Where To Spend Your Precious Badges?

Today I'm doing an overview of every(!) character, doing a quick run-down on whether I think badges are best spent, on actives, passives, both, or not at all (coughIncisuscough). Let me know what you think of my questionable conclusions in the comments below!
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[@LordBuzzKillington]

Regarding Rho's passive: as a few people have commented on this assessment. Passive IS better if you're going pure mechanical team, or substantially. But as part of general advice, or as a more balanced team, Rho doesn't slot in very well. He's very much a specialist.

[@davidmcloughlin6547]

1:38 - Ultramarines 3:51 - Sisters 5:54 - Necrons 7:01 - Astra Militarum 8:19 - Black Legion 9:58 - Death Guard 11:39 - Orks 12:40 - Aeldari 13:51 - Tau 15:04 - Space Wolves 15:58 - Thousand Sons 16:47 - Black Templars 17:30 - Tyranids 17:58 - AdMech 18:40 - Dark Angels 19:10 - World Eaters

[@butwhat98]

This was a very helpful video! Not even close!!!! :P

[@ClipsFromMaine]

Nice 😂

[@ClipsFromMaine]

Is it weird that a 20 minute video felt short to me? Lol, thank you so much for your advice and your insights! I think I could’ve watched you go even deeper in depth! 😁

[@Guyonnn]

Great video, keep it up. I’m getting into this game and am realizing how important knowing where to spend resources is. I wouldn’t mind seeing a video about items, which to prioritize, how best to get more salvage and so on.

[@im2randomghgh]

Helbrecht is a big both. Combines super well with Ragnar in GR, giving him a huge damage bonus per hit and more than doubling his pen

[@Guyonnn]

Best video on badge spending I’ve seen… not even close. 😉

[@kevblloyd]

I broadly agree for the c.50 characters I have unlocked, though there is inevitably some disagreement. The one that stood out to me is that like a lot of people in my guild you seem to undervalue Yarrick's passive slightly. Whilst you're right, it's not as important as his active, he does immediately add a damage buff to any summons with Battle Fatigue just by virtue of being on the field. I find this very useful. Mine is at L35, which immediately adds +114 damage iirc. A few people in my guild thought this only counted once a summon had been executed, but this is wrong. I started to doubt myself, so I checked it in a salvage run where I moved Yarrick first and summoned on turn one. Sure enough, the Guardsmen got the buff straight away. Paired with Creed (I appreciate you're not a fan) or maybe Snotflogga, you can gain a chunky boost, especially if you're canny with timing and placement to maximise summons.

[@im2randomghgh]

Paired with Snotflogga he can be extremely dangerous in Guild War!

[@PureShrewd]

Thank you for making this video. Great advice and appreciate your insight.

[@BabidyG]

That's a bad recommendation for rho XD Choose the passive over active

[@john-paulsilke893]

He went over more than 70 characters and you disagree with him on one. So he got 72 out of 73 right? Pretty good, an easy A+

[@BabidyG]

@@john-paulsilke893 yes its a pretty good i guess? its just that rho team is one of the strongest team right now. and it might be disastrous to invest on the wrong skill.

[@PureShrewd]

Agreed. Rho GR teams rely almost exclusively on his Passive.

[@jacksonville9642]

Yeah I definitely disagree with a lot of what you said lol Exitor Rho active?

[@nathanwilkowski3131]

Right!

[@brunozeigerts6379]

'Badges? We need stinking badges!'

[@joelsmith8884]

I feel like Asmodai will become much more useful for a full Dark Angel line-up once they are all released. Dark angels in general are gearing to be best used once you have the full set that are yet to be released. His profile icon is his main appeal at the moment for me lol, It is a really cool profile pic

[@LordBuzzKillington]

Yeah it's hard to assess him right now for exactly that reason.

[@helgerudolph4035]

They already work amazing together

[@joelsmith8884]

@@helgerudolph4035 Yeah, and once we get the other 2 characters put in the game (Really hoping for a Blade guard character), It should be a pretty fun solo faction line-up to run

[@Vortenger]

Burchard's passive over his active. Not even close.

[@simonelliott2945]

I can’t believe you ignored rho’s passive is getting huge numbers. One of the guys in our guild is getting 700k in some GR because of his passive

[@kevblloyd]

700k? Christ. What's his normal lineup and roughly what strength?

[@LordBuzzKillington]

@@kevblloyd 700K does seem rather high lol I'm guessing a max diamond 3 team, mostly mechanical if not all?

