I played that Eberron game I mentioned on here a while ago as a level 6 battle smith. Much better than my last experience as artificer by a mile. I decided against the wizard multiclass and went pure artificer to really see if I can stand playing artificer. With the 2024 rules they've made Artificer a lot more fun in terms of magic items vs infusions. Battlesmith itself is significantly better as well. Using the steel defender just feels great. It tanked over 70 damage for us over the session.

For my magic items I picked spell wrought tattoo with fireball, a wand of magic missiles, and a wand of detect magic. The wand of magic missiles was better than I expected, while my normal attacks deal about the same damage as a level 5 magic missile the guaranteed damage is great. I blasted my way out of a shambling mound after being engulfed without having to worry about the disadvantage. I killed a lot of enemies with my 1 fireball a day from the tattoo.

I look forward to more games as artificer. Battle smith is much better than just being a big bag of HP with insanely high AC.