a chance, you will most likely have to do many chests before you see anything "good" (Or you may get a great piece on the first chest - RNG!)
With the same 100 Cartography, you'll only have about a 1 in 10 chance at a Gold Hoard chest and a sorry 1 in 20 chance at a Gold Trove chest. This means your chance at a high roll is significantly decreased in Hoard/Trove compared with Cache. But you get many more rolls (18 in a Hoard, 36 in a Trove).
One last thing. If you're looking for a specific style of gear (Elven leaf for example), you'll generate far more from running appropriate t-maps then really from anything else, giving you more chances at getting a piece you'd use.
Good luck Boo!
Thanks for that, that does clear a lot of things up. There's a lot changed since I last played...I don't elven gear was a thing!
With all the changes I'm not sure what I'm looking for to be honest. Think I just need to jump in and work it out.
My tmaper has the following
120 magery
120 eval int
100 meditation
100 inscription
100 cartography
100 remove trap
80 focus
I can solo up through trove. But after digging up hoard and trove chests I swap cartography with 100 lockpicking since you need 100 lockpicking in order to unlock those chests.
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Elven gear was just an example. Some players like to have matching sets of armor, i.e. all Bone or all Elven, or all the same style of Gargish Stone, etc. It's pretty easy to rack up lots of the same type of gear by running the same type of map (facet, prof) repeatedly.
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My template is actually derived from @TimSt:
105 Cartography (With LMG)
100 Remove Trap
100 Lockpicking
110 Magery (Hoping for 120 eventually)
100 Eval
100 Inscription
Magery III Primer and appropriate Slayer spellbooks.
Could swap out Inscription for Med, but I also use the Inscription for BoD's. My t-hunter runs with an old near-max Luck suit. Eventually, I'd like to rebuild that suit and get some Med, Magery, and Eval all on the gear. Or build a combat suit and switch from Luck suit to Combat suit after the chest has been dug up.
Boo, as a technicality you could use Master Skeleton Keys on the Hoard/Trove and not need 100 Lockpicking, but getting enough MSK to do all your Hoard/Trove is unrealistic. (Just thought I'd point out the MSK since you haven't played in awhile.)
So, as Tim said, you'll want 100 Lockpicking for Hoard/Trove.
Have fun!
P.S. Since you haven't played in awhile, you may not have seen these pages. Lot's of t-hunting info...
https://uo.com/wiki/ultima-online-wiki/gameplay/treasure-maps/
http://www.uoguide.com/Treasure_Map
How good are tinker pets such as the Vollum? I have a GM tinker already.
Animal Lore 120
Animal Taming 115 and rising...
Cartography 100
Lockpicking 100
Magery 110
Remove Trap 85
Rest currently in Med with a little Veterinary. I actually have 85 tame with 30 worth on jewels and plan to eventually work it all the way to 120 but at 115 with jewels I can manage at the moment.
I tamed a blue beetle and leveled up to a 4 slot. I stopped before 5 slot so I can still ride an Ethy to lure spawn away and navigate the monsters. I dug up a Shadow Ele and maxed out the Beetle skills first especially wrestle and resist.
The beetle can handle the spawn in most facets solo until you get to things like AW's. Then I have to drag them away and fight 1 v1 but the Beetle can take down AW's and Greater Dragons with just mage healing.
The beauty of the beetle is at max str it can handle all the loot in its pack so I sort the chest right into its pack as I go and bring everything back to either unravel or trash for turn in points.
I generally ride the bettle to the spot, pop the chest - run away and invis then lure the top level monsters one by one. Hop off beetle, ride ethy and heal via magery. Can handle all level maps on all facets this way.
hope that helps
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For the levels 4-5 maps I bring along my lock picker
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Just a note it will take awhile to recover the cost the 120 mage scroll. Think taking magery and eval to 110 instead of 120 would do the job.
Magery 100
Meditation 100
Eval int 100
Focus 100
Mystic 110
Cartography 100
Lockpicking 100
Remove traps 40
That's 750 point I get +30 magery from jewels
Summon RC and hide to single out targets, the downfall of this build is chasing down the chest summons after I hide
Ultima Online Treasure Hunting Solo - Artisan's Hoard Map Trammel - YouTube
Whaaaat? How can you possibly build an Archer / Bard / Treasure Hunter with Chivalry enough to cast EoO? AND wearing a luck suit. The mind boggles.
See mystic treasure hunters once in awhile usually in stone form and they do take out dragons.
Remove trap is a pain to learn by the way but it’s worth the effort if you decide to do hoard and trove chests in the future.