Making an artificer and absorb elements should be on their spell list, but it isn't an option in character creation or on the character sheet manage spells.
On the other hand a wizard I was playing around with a 1 level artificer dip has the spell available to them in their artificer spells.
Edit: Hmm, weird. So this was a pretty old character I was redoing, pretty soon after Tasha's came out. Whereas the wizard with the dip was newer. So I deleted the old artificer and started new, and now absorb elements is available.
Perhaps absorb elements was added to the artificer spell list at a later date?
Making an artificer and absorb elements should be on their spell list, but it isn't an option in character creation or on the character sheet manage spells.
On the other hand a wizard I was playing around with a 1 level artificer dip has the spell available to them in their artificer spells.
Edit: Hmm, weird. So this was a pretty old character I was redoing, pretty soon after Tasha's came out. Whereas the wizard with the dip was newer. So I deleted the old artificer and started new, and now absorb elements is available.
Perhaps absorb elements was added to the artificer spell list at a later date?