Getting Rich From ESO Treasure Maps - A Super Overlooked Gold Making Strategy

[@Arttea]

Hey! I actually don't use any addons to help me find treasure map locations, although I could see how using them would definitely make the process of finding these chests much more efficient! Instead, I use the following resources: To find the treasure map location: www.elderscrollsguides.com/treasure-maps/ orcz.com/ESO:_Treasure_Map If I need additional help and would like to actually see how to get to the spot: kzbin.info I figured I'd share these for others that do not or can not use map-related addons themselves! If you are keen on using addons to help mark these treasure map locations, check out: www.esoui.com/downloads/info1881-MapPins.html

[@brucewilliamson5295]

I use “The ESO APP” due to being on Playstation and it helps so much.

[@johnmccall4528]

I just recently discovered your channel and oh man, what a breath of fresh air! Your directness and sarcasm are pure GOLD. I get tickled every time you find a new way to pronounce bugloss, (hoping you put butt floss in a vid) I'm recommending this channel to every ESO player I know.

[@RCNova]

I am honestly glad that I stumbled upon this channel, so much useful information being delivered in a light-hearted way, amazing content!

[@XistenceisFutile]

As a new player it is a real struggle to make gold..many of the gold making guides require you to have maxed out gear and CP to farm content...your videos are very helpful.

[@geoflay4372]

My big brain idea is to buy many of the same map and leave them in my mail intray until I get to the right location. They then can be opened one at a time. You have to run around the block to re-set them in the same way as surveys. I love your content and presentation.

[@TechnikalKO]

I love your content. I've learned sooooo much. Thank you! As for Treasure Maps, I really enjoy finding them and digging them up. I turn on the game music, swap to my harvester build, and go to town lol

[@Arttea]

Yeah me too! Admittedly, it is a bit mind-numbing at times, but I'll usually do them while I chat with friends on discord voice chat, so it's never really a boring time. And it iss absolutely worth it whenever I get a motif lead

[@liquorbox724]

You're hilarious. Ty4 taking the time to make this informative yet entertaining video about this tedious although lucrative endeavor. Looking forward to your next tips and tricks for picking flowers.

[@joblesse]

As always, the quality of your video is so good that I'm satisfied with just watching it regardless of the content.

[@getbent8247]

Sorry you died going after tmap2 in bleakrock. But way to farm that trainee! And those motif drops in starter zones are closer to 50% (at least it seems like). Love your vids, your voice and sense of humor. Keep giving away all those good goldmaking secrets -- we'll find more!

[@HeronHQ]

I lost interest in playing ESO myself around a year ago after 4k+ hours, but I still cannot skip any of your videos. It's always a pleasure listening to your 5head content salted with the right amount of humor.👌 Thanks and keep on going please! :)

[@Arttea]

I'm really glad that you can still enjoy my ESO vids despite not playing anymore And of course, nothing but 5head content on this channel 😌

[@Blue__Oni]

If u don't play it anymore would u give away any of ur in-game items?

[@IvanIvanov-wb7gh]

Unmatched eso content creator, really. Love the content!

[@Arttea]

Thanks gamer

[@FractalWow]

Great content and cool vids. Happy to see you channel growing. Very well deserverd! Congrats!

[@Arttea]

Thank you!!

[@mikehoppa5925]

I recently sold three Ancestral Breton Shields for just under 3 million gold on PSNA over the last two months. My first sold for 2mill!! Breton has been pretty hot. I make sure to always check with other traders have out there before pricing them but at the time there were no shields anywhere in Tamriel so I priced it super high.

[@decaphragm]

Another banger of a video Arttea. maybe I'll go digging up some treasure now

[@Arttea]

Thanks! And good luck!

[@third3932]

it's always a treat when you upload! I love your videos :D

[@Arttea]

💞

[@Voltage256]

The treasure add ons are a godsent lol I couldn't be bothered trying to find out where they are

[@ELMOCLEW2007]

Maps are a very rewarding.... just tedious way to earn gold.... thumbs up to peole who do it constantly.... i can only bare it for short spurts.... good detailed video. ty

[@Bosmer1701]

At :46 I have an issue with that. That person does not know what they are talking about, I love it when females swear. Great vid. Learning something new, but frustrates the hell out of me, that I did not already know this.

