Thats a very nice build here and got so many hilarious roleplay options. So we Got dread ambusher and a shoulder cannon ( eldritch cannon ) which makes you the predator , after the initial attack , machine gunning everything in front of us with action surge which kind of makes us the dutch in predator, also if we took a warforged , that would make it the terminator .Sorry for the goofy post , I Just couldnt resist mentioning the movie references at the artillerist which always fives me the predator feels .Also happy New year everyone
I feel like gunner is absolutely essential for this build so you never need to reload. I also sacrifice the shield for two weapon fighting and the dual wielder feat so I can have two pistols in each hand and one extra bonus action attack.
Great build. My next character is going to be a gunslinger! Just to point it out, at 21:20 you say “… use an action to mending…”. The mending cantrip takes 1 minute to cast so it’s not a great in combat option for firearm repair.
Gunslinger/gloomstalker harengon with the alert feat would be even crazier. Although new bugbear actually also sounds very good with such a good initiative, hmm swashbuckler for more initiative or assassin?
A useful feat could be tavern brawler and maybe mobile. For when your gun turns into a hunk of junk and you want to be able to do something melee/get out of melee.
why artificer at all? "You have proficiency with all firearms and ignore the loading property of any firearm" this means its a free action to load meaning you can shoot all day. so why would you need the repeating shot from artificer?
The gunslinger subclass changes the way firearms work and replaces the "loading" property with the "reload x" property. The reload property reads "The weapon can be fired a number of times equal to its Reload score before you must spend 1 attack or 1 action to reload. You must have one free hand to reload a firearm." So, the Giff's "ignore the loading property of any firearm" feature becomes obsolete as firearms no longer have that property and now have the new property. This is the same if you have the gunner feat This is why he went artificer for repeating shot as he no longer needs to "reload" because it produces its own ammunition every time he pulls the trigger. Hopefully this helps clear things up.
my character is warforged gunsligner with 2 levels in paladin. im vampire(+fiend and undead) hunter and my dm allowed me to use smite on ranged attacks. I must say it is prty nuts when u crit with smite :D
You can get 8 attacks on your 1st turn. Action surge allows the use of the dread ambusher ability 2 times in their first turn and then the cannon. So 8 crits in one turn is disgusting.
That's true! A flat 80 damage from sharpshooter, 4d12 magical piercing from a +1 weapon with a maxed dex plus violent shot... My goodness I don't think much is surviving that
@@DapperSnapperGaming I actually was a halfling gunslinger one campaign of mine with a pepperbox. In one round of combat me, my dad who was a hexadin, and a fighter all went first and the statue of the God was not happy. My dad crit the fighter action surged and I action surged 3 attacks unloading my entire pepperbox into him. It was ridiculous with sharpshooter. I crit 2 times and was planning on doing some multiclassing of artificer for at least 2 and get that 18th level of gunslinger.
@@DapperSnapperGaming I love that my dm allows them. I wanna make a character sent back by a wizard to change the past to possibly save the foreseen cataclysm coming in the future but he was from a wild west Era so he would use a revolver.
Yes it is. It's not gonna hit all the time but it's just nice damage when it does. Worse case, free temp HP every BA. Besides we can't do crossbow expert or anything like that for a BA attack so it's a nice bit of occasional damage if it hits
a little late, but is artificer really needed? In my current setting I dont need to buy ammunition, as a giff i can ignore loading. So it would only be really useful for the eldritch cannon. but I started as fighter so now im level three. should i just skip artificer or would the three levels still be worth it for the eldritch cannon? maybe it can replaced with a weaker magic tool?
Your DM is quite generous to allow you to ignore ammunition. With that in mind, the infusions still make your firearm magical to ignore resistance and can improve AC, etc. Plus the Eldritch Cannon gives you another nice offensive option. It is really personal preference but I think it ultimately depends on how many levels your campaign is going to span.
@@DapperSnapperGaming yeah I'm kinda stuck there. Because I originally thought about taking three levels cleric war domain, for magic weapons, and attack on bonus action. As I'd have to first spend points to improve my intelligence to 13. For the multiclass.
That's fair. If you didn't spec for it at character creation then it is hard to justify it. War or Forge Cleric aren't bad alts if you have the Wisdom for it
Curious on why you went with artificer for repeater, when Giff racial ability gives allows you to ignore reload properties. I like the idea of gunslinger/artificer but you dont need repeater being Giff.
