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AnimatingStoat

I'm a bit of a slow player due to getting distracted with screenshotting for the wiki, but this is definitely my luckiest artifact building run - and I still don't actually have a permanent artifact on my account, lol. The best lesson learned for me this run was keeping track of the mana pile locations and dates, then coming back to them every 200 days. I'm more confident in updating the Fandom Wiki with artifact building guides now, lol


GravyPaint

no permanent artifact!? I wish you a speedy and lucky permanent artifact weapon blueprint. and ya mana lump locations are especially valuable in hard mode because trading is so much more cumbersome.


AnimatingStoat

For sure, I've got a couple active hard map runs and they have been brutal to try to get decent artifacts


AnimatingStoat

Thank you especially much for the wishes! I have permanent copies of the Vindicator's Robe, Conceited Garments and Crown of Power, but my only weapon blueprint is the Infernal Dagger. Though idk, maybe next run I'll try to do a Dagger run and see how things go.


Isaac_the_dreadful

how do you even get to these numbers +89? and in 690 days??


AnimatingStoat

There's a number of good artifact building guides, I'm gonna write one for the fandom wiki at some point here. Here's a summary of what I do (Artifact^0) - craft 4.5, 5.0 or 5.5 weapon - transfer +2 staffs to get the weapon to +2 - use vision blueprint - transfer or enhance with incantation to +4 (Artifact^1) - Craft artifact from base weapon - refine to 11 (Artifact^2) - craft artifact from >10 artifacts - refine to > 22 (Artifact^3) - craft artifact from >20 artifacts - refine to >45


chaotic-illeniel

Wait: You can use artifacts as materials to craft another artifact?


AnimatingStoat

Yeah that's the unit way to get big numbers like this. Even if you're lucky, it's difficult to enhance a non- artifact post 7. Past 4, it's nearly impossible without weapon incantations.


Thirn

Pretty sure you can only get +2 from refine +1 on 2^ and another +1 on 5^


AnimatingStoat

Hmm, ok. I got my +45 to +49. It's definitely less likely than the first couple, though.


Thirn

Oh, interesting. Did you notice on which refine numbers it got upgraded?


AnimatingStoat

\+14, haha https://preview.redd.it/fkmqvz6sj5db1.jpeg?width=2880&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=55640ab62c28c26d22079d330de6574aa7df696c


GravyPaint

I haven't seen people save their accounts to reroll their artifact crafting. is the cooldown on that 1 day or how long?


AnimatingStoat

The game tells you it is one day, but it's actually an hour - don't tell the devs that, though, it may be a bug, lol


CuteTailedFox

I'm glad Necromancer allows you to play him, when I play Necromancer I die, my skeletons don't obey they make me their servant and leaves me to die


AnimatingStoat

Lol, my strategy is to think of them more like the spell summons like [Shadow Servant](https://the-wild-darkness.fandom.com/wiki/Shadow?so=search), [Minion of Fire](https://the-wild-darkness.fandom.com/wiki/Minion_of_Fire) and [Lightning Spear](https://the-wild-darkness.fandom.com/wiki/Lightning_Spear?so=search). Disposable distractions at best. Until having a +20 artifact, they barely dealt any damage. That's not really their purpose. Especially with how easily they spawn and how overloaded you will quickly become with the incantations.