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Profile of Artifacts

By Byzantium

List of Artifacts I have encountered so far

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Guide Index

Overview

Notes

Accelerator

Amplify Wand

Banana

Birth Control Potion

Bondage Rope

Candle

Cheese

Cherry Cake

Clitoris Piercing

Dog Collar

Earing of Charm

Essence Cocktail

Fear Totem

Harness

Heart of Pain

Hero's Cloak

Hunk of Meat

Key

Lemons

Lucky Dice

Magic Cloth

Nipple Rings

Old Erotic Book

Overflowing Staff

Perfume

Pocket Watch

Protection Ring

Pure Water

Red Wine

Shield

Symbol of Greed

Telescope

Vibrating Device

Victim's Tears

Wilted Rose

Worker's Glove

Mistress' Pride

Vengeful's Pride

Conqueror's Pride

Comments

Notes

This is not a guide to artifacts, the text I have written below the images are my own opinion.

I play a cycling deck that draws repeatedly and cycle through my cards quickly. So my deck often consists of cards like Haste, Sadism, Finger play, Masochism and Mana Stream to gain mana and cycle faster.

My Level perks are a maxed out Survivor and Lover Skill Tree, so I have 4 max mana, 2 hp regen after each combat and the ability to drink essence to heal.

Also, this list is incomplete. There are a few other artifacts that I've not encountered yet.

Accelerator

Excellent Choice. The only artifact that permanently increases your Mana in exchange for boosting the enemies' power. Personally, the benefits always out scales the penalty.

Amplify Wand

Situational choice. Good for multi hit decks, bad for bleed-heavy decks. There are better artifacts than this for every other deck.

Banana

Losing 1 Max HP for lust generation makes it overall better than Cheese unless you have lust generation handled already.

With this, you can safely sacrifice lust for more essence and still run cards like Mistress, Finger Play and Upgraded Temptation.

Birth Control Potion

Weak Choice of Artifact. Purify gets removed by Weakened, which Ice Wall hits you with for more Shield Value. Ice Wall is currently one of the most efficient shield generators, so all this artifact allows you to do is to cast it earlier on the turn.

Bondage Rope

Weak Choice. There is currently 1 monster (Goblin Slinger, Floor 2) and 1 Boss (Slave Trader, Floor 1) that can constrain you.

Candle

Situational Choice. This allows you to find rest areas, merchants and the boss quicker, but becomes rather useless once you get Overflowing Staff since you will want to clear the entire floor to upgrade your cards.

Cheese

Weak Choice. Banana is better since it does more.

Cherry Cake

Weak Choice, Almost every other Rare Artifact is better than this. The only exception may be Harness.

Clitoris Piercing

Situational Choice. Good when you play a Lust-oriented deck. Decent when you don't. Even then, between Haste, Sadism and Finger Play, I usually don't lack for cards.

Dog Collar

Good Choice. Shred your deck for consistency between rest. Becomes an Excellent choice if you get Overflowing Staff.

Earing of Charm

(Note: Only obtainable if you successfully defeat the lustful party)
This artifact is worth the fight, Enemies past floor 1 often deal damage in double digits, so this artifact reduces damage by a minimum of 3. That's only the minimum, so it often allows me to cast another spell instead of Haste/Ice Wall/ Shield.

Essence Cocktail

In the early stages of playing the game, this is a Good choice because you don't have many ways of healing other than artifacts and resting. Once you hit the last skills of Lover after Survivor, this becomes a Weak Choice.

Fear Totem

Weak Choice, You start with 2 chills, which are 0 mana cards that inflict weaken too. Shield is better in my opinion for defensive matters, but this is good for removing initial Purity stacks.

Harness

Weak Choice. I find that 40 essences limit is fine.

Heart of Pain

Good choice. the 2 damage per turn stacks up over time.
For Bleed-Focused decks, you will prefer Red Wine

Hero's Cloak

Good Choice. Most deck will have an extinct card or 2.

Hunk of Meat

Situational Choice. Weak Choice overall, but becomes good when you want to heal. Might be Good at the start.

Key

Weak choice if you are looking for an combat-oriented artifact. Currently, constrained (Bound) doesn't do anything other than swapping 2 of your cards for struggle. This makes it worse.

However, there's is an event where you get an artifact if you have this in your inventory. See Worker's Glove below

Lemons

When life gives you lemons, you upgrade your deck, it seems.

Haven't got to test this out yet, as the by the time I finally got this, I had fully upgraded my deck with Overflowing Staff.

There's only 3 monsters I know that gives Wound spells: Goblin Slinger, Werewolf and Pounder. Since 2 of these are Floor 3 monsters, I think this is a Weak Choice until there.

Update: This artifact only works with events that put a permanent Wound card in your deck. Thus it is a rather Bad Choice. Remove Card options are extremely rare even with Dog Collar replacing all rest upgrade cards.

Lucky Dice

Good choice. Pocket Watch is better in my opinion, but I play a Sadism-Haste Deck. I draw when I attack and I draw when I gain shield.

Magic Cloth

Good choice. There is not a lot of artifacts that provides Defensive effect.

Nipple Rings

Well, you get this at the start of every game. It's your lust generator, and a weak one at that.

