That may of been his original intention but the Artificer absolutely was designed to be the MagiTech concept. It SHOULD of been designed otherwise but the final product is MagiTech/“Wizard who uses Tools”

I played an artificer battlesmith that was flavored as a "trashmancer" he had the ability to tap into the latent potential of items that had been lost, discarded or abandoned. His steel defender was a trash golem essentially a mound of trash using magical bindings to function as a creature. Was a pretty good time.

I think Aura of Vitality isnt available to neither druids nor clerics, it a paladin spell. Twilight clerics have it as well as battlesmith artificers, but apart from that you wouldnt be able to choose it. It would be dope tho

@@pedropousada4191 Tasha's added it to the cleric and druid lists as an optional variant

That's a very cool interaction I hadn't thought of. 🤩🤩 Extended spell would make this even more powerful consider that DoL adds 5 hp per bonus action ×10×2=100 hp per PC for the cost of 1 sorcery point. Now you can almost give twilight a run for it money.

I imagen than that vampiric touch or enervation would have a similar effect.

I spent the last 20 min freaking out about how cool this build is

Yeah, I assumed he was referring to the fact that they are half-casters rounded up instead of down, but that still wouldn't be 3/4 caster.

I've heard 2/3 caster, does that math work out?

@@B4K4157 a 1/2 caster gets at max 5th level slots (because they at max are a level 10 caster spell slot wise). A 1/3 caster gets at max 4th level slots because at max they are a 7th level caster (they round up their levels). So by using that math a max 3/4 level caster would be level 15 and have access to 8th level slots. So my mistake about that. I think a problem is that it's unintuitive what these caster levels mean. I think thats only because full casters cap out at 9th level slots even though if you followed the pattern they should cap out at 10th level.

@@B4K4157 for a 2/3 caster they would cap out at being a 13th level caster (assuming they round down). Which means they would have access to 7th level slots max

Honestly could go either way, the chalice is better for targeted healing, while shepherd unicorn totem is better for healing everyone in a big group. Because we're already pulling allies close with the protector cannon, we figured the unicorn totem would be more effective. Again though, that would work well too!

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Summon shadowspawn (fury) would get adv on attacks against frightened creatures [like from your form of dread, additionally you are immune to it's fear save while in the form of dread. As far as familiars go, Pseudodragon has the better chance of causing unconsciousness poison to work, but sprite's ranged attack and invisibility action has better longevity. If the enemy is frightened, making the BA ranged attack from the sprite could be good in that they couldn't approach your familiar, and the potential for unconscious using your DC is pretty nuts. If you wanted to double down on unconscious poison, pairing the the familiar with Summon Undead (ghoul form) would you a lot of opportunities to knock someone out, until your minions are killed. If they're unconscious, you could autocrit if within 5' of them, so Booming Blade or a point blank agonizing Eldritch Blast could be good [maybe pair this with. Unconscious enemies also autofail strength and dex saves. Also, an invisible sprite could take the help action while staying as long as it's within 5' of the enemy and you're not making it break it's invisibility with an attack command. You could have both these summon spells at level 5 if you replace one of your old spells at level up. Some good invocations for this character in addition to Investment of the chain master are: agonizing blast, eldritch mind [concentration save advantage], and repelling blast [if frightened and pushed back they can't approach] Use the ASi to bump your charisma. Custom lineage/Variant human could be good for Resilient Con or War Caster, or shada kai elf [possibly with elven accuracy +1 Cha at level 4] could be thematic and strong as well.

@@elliotbryant3459 the fact that you took ur time to write all that you are such a g my man

summon shadowspawn with weight of sorrow and focus on reducing speed for EB and control. Couple of pets kinda build. Fathomless for tentacle to slow is an option there as well.

​@@elliotbryant3459 I think Im completely with you in terms of the tactics of this character. I was thinking custom lineage and taking moderately armored. With that and a 14 dex I could have a 18/19 ac. Alternatively, I could take a level dip in fighter, get that con save + defence fighting style. Im torn between custom lineage + moderately armored + 5 levels in warlock or Eladrin/ shadow kai + straight warlock yea or maybe custom lineage eldritch adept, get an extra innvocation. This character seems quite invocation heavy.

@@anzamanto4407 Ya man, I agree Moderately Armored would be a really good feat pick too. You can't fail the concentration save that you don't need to make. Might not hurt too much to delay the charisma bump and take that at level 4 instead if you don't end up going Custom Lineage. It would also allow you to start with a higher con or wisdom since the half feat brings dex up to 14. If you're allowed to use Volo's material, the old Fallen Aasimar could be thematic and better than the updated version in this scenario, given the demands placed upon your bonus action. Once per long rest you could do the action transformation triggering a 10' radius fear aura and adding character level necrotic damage to an attack on each of your turns and then activate the form of dead as a bonus action. If you can get 1or more enemies to make the fear save it feels like less of a setup turn. Also gives you a self heal. Personally, I would probably go Shadar Kai. For me the sum of its parts add up to more than a feat. Then take moderately Armored at 4. I wouldn't sweat the invocation opportunity costs, you could delay agonizing blast until level 7 and run with chain master, repelling and eldritch mind until then. You're not spamming eldritch blast quite like a sorlock, so the damage boost is like +8 damage at most at this level, and only on the rounds you cast eldritch blast. Warlock levels 5 and 7 are pretty big for these summon spells, so I would be hard pressed to multiclass here. If starting at level 6 though, the fighter dip does have its merits as you pointed out.

Oh since we combine artificer I like the companion as a sheep herder dog and sheep instead of frogs for fluffy healing/death.🤣🤣🤣

@@woutvanostaden1299 A sheep that literally sends enemies to sleep ...or explodes whatever comes first, a werewolf being beat up by sheep amazing

@@jacobweinstock2180 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂 Or covers your allies with some cuddilly goodness/wool lining (aid spell). I'm sure there's a lot of hilarious things you could come up with.

@@woutvanostaden1299 Would there be a sheep of holding just reach into it's wool a pull out whatever, would a magic tent or magnificent mansion just be huge sheep you nest in