Cartography

Description

The Cartography skill is used to create Maps of your surroundings and the world. It's a primary skill for Treasure Hunters in order to decode maps found on creatures. In order to craft maps you just need blank scrolls and mapmaker's pens.

Usage

Maps can be crafted using a mapmaker's pen and scrolls. Simply click the mapmaker's pen and choose what type of map you would like to create. There are Local Maps, City Maps, Sea charts and World maps. Crafting these maps is skill dependent.

A Cartographer can decipher tattered maps, revealing their locations. Once the location is revealed, a player can go to the location, double click a shovel, click the map, then click the ground. This will dig up a treasure chest and monsters will spawn. Higher difficulty maps spawn more difficult monsters. Lockpicking is required to open the treasure chest and removing items from the chest will cause more monsters to spawn. This makes Cartography a good coupled skill with Musicianship, Provocation and Lockpicking.

Note that after picking the lock of a treasure chest, opening it will spring a trap which could very well kill you. It's best to back up and cast Telekinesis or use the Remove Trap skill.

Recommended Leveling

Buy plenty of scrolls and mapmaker's pens.

0-50: Buy from NPC

50-65: City Maps

65-99.5: World Maps

99.5 - 100 - Level 3 and 4 Treasure Maps