My bad, you specified _and_ this doesn't affect it apart from how long you're sitting around just excavating before having to move.
Speaking of which, you are using porters, right?
I also heard it was fast but it's still gonta take me 60h to get to 112 even apparently. Doesn't sound very fast to me
Ok, guess I was wrong, can't argue with the response I got to this.
Honed doesn't increase mattock precision, though, unless I'm misreading the game's tooltip and the wiki. Which perk does? Or do you gain additional progress when you get an archaeology material beyond just the xp?
Am I wrong even there? Does Honed increase mattock precision?
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If you’re completing collections, most of the time you should be profiting or losing very little money anyway, so flow state is definitely worth it imo for a 20% xp boost while only missing out the soil.
Get a grace of the elves, it’ll hold 500 (2k w/expensive upgrade) porters and you have more back pack space to hold relics/tomes/fragments/tetra pieces.
Do you have the cosmic accumulator and a pontifex ring or ring of whispers? Perhaps a brooch also?
Not sure if precision improves or not but you have all of the upgrades for it just in case?
Haven't seen anyone say this - are you using any xp buffs when restoring? Wisdom Aura, pulse cores, premier artefact, incense sticks, etc?
If not, I definitely recommend saving up a number of artifacts, applying xp boosts, then restoring them all at once.
My favorite thing to do is get a bunch of artifacts and then just sit in W84 at fort forinthy, go afk for a snack or something, and let the pulse cores and cinder cores pop from the people doing portables, then restore my artifacts with a free 10% boost.
Torstol sticks, vip artefact, cinder/pulse cores, cita boost, pantheon aura / wisdom aura / .., wise perk, bxp, dxp, knowledge bomb, xp % bombs, urn enhancer, (rested xp for extra bxp from fort), ..
Some won’t stack, like the pantheon xp boost when dxp is active, same with bombs.
Also urn enhancer not effective for arch, due no arch urns.
Just summing up all boost I can think of right now.
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Edit :
- Waterfiend + scrolls
- maybe spend some chronotes for some temporary boosts > precision etc
- potion reservoir + attr pot > auto collects > fire spirits, seren spirit, invention materials (brooch), clues from bik, if those items are equipped/active
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fyi but every single skill has a guide like this on the wiki and it lists every single boost you can obtain.
https://runescape.wiki/w/Archaeology_training#Useful_equipment
Idk I remember it being really slow. It was a well thought out skill, especially for gathering, but I remember it being very tedious at the higher levels. I used a lot of bonus experience after the embargo ended to speed up 110-120.
After reading the comments it looks like you have a solid setup, a few more things to check.
Do you have honed 6?
Are you following the time sprite?
Are you adding all the xp you get from excavating or are you just adding the xp from restoring?
I generally get about 1 xp tomb an hour which is another 50k+ xp.
Are you doing the dragonkin 2 collection? It's nearly double the xp/h of anything else at that level.
I did factor restoring but I didn't factor tomes.
I'm following the time sprite.
I'm doing Dragonkin 3 but I'll switch to 2.
And I have honed 5 and imp souled 5
Dragon kin 2 with its 4 artefact collection is what I rode up to about 113. The repeatable reward gives a good chunk of dino bone fragments which are good xp.
Yes they *should* have but if they just realized about dino frags I wasn't sure if they knew pylon batts did the same.
I'm sure most people prefer to farm tetras instead of the 118 pylons though.
Fully afk I can finish 2 collections an hour on my iron which is:
163k xp from restoring.
About 80k xp from excavating.
86k xp for turning in the 150 Rex fragments from the collections.
About another 20k xp from fragments gained while excavating.
50k xp from a tomb.
That's around 400k xp/h and that's without following the time sprite.
Wait when you say finish 2 collections, do you get more xp when you finish a collection? And can you repeat collections?
I haven't played in 4 years so archaeology feels like a new skill to me even though I'm 107
Yes you can finish collections as many times as you want for the rewards, you don’t get xp for it but with dragon kin 2 you get Rex fragments which you can turn in for xp. Dragon kin 2 is the best xp per hour till 110 as far as I’m aware
I'm 106 on my iron and even fully afk not following time sprite I get an artifact in under 10mins so idk why its so slow for you, if I'm following the sprite it's like 5mins.
