Artificer

The Artificer implementation is in development but is not player-selectable. The Brass Crucible is deliberately inaccessible from the Esper shrine and its attunement rite has a second internal release latch. The class registry remains live for wizard testing. Once released, class membership, GXP, disciplines, essence, invention history, and prepared prototypes persist through leveling, logout, death, and future remorts.

Artificers solve problems by finding the hidden seam between body and soul and hammering it into useful shapes. Their power is transformation, not ownership of ordinary crafting: Smiths make excellent equipment; Artificers make an ordinary thing become impossible for a little while.

In Play

An Artificer enters danger with a plan, a kit, and a bag full of parts.

• Strike with blacksmith force and furnace heat
• Harvest cinder or cyan ichor from elite and boss enemies
• Temporarily elevate non-unique equipment with those essences
• Prepare persistent one-use inventions rather than mass-producing gear
• Sustain a portable wall and animate a real weapon as an ash construct
• Fabricate a class-gated shoulder projector that consumes SP and blue ash
• Temporarily fold two same-slot unique armours into one chimera working
• Eventually fold a named boss property into one treasured object

Unique equipment is excluded from ordinary tempering. Mature Artificers can instead perform a costly, reversible chimera artifice: the primary remains worn while a matching donor unique is reserved inside the temporary working. This is intentionally stranger and narrower than a conventional item upgrade.

Body, Soul, And Confluence

Bosses biased toward strength and constitution yield cinder. Bosses biased toward intellect and wisdom yield ichor. This is deterministic enough to hunt for while still making different enemies matter.

Use artificer study body or artificer study soul to spend five matching essence on a discipline rank. Once both have a rank, artificer study confluence spends three of each. Discipline ranks currently strengthen Bellows Blow and matching tempers, and are capped at five.

The disciplines are the finite build. Permanent mastery is the long tail.

Permanent GXP And Mastery

Artificer GXP belongs to the class soul, not the current body or guild. The legacy miInsight save field remains the storage location so existing class saves migrate without losing progress. A remort resets level, stats, and guilds but leaves Artificer progress intact. Every successful mutation saves immediately, and login repairs a missing class soul from its canonical path.

The mastery curve is:

mastery = GXP / (GXP + 3,500)

Mastery is displayed to one decimal place. It approaches 100% but never uses a hard rank cap as its power model.

The class is therefore practically built after dozens of hours, while a player with hundreds of hours still gets measurable—very small—improvements. Mastery scales bounded bonuses such as temper duration, prototype output, and a percentage of Bellows Blow. It never adds an uncapped flat combat statistic.

GXP sources are intentionally tied to class play:

• Boss harvest: 100 * boss tier, plus 25 for the killing blow, adjusted by the shared kill tracker's repetition percentage
• Build a prototype: 20
• Deploy a prototype: 10
• Single essence temper: 8
• Confluence temper: 15
• Chimera armour: 75
• Portable bulwark: 30
• Awakened weapon: 100
• Aether mount fabrication: 75

Bosses remain the main source. Repeated ordinary attacks do not award GXP, and repeatedly farming one boss loses GXP through the canonical kill tracker rather than a new Artificer-only history. Essence still drops so a player cannot be locked out of their class materials.

Progression

Artificers advance through boss harvests, prototypes, discipline choices, and Crucible milestones. This class progression is separate from character level, guild level, guild XP, and profession skill.

Live Abilities

Sustained Ashpunk Workings

bulwark opens at GXP rank 3 and Body 2. Eight grey ash sustains an armour bonus for ten to twenty minutes, reserves 4% maximum HP and SP, and consumes one Load. unmake collapses it early.

awaken <weapon> opens at rank 4 with Body 2 and Soul 2. Five cinder and five ichor bind a carried, unwielded, non-unique weapon into a follower for ten to twenty minutes. The construct physically wields the original weapon, follows and assists the Artificer, reserves 8% HP and 10% SP, and consumes two Load. The actual weapon is returned on expiry, dismissal, construct death, logout, soul teardown, or unmake. Unique weapons remain excluded to preserve their authored identities and Morpher's weapon niche.

