🗿 Artifacts (Traditional Minor)

The Traditional Minor Artifacts are so named as they are the first set available without the "Artifact Rarity" label. They can be obtained in three different ways, though some artifacts are exclusive to certain sources.

Although termed "Minor", their value can exceed that of so-called "Major" artifacts—depending on the difficulty involved in obtaining them, or their practicality.

Leviathan Artifacts

The Leviathan is a large sea monster, fought in deep water. It is rather difficult to summon (a rare Fabled Fishing Net is required, available from one in twenty five MiBs), and moderately dangerous to battle.

Those who deal higher levels of damage to it have a chance of receiving an artifact at the end of the fight. The person who called forth the beast automatically has a 25% chance. Having a high level of Luck on your armor boosts the odds in your favor.

Because of the difficulty involved in getting the nets versus the low chance of receiving a reward at the end of the fight, the two Leviathan specific artifacts (the Ghost Ship Anchor and Seahorse Statuette) are extremely rare and valuable (even if they only serve as decoration). During the Spring Cleaning 2008 event they were worth 25,000 points (as opposed to the 500 points awarded for any other Traditional Minor—50 times the value).

Leviathan Specific Items
Leviathan / Treasure Map Items
Leviathan / Paragon / Treasure Map Items

Paragon Artifacts

When a non-Champion/Named Monster spawns in Ilshenar, there is about a 5% chance it will be a Paragon of its kind. Paragons are far more powerful than a standard creature of their type, and the stronger examples can potentially kill an unprepared player within a couple of seconds.

Defeating a paragon provides a chance of having a Traditional Minor appear directly in your pack dependent on the Fame of the creature, and your level of Luck. Although they don't give artifacts terribly often, the paragons themselves are fairly easy to locate (and often to defeat) and so their specific artifacts are considered common.

Paragon Specific Items
Paragon / Treasure Map Items
Paragon / Leviathan / Treasure Map Items

Treasure Map Artifacts

Paragon creatures capable of dropping Treasure Maps as loot have a 10% chance of providing a special chest on death. This chest contains a map that is one level above whatever that creature would usually drop. Ingeniously drawn (Level 6) maps are obtainable via the chests dropped by monsters who would normally drop Devious (Level 5) maps. Diabolically drawn maps can be obtained from Level 6 treasure map chests.

Certain Mondain's Legacy Named Monsters (e.g., Miasma) also drop such chests (even though they don't spawn in Paragon form).

The creatures in concern are:

Ancient Lich	Ancient Wyrm	Balron	Betrayer
Blood Elemental	Cu Sidhe	Ethereal Warrior	Miasma
Poison Elemental	Pyre	Putrefier	Rotting Corpse
Shadow Wyrm	Skeletal Dragon

This list may not be complete. Know any others? Please add them!

Every chest dug up according to an Ingeniously (Level 6) or Diabolically (Level 7) drawn map will contain a single Traditional Minor artifact (and also spawn a host of very powerful guardian monsters).

Treasure Map Specific Items
Treasure Map / Leviathan Items
Treasure Map / Paragon Items
Treasure Map / Leviathan / Paragon Items

Item List

Leviathan Items

	Ghost Ship Anchor		Seahorse Statuette

Paragon Items

	Bow of the Juka King		Gloves of the Pugilist		Orcish Visage
	Pixie Swatter		Staff of Power		Wrath of the Dryad

Treasure Map Items

	Cold Blood		A Creeping Vine		Forged Pardon
	Mana Phasing Orb		Runed Sash of Warding		Surge Shield

The items above except Cold Blood are introduced with the Publish 67. Thus, they cannot be considered as Traditional Minor Artifacts.

Leviathan / Treasure Map Items

	The Admiral's Hearty Rum		Candelabra of Souls		Captain Quacklebush's Cutlass
	Dread Pirate Hat		Ship Model of the H.M.S. Cape

Paragon / Treasure Map Items

	Heart of the Lion		Shield of Invulnerability

Leviathan / Paragon / Treasure Map Items

Alchemist's Bauble	Arctic Death Dealer	Blaze of Death	Burglar's Bandana
Cavorting Club	Enchanted Titan Leg Bone	Gold Bricks	Gwenno's Harp
Iolo's Lute	Luna Lance	Night's Kiss	Nox Ranger's Heavy Crossbow
Phillip's Wooden Steed	Polar Bear Mask	Violet Courage