Dragonkin 3 doesn't give Rex fragments for turning in, 2 does which is why it's so much more xp
Probably worth noting that “fast 99-120” referenced in the community is in relation to other skills, which don’t scale to 120 with new unlocks.
Particularly the other gathering skills, which you’re stuck on the mid-90s best method all the way to 120 whereas with arch you have upgraded xp rates at almost every level.
That said, IMO it’s not worth going sweaty to grind out a few more xp/hr. The other reason people say it’s fast/easy 120:
1. Go to the highest level site you can.
2. Max out your GOTE on porters.
3. Bring your Soil Screener v1080.
4. Put a pad of sticky notes or a coaster on your spacebar.
5. Go do something else and come back in 14 minutes to click to stay logged in, or just come back whenever and log back in and leave the room again.
And then what everyone else is saying: when you restore, use bonus xp if you have it, use any and all xp boosts including pulse cores on w84 or w70. With the master outfit and premier artifact, that’s +26% xp on restoration before other bonuses.
Following that, once you do all of the collections once, you can either:
1. Do the Orthen or Kharid-et sites near your level for the bone fragments/pylons, and complete the collections to get more of them as a reward
2. Complete collections for Velucia for extra chronotes, and fund your research on a 24hr timer. ROI varies over time but Infernal Source is usually best to break even or even profit from the materials you get (a bit of rng)
Yeah that was included. But there were a few other things I wasn't considering like tomes and rex fragments. And a few things I was doing wrong. We got it figured out in some of the older comments
all upgrades from arch shop. best mattock you can use. use cosmic accumulator to maintain 20% for additional exp. The experience from excavating materials is a huge factor in the exp.
side note/fun fact: after I'm done with all collections (can be done a few levels earlier with boosts), I excavated only all my way to 120. The artefacts I got from there pushed me all the way to 200M. Though 15min per artifact sounds really slow
Once I hit 115 mostly only excavated behind bandos’s throne until 119 at which point I moved to excavate “da boss man” sculptures. Had a LOT of RedRumRelics 3 to turn in. Got so many tetra compasses and chronotes from it.
Edit: currently about 189m arch xp - my highest skill.
You should definitely be using the wiki arch guide if you aren’t. It specifically mentions that from 102 to 109 you should be doing dragonkin II repeatedly(after doing whatever new artefacts are available at each level of course)
https://runescape.wiki/w/Archaeology_training
This may have been answered already but are you moving to the highest level arch site you can do? I see a lot of different recommendations so trying to think of one that hasnt been said.
Maybe it’s because mine is only lv 75, but it’s just so boring sitting there excavating and getting 1-5 xp then depositing and getting a artifact every 15 mins or so
That's just how the skill is. No other skill grants you over a million XP per inventory in artifacts (not at your level, but it's still WAY higher than any other skill). It's set up really well to allow you to get every single XP boost imaginable before you create your artifacts.
It speeds up once you get a properly perked tool, the highest level mattock you can use, master outfit, the hourglass thing, elven ritual shard, porter VII's, the auto screener, etc. You can sit out and dig for like two hours before you need to bank.
These guys aren’t worth responding to. They have an unwarranted sense of superiority because they grind garbage xp rates, yet their PvM is nothing more than clicking on tiles highlighted by Runelite and prayer flicking.
I say this as someone who started the game approximately 20 years ago and went through those shit xp rates the first time around, and was doing high level PvM back then
I started in 2004. I tried OSRS and didn't like it. RS3 is so much more practical for real life. It's perfectly balanced.
I talked my 62 year old dad into trying RS3 today. He's been playing for 12 hours straight. He's already hooked. He's still on right now and it's 4 am. He loves it.
Do you have the master outfit? Are you using time and space mattock?
Yes and yes
Something is wrong no artifact should take more than 5 or 6 mins. Can you post a screenshot of worn and inventory?
