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Screening or Autoscreener?
Autoscreener certainly has convenience, but is there any advantage to screening?
At the highest level you can store up to 500 of each soil in your soil box. The autoscreener uses divine charges and so has a maintenance cost.
At higher levels (38, 71, 93,and 111), screening becomes faster and more efficient, and you will end up with almost one material for every item of soil above lvl 111 and wearing the master outfit. screening also gives you occasional artifacts making the levels of xp comparable to those of just excavating.
An autoscreener gives you only materials available from the spot you are excavating, which can help you target specific materials you need instead of using caches. Screening on the other hand gives you all the possible materials from that digsite, which is useful to complete a wider range of artifacts.
Oh, you are a soil dropper! Well thank you as i can pick those, fill my soil box, and screen for an almost equivalent number of materials worth up to 100k+ at a time! Of course you could also have disassembled those and had a nice collection of classic, historic, timeworn and vintage components
Tip: Add the soil box to your action bar so that you can continue excavating whilst storing soil!
P.S. see yak track soil task post further on for soil/hr and xp/hr
25-Jun-2020 20:38:45 - Last edited on 19-Jul-2020 19:46:35 by Rollin Rock5
How to use "fixate" like a pro!
If you only come to Kharid-et during Pylon active time, you probably want to focus on the highest level Zaros collections you can do. That can earn you 20, 50 or 100 batteries from Soran which can be exchanged for good xp.
The master outfit comes in useful as you can use the "fixate" spell three times a day to fix the next artefact you will get. However, without fixate your probability of which artefact you receive depends on the last five items you excavated, you may get two unwanted items after completing your 3 fixated items. Sometimes you want to avoid that, and reset the probability to a more favourable 50/50 or 33/33/33 percent. You can do that by filling up the 5 item history with artefacts from another spot, and now you can go back to the original spot with probabilities reset!
Fixate is great therefore to solve small inbalances of up to 3 items. For balancing 3 items or more make sure you don't just continue at the same spot after using fixate three times i, as you can easily undo the benefits.
BTW this also nicely explains why you will see unbalances, even though the probabilities over the longer term ensure 50/50 or 33/33/33 when excavating at a single spot. Say you get two identical artefacts and leave and get 5 artefacts elsewhere. When you come back, you will have built up a permanent unbalance of those two items! Once you understand this mechanic, you can strategically switch spots to balance your collections!
How do i rebalance items in my bank?
Say you need 10 specific items. Excavate until you have more of that item than others from that same spot, even if that is just the first one. Leave and excavate at least 5 items elsewhere. Repeat until you have balanced your needs
27-Jun-2020 09:35:05 - Last edited on 01-Jul-2020 20:03:13 by Rollin Rock5
What do i do with those left over artefacts?
1. most artefact collections II, III and IV have worthwhile rewards. Store in bank if there is a chance you get others in that collection (through excavation, research or from tetra compasses).
2. Disassemble for ancient invention components. Note that that works with materials and soil as well! You can use these in ancient gizmos or make component crates and sell on the GE.
3. You may not care for the achievement now, but maybe later you will! You can hand them in to the museum cart and get a miserly amount of chronotes, and make progress towards "the donator V". By the time you reach 250 donated artefacts, you will have picked up 105 runescore.
4. Destroy
29-Jun-2020 23:09:25
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