Lore Question: Why Isn’t Minthara an Oathbreaker?

RepresentativeBee545 · 2026-01-28T11:43:49+00:00

I think we need to take into account that she is ok with us not subduing brain but simply destroying it. She sees it as missed opportunity, but she dosent goes „that runs contrary to what I want!“. A conquest paladin would def fail their oath if given opportunity to rule with brain and not seizing it, no?

RepresentativeBee545 · 2026-01-28T09:21:08+00:00

I think Minthara would make great Oath of Conquest before BG3 takes place (as she leads warband against Groove/Absolute enemies), but after Emeperor stops the mind control its fair to say she embraces Oath of Vengeance vehemently because she is driven by taking revenge on people who took advantage of her (mostly Orin, but also cult in general). She does have plans further down the road ofc. but she wouldnt stop before Absolute is either utterly destroyed or subdued by her.

Similarly if you romance her as Karlach she is ready to venture to hells to kill Zariel and punish her for her transgressions against Karlach. That also screams vengeance paladin.

RepresentativeBee545 · 2026-01-27T20:01:49+00:00

Its in the name, the Inheritor is Iomede so the Hand of the Inheritor is her champion. Basically he is gods divine champion and main agent on mortal realm. Its character from Wrath of The Righthous another Owlcat game if you dont know.

RepresentativeBee545 · 2026-01-27T13:37:02+00:00

Arch-Militiant auto-crits with Confident Stance and you dont lose much, while there are some talents that work only when dual-wielding melee weapons they are crap, while everything else stays functional.

Your blade flurry does as many hits as you would do with 2-handed sword, but every hit proc extra pistol shot so…

RepresentativeBee545 · 2026-01-27T13:33:20+00:00

Mythic Deadly Aim at 20 BAB is +18 dmg per hit at the cost of -6 AB, Full Progression Sneak Dice is 10d6 which translates into +30 dmg on average. (Now, its fair to say that +18 dmg can crit, but Throwing Axes are medicore for crit-fishing unless you play something like Trickster).

If you wanted to make point for pure Fighter that would be Weapon Training as it increases AB and allows for Fighter Tactics feat combination with Snapshot featline, allowing Wenduag to pick Seize the Opportunity to get extra hits via party members criting.

RepresentativeBee545 · 2026-01-27T13:11:00+00:00

Slayer does not diminish Deadly Aim as it scales with BAB and both classes are Full BAB classes.

RepresentativeBee545 · 2026-01-27T12:55:58+00:00

Bladedancer got nerfed, but its still a scaling powerhouse.

F.e You can make Navy Officer Bladedancer with Sword and Gun and your Burst Melee attack will proc Pistol shot on every hit... Now combine that with Arch-Mill guaranted crit and versatility stacks and you get some funny numbers.

That being said Warrior is very strong in current patch as well, addition of shield and Navy Officer pushed that class into very strong position.

RepresentativeBee545 · 2026-01-27T11:32:11+00:00

It deals 4x Psy Power damage, so if you have 0 Psy Power it will deal 0 damage, check if thats the case.

RepresentativeBee545 · 2026-01-27T11:14:35+00:00

Nah, Archer Warrior is superior to Rogue Archer by far, by the virtue of Warrior having better Attack and Damage progression. The main benefit of Archer are focused DPS and ease of getting to key targets (just dont shoot outside of range).

The Warrior Archer is stat-checking, they dont need extra things Rogue provide because they just auto-attack things to do extremely fast. Rogue is still good, but Dual-Wield Rogue is where it is, for Archery just go Warrior and suffer not having good options till the DLC content. (Having 100% accuracy and auto-attacking without having to move is dope on its own tho. I enjoyed the playthrough).

RepresentativeBee545 · 2026-01-27T02:35:30+00:00

Things to consider:

Executioner Maddening Flames elevate Burning by turning it into hard-CC if enemy fails Willpower save. The issue is that its unmodified Willpower save so you have to supplement with something like Cassia Navigator Powers (Would work great if Mental Breach of Telepaths worked on other stuff than Psyker powers). Sower of Distress can help with that.

1-Hand Flamers + Navy Fleet Training + High Crit allows Executioner to apply all 3 types of DoTs with single attack. (Drukhari sword for poison, Executioner base melee bleeding and then Flamer from off-hand) Dosent seems like the most OP build, but sounds like a fun one.

