Shove It, Arch!
357 NE artifacts completed before the doll appeared in the book.
102 fossil artifacts had to be completed along the way, despite getting the only two fossil rares within the first 15-20 fossil solves.
48 Tol’vir solves had to be completed without ever using any Tol’vir Hieroglyphs as any I picked up were all sold on the AH to fund NE scrolls. Only 2 Tol’vir rares were obtained, and one was the pointless scarab necklace – both were obtained within the first 15 solves.
35 troll solves had to be completed without ever receiving a rare.
9 dwarf solves had to be completed, and the only rare received was a new hearthstone that replaced the old one.
Around 315-320 NE solves, I had put my NE fragment total at about 12,500 or so. I would be willing to bet that the search for Tyrande’s Favorite Doll took me a grand total of approximately 18,500-20,000 Kalimdor fragments and close to 10k gold on night elf scrolls, as well as approximately 6 or 7 weeks of doing Arch, including some days of 9 hours straight farming.
I am now removing the survey and archaeology icons from my bars and never looking at them again. This is, by far, the absolute worst thing I’ve ever done in WoW. And I’m finally done.
As mentioned in the Arch humor video, there are no words.
Grats, I just hit the 300 mark for night elf solves myself, hopefully I get it within the next 50.
Oh dear. This has sort of put me off now. I read somewhere that someone got it on solve 126 so sitting at about 98 was feeling pretty good that I might get it soon – yeah, I know the odds (I’m a statistician, but one with a positive attitude :P). Now it looks less likely. Maybe I’ll just stick with my tsunami darkmoon trinket and my new vibrant alchemist stone and be happy at that!
Trouble is, being the pet collecting obsessive that I am, I still need the Tol’vir crawling claw pet, so probably will continue with the NE fragments while I wait for my Uldum spawns….
congratz Zevia, may you find peace with your new trinket :)
This kind of crazy stuff is precisely the reason why I quit shortly after I hit 85.
The grinds are insane. I mean, I can take grinds. Hell, I sat 25 days /played in Badlands to do the Bloodsail exalted grind only to see it nerfed into a 2 hour guard grind and ruin my exalted bar by starting the new loremaster. Just to do it.
But I came to realize that EVERYTHING you do in the game now is grind. You grind for fucking everything. The lack of new content in Cataclysm is soulcrushingly disappointing. I tried really hard to find pleasure and the same fun in the game I had it in classic and BC, but there is none left for me. I feel sick now when I think about how many hours I’ve wasted grinding for the considerately very few moments where I actually had fun in the game.
Ever since I quit I had more fun playing all the single player games, watching all the movies and TV series I had missed while being stuck in this grindfest than I had over the entire WotLK expansion.
Not to ruin anything for you guys. If you still can have fun, who am I to tell you what’s now fun.
This should also reward “The Insane” if done with more than 300 solves
I hear ya Shock. It dawned on me this morning when I turned my computer on that this game is nothing but unsatisfying grinds now. I knew my subscription plan was canceled awhile ago but I checked today and saw it runs out in April (6 month plan). I can’t justify 15$/month to get nothing out of it.
“The Insane” doesn’t compare to what Zevia went through for this. Masochistic doesn’t seem quite appropriate enough, as I can’t think of why people would do this to themselves, other than Blizz forces them to… It’s utterly soul crushing. “The Soulless” seems appropriate.
I’ve had guildmates ask me why I put myself through that to get the thing.
Usually my answer was some variant of the following: “I think, deep down, subconsciously, I must feel I’ve done some terrible thing, and deserve some seriously inhumane punishment for whatever it is, and this is the self-inflicted penalty I’ve decided upon.”
I got through 2 seasons of Dead Like Me and a number of new episodes of Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother while doing this, as well as looping through my entire music playlist several times, though.
Lol if I deserve a just punishment, it would be resubbing my account xD /gets shot/
If I could ‘ve found a guild that was capable of raiding, I probably wouldn’t have given up so easily. But I can’t justify spending more time on a GAME application than a job app… >___> or my homework.
I’m still trying to figure out how some people find Archeology -fun- It just boggles the mind.
I think it’s just a matter of developing a Zen-like state of not even really being there mentally. You may physically be doing Arch, but your mind is clearly elsewhere.
Sounds like my old math classes.
The last 50 points I did weren’t too bad ’cause I was in a single dungeon queue and got relatively good dig sites. I think I only quit ’cause the next ones were too far for me to care about ’cause I can’t tab out without DC’ing from a zone change or something…
I’m almost at 400 solves now, I’m getting close to smashing my face into a wall, this is horrible.
Why am I always so unlucky?!I haven’t seen my doll yet.
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