So has anyone been able to find these yet? Been max for three days now, completed pretty much all discoveries for dwarf and Troll minus the epic gear. Im sure ive done well over 50 solves in each faction but still nothing but uncommons.
They exist.
P only approaches .99 at around 430 solves.
A few people in my guild found the Tyrande doll. I don’t think we’ve seen a weapon yet, but that’s just RNG.
It’s boring to do if your not working
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I told myself that once i get to 200 solves im done with archeology just because i have so much left to do before cata. Don’t want to spend the entire time grinding for something that doesn’t have a towards-progress guarantee. Just hit 200 solves, which compared to others isn’t a whole lot but it is for me. Just isn’t fun haha. Would have been nice to see an increase in the relic drop rates since Cata is going to have a shorter timeline. Would probably get me going for epics again. Oh well! To those who have gotten their epic congrats!
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I have all 4 available 85 epics, it took way too long and my butt hurts from sitting
I have the trinket before even getting 10 rares.
It’s just pure RNG and can take forever.
I have both Zin’rokh and the Extinct Turtle Shell shield. I received the sword at 78 troll solves, the shield at 125 fossil solves, but I have not seen the item i’ve been chasing (the staff) and i’m at nearly 200 dwarf solves, which isn’t even the highest in my guild without a staff. Sometimes you get lucky and sometimes you don’t.
Yes, I have both the staff and the shield.
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Im curious how did you end up with 78 troll solves and over 200 dwarf…the arch site split is even , IE im currently at 76 troll solves 78 dwarf and 67 fossil. ?
oh and no i dont have any of the 389 ilvl stuff
just band rng
I already know people quitting cata over this, lol, let the good times roll.
He said he got it at that solve, he would stop counting then
What? People are quitting over pre-patch archaeology? That’s actually funny.
Yeah 3 people in guild basiclly said 300 solves I got the item or im out. Over the course of sunday you saw them one by one dip out. It was kinda funny.
I think it’s more that the fun pastime available while the servers are kind of buggy and wonky isn’t operating as people expected. Unobtainable pets, unobtainable commons, pre-BiS BoAs that are 1/458 if you’re lucky, or 1/50 if you get lucky quick.
In principle a secondary profession shouldn’t take longer to complete than the Insane title, and getting a single BoA 359 shouldn’t take longer than Shadowmourne (15-20 hours of raiding over the course of 5 weeks).
Challenging grinds are fun, but this seems to actually have some bugs impeding progress.
When you can either a) grind quest achievements b) farm guild rep c) prep professions/level alts d) level Archeology or e) AV spam for 50-90 honor a game to get 270/277s… one of those options being pretty arduous is going to cause some irritation… enough to quit over? Meh. Enough to complain about? Sure.
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You just reminded me to check the stable guy to see if I can get Nuts’ Acorn from them.
I see their problem, they went too hard, they should’ve taken it easy there’s still two weeks till Cataclysm launches and even after that there’s still time before people would be pre-BiS
The problem is it’s available now… and people want to do other things. Archeology has essentially the lowest barrier to entry with the greatest available impact come launch. You won’t replace it until you’re clearing Heroic. If you have to reasonably farm 600-1000 solves to get it, the remaining time actually isn’t that much.
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True but I think the other pieces should be compared to them before I’d make that decision. How much better is say the staff to the next best thing.
I think the Dwarven staff and the Tol’Vir staff are quite similar right? So they still have that to farm but I think the downside of that would be that it’d also interfere with them getting other pre-BiS items.
Other than the Archaeology alternatives, strictly from dungeons the next best thing for casters would be Scepter of Power from the Halls of Origination heroic or the Elementium Spellblade which has 200sp less (and the spellblade is crafted). There’s a better item but that’s from a rare but the Spellblade is a one hander so the difference in spellpower is likely made up for with the off-hand or is so close to it that the difference wouldn’t really matter.
I think something like Archaeology should take a long time, I do think that there are pity solves, I just don’t know what that number is or if you think that’s what’s bugged.
Its just how a lot of players are these days. Dont get me wrong I think the system is dumb. Its dumb I got zen and it enrages my warrior friends while I got 100 solves in a row on dwarf just getting commons because I want the staff.
Game just has a lot of soft people now. If a second goes by where they feel they are disadvantaged they gone.