AFK Journey - Best Artifacts and Equipment Recommendations

With AFK Journey going in full swing after its successful launch on the 27th of March, many players have flocked to the game thanks to its unique artstyle, compelling animation, exciting adventurous story and the amazingly crafted and perfected grid-based strategy gameplay style. With an intricate equipment and artifact system to help players be able to strengthen their teams and abilities in order to be able to advance forward in the game’s story and obtain fabulous rewards by defeating hordes of enemies and completing AFK Stages in the game.

However, gameplay progression and personal advancement may prove difficult for players who are not used to the many different upgrade functions in AFK Journey, resulting in them lacking behind other players in terms of artifacts power, equipment levels, heroes level and ascensions, and more. Therefore, it is of utmost importance that players understand the intricate system that allow players to strengthen their teams quickly in order to be able to clear stages quickly. 

This guide aims to provide players with a better understanding and give advices on which of the main artifacts and equipment upgrading functions players should focus on in order to quickly strengthen their team and make them as powerful as possible to be able to be readied to face dangerous enemies and emerge victorious against other players in PvP contents as well.

• Artifacts & Hero Equipments - What You Need To Know
• Artifacts & Hero Equipments - What To Prioritize

Artifacts & Hero Equipments - What You Need To Know

The progression in AFK Journey revolves mainly around how the players manage their resources and their heroes in order to strengthen their levels and abilities in order to become stronger to be able to clear a large amount of AFK stages as quickly as possible. One of the most important aspects to this are 2 special systems that allow players to use materials and currencies to upgrade special artifacts and equipment to increase the heroes’ stats and strengthen them further to prepare them for challenges.

Artifacts

Artifacts are special equipment spells that the main character can equip to themself and bring into battle together with other heroes. Once equipped, these artifacts will grants special bonuses and abilities to all heroes currently in battle. These artifacts will each grant a special passive ability that boost the power of heroes in combat, some boost their offensive abilities while others boost their defensive abilities. These abilities will be activated every few seconds and enter a cooldown once they have activated. Once the cooldown ends, these abilities will be activated once more to grant allies buffs according to the Artifact equipped.

The Abilities for the Artifacts includes:

- Awakening Spell: After a certain amount of time once the battle starts, summon Radiant Life to restore HP equal to X% of max HP to 3/4 weakest allies on the field.

- Ironwall Spell: Blesses the foremost allied hero at the start of battle, increasing their Physical and Magical Defense by X% and recovering their energy whenever they are hit by a certain amount. At the start of the battle and every 12s, grants the ally a shield equal to X% of their max HP for 6s.

- Confining Spell: 3s after battle starts, deal magical damage equal to 25% of the team’s attack to 2 enemies in the back every 12s, making them unable to move or act for a certain period of time.

- Blazing Spell: Shoots a fireball at the weakest enemy every 5s, dealing magical damage equal to 20% of the team’s attack.

- Enlightening Spell: At the start of battle, increase the Attack Speed of the rearmost ally in the back for 15s. When the buff is granted and during the duration of the buff, this ally is immune to control debuffs.

- Starshard Spell: Every 4 times allied heroes cast their Ultimates, a flame wave is unleashed on all enemies. The flame wave deals true damage equal to X% of the target’s current HP and up to X% of the team’s attack stat. The flame wave also reduces the target’s Attack Speed by a certain amount for 4s.

Players will be immediately awarded with the Awakening Spell Artifact at the start of their journey. Each subsequent Artifact can be unlocked and used once players have reached certain points in the main story, allowing the players to change to them once they are unlocked. Once unlocked, these artifacts can be used in every content, including both PvP and PvE contents.

Heroes Equipments

Heroes Equipment are special equipment that each class of heroes are equipped with, boosting the power and stats of every single hero that falls under the heroes’ class and allow the heroes to become stronger with each upgrade of said equipment. 

The equipment are individually available for each class, with their levels and rarity unique to each class. Heroes equipment types are divided into 6 different types of equipment, each type increasing a different set of stats and affecting each class of heroes separately, making it a total of 36 pieces of equipment in total for players to obtain and upgrade.

The types of equipment are as followed:

- Weapons: Increase the class’ Attack and Crit Rate stats.

- Gloves: Increase the class’ Attack, Crit Rate, Physical and Magical Defense Stats.

- Pendants: Increase the class’ HP and Attack stats, in addition to increasing the class’ unique stat (Healing for supports, Haste for Mages, Vitality for Warriors, Ranged Defense for Tanks, Critical for Marksman, Critical and Haste for Rogue).

- Helmets: Increase the class’ HP and Defensive stats, including Physical and Magical Defense Stats as well as Critical Hit Resistance.

- Armors: Increase Defensive stats including HP, Physical and Magical Defense Stats as well as Critical Hit Resistance.

- Boots: Increase the class’ Atk and HP stats as well as Haste.

Each class of heroes have certain pieces of equipment that players should prioritize upgrading into higher rarity or into higher levels as they provide important stat upgrades that are necessary for that particular class of heroes. However, in general, players should aim to provide equipment of equal level and rarity to all classes of heroes in order to boost the overall power of the team evenly as a whole.

Artifacts & Hero Equipments - What To Prioritize

Artifacts - Which Artifacts Are The Most Important

As mentioned previously, Artifacts are special abilities that can be activated by the player throughout the fight to aid the heroes with various important buffs that can, in some cases, turn the tides of battle. However, since players can only bring 1 artifact to each battle, it is important to know which one of the artifacts are strong and should be brought into battle as opposed to the others.

- Among the 6 Artifacts, Awakening Spell and Ironwall Spell are

Defensive spells that are focused on keeping the team alive longer than the enemy. These 2 spells aren’t high on the priority list due to there being heroes that have better sustain abilities to help the teams.

- Confining Spell and Blazing Spell are both artifacts that focus on damaging ranged enemies with frail defenses, making them suitable spells to be used in Arena to counter teams that focus their damage output from ranged heroes.

- Enlightening spell is a very situational but powerful spell that should be used to increase the damage output of Rogue heroes, making them stronger to fight against the enemies’ team. However, if players don’t play a Rogue hero, it is not recommended to prioritize this spell.

- Finally, Starshard spell is the best artifact out of the 6 with an all rounding ability to deal true damage to all enemies, making it extremely powerful and can be used to deal with teams in both PvP and PvE contents effectively. It should be given the highest priority for upgrades once players have unlocked it.

Heroes Equipment - Which Equipment To Prioritize

As each hero's classes need a different combo of stats that need to be focused on, there are certain pieces of equipment that each hero's class should focus on in order to maximize the necessary stats for the heroes of each class.

The equipment pieces each classes need to focused on are:

- Tanks: Gloves, Pendants, Helmets, Armors (defensive stats)

- Warrior: Weapons, Pendants, Helmets, Armors, Boots.

- Mages: Weapons, Pendants, Boots.

- Rogues: Weapons, Pendants, Boots.

- Support: Pendants, Helmets, Armors, Boots.

- Marksmen: Weapons, Pendants, Boots.