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Inventor's Pursuit: Volatile Concoctions Feedback: Inventor's Pursuits seem like they're supposed to define an Artificer's playstyle - Conductive Weapon for melee, Power Shield for tanks. Volatile Concoctions looks like it's meant to be the "caster" option, but it currently falls short in a few...

Perhaps Civilians ought to receive a multiplier on job salaries, to represent their working full-time while adventurers only work part-time.

Artificer's Focus Feedback: Even disregarding the fact that crafting is not yet implemented, I'm going to argue that this is a bad idea on multiple levels. It offers nothing to Artificers who don't learn Augmentation and becomes nothing for Augmenters who hit the profession level cap. It's...

Grand Invention Feedback: Another instance of an ability that looks good on paper but has issues in practice. Mathematically speaking, the capstone weapons are great - the only problem is they arrive all at once at level 18, while the rest of the class needs to be balanced around you eventually...

The Ranger has an animal companion. The Ranger has (some) spells. The Ranger has Stealth as a class skill. The Ranger gets full BAB and free Two-Weapon Fighting/Ambidexterity to facilitate their encouraged weapon loadout, while the ranged Artificer has to spend one of their feats on Rapid Reload...

Rapid Reload: Feedback: Ranged Artificers are expected to use crossbows, yet need to pay a feat tax for Rapid Reload in order to get their second APR. Rangers get Ambidexterity/TWF for free in order to let them dual wield without such a tax - shouldn't Artificers have the same with crossbows...

You've never actually played an Artificer, have you? Nowhere do I see you even mention their 3/4 BAB. All Forgemaster's Fury does is bring them up to AB parity with full BAB classes, because an armored frontliner just doesn't work without full BAB equivalency, particularly one who utilizes...

Skill: Open Lock Feedback: Artificers are described as being highly skilled with mechanical devices, as supported by the Contraptionist class feature. They're also a 3/4 BAB martial class, which suggests they're intended to emphasize skills and abilities over raw combat potential, similar to...

Thought I might as well turn this into an Artificer Suggestions thread rather than making a new one. Bonus Feat: Conductor Bolts Feedback: This is the ability that defines the Ranged Artificer playstyle. I was initially thrilled to unlock it, yet in practice you feel like a Fighter or Scout who...

Consolidated Suggestions Class Features Inventor's Pursuit: Conductive Weapon Feedback: Awkward due to activation taking an entire round of combat. Can sometimes eat two rounds of actions before letting you attack. Suggestion: Make it instant-cast. Inventor's Pursuit: Volatile Concoctions...