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Seeking to complete a newly unlocked rare artifact? Then this post is for you!

There are two rare Nerubian artifacts:

Segen des Alten Gottes requiring 140 fragments with 3x Nerubischer Obelisk that can be used (have not yet personally acquired this)
Puzzlebox des Yogg-Saron requiring 140 fragments with 3x Nerubischer Obelisk that can be used (have not yet personally acquired this)

While I may not have solved all 32 archaeological rares (I have 24 thus far), after hundreds of hours dedicated to the cause I can say this - there is a method to the madness! And I say madness because archaeology is one profession that should not be taken lightly. Get ready to dig... Lots.

When you arrive at a dig site, take a look around you. The surrounding mobs will generally be the best indication of what kind of archaeological finds you may uncover while surveying there. If you're surrounded by ogres, or something less obvious, then consider what the local settlements are predominantly comprised of, or who the local lore is related to.

In the Hinterlands or STV you'll be surrounded by throngs of trolls - and whadya know, the Troll Archaeology Finds go hand in hand. Wetlands, Badlands and Burning Steppes are all known for their dwarven dwellings - and similarly, so are most the archaeological finds. If animals dominate the land, then appropriately you will often find fossils.

Archaeologically speaking, the Night Elves thoroughly dominate Kalimdor, Dwarves and Trolls the Eastern Kingdoms, and Fossils neatly scattered across both. Outlands are only for the Orcs and Draenei archaeological finds. While Northrend is proving most interesting with Night Elvish and Troll Fragments popping up in addition to the expected Nerubian and Vrykul Fragments. For anything Tol'Vir, it's all in Uldum and Uldum alone (will update if this changes). Unfortunately, dig site spawn locations in Uldum share the same continent as Kalimdor - maximum total of four. This means you're gonna have to keep digging Fossil & Night Elf Frags (among others) all over Kalimdor in order to possibly have the Uldum dig sites spawn. Stay tuned!

There are always exceptions to every rule, but you'll find by and large that the above theory holds true. For those of you seeking dig site locations only, see below.

Nerubian Archaeology Fragments (proving extremely scarce compared to their Vrykul cousins - 3:1 dig site respawn ratio) in the following dig site locations (revised and updated 19/02/12):

Eastern Kingdoms

Eastern Plaguelands - Plaguewood Tower, Plaguewood, Terrordale (near Terrorweb Tunnel)

Northrend

Zul'Drak - Kolramas
Borean Tundra - Talramas, Temple City of En'Kilah, between Gammoth and Valiance Keep
Icecrown - Scourgeholme, Valley of Echoes
Dragonblight - Azjol-Nerub

Fossil Archaeology Fragments
Troll Archaeology Fragments
Dwarf Archaeology Fragments
Night Elf Archaeology Fragments
Draenei Archaeology Fragments
Orc Archaeology Fragments
Vrykul Archaeology Fragments
Tol'vir Archaeology Fragments
Mogu Archaeology Fragments - STILL IN PROGRESS
Pandaren Archaeology Fragments - STILL IN PROGRESS

For a complete tally of ALL the archaeology solves you have slaved through, use the following macro (updated for MoP):

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

This will produce a list like this:

Total artifacts
Dwarf: 44
Draenei: 11
Fossil: 64
Night Elf: 179
Nerubian: 4
Orc: 12
Tol'vir: 128
Troll: 87
Vrykul: 8
Pandaren: 25
Mogu: 26

Kommentar von 277735

Nerubian digsites are ridiculously sparse, given how many are needed to gather all the Nerubian artifacts. The Northrend spread looks something like this (comparing the two types of archaeology fragment that are only available in Northrend, and showing all the sites I have found)...

VRYKUL:
Fragments to complete all: 355
Digsites available: 14

NERUBIAN:
Fragments to complete all: 595
Digsites available: 5

There may be several I haven't found, but it doesn't take a genius to realise you will have completed all the Vrykul ones several times over before you can hope to complete your Nerubian collection. I suspect (and hope) they will add more Nerubian digsites. In fact, this may have been intended... there are potential spots at Voltarus, Zeramas and Naxxramas to name a few.

Kommentar von 656180

Found another Nerubian site in Azjol Nerub

Kommentar von 470526

I have to say in the past 3 hours I have been at this I have only found 4 Nerubian Digsites. I managed to solve 1 artifact so far and trying to get the Seven Scepters Achievement. This is extremely hard as I have been getting mostly Vrykul fragments like crazy. Solved numerous things for them and Nerubians are crazy hard to get ahold of. I'm always checking my map and watching Archy for the new sites for Nerubian to pop up on it. And just when I think I have another Vrykul solved and I look up at Archy ** Fingers Crossed ** for a Nerubian digsite... What do I get....More Vrykul! Rofl! Ah well...I'll just keep plugging away and looking for that Scepter of Nezar'Azret.

Don't think for a minute this is going to be an easy grind. If you have read the above posts you will see that this is not something to be taken lightly.

Kommentar von SolaceForsaken

Got my first rare to appear for Nerubian at 9 solves.

Edit: Found the Puzzle Box of Yogg Saron as my 13th solve for nerubians which finished up their artifacts for me.

Kommentar von 366196

Some of the Nerubian digsites are placed at fallen necropolises. I have not read any lore about this, but belive they are creations of the Nerubians. If you g back to Ahn Qiraji you can also see floating stone ornaments and structure like creations.

Kommentar von Bellar

Nerubian digs seem to be about as common as either the Night Elf and Troll Digs in Northrend, so unless you're planning on just farming Northrend digs a lot for the rare few times you end up with a Nerubian dig, I highly recommend suplementing your Nerubian Archaeology Fragments with the Nerubian Obelisk keystones whenever able.

Kommentar von Keannyn

A Nerubian dig site just spawned for me at Terrorweb Tunnel in Eastern Plaguelands. It seems they may have added more digs in 4.0.6.

Kommentar von 428921

i also just found that site in eastern plaguelands, kind of makes sense there would be one there due to all the scourge nerubians around. It would have been right next to present day northrend before the shattering.

Kommentar von mynx

They are found in Eastern Kingdoms too - I just unearthed them in EP at the Plaguewood digsite...

Kommentar von jd234

If you are farming for these, make sure to go clear a site as soon as it spawns. Don't let them accumulate.

Kommentar von DarkRash

This is the hardest of all digsites...it's even harder than Tol'Vir to find so good luck farming all you archeologists out there :P

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