{"id":585,"date":"2010-12-08T15:51:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T23:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/?p=585"},"modified":"2010-12-08T15:51:35","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T23:51:35","slug":"cataclysm-i-dig-archaeology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"Cataclysm: I Dig Archaeology"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To wrap up my first day in Cataclysm<\/em>, I finished Hyjal, ported back to Stormwind and decided to play around with the new Archaeology profession. After a half an hour, I had to force myself to stop, or I would have stayed up all night flying around the world digging stuff up.<\/p>\n

The concept isn’t that complicated. When you pull up your world map, you’ll see little shovel icons showing the locations of dig sites. When you arrive at a dig site, you place down survey equipment, which points you in the direction of an artifact, with a little light flashing red, yellow or green, telling you how close you are. So it’s a game of hot-and-cold, where you keep placing survey equipment down until you locate the artifact.<\/p>\n

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As far as I can tell, each dig site is phased, so you don’t have to worry about other players racing against you to steal artifacts, which is awesome. It’s pretty much a solo activity, and one that’s easy to get absorbed in. You even get XP at each dig site, equivalent to completing a few quests, so while there’s obviously travel time involved in going from one dig site to another, it’s not a completely frivolous activity that will keep you from leveling.<\/p>\n

The artifacts are divided into various categories, from races like trolls and dwarves to other categories like fossils. When you’ve collected enough artifacts in a category, you “solve” that group, which \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well, I’m not entirely sure what happens then. I’m pretty sure there are little bonuses you get from completing categories, but I’m a ways off from seeing any of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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