[@Arttea]

It's definitely a lesser-known fact for sure - given how easy it is for me to find these cheapo maps that give me motifs worth sometimes hundreds of thousands of gold, I know you aren't the only one that didn't know ;p Haha yeah that one comment made me laugh pretty hard. "Women used to be decent"

[@illclad.effigy4180]

I genuinely LOVE your videos. You should post gameplays too :)

[@Arttea]

Thank you! Hmm maybe I will some day :)

[@redmonkus6197]

Wow! Is this the case for the console version as well? I literally have dozens and dozens of treasure maps that I’ve just gathered over the years. I’m just starting to use them but had no idea that they could lead to motifs. Time to start raising my scrying and antiquities skills 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@iBe-RuNnErZ]

Brilliant video as always! Thank you 👍

[@Arttea]

Thank you! Glad you liked it :D

[@Aggrovious]

C.O.D trader responded to me once when I was trying to trade perfect roe. Told them I was not paying tax and wanted to trade in person. The guy shows up and offers half the agreed price and I waited for them to change it after 2 minutes. Honestly, I do not under the point of C.O.D. Love the ESO content and I smashed the subscribe button

[@XPEve]

That drop into the water at the end made me giggle XD Great video, thank god I enjoy doing map hunting lol I wonder if, for example, I have one active lead from Blackwood, would the lead drop rate would be smaller for a lead of another same motif piece.

[@Arttea]

Ah yes, if you already have an active lead for say, a chest motif, then you won't be able to get another lead for a chest motif until you dig it up. Good point! But, if you have an active lead for say, some swords, you can continue to do treasure map chests and you shouldn't observe a decrease in drop chance - at least, I never have, and I've done hundreds of these maps by now ;p In this second scenario, it just means that you wouldn't be able to get another sword motif until you dig it up. Hope that helps :) I enjoy map hunting from time to time too. Ngl, the digging mini game is lowkey pretty fun ;p

[@AndyGarcia82]

Yeah, I have been sitting on lots of maps that I really need to take advantage of.

[@brucewilliamson5295]

Can honestly say i earned my first 1mil because of your vids! Thank you for all the content! You rock!

[@Arttea]

Nice one! The first mil is always the hardest to get - the millions that follow will be much easier! Happy to help

[@brucewilliamson5295]

@@Arttea thanks! 👊🏼💯🤙🏻

[@creamygoodness096]

Thank you for these videos Art. They've been so damn helpful. I find myself enjoying grinding resource nodes and treasure chests and I've been making more gold than I ever thought possible. Honestly I find running around for 1-2 hours at a time just collecting resources really relaxing. Now I finally have enough gold to pursue my true passion: paying motherly Altmer women to degrade and bully me! 🥵🥵🥵

[@Arttea]

Same here! While I enjoy flipping the shit out of certain items, sometimes I bring it back to basics and do a lil loop around some of my favourite node farming spots while I listen to some chill music just to relax or wind down a bit (this is especially needed after some late-night pvp ) And damn, I'll do that shit for free - I mean.... what?

[@lennart9975]

love your videos, thanks!

[@praetorian3733]

Very insightful video ! Though I wonder how many maps you will be able to find on the cheap now =p

[@wolfhex3233]

I’m glad I have a mate who gives me treasure maps for free. But that’s cause he knows any motif dupes I get he’ll find in his bank I’m surprised not enough people do treasure maps tbh. Even if it’s non-DLC, you can still gain passive gold from it and it’s better than just standing in Grahtwood for hours on end

[@dreypanicfall]

i never sold a map, i always use them, i like to go for them, nice and helpful video :)

[@Arttea]

Wise move

[@christophermccormick5505]

Do certain dlc maps only drop certain motif pages? i.e. I seem to only ever get belts and bows from Reach Treasure Map I. Where as I seem to get different ancestral barbarics from Western Skyrim ones

[@Arttea]

Not to my knowledge; only the basegame maps operate in this manner. Here is the UESP page on the ancestral reach motif as a reference: en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Ancestral_Reach_Style If you take a look at the UESP pages for the base game ancestral motifs, you will see that they categorize each map as yielding a different kind of motif lead. That isn't the case here.

