This Risk of Rain 2 Artificer Guide consists of all the abilities and skills related to the character Artificer, learning which can help you control Artificer in a better and more convenient way.
Risk of Rain 2 Artificer Builds, Loadouts and Tips
Artificer is a pretty difficult character when it comes to managing her cooldowns of all abilities and the zero survivability in her kit.
However, there still is some hope with her if you properly understand all her abilities, keep them in mind and make strategies accordingly.
Artificer, like her fellow survivor Loader, is a burst class. That being said, Artificer can also become a boss buster if all the abilities are utilized strategically to minimize the cooldown delays and maximize the already high damages.
How to Unlock Artificer
You can unlock Artificer by completing the challenge “Pause”, in which you have to free the survivor suspended in time, collect 11 Lunar Coins and find a new Altar.
After that, pay one coin to spawn the blue portal once the teleporter is charged 100%.
Abilities
ENV suit is Artificer’s passive ability which is pretty much defensive. This ability lets Artificer hover in the air by holding the jump key.
Be sure to use this ability every time you need to dodge opponent’s strikes since this is your only way out.
Primary Abilities
Artificer has two Primary abilities described as follow:
- Flame Bolt: A primary ability which lets Artificer fire a bolt dealing 220% damage igniting the enemies. It has a cool-down period of 1.3 seconds and Proc Coefficient of 1.
- Plasma Bolt: A primary ability which lets Artificer fire a bolt dealing 220% damage exploding in a small area around it. It also has the same cooldown and Proc Coefficient as Flame Bolt.
Secondary Abilities
Artificer has the following two Secondary Abilities too, both with long cooldown periods:
- Charged Nano-Bomb: Charged Nano-Bomb is an explosive ability that lets you charge up an exploding nano-bomb that deals from 400% up to 1200% damage and stuns all enemies. It has a cooldown of 5 seconds and Proc Coefficient of 1.
- Cast Nano-Spear: Cast Nano-Spear is also a secondary type ability which lets you charge up a piercing nano-spear that deals about 400%-1200% damage while freezing all enemies.
Besides, Artificer has also a Snapfreeze as utility skill and Flame thrower and Ion Surge as special attacks.
However, all of these abilities have huge cooldown periods and hence you may only use them once you have the perfect most shot and chance.
Artificer Builds
The following builds have been molded in order to fulfill all the weaknesses of Artificer. You may choose any of the following on the basis of your personal play style:
Mobility & Defense Build
As we know that when it comes to mobility and defense, Artificer lacks quite a bit. These holes can be filled in by using Energy Drinks and adding items such as Personal Shield Generator and Wax quail.
The best way to carry on this task of enhancing Mobility and Defense abilities is to start building these traits very early on. You can then add further Damage abilities later on.
Hence, you should be adding Mobility items such as Energy Drinks, Paul’s Goat Hoof, Hopoo feather, etc since the very beginning.
Next, you should be adding Defense items and abilities like Tougher Times to block attacks.
Old War Stealth kit to make her invincible after taking a lot of damage, personal shield generator, Medkit and similar items.
You may also add Infusion which increases Artificer’s health, Backup Magazine which gives multiple Nova-Bombs and Primordial Cube which creates a perfect combo with Nova-Bomb.
For damage, add Fuel Cell to add charges to primordial, Gasoline to kill many enemies in a single hit and a Crowbar to increase the damage dealt to Bosses.
Mobility & Damage Build
Another pretty insane build can be set for Artificer, making her quite mobile and highly damaging. Here are the items that you need to have in this build:
Backup Magazines
Your top priority while setting up this Build should be the Backup Magazines since it eases off the load off your shoulders by giving multiple spears.
Paul’s Goat Hoof
This is a much-needed item as it lets you move fast without sprinting because sprinting cancels the flamethrower shooting.
ATG Missile
Having the ATG Missile gives you an edge over the long cooldowns and you will not need to wait much to deal up to 600 damage with the ATG Missile.
Bandolier
Bandolier is also a pretty good item considering that there is a chance on kill to drop an ammo pack that resets all skill cooldowns.
Kjaro & Runald’s Band
Kjaro is a highly damaging item while Runald is highly damaging as well as slows down the enemies which kind of gives you a lead over mobility and makes it easier to defend or attack for you
