Thank you for not only showing this build, but for explaining each choice made along the way. I've been having a very good time with assassin-style Heinrix!
Yay! Making my play through so much easier. You do a great job at not only explaining the builds, but it’s easy to understand and well thought through!
I'll be that guy that tells you, you could do a whole other thing and it's probably better. Going the sanctic route, you can pick up emperor's hammer which add a lot of damage for one ap, stack it with killing edge instead of elusive shadow, purge soul for latter since you end up with sky high psy rating and resolve, and psychic blade (the psy rating 3 power) stacked on top of the ancient force sword (which is found mid act 2 so not even that late or hard to find). The only part i'm not sure on which you can save talent is going the dual wielding route. Also sanctic have that talent that increases psy rating for every heroic act used by allies, on top of eyes of joyeuse that's a lot of psy rating that translate to a lot of damage and armor pen on the force blade and ancient version. That stacks on top of the psychic blade damage which is based on purge soul damage (and bonuses vs xenos/heretic/daemon) which scale solely with psy rating and resolve. 20 resolve and psy rating 8+ or more the whole fight isn't hard to do with heinrich and an officer at level 20ish. During exemplar you should probably double down for danse macabre and going biomancy, enfeeble then warp speed.
One small critique to your build videos - please add 5 seconds of full tree picks without descriptions before or after explaining all of them because if you want rebuild him - you need to watch every pick (because descriptions block half of tree).
Thank you for the build. Not sure if it is only me, but I'm finding it somewhat challenging when you skip over skills. I'm trying to write this down as I listen and I keep expecting two entries for every level where two are offered. But when the skills are skipped I end up writing the talents for the wrong levels, having to pause, count which level you are hovering over, and try to sort it out. Have had to do this many times. It might just be me, but I'm mentioning this in case others have this issue too. It could make the videos a little more user friendly. I think part of the issue is the interface that Owlcat created. The Pathfinder interface, by contrast, always made it much clearer which level was being updated.
In the description there's a link to a spreadsheet for the entire build. I mention that every time we are about to start going over Exemplar talents. I expect people to reference the sheet not my video.
I assume your main is not a Psyker? If so you could take him down the same path but just pick up more of the cool Assassin talents. Personally I think Bounty Hunter is better on ranged characters and Vanguard is ineffective.
Planning on pairing him with my MC sanctic psyker heavy armour vanguard,I go in the front he goes in the back and we should both be building resolve fairly rapidly so long as we stay close enough to each other
Oooh invigorate removes staggered, one of the really good stims you can keep getting from a colony inflicts staggered, it grants +1 AP and refreshes all abilities on cooldown. Gonna have to investigate I can't remember the other stims off the top of my head.
@@SlanderedGaming The next power up, regeneration, can automatically removes 1 of a bunch of status effects including staggered, fatigued, stunned, immobilized per turn. Also Heinrix can get talents that reduce the cost of biomancy powers during the first turn, so he can buff himself and debuff enemies. And there's items that reduce stimulant use to 0ap. this would be fantastic but I just tried that stimm, scorcher, and none of his abilities came off cooldown :( that's the stimulants only job and it doesn't work lmao.
Thanks, I'll probably use this guy later on because my main character on this playthrough is a tank. So I don't necessarily need Abelard. And I prefer to not use mercenaries, I'm using a officer merc for now just because otherwise I'd be running around with 5/6 party members.
My MC is a psyker/warrior/assassin but I went the heavy armour route. I like your approach better. Agility makes more sense for assassin (melee DPS). Respec incoming 😅… thanks.
I went vanguard with him and pyromancy so he’s more durable and keeping folks in the fight. I do wonder if I will be missing the assassin’s direct damage later in the game though.
I feel like Pyromancy works best if you have somebody with you dealing fire damage. Like Argenta using a flamer. If you have that then you won't miss Assassin at all.
