You Might Be an Armorer | Artficer Subclass Guide for DND 5e 

I fondly remember the moment my GM allowed me to play a two foot tall koald armourer who was essentially piloting an eight foot tall magical mech into battle

Witches at the Wharf really outdid themselves with this subclass.

I made a Warforged armorer. He’s a mech that is programmed to think he’s human. Whenever someone points out that he’s a mech, his memory glitches, he forgets the last 5 seconds, and does the chicken little “what are we talking about?” thing. Every upgrade to his body feels normal to him and he wonders why the other humans don’t do the same thing. “Why can’t you shoot lightning from your hands? Why isn’t your skin shiny?” Etc…

Even funnier is picking duregar dwarf as your race, now you're both Iron Man and the Hulk

I’m a simple man, I see my fave subclass from an awesome RU-vidr, I watch

Character concept: an Orc who was exiled from his clan for not being strong enough and used technology to make a suit of armor to make up for it.

I’ve had this character concept floating around in my head for a while now - an Armorer Artificer whose studded leather armor is cursed and wraps around him a la Ragman, Moon Knight, or hell, even Venom. Would need to invest in Dex like crazy, but considering all the buffs you can get to Dex checks you can get with your Infusions, the build could EASILY be the party’s Rogue-equivalent.

Everybody gangster until the quadruple amputee puts on his exosuit. The limb replacement feature is so massively overlooked as a flavor element, allowing you to play handicapped adventurers without detracting from normal gameplay.

One of my current characters is a kolbold with this class and subclass. When made him I asked my dm that when my character was in his armor that can he become medium sized. Since that didnt give any major buffs he said yes. Now my kobold is has a mecha. Well at least he feels like he does. To most the suit is just the size of an orc. Big but not giant. But for him every battle is a mecha vs kaiju battle

I'm playing a goblin artificer currently. She'll go Armorer. Making a S.C.U.B.A suit (Self Contained Utility Battle Armor)

I just love how you can be iron man on a medieval world thanks to the armorer artificer

I just started a campaign as one of these guys Rather than mecha, I've actually been focusing on modelling on Brotherhood Paladins from Fallout. The big, tanky Power Armor-wielder is super underrepresented in fiction!

I flavored this more magical. My character had an embedded crest in her chest that she'd tap to summon ethereal armor. A semi radiant version for Guardian and a shadowed set for Infiltrator. The DM allowed this, as long as I still spent the money on "materials" to upgrade the crest. So I still had to save up 1,200g for Plate equivalent AC.

Love this artificer subclass. I recommend a 2 level dip as war wizard. Get int to initiative, some handy spells and defensive reactions.

I used the armorer artificer mixed with lizardfolk to make essentially a Yautja from Predator.

Armorer Artificer is hands down one of my favorite subclasses in D&D, if not my #1 favorite. At the very least it's the class/subclass I've played the most, having made and played *FOUR* different Armorer Artificers so far. And that's not including all the theoretical character builds I've come up with for the Armorer that I haven't had a chance to actually play yet. From a Loxodon Armorer Artificer + Totem Warrior Barbarian multiclass that utilizes their Thunder Gauntlets and Reckless Attack to draw the most aggro possible from enemies, to a Goblin Armorer Artificer + Assassin Rogue + Storm Cleric that sneak attacks with their Lightning Launcher and uses their Channel Divinity to maximize the sneak attack damage, to many many more.

I made a rogue/armorer artificer multiclass because of that infiltrator suit’s advantage to stealth and the have a +12 to stealth even without it, armorer is amazing and you gotta love it

This subclass is cool as shit. You never fail to impress me with how well you show off these subclasses. Well done as always dude!

You can use booming blade and weapon infusions to have tons of damage and utility even without multiattack, it´s insane

Kobold Armorer who seeks revenge on the Gnomes.

I can say from experience that the Armorer is a wonderfully flexible tank

Every video I watch on this channel always makes me go "Oh, I'm gonna play this class for m'y next character."

And if your DM tells you that cant play artificer since "didnt fit the medieval fantasy" then just explain to him that the artificer is basically a blacksmith who learn how to combine wizard magic with his crafsmenship Artificer is just like Hiccup from how to train your dragon but with wizard magic, i mean, everything they can do with infusions and subclass features in terms of items is already on vanilla dnd5e, so technically someone should create those items, so... Magic blacksmiths: Dm: you have a robot companion -no, i have a enchanted armor as a friend, like the enchanted armor you make us fight last session who also has personality Dm: but you have that laser gun! -you mean the enchanted stick with spell attacks, just like the fireball staff and the wand of magic missiles you gave to the wizard? Dm: you created boots that let you fly! -those are actually pretty similar to boots of flying form the dmg, dont you think? Dm: you can summon a cannon!!!! - you mean a magical cartoony companion who can sneeze magic to attack my enemies in a comical way and is just a magical enchanted piece of metal or a possesed object? Dm: YOU CAN CREATE IRONMAN ARMOR!!!! - whaaaat? I cannot do that, didnt you reward the party with let us know that we can buy magical armor from the blacksmith in town who is a wizards apprentice so he can add buffs and spells storing for a price? I mean, if a magically blacksmith in town can do it, im sure i can, and put on them some magical stuff too since i have magic, you know,since im basically a magical blacksmith too

