Dont get me wrong. I absolutely know Archaeology is RNG and when it comes to the epics I understand they are rare.
My issue being is that i have over 130 solves on the dwarves and there are 2 commons i have never gotten. If you dont get an epic you can assume you have bad luck but surely commons all have the same appear chance, right?
So how have i solved all other commons 10x but there is the warmaul common on the dwarf race that I have never seen and many through discord have never seen? This item is linked to an achievement as is the last one I need for it. There is also a common ring on the dwarf race that no one has seen. You would think after 100+ solves I would have seen it once.
As it seems not possible to even get a common solve it makes you wonder if some of the epics are bugged on some peoples account because maybe there was a bug if you did something or had a spawn site on a cata zone affected something
What is the likelyhood archaeology is bugged for some people?
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Also interested in this, i am on 109 troll solves and no Zin’Rokh. Its a 7% chance.
The chance of it not proccing after 109 solves of 7% is according to ChatGPT:
‘‘So, there’s approximately a 0.02% chance that something with a 7% chance of happening doesn’t occur in 109 instances.’’
Something is definitely off, I haven’t seen a single rare solve in the last 7 hours of straight farming… What’s going on?
Im on 215 troll solves and i havent seen it either, its just rng. And idk where people got the 7% from but thats a increased pserver number, its way less on actual cata.
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yeah im on 357 solves on nelf now and im missing 3 rares, whisp amulet, bones of transformation and ofcause the trinket. other than that im missing 3 grays…
I rly don’t recall archaeology being this tedious the grind is unreal.
Pretty sure its around 1%, not 7.
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It wasn’t, I casually did Arch during Cata back in the day and unlocked every rare except for the epics in a very short amount of time. There’s 100% something off about the current state.
But did you do them in prepatch or during cata launch?
Skill to 525 might affect the rates.
This is what I’m thinking, so far i’m at 10+ hours without a single rare solve.
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i’ve been grinding for 50+ hours right now on eastern kingdoms, 200 troll solves… 150 dwarf… more than 100 on fosils. not a single epic… i have seen friends of mine getting epics in less than 20 solves getting two epics… am i bugged? xD
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Is your Archaeology skill maxed out?
im rly trying to understand ur question.
You need a skill of 450 to be able to see epics
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yeah, why wouldnt i have it up to 450? i mean i have solved enough of trolls to level up 3 archaeologys… why would u think im not maxed up xD
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I got 450 on patch day and so far have gotten all Troll finds except sword. I got all Fossil finds except the pet, so yes I actually go the epic shield.
I am 122 Dwarf solves in and I miss 3 commons and the staff. Seems very much RNG to me.
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Ye 158 solves in on Troll, no sword yet.
But this is my point. Everyone has the shield. No one has that Fossil pet and everyone on my server discord do not have the same 3 commons from dwarf and the same 2 commons from night elves.
If it was RNG, you’d think with the amount of solves happening on a server there would be some people with these commons.
It seems odd for no one to have these unless something is bugged or they changed something on the Archaeology update they did
Thing is, if you look at older wowhead posts, its always the sword people call zinrokh the destroyer of time etc. Because it was much more rare than the other items.
It took ages to get.
in the past hour after 58 hours of archaeology i just discovered the heal trinket its the 62 artifact i crafted from elfs, and also the shield of fosils with 146 solves… i recovered my faith in the sword, 236 troll solves and increasing
Its random, after 1000 solves you might still not have the sword
Its a time sink purposely designed to waste a LOT of your time.
Good luck 
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