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Originally posted by Myssed

I got confused a bit by a part of the announcement post. Something about earning our certification as an archaeologist. We did that already, in the digsite quest. Iā€™m pretty certain we even got a certificate out of it.

All you do in the quest is pass a few Earth Sciences exams...and make a significant archaeological find. You're effectively a student who got lucky. Qualifications are more the faculty side of things - you become guild staff.