A Guide to Artifact Weapons

A Guide to Artifact Weapons

Artifacts are spec-specific weapons in Legion that grow in power as you play through the expansion. You can customize its appearance as well as what character abilities it improves! This guide provides an overview of Artifacts in Legion and Wowhead's tools.

Only Azeroth’s most seasoned veterans possess the fortitude to wield artifacts of legend against the Burning Legion. Your myth-forged weapon grows in power as you do, and your choices will change its abilities and the way it looks, sounds, and feels in combat. Fashion your artifact into the perfect instrument of battle, and guide your faction in its most desperate hour.

Quick Fact
Each spec gets a unique weapon - 36 weapons total (+1 Fishing Artifact, available to anyone). These are intended to be ultimate weapons for you, the hero.
Each artifact is acquired by completing a spec-specific quest that emphasizes your class' unique abilities and reveals more about important lore figures.
Your Artifact Weapon is your main weapon in Legion, there are no other weapons that will match its power.
Traits increase the strength of various class abilities while relics enhance specific traits and increase the item level of your weapon.
Artifacts increase in power through Artifact Power unlocking traits and Relics which can be socketed into the weapon.
Artifact Knowledge is a system which helps players progress faster on their off-spec weapons. You can acquire all artifacts for your class via the Order Hall Campaign.
Artifacts have different styles and color tints which are unlocked through various activities. You will be able to transmog your artifact to another appearance, but cannot transmog other weapons to look like your artifact.

ARTIFACTS BY SPEC
DEATH KNIGHT

An ancient Legion axe forged from a metal that drains its victims' vital energies. The soul of its original creator is trapped within and cursed with unending hunger. For more than a thousand years, an old and cunning mo'arg has used the axe to butcher uprisings and consume the life force of the Legion's foes. Over its long and infamous history, the weapon has made its demonic bearer extraordinarily powerful.

Artifact Calculator Weapon:  Maw of the Damned (2-Handed Axe) Relic Slots Blood X 1 Shadow X 1 Iron X 1 Artifact Ability:  Consumption Artifact Acquisition Questline: Youtube Hidden Abilities & Flavour Spoiler:

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