ULTIMATE Base Class Guide (Abilities, Respec, & Talents) | Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters 

Wanted to add something for the Justicar: When using Terminator armor, the knight can wield a melee weapon and the psycannon at the same time. I know you probably already know this, but this is a crucial piece of the Justicar puzzle I thought I'd mention.

It's always a good sign when you look at a skill tree and you don't know what you should pick because there are too many good choices.

A wonderful party composition is 3 Justicars and an Interceptor Get ''Honour the Chapter'' Power for all the Justicars and slap that on the Interceptor and just go all out melee on that Interceptor, murdering everything.

Also, the range of Teleport Strike (and thus the number of potential targets) is affected by the range of Teleport--so that skill that increases its range is pretty crucial, imo.

This was a fantastic overview Spartacus, thank you! This really helped provide some context for where to go next with my Grey Knights. I was feeling a little clueless, especially regarding the Apothecary, but I think I have a plan now. Also, your encouragement to experiment and not fret about making the "wrong" build is excellent advice. Min/maxing is not always necessary for such an immersive and characterful game. Keep up the great work!

This guide is incredibly helpful. I wasn't able to figure out the intended roles for each class until I watched this. I wasted a 15 hour playthrough trying to figure out how to spec out each class. I then watched this and now I'm getting shit done.

This game is amazing for it's interplay between your characters' abilities on the tactical side, and tailoring for various cooperative strategies. Been having a blast. Just hope there is some future DLC to expand the maps, enemies, and mission types as I'm seeing a fair bit of repetition after 50 hours of playtime. The fights still require plenty strategizing to keep your boys from getting too harmed, however, so it will likely be one of those rare games in which I finish a campaign. Probably even go back for more at higher difficulty and/or ironman.

I recently bought the game, and have been having fun with it, so came across some of your guides which have been helpful in figuring things out. Doing a great job on explaining things (even if there are a couple things you miss or what not, its all good) Your great to listen to and its easy to understand. So just wanted to say thanks for that. Some of these things i never considered and ive been playing for at least a week or so now.

Great video, thanks for the insights!

very nice overview of classes and progression ethos. Your enthusiasm was also very apparent.👍🏾

Really incredible video. Exactly what I needed, and I really like the way you explain concepts!

Can’t wait to see this guide for the advanced classes !

The Justicar's "Honor The Chapter" ability, fully fitted out, has been massive for me. Really boosts your ability to kill whole enemy groups in the first turn with a pumped-up Psycannon character's AoE, or an Interceptor. Also adding a Librarian with the full Psychic Scream (AoE for 5 Stun) just pumps out +1 AP for the whole group as your Interceptor teleports and proceeds to do execution after execution. The Justicar's extra AP & WP just multiplies the kill capacity on any of them.

Great video. I will echo what some others have said, a grenadier purgator is not to be slept on. Also IMO the range of the Psilencer beats the ignore cover component of the Psicannon. Unless of course your Psilencers are bugged. I generally run with an Interceptor a Justicar and 2 Purgators, one Psilencer one Grenadier. For healing I go for the extra wargear abilities when possible and then add skulls as needed. There is a talent that adds skull ammo, this helps and early is better healing than an Apothecary with 4-5 WP. Speaking of talents the game should restrict some of them by class. I got an Interceptor with +1 ranged ammo...and I have gotten Purgators with +melee talents.

Cool Guide, loved it - very informative! Great Job! :)

I needed a guide just like this, thanks!

Would be great to get an advanced class guide, great work!

Thanks for the video. I am loving the game, but having some trouble getting into the true way to play. Going to be visiting this guide a few time.

brilliant video guide for noobs to the game like myself, good job Spartacus! i will be coming back to this video again and again to check whenever i am upgrading my troops.

I'm still learning the game but I have some love for the incinerator. If I'm attacking a bloom spawn or whatever it's called, they tend to call in a lot of reinforcements. If one pops up near me I'll have my incinerator guy cover the area with flames so they get burned when it's their turn. Also I found the incinerator is great for stripping armor. When I run into a tank Ill send in my burner guy to weaken it. Then the rest of the squad kill it.

Great guide

Teleport is so nice. I can't count how many times the entire enemy would move in and stack Overwatch on to my Interceptor, and I just teleport right out

Thanks!

