Artificer is unique as a half caster as the spell progression rounds up, not down, so a one level dip doesn't slow level progression until that second level
I’ve actually seen a build where someone put CON low and dumped STR as an Armorer Artificer, and by the time they hit the higher levels, they got bumped to a 19 and 21 respectively with infusions, and then added Wizard levels as icing on the cake. I don’t know why, but this build reminded me of that a little bit. Love them both! 😁
Great video, but I have a slight nitpick. Contingency can only store spells of up to 5th level, so that doesn't work with Globe of Invulnerability. Secondly, Globe of Invulnerability only stops incoming spells, it doesn't stop anything from physically passing through it. I think Resilient Sphere accomplishes that pretty well as a defensive option still, mostly to let you heal or buff yourself before getting back into the fight.
Fun build! Thanks for sharing! The idea was amazing, but as you said the wizard spell list is kind of same-y in every wizard if the player wants to be effective. However, you managed to make it fun!
The problem is there are so many spells that blow so many others out of the water (Con saves are the best way to tell). I like Abjuration, Illusion and Enchantment since they give you reason to break out of the "standard Wizard spellbook"
>TTB article Yup, this is an actually strong build It's very important to remember how warmage has an initiative bonus. Very nice to open with shutdown. Chronurgy amd fey touched are good for the same reason(gift of alacrity)
For sure wanted to throw Fey Touched on, but felt the push for INT would serve far better with the added HP to the ward. And yeah, I've studied all their Flagship Builds :P
Tensor`s Floating Disk can be used to haul around a large crate or other large objects to act as half cover for +2AC and +2 Saves for your party members. The limitation on it is that it will follow you twenty feet behind you unless you approach it, so If you are running around the battlefield your party`s cover goes with you unless they pushed it off the disk.
@@momqabt My party of martials cant take minor illusion, that's on me as the party`s only caster, and cover has saved my party several times over the course of the current campaign by boosting Dex saves by +2, so... Sorry I don't play the way you think I should?
@@anonymouse2675 +2 dex save saved y'all? Ok ok... let's look at levels then from enemies 1-2 sleep 3-4 web, phantasmal force, spike growth 5-6 hypnotic pattern, sleet storm, levitate, plant growth, and I won't go up. Only one of those is a dex save and all can fuck up a party. So don't be sorry you don't play as I like to, but an (almost) all martial party is fucked if they don't win initiative against leveled casters. Summon beast, conjure animals, summon shadowspawn...also, what would they do against...like 4 shadows?🤷♂️ Addendum: I'm also a wargamer. And I've convinced the others and we now use measuring tape so jo more cube circle dome same area problem. Resolves so meny issues. Edit: almost forgot action economy wins, even a high-level party can lose to multiple lower CR enemies, I've bled lv 6 characters with kobolds in their cave with basic traps and trickery
Now that you got Ike in the thumbnail, you gotta do a novelist archetype build! Idk if it's a wizard or even warlock type deal (since authors do love making deals with the devil), but it's just a fun idea.
@@anonymouse2675 That would definitely work, The bards focus on the power of words suits the flavour well, It's just not my (and probably most other's) first thought. Also if you said that to me during character creation, I'd likely prefer the bard over the wizard, Because it's a more interesting take on the character, But I do wonder if it'd still feel ikey in the end. PS: I meant the scribes wizard as the basic smooth brain answer, But realise now that I forgot to use the appropriate amount of emojis to convey that energy...
I really liked the video. Only thing is Contingency can't be used to cast Globe of Invulnerability because it's a 6th level spell. Regardless this is a fun build and it gave me an idea for an NPC to add to my campaign.
I’m currently playing a character similar to this Encode thoughts is my bread and butter The thought of the weave or strand of fate, could be fibers like muscles Endless flavor for a Maverick Artificer
48:53 here you say that your ward has resistance to spells because of the tweet by Jeremey Crawford, even though he literally says resistance is applied after the ward takes damage.
I'm a bit late to the party but going Custom Lineage instead of V.Human would get you a 17 intelligence and Darkvision (at the cost of a skill). Then use Custom background picking up the Wildspacer feature. Now you have Tough at level 1 in addition to Eldritch Adept so you can pick up Fey Touched as your first ASI/Feat bumping intelligence to 18 at level 6.
