Time to fix it
it gives good XP.
alchemists need canopic jars.
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I seem to recall in one of his interviews Ion mentioned that they do have plans to redesign Archaeology at some point. I can remember which interview it was. He didn’t give any time frame, so I would say it’s just another SoonTM.
I miss having Archaeology they should of had it in all expansion and not ended it before Shadowlands…it was just another thing to do in game for me and I loved going all over the regions.
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They like to throw the word infinite around too much and it was an easy fix to where certain npcs were
It sucks tbh. The profession has a learning/loving curve but once you’re in the groove it’s fun to do, gives crazy good xp while levelling, and getting the rewards and doing the extra quests feels fun. That aside, the sheer amount of cool mounts, pets, toys, titles, etc that have effectively been passed up is just so disappointing.
Probably missing some, but even just off the top of my head:
- Venthyr
- Night Fae
- Kyrian
- Maldraxxian
- Mechagnome
- Dark Iron
- Lightforged/Argus
- Void
- High Elven
- Vulperan
- Titan
- All 5 Dragonflights
all being snubbed is such a drag. So many cool things to potentially unearth with each and every one of those. But alas.
If Archaeology incorporated more additional mechanics and minigames like fishing does, instead of just being the exact same thing all the time, already something that simple could increase engagement. Sometimes rewards aren’t enough if it’s clunky, tedious, and in the topic of my original post, not even counting account-wide.
I only just dawned on me that Pet Battles are completely account wide and their quests don’t even count towards one’s quest limit. Arch needs that exact same treatment among other things. (Posted from my Warrior before- oops!)
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Not gonna lie , i always forget arch is an actual thing in game .
Show your support for archaeology by levelling a character with it.
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Arch was fun because there was one simple objective and that was to get the ultramarine battle tank since it is the only battle tank mount besides the black battle tank back in vanilla. Sooooo after countless days and weeks of listening to Spotify for countless hours and doing the mantis trick in MoP for arch to get those boxes it certainly paid off and I got me mount. 
But… This was years ago… I kind of miss this grind for a unique arch mount but since they haven’t done anything for professions and add new mounts to them OR something it just feels… Empty…
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In an alternate universe where they didn’t totally flub the expansion from all angles, I legitimately expected them to add new ‘worlds’(?) to that realm in the same manner that they’ve been adding new continents to Azeroth. Maybe they still might- not for a while though once the taste is thoroughly out of everyone’s mouth.
There are a lot of gaps in the 4 covenants they chose, and all 4 seem terribly unfitting for a lot of presently-alive and dead characters already (if I recall, there was even one teased 5th realm whose name I forget, but it was the place that extremely inventive and brilliant minds go to. I’m only running on memory at the moment, but it was supposedly a very scholarly-type realm within the shadowlands full of machines, books, etc. Like Mechagon + Highborne Library + Piltover from League of Legends), but I think they will always keep that door open potentially because it pretty much allows dead fan-favourite characters to eventually return in new ways.
And like you said before, the expansion… started off good. They took this insane concept and somehow pulled it off well enough at the start but then proceeded to butcher the lore, waste player’s time, and just play a game of how quickly they can lose subs in 18 months lol.
Lmfao so did Blizz
That’s actually what I do with it lol, but once I’ve levelled, it just remains useless and incomplete on all but my main
Blizz canned archaeology a while back. Far as I know theres no plans to revive it. Personally I remember farming nodes in my downtime in mop and it was fun filler content with some cool collectables.
Mop, Legion, even BFA, you had lots of filler content (heck remember farming islands for dubloons and tmogs) and now there just isnt. Its sad because DF is really well done, I just know personally I have very little reason to log in anymore outside of filling a few vault slots.
Archeology got really boring very fast so much that in WoD you could buy the artifacts you needed to level up in the Darkmoon Faire. By the time SL came around, almost no one was doing Archeology. The rewards and risk were not worth it. That’s a shame because Archeology would add a lot back into the game especially if rewards were decent.