A very spelly Artifarty

[Ryan]

Hello Wishy.

Nice to see a caster Arti that works in Epics.

I ran all three of my Arti lives on Corazon as a caster (Heroic to 20 only) and had an absolute blast (pun intended)

[edgarallanpoe]

Many thanks Wishy. I TRd my Arti this evening and made him a Blue Dragon Dragonborn. I ate an XP stone and took the levels and feats you listed (mostly..I’m only level 18 now) and have a few questions about the enhancements. I took heighten instead of the healing dragonamrk as dragonborn dont have that option. It made sense given the amount of SLAs you use in the build.

I was wondering why you don’t take any tier 5 enhancements from Arcanotech. It adds 3 to the Evocation DC, gives another electric SLA and also gives an extra 20 electric spellpower. So right now I have 43 points spent in this tree. I think the Motes might be a little too expensive at 6ap but the other enhancements seem to be well worth the 6 points. Opinion?

The Dragonborn will give me another 30 electric and another AOE electric spell with the breath weapon. I have 18 in the tree and will probably spend the extra point to get the 3rd Evo point and maybe take the leap ability if I can afford it.

I think that sacrificing the Harper tree in order to get my DCs higher might make sense given the addition of the dragonborn breath attack.

Any and all feedback appreciated.

[Legend]

I don’t believe Heighten will help you on SLA’s, think only for spells.

[edgarallanpoe]

Well…here is what the Wiki says and its why I took it. Lord knows that it wouldn’t be the first or last time the Wiki was wrong though.

Advice: A Bard or Artificer can only cast up to six (6) spell levels, while a Ranger or Paladin can only cast up to four (4). It is generally not a good idea to take the Heighten Spell metamagic Feat with these classes. (Perhaps with exception of Arcanotechnicians heavily investing into SLAs.)

[Wish]

Dont take the enh listed as absolute esp considering the planner sais I have only used 76/80 so there is likely a fiar diffeernce between that and reality.

As for Heighten… I don’t know. The last arti feat is tricky to fill with anything useful. If hieghten does make an improvement to a cpl of important DCs then it is probably better than enlarge which only works on lightningbolt iirc.
Though saying that either you take wont effect many spells, iirc the only spells that i care aabout the DC for are Tact det, lightning bolt, burst and breath and only one of those is improved by hieghten.

I think the 15% elec vuln from lightning motes is worthwile i guess it kinda depends if you wand to spend 6 ap(yes that is alot now i think about it) or take the spell with its slot and sp cost.

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