Tips for Leveling Archeology
First of all, never trust a red light. When the telescope appears, and the light is red, it may or may not point in the direction you need. Only once the light turns to yellow or green can you be sure you are on the right track.
Secondly, once you unearth an archeology find, collect it, and immediately survey again. I cannot count the times I did this and got another find in the same spot, without having to walk around and search.
The third point to take note of is so long as you are getting skill ups from surveying and locating Archeology finds, do not complete any projects. Eventually you reach a skill level where just digging stuff up no longer increases your skill, and you must complete projects to advance. If at this time you have saved several hundred fragments up, you are ahead of the game and can continue skilling up at a good pace.
Finally, be sure you are in a high-level guild, at least level 23. The Bountiful Bags guild perk for guild level 23 results in more fragments dropping, which results in projects being completed faster, which results in faster leveling of the Archeology skill.
Beyond these tips, the only other advice I can give is be patient. This skill does not go up very quickly, no matter what you do, since the dig sites are often very far apart, requiring long flights and travel time between one location and the next. However, the skill does offer a new depth to game play and some benefits for players. I do hope this advice helps, and makes your gameplay that much better. Good luck, and have fun!
Author Note:
This was a guest post by Jared Lonzer. If you’d like to read more such posts on WoW, you can check out his blog: WoW Quest Helper, find how to choose between the different WoW Classes and many other World of Warcraft topics.
