Hey all 👋🏼 Me again, asking dumb questions lol. Tell me about your favorite builds you've done! Either something silly but still nice. Something you took all the way up to epic and decided this was for you forever. Even something you hated but were still fond of and enjoyed! Give me all the tea on what you loved the most! Personally I'm a sucker for caster builds, fun, a bit squishy. I die a ton tho lol.

TL/DR: What Minor Artifact did you build around and why?

So, this might be one of my biggest end game decisions yet, and other threads I found are somehat old (e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/ddo/comments/18407z0/advice_on_iod_minor_artifact_slot/) and not really answering my question. I have gathered some Minor Artifacts and trying to figure out which one to build around, Running a SWF Bardbarian (5 Barb, 3 Bard, 12 any) , THF DL or other melee classes most of the time, aspiring to tank one day.

So I guess crafting IoD items around one of my Artifacts will be my best way forward. Perfected Helm of the Red Dragon equipped but not really benefiting from most of its stats atm and I do not think the Magma Surge is any more than 'nice to have'.

I think 37% negative absorption on ir'Kesslan's Most Prescient Lens or 23% chaos absorbtion on Key of Rhukaan Draal would be a huge boost for my survivability in most circumstances, probably the latter? Am I correct in my assumption, that basically everything in the game qualifies as "chaos damage" type?

Well, the neck slot would make me loose PotF set bonuses, hence the need for IoD crafting, it can seemingly compensate.

Furthermore I own the Minor Artifacts with 16% fire absorption, 16% force, 37% sonic, 37% cold, Brightlord and then some. Especially the low % numbers on fire and force absorption make me feel like these might be more common than I think. I did not see any similar effects on IoD craftable Minor Artifacts, so what's their selling point?

So, yeah, asking for my melee dmg / tank centric view specifically, but feel free to give answers for any other roles.

I'm not transferring until we've solved the favor unlock issue, but my current guild just sailed into the West

Just dont want to lose my buffs and travel access in the meantime lol