[@Chronoir3]

*no maidens?*

[@Yosh-doesnt-understand]

Treasure maps for some areas sell for over 10k on xbox

[@blairpambrun4158]

I have a lot of maps that I've collected form my dlc buys and I haven't used any of them because of what you first told us about get shitty pickups

[@annamolodtcova7526]

Its very useful video, thank you. I knew that there are leads in some maps, but didn't know about cooldawn. Do you how long is it?

[@BrotherWolf100]

Scammers are my enemies as well. What's worse, is that it breaks my heart to see beginner players being victimized by these haters. The very ones who hate (and want to destroy) the very existence of farming and grinding for treasure map, crafting materials, gold and other forms of in-game currency and etc!

[@odem9304]

Hi, I started playing eso only recently. Can you tell me how you made your eso look so good? Are you using some reshade? If so, which one?

[@Arttea]

Hello! Welcome to ESO! And yes, I am using the following reshade: www.nexusmods.com/elderscrollsonline/mods/144

[@marsupiosam4201]

Best trading channel, just wanna say thank you I made my first million this week :D

[@Arttea]

Congratulations! That’s an amazing milestone!! First mil is always the hardest - the next ones are much easier to attain! :) Happy to help

[@dennisscott2516]

I play on PS4 NA. I buy all Treasure maps priced 300 gold or lower on guild traders. Been working well. Curious, anytime I see a Deadlands map priced under 60K I buy it and sell it for 60K . Why are they so valuable?

[@Arttea]

Deadlands maps can drop ancient daedric motif leads - the motifs are highly valuable!

[@Neofolis]

Weirdly, I was only thinking yesterday that this would be a good idea. Unfortunately, when I thought that I wasn't taking into account that the RNG gods hate me. Today, 15 chests and 200,000 gold later, I did get one lead for ancestral akaviri daggers, which was obviously one of the 5 pages I already knew and is currently for sale for 60k. I realise it's a small sample size and I wasn't able to get the maps as cheaply as I may have been with more patience, but things are still not working out as well as I had hoped.

[@Neofolis]

Sorry, me harping on again, just call me Harpy. So I carried on buying maps regardless, especially seeing the price of some of the pages that I don't yet have. Three leads from 34 maps, so my odds have improved slightly, although I'm thinking everyone who sells maps watched your video, because I'm struggling to find them for much under 18,000, although that's probably not helped because I usually play when the server is less busy. I have noticed that I'm getting a lot of leads for Z'en Idols from the maps, so I just wanted to confirm that you weren't including those as part of the one in three. I assume not, but I've seen other people online saying the drop rate is about one in ten, but obviously I don't know what sample size they are basing that on. On the plus side, one of the three leads I got was one that I needed and I also bought one chapter, so only another seven to go, along with all the other motif chapters that I don't have yet. Is it just me that seems to set themselves stupidly difficult goals. I just spent January and February getting all of the attunable crating stations for one of my houses, which, to be fair, I was expecting to take about 6 months. My current goal is to complete every motif, which I've only allowed two months for, but I don't have that many left to get, although ZOS aren't helping by continually adding more. The next goal is to learn every furniture recipe, which I'm expecting to take a while, I don't have any idea how long that one will be. At the same time I'm also trying to max every skill on another character, a Stamblade that is currently using a destruction staff and a restoration staff, so that's not a pointless goal. I guess that could be useful, if I ever buy a few more armory slots, although race wouldn't be optimal for every role, oh wait, she's Imperial, not optimal for any role. Oh well, the joys of being a completionist.

