Silk
Well-Known Member
Since I was half stumped by the new profession (and I frequently see guildies asking questions about it) I thought I'd write up what I've learnt. Feel free to contribute if you know more.. 
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First of all you need to train it (durr) which you can ask a guard about. Don't be lazy. It's a secondary profession so you can all get it.
Then you'll have two new shinies in your professions tab; one is to dig, the other is to open your archaeology book.
As soon as you've trained it, have a look at the Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms maps (NOT the world map, NOT your zone map). Some zones should have shovels on. These are where you can find dig sites. Click the zone to see (in red) the areas where the dig site is in that zone.
Go to the red area. Use shovel. You'll see a telescope and a light, telling you direction and distance (red = far, yellow = near, green = almost there). Keep digging and moving til you find a shiny. Loot it. Repeat three times per dig site for xp and lols. As you loot artifacts, they'll appear in your archaeology book categorised under whatever type of artifact it is.
Once you have enough artifacts of a particular type, "Solve" the puzzle in your book. That'll give you the item in the top left of that particular page (aka "Puzzle"). For the best part these are common/trash/just for lore. But sometimes you'll uncover a rare puzzle, which can be a purple, minipet, mount etc. Once you find one of these you wanna get digging and solve it asap!
Sometimes you'll come across a random green item which says it's used to complete puzzles. Hang onto those as they can be used in rare puzzles to complete them faster.
So to sum up:
1, You have puzzles in your archaeology book to solve.
2, They're solved by uncovering artifacts at dig sites around the world.
3, Everytime you solve a puzzle the next one is revealed, randomly. It might be uber or it might be trash. in either case you need to solve it to get the next one and so on.
4, You get phat XP for a successful dig, about the same as one yellow quest, and you can dig three times per site, so that's a lot.
5, Hang onto special green relics to use in rare puzzles.
Also of note:
1, The dig sites are unique to each player.
2, A new site is uncovered every time one is completed.
3, A mate told me this: don't click solve unless you really have to as the skillups from "digging" are only for lower levels (up to 100) whereas skillups from solves are constant.
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First of all you need to train it (durr) which you can ask a guard about. Don't be lazy. It's a secondary profession so you can all get it.
Then you'll have two new shinies in your professions tab; one is to dig, the other is to open your archaeology book.
As soon as you've trained it, have a look at the Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms maps (NOT the world map, NOT your zone map). Some zones should have shovels on. These are where you can find dig sites. Click the zone to see (in red) the areas where the dig site is in that zone.
Go to the red area. Use shovel. You'll see a telescope and a light, telling you direction and distance (red = far, yellow = near, green = almost there). Keep digging and moving til you find a shiny. Loot it. Repeat three times per dig site for xp and lols. As you loot artifacts, they'll appear in your archaeology book categorised under whatever type of artifact it is.
Once you have enough artifacts of a particular type, "Solve" the puzzle in your book. That'll give you the item in the top left of that particular page (aka "Puzzle"). For the best part these are common/trash/just for lore. But sometimes you'll uncover a rare puzzle, which can be a purple, minipet, mount etc. Once you find one of these you wanna get digging and solve it asap!
Sometimes you'll come across a random green item which says it's used to complete puzzles. Hang onto those as they can be used in rare puzzles to complete them faster.
So to sum up:
1, You have puzzles in your archaeology book to solve.
2, They're solved by uncovering artifacts at dig sites around the world.
3, Everytime you solve a puzzle the next one is revealed, randomly. It might be uber or it might be trash. in either case you need to solve it to get the next one and so on.
4, You get phat XP for a successful dig, about the same as one yellow quest, and you can dig three times per site, so that's a lot.
5, Hang onto special green relics to use in rare puzzles.
Also of note:
1, The dig sites are unique to each player.
2, A new site is uncovered every time one is completed.
3, A mate told me this: don't click solve unless you really have to as the skillups from "digging" are only for lower levels (up to 100) whereas skillups from solves are constant.
