So, adding all these together,i don't think it's a good idea to start up archeology on another character just because you got and you got the cataclysm zones to spawn dig sites.
My logic points to the fact that every troll common artifact you solve get's you closer to getting the sword. Sure, some ppl are lucky bastards and get it on their first 25 solves, others get it at , others dont get it after But this counting towards an achievement points to the fact that the chances of this sword popping up as a project increase as you complete more artifacts.
Just think about it.. Comment by Standing at completed troll artifacts post and still nothing. What is that? I think I lost it when I reached completed. Comment by Keter I'll never admit defeat, I'll get this sword yet. Comment by i figured i'll farm ZG before it got removed to get the sword and have it popped automaticly to the lvl 85 version Comment by gomjabar I hit the no return point on farming zinrokh 50 solves ago. Its do or die. I cant stop and have wasted 40 hours of farming with nothing to show for it.
It could be my NEXT solve! Btw found this on another site. Comment by Can anyone confirm if keeping a rare item in your queue from a certain race makes those fragments more rare? A user posted that it does earlier, and I'm trying to confirm it myself. Right now, I have a Night Elf and a Dwarf rare in my queue. However, after an hour of farming, it does seem that dwarf and night elf fragments now seem to be much less than before I had the rares in queue.
Now I'm getting nothing but troll and fossil fragments. Comment by aggression Solved over trolls after I dinged , 2 weeks ago. No luck. Not done any quest at all, it's lvl 83 now, through archeaology only. All way to Comment by Just in case someone haven't posted this script here, I'll do it again. This script till tell you how many completed of each artifact you have. Thanks Unko, it works great. Comment by godded Got mine today fragments and 41 tablets used.
Finally I got lucky for once. Had farmed and thought I'll give it a shot, it's christmas after all. Edit: Btw I did take the advice and stayed below to maximize the troll farm. Comment by Adins Just a "minor" upgrade to latest version ; Im glad to be owner of one of these babys.
Comment by Hey guys! I just got this bad boy today, few minutes ago, after 5 days of farming. I just started to level archeology, and at about , I stopped to use the troll fragments, only leveled in EK, from dwarf and fossil solves. So I ended up with 40 tablets and fragments. Back in OG I used all my dwarf and fossil fragments to level up to , had about dwarf fragments, and fossil ones, and some Nelf ones also.
At I just started to solve the troll fragments, praying to god it will pop up, which happened when I had fragments and 20 tablets left. So it is obtainable at max skill, seems from I didn't solve all of the 14 common artifacts before, so there is no influence from this side also. Best way is to save the fragments, so you can get the RNG better to work imho Comment by Mosg I multibox.
I farmed my 4 Death Knights to skill without completing a single Troll artifact and then recorded me completing all four character's Troll artifacts. In total, Troll artifacts solved post skill. Know how many Zin'rok's I got? Got my albino drake, now I'm moving on to this. A big thank you to all the people who posted info on requirments to get it, you all rock.
Comment by Lykurgos I'm skill now with fragments and 46 Tablets, but I'm lv 84, do i need to be 85 to have a chance to get it? Comment by uranux No you dont' need it. I already seen an image of a player who has discovered it at Comment by uranux Btw Going for Comment by contextproblem Just had the project pop up for me.
Things to note: -Completed a gray with before it, no keystone used -No other rares in my other race queues atm -Was stood in an exhausted Troll site in STV edit - screenie removed.
Comment by Lykurgos Got it in my last try! Used fragments. Comment by pudsley Toll Solves and counting. After around fragments and around troll solves on my main I decided to minimize time wasted on this and use my alt so he could at least get xp, so started digging with my level 80 Pally.
Took him from in days purely off digging in EK, couldnt take it anymore, approximately troll frags in his pack I decided to go for it. Solved all the fossil frags to get to , then burned through every single troll frag with no luck whatsoever. Whoever came up with this archeology crap needs their head examining almost as much as I do for wasting so much of my life on it.
It's also worth noting that I still aint seen the dwarven staff either, if it's been possible to grind solo for something in this game I've managed it, I solo farmed the mats required for Thunderfury back in classic WoW, never did get the second half of the bindings to complete it. This grind finally broke me or fixed me depending how you look at it.
Comment by phantz Right. Like most of you, i want this bad boy something fierce. I ground up arch on my paladin without doing any research, so I both wasted a lot of troll artifacts leveling it prior to and then leveled to , causing the cata-pop issue that's so familiar by now.
