Aiken wrote on Jan 3
rd, 2017 at 12:39pm:
Hello! I want To start a nel Artificier character. I was thinking about a caster one. I Image My character using principally rune arm And spell like abilities in arcanotechnician tree.
The xbow like a secondary dps Way. What abilities, feats And more do You suggest?
I want To be a warforged probably
Thank You!
If you LR+1 a sun elf they are probably the best pure ARTI casters.
The electric arrows from AA do about 200 damage per hit, and the lvl 30 feat adds about 150 per hit. Sun-elves also get accuracy and INT as primary stat.
41 AP aracno
14 AP Sun-elf
24 AP in Arcane archer
Shiradi
I had a lot of fun on this build, using Blade barrier, Ottos, then Tac Det and Pin.
Energy burst had a lot of electrical spell power which was nice.
However, even though this is the optimal set-up for Artificers, their DPS doesn't scale well into epics. Damage of Blade Barrier and Eburst + shock arrows can get you to 30 easily, but its not something that's optimal...
...unless you plan on giving everyone energy infusion + deadly in every quest and piking. ^^