Repeater Artificers feat choice

[flotterjohnny]

Hey mates,

ok leveling artificer wirh repeating crossbow non wf/bf (so I will take construct essence feats)

Whats the feat choice?

ok, we take the standard ones:

Point Blank Shot
Precise Shot
Rapid Shot
Improved Critical: Ranged Weapons
IPS (must have for me)
Precision
insightfule reflex
construct essence
improves construct essence

and have the maybe ones:

Quicken Spell
WF ranged

now my question:

going the "shot on the run" line with
dodge and mobility?

or maybe something like maximise to boost sidekicks in spells/repair damage?

The for help

(heroic/epic completionist, 28 RPs, 12 RPLs completed)

 

[flotterjohnny]

Or should I skip construct essences and rely on hire and curative admixtures? sry, Im a bit nooby about artys

 

[rabidfox]

Construct esseneces is amazing. Admixtures are a bit slow to go off, decent for healing others (or yourself in a pinch) but a quickened repair or reconstruct gets you topped up fast.
Quicken is great. Fast reconstruct and bubble that's cast can't be intertupted is awesome.
Extend is nice if you raid. It's entirely for making positive energy infusion last longer when putting it on the tank.

 

[Lazuli]

Quicken, imo.

Don't skip Construct esseneces.

 

[flotterjohnny]

Ok, so I have (in heroic)
7 regular feats
and
5 bonus feats
=12

I will take

Point Blank Shot
Precise Shot
Rapid Shot
Improved Critical: Ranged Weapons
IPS (must have for me)
Precision
insightfule reflex
construct essence
improves construct essence
quicken
=10

So no "shot on the run" (cause it needs 3)

Whats your ideas for the last two feats?

wf ranged?
maximize?
any others?

Thx!!

 

[Livmo]

Hey mates,

ok leveling artificer wirh repeating crossbow non wf/bf (so I will take construct essence feats)

Whats the feat choice?

ok, we take the standard ones:

Point Blank Shot
Precise Shot
Rapid Shot
Improved Critical: Ranged Weapons
IPS (must have for me)
Precision
insightfule reflex
construct essence
improves construct essence

and have the maybe ones:

Quicken Spell
WF ranged

now my question:

going the "shot on the run" line with
dodge and mobility?

or maybe something like maximise to boost sidekicks in spells/repair damage?

The for help

(heroic/epic completionist, 28 RPs, 12 RPLs completed)

I don't recomend per se. However I play a Harty ™ with CE.

I see allot of wasted Feats here. Max. INT and start with a DEX of 16+ and skip Insightful Reflexees. Meta majics are not needed as well and you can still deal damage with spells. IMO you can skip Precision as well.

Do take these:

Point Blank Shot​

Precise Shot​

Rapid Shot​

Improved Critical: Ranged Weapons​

IPS (must have for me)​

Get you're UMD to 40, but don't overspend skill points on UMD as you level. Monitor. You only need 40 at level 20.

I tend to play humans and I scroll heal, use the throwable pots etc. No need to take CE feats. You can self heal and be a great healer as well.

 

[flotterjohnny]

Ok I will think about it. Any hints what I should do with all the rest feats?

 

[FVSHasBeenEvenMoreGutted]

WHERE IS THE EXPANDED CLIP???????????????? only reason to play repeater arti imo

 

[flotterjohnny]

WHERE IS THE EXPANDED CLIP???????????????? only reason to play repeater arti imo

ATM I just think about heroic feats, naturally expanded clip at 21

 

[FaceDancer]

Yep... we probably need an enhancement thread for Arti-repeater peeps.

 

[Lazuli]

I disagree with livmo. I wouldn't avoid insightful reflex; you're going to have much better reflex with int than with dex. In fact, if you have tomes you barely need 14 dex. With the extra points, raise your constitution more, you get more service from con than from dex.

On the other hand, the healing provided by a reconstruct is light years away from what you can get with arti infusions or heal scrolls: Reconstruct heals much more, is faster, safer and more reliable in combat. Much much better. The arti does not have Heal potion like the alchemist; and potion healing is much more annoying to use than simply a repair spell. Scroll healing? That is for those who have no other way of healing, it is very inefficient. I get the 2 construct essence feats at level 12 (the first one is bad, but together the two... worth it)

 

[Lazuli]

Ok I will think about it. Any hints what I should do with all the rest feats?

