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Sagzee
Jan Member 2006

Sagzee

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Hiya guys.

I'm 113 Archaeology now, basically all I've been doing is going to each of my highest possible artefact location, wait a while to excavate as many relics as I can from it before I have to bank and stick more porters on my Grace of the Elves, then rinse and repeat.

I'm wearing the regular archaeologist outfit, am at the Professor rank, using an augmented Crystal Mattock. I've caught up with all my collections so far, and send research teams whenever I can for the odd bit extra exp or to solve any mysteries I have yet to find.

I feel like I'm missing a trick here and that there might be a faster method? Tried Googling but always end up with the same results and 'just follow this guide' which is what I'm doing I guess, but then you read some parts of the wiki and it says that there are some sites have x amount exp per hour, and that made me think if I should be going back to these specific sites instead for faster exp?

Recently read something about completing logs for exp too? Is that worth trekking back and forth between the various sites to complete the collections? Then there's tetracompases which I have a fair few pieces of and one complete one sitting in the bank that needs doing for the journal things.

Anything I should be doing for the fastest exp? It's at the moment taking me a day or two or there abouts, hell maybe more, between each level and I know it's going to get even longer the further up I go.

Any help would be massively appreciated. :)

04-Jun-2021 18:09:24

Pachuli714
Mar Member 2008

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From where I'm sitting, at 158m xp, nope, you're doing everything right. That's all there is to it. It's a sloggy grind. Gets faster, gets slower, until you hit that wall where you watch the xp pour in, level 120 comes and goes, and you find yourself still sitting at two different dig sites trying to find pieces for two different items and not finding them despite seeing others gather up pieces seemingly without any concern from RNG.

Just stick with it, try to mix it up with training other skills and you'll advance this thing.

Hang in there.

05-Jun-2021 12:10:40

Rikornak
Oct Member 2013

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First - you're doing a couple of grave mistakes, which brutally cripple your xp rates.

- You're not guild master - so you're lacking the master outfit, the mattock of time and space and the buyable digging boost, which all are things you should be able to use for over 10 levels by now.
- You're using a crystal mattock, which is a t70 tool (or t80 basic). Get yourself an Imcando Mattock and fuse them together to the Mattock of Time and Space - the difference from one mattock tier to another is HUGE, not to speak of two. If you can't you even would be getting better results with a plain elder rune mattock - but yeah: Try getting Time and Space - Augmentable and otherwise the best mattock, except for the hugely expensive tony.

When you've fixed those issues, there are some other things to improve the performance a bit:

- Use a water fiend familiar - it can duplicate artefacts if you're lucky enough.
- Get a fortune augment. It can duplicate artefacts, potentially giving you 3 at once if the water fiend procs at the same time. It also works for restoring artefacts, albeit rarer.
- Get a furnace augment. While it destroys a bit of material it doubles the xp you were to receive in here. That's almost a 600 xp drop in the end you're seeing regularily. Try to combine it with honed for more materials and artefacts.
- Wear some kind of luck enhancer - ideally luck of the dwarves - it drastically increases the amount of completed tomes and compass pieces you're receiving. If you got a t4 luck relic - wear the pontifex observation ring.
- Wear your level 99 cape - you can use it to get to new mysteries ahead of time without stockpiling on potions and it makes you getting sprite focus 50 % faster, which stacks with the desperate measures quest reward for 4 % focus per digging when it activates.
- If you can afford it - get the brooch of the gods. It's a fairly huge investment, which will pay for itself over time though, even if you're not using portables.
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06-Jun-2021 06:09:05 - Last edited on 06-Jun-2021 06:59:48 by Rikornak

Rikornak
Oct Member 2013

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I am fairly sure, that all those things will at least double (potentially leaning towards triple) your xp gain if you just continue your current behaviour.

Otherwise if you're aiming for quicker xp - focus on doing the zarosian III or IV collection - or an Orthen one giving out bone fragments - that's each time a decent xp extra. Otherwise focusing on Bandosian stuff is fairly helpful as well, since you're working on two collections at once for compass pieces - giving out even more artefacts and complete tomes. Obviously you still should complete each collection at least once for the achievements even if they're not that helpful.
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06-Jun-2021 06:48:21 - Last edited on 06-Jun-2021 06:52:55 by Rikornak

Sagzee
Jan Member 2006

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Oh wow, there are a bunch of things I had no idea about.

