I am after the staff, but I have found the sword and shield epics… of course.
It is driving me insane.
you are actually very lucky to have gotten those two items, it probably doesn’t feel like it tho
Really? It seems to be a common theme within my guild… we all keep rolling the wrong epics! It’s hair-pulling fun!
there’s multiple guys on the dk/paladin discord who have thousands of solves between them and they have gotten literally nothing
at least you should see a reduction in troll sites now that you have the sword…hopefully
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I had a reduction in troll sites after I got the sword, but since they hotfixed/patched whatever, I’ve gotten a far higher amount of troll sites and less of the ones I don’t have.
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Pretty sure the coding for 50% reduction in digsites is incorrect. I have the 359 ilvl epic from fossil but no pterrordax hatchling and get fossil sites at a 2:1 clip versus everything else, where I have all of the rares but no 359 ilvl epic. Please check and make sure the digsites aren’t closing before we get the 359. PS no one would complain if you just put the 525 pterrordax pet back on the table so we could get the fossil sites removed. The other 525 rares are available outside of tolvir, right?
I don’t know if there are other 525 rares, I think everything that doesn’t require tolvir fragments is available at 450 except for this one pet
As another caster/healer alt finding both the sword and shield but no luck on trinket/staff…
I do consider myself lucky, however the game is still trolling me with RNG. Its like winning a trip from a raffle ticket, but that trip is to antartica. Cool thanks 
I am firmly on the side of, even after the time ive already spent and how “wasteful” it could become,… just increasing the drop rates, or putting in scaling luck protection.
Digging isnt fun. If it was only toys and silly hearthstones or pets or mounts… sure, make em rare. Those are just collector items. People really want these epic weapons and trinkets to up their game and attempt to compete; or help their guild raids succeed quickly (especially with accelerated cata timelines).
I understand they arent mandatory. Neither was letting more people get legendaries in wrath, or creating catchup mechanics through alphas betas and gammas. But you know what? Those are nice changes. People dont wanna slam their head into a wall to keep up with others who got lucky.
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Please hop over to my post and see all the people who are struggling. The current state of this is insane. Why is blizzard drawing the line in the sand here when they made it so easy for people to get legendary weapons and catchup weapons in wotlk.
Please read some of the comments and suggestions. I feel like blizzard is EXTREMELY out of touch with the player base. I’m not sure if these things make a difference or if it works like this, but please pass info up the chain so it gets to the appropriate people. Please do this ASAP.
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Total artifacts 1162
Vrykul: 6
Troll: 502
Focused research finished!
91.2% of people found an 0.5% artifact with your number of solves
Orc: 6
Nerubian: 11
Night Elf: 67
Fossil: 250
Draenei: 11
Dwarf: 310
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I say we protest outside of their office until this injustice has been addressed
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This skill sucks, people are going 2-3x over the drop chance. can you open up the twilight highlands just so we can get more dwarf sites.
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It’d be perfectly fine if it wasn’t beyond bugged lol. They just blasting us off man. Idk why you guys are making threads they wont read this. Theres like 1500 actually game breaking bugs else where they arent fixing either.
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they are reading, they are fully aware of the current archaeology opinion, if they do something about it or not i obviously don’t know
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Sure will be nice a couple weeks into the first tier and everyone will have their raid weapon that they would’ve replaced these archaeology items with anyway, and all the endless screaming about how the game is forever ruined because of it will cease…
Oh who am I kidding, they’ll just move on to the next mild inconvenience
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i don’t think most people will be getting a 372 weapon in the first couple of weeks
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ol mate is purely here to argue in bad faith that our concerns are invalid or overstated, don’t feed the troll
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There is absolutely no reason to keep the insane Archaeology grind in the game. Nobody is trying to re-experience the great transmog/toy farm from 2010. Even you abandoned Archaeology in Retail since Legion because nobody liked it. Please keep your word: #somechanges. We need it here.
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[Patch 4.1.0]:
- Six new rare items have been added: [[Ancient Amber]] [[Extinct Turtle Shell]] [[Haunted War Drum]] [[Pterrordax Hatchling]] [[Voodoo Figurine]] [[Vrykul Drinking Horn]]
- Players now have a much smaller chance of getting a dig site for a race for which they have completed all rare finds.
Why do I feel like the 2nd part of this patch isn’t actually in game? I still get plenty of digsites for the ones I’ve completed everything on.
Edit: Even if this is true, the hatchling not being available till 525 kind of trolls everyone trying to get the Night Elf rares.
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I really hope Cata Classic gets Blizzard to fix retail archaeology.