Here's something I hadn't noticed before.

I came across the Freden's Crown artifact after adding the missing Leowyn Lore vol 12 to the Leowyn Lore Bookcase.

It is +20 Spirit/Strength, and 20-60 melee, 0-40 spell damage.

But when I put it on, I didn't get any of the bonuses.

It didn't show red in my inventory, to point out that I didn't have
the stats to use it. The stat requirements are base stat requirements,
and not current stat requirements.

As it turned out, originally, I could put on the Freden's Crown because with my current head equipment, I met the stat requirement.

Had I taken off my current head equipment first, I would have seen it turn red.

Then I tweaked my stats to give me the numbers without the head
eq on, and when I put it on, still nothing. I ended up taking off all my
eq, and tweaking my base stats to reach the artifact's mins, and then
I got the bonuses.

(I had 170 or so status points waiting to be applied, if there were ever
a sequel to come out, I hope that reaching a milestone will be heralded
a little more than that little sound effect in the current game)

I used to run right to the well as soon as I got an artifact, so maybe this is just something that I'm finally seeing because I'm playing more
deliberately and paying attention to details.

It's probably just me, but I thought I'd point that out. Maybe a newbie to
the game will be helped with that info.

That's strange, my guess is you're probably overlooking something, I know at least for me keeping track of stats can be diffuclt and for some reason things don't seem right that actually are.

I imagine if we had a major equipment bug it would have reared it's ugly head by now, hehe.

thanks for letting us know though I'll keep my ear to the ground.

-Raymond