With the announcement of Legion, a variety of new features were announced. One of them being Artifact weapons; weapons of great power that we are to use in our fight against the Burning Legion.
As the expansions have gone by, our characters have become more and more important in the storyline of each expansion. Come Warlords of Draenor, we were made Commanders of our armies and in Legion we are set to become Class Leaders. Important characters such as Thrall, Varian or Khadgar have their own, unique weapons that everyone recognizes, such as Thrall's Doomhammer.
The idea behind the Artifact system is to give the players their very own weapon; no more depending on drops or quest rewards. We are getting our very own weapons, that represent us and are part of our character's image. In total, there will be 36 Artifacts; 1 for each specialization. Each artifact will have a quest in order to acquire that artifact, and each artifact also has 4 skins for you to choose from. You get the base artifact, with the base skin. Then, as you level up your artifact, you gain access to new skins and you can also earn another skin through PvP. In addition, you can further customize your artifact with colours.
Pic: Frost Death Knight Artifact Skins
I mentioned you can level up your artifact, and with it you can also invest points into the Weapon's "Talent Tree", further customizing your artifact to your liking. At the start of the expansion, you have will have most of the skills for your weapon, and as the expansion comes to an end, you will have all of the skills your weapon can provide.
Pic: Artifact "Talent" Tree
I'm not sure how some of these abilities will work in PvP, as a self-resurrection and similar abilities would be quite overpowered in PvP. However, I can imagine that these abilities will be disabled in competitive PvP in the least.
The way you get your Artifact, will be soon after you arrive on the new continent; The Broken Isles. Upon arriving, you will receive a quest to go and acquire your spec-specific artifact. Towards the end of your questing experience, you will receive additional quests to then acquire the other artifacts for your class and specializations.
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