Artifact

Artifacts are rare objects and curiosities collected by Guardians. Unlike armor, class items, shaders, and Ghost shells, artifacts do not alter the player's appearance in any way when equipped. Instead, their primary benefit lies in their ability to further boost the player's Intellect, Discipline, and Strength values. They also provide an additional method for the player to generate Orbs of Light; specific perks may generate an extra Orb if the player kills an enemy using elemental damage, or kills an enemy using a grenade. Artifacts related to the Iron Lords were added by Rise of Iron, and feature additional, exclusive perks.

Rare

 * The Maraid
 * Efrideet's Eye
 * Ahamkara Scale
 * Filament Hex
 * Neural Bezoar
 * Pallas Ring
 * Thrice-Wrapped Thing
 * Trinary Star
 * Wax-Sealed Case

Legendary

 * Coyote's Luck
 * The Pahanin Errata
 * Dredgen Yor's Rose
 * Parasitic Optic
 * Two-Sided Coin
 * Ankh of Sai Mota
 * Blood-Soaked Charm
 * Butterfly Code
 * Deidris's Fist
 * Hezen Totem
 * Jasper Carcanet
 * Oraclery
 * Oversoul's Scream
 * Parasitic Optic
 * SIVA Shard
 * Perfected SIVA Shard
 * Rainbow Blade
 * Prismatic Heart
 * Thrallskin Drum
 * Unerring Compass

Rare

 * Kabr's Pocket Watch
 * Saint-14's Ring
 * Radegast's Blade
 * Asharru's Hope
 * Cyclopean Enigma
 * Fortuna Pendant
 * Horn of Six Wars
 * Iglatho-Cyu

Legendary

 * Judgment of Mars
 * Intact Warmind Core
 * Scales of Eao
 * Yzoz's Pendulum
 * Wei Ning's Cong
 * Vell Tarlowe's Vigil
 * Bretomart's Pledge
 * Claw of Command
 * Continuum Pin
 * Echo of Honor
 * Firebreak Eternal
 * Incubation Shell
 * Oversoul's Pang
 * SIVA Core
 * Perfected SIVA Core
 * Scroll of Eimin-Tin
 * Sootpearl
 * Stoneborn Relic
 * Sunscorched Lens
 * Wings of Apris-Fol

Rare

 * Segoth's Head
 * Skorri's Dirge
 * Ring of Living Stone
 * Light of Moths
 * Silent Oracle
 * Spectral Dust
 * Techeun Bangle
 * Tome of Nothing
 * Weregilt

Legendary

 * Oddly Colored Cube
 * Thanatonaut's Lullaby
 * Sisyphus Project
 * Flamel Crest
 * Warp Fragment
 * Sins of Kharad-Tan
 * Transcendent Eye
 * Broken Crown
 * Chronofuse
 * Colovance's Choice
 * Hourless Glass
 * Leaf of the Bleeding Tree
 * Numinous Web
 * Oversoul's Gasp
 * SIVA Capsule
 * Perfected SIVA Capsule
 * Specimen Twelve
 * The Damned Lute
 * The Traitor's Die
 * Whispering Sphere

List of Destiny 2 artifacts
In Destiny 2, artifacts are earned either via the season pass free track or via a free quest, and any artifact can be used by any class unlike in Destiny. They provide the player with a Power bonus that increases as the player levels up the artifact by earning experience points. Aside from the Power bonus, for the first 12 levels the artifact gains 1 artifact point when it levels up.

These artifact points can be used to unlock mods for weapons and armor. It takes 1 artifact point to unlock 1 mod. Each seasonal artifact has a different set of mods that can be unlocked. The seasonal artifact disappears along with the mods and Power bonus when the current season ends, though the artifact and associated lore can be viewed later in the Collections menu.

Since the artifact only allows you to have 12 mods at a time unlocked, players can pay an amount of Glimmer to reset their artifact points, which can be done an infinitely at an increased cost each time. Mods from the artifact applied to gear no longer work if the artifact is reset and the mod is not unlocked again.

Trivia

 * Throughout the entire Destiny series, there hasn't been an Exotic artifact.

List of appearances

 * Destiny
 * The Taken King
 * Rise of Iron
 * Destiny 2
 * Season of the Undying
 * Season of Dawn
 * Season of the Worthy
 * Season of Arrivals
 * Season of the Hunt
 * Season of the Chosen