Inventory Opportunity - Artifacts

[Tobril]

Opportunity:

There are now 23 BTC non-raid artifacts. At least half are quite good. A combination of the TR system and frequent balance changes to either nerf some builds or make other possible incentivizes players to collect every artifact on any character that is likely to change builds.

This is almost a complete bank tab. More artifacts are assuredly coming.

Even just collecting a few "good" artifacts is quite costly from a storage perspective.

It's also much more enjoyable to farm on an already geared character on the highest combination of difficulty and speed. (Higher drop rates and more chance at mythic/reaper affixes)

Ransack mechanics and no-release-valve situations like Sharn artifacts are also quite frustrating.


Suggestion:

Make non-raid artifacts BTA or otherwise easy to place in BTA storage.


This will improve the game by:

• Making alts easier to gear up. More alts means more XP potions, Otto boxs, tomes, and other consumables.
• Lower overall storage required per account.
• Lessen the size of the TR cache.

[LiveFast]

+1
Making non-raid artifacts BTA would simply make sense now that all non-raid loot is BTA. Would be a huge bump in QoL for alts. Great suggestion!

[droid327]

Maybe an "Antiquities Dealer" NPC that will trade your Artifacts for a special currency that you can then use to buy specific non-raid artifacts as needed? Maybe have the NPC be a Morgrave University archaeology professor or something. You could adjust the "exchange rate" for balance, maybe have only a limited subset of them randomly available per cycle, but that would let you essentially "store" your artifacts as stackable currency rather than individual items in a tab.

Honestly, inventory bloat needs to be dealt with more systematically, not just keep shoving everything into bank slots.

[FuzzyDuck81]

Maybe an "Antiquities Dealer" NPC that will trade your Artifacts for a special currency that you can then use to buy specific non-raid artifacts as needed? Maybe have the NPC be a Morgrave University archaeology professor or something. You could adjust the "exchange rate" for balance, maybe have only a limited subset of them randomly available per cycle, but that would let you essentially "store" your artifacts as stackable currency rather than individual items in a tab.

Honestly, inventory bloat needs to be dealt with more systematically, not just keep shoving everything into bank slots.

This would be a good option I think.. say 10 tokens required to get your choice of artifact back, it'd make farming random ones to get the one you want possible, but since those would be limited to non-mythic, non-reaper versions of them it'd still make a direct pull the best option. Bonus points if it's located in an extra mini-instance where it's a massive warehouse filled with shelves of wooden crates

[Tobril]

Bumping due to the BtA -> BtC stealth nerf for new artifacts.

[mikarddo]

Simply make all minor artifacts BtA. Its really annoying that it isnt the case.

Also, make the ML 30 augment ML29 so we dont have to carry twice the items due to the ML being 1 higher than the gear.

Both are completely no-brainers imho. Tiny effort for much happiness.

[Valerianus]

Simply make all minor artifacts BtA. Its really annoying that it isnt the case.

Also, make the ML 30 augment ML29 so we dont have to carry twice the items due to the ML being 1 higher than the gear.

Both are completely no-brainers imho. Tiny effort for much happiness.

totally no-brainers, instead what do we get? we are told that we are using the tr cache wrong. the nonsense.

[Alrik_Fassbauer]

What is an artifact ?

[mikarddo]

What is an artifact ?

https://ddowiki.com/page/Minor_Artifact

[Dendrix]

Create an new bag called an Artefact Case. 1000 slots. Only holds Artefacts.

[SoVeryBelgian]

The sheer glut of BtC **** is honestly annoying. Esp certain weapons that have it for no reason, like Garamol Loot Items.

If you're not going to add Bank Space or make it more easy to upgrade, let me at least move my **** to Bank Toons.