Comments on: 5 Things I Don’t Like About Eberron

By: Nitro

Nitro — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:39:30 +0000

I agree that it can seem like an artificier is an NPC class, but I have an artificier that goes ethereal then dual fires wands (using the Cannith Wand Adept from Sharn: City of Towers) to blow the daylights out of opponents with the feat Transdimensional Spell (From Complete Arcane). And as for the fact that Artificiers can’t sneak, there are armor bonuses that give bonuses to that.

By: Aeryn

Aeryn — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:43:59 +0000

I completely disagree with your assessment of the artificer. They’re extremely useful characters, and have quite a bit of melee beef (especially, as mentioned above, the ‘Forged Artificer). If you need convincing, look at the metamagic spell trigger class feature (and metamagic item infusion). Yeah, you can burn through wands like nothing, but you can lay out some severe damage.

By: Dogstar

Dogstar — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:32:20 +0000

I had a Warforged Artificer who played in a mercenary game I ran once. He was so much more deadly at everything than everyone else in the party it wasn’t even funny: he outshot the gunslinger, he out-healed the priest, he out-spelled the sorceror, he out-meleed the barbarian (with the help of his mechanical dog familiar)… I’d have to ask him how he did it all again, but it was sickening to watch.