Sephiria Artifact Tags: Key Artifacts in Every Combo Family

Sephiria has roughly 300 artifacts, and the launch notes added nineteen more plus a new combo. Nobody can hold that list in their head, and nobody needs to — what matters is which handful each tag is really about. This page collects the artifacts that documented builds name as the reason their tag is worth stacking, one table per family, with the build that vouches for each. It is a cross-index, not a catalogue: the artifact system page explains rarity, levels and the conversion devices, and the combo thresholds page explains what each tag pays out at 2, 3, 6 and 10.

A note on names. Where the vouching guide is in English we print its names verbatim. Where it is in Chinese or Japanese we give our translation and say so — match those by effect, not by spelling.

Physical damage: Sturdy and Precision

Three separate guides converge on Precision's crit-damage pieces, which is as close to consensus as Sephiria artifact advice gets.

Survival: Shadow, Guardian, Glacier

Broken Sapphire got a cosmetic fix in 1.0.30 (its effect was drawn over speech bubbles). Bloodstone Earrings, the big lifesteal piece, is on two guides' lists with the same warning: taken before defence, it kills runs.

Reach and speed: Wind Song

Wind Sheet Music is the single most-cited artifact across the guides we have read. If you play any melee class, the great sword and Blade routes both treat it as mandatory.

Casting: Magitech, Lake, Academy

All three are documented by the lightning spellbook guide; names are our translation from Traditional Chinese.

The 1.0.26 Green Sawblade fix (buff now applies when 30+ MP is spent at once) is the one August change relevant to MP-burst casters.

Fire: Solar Blade, Ember, Elemental

The fire Blade page has the full pickup order.

Mystic and the ×2 slot

Mystic items are the Tier 50 guide's "honourable mentions" — White Egg Shell (clears floors and the Qliphoth tentacles), Cintamani Stone, Crystal of Harmony with Impact Amplifier (fourteen levels of true damage), Blue Ring (universal damage) — and holding many of them grants the ×2 slot bonus that the tablet solver lets you mark. Two are trader-only: Toxic Spore Pouch and Lunch Box.

Companion (Early Access documentation)

From the Japanese Lazarion guide, 0.8.12 era: Simple Contract (companion HP up to +150% when maxed — the piece that stops summoned crystals dying in a second), Multipurpose Belt (all elements; the Ilonica staff build uses the same item for its top-row trick), Alfonso's Horn, Thin Cushion, and Heita's Soul Powder (a Frostbite-applying ice companion, "the only stun"). The guide says to level the Contract, Horn and Cushion before any companion itself. None of these values is 1.0-confirmed.

Alchemy, and the "true damage" question

Two guides name exactly one Alchemy pick — the Potato, for ignoring enemy defence on high tiers — and both dismiss the Traveller's Blessing. The fire Blade author's reason is worth quoting because it is a claim about the game, not the item: true damage "is purely useless in the current version." We have no developer statement either way; the Early Access stat guide defines true damage as added before defence, crit and damage boosts, which is consistent with it scaling badly. Treat it as a well-founded community opinion.

How to use this page

Pick the tag your weapon line wants, take the artifacts in its "key" cell on sight, and let the Fruit Skewer bias drops toward that tag. Everything not in a key cell is combo filler — worth taking for the threshold count, not worth a reroll.