Quicken, maximize. Great for curations (repair spells and if u need use a cure infusion on other party member). Or quicken and single weapon fighting (more hps than toughness)

Quickened radiant forcefield is a must imo. Same with quickened reconstruct.

edit: I see that you have already put quicken in your list, sorry. It depends on what you want. The remaining two can be used in metamagics to increase the healing of repair/infusions, or in single&improved single weapon fighting, to have more hit points, not like for the style itself). But you should also consider the epic destinies you are going to use (if you are going to play epics), since some EDs boost certain normally useless feats in interesting modes.

Shot on the run has two requisite feats that are weak and would prevent you from taking quicken (you don't have enough feats for all). Before that I would opt for more hps. WF is only 2 ranged power: this is taken because you need it as a requirement for something else, otherwise it is quite poor (eg, you want Power critical)

 

[kmoustakas]

The best part about the improved construct essense isn't even the repairs, it's the immunity to energy drain and holds and all that stuff. Reconstruct is also good though.

Shot on the run is not worth it I feel, best to grab maximize. Even if you don't focus at all on spellpower/evocation focus, tactical detonation is a beast (and it's not reflex save) and so is prismatic.

Quicken is an automatic for me, you have too many buffs and reconstruct/bubble is important to quicken.

As a human currently I grabbed dragonmark of passage for dd at level 1 (I have 10 racial points!) and dragonmark of making is also good it gives reconstruct at 12 points.

Specifically for heroic leveling, I also grab augmented summons at level 1 because with 3 druid past lives, doggo and Byron or Anthem later can actually solo dungeons on r1 Also turret Can swap for something else via free feat swap via dragonmark quiz.

(If continuing on epic, wizard past life feat can be a cheeky addition for maxing stacks of debuffs+shiradi procs)

 

[Contessor]

Ok, so I have (in heroic)
7 regular feats
and
5 bonus feats
=12

I will take

Point Blank Shot
Precise Shot
Rapid Shot
Improved Critical: Ranged Weapons
IPS (must have for me)
Precision
insightfule reflex
construct essence
improves construct essence
quicken
=10

So no "shot on the run" (cause it needs 3)

Whats your ideas for the last two feats?

wf ranged?
maximize?
any others?

Thx!!

IPS is so weak at end game. If you plan to use rune arms, you may want to consider maximize if you also have Machro Destiny. I usually take shot on the run on my arty as I maximize RP.

 

[kmoustakas]

IPS is so weak at end game. If you plan to use rune arms, you may want to consider maximize if you also have Machro Destiny. I usually take shot on the run on my arty as I maximize RP.

IPS is extraordinarily strong at end game for CCing a whole line of enemies at once. You obviously switch to precise for bosses.

 

[Livmo]

Ok I will think about it. Any hints what I should do with all the rest feats?

Arty is feat starved and I'm a min/maxer.

Folks left out the Evocation spells:

• Lightning Sphere
• Lightning Bolt
• Prismatic Strike
• Blade Barrier
• Chain Lightning
• Tactical Detonation

You can spec. for spells and not need meta-majics to save feats. You may wish to consider the Evocation Spell Focus feats instead.

I would also run with the Dodge and Mobility feats.

 

[l_remmie]

I play A LOT of artificers and inquisitives and i've stopped using IPS a while ago. It's not a bad feat at all but it is very situational and takes effort to use.
You need good real life movement skills to line enemies up.
You need room to maneuver yourself.
You need your shots to actually hit multiple enemies in a row despite DDO lag and dry firing.
You need to remember to switch your style all the time.

First i kept it for a few months to switch in and out but i noticed i just never did anymore and was probably better of with another feat.

 

[rabidfox]

IPS is extraordinarily strong at end game for CCing a whole line of enemies at once. You obviously switch to precise for bosses.

IPS is great for utility. Stay strong + salt is awesome to light up a pack of mobs with and then swap to AF & damage weapon to finish them off. All the melee in party will appreciate them being slowed, both in movement so they can attack them and attack speed to make being in melee range safer.

 

[JaynChar2019]

I would say expanded clip and dont skip epic mage armor. The legendary armor Tier 5 Macrotechecnic tree option is awesome especially if you install drives. Automatic 32 to armor class for you and others. Folks I raid with love it.

 

[Frantik]

If you go Construct Essence route, for your last 2 heroic feats, why not consider something like SWF and greater SWF for +50% boost to class hit points?