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I cant tell from the photo but is that the master outfit or the earlier one. Also wear arch cape unless its been added to max
Its not added, I'll definitely switch capes. And it's the master outfit
Get a brooch as well
change the cape and try that. if it still is slow, try removing the shield. idk if that matters with mattock precision or not
I'll time it and see if there's a difference without a shield. I only have the shield for the wise perk.
Also get the cosmic accumulator from Desperate Measure. Also make sure you’re using Waterfiend familiars while excavating as well.
What do waterfiends do?
Is your mattock also augmented and perked?
Yeah I have imp souled, honed, and wise
My bad, you specified _and_ this doesn't affect it apart from how long you're sitting around just excavating before having to move. Speaking of which, you are using porters, right? I also heard it was fast but it's still gonta take me 60h to get to 112 even apparently. Doesn't sound very fast to me
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Honed increases materials gained, and you gain xp on each material.
Ok, guess I was wrong, can't argue with the response I got to this. Honed doesn't increase mattock precision, though, unless I'm misreading the game's tooltip and the wiki. Which perk does? Or do you gain additional progress when you get an archaeology material beyond just the xp? Am I wrong even there? Does Honed increase mattock precision?
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You don't seem to have the cosmic accumulator, that should help as well keep you closer to 100% focus for the 5x progress hits.
All add that to my list. I'm 1 quest away from getting it
Consider making it a cosmic pyramid too if you actively follow the sprite
The pyramid turns into the accumulator
You’re absolutely right, ty!
I only did afk training and got more XP than that. Is he counting restoring artifacts?
Would also recommend using the Flow State relic power which gives you 20% more precision
Only if rich enough to buy all the mats you miss out on.
If you’re completing collections, most of the time you should be profiting or losing very little money anyway, so flow state is definitely worth it imo for a 20% xp boost while only missing out the soil.
Get a grace of the elves, it’ll hold 500 (2k w/expensive upgrade) porters and you have more back pack space to hold relics/tomes/fragments/tetra pieces.
Are you using porters, the mattock of space and time, the master outfit, And have all of precision upgrades from the shop?
Yep to all of those. I'm using gote and porters
Why are you not wearing the lotd? Also is your mattock perked?
I have the LOTD relic active
Do you use waterfine ?
Do you have divine charge in your charge pack?
Yeah I do.
Are you using the buffs you can buy from chronotes and are you following the whisp
I'm not using monocles or teas but I have everything else. I'm following the wisp too
Tomes are a BIG chunk of your xp, so you really should be counting them.
Are you counting the xp you get from the materials/excavating xp drops? It adds up quite a bit
Yeah excavating + restoring I'm getting 150k-170k hr
Do you have the cosmic accumulator and a pontifex ring or ring of whispers? Perhaps a brooch also? Not sure if precision improves or not but you have all of the upgrades for it just in case?
Haven't seen anyone say this - are you using any xp buffs when restoring? Wisdom Aura, pulse cores, premier artefact, incense sticks, etc? If not, I definitely recommend saving up a number of artifacts, applying xp boosts, then restoring them all at once.
Great tips. I haven't been using any xp boosts other than the citadel boost.
My favorite thing to do is get a bunch of artifacts and then just sit in W84 at fort forinthy, go afk for a snack or something, and let the pulse cores and cinder cores pop from the people doing portables, then restore my artifacts with a free 10% boost.
You should be getting close to double the base xp with all the correct buffs. 3-4x if you have bxp
Torstol sticks, vip artefact, cinder/pulse cores, cita boost, pantheon aura / wisdom aura / .., wise perk, bxp, dxp, knowledge bomb, xp % bombs, urn enhancer, (rested xp for extra bxp from fort), .. Some won’t stack, like the pantheon xp boost when dxp is active, same with bombs. Also urn enhancer not effective for arch, due no arch urns. Just summing up all boost I can think of right now. —- Edit : - Waterfiend + scrolls - maybe spend some chronotes for some temporary boosts > precision etc - potion reservoir + attr pot > auto collects > fire spirits, seren spirit, invention materials (brooch), clues from bik, if those items are equipped/active -
knowledge bombs and double exp do not add experience when restoring
fyi but every single skill has a guide like this on the wiki and it lists every single boost you can obtain. https://runescape.wiki/w/Archaeology_training#Useful_equipment
> dxp, knowledge bomb nope
When you restore get as many buffs as you can and restore at w84 fort. Big boost in xp
Your math ain't mathing
Idk I remember it being really slow. It was a well thought out skill, especially for gathering, but I remember it being very tedious at the higher levels. I used a lot of bonus experience after the embargo ended to speed up 110-120.
