Glad I’m not the only one who didn’t know about Insane artifacts...completely news to me. Have we confirmed if anyone actually has them? Personally I only have 2 epics and 0 legendaries....don’t know if I’m doing something wrong or just imagining I’m far behind everyone. FOMO is getting to me.

You underestimate Speedy Crafters, in my opinion. It makes more money on some levels than either of the money boosts.

Speedy Crafters/Smelters values:
Poor: 5%
Common: 10%
Uncommon: 15%
Rare: 25%
Epic: 35%
Legendary: ??%
Insane: ??%

Edited 3/22/2021 04:22:00

At the bottom of Z's spreadsheet is a tab for all the Active Artifacts, it's not just a Passive Artifacts list.



On Fizzer latest twitch video he said all the maps should now be 20%-25% to 80%-75% Territory to Bonus money split. Meaning the Bonus Money Boost is still the one to upgrade.

With the nerfing of the Speedy Crafter artifact I think the best artifact is the Mine Boost.
There are 2 reason for this:
1. You can buy amries and most alloys/items, but you can not buy ore. Yes you can buy mine upgrades, but that takes time and the Mine Boost speeds that up as well.
2. There isn't a direct way to copy it with Advancements. Yeah you can upgrade individual ores, but that's not near as useful as the artifact.

Also Fizzer has 2 Epic Artifacts; Army Camp Boost and Mine Boost. That should tell us something.


Dig Sites
Epic sites are: 1%, 2% or 3%.
Rare sites are: 4%-8%-16%-72%, 5%-10%-20%-65%, 6%-12%-24%-58% or 7%-14%-28%-51%.
Uncommon are at least a 86%-14% at the extreme either way and I think I've seen it up to 92%-8%, all the way down to a 50/50 split.

I save my longest dig site for last if I can. I also try to plan my dig sites so that they end when I'm awake, hate wasting time with no digging happening.

Edited 3/22/2021 22:20:28

1. true - Z's list contains also the active ones. I should probably mention it, although I care for those artifacts only as sacrifice fodder..

2. I'm playing right now through United States and Europe Huge where the territories generate way more money than the bonuses. I don't know if it is still the unupdated version, or just that each map has it's own charachteristics.

3. I have the Mine Boost artifact on the rare level (+14% boost), but the boost ignores all the upgrades at the tech tree, so at the end it's not that appealing.
I also sat down and calculated my total money revenue with Territory+Bonuses Boost vs Territory+Mine Boost (in my case Territories generated the most money). Territory+Bonuses won by giving me 1.32B/min in compare to 1.09B/min for Territory+Mine.

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4. yes, I should have listed all the percentages precisely, but I decided to simplify the information...
At the end it doesn't effect my strategy: I'll still prioritize digging an uncommon for even 15% chance than try my luck with 3% epic (that is of course if I don't have the time to dig all the artifacts in the map)

Wow. It's very useful! TY
maybe in the future we can create a Big list of all of artifacts

@Parsifal I can confirm that Territory Money has been strongly increased. I got 6T money from bonuses and 4T money from territories on Afro-Eurasia. But I also got an Epic Bonus Money Boost Artifact which is constantly equipped, so taken this into account, the two money sources should be 50/50 more or less.

Also, not sure if you've already seen it: There is now a "Modifiers" button at the top of army camps which is quite useful for seeing the single effect of the artifacts (and the advancements in general)

Joel:

maybe in the future we can create a Big list of all of artifacts

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13Od8lzysJoW5LdB2ruBn0xjwkwP7NfYHNA7Rq7TACUc/edit#gid=0

@Olja: exactly my point of view. I have both money boosters equipped at any idle time.
I did see the update on the modifiers - don't have APs to spare - I'm still going through Europe Huge (at least for 2-3 more weeks :| )

@Joel: if you mean the stats of all artifacts, you have the link to the same artifacts database included into the guide. If you mean you want to see the full gallery of images, then I don't see the point for it right now.
All the known passive artifacts are already in the guide - all the active artifacts are for now useless

Thanks!

Sooner or later you hit a poor artifact that's a great class--for me it was Army Camp Boost. At that point, poors were a priority for me so I could walk it up to common, uncommon, and rare. They're sac bait, no doubt, but you aren't digging those hoping for the epic artifacts...you're just looking to improve the other poors you have.

Very helpful.. ty everyone posting

@Gargamel: sure. that's what I wrote. at the beginning dig everything. at some point concentrate on uncommons.
All my artifacts are now upgraded to at least the uncommon level. Believe me, I don't make a pretty face when I dig up a poor one...

Great job! Thank you for the list.

Speedy Crafter/Smelter just got nerfed. They're now as pointless as the other Crafter/Smelter if you want to update your guide.

@Parsifal, There are actually 9 ways to get powers. The 4 you have plus:

-Participating in clan wars - WZC
-Free cache forum thread - WZC (once only)
-Global chat raffles - anywhere
-Winning special tournaments - WZC
-Getting top 11 in coin seasons - WZC

@Splat, yes, you are correct, thanks!

I focused my attention on non competitive ways through which any player can get a Power....
But I will include those as well

at the beginning dig everything. at some point concentrate on uncommons.

I've been considering if this is actually beneficial vs targeting the 100% Common dig sites, b/c they are so much faster.

NOTE: Just added this line after writing this note. I realized my times listed here are with the CW 20% dig speed bonus active ... so just add 20% to all the times for a non-buffed dig time analysis, but the ratios will hold the same.

The ones with Uncommon %'s take 3x-5x as long (depends on Uncommon %), and 1/2 the time you still end up with Common. It might actually just be "quicker"/more artifacts of value earned in the same amount of time if you go for all Common. Get 3-5 Common in the time it takes to get 1 chance at an Uncommon.

So in 120 hrs of digging, either get:
[a] 20 Common = 1 Common every 6 hrs, or
(likely) get 3 Uncommon & 3 Common (50% rate) = average 1 Common every 6.7 hrs

So focusing on Common is slightly better (~12% faster), but can really be considered about even as far as raw value goes, probably more likely to come down to how well you micro your digging vs doing long ones, walking away and letting it finish.

However . . . getting more artifacts could be beneficial, b/c this means you have more types in your inventory which means you have better selection of what to keep, what to upgrade, what to use as fodder. If you already have your best pics, then it doesn't make a difference.

I didn't consider the cost of the digs, though. The dig times seem related to % chances of each level, but cost seems unrelated to levels but instead related to order of encountering within the map, so early map digs are cheap, late ones are expensive. So I suppose it comes down to money ... if you have tons of money, nothing changes, Common is slightly more efficient. But if all the later digs are equally expensive, and you are short on money, then using it on the Uncommon digs could make more sense.

What would you rate as top 3 equiped artifacts when IDLE?
And top 3 to have and use during active play?

To clarify what asdfgh said:

With the new update, you can no longer equip Speedy Crafters/Smelters and have it immediately finish the item/alloy. They now only work while the artifact is actually equipped. This is another nerf. Speedy Crafters is still going to be one of my more used artifacts (behind Army Camp Boost), but I am worried it'll be nerfed out of usefulness eventually.

Edited 4/28/2021 22:32:58