Season of Opportunity: Artifacts
Greetings, Adventurers!
Eight brand-new Artifacts have been added to the game to redefine your playstyle in the Season of Opportunity. We caught up with System Designer Isaiah Cartwright for the design philosophy behind each one. As always, every Artifact includes its own quest line for upgrades. Check out an overview of the 3 weapons and 5 armor pieces below, and then let us know what type of Artifacts you’re looking forward to in future updates.
You look extra powerful with this on. Everyone probably fears you. Probably.
Desperate Energy: If you hit an enemy while your mana is below 50%, gain 25% increased damage for 4s (10s cooldown)
How to get:
Level 20 on Free Season Pass
Developer insight:
The idea here is to deal some additional damage when a user has exhausted their mana pool. This helps keep the light helm a little more magic focused and gives you an extra push of power when you need it most.
Bulky plate that protects you from all who would do you harm.
Survive: If you get hit while below 50% health, you gain 50% stamina, lose all debuffs, and gain a potion surge that instantly refreshes your next used healing potion. (120s cooldown)
How to get:
Bought from the Well of Fortune in Cutlass Keys using Mystic Doubloons
Developer insight:
The goal here is to make a more active defensive chest piece rather than just giving you flat armor or health for survival. The Survivor's Coat helps get you back into the action. The challenge with defensive gear is making sure it doesn’t slow down combat too much, so this is one we’ll continue to keep a close eye on.
Your Empower? My Empower.
Ghostly Embrace: When you hit an Empowered enemy, dispel two of their Empowers and you gain 10% Empower for 10s (4s cooldown)
How to get:
Bought from the Well of Fortune in Cutlass Keys using Mystic Doubloons
Developer insight:
We see a lot of Empower stacking in the meta. The objective here is to provide a counter that allows players to take advantage of others’ Empowers.
Raw energy
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