Why are so many Artificer spell capped at level 10
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WielderofGigantus
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To encourage you to pick up the Master of Artifice epic feat.
kmoustakas
Scourge of Xaos
Worst thing is some of them are ALREADY capped by the time you actually unlock them as SLA. Makes the slas in arcanotechnitian borderline useless after level 10.
eartheyes
outerspacetruth
is it because they are a "half caster?"
woq
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Because its' creators either do not understand casting - or worse, hate casting or caster players and discriminate to make them intentionally worse. I'm not entirely sure which would be worse.
Either way, caster arti is a trap for a player to fall into. Arcanotechnician tree could be removed from the game and the game would be better for it.
Either way, caster arti is a trap for a player to fall into. Arcanotechnician tree could be removed from the game and the game would be better for it.
norriskwondo
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my guess is that it's with the combo of repeater crossbow and rune arm, artificer has a lot of firepower already. Yeah, around level 10 spells and sla's get really weak really quick
Archest
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every electric spell I cast is capped at 10. I'm level 17.
that to me is more of a material attack the spiritual.
which is a ranged and melee power component to the rune arm.
where as the blaster is spell powered.
other non electrical attack spells are capped at 20.
very few exist
which is a separate issue regarding equipment melee, ranged and spell power enhancements.
without them none are extremally effective out of the box.
DPS is horrible at level 10 cap vs 18 reaper 1 with both the crossbow & rune arm and ranged power. than alone trying to hit a delayed cast as there is no meta magic fir the lighting mote or the lighting sphere spells ( quicken or anything else)
that to me is more of a material attack the spiritual.
which is a ranged and melee power component to the rune arm.
where as the blaster is spell powered.
other non electrical attack spells are capped at 20.
very few exist
which is a separate issue regarding equipment melee, ranged and spell power enhancements.
without them none are extremally effective out of the box.
DPS is horrible at level 10 cap vs 18 reaper 1 with both the crossbow & rune arm and ranged power. than alone trying to hit a delayed cast as there is no meta magic fir the lighting mote or the lighting sphere spells ( quicken or anything else)
Archest
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additionally. having Improved fortification for war forged means you sit and die waiting for your cleric hire to heal you with cure wounds spells since you no longer can heal by them even to get you off the ground while your life's blood tics away.
visit to fred is in the future
visit to fred is in the future
kmoustakas
Scourge of Xaos
What do you mean there is no metamagic for the lightning mote? I had quicken empower maximize on it
It's sad how dead caster arti is atm, they really got wrecked when dragonbreath (the only good electric spell they had access to) got nerfed into the ground, followed by the nerfing that happened to runearms for god knows what reason.
Afaik there are 2 decent runearm shot types in the game atm, gold shot and cold bolts and those do not synergize with arti at all.
I wouldn't even advise anyone to play caster arti in heroics, that's how terrible it is.
Afaik there are 2 decent runearm shot types in the game atm, gold shot and cold bolts and those do not synergize with arti at all.
I wouldn't even advise anyone to play caster arti in heroics, that's how terrible it is.
Archest
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no not at all there are .
I dont use them.
lighting mote is a sp cost of 10 + 5 for each level above using heighten just to hit add another 15 or 25 for max or empower.
and an additional 10 for quicken.
to bring it up to level 20.
10+ 50+ 15 +10 = 85sp
or 95 depending on max or empower.
that's is kind of expensive not to mention the costs in feats and avaibily of feats
at least chain lighting is capped at 20.
not to mention lag not allowing the aoe bolt shots to work but yet still fire the instance and the timer works fine
I dont use them.
lighting mote is a sp cost of 10 + 5 for each level above using heighten just to hit add another 15 or 25 for max or empower.
and an additional 10 for quicken.
to bring it up to level 20.
10+ 50+ 15 +10 = 85sp
or 95 depending on max or empower.
that's is kind of expensive not to mention the costs in feats and avaibily of feats
at least chain lighting is capped at 20.
not to mention lag not allowing the aoe bolt shots to work but yet still fire the instance and the timer works fine
kmoustakas
Scourge of Xaos
There's a tiny difference between "I don't use them" and "there aren't any". One means you chose not to and the other that nobody can.
norriskwondo
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I'm not looking up the answer on that but it may be on the wiki. If you click on the spell or SLA from the spell list or enhancement tree on the wiki it will bring you to an information page on that spell/sla. On that page it will tell you which meta's have an effect. And I believe the epic macrotechnic tree makes metas improve rune arm use, but until level 26 or something
kmoustakas
Scourge of Xaos
You rolled a natural one