This one has taken a while. I finally picked up 300 toys (and thus the mount for the achievement) after starting to seriously work on my Archaeology achievements for the first time.
I've been doing the fortnightly Legion archaeology quests for a while (and thus had 800 skill) but I completely ignored this profession in earlier expansions as it seemed seriously boring. With some knowledge and a good addon, it's much better however.
Some tips if you're just starting to work on archaeology:
1. Download the "Archy" addon. This addon does several things: first, it shows you the location and completion status of all digsites in the current continent. Second, it automatically sets the closes one as a waypoint for TomTom. Third, it indicates when it's possible to solve an artifact with and without a keystone, so you don't have to constantly check your archaeology screen. On top of that, the distance indicator shows when you are in the correct range from your last survey and it pops up a "toast" when you're on top of the artefact (this helps, even with the new screen).
It looks like this:
2. Focus on Pandaren and Mogu artefacts (plus the fortnightly legion quest). There are a TON of Pandaria archaeology achievements, many of which are of the "Collect 20 Pandaren Tea Sets" variety. It's mostly RNG. By focusing on Mogu and Pandaren, you will build up a huge stack of crated artefacts that you can use to complete other races later. In addition, the dig sites are almost all very small and the mobs are low level, which makes surveying much faster.
Note that you DON'T want to do mantid until the other two sites are done, since you can easily get 100% Mantid dig sites through the use of the Mantid resonator thing from the Lorewalkers.
3. Speaking of Lorewalkers, you should probably get a few of the teleoprt and dig site randomizer items. Use the teleport when archy says that the nearest digsite is over 5000 yards away and you can't teleport and use the randomizer once you only have mantid dig sites available.
4. Set your hearth to the Pandaren shrine and factor that in when planning digsites.
5. It's probably worth it to buy and use keystones whenever possible rather than only for rares. Each keystone saves you 12 fragments. This is roughly 1.5 surveys or a quarter of a digsite visit. Assuming it takes around two minutes to reach a Pandaria digsite on average, and three minutes while you are there to survey, a keystone saves 1/4 of five minutes, or one and a quarter minutes. Keystones for Pandaren and Mogu cost almost 1000g each right now however, so unless you're making 48,000g per hour from active work (or buying lots of WoW Tokens), it may not be worth it today.
Finally, a quick update on my progress:
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