Items like Brooch of the Gods too that I had no idea existed, grabbing that asap. That's what happens when you've been out of the loop for a long time lol.

Massive thanks for this guys, I'll follow your advice and see if I can get this skill over with asap!

06-Jun-2021 23:31:32

J R Kerr
May Member 2007

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+ use yer premier relic for hour's worth of 50% free porter to bank every day

then if yer just doin for xp... kinda worth considering you make lots and lots of staff, robe, mask as first part of set, then later yer makin the other two, and turnin in lots of those sets to soran at once you load way way up on pylon batteries and you SLAM DUNK the xp at pylon with a whole bunch of batteries at once. ideally do this on w84 after you hung out at lumby chest a few minutes to grab the pulse core boost spam for 10% xp.

I forget the names of things, but I do remember I traded like 100 sets of that zaros set (IV?) at one time walkin back and forth to soran there at end of 200m.

edit/add: and save a staff in case you get all three pieces. thats the best staff in the game. functionally speaking. I override with zamorak crozier for looks, but yeah. that t80 thing has low low charge drain rate, saves you runes using t80 spell, and applies t97 damage to anything you would actually mage. its bomb af especially with guthix claw on yer eof (or dragon rider ammy if yer doin low value mobs)

edit/add 2: w84 probably has charged pylon more than any other world so kinda sorta camp there and enjoy shadow time as often as possible too. check wiki, and dont just take my word for it, but I am coachin my daughter, and I told her the same thing, so... even if I am wrong... I aint lyin.
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07-Jun-2021 18:28:15 - Last edited on 07-Jun-2021 18:39:43 by J R Kerr

Bobhaz
Jun Member 2021

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Rikornak said :

- Use a water fiend familiar - it can duplicate artefacts if you're lucky enough.
- Get a fortune augment. It can duplicate artefacts, potentially giving you 3 at once if the water fiend procs at the same time. It also works for restoring artefacts, albeit rarer.
- Get a furnace augment. While it destroys a bit of material it doubles the xp you were to receive in here. That's almost a 600 xp drop in the end you're seeing regularily. Try to combine it with honed for more materials and artefacts.
- Wear some kind of luck enhancer - ideally luck of the dwarves - it drastically increases the amount of completed tomes and compass pieces you're receiving. If you got a t4 luck relic - wear the pontifex observation ring.
- Wear your level 99 cape - you can use it to get to new mysteries ahead of time without stockpiling on potions and it makes you getting sprite focus 50 % faster, which stacks with the desperate measures quest reward for 4 % focus per digging when it activates.
- If you can afford it - get the brooch of the gods. It's a fairly huge investment, which will pay for itself ov
this is the good stuff!

08-Jun-2021 12:46:01

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Jul Member 2016

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Rikornak said :
- Get a furnace augment. While it destroys a bit of material it doubles the xp you were to receive in here. That's almost a 600 xp drop in the end you're seeing regularily. Try to combine it with honed for more materials and artefacts

I much prefer imp souled - I think I have Honed5Fortune1 and ImpSouled6?

something like that - the only thing to keep in mind with imp souled is that you'll want to bring a constant prayer regeneration item like the ancient elven ritual shard - prayer renewals or potions probably work as well but you'll lose inventory space. Imp Souled is nice since it also saves you porter charges, but that isn't as much of an issue now with the new Divination update & Porter 7
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14-Jun-2021 15:33:23

Rikornak
Oct Member 2013

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It certainly comes up a bit to preference, but OP in particular had had an issue with slow levelling rates for which furnace is imho a better choice - since a 600 xp drop every now and then (does that stack with bxp and pulse/cinder cores?) really amps up the experience gain while excavating already - of course at the cost of having to buy/farm a bit more of material to make use of the artefacts obtained.

I mean I personally used Honed/Furnace and Fortune/Prosper (sure - unrelated, but if somebody likes to do clues, it's a great source) back then - there certainly are a couple of working combinations.
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16-Jun-2021 05:10:55

J R Kerr
May Member 2007

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yeah if you use prosper add the charos clue carrier to yer load out for archeology. yknow... for clues when you get em.

I did use prosper, and I forgot the bag til after 200m xp. whoops.
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16-Jun-2021 18:24:29 - Last edited on 16-Jun-2021 18:24:53 by J R Kerr

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