Never seen Castellan Crowe

[BloodHawk]

Just finishing my second campaign, and I haven't seen Castellan Crowe in either.
I have had available space in the barracks, but nothing.
Has everybody seen the Castellan?

[Alex_x86]

It is level 20 purifier you should have received soon after the map expansion. Didn't you got that guy? (If you did not had a space in the barracks it is very possible he was returned to Titan as soon as he showed up.

[HandyVac]

Castellan Crowe is DLC content, part of the Castellan Champion Upgrade Pack.

[BloodHawk]

Originally posted by HandyVac:

Castellan Crowe is DLC content, part of the Castellan Champion Upgrade Pack.

Many thanks, but I thought that the DLC provided the Castellan from the start, but he should appear sometime during the game for everybody (apparently!).

[BloodHawk]

Originally posted by Alex_x86:

It is level 20 purifier you should have received soon after the map expansion. Didn't you got that guy? (If you did not had a space in the barracks it is very possible he was returned to Titan as soon as he showed up.

Many thanks, I thought that I always had a spare barracks space - but perhaps I didn't.

[Aetius]

I've gotten him twice out of about five campaigns. He's ... ok, but not great. Good grenades and perma fire dots. He's a little Willpower hungry but not terribly so. The melee fire stuff is not very useful because most things in melee range don't survive long enough for the damage to matter.

[Vathek1]

Originally posted by Aetius:

I've gotten him twice out of about five campaigns. He's ... ok, but not great. Good grenades and perma fire dots. He's a little Willpower hungry but not terribly so. The melee fire stuff is not very useful because most things in melee range don't survive long enough for the damage to matter.

For me, at least, Crowe is useful mostly for filling a blank spot in squad compositions. For instance, if you wanted to train up some rookie Knights on an easier mission and save your A-team for an upcoming boss battle, sending Crowe to babysit the neophytes can work decently, since you don't need to worry about him getting kills (other than to refill his willpower).

What makes Crowe lackluster, however, is that you cannot customize his gear. Most Tier III wargear is considerably better than Castellan Crowe's equipment, and by the time he finally shows up, you'll probably have a decent supply of Tier II and III equipment in your armoury.

One other useful thing Crowe brings his his skill to suppress warp surges. If you're really struggling with warp surge events, you can bring along Crowe to tame things a bit.

DoT in general in this game isn't very useful against enemies. The damage ticks at the end of the enemy's turn, which means that they can still shoot/stab/claw/blight you before they drop dead of the final damage tick. Repeated applications of the same DoT don't stack either. To make matters worse, the things that you would want to hit with a DoT (e.g. bloomspawn and bosses) because they can take multiple turns to kill are generally immune to those effects or can easily outheal the damage. It would be great if you could ignite a Bloomspawn and back off as it burns to death, but Bloomspawn have 100% resistance to all status effects anyway.

[BloodHawk]

Originally posted by Aetius:

I've gotten him twice out of about five campaigns. He's ... ok, but not great. Good grenades and perma fire dots. He's a little Willpower hungry but not terribly so. The melee fire stuff is not very useful because most things in melee range don't survive long enough for the damage to matter.

Many thanks indeed - puts it into perspective.

[Donald Pump]

The dlc needs a total rework you can't equip items, spec or level, the dlc hero is trash i never used him in my campaign back to titan runt

[Mr Waffle]

He just appeared in my campaign after a meeting with the Grand Master (after reveal of the 5 things), and I didn't know I needed barracks space for him so I straight away have to choose if I keep him and throw away a dude or throw Crowe away before I can even use him... what a terribly made DLC