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by Alex Ziebart 
Mar 25th 2011 at 7:30PM
These items are continuing Blizzard's effort to populate neglected research types. Trolls needed a little more love beyond the endless journey to find Zin'rokh, and fossils needed even more love. An epic shield, another pet, and the other additions from previous builds will go a long way toward making fossil dig sites less ... painful.
WoW Patch 4.1 is on the PTR and WoW Insider has all the latest news for you -- from previews of the revamped Zul'Aman and Zul'Gurub to new valor point mechanics and new archaeology items.
Filed under: Archaeology
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
tronhelm Mar 25th 2011 7:43PM
Nice with the shield, but i want my agility weapon and trinket!
ChaosPrime Mar 26th 2011 5:59AM
Darn right, non-plate physical DPS are the only guys who don't have anything now.
freebeatfly Mar 26th 2011 6:12AM
Yes! Give my rogue a reason for this archeology addiction! Right now I'm just collecting items to server- transfer to my healer -_-
Drakkenfyre Mar 25th 2011 7:39PM
Blizzard often copies items, and changes the name. That's why holiday boss loot is usually a copy of a preexisting item. They just copy it, and change the name. It's also why the low-level rings from the random dungeon bags were selling for 1g 31s awhile back, They copied a higher level ring, adjusted the stats and name, and forgot to remove the sell price from the previous ring.
So that shield is probably a reuse of anoher shield, which drops from a Heroic instance, and they just haven't removed the "Heroic" tag off it yet.
flawless Mar 26th 2011 9:25AM
New ZG instance.
Lost Offspring of Gahz'ranka as a boss.
"Heroic" tagged shield likely copied from Lost Spawn's loot table and made BtA.
flawless Mar 26th 2011 9:26AM
Meant to mention the boss Tor-Tun, not Lost Spawn -.-
Was a screenshot of a turtle boss in one of the previews, likely an Edge of Madness summon one.
Thayer Mar 25th 2011 7:39PM
YAY!! Time to start hoarding fragments!
Necromann Mar 25th 2011 7:49PM
You can only hold up to so many fragments per race.
Thayer Mar 26th 2011 6:13AM
Yup, I know. I can certainly farm up the maximum fragments for each of the races with new stuff though :) Then I get to have fun solving a bunch of items on patch day.
Darky Mar 26th 2011 9:37AM
Yay for my pre nerf 700 odd fossil fragments.
Guttsu Mar 25th 2011 7:40PM
Like I've said before, I think its great they're adding these much needed artifacts, I'm just a little bitter that its after the HUNDREDS of solves for Trolls and Fossil fragments that I've done. Still no sword too :'-(
MusedMoose Mar 25th 2011 7:45PM
I swear, I said "Yay!" out loud as soon as I saw the title to this article. Even before I knew what the items were. ^_^
But it's always good to see archaeology getting more love. I've nearly got my archaeologist character to 85, which means I'll have plenty to do leveling up that profession as I wait in dungeon queues. :P Pity that tanking's not for me, though; that new shield seems like it'd be useful. Maybe there's hope for a caster shield...
Necromann Mar 25th 2011 7:52PM
I'm still farming for the fossil mount. I did take a 2 week break, but I am at a loss for fossil sites.
Natsumi Mar 25th 2011 8:59PM
Try Eastern Kingdoms. I think about 33% of the sites there are Fossil.
Gnarlynarz Mar 25th 2011 7:53PM
No No no, that shield is from the Heroic Wailing Caverns, DUH!
Xues Mar 25th 2011 7:56PM
I'm sure I'll get that shield before I get the two-handed sword.
Amaxe Mar 25th 2011 8:16PM
Things to hope for as I eternally hope the next troll artifact will be the sword...
Amaxe Mar 25th 2011 8:18PM
Come to think of it, I've never seen anyone with it in Stonemaul or Shadow Council either...
MusedMoose Mar 25th 2011 10:51PM
I just saw someone with Zin'rokh tonight. So it does exist. At least once. ^_^
matthew Mar 26th 2011 4:41AM
i have a zin rokh myself much to the annoyance of quite a few of my guild members... i currently have no character able tyo use it so its gathering dust