I was initially planning to have my melee Pyromancer Psyker advance to Assassin, but after watching this, I don't think that's the right route for my main character. I'll need to watch your Bounty Hunter character build to see if that's closer to what I'm thinking of. Evasion tanks are definitely a super effective build idea, but since we don't know if NeoCore ever plans to move the story from Inquisitor Martyr forward in the future, I want my pyro to essentially be my character from that game hiding in plain sight while hunting the enemies of the Imperium of Man 🙂
Great build video. Keep it up. In the build spreadsheet you recommend taking Know no Heresy at level 38. But that would completely tank the 2 Lore skills that you recommended he take, would it not? I have replaced his Lore Warp with Coercion and basically had Cassia learn Lore Warp instead. Seems a bit more lore friendly (I now realize this sounds kind of funny). Plus Heinrix is part of the Ordo Xenos, so it makes sense that he were versed in that specific skill.
would this build work with abelard too, or is it a total different one (not just minor chances; willpower - strength / xenos medic or athletic / and so on)
Abelard is more of a soak tank that is he gets hit but take damage. This dude though seems to be more of an evasion tank, so there's probably different feats. Abelard needs alot of toughness as well.
Mystra is correct, Abelard works better taking him down the Vanguard route and focusing on Toughness. You could do this if you wanted to but personally I wouldn't.
I think becoming the lowest priority target is seperate to the Elusive buff , right? If you attack you use the buff but are still low priority. Because there are other talents that benefit from elusive buff.
Hey Slandered Gaming, First things first, happy new year and thanks for this amazing build. One question though, why taking Blade of Light (th-cam.com/video/sMBfqR5jpvo/w-d-xo.html) if you don't use any Force weapon for as far as i can say after viewing the Late Game items part (th-cam.com/video/sMBfqR5jpvo/w-d-xo.html) of the build? Thanks in advance for the clarification.
Just what I needed. Im pn act 2 (I think). I already have the second archetype and been building him as an assassin but it just doesnt feel right to me coz I'm sooo hesitant not to make him tankier
Im running assasins hein too, but i take death whiper, danse macabre and hammer of the emperor in that order. Talent wise we are completely different as i would take PA KYD MP LH ME ID DC so heinrich can zoom zoom and wreak havoc everyhere Keep your distance is mind bogglingly good in unfair man, not sure i can live without taking it lol And hammer of the emperor is free 20 damage buff party and very easy to do with air of superiority and word of the emperor In my party of 2 officer with air of superiory heinrich is currently irrepleaceable lol, not sure i can beat my opponent without round 1 max momentum 😂
Thank you for not only showing this build, but for explaining each choice made along the way. I've been having a very good time with assassin-style Heinrix!
My pleasure!
Yay! Making my play through so much easier. You do a great job at not only explaining the builds, but it’s easy to understand and well thought through!
Thanks glad you are enjoying it!
Agree. Well thought out guides and the google sheet is invaluable as well.
Bless you for having the build listed in a sheet. So much easier for me to reference on level ups than jumping back and forth on the video!
Glad it was helpful!
Another solid video. I have been benching Heinrix ever since I got Yrliet but you convinced me to give him some more game time.
Thanks glad you enjoyed it!
I'll be that guy that tells you, you could do a whole other thing and it's probably better.
Going the sanctic route, you can pick up emperor's hammer which add a lot of damage for one ap, stack it with killing edge instead of elusive shadow, purge soul for latter since you end up with sky high psy rating and resolve, and psychic blade (the psy rating 3 power) stacked on top of the ancient force sword (which is found mid act 2 so not even that late or hard to find).
The only part i'm not sure on which you can save talent is going the dual wielding route. Also sanctic have that talent that increases psy rating for every heroic act used by allies, on top of eyes of joyeuse that's a lot of psy rating that translate to a lot of damage and armor pen on the force blade and ancient version. That stacks on top of the psychic blade damage which is based on purge soul damage (and bonuses vs xenos/heretic/daemon) which scale solely with psy rating and resolve. 20 resolve and psy rating 8+ or more the whole fight isn't hard to do with heinrich and an officer at level 20ish.