Is it fun and thematic? Yes. Absolutely this sounds fun as hell!!! Is this the ultimate mage? I'd like to refer you to treantmonk and "dungeons and dragons deep dive" aka d4 or originally dndo for dnd optimized. I'd also like to refer you to the secret door, their pact of the chain vid and their follow-up build vids (2). Does this have a lot of AC? Yes. Does it have a lot of survivability? Yes. Does it have spells too late? Again, yes. That last one is a HIGE problem for wizards. Good? Yes. Fun? Yes. Ultimate? Hell no!
Like you said, it`s a fun build but not the ultimate Wizard. For overpowered Wizards I like to go with Chronurgy for being able to 2 concentration spells at once. It`s nice being able to do the whole Sickening Radiance/Wall of Force combo with only my familiar, while still being as overpowered as a Divination Wizard. Throw on the Lucky feat for even more shenanigans.
@@anonymouse2675 Oh no doubt, Chronurgy is just schnasty (especially post level 10!). But in the few fights early on and before Clone, vulnerability is certainly a consideration if you have a DM with teeth! But for the most part, you're right about sheer power lacking here
Oh, I am very aware of those two :P But you are correct in the sense of it being slower than Treantmonk's God Wizard, but even he can see squishiness being a cinch point just from being a wizard. Of course, it should surpass this Abjuration Wizard, but I feel I may have traded some aspects his was missing versus mine and vice-versa. But you are 100% correct with the slowness, that is the easily the biggest weakness I have presented here. To wit, his God Wizard probably can out prove my build here. Thank you for bringing up some solid points!
I was hoping no one would notice :P I know he's a novelist, but all the while I was coming up with this concept, I couldn't image another look but his. Might be all that drip he got
Son. I can tell that while you might theory craft wizards a lot. You definetly havent played them very long or in many different groups... in practice most of your claims simply dont work out.
@@DnDWorkshopShorts one of the things that theory crafters and optimizers do.. (myself included) is assume best case scenarios. You build your chatacter in a vacuum , and forget that other players will mess you up tactically, or that DMs will adapt to your tactics, so at best you will get to pull ot off once. Comments about "mandatory" spells like web, show a lack of experience to me, because it mostly never works out. I barely ever use it. In fact i rarely memorize large scale control spells because they never work out. The build itself (while good) also shows some wishful thinking. Personally i would have fone artificer 3 armorer and taken the sharpshooter feat to go with its lightning launcher. I know you are worried about spell lv access, but that is another thing that plays out different in practice. You really wont notice the dip. Having said all of that.. what do i know? Ive been playing 40 years.. so i am also biased from the groups ive played with..
@shirak8 You are right about white room space and the "necessary" spells being taken all across every wizard. Unfortunately, we're one of the few classes that can't let us change our spells, so we just gotta plan out what we need not only a day in advance, but the entire campaign. Thank you for your insight and willingness to explain out everything, especially since it's backed with your experience!
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Artificer is unique as a half caster as the spell progression rounds up, not down, so a one level dip doesn't slow level progression until that second level
Right! I believe I pointed it out in the vid early on when talking about multiclassing
I’ve actually seen a build where someone put CON low and dumped STR as an Armorer Artificer, and by the time they hit the higher levels, they got bumped to a 19 and 21 respectively with infusions, and then added Wizard levels as icing on the cake. I don’t know why, but this build reminded me of that a little bit. Love them both! 😁
Huh, Artificer is crazy! I'm glad you dig the build!
Great video, but I have a slight nitpick. Contingency can only store spells of up to 5th level, so that doesn't work with Globe of Invulnerability. Secondly, Globe of Invulnerability only stops incoming spells, it doesn't stop anything from physically passing through it. I think Resilient Sphere accomplishes that pretty well as a defensive option still, mostly to let you heal or buff yourself before getting back into the fight.
Ah, right you are! And correct on Resilient Sphere as well! Defo need to update my sheet then!
Fun build! Thanks for sharing! The idea was amazing, but as you said the wizard spell list is kind of same-y in every wizard if the player wants to be effective. However, you managed to make it fun!
The problem is there are so many spells that blow so many others out of the water (Con saves are the best way to tell). I like Abjuration, Illusion and Enchantment since they give you reason to break out of the "standard Wizard spellbook"
>TTB article
Yup, this is an actually strong build
It's very important to remember how warmage has an initiative bonus. Very nice to open with shutdown. Chronurgy amd fey touched are good for the same reason(gift of alacrity)
For sure wanted to throw Fey Touched on, but felt the push for INT would serve far better with the added HP to the ward.
