Artificer

Artificer is a playable character in Risk of Rain 2.

Tips

 * is a powerful item on Artificer, allowing her to output massive bursts of damage with her secondary attack.
 * Flamethrower has a Proc Coefficient of 1.0, allowing it to quickly apply item effects such as and  multiple times.
 * and a are good items to have, since you won't have to worry about cooldowns on your attacks.
 * Alternatively, just getting one will put the cooldown of Artificer's Primary skill to 0.5s, and one more will allow her to use her Secondary skill very rapidly. But this also makes it extremely unlikely for her to trigger any on-hit effects unless they can be guaranteed, like bleed with ten . Negative luck of  can be negated with, but given how rare it is, on Purity build it might be best to just disregard all on-hit effects you can't guarantee, and instead go for items like  and  which have guaranteed procs.
 * Higher Attack Speed will increase the speed of all attack animations and increases the charge speed of Charged Nano-Bomb, however, it does not affect the duration nor the tickrate of Flamethrower.
 * Using Artificer's secondary, utility or sprinting will immediately cancel Flamethrower.
 * While charging up Charged Nano-Bomb or Cast Nano-Spear, sprinting will not cancel the charge, allowing higher mobility.
 * Cast Nano-Spear and Snapfreeze cannot freeze most bosses, but can freeze and even execute the.
 * Using Ion Surge and using a can be useful because of Artificer's ENV Suit allowing hover time, and the  only damaging ground entities.

Trivia

 * Artificer has several unused skills relating to her elements, most notably the skill people tend to call "Laser Bolt."
 * Artificer is referred to internally as "Mage"