Race Selection for Artificer

[Samadhi]

Curious what people's thoughts are on choosing a race for their upcoming artificers.

[andbr22]

WF - way to obvious
Humans - lot of usefull feats availble for artificers. not much hurt in HP.
Dwarfs - Strudines uber ales.
Drows - poors mans Artificer - high int and dex helps with Xbows and spells, high cha is better umd, but low con will realy hurt them.

[Tenkari_Rozahas]

WF - way to obvious
Humans - lot of usefull feats availble for artificers. not much hurt in HP.
Dwarfs - Strudines uber ales.
Drows - poors mans Artificer - high int and dex helps with Xbows and spells, high cha is better umd, but low con will realy hurt them.

Helfs will make good arties too if you get 14 ch to start and take the pally/FvS dilettante they will beable to self heal as well.

[Musouka]

Helfs will make good arties too if you get 14 ch to start and take the pally/FvS dilettante they will beable to self heal as well.

wouldn't you be able to self heal with UMD anyway?

[Valakai]

Helf with rogue dilettante. +3d6 SA damage is nothing to sneeze at or WF for good self healing. (fleshies get self healing too but not nearly as good as WF)

And as helf you also get HV with the buff that is given to damage boost this is also nice as you can have arti dam boost and hv dam boost. (they dont stack but you get enough boosts to be boosted almost all the time.)

And if you are planning on mainly xbowing then I would definately not dump dex since you want to use insightful damage buff.

[Jay203]

i'm still going wf since i like my wfs

[Mithis]

Helf w/ wizzy dilletante (sp?)

[Uska]

Human extra feat skill points maybe the dragonmark flavor for any rp of being of the house

[Talon_Moonshadow]

Gnome.




Human might be best.
Drow maybe....but have to read closer to see if they really get an advantage from max Int.

Also need to read closer to make a decision about WF.

I was thinking WF, because it has some flavor with the class IMO.


Real curious about other people's opinions now that we know their abilities.

And would like people to explain their choices if they could....
thx.


Edit: the more posts I read about this, the more I think Drow would be a real good choice. Highest Int, Easy to get 16/17 Dex, and some Cha for UMD. Would make a good caster, crossbowman, UMDer.

But the extra feat for Humans is very useful for a ranged build...exspecially if you want him to be able to do somehting else as well.
I actually think Human is the best choice. But people will be too tempted to make them uber-crafters and end up having less feats for combat.

But I think I will go with WF for my first one....

[Cyr]

WF, self healing without spending more build resources seems like a win to me.

[Samadhi]

WF, self healing without spending more build resources seems like a win to me.

I had asked in another thread without much response; but do we know exactly what spells other than Art specific ones they are getting (for example: reconstruct?)

[Tenkari_Rozahas]

well. with augment summon, and the AC/HP enhancing enhancments pet seems to do pretty well tanking. and add in stuff like toughen construct and bulls strength it makes a VERY effective tank. making yourself WF with high UMD means you can cast those reconstruct scrolls, and rezz scrolls.sure you take a little hit to cha, but they get a umd enhancement line to quiet easily counter that.

[QuantumFX]

Warforged and Human seems to be the frontrunners IMO.

Forged because you are a construct and nearly every buff spell the Artificer offers only affects constructs.

Human because you have the ability to get the Cannith Dragonmarks and become a pimp crafter.

[Dawnsfire]

Human- Umd will get high enough for scroll healing pretty fast. If you are worried about it before hand the Construct Essence feat will allow you 50% repair healing (-25% reg heal) until you get there.

[fyrst.grok]

Human and WF are obvious..

But.. Halfling.. And name him Wee-Man.. And the iron defender Rattle-Cat..

[Dcloak]

What placement of stats does someone recommend for a WF 32 build?

[Tenkari_Rozahas]

What placement of stats does someone recommend for a WF 32 build?

well, my 32 Point WF arty, has maxxed out int, 10 str and wis, 12 cha, 14 dex, and the rest in con., and he does pretty well.

[Dcloak]

well, my 32 Point WF arty, has maxxed out int, 10 str and wis, 12 cha, 14 dex, and the rest in con., and he does pretty well.

Thanks for the advice. I was thinking something similar like:

STR 10
DEX 14
CON 14
INT 18
WIS 6
CHA 10

[cdbd3rd]

This same question was asked in-game on Advice channel.


Of course, as helpfully as I could, stated that Horc was the obvious choice.


(then I cleaned it up with a proper Human/WF answer after the chucking died away.)

[Mercureal]

This same question was asked in-game on Advice channel.


Of course, as helpfully as I could, stated that Horc was the obvious choice.


(then I cleaned it up with a proper Human/WF answer after the chucking died away.)

Arti-horc SMASH puny kobolds!