And yeah, I've studied all their Flagship Builds :P
Tensor`s Floating Disk can be used to haul around a large crate or other large objects to act as half cover for +2AC and +2 Saves for your party members. The limitation on it is that it will follow you twenty feet behind you unless you approach it, so If you are running around the battlefield your party`s cover goes with you unless they pushed it off the disk.
Just...everyone get minor illusion and raise a pillar of dirt in front of you and peak out and duck back in🤷♂️
Also, cover is overrated
@@momqabt My party of martials cant take minor illusion, that's on me as the party`s only caster, and cover has saved my party several times over the course of the current campaign by boosting Dex saves by +2, so... Sorry I don't play the way you think I should?
I think I have Tenser's on the build? If not, I had it on the spell list during an early draft!
@@DnDWorkshopShorts You did. I just wanted to mention an alternate use for added party utility.
@@anonymouse2675 +2 dex save saved y'all?
Ok ok... let's look at levels then from enemies
1-2 sleep 3-4 web, phantasmal force, spike growth 5-6 hypnotic pattern, sleet storm, levitate, plant growth, and I won't go up.
Only one of those is a dex save and all can fuck up a party. So don't be sorry you don't play as I like to, but an (almost) all martial party is fucked if they don't win initiative against leveled casters.
Summon beast, conjure animals, summon shadowspawn...also, what would they do against...like 4 shadows?🤷♂️
Addendum: I'm also a wargamer. And I've convinced the others and we now use measuring tape so jo more cube circle dome same area problem. Resolves so meny issues.
Edit: almost forgot action economy wins, even a high-level party can lose to multiple lower CR enemies, I've bled lv 6 characters with kobolds in their cave with basic traps and trickery
Now that you got Ike in the thumbnail, you gotta do a novelist archetype build! Idk if it's a wizard or even warlock type deal (since authors do love making deals with the devil), but it's just a fun idea.
So a Scribe Wizard
Definitely one for consideration! Other than the Scribes Wizard, we can try to get milage out of the Caligraphy skill!
@@BramLastname Or a Bard.
@@DnDWorkshopShorts Caligraphy is one of those proficiencies nobody knows what to do with,
So it'd definitely be interesting to see imo.
@@anonymouse2675 That would definitely work,
The bards focus on the power of words suits the flavour well,
It's just not my (and probably most other's) first thought.
Also if you said that to me during character creation,
I'd likely prefer the bard over the wizard,
Because it's a more interesting take on the character,
But I do wonder if it'd still feel ikey in the end.
PS: I meant the scribes wizard as the basic smooth brain answer,
But realise now that I forgot to use the appropriate amount of emojis to convey that energy...
0:00 Backstory
2:19 Character Concept
3:40 Race, Feat, etc.
6:17 Level 1 (Artificer)
14:20 Level 1 Spells
17:17 Level 2 (Wizard)
22:52 Level 3 (Wizard)
27:17 Level 4 (Wizard)
28:48 Level 5 (Artificer)
31:12 Level 6 (Wizard)
33:07 Level 7 (Wizard)
34:22 Level 8 (Wizard)
35:35 Level 9 (Wizard)
36:58 Level 10 (Wizard)
38:46 Level 11 (Wizard)
39:29 Level 12 (Wizard)
41:38 Level 13 (Wizard)
43:10 Level 14 (Wizard)
45:55 Level 15 (Wizard)
48:29 Level 16 (Wizard)
50:47 Level 17 (Wizard)
52:28 Level 18 (Wizard)
53:38 Level 19 (Wizard)
54:46 Level 20 (Wizard)
56:54 Final Thoughts
I really liked the video. Only thing is Contingency can't be used to cast Globe of Invulnerability because it's a 6th level spell. Regardless this is a fun build and it gave me an idea for an NPC to add to my campaign.
Dang. You're right!
But I'm glad you had fun and got some inspo from this!
I’m currently playing a character similar to this
Encode thoughts is my bread and butter
The thought of the weave or strand of fate, could be fibers like muscles
Endless flavor for a Maverick Artificer
Time to make a an Artificer that goes PLUS ULTRA ;)
And that's rad! I never looked into a Maverick before!
48:53 here you say that your ward has resistance to spells because of the tweet by Jeremey Crawford, even though he literally says resistance is applied after the ward takes damage.
