Is jae for vanguard a good idea?

[Eldrin]

If yes then can someone give me an optimized vanguard jae build for me for tanking/buffing?
The speed at which the game throws levels at me and the fact that it takes me take hour/s on each level up i just prefer to auto pilot a few. I really cant be bothered with that as it takes the enjoyment out of it for me.

[Mister Wolf]

I prefer vanguard with a Warrior origin. You want your Vanguard to be able to use taunting scream if they are a melee tank. My MC is a Warrior/Vanguard.

[dustin1280]

Arch militant would be perfect for her, but officer makes that impossible...

So Master Tactician (if you don't have 1) or Grand Strategist (if you don't have 1)
I personally prefer her as a Master Tactician.

[Eldrin]

But vanguards main stat is also fellowship? Jae has it very high? Isnt there any good build for that?

[Zsrai]

Vanguard is a tank spec, and Jae has poor combat stats. I'd stick with Master Tactician (I find Grand Strategist too fiddly) and use the buffs it has. Just choose the suggested ones, with the thumbs up.

[Wraith]

I went with grand strategist for Jae

Some of those buff are way worth it

I especially like trench stratagem for making cover immune to damage so I can hunker down against overwhelming odds

[BingusDingus]

Vanguard in theory would allow an officer to be a tank, allowing them to absorb damage and buff allies but in practice you end up with a character that's good at neither.

[Neoz]

Publicado originalmente por dustin1280:

Arch militant would be perfect for her, but officer makes that impossible...

So Master Tactician (if you don't have 1) or Grand Strategist (if you don't have 1)
I personally prefer her as a Master Tactician.

She made me want to try a dual gunslinger build with Operative-> either bounty hunter or assassin.

Tactical knowledge to get +10ish damage for "free", then just spray and pray with the pistols.

Although, she isn't bad as an officer-> Mtac, inspire can be used on oneself apparently, so you can stack some decent base damage on yourself that way.

[Darakkuu]

I play Vanguard Jay for fun, it's not well optimized, but works alright for me on Daring.
She's not doing much damage against strong enemires, but that's not her role in my team. She mostly works as dodge tank, swapping between double pistols and double swords based on situation, while giving extra turns to main main dps.

[Wraith]

Publicado originalmente por BingusDingus:

Vanguard in theory would allow an officer to be a tank, allowing them to absorb damage and buff allies but in practice you end up with a character that's good at neither.

I don’t know I like the vanguard
Abelard just chargeing in slashing someone face, taunting a chunk of enemy and
watching them do nothing against his temp HP is very satisfying

He also great at keeping the boss attention

Though some bosses do so much damage I use him to kite instead

[Charles]

Publicado originalmente por Eldrin:

But vanguards main stat is also fellowship? Jae has it very high? Isnt there any good build for that?

An option could be to not go too heavy into vanguard, which might be kinda difficult. For instance, the navigator has a ton of unique navigator talents that you can select in place of the second archetype talents. So if you go with grand strategist you can guarantee that she acts first and that alone makes the archetype worth it. Most of the other grand strategist levels are just spent on navigator talents.

You might be able to do something similar with jae. The only problem is that you can't select talents from the first archetype for the second one. So you will need to look through all of the vanguard talents and see if there is anything there that would complement your current build.

I hope that makes some sense as its hard to explain what I mean with out writing a bunch of paragraphs about how the levels actually work.

[Cutlass Jack]

I did her as a vanguard and kept her focused more on the fellowship part of abilities. My feeling is she loves attention, so why not give her abilities that play off that?

Giving her the gloves that lets her parry with ranged weapons was a good choice for her as a vanguard.