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May

2008

Rollin Rock5

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Best strategy for….Artefacts

There are several reasons you might want a lot of artefacts quickly.

Usually this is to meet the requirements for levelling your archaeology guild title which requires a certain number of discoveries and repairs. Archaeology is designed in a way where if you follow the level unlocks, mysteries, you should hit those requirements by the time you reach the appropriate level. Bonus xp, lamps, tomes, only training during DXP, or other unusual game play can lead to missing those requirements.

Another reason is that some achievements like donating to the museum cart also require a lot of artefacts.

The fastest way to get artefacts is to camp

venator remains

outside Kharid-et. It is really bad xp, but great for artifacts and gp if you repair and disassemble for making and selling component crates. You will need a lot of third age Iron and Zarosian Insignia, but it requires the least materials per artefact.

For fastest excavation, get the highest possible precision, and follow the sprite.
It is also possible to optimise your research trips for artefacts – see the research section.

14-Feb-2021 18:00:07 - Last edited on 21-Feb-2021 16:26:30 by Rollin Rock5

May

2008

Rollin Rock5

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Best strategy for….Tetra compass pieces

Tetras drop alongside materials, and so are affected by “focus”. The drop chance is (your level + excavation spot level)/ 250,000, hence excavate the highest spot possible for best chances.

Mr Mordaut provides a guaranteed tetra piece for 24 hour research (and a chance of (research time)/24 otherwise.

Some of the best collections to farm tetras are

Green Gobbo1&2 and Red Rum 1&2

. If you combine it with Warforge research and have the "fixate" spell unlocked you can also do the occasional gg/rr3. Although 1&2 give less xp, you probably make up for that from tomes from the tetras.

RR 1 is arguably fastest as it just needs 4 artefacts, but you will end up with surplus GG2 artefacts, and if you then do GG2 you get surplus RR2 artefacts so you may wish to do all of these. Alternatively GG1 just requires 5 artefacts but you don't end up with any surplus artefacts.

14-Feb-2021 18:00:12 - Last edited on 28-Dec-2021 12:04:03 by Rollin Rock5

May

2008

Rollin Rock5

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Best strategy for….Staff pieces or Spear tip

Spear tip and staff pieces are a rare drop that rolls when you get a material. As such the strategy is to maximise the number of material drops.

If you are outside the war room / praetorium, you can only get the staff pieces during an active pylon.

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Wear best luck ring you can , or have the relevant relic active

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Have best focus mattock

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Use material manual boost (from tetra or guild shop)

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Follow the spite for guaranteed material at 100%

For staff pieces:

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If you can be in the war room / praetorium, do highest spot you can excavate for best chance

There are three staff pieces required to assemble the staff and you get a random one so you might end up with duplicates – you can swap one piece for another with 10m gp with Soran in Varrock

Boosting may be useful during Pylon time, to give you a better chance of staff pieces - if it allows you to get to a better probability spot such as 107, 114 or 118 in kharid-et, or to access the level 115 spot for a spear tip.

You can right click on your archaeology cape and select "boost". This boosts your level by one, allowing you to excavate that spot just above your level. If you are put off by having to right click every minute when the boost runs out, you can buy two capes, place both on your action bar and switch between them every minute using mouse or keybinds.

14-Feb-2021 19:07:25 - Last edited on 22-Aug-2021 19:33:22 by Rollin Rock5

May

2008

Rollin Rock5

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Best strategy for…research

Research is a good source of xp and gives both materials and artefacts. If you make around 3-4 collections in the same research area, the chronotes that you earn can fully fund 24 hour research and make it self-sustainable. You can expect 1-8 artefacts for 24 hours of research. Once you have fully upgraded the researchers, with the speed buffs, you can get 24h +12h +8h research achieved every day, for up to 600k+ xp per day.

The best researchers tend to be the highest ones you can use.

