Artifact reforging guide
Artifact swapping
If you click on an artifact and click the change button, you can trade artifacts between your heroes.
Swap your artifacts to the hero who can best use them. (DPS is melee damage only, don't bother trying to make your ranged units stronger with it, their ranged damage is only increased with the skill stat)
Artifacts are multiplicative, not additive.
If you use 3x artifacts that give +100% health, they each double your health one after the other ending with 8x health or +700%.
Reforging artifacts with green gems.
You can spend anywhere from 100-1000 Green gems to reforge an artifact. You increase your success chance by 10% per 100 green gems spent. So 1000 green gems will guarantee success.
Reforging an artifact with green gems will change it into a random artifact. It will keep it's levels that you spent stars to increase, but it will lose it's rarily if you have already spent yellow/red gems increasing it's rarity. (I recommend saving green gems and spending them on the trader when he shows up, if you need new artifacts, you can get them by collecting hero cards and leveling up heroes, even ones you don't use just for the extra artifacts.)
Reforging artifacts with yellow and red gems.
Reforging artifacts is unlocked when you buy the final building (Forge).
You can spend anywhere from 100-1000 yellow/red gems to reforge an artifact. You increase your success chance by 10% per 100 yellow/red gems spent. So 1000 yellow/red gems will guarantee success.
There are 3 artifact types in the game.
Artifacts start with a set amount of total stats split randomly making for a lot of variety initially. Reforging a 2 stat artifact to red equalizes it's stats completely meaning all DPS/Skill artifacts with be identical once reforged to red.
1 = Health
2 = DPS/Skill
3 = DPS/Skill/Health. (More research needed into how stats reforge on this artifact)
How 2 stat artifacts work
The starting stats are split randomly between the 2 stats of the artifact. That random stat split can actually have 0 on a stat. the stat with 0 will not initially show up on the artifact at all, but you will see it when reforging it with yellow gems. So a DPS/Skill artifact can actually show up as pure DPS or as pure Skill if it happens to randomly split the stats 100% / 0%.
Ultimately that random split doesn't matter though once you reforge an artifact to red. This is because reforging an artifact with red gems brings the total stats on an artifact to double but it does not give the stats at random. It equalizes the stats so all DPS/Skill artifacts end up with the exact same evened out stats once reforged to red.
Example
a DPS/Skill artifact with 100% skill and 0 DPS when reforged to red will gain 0 Skill and gain 100% DPS so that it has equal of both stats.
Choosing what artifact to reforge
I would recommend only reforging Pure Health artifacts and SPD/Skill artifacts. This is because the artifacts are multiplicative, the more you focus on a single stat the more drastically that stat will increase.
Pure health artifacts
always a good choice for your tank, fill his artifacts slots with these.
DPS/Skill artifacts
For ranged damage dealers, healers, buffers.
Because the stats equalize on the 2 stat artifacts, if you have a DPS/Skill artifact with pure skill, or almost all skill and very low DPS, reforging it to yellow and red will give it an all or almost all DPS increase. If you want that artifact for the Skill and don't care about the DPS on it, then reforging it to yellow or red would be a complete waste.
On the other hand, if you have a pure DPS artifact, or one with almost all DPS and very low skill, reforging it to red will give it an all or almost all Skill increase to equalize the stats, making it just as good as the pure skill artifact.
So to take advantage of this, lets say you wanted to get as much Skill as you can on a character and you had an artifact with 190 Skill, and 10 DPS on it. And another artifact with 10 Skill and 190 DPS on it. One is already great for Skill, the other is terrible. If you reforge them both to yellow and then both to red, both of them would have the exact same stats of 200 Skill and 200 DPS. So reforging your already great artifact only increases its skill by 10 and is a huge waste while reforging that initially terrible artifact will increase it's skill by 190 and make it amazing.
Be careful
One thing to watch out for, sometimes the DPS/Skill/Health artifacts starts with fewer stats because some happened to get 0, don't be fooled into reforging it thinking that it is a 2 stat artifact, or even a pure health artifact (I have a DPS/Skill/Health artifact that is currently pure health and upgrading it will add in both DPS and Skill evenly while adding 0 to health). On the reforge page of an artifact you can click on the artifacts reforged version before reforging it. Use this to see what it will become before you reforge it with yellow gems / red gems. So double check to make sure the artifact will give the stats you expect.
I have a half Skill half DPS artifact that I assumed was a DPS/Skill artifact but when checking what it would reforge into as a yellow artifact, it gained mostly Health surprising me to find out that it wasn't what I thought it was
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