Also the ai needs to be improved when it comes to use of primary vs secondary items. If you add a plasma cannon and a flamer to the Kataphron Destroyers they never get to use the plasma because they try and get in close to use the flamer

One of the biggest issues players had with the class: armoured and heavy armour units don't take much dmg from constructs and armour piercing should be added to their skills. Balance patch: we will give the weapons DoTs, roots, knockbacks .... wtf ... Kastelan Robots are equiped with PowerFists ( -3 Armour pen within the tabletop) or Phosphor Blasters (-2 AP in the tabletop). I mean just take the tabletop stat sheets and guide development around that.

The second issue players reported was the intel mission modifier that blocked dmg less than 200. No word on if that was removed or addressed.

Pet Classes in every ARPG scale the damage of the pets based on the player and the Tech Adept should not be any different. Pets should be affected by the players offensive and defensive skills. I admit that I have not tested the pets with relic weapons at high levels but a class should be not playable at max level with max gear only and should offer the player a great experience throughout the game. My psyker was amazing all game long, my ranged crusader was enjoyable as well. The Tech Adept has its pluses but it also has very bad experiences

I think constructs that are not kastelans need some buffing. Kastelans steal the show with great dps, durability and don't need to be re summoned.

Specifically I think that the Psiloi Combustors are in need of some serious buffing. currently when compared to Vivisectors they: cost more, do less damage, have less HP, get less of them, and do to them being ranged there is a good chance the sit and fire endlessly into a pipe not hitting there target. I think what they need to be more fun and interesting to pick is for 3 to be summoned as a base OR allow the perk to affect combustors also bringing the summon to 3. Then they will still need a moderate DPS buff. This way they can engage more enemies for crowd control or focus single targets. As is they are the lest dps minion by a mile and most fragile. Also side note perhaps and unlock-able ability to give some sort of area of effect ability would make them more interesting. Currently they have one boring ability... shoot... even vivsectors were given an area effect ability.

Tarantula Turret with bolters I think simply needs a moderate damage increase on a per shot basis also the missile upgrades needs a greater AOE. The tarantula can't move and has a rather low range as thing tend to in ARPGs and needs to be constantly redeployed and is rather fragile for a more defensive structure. I think it should do perhaps the most DPS of all the constructs considering its massive lack of movement and hight usage cost which affects other skills.

The passive Turret that buffs and heals is entirely worthless. I don't feel the cooldown buff variant to be interesting or even noticeable and I feel should see a redesign. I think it should be a damage boost multiplier or maybe a defensive shield generator perhaps though a damage multiplier I imagine would be a faster and easier effect aura swap. The single healing needs a major buff it's pretty barely noticeable with normal healing of re generators and passives. The single heal turret should quickly heal units I think to the point of making a single model rather indestructible considering the pain it is to constantly deploy and the cost of the construct. The Healing aura turrets simply needs a area of effect increase and a buff the its healing rate as of now it's literally unnoticeable (at least by me).

I hope the dev teams reads this and at least considers some of my thoughts. I very much like the game and class and think it has great potential but needs some balance and additional abilities to make the summons feel more versatile and more lively.

i have no optimized gear yet, but +10 void missions are doable.

Using 2x Kastelan Robot, 3x vivisector group, fully developed Construct Defense and Offense tree plus all upgrades for Kastelan Robots and Vivisectors. 

I use perk that summons 4 vivisectors instead of 3, -20% reserve and +15% damage to Kastelans. 

As I have 14 constructs, the Offense tree main perk gives them 14*5=+70% damage. 

Lvl 60 so far... melting through impossible. Clearing a room while running to the next one.

Skilling a Tech adept is totally different to the other classes, so in my opinion really a good job on him. More diversity could be nice because I understand certain builds are totally underwhelming.

I use a 20 vivisector group, max cool down reduction and Self-Destruction. My base CD is 4 secs for every group. This means I can detonate every single one every 4 seconds, at least. With Blessed Ruination I can even lower this CD when taking damage.

Throw in some heal on Class-Skill usage and every single group will heal me for around 1000 hp.

So in short.... taking more damage = lower CD = more Damage and Healing

Have a look at the Mindlink Attributes on III. you get back 5 Data-Flux on Minion Dead. Teleporting in a minion group of 4 will cost me effectively 4 Data Flux and I have got 6 regeneration every second while using Self-Flagellation.

It`s like summoning 20 homing missiles every 4 seconds. ^^

Really that`s a lot of fun, even these stupid purge missions are fun because my Vivisectors are doing the job for me.

Must check how good he will be later. I could imagine the lack of vulnerability will be a problem, but so far... fun, fun, fun.

This is bad balance.

Works well by keep summoning them on cooldown :) and throw some shit (ah shoot) to enemies from your rifle to apply any debuf you can.

+5 intels vs armored goes well due to physical vulnurability on vivisector explosion. But I feel such spek is Heresy :)

Op just summarized my experience in Tech Adept so far. I always love to play as summoner in all games , was counting the minutes till prophecy release just to be shocked that my psyker can clear maps way faster than my TA. Constructs are as squishy as papers and their damage is really minimal. Also " please dont get them 1 shot from mines ( that they always run into ) ". And don't mention the blowing up constructs build as it is heresy and mainly not a summoner build ( as summoners should maintain the life of their minions and buff them instead of just blowing them up).

other construct same 2x ranged crab useless not fun:(. and tanks hahahahhaahhaahaha very bad dps slow react time super slow move very bad stats with epic and better modules total crazy :(turret no coment i spawn it maybe 2x static shooting to wall bad dmg.after this balanced is techno adept more bored than before. I need summon construct what defend me have good dps and only resummon new when die or heal this construct.but no every 5sec all time in missions.before patch i use 2x ranged kastelan 3x vivisec group with 4 i use resummon and generated good dps and aoe to enemy not to walls as Kastelans o rothers construct.

missions what i complet easy is now extreme and extreme +3 what i complet before update is now insane cant complet it gratz super work:( i no need one build what need neocore i need create build myslef and fun this NERF is really bad. and perk  when use all different construct is super i.......... before update is Kastelan tanks vivsec OR turret  +20%dmg now is it same but vivisec AND turret and 25% dmg . in fight this construct die faster than i can summoned new .with all def skills all spec skills and epic modules 3x no one time i have all diferet construct its not possible and this different party is ULTRA USELESS  and fun is only summon die summon die  summon die hahahah crazy. 20 or 25 with this crazy base dmg with total stuppid AI where kastelans use aoe 20m away from battle .when i see what dps create my crusader with weaks equip i must laugh. Techno adept bonuses crit chance + dmg etc not affectet to construct super:( tech adept is now unplayable  for ppls who needs fun and hard game .

This is with me running 3+ Kastelans, almost maxed out on the skill trees for construct ability, specialization, offense and defense, using arc rifle 2/plasma beta to stack vulnerability on enemies. 

Missions with lots of heavily armored enemies I just quit, no point even trying.

I'm not even max level yet but it's only going to get worse and worse.

Gratz Neocore.... what didn't you get about the word "FUN" ?

So, you thought it`s a good idea to remove the self-destruct on resummon of vivisectors, an answer to the statement "TechAdept is utterly boring and underpowered".

What are your thoughts behind that bs? We want players to watch constructs, get bored, refund or quit the game. Yeah that`s a good idea, will help us a lot. Brilliant!

Instead of fixing and improving this class and bringing others constructs and skills on pair with a good synergising build, "balance" means to you the removal of the only entertaining thing because it`s not on pair with the rest of that boring class. Great work!

Ask yourself, do you really enjoy playing this class?