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I love archeology, epics without raiding! 
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Omg!
It is nice to have as many alternative for gearing up as possible.
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How long did it take you? Yeah, it's different for everyone, just curious how much of your time has been spent 'digging'. I find Archaeology to be boring as hell, but stuff like that make me continue to do it. lol
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How long did it take you? Yeah, it's different for everyone, just curious how much of your time has been spent 'digging'. I find Archaeology to be boring as hell, but stuff like that make me continue to do it. lol
I basically leveled archeology only in the Eastern Kingdoms up to 450, and I saved ALL my troll fragments on the way up. I had like 1500 troll fragments to turn in when I hit 450, turned them in and (luckily) the second turn in gave me that HUGE sword.
Since I basically only leveled on Dwarf and Fossils, along with a very few night elf frags, I also got two pets (Clockwork Gnome and Fossil Raptor), the Fossil Raptor ground mount, and also some funny item that spawns dwarves dancing a sword dance. Oh, and also an epic level 78 night elf robe my priest will love to level up, since the items are bind on account.
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The 3 pre-85 Epic items are absolute garbage. They're outdated 2 levels before you can even use them.
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Woo hoo! Congrats Korrigan! Saving troll fragments, wish I thought of that. 
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Grats Kor, made a post referencing that sword in another thread. It's an awesome BoA!
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Looks like I know what I will be doing in between 30 min queue waits.
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Very nice =)
Highly recommend people don't try for one of the 85 weapons specifically. Chances of getting them are LOW, even with lots of time invested. Think of them as a bonus. If you want to do archaeology for the achievements and fluff and because you enjoy it, that's great... but don't go for the weapons. It's likely to be a miserable experience.
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Malachi256 posted:
Very nice =)
Highly recommend people don't try for one of the 85 weapons specifically. Chances of getting them are LOW, even with lots of time invested. Think of them as a bonus. If you want to do archaeology for the achievements and fluff and because you enjoy it, that's great... but don't go for the weapons. It's likely to be a miserable experience.
I agree totally, BUT you can still augment your chances of getting the weapon you want by using the tactic I used, keeping all the parts of the race you want the item from until you hit 450 skill, which is the minimum skill to get level 85 rares/epics. Then you burn them all. You are still not assured to get something, but you greatly increase your chances.
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Wow that is a huge freakin' sword.
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So, if you save up all your fragments instead of combining them as soon as you are able you better items? Doh...
Looks like im gonna have to do a lot more research into this profession before i get too much farther along.
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I just learned today not to solve anything until you get the skill up to 100 from digging. Good thing I hadn't started any archeology yet.
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-VanDraegon- posted:
So, if you save up all your fragments instead of combining them as soon as you are able you better items? Doh...
Looks like im gonna have to do a lot more research into this profession before i get too much farther along.
Most rares can be obtained way earlier, e.g. I got my skeletal raptor pet when I had just a bit above 100 archeology. The tactic of keeping the frags is only worth it for level 85 rare/epics.
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So ... how do you tell which race to save your thingies from to get which thingamajig?
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Gidgiddoni posted:
So ... how do you tell which race to save your thingies from to get which thingamajig?
http://www.wowwiki.com/Archaeology_rewards
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well, this is indeed a rare.
1800 frags & 60+ stones = nada
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So just to clarify...
up to 100 skill = collect fragments only
100-450 = collect and build
450 = pray
Is that correct?
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Trigeminal posted:
So just to clarify...
up to 100 skill = collect fragments only
100-450 = collect and build
450 = pray
Is that correct?
That's pretty much spot on, yes 
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The_Korrigan posted:
Trigeminal posted:
So just to clarify...
up to 100 skill = collect fragments only
100-450 = collect and build
450 = pray
Is that correct?
That's pretty much spot on, yes
minor edit -
up to 100 skill = collect fragments only
100-375 = collect and build
375 - 450 = after you farmed TONS
375-525 = pray
375 gives you max 6 frags, and you do NOT get the sites in twilight. ie more troll sites per run
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So if you "blew" it by combining pieces as soon as you got them finished at skill lvl 50 and made 2 grey items, one of them using Troll pieces, do you have zero chance of getting this sword when you hit 450?
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omg this is boring. 175 skill and ran out of dwarf/NE/fossil things. Back to gathering.
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So if you "blew" it by combining pieces as soon as you got them finished at skill lvl 50 and made 2 grey items, one of them using Troll pieces, do you have zero chance of getting this sword when you hit 450?
Of course not!
Since it takes a few digsites to complete a common artefact, basically, every few digsites you do, you get another roll of the dice. Saving your fragments just gets you a whole bunch of extra rolls of the dice straight-up when you hit 450 and start combining them.
But even if you do everything "wrong", you've just made it take longer (on average). You certainly haven't screwed yourself.
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looked at the rewards, and honestly i was disappointed. my main is a rogue..and nothing for a rogue! you would think they would at least put something in there for everyone. /rant off...now i dont have to waste my time with this profession..
hope they add to it, and im sure they will...but until then, i wont be sinking my time into this.
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That's pretty nice. I still haven't done anything with Archeology other than try the dig skill once or twice then move on.
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Liquid741 posted:
my main is a rogue..and nothing for a rogue!
Since the epic gear is bind on account, you'd probably be better off considering what might be useful for you alts, rather than your main. Mains have other ways to get gear, alts, not necessarily so.
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Come on! Where's teh cool dwarven aritfacts like Bronzbeards Hammer? or the Winged Helm of the Wildhammers? Plate of course with tons of strength and stamina.
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5 days
who know how many flying hours
235 skill
1 fossil raptor pet :P
I'm going to drink DRANO now.
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they should rename this weapon...
Zin'rokh, Destroyer of Time(sinks)
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vn_cuch posted:
up to 100 skill = collect fragments only
100-375 = collect and build
375 - 450 = after you farmed TONS
375-525 = pray
375 gives you max 6 frags, and you do NOT get the sites in twilight. ie more troll sites per run
What did you consider as "tons"? I'm 345 now with 1056 frags.
edit: 375 now. 1091 frags.
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As he said in another thread - 2k min so you're a little over halfway:
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tip for 2H str melee. do not solve Troll fragments. get capped to 375. stockpile your solves until you have min 2K troll fragments and enough dorf/nelf and fossils. Then skill up to 525 on solves....and THEN do your troll fragments.
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Cool. Except it is confirmed only 450 skill is needed. I guess I'll grab some more troll frags before pushing to 450 though.
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Congrats!
But is a Death Knight having a "Destroyer of Worlds" even safe?
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Well 525 skill. A million troll builds post-450... nothing. I'm officially done with archeology.
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Friend of mine has been doing Night Elf solves for the past 3 weeks, says he's used over 4k fragments and still no trinket. I'm not even gonna bother with Archaeology... Think the fastest someone did 1-525 was like 19 hours straight. Screw that.
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I'm glad it only took me to 120ish skill to realize what a waste of time it was.
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