Building artifacts in Call of Dragons is as important as heroes and war pets and a long-term progress that will require a lot of time and resources (and some of them even money). I have here an overview which artifacts are universally strong and always a good idea to upgrade to help you out which ones you should dedicate to.
General Artifact Tier List in Call of Dragons
Please refer to the individual hero builds to see how well they perform with each hero, this is more a overview to help you see what artifacts are generally strong in Call of Dragons and which ones are rather specific.
Also please make sure to check out our frequently updated tier list of the best heroes in Call of Dragons here and the best war pets here.
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Infernal Flame
S+
Just activate it and deal huge single-target damage without aiming..
Rarity:Legendary
Dragon Scale Armor
S+
Soaks up damage so well when paired with infantry that you will love it..
Rarity:Legendary
Rattle Spear
S
Absolutely crazy artifact for marksman and should be your priority pick.
Rarity:Legendary
Phoenix Eye
A
Rocked the worls in Season 1 for magic unit heroes but the Internal Flame is just stronger.
Rarity:Legendary
Kingslayer
A
Great stats for avalry and also great damage on the active skill.
Rarity:Legendary
Mirage Orb
A
Crazy strong for Tohar and Bertrand but also in general with the damage and the airborne control effect.
Rarity:Legendary
Shadowblades
A
Simply useful and great, just the new artifacts have been putting it off a little bit so I ranked it down a notch.
Rarity:Legendary
Violas Bow
A
Great overall and if it would give attack instead of HP I would be happy to rank it higher.
Rarity:Legendary
Spiritbone Torc
B+
For any infantry that does counterattack this is a very strong and helful artifact but I don't want to rank it too crazy at this point.
Rarity:Legendary
Goldcrest
B+
Perfect for Ffraegar and when used with her out of this world - but not universally great.
Rarity:Legendary
Dagger of Betrayal
B+
Solid universal artifact but can be super strong when dispelling debuffs is important or pretty much useless. More useful against the newer hero combinations.
Rarity:Epic
Lakeside Rhapsody
B+
Very fun artifact but also hard to get in the forge or when you can there are better ones available to you.
Rarity:Epic
Steel-Heart Avenger
B+
Nice long-range marksman artifact with good stats and damage but honestly at the point you get access to this in the forge you have better artifacts available already.
Rarity:Epic
Sunflame Hammer
B+
Fine for attacking infantry setups but honestly when you have access to this at the forge you normally have better artifacts already.
Rarity:Epic
Heartpiercer
B+
Really amazing for what it is and the best epic marksman artifact in Call of Dragons - but the legendaries are simply too good to rank this higher but still very valuable and worth to max.
Rarity:Epic
Sorlands Blade
B
The stats are there and although I don't like the radius of the skill too much, it works. The issue here is there are so many crazy better options for cavalry available that I simply can't rank this higher..
Rarity:Legendary
Breath of the Forest
B
for garrison captain and defending city great, but nothing else really useful.
Rarity:Legendary
Fang of Ashkari
B
can be a great artifact that is universal for the legion in the middle of the action to apply the damage effect effectively.
Rarity:Legendary
Codex of Prophecy
B
Pretty cool on main def infantry tank legions but realisitically needs more stats and legendary to be good. I still think you should have it as backup ready.
Rarity:Epic
Springs of Silence
C+
The damage is there and usefu as offensive infantry artifact but you often times want something more defensive as infantry and the damage raius is also not ideal.
Rarity:Legendary
Storm Arrows
C
Can do some work but there are simply so many better artifacts and unless you're cavalry teleporting around (which is fun, don't get me wrong), it is not that great overall and more useful for the stats.
Rarity:Legendary
Dragonrift
C
overall not bad infantry artifact but the single-target makes it so much less effective.
Rarity:Legendary
Cloak of Stealth
C
fun for hunting but oother than that only for stats and very specific legions.
Rarity:Epic
Amulet of Glory
C
for early cavalry amazing and the whole kit great - but the low rarity and effect makes it kind of useless later.
Rarity:Epic
Ever-Ice
C
nice basic magic artifact until you get the better ones but great value on early Velyn as it apply freeze. Theoretically with him expertised amazing but expertised Velyn and blue artifact sounds a lot like theorycraft, right?.
Rarity:Elite
Harlequin Mask
D+
on paper great but when you only run a ble artifact on your main tank legion you really don't want to taunt, right?!.
Rarity:Elite
Heart of Kamasi
D
Can be alright to use but why having def on marksman and the effect radius is also rarely useful.
Rarity:Legendary
Oath of Stormpeak
D
Works around Forondil and if you really want to make that invest is really questionable.
Rarity:Legendary
Bomb Flinger
D
Great beginner arifact and backup for stats unless you want to use it against higher level darklings.
Rarity:Epic
Staff of Spring
D
healing along magic units is just not perfect and the HP is alright stat boost but also nothing too exciting.
Rarity:Epic
Freezing Ring
D
very very rare cases to use and more with weaker epic magic legions to get out of trouble.
Rarity:Epic
Enchiridion of Advanced Incantations
D
only peacekeeping or attack stats for magic legions.
Rarity:Epic
Breath of Jargentis
-
More an utility artifact, not in active ranking right now.
Rarity:Legendary
Springbird Feather
-
The march speed is nice and the ahste as well, but looking at it realistically there is not too much actual value away from the few situations where you actually use it.
Rarity:Legendary
Staff of the Prophet
-
the stats are not really helpful and the teleporting is also more a nie gimmick than actually effective.
Rarity:Legendary
Boots of Swiftness
-
more a backup artifact and in 880% of all cases one to have on your gather legions.
Rarity:Elite
Conclusion
I hope this list helps you plan out your artifact priority in Call of Dragons. If you have any questions or think I just change something, please comment below.
