Lilith's artifacts

[sillylittle]

for some reason i cant apply any more of lilith's artifacts. i have two incendiary and one corrosive artifact that when i try to apply them from my backpack, an error comes up saying "you cannot use this item". has anyone else run into this problem? is it some stupidly simple explanation that i'm not getting? lol

[Skitchrat]

well im no expert but is it posibly that its a glitch that you put on the artifacts all at the same time?

[pavlisek]

It's possible you already have artifacts of the same level applied.

[sillylittle]

i dont know about that skyguy, i put them on as i got them :/
maybe pavlisek, i'm up to 2 on incendiary and 3 on corrosive, and they've been dropping in the same area that i got them from so maybe each "area" has a certain level that drops. the ones i have are minimum requirement lvl 20, and i'm in the low 30s. i suppose that does make sense now.

[Kargor]

Yes, the game is somewhat inconsistent with the artifacts, but there shouldn't be anything to worry about (unless they added a stupid bug recently, of course).

When you look at an artifact it has a level requirement (I think it goes up to level 44, but I'm not sure), but using it bestows an upgrade to your action skill that is shown as an upgrade level between 1 and 6. You aren't told how these numbers relate, though -- artifacts don't tell you what upgrade level they'll give.

Things are simple, though -- if you can't use the artifact (despite having sufficient level), then you already have that upgrade at the same or an higher level -- so you don't need (if using it were implemented as a no-op) or want (if using it were implemented as actually lowering your upgrade level) to use that artifact anyway.

An artifact with a higher level requirement gives you a higher upgrade level, and you don't need to have the lower artifacts -- you could just wait until you're level 44, and use level 44 artifacts to bump the upgrades from '0' to 6: one small click for you. and one big step for your character.

[Bacchus]

1st playthrough artifacts level 1-3 (player level 14-32)
2nd playthrough artifacts level 4-6 (player level 38-44)