Offensive Artifact
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Offensive Artifact is a skill type available exclusively to the thief specialization Antiquary, via the Skritt Swipe skill. Artifacts replace the conventional stolen skills, and are randomly allocated.
List of offensive artifact skills[edit]
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Forged Surfer Dash
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1 | Offensive Artifact. Dash to the targeted location while dropping bombs along your path that detonate after a short period of time, dealing damage and burning enemies. More bombs are dropped the farther you travel. For a short time after using this skill, you continue to drop additional bombs at your location. | ||||
Forged Surfer Dash
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1 | Offensive Artifact. Dash to the targeted location while dropping bombs along your path that detonate after a short period of time, dealing damage and burning enemies. More bombs are dropped the farther you travel. For a short time after using this skill, you continue to drop additional bombs at your location. | ||||
| Metal Legion Guitar | 2 | Offensive Artifact. Rock out with your guitar, damaging and applying conditions to opponents around you, then slam the ground, damaging and stunning opponents in the area. For a short time after using this skill, your first weapon skill is replaced with your stealth attack, even when not stealthed. | ||||
| Mistburn Mortar
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¾ | Offensive Artifact. Shoot an orb that explodes upon impact with the ground, creating a corrupted area that deals damage and applies conditions to enemies. For a short time after using this skill, your strikes additionally inflict burning on enemies. | ||||
| Mistburn Mortar
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¼ | Offensive Artifact. Shoot an orb that explodes upon impact with the ground, creating a corrupted area that deals damage and applies conditions to enemies. For a short time after using this skill, your strikes additionally inflict burning on enemies. | ||||
| Summon Kryptis Turret
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½ | Offensive Artifact. Summon a Kryptis turret at your targeted location and[sic] fires at the closest foe in range. For a short time after using this skill, you deal increased damage to enemies that were struck by the turret. | ||||
| Summon Kryptis Turret
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½ | Offensive Artifact. Summon a Kryptis turret at your targeted location and[sic] fires at the closest foe in range. For a short time after using this skill, you deal increased damage to enemies that were struck by the turret. | ||||
Related traits[edit]
Improvisation (Deadly Arts) — Use stolen skills twice. Reduce the cooldown of all equipped utility skills when you steal. Cooldown effect will only trigger if all utility slots are filled and if at least one of your active utility skills is on cooldown. Does not affect inactive sequence skills.
Card Swap (Antiquary) — Gain access to Reshuffle. Remove conditions from yourself whenever you reshuffle your artifacts or use an artifact skill.-
Prolific Plunderer (Antiquary) — Gain an additional artifact slot. Whenever you pilfer, you gain an additional, random artifact. You can use one additional artifact when you pilfer with Skritt Swipe. -
Meticulous Custodian (Antiquary) — Your artifacts have increased effectiveness. Beneficial artifact effects last longer. -
Exhilarating Ephemera (Antiquary) — Gain increased damage for a period of time after using an artifact. -
Enterprising Aristocrat (Antiquary) — Gain initiative and barrier whenever you use an artifact skill. You take reduced strike and condition damage whenever you have barrier. -
Possessive Hoarder (Antiquary) — Artifacts grant boons to allies when used. Offensive and defensive artifacts grant different boons. Barrier granted through Magpie's Defense and Enterprising Aristocrat is now also granted to allies as well.
