Heinrix is a Sanctioned Psyker who you recruit at the mid-point of Act 1 in the Cenobium as part of the events of Rykad Minoris. When you recruit him, you get new additional Biomancer powers blended into Warrior style content. The Biomancy and Warrior is really interesting, as players can get great Toughness and Strength boosts, making it a formidable soldier. Combine its Biomancy staff, and Heinrix has the ability to provide solid sustain when not threatened. With that said, Heinrix makes for a powerful tank type character, which is exactly one of the strong and viable ways you can play Heinrix. If this is the role you want for your Inquisitor, then here’s a closer look at our Warrior Vanguard Heinrix build in Rogue Trader.

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Heinrix’s Psyker powers and affinity for melee combat enable him to become a powerful Paladin-type class. Here’s a closer look at a Heinrix Build in Rogue Trader which offers just that.

Heinrix Build - Rogue Trader¶

The core tenants of the Heinrix build will be using a mixture of Willpower for magical buffs, crit enhancing, toughness, and dodge to make him a tanky beast. This is important, thanks to you needing Parry, critical hit and chance through weapon skill, willpower for your magic synergy, and toughness for tankyness. Throw in some Agility and dodge modifiers, and Heinrix is capable of surviving heavy melee and ranged encounters. Keep these facets in mind for the Archetype builds still to come.

Note that throughout this build, you will find the word preference. This largely indicates options for party role checks or additional services like using Medicae items in combat. So, go with whatever version of Heinrix is better suited for your party, and based on what holes there are to fill. Medicae is okay since you’re front-lining and taking a beating, but, there are more dedicated Med-care characters with the likes of Argenta builds and Pasqal builds for that role. But it is not necessary.

Warrior Build¶

Order	Unlock 1	Unlock 2
1	Dash	–
2	Coercion	–
3	Endure	–
4	Daring Breach	Defensive Manoeuvres
5	Enrage	Agility
6	Invigorate	Coercion
7	Toughness	Blade of Light
8	Preference	Pulse of Life
9	Daring Breach 3	–
10	Psy Rating 1	Toughness
11	Taunting Scream	Nimble
12	Weapon Skill	Preference
13	Thick Skin	Preference
14	Willpower	Dueling Mastery
15	Daring Breach 1	–

In the Warrior section, we’ll largely be taking Warrior talents that make you more tanky, while offering you the movement, and basic Psyker magic to get the build started. The key mechanisms of the build involve Defensive Manoeuvres for dodge increase on charges. You’ll be using this a lot to get around, and keeping up a nice dodge buff for evading annoying shooter enemies, especially when there’s a lot of them. In addition, you get some early sustain with Pulse of Life, and that gets improved through Enrage’s crit modifiers, offering a handy crit burst heal when the dice is on your side. All in all you get some good early synergy. You also want to grab Taunting Scream as your final warrior skill, which sets you up nicely to have a great Taunt ready for Vanguard, since you’ll need to get Priority Targets to make Vanguard’s talents work.

Vanguard Build¶

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Taunting groups of enemies to force them to hit you and build your Unyielding Stacks up turns you into a sturdy tank.

Order	Unlock 1	Unlock 2
1	Unyielding Beacon	–
2	Wall of Rockcrete	It Will Not Die
3	Wall of Ferrocrete	–
4	Unyielding Guard Preference	–
5	AP increase	Weapon Skill
6	Strength	Taunting Defense
7	Defensive Stance	Preference
8	Formidable Distraction	Edge of Dawn
9	Toughness	Psy Rating 2
10	Enduring Shield	–
11	Preference	Toughness
12	Unyielding Guard 3	–
13	Renitent Beacon	–
14	Preference	Willpower
15	Enfeeble	–
16	Psy Rating 3	–
17	Willpower	Preference
18	Power Weapon Expert	–
19	Combat Master	–
20	Unyielding Guard 1	–

Your talents in the Vanguard tree are all designed for supporting your ability to cast Taunting Scream and live to the following turn. Enemies in Chapter 2 and beyond get more punishing and numerous, so, having the defensive abilities like Endure, Rockcrete, and other supporting talent buffs via Armor, Dodge, Reflection and more are all key to the class. From there, you can start picking up other talents handy for proving support by lowering enemy dodge, aiding your operators in their role, alongside buffing your own self-healing and psyker magic capabilities when possible. You can even do some cheesy taunt traps with parrying enemies, provoking attack of opportunity, and then successive attack of opportunity taunting them again if you really want to. All in all, you will become the frontman of the band, garnering all the attention from the heretics in the moshpit and coping with it.

In addition, there’s some really nice armor and other Psyker related accessories you can grab from around Chapter 3 and 4 onward. You can find lots of Psy items from Commorragh, and the Kasballica faction have specific Psyker heavy armor purchases, alongside items like the Warp Surge Brooch that enables you to attack as many time as your Psy level is for the first turn of combat. That’s a lot of whacking for some incredible damage.

Exemplar Build¶

When you reach Exemplar, you’re largely taking Exemplar talents that bolster your crit for synergy in the warrior tree, and more Exemplar buffs to support your survivability. Below is an example of what the first few levels can look like for the Heinrix build.

Order	Unlock 1	Unlock 2
1	Tough As Steel	Strange Vitality
2	Preference	Still Mind
3	Toughness	Subtle Manipulation
4	Regeneration	Preference
5	Full Attention	Psy Rating 4
6	Willpower	Inscribed Soul
7	Warp Speed	Willpower

From here, feel free to spec into whatever you prefer. There are still a few psychic spells available to grab to boost that playstyle, including other warrior and vanguard talents. It all really depends on what your party role is by this point in the game. Also, when more Exemplar talents come up, grab Flesh Wounds and Critical Velocity. Flesh Wounds is a nice heal, and Critical Velocity is handy for crit strike chance and damage, which also affects your Pulse of Life. Relentless is also a good option for self healing. This concludes the Heinrix Build in Rogue Trader, showing you how to build this magical tank class, and become the Cleric that the 40k universe deserves.