1 week of work with the same effect as doing literally nothing
needs to be changed asap
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On the upside I’ve farmed enough gold from it to pay for my other professions? 
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Working as it was back then, working as intended now.
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It didn’t work as intended back then and it doesn’t now.
#designmistake
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oh I’m not over here singing it’s praises but it is currently working as designed and intended. If you dislike it don’t do it, Heroics have better/comparable drops with less of an endless grind.
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For the new folks….archeology in later retail was run for xp.
It was nice xp really. Fail all day long. Xp was nice was your angle.
Hell it even skipped nerf codes till sl. I was doing archeology in legion for bfa leveling. It was paying out bfa levels of xp lol. Till fun was detected. Then killed.
It’s an rng hell otherwise. Lacking xp for now there goes that reward imo.
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Good thing we are all a little crazy around here.
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If you mean to say that when they released cataclysm with archeology designed as it is, they had the intent of making the profession and it’s reward as it is. I don’t think anyone disagree. If what you mean is the way they designed it ended up matching their desired design, which is the profession being based around long-term goals, then I disagree as it didn’t.
People going to feel silly digging so long for items they’ll replace before even dinging 85. Granted I still raid, and all that gear will go to the dump as well, but I enjoy raiding. Do people really enjoy doing laps around the continent, digging up junk, hour after hour?
nobody cares stop with your negativity, its not 12 years ago anymore. guild perks were changed when nobody askef for it and we cant get a fix for archeology? fix it or add some bad luck protection
at this point i consider myself stupid for condoning it
What? Do you even know what people are talking about?
These are purples that are level 85 and ilvl 359. They’re equivalent to T11 normal raid gear.
You literally cannot replace them before dinging 85 because they require 85 to even equip.
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He’s trolling, tbh 359 rates should increase, the game has a lot of changes already, this would fit the new cadence since the expansion is going to be almost twice as fast.
im just beeing a sheep at this point but ppl claim its the bis til last raids for melee
What? I mean they’re Preraid bis and very good. But they’re T11 normal raid gear. As soon as you do Heroic T11 you’ll replace it.
The staff is 359 ilvl ( normal T11 Raid ) so it can be used for longer then a week its only replaced with heroic gear and if your super lucky and unlucky maybe the lego staff
Yes I know that’s what I said.
Full pre raid bis mage is about a 353.64 ilvl which is good enough to enter heroics I know ill be pushing Heroics week 1
I finally got my trinket today.
Roughly 300 total solves, with 160 being NE specific solves
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I wish they’d up the drop rate on those epics a bit or change them all to ilvl 1 transmog only items