WoW Archaeology Guide

Archaeology and Reforging - Professions in the Cataclysm Expansion

Since Blizzard announced the upcoming expansion, there has been much talk about the new things, races, abilities, items and of course, two new professions.

With the Burning Crusade WoW players got Jewelcrafting as a new profession and with the Wrath of the Lich King they got Inscription. With the upcoming Cataclysm expansion a new profession was announced – Archaeology with Reforging as a latest dimension to crafting.

Archaeology

Archaeology as the latest secondary profession will allow players to customize their chars in a thrilling new way. Future Archaeologists will be able to visit the ruins all around the map and do a research as any real life Archaeologists.

During their search they will be able to make notes and collect special artifacts. With the use of these artifacts, Archaeologists will be able to customize their characters and with handing in these artifacts to a Titan cult they will be able to get amazing rewards such as Vanity pets, Titles, Teleportation and Items.

An Archaeologist will able to create new discoveries, and depended on the chosen path he will be able to get passive skills and new abilities.
What makes this profession different?

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All already known professions in WoW are designed to be taken, skilled to a certain skill level and used in a certain purpose. With Archaeology this will change. You won’t be only able to train it, hit the cap and then stop progressing with it. This profession is designed to be continuous and therefore it could be more progressive and interesting to the players.

Reforging

Reforging is a skill which will allow players to customize their gear. Unfortunately, it is said that this will apply only to the stats on the gear but not to its appearance. Maybe this will be something for the future.

Reforging, as a skill will be given to Blacksmiths, Engineers, Jewelcrafters, Leatherworkers and Tailors. Players with these professions will be able to take any part of gear connected to their profession and reduce one of the stats. In example, a Leatherworker can take a piece of leather armor. After taking out the stat, a player will be able to take those stat points, change it and add it back to the armor as a different stat.

What is so special about this? 

The special thing about this skill is that the new stats won’t be something you already have on an item. In example, if you have a pair of gloves with Stamina, Intelect and Spirit, you will be able to add some extra haste rating instead of Stamina.

This form of item stats manipulation will be possible on all items, not just the ones you can craft. Another good point is for the players who aren’t skilled in the given professions. Those players will be able to seek assistance from other players who have Reforging as an addition to their professions.

With the World of Warcraft Cataclysm expansion we are surely to expect a new dimension in this game. Being the most popular and outstanding mmorpg, WoW will surely not disappoint the players. There are many mmorpgs out there but still World of Warcraft’s population of players grows more as the days pass. The reason for this is the quality of the game and new amazing new releases 

For more check out WoW.com's thread here:

http://www.wow.com/2009/08/23/blizzcon-2009-how-far-along-is-the-development-of-cataclysm/