The "Collector" achievements

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Hi folks! Mostly curious to see if there's anyone else other than me who has botherd to farm the "Collect 20 of x" achivements in archaeology. Personally I'm almost done (Have a few of them finished with the majority around 15-20 restored artifacts), but I think that since they are so tedious, most ppl have probably not gotten around to them. (As a person who did "The insane" last summer, I've no problem with tediousness and monotonous grinding)

[Skez]

Yeah, I got them as a bonus when doing The Seat of Knowledge for the Seeker of Knowledge title. Also got all except two Mantid ones left when doing History of the Mantid, 17/20 and 19/20 on those left.

[Bzl]

I did them a couple of months ago and posted my results in the comment field over at wowhead;

Mogu total: 281, average: 28.1
Edicts of the Thunder King: 26
Thunder King Insignia: 31
Warlord's Branding Iron: 29
Petrified Bone Whip: 29
Terracotta Arm: 26
Manacles of Rebellion: 34
Worn Monument Ledger: 24
Cracked Mogu Runestone: 30
Iron Amulet: 31
Mogu Coin: 21

Pandaren total: 265, average: 26.5
Standard of Niuzao: 31
Empty Keg of Brewfather Xin Wo Yin: 28
Pandaren Tea Set: 23
Pandaren Game Board: 25
Apothecary Tins: 31
Pearl of Yu'lon: 34
Walking Cane of Brewfather Ren Yun: 23
Gold-Inlaid Porcelain Funerary Figurine: 20
Carved Bronze Mirror: 26
Twin Stein Set of Brewfather Quan Tou Kuo: 24

Mantid total: 196, average: 24.5
Kypari Sap Container: 20
Banner of the Mantid Empire: 31
The Praying Mantid: 21
Pollen Collector: 28
Mantid Lamp: 25
Remains of a Paragon: 24
Inert Sound Beacon: 20
Ancient Sap Feeder: 27

This was the data accumulated in order to reach 20/20 for all the different ones. In addition I also gained the seeker of knowledge (all the different rares) tittle right before I got the final collector achievement.

If you are interested in a summarized format to see how many projects you have completed in each of the three brands, i made a macro that you can run:

/run for x=10,12 do local c=GetNumArtifactsByRace(x); local a=0; for y=3,c do local t = select(9, GetArtifactInfoByRace(x, y)); a=a+t;end local rn = GetArchaeologyRaceInfo(x); if( c > 1 ) then print(rn .. ": " .. a .. ", average: " .. a/(c-2)); end end

(sometimes it bugs, go into mantid/mogu/pandaren complete projects in your archaeology tab once, and then run it again)

[Sanguinezor]

This wasn't as bad of a grind as i thought it would be.
Last Pristine was the worst.

I think i was server first.
Date completed: 22 November 2012

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This wasn't as bad of a grind as i thought it would be.
Last Pristine was the worst.

I think i was server first.
Date completed: 22 November 2012

Ofc it's alot of RNG in the grind, It's certainly annoying when you get 10-15 artifacts in a row that you're already finished with.

[Varkas]

Working on it in bits as I do other things right now...got myself spread a bit thin with my playtime but I'm getting what I want done

[Adsertif]

I did like 2 of each while farming Seeker, one of the worst grinds this expansion.

Mogu 517, 51.7 average.
Pandaren 388, 38.8 average.

The horror.

[Bmfstunner]

Lol, I just did like all these achievements in the last week. I ended up with over 1000 restored artifacts. I hated it, by far one of the worst grinds in the game, especially when the other profession achievements are easier. I really hope they aren't like this in wod, the old format was certainly better.

At one point I needed seven carved bronze mirrors and I had all the other ones done, if I ever see another petrified bone whip again, I'll lose my shit. I must've had almost sixty of them before I finished the mirrors and like someone said that last pristine is a nightmare. Every time I saw a worn monument ledger, I got me hopes up.

This is definitely for the brave and the stupid.