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| Artificer | |
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| The Artificer is a high burst damage survivor who excels in fighting large groups and bosses alike. | |
| Health | 110 (+33 per level) |
| Health Regen | 1/s (+0.2 per level) |
| Damage | 12 (+2.4 per level) |
| Speed | 7 m/s |
| Armor | 0 |
| Unlock | Pause. |
| Umbra Title | |
| Herald of the House Beyond | |
| Ending Phrase | |
| Escaped : ..and so she left, in love with a new passion: to explore.
Vanished : ..and so she vanished, her place forever vacant | |
Artificer is a playable character in Risk of Rain 2.
Wielding a diverse armament of destructive skills, Artificer's strength lies in her devastating offense that can break through even the bulkiest of enemies, aided by the versatile Snapfreeze. However, her power comes at the cost of survivability, as she has no defensive or movement skills aside from her high-flying Ion Surge, so the player must take care to use her mighty skills from a safe distance.
Contents
Skills
Passive
ENV Suit | ||
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| Type | Passive | |
| Description | Holding the Jump key causes the Artificer to hover in the air. | |
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On the Switch version, ENV suit can be changed to a toggle. | ||
Primary
Flame Bolt | ||
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| Type | Primary | |
| Cooldown | 1.3s | |
| Proc Coefficient | 1.0 | |
| Description | Fire a bolt for 220% damage that ignites enemies. Hold up to 4. | |
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Plasma Bolt | ||
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| Type | Primary | |
| Cooldown | 1.3s | |
| Proc Coefficient | 1.0 | |
| Description | Fire a bolt for 220% damage that explodes in a small area. Hold up to 4. | |
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Secondary
Charged Nano-Bomb | ||
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| Type | Secondary | |
| Cooldown | 5s | |
| Proc Coefficient | Explosion: 1.0 Sparks: 0.3 | |
| Description | Stunning [ Stunning ] Interrupts enemies and briefly stuns them. | |
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Cast Nano-Spear | ||
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| Type | Secondary | |
| Cooldown | 5s | |
| Proc Coefficient | 1.0 | |
| Description | Freezing [ Freezing ] Freeze enemies in place. Frozen enemies are instantly killed if below 30% health. | |
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Utility
Snapfreeze | ||
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| Type | Utility | |
| Cooldown | 12s | |
| Proc Coefficient | 1.0 | |
| Description | Freezing [ Freezing ] Freeze enemies in place. Frozen enemies are instantly killed if below 30% health. | |
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Special
Flamethrower | ||
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| Type | Special | |
| Cooldown | 5s | |
| Proc Coefficient | 1.0 | |
| Description | Burn all enemies in front of you for 1700% damage. | |
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Ion Surge | ||
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| Type | Special | |
| Cooldown | 8s | |
| Proc Coefficient | 1.0 | |
| Description | Stunning [ Stunning ] Interrupts enemies and briefly stuns them. | |
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Tips
- The
Backup MagazineAdd an extra charge of your Secondary skill.
Add +1 (+1 per stack) charge of your Secondary skill. is a powerful item on Artificer, allowing her to output massive bursts of damage with her secondary attack.
- Stun GrenadeChance to stun on hit.
5% (+5% on stack) chance on hit to stun enemies for 2 seconds. can be very useful on Artificer as the stuns can help to lock-down enemies, allowing her greater ease in aiming/hitting with follow-up primary attacks on the stunned foe. - Flamethrower has a proc coefficient of 1.0, allowing it to quickly apply item effects such as Tri-Tip DaggerChance to bleed enemies on hit.
10% (+10% per stack) chance to bleed an enemy for 240% base damage. and Stun GrenadeChance to stun on hit.
5% (+5% on stack) chance on hit to stun enemies for 2 seconds. multiple times.
- Flamethrower deals massive damage in a large area, while Ion Surge allows Artificer to stay above the action and out of the way of danger. Experiment with both to determine which option is more appealing.
- BrainstalksSkills have NO cooldowns for a short period after killing an elite.
Upon killing an elite monster, enter a frenzy for 4s (+4s per stack) where skills have 0.5s cooldowns., Alien HeadReduces cooldowns for your skills.
Reduce skill cooldowns by 25% (+25% per stack)., and a BandolierChance on kill to drop an ammo pack that resets all skill cooldowns.
18% (+10% per stack) chance on kill to drop an ammo pack that resets all skill cooldowns. are good items to have as they help to recover the cooldowns of Artificer's primary attack.- Alternatively, getting a single PurityReduce your skill cooldowns by 2 seconds. You are unlucky.
All skill cooldowns are reduced by 2 (+1 per stack) seconds. All random effects are rolled +1 (+1 per stack) times for an unfavorable outcome. 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. However, this also makes it extremely unlikely for her to trigger any on-hit effects unless they can be guaranteed, like Bleed with 10 stacks of Tri-Tip DaggersChance to bleed enemies on hit.
10% (+10% per stack) chance to bleed an enemy for 240% base damage.. The negative luck of Purity can be negated with a 57 Leaf CloverLuck is on your side.
All random effects are rolled +1 (+1 per stack) times for a favorable outcome., but given how rare it is, with a Purity build it might be best to disregard all on-hit effects that can't be guaranteed, and instead choose items like Runald's BandHigh damage hits also blasts enemies with runic ice. Recharges over time.
Hits that deal more than 400% damage also blasts enemies with a runic ice blast, slowing them by 80% for 3s (+3s per stack) and dealing 250% (+250% per stack) TOTAL damage. Recharges every 10 seconds. and Kjaro's BandHigh damage hits also blasts enemies with a runic flame tornado. Recharges over time.
