What I love is his rational. Explains his reasoning step by step. I'm in the warehouse now, but I'm starting again using one of these complimentary builds for main and use his companion builds for the run. People say that Pathfinders builds were more difficult than these, but I don't remember them being this confusing. Good job.
Benevolentia, Forge World (Use INT for social skills and fire resistance), Marksman, Pyromancer focused Psyker with a heavy stat focus on Intelligence and Willpower. Willing to work with more reasonable Xenos (Craftworld Eldar, Tau if DLC ever adds them), but knows better than to trust the "less" reasonable ones (Dark Eldar, Orcs, Tyranids). Strongly anti-Chaos. One "heretical" idea I have for him is to give him Aeldari weapon proficiency and have him use a farseer's staff.
This is exactly what I played as in a tabletop rogue trader campaign. Going “Benevolentia” in 40k you really puts yourself up for suffering, but I would do it again any time
I'm doing the same thing but with a Priest/Soldier focusing primarily on flamers and later meltas. My roleplay is one of those diplomatically shrewd and cunning Cardinal types in Medieval movies lol.
I understand that noble is better than commissar for the officer role, but I really had to play my favourite lore rich, themed character as a commissar.
Informative. I already have a rough idea of what I want my main character to be during my first playthrough. But this video gave me some things to think about.
I didn't think I was too fussed about this game but I'm getting pretty hyped for it now. I want to build a priest who uses a flamer and a chain weapon. Basically crazed redemptionist vibes.I think some version of arch militant is necessary although I'd quite like to mix in some officery type stuff.
Great video idea. Thanks to those who asked and SlanderedG for answering! Good stuff to keep in mind, regardless of focused picking one of the 5 "gap fillers" or not.
While reviewing the companion abilities and passive, I think I'll make Argenta into a Flamer or Melta weapon user (especially considering we will get Heavy Flamer and Heavy Melta later in the game). Argenta has some unique Passives due to her Sister of Battle origin which gives her boost to melee, flamer, and melta weapons based on her Willpower so a more close range gunner focus build for Argenta is certainly going to have her stats focus on high Willpower with decent toughness and perception. With Argenta use of Power Armor, any stats that would normally go into Agility for dodge stats will mostly be converted to Willpower to maximize her Faith skills to give more bonus HP and toughness. Thus making her into a heavy Tank DPS Gunner class character. Agility for Explosive expert is going to need to be covered by another character as a result.
I was always planning on doing an Officer focused run on my first playthrough - I'm supposed to be the Rogue Trader in charge of the whole thing after all, need somebody at the helm who can give the orders, right? I'm also planning on being Benevolent with a small amount of Imperialis - the Bobby G (in more ways than one, if Yrliet is interested? haha) of the Koronus Expanse who runs this section of the Empire as a meritocracy, rewards loyalty and focuses on the wellbeing of both those closest to him and the world's he's in charge of.
I'm thinking a sniper / fortress world build with commander / high charisma abilities - is this possible? Thank you for your content - very much appreciated!
When you say Commander do you mean Officer? Yes it's possible but the only issue is you wouldn't really blow enemies up until getting the upgrade archetype Master Tactician. Before then you'll probably pick off scrubs for the most part.
Thank you! This is the exact topic I was looking for and couldn't find discussions on anywhere. I don't want to build a character for my playthrough if that companion already exists. Probably going agility warrior / assassin or the officer one.
I plan on running an Officer / Leader, likely leading into Vanguard. I imagine leading conversations means I will be right in front of many enemies or in a prime position of ambushing, so being able to take a few hits, all while taking the mantle of a true Rogue Trader leading his crew, seems fitting. I also think Psyker would just be fitting to explain the 'lure' of Chaos, yet remaining loyal to the Imperium. As for how that will end - if he will become a Heretic or a steadfast Loyalist - I'll just go with the flow in the game, and do whatever I think makes for a more interesting story.
Forget melee. Seems not a lot of people know that shotguns work at melee range. Makes for an absolutely monstrous combo. There are buffs specifically for ranged area attacks that make it even more monstrous. It's immensely fun having a character that can sweep away a crowd or hit from a distance. Also means you can focus on ballistic skills without getting stuck when you get swarmed. My shredders are forge world with the locomotive augments. As their agility climbs, they get more MP. Combined with dash and R&G, they can cover ground in a hurry. I can run them into a crowd to lock the crowd's ranged attacks then shred them. Or get into position for counter sniper action. Or just get back to someone my snipers can't see. Using the shotgun makes the battlefield my playground.
