I like this guy but he is gimped because he's slow already and then sets everything he attacks on fire and does not have unstoppable to then move through it. He needs unstoppable at the very least and then he might be a viable hybrid between Angrax and Haarken.

This game is cool but super grindy for F2P players and super expensive if you want to swipe the card.

Both character and legendary release events are way too overtuned for players with less than 6 months in the game. 😢

This is off-the-cuff; I am relatively new to the game. What drew me in was leveling to use upgrades, and making progress rather quickly. Around S1, (without books) the exp grind (through missions) was no longer rewarding. I could feel a massive slow down. Then with the +12500 exp books, it trivialized getting exp from missions. Fast forward to a handful of G2 units.... It takes about a week of elite missions (with 1-2 energy refills) and arena to maybe gain one level, probably closer to double that. Personally, I think it is a bad mechanic to basically force players to wait for xp books in order to level and progress. It ruins an integral part of the game that I enjoyed - the RPG / progress portion of the character development. I agree that shortcutting to level 24-27 with one book feels "cheap", so the limit on who you can use the books on makes sense. However, I don't agree with neutering that capability completely especially for f2p players. I would say that it is apparent that, the exp system is outdated and needs a rework. Maybe there could be another tier of difficulty for all campaigns. Like easy, medium, hard. Hard could give a lot more exp, and have better drops so the component grind for d1-3 characters, isn't taking away from low ranked characters (silver and gold)

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Great vid as ever DB. What a wealth of insight posted here. Hope the developers have a scroll through the comments. I believe there is some almost "Sand bagging" in area and Guild war with higher level players almost blocking lower level player development. But play at lower levels and winning they can frustrate lower level players and discourage them. Weirdly, we lost a few Guild wars at level 2 (which is closer to where we should be) before winning 3 at level 5. I wonder if there could be almost a "player pool" for those players under level 20 to compete in? Then another for 20 to 40? Maybe a form of this for guilds too??

Leveling your entire stable super fast is super easy. Just use the money you would otherwise waste on silly things like food, rent, education, retirement, romance, or those pesky bills and buy Blackstone. * To make sure all that Blackstone doesn't go to waste though, be sure to pay your phone/internet bill as well.

I think the Incursion model could be good for HREs. A chance to gather the upgrades needed without it impacting other modes. Run it over two weeks with sufficient tokens for anyone to unlock to legendary but scaling the difficulty so that beginners can easily unlock and push to rare/epic and strong players can push to legendary. It removes a lot of the RNG that can prevent ascending a new character. There wouldn't be the need for energy hoarding plus gives a mode to play with characters rather than just raiding or using 150 abilities.

The D1 to D3 grind is absolutely crazy in XP. I've found myself in an awkward point of my energy only being applied to "future" equipment, because of insufficient XP to open the next item slot so far. It feels bad. I love this game, but definitely something off for the progression sacrifices.

I'm a day 1 player and mostly f2p. I have sometimes gotten the premium BP and some other things. I'm very busy everyday with a young family and full-time job, plus other committments. So it's hard for me to get everything done in a day. Also this game is soooo grindy that it's not always fun to play everything all the time. So for me there is plenty to do. I wish there was a bit more variety to gameplay, looking at salvage, etc. I also wish it wasn't so hard to complete some quests and level some units up. The grind is too much.

I came to this game as someone who played warhammer fantasy as a kid. For all it's faults, its the best warhammer game on a phone by far. I wasn't interested in 40k at all until this game

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how does one put typhus above angrax ._. hard disagree on that one

I started about late august last year and got really into the game october that year. I've been F2P except for the lastest battle pass to get neurothrope as I value him greatly to get more comp options. I've just reached power level 43, I have Eldryon D1 and Bellator is there but I'm missing exp books. Exp is increasingly getting a bigger problem for me but I'm quite wide with my roster and working on that on the side while I'm getting more exp books it's fine so far for me.

As far as I am concerned (F2P player, i will never spend money in the game) .... there are too many things to do, it is killing my fun

I've been playing f2p for a year and even have any characters in gold yet. Forget diamond

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I spend all my guild raid and rogue trader currencies on XP tombs. It sucks.