At rank 5 and Soul 3, fabricate aether mount spends 15 blue ash and five ichor to create a persistent prototype implant. The standard cyberware system owns shoulder-slot conflicts, installation, extraction, strain, persistence, and combat proc dispatch. When installed, the projector has a 25% chance on a qualifying combat hit, with a six-second proc cooldown, to spend 12 SP and one blue ash on a bounded magic/lightning shot. It does not fire when the Engine lacks fuel.

Temper Results

Unique equipment and equipment that rejects the existing modifier contract are excluded. Tempering uses the established modifier duration and compatibility rules; it does not rewrite item quality or manufacture a replacement item.

Chimera Armour

artifice <primary unique> with <carried unique> opens at Confluence 2 and 50% mastery. It costs 10 cinder, 10 ichor, 75 immediate SP, 2 Load, and reserves 5% maximum HP plus 8% maximum SP. Both pieces must be unique armour with exactly the same slot mask. Rings, amulets, shields, auras, and all weapons are excluded.

The primary may be worn or carried during creation and remains a real usable item. The donor is physically reserved by a no-save temporary effect, continues to count its full carried weight, and is returned when the effect expires or the player quits. Benefits apply only while the primary is worn; removing it suspends rather than destroys the seam. Higher permanent GXP provides enough Load for multiple seams, with a hard cap of three. Duration scales toward a bounded twenty-five-minute maximum through Confluence and mastery.

The first-generation seam echoes 20–34% of the donor's armour class across its actual unlock-to-cap progression. Confluence 3 also echoes the donor's single strongest positive resistance, capped at 15. It does not clone, consume, rename, rewrite, or manufacture either unique, and it never invokes the donor's arbitrary wear hooks, combat callbacks, set bonuses, spells, or bespoke scripts. That limitation is the point: generic numbers are safe to echo; authored identity is not.

A later extension can let individual unique armours opt into a reviewed query_artificer_echo() mapping. There should be no reflective copying of callbacks. This gives builders explicit control over unusual synergies and keeps Morpher's weapon/body identity distinct from Artificer's armour work.

Prepared Prototypes

An Artificer begins with two prototype slots. Permanent mastery gradually opens three more; Confluence 3 opens a sixth. Prepared counts are primitive persisted state, so they survive remort without keeping unsafe object references alive.

Why This Is A Class, Not Another Guild

A guild supplies a combat culture, social identity, restrictions, channels, and a progression loop for the current life. Artificer sits across those choices:

• It survives when remort removes all guilds.
• It has no guild level, guild XP, channel, guild hall, or equipment doctrine.
• Its primary rewards come from reading bosses and changing equipment, not repeating a guild rotation.
• Prepared inventions work as a loadout. The player decides what future problems to pack for instead of receiving another bar of cooldowns.
• Its combat values scale from the current body and then receive bounded permanent mastery. A level-1 remort keeps expertise without carrying level-250 damage into the new life.
• It makes every guild notice different loot. A Fighter may value a cinder hammer, a Mage an ichor focus, and a Thief a compact coil, but none requires a guild-specific Artificer branch.

System Integration

Professions can later supply housings, catalysts, lenses, and blanks, but profession mastery will not gate the class. That creates trade without turning Artificer into “Smithing, but mandatory.”

Ability Buildout

The next abilities should deepen transformations rather than add a conventional spell list.

The Cinis Engine replaces the proposed signature ring. It is a class-soul facade and corpse-burner replacement rather than equipped gear.

Workbenches And Field Kits

The Cinis Engine is the field kit, ash store, persistent prototype store, and class soul. It shares the ordinary corpse burner's implementation, retains burn, check burner, and cinis, and absorbs an existing standard burner without duplicating its ash or logout event. The Brass Crucible currently handles class entry; Ashad becomes the canonical class home when available.