My character idea is not fully done yet, but in short terms heavy armor and a big gun, hoping for a plasma cannon in my heart of hearts 😆 Will try to strike a balance between benevolentia and imperialist since i don't want to miss out on to many companies in my first playthrough XD As for class marksman seems like the obvious go to, but i have not gone deeper into it then that yet. For the rest i will wait for the game to come out and go deeper into it then. Love your videos and hope you have a great day :)
Thank you for this, I always worry that my builds will unintentionally end up copying a party member build, the first time I play it. I played a Tiefling Kineticist in Pathfinder Kingmaker, and a Kitsune Wizard in WotR... both of which were already party members.
Jae, Cassie and any other character with access to officer talents should bee line for the talent Seize the initiative, it allows them to get a special extra turn to use their officer talents.
great and helpful video, figuring out what i want to play is the hardest part for me so far, because it feels like ur companions cover so much of what u want. What do u think about party composition in general, like is it viable to go with no melees or do u need atleast a tank and so on with the other classes aswell
Yeah. I'm in that same boat; struggling to decide what I REALLY want to do because what I DO know about the various party members makes does make it look like they cover everything you might wanna do yourself.
When I played through Warhammer 40k Inquisitor Martyr my favorite character was my self buffing melee Psyker, and after watching your Psyker mechanics video I think my first playthrough may be as a melee pyromancer psyker, though I don't have an alignment in mind at the moment. Normally my first playthrough is a neutral good playthrough in CRPGs, but in Warhammer 40k there are only extremes, so that may take some consideration on my part lol Since you enjoy considering your character motivations during character creation, a show that may give you some inspiration for a future character build is Vinland Saga. I believe that seeing how the character Thorfinn changes from the start of season 1 to the end of season 2 is a master class in crafting complex character origins. It is based on viking culture though, so be aware that it is an extremely violent show.
Ignatious Florentis, voidborn noble officer. Same portrait as your crime lord. Just finished act 3 and I have like 160 points into persuasion and a little less for coercion and commerce
I'm doing something a little daring/inefficient. I made a Forge World/Analytics Priest Soldier with high Intelligence, high WP and high ballista skills. My goal is being a shrewd and intelligent Priest who can pass almost all the skill checks and charisma checks with his Intelligence talent while in combat using his INT and WP to increase the damage of his flamer and melta guns later on!
I've gotten halfway through the game on six different saves. Keep trying things, then deciding they don't work the way I want. Finally dawned on me that officers are my main issue. Why do I have a character who's sole job is to give other characters another turn? Why not have two characters that can do the same thing? So my current save has no officers. I dump the default companions asap and build mercs. My RT is operative/assassin, stays in the back as a sniper. Not quite optimized, have to give him some fellowship. Got another op/ass sniper that is optimized. Two heavy gunner soldiers to spray away problems and two high-speed, low drag operatives that can bounce around the field putting out fires. Very atypical squad. But it is developing nicely. Having two snipers makes psykers look kinda limp. Analyze enemy, expose weakness, killing edge, delete just about any opponent with one shot.
I honestly want to do three, one for each concoction. Playing with an Iconoclast Officer/Master Tactician for my current first playthrough, but am also planning to do a Dogmatic Astra Militarum Warrior and a Hetetic Psyker Soldier.
Going full zealot. Death world, ministorum priest, melee warrior. I wish they had a conversion talent that lets willpower stand in for toughness. I'd make him an armored in faith tank. Since they don't, I am going into assassin and looking for a big two hander to purge the unclean with. Fellowship and Int will be super low. He isn't too bright and nobody likes his judgemental disapproval. I expect to fail a lot of checks.
Focus on melee first as a Warrior and then upgrade into Arch militant. It provides a passive that increases both your Weapon and Ballistic skill. It also provides a talent that allows your score in Weapon Skill to increase your score in Ballistic Skill or vice versa. Using that setup Sword/Pistol is definitely viable.
Could be a good idea for videos "how to make Eisenhorn/Ravenor/whoever else is a famous character" build Food for thoughts man... (if it ain't you, somebody else will !)
