PBN Artifacts

PBN Artifacts

Poison, Burning, and Nightmare Artifacts can be found in the zones of Stonefield, Gloamwood, and Planetouched Wilds.
The PBN artifacts can only be seen/collected when you have a special buff. Each artifact type has its own special buff.

Gaining the PBN Sight Buffs

The main way to get the buffs is to go and pick up normal artifacts in one of the 3 zones.

  • Each normal artifact you pick up will have a chance to give you the poison buff, you can then pick up poison artifacts. The poison buff lasts 15 minutes.
  • Each poison artifact you pick up will have a chance to give you the burning buff, you can then pick up burning artifacts. The burning buff lasts 10 minutes.
  • Each burning artifact you pick up will have a chance to give you the nightmare buff, you can then pick up nightmare artifacts. The nightmare buff lasts 5 minutes.

Picking up each artifact type also gives you a chance of refreshing your current buffs.
Picking up rare or epic artifacts will give you a greater chance of adding or refreshing the buffs.
For instance: Picking up an epic nightmare artifact has a chance to refresh all of your sight buffs.

The sight buffs HURT! Especially if you have all 3 running at once! You will want to use a spec with some healing, preferably passive healing with some spot healing.

There are some other ways to gain the buffs that may be quicker than picking up artifacts. Firstly, be sure you are stood in one of the 3 PBN zones for the sights to be applied. Then you can try…

  • Opening Epic or Relic Opie’s Artifact Stashes –  These often contain PBN artifacts and will often proc the sights when you loot them.
  • Collecting a 4 hour artifact minion mission – If you loot a PBN from these then it may proc the sights.
  • Fishing – Using a rare artifact attractor will often give you a nice rare normal artifact which will proc the Poison sight.
PBN Artifact Tracking

Poison artifacts show as green sparkles on the ground.
Burning artifacts show as orange sparkles on the ground.
Nightmare artifacts show as purple sparkles on the ground.
You will often find them stacked on top of each other, giving a beautiful rainbow effect.

The very best way to track PBN artifacts (make them show as white diamonds on your mini-map) is with a patrons artifact tracking vial. This is because the patron vial will track all 3 artifacts types at once, giving you the opportunity to farm all the artifact types at once.

There are also individual vials that can be used to track PBN artifacts.
These vials can be bought with credits from the rift store, or with platinum from the vendors in Callweddi. You will need to have completed the entirety of the Callweddi puzzle to be able to buy these vials with platinum.
These vials are great as they last a full 30 minutes and don’t hurt you!
Be careful to only use ONE AT A TIME, or you will over-write the one you already have on.
With the vial buff active, you wont be able to proc the other buffs, leaving you able to concentrate on one type of artifact.

Lastly we have the Opie Mount. This mount has special abilities to track various types of artifacts. You will need Planar Pellets as fuel for the abilities. Each ability lasts 5 minutes and you can only use one at a time. You do not need to stay mounted on Opie. 

Poison sight costs 20 Pellets.
Burning sight costs 26 Pellets.
Nightmare sight costs 32 Pellets.

As with the tracking vials, you wont be able to proc the other sights while you have an Opie buff on.

Buy tracking vials with platinum in Callweddi
Opies special artifact tracking abilities.

Rare Artifact Locations

Every zone in Rift has hundreds of locations where artifacts can spawn. Only a certain percentage of artifacts will be spawned at one time.
As you pick up the artifacts, the game will start a random timer and then respawn the artifacts in random locations.

In the PBN zones, there are two types of artifact locations..

  • Normal spots – Will spawn White/Common, Green/Uncommon, and Blue/Rare artifacts. A Normal spot will never drop a Purple/Epic artifact.
  • Rare spots – Will spawn Green/Uncommon, Blue/Rare, and Purple/Epic artifacts. A Rare spot will never drop a White/Common artifact.

It can be helpful to know where the rare spots are located, to ensure you check them during every hunt, however you should always grab the artifacts from the normal spots too. If you don’t pick from the normal spots, then after a few respawn cycles there will just be artifacts in all the normal spots and none in the rare spots!
Try to completely clear busy areas and then the routes between each area. This will give you the best chance of respawns in the rare spots.

Stonefield Rare Artifact Locations

In Stonefield the rare artifact spots are usually up on the mountains or on difficult to climb buildings.
A few of these locations are much easier to get to if you use a jumping mount, either Opie or the Jet Pack.

Rare Artifact Spot 1

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On top of the rock.

Rare Artifact Spot 2

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On the fabric support beam.

Rare Artifact Spot 3

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On the rock near the eggs.

Rare Artifact Spot 4

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On the rock, jutting out from the cliff.

Rare Artifact Spot 5

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On the side of the rock.

Rare Artifact Spot 6

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On the highest part of the rock.

Rare Artifact Spot 7

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On the rock in the lake.

Rare Artifact Spot 8

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On the roof of the entryway.

Rare Artifact Spot 9

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Inside the entry, go behind the fence to grab this from the shelf below.

