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Commento di diet

WTB this in say... Tol'vir flavor?

Commento di Wilhelm1135

So in other words yey for those of us who have pandaren/mogu finished as this will make the new achievements/rewards(if there's anything meaningful, doubt it) laughable.

Commento di Keasha

According to the item text, it will be consumed after "use". So if you have finished a digsite, one of those locators will be used and the new digsite will be mantid. So after 20 digsites, you have to get back to the quartermaster and buy some new locators.

Commento di Gershuun

OK so here's the scoop on this item.

It costs 1x Manufatto Restaurato.

Currently on the PTR, Mantid sites have a normal chance of popping up even without this item.

When digging with this item in your inventory as of Build 16597 \ Feb 19 at a Mogu or Pandaren digsite it gives the error message "You can't use that here" when you try to survey.

However when digging at a Mantid site with it in your inventory, it is currently not consumed, and spawns another Mantid digsite.

Commento di 173647

It forces spawning of Mantid dig sites instead of Mogu and Pandaren ones.

When you buy it old dig sites will be removed and 4 new ones in Dread Wastes and Townlong Steppes will spawn. After you finish them, dig sites that spawn will be again only in those zones.

Edit: Thanx JoelJay

Commento di Meaux

This item is NOT required in order to find Mantid dig sites, they show up normally along with Pandaren/Mogu ones even if you don't have the locator in your bags at the time. This item is just for those who are done with Pandaren/Mogu and want to focus solely on Mantid artifacts.

Commento di Kalados

This may be obvious to some, but in my humble opinion this is the easiest way to get Tol'Vir Crates.At the cost of one artifact for 24 hours, this confines all of your pandara digsites to two zones, which have a multitude of flight paths as well if you dont feel like travelling yourself.

Best bang for your buck if your looking for more race crates, not to mention how tiny all the mantid digsites are which leads to less time in between looting. Happy hunting!

Commento di ShadeolTheFox

Purchasing this item will clear all your current dig sites and make them Mantid digsites, no use effect needed. All you have to do is hold onto the item and it will continue making all of your digsites Mantid. I haven't destroyed it, but placing it in my bank does NOT re-randomize all of my current digsites.

If you're looking to farm Manufatto Restaurato for Archaeology fragments of non-Pandaria races, this is honestly a really easy way to go about doing so. Mantid digsites only seem to exist in Townlong (Sik'vess, Sra'vess, and Kri'vess) and Dread Wastes. Because you don't have to fly all over the continent farming three different fragments, you can quickly fly digsite to digsite farming up artifacts to crate.

Similar to other Pandaria digsites, Tormento Antico, which drop Mogu fragments and Pezzo di Statua dei Mogu, can also spawn from your digs.

Commento di Kattonge

If you relog with this item in your bags the mantid dig sites will be randomized again which is AWESOME!
Weird no one has mentioned/noticed this before.

Commento di alparnas

I want to add something to what Kattonge commented.

I have found an amazing way to only stay in townlong steppes,
Just dig all your sites there, then take the portal to Isle of Thunder and back into townlong, all your digsites will randomize again for Townlong/Dread wastes.

Enjoy :P

P.S you can just save more time if you set HS to Isle of Thunder and use it when off CD to randomize them all again :>

Commento di Bobbynator

EDIT: FIXED with 5.4

There is also a strange bug with this item.
If u have it your inventory and you're going into the old archeology zones like Kalimdor you're getting four extra digsites.
Theese extra digsites can also be rerolled easy by a simple relog.

With this techniqe you can get umlimited Tol'Vir digsites in Uldum.

Happy hunting for your Scettro di Azj'aqir

Commento di Mahoraba

I took this to an extreme level by getting this Item on my Level 85 Character with Archaeology and it would seem that having this item in your inventory pre-90 causes you to not have any dig-sites in Pandaria at all.

So for those of you that wanted a second Mantid Sky Reaver for your 85 twink DK like me but refuse to go through the horrible leveling process that is 85 - 90, make it known that you cannot despite every doing every thing in your possible power to get Mantid Digsites to show up, you cannot for any reason do this pre-90.

Commento di xanthax

Per Game master Janntryx, the bug with the dig sites respawning and the added four dig sites in Kalimdor is not considered broken and should be functioning normally.

AKA: Go forth and farm your crawling claw.

