Increase of artifacts for Archy in 4.3?

[MidLifeCrits]

So I was on the PTR killing time between ques for testing and was working on my Arch. I noticed instead of only 2-4 artifacts per dig I was getting between 5-9 artifacts per dig. Is this an undocumented increase for 4.3 or was this a change made awhile ago?

[Tygor]

This would be amazing if it hits live.

[MidLifeCrits]

seriously I'd love an increase to Arch pick ups.

[Da Baws]

If that goes live I will be beyond happy. Trying to get the dwarf & tol'vir pets got really boring & annoying. This would start me up again.

[Ozy]

1. If your a dwarf you get those numbers due to racial (my dwarf gets 7 fragments quite frequently)

2. Im hoping that the unused placement holder in the arch tab will be filled with Pandarian artifacts....seems logical no?

[MidLifeCrits]

I was on my BE DK so no racial passive for me.

---------- Post added 2011-11-07 at 09:14 PM ----------

Agreed on the place holder been curious about that damned thing since day one of Cata.

[KhadajDH]

I can confirm that there is a current fragment drop amount buff on the 4.3 PTR screen shot below:

[Renley]

Oh gosh, thank you Blizzard! I was just starting to level it on my new main finally, but its so hard doing it a 2nd time. So tedious. This will help. <3

[smartAXE]

maybe ill get past 429 now x.x

[Drhomie]

huge need

gave up farming the drone, but if this goes live...^^

[Cactrot]

God I hope the increase goes live. Double bonus since I use dwarf. Arch is just too painful as is.

[Airelove]

Still trying to farm the Tol'vir mount. This will help a little bit, but I have a feeling I still get frequent Night Elf sites even though I've found every artifact for that race. :\

[Vilk]

Noticed the same thing last night when I finished up my vrykul horn on the PTR - x7, x7, x9.

This would make me push for the rest of the artifact's I could use.

[Dimension101]

:O ... wants

[MidLifeCrits]

Yeah so hoping this isn't just some kinda bug they haven't caught yet. Wish there was a way we can get the higher ups here on MMO champ to let us know if that is something in the datamined info for the patch.

[Susinko]

If this is true I will be so happy. I have been trying to get the crawling hand pet from Uldum for such a long time. Soooo many Night Elf digs. Never the rare Doll proc so I can finally be done with the Night Elf rares. I would love more fragments!

[Deleted]

=o
If this is true, how many artifacts would the dwarf than get o.o
A dwarf can test this out? That would be really cool to know!

[KCguy]

If that's true then I will finally try for that 359 2h sword. I forget what it's called. Then I can do that transwhatever you call it for the look. :P

[klob]

now they increase the rate.... after ive had 'professor' for months. oh well.. good reason to farm tol'vir now. Good find OP.. lets hope for arch buff!!!!

[Barinthos]

Nice, now I can farm for random crap drops to sell to vendors even faster!

Arch doesn't need a buff to fragment drops...it needs a nerf to the RNG associated with it.

And yes i'm mad bro...farming for Zin'rokh has killed my soul!