Anime Card Clash Artifacts �?Craftable Gear Guide

Artifacts are craftable gear pieces that slot onto individual cards and provide stat bonuses, set effects, and sub-stats that scale through nine upgrade levels. They represent the largest permanent power spike available outside of awakening your core attackers. This guide covers every craftable artifact category, where to farm materials, and which recipes to prioritize for story, tower, raid, and dungeon content.

Unlocking the Crafting System

The artifact crafting bench unlocks mid-game after Hard story progression and early Battle Tower clears. Until then, focus on building your roster using the deck building guide without worrying about gear. Once crafting opens, materials from Eternal Dragon raids and Battle Tower become your primary farming targets alongside continued story pushes.

Crafting requires three components: base fragments tied to content sources, universal upgrade cores from Hardcore Tower, and coin fees that scale with recipe tier. Tier-1 recipes use common fragments from early raids. Tier-3 recipes demand Awakened Golden Wind materials and Hardcore Tower cores, placing them firmly in endgame territory.

Attacker Artifacts

Attacker artifacts boost damage output through flat attack, crit rate, crit damage, or element-specific amplification. The first artifact every account should craft is a generalist attacker piece �?recipes using Eternal Dragon scales work well because dragon fragments are abundant from daily raid entries. Equip this artifact on your primary S-tier attacker from the attacker tier list.

Element-specific attacker artifacts become valuable when you build specialized decks for Golden Wind or themed story maps. A wind-amplification artifact on an awakened wind attacker multiplies damage during burst windows more than a generic artifact with lower base stats. Upgrade attacker artifacts to level 6 before crafting secondary pieces �?sub-stats at levels 3 and 6 often add more effective DPS than crafting a second artifact at level 1.

Support Artifacts

Support artifacts enhance healing, buff duration, cooldown reduction, and debuff cleansing. They matter most in Infinite Tower and long dungeon runs where sustain determines whether you reach milestone floors. Craft your first support artifact after your primary attacker piece reaches level 5, prioritizing recipes with cooldown reduction for supports like Black Slime or Fallen Knight from the support tier list.

Shield-break artifacts occupy a hybrid niche �?classified as support recipes but valued for raid boss phases with damage immunity shields. If you struggle with mid-tier raid shield phases, craft a shield-break support artifact before investing in a second attacker piece.

Defensive & Utility Artifacts

Defensive artifacts reduce incoming damage, grant shields on battle start, or provide anti-crit protection. Utility artifacts boost luck for instant rolls, roll speed for in-fight mechanics, or coin gain for dungeon farming. These are lower priority for combat progression but valuable for economic loops �?a luck artifact sub-stat stacks with luck potions during roll sessions.

Wind-mitigation defensive artifacts deserve special mention because they counter Golden Wind raid mechanics and wind-themed dungeon curses simultaneously. Farm Golden Wind materials specifically for this recipe if Awakened Golden Wind clears remain inconsistent despite strong attackers.

Upgrade System & Sub-Stats

Each upgrade level increases the artifact primary stat and costs more fragments plus upgrade cores. Levels 3, 6, and 9 roll random sub-stats from a pool that includes attack, crit, luck, roll speed, and mode-specific bonuses. Sub-stats are permanent unless you spend premium trade shop currency to reroll �?a costly option reserved for level 9 artifacts with one bad sub-stat roll.

Material efficiency tip: upgrade one artifact to level 9 before spreading resources across multiple level-3 artifacts. A single maxed artifact outperforms three partially upgraded pieces in every content mode. Use hidden mechanics guidance on upgrade cost breakpoints to avoid overspending cores on levels with diminishing returns.

Material Farming Routes

1. Eternal Dragon �?daily fragment baseline for tier-1 recipes.
2. Battle Tower �?weekly universal fragments and bonus cores.
3. Golden Wind �?element-specific materials for mid-tier recipes.
4. Hardcore Tower �?upgrade cores and tier-3 fragment bundles.
5. Awakened Golden Wind �?endgame materials for top-tier recipes.
6. Dungeons �?merchant occasionally sells rare fragments at deep depths.

Artifact & Trait Synergy

Artifacts and traits stack on the same card, creating compound stat profiles. An attacker with a crit-damage artifact and a crit-damage trait can exceed damage thresholds that unlock faster Celestial clears and shorter raid kill times. Plan crafting around your trait investments rather than crafting randomly �?deconstruct unwanted traits at the trade shop to fund artifact upgrade cores when fragment farming slows down.

Artifacts are the slowest but most reliable power growth system in Anime Card Clash. Daily raid entries, weekly tower resets, and dungeon merchant visits all feed the same crafting pipeline. Stay consistent with material farming, craft one artifact at a time to max level, and revisit this guide when new recipes arrive in content updates.