For most artefacts:

Elissa Giovanni(arts) |Dr Nabanik(art) * | Movario (arts) | Gee’ka (xp) | Mr Mordaut #

For best mats:

Asgarnia Smith |Mr Mordaut # | Vaneskula (speed) | choose 2 more highest level
To make up five, use Zanik (no cost), or other highest levels for speed (i.e faster mats if it allows you to send out more mission)

* when using Dr Nabanik, do 2 hour trips as much as you can instead of longer trips, as every +2 hour trip with him gives you a guaranteed artefacts.

# Dr Mordaut gives a better chance of a tetra piece the longer the research, and it is guaranteed at 24hr.

14-Feb-2021 19:07:29 - Last edited on 21-Feb-2021 16:34:43 by Rollin Rock5

May

2008

Rollin Rock5

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Best Strategy for ….Familiars

Waterfiends are widely used to duplicate soil, material and artefacts (5% chance), but in some cases a Beast Of Burden can be better to use. For instance in the Preatorium (war room) in Kharid-et, it allows you to stay longer before you need to bank materials, and it is cheaper in some cases than a single sign of the porter! Porters are great for AFK training and in those Infernal, Stormguard and Orthen disgsites far away from material banks.

If you are still not sure:
• Use a waterfiend familiar when you are excavating near a materials bank
• Use a beast of burden when you are further away, and don't want to use porters.
• Use porters in those areas where it is time consuming to bank, or to AFK

14-Feb-2021 19:07:33 - Last edited on 21-Feb-2021 16:36:40 by Rollin Rock5

May

2008

Rollin Rock5

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Best strategy for ….Sifting soil

Screening or Autoscreener?

Note that the master outfit speeds up sifting, so make sure to wear it!

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 artefacts 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 artefacts.

Using earthen clay from Warforge, i get around 80k xp from 2000 soil per hour. That includes two artefacts uncovered. I am using a beast of burden so i can collect 50+ materials at a time.

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 50-100k+ 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!

Tip: Can you collect your soil until you reach lvl111? Prior to that point you get fewer materials per soil from your autoscreener and sifting then you can once you reach that level.

14-Feb-2021 19:07:37 - Last edited on 28-Feb-2021 13:29:26 by Rollin Rock5

May

2008

Rollin Rock5

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Sifting soil lunar spell

This spell on the lunar spellbook is quite convenient for fast soil sifting. It is also particularly convenient during Yak Track events where you may need to screen a lot of soil. An earlier post here reported that manual screening reaches around 2000 soil per hour.

The spell screens soil at

double the speed

, and you can do that right next to the materials bank. Using a mud staff, it comes at a cost of one Astral rune per material. That makes it the most profitable way of screening soil in terms of gp/hour assuming you sell the materials. Double speed and the time saving in running between bank and screening station mean you can screen at rates of up to 5680 materials/hour.

You can screen even faster by using porters. You can also use your premier artefact porter function for an hour, and use a waterfiend familiar to duplicate the odd item.

14-Feb-2021 19:07:40 - Last edited on 21-Feb-2021 18:33:22 by Rollin Rock5

May

2008

Rollin Rock5

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Yak track soil screening task

Using earthen clay from Warforge, and with manual screening you get around 80k xp from 2000 soil per hour. That includes two artefacts uncovered. With a beast of burden like a yak it is possible to collect 50+ materials at a time.

The lunar sifting soil raises that to 5600+ soil per hour giving magic xp alongside archaeology xp.

14-Feb-2021 19:07:44 - Last edited on 21-Feb-2021 18:33:56 by Rollin Rock5

May

2008

Rollin Rock5

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Best strategy for…."fixate"

Or how to use fixate as a pro!

The "Fixate" spell appears in your spellbook when you wear your arch 99 cape.

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!

14-Feb-2021 19:07:47 - Last edited on 28-Feb-2021 13:30:49 by Rollin Rock5

May

2008

Rollin Rock5

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How do i rebalance artefacts in my bank using fixate?

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 (usually Venator remains outside Kharid-et as it is really quick). Repeat until you have balanced your needs.

17-Feb-2021 09:18:27 - Last edited on 21-Feb-2021 18:34:47 by Rollin Rock5

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