Fine & enjoying the journey. Also love the “Not Afraid To Pay” player term. To be fair F2P can certainly be a slug

I've only gotten my first gold characters in the last month, so i'm a ways away from the XP Bottleneck, I also only upgrade characters as far as my Ranking allows (so no lvl 50 silver 1 chars like i see sometimes in arena). What i've seen in 6 months though is that increase to the top-end, without any notable method of increasing rewards - in fact with munitions we technically lost 4 or so free upgrades from arena crates :(. I'm hoping the next patch seeing a general buff in either volume or value of rewards given from your daily activites. Gold is my biggest blocker atm. a "mythic" XP might be nice, but does that not just open up the idea of an even higher character rarity cap? which recurrs our problem

If you unlocked him and for some reason are hesitating on pumping resources into him, Kharne will be a beast in the gamma track (can be used everywhere but power) and can be used in the melee track on alpha. I’ve gotten him to d1, which may become d2 by the Ragnar event, and I’m super interested to see how he does.

Honeslty I'm not a massive fan of limiting the xp tomes as I feel while that does promote diversity in leveling it just further increases the scarcity at the top and the overall time to level new characters. If I'm honest I think as we are getting more characters and the ceiling for characters is being raised, the ability to get things such as tomes, upgrades, badges etc should be increased otherwise the amount of time to get up to doing current content increases. Honestly I feel a new event such as maybe a battle pass acompanying mini challenge campagin could be a nice, low effort way to add in extra resource avenues to give new goals and increase the rate of getting largely time gated items.

What is that planner you are using?

I pay for the monthly standard battle pass. For how many versatile content there is. I have 35 characters at g1. It's good enough to unlock LRE characters on the first pass. But we're seeing a trend in where LRE are getting more specific. Broader rosters are needed for other content as well So I don't think I'll ever get anyone to d3. Maybe I'll get a few to d1. By the time I get a character to g1 another one has been released so I'll never run out of guys to level

The truth is part of the tactics is to choose to be versatile or specialist. Your way of thinking only benefits whales big money spenders and not most players. The idea of creating diamond level was to keep old players for longer with game and not enough xp books keeps them for longer. Imagine a situation where we can only upgrade characters to Gold 1 with the present system. There will be no issue with xp books anymore. Do you want to limit building your characters to G1 or want some more (a challenge, more grinding, more time in the game?). So easy solution to enjoying all characters is reducing cap on all characters to lower level G1or G2 should be enought ;)

been playing for over a year as f2p and i have only one D2, one D1 and eight gold characters. Its very sad to have so much characters rotting away, taking away a lot of fun from Tacticus. If I cant use them, they might as well could have not released them it feels... we need more xp, more badges, more gold. at the start of the game all was fine only grinding to Gold 3, but now its just ridiculous

How have you got so many diamond chars after just a year? I’ve been playing just over a year, buy the monthly bs packs and the premium battle passes as you do, I’ve always spent up to and including the 110bs energy refresh and for the last two months that’s increased to the 250bs refresh and I only have 20 chars at G1 (2 of which are G2) and 6 at S3. What am I doing so wrong that I’m that far behind you? Really confused :(

SnowPrint should make Energy unlimited and Raid Ticket are generated over time. BS for Raid Tickets.

I like the idea of limiting tomes to levels and creating a forge for them - but I do feel the forge need an option to dissemble too - taking orbs or tomes of a higher rating ingenio and turning it into x number of orbs at a lower rating, I have heroes stuck at uncommon waiting for me to slowly get enough badges and orbs to promote them whilst I'm stockpiling higher level orbs which I cannot yet use

