WoW Dig Site

Ghostcrawler shared his thoughts with Curse on Patch 4.3 now that it has been released and what the future has in store. Listen to the full interview for some other info that relates to Mists of Pandaria!

Post 4.3 Interview with Greg Street (Ghostcrawler)

www.youtube.com/8MoL5hFhQH8?t=7m35s

The Hour of Twilight is here and we have a few confirmed changes for Archaeology. (Patch Notes)

What was previewed on the PTR came through to live, tracking archaeology sites via minimap.

Archaeology areas of interest will now show on the mini-map, in addition to the World Map.

Also: Archaeology fragments will now be 5-9 per dig (at max-level), with three digs per site as usual. This is great for new and old Archaeologists to make money off of the grey items and to help finish up the rares you’re missing.

Below is a side by side comparison of the World Map and the new MiniMap Feature.

The minimap needs NO Addons anymore for tracking archaeology sites now. But it’s still nice to have certain features from Addons like Archy for right click surveying and tracking your projects.

Looks like nothing new is coming in Patch 4.3

Below is what we know from Blizzcon 2011.

From Class, Professions, and Items Q&A

Nothing yet on Archaeology but we now know the next WoW Expansion!

Mists of Pandaria

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/game/mists-of-pandaria/

In-case folks do not read other new sites, Blizzcon 2011 is this Friday (21st) and Saturday (22nd)!

Expect full Coverage over any new details about Archaeology!

Speculations have been running wild lately with ideas like archaeology will be expanding to include Pandaren artifacts in patch 4.3 or finally giving players an option to turn in artifacts to museum societies.

WoWDigSite.com will be updated Live as Announcements are released via Blizzcon Panels.

If you’re not attending Blizzcon then you can spend $40 for the Live-Stream or just catch your News from WoW Insider and such but expect all Archaeology info here!

A new Build (14890) is out on the PTR for Patch 4.3 tonight.

This change below might have been added earlier on the PTR but reguardless, the minimap now has:

‘Track Digsites‘ Support

It’s Tuesday September 27th and we have a PTR Launched!

Right now, it appears that the PTR has nothing new for Archaeology (yet), but we’ll keep digging until we find something!

There are a list of new pets and mounts but none of them are Archaeology confirmed.

-> List from Wowhead News <-

Companions	Mounts
Darkmoon Cub Darkmoon Monkey Darkmoon Turtle Festival Lantern Fetish Shaman’s Spear Grell Moss Lump of Coal Lunar Lantern Purple Puffer Sand Scarab Sea Pony Darkmoon Balloon Darkmoon Tonk Darkmoon Zeppelin Flimsy Darkmoon Balloon Flimsy Green Balloon Flimsy Yellow Balloon	Blazing Hippogryph Corrupted Hippogryph Darkmoon Dancing Bear Ruthless Gladiator’s Twilight Drake Space Charger Spectral Gryphon Spectral Wind Rider Swift Forest Strider Swift Lovebird Swift Mountain Horse Swift Shorestrider Swift Springstrider White Riding Camel [DNT] Orange Red Drake Mount [DNT] Purple Red Drake Mount [DNT] Red Red Drake Mount Mountain Horse

View the full Interview on our Forums, here!

Morpsend from, here at WoW Dig Site, had a Q&A session with another well-known
forum poster Tiggindy. Just wanted to share this everyone, enjoy!
Thank you to Tiggindy for participating with this.

Some of the questions asked:

• Who is Tiggindy? A bit of background
• How did you approach archaeology?
• You’ve spoken about how you’ve disliked archaeology, we’d like to know specifically what you’ve not liked.
• I’ve read the battle.net forums and the mmo forums about archaeology as a guilty pleasure, I’ve had the impression that you’ve either been apart of these threads for own pleasure of arguing the detail with people, or you truly have hated archaeology to the point you’ve chosen to spend this much time to vent your feeling about archaeology, which is it?
• You’ve spent a lot of time talking with other people in the forum community about archaeology, can you give us a general idea of how other people feel?

Read the Full Interview here on our Forums!

With Patch 4.3 bound to hit the PTR soon, many of us are expecting some love from developers for Archeology as this last giant ‘content patch’ for Cataclysm. We’ve already had (non-Archaeology) sneak-peaks at some new features in the patch, such as Void Storage.
Hopefully will get some additions or general changes to bring some folks back to Archaeology, sustain its current following or even scoop up some virgin surveyors.

Either way, WoW Dig Site will be ready with an up-to-date ‘ultimate’ Guide for the profession.

Jinze from MMO-Champ has graciously allowed us to build upon the past wining-guide with the intent to update it into what we want as the Complete Guide to Archaeology.
Check out Jinze’s Thread: Archaeology – And all it’s dusty little secrets! here.

