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) of the Main Fortress level. The pylon batteries may also be obtained as a reward from the collector Soran, Emissary of Zaros by completing their archaeological collections. They have two uses within Kharid-et.

Uses

Pylon

Main article: Pylon (Archaeology)

The first and foremost use for the pylon batteries is for charging the pylons found in the main area of the digsite. Adding pylon batteries to pylons 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+ batteries at once will award +10% XP, while handing in 100+ batteries at once will award +20% XP.

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

Batteries handed in	XP gained at level 98+	XP per battery at level 98+	Pylon charge	Message
1 battery	430.1	430.1 (5% of a small XP lamp)	0.001%	"You contribute some power to the pylon."
10 batteries	4,731.1	473.11 (5.5% of a small XP lamp)	0.01%	"You contribute a significant amount of power to the pylon."
100 batteries	51,612	516.12 (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.	516,120	516.12	1%	"You contribute a huge amount of power to the pylon."
10,000 batteries No additional pylon charge over handing in 1,000 batteries.	5,161,200	516.12	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 are 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.

During this time, pylon 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.

• 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		34	27		67	113
2	3		35	29		68	118
3	3		36	30		69	123
4	4		37	31		70	129
5	4		38	33		71	134
6	5		39	34		72	140
7	6		40	36		73	147
8	6		41	37		74	154
9	7		42	39		75	160
10	7		43	40		76	166
11	8		44	42		77	174
12	9		45	44		78	182
13	10		46	46		79	189
14	11		47	48		80	199
15	12		48	50		81	208
16	13		49	52		82	217
17	13		50	55		83	226
18	14		51	57		84	238
19	14		52	60		85	245
20	15		53	62		86	257
21	16		54	65		87	268
22	16		55	68		88	279
23	17		56	71		89	296
24	18		57	74		90	306
25	19		58	77		91	322
26	19		59	80		92	330
27	20		60	84		93	346
28	20		61	87		94	361
29	22		62	91		95	376
30	23		63	95		96	403
31	24		64	100		97	417
32	25		65	104		98+	430
33	26		66	108

Sources

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

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

Update history

The update history project is a work-in-progress – not all updates to this topic may be covered below. 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.