[@simonelliott2945]

@@kevblloyd i can’t remember exactly but I think shosil, tan gida, anuphet, eldrion, and rho. Thay are all g1 to D2 so strong but is almost double what we are getting with similar strength teams it just really abuses his passive wit all the summons. You do need rho leveled up to be tough enough to stand next to the boss and survive

[@SwiftyAj]

I suppose people don't pay attention. The best raid team now is: Rho, actus, eldryon, sho and tal gida. For everything else that isn't good against is Neuro team (which is what i run)

[@thenukedgamer65]

For yaz, I disagree,his passive is a monster and has perfect synergy with thousand sons. Most people use him as a troop transport, personally i use him as a nuke. Abraxas typically can get 4-5 charges for his passive,then archi can get another 1-2, ahriman 1-2, and throw in toth with his active. The summons+psycher hits first soften everything up,then toth finishs off the adds, and yaz can shoot a nuke shot with 6-10 chargers which at level 35 would be 510-850 extra damage that has a 55% perice and he hits max damage on the 20+/-. I used him at bronze 1 and sniped every boss in one his cus his passive so cracked in SHM campain.

[@nathanwilkowski3131]

I know you already responded to this, but it didn't take long for my mech team to compete with my main raid team. I know you are giving generalist advice, but Tan Gida? Rockstar that fits solidly in most teams (summons durable 3hit high pierce in volumes...work's in multi-hit, saves bacon in restictive LREs, practically solo like abraxus, Rocks onslaught, lacks burst damage for pvp, can get wins like aleph, but not reliable for it [dang, that was a long paranthetical comment, wasn't it...]). Actus? Passive (mid priority, but that's where the raid damage boost is). Exitor? Passive, passive, passive; It's the only reason the mech team has a high damage payoff (if you try to make him work in pvp, both). Vitruvius? "I wouldn't rate. Leave him in the dust."

[@anthonygen251]

I definitely respect your opinion and you did a great job covering the hero’s. I’m curious is there a reason you leave most of your hero’s at G1? Personally I done super deep into the black legion army and have them all to G3. I think you’re a little off base about Abaddon as at face value he’s not great but if you do run an all black legion his passive LTGB has a chance to let my hero’s do double the damage. With resilience and terminator armour +3 movement he can charge an over watch, practically one shot them and regain some health back

[@LordBuzzKillington]

Full disclosure: I get them to gold then the next shiny character comes along and my magpie brain gets distracted

[@EzraHamilton-fv6oj]

I want those shards!..please

[@helgerudolph4035]

Asmodai and Azrael as close combat combo kill everything. And Azreael gives Asmodai atleast 50% block Chance (or 55% with Iron halo). Azrael can also supress everyone in a row (Specials Re’vas because the drones Are his weakness in this case) and Asmodai Deals more damage because of that. Leveled Both to Diamond 3 :D well and Sarqual give Heavy Range Support. I only play Dark Angels plus Imospekh atm.

[@aaronochoa782]

Good video. Like my characters, I was too broad in leveling badges. I thought I had to max abilities to beat elite missions so now I have certus and Devine at 25 active and passive among others. Frustrating almost a year in and correcting mistakes. Still obsessed with the game so will just focus better. Thanks again

[@ZarliWin]

Just for me, Rho's passive has been an incredible damage multiplier. Park him next to Dorn and it greatly increases your ability to negate his machine gun skill. He works great for any boss that doesn't have an auto kill vs melee

[@yuriipochtovyk6122]

Aleph null passive is pretty important in LRE. You simply stay with revas shooting and spider healing, you may even not use scarabs

[@Mltemple8333]

Good to see opinions on which to invest in. Difficult to figure that out when you are newer to the game.

[@Plague1479]

Great video Buzz appreciate all the feedback my man.

[@MajorBorris]

Thx

[@sonsofsparda22]

level everyone you'll need them for legendary events and the campaigns

[@TheElderPETE]

You have such a lazy account. Lots of "I'm a creator" character shards and almost no ranks. Sitting on over 2 milion coins! Jeez. On another note. Is anyone making sense of these recommendations? It would be helpful when you went over which skills you have to prioritize as a whole? Not each character on his/her own. There is only so much to go around.

[@ChaosBrain161]

Great Video, it would probably be realy good if I would actually use those advises for my Gameplay. But the thought alone, leveling the abilities of my units uneven is giving me itches and headaches, so yeah, I will keep everything even xD.