EU+US Archaeology in 7.2 - Best Artifact Power Source?

MyPerfection

MyPerfection

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Here is my summary from the PTR:

Legion will have two types of dig sites - Silver and Golden. (I think that the golden ones provide more "stuff" than the silver ones.)

New Golden only spawn if you complete some Silver too.
And don't forget to enchant your Gloves with www.wowhead.com/item=128561/enchant-gloves-legion-surveying

This is how they look like on the world and zone map:
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There are 5(?) different types of artifact power items:

Imp's Fur 85 AP
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Doom Dust 115AP
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Faded Green Gem 300 AP
(Forgot to take a screenshot)

Fossilized Succubus Horn 400 AP
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"unknown" (Epic Item) 750 AP
(Didn't drop for me so far but found it in the ptr database)
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You only need Archaeology Skill 1 to start. So no need to level it up before 7.2.
Surveying 12 times aka 1 dig site took me around 3min each.
Each survey can have one of three side effects.

Effect 1: A Non-Elite with 890k HP spawns and can be looted after the kill. Always contains extra fragments and can contain one of those AP items.

Effect 2: After a survey you loot an on use item which spawns the same mob with the same loot.

Effect 1-2: Sometimes the mob can't be looted after the kill, instead he explodes and drops 3 lootable items. All of them contain fragments and have a chance of containing an AP item too.

Effect 3: An item spawns on the ground and can be clicked. After that a big Elite spawns which has better than normal loot.

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Results of my first 17 dig sites I've done so far:

Silver 1: 115 AP
Silver 2: 770 AP (2 exploding mobs here)
Silver 3: 300 AP
Silver 4: 585 AP
Silver 5: 0 AP
Silver 6: 115 AP
Silver 7: 0 AP
Silver 8: 0 AP
Silver 8: 85 AP
Silver 9: 115 AP
Silver 10: 385 AP

Gold 1: 285 AP
Gold 2: 1370 AP (Elite spawned here)
Gold 3: 585 AP
Gold 4: 1600 AP
Gold 5: 385 AP
Gold 6: 1000 AP
Gold 7: 85 AP
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Average Silver: 247 AP
Average Gold: 759 AP

Each dig site takes around 3 minutes to complete.

If that doesn't sound good than what does? :)
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So happy digging all and I hope this post helped some of you a little bit.

~my~
 
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Can you do them over and over (where they spawn in different locations), or is there a daily reset?
 
That's amazing, finally a better/faster way to get traits then farming 24/7 nelth's ^^
 
This seems a lot more efficient than Nelth farms, but I dont know what kind of luck you have. Sometimes I do entire excavations and I don't get any. On a good site, I'll get maybe 300-500 tops (so far). Not sure how you're pulling off 12k per hour
 
Roboartist said:
This seems a lot more efficient than Nelth farms, but I dont know what kind of luck you have. Sometimes I do entire excavations and I don't get any. On a good site, I'll get maybe 300-500 tops (so far). Not sure how you're pulling off 12k per hour
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If it's only 300-500 per digsite (20min?) it's still going to be faster then nelth farm.
Nelth takes about 5-6 min with a avg 1 per 2 runs thats 200 AP/12min/1k a hour.
 
Changzu said:
If it's only 300-500 per digsite (20min?) it's still going to be faster then nelth farm.
Nelth takes about 5-6 min with a avg 1 per 2 runs thats 200 AP/12min/1k a hour.
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I know it's faster. But Im saying it comes out nowhere near 12k per hour. Maybe 2-4k (which is still preferable over nelth). At least for me it doesnt. And i rarely get ones that give me 400 per site
 
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Just got this. Definitely something I'd like to see more of... Especially with my bad luck streaks...
 
Roboartist said:
I know it's faster. But Im saying it comes out nowhere near 12k per hour. Maybe 2-4k (which is still preferable over nelth). At least for me it doesnt. And i rarely get ones that give me 400 per site
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Yeah, 12k would be a bit overkill. That means you could get 100k+ a day based on around 8hours that would mean you could get 35 traits in about 70 days.. I wont complain if that'd be true, but I don't think it will be. :p
 
Roboartist said:
This seems a lot more efficient than Nelth farms, but I dont know what kind of luck you have. Sometimes I do entire excavations and I don't get any. On a good site, I'll get maybe 300-500 tops (so far). Not sure how you're pulling off 12k per hour
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It's just from the first seven sites i've done. Should be obvious. 7 sites, 20 minutes, 4k ap = 12k/h. We don't know if I was lucky, you are unlucky ... after we farmed them thousands of times we will know what the average ap / dig site is. :)
(And it is only the time it took me at the site itself. No travel time included.)

Those 7 dig sites gave me an average of 573 AP / dig site so far. (Maybe that is a less confusing number.)
 
MyPerfection said:
It's just from the first seven sites i've done. Should be obvious. 7 sites, 20 minutes, 4k ap = 12k/h. We don't know if I was lucky, you are unlucky ... after we farmed them thousands of times we will know what the average ap / dig site is. :)
(And it is only the time it took me at the site itself. No travel time included.)

Those 7 dig sites gave me an average of 573 AP / dig site so far. (Maybe that is a less confusing number.)
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I'm just baffled how you're getting so much :( I'm also at 800 arch
 
Roboartist said:
I'm just baffled how you're getting so much :( I'm also at 800 arch
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No idea. Just seems that one of is is (un)lucky. To ruin your day some more ... here is my next result:
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Gold 4: 1600 AP.

Will do some more right now, still too curious.
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On no, the Curse of Robo reached me.
Silver 5: 0 AP
Silver 6: 115 AP
Gold 5: 385 AP
Silver 7: 0 AP
Silver 8: 0 AP
Gold 6: 1000 AP
Silver 8: 85 AP
Silver 9: 115 AP

Damn you. :(
 
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This is a combination of both a silver and a gold digsite. This is pretty common for me...
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Roboartist said:
This is a combination of both a silver and a gold digsite. This is pretty common for me...
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I feel you. I'm on the same train now. ;)

After doing 14 dig sites now my results would look like this:
avg 508 AP / dig site.

So it is getting worse but still really good.

And ... cut. Done 17 sites, can't stand them anymore 'cause its only the PTR. ;)
 
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Today I did some more dig sites. This time all of them were in Aszuna. A pain in the butt for twinks.
1 golden dig site spawned in the middle of a 110 elite area. Impossible to stay alive there. (Maybe it is doable on live when there are a couple of 110s farming too.)
1 silver dig site spawned in the falcosaur area (110s normal and elite). On my Havoc it was fine, could kill the normal packs and kited the elite.

A new side effect happened there: A clickable item spawned on the ground then a npc spawns, runs around telling stuff and after he despawns he leaves another clickable item on the ground. This one contained fragments and ap.
 
People assuming 3 min per aren't including travel time between sites. It can be significant, especially with no flying.
 
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