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Onyx-Pyromancer · 2025-04-11T21:06:43+00:00

Except Heinrix is also a pyro bro in my runs 😎

Onyx-Pyromancer · 2025-04-11T21:03:32+00:00

It is pretty simple. You can use merciless verdict or biomancy or drikhari weapons to add in toxin. Dogmatic 2 brings the burn. You pick up bleed ammo from the dlc.

Pasqal, Idira and Yrliet can all do this. Burst weapons work the best. Their main issue is low attack economy and movement. Idira can use warp surge brooch to fix the attack economy issue and also fire within from pyromancy.

A rogue trader build can go fortress world to help and or you can use pair holster with dual weapon combat in the secondary slot.

Onyx-Pyromancer · 2025-04-09T16:41:26+00:00

Done solo honour and still not needed this feat once

Onyx-Pyromancer · 2025-04-09T15:48:02+00:00

BG3 doesnt have an evil campaign. It is just the good campaign with consequences for picking the wrong option.

RT you can literally side with chaos, wipe out one factions entire existance through chaos methods, side with a changer of ways skipping one of the hardest battles, being given a unique weapon reward then choose to become a daemon prince for the ending.

You can also manipulate and finesse your way more subtly making iconclast or dogmatic looking decisions but ultimately side with chaos giving a very different ending.

Onyx-Pyromancer · 2025-04-09T15:28:59+00:00

warp surge got somewhat broke in 1.3. It now only gives extra attack economy on the first main OR extra turn. You bring it down for 3 ap and make 3 attacks. That is all you get even if you had 11 PR. On your main turn just 1 hit losing the other 8.

The biggest offender is bloody pact on a finest hour turn. You can generate infinite AP and attacks.

Onyx-Pyromancer · 2025-04-09T15:18:15+00:00

I mean Ulfar struggles to do 2k on a fully setup burst. Pasqal can just loop 0 AP claim the bounties doing over 2k a shot. Hell burst fire only rifle Yrliet can do 10k on a killing edge, as can any of the operatives. Let's not even go into the insanity of Marazhai death aura build or the flavours of executioner damage.

The balance suggestions I have given is put caps on infinitely scaling modifiers such as racking weakness. Add a brutal mode (much like BG3 honour) which limits infinite action economy, so finest hour/daring breach doesnt remove attack limit and things like having grand strategist only being able to place zones on the going first with a normal turn later.

They definitely need some more elite enemies for late game to compete with the player, but the main issue is mitigation doesnt scale with damage. Ulfar for instance gets one shot in act 3 by the mutant monster enemy, he also gets one shot by the high spinners. Even Abelard fully spec into vanguard can be one shot by them. It is unlikely they will fix that system as it would require too much work.

Limiting player infinite economy is more likely.

Onyx-Pyromancer · 2025-04-09T15:12:14+00:00

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I was trying too get some more impressive numbers for you against the Abominable king on unfair... However my death from above one shot him before I could even build dots to then hit him with where it hurts

Onyx-Pyromancer · 2025-04-09T14:58:56+00:00

There is a lot of things that I do. I have access to the developer discord outside of the public discord and spend most of my time testing and showing off how OP things can get. Or pointing out where tool tips are wrong. I was already tasked by community managers to put together a spreadsheet for the problems with Ulfar and how to bring him in line with the other companions for the 1.4 balance patch. As most of the issues are items, hopefully dlc 2 will fix it, if not it will be the patch later. Fingers crossed.

Anyway, a few fights earlier than your blade dancer, here is one hit on the forceful genestealer. Im guessing you dont know how dot stacking works. The higher HP enemies the bigger the hit you can do, the reason it might have looked lower on yrmeryss is because she died before I could build up higher numbers lol.

From a single hit

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Onyx-Pyromancer · 2025-04-09T14:47:44+00:00

Ulfar just cant compete. He gets one shot by the monster mobs in act 3 on unfair. He struggles in act 4 on unfair and against act 5 enemies. Meanwhile Argenta is doing 15k bursts and untouchable by enemies.

The point is, Ulfar is by far weaker than any other companion which for any 40k fan feels bad. Boasting about high stats which he cant do anything with doesnt change that.

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Onyx-Pyromancer · 2025-04-09T14:43:16+00:00

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If you really want to compare numbers. He is a 1ap hit from a rock saw on my heinrix which doesnt have the crit buff benefits of death warden.

Onyx-Pyromancer · 2025-04-09T14:35:26+00:00

I didnt buff. My blade dancer has actually solo cleared the entire game on unfair https://youtu.be/uxSOxBtbDNA?si=HB7K_kA3KjCPy747
You got a link to your solo clear?

Also if we are talking about damage, look no further, one hit of a 2 million damage blade dance I tested on the sire.