Old Erotic Book

On obtaining this artifact, you gain 8 essence. That's all. I'm hardly empty of essence when I play.
Weak Choice

Overflowing Staff

Best Choice. Keeps your deck small and upgrades them. Combine it with Dog Collar and you can optimize for a perfect deck of your choice.
The only card that might occasionally compare to this card is Accelerator, but that's until you reach the end node of Survivor.

Perfume

Weak Choice. Only works with Temptation. From what I have tried, it works even if your essence is full.

But it's only 1 Power loss for enemies.

Pocket Watch

Good choice. Free Mana every 3 turns, and turns are saved over battles.

Protection Ring

Good choice. Essentially a Free Upgraded Echo at the start of combat. Combine it with Shield and you can alpha strike almost freely.

Pure Water

Good choice. Pocket Watch is better, but Pocket Watch is less consistent than it.

Red Wine

Good choice for Bleed-Focus decks since it starts all combat with 2 bleed. Worse than Heart of Pain for other decks. Can be used to clear Purity Stacks

Shield

Good choice. Think of it as a Free Upgraded Shield at the start of each combat. Lets you attack aggressively on the first turn.

Symbol of Greed

Weak choice until it is your last artifact choice. Once you activate this, it is gone for the rest of the game. If you activate this before your reach the Floor Boss, you're probably screwed.

Telescope

Situational Choice. Bad for Bleed-heavy decks, Weak for every other deck. Multi-hit deck benefit from Amplify Wand more I think.

Vibrating Device

Weak Choice unless you're a Lust-heavy deck. The 2 Lust you get is one-time, so the long term benefit is the extra Lust capacity.

Between this and Banana, I think you may be able to cast that 10 lust life drain spell once every 3 or 4 combats.

Victim's Tears

(Note: Obtained by defeating the bandits in the 'R@pist' event)
Extra Essence is always good.

Wilted Rose

Weak choice. Only impactful against monsters with multi-hit attacks, of which there's about 1 type per floor (ignoring mimics).

Worker's Glove

(Note: Obtainable by using the 'Key' Artifact for the Captive Event)
Good Choice for Aggressive decks, Poor for pretty much for any others. It's really hard to take advantage of the power boost right at the start of combat. Works well with Shield, Protection Ring, Pure Water, and any other item that gives your buffs on your first turn.

Mistress' Pride

Note: Chosen between Vengeful Pride and Conqueror's Pride
Usually I would focus on improving Mana-based spells in my deck (With exception to Masochism), so this is a better choice in my opinion.
All three are situational depending on what you have not upgraded.

Vengeful's Pride

Note: Chosen between Mistress' Pride and Conqueror's Pride
Usually I would focus on improving Mana-based spells in my deck (With exception to Masochism), so this is a worse choice in my opinion.
All three are situational depending on what you have not upgraded.

Conqueror's Pride

Note: Chosen between Vengeful Pride and Conqueror's Pride
Worse choice of the three. you will only pick this if your HP is low.

8 Comments

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Gold Diamond Heart 20 Jan, 2023 @ 10:41am

Hi
I think you miss one item.
Where is the Ritual Skull item?

Lilia The Succubus 1 Feb, 2021 @ 11:44pm

Found something interesting. Red Wine negates the Head Restraints Restraint Artifact. Seems to just ignore the Purify application since it still applies bleed. Probably makes it top tier if doing a Submission run.

Brent 4 Dec, 2020 @ 8:59pm

Ah that explains it - thanks Byzantium! I agree that it is the best at that stage in the game :)

Byzantium [author] 4 Dec, 2020 @ 1:16am

@Brent
You are correct for Mistress Pride. You can not gain any more spells after picking it up.
However, I believe this event only can fire on the final level, which usually means your deck is effectively complete and can do without any more cards. Hence my default is actually Mistress Pride.

I have not checked yet, but I do believe the Overflowing Staff procs with the Mistress' Pride ability that prevents you from picking up more cards.

Brent 2 Dec, 2020 @ 4:02am

Can someone clarify further: with "Mistress' Pride", does it really mean that you have no way to acquire any more spells after you acquire that artifact?

It sounds like all 3 of the "Pride" artifacts are terrible! The best thing is probably to take Conqueror's Pride so you don't stagnate. If you have The Overflowing Staff then both the other "Pride" artifacts are useless... or am I missing something?

J-Kitty 1 Sep, 2020 @ 5:33pm

The object Itcraggs is mentioning is called "Scent of Kiss" but yeah every 8 turns you gain invincible. It's extremely situational though so it's more about preventing you from losing the Merchant.

ltcraggs 9 Aug, 2020 @ 9:55am

For completeness, there is another event card. I've stumbled upon it once.

The merchant is being attacked by two werewolves. If you aid her and win, you get an item that grants you "Mistress" every 8 turns. I can't remember exactly what it was called, but it was like "Ice Flower" or something.

If you choose not to help her, the merchant will not appear for the rest of the game.

UlteriorMotive/MysticOne 26 Jul, 2020 @ 9:35pm

The missing item you're talking about for the Key is the "Worker's Glove"

When you have the key and get the random event involving the goblin that is locked up, you can open the cage to get the artifact.

The Worker's Glove gives you the following: "At the start of each combat, gain 3 morale"

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