I got FULLY into Warhammer this year when they announce Cavill & Amazon buying out the IP to create a film, I was playing the old school PlayStation 1 Warhammer SPACE HULK game, Deathwing & then Space Marine 1, never played the Tabletop games. Let me just say as someone who is a complete NOOB & has played 14 hours worth of ChaosGate, ChaosGate is probably the most fun & intense gaming experiences I’ve ever had. I’m currently playing on Merciful & even on Merciful, it’s tough! I can’t imagine what the Grandmaster difficulty is like lmao, but I feel like playing this game really feeds you brainpower because it’s ALL strategy. This game is almost guaranteed to make you smarter, play 10 hours of ChaosGate & then go play another war game & tell me how you play compared to how you did before. (My KD in Battlefield 2042 is significantly higher than it’s ever been since ChaosGate.) For any NEW Warhammer fans & gamers who want to try out a Warhammer game, I HIGHLY recommend ChaosGate. This video has helped me SOOOO MUCH in my own progress, but I highly recommend for novices to play at least 2-3 missions FIRST before coming to this video & start taking advice. Just so you get a feel for what each Knight’s role is on the battlefield & what you feel like what your knights need in order to defeat patrols, psykers, etc

I think Commune unlocks when you lose a knight after building the Stasis Chamber. Just having the Stasis Chamber isn't enough.

Granades are so powerful, having a guy with 6 granades per mission, regardless of talents is so powerful.

Thanks for the video

Great stuff! I would also love to see a lore video guide on the classes, if there is enough interesting lore on them that is.

Great video, I've learned a buch of things from it. I can't thank you enogh @ItalianSpartacus! I've finished the game, but never ever managed to reset my knights talents. I tough it is not possible. I've almost criticized the game becose of it. As it turns out the reason was i didn't lost any knights during the campaign? Mega facepalm! :D xD Also in higher difficulties, the aoe bleed (Scourging) for the Apothecary is usefull, especially if you have a storm boltor with bleed on force attack. I was able to put so many DoTs on armored targets, and thus deal dmg bypassing the armor so much that i had almost infinite WP becouse in many times that DoT secured the kill. Unfortunately, mutated enemies may be immune to bleed but there are ways tu purge their mutations.

Just a clarification on Warp charge, it doesn't give you 4 ap, it's kind of misleading as the warp charge will give 1 WP and 1 AP additional to whatever your base is, so the base ability is 1 AP so it'll give 2 AP and 1 WP, you can see this when you upgrade it to give 2 AP as it'll change saying it gives 3 AP and 1 WP. This goes for other abilities as well, when you get the damage upgrade for rend the unclean it'll actually change from saying 4 damage to 6 damage

Yep, to support what someone else sort of mentioned, Commune is only active when you have the stasis chamber and at least one Grey Knight has straight-up died. Basically, for every dead Grey Knight, you can either add an ability point or do a respec (including any added ability points).

Looking forward to the review on the advance character classes. Kinda confused on their builds.

You should definitely go for the range increase with the interceptor if you go for teleport strike since it increases all teleport abilities. Just wist I could jump back and forth.

Thank u so much lol!!

The interceptor with +1 AP per crit is insane when you have 80% base crit. With some items you can get a "cervo skull" apothecary, mine has 6 healing skulls and 15 extrator skulls.

I double down on purgator, support and tank justicar, and a dps interceptor. The purgator psycanons judging by what happens in the game. The justicar strapped with willpower terminator armor, uses oath to increases the ap of my interceptor or purgator. Psycharge if I wanna take out tanky targets. If the mission dragged too long, and I’m out of willpower, he serves as a tank with aegis shield in front of purgators, while the interceptors flank and go for the kill.

5:38 The tooltips are confusing, but wtih warpcharge on "Honor the chapter" you only get a total of 3 AP and 1 WP. Not sure if it is a bug or not. It is still crazy powerful, but just not quite as good as 4. I loved support strike, was good damage on the intercepter. Getting the 2nd shot seems quite random though, not sure if it is bugged or if there are other requirements. Hammerhand is also really good for getting the seeds early, as a crit will remove the seed from an enemy. Once you get the skulls that can do it, it becomes less useful though. For my purgator, I agree the AOE is amazing early. Later on the 6 damage becomes less good. I also found some armour that boosts focus, so he had I think an 80% chance to reload, which was very strong. Good point about astral aim, I was sleeping on that too. Bleed seems a bit weak to me. Maybe for a boss it would be helpful, but for the normal enemies it is so slow. At the end though I ended up with 4 people in terminator armour for my squad. The paladin and librarian have amazing AOE so the purgator become benched. Not got one of the other support classes yet.

Hype!!

