- "Discover powerful rewards - completing Artifact Research gives additional resources and unlocks new missions!"
Treasure Map[]
- Unlock a gold mine that generates a certain amount of gold per minute.
Treasure Map 1[]
- Unlocks gold mine: The Beasts' Den (Recommended Level: 11-14)
- Research time: 30 minutes
- Source mission: Aiding the Archdruid
Treasure Map 2[]
- "Rumor has it this map can be found in the Sacred Glade, if one looks hard enough."
- Unlocks gold mine: The Exiled Tribe (Recommended Level: 26-29)
- Research time: 6 hours
- Source mission: Purging the Corruption
Treasure Map 3[]
- "Continue on your quest to stop Naema to obtain this treasure map."
- Unlocks gold mine: Red Gallows' Grave (Recommended Level: 32-36)
- Research time: 6 hours
- Source mission: The Goblin Tribes
Treasure Map 4[]
- "It is said this map can be found in the ruins of Ordonfell, if one looks hard enough."
- Unlocks gold mine: Icewind Grotto (Recommended Level: 65-70)
- Research time: 6 hours
- Source mission: Facing Naema
Treasure Map 5[]
- Unlocks gold mine: The Black Altar (Reccomended Level: 54-56)
- Research time: 6 hours
- Source mission: The Belly of the Beast
Treasure Map 6[]
- "Rumored to be found in the Alshin Imperial Palace..."
- Unlocks gold mine: Smuggler's Cove (Reccomended Level: 59-61)
- Research time: 6 hours
- Source mission: The Chosen
- Note: Gold mine: Robber's Hollow is unlocked after completing area: Ogres!, during mission: A Shadow over Haven.
Strongbox[]
- Obtain coins, embers, healing potions or resurrection scrolls.
- Source: Treasure Chests
- Research time: variable
Ancestral Knowledge[]
- Obtain Silver Runes, Elite Runes or diamonds.
- Source: Blue Treasure Chests
- Research time: reward quality and research time increases based on the color of the volume, as follows:
Red > Orange > Yellow > Green > Blue > Purple.
Naema's Journal[]
- "A coded journal outlining Naema's secrets."
- Source: drops from a Blue Treasure Chest after completing the mission Facing Naema and running it subsequent times.
- Research time: 12 hours
- Unlocks mission: What Naema Fears
Strange Artifact / Archon Fragment[]
- "A strange artifact found in the Valley of Desolation."
- Source mission: complete What Naema Fears
- Research time: 15 minutes
- Unlocks mission: Grim Tidings and a quest to recover the remaining two Archon Fragments