The artifact weapons of WoW are soon losing their power. But does that really have gameplay implications?
By now, most players know that the time with artifact weapons in World of Warcraft is limited. In the upcoming Patch 7.3.5, there will be a new questline where players will use their artifact weapons to cleanse the corrupted sword of Sargeras in the Wound of Azeroth. In this article, we showed how players will use their artifact weapons one last time for an important task.
Although players do not directly lose their artifact weapon at the end of the questline, strange things will happen to the weapons afterwards. The colleagues from wowhead have already read the effects from the game data.
Artifact weapons lose power in Patch 7.3.5
The artifact weapons have become unstable due to the great strain. When players open the weapon interface (where the stats and artifact power can be viewed), the artifact weapon starts to tremble. The collected amount of artifact power begins to shrink and the weapon gradually loses its attributes.
As of now, it seems that this “loss of artifact power” is merely a visual effect meant to illustrate that the artifact weapons are losing their power. The absorbed corruption is too strong and causes the weapons to slowly “bleed out” their collected artifact power.
However, the weapons will probably not actually lose power – because then players would hardly be able to participate in endgame activities like raids until the release of the expansion Battle for Azeroth.
Cortyn says: Honestly, I find this visual effect pretty cool, and it will likely unsettle those players who do not inform themselves on news sites beforehand. The mere fact that we are losing our weapon, which has grown over months, through the slow “bleeding out” of artifact power is rather grim, but it feels like a worthy conclusion to me.
Let’s hope that it will truly be just a visual effect…
What do you think about this instability of the artifact weapons? A cool idea or should the weapons remain untouched?
Are you already preparing for Patch 7.3.5? You can farm legendaries in advance – at least a little!
