Mage Hidden Artifact Appearances
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2016 3:57 am
Every specialization's Artifact weapon has an appearance that must be unlocked through a different method. This method usually has no breadcrumbs and have a variable difficulty range. As mages have three specs, there are three different Hidden Artifact skins to unlock.
The Fire and Frost Artifact skins have been found and the steps to receive the item are relatively well known, but the Arcane Artifact skin has proved elusive as it's probably the hardest Artifact skin to get in the game.
For other classes Artifact skins: Check this post on the Official Forums.
Arcane: Woolomancer's Charge
This skin requires Artifact Knowledge 6. Step 1 does not have any Artifact Knowledge cap.
1. There is one mob in each zone that when Polymorphed, will result in an emote from a Volatile Sheep that says "..."
The mob that you Polymorph in each zone is:
2. Walking into your class hall has a daily chance to start the next part of the hunt via the following quest https://legion.wowhead.com/quest=43828/ ... daily-roll. See below for details on how the Daily Roll system works.
As of 9/30 there are reports that relogging resets that daily roll and allows you to try again. This was quickly hotfixed for Prot Warriors.
3. When the roll is a success, you will get an emote from Cote "Shepherd" Metcalf and a https://www.wowhead.com/npc=111107/volatile-sheep NPC will be following you around. Click the sheep until it explodes.
4. Search around the Runewood, Stormheim for the https://www.wowhead.com/npc=111691/extr ... heim-sheep. Right click the sheep until it explodes.
5. Go to the Tower of Azora in Elwynn Forest. There is a short event located here.
The Discord server Order of the Shepherd did a great job working together to find this skin.
Fire: Stars' Design
This skin requires Artifact Knowledge 5 or higher.
This skin will drop from mobs in Suramar. There have been report of it dropping from other zones on beta, but they are not confirmed. On live, players have been farming spiders in Falanaar for the drop.
Credit to Cypter for the Reddit Post identifying the Artifact Knowledge required.
Frost: Frostfire Remembrance
This event requires the Tier 2 Teleportation Nexus choice in the Tech Tree and Artifact Knowledge 4 or higher.
Assuming you have the Teleportation Nexus, once per day, you may "roll the dice" to try to receive the Artifact skin. To trigger the roll, you must cross the bottom of the stairs in the class hall (on the left or right sides). If the roll results in a success, there will be an emote in the chat log:
Click on any of the portals and you will teleported to Frostfire Ridge and may collect the Artifact Skin.
If the roll results in a failure, there will be no confirmation that you actually made a roll. If you would like to determine if you crossed the line, you may a script to check if you've completed this quest.
Note that this only determines if you've made the roll today. A "Yes" means you've made the roll, and if you do not see an emote, that means the roll resulted in a failure. A "No" means you haven't made the roll, and you should move to the bottom of the steps to trigger it.
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If you need a script to check quest completion, use the following. Replace 44384 with the Quest's ID.
The Fire and Frost Artifact skins have been found and the steps to receive the item are relatively well known, but the Arcane Artifact skin has proved elusive as it's probably the hardest Artifact skin to get in the game.
For other classes Artifact skins: Check this post on the Official Forums.
Arcane: Woolomancer's Charge
This skin requires Artifact Knowledge 6. Step 1 does not have any Artifact Knowledge cap.
1. There is one mob in each zone that when Polymorphed, will result in an emote from a Volatile Sheep that says "..."
The mob that you Polymorph in each zone is:
- Plains Runehorn Calf - North West of Talon Rest, Stormheim
- Cliffwing Hippogryph - West of Felblaze Ingress, Azsuna
- Wild Dreamrunner - Around Lorathil, Val'sharah
- Heartwood Doe - Crimson Thicket, Suramar
- Highpeak Goat - North of Ironhorn Enclave, Highmountain
- https://www.wowhead.com/quest=43789/zon ... -stormheim
- https://www.wowhead.com/quest=43787/zon ... hed-azsuna
- https://www.wowhead.com/quest=43790/zon ... -valsharah
- https://www.wowhead.com/quest=43791/zon ... ed-suramar
- https://www.wowhead.com/quest=43788/zon ... ghmountain
2. Walking into your class hall has a daily chance to start the next part of the hunt via the following quest https://legion.wowhead.com/quest=43828/ ... daily-roll. See below for details on how the Daily Roll system works.
As of 9/30 there are reports that relogging resets that daily roll and allows you to try again. This was quickly hotfixed for Prot Warriors.
3. When the roll is a success, you will get an emote from Cote "Shepherd" Metcalf and a https://www.wowhead.com/npc=111107/volatile-sheep NPC will be following you around. Click the sheep until it explodes.
4. Search around the Runewood, Stormheim for the https://www.wowhead.com/npc=111691/extr ... heim-sheep. Right click the sheep until it explodes.
5. Go to the Tower of Azora in Elwynn Forest. There is a short event located here.
The Discord server Order of the Shepherd did a great job working together to find this skin.
Fire: Stars' Design
This skin requires Artifact Knowledge 5 or higher.
This skin will drop from mobs in Suramar. There have been report of it dropping from other zones on beta, but they are not confirmed. On live, players have been farming spiders in Falanaar for the drop.
Credit to Cypter for the Reddit Post identifying the Artifact Knowledge required.
Frost: Frostfire Remembrance
This event requires the Tier 2 Teleportation Nexus choice in the Tech Tree and Artifact Knowledge 4 or higher.
Assuming you have the Teleportation Nexus, once per day, you may "roll the dice" to try to receive the Artifact skin. To trigger the roll, you must cross the bottom of the stairs in the class hall (on the left or right sides). If the roll results in a success, there will be an emote in the chat log:
If the roll results in a failure, there will be no confirmation that you actually made a roll. If you would like to determine if you crossed the line, you may a script to check if you've completed this quest.
Note that this only determines if you've made the roll today. A "Yes" means you've made the roll, and if you do not see an emote, that means the roll resulted in a failure. A "No" means you haven't made the roll, and you should move to the bottom of the steps to trigger it.
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If you need a script to check quest completion, use the following. Replace 44384 with the Quest's ID.
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/run for k, v in pairs({ QuestCompleted = 44384}) do print(format("%s: %s", k, IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(v) and "\124cff00ff00Yes\124r" or "\124cffff0000No\124r")) end 
