UO Second Age

True or False: A particular monster can only drop one level of map, i.e. a blood elemental can ONLY drop a level 5 map.

In the case of certain monsters, like blood elementals and ancient wyrms, my understanding is that they can drop ONLY level 5 maps. Are there other monsters that can, for example, drop both level 2 and level 3 maps?

Thanks.

I recently sold all of my maps aquired from dragons/ice fiends/ deamons / slayers and was told they were all lvl 4.
Offered to sell maps from wyverns/drakes/cyclops/titans but was told they can be lvl 3-4

This seems to indicate that monsters only yield a single level of map:

http://wiki.uosecondage.com/Treasure_ma ... e_maps_.3F

Actually, no, they can yield different types of maps: http://wiki.uosecondage.com/Cartography

What monsters carry treasure maps ?
Map Level - Monsters
1 - Earth Elementals, Ettins, Evil Mage, Gargoyles, Gazers, Liches, Ogres, Ophidian Enforcers, Ophidian Warriors, Orcs, Orc Lords, Orc Mages, Terathan Warriors, and Trolls.
2 - Air Elementals, Fire Elementals, Frost Trolls, Mummy, Ophidian Apprentice Mages, Ophidian Justicar, Ophidian Shaman, (Ophidian Zealots), Reapers, Sea Serpents, Snow Elementals, Stone Gargoyles, Water Elementals and Wyverns.
3 - Cyclopean Warriors, (Evil Mage Lords), Drakes, Dread Spiders, Efreets, Frost Trolls, Liches, Ogre Lords, Ophidian Avengers, Ophidian Knight-Errants, Snow Elementals and Terathan Avengers.
4 - Daemons, Deep Sea Serpents, Dragons, Elder Gazers, Ice Fiends, Lich Lords, Terathan Matriarchs, Titans and White Wyrms.
5 - Ancient Wyrms, Balrons, Blood Elementals, Ophidian Matriarchs, Poison Elementals and Titans.

Right, good point.

I was going to ask a question about decoding and selling, but answered my own question from the wiki that Pirul linked:

Once decoded, this map cannot be passed off to another player -- the first person to decode the map must also be the one who digs up the treasure.

So, I have a different question instead: If a person (ie: ME) failed to keep track of what his or her maps dropped off of, I am assuming it is better (more profitable) to either create yourself a treasure hunter or have a friend decode/dig it up for you, rather than selling for some agreed upon price for an unknown map level?

You could find a treasure hunter/buyer you trust who can pay you for the map after he figures out what level map it is.

Good point Budner - does this trustworthy treasure hunter exist within this community?!? What are the going rates for the different level maps? I'll do some more research, just hoping someone has quick answers to these questions.

RaveGreen wrote:Good point Budner - does this trustworthy treasure hunter exist within this community?!? What are the going rates for the different level maps? I'll do some more research, just hoping someone has quick answers to these questions.

Liquidfire did that for me with ~25 maps.

Just sold 49 of my "unknown" maps. I'm hoping there were at least 3 or 4 level 5's in the bunch. But we shall see. I really need to be more organized after I dump my loot from a long day's monster grind.

Any char with fair fighting skills and at least 50 magery can do lvl 1 maps easy. So I suggest you take a char like that with 0 cartography and try to decode your maps. If you decode it, then it's a lvl 1 (dig it up and make an easy k). If you fail to decode, AND on the lower left hand side of the screen you see a legend that says something like: "This map is too difficult for you to attempt to decode", then it is lvl 2+. If you fail to decode but get no system message on the lower left hand side of the screen, then it also is a lvl 1 map (you can still sell for around 350-500gps per, or do them yourself).

I know Kelektra used to have a "map ID" service where he'd tell you what map was what level (because he had cartographers at the minumum skill level to decode different maps), and later Cattie also did it. I am not sure if she still does.

I've sold level 5 maps to Laz, Pirul, Plagues, all of which were honest dealers, if helpful.