Has anyone tried making Cassia into a tank?

[HuffingJenkem]

Between the auto-heal navigator talent, the one that lets her dodge with PER and her buffing abilities I'm wondering if it's possible to make her a dodge tank.

[TairaSayo]

Originally posted by HuffingJenkem:

Between the auto-heal navigator talent, the one that lets her dodge with PER and her buffing abilities I'm wondering if it's possible to make her a dodge tank.

The problem is, she has bad synergy with close combat. Most of her abilities either best work from afar or provoke opportunity attacks. And as cherry on top she has zero taunts. So there is little to no reason to put her at the front.

[overtly_cynical]

I always have her at the front. The abilities that force the enemy to move don't provoke attacks of opportunity so you can pull them away from you to clump them up for lidless stare. Sure there's boots which give her dodge per navigator skill she used that round. Then she can heal herself every turn with one of her talents - pretty good as a dodge tank

[「SHAORUNE」]

She can but only if your frontline broke, her best use is sitting behind cover and use skill anyway, no need to put such a good dps support in danger.

[Cathulion]

I use her kinda like a shotgunner, range but near the front, that aoe-stun looking reall juicy

[tempest.of.emptiness]

Vanguard is one of her advanced archetype options, so I think a case can be made for it. I didn't go that route myself, so I don't know how that would work out.

I can say, though, that she has more wounds than my actual tank and as long as her autoheal is bugged to trigger every time control shifts back to her (instead of just once per combat round) she is very resilient.

[Irx]

But why? Cassia is the best dps in the game, unless they balance her in the patches.
Combined with tactitian she does the absurd amount of damage, and her attacks always hit, have great range and ignore all defences. And there are no warp penalties unlike other psykers. She typically does more damage per fight than all other characters combined.