Has anyone tried this specifically for the Devil's Sight/Darkness combo? I'm thinking a chainlock's familiar that could carry around a cannon with darkness cast on it would be both badass and effective. Thoughts?
Artificers are not the most effective characters to use this combo. It's fine, but requires at least 3 levels of warlock to make this work and MAD your stats. Usually, Devils sight and Darkness works best with melee or ranged weapon builds like hexblade fighters or hexadins etc.
You are then missing out on valuable artillerist levels, including attuning to up to six magic items. I would only ever dip two levels out of artillerist. A war magic wizard dip works well, although maybe a two level dip in genie warlock would be good for the proficiency bonus to damage.
You could be a drow, drow half-elf, or tiefling with eldritch adept: devil's sight and do it once a day by level 5, no dip required. Of course you don't have the familiar at that point, so you'll have to do the carrying yourself. Darkness spamming isn't necessarily party friendly but once a day means you can pull out the trick when it is at its best.
Has anyone tried this specifically for the Devil's Sight/Darkness combo? I'm thinking a chainlock's familiar that could carry around a cannon with darkness cast on it would be both badass and effective. Thoughts?
Artificers are not the most effective characters to use this combo. It's fine, but requires at least 3 levels of warlock to make this work and MAD your stats. Usually, Devils sight and Darkness works best with melee or ranged weapon builds like hexblade fighters or hexadins etc.
You are then missing out on valuable artillerist levels, including attuning to up to six magic items. I would only ever dip two levels out of artillerist. A war magic wizard dip works well, although maybe a two level dip in genie warlock would be good for the proficiency bonus to damage.
You could be a drow, drow half-elf, or tiefling with eldritch adept: devil's sight and do it once a day by level 5, no dip required. Of course you don't have the familiar at that point, so you'll have to do the carrying yourself. Darkness spamming isn't necessarily party friendly but once a day means you can pull out the trick when it is at its best.