Currently feels like I have too much to do compared to how little I make progress. I'm on the wide train and got some 20 gold characters soon my second diamond and rest are pretty much silver 3 and a handful of neglected stones.. . Don't do TA anymore, only do my 2 daily arenas.(rewards are bad and the Xp you get is not worth the time). Sidenote: only doing 2 daily arenas with my roster makes me one of those muppets you meet in lower arena with a team not supposed to be so low... Try to use lower characters to even it out a bit. Starting to lose interest in GW with no use for the rewards. Got my Rotbone from there, but the rest are not interesting. Legendary items sure, but farming them with energy is fast enough that XP bottlenecks using them. :D All in all as my characters are gold and I'm starting to push some abilities higher and leveling few key characters to diamond the XP bottlenecks my progress to the point of breaking. I got materials but I don't have xp to use them, heck I'm starting to have to excel my resources since main characters have all the mats they need and I have to look up what they need next as I wait for them to get xp. Plan B forget diamond, focus on finishing elite campaigns and hope for a change *shrug*

Great vid man! Definitely can relate to the books situation. I am playing since release, but mostly f2p, so you passed me long time ago) Getting leg books is such a pain that i don't level chars past 44 and i have only handful of d1 as it uses almost all of the resources available. F2p players really have to choose who to upgrade and because of all the issues you described i've been thinking to leave the game lately, as it takes too much time and gives almost no fun.

This game needs to free up the lower levels and characters from the main progress grind. No other similar game I've played has legendary characters use up all the common upgrades that the iron/bronze chars need so badly. Alongside the pathetic XP from every game mode except Arena (only top chars welcome), this keeps you from actually building the new characters. Most games drop common upgrades as extras on higher level battles, and give out XP potions for XP earned by maxed out characters. Tacticus should learn from that.

I have a fairly decent wide roster of G1s, and I'm already feeling the fatigue of getting them any higher. I used to pay for battle pass, but with so many things to do, its become more of a chore than fun, so I've stopped bothering with it. Paying doesn't speed up the leveling that much, so it feels like wasted money might as well just grind. I still pay for the monthly blackstone to support the game devs.

I calculated the energy cost to get every one of my characters whom I have spent exp on and I will run out of things to do with my energy in October. So, to be clear, I'll load up the game and wait for tomes. I suppose I could raid out my energy stockpiling a few different upgrades, but not being able to spend those upgrades as I get them really hurts the soul. I understand what the devs want. They want you to spend the ~200 bucks each month to get the guild credits and the daily rogue trader bits and then change them out for exp tomes so you can level as much as your energy allows. That just feels bad. I don't feel bad spending about as much money as you would going out to the movies (ticket plus popcorn, or around 25 dollars). But, I don't want to spend the amount of money I did on the new Skaventide starter set each month on Tacticus either. EXP tomes feel useless except as the gate. They must make the devs a lot of money though because if they weren't, the exp requirements wouldn't be as high as they are and the tomes wouldn't be as costly.

My biggest bottleneck right now is orbs, after that, possibly shards. The only reliable way to get either for characters without campaign is onslaught, which is getting harder and harder each time. I also am building wide rather than deep and I know I'm going to hit a ceiling before I can get enough orbs and shards to keep going, unless I abandon building wide. As they keep adding more and more characters, they really need to have more means to level them up or the game will just be a mashup of only the meta characters.

My biggest bottleneck right now is orbs, after that, possibly shards. The only reliable way to get either for characters without campaign is onslaught, which is getting harder and harder each time. I also am building wide rather than deep and I know I'm going to hit a ceiling before I can get enough orbs and shards to keep going, unless I abandon building wide. As they keep adding more and more characters, they really need to have more means to level them up or the game will just be a mashup of only the meta characters.

The XP bottleneck is the biggest problem in this game. Please address it, SP!

I got a job that increased my work hours and guild wars dropped at the same time. It pretty much killed the game for me. I got my Space Wolves to D2.5 and D1.5 with a wide roster of g1-3s. It just feels like I have to spend money to get xp books to progress and there was so many things to do I just didn't want to do any daily stuff or events anymore with my limited time. I work 12 hour days that doesn't give me time to play throughout the day. Coming home and the thought of 17 arena battles, 2 salvage runs, 1 or 2 onslaught and guild raids, maybe 10 guild war tokens, and maybe TA, LRE, or character release missions became absolutely exhausting for honestly what little actual progress to my roster's xp needs. I eventually decided to drop from my guild and just raid energy until maybe coming back. Right now my free time is for actual 40k tabletop building and painting until something changes.

