How attached are you to your World of Warcraft artifact weapon? On one hand, the developers have outright told the community that these weapons will be going bye-bye with the next expansion. On the other hand, that expansion is likely a long way off — and in the meantime it’s hard to resist the compulsion to beef up that bad boy and enjoy the benefits.
Even if you have a maxed-out artifact weapon, Blizzard has more work for you to do. With the upcoming Patch 7.2, players will be able to unlock new traits and a short quest chain for this next evolution of their sword, mace, or leafy stick-thing.
The studio explained on the forums today how this process will work: “After Patch 7.2 is available, players who have an Artifact Weapon of at least rank 35 will be able to further empower that Artifact through a short quest chain. Completing this quest chain will consume any ranks beyond 35, increase the overall power of your Artifact Weapon (to ensure that losing ranks 35+ isn’t a downgrade), and unlock access to the new 7.2 traits.”
For now, Blizzard advises players to spend any artifact power tokens on alternate specs if they have already achieved rank 54 on their primary weapon.