So i'm putting the pally aside and leveling arch all over again with one of my dwarves for the bonus fragments courtesy of Explorer. If he doesn't get it, dwarf 2. If not him, dwarf 3. If not him, gonna start race changing my other 80s. I'm getting this thing, no matter what :P I'm blogging my experiences here , should anyone be interested in my progress Did not proc. Not worth it, especially considering the weapon will be obsolete with the next big patch assuming it follows the same trends that WotLK did..
If it takes you literally hundreds of hours for this, compared to a week raiding, I just don't see the appeal. Comment by twistdshade somebody going for this might want to save up their troll pieces till Now, let me share what I did.. I got to without solving a single troll artifact and had around fragments and I got nothing.
I was disappointed but, that didn't stop me from trying to get this sword. I dug for 2 days and I would save up my troll fragments for the day and before I log off, I'd solve all of them. Still nothing. Don't give up if you really want this! Good Luck everyone. EDIT: it would be neat if we got a title for the sword I just thought it would be cool.
Comment by uranux Nearly troll fragments here. Running to I'll shot all in a row. Comment by oregonmetal I crafted this item yesterday. Archaeology can be very frustrating and time consuming to pursue. Relying on RNG for a profession is infuriating, and more often than not, there isn't even any troll dig sites available.
You have to dig fossils and night elf fragments repeatedly to hopefully spawn a dig site in tanaris or stranglethorn, and even when you are solving troll artifacts, there is no guarantee you will EVER spawn a Zin'rokh. It reminds me of the protodrake eggs; you can buy hundreds week after week, but your chances aren't any better than they were on the very first egg. In the time I spent pursuing this sword, I could have leveled 3 more toons to That should give you an idea Comment by It's interesting that there are more comments on this page than on shadowmourne's page.
Comment by solacespecs Can anyone confirm that Vashj'ir is no longer spawning a dig site? Before the hotfix that caused triple points for rares, I was getting Vashj'ir once every minutes. I've been going for about 8 hours now and I have not gotten it once, but I've gotten Twilight several times.
Anyone seeing something similar? At 84 I receive almost 15k experience PER dig Looking for Zin'rokh for the main, gaining experience from the process on my alt. EDIT: Grammar. Comment by Shuned Remember guys, archaeology is supposed to be time consuming, just as it is in real life. It depends on luck, and patience. Comment by uranux fragments, troll Tablet. Something like tries. This is the last insult. I got the rare popup in orgrimmar.
Comment by I know this will seem like another frustration QQing message, and you'll probably downrate it, but ah well. This profession is very poorly designed. From a gaming perspective, there's a huge amount of frustration involved with this. I'm going to use this sword as an example, but it pretty much applies across the board for the profession.
The problem is, all of the rewards are RNG based for what is a very time consuming profession. Lots of things in WoW are RNG based, but for most of them, even if you have the worst luck possible, you'll still bring something away from it. A few worthless vendor items. If you're a miner, and you get the minimum possible ore from every rock you see, you're still getting some ore, which is better than nothing. But here, you really are getting nothing - there's just no fun in it.
If that's not enough, further problems arise. There are such a limited number of rewards for many of the races, and once you've completed all the rares of a certain race, you really are deliberately just digging up trash without any purpose.
Not only that, but due to the mechanics of the digsite spawns, it actually becomes harder to get certain items past level The basic concepts behind archaeology are good. But the RNG factor in this is so massive, a lot of the time, it's just a frustrating waste, rather than the 'fun' profession that was meant to be used to take up our spare time.
Comment by pudsley Finally, I have Zin'Rokh! Finally at on Christmas Day nice touch it popped up in my Pally's journal, a "Skull Shaped Planter" preceded it, spent a further hour farming to get it solved daren't log off in case it vanished from the journal as some have reported.
I wasn't at a troll digsite when I made the discovery, was just solving a couple artifacts before bed and there it was. I'd love to say stick with it and you will be rewarded but as with all of these things it's possible to never see it though pretty unlikely , there were times when I wanted to give up but I figured I'd keep at it until my Pally hit The removal of Vash'Jir digsites is a blessing, it might be small but IMO the Twilight Highlands digsites are easily cleared and don't hinder progress all that much so no need to worry about unlocking high end dig sites.