Commento di 1119188

I confirm here that this item randomizes digsites in Kalimdor everytime you cross the borders from a zone to another, instantly, no cooldowns. This really makes it easy to get all the tol'vir artifacts. All you have to do is fly to the zone border (tanaris, ungoro) and come back to Uldum until you get digsites, which takes a minute.

Thank you Avvalen for pointing this out in a reply to another post.

Commento di nushidorei

Hey guys, I made a quick guide on how to use the Mantid Artifact Sonic Locator to re-randomize your digsites in the old continents for easy farming of Tol'Vir fragments and any other races you still require.

You can check it out here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UTaWmMS7zA

Good luck with the farming.

Nushi

Commento di Bahthalend

The logging/zoning trick may have just saved my sanity going after zinrohk, Decided to grind out 100 mantid solves yesterday and use them all to buy troll fragments and nothing. Thankfully this is much more efficient.

Commento di Devboy

Started using this on Monday to pick up farming for my Tol'Vir mount. Had 121 solves of Tolvir before I started. doing a few hours a night before and after raiding, I'm now at 261 solves. Still no mount.... I'm slowly going insane.

Commento di Liukus

Update for 6/18/2013 and forward.

This item is now completely passive with a 24 hour real-time duration. The minute you purchase this item it starts ticking down and will randomize all of your Pandaria digsites to Mantid (Townlong Steppes + Dread Wastes).
I do not believe prior to 6/18 that this had a duration.

The effect in Kalimdor where zoning/logging in/out will randomize your digsites is still in effect.

Make sure you still have the item in your bags if you had prior to 6/18 because it will vanish due to duration.

Commento di Rossmallo

If I may have your attention, I would advise everybody to NOT use this for its bugged purpose. I opened a ticket about it, and got this in response:

"I've spent some time looking into this for you today, I can confirm that this *is* a bug, it's been confirmed by the developers and they are working on a fix at the moment, it's quite an important bug too so it should be fixed soon.

I would avoid intentionally using this bug as it could be seen as exploiting and if it's decided that we're going to investigate this as an exploit, you could get caught up in the actions taken even though you've done the right thing today. (I've no idea if anything like this is planned or not - this is just some friendly advice)"

So, for the love of god, if you read this, DO NOT USE IT FOR FARMING TOLVIR STUFF.

Commento di 112001

Just contact a GM to get a clarification about this item and the dig site shuffle mechanic.
30/06/2013

After making the same question 3 times to be crystal clear
"Is it considered a bug abuse if i use this item to shuffle my Kalimdor dig sites by zoning in and out of any zone until i got the dig site i'm interested about?"

According to GM Ahrlym
"Thank you for waiting! I can now confirm that you can use the item without any concerns.
We don't have any bug about this item at this moment so it's working as intended.
I hope this clarifies the situation for you"

So feel free to use it to farm Tol'Vir or whatever race's rares you are interested in.
The use is GM approved.

Commento di Chilela

Note that accepting a group invite that brings you to another server will re-randomize the locations of the digsites.

Commento di 497240

I am going to echo some of the comments already in this thread. Due to conflicting data from different GMs, and wanting to be sure of using this item to scramble sites, I created a ticket and spoke with a GM. Should anyone be interested, I have uploaded a screenshot here:

http://prntscr.com/1hve9r

Effectively, the item is not working as intended. It is not okay to log in and out (or in any other way force dig sites to shuffle) as this counts as abusing a bug. On the other hand, it is perfectly fine to use the item to gain eight dig sites and then explore these are normal without force shuffling

Yes, this is likely annoy to hear. The shuffling just about made doing Tol'vir bearable but it isn't an intended purpose of the device and you certainly use this bug at your own risk.

I hope this adds to the discussion in a helpful manner.

Commento di Korkol

From the 5.4 PTR Patch Notes updated on August 7th,

Archaeology
• Mantid Artifact Sonic Locator no longer randomizes digsites when acquired, and is more difficult to obtain. They can now only be purchased as part of a Mantid Artifact Hunter’s Kit, which includes a Lorewalker’s Map.

Regardless of whether or not the Tol'vir aspect of this item is a bug, it seems that the effect of it will be lost going forward. If you are brave enough to risk a ban or any other consequences to squeeze out your last few Tol'vir artifacts, you might want to get to work.