During exemplar you should probably double down for danse macabre and going biomancy, enfeeble then warp speed.
One small critique to your build videos - please add 5 seconds of full tree picks without descriptions before or after explaining all of them because if you want rebuild him - you need to watch every pick (because descriptions block half of tree).
That's what the spreadsheet link is for so you can see everything that has been selected in one place.
I see, or it would be more correct to say I see now)@@SlanderedGaming
Yay! Really waiting for all your companion builds since they are close to what I'm already doing this playthrough, but better 😂
nice vid mate, helped me out again like many times before!!!
Slan you can move the info pannel try moving it to the cornor next time so we can see the key stones
Thanks! I had to just make him a ranged Psyker and buffer/healer because, again, Argenta and Cass just kill a lot before melee getting there
LOL They are awesome so that's very understandable!
You have the best guides, keep it up
Thank you!
Thank you for the build. Not sure if it is only me, but I'm finding it somewhat challenging when you skip over skills. I'm trying to write this down as I listen and I keep expecting two entries for every level where two are offered. But when the skills are skipped I end up writing the talents for the wrong levels, having to pause, count which level you are hovering over, and try to sort it out. Have had to do this many times. It might just be me, but I'm mentioning this in case others have this issue too. It could make the videos a little more user friendly. I think part of the issue is the interface that Owlcat created. The Pathfinder interface, by contrast, always made it much clearer which level was being updated.
In the description there's a link to a spreadsheet for the entire build. I mention that every time we are about to start going over Exemplar talents. I expect people to reference the sheet not my video.
Using your build for the first time ! Thanks. was wondering what to do with ol' Dale Cooper as my main is also a Warrior
I assume your main is not a Psyker? If so you could take him down the same path but just pick up more of the cool Assassin talents. Personally I think Bounty Hunter is better on ranged characters and Vanguard is ineffective.
no i went arch-militant. but i was already overwhelmed way before level 16 lmao@@SlanderedGaming
If u build him with agi+wp and abit different talents u can build an unstopabble oneshot blink machine
Planning on pairing him with my MC sanctic psyker heavy armour vanguard,I go in the front he goes in the back and we should both be building resolve fairly rapidly so long as we stay close enough to each other
Oooh invigorate removes staggered, one of the really good stims you can keep getting from a colony inflicts staggered, it grants +1 AP and refreshes all abilities on cooldown. Gonna have to investigate I can't remember the other stims off the top of my head.
Nice!
@@SlanderedGaming The next power up, regeneration, can automatically removes 1 of a bunch of status effects including staggered, fatigued, stunned, immobilized per turn.
Also Heinrix can get talents that reduce the cost of biomancy powers during the first turn, so he can buff himself and debuff enemies. And there's items that reduce stimulant use to 0ap.
this would be fantastic but I just tried that stimm, scorcher, and none of his abilities came off cooldown :( that's the stimulants only job and it doesn't work lmao.
Thanks, I'll probably use this guy later on because my main character on this playthrough is a tank. So I don't necessarily need Abelard. And I prefer to not use mercenaries, I'm using a officer merc for now just because otherwise I'd be running around with 5/6 party members.
Awesome this should work well for you.
@@SlanderedGamingYeah 😊
@SlanderedGaming Update, using him now and he's fantastic. Really helped me clear the reactor fight quickly
My MC is a psyker/warrior/assassin but I went the heavy armour route. I like your approach better. Agility makes more sense for assassin (melee DPS). Respec incoming 😅… thanks.
My pleasure.
I went vanguard with him and pyromancy so he’s more durable and keeping folks in the fight. I do wonder if I will be missing the assassin’s direct damage later in the game though.
I feel like Pyromancy works best if you have somebody with you dealing fire damage. Like Argenta using a flamer. If you have that then you won't miss Assassin at all.
