Soldier build with standard bolter

[EvilDonut]

Archmilitant or master tactician? I am currently doing master tactician, but i was thinking perhaps to respec because it's not really that fun to play, imho

[Morgian]

Tactician is not a good fit for soldier, who is a damage dealer. He is better setting up his team for the kill than doing it himself, although he makes a fair sniper. Soldier/A-M is imho the strongest build of all, when I see Argenta mowing down bosses in one round. And it is uncomplicated and straightforward, it needs no internet studies how to make this or that work.
I play officer/tactician, as I use Argenta in that role. With the accumulated gear (heavy bolter, +firerate, less reload time, bonuses to burst, etc.) she deals up to 2,5 k in one salvo.

[EvilDonut]

Well, the point of master tactician is amass momentum, convert it to tactical advantage, and ultrabuff itself with press the advantage. Not a very funny playstyle still, tho

[Morgian]

Yes, hence sniper....but you can buff the team with tactical advantage too. I find myself doing very little shooting, although I intended to play sniper. But officer/tactician just eats up your actions with other stuff, which is better than shooting once.
For the next DLC I will have to get over it and finally play a melee instead of arranging things for the team.

[Martialis]

Archmilitant is good for soldier. You just have to remember to alternate between single and burst ♥♥♥♥♥. There are items that give your single shots 100% to hit, and also eliminate the recoil on bolters. You might want to consider raising Str to 35 and taking the Heavy Weapons common talent. There is a very good Heavy Bolter available from one of the vendors. Of course, you could just do all of this with Argenta as well.

[EvilDonut]

Yeah, that's how i made argenta, so i didn't want to make a copy paste of her

[Morgian]

The great bolter is on rank 37 with Ryzza. However, you can make a heretic A-M and use the drukhari burst guns, which Argenta simply cannot do :)
And you can use another origin than hers. Although hers is great...that must be the one and only companion which was optimally build by Owlcat in the three games.

[Hidetsugu]

In my latest run, my MC was soldier>AM with a heavy bolter, I made Argenta a shotgun/heavy flamer(whichever weapon was currently better) soldier>bounty hunter. Although soldier>MT would work good for area attack build too.

[MacabreLion]

Originally posted by Morgian:

Tactician is not a good fit for soldier, who is a damage dealer. He is better setting up his team for the kill than doing it himself, although he makes a fair sniper. Soldier/A-M is imho the strongest build of all, when I see Argenta mowing down bosses in one round. And it is uncomplicated and straightforward, it needs no internet studies how to make this or that work.
I play officer/tactician, as I use Argenta in that role. With the accumulated gear (heavy bolter, +firerate, less reload time, bonuses to burst, etc.) she deals up to 2,5 k in one salvo.

tactician is excellent for soldier with fire psker origin. you buff yourself and then aoe firestorm every enemy down. Can get a second hit from the soldier starting ability to ignite then firestorm combo immediately. With Cassia its multiple uses of inspire on yourself from her extra turns to the point by round 3 most things can't survive even a 1 ap firestorm spell if they make it that far. By the time the +50 momentum ring you get ult 1st turn from her. I haven't seen most enemies make an animation for a long time. Just beat grim darkness on unfair with this. Literally just my Cassia getting their instant round 1 turns from Grand Strategist and giving them to my soldier / master tact, and gg. You want more ults in the same round? You can spend your stacks on linchpin as well to max out your momentum again after a firestorm lol and you can use multiple of your staff attacks with your MC ult in the same turn.

Argenta is only capable of maybe not even a viable fraction of the amount of damage.

[EnemigoDeLaMafia]

I've had argenta basically 1 round solo two high profile fights on unfair with flamer/bolter combo (although the flamer was the main weapon), so I gotta say arch militant. The bolter can go up to absurd damage too.

[dwarfpcfan]

master tactician can work very well with soldier on a dual wield drukhari/aldari pistol build. grab the talent that gives a stack of tactical advantage for every enemy in a fight, then the talent that makes all your talents work as if you had +4 tactical advantage and then add the talent to ignore cover and dodge when spending tactical advantage to boost yourself.

run and gun, press the advantage, then spray 3+ bursts of eldar pistols with ROF 6+ that inflict bleeding or toxic.

Not quite as effective as arch militant but can do insane burst damage and in the long run you can still buff your party somewhat.

[EvilDonut]

Well, what i can say at the moment is that as MT i would hit a lot more consistently than as AM. I guess the buffs actually did their job