First of all, I have to say I like the basic premise of the wonder artifacts; having several artifacts in one is pretty awesome. That's one of the reasons I really like the runes, as opposed to unique artifacts for each.
With that in mind, I'd like to propose the following: Make some artifacts foldable into the wonder artifacts. For instance, create a pair of Boots of Wonder, and let people fold in their existing boots, such as the astral boots, pathfinder boots and Hermes sandals. These would simply become powers available to the Boots of Wonder after being folded into it, which would let people use a few artifacts for most of their powers. These powers would work completely separate from the crystal powers, of course; there'd be no need to reach a certain amount of crystals to be able to fold in more powers.
So, in essence: Make some artifacts work like runes for Wonder artifacts.
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12x insanity reduction
4x enchantment
11x damage types
6x skill copy (depending on what you define as skill copy)
which means between the two, there are seven semi-unique powers:
Astral Fling
Wondercure
Resurrection
Portals
Windrunning
Wind immunity
Skydive
We still have another 14(?) enchantments at least to go, and then there's faster movement on terrains that would be a nice thing on boots (slightly copying the curio powers), so that's another massive amount. We should be good to go for another two or three wonder artifacts.
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