Rare Artifact Spot 10

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On the numbered shelves, jump up onto the rock to reach it.

Rare Artifact Spot 11

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Next to the coffins on the upper level.

Rare Artifact Spot 12

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In the shelves on the lower level.

Rare Artifact Spot 13

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On top of the troll cave entrance.

Rare Artifact Spot 14

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Up in the hills, just north of the cave.

Rare Artifact Spot 15

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On the mountainside, south-west of Thingar’s tent.

Rare Artifact Spot 16

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Above cave entrance on the slope.

Rare Artifact Spot 17

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Tucked up against the rock.

Rare Artifact Spot 18

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Up on the side of the mountain.

Rare Artifact Spot 19

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Upper spot on sloped plateau.

Rare Artifact Spot 20

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Lower spot on sloped plateau.

Rare Artifact Spot 21

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On the grassy ledge halfway up the mountain.

Rare Artifact Spot 22

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On the mountainside.

Rare Artifact Spot 23

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On the mountainside.

Rare Artifact Spot 24

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On the grassy ledge.

Rare Artifact Spot 25

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On the mountainside.

Rare Artifact Spot 26

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On the grassy plateau.

Rare Artifact Spot 27

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On the nose of the skull.

Rare Artifact Spot 28

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On the slope halfway up.

Rare Artifact Spot 29

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Next to the tree.

Rare Artifact Spot 30

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On the tent spike.

Rare Artifact Spot 31

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On top of the large scaffolding (Taller Beam)

Rare Artifact Spot 32

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On top of the large scaffolding (Shorter Beam)

Rare Artifact Spot 33

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On the crates on top of the scaffolding.

Rare Artifact Spot 34

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In the tunnel near intrepid dungeon entrance.

Rare Artifact Spot 35

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On the ledge of the pillar.

Rare Artifact Spot 36

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Top middle of the arch.

Rare Artifact Spot 37

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Top right side of the door.

Rare Artifact Spot 38

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In the dip at the bottom of the slope.

Rare Artifact Spot 39

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On the peak at the top of the slope.

Rare Artifact Spot 40

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On the lower peak.

Rare Artifact Spot 41

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On the higher peak.

Gloamwood Rare Artifact Locations

A few of these locations are much easier to get to if you use a jumping mount, either Opie or the Jet Pack.

The spider cave in Darkening Deeps has a bunch of rare spots high up in the roots. It is challenging to get up there! If you manage it, try to park an alt up there with an artifact tracking vial so you can log that alt when you see there are artis up there while hunting with your main.

Rare Artifact Spot 1

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In the cave halfway up the cliff, drop down from above to get here.

Rare Artifact Spot 2

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Inside the cocoon – Also many spots in the roots on the roof of the cave.

Rare Artifact Spot 3

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Up on the log

Rare Artifact Spot 4

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On top of large rock.

Rare Artifact Spot 5

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Tucked between the walls.

Rare Artifact Spot 6

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On the table at the top of the tower.

Rare Artifact Spot 7

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On the support of the tower.

Rare Artifact Spot 8

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2 rare spots on top of the tent.

Rare Artifact Spot 9

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Puzzle entrance – On the pillar support – Up Left

Rare Artifact Spot 10

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Puzzle entrance – On the pillar support – To the right

Rare Artifact Spot 11

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Puzzle entrance – On the arc above the platform

Rare Artifact Spot 12

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Bottom floor of tower, in door alcove.

Rare Artifact Spot 13

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On top of the wall on the cornerstone.

Rare Artifact Spot 14

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Up on the mountain.

Rare Artifact Spot 15

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On the edge of the rock.

Rare Artifact Spot 16

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On the arc roof of the tower

Rare Artifact Spot 17

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On the northern pillar.

Rare Artifact Spot 18

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On the outer edge of the southern pillar.

Rare Artifact Spot 19

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On the tree halfway up the hill.

Rare Artifact Spot 20

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On the beam, on the upper level of the Mill.

Rare Artifact Spot 21

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Upstairs by the doorway.

Rare Artifact Spot 22

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Under the main stairway

Rare Artifact Spot 23

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In the basement behind barrels.

Rare Artifact Spot 24

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In the basement on a shelf.

Rare Artifact Spot 25

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At the very tip of the tree branch.

Rare Artifact Spot 26

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On the peak of the mountain

Rare Artifact Spot 27

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On the peak of the mountain

Rare Artifact Spot 28

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On the peak of the mountain

Rare Artifact Spot 29

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Next to the big tree.

Rare Artifact Spot 30

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In the middle of the small lake.

Rare Artifact Spot 31

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Next to the tree.

Rare Artifact Spot 32

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In the cluster of trees. Left in Pic.

Rare Artifact Spot 33

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In the cluster of trees. Right in Pic.

Rare Artifact Spot 34

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On the mountain.

Rare Artifact Spot 35

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On the mountain.

Planetouched Wilds Rare Artifact Locations

This is still a work in progress for me..
In the meantime, you can have a look at the imgur album of rare spots.

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