The Artificers I see in quickplay throw out RMB, R then blow all LMB charges, wonder why they aren’t doing damage and then blame the fact that Flame Bolt has a cooldown and call her a bad class. Otherwise I feel it is fine in its current state.Īlso, you can hold the shift key to aim this skill indefinitely, should you need to. If there was one thing I had to change about this ability is that I’d make it semi-transparent so you can actually see through it. You don’t need this ability against bosses anyways, as you’ll see in the next section. Of course, it has the low health requirement and is quite ineffective against bosses, but for an ability that offers this many things of course there are going to be some limitations. To maximize this ability, learn where the execute threshold is on an enemy’s HP bar (it’s not too hard to get used to) and try to drop it in the middle of your rotation when an enemy is at or close to the execute threshold. You can use it to lock down narrow corridors (like the upper parts of the map in Rallypoint Delta), interrupt golem lasers/elder lemurian breaths/etc., help out a teammate across the map or just toss it out to execute elites and shoot mobs that are in it. That’s so much utility packed into a single ability. Infinitely scaling damage that’s not dependent on items but deals a fixed portion of an enemy’s maximum health insteadĪnd not only that but it also lingers for several seconds and continues applying all of the aforementioned effects after you cast it.Crowd control (that can proc multiple times on the same enemy).

Off the top of my head, this ability has: It baffles me when people complain about this ability and say that it needs a rework when in my eyes this is one of the best abilities in a vacuum by a large margin. They’re not particularly rare items either. We’re going to want items to cover the cons and emphasize the strengths. Medium-low range (makes it difficult to deal with high-flying, bulky mobs).This means she has a low reliance on damage boosting items to kill things effectively, while other classes may start having damage issues once the difficulty starts scaling up without offensive gear. Let’s skip the basic stuff that anyone can read on the stats page and get right into it. Keep in mind that I’m not here to argue whether she’s weaker than the rest of the cast or not. It feels like three times a day I see a comment/post on this sub complaining about how bad Artificer is and how she needs a rework, often riddled with misconceptions about her usage. So I wrote a guide to help people get better at playing Artificer.

Artificer risk of rain 2 new abilities