The forged metal of artifacts is a historic change to Ultima Online's crafting system in which it allows you a guaranteed attempt at enhancing. This will ensure a 100% success rate on the next enhancement. If you have spent time crafting the right base piece and then reforging for imbued stats and really don't want to risk breaking the piece during the enhancement then you must consume 1 charge of this forged metal.
There are 10 Charges compared to the 5 charges version