Tough Artifact Challenge!

[ChaseBanhart]

Recently I was unlocking and playing with artifacts and wanted to try to give myself a tough challenge. I enabled Honor, Glass, Swarms, Sacrifice, and Command and set a goal of sacrificing myself at the celestial altar.

The video of the run can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nenrvB17rzQ

What a run! My adrenaline was pumping the whole time!

I would highly recommend this incredibly difficult artifact set for anyone looking for a challenge. With Glass and Honor, you're almost guaranteed to die in one hit until you can get what little defensive items you can get your hands on.

I'd highly recommend starting with the Topaz brooch, as it essentially doubles your HP, allowing you to take at least one hit without dying (save for a really strong hit).

After that, grab some movement speed items, and just really learn how to dodge wisp attacks!

Try it for yourself and let me know if you are able to make it to the altar!

[Ittrix]

Ditch Command m'dude.

More challenging.

[JHarlequin]

The true artifact challenge seems to be all artifacts except command and sacrifice.

Having to get lucky with what drops and having to actually find the chests and loot are two of the biggest parts of the base game. Command and sacrifice are the truly all player sided parts of the artifacts. All the other artifacts sort of have major drawbacks to counter their good feature or are just simply added challenge.

[Ixzine]

Originally posted by JHarlequin:

Command and sacrifice are the truly all player sided parts of the artifacts.

Well, yes and no. Command is obviously as close to strictly beneficial as it gets, but Sacrifice is unreliable early game and my experience with it is you may get more Greens than normal, but a weird lack of Whites and fewer Reds than average than you get by opening Large Chests in normal runs. Obviously it can RANDOMLY be BETTER, too, and it's a crazy increase of items when looping on Monsoon, but I think if you're just trying to obliterate, it's whatever.

I still think vanilla chest-hunting is more interesting to spectate, for what it's worth, I just think Sacrifice is not an Easy Fun Mode item like Command is.

[Ittrix]

Sacrifice has a glitch for early game. I think the devs said they were gonna fix it or have, but generally you do get waay more items. Especially with swarm.

[ChaseBanhart]

Originally posted by Ittrix:

Ditch Command m'dude.

More challenging.

Yeah, for sure, I am working on increasing the difficulty more and more as I go.

Eventually I wanna do a 2 player run with all but Sacrifice and Command.

But I had to get my practice in this way before I truly figured out how to dodge wisps and other attacks properly. There were still a lot of spots in the run where I got lucky with the topaz brooch healing me up after a big hit that could have left me dead by fire or just other spots where I noticed I could have performed better, but overall I am happy with my improvement thus far.