Monument of Triumph retired the rotating Seasonal Artifact and shipped Artifact 2.0: seven returning artifacts you can swap freely, each a focused mod set that accelerates a build rather than gating it. The old anti-Champion columns are gone — Champion stun is frame-intrinsic now — so artifacts are pure economy, damage, and ability tools. This is the hub: how the system works, the seven artifacts and what each one is for, the six new Encrypted Data Disk mods, and the live bug watchlist. Built on the Monument baseline, Destiny 2's final content sandbox.
One screen of plumbing, then pick your artifact. Monument collapsed the old column-unlock-and-refund dance into three functional buckets across seven slots, made artifact choice loadout-aware, and pulled Champion stuns out of the artifact entirely.
You equip one artifact at a time and fill seven perk slots. The old columns became three tiers (buckets) that slot by rule:
No more clearing earlier columns or paying a refund to respec — any eligible slot re-specs freely, and your artifact + perks save to your Loadouts.
Each artifact is a focused mod set built around a season's identity. Pick by the verbs and weapons your build already wants. Cards group into three element-paired pages — each card links straight to its full mod table.
Monument's one genuinely new artifact content is six mods on the Encrypted Data Disk. They slot by the same tier rules as everything else. Names, tiers, and effects below are cross-checked against the game manifest.
| Mod | Tier | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Fierce Proxemics | Tier 1 | Finisher final blows grant grenade and melee energy. |
| Rapid Remedy | Tier 1 | Rapid Machine Gun final blows heal you. |
| Precision Equity | Tier 2 | Precision final blows charge a large custom Orb of Power that grants bonus weapon damage on pickup; tougher targets give more progress. |
| Blinding Jolts | Tier 2 | Final blows on jolted combatants blind nearby combatants. |
| Tazer Tag | Tier 3 | Arc-powered melee hits jolt the target and deal bonus damage for a short duration. |
| Sticker Shock | Tier 3 | Arc Flux / Magnetic / Fusion grenades deal more stick damage; their final blows release homing seeker micro-missiles. |
Don't over-caveat the whole system — only these are on Bungie's live Known Issues list. If a perk you're leaning on is below, have a backup. Each appears with a bug badge on its artifact's page.
| Perk | Status | Issue |
|---|---|---|
| Kinetic Rupture | Active | Does not reliably stun Unstoppable Champions — don't make it your only Unstoppable plan. (Encrypted Data Disk) |
| Creeping Chill | Active | Not granting Frost Armor to allies. (Queensfoil Censer, Hunter's Journal) |
| Kindling Trigger | Active | Only applies to one enemy at a time off Ticuu's Divination projectiles. (Queensfoil Censer) |
| Horde Shuttle | Active | Does not spawn additional Threadlings on unraveled bosses. (Tablet of Ruin, Implement of Curiosity, Queensfoil Censer) |
| Argent Blade | Active | If it's the only equipped perk that can generate Armor Charge, you gain no Armor Charge. (Hunter's Journal) |
| Argent Quiver | Active | Not granting bows the intended bonus reload speed. (Implement of Curiosity) |
| Vile Weave | Fixed 9.7.0.2 | Tangle-cooldown reduction now works. (Tablet of Ruin) |
| Unto the Breach | Fixed 9.7.0.2 | Now provides its benefit on Prismatic subclasses. |
| Pack Tactics | Fixed 9.7.0.3 | Extended-session performance issue fixed. (Implement of Curiosity) |
| Duplicate-perk restriction | Fixed 9.7.0.2 | The "no duplicates" bypass (the mod-stacking exploit) is closed. Perks were reset by the fix — re-apply your loadout if a setup looks empty. |
The artifact is one layer of the build. Pair it with a subclass, the stat system, and your guns — and remember Champion coverage lives on the weapon page now, not here.
Amplified/Jolt, Bolt Charge, Void Breach, Sword loops — and the six new Encrypted Data Disk mods.
Radiant ignitions, rocket DPS, and Prismatic Transcendence support.
Frost Armor, crystal shatter, Tangle control, and elemental-pickup damage stacks.
How the artifact's economy perks feed the Super → ability → mod loop. Champion frames live on the weapon page.
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