How often do you actually get combo artifacts?

The old Heroes games developed by New World Computing. Please specify which game you are referring to in your post.
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How often do you actually get combo artifacts?

Unread postby grobblewobble » 30 Dec 2012, 14:00

I wonder how often you guys manage to find complete combo artifacts in your heroes 3 games? I've been playing a few artifact rich maps lately and in some 8 - 10 games I got:

2 times lifeblood set
2 times armor of the damned (damn its good)
1 times cornucopia
1 times bow set
1 times wizards well
0 times cloak of the undead king, dammit :grumpy:
0 times dragon / angel set (does that even happen, like, ever?)

Too small a sample to draw conclusions, but it makes me wonder. I read that the cloak of the undead king is "easy to assemble", but in these games I typically ended up with some 50+ artifacts and I didn't get it even once in all my games. And I did check the artifacts merchant too. In about half of my games I didn't find a single complete set at all despite my best efforts. Is this the norm?

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Unread postby GreatEmerald » 30 Dec 2012, 17:52

Yea, the vial is pathetically easy to assemble, while the armours are difficult even when there are plenty of artifacts around. I know I had Angellic Alliance a few times, and I don't remember ever assembling Cornucopia. But I generally play XL random maps, and they are always full of artifacts.

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Unread postby grobblewobble » 30 Dec 2012, 21:10

For the record, the one time I found Cornucopia I didn't assemble it, but found it as a complete artifact somewhere.

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Unread postby Bandobras Took » 31 Dec 2012, 14:43

Wizard's Well has always been rather easy for me to assemble, and is IMO one of the more unbalancing combo artifacts in the game for that reason.
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