This covers for the possibility of needing to use a pistol for a while and holding a shield. Yes you can ignore the property for the purposes of making attacks but you still have to reload the weapon so you still would need a free hand. Repeating Shot takes that out of the equation entirely.
Im late but I'm confused how you get 20 dex at level 8 when you only had 17 dex to begin with? Same with wisdom later. Did i miss something that gave you the extra +1?
@@DapperSnapperGaming Thanks for clearing that up. I thought when you showed stats they had the added bonuses from the race and where not just the base. Now I get why you say a modified array. Is the modified array your own making or did you find it somewhere?
@DapperSnapperGaming what's mpmm and how do you start off at 17 I thought you could go to fifteen and a 16 with a plus one stat racial bonus how do you get over a 15 or 16 even with point buy
MPMM is Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse. It's a newer source book for 5e that reworked a ton of racial options. As for stats, I explained it in the video just like I do in all of my videos. Modified Standard Array
Gunner works great. Gunner works on any firearm build. It is just slightly redundant with Giff. You can go Custom Lineage with the Gunner feat and do roughly the same thing
Thats a very nice build here and got so many hilarious roleplay options. So we Got dread ambusher and a shoulder cannon ( eldritch cannon ) which makes you the predator , after the initial attack , machine gunning everything in front of us with action surge which kind of makes us the dutch in predator, also if we took a warforged , that would make it the terminator .Sorry for the goofy post , I Just couldnt resist mentioning the movie references at the artillerist which always fives me the predator feels .Also happy New year everyone
I love that! Happy new year to you as well
I feel like gunner is absolutely essential for this build so you never need to reload. I also sacrifice the shield for two weapon fighting and the dual wielder feat so I can have two pistols in each hand and one extra bonus action attack.
Orc is also a good race for gunslinger, a bonus action to dash to get away from danger+ the 1hp thing makes you a lot more difficult to kill
Great build. My next character is going to be a gunslinger! Just to point it out, at 21:20 you say “… use an action to mending…”. The mending cantrip takes 1 minute to cast so it’s not a great in combat option for firearm repair.
This is definitely my favorite gunslinger build I've seen, also love the Persona Ost in the background.
I appreciate it! Love me some Persona. I just finished my first playthrough of P5R
16:33 Also good for flying creatures that can't hover. Piercing damage... then bludgeoning.
Gunslinger/gloomstalker harengon with the alert feat would be even crazier.
Although new bugbear actually also sounds very good with such a good initiative, hmm swashbuckler for more initiative or assassin?
What if I get to skip artificer levels BC another player gives you repeating shot?
A useful feat could be tavern brawler and maybe mobile. For when your gun turns into a hunk of junk and you want to be able to do something melee/get out of melee.
I know you said you do standard array, but what would you recommend for point buy?
why artificer at all? "You have proficiency with all firearms and ignore the loading property of any firearm" this means its a free action to load meaning you can shoot all day. so why would you need the repeating shot from artificer?
The gunslinger subclass changes the way firearms work and replaces the "loading" property with the "reload x" property. The reload property reads "The weapon can be fired a number of times equal to its Reload score before you must spend 1 attack or 1 action to reload. You must have one free hand to reload a firearm."
So, the Giff's "ignore the loading property of any firearm" feature becomes obsolete as firearms no longer have that property and now have the new property. This is the same if you have the gunner feat
This is why he went artificer for repeating shot as he no longer needs to "reload" because it produces its own ammunition every time he pulls the trigger.
Hopefully this helps clear things up.
@@SilentSword1443 this was super helpful!! thanks for clearing that up for me
Gunner for close range then Hunter ranger Hordebreaker will allow a free attack every round two enemies are next to you. Cool build. chur.
I made my fallout character in D&D and this almost the same build. I went Thri Kreen and took enough levels of Rogue to get Scout, but ya.
Any Gunslinger with a Repeating Shot infused weapon could be easily confused for an Eye of the Collector in my campaign.
my character is warforged gunsligner with 2 levels in paladin. im vampire(+fiend and undead) hunter and my dm allowed me to use smite on ranged attacks. I must say it is prty nuts when u crit with smite :D
That sounds pretty gnarly
You can get 8 attacks on your 1st turn. Action surge allows the use of the dread ambusher ability 2 times in their first turn and then the cannon. So 8 crits in one turn is disgusting.