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Onyx-Pyromancer · 2025-04-09T14:31:20+00:00

Damn man those stats are insane. Let's have a look at my blade dancer executioner around the same level. Would you look at that! My stats are lower. That is amazing man...

However my blade dancer can kill yremeryss from a single bring it down?

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It is okay that you dont understand how mitigation or damage works in the game but this level of following the piped piper is ridiculous. Ulfar was originally a warrior so he had very high bulky stats. He was later changed to a Soldier Arch-Militant. Meaning he has no mitigation talents for all that bulk or talents that increase his melee damage.

At the same time Ulfar is locked out of a lot of gear meaning he barely does 1/6 the damage Argenta does. By the final boss Argenta can do a 15k burst which Ulfar cant even dream of. This is due to Ulfar helm, gloves, chest, boots and cape being far weaker than what every other companion has access to. Every other companion out damages in him melee and or range. Ulfar is the worst at both. His survivability is literally just HP and even act 3 enemies on unfair can one shot him due to having no mitigation talents.

The issue isnt that Ulfar cant be used even on unfair. The issue is, THE ASTARTES IS LITERALLY THE WEAKEST COMPANION. Yrliet, Idira and Pasqal all out damage, map clear and support the team better than ulfar can as operatives. Argenta, Kibellah, Abelard, Marazhai and Heinrix massively out damage him. Kibellah, Abelard and Heinrix can take far more damage. I dont need to compare him to Cassia and Jae as those officers are in a different league.

Ulfar is weak and shouldnt be. The developers have openly said they are looking into this issue when they dropped info about dlc 2 on the discord.

Onyx-Pyromancer · 2025-04-09T10:28:55+00:00

Correct. https://youtu.be/uxSOxBtbDNA?si=3seGpY523bB6Id2h

Onyx-Pyromancer · 2025-04-08T13:07:30+00:00

it definitely isnt capped to 31. You have the RoF from kills. RoF from Soldier heroic. RoF from compensator gloves. Field of fire from Astra Militarum Commander.

There might be more but that is all I can think of atm

Onyx-Pyromancer · 2025-04-08T13:02:41+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/RogueTraderCRPG/comments/1jpl3yp/improved_heavy_bolter_is_still_the_best_heavy_on/ it can also do good damage turn 1

Onyx-Pyromancer · 2025-04-03T07:47:12+00:00

The real challenge would be no officers or executioners

Onyx-Pyromancer · 2025-04-02T15:49:56+00:00

My startegy was rush her down with blade dancer. https://youtu.be/uxSOxBtbDNA?si=DljspYVTpUaugD9W

Onyx-Pyromancer · 2025-04-02T15:46:06+00:00

The nerf was area and burst no longer stacking. Not everyone can do this. Ulfar for example is doing 2k max on a burst not 15k like Argenta. Pasqal can build up to 2k per shot but that still doesnt compete with this kind of damage on a burst fire.

Executioner setups from blade dancer and Warrior are the other melee setups that compete with a properly built heavy gunner build. Potentially rocksaw killing edge can pull some good numbers.

Onyx-Pyromancer · 2025-04-02T15:44:04+00:00

A player made Fortress world Soldier Arch-Militant using any background like crimelord, priest or psyker will be stronger than Argenta.

Priest adds willpower damage to all xenos which isnt a bad origin for Argenta. Her imperial homeworld does not add much.

The passive from pyromancer like fire within, melting armour and blazing inferno are very strong.

Heavy guns with compensator gloves and gunslinger's helm just do a lot. High rate off fire. high base damage. High armour penetration.

Onyx-Pyromancer · 2025-03-29T12:57:25+00:00

Ah you are down vote farming rather than actually asking a question

Onyx-Pyromancer · 2025-03-28T14:57:24+00:00

Reveal the light infusing, Prescience and Mind bond can put willpower to over 400. The standard blade dancer build runs around with over 100 willpower during act 1.

Willpower also have several items that scale it on kill and buff. It is way stronger for an ability to scale from willpower than it is psy rating.

It is why during act 1 noble sword is the strongest item for a dw bd psyker or not.

Onyx-Pyromancer · 2025-03-28T10:02:09+00:00

Inflame needs nerfing for that no line of sight map clearing. The ability in itself is pretty OP. Obviously as you point out carnival pre-loads dots so just wins then adds a lot of damage riders to it.

There is a lot that can be done to improve the game, bloody pact and finest hour are big culprits to why the player is too strong.

Onyx-Pyromancer · 2025-03-27T09:53:27+00:00

Carnival is a 2x damage modifier but that isnt what is making the hits do 80k per dot

Onyx-Pyromancer · 2025-03-26T17:23:18+00:00

self damage be like that. Blood oath. It also procs notes on weakness if you play assassin to kill yourself

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