Tips, Tricks, and Necessities for a Treasure Hunter

[Veranis]

This is awesome Varak, fantastic work. Once again, haha.

So many of the points are perfect, like this one: "don't try to grind lockpicking." I always told people that, but everyone insisted on getting it done and over with as fast as possible, and then hated lockpicking (and usually themselves) afterward. Even here, I don't feel like I grinded it whatsoever, just doing a run whenever it crossed my mind, and I'm at 99.2 after just three and a half days (about 550 level 4 chests done, or about 30 runs, and two power hours where I did two runs each power hour). It's really not that bad in my opinion (still I agree, the hardest skill in the game to GM). If you notice someone else doing the chests, just leave it and come back an hour or two later. Not worth racing someone else for the untapped chests imo.

I would like to add a couple things. First of all, I'm not sure if it was because you had bad experience with it or never tried it, but recall-hiding is very efficacious, and could save a lot of time/mana. The only time it has failed on me were during lag spikes. Basically, you recall using a runebook, and as soon as your toon starts casting, just hold down your hiding hotkey until the recall is complete. You should be hidden before your character even moves and arrive at destination hidden. Just make sure you bind the hiding hotkey to hiding in your client options (not razor) and you should never fail unless you ping 250+. It may work just as well with razor's Hotkeys->Skills->Hiding option, however just don't record a razor macro of yourself using the hiding skill, as that will be too slow. I prefer client-side hotkeys for all spells and skills, just because I've had so many problems with razor over the years, and find the client ones much more reliable. It may be due to never having a steady ping of less than 140 (I'm always between 140-200).

Second thing is restock and organizer agents. To each their own, but I love these things. All my farming toons have one organizer agent with literally every lootable item type in the game, and I bind it to a hotkey. I leave the hotbag either in my bank, over the edge of my patio, or inside my house somewhere depending on the toon's build, and then no matter what loot you have, you can just hit the hotkey and sort it later (I'm a sort it later type guy, I absolutely despise sorting items as soon as I get them; however, lots of people are sort it now type people, therefore for them this tip will be useless ). Anyways, for lockpicking and treasure mapping, restock agents are also very useful. Just add all item types you want to loot to a restock agent, record a macro to restock from last target, and then just set last target to the chest and hit your macro. All the items you want from the chest will be automatically looted to your restock hotbag. If it weren't for this, I quite literally would never lockpick or treasure map: dragging items around has always been my least favourite part of the game Once again, everyone is different, this is just my style and share it for those who might not know about it. Just remember, make sure your "object delay" under "more options" in razor is at least 750 plus your average ping. You can just test it. I would start at 800 and then see how often you are getting the message "You must wait to perform another action." I personally can't have an item delay less than 1000 without getting the message more frequently than I prefer, so I leave it there.

When doing tmaps, you will frequently have to stop the restock agent to provoke spawn, so set a hotkey for "Clear Drag/Drop Queue" (Razor->Hotkeys->Misc). This way you can drink potions and access trapped pouches without them being added to the end of the item queue. Once spawn is under control, use the restock agent hotkey again and it'll resume where it left off. Later on, when you are using an organizer agent for organizing the loot, you may notice that items aren't going where they are intended, but instead just moving around in your backpack. Since the razor agents are finicky this way when using "clear drag/drop queue," I just run the organizer once with and object delay of 0. This clears the queue, and then you can run the organizer with 900 or 1000 object delay with no problems (I wish razor had a "toggle object delay on/off" hotkey... so useful, but you must set it to 0 by hand.)

Lastly, you can usually take a step and hide with mobs on screen very reliably if you just click walk and hotkey hide very quickly in the right order. Even though you haven't visually seen your toon move to its new position by the time you try to hide (due to ping), the commands are still sent to the server in the correct order so it will succeed (make sure you're already facing the right direction). Might take getting used to, and I still recommend just macroing stealth (it's a 100% afk macro to GM, just put armour on after 80), but it could be useful to some situations.

If anyone needs a razor profile with all the lockpicking/treasure map items in the organizer/restock agents, feel free to PM me and I can upload it somewhere