Back at the beginning of the year I announced a set of personal goals in WoW and I'm happy to announce I've hitting a few of them and have been slowly working my way towards some of the others. Today I have hit one of the major ones as I got the last five characters to 525 fishing skill. All at once, with the help of some planning and the Darkmoon Faire profession quest.

Now I need to work a bit more on the old archaeology step... more »

I earned this the Evlyxx way ofc, refusing point blank to buy the mount until I could craft it myself.

Of course now I am a very happy bunny even if I am now 31000g poorer give or take 1000g.

If I had prepared better it could have been done faster but I had to make all the parts and transfer gold and mats around toons to make it happen. more »

With Cataclysm almost upon us and one of the main features is a new secondary profession. This is the first secondary profession added to the game since launch and rather than being on that will make money is one that will enhance your character with a few of the finds but more importantly provide some interesting back story.

So what is archaeology?

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Archaeology is a secondary profession which means everybody can learn it, which is cool. The general idea is that you collect fragments of historical items and store them in a journal. Once you have all the fragments for an item you'll be able to study it and you'll get a reward which can be anything from BoA armor/weapons (sadly not ones that level with you) vanity pets, gadgets and even mounts. Some of the rewards are very good epic items (eg X), also when gathering these fragments you will gain XP until you're at level cap just like the other gathering professions.

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