EU+US New way to get AP in 7.2????

[minihansen12]

I was reading though patch notes for patch 7.2, and i saw these lines:
Archaeology

• You can now get Artifact Power from Archaeology.
• New Elite digsites have been discovered in the Broken Isles.
• All enemies summoned by Archaeology can now be killed by multiple nearby players.

Not sure what to think about it, but it might have some potential!

 

[Budget]

I'm sure if you can get artifact power from archaeology, we will be seeing a lot more people using archaeology for their mains or either for a 101 twink. But i totally agree that this would seem pretty awesome. I know i will be using this to farm artifact power to max out my monks weapons.

 

[Shunkley]

I'm guessing this will be 110 only to be honest. I haven't booted up the PTR to test my 101 yet just because I don't think this is live on the PTR atm. That being said, you can already get AP (albeit an incredibly low chance of getting it) by doing archaeology at 110. One of the rare solves lets you do it. But Elite digsites sounds like a 110 only thing to me knowing how Blizz operates.

Edit: Apparently this is up on the PTR, will go test and get back to people.

 

[godroad]

I eagerly await your findings, Shukley

 

[devlinux]

I booted up the PTR to check stats: thankfully there are no changes to stat weights, at least for Enhancement Shamans - my stats are identical between live and PTR.

I picked up archaeology to try to find the new AP sources. Saving any additional sources from higher archaeology levels (started at 0) or archaeology quests accessible at 101, the new source appears to be found randomly at dig sites. Doom Dust - without any artifact knowledge it provides 115 AP. Over four dig sites, I received one keystone and one Doom Dust, so if I had to guess it's probably around the same drop rate. There appear to be similar items added in the same build that also grant 115 AP, but correspond to alternative archaeological dig sites: Highborne Pottery Shards.

Perhaps not the magnificent font of artifact power we had hoped it would be, but there may be more quests or items relating to it that we haven't seen yet. I've no idea what the elite dig sites are about, there could be some interesting AP sources hiding there.

 

[Shunkley]

I booted up the PTR to check stats: thankfully there are no changes to stat weights, at least for Enhancement Shamans - my stats are identical between live and PTR.

I picked up archaeology to try to find the new AP sources. Saving any additional sources from higher archaeology levels (started at 0) or archaeology quests accessible at 101, the new source appears to be found randomly at dig sites. Doom Dust - without any artifact knowledge it provides 115 AP. Over four dig sites, I received one keystone and one Doom Dust, so if I had to guess it's probably around the same drop rate. There appear to be similar items added in the same build that also grant 115 AP, but correspond to alternative archaeological dig sites: Highborne Pottery Shards.

Perhaps not the magnificent font of artifact power we had hoped it would be, but there may be more quests or items relating to it that we haven't seen yet. I've no idea what the elite dig sites are about, there could be some interesting AP sources hiding there.

I got a 300 AP token from digging. The elite digsites are a pain (110 elite area) and have a higher chance of yielding keystones/AP. I've done digsites on multiple 101s now. Seems like you get either 1AP or 1Keystone per site roughly. Elite one just has higher chances. Archaeology doesn't offer much to 101s because you can't get rare solves outside of the quest, and the quest requires 110. If anything this is a nerf for people who use twinks for skin-farming because you can get fragment from odd-shaped stomachs only if you know archaeology.

The other thing at the moment is their are new class order hall missions available. Though it doesn't seem likely to get over 100% due to different requirements. The yhave a higher base AP though so shamans/rogues with equipment on their characters should be able to hit it. That being said I don't think these missions will be available come 7.2 and they are just there to get more stress testing done.

My data pool for the moment on digsites on the 101 is only 82 nodes at the moment, by time 7.2 comes out i should have a proper statistic for it.