Based on your videos and other information floating around I already planned to start as an imperial noble officer tactician, your first mention in this video… seems I’m on the right track 😂
I've been pulling my hair out trying to make a melee assassin sanctioned psyker build that's something other than a pyromancer. I don't know why, but I just REALLY don't vibe with the "setting yourself on fire" thing. There's gotta be another way to make this work. Also, yes, I know you can become a psyker by other means, later in the game. I just really badly want to play a sanctioned psyker for flavor reasons. (If I could be anything in 40k, I wouldn't want to, because 40k is hell...but if you held a gun to my head and forced me to choose, "sanctioned psyker rogue trader" is pretty much at the top of the shortlist.)
thanks for making this, i always get held up in character creation for crpgs because i'm worried about stepping on the toes of some of my party members...or making shittier versions of them
Noble commander with master strategist, Cassia as with bring it down and that funny talent for fellowship per navigator talent/power, Pascal int stacked with his int stackign talents, Hendrix wtih divination as dedicated buffer/healer, Abelard as vanguard with dual chainswords. Yirel as a dedicated sniper. What you do is just buff Abel throu his nostrils with stats drop +dmg zone and watch things get ripped to shreeds. On boss pop ult if somehow boss is still alive, you have bring it down 2x and totaly not broken 2x commander ultimate.
Honestly, space marines don't have a lot of 2 handed melee weapons. They tend to be only Thunder Hammers (anti tank hammer), Eviscerators (2 handed chain swords), force staves (which is psyker only) and some unique relic weapons. And the Eviscerator chainsword is more of a Flesh Tearer specific weapon. Although to be fair, you really shouldn't get many space marine weapons period form a lore perspective. They are kind of like stolen art in the real world. You can't really use them because they are designed for a guy far bigger and stronger than any normal human and you have to be careful of showing it off because space marines, especially ones from Fenris, really don't like people stealing their property. But the boring box standard across everyone for melee is pistol and sword. bolt pistol and chain sword, las pistol and power sword, shuriken pistol and power sword ect. I guess now that I think about it, two handers are really only a church thing as those nutters seem to think it's a good idea to run at armies screaming their heads off wielding giant chain weapons and wearing nothing but robes.
@@SlanderedGaming I think most people (or at least I would) love to have one but it's kind of a weapon you only see mad men and poor people using. Plus, from a gameplay perspective on table top it doesn't really work out math wise well. It's like you get a 1.5 strength bonus but there are 1 handed weapons like power fist that give double. Pathfinder wise it would be like if longswords where 2 handed but great swords where 1 handed but you take -1 to initiative with the same damage statistics. That and power weapons are just flat out better.
I have been playing soldier (went with crime lord and the never stop shooting homeworld forget which one) , but the battle sister is making my character feel totally pointless, lol. Also crime lord seems more geared for a melee charscter. I may renake the astra militarum commander and go the sniper route, that does sound fun. 🤔 The officer definitely sounds good, gaving high fel for diologue is good, but when you mention soldier / pyromamcer i immediately think of using a heavy flamer and psyker fire to burn everththing and that sounds fun 😂 Think im torn between full officer, thr sniper bointy hunter and that melee assassin build 😂, damn this game and all its decisions haha!
Speaking of things our party members are missing, I'm sad there's no large sized dedicated melee character. I thought for sure that the Space Wolf would be heavily specced into melee A Ogryn or a Ork Freeboota would have been cool to fill that gap
@@SlanderedGamingthis kind of content is just amazing! Fills our heads with cool narratives and ideas. Thanks for that! I also have a channel (hit 1000 subs today 🎉) and i'll HAVE to make a vídeo myself inspired on this format you came up with. Its so great!
Get 2 grand stratagists use pascal as int one that also does damage. Other one is mc. High focus on fellowship and toughness. Lesser focus on strength only to 45 and weapon attack with the rest. With them being a sanctioned psyker santic, they dont care about willpower. Its all buffs all the time while staying in the front line. Obviously, you need to be dogmatic for it. With a little bit of iconoclast.
Fortress World, Astra Militarum, Marksman, Arch-Militant. Focus on Ballistic skill and Agility with a little bit of Perception. I would probably go with Bolter weapons.