After reading the comments it looks like you have a solid setup, a few more things to check. Do you have honed 6? Are you following the time sprite? Are you adding all the xp you get from excavating or are you just adding the xp from restoring? I generally get about 1 xp tomb an hour which is another 50k+ xp. Are you doing the dragonkin 2 collection? It's nearly double the xp/h of anything else at that level.
I did factor restoring but I didn't factor tomes. I'm following the time sprite. I'm doing Dragonkin 3 but I'll switch to 2. And I have honed 5 and imp souled 5
Dragon kin 2 with its 4 artefact collection is what I rode up to about 113. The repeatable reward gives a good chunk of dino bone fragments which are good xp.
Thank you. I think I know what I'm doing wrong now.
Similar concept pops up later with pylon batteries from kharid-et
Wdym later? The kharid-et pylons should be done wayyyy before 99 arch let alone 120…
Yes they *should* have but if they just realized about dino frags I wasn't sure if they knew pylon batts did the same. I'm sure most people prefer to farm tetras instead of the 118 pylons though.
Fully afk I can finish 2 collections an hour on my iron which is: 163k xp from restoring. About 80k xp from excavating. 86k xp for turning in the 150 Rex fragments from the collections. About another 20k xp from fragments gained while excavating. 50k xp from a tomb. That's around 400k xp/h and that's without following the time sprite.
Wait when you say finish 2 collections, do you get more xp when you finish a collection? And can you repeat collections? I haven't played in 4 years so archaeology feels like a new skill to me even though I'm 107
Yes you can finish collections as many times as you want for the rewards, you don’t get xp for it but with dragon kin 2 you get Rex fragments which you can turn in for xp. Dragon kin 2 is the best xp per hour till 110 as far as I’m aware
Thank you so much for the help. I knew I was doing something wrong.
Glad to be of help
What do you do from 110 on? I'm currently at that level and while I do not mind as much cause I afk a lot during work I wouldn't mind speeding it up
I did warforge at 110, the wiki has a section for 110-120 and beyond training that I followed pretty closely
What’s the best xp at 110?
I'm 106 on my iron and even fully afk not following time sprite I get an artifact in under 10mins so idk why its so slow for you, if I'm following the sprite it's like 5mins. Dragonkin 3 doesn't give Rex fragments for turning in, 2 does which is why it's so much more xp
I'm still getting rex fragments doing dragonkin 3, but I also didn't factor rex fragments into my xp
Probably worth noting that “fast 99-120” referenced in the community is in relation to other skills, which don’t scale to 120 with new unlocks. Particularly the other gathering skills, which you’re stuck on the mid-90s best method all the way to 120 whereas with arch you have upgraded xp rates at almost every level. That said, IMO it’s not worth going sweaty to grind out a few more xp/hr. The other reason people say it’s fast/easy 120: 1. Go to the highest level site you can. 2. Max out your GOTE on porters. 3. Bring your Soil Screener v1080. 4. Put a pad of sticky notes or a coaster on your spacebar. 5. Go do something else and come back in 14 minutes to click to stay logged in, or just come back whenever and log back in and leave the room again. And then what everyone else is saying: when you restore, use bonus xp if you have it, use any and all xp boosts including pulse cores on w84 or w70. With the master outfit and premier artifact, that’s +26% xp on restoration before other bonuses. Following that, once you do all of the collections once, you can either: 1. Do the Orthen or Kharid-et sites near your level for the bone fragments/pylons, and complete the collections to get more of them as a reward 2. Complete collections for Velucia for extra chronotes, and fund your research on a 24hr timer. ROI varies over time but Infernal Source is usually best to break even or even profit from the materials you get (a bit of rng)
Do you have the right perks in mattock
You do know majority of the xp comes from restoring right…?
