New campaign - old school dungon crashing, lvl 8, 3 man party

[nickl_2000]

I'm going to plug one of my favourite things to play because I think it would suit a crawl pretty well:

Artificer Battle Smith with the Healer Feat: Using the Healer feat as your primary source of healing will leave you with an abundance of spell slots for control/utility and in case your SD dies. For a weapon use a spear with the Returning Weapon infusion to give you some ranged options as well as melee, if you want to/your party is lacking a tank then slap Tough on top for the hp to go with your ac. If you off load a feat into V. Human then taking a single level dip into Fighter for Dueling and Second Wind is fantastic.

(Bolding mine)

Not that it invalidates this build at all, but the OP said no Multiclassing.


*Edit: Shadowmonked as well.