Lightning Launcher + Crossbow Expert + Longshot = Sniper Rifle(Finger of God)

If your dm is cool you can make spellwrought tattoos. Get a giftable lvl 1 spell slot. My dm says I can always make a spell I know l, but I can roll to replicate a spell I don't know. Enlarge/Reduce for everyone over a couple days. The magic item is the needle, not the spell tattoo. So they get to keep it until they need it. You can also give away find familiar spells so the party has a little zoo. No need to explain why that's super strong. I'm playing a centaur artificer. There's a warlock blaster riding along. A weapon to surpass metal gear.

As usual love the anime refernces, and jokes

There's so much flavor from this subclass. You can even multiclass to Blade Singer and be a Symphogear user. Protector with Bladesong using the Gauntlets is just Hibiki

Idea: could you combine the thunder gauntlets with the shocking grasp cantrip? If so that effectively doubles the damage and deals both thunder and lightning damage at the same time. Absolutely dastardly

One of my favorite classes. When i played it i went 3 levels in fighter for battle master and was the party's tank. I also convinced my DM to let me rig up a maul to allow me to use the thunder gauntlets disadvantage and add 2 thunder damage as a bonus when i swung it. It was a lot of fun.

It is one of my favourites subclases, I made a really balanced melee armorer 3/chronurgist 17 which has armor of magical strenght having dump strenght and still being great at it, and an inbuilt taunt, healing and insane defense for starters

Artificer is one of my favorite classes. I’m looking forward to the videos on the rest of the arti subclasses.

You are easily in my top 2 D&D channels, with DnD Shorts - excellent job, keep up the great work!

I’m having fun playing the battle smith, I’ll prolly play this next

My favorite Friday ritual is listening to your newest video while I do my jobs roof inspection at night. Amazing way to pass the time!

0:16 This looks like the origin story of the robot uprising.

Great content, thanks for making this dnd 5e breakdown fun and easy to understand for new DMs and players alike.

Spell storing item: armourers can put 'Blur' or similar into your TANK's non-magical armour...

I would love to see the other two artificier subclasses

I assure you, a large race wearing the beef daddy armor gets passwall almost for free

One of my favorite subclasses, Thanks it was a fun watch

"A fire extinguisher of Continual Flame." I see what you did there. 😆

Armorer is my absolute favorite subclass. Tons of flavor and tons of cool options. Shame that artificers are constantly ignored by them sorcerers on the shore.

Really loving my own Warforged Armorer, stylized as a Voltron-esque Combiner Super Robot piloted by tech centric Fey from an obscure Demiplane in the Feywild.

Love this subclass. My DM and I just finished designing a new model I can swap into for my character.

Great video! Seen a few on Armorer but this has been the most enlightening as to the possibilities!

Next character will be using this.. thank you ahead of time for providing me the means to acquire the tears of my dm!

Yeah...someone saw Iron Man and said 'I want that in D&D'.

Honestly fucking LOVE these videos, both this and the Drakewarden are now on my list of subclasses I NEED to play! Great vids ❤❤

I already know the people who made this subclass had just watched some iron man

Unless you’re homebrewing or your DM is allowing you liberties (or you’re misguiding them), you cannot infuse Radiant Weapon onto the thunder gauntlets until 9th level. Arcane armour is magical, the weapons for both sets are part of the armour: “At 9th level, you learn how to use your artificer infusions to specially modify your Arcane Armor. That armor now counts as separate items for the purposes of your Infuse Items feature: armor (the chest piece), boots, helmet, and the armor's special weapon.” You cannot infuse them at 6th level, as cool as it is (you can only infuse non-magical items). At least by 5e ruling. It is pretty busted too tbh.

-Play an armorer. -Make armoured suit the tallest possible size. -Choose gnome race. -Make gnome the smallest possible size. -Lie to the other players. -Tell them you're a warforged. -Spend emntire campaign hiding the fact that Ironfist doombringer is actually scrundles mcgee. -Shenanigans ensue.

I think I'm gonna do a divine soul sorc/armor artificier multiclass making my creations "machined fueled by the unending cycle of the weave and the divinr powers flowing trough my body.

Another amazing video. Keep it up.

