Any tips for artificer?

[EarlyALL]

I always die in D5 wave 9-11.

[booQorm]

Pray to RNGesus - that's all I remember about beating it.

[Deathraven13]

Early game: 6 shredder, coffee (for attack speed), ranged damage, dynamite, then you decide if you feel better playing with mostly luck, mostly harvest, or a bit of both, depends on RNG shop too.... for level ups ranged damage, attack speed,

Late game: 3 shredder, 2 rockets, 1 nuclear (RNG can be a pain). explosion size & damage upgrade, ricochet (ranged attack bounce), damage % items, for level ups it depend: Max HP for sure, you could get some dodge but depending on RNG you would be able to even down bosses fast (I remember doing so with rocket launchers and +3 bounces).

For survivality it depends what you'll get and how you'll build: if you go monkey + luck you should be fine, if you go HP regen (just 2 points for very early if you have trouble) then lifesteal you should also be fine, prioritize damage over lifesteal tho.

This happen some patches ago tho so the new elites may give you some trouble AND when i did it ennemies where slower. (patch 0.8 buffed ennemies speed I think unless it was another patch, there was a topic about it).

Hope that help (and that it's not outdated).

[Bumc]

* -50% armor is a problem, but it doesn't mean you can just ignore armor. Unfortunately, artificer doesn't have enough damage against big minions to build glass cannon.
You want more HP and less armor than a regular character, but being butt-naked will get you killed by wave 14.

* Ranged damage is weak.
Even with shredder start, its expensive and doesn't give enough to bother with it unless it falls right into your hands or something.

* Rocket fist and (whatits name) explosive hammer are considered explosives as far as your passive is concerned. Rocket turrets are up there as well, but it is impossible to play around a legendary drop you need a multiple of for it to matter.

* Your best damage stat is attack speed, but don't ignore critical chance if you get some cheap insanity or sunglasses. Most explosive weapons are x2 crit and you already have %damage from the potato itself.

* As with other classes, best health recovery stat is Luck, coupled with consumabls effectiveness. More so for Artificer, because he needs a lot of recovery and lifesteal is hard to get going with relatively slow explosive weapons.

Edit: oh, and yes, elemental damage is a total bait. Just ignore that part of the scaling.

[DarkTwinge]

This is the one character Plank actually does decent work on, as their starting +Explosion Damage helps combat the weapon's damage being too low, and the Elemental Scaling means you can increase your damage while also fixing Plank's other problem of having too-small explosions.

[Sokaku]

I'd say plank is a bad pick for Artificer strictly due to the short range nature, low chance of actually getting an explosion, and penalty to armor. Shredders scale damage and chance to explode so much more effectively, plus combined with speed help negate the armor penalty. Once RNG graces me with some explosive damage/size, I found upping the quality of a couple Shredders to Purple or Red and running 4-5 in total vs. running with 6 lower quality Shredders was pretty effective. More guaranteed booms vs. more shots with lower probability of booms. Somewhat like playing King.

[Bumc]

For most weapons effectiveness per gold spent goes white >> blue >> red >> purple, because red has some sort of spike, like high base damage in case of shredder.
The most effective setup is generally red + blues, but running less than 6 is still rather inefficient.

[Deathraven13]

Did you win OP ?
If not maybe I can make a video on how I can do it, granted I did it in build 0.8 I think.

[Butch]

Artificers biggest problem is that he needs time to kill tougher enemies.
I'd argue his most important stat is speed.

Start with 6 shredders but slowly get better items like Bazookas or Nukes.
You don't have to kill bosses, if you can, great, but it's more important to survive.
If you can, get Piggybank. you don't need a lot of damage to kill everything.

And elemental is okay, I don't know why you guys are against it, with a lot of it every shot will wipe the map clean.

[GeminiEclipse]

I usually just go Shredders with attack speed, range damage, damage, explosion damage, health, dodge, lemonade, some speed and the occasional armor item like the big helmet (5 health, 3 armor). If you can't get lemonade, some lifesteal (just not butterflies).

If I find a nuke launcher great. If not whatever. I prefer shredders to bazookas since they have innate pierce and you can actually get them.

I usually don't bother to increase elemental damage, but also try not to lose it.

[EarlyALL]

Originally posted by Deathraven13:

Did you win OP ?
If not maybe I can make a video on how I can do it, granted I did it in build 0.8 I think.

I will try today. I didnt play yesterday. so if i win, i will show my screenshot xDDD

[Deathraven13]

Originally posted by EarlyALL:

Originally posted by Deathraven13:

Did you win OP ?
If not maybe I can make a video on how I can do it, granted I did it in build 0.8 I think.

I will try today. I didnt play yesterday. so if i win, i will show my screenshot xDDD

Good luck, you can do it !

[EarlyALL]

Originally posted by Deathraven13:

Originally posted by EarlyALL:

I will try today. I didnt play yesterday. so if i win, i will show my screenshot xDDD

Good luck, you can do it !

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3009859019 After 20 games, I did it! Thanks to all who provided opinions.

[EarlyALL]

Btw, I noticed that some of you mentioned Nuclear. Is that a weapon or item? I never saw it during my game. Maybe I didnt unlock it.

[Bumc]

Nuclear launcher is unlocked for beating the game as a Soldier, its one of the best weapons in some niche, or explosive-based builds. Huge radius, slow rate of fire, has damage scaling with both elemental and ranged (which is mostly irrelevant due to its high base damage).

[Deathraven13]

Originally posted by EarlyALL:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3009859019 After 20 games, I did it! Thanks to all who provided opinions.

Congratulations !