Minor Artifact

Minor Artifacts are a special category of named items with particularly powerful enchantments. Minor Artifacts go into a character's normal equipment slots and can have filigrees slotted into it. The first Minor Artifacts were introduced with the Masterminds of Sharn expansion in Update 42.


 * Each Minor Artifact can only be equipped into a specific equipment slot.
 * A character may only equip a single Minor Artifact, regardless of slot.


 * They start with one slot for a single sentient filigree.
 * The same Filigree slotted into your Minor Artifact and Sentient Weapon do not stack with each other, although both will count towards Set Bonus requirements.
 * (Example: If you placed "Deadly Rain: Dexterity" into both your equipped Minor Artifact and your equipped Sentient Weapon, you would only gain +1 Dexterity BUT you would activate the 2-piece set bonus from Deadly Rain (+5 Ranged Power).)


 * Minor Artifacts can be placed into the Sentient Weapon UI, and can consume named items just like a Sentient Weapon to gain XP.
 * Sentient Jewels are not used, you can level the Artifacts directly by feeding them named items.
 * The XP cost for leveling is one half of Sentient Jewels.
 * A Minor Artifact cannot be consumed by a Sentient Weapon or another Minor Artifact.

Each Minor Artifact has a different number of maximum Filigree Slots, and the number of total slots cannot be adjusted by consuming a Sentient Spark. All Minor Artifacts available in Update 42, however, have three maximum Filigree Slots.

Sharn artifacts
The following applies to Update 42 Minor Artifacts:
 * The maximum number of filigree slots is three. cannot be used to increase the number of slots.
 * The Sharn Minor Artifacts are unique items flavored as coming from different parts of Khorvaire (museum artifacts)
 * They drop in raids and as reward for completing the main saga (not the cogs saga).
 * In saga rewards, there's 25% of an artifact on Elite and 50% on True Elite saga completion.