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[CogDissident]

Is the bonus enough to overcome the original quality of the material though?

Yes, materiel bonuses to damage/armor are between 50% (for non-metal, non-intended materiels like wood), to 133% for steel (500% for adamantine). Quality bonuses are between 1x and 2x for normal to masterwork items. With artifact being a higher number, that nobody has been able to figure out.

It has been tested, and a steel artifact item is "not" as good as a basic admantine item, but artifact quality "anything" is going to be roughly the same or better than a masterwork steel item of the same type.

[Footkerchief]

It has been tested, and a steel artifact item is "not" as good as a basic admantine item,

Was there a thread where this was tested?

[Pilsu]

Remove graspers from your dwarves. Can't carry owned socks and artifacts with no hands

[zchris13]

Specifically, no fingers.

[Lesconrads]

Thanks for all the input and new facts 
I wish i had some nice artifacts now... not only some great bucket or the like .
Epic steel-plate *drool*

After all, it seems as if i had a misconception of how attributes were increased. it's cumulated xp in any jobs, if i read it right. So training them in every weapon doesn't make them better but worse, as they could train their swordskill to infinity instead.

[Squeegy]

Thanks for all the input and new facts 
I wish i had some nice artifacts now... not only some great bucket or the like .
Epic steel-plate *drool*

After all, it seems as if i had a misconception of how attributes were increased. it's cumulated xp in any jobs, if i read it right. So training them in every weapon doesn't make them better but worse, as they could train their swordskill to infinity instead.

No, just Legendary+5.

[Cheshire Cat]

to stack the odds in favor of weapon or armor artifacts many people will give all their brown dwarves, that is all the dwarves with farming type jobs, dabbling in weapon or armorsmithing. as dwarves will favour their highest mood aplicable skill they will go create a weapon or peice of armor.

this does not allways pan out though. something like over half the adult dwarves in my fort are farmers or haulers who have weaponsmithing, armorsmithing or crossbow making as their highest moodable skills, yet so far all my moods come from the millions of children i have running around. this means i just get really random items from the crafts workshops like turtle shell chains and pig tail earings.

if you dont value your dwarves that much you can kill the moody dwarf before the complete their artifact, some players do this and aparently it means you will get another mood much sooner then otherwise, hopefully an artifact that you will want.