This weekend I decided to go back and dig up my Star Forager and Dreadseed armor sets. I started on Friday and by Sunday evening I had all the pieces of both sets, except the bracers, and enough speeder parts to build a small fleet of vehicles. Here are my thoughts on dig sites and seeker droids.
- Anyone here familiar with fishing in WoW? Dig Sites are the Old Republic’s version of fishing, only you get better stuff.
- Dig Sites have changed since RotHC was released. They’ve actually been improved.
- One of the changes is that you dig up less stuff, but it’s easier to find Star Forager and Dreadseed armor, and speeder parts now.
- Despite the improvements you still want to stab your eyes out with sharp letter opener.
- You no longer dig up vendor trash, so don’t expect to make a lot of credits digging.
- Even though you dig up less stuff, you still dig up enough stuff to wreck your inventory.
- I’ve dug up 24 Star Forager and Dreadseed armor pieces.
- I still don’t have bracers for either set.
- I’ve dug up even more speeder parts, but still don’t have all the pieces for a pleasure speeder.
- The Pleasure Speeder parts seem to only come from the “special treasure” in a dig site.
- Although the Pleasure speeder parts are “special treasure”, they don’t feel all that special.
- Finding the “special treasure” kills the dig site, and if you’re there primarily to find armor you can’t do that if the dig site is closed. duh!
- Artifact gear feels even less special than Pleasure Speeder parts, and finding that will kill also kill a dig site.
- Armor pieces are not “special”, they “interesting”.
- Finding interesting items does not kill a dig site, although the “special treasures” that do will be announced as interesting.
- This leads you to hold your breath every time you find something interesting in hopes that it is not an item that will deplete a dig site.
- You can also dig up Basic comms, GSI reputation tokens, and angry creatures.
- There is an achievement for killing excavated creatures. There is nothing for digging up that other junk.
- Not deemed as “special” or “interesting” are the seeker deployment boosts.
- Although the game treats them as meh, you should treat them as awesome!
- These really are the unsung special treasures of digging.
- The deployment boosts make your seeker droid an instant cast. That’s right, instant cast.
- They come in major and minor varieties. Major last for three hours and minor for one hour.
- You should jump for joy every time you unearth one.
- In addition to deployment boosts, you absolutely need the Mark II triangulation device.
- Seriously, the Mark II device makes it easier to find stuff.
- Don’t think so? Try digging with no device, and then try digging with a crappy Mark I. Trust me, you’ll notice a difference.
- If your post scan results become eratic, check to see if your Mark II buff hasn’t fallen off. It lasts for 30 minutes.
- Speeder parts can be sold on the GTN. Including the one that drops from Toborro’s Courtyard.
- The part from TC is sells for the least of any of the speeder parts.
- Unless people buy the Pleasure Speeder parts, don’t expect to get rich from selling them.
- In fact, don’t expect to get rich from digging. It’s not real archeology, these are not priceless artifcats, and you’re not Indiana Jones.
- The Star Forager armor does make you look a little like a space version of Indiana Jones though.
- Dun-da-Dun-tah!