Hits that deal more than 400% damage also blasts enemies with a runic flame tornado, dealing 300% (+300% per stack) TOTAL damage over time. Recharges every 10 seconds. which have guaranteed procs.
- Alternatively, getting a single
- 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 tick rate of 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 final boss.
- Using Ion Surge in conjunction with the Glowing Meteorite140sRain meteors from the sky, hurting both enemies and allies.
Rain meteors from the sky, damaging ALL characters for 600% damage per blast. Lasts 20 seconds. can prove highly effective thanks to Artificer's ENV Suit allowing hover time, and because the Glowing Meteorite only damages grounded entities.
Lore
With the intense belief that heaven is a planet, not a mystical place, the High Court search deep into space for the Promised Land. Intensely driven by both dogma and science, the High Court holds amazing technological marvels - with nearly all of them hidden deep within their halls. The House Beyond represents the most ambitious of the High Court's followers, spearheading Zone 5 deep space travel. With the advantage of their unique ENV Suit, the House Beyond have gone deeper in space than any other House in the High Court by an order of magnitude. The ENV Suit, worn by the Artificers of the High Court, is an engineering marvel - able to calibrate to the conditions of any environment. The technology behind the ENV Suit, like all other High Court technology, is still undisclosed.
Version History
- Gameplay Changes
- Nano-Bomb
- Tendril Damage: 20% of explosion ⇒ 10% of explosion
- Tendril Fire Frequency: 0.25s ⇒ 0.125s
- Tendril Same Target Frequency: 2s ⇒ 1s
Developer Notes: This change is made specifically to avoid the Artificer’s Nano-Bomb tendrils proccing Ice and Fire Bands. The tendrils will now fire twice as often, but at half the damage.
- Quality of Life
- Graphics Updates
- Update skin visuals
- Graphics Updates
- Gameplay Changes
- Developer Notes: We want to enforce the Artificer’s role as a high-damage, high AoE character. Nano-Bomb in general was core to the fantasy, but was pretty much inferior to Nano-Spear in every way.
- Plasma Bolt
- Blast Radius: 4m ⇒ 6m
- Charged Nano-Bomb
- Now has slight gravity
- Blast Radius: 10m ⇒ 14m
- Blast Damage, Max Charge: 1200% ⇒ 2000%
- Blast Force: 1300 ⇒ 3000
- Lifetime: 5s ⇒ 10s
- Improved FX for clarity
- Ion Surge
- No longer has -75% damage falloff at the edge of the blast
- Developer Notes: We want to enforce the Artificer’s role as a high-damage, high AoE character. Nano-Bomb in general was core to the fantasy, but was pretty much inferior to Nano-Spear in every way.
- (Undocumented) Updated descriptions for Charged Nano-Bomb, Cast Nano-Spear, Snapfreeze, and Ion Surge to include keywords
- Bug Fixes
- Fix Artificer being able to hit herself with projectiles when backed up against a wall
- Bug Fixes
- Ensure Nano-Bomb state stops charging animation if interrupted
- Ensure
- Gameplay Changes
- Plasma Bolt
- Update proc coefficient, travel speed, and fire rate to match Flame Bolt
- Update proc coefficient, travel speed, and fire rate to match
- Major Content and Changes
- Added New Skill Variant: Artificer Primary
- Fire a bolt for 220% damage that explodes in a small area. Hold up to 4.
- Added New Skill Variant: Artificer Secondary
- Charge up a piercing nano-spear that deals 400%-1200% damage and freezes all enemies.
- Added New Skill Variant: Artificer Special
- Burst into the sky, dealing 800% damage and stunning nearby enemies.
- Added New Skin: Artificer
- Added New Class Challenge: Artificer: Chunked!
- Added New Class Challenge: Artificer: Orbital Bombardment
- Added New Class Challenge: Artificer: Massacre
- Added New Class Challenge: Artificer: Mastery
- Added New Skill Variant:
- Gameplay Changes
- Add 2 new skill variants
- Add 1 new skin
- Bug Fixes
- Canceling Artificer’s Nova Bomb early now properly stops the sound
- Canceling Artificer’s
- Bug Fixes
- Fix the Artificer's Oculur HUD60sGain +100% Critical Strike Chance for 8 seconds. being stretched
- Fix the Artificer's
- Gameplay Changes
- Bug Fixes
- Prevent attacks with proc coefficient 0 applying Crowd Control effects like Snapfreeze
- Set interrupt priority of frozen state to be higher than stun state to fix issues with the Artificer Snapfreeze being interrupted by Stun GrenadesChance to stun on hit.
5% (+5% on stack) chance on hit to stun enemies for 2 seconds.
- Prevent attacks with proc coefficient 0 applying Crowd Control effects like
- Gameplay Changes
- [Community Suggestion] Increase Artificer proc coefficient on Flame Bolt from 0.2 to 1.
- [Community Suggestion] Increase Artificer proc coefficient on Snap Freeze pillars from 0 to 1.
- [Community Suggestion] Increase Artificer's Snap Freeze explosion radius from 1.5m to 2.5m to alleviate it not always freezing enemies who trigger it
- *Artificer mistakenly had very low proc coefficients. Consider these bug fixes.*
- [Community Suggestion] Increase Artificer proc coefficient on
- Bug Fixes
- [Community Found] Fix Artificer's Snap Freeze explosion radius not being large enough to always freeze enemies who trigger it
- [Community Found] Fix
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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."
- Artificer is considered to be one of the hardest characters to learn, alongside Mercenary.