[@Neofolis]

Just to continue my own personal thread. I don't know if this is a helpful tip, the ramblings of a mad man or so obvious it doesn't need to be mentioned, but I'll go ahead anyway. I mentioned that I had been getting a lot of Z'en Idol leads, the clue here is in "a lot". For some reason, I had been excavating said Idols. Given that my scrying and excavating are already max level and that I already have a nice collection of Z'en Idols sitting in my antiquity storage house, I'm not really clear what my motivation was for doing this, but obviously the way to stop getting Z'en Idol leads is to already have one. To this end, I have not bothered excavating my current Z'en Idol lead and have since found that my motif lead drop rate has improved. It could just be a coincidence and I'm still not getting anywhere near one in three, but I am approaching one in five, which is a huge improvement on where I was. Again, this is just my experience over the past few days, so still a very small sample size, but it seems possible that the Z'en Idol leads would share the same potential drops as the motif leads and, as far as I know, you can't get two leads from one source at the same time. Again, in my small sample experience, the Idol leads are far more frequent than the motifs, so if each Idol lead is a potential motif lead, not excavating them will improve the odds of getting motif leads substantially. Sorry if this is really obvious to everyone else or completely incorrect.

[@Neofolis]

Guess what, I'm still not done with my helpful tips. Having thought about the Z'en Idols and how you can't get a duplicate lead until you have excavated it, I had another helpful thought for people still trying to complete the motif. If you get a lead for a chapter you already have, don't excavate it and sell it. Keep it, so that you can't keep getting it. It may take until you have 14 active motif leads, but this way you guarantee that you will get all of the chapters sooner than you might have. I wish I had thought about this before excavating my second ancestral akaviri belt motif of the day. To add to my punishment, I got both after purchasing the chapter earlier today. Sorry again, if I am stating what is obvious to everyone else and for my unwillingness to let this thread die.

[@Neofolis]

Sorry, I still haven't given up on this, just wanted to post an update now that I have some more days of data. Sticking with my plan of not excavating leads, I currently have 9 leads, which only include one of the four pages I still need. So I have nine leads, plus five that I excavated before deciding to hold onto my leads. Having previously mentioned that my rate had dropped to closer to one in five, that has definitely not been the case since. At that time I had got three leads from the previous 17 maps. I have now used 127 maps for my total of 14 leads, so around a one in nine drop rate. The problem is I don't know if my plan of hanging onto leads is what's caused my drop rate to go back down. I was assuming that I would still get the same number of drops that I would have with no leads, but would only get leads that I don't already have. It may be, however, that I would have been getting more leads, but haven't been, because I already have the lead that would have dropped. It's very difficult when you don't know exactly how the system works. Does the chest generate a lead, then not give it to you because you already have it or does the chest generate a lead and automatically select one that you don't already have a lead for. When I word it like that, the first option seems a lot more likely, so it may well be that my plan is very flawed and just costing a lot of money in the motif pages that I've missed by storing the leads. Either way, having come this far, I'm not turning back now. At least this is relatively cheap compared with some of the other motifs that I still need.

[@michaelfletcher6669]

Pretty sure mirri add 30% chance for bonus loot too

[@Dezizz]

been selling my maps mostly from laziness and noticed the dlc ones seemed to sell better and never knew why so thx for info! with that, does 1500g sound too low? u think i could do better? (XBOX)

[@sinisterplotter6447]

Noooo my not so unique method of making cash now on KZbin! Heathen! Nah love the stuff Arttea. Keep it up!

[@pedronogueira5267]

came for the info, stayed for the beautifull beautifull memes

[@EMcKelvyF]

I've done over a hundred treasure chests across the map over the last 2 years and have never gotten a motif

[@Arttea]

Treasure chest maps drop motif *leads*, not motifs themselves. Those are two different things. You would need to have access to the antiquity system to then go ahead and scry/excavate that lead to then receive a motif page. (Edit: spelling)

[@EMcKelvyF]

@@Arttea I'm aware, never gotten them. Just my bad luck with the RNG gods lol

[@Arttea]

@@EMcKelvyF oh wow, that is truly horrible RNG 😩

[@gravityhypernova]

Enjoy your vids a lot! Curious though; why, exactly, are these motifs expensive? When I check the "sold only" chart, it looks like it's just that someone pumps up the average price by making a absurdly high price listings. What they actually sell for, and how often (surprised the site has that info: very useful!) is not as impressive.

