Artifact Effects

Unlock the full potential of your runs in Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor by understanding and utilizing powerful Artifact Effects. This guide details each effect and how to best leverage them.

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor introduces Artifacts, powerful items that grant unique passive effects to enhance your dwarf's capabilities. These effects can dramatically alter your playstyle and survivability. This guide details each artifact effect available in the game.

• Damage Boost: Increases your overall damage output, allowing you to eliminate enemies faster.
• Movement Speed: Enhances your dwarf's movement speed, making it easier to dodge attacks and reposition on the battlefield.
• Attack Speed: Increases the rate at which your weapons fire, leading to higher sustained damage.
• Health Regeneration: Provides a steady regeneration of health over time, improving your survivability during prolonged engagements.
• Shield Regeneration: Accelerates the recharge rate of your shield, offering more frequent protection.
• Max Health: Increases your dwarf's maximum health pool, making you more resilient to damage.
• Max Shield: Boosts your maximum shield capacity, allowing you to absorb more incoming damage before your health is affected.
• Critical Hit Chance: Raises the probability of landing critical hits, which deal bonus damage.
• Critical Hit Damage: Amplifies the damage dealt by critical hits.
• Area of Effect (AoE) Size: Increases the radius of your area-of-effect attacks, allowing you to damage multiple enemies at once.
• Knockback Chance: Adds a chance for your attacks to push enemies away, creating space and interrupting their advances.
• Status Effect Chance: Improves the likelihood of applying status effects like burning or freezing to enemies.
• Experience Gain: Increases the amount of experience points you earn, leading to faster leveling and access to more upgrades.
• Gold Gain: Boosts the amount of gold collected, enabling you to purchase more upgrades and items.
• Resource Pickup Radius: Extends the range at which you collect resources, making gathering more efficient.

Choosing the right combination of Artifact Effects can be crucial for overcoming the toughest challenges in Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor. Experiment with different builds to find what works best for your preferred playstyle.