deathknight1728: With tinkermage, activate your turret in combat and let enemies come to fall on your blade. Put points into strength and endurance and wear dexterity equipment and enhancements and you will be a little vulnerable to magic attacks but deadly in melee and taking hits.
aramazon: Hmm...I've been pumping dexterity, I want to try a ranged Tinkermage... is that not as effective?
No its just as effective even moreso. I am just listing the builds that work. For Melee, go with strength and endurance and dexterity equipment/enchantments.
For Ranged attacker for all ranged attacker builds go with dexterity and endurance and enchant equipment with dexterity. You will be powerful. If you want to make that character more deadly, use a shield that gives either high parry or high critical chance. It doesn't matter whatever suits you.