
This post is part of the series: Guide to World of Warcraft (WoW) Mounts The plus side is that once you’ve got your raptor, there are no other significant rewards from these sites, and can be skipped or ignored in favor of more lucrative digs. Unfortunately, fossil sites are often larger than other archaeology sites and can take longer to survey. It may be useful to mark these places on a map so you recognize a fossil archaeology site when it appears. Fossil archaeology sites are most often found in places that thematically would have dinosaur fossils - zones like Un’Goro or Azshara, but also in riverbeds, like in Hillsbrad and Redridge. You will most likely run across plenty of Fossil fragments as you level archaeology, but it may be useful to seek them out specifically if you feel you have too few or are in need of extra fragments to complete your raptor. Solving the Fossilized Raptor requires 100 fossil fragments, but once you’ve discovered the mount, is simple matter of learning to summon it. The trinket requires a high level of mastery to solve for). It is possible that you still will not find the raptor mount and have to do more digging, but this will both increase your chances of finding the mount and boost you to a higher skill level without wasting fragments that you will need later (for example, you may want to save your Night Elf fragments until you are a very high archaeology level. Your best bet for getting the fossil raptor mount as soon as possible is to save all of your fossil fragments until you reach artisan archaeology, then solve them exclusively. It also takes a hundred fossil fragments to solve, and there are no keystones, unlike Dwarf or Night Elf archaeology fragments. You may be able to solve for it immediately after reaching artisan, and it may take you until grand mastery. The Fossil Raptor mount can be unlocked and solved any time after reaching artisan archaeology at 225, but unfortunately there is still an element of randomness in finding it. For Alliance players, it may be the only chance you get to ride a raptor of any sort. This mount will mark you as an accomplished surveyor, and is a great vanity mount to complete a roleplaying outfit or to complement your character type. Not only can you not solve the fragments required before Archaeology level 225, but you can’t ride the raptor until then either. This is an epic mount, fast as other tier two ground mounts, and is only available to artisan archaeologists, and is one of the most unique in WoW.

The easiest and arguably most unique archaeology reward is the fossil raptor mount, which summons a skeletal raptor for you to ride. There is a caster staff, a powerful trinket, a massive two-handed sword and more. WoW Archaeology Reward: What is the Fossil Raptor Mount?Įach of the different types of archaeology finds has a top-tier item that can be acquired by solving the fragments.