Thinking of making some kind of gangster knife fighter type with forge world crime lord warrior assassin. take the dodge bonus from forge world to try and make a light armor dodge tank along with crime lords different abilities to make one sneaky slimy bastard that puts the rogue in rogue trader.
I don't have any experience with Warhammer, but since I love Owlcat this game is a must buy. I do have a question, is it possible to make something similar to a Magus? I already know I'll spend hours making and remaking my character so your videos are a life saver!
It works voidborn/noble officer/grand strategist? It is a good combination? For a full buffer? With be smart void talent to replace Fellowship with Intelegence. Pascal what about a trapper Bounty hunter?
@@SlanderedGaming Thanks. Can you confirm that Be Smart doesn't work for Persuasion and Persuasion is still on Fellowship and not Intelligence even if you take Be Smart voidborn talent?
I was so moved by your officer video, that I'm currently planning to do a ranged, imperial world, noble officer on my first run. Kinda like Lord Highslander, but different.
Death World + Crime Lord + Warrior + Vanguard will probably be my first pick. Basically you are a human that runs around with an axe and should be in reality born an Orc by looking how he acts in life.
I do not know why but I am thinking of going for a fortress world crime lord close range pistol/melee weapon attacker arch militant build rather than my original plan for a forge world crime lord sword/pistol arch militant
What I love is his rational. Explains his reasoning step by step. I'm in the warehouse now, but I'm starting again using one of these complimentary builds for main and use his companion builds for the run. People say that Pathfinders builds were more difficult than these, but I don't remember them being this confusing. Good job.
Thank you!
Benevolentia, Forge World (Use INT for social skills and fire resistance), Marksman, Pyromancer focused Psyker with a heavy stat focus on Intelligence and Willpower. Willing to work with more reasonable Xenos (Craftworld Eldar, Tau if DLC ever adds them), but knows better than to trust the "less" reasonable ones (Dark Eldar, Orcs, Tyranids). Strongly anti-Chaos. One "heretical" idea I have for him is to give him Aeldari weapon proficiency and have him use a farseer's staff.
Nice! That should absolutely work.
This is exactly what I played as in a tabletop rogue trader campaign. Going “Benevolentia” in 40k you really puts yourself up for suffering, but I would do it again any time
I am also thinking about a Pyro Marksman build
I'm doing the same thing but with a Priest/Soldier focusing primarily on flamers and later meltas. My roleplay is one of those diplomatically shrewd and cunning Cardinal types in Medieval movies lol.
A really wonderful breakdown of what to expect from your companions and to plan your own path for the entire game!
Glad you enjoyed it!
That's a great idea for a video, and comparing all the companions to the role you are trying to make is really helpful. thanks for the info.
My pleasure!
Agreed, brilliant!
I understand that noble is better than commissar for the officer role, but I really had to play my favourite lore rich, themed character as a commissar.
This is so good! I don't like being the same class as my party members. I want to bring something to the group that no one else can
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. :)
Informative. I already have a rough idea of what I want my main character to be during my first playthrough. But this video gave me some things to think about.
Awesome glad to hear that.
I didn't think I was too fussed about this game but I'm getting pretty hyped for it now. I want to build a priest who uses a flamer and a chain weapon. Basically crazed redemptionist vibes.I think some version of arch militant is necessary although I'd quite like to mix in some officery type stuff.
Nice! I definitely want to play a Priest type character at some point.
Great video idea. Thanks to those who asked and SlanderedG for answering!
Good stuff to keep in mind, regardless of focused picking one of the 5 "gap fillers" or not.
Glad you enjoyed it!
While reviewing the companion abilities and passive, I think I'll make Argenta into a Flamer or Melta weapon user (especially considering we will get Heavy Flamer and Heavy Melta later in the game). Argenta has some unique Passives due to her Sister of Battle origin which gives her boost to melee, flamer, and melta weapons based on her Willpower so a more close range gunner focus build for Argenta is certainly going to have her stats focus on high Willpower with decent toughness and perception.
With Argenta use of Power Armor, any stats that would normally go into Agility for dodge stats will mostly be converted to Willpower to maximize her Faith skills to give more bonus HP and toughness. Thus making her into a heavy Tank DPS Gunner class character. Agility for Explosive expert is going to need to be covered by another character as a result.
