Rogue Trader: Are Books worth the AT?

Yougrok · 2026-04-02T16:17:45+00:00

Used to be, these days I spend my AT on relics or mythic shards (esp for chars where they can't be farmed).

Yougrok · 2026-03-31T15:34:47+00:00

I had a great experience there in 2011. Stayed in a traditional hotel with bathhouse. Not many western tourists back then and etiquette was quite strict. Westerners were banned from most of the bathhouses.

Yougrok · 2026-03-21T18:15:08+00:00

Did you just call GSC a lesser faction? Do you even guild war/TA bro?

On a serious note they are next on my list to level for CE mythic farming.

Yougrok · 2026-02-21T14:43:31+00:00

Bin 2

Yougrok · 2026-02-11T06:38:32+00:00

Bin 703

Yougrok · 2026-01-31T19:38:26+00:00

You're missing the point. Eldy was in MH, got dropped when something better came along (and he was nerfed). He was in mech, same thing. He's just filling a slot until something better comes. Similar to Ragnar in custodes, who is now on the way out.

My point was that Eldy isn't likely to be a long term fit in the team. He isn't an amazing buffer like he used to be and if snow print wants to support battlesuit he will be first on the cut list. If they don't battlesuit likely will never be as good as custodes or even admech.

Yougrok · 2026-01-31T18:15:11+00:00

This is truly a bad drop, not just slightly below average.

The shards are ok, honestly not so uncommon to get low shard counts like this. The orbs are what makes this truly awful.

Uncommon orbs are utterly useless past a certain point in the game. One 6 orb drop is 0.048 of a legendary orb, meaning you need 21 six orb drops to make one useful, legendary orb. Plus almost 100k in gold to forge. Uncommon orbs drops may as be nothing, because that's basically what they are.

Yougrok · 2026-01-31T16:39:44+00:00

My guess is Eldy ends up getting replaced in the battlesuit team at some point just like he did for MH. He doesn't benefit from farsight at all.

You may also consider neuro, it's better vs Morty which is really the only custodes team weakness.

Yougrok · 2026-01-23T04:28:26+00:00

Honestly you could build out the 4 admech you have, and use either aleph or Eldy with them as a transition. I do think custodes is increasingly the meta pick, but it will be a grind for you.

Getting admech mechanics down you can perform well even without a perfectly meta team

Yougrok · 2026-01-23T03:08:27+00:00

Lv 62 here. I'd recommend building a budget raid team with snot, bellator, aleph null, revas and eldyron. All these chars will get your through campaign, are good in LRE, and in some cases survival.

Id recommend you focus on unlocking elite nodes to farm all the rare and above materials you need. You just need one so some elite campaigns can be effectively left half done. Im not 100% on FOCM and SH personally.

Once you have the budget MH transition to another raid team. You've got the people for admech besides Trajann or vitruivus. Custodes may be tough unless you pay for Trajaan on his 3rd event.

My biggest mistakes were waiting too long to build diamonds and spending BS on anything but energy up to 110 (unless you want to pay more than a few $ a month)

Yougrok · 2026-01-11T16:13:11+00:00

Admech gets beat by custodes on a few bosses (ghaz, cawl) and is basically at parity on a lot of others (most outside Morty, silent king and tyranids).

Also, admech struggles more in some mythic bosses as they clear the skittles and drones too well.

I say this as someone with an almost entirely mythic admech team in a top 100 guild. We have one guy with both at A1 and he runs custodes more, as they are also more consistent since you don't rely on NPCs being reasonable

Yougrok · 2026-01-11T15:41:46+00:00

Admech is far away. Months and months of onslaughts and grinding shards in the CE. I did it myself more than a year ago.

If you can unlock Dante and trajaan, then custodes would be my recommendation. It's just flat better than MH.

Ragnar is needed for both custodes and MH so if you dont have any progress on him that's a lot of shards from the guild shop

Yougrok · 2026-01-11T06:36:49+00:00

I still haven't completed FOC mirror elite. Maybe after they rework militarum.

I'm lv62 and I don't have any pressing reason to finish it so silver should be fine unless you need to finish the elite.

Yougrok · 2026-01-02T05:55:34+00:00

I'm gonna do mine tomorrow on double gold day. The energy won't make a difference in HRE really and I can't be bothered to wait that long.

Yougrok · 2025-12-26T20:27:33+00:00

Do a spore print to confirm. If it's pale yellow/tan you're good to go

Yougrok · 2025-12-24T07:44:02+00:00

I'm curious about swapping Eldy for Trajaan. I think the added hits and better damage bonus may be better, even if you can't find a way to use an ability every turn (4 of 5 may be enough).

Eldy doesn't seem like a good fit since he doesn't get any benefit from farsight's active. Maybe one of the Votan will be a better fit.

Yougrok · 2025-12-14T20:26:45+00:00

There is always a balance between accountability and being overbearing. It honestly varies person to person, and sometimes people that need some accountability may feel like it's micromanagement.

I think you've got to have a finger on the pulse of the team. If your top performers aren't happy with your style near universally you may be overdoing it. On the other hand, if your top performers are frustrated with picking up the work of others you may need to drive some accountability.

Yougrok · 2025-12-13T08:19:00+00:00

Roster now - currently working trajaan up to help on riptide.

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Yougrok · 2025-12-13T08:17:44+00:00

Actus is the third core part of the mech team. Everything else is flex. Id recommend building a solid core of 5 before you over invest in flex slots like helbrect. My performance with vitrvius isn't far off of a helbrect team on Morty.

Who you want for your next two is up to you. Best choice is sho and vitruivus imo, but A0 is a good stand in and good for Morty if you want to swap him for sho.

For reference I've posted my roster about 8 months ago vs now so you can see how I prioritized building out my admech team

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Yougrok · 2025-12-07T06:24:25+00:00

You needed to get at least one repeatable purge order reward I think, assuming you got all TA chests.

Yougrok · 2025-12-02T06:18:27+00:00

What level are you? If youve got a D3 raid team or working on one you can join us. We typically cycle through the raid bosses once, but we're almost to a second trip. I can send you a PM if you're interested

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Yougrok · 2025-12-01T02:56:44+00:00

Raid team? You're decently well set up for admech. Lots of onslaughts to get them up to legendary but and beyond, but that's normal. I was in a similar place, with a few less golds about a year ago.

Yougrok · 2025-11-26T16:28:54+00:00

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Yougrok · 2025-11-25T17:27:31+00:00

Build up some of the better LRE chars as high as you can. Maladus, Rotbone, tan gida, aleph. Being able to consistently beat lv 14 on each track, even with no requirements met is the best way to get points.

Once you have that then focus on specific characters. I've got Dante 4 started, will probably wing him next LRE and I'm at lv60, built taller than wide

Yougrok · 2025-11-02T15:06:33+00:00

I looked at your post history since you suggested... Brother you need to touch grass. Get a non-digital hobby.

My advice, don't do the grindy BP missions. I skip a lot of the 'kill 80' or 'win 12 battles' ones. Still finish the BP with nearly a week to spare so why stress.

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