Artifice Armor is one of the many armor types that players will come across in Destiny 2. Although they fall under the Legendary Armor category, they're slightly different.
Destiny 2, in essence, is a game where creating a proper character build is of the utmost importance. Yes, it can be played without paying too much attention to a build.
That would, however, reduce the efficiency of a player in mid- to high-level activities, making it unnecessarily difficult for them. Artifice Armor plays a vital role when it comes to build crafting because it gives players a certain degree of freedom during the process.
Most Legendary Armor pieces in Destiny 2 come with four mod slots. The first slot is always reserved for stat mods. The remaining three slots are reserved mods that enhance gameplay performance.
In the case of Artifice Armor, there is an additional mod slot. Prior to the Lightfall expansion, this slot could be used to equip an extra combat-style mod, but now players can only use a minor stat boost mod on it.
But then again, some players might question that many raid-specific armor pieces also have an additional mod slot on them, so what is the difference between these two?
The only difference is that the final slot on the armor pieces received from the raids is reserved for raid-specific mods.
For example, an armor piece that drops from the Garden of Salvation raid will have an additional slot for mods that work in the Garden of Salvation raid only. This makes them behave like any other regular Legendary Armor piece in any activity.
When it comes to the Artifice Armor pieces, the first two slots are reserved for stat mods. The only difference is that the stat mods in the second slot provide a +3 bonus to a stat of choice, but
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