Artifact list

Wolfarus · Post by **Wolfarus** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 3:15 pm

It was mentioned that CR rated 20+ monsties have a small chance of dropping an "artifact" from a list of the things. Dont suppose we could get a posted (at least partial) list of what can drop? Curious minds want to know

DrakhanValane · Post by **DrakhanValane** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 3:43 pm

Find out in game. It's more fun that way. ;)

Of course players sharing what artefacts they find probably wouldn't be so bad.

Shasz · Post by **Shasz** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 10:56 am

Yeah, I tried starting a thread on it too, but no one seemed interested. Either that, or there aren't many things out there people would consider artifacts.

Post by **Flailer** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 11:16 am

Are some of the 'blue' items out there considered artifacts? I found a blue pair of shoes that was +5 dex and had +1 regen on it. Also a greatsword that was 'blue', but don't recall offhand what was on that.
Shade

Terminal Insanity · Post by **Terminal Insanity** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 11:52 am

the best things to collect are the little unID'd throwing daggars (vith the + vs shapeshift i think it was)... they sell for a ton, 0.0lbs, and they can stack together up to 99 keeping a uncluttered inv

I also keep my last page for boxes + gems... when i get a set of 10 gems i dump it in a box... got 3 boxes packed like that so far =)

One down side... i gotto drag them all out of the box and into my inv before i sell... cant just give em my box and tally up the price of its contents

Kelli · Post by **Kelli** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 5:42 am

This my be a little 'off topic' but would it be possible to find out where the cr 20+ critters are? The highest I've seen so far are the Giant Cheif Bralk, and Lord Geiron (SP?), and also the the Duskhaven Crypt vampire boss named vampire is either cr17 or cr18, sometimes a Vampire Lord will spawn that is cr18. Finding other cr ~20 critters would be very helpfull.

IcemanXV · Post by **IcemanXV** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 2:59 pm

Kelli wrote:This my be a little 'off topic' but would it be possible to find out where the cr 20+ critters are? The highest I've seen so far are the Giant Cheif Bralk, and Lord Geiron (SP?), and also the the Duskhaven Crypt vampire boss named vampire is either cr17 or cr18, sometimes a Vampire Lord will spawn that is cr18. Finding other cr ~20 critters would be very helpfull.

Most named NPCs in faction towns are CR 20+, as well as dragons. Formian queen is CR 20. I'm sure there are plenty more around the area, such as DoD.

AndrewCarr · Post by **AndrewCarr** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 3:35 pm

yeah, DoD drops a decent longsword if you're just killing outsiders.

I think the highest cr's i've seen are three named drow(two in SL HQ, and the high wizard in the wizard's tower) in menzo. But unfortunately, going thru and slaughtering a bunch of effortless mobs to kill a couple challenging ones isn't as good xp as killing a bunch of goblins repeatedly, so i don't go there too much anymore.

But the only lvl20 items i know of really are the shortsword of sharpness and the double axe that drops in house meurne in menzo.

Master artisan stuff is also lvl 20 afaik(like silvery longbows) but it's not dropped, and so there isn't as much variety :*(

[Edit:] Oh, and those boots are lvl16 req i believe. I'd go for imbued mithril ones instead, since they add something like +3 ac, and +dex, which is much nicer imo b/c the dodge ac stacks with itself, and i'd gladly take a dex hit of 1-2 for an ac gain of similar number.

IcemanXV · Post by **IcemanXV** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 5:05 pm

The imbued mithril boots are indeed nice. +3 ac +5 dex and +4 reflex throws. Hard to beat that unless you absolutely NEED regen.

JesterOI · Post by **JesterOI** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:10 am

Yeh especially since the total +reflex save is 6 straight from the boots, and 7 if you have an odd dex score. That's massive!

Wolfarus · Post by **Wolfarus** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:46 am

Ive fought plenty of 20+ creatures in the past cple weeks (mainly the garagoth bosses and angmar the dragon) and i have yet to see anything i can say is an "artifact". The nearest ive seen is the planar link the formian queen drops, but since she seems to drop that EVERY time you kill her, dont think that counts as one.

A small list posted by the devs / dm's would be helpfull, give us a clue as to what we're looking for, exactly. Dosnt have to list abilities and such, just names would be nice.

Devlin · Post by **Devlin** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 11:21 am

I do not think the devs should post what the artifacts are. In real life we do not know something is an artifact until we find it which is really cool to find something so rare and valuable. If it is posted, then you will have players by the masses going after the item exspecially if it is posted where it drops. Then after a while it will not be a rare artifact because many players will have it.

JesterOI · Post by **JesterOI** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 11:30 am

Yeh, but from what I hear, artifacts are random drops from random cr20 creatures.
So, we already know where artifacts drop (cr 20 creatures).

I think what Wolf was saying is that he was asking the devs what an artifact would look like, like gold text in the description for example (just guessing here).

Wolfarus · Post by **Wolfarus** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 12:36 pm

Yep. Either a common descriptor that they all have (like the gold text that jest mentioned) or the artifacts name. Like "The blessed scalpel of
Okie-Castration" :wink:

Kelli · Post by **Kelli** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 4:18 pm

What items are considered Artifacts?