Yup that sounds like it should work well.
Thank you for a good video as always. Only two weeks more. I plan to play Sanctioned psyker, Officer - Vanguard.
Thanks glad you enjoyed it!
Glad to hear Ulfar doesnt invalidate a 2H warrior MC, was planning on going that myself!
Go for it!
I'm gonna make myself a Ravenor pre sarcophagus with mindtricks, guns and leadership !
And probably an Eisenhorn pro chaos for the second one !
Awesome!
Would like to try building something based of Caiphas Caine HERO of The Imperium. So, some kind of commisar melee duelist with good social skills.
That should be totally doable in this game.
I was always planning on doing an Officer focused run on my first playthrough - I'm supposed to be the Rogue Trader in charge of the whole thing after all, need somebody at the helm who can give the orders, right? I'm also planning on being Benevolent with a small amount of Imperialis - the Bobby G (in more ways than one, if Yrliet is interested? haha) of the Koronus Expanse who runs this section of the Empire as a meritocracy, rewards loyalty and focuses on the wellbeing of both those closest to him and the world's he's in charge of.
I am really curious to see what the Yrilet romance is like.
I'm thinking a sniper / fortress world build with commander / high charisma abilities - is this possible? Thank you for your content - very much appreciated!
When you say Commander do you mean Officer? Yes it's possible but the only issue is you wouldn't really blow enemies up until getting the upgrade archetype Master Tactician. Before then you'll probably pick off scrubs for the most part.
Think I'm gonna go heavy armor and heavy flamer. Whatever gets through Adelard is going to be met with a brick wall of fire.
Santic psyker Warrior tank build is a real blast :) some good synergy to be had
Thank you! This is the exact topic I was looking for and couldn't find discussions on anywhere. I don't want to build a character for my playthrough if that companion already exists. Probably going agility warrior / assassin or the officer one.
Awesome glad you enjoyed it!
I plan on running an Officer / Leader, likely leading into Vanguard. I imagine leading conversations means I will be right in front of many enemies or in a prime position of ambushing, so being able to take a few hits, all while taking the mantle of a true Rogue Trader leading his crew, seems fitting. I also think Psyker would just be fitting to explain the 'lure' of Chaos, yet remaining loyal to the Imperium. As for how that will end - if he will become a Heretic or a steadfast Loyalist - I'll just go with the flow in the game, and do whatever I think makes for a more interesting story.
Awesome sounds like a good time.
Forget melee. Seems not a lot of people know that shotguns work at melee range. Makes for an absolutely monstrous combo. There are buffs specifically for ranged area attacks that make it even more monstrous. It's immensely fun having a character that can sweep away a crowd or hit from a distance. Also means you can focus on ballistic skills without getting stuck when you get swarmed. My shredders are forge world with the locomotive augments. As their agility climbs, they get more MP. Combined with dash and R&G, they can cover ground in a hurry. I can run them into a crowd to lock the crowd's ranged attacks then shred them. Or get into position for counter sniper action. Or just get back to someone my snipers can't see. Using the shotgun makes the battlefield my playground.
My character idea is not fully done yet, but in short terms heavy armor and a big gun, hoping for a plasma cannon in my heart of hearts 😆 Will try to strike a balance between benevolentia and imperialist since i don't want to miss out on to many companies in my first playthrough XD As for class marksman seems like the obvious go to, but i have not gone deeper into it then that yet. For the rest i will wait for the game to come out and go deeper into it then. Love your videos and hope you have a great day :)
Thank you! I definitely saw some heavy plasma cannons during my run so you should be good!
@@SlanderedGaming That is good to know, thank you for the information 😄
Love this video, I definitely plan my PC around what companions a game provides. Honestly would love to see this style for other CRPGs.
Thanks it's the first time I've done this style of video. I'll definitely keep it in mind.
Thank you for this, I always worry that my builds will unintentionally end up copying a party member build, the first time I play it.
I played a Tiefling Kineticist in Pathfinder Kingmaker, and a Kitsune Wizard in WotR... both of which were already party members.
LOL wow what are the odds. Glad I could provide some useful information.
i am honestly curious if owlcat will provide us with a special ending again.
I hope so!
I wouldn't be surprised if becoming a Daemon Prince is golden ending for a heretic run.