That's true! A flat 80 damage from sharpshooter, 4d12 magical piercing from a +1 weapon with a maxed dex plus violent shot... My goodness I don't think much is surviving that
@@DapperSnapperGaming I actually was a halfling gunslinger one campaign of mine with a pepperbox. In one round of combat me, my dad who was a hexadin, and a fighter all went first and the statue of the God was not happy. My dad crit the fighter action surged and I action surged 3 attacks unloading my entire pepperbox into him. It was ridiculous with sharpshooter. I crit 2 times and was planning on doing some multiclassing of artificer for at least 2 and get that 18th level of gunslinger.
Nice! It's so fun. I love firearms in D&D. I hate that so many tables don't allow them
@@DapperSnapperGaming I love that my dm allows them. I wanna make a character sent back by a wizard to change the past to possibly save the foreseen cataclysm coming in the future but he was from a wild west Era so he would use a revolver.
That's super cool!
Correct me if I am wrong but wouldn’t Artillerist’s ballista’s be based off your Spell Attack thus your Int, which is pretty low?
Yes it is. It's not gonna hit all the time but it's just nice damage when it does. Worse case, free temp HP every BA. Besides we can't do crossbow expert or anything like that for a BA attack so it's a nice bit of occasional damage if it hits
I thought he would have gone half something elf for that elven accuraccy to avoid the gun from breaking down.😅
a little late, but is artificer really needed? In my current setting I dont need to buy ammunition, as a giff i can ignore loading. So it would only be really useful for the eldritch cannon. but I started as fighter so now im level three. should i just skip artificer or would the three levels still be worth it for the eldritch cannon? maybe it can replaced with a weaker magic tool?
Your DM is quite generous to allow you to ignore ammunition. With that in mind, the infusions still make your firearm magical to ignore resistance and can improve AC, etc. Plus the Eldritch Cannon gives you another nice offensive option. It is really personal preference but I think it ultimately depends on how many levels your campaign is going to span.
@@DapperSnapperGaming yeah I'm kinda stuck there. Because I originally thought about taking three levels cleric war domain, for magic weapons, and attack on bonus action. As I'd have to first spend points to improve my intelligence to 13. For the multiclass.
That's fair. If you didn't spec for it at character creation then it is hard to justify it. War or Forge Cleric aren't bad alts if you have the Wisdom for it
Thri-kreen 4 arms no reload problem & changing weapon problem
Or
Light weapons, each lower hand with infusion
I like saying Giff like jiff because of Gith/Githyanki
Curious on why you went with artificer for repeater, when Giff racial ability gives allows you to ignore reload properties. I like the idea of gunslinger/artificer but you dont need repeater being Giff.
This covers for the possibility of needing to use a pistol for a while and holding a shield. Yes you can ignore the property for the purposes of making attacks but you still have to reload the weapon so you still would need a free hand. Repeating Shot takes that out of the equation entirely.
Im late but I'm confused how you get 20 dex at level 8 when you only had 17 dex to begin with? Same with wisdom later. Did i miss something that gave you the extra +1?
Being a Giff, or any race from MPMM or later, gives us a +1 to 3 stats. So 17 + 1 is 18 off the bat and then +2 from the ASI is 20
@@DapperSnapperGaming Thanks for clearing that up. I thought when you showed stats they had the added bonuses from the race and where not just the base. Now I get why you say a modified array. Is the modified array your own making or did you find it somewhere?
This is one that I have used for years. I know the Dungeons Dudes use one really close to this if not right on it and I'm sure others do as well.
@DapperSnapperGaming what's mpmm and how do you start off at 17 I thought you could go to fifteen and a 16 with a plus one stat racial bonus how do you get over a 15 or 16 even with point buy
MPMM is Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse. It's a newer source book for 5e that reworked a ton of racial options. As for stats, I explained it in the video just like I do in all of my videos. Modified Standard Array
What about the gunner feat?
Gunner works great. Gunner works on any firearm build. It is just slightly redundant with Giff. You can go Custom Lineage with the Gunner feat and do roughly the same thing
Gunner feat ignores gun reload
Mending has a 1 minute cast time, so not very useful at all in combat