Very best of luck to everyone still looking for this baby, hope you get it without having to invest as much time as I did :. Comment by According to a game master its possible to unlock the swort at clvl The gamemaster did not answer me if my chances increase at clvl 85 or archeology as opossed to clvl 80 and archaeology.
This sword can kiss my ass i'll get the Hellscream's Reach Sword instead. I hit on the 10th and have been doing archeology ever since. Still no sword. Comment by Over solves. I think i am going to start solving in my Unholy spec instead of my blood spec, superstitious maybe, but at this point I need something to keep me going.
Good Luck and that is exactly what you need to everyone trying for this. Comment by I've been farming this forever. Used over troll frags and 40ish troll tablets and still no luck. Now leveling my warrior while farming troll frag. Gonna save up k troll frags and turn it all in and test my luck out. Comment by gakio12 I have an idea, what if ilvl rares won't show up to be solved if you have other rares already waiting to be solved?
I just thought of this, so I am not going to solve any troll artifacts until I solve my two other rares. Any comments on this? Comment by Vykos Just keep trying. I read somewhere that "The Undroppable Force" as i renamed it, has something like 0.
So no numbers can tell you precisely or just nearly when you're going to pop this beauty. You want this? Work on it while queuing for some hero. That's what i do to soften the frustrating farm. Comment by Xits Just used leveled Arch to without using any Troll fragments.
That was about fragments, and 30 tablets. Used them all, and no luck on the sword. Forget about this sword. The chance of getting it is very low, and it takes days to level Arch, then more days to get enough Troll sites after you're maxed. At that point, you're earning nothing but a lot of wasted time. The sword will be replaced within 6 months anyway. Comment by Eluamous I'm at troll solves tablets used for every solve I can across 2 characters and no sword yet.
This really is the destroyer of hope Comment by gomjabar Anyone having this drop within say solves that is a class that cant use the sword, ie mage? Comment by if someone posts a picture of a gnome dual wielding Zin'rohk and Jin'rohk i will give you a cookie :. Comment by just got zinrokh like finally. Comment by Hey,guys i am still farming this baby and i thought i should give you just a little bit of information and tips since there isn't rly much more that i can add after all these comments b4 mine.
Ok so if you plan on going for this and you haven't allrdy got archeology don't get it on a character thats not a dwarf. If you have a lvl 80 dwarf or a lvl 85 alt or smtn start the proffesion on him since because of the racial "Explorer" the dwarfs have after skill its like this. The minimum you can get per survey dig is 3. The medium is 5 and the biggest is 7 so its quite a good deal to be doing this as a dwarf etleast thats what i am doing and i hope i get it after i solve all my frags.
If you want this sword this has to be your law or smtn :D hope this helps to the hunters that are going after this and remember don't be sad or angry if you don't get it when you want to its rly all about being lucky.
Best of luck with the farm. Comment by LeminaAusa When you finally get this item, you should stand on the highest platform on your home city and yell: "I have become death, the destroyer of worlds!
Comment by troll solves atm.. I got the dwarf staff though.. Comment by Overpower I've been at it for 3 days straight now, found raptor mount along with all the lame pets and some nic-nacs. Its so good and obviously worth the Trade chat bragging rights. I'm rolling up on 80 finished grays since and about to blow my brains out, why the heck is it so rare. Comment by BaneFalcon I leveled Archaeology from 1 to without solving a single Troll piece, using just Eastern Kingdoms and hitting all of the Stranglethorn places for the multiple troll sites there.
By the time I hit , I was sitting on just over troll parts and 24 tablets. I got my weapon 31 solves in, with ish fragments remaining, and using the last 3 tablets I had.
Like I said in a previous post which has some tips on how to get around faster btw , I've been at it for over a week with nothing to show for it Did I want to go sit in a corner and cry? Hell yes. But you have to understand the way it works, no matter how insanely stupid it is rofl. I'm not gonna say don't give up because quite frankly I'm about ready to I promised myself I wouldn't at the start and was REALLY determined and I know how painful and boring this grind can be.
I was one of the most geared warrs on my server and most geared in my guild, now I'm behind because I've done nothing but this for a week lol. Just think, I could be in full pvp gear with the Tol'Barad Revered 2h and be pwning but yeah Anyways, I may end up spending the 10k gold on my 80 dwarf rogue for flight training and level to and save all my frags til then The only thing that kept me going this long is the fact that as a warrior, Colossus Smashing someones face in inside of a throwdown with mastery swings proccing and recklessness up would make this all worth it.
