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Kommentar von davety

I wonder if this means that we will all be carrying around shovels now.

Kommentar von Nogrid

Using this ability while at a digsite sets up a telescope on a tripod with a pole with a light on top of it to the right of it. The telescope points in the direction of the fragment and the light changes from red to yellow to green depending on how close you are to the fragment. While yellow and green are fairly accurate, the direction that the telescope is pointing when there is a red light can be off by up to 90 degrees. When you use Survey close enough to the fragment a lootable item will appear. If you are colorblind you can also determine how close you are by looking at how fast the light is blinking, red blinks very slowly, yellow a bit faster, and green very fast.

Other players doing Archaeology near you will not be able to see your surveying or take your fragments and you cannot do the same to them.

Four digsites are available at any one time per continent (Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor, Outland, and Northrend) and you are able to find 3 lootable fragments at each site. Each lootable fragment gives you 5-9 fragments that are used to recreate ancient objects and eventually fun-items such as mounts, pets, or usable items. At max level you will get 5-9 fragments each time you loot, with Dwarves getting 6-10 because of their Explorer racial. The fragments are somewhat like a form of currency and have no actual item associated with them. When you loot all 3 fragments in a digsite you can no longer dig there and a new area will show up on your map.

As of 4.0.6 you can only have up to 200 of any given type of fragment at a time, when you get to 200 any extras will just be wasted until you create some artifacts. If you previously had over 200 you can keep those extras but you still won't be able to gain more until you spend them. The good news is that the vendor price of the common artifacts have increased by huge amounts.

It is also possible to find special items called k e y s t o n es with most subsections of archaeology; only fossil doesn't have one. You can use these keystones to add 12 fragments to most artifacts on its subsection. You will know if you can use the keystones if there is an empty hexagon on the crafting page. Common artifacts will have 0-2 keystone slots while rares will all have 3 slots (excluding fossil). These keystones can also be traded and sold so this could be one of archaeology's major sources of income.

Gathering fragments from surveying will give you points until 50, at which point only making artifacts will level you up.

As of 4.1, you have a reduced chance of finding dig sites for which you have already created all the rares of that race. For example, I already have all the NE rares so when I do Archaeology in Kalimdor I get primarily Tol'vir, Fossil, and Troll dig sites, which are almost all in the southern half of Kalimdor. Getting 10 Tol'vir sites in a row definitely helps morale when you are 15 Canopic Jars in and still don't have the recipe.

As of 4.3 the amount of fragments gained through digging is 5-9 for most poeple and 6-10 for dwarves. This was not in the patch notes but is a pleasant surprise if you are still trying to get rare mounts or weapons.

Kommentar von ViceVersa

Each digsite has 3 artifacts.
Fragments collected from artifacts range from 2 to 6.
Tablets give 12 fragments per use.
Explorer is the dwarf racial which lowers the cast on Survey.

Kommentar von 486066

I've been poking around with this this evening. Something to add, when you view your world map there will be shovel indicators as to where the current dig sites are. Once you zoom in to the zone map, these areas will turn into a shaded area of blue or red. (I've seen both colors, haven't figured out what the difference is)
Unfortunately, this being beta, the shaded areas don't always work. I've resorted to zooming the map all the way out to world, and trying to pinpoint the spot based on the shovels. Typically, the dig areas will be some sort of dig site or ruin in the world. (STV is full of ruins, and these keep coming up as dig sites.)
I don't know what the respawn on the dig sites are, but it seems to be pretty quick. I knocked out 2 in STV, flew to Searing gorge, and by the time I was done in Searing Gorge, the STV sites had repopped..

Kommentar von brallinoth

"where to learn this? please, ty."

This is trainable on the Alliance side in the Stormwind Library and in Ironforge in the Hall of Explorers.

I still have not been able to find where to trade in the keystones at.

Kommentar von 415054

Does this phase out opposing faction players? Can you get attacked while surveying?

Kommentar von Derren

til when you stop leveling from survey?

Kommentar von 245451

In case you play with a zoomed out view like I do and actually have trouble seeing which direction the telescope is actually facing, remember this:

The lighted beacon is always to the RIGHT of the forward facing telescope.

Kommentar von Kanonji

If you a druid like myself, you probably use Swift Flight Form a lot and end up needing to un-click the buff a lot in order to survey again. To save a small bit of time...I made this macro to cancel the form buff, and also cast survey.

