Archaeology

[DeathStigma]

Ok I am level 79 and I am really tired of northrend. I was wondering how long it would take to get from 79-80 on arch. and also what is the general conept on how it works?

[Judic]

i went from 72 to 74 in about 4 hours. also went from 0-225 archaeology. you think northrend is boring? try doing arch O_o

[DeathStigma]

I was going to try it but how do you get exp? I am guessing by solving the frags?

[Althavar]

If from 79-80 is anything like my experience of leveling from 84-85 via archaeology, it will take about two to three times as long to level that way as opposed to questing.

[Glomp]

Archaeology is incredibly frustrating and boring.

[Dazu]

you get experience every time you find fragments. It uses rested experience also same as mining/herbing would.
At 82 on my paladin im getting 19250 experience per dig rested. This means I can sit around 600k-1mil Exp per hour while doing other things.

I decided to do Arch on my paladin now simply because it is fairly boring but I can do quests later for extra gold, the experience from Arch is gone forever at max level.

[Deleted]

Leveled from 83-85 with archaeology. Took a good while. 10-12k xp per dig aka 30-36k xp each digsite.

[Fierae]

22% through 81 on an alt, and I hit 44% through 83 from 0-525 arch. That was with rested some of the way.

[justme123]

You can just go to vasj'ir or mount hyjal at lvl 78

[Tychus]

You can just go to vasj'ir or mount hyjal at lvl 78

Quests aren't really available until 80.

[Valicen]

Ok I am level 79 and I am really tired of northrend. I was wondering how long it would take to get from 79-80 on arch. and also what is the general conept on how it works?

You would have a lot more fun attacking the undead in Icecrown, naked, doing only unarmed damage than using Archeology to level. That being said, it is a good idea to start archeology now - level it up so you have better opportunities to get the troll sword or dwarf staff, they're good pre-raid weapons.

Also to help with Archeology, the addon "archy" was posted on the news page a few days back - get it. It's pretty decent and makes the leveling process simpler.