I'm not going to go into a long drawn out essay on the T-Hunter character development just a few things I've picked up that I find very useful.

 

What monsters carry treasure maps ?

Map Level

Monsters

1

Ore Elementals, Earth Elementals, Ettins, Fire Gargoyles, Gargoyles, Gazers, liches, Ogres, Ophidian Enforcers, Ophidian Warriors, Orcs, Orcish Lords, Orc Mages, Sea Serpents (if "fished up"), Terathan Warriors, Trolls.

2

Air Elementals, Drakes, Fire Elementals, Frost Trolls, Ophidian Apprentice Mages, Ophidian Shaman, Reapers, Sea Serpents (normal spawning ones), Snow Elementals, Stone Gargoyles, Water Elementals, Wyverns.

3

Arctic Ogre Lords, Cyclopean Warriors, Cyclops, Dread Spiders, Efreets, Liches, Ogre Lords, Ophidian Avengers, Ophidian Knight-Errants, Snow Elementals, Terathan Avengers.

4

Daemons, Dragons, Ice Fiends, Krakens, Lich Lords, Ophidian Matriarchs, Terathan Matriarchs, White Wyrms.

5

Ancient Liches, Ancient Wyrms, Balrons, Blood Elementals, Poison Elementals, Shadow Wyrms, Titans.

Of course the easiest place to get maps right now is by doing the Hags Quest.  I have gotten a lot of maps from her.  She is very generous (but not very friendly)  My Treasure Hunter happens to be a Fencer so I have also enjoyed quite a few nice Kryss from her.

 

 

Skill required to decode a map

 

Map Level

Skill Level

 

        1

27.0 displayed cartography required

Plain

2

71.0 displayed cartography required

Expert

3

81.0 displayed cartography required

Adept

4

91.0 displayed cartography required

Clever

5

100 displayed cartography required

Devious

 

                                                 

 

Requirements for opening treasure chests.

Chest level

Minimum Lockpicking

Magery

 

1

36.0 displayed skill

50

 

2

76.0 displayed skill

100

 

3

84.0 displayed skill

no effect

 

4

92.0 displayed skill

no effect

 

5

100 skill

no effect

 

 

Creatures Spawned during looting of chest

Map Level

Creatures Spawned

1

Mongbats, Ratmen, Headless, Skeletons, Zombies 

2

Orc Mages, Gargoyles, Gazers, Hellhounds, Earth Elementals

3

Liches, Ogre Lords, Dread Spiders, Air Elementals, Fire Elementals

4

Dread Spiders, Lich Lords, Daemons, Elder Gazers, Ogre Lords

5

Lich Lords, Greater Daemons, Elder Gazers, Poison Elementals, Blood Elementals

 

Treasure found in chests

Map Level

 Gold 

Magic Items

Scrolls

Gems

Reagents

1

1000

6

5

10

20

2

2000

12

10

20

40

3

3000

18

15

30

60

4

4000

24

20

40

80

5

5000

30

25

50

100