If you could buy one or two artifacts which ones are the best bang for the buck? I have a budget of about 15 million. But would prefer to spend less if I can.

I currently play a Swordsman. I also plan to play this guy as an Archer, swapping out swords to a soul stone.
Current stats naked 104-47-100 with amour 109-55-100 (Str. Int. Dex) PvM only
115 Swords
100 Tactics
100 Anatomy
110 Bushido
100 Parry
100 Resist
95 Chivalry

Current amour setup
All 70 resist
Mana regen+7
Hit point regen +11
DCI + 15%
DI +25%

Brightsight lenses
Gorget hit point regen+1 mana regen+2
Tunic Heart of the lion
Royal leggings of embers
Arms man reg+2
Storm grips
Bracelet of health
Ring FCR2 FC1

Thanks in advance.

If you listed your stats in order (Str, Dex, Int), I'd suggest pumping more into Dex (from Int).

As far as your gear, I'd upgrade the jewelry to try and get more HCI and DCI. You could have a Primer of Arms totem or Totem of the Void also.

I use Jackals collar and mace and shield glasses on my warrior chars.

Are they medable? I go thru a lot of mana.

You only need Medable armor if you have Meditation, but I believe those two are medable anyways.

My samurai bought two things that completely changed the game for me.

Those things are:
Mace and shield reading glasses (I paid 7.95 million)
HLD 30%
Str bonus 10
Dex bonus 5
Total defense 65 points

Jackal's collar (currently 5.5-6 million on Catskills)
Dex bonus 15
HPR 2
Total defense 50 points

The collar isn't much on defense, but the huge dex bonus is an amazing benefit to the samurai. Swing speed means almost everything.

But probably the best two artifacts you can get are very cheap.
Fey leggings and heart of the lion (or violet courage if you have a female character) both give decent resists and have high defense chance increase. As great as swing speed is, not getting hit is better.

I agree. Mace and shield glasses are a must. Jackels is also nice.

Thanks,
It's been about a year but if I remember right. I was able to regen mana faster passively with medable armor than I was with plate. This was without meditation. I should retest that again.

Especially since your style is mana intensive, I would agree with those recommending Mace and Shields. They are meddable, decent resists, stat boosts along with the HLD. And yes, jackal's or any other non med armor will slow down your mana regen. You will take a large hit on fire resists and mana regen prop if you lose the brightsights tho.

The other artifact that I'd consider, particularly for your archer, would be the rune beetle carapace. It gives good mana regen, lmc and mana boost and you should not need the dci as much for an archer.

Also agree with the other poster recommending the fey leggings and/or boosting your DCI on your swordsman. Bushido, parry and max dci let you withstand quite a lot of attacks. A minor artie/reward item you should consider is the quiver of infinity. It will give a 5% dci boost, plus has other uses for an archer as well.

Using the mace glasses would take my fire down to 65 and poison to 68 which doesn't sound to bad. Are the benifits of HLD 20% str+10 and dex+5 better than the mana regen +3 I would loose?