1st level Artificer

[nicholasgeorg]

He went the Ranged Weapon route, and I'm consistently impressed with how accurate he is, how effective he is at buffing the party, and how useful his abilities are. He spent the proficiency for a Superior Crossbow, but keeps a melee weapon around just in case. Since the Weapon attacks use the same stat, melee or ranged, he's never at risk of Opportunity Attacks and ends up very, very versatile.

So does he use an implement at all? It seems like it would really hobble an artificer to not use an implement.

 

[Flipguarder]

As long as you aint a human, none of your attack choices have to use an implement.

 

[Obryn]

So does he use an implement at all? It seems like it would really hobble an artificer to not use an implement.

I think he might own an implement, but I don't think he has a single Implement attack.

There are solid Weapon choices at every level, though, so it works out very well - especially for an Int/Con Artificer. I'd argue the Weapon-based route is a bit more potent than the Implement-based route, unless you're really attached to Summoning.

-O

 

[Shroomy]

Does your DM realize that you don't have to attack when provoked? An intelligent enemy certainly wouldn't do it repeatedly.

YMMV,

Yes, but this is an encounter power so it was only in effect for one round (but what a glorious round it was, especially when I rolled that natural 20 on one of the attacks) and our DM is not the sort to screw us when we use our powers (most of the time). Basically, we got one attack off on the OA and another on our enemies' melee attack. Of course, we were still subject to the OA (and our ranger did get hit once doing this) and it did nothing against the green dragon and dragonborn breath weapon attacks that hit us.