Pylon battery

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Pylon battery



Release																				30 March 2020 (Update)
Members																				No
Quest item																				No

Properties

Tradeable																				No
Bankable																				No
Equipable																				No
Stackable																				Yes
Disassembly																				No
Destroy																				You can find more at the Kharid-et Dig Site.
Examine																				A battery for the pylons at Kharid-et.

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Backpack																				Destroy

Values

Value																				1 coin
Alchemy																				Not alchemisable
On death																				Always lost
Weight																				0.0 kg


Advanced data

Item ID																				50096
Links																				MRID • recipe

Pylon batteries are items which can be found in the Kharid-et Dig Site while excavating the various sites (remains and material caches) inside the fortress (not on the surface or the praetorium). The pylon batteries may also be obtained as a reward from the collector Soran, Emissary of Zaros by completing their Archaeology collections.

Currently the fastest way to get batteries is to repeatedly do Zarosian I collections for Soran, which gives around 80-100 batteries per hour depending on your skill level.

Uses[edit | edit source]

Pylon[edit | edit source]

The first and foremost use for the pylon batteries is for charging the pylon found in the main fortress level. Adding pylon batteries to the pylon awards Archaeology experience based on level, each battery also contributing 0.001% charge to the pylon across all worlds up to 100% (100,000 batteries in total) for a temporary buff to all players that lasts for 30 minutes. A maximum of 10,000 batteries can be handed in at once. Handing in 10–99 batteries at once will award 10% extra experience, and handing in 100 or more batteries at once will award 20% extra experience.

Handing in batteries will give experience based on the number of batteries and your Archaeology level:

Batteries handed in	XP gained at level 99	XP per battery at level 99	Pylon charge	Message
1 battery	443.6	443.6 (5% of a small XP lamp)	0.001%	"You contribute some power to the pylon."
10 batteries	4,879.6^[1]	487.96 (5.5% of a small XP lamp)	0.01%	"You contribute a significant amount of power to the pylon."
100 batteries	53,232^[2]	532.32 (6% of a small XP lamp)	0.1%	"You contribute a huge amount of power to the pylon."
1,000 batteries No additional XP over handing in 100 batteries.	532,320	532.32	1%	"You contribute a huge amount of power to the pylon."
10,000 batteries No additional pylon charge over handing in 1,000 batteries.	5,323,200	532.32	1%^[3]	"You contribute a huge amount of power to the pylon."

Pylon boost[edit | edit source]

When the pylon is charged to 100%, everyone in Kharid-et on all worlds is given the opportunity to receive pieces of the Inquisitor staff when excavating from any excavation or cache node in the main and prison area of the fortress for 30 minutes. The drop rate of staff pieces are further increased when excavating in the praetorium.

While the pylon is active, batteries are unobtainable but can still be turned in for experience. Doing so does not extend the duration of the pylon's activation effects nor will it provide charge after the pylon's buff effect has ended. Therefore, it is best to wait until after the event has ended to turn in pylon batteries.

Shadow anchors[edit | edit source]

The second use for pylon batteries are for activating shadow anchors. Ten batteries are used to charge each of the eight shadow anchors permanently in Kharid-et, requiring a total of 80 batteries to charge all of them. These can be used instead of a fully charged pylon to complete The Vault of Shadows.

Six anchors in the main fortress area
Two anchors inside the chapel (which requires the pontifex signet ring and level 58 Archaeology to enter)

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Base experience per battery[edit | edit source]

The base experience per battery, without any bonus for turning in many at once.

Skill level	Experience	Skill level	Experience	Skill level	Experience
1	3.3	41	39.6	81	248.0
2	3.6	42	41.5	82	257.7
3	4.1	43	43.5	83	267.6
4	4.5	44	45.6	84	277.7
5	4.9	45	47.8	85	288.1
6	5.5	46	50.2	86	298.5
7	6.5	47	52.7	87	309.2
8	6.7	48	55.3	88	320.0
9	7.7	49	58.0	89	330.9
10	8.1	50	60.9	90	341.9
11	9.0	51	63.9	91	353.1
12	10.0	52	67.0	92	364.3
13	10.9	53	70.3	93	375.6
14	12.2	54	73.8	94	386.9
15	13.4	55	77.5	95	398.2
16	13.9	56	81.3	96	409.6
17	14.4	57	85.3	97	420.9
18	14.9	58	89.5	98	432.3
19	15.5	59	93.9	99	443.6
20	16.1	60	98.5	100	454.8
21	16.7	61	103.2	101	465.9
22	17.3	62	108.2	102	476.9
23	18.0	63	113.5	103	487.9
24	18.8	64	118.9	104	498.7
25	19.5	65	124.5	105	509.3
26	20.3	66	130.4	106	519.8
27	21.2	67	136.6	107	530.1
28	22.1	68	142.9	108	540.3
29	23.0	69	149.5	109	550.2
30	24.1	70	156.4	110	559.9
31	25.1	71	163.5	111	569.5
32	26.2	72	170.8	112	578.8
33	27.4	73	178.4	113	587.8
34	28.7	74	186.3	114	596.7
35	30.0	75	194.4	115	605.3
36	31.4	76	202.7	116	613.6
37	32.9	77	211.3	117	621.7
38	34.4	78	220.1	118	629.6
39	36.0	79	229.2	119	637.2
40	37.8	80	238.5	120	644.5

Sources[edit | edit source]

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Administratum debris	25	1	Uncommon^{[f 1]}
Armarium debris	93	1	Uncommon^{[f 1]}
Carcerem debris	58	1	Uncommon^{[f 1]}
Castra debris	17	1	Uncommon^{[f 1]}
Culinarum debris	100	1	Uncommon^{[f 1]}
Kharid-et chapel debris	74	1	Uncommon^{[f 1]}
Legionary remains	12	1	Uncommon^{[f 1]}
Material cache (Blood of Orcus)	58	1	Uncommon^{[f 1]}
Material cache (Tyrian purple)	25	1	Uncommon^{[f 1]}
Material cache (Zarosian insignia)	5	1	Uncommon^{[f 1]}
Material cache (ancient vis)	25	1	Uncommon^{[f 1]}
Material cache (imperial steel)	12	1	Uncommon^{[f 1]}
Orcus altar	86	1	Uncommon^{[f 1]}
Pontifex remains	81	1	Uncommon^{[f 1]}
Praesidio remains	47	1	Uncommon^{[f 1]}

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o There is further information on this drop; see the associated page for details.

References[edit | edit source]

^ This includes 10% more XP for handing in 10+ batteries.
^ This includes 20% more XP for handing in 100+ batteries.
^ 1% is the maximum charge that can be added to the pylons by a single player at a single time

Update history[edit | edit source]

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included—see here for how to help out!

patch 4 May 2020 (Update):
- Players can now discover pylon batteries while excavating in the Kharid-et prison block.

update 30 March 2020 (Update):
- Added to game.

[_dropref_-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o There is further information on this drop; see the associated page for details.

[1] This includes 10% more XP for handing in 10+ batteries.

[2] This includes 20% more XP for handing in 100+ batteries.

[3] 1% is the maximum charge that can be added to the pylons by a single player at a single time

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