Why is Archaeology this bugged?!?!

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So, while going about my digs and completions I noticed that my Troll dig sites are still quite prevalent even though I have successfully completed all Troll artifacts. Stopping to check my lists I found that not only are not all my rare completions showing for the Troll race (I have all of them), but one of the common artifacts are also not showing (only shows 13 of the 14 completed). This is also the case for my Dwarf solves. NONE of my rare solves are showing on the list (I have all of them completed except for the staff, of course) and only 26 of the 27 common artifacts show as completed on my list at any one time. Which commons show depend upon which artifact of each race I just solved for. When I do a new solve, the list of artifacts “moves” about and changes but does not expand to full.

I have put in a bug report for this and will do so every day until I get some sort of response because this is ridiculous, but my big question is…

HOW DID CODE THAT WORKED SUCCESSFULLY 14 YEARS AGO BECOME SUCH A BUGGY MESS WHEN RE-RELEASED?!?!?!

Did EVERYONE who knows how this code works leave Blizzard with no documentation and no turnover? I have read about this bug and others over and over and over again while trying to research why I cannot advance my Archaeology solves beyond where they have stagnated. This stuff worked back in 2014. I fully understand “Bring Your Kid to Work” days but please stop allowing them access to your code!!

How bad is Mists going to be? How many things will and won’t work? Will it even be worth logging into and playing again?

I just do not understand how something that worked successfully can be re-released by the exact SAME company 14 years later and be such a buggy, neglected mess.

Do they just not care anymore? Or do they just lack the knowledge and resources to fix these issues?

/rant off

Thanks.

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Probably something to do with running old patches on a Legion client, though Cata is absolutely suffering for it. I’m also guessing its a tiny crew that is working on getting MoP ready instead of splitting time on Cata, so hopefully the current bugs will be fixed in MoP’s release.

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KK, so after several tickets and UI resets, I have an update about this bug. Apparently, it was originally reported back in April of last year. You can read the bug report and details at the ClassicWoWCommunity Github here:

https://github.com/ClassicWoWCommunity/cata-classic-bugs/issues/972

Also, according to the Game Masters, this is a known issue:

"Hi Michael, this is Game Master Aestynugue and I hope you are doing well today.

Thank you again for reaching out, and I truly appreciate your patience and dedication to resolving this issue.

Once a bug report has been submitted, it is forwarded directly to our development team, who are the ones responsible for investigating and addressing these types of technical issues. I understand your frustration, and while we don’t have an exact timeframe for when a fix will be implemented, please rest assured that your report has been received and is being reviewed by the right team. The developers will take it from here, and they’ll do their best to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

We understand how important it is to get this fixed, especially given the impact it’s having on your gameplay. You are definitely not alone in reporting this, and the more data provided, the better it helps our team in pinpointing the exact cause. I want to thank you for not only reporting the issue but also sharing the detailed information, including the link to the ClassicWoWCommunity GitHub, which might prove to be very helpful for their investigation.

While we can’t provide specific updates on progress or a timeline for the fix, please know that you are contributing to improving the game for everyone. Your reports help ensure that issues like this are addressed, not only for you but for all players affected by similar bugs. And, of course, once the issue is fixed, we will be sure to notify the community.

Thank you once more for your understanding and for working with us to improve the game. We look forward to seeing this resolved and wish you the best in your future adventures!

Wishing you all the best
Game Master Aestynurgue"

So, two things:

1.) Could anyone else experiencing this bug please report it to Blizzard via your in-game interface, please? It would seem they need a LOT more data to determine the nature and fix for this bug.

And…

2.) Has Blizzard thought about maybe hiring some contractors or other outside support to take a look-see at this and the many other bugs reported and confirmed on the ClassicWoWCommunity Github? I know funding is probably tight due to the exorbitant amount of money you have to pay your upper management to do nothing, but it does appear you could use some help with this and a great many other bugs that are currently puzzling you.

Thanks.

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the classic devs only care about sod. the progression servers have been basically forgotten since sod came out in icc

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yup, whichever person came up with SoD is a real PoS. It’s been a joke since then and anyone playing Classic would be able to attest to that. Lost a ton of players to it, then all their focus went into updating it instead of anything cata related. It’s been over a month since they did F all.

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Don’t worry, the three interns they have working on all 6 versions of Classic will get right on it!

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This is disappointing, if true. I know they recently addressed a C stack overflow error that was happening when opening profession windows. ( Blizzard UI - Trade Skill Errors - WoW Classic / WoW Classic Bug Report - World of Warcraft Forums)

I was hoping this issue was also somewhere on their list. I returned to Classic Cataclysm with the announcement that Classic Mists was on the horizon as Mists of Pandaria was one of my favorite expansions of the series.

It will be disappointing if it turns out to be a bug-filled mess of a re-release with no one, or almost no one, working on it. I guess I will hope that whoever was working on that former bug resolution at least takes a look-see at this one. :slight_smile:

Thanks.

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The promised update: I can tell that this is an issue, but I have no idea how to reproduce it. I’ve opened a bug on it in hopes that an engineer can look at how it’s structured and figure it out.

Part of the issue is that the data for your saved solves is not in the slightest bit human readable, at least in the forms that I have access to. If you’re familiar with the talent tree export strings in The War Within, it looks a little like that but a lot longer and more complicated. This makes it extremely tricky to figure out why your data may or may not be displayed properly based on the information available to me at present.

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Many thanks for the update. I submitted a ticket for this issue along with some screenshots of what my UI shows when I open the Archaeology tab. They are similar if not identical to the screenshots for the bug over at the ClassicWoWCommunity Github site linked above in this post.

I have double-checked my Retail character, and this is not an issue there. He has all the Dwarf solves with only about 200 total Dwarf projects solved including the staff. Since it worked back in the original Cataclysm, I can only guess it has something to do with what Naire said above.

Hope this helps.

Thanks again for your time and attention to the matter. :slight_smile:

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sadly you stated how is this worse than 14 years ago, the truth? It was the exact same issue back in og cata as well. Arch was bugged then, and bugged now. :frowning:

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Interesting. I don’t remember this bug from Cataclysm back in the day. I DO remember that it did take me a while to discover the Dwarf staff and that I had discovered the Vial of the Sands before it. But when I checked my Retail character (who has completed Archaeology 100%), my number of Dwarf project solves was only a little over a hundred projects before I discovered the staff. My current Classic character has well over 300 Dwarf projects solved with no staff project.

I haven’t really tried to discover the Vial of the Sands in Cataclysm Classic because I have no idea whether this bug is stopping me from getting rare projects (because I cannot see the ones that have been solved) or if I have just encountered the worst-case scenario of RNG ever to be rolled. Perhaps the bug is more singular to affect ONLY certain characters, which is why it hasn’t been so widely reported? :thinking:

I don’t remember encountering it back in the original Cataclysm expansion.

EDIT: So, any further updates? Still bugged. :slight_smile:

Any chance of getting it fixed with the next Dragonsoul update? Mists Classic?

I would still like to complete my Archaeology solves before we get to WoD or Legion Classic, please. :slight_smile:

Thanks.

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