To everyone else, GL. Comment by superstorm I just want to make sure, this sword IS still possible to get even when at right? I unfortunately cannot bring myself to do ANYTHING else in this game until i get this sword, lol edit - and whoever thought to put a dig site in Grim Batol with a crazy amount of 85 mobs is a bit wrong in the head.
So if looking at your chance in two tries it would be: 1 - P. If you don't want to put in that much time I would recommend quitting now and getting the PvP weapon or raid drop. I don't know if it is complete superstition or not but I heard some people had amazing luck getting Zin'Rokh when solving at the temple in the middle of ZG. To cover all my superstitious bases I figured I would go ahead and give it a try.
Probably completely unrelated but I got it on my 3rd try when standing in the middle of the temple with the moat around it facing North haha. Good luck to everyone going for it! Comment by Vykos This must be a joke from blizzard to make the new best demotivational poster around.
Decided now to gather at least before retrying. Never lose hope. I'll keep trying till I find the best designed sword in game. Pure luck? Or did a little bit of voodoo and lore magic do me some good. Comment by This is good math, but I'm not sure if it's correct. Could you clarify for those who don't understand? Not trying to be rude. I just want to understand it. I reached , with about troll frags, and 40 something tablets.
No sword But i did not give up! I stayed at it, for a few more days.. I got tired of the limited troll sites, so what did i do? I decided to start my archaeology over, in desperation. I started over, tons of more troll so it was a breeze. This time around I saved up around tablets doing my same no lifer schedule. Hit the sunday after christmas.
Bam, the zin'rokh was the 7th solve in the book. Countless hours of my life wasted for an item that I will probably replace. But you know what? I worked for it, and i worked hard. And to be honest, it felt great. Would i do it over again? Comment by Erignamatic A Hotfix placed in December 27th has officially taken Vashj'ir out of a Archaeologist's rotation.
They felt too punishing without additional benefits compared to low-level sites, and were much more difficult to obtain artifacts in due to the way Vashj'ir navigation works. Comment by finally got it after about troll solves.
My best advice to you guys is, keep trying Then I go to twilight highlands to dig up one site I see deathwing infront of me and he kills me. I guess he was farming for Zin'rokh too. Comment by 9 more days of farming, then I'm gonna solve them all. Comment by litava troll solved 64 dwarf solved. I found the staff in orgrimmar while whining in gchat about how I reached troll solved with no sword. What the hell blizzard, I don't even want the staff. Afterwards I went into the bathroom and looked in the mirror with a red slap-mark across my face with the print of a RiNG that said "Blizzard Entertainment".
Comment by Got this baby yesterday! Here's how I did it: Done all archaeologying only in Eastern Kingdoms. Surveyed skill lvls without any solves. After I started solving all Night elf and Fossil stuff. I used Key stones whenever the project needed them to save in total fragment consumption. I had enough materials to bring me to before using any Troll fragments. Then started mass solving trolls, and using Keystones every time a project needed them. At about Troll fragments down from , had almost lost hope with all the common stuff popping after each other, I finally discovered the Zin'Rokh project.
So yes it is that rare. I suggest collecting at least , better yet troll fragments before going all out solving madness : GL all : Varakk, Earthen Ring EU. Comment by Zin'rokh, Destroyer of Hopes. Comment by Firehand81 Let's see, first spending about week on this with DK, at researches atm Then leveled shaman with Archeology, used them when at 1. Now leveled rogue and used fragments when around 2. If you got similiar luck to me, just give up.
Comment by Got it after troll solved. I'm lucky :. Comment by Been farming this for what seems like forever, worst part is that I actually got the dwarf staff where as I do not even have any caster classes I collected fragments and around tables. So i solved around fragments. I got around relics. It is just pure luck Lets face it: this is only a profession for luckers!
Ps: I don't know the command to display all my solves so i cant provide a screenshot :. Comment by tonight was my night : after a total of 3! Comment by Popped up 40 mins ago. After troll solves on my mage. And 80 solves on my warrior. So if anyone was in doubt, you can get it on a character that cannot use 2h-swords. Comment by sigh Comment by Finally got it on my warrior! Farmed up troll frags and 70 troll tablets, got it with frags left.
