As for the artifacts – why do you think that "the artifacts are rubbish, everything is copied, blah-blah-blah, the developers have no imagination"? The artifacts are quite appropriate. Dragon scale armor, dwarven equipment, etc. No excessively powerful artifacts, and at the same time, no completely useless ones. If there were heroes from the third game, but the artifacts were newly created, would you still complain?
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