[@Arttea]

Which motifs are you speaking of? The base game ones? Many of those are indeed quite cheap, but the DLC ancestral motifs do indeed sell for a lot! They are harder to get and they are very nice looking! I sell them all the time myself for a lot of gold :) I should add that a few of those base game motifs do still sell for a lot though. I’ve seen the sales data for my guild and some guildies have been selling them for a lot (30-100k for some pieces)!

[@usurp795]

If you have different interests in life then I'm pretty sure you could make a channel on it. your voice is just nice to listen too and I'm sure you could start something that people are interested in or maybe make some ASMR lol.

[@Arttea]

Thank you for the encouraging words! I've considered creating more IRL-themed content before, but I am much too busy to even consider it these days haha. Perhaps when I can afford to, time-wise, I will look into that possibility :)

[@schmutzpukkel1534]

I love your content and your videos are always so beautifully made annnnnd I wished u would play on my platform haha. Thank u

[@Arttea]

Thank you! Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of time to play on my own platform, let alone another one! Would be nice to be able to play with everyone from the community though

[@Sk0lzky]

I've never scrapped a map in my life, I always dig, and only ever made money from them during Blackwood event ;_; Is ZOS scamming me?

[@Arttea]

My tinfoil hat is on

[@brandon9172]

Should be able to get at least some money from deconstructing jewelry from them

[@dayimetu8808]

I remember when Blackwood first came out, those annoying bots constantly spamming something like 'wtb bw map 1k each' in zone chat, in literally EVERY zone. Such a scam smh...

[@Arttea]

I know exactly what you are talking about - seeing those those made me so mad! I did my part to write in zone chat and inform others that those maps were actually super valuable, and to not fall for that scam!

[@JamesOKeefe-US]

I sold a deadlands treasure map for $50k...damn, wish I watched this first :)

[@Arttea]

Oh nooo! Ah well, at least you know for the next time!

[@maciejysakiewicz2132]

Damn, now I regret selling all my Deadlands and Blackwood maps. Not for pennies, though, but still...

[@Pulverado]

Let the Fuck Flag Fly , love your content . Say it with ya chest 00:44

[@Emblem13235]

Time to put all treasure maps at 690,420k with one erp session along with it

[@Arttea]

I'll buy

[@kyle2931]

Too bad I’ll have to wait until my PS4 is fixed - or rather TOLD to mom that it seems to need to be fixed but as much as I get verbally chewed out over the most petty issue by her alone, I can never seem to talk to her like an adult without hearing either complaints or yelling. Both my system AND controller are messed up - and the system itself keeps making noises. Before I go to sleep at night, I’m having to (by mom telling me to do so 😡) wrap my PS4 in a plastic trash bag to “try and keep literal bugs out of my system” after turning the system off completely, but I’ve always felt that to be not her brightest idea. Plus, for my controller - about a year ago I was on the verge of sharing with mom a trick I heard about to dislodge dust from beneath the control sticks by using a bit of compressed air to spray, but when I tried to take the can and show her, she snatched the can from my hand and proceeded to use it herself but she kept hitting the wrong areas of the controller - she kept hitting the screws that hold the controller-casing in place.....

[@kyle2931]

P.S. I apologize for the rant. Deep down just still ticked that she tried to one-up me when in actuality she made it worse at the time.....

[@bovrar2nd861]

0:22 LOL!!!

[@adamlazorko4950]

Oh my god...ive been deleting treasure maps for over 5 months....RIIIIIIIIIIP

[@xbeast1997x]

I legit have a chest of like 20-30 treasure maps cause I get them all the time but don't do them 🤦‍♂️

[@Arttea]

If you have any of the mentioned DLC maps, you should definitely do 'em Or hey, at least you can sell them for a decent amount.