Commento di rzzr

Used this item to get Tol'vir digsites in Uldum and it reminded me of how badly designed archaeology was back in the day. The digsites in Uldum are mostly massive compared to the ones in Pandaria and you have to fly in between each dig. It's just a shame that Blizz didn't revamp the old sites to be like Pandaria as currently it would put people off ever starting the profession.

Commento di 1119188

As of today, I tested this item and the lovely bug that made this item randomize things all over Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor does not work anymore. Also it is in the patch notes that this item will be replaced in patch 5.4.

Sadly I got my recipe of vial of the sands but Im still missing the other arch mounts and pets. If it depends on digging night elf stuff forever for days to get a single fossil digsite, as it is intended, for me goodbye archeology.

Commento di 466748

Warning: for repair, use only a Sonic Screwdriver.

Commento di Ralenia

I bought one before the patch and stored it to my bank because Blizz said that it would become more difficult to obtain after 5.4. When I went to search for it in my bank today (in 5.4) I was quite surprised to notice that it was nowhere to be found. Seems like they deleted them. Does anyone else have it still, or did I miss the info that they would delete these?

Commento di Norisaur

This item appears not to actually need the Lorewalkers rep to work. I got the kit today on my mage, and I now keep getting mantid digsites. I can't use the map obviously, but the locator seems to work despite still being neutral with Lorewalkers.

Can anyone else confirm this?

Commento di Zensunim

Since nobody posted it yet: Confirmed useless for Tol'vir farming in 5.4, just as Blizzard promised.

Commento di Kvasi

Only works if you have it in your bags. If you store it in the bank it does not.

Commento di ash1k1

You do not need to be exalted to benefit from this item in your bags.

Commento di bartsachs

I can't understand why Blizzard can't make one for Pandaren and Mogu as well.. Would certainly make L'Archivio della Conoscenza less of a pain in the ass to complete.

Commento di Matt0193

I think this has been fixed for those without the Lorewalker reputation as of 5.4.7. While I had this in my inventory I was unable to survey at sites (I tested at two different sites). Once I put the item into my bank I was able to survey again but obviously I wasn't able to gain the effect.

Anyone able to confirm?

Commento di LiriellGarrosh

When the 24 hour timer on this item runs out, your dig sites stay where they were, so I'm guessing the effect persists until you finish each of those dig sites in turn, which will probably return them all to randomizing all over Pandaria. They definitely do not re-randomize when the item expires.

Commento di mudplayerx

After you buy this thing from the vendor, you have to use the "Lorewalker's Map" to reset all of your digsites. If you don't you won't be able to dig from any sites in MoP. You will get the "You can't do that here" message if you dig before using the map.

Commento di Haaxxx

The Ancient Haunt random spawns are not affected by this, they won't drop mantid fragments.

Commento di woofpuppy

It's great for speeding up the search for the claw.

Shrew26 posted this great info on the wowhead claw page:

1. The Mantid Artifact Hunter's Kit contains a Lorewalker's Map which is, arguably, kind of useless, and is consumed upon one use. But it also contains the Mantid Artifact Sonic Locator which is the real money. It basically (for 24 hours) puts all of your archeology dig sites in either Townlong or Dread Wastes in a tightly packed group.

2. Additionally, the mantid artifacts usually take 50 fragments to create and you pick up an average of 8 per dig. So you can effectivly, quickly work the smaller (which means faster) mantid sites to quickly create artifacts for turn in to Brann Bronzebeard for your Tol'Vir fragments. I was collecting Mantid fragments so quickly that I had to keep creating the artifacts just so I could pick up more fragments (they cap at 200)

3. AND, I was quickly able to gather the quest items for pristine artifacts which reward 3 additional Restored Artifact

4. AND, the haunts that sometimes pop up at dig sites award Mogu fragments which gives you even more opportunities to make artifacts.

Commento di atomchik

Once you acquire this item, you will only be able to survey digsites in Townlong Steppes and Dread Wastes while in Pandaria (if you try to survey other digsites, you'll get the error, 'You can't use that here'). So make sure at least 2 digsites are up in Townlong Steppes and/or Dread Wastes before acquiring this item. To do this, just complete digsites in other areas first.

Commento di Drailessan

The solution if anyone is getting "You can't use that here." is to use the Lorewalker's Map that randomizes your digsites in Pandaria. It has to be used in conjunction with the Mantid Artifact Sonic Locator to be most effective. Non-mantid sites when the sonic locator is active will not be diggable.

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