I don't even know what or where or when and how and who and why I'm supposed to be going and doing and making and breaking right now. I've got like six hours in and I don't think I'm even halfway done.
Only a few of the wild artefact gates are required to actually do main story stuff, I'd suggest just buckling down and using a guide to find them though
That's the only way I did it for what I've gotten, especially since a lot of them you either have to wait till later in the game, or even toward the end of the game.