Artifiact weapon questions

healary

A couple of questions about artifact weapons:

(1) Are they really better than set weapons? I don't see artifact offhands. That means there is no set bonus.
(2) Where do the resonance stones drop?

charononus

1) yes, the damage base is higher. Most set bonuses just push you farther above the soft caps.
2) Dragon Hoard enchants.

championshewolf

1) Damage wise better, bonus stat wise, unless you just have the clunkiest set up the amount of extra you get from a set bonus will be over the soft cap anyways thus being negligible to unnoticeable depending on case.

damnataanimus

championshewolf wrote: »

1) Damage wise better, bonus stat wise, unless you just have the clunkiest set up the amount of extra you get from a set bonus will be over the soft cap anyways thus being negligible to unnoticeable depending on case.

And if the set bonus is power, this is made up for by the higher base damage + usually improvement to one of your at wills you use. Yes you will lose some gearscore but meh.

healary

OK. I see artifact weapons do quite a bit extra damage when fully leveled, so they should be better than set weapons even without the bonus.

But how about artifact belts? Unlike weapons which main purpose is to deal damage, artifact belts don't give set bonus like their set counterparts. A couple of extra stat points are nice but without the set bonus, are they really that much better than the set belts that justifies the millions of AD price + probably 10 more million AD to upgrade them?

rollingonit

Yes while some are insanely expensive, they are justifiable for the reasons people want them and the stats they provide. The stat increase of I think +4 alone is worth the price of a few (millions understandable, 10s a millions maybe a tad overpriced). They seem to be really rare as well (rarer than most things we consider rare), which add to their cost.