If you can monitor the bot often then using Kicks questing profiles is a good way, used on a few chars and it works darn good but you do need to do some quests when it asks you to. Never done Archaeology so not sure about that. Gathering takes alot longer, pretty sure it took around 20 hours for my bot to get one level if i remember correctly. Also questing is good because you get constant upgrades to items and also get rep so if you gonna get rep gear its alot easier.