Seasonal Artifact

The Seasonal Artifact is a gameplay system introduced in the Season of the Undying.

Overview

Seasonal Artifacts are Legendary-quality items that appear in the equipment slot in the bottom-left corner of the character's equipment screen. By gaining experience and increasing their seasonal rank, the player will gain a Power Level bonus and be able to unlock Artifact Perks. Artifact progression is shared account-wide between all characters, and is reset at the start of a new Season.

The Artifact features a different selection of 25 Artifact Perks each season, separated into tiers of 5. Each tier is unlocked by buying a certain amount of perks from the previous tiers. The player buys perks by using artifact unlocks. A maximum total of 12 perks can be active at a time on the Seasonal Artifact. Artifact perks can be refunded at no cost, allowing the player to experiment freely with different combinations of perks. Unlocking the maximum number of perks gives a Masterwork border to the Artifact.

Tier 1 is available by default, tier 2 becomes available after unlocking 3 perks, tier 3 becomes available after unlocking 5 perks, tier 4 becomes available after unlocking 7 perks, and tier 5 becomes available after unlocking 10 perks. Individual perks can be refunded as long as doing so would not cause perks unlocked on a higher tier to become inaccessible.

Artifacts

• Season of the Undying: The Gate Lord's Eye — obtained at Seasonal Rank 7;
• Season of Dawn: The Lantern of Osiris — A Matter of Time quest reward;
• Season of the Worthy: Warmind Khanjali — Into the Mindlab mission reward;
• Season of Arrivals: Seed of Silver Wings — In the Face of Darkness quest step reward;
• Season of the Hunt: Fang of Xivu Arath — Vanguard Communications quest reward;
• Season of the Chosen: Bell of Conquests — A Challenger Rises quest reward;
• Season of the Splicer: Paradrome Cube — Beneath the Great Machine quest reward;
• Season of the Lost: Wayfinder's Compass — Mission: Cocoon reward;
• Season of the Risen: Synaptic Spear — Rising Tensions quest step reward;
• Season of the Haunted: Nightmare Harvester — Operation: Midas mission reward;
• Season of Plunder: Skeleton Key — Salvage and Salvation mission reward;
• Season of the Seraph: Seraph Cipher — Extraction Protocol quest reward;
• Season of Defiance: Ascendant Scepter — Awaken, Queensguard quest reward;
• Season of the Deep: NPA Repulsion Regulator — Beneath the Waves quest reward.
• Season of the Witch: Acolyte's Staff
• Season of the Wish: x20px Queensfoil Censer

Notes

• Before Artifact Perks were introduced in the Season of Defiance, the Seasonal Artifact unlocked Seasonal Mods that could be equipped.
• Starting in the Season of the Risen, all 25 Seasonal Mods on the Artifact could be unlocked at once. This was reverted to 12 when Artifact Perks were introduced.

Patch History

• 7.1.0
  • Artifact perks can now be individually refundable by clicking on an active perk.
• 7.0.0.1
  • Most Hero/Legend/Master/Grandmaster activities now feature the ability to use “overcharged” weapons for increased damage. Which weapons are overcharged are determined by your Seasonal Artifact unlocks and activity modifiers.
  • Unlocking a perk in the Seasonal Artifact now grants that perk directly to the character when it is relevant; you no longer need to socket an armor mod to gain an Artifact perk's effect.
  • Column 2 of the Artifact now unlocks multiple discounted mods per node.
  • The maximum number of unlocked perks has been reduced to 12.
  • Resetting your selections in the Seasonal Artifact is now free.
  • Removed the one-second button hold to unlock an Artifact perk; a single button press now unlocks the perk.
• 6.3.0.4
  • Fixed an issue where players were unable to reset their artifact if they had no artifact unlock points available.