D&D 5E (2024) Do Artificers Break The Game at 10th Level?

[dave2008]

So most online artificer guides aren't so great. They focus on the level 11 spell item and often miss some of the better items at lvl 2 eg glamour full or half plate.

At level 10 all artificers can pick uncommon items. +1 shield or weapon, few other bits and pieces. Elemental gems are an uncommon item. You can summon a CR5 elemental. No concentration required. For one hour

It seems you can summon all 4 at once. Only for an hour. If youre not abusing it its still an elemental every hour.

Seems good.

I fail to see how this "breaks" the game - care to explain?

 

[Zardnaar]

I fail to see how this "breaks" the game - care to explain?

1-4 CR 5 monsters 100+hp on some concentration free.

Each one earth elemental)has 4d8+10 damage potential per round. Concentration free.

 

[Ferrousbones]

Seems easy enough for a DM to make the required gem really expensive for that magic item

For crafting, sure, but since 2024 Replications simply manifest the item rather than applying an effect to an extant item, the DM could not do that by RAW (short of DM fiat RAW, which the players would likely treat as adversarial to themselves, and thus a red flag).