Unite the Clans

Having completed The Seat of Knowledge, upon discovering this achievement I was instantly debuffed with Broken Resolve and for some reason There Is No Hope appeared in my quest log.

This achievement is all about probabilities. I ran a Monte Carlo simulation to see how many solves it would take to find all pristine items, given that you have already found some number of pristines. I assumed a 12.5% chance of getting the pristine version of a solve, and simulated 100.000 times per starting number of pristines. I determined the chance from the number of solves reported by other players in the Draenor Curator comments.

The left column shows the number of pristines that are already completed. The other columns show the nth percentile of the number of solves it took to complete the achievement. For example, if you have found 10 pristines already, 50% of the people would complete the achievement within an additional 396 solves.

Please remember that the results in this table are based on a simulation, and are therefore not exact.

#

5th

10th

25th

50th

75th

90th

95th

0

294

331

404

505

635

786

894

1

288

325

397

497

629

779

887

2

279

316

388

490

619

768

874

3

270

307

379

482

614

765

876

4

261

297

369

470

602

753

860

5

253

289

360

461

592

742

854

6

243

279

350

450

582

734

841

7

231

266

337

437

568

720

827

8

220

255

325

425

555

705

812

9

208

242

312

411

542

692

800

10

192

227

297

396

526

676

783

11

179

214

282

380

509

658

768

12

163

196

262

360

488

636

745

13

143

175

241

337

465

614

725

14

123

153

216

310

436

588

694

15

99

127

187

279

405

551

659

16

71

96

151

240

363

510

620

17

39

58

106

186

305

451

557

18

8

17

44

106

211

348

454

For the people who are missing only one pristine, don't worry. I'm 95% sure that you'll find the last one within 454 solves.

There are three achievements from Draenor Archaeology: Unite the Clans, Arakkoa Archivist, and Highmaul Historian. By completing all three you will also receive Draenor Curator.

Currently, the best and fastest way to acquire these achievements from what I can tell is to save up and use your Restored Artifact and buy the crates from Dariness the Learned in Dalaran.

I was an idiot and didn't bother looking any of this up, so I farmed a great deal. If you don't really have any of the Restored Artifacts, then this is what I did to farm:

First, fly out to Stormshield and buy some Draenor Archaeologist's Map and Draenor Archaeologist's Lodestone. At first I would use the lodestone to port me (hopefully to the other side of the map), where I would start my farm. From there I would work across Draenor. When I completed one of the achievements (for me it was Highmaul Historian and then Arakkoa), I started to only fly out to the Draenor dig sites. When I ran out of the Draenor dig sites, I would use the map to recycle them and start over. I never did any of the dig sites I didn't need.

From what I can tell, a lot of people are still actually grinding this, so if I help one person then it worth me doing all these links and typing this up.