Join the discussion for this on our Forums (link) 

With that said above, we’re open to any ideas or general thoughts on such a Guide!

Feel free to post with some insights or comments as to

• What should be in the guide that is not already generally covered?
• What is missing from the Past Version?
• Your own Tips & Tricks or Suggestions
• Dig with Tunes playing? Watch a movie? Chat with Friends? Or bask in peace & quite
• Anything you think relevant for the Guide!

Expect a draft posted on these forums soon.

Below is the long over-due interview with Scut , second to claim all 32 rares!
Thanks to Morpsend for opting to conduct the interview & to Scut for taking the time to talk with us.

Click here to Read this interview on our community forums

Morpsend: Why did you get into archaeology?

Scut: Originally, I started just because I wasn’t into raiding as much as I was in the past, and I also wanted to get the Bug mount. I have wasted a lot of WoW-hours afking, searching for rare spawn mounts (TLPD, Phosphorescent, now the Camel), so grinding through arch to get a cool mount was worth it.

Morpsend: Did you use any mods or helpful macros?

Scut: I used ArchDB and Archy to track my progress, but other than those I had nothing. I bound my dig key to a mouse button and used click to move to make digging less painful.
Now the only macro I use makes me use most of my arch items at once while attention whoring in Orgrimmar.

Morpsend: Did you do anything to help you while digging, like watching tv, listening to music, or anything?

Scut: I definitely always had the TV on and iTunes open, but I also started trying to get better at chess while I was flying to a digsite. More often than not, I would have WoW in windowed mode while either playing chess or watching a movie.

Morpsend: Did you plan to go for all 32/32 from the start?

Scut: No. At the start I wanted just the Bug mount, but when that didnt come until my late teens (solves), I figured I should push for Professor (back in Feb.) Being a rogue, just about all of the rares are completely worthless to me, so I spent downtime enchanting them with awful enchants and linking them to friends (22 INT/ Spirit Reforge on Troll sword). It seems everyone has at least one rare that takes a ridiculous time to queue up, and luckily for me it was the Nelf rare trinket. With so many Nelf sites, I was able to find it faster (even if it was around 500 solves) than someone looking for a Troll rare.
After I got Professor I essentially stopped doing arch, and then later stopped playing WoW all together. When I later re-subbed I figured that since most of my friends either quit or transferred, that I might as well go for all 32.

Morpsend: What would you like to see in the future from archaeology?

> Continue reading this interview here on our forums <

It’s that time of the month, the second episode of the podcast is now live!

What is in the second official WoW Dig Site Podcast? (Episode 2)

• Gold and Experience Gains from Surveying with Archaeology.
• Museum that didn’t ship with Cata but what Blizzard wants to do (Ask-the-Devs-7-Professions)
• Add more to the profession – daily quests?
• Whats to come – Items, Consumables maybe?
• Dungeon Buffs good or bad? & do you use your keystones?
• Getting your Rares, the best paths (Morp talks about where to go)
• Your Favorite Rares so far & What rares would we like to see

Feel free to subscribe or download the MP3 directly! It’s also posted on iTunes & YouTube!

With Patch 4.2 out, most people have put up the shovel to go raid in Firelands but there are still many players dedicated to their surveying!  As of this post, there are now two others apart from Boshi who have come forward to claim the completion of all 32 Rares currently in-game.

• Boshi [Malorne US] (May 23rd, 2011) - Total artifacts: 2075
• Scut [Skullcrusher US] (June 29th, 2011) – Total artifacts: 1637 
• Morpsen [Illidan US] (July 8th, 2011) – Total Solves: 3562

Come join us on our recently launched Forum and join the Archaeology Addicts Anonymous thread.

A big congratulations to are current three who have complete the Survey grind to obtain all 32 rares!

Scut’s Numbers // Vrykul: 7 (rare: 2 solved: 28)
Dwarf: 31 (rare: 4 solved: 255) // Draenei: 10 (rare: 2 solved: 13)
Fossil: 17 (rare: 5 solved: 371) // Night Elf: 25 (rare: 7 solved: 572)
Nerubian: 9 (rare: 2 solved: 24) // Orc: 10 (rare: 1 solved: 16)
Tol’vir: 13 (rare: 6 solved: 168) // Troll: 17 (rare: 3 solved: 190)

Scut: I got professor back in early February, and then stopped. My account died not too long after, as I got really bored. When I decided to re up in June I figured I might as well grind out archaeology in case there are new titles added. The guild Im in died, as most of the raiders went to a different server, and a lot of friends ended up quitting so I was left with a lot of free time to do arch. I started out only wanting the Tolvir mount, but when that took me into my late teens solve-wise, I decided to push for professor.

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Morpsen & Boshi 32 Rare Collection