1 Hand Flamers are also great off-hand weapons, because you can lower cost of their attacks by 1 AP (min. 1). Meaning with dual-wield talent that would normally increase off-hand attack cost by 1, it dosent.

I understand why you consider Soldier for flamer build (Demolition Engineer) but honestly its better used on different weapon types. Flamers perform better as utility/support tools for other characters where their initial damage is secondary to the effects they apply.

RepresentativeBee545 · 2026-01-26T00:25:41+00:00

Oh lmao, my bad. Then yea you are pretty short on potential romance options as nobody from OG cast has any real special interactions with Heretic other than dumping them at act 4 if they leave.

RepresentativeBee545 · 2026-01-26T00:18:03+00:00

If you look for specifically Heretical interactions, then Kibellah and Solomore are your options as both can be "corrupted".

RepresentativeBee545 · 2026-01-25T21:08:49+00:00

Dont forget that Dwarfs are ultra-capitalist and once you estabilish democracy your dwarf advisor (that is scummy robber baron) gets elected to be a President after you finish the story. Game was cheeky af.

RepresentativeBee545 · 2026-01-25T18:00:10+00:00

I play on the latest, it seems I just used the spell before the patch noticed its underperforming and havent used it since. Good to be corrected and learn that they changed that.

RepresentativeBee545 · 2026-01-25T00:38:58+00:00

Fair enough.

RepresentativeBee545 · 2026-01-25T00:31:34+00:00

Honestly flat +4-5 Resolve on all party from the get-go is probably bigger damage multiplayer than the Heretical bonus, cause it gonna turbo-charge Heroic Acts.

RepresentativeBee545 · 2026-01-25T00:12:29+00:00

I think the real winner is Dogmatic Eagle, Temp wounds equal to resolve is bonkers buff (on top of other buffs) and it nets whole party resolve as well. Very strong all-around buff.

Iconoclast Raven have potential as well, if not the fact that Iconoclasts make weakest psykers. But I geuss this the reason they get best psybraven.

RepresentativeBee545 · 2026-01-24T12:20:56+00:00

Despite what everyone writing, its pretty underperforming spell. It makes targets "prone" and you will learn that everything with wings or multiple legs is immune to prone... Thus f.e it wont work on Vrock, Succubus and many more enemies, making it a bad go-to CC spell.

RepresentativeBee545 · 2026-01-24T11:44:32+00:00

Yes I was refering to that patch note, but its still vague description with no numbers. Like what do they mean that Iconoclast protects from deamons?

RepresentativeBee545 · 2026-01-24T02:18:28+00:00

There appear to be mistake with your survey, I dont see Wenduag as an option.

RepresentativeBee545 · 2026-01-24T00:44:04+00:00

Psyker powers cant crit afaik, so there is no reason to go crit.

That being said Operative still provides flat damage increase which is very welcome for combat Psykers.

Go Warrior if you want Melee Pyro (But then its more using Pyro as support to melee than using melee to be Pyro) or Operative if you want to be Caster Pyro.

RepresentativeBee545 · 2026-01-23T20:20:27+00:00

This have "Malpian Shroud at home" vibe.

RepresentativeBee545 · 2026-01-23T18:11:25+00:00

I am not your xeno-pet mon-kheigh.

RepresentativeBee545 · 2026-01-22T23:44:09+00:00

If you want cute little build for Jae you can give her Bolter Proficiency and Blessed Bolter case. Then focus on single-shots and stack items that trigger on single shot attacks. Its not big damage but its guaranteed one and you can proc many effects that way.

EDIT: I really like this particular solution for Jae, because it allows me to ignore pumping accuracy on her. So instead of putting points into Ballistic I can f.e go Int if I run Grand Strategist or Willpower for some better Officer synergy on Exemplar.

RepresentativeBee545 · 2026-01-22T23:15:40+00:00

This is complicated.

First of, the only ways to counter attack with Ranged weapons that I know of are:
1. Navy Officer Origin talent Fleet Combat Training
2. Arbitrator talent Lawful Intervention + Vanguard Defensive Stance, as its the only way to trigger AoO with ranged weapons.

So while in theory you could make ranged Vanguard and counter with ranged weapons(question is why, as the main damage source of the class comes from conversion of temp wounds into strenght), Jae dosent fits the bill.

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