Artifact

Artifacts are rare objects and curiosities collected by Guardians. Unlike armor, class items, shaders, and Ghost shells, artifacts do not alter the player's appearance in any way when equipped. Instead, their primary benefit lies in their ability to further boost the player's Intellect, Discipline, and Strength values. They also provide an additional method for the player to generate Orbs of Light; specific perks may generate an extra Orb if the player kills an enemy using elemental damage, or kills an enemy using a grenade. Artifacts related to the Iron Lords were added by Rise of Iron, and feature additional, exclusive perks.

List of Destiny artifacts

All classes

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  Memory of Felwinter

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  Memory of Gheleon

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  Memory of Jolder

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  Memory of Perun

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  Memory of Radegast

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  Memory of Silimar

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  Memory of Skorri

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  Memory of Timur

Hunter Rare The Maraid Efrideet's Eye Ahamkara Scale Filament Hex Neural Bezoar Pallas Ring Thrice-Wrapped Thing Trinary Star Wax-Sealed Case Legendary Coyote's Luck The Pahanin Errata Dredgen Yor's Rose Parasitic Optic Two-Sided Coin Ankh of Sai Mota Blood-Soaked Charm Butterfly Code Deidris's Fist Hezen Totem Jasper Carcanet Oraclery Oversoul's Scream Parasitic Optic SIVA Shard Perfected SIVA Shard Rainbow Blade Prismatic Heart Thrallskin Drum Unerring Compass

Titan Rare Kabr's Pocket Watch Saint-14's Ring Radegast's Blade Asharru's Hope Cyclopean Enigma Fortuna Pendant Horn of Six Wars Iglatho-Cyu Legendary Judgment of Mars Intact Warmind Core Scales of Eao Yzoz's Pendulum Wei Ning's Cong Vell Tarlowe's Vigil Bretomart's Pledge Claw of Command Continuum Pin Echo of Honor Firebreak Eternal Incubation Shell Oversoul's Pang SIVA Core Perfected SIVA Core Scroll of Eimin-Tin Sootpearl Stoneborn Relic Sunscorched Lens Wings of Apris-Fol

Warlock Rare Segoth's Head Skorri's Dirge Ring of Living Stone Light of Moths Silent Oracle Spectral Dust Techeun Bangle Tome of Nothing Weregilt Legendary Oddly Colored Cube Thanatonaut's Lullaby Sisyphus Project Flamel Crest Warp Fragment Sins of Kharad-Tan Transcendent Eye Broken Crown Chronofuse Colovance's Choice Hourless Glass Leaf of the Bleeding Tree Numinous Web Oversoul's Gasp SIVA Capsule Perfected SIVA Capsule Specimen Twelve The Damned Lute The Traitor's Die Whispering Sphere

List of Destiny 2 artifacts

In Destiny 2, artifacts are earned either via the season pass free track or via a free quest, and any artifact can be used by any class unlike in Destiny. They provide the player with a Power bonus that increases as the player levels up the artifact by earning experience points. Aside from the Power bonus, the artifact gains 1 artifact point when it levels up.

These artifact points can be used to unlock mods for weapons and armor. It takes 1 artifact point to unlock 1 mod. Each seasonal artifact has a different set of mods that can be unlocked. The seasonal artifact disappears along with the mods and Power bonus when the current season ends, though the artifact and associated lore can be viewed later in the Collections menu.

Before the release of Lightfall and the launch of Season of Defiance, players would pay an amount of Glimmer to reset their artifact points, which can be done an infinitely at an increased cost each time. Mods from the artifact applied to gear no longer work if the artifact is reset and the mod is not unlocked again. With the release of The Witch Queen, players were able to unlock all 25 mods present on the artifact. With Lightfall, this was reverted back to a standard 12 unlockable mods, albeit the mods were now passive and didn’t not require any slotting into armor pieces. Resetting the artifact now also is free because of this.

Destiny 2 artifacts

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  The Gate Lord's Eye

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  The Lantern of Osiris

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  Warmind Khanjali

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  Seed of Silver Wings

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  Fang of Xivu Arath

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  Bell of Conquests

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  Paradrome Cube

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  Wayfinder's Compass

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  Synaptic Spear

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  Nightmare Harvester

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  Skeleton Key (Artifact)

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  Seraph Cipher

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  Ascendant Scepter

Trivia

• Throughout the entire Destiny series, there hasn't been an Exotic artifact.

List of appearances

• Destiny
  • The Taken King (First appearance)
  • Rise of Iron
• Destiny 2
  • Season of the Undying
  • Season of Dawn
  • Season of the Worthy
  • Season of Arrivals
  • Season of the Hunt
  • Season of the Chosen
  • Season of the Splicer
  • Season of the Lost
  • Season of the Risen
  • Season of the Haunted
  • Season of Plunder
  • Season of the Seraph
  • Season of Defiance