Don't give up guys! Comment by I'm about to give up. A total of combined Troll Artifacts. Comment by You can't can runeforge this item. The item level had nothing to do with being unable to runeforge the Bloodied Arcanite Reaper or any other heirloom weapon you attempt to runeforge.
Runeforging does not have ilvl requirements. The problem lies with the BoA part of the item which blizzard has finally fixed. Runeforging causes the weapon to become soulbound. Actions that would soulbind a BoA item are now ignored and places a "requires runeforging" requirement on the item when given to another toon, as profilerv2 said.
However a BoA item is not allowed to become soulbound for an obvious reason, I trust. Don't believe me? Grab a low ilvl white weapon off a vendor and runeforge it. Blacksmith Hammer should be easy to locate and has an ilvl of 1 just like a heirloom. Rogue poisons work the same as runeforging. No ilvl requirements but BoA items are off-limits. It would seem that with 4. This was a change I was unaware of. I've fixed my post now. Rkane post is still very wrong about the item level having been the problem in the past.
I asked a GM several months back why I could not runeforge my Bloodied Arcanite Reaper and the answer was "runeforging causes the item to become soulbound which is not allowed on a Bind to Account item.
About damn time Blizzard fixed that. Only took them an entire expansion to get it done. Comment by I got this weapon about two weeks ago. Started solving troll artifacts after i dinged arch. About 15 projects later i got this project. It pwns in PvE and PvP!
Screen incoming. Comment by This is the most annoying thnig Blizz. Even fishing is more exciting cuz it is not such a random. I am farming that stupid sword for like 5 days now. Made solves in troll only and still no drop. Yesterday i made 22 solves, and you need whole day to make so many and tbh it is not much but still need to sacrfice all day to farm parts for it.
Comment by Zitheg I finally got this bad boy. Hours and hours of archaeology and a bit of luck caused it to finally pop into my Arch book. I was damn excited. Runeforged it, turned that Crit into mastery, and now have a great tanking weapon until I can get Magmaw to drop his weapon.
So nice, so big. It felt like it came quickly though, to be honest. I had done probably only 30 some troll solves and had only been for a while. Keep at it, everyone. This was well worth it. Comment by It is basically like the Mysterious Egg before patch 4.
On my Mage, it took all of Wotlk, in fact, a week before 4. I'm guessing this sword is a lot like the drop rating on this mount, it takes sheer luck for it to drop.
Drake Egg now modified from patch 4. I saved up fragments and had 40 tablets, I burned through them all at and didn't get it.
I gave up the grind for a few days after that, but my desire for such a digital-pimp sword kept me going. One night on my last solve I crossed my fingers and didn't get it, the next solve was it and I was happy as all hell. Archaeology is such a damn grind, I wouldn't suggest grinding for it because the outcome can come out to just tons of wasted time. I was beginning to lose all hope and really I thought I just got very fortunate.
Comment by Just reached solves for troll.. Comment by elitebmo just hit 55 solves and im starting to burn out already. Comment by profilerv2 You CAN runeforge this item. It has been confirmed many times that it is possible. Since runeforge enchants require runeforging to function, any non-deathknight character who equips the item will see the enchant in red, with "requires runforging" on it. Comment by solved I'm currently at solves with no sword, so my guess is in the.
Comment by troll solves post archaeology between 2 characters, no luck. On second character, had 2 rares in archaeology tab dwarf and night elf , while standing at the top of the temple in ZG, no luck with any of that, just seems to be pure RNG. Comment by Zin'rokh, Destroyer of time :. Comment by 3, fragments 85 tablets solves No sword. Frustration level of over 9, Comment by Finally got mine after farming it since 3 days after Cataclysm launched, at least 4 hours every day I was online.
Finally saw the pattern and shat myself. Totally worth the grind, keep it up, cuz nothing else is better than having an epic weapon in a world full of blues.. Comment by Gatstein After fragments solved I'm very close to giving up and shelfing WoW for another year. I have spent every free moment I've had for the past two weeks on this and nothing of use or value has presented itself.
Don't try to go for it if you want to keep your sanity is all I say. Comment by Ripez I got about solves above skill from trolls on my main and just saved frags and 70 tablets on alt and no sword. These sets resemble gear found in Blackwing Lair. Although each specialization has strengths and weaknesses, we recommend Blood as the best Death Knight leveling spec. With the right playstyle and the knowledge of encounters, Blood Death Knights can be a force to be reckoned with, particularly in fights with infrequent, high, but not lethal physical damage.
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