There are several missions that require a lot of artifacts that you can get from artifact draws. The Lazuli mission chain requires a lot of emp spheres and sentry guards. The Hastened Dispatch mission chain requires a lot of longevity serums and unstable wormhole emitters. The Sha'din mission chain requires a lot of positron clouders and tachyon cylinders. The kronyn mission chain requires a lot of flux probes and subspace seekers. And there are other missions requiring common artifacts. My idea is that although these artifacts can be obtained from artifact draws, how about some uncommon npc's that drop these? Whenever a mission requiring a common artifact is active, npc's dropping those artifacts have a chance of showing up.

But, a lot of players will give legion mates such artifacts for free. And these artifacts can be obtained in trades initiated here on the forum. If these npc's were but in, there would be a lower demand for these artifacts and a little less activity on the trading post. Thoughts on this?

you will make every artifact as worthless as a crimson obelisk.

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+1 i like the idea but i also think that commons should drop them too,common artifacts dropped by common NPC 's. The positrons could be dropped by the Sha'din chargers and EMP sphere's can be dropped by the drannik commons like the drannik gun pods and sentry and so forth. Tachyons could be dropped by stryll assasin and stryll trappers. ect.. with the others, now im basing this on the fact that positrons reduce cloak and sha'din's have cloak lots and give cloak items, emp's lower def and it just makes sense a drannik npc would drop it.

I don't think the npc's should be common. If they were common, there would be a considerably less trading on the forum. If you had extra artifacts that were required for these and didn't need them, you wouldn't be able to sell as many because there would be a lower demand.

True good point i guess dropping them from uncommons is better. But still i like the idea.

Every uncommon NPC you add will lower the spawnrate of Uncommons that drop unique artifacts. I'd much rather have a Crimson Amplifier or Stryll Trap Probe than a Positron Clouder or Flux Probe I can get from the draw.

Your argument that dropping from Commons would ruin the trade circle also invalidates the original idea.... just sayin'