At the bottom of the Night Elf page you will see the amount of fragments you have gathered so far for this current artifact, and how many fragments you need to complete the artifact. You can trash the common artifacts. However, from time to time as you increase levels you will find rare artifacts such as the Fossilized Hatchling, Fossilized Mount or the Druid and Priest Statue Set.
At level , I have only found the hatchling and the statue set. The hatchling is a vanity pet and the statue summons a fountain of knowledge. Your character is bathed with a wide beam of green light, with holy light in its center. Your character is showered with green leaves too. The effect lasts ten seconds, and has a one minute cooldown.
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Also use your hearthstone as an advantage. Comment by jd Now that we have all been doing Arch for a while, you have probably reached the point where you have solved all the artifacts for some of the common races e. Elf and Troll. However, if you are like me you are probably still farming for rarer races e. I would suggest you stop solving artifacts from the races that you have completed. Just collect the fragments as you happen upon them, and then if blizz adds more artifacts in a future patch you will be able to solve many quickly.
Comment by I've maxed out archaeology and still grinding it completionist obcessed - I must make one of every item from every race at least once! I'm chasing Tol'vir fragments the most at the moment. I have discovered a little flight-time efficient method. I start at the northern most digsite in Kalimdor, dig it out regardless of race, then move to the next closest one, rinse and repeat heading south.
Eventually the newly spawning dig sites start moving south with only an occasional one or two popping up north again, so I whizz back and get them and drive them south as well. I have dug out the 4 Uldum sites to find 1 more spawned there as a result, so it is possible to get 5 sites to dig there in a row. I've found this also works with the other continents but to a lesser degree, as to drive them all into the one spot isn't quite as flight efficient, but it does still work somewhat.
For the most part I'm currently now only digging on the other continents as an occasional thing when I'm in the area doing something else anyway; as a short detour to get a dig site done isn't grindy at all but it's still helping gradually make the other race's items.
The time I saved is incalculable. Incredibly easy to install and get up and running. I would also suggest to not save any tokens for any one particular item as you are leveling the skill. If you get them now or during a rare, it really does not matter. They all carry over and count toward your next project. You are simply wasting time by holding on to them. All it does is the obvious, "I can't carry anymore.
Comment by maniam How do I start archaeology. Do I need a expansion. The archaeology trainer is blank when I try to train? I'm frustrated spending more time on forums then actual game play. What order to I install the expansion. Why don't they just advertise their expansions in game? In what order do I need to install expansions? I don't blame my friend for quitting this game.
Too much time spent looking for answers. Comment by Archaeology is by far the coolest proffesion in wow. I currently have 2 commons left and 14 rares to go. Sanity is intact and i have a bunch of neat items that do little or nothing and a few items that are moderately usefull for characters i am leveling.
I expect wow will be adding more items i hope with future expansions to keep this a fun aspect of the game. Comment by Rezler i like it but you will need a fast mount else it's gets boring as hell but you get like epic stuff for all lvls.
Naturally, Uldum sites are relatively rare pops, and are my happy, hopeful moments when they do. On the contrary, Desolace seems to favor me the most, somehow, with Night Elf sites there coming up at a much, much higher rate than anywhere else. Yet, that zone is soooo out of the way from my Stormwind City home, though I can readily teleport to Uldum or Mount Hyjal.
Measuring from the map on my screen, to Karnum's Glade in the middle of Desolace, is 9 cm from Ramkahen, or 8. Occasionally, if I find a helpful mage, it is a not-much-shorter 7 cm from Theramore Isle, but quite an easier flight. Comment by Archaeology was a real fun profession at the start but now I find difficulty to come up with the needed motivation to chase the artifacts.
And also some more unique items that can be used for transmog for example. Dungeon archaeology quests are good idea but if they can developed they would be real fun to chase. For example besides the spell buff you'll get if there would be a drop chance of an unique item with the similar spell on it which can be usable in all dungeons would be nice.
Comment by cmarrable Hello I am a lvl 70 Blood Elf, Hoarde, and pretty new to wow, for some reason every arch trainer I go to has nothing for me to learn, have I not done something in order to access this profession I am very curious to see what it is. Comment by djdelbert can someone tel me what the last fragment is? Comment by Just one more tip.
As with any disc, the shortest distance between any point is from the center of the disc. I know the dig sites are not discs, but they're pretty close. So every time you land on a new dig site, go straight to the middle of it.
There is a very big chance you get a yellow or green right on your first survey. That will depend on the area's size, of course.