What is the bug for the psylinser? I love the purgatory and his psylinser

i have to say, onthe justicar, the charg is somehow a must have, one for the movement it is great but more important for the passive for 4 hp. they can be crucial. btw i picked on one of my 9 level justicar also the 2 passives for 4 extra willpower, like that you can give your interceptor a lot of ap. he is juping around like crazy with a weapon with overcharg amor piercing. like that you kill terminators left and right besides you mentioned it that the psycanone is not working right, just as the flamer. that is the reason why i had almost only meele in my first play through. and damn when you guys play on normal difficulty that is all you need HAHA

You and Zerkovich are doing great making me not want to wait for a sale on this. Kudos! Also.. for the uninitiated, what's the psilencer bug?

Really good vid! Cheers I asked a really good streamer, about Emporers Judgement, on the Apothicary the other day? He is getting good results his way! But he had not tried it yet, & did not see value in it? (He was cool though, not dismissive) But after reading about it myself, it seemed a strong choice so really good to know! I can see myself watching this vid several times? Cheers

If anyone havent mentioned it yet, you can comune by using the geneseed of a fallen battle brother. Once you commune with it, the geneseed will be sent back to Titan and will no longer be avaiable.

Thank you for the in-depth analysis! I really like this game and it’s great to know more as this game punishes you. Already had to restart once to play more optimally 😂

This game is kicking my ass lol.

What is a good forum/place to discuss turn-based gaming in general?

From what I've been seeing, the Incinerator is bugged. The additional damage flames of purtiy has, does not actually proc. I could be wrong, but when I use flames of purity it always does base damage even when I dump 3 shots into it. The flame wall is to short range and it the only thing outside of explosives that ignites oil puddles, even the base shot from the flamer doesn't which I think is an oversight.

Thanks for the video. Remember the old Chaos Gate from the late 90's pretty good game.I know it must be more advanced than the old game but does it play like the old game?

How is the Psilincer bugged? I have a 20 hour play through and it seems to work fine.

3:30 in order to commune, you have to have one of your knights fully die, 1 dead knight = 1 respec

Damn, new game coming up.

recently got the game and i got a psilencer weapon drop that ignores armour. It is 100% pick on every mission. I have 2 Purgators, both with the auto crit skill (southern quadrant on tree i believe) and both working towards the top left corner for buffs for that weapon. at base it has the best range of all normal weapons, with armour penetration, at my measly 7 hours in, allows me to just shit on all the tougher enemies. Run this with a justicar (and i whoooole heartedly agree on the psycannon ranged upgrade) with the termi plate & honour the chapter. keep 1 wp on the justicar to use psychic onslaught with it, and you can not only do decent aoe damage, but usually get your wp back when something dies. I really like the apothecary, but they suck ass. the termi plate is nice, but their buffs you need to be adjacent to them for. The servo skull perk is something to consider though, to get seeds & run the medicae one as well as you can heal from farther away

You need a dead Knight in the statsis chamber for you to be able to commune and you can only use that knight once - to be clear you need the building and then one of your knight's has to die.

I really like iron arm biomancy. Sometimes my interceptor excutes four guys for turn and the rest of the knights gains four AP wich is massive advantage.

Just wanted to say how helpful this video was! Thanks so much. I started the campaign on easy after 4 hours of normal and I could just FEEL I wasn’t playing it correctly. This has been super helpful for just pointing out synergies whilst also not being declarative ie “this class is dogshit don’t take it”

6:38 crushing charge can push the enemies from edges if they are knockable it is very fun to see a full health plague marine dies durin your opening turn , it can destroy small objects too , also it stuns like a mf and for me this skill combined with rend the unclean is very very deadly 24:48 1 interceptor 1 purifier and 2 justicars combo is very fun many people don't know this but you can teleport your own knights with teleport skill and negate their mobility or range issues and you can do a lotta dmg especially with a buffed purifier and set a fire hazard zone then you can use last 2 ap for tactical retreat then you can put justicars in front with crushing charge skill and watch your foes burn the fire dmg also stun em the game says it doesn't stun but i stunned the entire seed carrier squad and i couldn't execute them because of fire hazard so i just ended the turn and watched em burning alive and i didn't know it was that devastating until i realize the burn damage bypasses the armor also the reason why i clicked this video is to learn how good sanctified killzone and astral aim with a purifier what a shame imagine you are playin a 40k game as a grey knight and not pickin a purifier

Which ability specializes in Psychic abilities?

How is the psilencer bugged? I am using a fully kitted purgator with a lvl2 psilencer that ignores armor and he wrecks the battlefield especially with the +ap from the justice. Keep in mind that range reduces damage so the extra range from the psilencer is a big buff

You’re missing out on the incinerator, it can kill as many enemies as grenades is used properly.

