About a week ago Owl got a night elf rare to proc on her archaeology projects, bringing her rare finds to 20 once it was completed. I only finished it a few days ago, which was after patch 4.1 was released, and it turns out that this object is an epic trinket. http://www.wowpedia.org/Tyrande's_Favorite_Doll has the full information, and based on what I can tell, this is more of a healing spec epic trinket rather than a dps caster trinket. The reason being is that while it does have intellect, it doesn't provide a solid dps gain whether on use or proc. What it does do however is that for each spellcast, the item store a portion of the mana, and when it accumulates enough of it, you can use it to cast an aoe effect that deals damage to anything near you. I think I'll be keeping my witching hourglass. It took provides intellect, not as much as the doll, but the hourglass also gives a little buff once in a while, increasing haste during spellcasting, something the doll doesn't do.
So yeah, the doll is going into the bank for the time being. As for my other trinket, it's the darkmoon faire card Volcano, and that is one item I am so not giving up anytime soon! =) Thanks go out to my friend Hammy for spending time making the cards to come up with the deck that would give the trinket as the reward.
Now that patch 4.1 has come out, Owl has had a chance to taste the two new heroic dungeons and roll on some major items. She also noticed some additions to archaeology which might make it more interesting and worthwhile to do. For one thing she already has the two raptors from the fossil book on archy, and the troll sword is very unlikely to drop anytime soon even with my skill at maximum. I wish you could buy a monocle and a glove enchant that would increase your skill by 15 and 10 points respectively, that way I can switch out my epic helm and gloves with the monocle and some low level item with the enchant when I go digging. Folks who use this are more likely to come across rares than without them. Idea for you Blizzard if you ever read this. Call the monocle "Owl's eye" if you want to refer it to me though, for crediting purposes. Either that or free WoW playtime, but all this is negotiable. At any rate, archaeology is hard when you want to find a dwarven or tol'vir rare artifact and all you ever find are fossils and troll entrails. Not very fun after a while, you know.
So, with the new patch out, they came up with a couple of goodies, not just what can be dug up of course! Firstly, they made it to where the frequency of dig sites depends on the rares you've found. For instance, I've already found all the Nerubian rares, and now they have a new rare item for the Vrykul. In northrend, I'm bound to come across much fewer Nerubian dig sites, and more of the Vrykul, but also probably some troll dig sites. I've found all the night elven rares, so those sites in Dragonblight might not appear at all, but even if they do it'll be rare... not as frequent as the Vrykul digs.
The second good thing about this patch is they finally came up with some new rares to find! I know, I know, I say "finally" as if it's been years between patches 4.0.3 and 4.1, but that's only because my total of artifacts found when 4.1 came out was 19. Now it's at 21, and there are a total of 33 rares to find.
Yep. They added 6 new items, most of which are fossils and troll. The Vrykul have one item that I'm kind of itching to get since the websites don't have too much information. I'm betting it's something you can use that you drink out of and it makes you either tipsy or smashed... hic!
The fossils are also interesting. Seems there is new pet in there, a pterrodax, which in WoW is like a pterodactyl, or exactly like one... I dunno, I never saw one in real life, I couldn't tell ya if Blizzard have then right down pat or are making it up. All we really have to go with are fossils... hmm. Anyway, judging by the image in the tooltip, I'm betting that this hatchling, for hatchling is what they are calling it, is not merely bones like the fossilized raptor mount/pet. I have a feeling that we'll find an actual egg shell fragment encased in amber with some DNA in it... similar to the Ancient Amber, which could very well be fragments of amber that you put together... somehow... %/ Probably the only notable thing to be found in the Fossil category will the the shield, which is probably going to look just like the turtle shell shield that dropped (or drops) from the turtle in Wailing Caverns, only with epic stats. Yep, a level 85 ilevel 359 epic shield, which will be useless to me as a tank since bears don't use shields.
So the three fossils (pet, amber, and turtle shell shield) are new, and then the Vrykul's drinking horn makes 4 new rares... the last two are troll. Yep, you read me, TROLL.
Now before patch 4.1, I used to think to myself, Man. With all these troll dig sites all over Azeroth, you'd think I'd have gotten a rare item by now. I'm getting sick to the teeth of all this bloodscalp dinnerware... I have enough of those to sell to Martha Stewart! Yeah, angry much? I hated Troll digsites because of the rarity of the epic sword that could proc as the next troll project, and the worse aspect before was even if I did get it, I'd still get a lot of troll dig sites. It was getting pretty depressing. I went to Outlands and Northrend to try and evade the trolls, but it turns out there are troll dig sites in Northrend too. ARGH!
Well now, they gave me two new reasons to get back into those Troll digs... and I already found one of them amazingly enough. I wish it was the pet, which seems to be a voodoo doll that has a big of mojo still in it. Can't wait till I get that one for my pet collection, which is getting closer and closer to the 125 achievement.
The other item I can comment about because I found it. It took 100 fragments to complete and 3 keystones (troll tablets), which narrows it down almost by 1/4 of the needed fragments. I mean 36 from the keys, the rest you have to farm, and this morning, with 4 digsites all in stranglethorn vale, I don't have to tell you that it took me forever. It was super easy and lucky for me I guess. Once it was completed I found that it has a 30 minute cooldown, which is not too different from a hearthstone without a guild perk.
The item in question? Haunted War Drum. I don't know how long it lasts, but once you set the drum down on the ground, you can click on it to use it, and it plays music like that you would hear when you go to any troll ruins or instances.
.... My god... Blizzard is brainwashing me with their Voodoo!!! *runs and hides!*
Yeah, basically jungle type sounds that made me think of Tomb Raider and drums beating that makes me think of Trolls flippin' out. Yeah, mon. It be good jibe rit ere i tell ya mon. Haha!
Well anyway, now my entire tray of archaeology projects are filled with grays. To escape the trolls for a while (since I'll be killing trolls and running through their ruins all the time getting epics from their freshly slaughtered corpses), I've decided to fly around Kalimdor for a while, dig up my remaining Night elven dig sites and see if more Tol'vir dig sites pop up for me. Since I've found the last Night Elven rare from Archaeology, I'm bound to find mostly fossil and Tol'vir stuff, with a couple of troll and at least one dwarven dig site along the way.
So yeah, Owlaf now has 21 rares completed in archaeology. "This should be in a museum!" *throws preserved lizard foot on the floor of a troll temple* "HONEST!!!"
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