I’ve been wondering which subclass to make my artificer and now I know I want to make him a armorer

I think one of my favourite characters ive ever made was an armourer artificer warforged obsessed with self improvement named gort. Funnily enough this video is what hooked me in the idea for him lol

Played an Githzerai Armorer Artificer through DiA, finished the campaign @ level 14. Loved driving Hell Trucks like Mad Max, repairing them with techno-organic infernal soul machine parts, and tanking my way through hell like the guy in DOOM. Super satisfying (along with receiving the most powerful magic shield in all of 5e)

Great Video 👍 Honestly love the Armorer and Coop and MegasXLR are great Armorer Inspiration 😎

That's awesome and I never thought about being a back up tank like you talked about.

I'm so glad you used a G Gundam clip. Show did not get enough love

I played two armorer artificer characters, one was brilliant madman that lived by the motto "science is not about why, it's about why the hell not". The character allowed me to embrace my inner wild chaotic stupid. My second character was a warforge armorer artificer and forge domain cleric named Talos, a warforge that was rediscovered in a ancient ruin that used to be an old laboratory/workshop. BTW Talos was inspired by the sentient Greek mythological automation by the same name.

Time to hit that anvil, be like my role model Tony Stark, and create a whole party of frames for war

Sorcerers of the Shoreline is a litteral masterpiece

This subclass is some of the most badass shit I have ever seen come out of DND

I'm probably late to the party, but one of the other people in the YMBA discord is making an armor model for every damage type not covered by the base 2. My personal favorites so far have gotta be the Juggernaut model for melee with advantage on saves vs forced movement and a pair of big boots for weapons, and the Icarus model for ranged, giving you a hang glider built in to the armor and at-will casts of Jump to make it viable without somewhere high-up, plus a frickin grenade launcher that deals 1d6 fire damage to 1 target and a second d6 to everyone within 5ft of the target. That's not even touching the perfected abilities, which give you the Charge trait and a genuine flight speed, respectively.

Holy shit this is perfect for this one character concept i have been trying to realise

I have a watch suggestion for an older anime movie called Strait Jacket. The setting of that world's narrative the best I can describe would be"Magicpunk", where technology incorporates magic. But if proper precautions aren't taken, the magic corrupts people and turns them into monsters. Then there are special operators called Tactical Sorcerers who fight these monsters. The slang term for them are Strait Jackets due to how crazy they must be, since if their armor and seals take too much damage, they themselves will turn into monsters. Would highly recommend if you haven't seen it before. Awesome video as always and hope everyone has a blessed day!

Each of the four Artificer subclasses fit a specific play style. The Artillerist is more of a ranged fighter, the Alchemist is for support, the Battle Master is meant to be an offensive front liner, and the Armorer is meant to be a defensive Tank. But yeah, add 2 points into Fighter and you can be an unstoppable fighting machine! However one bit of advice I’d add is to make up your mind early on which armor model you want to major in; do you mostly want to wear the Guardian or Infiltrator? Because depending on your answer you will need to make either Constitution (Guardian) or Dexterity (Infiltrator) your second highest stat, behind Intelligence obviously. So in order of Highest to lowest your stats should be: Int, Con (Dex), Dex (Con), Wis, Cha, Str.

If there were an item to boost to the side as a reaction when you have to make a DEX Save, i would also say Armored Core could have been an inspiration... and that sh-t has been around since the 1990's!

I just got an awesome idea of a dragonborn barbarian that gets constantly disturbed by his 3 kobold brothers (not blood related, of course), and the three of them are artificers, one is that gunner articifcer (idk the name) the other one is that artificer that makes potions and some scrolls (I'm not sure about that and still don't know the name) and the last one is an armorer 😎👍

A crazy possibility that's easy to overlook: if you combine Lightning Launchers with Rogue and Tempest Cleric, you have the potential to deal a massive critical Sneak Attack that deals over a hundred lightning damage (granted, this is at or near 20 and 1/rest, but still). Kamehamehamother heffer!

Made an Autognome who transformed into a Mecha in a Spelljammer campaign. This class is super fun to play, but there is a LOT of bookkeeping. Not for the faint of heart.

I'm currently running a grung armorer, and to be a level 4 tiny frog guy with an AC of 20 and a giant toad bot to pilot and cause absolute mayhem in battle is beyond hysterical

I know it's not an "Optimal Build", but my Armorer / Gloomstalker Ranger is one of my favorite Characters I've ever created. Pros: + Infiltrator Armor + Invisible in the Dark (even against people with Darkvision) + Expertise in Stealth = You ARE the Hunter, nobody will see you coming, EVER. + Guardian Suit and the Extra Attack you get on the first round as a Gloomstalker pairs nicely if you want to tank, just add the Mobile Feat (i didn't, but thought of it afterwards) and hit three enemies around the field and now, nobody is hitting your friends that easily. + Having Web plus Spike Growth as part of your kit makes for a great Battlefield Controller. + Race the Monk and WIN, cause a +5 Feet of movement from the Ranger, +10 ft from your Infiltrator Suit + 10 ft from Spells like Ashardalon's Stride/Steel Wind Strike/Longstrider with a 30 ft Mov. Speed Race, and you get 55ft of Movement by Level 6, like 2 levels before the Monk. There's also a lot of situational benefits i saw during Play, but i would say those are more anecdotal.