Jae, Cassie and any other character with access to officer talents should bee line for the talent Seize the initiative, it allows them to get a special extra turn to use their officer talents.
great and helpful video, figuring out what i want to play is the hardest part for me so far, because it feels like ur companions cover so much of what u want. What do u think about party composition in general, like is it viable to go with no melees or do u need atleast a tank and so on with the other classes aswell
I do plan to make a video for that. No melees is doable if you have a couple of people guaranteed to go first that can wipe out a lot of enemies.
Yeah. I'm in that same boat; struggling to decide what I REALLY want to do because what I DO know about the various party members makes does make it look like they cover everything you might wanna do yourself.
When I played through Warhammer 40k Inquisitor Martyr my favorite character was my self buffing melee Psyker, and after watching your Psyker mechanics video I think my first playthrough may be as a melee pyromancer psyker, though I don't have an alignment in mind at the moment.
Normally my first playthrough is a neutral good playthrough in CRPGs, but in Warhammer 40k there are only extremes, so that may take some consideration on my part lol
Since you enjoy considering your character motivations during character creation, a show that may give you some inspiration for a future character build is Vinland Saga.
I believe that seeing how the character Thorfinn changes from the start of season 1 to the end of season 2 is a master class in crafting complex character origins.
It is based on viking culture though, so be aware that it is an extremely violent show.
I love violent shows and keep hearing about that one. Will definitely try it out.
"The missing ingredient"
Being a functional product with working questlines
Ignatious Florentis, voidborn noble officer. Same portrait as your crime lord. Just finished act 3 and I have like 160 points into persuasion and a little less for coercion and commerce
I'm doing something a little daring/inefficient. I made a Forge World/Analytics Priest Soldier with high Intelligence, high WP and high ballista skills. My goal is being a shrewd and intelligent Priest who can pass almost all the skill checks and charisma checks with his Intelligence talent while in combat using his INT and WP to increase the damage of his flamer and melta guns later on!
Oh nice!! Let me know how that works out.
I've gotten halfway through the game on six different saves. Keep trying things, then deciding they don't work the way I want. Finally dawned on me that officers are my main issue. Why do I have a character who's sole job is to give other characters another turn? Why not have two characters that can do the same thing? So my current save has no officers. I dump the default companions asap and build mercs. My RT is operative/assassin, stays in the back as a sniper. Not quite optimized, have to give him some fellowship. Got another op/ass sniper that is optimized. Two heavy gunner soldiers to spray away problems and two high-speed, low drag operatives that can bounce around the field putting out fires. Very atypical squad. But it is developing nicely. Having two snipers makes psykers look kinda limp. Analyze enemy, expose weakness, killing edge, delete just about any opponent with one shot.
I honestly want to do three, one for each concoction. Playing with an Iconoclast Officer/Master Tactician for my current first playthrough, but am also planning to do a Dogmatic Astra Militarum Warrior and a Hetetic Psyker Soldier.
Nice. I'll be curious to hear which one you enjoy the most.
Going full zealot. Death world, ministorum priest, melee warrior. I wish they had a conversion talent that lets willpower stand in for toughness. I'd make him an armored in faith tank. Since they don't, I am going into assassin and looking for a big two hander to purge the unclean with. Fellowship and Int will be super low. He isn't too bright and nobody likes his judgemental disapproval. I expect to fail a lot of checks.
Was hoping to build a pistol sword character but from what I’ve seen there isn’t a decent build for this loadout 😢
Focus on melee first as a Warrior and then upgrade into Arch militant. It provides a passive that increases both your Weapon and Ballistic skill. It also provides a talent that allows your score in Weapon Skill to increase your score in Ballistic Skill or vice versa. Using that setup Sword/Pistol is definitely viable.
Cheers, much appreciated 👍🏻
Now I kinda want to try the Ragnar build... As if I wasn't have a hard time deciding already😭😭😭
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Definitely want a be a priest, I wonder what build is good with one
A lot of the Priest talents interact with Willpower so honestly Psyker works best with it but not sure if that's consistent with the lore.
Could be a good idea for videos "how to make Eisenhorn/Ravenor/whoever else is a famous character" build
Food for thoughts man... (if it ain't you, somebody else will !)
