anything done to improve trapmaking?

[MidnightKiss]

I played a lot a few years back and loved when they came out with trapmaking. looking it up now, last thing I could find about it was two years ago, with a lot of people saying that it tends to drop off in viability in higher tier stuff. is playing as a trapmaker viable?

[VinoeWhines]

I played a lot a few years back and loved when they came out with trapmaking. looking it up now, last thing I could find about it was two years ago, with a lot of people saying that it tends to drop off in viability in higher tier stuff. is playing as a trapmaker viable?

Late to the party, early at the refreshments but trapmaking can be viable, even in upper Reaper but you pretty much have to be INT based and take 3 tiers of Improved Trapmaking, what does suck is that there is no DC for Rogue level, Sneak Attack Dice and Melee/Range Power(mines/grenade damage) attached to it to make it damage worthy, the only viable part is the Magical part of trapmaking, though Web, Dance, Hypnotism last only 1- 3 seconds or not at all in upper Reaper; it should mirror DC's of Caster Mass Hold in timer of affect, instead of 1 second dance or no Web hold.(with Disable Device DC:125+)

Glitterdust and Hypnotic Pattern are the only semi reliable traps

[Drekisen]

Seeing as how Arti is the only other trap class in the game, it sure would be nice if they would finally also give us the Improved Trapmaking enhancement line

[Scrag]

I played a lot a few years back and loved when they came out with trapmaking. looking it up now, last thing I could find about it was two years ago, with a lot of people saying that it tends to drop off in viability in higher tier stuff. is playing as a trapmaker viable?

Dark hunter, of all things:

Improved Traps: +[1/2/3] to the save DC's of Alchemical Trap Attacks and Magical Traps. Elemental Traps that you place now have a DC equal to [65/80/100]% of your Disable Device Skill instead of 50%.

And they get

Lupine Instincts: Your Black Wolf inherits your Search and Spot scores, and will automatically find traps and secret doors for you assuming you meet the statistical threshold. You gain a bonus to Search and Disable Device equal to your Wilderness Lore feats.

which if you go druid/ranger/barb is a LOT of ++ search and dd skills (dd is used for trap dc it seems, per ddowiki.)