My Dm in an arena game helped me come up with a character concept. Thri-Kreen Artillerist (because I need to hold the tool to make the connon), but then I can hold my normal gun in one hand and my cannon in the second main. Then, my smaller hands can hold my tool. Then later, I'll hold my focus in my second smaller hand for my cantrips with the +d8 damage. Late game, I'll shoot out 2 cannons and then either shoot my normal gun with my main action or shoot a cantrip with the bonus damage. The only bad part is that I'll need to decide if i want to wear armor for the infusions or if i want to not so I can get the natural armor from the race

Currently playing a kobold that leans into his draconic legacy, i’ll go armorer and flavour his armor as basically dragon scales, with elemental spells originating from the suit of armor, and the armor changing color to the corresponding dragon

……. Dear god I was playing my first character (an armorer) all wrong!

I love all the nicknames for the publisher xD. I love orb readers of the ocean

Since it replaces limbs I made a warforged in a wheel chair that I am trying to convince my DM to let me become the Warhammer 40k Lord of Skulls.

love this so much do conquest paladin next

One level dip in fighter would help you with concentration checks as well as getting an extra +1AC with defensive fighting style

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Take the unarmed fighting feat as the guardian, and thank me later. Weaponize booming blade with your fists. Bonks and stonks.

9:31 "Go... Do a Crime"

I want to play a full metal alchemist inspired armorer/transmuter multiclass. Warforged race taking first 5 levels in artificer and the rest in wizard levels. Taking the feats spell sniper and sharpshooter. Main attack will be a sling when not casting leveled spells or in melee. I have read the feats repeatedly and i think they work simultaneously with the sling when using the cantrip magic stone since it is a spell attack(checks off for spell sniper) and it uses a ranged weapon(checks off for sharpshooter). It just sounds like fun.

There are easier ways to get a martial weapon proficiency too beyond just dipping into Fighter or taking a feat. You could for example use a race that has certain martial weapon proficiencies, such as certain elf races or the Githyanki who can just use their Knowledge abilities to give themselves weapon proficiency any time they take a long rest. Alternatively, there are rules in the Player's Handbook or Dungeon Master's Guide (I forget which one) that allow you to spend gold and time straight up learning new proficiencies you don't have as a downtime activity, with the limit being twice your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1). Which, you know, being an Artificer...

Litterally just watched this while making my Halloween costume for 2023. My costume? Samurai yoroi.

This is just so great......I love you man

I made a Warforged Armorer he was human then got his soul bonded to the armor. I can swing the tide in any fight with him. You can do so much yes your damage isn't the best but I think you can control the battlefield like no one else. I hit multiple guys to make sure the group is protected. I'm hard as hell to hit because AC is through the roof and my saving throws are great because of Flash of Genius. The Armorer is a ton of fun.

I breaked out in laughter when you said this class is metal as f*ck and thats just because I'll start playing one this or the next week but it's a 3 feet 'tall' Harengon XD

Talk about flavoring, well you could just be an enchantment wizard that like to fight in front line too

Whenever I get a group to play with, I'm building a Warforged artificer with the armorer subclass.

I’m actually playing as a sentient rat in my next play through and I am definitely playing with a gundam

disgruntled old goblin mechanic with an orange hardhat, a grease stained tank top, big leather gloves, and a P-5000 Powered Work Loader mech suit as guardian armor. as an added bonus he eventually gets the inspiring leader feat and grants everyone 5 temp hp by going over a safety briefing because he's very OSHA compliant

6:04 6:51 This guy made me pull out my copy of Tasha's to confirm these... can't believe he was right! :O

Playin as an Armorer Hill Dwarf rn so I can just already use some martial weapons bc of the race feature "Dwarven Combat Training" XD

I didn't realize most of these things before designing my warflorged armorer, i found an enchanted amulet and now my ac is 21 at level 4

I quite liked the Chainmail to Brainmail actually

"Extra protection from bears and stuff" Looks at suspicious bg3 save file

Armorer idea, a rather frail man who fights this way because he used to be a knight buy got extremely ill; Yet, despite that and being "too dumb" to be a wizard he figures this shit out. Travels as an unassuming craftsman and dispenses justice as an iron warrior.

Who loves Fallout and D&D and hasn’t made magic infused power armor?