Oh yeah I definitely plan to make those kinds of videos. LOL
Based on your videos and other information floating around I already planned to start as an imperial noble officer tactician, your first mention in this video… seems I’m on the right track 😂
Nice!
I really like these. For myself, either the pyro or sniper build.
Awesome. I am really looking forward to the pyro run.
I've been pulling my hair out trying to make a melee assassin sanctioned psyker build that's something other than a pyromancer. I don't know why, but I just REALLY don't vibe with the "setting yourself on fire" thing. There's gotta be another way to make this work.
Also, yes, I know you can become a psyker by other means, later in the game. I just really badly want to play a sanctioned psyker for flavor reasons. (If I could be anything in 40k, I wouldn't want to, because 40k is hell...but if you held a gun to my head and forced me to choose, "sanctioned psyker rogue trader" is pretty much at the top of the shortlist.)
thanks for making this, i always get held up in character creation for crpgs because i'm worried about stepping on the toes of some of my party members...or making shittier versions of them
My pleasure!
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
My pleasure!
Noble commander with master strategist, Cassia as with bring it down and that funny talent for fellowship per navigator talent/power, Pascal int stacked with his int stackign talents, Hendrix wtih divination as dedicated buffer/healer, Abelard as vanguard with dual chainswords. Yirel as a dedicated sniper. What you do is just buff Abel throu his nostrils with stats drop +dmg zone and watch things get ripped to shreeds. On boss pop ult if somehow boss is still alive, you have bring it down 2x and totaly not broken 2x commander ultimate.
Honestly, space marines don't have a lot of 2 handed melee weapons. They tend to be only Thunder Hammers (anti tank hammer), Eviscerators (2 handed chain swords), force staves (which is psyker only) and some unique relic weapons. And the Eviscerator chainsword is more of a Flesh Tearer specific weapon. Although to be fair, you really shouldn't get many space marine weapons period form a lore perspective. They are kind of like stolen art in the real world. You can't really use them because they are designed for a guy far bigger and stronger than any normal human and you have to be careful of showing it off because space marines, especially ones from Fenris, really don't like people stealing their property.
But the boring box standard across everyone for melee is pistol and sword. bolt pistol and chain sword, las pistol and power sword, shuriken pistol and power sword ect.
I guess now that I think about it, two handers are really only a church thing as those nutters seem to think it's a good idea to run at armies screaming their heads off wielding giant chain weapons and wearing nothing but robes.
I have yet to find a giant chain weapon and REALLY want one.
@@SlanderedGaming I think most people (or at least I would) love to have one but it's kind of a weapon you only see mad men and poor people using. Plus, from a gameplay perspective on table top it doesn't really work out math wise well. It's like you get a 1.5 strength bonus but there are 1 handed weapons like power fist that give double. Pathfinder wise it would be like if longswords where 2 handed but great swords where 1 handed but you take -1 to initiative with the same damage statistics. That and power weapons are just flat out better.
This is really cool! I’m so ready to dig into this game! 👍🏾👍🏾🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🙌🏾
Hope you end up liking it!
Definitely want to do something related to a criminal overlord, if only I'm aiming for a more evil-aligned playthrough.
Awesome hope you enjoy that playthrough.
I have been playing soldier (went with crime lord and the never stop shooting homeworld forget which one) , but the battle sister is making my character feel totally pointless, lol. Also crime lord seems more geared for a melee charscter. I may renake the astra militarum commander and go the sniper route, that does sound fun. 🤔
The officer definitely sounds good, gaving high fel for diologue is good, but when you mention soldier / pyromamcer i immediately think of using a heavy flamer and psyker fire to burn everththing and that sounds fun 😂
Think im torn between full officer, thr sniper bointy hunter and that melee assassin build 😂, damn this game and all its decisions haha!
Benevolentia, fortress world, pyromancer/biomancer, marksman, master tactician.
Or
Imperialist Hive world or imperial world, sanctic, officer, vanguard.
Nice. Both of those should work well.
Speaking of things our party members are missing, I'm sad there's no large sized dedicated melee character. I thought for sure that the Space Wolf would be heavily specced into melee
A Ogryn or a Ork Freeboota would have been cool to fill that gap
I keep hearing about Orks so I would love to have one.
I am so pumped for your builds man, I love your content!!!
Thank you!
