Noble Officer build

[Neoz]

Greetings, Having play a couple other builds up to act 3, I was thinking of trying my hand at an officer. Can an officer-> master tactician set up a nova turn? As in, buff the party, and then finish off the combat with a big hit thanks to press the advantage, or is it just better to have them take grand strategist for the guaranteed first turn to buff the hell out of Agrenta or Abelard.

[DarkFenix]

A buffer works best if you go all-in on buffing. But! They quickly become game-breakingly overpowered, a more hybrid build might end up more fun.

[Blackdragon]

Master Tactician is best on your damage dealer, since it gets free damage buffs from momentum on himself.

Officer is best coupled with Grand Strategist, because then you will always go first to give buffs and turns to the damage dealer(s).

In fact I think the best possible setup is 1-2 Master Tactician damage dealers (psykers) + 4-5 Officers/Grand Strategists. That way you wipe the entire map before the enemy even gets a turn.

You can have a Master Tactician that gives damage bonuses to another character through Inspire and Lynchpin, but really it's suboptimal because he will not go first unless given an extra turn by an Officer/GS, and such extra turns are better spent on actual damage dealers.

[Di]

you can do voidborn for Be Smart, and then just put everything into int. grand strategist scales off int + fel usually, but then it'll scale off int + int.

its a pretty strong build since it's very efficient with the stat points and you can be more effective at something else (whereas if you do int + fel, you're pretty much combat ineffective because you're not shooting or hitting anything with those are your main stats). i don't think noble is the best way to go with this tho, i'd go psyker if you really wanna min max.

[Blackdragon]

Originally posted by Di:

master strategist scales off int + fel

Are you thinking of Grand Strategist, rather than Master Tactician?

For GS, their feature is sharing top attribute bonuses among themselves. So if you have one GS with high INT, and another with high FEL, their GS abilities will work as if they both have high INT and FEL.

[Di]

yah my bad lol i just got up

[Blackdragon]

Anyway, responding to the OP's original question: Officer is NOT a damage dealing class, it is a buffing class. And it is best when played to its strengths, i.e. when you take abilities and talents that improve its buffing potential. If you try to make a damage dealer officer, you'll likely end up with a character that is bad damage dealer AND a bad officer.

Just focus on having 1-2 top-shelf damagers (Psyker, Arch-Militant), and make the rest Officers/Grand Strategists who feed them turns and buffs.

[Neoz]

I find it funny how the top shelf damage dealer is a psyker or arch-militant, when the clear answer is assassin sniper for your best damage dealer.

That said, thanks for the input on the officer themselves.

[FunkyMonkey]

I've been playing Officer / Master tactician and liking it. While I agree that Grand strategist has more synergy with Officer, having Master tactician enables my RT to do atleast some damage when needed with Press the Advantage. I tend to use it when I have some stacks of Tactical advantage.

I also play with Cassia and both her and my RT have Seize the Initiative so both of us always go first and can give two half-turns to Argenta/Ulfar/whoever and it's been great. Cassia also goes first twice (first with Seize the Initiative and uses her Officer buffs) and then from Grand strategist and goes ham with Navigator stuff.