Artificer

**Artificer** is a playable character in Risk of Rain 2.

## How to Unlock

The Artificer is unlocked upon completing the Challenge "Pause". (*Free the survivor suspended in time.*)

Collect 11 Lunar Coins and find a Newt Altar. Pay one coin so the blue portal spawns upon charging the teleporter to 100%. Use the blue portal instead of the teleporter and head to the shop. To the right of Newt is Artificer suspended in time. Pay 10 coins to unlock Artificer.

## Skills

### Flame Bolt

 Cooldown
 Proc Coefficient
 Description
 * Burns 8 ticks for 25% damage each

#### Plasma Bolt

 Cooldown
 Proc Coefficient
 Description
 * Unlocked via the "Artificer: Massacre" Challenge. (As Artificer, perform a multikill of 20 enemies.)

### Charged Nano-Bomb

 Cooldown
 Proc Coefficient
 Description
 * Can sprint while charging
* The damage will increase during the initial animation, causing the minimum damage to be 600% (increased with Attack Speed)
* Takes 2s to fully charge with an Attack Speed of 1.
* The orb fires bolts at nearby enemies on the fly.

#### Cast Nano-Spear

 Cooldown
 Proc Coefficient
 Description
 * Unlocked via the "Artificer: Chunked!" Challenge. (As Artificer, fully defeat the teleporter boss in a one-second burst of damage.)

### Snapfreeze

 Cooldown
 Proc Coefficient
 Description
 * Frozen enemies with 30% or less health are instant killed.
* Can't freeze bosses.
* Can burn while frozen.

### Flamethrower

 Cooldown
 Proc Coefficient
 Description
 * Pierces through enemies
* If crit procs, all hits will crit
* Takes 3s to fire and another 5s to cooldown.
* Deals damage 22 times. Each hit deals 100% damage, has a Proc Coefficient of 1 and half of them will set the target on fire. That means Flamethrower deals a tremendous 4400% damage to anything in front.
* The fire beam has a decent max reach of ~25m.[Verify] At the distance, the damage falls by less than 2%.

#### Ion Surge

 Cooldown
 Proc Coefficient
 Description
 * Unlocked via the "Artificer: Orbital Bombardment" Challenge. (As Artificer, kill 15 enemies before touching the ground.)
* Can be used while airborne, making you more or less fly

## Tips

* Getting multiple Backup Magazine in conjunction with Ocular HUD can help Artificer deal massive amounts of damage to bosses or common enemies alike.
* Flamethrower has a Proc Coefficient of 1.0, allowing it to quickly apply item effects such as Tri-Tip Dagger and AtG Missile Mk. 1 multiple times, stacking these items will allow you to deal huge bursts damage.
* 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.
* Artificer's other abilities cannot be activated in the duration of Flamethrower, however, sprinting will cancel the attack instantly.
* While initiating the charge up will cancel sprint, sprinting while charging a Charged Nano-Bomb will not cancel the charge and she will be able to fully charge and launch the attack without breaking sprint.

## Gallery

Artificer model with Chrome skin equipped. Unlocked by completing the Artificer Mastery challenge.
## History

 Build ID #4233443 | Updated proc coefficient, travel speed, and fire rate of Plasma Bolt to match that of Flame Bolt.