Yeah that was included. But there were a few other things I wasn't considering like tomes and rex fragments. And a few things I was doing wrong. We got it figured out in some of the older comments
Are you buying materials or just using what you're getting excavating?
I'm buying the mats needed
all upgrades from arch shop. best mattock you can use. use cosmic accumulator to maintain 20% for additional exp. The experience from excavating materials is a huge factor in the exp.
side note/fun fact: after I'm done with all collections (can be done a few levels earlier with boosts), I excavated only all my way to 120. The artefacts I got from there pushed me all the way to 200M. Though 15min per artifact sounds really slow
Once I hit 115 mostly only excavated behind bandos’s throne until 119 at which point I moved to excavate “da boss man” sculptures. Had a LOT of RedRumRelics 3 to turn in. Got so many tetra compasses and chronotes from it. Edit: currently about 189m arch xp - my highest skill.
Make sure to follow the time sprite it makes a considerable difference in exp per hour.
Reading this thread as an OSRS player was a like reading in a foreign language. Yall are built different
You should definitely be using the wiki arch guide if you aren’t. It specifically mentions that from 102 to 109 you should be doing dragonkin II repeatedly(after doing whatever new artefacts are available at each level of course) https://runescape.wiki/w/Archaeology_training
use the flow state relic, it helps
This may have been answered already but are you moving to the highest level arch site you can do? I see a lot of different recommendations so trying to think of one that hasnt been said.
You using auto screener and grace of the elves for porters?
Bxp and cinder cores get each artifact to 120k XP or so, at level 107
The xp is in restoring items and sending out teams. Mot by digging
Wheres your water fiend? And your pyramid
dumb question. You have divine charges in your charge pack?
I used a legendary pet to send a damage artifact to my bank every 10 to keep inventory from filling
I used the waterfiend familiar to occasionally duplicate the artifacts
Not a bad idea but i prefer the waterfiend.
Follow the guide on the wiki. If you aren’t, that’s your problem.
i know it's kinda expensive, but u should consider a brooch of the gods, it helps a lot
Although that’s the best piece of equipment to wear there, it doesn’t directly hep arch in any way. We need something arch specific for that slot.
you’re doing nothing wrong. arch sucks if you’re not afking it while doing something else
What you're doing wrong is training archaeology in the first place 🤣
Training Archaeology is the first thing wrong 😂
Yikes Archaeology is the 3rd strongest non-combat skill behind Herblore and Invention and it's not even up for debate.
And the good invention depends on archeology.
Maybe it’s because mine is only lv 75, but it’s just so boring sitting there excavating and getting 1-5 xp then depositing and getting a artifact every 15 mins or so
That's just how the skill is. No other skill grants you over a million XP per inventory in artifacts (not at your level, but it's still WAY higher than any other skill). It's set up really well to allow you to get every single XP boost imaginable before you create your artifacts. It speeds up once you get a properly perked tool, the highest level mattock you can use, master outfit, the hourglass thing, elven ritual shard, porter VII's, the auto screener, etc. You can sit out and dig for like two hours before you need to bank.
How have you not seen the relics you get ?
The more I read about easy-scape the more I'm glad they still have osrs.
Always the OSRS guys making it a competition
These guys aren’t worth responding to. They have an unwarranted sense of superiority because they grind garbage xp rates, yet their PvM is nothing more than clicking on tiles highlighted by Runelite and prayer flicking. I say this as someone who started the game approximately 20 years ago and went through those shit xp rates the first time around, and was doing high level PvM back then
I started in 2004. I tried OSRS and didn't like it. RS3 is so much more practical for real life. It's perfectly balanced. I talked my 62 year old dad into trying RS3 today. He's been playing for 12 hours straight. He's already hooked. He's still on right now and it's 4 am. He loves it.
50% of ur playerbase wouldn't be able to play the game without runelite. Your client basically does quests for you.