Najniaj
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Post by Najniaj on Apr 22, 2015 9:35:23 GMT -5
I've so far found no information specific or precise enough on 'artifacts' in the help files or forums so far - and as someone who's wasted a few characters trying to greb before catching on, I wonder - What are they? Is there a skill prerequisite to find them? Are there specific places to find them and most importantly, what purpose do they even serve? A small aspect of play, sure, but one I've been hung up on for a while. Thanks in advance  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2015 9:49:04 GMT -5
They are specific objects. There are six artifact forage rooms that I know of, not counting the silt shores and islands, and the elemental planes.
Most artifacts are spell components, or items that you can craft using component crafting, into a spell component.
They are items like a tattered waterskin, burnt boots, a small pouch (full of ash), a charred skull, etc.
A few of the items are worth a fair amount of money, but sell to shops that never have any money or are abused with other, much easier to greb items. To my knowledge there are now four artifact buying shops left. There used to be a shop in Tuluk that would buy them and not put them on the list, which is how some northern pcs made a great deal of coin very quickly.
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Post by sirra on Apr 22, 2015 10:01:25 GMT -5
Yep. I've probably made a hundred thousand+ sids from that Tuluki shop in my time playing Arm. Always thought it a bit broken.
Essentially, artifacts are the primary means of currency between gickers and rangers. The gicker with the best forage and ability to find artifacts (ruk) also has the least use for them.
Most gickers hate foraging artifacts or other items, because they suck at it (unless they took a grebbing subguild) and it makes them a target since those sites are fairly well known. You could build a profitable relationship with any gicker in the game by being willing to trade with them in this fashion. Most would even show you where to go.
It's not quite as profitable as it used to be, back when gickers could make more useful things for non-gickers (like magic weapons which can't be used by mundanes anymore), but its something to do when you're at 20 days plus with a ranger.
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Post by Najniaj on Apr 22, 2015 10:01:37 GMT -5
Thank you! That was very concise. I get the impression that unless you're a magicker, or have a line on one, scavenging for artifacts yields a lot less for effort invested than other ways to get coin. |
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Post by sirra on Apr 22, 2015 10:04:00 GMT -5
Thank you! That was very concise. I get the impression that unless you're a magicker, or have a line on one, scavenging for artifacts yields a lot less for effort invested than other ways to get coin. That's about it. But there is still stuff you can find at artifact sites which sells for a handful of sids at various curio or junk shops. And the Tuluki shop would pay like ~250+ sids for some things. I would not do it without a PC gicker paying me, though. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2015 10:26:49 GMT -5
Most shops that buy "artifacts" often are low on coins. Sometimes it can be difficult to find a buyer.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2015 10:27:58 GMT -5
Thank you! That was very concise. I get the impression that unless you're a magicker, or have a line on one, scavenging for artifacts yields a lot less for effort invested than other ways to get coin. The exceptional I would point out is silt pearls. If you have advanced forage, plus or minus a really high wisdom, you can forage artifacts on the silt shore for silt pearls (and other things). They can be used in jewelry making, knifemaking, or similar. |
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