I easily maxed out the rewards for the first Artifact Enhancement for this fusion and I'll probably max the second but it is painfully long and boring. :-)

Trevor, I am totally with you on this one. This part of the game is just PAINFUL.

Have you looked into Bluestacks yet? I only ask cause there's an eco mode setting that ratchets up the upgrade speed by like 10x. And frankly, I can't go back to regular upgrades on my phone ever again.

There's never enough silver - and upgrading is doubly demoralising, the slow tedious animations and the much faster drain on the silver

exactly i entered with roughly 10 mill and after an hour and a half walked away with 289 silver granite, i upgraded alot of equipment successfully it was just annoing but i play on pc not sure if this is an option on the phone aswell but theres a feature where you can press the upgrade button and it will keep attempting 'till it levels up. it also allows you to choose a fixed number of levels for it to auto upgrade like that. so i just use the auto thing and go do soething else for a little bit. so other than the silver drain its not too too bad for me.

Although i sometimes set my mouse clicker going for auto runs on pc, i generally play on my phone. Maybe i should run it on my pc and use bluestacks you are right

Can't wait for the implementation of the "Superior Adamantium Blacksmith's Hammer", two of which you can get for 4500 points in summoning events (instead of a legendary book) which, when used, for a paltry price of 5M silver will directly upgrade your selected artifact to +16, as an adequate and sufficient fix for this issue. 

(please do NOT pass this on to the developers)

Awe come on!  Nothing brightens my day more than seeing a failure, loser, thanks for the coin message 50 times while the cloths are in the washing machine.  I mean, what else do I have to do except be forced to reflect on how crappy my life is at times lol.

There is very popular auto battle tool which is accepted to use by Plarium for PC as well which speeds the enchantment animations up.

delete this please! It probably is at the top of the QoL improvement list now!

Removing the animation seems like the simpliest change in the world that would be very much appreciated by the entire community.  Still confused why they haven't done it.

Let me just pass this along. 

 Hell Hades and Deadwood Jedi had an idea that when you roll an artifact and it doesn't upgrade a Death Knight animation could pop up and say "Fail!" :-)

 I tried the Bluestacks trick but it made my whole game lag so bad just trying to select artifacts that the quicker upgrade speed wasn't worth it. Maybe I could figure something out in the settings.

 A trick that might help some newer players is you can save up all the 4*, 5* and 6* gear you get till an Artifact Enhancement event and then just roll them up to level 4 and sell them unless they're keepers. You'll actually turn a tiny profit so even though it's very time consuming it can help you complete an event when you don't have very much silver. You'll still need to get some artifacts to level 16 but it'll be a lot easier.

Yeah, it limits the frame rate so you have to turn it on/off as you level the gear. 100% worth it though. 

I only use it for leveling gear. It takes what would be a couple minute per piece process to 30 seconds per piece.