Arch settings best chance for epics

[jprd105]

For one im not sure exactly how your suppost to get the epic items. I guess its just random when you solve the artifacts???

My current settings are set to ignore all except troll, dwarf, tol'vir.

I also have it auto solve artifacts and use keystones..

I just wanted to make sure this is the proper settings if i want to get dwarf epic(staff) and tolvir epic(any)

 

[Mupp]

Yes its all random when you solve and your settings is all good. Though I would sell the Keystones for gold
Tolvir goes for 600 a piece on my server.

 

[bloodbee]

It is random which artifact you discover. Blacklisting races will drastically lower the rate in which you level up your archaeology. At any point there will always be 4 dig sites in random locations per continent. Tol'vir dig sites are not available until you reach 450 Archaeology and only appear in Uldum(Kalimdor). In EK there is Dwarf, Fossil, Night Elf, and Troll. In Kalimdor there is Dwarf, Fossil, Night Elf, Troll, and Tol'vir. For all the Lvl85 epics you need at least 450 skill so I would recommend not blacklisting the other races simply to make it faster to level up since you can now only hold 200 frags per race. Anyway, about the blacklisting, if your just starting to level it and have the other races blacklisted, your only going to be digging troll and dwarf. Eventually there will just be Night Elf and fossil on your map.

You can use the keystones to level if you want, it will speed up solves a bit. Personally, I just sell them. On most servers they are still quite expensive.

Archaeology - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft has pretty much all you need to know about it. Looking back I guess I could have just posted the link instead of typing all that up but o'well lol. Hope it helps, GL and happy digging.

 

[jprd105]

So keystones only help for leveling?? they dont help for epics??? i have maxed out arch.

 

[Mupp]

No they help for epic's too well not help but they give you more artifacts.

 

[Malice211]

So keystones only help for leveling?? they dont help for epics??? i have maxed out arch.

Keystones help you solve puzzles faster. The more puzzles you solve, the better your chance of the next one being epic. However, it does not matter how many keystones you have, the chance your next solve will be epic is still a random thing.

Some folks use keystones to help create puzzles faster, some prefer to sell them in the AH for gold given that using Archbuddy takes the effort out of the profession and there are lots of dig sites. I prefer to use my keystones as I make enough gold from my gathering bots. If you are low on gold then you may prefer to sell them. If you are flush, then use them for faster solves. Just my two cents.

 

[jprd105]

Thanks for the heads up, i dont really care about the gold, i just want the gear.

I was also wondering how to I tell the total number of solves i have for a paticular type of site such as troll and dwarf ect... its just so i can say... omg this sucks i havnt got my epic is ... solves. Just wondering.

 

[Mupp]

Open up your Arch window and scroll through all pages of solved artifacts, then make a macro out of this and press it once.

/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