@@SlanderedGamingthis kind of content is just amazing! Fills our heads with cool narratives and ideas. Thanks for that! I also have a channel (hit 1000 subs today 🎉) and i'll HAVE to make a vídeo myself inspired on this format you came up with. Its so great!
Get 2 grand stratagists use pascal as int one that also does damage.
Other one is mc. High focus on fellowship and toughness. Lesser focus on strength only to 45 and weapon attack with the rest. With them being a sanctioned psyker santic, they dont care about willpower. Its all buffs all the time while staying in the front line.
Obviously, you need to be dogmatic for it. With a little bit of iconoclast.
Yup that build works.
Not sure if you know much on the lore. Bit how would you build and adeptus arbites or arbites judge build in this? (Basically space judge dredd)
Fortress World, Astra Militarum, Marksman, Arch-Militant. Focus on Ballistic skill and Agility with a little bit of Perception. I would probably go with Bolter weapons.
Thinking of making some kind of gangster knife fighter type with forge world crime lord warrior assassin. take the dodge bonus from forge world to try and make a light armor dodge tank along with crime lords different abilities to make one sneaky slimy bastard that puts the rogue in rogue trader.
Oh wow that might be even better than my Kingmaker idea.
@@SlanderedGamingmy idea is basically Tony Montana but with melee weapons just because I prefer close combat.
I don't have any experience with Warhammer, but since I love Owlcat this game is a must buy. I do have a question, is it possible to make something similar to a Magus? I already know I'll spend hours making and remaking my character so your videos are a life saver!
Warrior psyker with focus on biomancy (buffing) and divination or telekinesis should do the trick.
Archon speaks the truth. :)
Can we get a full build of Ragnar and Domino? Can't seem to dial them in for some reason
When the new patch/DLC are released I'll drop more builds.
It works voidborn/noble officer/grand strategist? It is a good combination? For a full buffer? With be smart void talent to replace Fellowship with Intelegence.
Pascal what about a trapper Bounty hunter?
The voidborn build definitely works. Pascal as a bounty hunter could work if you focus on Perception and sniper related talents in Operative.
@@SlanderedGaming Thanks. Can you confirm that Be Smart doesn't work for Persuasion and Persuasion is still on Fellowship and not Intelligence even if you take Be Smart voidborn talent?
Its an owlcat game:) Within a week or two there will be a respec available and youll be able to change characters class etc.
This is true. LOL
@@SlanderedGaming aye, in fact they may even reuse toolkit code:)
I was so moved by your officer video, that I'm currently planning to do a ranged, imperial world, noble officer on my first run. Kinda like Lord Highslander, but different.
Nice! Hope you enjoy the playthrough. I should have a build out for that by launch day.
I don't know too much about the Rogue Trader system, but I'd really like to play a melee pyromancer, is that feasible in any way?
Yup it's definitely viable I would just add another category like maybe biomancy.
Death World + Crime Lord + Warrior + Vanguard will probably be my first pick.
Basically you are a human that runs around with an axe and should be in reality born an Orc by looking how he acts in life.
Awesome that sounds like a good time.
What did you do with Characteristics for the Pyromancer?
Willpower/Agility/Perception if I remember correctly.
First run: Nobel Officer - Master Tactian. Second Run. Psyker with all psyker i can have in groupe XD
I would like to run a full Psyker party one day.
dang it i love them all. how could i dwcide??? i guess i better stsrt at the benevolent noble officer...for now
I do not know why but I am thinking of going for a fortress world crime lord close range pistol/melee weapon attacker arch militant build rather than my original plan for a forge world crime lord sword/pistol arch militant
So many options, so little time.
Can I still pre order the game right now and start playing? Also I would like the game on my steam
Pre-ordering gives you beta access via steam
Yes you can preorder and play the beta. You will have to start over when the full game comes out though.
I'm going with voidborn pyromancer psyker with officer > grand strategist.
Nice! That should definitely be interesting.
Vanguard Psyker pyromancer from forge world who self ignites and gives hugs to all daemons and mere mortals =)
Awesome!
Thanks for the video
My pleasure!
Officer is so good
Marksman pyromancer!! Yaay!! :D
Yup I think it's a very effective combination.
@@SlanderedGaming Cool!! I will definitely try it out! :)
Do sanctioned psykers get additional dialogue options or reactions from npcs?
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