Please fix archaeology

No other reward? Hey now - some of those gray commons are worth 10g.

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I’m happy to say I’ve completed my grind. I was only going for trinket from night elf and at 291 solves I got it. I also happen to get the sword at 55 solves within 5 minutes of each other.

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Please look into bad luck protection in some form, Blizzard.

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I’m fine adding in bad luck prevention, but then the items go to 346.

Most of these people in here not okay with bad luck protection got super lucky and just want to see others not enjoy something after a long grind. Typical gamer mental. Wildly selfish like ohhh god gotta only worry about myself reee reee

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Just another day of digging with no end in sight. Bad luck protection please.

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I started digging from day one of the pre-patch launch. I used my vacation days to sit at my computer and focus on archaeology every day after waking up. I asked my wife to give me some space because I have passion and faith in this 14-year-old game version that I couldn’t excel at back in high school. After all the digging day and night, I’ve accumulated hundreds of solves. But did I get any epic items? No. I understand it’s all about RNG, but this poor game design is killing my passion and faith, pushing a dedicated player and customer like me away. With many posts calling for improvements to archaeology, I know I’m not the only one feeling this way.

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Yeah it really sucks, archaeology is a huge trap and I wish we had content creators that would push the reality of this skill instead of influencing people to do this junk. My advice is either do a limited amount of solves per day or have a number where if you don’t get the item you just quit the skill entirely.

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That’s just not feasible for min-max culture. The original mixtake was making the 359 epics equivalent to raid weapons. They make more sense as a unique 346.

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There is just so much to unpack here I would have no idea where to begin.

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Just a thought but stop listening to someone else or “influencers” or “content creators”. Archeology was known to be bad from release of OG Cata. Did you think it would just some how become better in 15 years all by itself?

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The people who they are influencing weren’t around 15 years ago or simply didn’t know arch was bad, I knew archaeology was bad and warned my guild ahead of time about it, making videos for people who don’t know called “easy archaeology epics” is terrible

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This is exactly why people should never pay attention to any influencer. Influencers are there for one reason (well two)…subscribers/likes and money. They really don’t care about quality or accuracy only quantity.

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There is quite a few wowhead comments on zinrokh about how low the droprate is. It wasnt unexpected.

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Blizzard can add ilvl to a entire raiding tier in wrath ( ulduar) - change togc to be 1 lockout - swap legendry’s to be super fast and farmable - add glyphs to completely change classes and how they work - add and change gear progress with 5 mans ( alpha gamma etc) but the cant add bad luck protection to something that will be MEANINGLESS 2 weeks into cata and never be touched again by anyone out side of achievements and tolvir mount. You said you wanted to have fast content with cata being sped up … fast raid tiers…etc… just fix this nonsense and if you cant due to what ever reason man up and tell the player base that you cant for what ever reason. if i can make epics with other profusions like engine and blacksmith darkmoon cards etc some weapons that will be replaced wont make any diff… you guys legit are shortening the raids anyway we need the gear as it is since firelands will be out vary fast

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Focused research finished!
91.3% of people found an 0.5% artifact with your number of solves

Total artifacts 1164
Vrykul: 6
Troll: 503
Orc: 6
Nerubian: 11
Night Elf: 67
Fossil: 250
Draenei: 11
Dwarf: 311

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This is blizzards sick way to up player retention in prepatch i can see it now. oh look we see you guys complaining so we fixed it ! the day cata is out… and everyone is leveling… why fix something that makes you money. Microsoft if your out there kick blizzard in the butt already and get there head in the game

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A lot of people are so annoyed with how they went about it that they are just playing other games until cataclysm is launched. Really has put a sour taste in everyone’s mouth except those that for some reason only did less than 50 solves and got theirs.

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Yes, I was planning to play season 4 DF, but I got stuck in this amazing game design

What is this nonsense rambling on about?
Nothing here makes sense on your 3 posting rotating alt.

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