In the last level of the last campaign of SoD, there are several seer huts undreground that are looking for the elixir of life. I wasn't able to actually equip any of these artifacts, so I ended up just keeping the elixir. Anyone else notice this? Am I just missing something?

Elixir of life is an artifact set. He is made from these artifacts:
Ring of Life
Ring of Vitality
Vial of Lifeblood.

That means Elixir of life requires 3 empty slots on your Hero inventory: 2 ring slots and 1 misc, slot.. Strip your hero from his 2 rings (if he has any) and 1 misc. artifact and you could equip Elixir of Life.

Erm, thank you for responding but either you didn't understand what I wrote or you didn't actually read my post :) The problem is that the artifacts I can get by trading the seers for the elixir do not equip. Ie. I give them the elixir and they give me something else. The something else's do not equip.

Are you sure they too are not giving you combo artifacts like the elixir itself is? Or are you already wearing another Combo Artifact that is using up the space it needs?

Sorry if these are not the problems but I have never ever heard of not being able to equip an artifact in H3. It's always been because slots have always been in use. Below is a link to all the combo artifacts that are in the game to see if you may be using one of them.

http://www.celestialheavens.com/viewpage.php?id=649


OH are you by any chance using that new mod Horn of the Abyss or WoG or anything like that? If so those could also be the problem.

Sorry, I wrongly understood that you can not equip Elixir of Life. I think the Seer huts give you these artifacts in exchange for Elixir of Life: the Wizard’s Well, the Ring of the Magi, the Bow of the Sharpshooter, or the Power of the Dragon Father. All of these are Artifact Sets which requires more empty slots on you hero inventory.

For ex. the Wizard’s Well is made from:
Charm of Mana
Talisman of Mana
Mystic Orb of Mana
All these artifacts are Miscellaneous artifacts so you hero must have 3 empy misc. slots. (3 empty nr.9 slots on this image: http://heroes.thelazy.net/wiki/Artifacts).

The easiest way to find out which slots do the artifact need is to unequip all hero's artifacts until the new artifact can be equiped.

I actually thought they were maybe combo artifacts and tried giving them to a hero that didn't have any artifacts equipped and I was unable to equip them still.

Have either of you actually been able to equip any of these artifacts (well, etc)?
Also, was not using hota or wog, just plain ole heroes 3 complete edition.

Try using original SoD v3.0 CD release (patch 3.2 is recommended but optional, do not use cracks!) instead of H3 Complete v4.0. You have to restart from last save from the previous scenario (assuming that saves from current scenario are corrupted).

I don't remember if I've been able to equip any of these artifacts, I played this scenario years ago (10 years maybe). If the artifacts are the Wizard’s Well, the Ring of the Magi, the Bow of the Sharpshooter, or the Power of the Dragon Father then it must be a bug.

Hi Tarnum, to do so I'd have to backwards patch? All I have is heroes complete, and heroes roe with no expansions.

I'm not sure if it' the cause but special artifacts need few equipment slots. For example for armor of the dammed you need free armor, shield, helmet and weapon slots free. Try unequiping all artifacts your hero wears and try equip your speciela one then.