You Might Be a Battle Smith | Artificer Subclass Guide for DND 5e
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Hey! Guess what. You're Awesome and thanks for watching. I promise this is the best DND tutorial based on a 30 year old Jeff Foxworthy joke you'll ever see. Stick around for more and vote in the comments for which subclass you'd like to next.
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Most people say artificers dont fit on the medieval fantasy, but thas BS, because artificers are the magical blacksmiths who built all the magical items every class use, they are basically Hiccup from How to train your dragon but with magic from a wizard... A magical nerd blacksmith
Enchanter is always the word I use, because Dragon Age was right, this is just a thing that every dwarven hold would have. A guy that specializes in affixing magical effects to weapons and items. Sure Wizards can also do that, but its the difference between being a general practitioner as a physician and being a specialist.
It does become way to sci fi looking though
@@bluelightzwit7447 It really does not.
@@LupineShadowOmega depends on the story
@@bluelightzwit7447 Yes, which was the entire point of this series of posts. You know, about how flavor is the name of the game when it comes to artificers and they aren't particularly different setting wise than anything else in a D&D world.
"Your role is support" Meanwhile my friend's Battle Smith is a front line fighter with a 23 AC who once solo-ed a drow invasion force.
ok I gotta ask... how did he hit 23 AC? did he multiclass with bladesinger?
@@tomsamper4345 I have 21 AC as a level 9 artificer. Which can be boosted to 26 with the shield spell. I’m sure with other magic items or feats I could bump it to 23 but it’s definitely doable.
+2 AC from wearing a shield
+1 from repulsion shield infusion
+1 from enhanced defence infusion
+1 cloak of protection
Played a small size Autognome and made a tiny humonculus that looks just like me. Made my steel defender that was a medium sized gnome that also looked just like me. So a set of tiny, small, and medium sized Autognomes. Initiate magically powered three stooges hijinks everywhere we go.
Thats sounds awesome. Little me go do this, big me do thia
LMAO you can be like those Russian dolls that each have a smaller doll inside them
I personally had my battle smith be a mix of ciel phantomhiem and the little sisters from BioShock the defender just being a robot butler
The timing is great. I just started playing a Battle Smith. He is a Shipwright on a Pirate's ship. His Defender is a Tiger shark, which is a shark he welded tiger legs to, obviously.
Ok I just read that last sentence wtf?
Franky
@@Frangashan what do you think is the reason we are doing a pirate campaign in the first place ;)
@@DerNameT SUUUUUUPEEEER!!!!!!
Artificers are not "Steampunk mad scientists in a medieval fantasy setting", but rather are wizardly crafters.
Remember, no one is stopping you from using 2B as your steel defender
Bro went for Pointy Hat’s neck with that one
Nah just ribbing. I think Antonio is fantastic.
"Neck"
Definitely never made my steel defender become a big bad, after giving him all my infusions. I definitely didn't give him bracers of archery, a repeating crossbow , a set of nightvision goggles ,and a cloak of elvinhood.
I also didn't go out of my way to make sure he became sentient .
And, to top it all off, you definitely didn’t get a call from that game’s universe’s version of Arnold Schwarzenegger about terminator appropriation.
Playing a Battle Smith Dwarf in my current campaign so far I've created: A flamethrower, napalm grenades, frag grenades, smole grenades, repeating crossbows, rockets, guided missiles, guns, land mines and directional mines.
Without gunpowder
I likely wont be allowed to play an Artificer ever again, worth it.
You forgot at 14th level you also get the ability to ignore all race, class, spell and level requirements for magic items. So you can use any magic item in the game.
Hahahaha swords of cure wounds. It reminds me of my dagger of cure wounds where i let my steel defender holds it and i reflavor it as a huge syringe that pumps Healing energy and keeps on stabbing my party Barbarian that goes too aggro sometimes
One of the coolest concepts I came up with a Battlesmith Artificer is that he is also a former Emperor who abdicated his throne to be an adventurer.
His steel defender is based on an Imperial Guard.
I essentially made an Emperor Scientist in a fantasy setting. And I was even able to DM a mini campaign with my friends on the origins of his empire 300 years ago
This may be a testimony to your ability to explain these subclasses in an entertaining maner but everytime you post one of these videos I want to play the subclass you are talking about.
Man I dont have enough campaigns for so many characters!
I would like to add that between healing the steel defender for free with mending, resurrecting it for free at the end of a long rest, or during the day for 1 first level slot. It is basically up every combat and with its warding things it is basically a living shield.