I'm a bit late to the party but going Custom Lineage instead of V.Human would get you a 17 intelligence and Darkvision (at the cost of a skill). Then use Custom background picking up the Wildspacer feature. Now you have Tough at level 1 in addition to Eldritch Adept so you can pick up Fey Touched as your first ASI/Feat bumping intelligence to 18 at level 6.
You say allies included alot in this video! Lol I don't really like multi casting, but dang that's a good build!
I find myself hinging on a lot of specific words while making these vids :P
And I'm glad this bear enjoys this build!
Is it fun and thematic? Yes. Absolutely this sounds fun as hell!!!
Is this the ultimate mage? I'd like to refer you to treantmonk and "dungeons and dragons deep dive" aka d4 or originally dndo for dnd optimized. I'd also like to refer you to the secret door, their pact of the chain vid and their follow-up build vids (2).
Does this have a lot of AC? Yes. Does it have a lot of survivability? Yes. Does it have spells too late? Again, yes.
That last one is a HIGE problem for wizards.
Good? Yes. Fun? Yes.
Ultimate? Hell no!
Like you said, it`s a fun build but not the ultimate Wizard. For overpowered Wizards I like to go with Chronurgy for being able to 2 concentration spells at once. It`s nice being able to do the whole Sickening Radiance/Wall of Force combo with only my familiar, while still being as overpowered as a Divination Wizard. Throw on the Lucky feat for even more shenanigans.
@@anonymouse2675 Oh no doubt, Chronurgy is just schnasty (especially post level 10!). But in the few fights early on and before Clone, vulnerability is certainly a consideration if you have a DM with teeth!
But for the most part, you're right about sheer power lacking here
Oh, I am very aware of those two :P
But you are correct in the sense of it being slower than Treantmonk's God Wizard, but even he can see squishiness being a cinch point just from being a wizard. Of course, it should surpass this Abjuration Wizard, but I feel I may have traded some aspects his was missing versus mine and vice-versa.
But you are 100% correct with the slowness, that is the easily the biggest weakness I have presented here. To wit, his God Wizard probably can out prove my build here.
Thank you for bringing up some solid points!
@@DnDWorkshopShorts in that case: earth genesis armorer & cleric (forgot which one Colby built this time🤷♂️)
When you announced the character's name "taylor" i laughed so hard omg
THANK YOU FOR CATCHING IT!
I plan on doing goofy stuff like that with every build :P
what did you make the character sheet at the end in?
Roll20, I ain't got no time for DnD Beyond
10/10 peak flavor
So are you, big boy 😉
you can wear armor so why take armor of shadow? you can't use mage armor if your wearing studded leather
Mage Armor is solely for repairing the Ward between combats! A free way to restore it will pump up longevity!
Huh
Why’s Ike Eveland on a Dnd thumbnail
I was hoping no one would notice :P
I know he's a novelist, but all the while I was coming up with this concept, I couldn't image another look but his. Might be all that drip he got
Son. I can tell that while you might theory craft wizards a lot. You definetly havent played them very long or in many different groups... in practice most of your claims simply dont work out.
A fair assessment! I am genuinely interested as to what points you have in mind, if you have the time?
@@DnDWorkshopShorts At work, but ill come up with some examples in a bit. Dont get me wrong though, I enjoyed the vid!
@shirak8 No worries! Take you time and thanks!
@@DnDWorkshopShorts one of the things that theory crafters and optimizers do.. (myself included) is assume best case scenarios. You build your chatacter in a vacuum , and forget that other players will mess you up tactically, or that DMs will adapt to your tactics, so at best you will get to pull ot off once.
Comments about "mandatory" spells like web, show a lack of experience to me, because it mostly never works out. I barely ever use it.
In fact i rarely memorize large scale control spells because they never work out.
The build itself (while good) also shows some wishful thinking.
Personally i would have fone artificer 3 armorer and taken the sharpshooter feat to go with its lightning launcher.
I know you are worried about spell lv access, but that is another thing that plays out different in practice. You really wont notice the dip.
Having said all of that.. what do i know? Ive been playing 40 years.. so i am also biased from the groups ive played with..
@shirak8 You are right about white room space and the "necessary" spells being taken all across every wizard. Unfortunately, we're one of the few classes that can't let us change our spells, so we just gotta plan out what we need not only a day in advance, but the entire campaign.
Thank you for your insight and willingness to explain out everything, especially since it's backed with your experience!