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Note: [1] The actual item "The Twin Blades of Azzinoth" is still an artifact.

One artifact per server?

Is it true that there will only be one of each artifact per server? Like, after one person gets Frostmourne, no one else can get it.

They aren't even out yet. So anything you hear about artifacts should immediately say "That's not true". --Sky (t | c | w) 08:19, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
I think I'd be disappointed with Blizz for allowing anyone to have Frostmourne. It's too ... special, for every wrong possible ruin. Allow I imagine the irony comes from the fact that the person to wield it would have given away their soul to the game anyway and be a slave to the dark powers in Azeroth. :) Paynes 01:20, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Artifacts are Red

Just made an edit to reflect the official color of Artifacts being red, and Heirloom items being gold.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Zeldain (talk · contr).

The removed list of items are not heirlooms (the section name also makes no sense now), even if their names are gold.--SWM2448 02:27, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Artifact vs Heirloom

(aka bind to account items)

Watch what happens if you try mail your 'baby blizzard bear' to someone on a different account

Error is "Artifacts can only be mailed to your own characters."

Anyone tried it with the actualy "heirloom" items? Artifacts have long appeared in gold, wether intended to be red or not, links to Martin Thunder /have/ been seen on live servers, and that turns (turned?) up with the gold link back then, same as the heirlooms do.

Not entirely sure the client / server its self knows the difference right now, which is a moot point since artifacts aren't player accessible anyway however... Something to think about.

Iprice (talk) 02:47, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Are Heirlooms a "higher" quality than Artifacts or is it like Cold Weather Flying which isn't really a "higher" level than Artisan Riding? Rolandius Paladin (talk - contr) 03:32, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
There are not any Artifact quality items currently obtainable in the game, but they would be higher than Legendary, if they were introduced. Heirloom quality items do exist, and they are roughly equivalent to Rare quality items, but they are a special case, with scalable stats from lvl 1 to 80. I don't think we're likely to see players with artifacts any time soon, but the code is there in the game API (in API GetItemQualityColor, at least), and they are distinct from heirlooms, despite currently using the same colour. --Murph (talk · contr) 03:39, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Okay. I was just wondering where in the order of quality Heirlooms fit in on WoWWiki. Right now it is poor > common >uncommon > rare > epic > legendary > artifact. Rolandius Paladin (talk - contr) 04:55, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Heirloom isn't really in the order as the previous qualities were, but it's roughly equivalent to rare. --Murph (talk · contr) 05:04, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
If it scales with level, wouldn't it be a pretty high qualty if you were like level 70 or 80? On WoWhead, I noticed they have it above Artifact. Rolandius Paladin (talk - contr) 05:15, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Don't quote me on this, I'd need to check to be 100% certain, but they are equivalent to an item level 187 blue at level 80 - the same as the items from the level 80 normal mode instances. So, not incredible or particularly special at 80. I'm not quite sure how they scale, but I'd assume from the stats they have at 80 that they will be roughly equivalent to the best blue gear you could normally get for your current level. They most likely appear down the list on Wowhead simply due to the number for their quality level in the API (7). Normal items are 0 (poor) to 6 (artifact). --Murph (talk · contr) 05:20, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Oh I see. Using the Thottbot scoring method, with Reforged Truseilver Champion as an example, I got a score of about 1,051. It is right below Dreadlord's Blade, which has a score of 1,082 and an item level of 187, so I think that matches your thoughts, at least when I used Reforged Truseilver Champion as an example. Rolandius Paladin (talk - contr) 05:32, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, that sounds about right. I think the basic idea is that you can earn them on your level 80 characters, and they might be good for your 80s for a little while, but then you can mail them to an alt and they will be good and never need replaced until the alt hits 80. So, it's effectively a way of allowing easier alt levelling, and some pretty cool items on your alts, but probably not significantly overpowered. I guess they might work for levelling from 80 to 90 in version 4 (if such a thing is ever released), although they might leave them as "Requires level 1 to 80" and force us to buy new level 90 heirlooms (total speculation). --Murph (talk · contr) 06:01, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Ya it looks like it is good for alts rather than your main if you are already at level 80. Too bad the item level doesn't scale so that we could use it for achievements. Rolandius Paladin (talk - contr) 06:47, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
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