Post 4.3 Interview with Greg Street (Ghostcrawler)

www.youtube.com/8MoL5hFhQH8?t=7m35s

What was previewed on the PTR came through to live, tracking archaeology sites via minimap.

Archaeology areas of interest will now show on the mini-map, in addition to the World Map.

Also: Archaeology fragments will now be 5-9 per dig (at max-level), with three digs per site as usual. This is great for new and old Archaeologists to make money off of the grey items and to help finish up the rares you’re missing.

Below is a side by side comparison of the World Map and the new MiniMap Feature.

The minimap needs NO Addons anymore for tracking archaeology sites now. But it’s still nice to have certain features from Addons like Archy for right click surveying and tracking your projects.

Looks like nothing new is coming in Patch 4.3

Below is what we know from Blizzcon 2011.

From Class, Professions, and Items Q&A

Mists of Pandaria

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/game/mists-of-pandaria/

Expect full Coverage over any new details about Archaeology!

Speculations have been running wild lately with ideas like archaeology will be expanding to include Pandaren artifacts in patch 4.3 or finally giving players an option to turn in artifacts to museum societies.

WoWDigSite.com will be updated Live as Announcements are released via Blizzcon Panels.

If you’re not attending Blizzcon then you can spend $40 for the Live-Stream or just catch your News from WoW Insider and such but expect all Archaeology info here!

This change below might have been added earlier on the PTR but reguardless, the minimap now has:

‘Track Digsites‘ Support

Right now, it appears that the PTR has nothing new for Archaeology (yet), but we’ll keep digging until we find something!

There are a list of new pets and mounts but none of them are Archaeology confirmed.

-> List from Wowhead News <-

Companions	Mounts
Darkmoon Cub Darkmoon Monkey Darkmoon Turtle Festival Lantern Fetish Shaman’s Spear Grell Moss Lump of Coal Lunar Lantern Purple Puffer Sand Scarab Sea Pony Darkmoon Balloon Darkmoon Tonk Darkmoon Zeppelin Flimsy Darkmoon Balloon Flimsy Green Balloon Flimsy Yellow Balloon	Blazing Hippogryph Corrupted Hippogryph Darkmoon Dancing Bear Ruthless Gladiator’s Twilight Drake Space Charger Spectral Gryphon Spectral Wind Rider Swift Forest Strider Swift Lovebird Swift Mountain Horse Swift Shorestrider Swift Springstrider White Riding Camel [DNT] Orange Red Drake Mount [DNT] Purple Red Drake Mount [DNT] Red Red Drake Mount Mountain Horse

Morpsend from, here at WoW Dig Site, had a Q&A session with another well-known
forum poster Tiggindy. Just wanted to share this everyone, enjoy!
Thank you to Tiggindy for participating with this.

Some of the questions asked:

• Who is Tiggindy? A bit of background
• How did you approach archaeology?
• You’ve spoken about how you’ve disliked archaeology, we’d like to know specifically what you’ve not liked.
• I’ve read the battle.net forums and the mmo forums about archaeology as a guilty pleasure, I’ve had the impression that you’ve either been apart of these threads for own pleasure of arguing the detail with people, or you truly have hated archaeology to the point you’ve chosen to spend this much time to vent your feeling about archaeology, which is it?
• You’ve spent a lot of time talking with other people in the forum community about archaeology, can you give us a general idea of how other people feel?

Read the Full Interview here on our Forums!

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With Patch 4.3 bound to hit the PTR soon, many of us are expecting some love from developers for Archeology as this last giant ‘content patch’ for Cataclysm. We’ve already had (non-Archaeology) sneak-peaks at some new features in the patch, such as Void Storage.
Hopefully will get some additions or general changes to bring some folks back to Archaeology, sustain its current following or even scoop up some virgin surveyors.

Either way, WoW Dig Site will be ready with an up-to-date ‘ultimate’ Guide for the profession.

Jinze from MMO-Champ has graciously allowed us to build upon the past wining-guide with the intent to update it into what we want as the Complete Guide to Archaeology.
Check out Jinze’s Thread: Archaeology – And all it’s dusty little secrets! here.

Join the discussion for this on our Forums (link) 

With that said above, we’re open to any ideas or general thoughts on such a Guide!

Feel free to post with some insights or comments as to

• What should be in the guide that is not already generally covered?
• What is missing from the Past Version?
• Your own Tips & Tricks or Suggestions
• Dig with Tunes playing? Watch a movie? Chat with Friends? Or bask in peace & quite
• Anything you think relevant for the Guide!

Expect a draft posted on these forums soon.