Some large dig sites, such as the ones in Tanaris, may get you a red one, but go in that direction and you'll find a yellow. Comment by tbrasher level 20 rogue dwarf, want archaeology as secondary, but evertime i go to ironforge and the archaeology trainer nothing happens Comment by LoveHunters For rare items that are account-bound, is it possible to obtain more than one these?
Comment by Tontons Archaeology in MoP's Beta Rules That might be for testing purposes but currently we get 6 digs per digsite up from 3 with fragments per dig if you're level archaeologist. I am currently lvl archaeologist and have no idea if one gets more fragments with lvl archaeology. Skillups If you were hoping for an easy Realm First! Old common artifacts give no skillup not all races tested, but Tol'vir is tested.
Don't know if old rare artifacts give any skillup. Common pandaren artifacts give only 3 skill points per artifact. I haven't checked any rare artifacts here either. Races We've got a new race - Pandaren and 2 more races are currently blank gray for me making it a total of 12 races.
I currently see 3 digsites in Pandaria not 4 like in other continents , all in The Jade Forest I suppose for testing, but maybe it's tied to some levelling or just coincidence.
All fragments I have gotten this far are Pandaren. All three of their artifacts needed 50 fragments each and vendored for 1 gold each. My speculation is that prices are to be changed, but 50 fragments per common artifact might be the policy for common Pandaren artifacts. The artifacts have elaborate texts and normal names and it makes me believe they are almost done icons surely aren't made yet.
Comment by christiphor What is the last icon for? And before you say it, no it is not for the Pandaren. I just got attacked in "The Arboretum" whilst doing some Pandaren archaeology by an Ancient Haunt elemental and it dropped a Mogu fragment.
On checking my archaeology tab the last icon had lit up as Mogu so it seems that at least for the beta this is the last icon. It could be that these are only going to drop as loot rather than being discovered by the usual archaeology method. Or it may be that i just haven't been given a Mogu area to survey yet - I'll update when i get more info. Update- I've just had my first Mogu area to survey around "Terrace of Ten Thunders" so it seems like these fragments can be dug up or potentially drop from some mobs - only had 1 common Mogu project so far.
Update- the statues in Mogu and possibly the stones in Pandaren survey areas can spawn the Ancient Spawn mobs that drop Mogu fragments. Comment by d3athraz0r Certainly a fun profession to pass your time with since fishing only brings fish and first aid only brings It's even more fun farming the fragments with a mage alt since you can teleport anywhere on the map without having to wait for boats or ask for portals around , makes it so much easier.
Would be nice implementing new items to the list of things you can dig, would be a primary-non-primary profession for many of us having fun gathering frags. Let's hope they do add new things in the near future! Comment by How a druid does it. RED Turn into a bird, fly and count to three. Comment by Are you only able to do Archaelogy if you have Cata? Comment by I think that Archaeology is the most useful secondary profession in the game Also I think it is easier to do when you get a flying mount because you can get to your Archaeology sites faster.
Comment by Any plans for arch epics in Pandaria, it would be kind of disappointing if Arch didn't give cool stuff like it did in Cata For this turn in, you get 5 Archaeology skill and other rewards.
In terms of skill up value, this is cheap, about half of making a typical common for the same 5 skill-ups, and When commons no longer skill you up, this will still skill you up. It is always 15 fossil fragments, so it is convenient to keep 15 fossil fragments unused and available when Darkmoon Faire gets near, ready to turn in. You are offered this quest when you reach 75 Archaeology skill. Comment by Arjayemm I'm curious whether anyone else has noticed the same pattern with archaeology in Northrend - namely a huge imbalance between the sites coming up for the races.
A bit more balance would seem to be called for. Comment by If you have the Inscription skill, your Minor Inscription Research will leave you with a stack of Scroll of Recall , which teleport you unreliably past level This is a useful feature for Archaeology. You can every so often 20 minute cooldown teleport to a somewhat random location there are only a few targets of the scroll and check the zone and nearby zones for new Archaeology sites. Another beneficial use of the Scroll of Recall is that a high portion of the random teleports will put you in Gadgetzan in Tanaris.
If you need a neutral auction house, you have a fair chance it will take you there. Comment by Brandonly17 Can anyone tell what the Fragment increase from being a Dwarf is? Is it a overall higher amount of fragments or just an increased chance at them? Theres a Empty looking slot Near the bottom that looks as if a Hat and a pick-axe with other stuff.
Any idea How to fill in that slot. Or is that for if you complete every single item or something? I unlocked all the races To dig for. Comment by I just hit archaeology, and everything I've read says I can start in Uldum looking for Tol'vir artifacts at , but I don't show any dig sites on my map. I tried turning off all my mods, but it still shows no dig sites in Uldum at all, can anyone help me?
