Is it just me or is the Vindicare Assasin utterly underwhelming?

[slayerfar]

No Armor Piercing and a forced Wargear item. Training him is such a slog because his Damage output is so low.

[ZexxCrine]

Idk I feel like a crazy person these days talking about it, but I very greatly enjoy the vindicare. In the early game especially I think he is flat out the best assassin you could pick as your starter. every early game problem is solved by the vindicare. Hoards of pox walkers? Last hit a bunch with the vindicare and get ap and ammo economy on the cheap. Enemy psycher? Kill it instantly. Allied unit stuck in overwatch, or suppressed? Free disrupt with no cooldown. got a technophage mission early? Instantly kill the grenade plague marine in the group and disarm the others while retreating your party back. Big 30+ health and armored heavy plaguemarine with grenades spawn? Kill it instantly. Bloomspawn mission where the psychers are performing a ritual? Kill it instantly.

Then as his gear gets better he can get upwards of 70% crit chance without war gear and over 100% with his crit vulnerability debuff. Idk I really like him. If the callidus assassin wasn’t so game breaking for stun comps and kinda just in general in the mid to late game, I would personally vote the vindicare as the best assassin in the game. He has such a crazy toolbox for any situation.

[reevestone]

The Vindicare, in my opinion, really shines in the early game and on Bloom Assault missions. Early game enemies tend to be fairly light on armor and health, usually have a single thing about them you need to destroy to functionally neutralize them, and are overwhelmingly Organic. But as you get later into the game the health values scale up hard, the Armor scales up even harder, and Organic enemies become rarer and rarer in comparison to Daemonic and Mechanical. Add in him getting screwed by full cover and... yeah he has some issues, but he really isn't terrible... honestly he fulfills a very similar role to a Purgator. I do like him throughout the game for Bloom Assault missions because his absolutely ludicrous range and relatively-high mobility let him cover multiple areas quite well, and unlike typical missions where you want to isolate and destroy pods in one turn, Bloom Assault's nature of an ongoing slog where enemies have to come to you plays into the Vindicare's strengths of being better at disabling enemies than killing them.

I put him above the Eversor because I think the Vindicare is at least really strong in the early game and has a solid niche in Bloom Assault missions, even if he can't compete in a more general sense with the sheer brokenness of the Callidus or the late-game powerhouse of the Culexus. Whereas the Eversor just... I mean, is really cool and fun, but there's virtually no instance I can think of where the Eversor would be preferable to the Callidus.

[slayerfar]

Callidus+Librarian is hands down the most insane thing ever. Backed up by a Chaålain it is a meatgrinder.
Psychic Shriek and a Stun Bolter and the rest of the team can just hang back and watch those two have fun.

[EFIRion]

lore accurate vindicar

[Tragic]

I think he is pretty awesome. I like to use him to clear weapons from things. Give him a +Ammo or +Range Crit % item. Also he can stock mulitpule healing skulls or enrage skulls to either heal or block entire squads..

[Gorwe]

Vindicare is super fun as long as enemies aren't hiding behind some boxes or pipes. Then his 15+ range becomes quite meaningless.

So, yeah, I was quite underwhelmed. It actually has more trouble doing what he is supposed to be doing vs random cultists and PMs than against Dreads and bosses and such. A random "IT BLEEEEEDS!!!" slimeball is somehow more difficult to damage(or even eliminate) than Big M?

That's the reality of Vindicare.