
It started because as a Shadow Priest I feel a special connection to the Old Gods via Xal'atath, Blade of the Black Empire, and thus I wanted the Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron, which is also needed for the Glory of the Uldir Raider raid meta achievement that my guild wanted to complete. In late 2018, I spent a significant amount of time engaging with Archaeology. As a result, I’ll be discussing a few apparent mechanisms from my own observational experience. Blizzard has directly confirmed only a few of these mechanisms.

These mechanisms can be hard to glean because the profession was designed to be opaque: constraints are not described and drop rates cannot be datamined. This guide is intended to provide insight into the actual mechanisms of the Archaeology profession.
