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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 8186982" data-attributes="member: 6906155">Paul's entirely subjective thoughts on the armorer subclass (warning: YMMV)First, remember you are still an artificer, so the stuff I said about artificers still applies.The main role of an armorer is to be a tank. Now, that does not mean making yourself invincible, it means stopping your party taking the hits. If you are the last man standing you are not a good tank. Good tanks go down first. The armorer is good at this because of the secondary effect on it's fist attacks. Note that this:Is wrong. Your weapon is magical from level 3. There isn't much that can't be hurt with thunder damage. You get to give it an additional magical property at level 9. Don't forget that you can change your cantrips at level up, and Booming Blade/GFB works with your Thunder Gauntlets. But also don't forget, you only have to annoy your enemies, you job isn't to do damage, it's to prevent your friends taking damage.Armor Type. Note that your defensive field uses your bonus action, so you might not get as much mileage out of a homunculus as an alchemist would. If the party wants to do a stealth mission you can switch to infiltrator mode after a short rest, so your party doesn't give you filthy looks when your clanking gives you away. Something else you can do with infiltrator mode is multiclass to rogue (I suggest AT so your spell slots stack). Permanent advantage on stealth is nice, and you can sneak attack with the Lightning Launcher, using intelligence as your attack stat. Just don't try it on a flesh golem.It's worth noting that you might not always want to want to use Enhanced Defense on your armor. You can change it when you take a long rest, so if (for example) you know you are going up against a dragon tomorrow you can change it to give yourself resistance to the appropriate damage type instead. Resistant Armor is one infusion, but you choose the damage type when you use it.</blockquote>

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