Assistant Professor Moosader here, going to be spouting off some information about the new secondary trade skill, Archaeology. Now I haven’t hit 525 so I am by no means an expert, yet.
First things first DO NOT SOLVE ANY ARTIFACTS UNTIL YOU HIT 100! And there is a very good reason for this. from 1-100 you gain skill up from finding artifact fragments, but after that the only way you can get skill ups is from solving artifacts. This will save you a decent amount of pain and suffering.
How Do I Find Digsites?
Apparently people though that you could just run around surveying willy nilly, well that is not that case. You get 4 Dig Sites per continent. When you exhaust one digsite, another takes its place somewhere else on the contintent. If you open up your World Map, they will be indicated by shovels.
How Do I Find Artifacts?
Well you really don’t find artifacts, you find their fragments. After gathering up enough fragments from digsites you then solve the fragments and piece together an artifact. There are 9 total fragment types, each obtained from different Dig Sites.
| Type | Skill Level | Location |
| Dwarf | 1 | Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor(Few) |
| Troll | 1 | Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor(Few) |
| Fossil | 1 | Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms(Few) |
| Night Elf | 1 | Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms(Few) |
| Orc | 300 | Outlands |
| Draenei | 300 | Outlands |
| Vrykul | 375 | Northrend |
| Nerubian | 375 | Northrend |
| Tol’vir | 450 | Uldum |
You will no doubt also come across keystones for each type. Keystones have two purposes, being used in solving some artifacts accounting for 12 extra fragments if you find yourself a little short, or later they can be turned in for buffs in instances. Here is a list of the keystones by type.
| Dwarf | Dwarf Rune Stone |
| Troll | Troll Tablet |
| Fossil | n/a |
| Night Elf | Highborne Scroll |
| Orc | Orc Blood Text |
| Draenei | Draenei Tome |
| Vrykul | Vrykul Rune Stick |
| Nerubian | Nerubian Obelisk |
| Tol’vir | Tol’vir Hieroglyphic |
How Do I Find Fragments?
That is the question, after all without the fragments you can’t do anything. When you enter a dig site, and use your [Survey] ability. A little telescope and blinking light will appear. The telescope points you towards the direction you want to go, and the light tells you how near your target you are. The light will blink red, yellow, or green.
Red is the least accurate, basically that the fragments are somewhere in the direction the scope is facing.
Yellow is a lot more informative than red. It narrows down the field of where it is, and that you are getting warmer.
And at last you get the green light, this has a narrow field of vision but it doesn’t give you any information about distance. A tip I would give would be to use triangulation and move up 10y and then over 10y and where those two paths cross it should be there or very close to.
Do I Get Anything Cool For Doing This Stuff?
Yes and maybe. There are several rare artifact projects that when you complete, they tend to take a lot more fragments than regular(common) artifacts, you can get BOA armor/weapons, mounts, vanity pets, and random little “trinkets”. When I hit 105 skill in archaeology I got the project for a Fossilized Hatching which was a little raptor skeleton vanity pet. So if you like having little knick-knacks and achievements, Archaeology is the way to go!
See you out there digging!
-The Mighty Moose
Associate Professor of the Archaeological Arts
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