Tooth of the Mouth

[HousePet]

Add a little increased physical damage to it please.

[The Revanchist]

Is there a particular reason behind this?

[HousePet]

Its not quite up to the level of being equipped, except by a Reaver.
Also, physical boosting artifacts are quite scarce at low levels.
This would make it slightly more attractive (well as attractive as a tooth from an overgrown corrupted mouth can be) and useful to a wider range of characters.

[The Revanchist]

Fair point...

How much more attractive can you get than a giant feral tooth, though? I mean, walls themselves part for it!

As a physical-boosting artefact, even just a small boost, it would make it more desirable for pretty much any class that uses physical damage.

You're also right, no +phys damage items come to mind in the slot. Plenty of +nature damage pickaxes, but that's it...

[Doctornull]

I dunno, the Armor Penetration is good for all weapon-users.

The Blight on-hit damage is good for all shield-users and heavily defensive guys, and even a decent defense against melee critters for the early levels.

The Blight boost is niche, but everything else is pretty broadly useful.

[Sirrocco]

The blight-on-hit is a very serious boost to damage return tanking - which is in general a pretty solid way to get through the first few levels. You don't even have to be all that heavily defensive - just stack a few different forms of damage return and a lot of the early fights get a lot easier.

I'm not saying that it shouldn't have a physdam boost, but I'd be more inclined to stack a bit of a strength boost on it. Seems like all of the nonartifact picks got str boosts, why not the big one?

[HousePet]

Armour penetration would be more useful if something actually had armour.
And that doesn't happen early game.