I'm currently playing a battle smith. Made a crossbow that functions like a sniper and the steel defender looks like his dead wife he doesn't remember due to a curse. I want to see how sad I can make this guy before my players grow visibly concerned for me.
"My wife is dead. I want the son of a bitch who sold her."
Could you give an update when it happens? Curious how long it takes
Damn bro that is DARK
@@nullvoid4193 Thank you. Update. He just found his wife (in the dream realm but it counts) and he's getting a bit of his memories back. He's moving forward with his life and no longer uses the creepy and sad steel defender. He's now a wizard.
Artificers are also the perfect fit for Exandrian firearms. You get automatic tinkerer’s tools proficiency and later at level 6, expertise. A level 6 artificer must roll a 3 on a tinkering check to repair a gun in order to fail.
why would you borther with that? when you can simple infuse your firearms with repeating shots. magic bullets, ez it will never miss fire, or need to reload nor repair. + you get +1 att and dmg, and becomes magic dmg, bypass resistance
@@Kunyang1 Why wouldn’t you misfire? It substitutes the need for loaded ammunition, not the actual potential of the gun to misfire. The reloading point makes sense however.
As a Final Fantasy nerd, I would make my Steel Defender the magitek armor from FFVI/FFXIV and olay a gnome or halfling like a Lalafell!
Artificers have a great flavor that none of the other classes rival in endgame.
Laugh in the face of the wizard as you slowly start creating so much physical power you start bending physics. The wizard needs an interface such as the weave but you as an artificer just start brute forcing it and bending physics through sheer brute force. Lvl20 Wizard uses wish to destroy a tarrasque? Eff that. You make a supermassive blackhole and destroy reality itself in the localized area of where the tarrasque is. Literally creating so much force you collapse reality itself with the tarrasque in it.
The wizard might bend reality but you just beat reality with a blunt stick til it broke.
I dipped two levels into wizard for School of War Magic. Intelligence to attack, damage, AND initiative! Between being a decent melee and/or ranged combatant, having the steel defender, proficiency in thieves' tools, and filling my wizard spellbook up with all ritual spells, there is so much versatility!
Did this guy just fire a shot across Pointy Hat's bow?
Extra Shoutout for the Pointy Hat easter egg lol 🤣🤣🤣
I felt called out, when he mentioned listening to Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture on repeat...
Hey, an artificer overview. Just what I needed! About to play my first tomorrow. Wish me luck.
Good Luck: At level 2 grab the Alchemist' Jug infusion and gain the ability to pour several gallons of the beer of your choice out of it per day
@@voicetest6019tell me your Artificer is a dwarf without telling me he is a dwarf.
I played a Battle Smith Artificer once and he turned out to be a blast to play despite my initial concerns about playing a front-liner character again(there's a story behind that). He was a Kobold named Golurk(I named him after the Pokemon) who's logical, methodical mindset combined with his courage & drive to prove himself reliable ally created a fun time for me while I played him. Additionally, he was able to ride around on the back of his Steel Defender(which he named Clang, another Pokemon reference) and fight from there.
My steel Defender is a chest. Just a walking chest that can walk and open or close for storing items and creatures. It also used to have crab claws, but I gave it to a witch or some other fae beyond mortal comprehention and had to replace it.
Please tell me that it has hundreds of tiny legs
@@davidhope3322
Old version didn't, new version does
@@starhalv2427 It's important to keep track of your luggage
Ok I basically comment about this character every chance I get but I'm really proud of them so indulge me for a bit. His name is Gremkahm, he's a Locathah artificer (armorer subclass, not battle smith unfortunately). He comes from an advanced, mostly underwater city of Locathah that runs almost entirely off of magitech, it's basically the pop culture depiction of Atlantis except it was never lost, it just started out in the ocean. Gleaming brass architecture (not bronze as zinc typically isn't found on the ocean floor, but both copper and zinc are), the whole shebang. However, up until very recently, they had no idea that civilizations existed on the surface as they lived in the shallows of an extraordinarily remote archipelago. Of course, there were other colonies and towns, but that gleaming metropolis was their capital city and there isn't exactly much reason to expand when you're entirely self sufficient. Anyways, they saw a boat and met the people on board, were flabbergasted, and quickly established the Terranaut program, where participants would create their own suits of armor that had water-filled compartments so they could live indefinitely on land. They have water filters and air bubblers, a hatch for food, etc. Gremkahm is one of these Terranauts, and is tasked with documenting his travels to learn more about the surface. Aesthetics wise, he's pretty much Minion from Megamind but fantasy/steampunk. Also, donning and doffing armor is reflavored as switching parts of his suit on the outside with, say, plate armor or scale mail.
