Being an effective Psyker while being the face of the party

[CyberEagle]

So basically, i want to do something like a Telepath (though am open to other suggestions, except for Sanctic which I dislike for RP reasons), but don't have much experice with the game yet, and everyone says a blaster telepath is best as an operative. My problem with that being that the operative doesn't have social skills.

Any thoughts or advice?

[Moobert]

So what I learned is there is no "face of the party". Whoever has the best rolls for skill is who rolls, you just need them in your party and you can choose that dialog option. Everything is group decision, so build your team based upon that.

[Hadradavus]

I haven't done much in terms of theorycrafting, but taking Forge World homeworld lets you get Calculated Relations so you can use INT (which AFAIK you want as Operative to get more exploits) to support your face skills.
Alternatively, you can just build someone else in the party (probably Cassia is best for this) to do all your face stuff.

[Nigrescence]

Originally posted by Hadradavus:

I haven't done much in terms of theorycrafting, but taking Forge World homeworld lets you get Calculated Relations so you can use INT (which AFAIK you want as Operative to get more exploits) to support your face skills.

I was about to say exactly this.

[Megapewpew]

Pyromancer - Forge World - Calculated Relations Talent allows you to use INT instead of Fellowship(charisma) - and then you can go soldier for the extra turns and ballistic +dmg to spells or you can go operative that works well too. This also lets you melee or range depending on how you want to build them, fairly easy.

Telepath - Void/Imperial World - makes a good officer/master tactician if you want to be a face and also a buffer in the party and only focus on telepath for the psyker powers then the rest on officer/tactician to be an amazing buffer and damage dealer.

[CyberEagle]

I hadn't considered Calculated Relations, but wouldn't I also need another talent or a fitting archetype to make the skill itself further raisable?

[Moobert]

Originally posted by CyberEagle:

I hadn't considered Calculated Relations, but wouldn't I also need another talent or a fitting archetype to make the skill itself further raisable?

Again, you don't need that, you have a team for a reason, Give them skills you are lacking so you can build your character.

[Neoz]

Originally posted by CyberEagle:

I hadn't considered Calculated Relations, but wouldn't I also need another talent or a fitting archetype to make the skill itself further raisable?

You'd have to pick if you wanted coercion or persuasion ideally. Technically, Cassia is great at Awareness and Persuasion if you didn't mind letting her do that one.

[Neoz]

Originally posted by Moobert:

Originally posted by CyberEagle:

I hadn't considered Calculated Relations, but wouldn't I also need another talent or a fitting archetype to make the skill itself further raisable?

Again, you don't need that, you have a team for a reason, Give them skills you are lacking so you can build your character.

My Sniper RT does all the Int based skills, and all the fellowship based skills minus persuasion lol. He even moonlights as an awareness guy, though poorly relatively speaking XD

[Megapewpew]

Originally posted by CyberEagle:

I hadn't considered Calculated Relations, but wouldn't I also need another talent or a fitting archetype to make the skill itself further raisable?

You dont need to dump your points into int, you will just want enough to get a decent score for whatever couple skills you want to pass most of the checks. Coercion/Persuasion and then Warp/Imperil are good ones that will be used a ton for talking, then you can dump the rest in willpower.

[Moobert]

Originally posted by rorek55:

Originally posted by Moobert:

Again, you don't need that, you have a team for a reason, Give them skills you are lacking so you can build your character.

My Sniper RT does all the Int based skills, and all the fellowship based skills minus persuasion lol. He even moonlights as an awareness guy, though poorly relatively speaking XD

Why? Pascal is so awesome and he already handles those checks? Cassia is already stacked for persuasion? You are the RT, let your minions work for you :)

[CyberEagle]

Originally posted by Moobert:

Originally posted by rorek55:

My Sniper RT does all the Int based skills, and all the fellowship based skills minus persuasion lol. He even moonlights as an awareness guy, though poorly relatively speaking XD

Why? Pascal is so awesome and he already handles those checks? Cassia is already stacked for persuasion? You are the RT, let your minions work for you :)

Some people just want to be good at people stuff when they're playing a leader type of figure and as RT you ARE a leader.

[Moobert]

Originally posted by CyberEagle:

Originally posted by Moobert:

Why? Pascal is so awesome and he already handles those checks? Cassia is already stacked for persuasion? You are the RT, let your minions work for you :)

Some people just want to be good at people stuff when they're playing a leader type of figure and as RT you ARE a leader.

But that is not how this game works.

[Megapewpew]

Originally posted by Moobert:

Originally posted by rorek55:

My Sniper RT does all the Int based skills, and all the fellowship based skills minus persuasion lol. He even moonlights as an awareness guy, though poorly relatively speaking XD

Why? Pascal is so awesome and he already handles those checks? Cassia is already stacked for persuasion?

Imperium is probably the one that is used a ton/the most for flavor. Tech use, and logic sees a lot of use for exploring and If you want to make the hard checks you need a high logic and tech and that's best to focus with pascal. Then you need someone for imperium(well you don't need imperium but you get alot of flavor text and exp).

I find the pc best for warp/imperium and coercion, personally. Use Henrix for xeno.

But I guess it depends on the check difficulty you have in the game.

[CyberEagle]

Originally posted by Moobert:

Originally posted by CyberEagle:

Some people just want to be good at people stuff when they're playing a leader type of figure and as RT you ARE a leader.

But that is not how this game works.

If I can be a fighting type and leave socializing to my party, why can't I be a social type and leave fighting to my party?

(I want to be a bit fighty, I'm just asking a theoretical question)

[Moobert]

Originally posted by CyberEagle:

Originally posted by Moobert:

But that is not how this game works.

If I can be a fighting type and leave socializing to my party, why can't I be a social type and leave fighting to my party?

(I want to be a bit fighty, I'm just asking a theoretical question)

Because the way the game works is you don't get to pick who does the checks, the game picks for you based on your choice.

Example: If you pick a demolition skill check, the game will default to the person with the highest skills (actually thats a bad example past act II but I'll keep it).