I was initially planning to have my melee Pyromancer Psyker advance to Assassin, but after watching this, I don't think that's the right route for my main character.
I'll need to watch your Bounty Hunter character build to see if that's closer to what I'm thinking of.
Evasion tanks are definitely a super effective build idea, but since we don't know if NeoCore ever plans to move the story from Inquisitor Martyr forward in the future, I want my pyro to essentially be my character from that game hiding in plain sight while hunting the enemies of the Imperium of Man 🙂
LOL Awesome. I released a Pasqal Bounty Hunter debuffing build. I'll released a damage focused BH down the line.
I was also going pyromancer assassin but decided to go tanky vanguard instead and just burn everything whilst tanking dmg
Thanks for the video
My pleasure!
Great build video. Keep it up.
In the build spreadsheet you recommend taking Know no Heresy at level 38. But that would completely tank the 2 Lore skills that you recommended he take, would it not?
I have replaced his Lore Warp with Coercion and basically had Cassia learn Lore Warp instead. Seems a bit more lore friendly (I now realize this sounds kind of funny). Plus Heinrix is part of the Ordo Xenos, so it makes sense that he were versed in that specific skill.
Great call out you are 100% right. I changed that to a PC slot thank you.
This build is almost similar to my MC except my character also has levels into pyromancy and duel wielding talents
if you cant find Psy Rating 1, 2, etc, they renamed it to 'Psyker Minoris/Terminus/Majoris/Extremis'
would this build work with abelard too, or is it a total different one (not just minor chances; willpower - strength / xenos medic or athletic / and so on)
Abelard is more of a soak tank that is he gets hit but take damage. This dude though seems to be more of an evasion tank, so there's probably different feats. Abelard needs alot of toughness as well.
Mystra is correct, Abelard works better taking him down the Vanguard route and focusing on Toughness. You could do this if you wanted to but personally I wouldn't.
I should have said, that i only mean the Warrior skills, its clear that a assasin isnt a tank
Assasin has all the tool to be evasive tank though?
I think becoming the lowest priority target is seperate to the Elusive buff , right? If you attack you use the buff but are still low priority. Because there are other talents that benefit from elusive buff.
Yes but your attack can cause one or multiple enemies to decide you are a higher priority target.
Hey Slandered Gaming,
First things first, happy new year and thanks for this amazing build. One question though, why taking Blade of Light (th-cam.com/video/sMBfqR5jpvo/w-d-xo.html) if you don't use any Force weapon for as far as i can say after viewing the Late Game items part (th-cam.com/video/sMBfqR5jpvo/w-d-xo.html) of the build?
Thanks in advance for the clarification.
Just what I needed. Im pn act 2 (I think). I already have the second archetype and been building him as an assassin but it just doesnt feel right to me coz I'm sooo hesitant not to make him tankier
As long as you have somebody else serving as the main tank he doesn't need a crazy amount of survivability talents.
@@SlanderedGamingI plan to ditch Abelard for Ulfar. I dont have an idea if Ulfar is nearly as tough as vangusrd Abelard though..
@@SlanderedGaming On the spreadsheet, you had Know no Heresy on level 38. It's an obvious error. I chose psy rating 4 instead
Im running assasins hein too, but i take death whiper, danse macabre and hammer of the emperor in that order.
Talent wise we are completely different as i would take PA KYD MP LH ME ID DC so heinrich can zoom zoom and wreak havoc everyhere
Keep your distance is mind bogglingly good in unfair man, not sure i can live without taking it lol
And hammer of the emperor is free 20 damage buff party and very easy to do with air of superiority and word of the emperor
In my party of 2 officer with air of superiory heinrich is currently irrepleaceable lol, not sure i can beat my opponent without round 1 max momentum 😂
Why do you say Psy Rating 3 is impossible?
@@SlanderedGaming oh noes, that was supposed to be deleted, my comment supposed to start with im running. Didnt see that. Welp
cool
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