Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader (CRPG)

Dark Eldar guy sucks, I had Heinrix take him on a Black Ship after I lost interest in his companion quests. Drukhari are cool in theory but a guy who is nuts about torturing everything and betraying you is just not that interesting to keep around. All he wants is to regain control of his Kabal so he can most likely use his authority to rape and pillage more of your realm.

Dark Eldar and Kibellah suffer from the same problem. Both of them are weirdly specced into DOTs and the other characters just straight kill things. The augments nicely fill all of Abelard's major gaps. I found one that makes every hit with any weapon he does spam chain lightning. It's awesome.

I am playing dogmatic but it is quite clear you can turn Heinrix into a rogue inquisitor who embraces the Warp. The only reason I didn't really care about Heretic playthrough is because its quite clearly hardwired to Tzeentch, my least favorite Chaos God. I would have gone full Nurgle though.

Argenta with a bolter setup is the most appealing. I don't like using the Space marine because I don't think he really fits thematically in the retinue of a Rogue Trader. He is an interesting character though and they did well at displaying how incredibly strange Space Marine chapters and cultures are when compared to relatively baseline humans like the Rogue Trader.

I did find the Necrons finally and I am not super familiar with Necron lore. But Trazyn has to be an absolute troll character in 40k. He is literally a minatures collector lol.

They have a lot of Astartes only equipment now. He can only use that stuff and Heavy Weapons. The Necron stuff has you meet some other chapters so he gets more Astartes gear. But you can only really have him with the Chainsword and Bolter, or the double melta. He gets a really good power sword though.

His shouting in combat, while fitting, does get old pretty quickly too.

Making him into a worse version of Argenta is just sort of lame.

Phazael not to spoil it for you or anyone really but if you are playing for the Necron DLC I highly recommend rushing the first planet mission when you can. Once completed Trazyn decides you are interesting and provides you with his commentary on most missions. Which is quite amusing.

Snipers are phenomenal in the early and mid game and the Elder chick is one of the best possible setups in the game. But by the end everything becomes about stacking debuffs and building up damaged booths to fight things that have insanely High health bars. Many of the bread and butter triggers are built around killing things and towards the end you just stop being able to one shot or kill anything quickly with snipers. This is unfortunate cuz the recent balance patches have still gone a long way to making every core build concept viable.

Right now I'm mowing through a heretic run which I have never done before. Kind of silly how cartoonishly evil you have to be at times and the story doesn't really shift severely until the end of the game starts in. If however you are doing your heritage run as a psycher it's actually pretty awesome all the odd combos you can set up by not giving a shit how much you compromise the Veil. And none of the party members you were forced to lose in a heretic run are ones that you can't make better versions of with generics. You do lose the Elder sniper but by then she's starting to fall off anyway. And this game has the hilarious AI tendency where if you charm an enemy the other enemies decide that is the guy they need to beat the shit out of first and foremost. So telepaths start being really dominating in the end game which becomes more about crowd control and stacking mechanics.

The new expansion makes the Dark Eldar part slightly less annoying in the sense that your characters get their gear automatically reassigned when you get to that point. And they added additional ways to gain heretic and other tendencies so you don't have to go around aggressively murdering babies to get to the good stuff in that alignment tree. The implant system really comes down to if you like characters who are hyper specialized and if you like the two cyborg characters are not. It feels like they were afraid to make the implants too good. Rest of the expansion material is quite excellent. Oh and the final fight with the gene stealer cult is still nightmarishly overtuned if you trigger it before chapter 3, but you can compensate because there's more ways to gain experience prior to that point and you can simply opt not to clear out one of the side missions until you're actually ready and the quest line won't advance to the endpoint at a time when you're not ready for the fight. Last tip is get shields for every character who can possibly make use of one because they're such a huge defensive boost and there are so many exploitative tactics with heroic acid Shield Bash that you can do with the characters that have shields

Okay I finished it. My thoughts.

Yeah, the pyro, assassin, Executioner build is the only one that sort of fucks, but as Gav stated the Dot is just there to buff the real damage. Crowd control, as rare as it is in this game, is ten times more valuable than any single Dot effect in it. The notable exception are Necron trash mobs and the eternal "no lol he is alive with 1hp" bullshit the game does constantly. But for that Cassie does it all. If you cannot drop enemies fast, then your softer characters (read anyone not Alebard) are going to end up chunky salsa on harder difficulty settings. You can mess around with Dots and oddball mechanics, but at the end of the day nothing beats just dishing out mass damage. There are some damage sponge bosses that have to be tanked, but they are mostly rare and limited to one or two in a fight where Abelard shines. But most everything else DPS is king. That is just how it is.

This dude right here lives inside this game, so I trust his builds. Its where I got the above 1.5 Pyro assasin executioner build. So supposedly in 1.6 his "Star child" build is the most OP build, can dish out 500K dmg in a turn self buffed, 1 million if hes buffed by others. Comes online in act 3, but is no slouch before.