There are some artifacts that will not allow for any keystones at all.You are not required to use keystones when solving archaeological artifacts, but it certainly can speed up the process.

Some archaeology solves will allow for up to three keystones to be used - open your archaeology pane and look for the empty 'sockets' that may appear at the bottom to determine how many you might be able to use.It is an archaeological keystone that can substitute 12 fragments for each slot/socket you can place one into.People seem to forget the concept of opportunity cost all too often in this game.ĭwarf Rune Stone is the ultimate supplement to getting through your Dwarven solves much quicker. However, if the keystone is selling for more gold than you think you could have made in the time you would have otherwise spent archaeolgy-ing, then sell the keystone on the AH if you found it, or don't buy it yet if you didn't. If you think that in the time it would have taken you to find a dig for that race and dig it up on average that you could have made more gold doing other things (dailies, playing the AH, hawking your wares in trade chat), then by all means, use that keystone to free up time for other things. You have to judge what your time is worth versus what the worth of the keystone is on the AH.

(3 digs per site, each dig having a chance of giving you 3,4, or 5 fragments, or 4 on average. At this time, I believe it wise to use keystones wherever you can and to not complete a project that allows for one until you have one.

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