I havent done any of the dark Angels beyond Silver 1. And even that just for the 15k dmg quest that gives me the req scroll. There is just no way i can go "that wide". Lots of chars just left behind (only missing 6 atm). Additionally to your EXP Idea i would raise the 2x Exp Sunday. Make it 5x or 10x. An Exp boost on Guild War battles. Since i go through alot of chars there anyways. Would also make the war more interesting. A general one though. Not like "more exp in higher guild war level" since that would mean newer players are left behind again.

Hello DB. I am part of the guild you had a GW against (showcased in your video). We were at GW 3 before that rework, we moved to level 4 because of that change.

I stopped playing Arena, because it felt like I was making no progress. Just shuffling back and forth between Chapter Master and the level below it. Heck, sometimes I'm not even making it to CM. I use Arena for meeting mission requirements, especially for character unlocks; but for fun I barely touch it.

Thank you for the video. Space Marine Officer Jigsaw ("Clueless")

Energy is the bottle neck of everything. I'm glad we can use tokens to buy more, but I've only seen it once in the shop so far and it didn't help much. Increasing the max energy (maybe +2 per level instead of 1) would be great. Make everything 5 energy instead of 6, Elites 8 instead of 10. Makes farming items better, don't have to bank energy quite so much for non legendary characters, and if you have a busy day you aren't missing out on energy from sitting at the recharge limit. Wouldn't feel like I need to waste raids on the first stage of Indomitus either for these dumb 250 campaign missions.

I'm not sure why Toth is so highly rated. He does very little damage unless he is in the diamond range. At gold 1 he is almost useless. Sure he's OK if buffed with Abraxas but compared to Kharn?

You said it perfectly. I purchase, build and play exactly as you do. Xp books and guild raid teams are lacking. I was upset at first that I went wide but it will pay off because I plan on playing for a long time. It sounds like the developers heard that this is a more common concern. It will be hard for them to slow down new things to buy making it difficult to get what we have leveled but I hope there's more campaigns coming with better drops. Maybe a better version of a character event that pushes it up specifically a rarity or two. I'd like to see a set open five team tactical campaign that shoots you a lot of xp. Your personal superhero team fast track. You'd learn how they work together and you could grow a squad quicker and equally

I'm definitely struggling to go wide too. I hit my silver roster goal and had started to focus guild raid teams to gold, but I'm getting shard blocked constantly with onslaught as the way to open it back up. And all of a sudden I have 4-6 more stone characters because I don't want to miss anything coming out, so everything is falling to the wayside. The xp books screen made me laugh, I'm close to that too

I'd add the possibility of running a B-Team in arena. some sorts of "training grounds" so we can easily use our lower level characters, to earn XP books rewards, orbs, and shards, so we can level up those characters faster, without taking from the reward pool of the A-team and high-level characters... Because at some point, taking low-level characters to onslaught is a chore too.

As a newer player this video is grim and I sure hope SP watches it and DOES SOMETHING. I understand the end game bottleneck is XP. But man, this entire fucking game feels like a bottleneck. The energy situation is laughable. Badges and orbs are nowhere to be found. I am PL30 with a pretty wide roster, but I have zero characters with abilities where I'd want them. I can't keep a single character from each alliance fed well enough to keep their abilities current. Not one!

I wholeheartedly agree! my problems are a bit wider, I play since release, did not invest as much money as you do and trying to build a wider team for LRE I am lvl 53 with 12 d1 and one d3 character the way too rare ressources for me are far out on top XP tomes, then legendary orbs, the legendary badges I am sittting on multiple gold 3 characters for which i do own all the upgrades needed but lacking the XP tomes and yeah it sucks that when playing (and leveling toons) you basically have to ignore a huge set of characters one would like to try, play and build but even with some money certain ressources are used as mega blockers still didn't get around to build adMech because lack of ressources and now way to play the game and earn them same goes for a Neurothrope team

What i would love more than anythign is quality of life improvements. Let me filter my chacter lists and make it so that my energy icon doesnt get replaced wirh an amunition icon if i navigate around menus. Game can be pretty buggy navigation and UI wise.