Argenta x officer combo is broken

[pete8719]

Fr, it trivialises the game, Argenta just carries the entire party through all the encounters. That in itself isn't a problem per se, but I wonder if there are other party compositions that are also viable at this point on higher difficulty settings. Or is it all just about buffing Argenta to high heaven and melting everything with her bolter bursts twenty times a turn?

[Greyjoy's Anatomy]

Noticed this too, with a nice bolter or other high rate of fire weapon she just demolishes everything. It is very satisfying though.

I went all in on crit chance and damage for her

[Zsrai]

Argenta sucks for me (comparatively, since she's my weakest party member). I buff Abelard and he goes to town in melee, charging around the battlefield with extra turns and being a tanky old man.

[Pneuma]

This combo is ridiculous. I'm playing on hardest difficulty now and ending fights within the first round with her. Its funny to watch but has completely destroyed the challenge.

[andrei haiducul]

Pasqal with a plasma gun + Filtering Protocols (talent) + Finest Hour (officer heroic) can shoot forever. Combine it with Claim the Bounty to get extra AP so you can reload and you can clear most maps. Late game it's even more broken with Ancient Plasma Rifle (INT adds damage) and Enhanced Data-Tether Mask (+5 INT for every target of Machine Spirit Communion).

Or just solve the paradox (Pasqal's choice for Kiava Gamma's final event) and use the heroic nonstop with no limits.

[Kamen Rider]

Originally posted by Pneuma:

This combo is ridiculous. I'm playing on hardest difficulty now and ending fights within the first round with her. Its funny to watch but has completely destroyed the challenge.

Because you need to, prolonged fights are awful on higher difficulties are a bad idea to have.

[treahnurb]

Lol have you tried Pasqal? Or late game Marazhai?

[ChompyRiley]

Originally posted by Tenebria:

Originally posted by Pneuma:

This combo is ridiculous. I'm playing on hardest difficulty now and ending fights within the first round with her. Its funny to watch but has completely destroyed the challenge.

Because you need to, prolonged fights are awful on higher difficulties are a bad idea to have.

Even on just Daring, letting the enemies get a turn can be *very* lethal.

[Outlaw]

Originally posted by andrei haiducul:

Pasqal with a plasma gun + Filtering Protocols (talent) + Finest Hour (officer heroic) can shoot forever

Only on paper. Its have 11 shots limit

[andrei haiducul]

Originally posted by Outlaw:

Only on paper. Its have 11 shots limit

You mean 11 attacks? Yeah, I noticed there was a limit but it hardly matters when you have 100% overpenetration and AOE that always hits. With the late game items and Cataclysm and/or Extermination, Pasqal does 1k damage per shot, after reductions!

[talemore]

Please build a roof over the asylum.

They're reaching for heaven

[Chiffa]

Yes, the build for Pasqal with plasma gun breaks the game so much that it becomes not interesting to play. Increasing the difficulty level does not help: Pasqal kills any monster packs

[REhorror]

For me it's Cassia.

[ChompyRiley]

I think that's why Argenta doesn't get called out for murdering Theodora and Mort. Nobody wants to catch a stray bolter shot.

[Khloros]

Yeah officer spam is broken, not just on argenta but really anyone.
This is why you have to take anyone who says the game is easy, or that the final fight of act 4 was easy, because if they are using imo anymore then 1 officer, then entire game is easy mode.

Slap a heavy bolter or a heavy stubber on argenta and then just auto pilot the game.

[ChompyRiley]

Originally posted by Khloros:

Yeah officer spam is broken, not just on argenta but really anyone.
This is why you have to take anyone who says the game is easy, or that the final fight of act 4 was easy, because if they are using imo anymore then 1 officer, then entire game is easy mode.

Slap a heavy bolter or a heavy stubber on argenta and then just auto pilot the game.

Honestly I've got one officer, then Cassia. But Cassia's hardly an officer. I spec her as pure Navigator. She rounds up the mobs, then Argenta bolter's them all to death.