Pylon battery

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.
Actions
Backpack	Destroy
Values
Value	1 coin
Alchemy	Not alchemisable
On death	Always lost
Weight	0.0 kg
Examine
A battery for the pylons at Kharid-et.
Advanced data
Item ID	50096
Links	MRID • recipe
FAQ • doc

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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). 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

Pylon

Main article: Pylon

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	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	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%	"You contribute a huge amount of power to the pylon."

Pylon boost

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

Main article: Shadow anchor

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)

Calculator

Templates used
Pylon battery

template = Pylon battery form = batcalcin result = batcalcout param = level|Archaeology level|1|int|1-120|| param = number|Number of batteries|1|int|1-inf||

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Base experience per battery

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
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
9	7.7		49	58		89	330.9
10	8.1		50	60.9		90	341.9
11	9		51	63.9		91	353.1
12	10		52	67		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		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		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		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		79	229.2		119	637.2
40	37.8		80	238.5		120	644.5

Sources

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here (include RDT).

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

Update history

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.