Runescape Dev Tracker

(2024) How bad is mid-high level Archaeology grind?

This thread was added on May 09, 2024, with posts from JagexFrosch.

Original Post

To preface, I’m 74 arch now, and I’m working to make it to 86. I kind of overleveled with quest turn in rewards, and some TH keys, I’ve full cleared up to sentisten and I’m working on only doing collections

I only ever did collections through velucia but after learning how many powers I missed I backtracked through all of them, I have the first rank qualifications and I’m working on the second (associate)

It feels like such a slog, I have a dragon mattock and the stadium debris for Sara 2 collection and everything in sentisten felt like it took almost 10 minutes for one artifact and half the time I got dupes

Does leveling start to get faster when i make it to the level 70 excavations? I was barely 68 arch a few days ago and I’ve been fully committing all my time to make it to 86 but it’s such a slog

Might be worth waiting until the new Daemonheim Dig Site comes out in June.
That should cover you from 73 to 87 if I remember correctly :)
https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/may--june-content---our-updated-plans