Once again Lore Bard has been denied - we shall hold the line against that pretentious fop....!!!
Liked the Ratchet & Clank reference at 1:51. Battle Smith is also the perfect class to play as Ratchet. Go as Tabaxi for flavour and your steel defender can be skinned as Clank
Actually if u make 2 bags of holding you can beam ANY creature to the astral plane provided the bags are within 10 ft of that creature and one gets put inside of another (by a familiar or some other means). They cannot prevent themselves from being sent to the plane, and there are NO SIZE RESTRICTIONS
Great video as always! Thanks for the content.
“Someone becoming so good at differential equations that it becomes a superpower.”
As a student in the electrical engineering field, that statement is both a dream and a nightmare of mine.
I have been playing a Fire Genasi Battle Smith for 6 months, and its been a great fun. His steel defender is a little fire elemental he adopted and gave a cool mech body
I've been playing Battle Smith for about 16 months and it's such a unique, engaging playstyle, both in combat and out of combat. I hope that this banger video gives people the push to give it a try.
Battle Smith is one of the strongest subclasses in the game, so it’s fitting that its initials are BS.
How so? Just genuinely curious cause I’m considering playing one.
@@dharmeshmistry342right off the bat, by being able to use INT for not only spellcasting but attack and damage roles makes you basically single ability score dependent. You can max out INT early on and then use your remaining ASIs/Feat choices however you want, be it maxing out your CON, taking a bunch of Feats, etc. Then, thanks to your Steel Defender being one of the best pets/companions in the game, you’re basically two characters in one. Then, with all of the Infusions you can use to buff yourself up, you can become basically a one-man army. You can build a Belt of Hill Giant Strength to give yourself a STR score of 21, an Amulet of Healing to make your CON 19, just to name a few examples. Plus, your ability to infuse your weapons and make them magical guarantees you can bypass resistance/immunity to non-magical weapons, and by being able to use INT for attacks with magical weapons, you can be just as good at melee combat as ranged without needing to invest in both STR and DEX or simply DEX and limiting yourself to finesse weapons for melee. The Soul of Artifice capstone giving a +1 bonus to all saving throws for each attuned item you have (which is a maximum of six, twice the max for other characters) is basically like giving you Monk’s Diamond Soul (proficiency in all saves) or Paladin’s Aura of Protection (boost to all saves equal to CHA bonus). If you wanna see how good a Battle Smith can be, check out Tulok the Barbrarian’s video on how he built Tommy Oliver from Power Rangers. He made him a Human 1 Monk/19 Battle Smith Artificer. Similarly, you could check out his build for the Master Chief from Halo. While for that he went with Armorer Artificer, the overall build being I believe Human 14 Armorer Artificer/6 Evocation Wizard, you can still see how the base Artificer’s Infusion ability is so powerful
@@fightingfalcon777 read all that and, wow.
I guess I know who I'm playing as, if my bear totem barbarian ever dies huh?
@@secretname2670 mhmm 👍🏻 I haven’t played an Artificer myself, but I had one in my party in one campaign and they were SUPER strong. Definitely wanna play one myself in the future
BattleSmith is the Hexblade of Artificers
Another great video. Personally I like a 2 level war wizard dip with this so you can get your intelligence on initiative as well.
At what level should you dip to war wizard?
@@Kamion991 Id; go first 5 levels as battle smith to get extra attack, then 2 level dip in war wizard. After that I'd probably go straight battle smith for the build but totally up to you as to whether you want more spells or more artificer goodies.
Loved Cameo of Pointy Hat :D
Love both yours content, lads!
As a long time power rangers fan, I am SO GLAD that someone else recognized the zord analogy for steel defender!! Love battlesmith so much, can't wait for the next vid!
I really want to play a Battlesmith, just seems so fun. One thing I've suggested is for low levels 1-4 get Magic Stone for a way for a few people in your party to get some magic damage early getting around pesky enemies that are resistant to non-magical stuff. One thing people sleep on is that as you level up you can swap your cantrips and infusions, as far as I'm aware Artificer is the only class that lets you change cantrips as a base feature, so keep that in mind.
Wizards can change cantrips too.
Fantabulous video as always dude!