[@robbzooi]

I literally have multiple hundrerds of those, same for surveys, at least surveys stack

[@robbzooi]

that 1in3 droprate suddenly makes me wanna go do treasureruns

[@dcub6251]

rip for the hundreds of treasure maps I've destroyed over the years

[@lemonbalm_tea]

I’ve only done treasure maps by accident while thinking that I’m doing a survey. I think I’m one of those cheap map sellers uh oh

[@Arttea]

Uh oh... So uh... you wanna sell me some of those maps?

[@murderycatdoll1380]

"If you have a succesfull digggg" 🤪👀👀👀👀👀 Yeeeah....Well lol

[@Arttea]

Oh nooo 😅

[@murderycatdoll1380]

Thihiiii 🤭

[@Jmener69]

Thanks I usually sell all the treasure maps I get for 300 gold no matter which ones they are.. (Ps4)

[@Arttea]

Ahh yeah you should be able to get much more out of those specific DLC maps that I mentioned because of the motif leads that they can yield!

[@aldenencluna6409]

Nice.

[@kanemartin7968]

I feel you will be the first eso billionaire.

[@Arttea]

Haha I've definitely made a few billion gold by now, but I've given so much of it away There are definitely traders that are sweatier than I am that have made billions before me too though, so shout out to them for not destroying the economy 🙏

[@kanemartin7968]

Maybe trillionaire.

[@FOULMISCHIEF]

ARTTEA (if that's even your real name), I GIVE A FUCK THAT I COULD POTENTIALLY GET AN EPIC AND VALUABLE MOTIF. I *am* gonna do that treasure map. Anything you say will change my mind.

[@Arttea]

[@UncleSheoTV]

No officer, I kill this “add” because they drop a bomb ass treasure map…

[@moderdoty8606]

I cant stop making money. May have to wear a suit now.

[@salinawilliams383]

I've been saving mine until I get my CP up for better loot in chests

[@Arttea]

Ah, not a bad idea. Fortunately, you are guaranteed a piece of gear every time you open a treasure map chest, and the "treasure hunter" cp does not affect whether or not a lead will drop from you, but it will at least promote the chances of you receiving a blue or purple piece of gear!

[@Scatterbrainn]

Thanks, mom

[@Arttea]

You're welcome, son

[@areadhead]

I hate map digging on console...googling the location. Then still not seeing the dirt mound anywhere. Mother Arttea I need my sanity not gold 😝

[@Arttea]

Hey man, I don’t use any addons to help me either ;p I believe in you! For real though, it gets easier when you recognize the locations, kinda like with surveys. Admittedly, it can still be a really mind numbing endeavour. Listen to a nice podcast or some good music to get you through it 😎

[@qDesyncX]

I like your voice 👀

[@rentmoneypmm]

Bro I like ur swearing. Real ones be cussing, on god

[@OnlyInhuman90]

I've been playing for more than an year and EVERY single time I discard this shit. Can't be bothered with vague maps

[@EQOAnostalgia]

I sold a ton of them years ago lol.

[@crystallinecrow3365]

Ah, so YOU'RE the reason ppl were offering 25k for deadlands maps all morning in zone chat 😂 it's not 500, but it's still half the average price on my server.

[@Arttea]

Wow, that’s really unkind of those people to watch my video and to do that :( I hope that this video promotes more awareness about the value of these maps and the scams than it does promote partaking in scams 🙏 I’d like to think that my viewers are better than that.

[@crystallinecrow3365]

@@Arttea I hope it does too 🖤 they did at least inspire me to stop being lazy and do my own research (since it sure smelled like a grift) and my research scroll guy disappeared so I needed to shop around ANYWAY so it was good timing (I'm on console, no addons, only footwork lol). And I'm at a point in my eso life where I need 50k gold more than I need more punishment from RNGesus 😂 my sticker book is long since full and I'm ready to give up. 🤣

[@van_doogle6642]

😢the people on PC EU are way to awake if there is a way to make money they would know it and not make it easy

[@nib6383]

Exquisite video mommy

[@Arttea]