Artifacts

[Knight_Wolf]

I had an idea called Artifacts.

Artifacts:-

What are they:
Artifacts are small items that serve no direct purpose on their own, but when collected and combined (by manually placing an artifact over another in the inventory) they can be given/used at an NPC for various rewards.

How does this work:
-Every time a new game is started 10 artifact pieces spawn all around the world of sanctuary (spread across all acts randomly, some acts might not have them some might have 2 or 3 in its dungeons) and usually can be found in a special chest at the depths of some random dungeon .... if a player collects 6 out of the 10 pieces and combines them he can exchange them for a random Hi Quality Magic Item from one of the NPCs, if the player collects 8/10 he can exchange them for a Random Hi Quality Rare item from an NPC, if a player collects all 10 pieces he gets a Random Hi Quality Unique item from an NPC.

-Another use for artifacts would be exchanging them for Gems and Skill Runes, like every 5 artifacts can be exchanged for a hi-quality gem (not perfect though) or a medium quality Skill Rune.

Final Note:
Giving artifacts multiple purposes and and that same time limited number (10 per every new game spread out across all acts) will encourage players to seek them out and play the game instead of repeatedly boss-running the exact areas over and over.

And the Devs already stressed in many interviews they don't mind runs but they want to spread them all over the game instead of focusing on a couple of very specific areas that players farm fanatically.

[Cormac McArt]

How about Relics that will give you for example a Pair of Golden Lions on your side? :O

[NASE]

Do you mean that they have to find 10 artefacts in the same game? Or can they be transferred from one game to the other?

[sunkenfaith]

This seems to be a very interesting idea. But will the Artifacts last permanantly or is it a off oneoff thing?

[Knight_Wolf]

Do you mean that they have to find 10 artefacts in the same game? Or can they be transferred from one game to the other?

I gave it some thought, the only problem that came up is people spamming the early few levels (as in collecting all artifacts in early acts then starting a new game - rinse and repeat) to collect as many Artifacts as possible quickly without playing the later acts ... making artifacts nontransferable between games would solve this but still would feel very limiting, so i thought of a better solution.

Each artifact has a name or a number (from 1 to 10), artifacts from 1 to 4 or 5 can be found in early acts while the other from 5 or 6 to 10 can be found in the latter half of the game, so while you are able to transfer Artifacts or carry them over from one game to another you need a full playthrough in order to collect all artifacts per game and get best rewards (hi quality gems and unique items) .. yes you can have 3 or 4 copies of the 1st artifact but you won't be able to combine them and get a good reward until you get the later ones too.

This seems to be a very interesting idea. But will the Artifacts last permanantly or is it a off oneoff thing?

Thanks, they do last as long as you don't use them to get a reward .. once you combine a number of them and exchange them at an NPC for one of the listed rewards they vanish ... the artifacts left over (insufficient to get a reward) could be carried on to the next new game or kept for trading.