Stop solving the other race items. At least, don't just solve them when you have enough pieces just for that one solve I have been trying to get my last dwarf rare to proc, but most of my dig sites were non-dwarf in EK for days. So instead of solving for Nerubian, Nelf, Troll, and Fossil. I let them build up and now I'm getting almost exclusively Dwarf sites. Every once in a while I'll get something else, but where before I was barely getting any dwarf, the change is significant.
So I'm not sure this is the correct hueristic but it has been working for me all day! If you're down to just the rares of one race and having the same prob, give this a whirl, if it doesn't work, you still have all the pieces to solve with, and you were going to farm there anyway, so why not? Comment by sapnutt Kk folks just hit proff title on worthless hearthstone"inkeepers daughter" by the way only good for looks cause it uses your reg stone at same time lol! Anywho,wats last icon on your archy tab where you see what you have as far as puzzles to solve?
Just for looks or something to unlock? Comment by Antrion Druids rejoice! I recommend using travel form when the light is yellow, flight when it is red, and simply walk if it is a green light. Also, while some finds especially fossils will be near the banks of a river, very rarely if ever are they actually under water in my experience. Comment by Isadora As of patch 5. Comment by Id just like to point out that there is now 3 greyed out races instead of 1, looks like Mists of Pandaria is going to be bringing along 3 new races and this secondary profession wont be going stagnant after all.
Comment by Zanno As of patch 5. For a max total of 54 fragments from a single digsite. Making this a lot easier to lv :. Comment by crovx With patch 5. Regardless of whether it's common, rare, or the fact the the project has been completed before or not. Project's branch and difficulty still doesn't seem to affect amount of skill point you can get. However it's been reported that it's possible that you may not get skill up at all when solving common project. Haven't happened to me yet, it could be a bug.
Comment by Behrad0 did , they add new mount in mop? Comment by i'm now lvl with archeology and dont get any skill point now for lvl up! Comment by Zephytoth very very, VERY easy to max now, I started doing this on my shaman alt this morning at skill 1, and currently i'm at But once I looked into that, it was the darn ring I already had dug up on my DK.
Comment by Euronomus I can seemingly confirm togahsisokah's post, not solving a races artifact when you are able appears to drastically lower the chance of getting a corresponding digsite. Keep in mind that the inverse is also true-you should be solving for the races you want asap even in the middle of a dig so when that site is tapped out the one that replaces it will have a much better chance of being something you want. Comment by WIth 5. Anyone know what this is?
Looks like Indiana Jones Harrison Jones Comment by As of 5. Then my next solve got me to Then my next solve got me nothing. It's going to be a long haul to at this rate Comment by Mourning Can it really be true, that there is only 4 rares in the entire MoP expansion, or is the wowhead database missing some?
Thanks in advance. Rolled myself a brand new Monk and did half the leveling with Archaeology. Everything was good, tokens for artifacts everywhere. When I reached Uldum and Tol'Vir Hieroglyphs started appearing with the approximate rate of 1 per 4 sites I was even happier After a while 'How come my luck is so bad! Then 'What the RNG much! After 70 Tol'vir solves without a single hieroglyph I looked more into it. In that time I only got 2 dwarf tokens and I had some common artifacts unsolved from that race.
Other races were mostly solved. Nelf fully, Fossil and Troll 1 rare missing and Tol'Vir missing mount, staff, sword. Logged onto my lvl 80 alt and started leveling Archaeology and sure enough, tokens started to reappear. So thank you Blizzard for making this farm progressively harder. TL DR: Tokens for races stop coming when you have most artifacts solved from that race. Comment by Sounder "The gap between and should be a little easier with an upcoming hotfix.
Comment by Can somebody please explain to me why it won't let me learn archaeology? All the detail that you need to complete the quest is included. The guide is available for both Horde and Alliance. Dig sites look like this Survey You will also get a new ability called [Survey].
So how does this work in action? You go to a dig site, use your [Survey] ability, and then a little tripod will spawn with a red, yellow, or green light. First, you check which direction it points to, and then you move that way. If it's red, you should mount up and run for a while and then use Survey again.
When it's yellow, you shouldn't move that much, and if it's green, it's probably within 40 yards. Just keep going in the direction the Survey tool points to. With practice, you will find most of the artifacts within Survey use.
Survey Tool Fragments When you discover your find, you'll get fragments specific to a particular race. Profession Ranks The first rank of Archeology requires level 5, and it allows a maximum potential skill of 75, then each rank will increase your maximum potential Archeology skill. Zygor's Leveling Guide I recommend trying Zygor's Leveling Guide if you are still leveling your character or you just started a new alt. I use Zygor's guide for leveling, and I highly recommend it.
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