This is purely a post just for me. Maybe also for you, if you want to compare things.
Will be updated as I continue to find things.
Listed alphabetically.
Things not found yet are bolded.
Things found are colored like in-game.
Total Rares completed: 20 of 32 (63%)
Total Commons completed: 107 of 107 (100%)
I found two 4.1 rares to complete 20:
Haunted War Drums & Voodoo Figurine
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SILLY FACTS | updated 28 April 2010
Most Common Common | Zandalari Voodoo Doll (8)
Total artifacts solved | 300 (12,162 fragments)
Top 3 races with most artifacts solved | Troll (79), Night Elf (68), Fossil (51)
Most used rare | Either Fossilized Raptor or The Innkeeper’s Daughter
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DWARF | 27 Commons (100%)
Clockwork Gnome | Chalice of the Mountain Kings | Staff of Sorcerer-Thane Thaussarian | The Innkeeper’s Daughter
FOSSIL | 12 Commons (100%)
Ancient Amber | Extinct Turtle Shell | Fossilized Hatchling | Fossilized Raptor | Pterrordax Hatchling
TROLL | 14 Commons (100%)
Haunted War Drum | Voodoo Figurine | Zinrokh, Destroyer of Worlds
NIGHT ELF | 18 Commons (100%)
Bones of Tranformation | Druid and Priest Statue Set | Highborne Soul Mirror | Kaldorei Wind Chimes | Queen Azshara’s Dressing Gown | Tyrande’s Favorite Doll | Wisp Amulet
TOL’VIR | 7 Commons (100%)
Crawling Craw | Pendant of the Scarab Storm | Ring of the Boy Emperor | Scepter of Azi’Aqir | Scimitar of the Sirocco | Staff of Ammunae
DRAENEI | 8 Commons (100%)
Arrival of the Naaru | The Last Relic of Argus
ORC | 9 Commons (100%)
Headdress of the First Shaman
NERUBIAN | 7 Commons (100%)
Blessing of the Old God | Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron
VRYKUL | 5 Commons (100%)
Nifflevar Bearded Axe | Vrykul Drinking Horn
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ARCHAEOLOGY ADDONS
My favorite addon was Archy, but it’s long been not updated, and 4.1 finally broke it beyond my tolerance for using. The frame for the digsite listing broke, such that it extends the entire height of my screen, obscuring other things on my screen, and sticking the digsite list to the top of my screen.
I’m currently doing default UI, with a 2-button actionbar off my Dominos bars to hold Archaeology and Survey for easy, lazy reach. But I’m looking around at other Archaeology addons. I may just see if I can code my own minimal addon.
It’s also rather cool to see how good I’ve gotten at eyeballing the red/yellow/green distances, so I don’t even really need the distance marker from Archy anymore. Well, it’s more of a rhythmic feeling — yellow is enough to get on my flying mount, go up then back down again — than literally looking at the screen.
I got DBM-Archaeology, after DBM removed the keystone found sounds. I find them funny sometimes and awesome all the time. Watch out: it uses Master Sound for the volume; the boss mod uses that sound setting to be heard over dimmed down Ambience and regular Sounds.
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MANY DIGSITES, HANDLE IT
A macro I found on Wowpedia that prints a list of Archaeology stats to your chat frame. The format comes out as ” Race: #UniqueFinds (Rares, EverSolved) “.
/run local g,a,n,c,r=GetArtifactInfoByRace for x=1,9 do r,a,n,c=0,0,GetArchaeologyRaceInfo(x),GetNumArtifactsByRace(x)for y=1,c do a=a+select(9,g(x,y))r=r+select(3,g(x,y))end print(n..’: ‘..c..’ (rare: ‘..r..’ solved: ‘..a..’)')end
OMG you found Tyrande’s Doll. I gave up after about two months of digging every night, all night.
How long did it take you to get this far?
I leveled on EK, trying to get the Dwarf staff. In retrospect, I should have saved my Dwarf solves and just leveled on Night Elf or Fossil or Troll, because it’s possible I had it about to pop, but I wasn’t high enough level, so it popped something else in reality.
Anyway, I still don’t have that stupid staff. So I sympathize with the Doll fans, believe me, I really do.
I can’t remember when I hit 525 Archaeology, but I’ve been doing the profession since it came out, let’s put it that way. Some weeks I did a lot of digging (like the past week), some weeks I did none at all (yay raiding & BC reps).
Unfortunately, the statistics tab doesn’t track how many commons I’ve solved ever. Then, maybe, that’d give you an idea of how much digging I’ve done. WTB “Most Common Common solved,” hehe.
Actually there is a way to look up your most common common! Under the archeology tab, you can see how often you dug up each artifact. If you want to know how many you dug up total, though, you have to add them by hand. Last time I counted my Night Elf artifacts, I had over 300
Oooo, something to track in my spreadsheet!
(Yes, I have a (small) spreadsheet for Archaeology. *slightly embarrassed*)
Hey bud,
I too <3 Archy. Here is the work around that I'm currently implementing. Hope it helps.
Step 1. Download Minimal Archaeology from curse.com and install it
Step 2. Log on to wow with both archy and minimal archaeology turned on
Step 3. Shift+Left Click the Archy minimap icon to turn off the display yet preserve the minimap function.
Crude, yes I know. But it gets the job done.
Kildren
Archy is definitely my favorite addon as well. While 4.1 did break it, there was an updated version released on WoWInterface. It unfortuntaely hasn’t made it’s way to Curse yet, so I had to manually put the addon into my interface. But nonetheless it works perfectly now!
Ooooh, thanks! I will check that one out!
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