Great job on another fantastic video
just created a battlesmith, bladesinger. i will either kill everything, or nothing.
Ah, so playing Luke Skywalker, I see 🤣 Bladesinger for the casting to be Force powers and the Steel Defender is R2-D2! 😂👍🏻
I wish you got 4 infusions at level 2! No you KNOW 4 infusions at level 2. You only get to have 2 infusions ACTIVE at level 2. Which really limits you on helping allies until level 6 when you get a 3rd infusion to be active. but then you KNOW 6. You always KNOW twice as many as you can actually have infused. It's weird.
Liked for the concept, subbed for the perry cox quote
Watching this one day before the one year anniversary.
WHAT IS TIME!!!!!!
I have a fond towards Artificers, especially Battlesmith
The only downside is Wizards REALLY dont want Artificers to be stupidly good at being the Party General Tool Support, not as much as Wizards not wanting Martials to be good(Except i still dont know how they managed to make Gloomstalker such a Power creep compared to Horizon Walker and Monster Slayer weird ass Ranged requirement while Hunter and every other subclass dont need Range or even any action to activate their feature)
If you are those DM that let Artificers to make ridicilous stuff like Chlorine Trifluoride and let them upgrade their familiars with harvested Monster Parts, i will gladly take that
Since we play DnD for fun, not to suffer
I KNOW there are DM that call Ranger bad but doesnt allow the player be creative when they dont want to use Hunters Mark(WHICH YOU SHOULD BY THE WAY)
I'm definitely going to have a robot male chicken which I'll ride into the battle shouting "Cock Ridaaaaaaaaaaaa"
Mr. T rides a metal chocobo into the sunset
Finally got my chance to play an artificer, can’t wait to get started.
Dwarven Hulkbuster, oh yeah, now we're talkin
A guy i play with created a hot dog making kender that rides a Wiener dog robot into combat.
It´s the funniest shit i´ve seen in a while. I love that damn robit.
Great video and such a amazing class but it is a shame it doesn't have more subclasses.
Awesome one!
I'm playing in a friend's multiverse spanning campaign, and my most recent character is a slightly tweet Battle Smith Artificer. Rather than have a traditional steel defender, he was a war hero and survivor who had lost one arm and replaced it with a sentient mechanical prosthetic that functioned the same. It could attack and defend, spread out his turn a little bit affectively giving the arm its own turn as per the rules, and I got to do some cool stuff with it. Just a great, fun character in a fun campaign.
I look forward to playing him next time, but I'm not sure when that'll be because it turns out the magical vault we were breaking into concealed some kind of almost Venom style symbiote that completely replaced match of his body and apparently made him into some kind of super monster. Just fun times.
Thanks for the content.
Nah, not the tf2 lost match sound😭😭😭
I used this subclass for a character that's basically a magical girl with a giant butler bot (who will protect her if needed), her primary weapon is her giant crossbow infused with the one that allows you to ignore the loading property (i forgot the name). Rather funny character and seems really effective ngl
Warforged Artificer with a Steel Defender that looks exactly like their patron. Even made to look like they’re equipped a shield and wearing the same armor to complete the disguise. GM gave everyone a bonus feat at 1st level. So took Heavy Armored for +1 Str and Heavy Armor Prof … 20 AC with a shield wearing chainmail. Active infusions are Enhanced Defence & Returning weapon. Will tank as needed but our party has 2x Barbs, Cleric, Paladin, Druid, Artificer. Battlesmith uses Int for combat with magic weapons, Returning handaxe. Four of us are Warforged: mine, Cleric, Druid, Paladin. Shield spell, 25 AC! Will multi into Warmage for +2 AC or +4 saves as a reaction. Int bonus to Initiative.
Our GM provided a novel approach to creating a standard array. As there are six players, we each rolled 4d6 take the best three (once), that was our contribution to the array. We ended up with 7, 13, 15, 15, 16, 18 before racial modifiers. It is set in Eberron so a tough setting.
Your videos make us laugh and learn things too thank you. I was wondering if you could do a Paladin oath of the open sea please
You're the reason my DM hates me. Every class you make a video on immediately makes me want to play it
An Battle Smith Druid with a tree he gave tree arms while all the trees are alive for his steel defender and an old rusty small robot over grown with plants that uses the plants to power the robot for a Homunculus servant. Maybe just because an acolyte of a church about technology being in harmony and cultivating nature.
