Spent almost all day today digging up fragments to put them together into artifacts. Came up on an interesting one. A ‘Fossilized Hatchling’. Requires 85 Fossil fragments to ‘make’.
I had this artifact for awhile. Didn’t really pay attention to it until I was in Tol Barad Peninsula. I knew nothing about the place, but heard it’s one of the new battlegrounds. However, the northern island is contested. Meaning both factions can access it and not try to kill eachother.
Tried to fly there. Failed. Was like some kind of invisible barrier. So I went back to SW, remembering seeing a portal going there. Wowhead mentioned that it’s the same way as going to the Isle of Quel’Danas (through a portal or a FP).
I got to the portal, but wondered if it was a good idea since the Horde were in control of the southern island. When I saw a few allies show up put of the portal, unflagged, I decided to go for it.
When I arrived, I wasn’t flagged. Was in an Alliance Base Camp, with a bunch of daily quest NPC’s around.
One of them said that he finds strange that they’re constantly getting orders every night at 3am. This is a joke, since dailies reset at that time (CDT anyway, 4am here).
I noticed I couldn’t fly. Had to use ground mounts. And that’s when I saw it. A guy on a mount I’ve never seen before. It was a boney raptor. Looked really cool. Was called a Fossilized Raptor.
Remembering the hatchling artifact I had, I checked Wowhead and sure enough, you get it from Archaeology. I knew what I had to do. But I wanted to do these dailies first. They were pretty fun, and it was pretty good practice of not having played WoW in a long time.
When I got out, I went to every Fossil digsite I could find to grind up on artifacts. Finally Solved it and .. well.. I wasn’t actually expecting a cute little hatchling; but the hatchling to grow up.
Since then, I was obsessed on “unlocking” the Fossilized Raptor mount by going to every Fossil digsite I could find. Alas, it never worked in my favor.
I read that finding the hatchling alone is a rare feat. I find getting the fucking raptor is rarer.
Now I’m “out” of Fossil digsites. But actually, I’m not. Turns out, all I have to do is go to the other digsites and do them, to get Fossil digsites back.
There’s some kind of number that it’s based on. The number doesn’t reset like daily quests do. It’s based on how many digsites you didn’t go to. It expects you to even it out by going to other ones before allowing you to go back to what you wanted.
This means hours of boring digging, and flying.. don’t forget the flying. I’m sure Drago’s wings are really tired by now.