What's the pslincer bug? I can't find anything about it outside of people in videos saying that its bugged..

I bought the game from steam too early, gotta check if it’s available in Taiwan.

Idk if you already figured commune out yet but one of your grek knights has to die for it to work. You can either give an existing character extra talent points or use this commune for a respec.

Actualy first thing you want to do with purgator is to look at his build in skill. I have a guy with +1 grenade ammo. +1 ammo from heart of flame armor +2 from skill tree. +1 grenade slot from skill tree. That gives 10 total.

I've been having some fun with this game, but damn do these feel paper thin at the start, not what I expected for Grey Knights, even initiates to be killed in a couple of attacks from rando cultists

There's a bug with the Psilencer? What is it? That weapon has been working well for me.

How to win Chaosgate..1 word. Telestrike. Thank you

Dramatically overestimates the value of Bleed and underestimates the front loaded area murder of a grenade specced purgator.

Does anyone know what I should be spending my requisition on? Is it best to pick up as many knights as I can (since a lot of them have trash skill trees and u can refund them back) or are people power leveling the Titan armoury upgrades to get tier 3 weapons and armour quicker?

Does anyone know how knights getting wounded?? is there any threshold of damage you take and any way to avoid getting wounded state before mission is ended? i think getting a knight back to full health does not help if they have already got damage previously in the mission

Anyone know if there is a stat to increase the 'hit' chance of afflictions? or if something has high resistance is there nothing you can do about it?

Would you go bleed line or heal line to get to the top right for apothecary

Love the video! However you kept saying that the psilencer is bugged but noware do you mention what the bug IS. Is the damage not calculated correctly or something cause I’ve been using it and although the damage is not what I’d like it to be, everything short of damage output works for me. So I’m curious what bug I should be avoiding? It certainly isn’t something that crashes the game or a missed shot or anything of that nature. So how debilitating is the bug?

Deathless: can't die and won't lose resilience when critically wounded. Start with -2 WP

Someone probably asked before, but i don't know how to filter comments. Do i need to have someone dead when i want to use the respec or additional feats? I thought i would have progressed enough in the story (killed 3 Storybosses). Most of my marines are already lvl 9. When can i respec?

Need dead knights to respec, or gain ability points

I was kinda hoping there would be a lightning claw as a melee weapon, but these weapons look sick too. Anyone playing it right now, how is it bug-wise? Waiting for at least the first 1 or 2 updates before I jump in.

Great Destiny: This Knight gains +2 Max HP, +1 Max WP, and +1 DMG for his Melee Attacks, he cannot gain Resilience.

"I have broken this video up into chapters" uuuuh ok Guiliman, calm down mate 😂

I really like psychic onslaught, but I find it situational. Any ranged units spread out way too far for it to be useful consistently.

So I ain’t the only one with a bug that prevents me from using the alternate fire on my Psilancer and Incerator ?

The Commune option only works if you have a fallen brother, it's not a story thing. If you have the stasis chamber and a fallen brother you can use the geneseed of that dead knight to either respec or gain more ability points on one knight, then that seed is gone. Kinda stupid that you have to lose a knight in order to respec... had to intentionally sacrifice a knight in order to respec one of my maxxed out knights.

I've never been able to use rend the unclean as my guys never are surrounded so I stopped picking it.

An apothecary isn't an apothecary with out the narcicium

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that psycannon on him makes him super dynamic but this game was no xcom lol xcom i played on hard no problem but this game brutalized me maybe im getting old

I wouldn't recommend to take any skills with a bloody Khorne Symbol on it^^ Just saying ;)

Respec has nothing to do with a story point, you just need dead brothers :P Edit: Also, how is the psilencer bugged? They work just fine for me.

“Plague Monkey”🤣🇦🇺

So ummm Chaplin is like a no go? xD

Rend the unclean is actually really bad ability. Damage is pretty weak, it costs a lot of WP and knock targets around which makes it harder to follow up with other aoe. IF you want good AOE on Justicar, try to get halberd that has blast on psy charge and get aguments that boost your psy charge damage, give it armour break and ap on crit. Much better investment, it will cost only one WP and there are at least 2 versions of halberd with blast psy charge, tier 1 and tier 3. If you manage to get armour that also boost your psy charge damage ( they are out there) you can get some amazing AOE that will only cost you 1WP and far outperform Rend. Use these skill points elsewhere.

armour upgrades dont add armour, also why do chaos space marines have 3 armour to terminator 2 armour and 0 for power armour which is equal to basic enemy armour, skin value, very unbalanced

Wtf is this game

Thanks!