One of my players played a Battle Smith in the Tomb of Annihilation campaign. He put his forge inside his construct (a robot Velociraptor), another party member (Nature Cleric) tamed a few flying snakes, and they convinced the snakes to live in the robot's mouth where it was the perfect temperature for them. So he could have the robot open its mouth and suddenly 5 snakes bit whatever was in front of it.
I have a battle smith my first actual dnd character, her name is tryla and she is a small plasmoid with a medium steel defender called EVA.. safe to say she pilots the mech and has fought a dragon with it before
... brilliant!
You should mention that you only get to sub Int for Str/Dex if the weapon is magic. Big difference.
How about a necromantic battlesmith with a Flesh golem and magical objects made of tissue and organs
That just sounds gross and inefficient, probably cool for psychological warfare tho
As an individual who has taken up to calculus 3, I can confirm the algebra behind basic calculus is MUCH harder. Calculus 2 though... brutal.
Not the glock glock underwear lol
I'm making a pillow of cat-nap.
Could you do a video on the Chronurgy wizard sometime in the future?
Hell yeah it is here
Can't forget the Armourer. The DnD Ironman.
Shout out to the pointy hat! Don't worry, we still love you, Antonio!
Holy shit you really get a real steel robot
Be me
Play battlesmith
Get sharpshooter feat and that infusion that gives unlimited ammo hack and makes the crossbow a +1 magic weapon
Get heavy crossbow
???
DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA
Given that the spell storing item says it replicates the effect of the spell rather than cast the spell, it wouldn't require any material components, so you could sell your spellcasting services in cities, cast Continual Flame 10 times per day with no cost to you and sell forever-torches that are safe and don't consume any fuel, undercutting any wizards since it normally costs 25gp to cast. (Or just go round casting Magic Mouth for free all around the town, normally also 25gp each) if you have enough gold.
Why Rooster? You've clearly never met a rooster. We had a bantam... literally would fit in my hand... and he wasn't afraid of God or Man. He'd come after you if you looked at the chickens.
I don't even like Artificers in D&D, but I love this
I'm about to make my first artificer - armorer for a campaign (new to DND) so I'm wondering which books I should buy.
I'll be playing over Roll20. Any input is appreciated.
Please make a rogue swashbuckler video. Class is so much fun
5:05 cluck cluck
So just to be clear, If I want to cast a spell, All I need is my tools? I don't have to use my tools to put magic into an object? (I might be getting it confused with infusions)
I’m playing a battle smith, arcane trickster :)))
Can you please do one the rouge subclass : Phantom plz i wanna find the best way to play this
ask your DM if you can make an infusion that gives you another attunement slot
I imagine an argument between a Battle Smith and an artillarist going down like this
Battle Smith: my magic comes from math
Artillarist: YOUR MATH IS NO MATCH FOR MY GUN IDIOT *immediately shoots the Battle Smith in the face*
@can you please do an order of the scribe wizard
Man I can't click on these videos fast enough lol
So just like. Tong Stark in dnd
If you use a robot chicken to tank does that make it a....cock blocker?
what no gunslinger lol :p
Rocket hand...
The lore reason for using tools as magical foci isn't "wrench is wand". It is "i want to throw a fireball. Luckily, I made this really nice Fireball Gun." You are limited to spell-slots because balance, not because lore.
Can I make this in baldurs gate
Should have said the cross road between the wizards appertiance and Einstein. Wouldnt want any thing to to with Bill nie
why
Battle Smith moon druid ☻️
One of my first characters to play at length was a Dragonborn Artificer. Tool Expertise made the Rogue feel a little inadequate 😅. But being good sports we decided to make that a little mini character arc for them. We ended up as the greatest thieves around.
Ok, so rn only Bard & Sorcerer is missing (unless Bloodhunter count too for some reason...).
And while i understand that keeping that "1 per class" rotation thing would be straight-up impossible (cleric/wizard have double the subclasses of Druid/Ranger/Sorcerer! And let's not even start with Artificer subclasses...), having that at least for the 1st round would be cool.
So while i personally would prefer "Abberant Mind Sorcerer", im gonna join the 1 comment saying "Lore Bard".
What's the name of the cartoon at 2:38 ?
The legend of vox machina
"imagine getting so good at differential equations it becomes magic"
To be fair, differential equations is heavily used in electrical engineering, which is about as close to real world magic as you can get
your probably not going to read this but...what if you want your steel defender to be a dog or a horse
Dog yes! Horse, maybe but only if it's medium sized... so how about a donkey instead?
Someone here already made a Battle Smith based on Santa Claus?