What Happened To Giving Up Our Artifacts?

[TheEaterofSouls]

Weren't we supposed to have an event where we give up on our artifact weapons? When is Blizzard planning on releasing the event? Is it coming with the prepatch? Before the Prepatch? Or did they forget about it?

[MyndZero]

It will be prepatch.

[Paperfox]

I would guess just before or at the time BfA launches.

[McCrazy]

I don't know, what Blizzard plans, but I think it will be in the pre-patch, because it will have to do something with the story that leads to BfA.

[Deleted]

I'm not giving them anything. I prefer to stay in Legion and keep artifacts.

[Thrif]

There's already a cutscene for it, we use them to suck the corruption out of Sargeras sword and it drains their power or something equally uninspired. I don't think it's available yet but I haven't touched Silithus yet, but likely is that we do it in the pre-patch.

[schwarzkopf]

I'm not giving them anything. I prefer to stay in Legion and keep artifacts.

I hope you didn't buy BfA then

[sister]

It'll be some big event on the day of the pre-patch. But with the way the Silithus quests just completely fall off, I'd expect we'll see some kind of weekly continuation quest chain open up within the next month that builds up to the pre-patch.

[Misuteri]

I thought they were going to be used until 6 levels in then transformed.

[XDurionX]

It's was pretty obvious from the get go that they couldn't remove the artifacts before 8.0.

[Eazy]

I'm wondering if we're going to get replacements.

[Emerald Archer]

From a logical standpoint, the event that makes the weapons instable has to be before 8.0. Some classes get traits from their weapons as talents, so the weapons have to be "exhausted" by prepatch or some talents and traits would be doubled.
On the other hand: Blizzard and logic...

Sometimes lore and logic has to be overlooked for gameplay. This would be one of those cases.

[gantwort]

The mechanism for removing the artifacts is really hamfisted frankly. You'd think a billion dollar corporation could do better.

[FelPlague]

The mechanism for removing the artifacts is really hamfisted frankly. You'd think a billion dollar corporation could do better.

Uhh... Wut?
Everything wut.

[Venziir]

I thought they were going to be used until 6 levels in then transformed.

Those are legendaries

[Dracullus]

It'll be some big event on the day of the pre-patch. But with the way the Silithus quests just completely fall off, I'd expect we'll see some kind of weekly continuation quest chain open up within the next month that builds up to the pre-patch.

I think it will be Silithus -> week later Teldrassil -> two weeks later Undercity -> two weeks later launch. In this case pre-patch would launch 10./11. July.

[MervynMiao]

This is a good trend, BFA will be friendly to new player。

[Donald Hellscream]

There's already a cutscene for it, we use them to suck the corruption out of Sargeras sword and it drains their power or something equally uninspired. I don't think it's available yet but I haven't touched Silithus yet, but likely is that we do it in the pre-patch.

actually the artifacts drains all the power into them which causes them to become unstable and thus we can't reliably wield them, atleast not lorewise

[sister]

I think it will be Silithus -> week later Teldrassil -> two weeks later Undercity -> two weeks later launch. In this case pre-patch would launch 10./11. July.

Yeah for sure once the patch drops. I just think we'll see a couple of small quests between now and then as a build up to losing the artifacts.

[Lochton]

Weren't we supposed to have an event where we give up on our artifact weapons? When is Blizzard planning on releasing the event? Is it coming with the prepatch? Before the Prepatch? Or did they forget about it?

I think that's been connected with the pre-patch.