#show Survey
/cancelform
/cast Survey

edit: Made it better.

Kommentar von 528771

using survey doesn't break ghost wolf form
picking up the "find" does break wolf form however

Kommentar von Drahken

Is there some reason that I'm unaware of that this needs a 5 second cooldown? Like, is there something in the code that needs the time to breath or is it just arbitrary? It irritates me when I'm nearing the artifact and I move for about 1 second and have to wait 4 more to survey again. Yes, I'm impatient, but it's just how I feel. But really, I'm trying to understand here, which is why I ask.

Kommentar von 734216

I've noticed that some digsites are 'bugged'. They point out of the digsite while standing in the very edge.

I've made a couple tickets about this, but before I received an answer it would always have fixed itself.
So I tried a couple of things and what I've discovered is that once a digsite is 'bugged', go to the next digsite, survey it, loot the artefact(s) and then go back to the 'bugged' one, it'll have somehow reset the digsite.

Hope this helps, I know it will certainly help a couple of my guildies.

Kommentar von 274618

Can anybody explain why is this ability on a 5sec CD ? I find myself waiting for the CD between points about AND IT'S ANNOYING !

What is the purpose of that CD? Is something BAD going to happen if we could just spam this ability ?

Archaeology is enough of a circle jerk without the Survey's CD.

Kommentar von 292580

just a random fact, you can't use survey while under the effect of Segen des Schutzes (BoP). You'll get the message "Can not do while invulnerable" but this works perfectly fine while under the effects of Gottesschild (Bubble)

Kommentar von 759877

Someone please help where are these Digsites

Kommentar von 510698

Next patch (4.0.6), the cd will be reduced from 5 seconds to 3 seconds :D

Kommentar von onethirty

The icon for this is a spade but you use a pick axe to 'dig' with... this is misleading, I want my spade! :(

Kommentar von 673038

Anyone else notice that fairly often this skill likes to outright lie to you?

It'll point you in one direction, you'll fly in that direction for a short hop, then it points you 90% in another direction.

Or sometimes you'll be zeroing in on an artifact, then suddenly it'll point you in a completely different direction. You ignore it, keep going the way you were going, which turns out to be right in the end.

Archaeology gets substantially less frustrating when you learn to tell when the game is just screwing with you.

Kommentar von Dekuscrub

if you want to do archeology fast, Archy is a great addon, and if you get ArchDB you can see which artifacts you havent collected yet, and if you use TomTom it will add an arrow with directional, distance and ETA arrival to your digs. plus i find this macro useful as im a druid:

#showtooltip
/cancelaura Swift Flight Form
/castsequence reset=2 Survey, Swift Flight Form
/cast Cat Form

i put that on the action bar on button '0' and bind that to mouse button 5, so i arrive at a site, press mousebutton5 once, and it surveys, press it immediately and it will put me back into flight form ready to go to the next place to press mouse button 5. speeds things up tremendously. the reason why the cast reset is 2 secs, is that sometimes you are running on foot if the light is green, so if you dont immediately press the button again, it wont put you on your mount, but will let you re-survey. the last line is so that if i get attacked, mouse button 5 will just put me in cat form to kill the mob easier. (could be set as /cast Sinster Strike or /cast Frostbolt etc instead) a less class specific macro tho would be:

#showtooltip
/Dismount
/castsequence reset=2 Survey, 'insert mount here'
/cast 'insert main nuke here'

eg for rogue:
#showtooltip
/dismount
/castsequence reset=2 Survey, Celestial Steed
/cast Sinister Strike

it lets you just fly around spamming mouse button 5, works like a charm for speed farming :)

<edit> forgot to say, ive always had mouse button 4 as jump, so i dont have to touch the keyboard when im moving around. using this macro leaves me a hand free for drinks or cigarettes etc. i fully recommend having mouse button 4 as jump in tandem with this macro to help you lift off the ground :)

Kommentar von 37419

Can be used while Stealthed without breaking it. Nice for sneaking around mobs in the area.

Kommentar von Cyan

Quick tip:
After digging something up, loot it and use Survey again.
Sometimes the next one will be in the exact same spot.

Kommentar von timo4545

Why would you give it a cooldown.

Kommentar von AskeHK

In Legion Rogues can now use Survey while stealthed which makes it a lot easier in hostile areas. You still exit stealth while looting the object.

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