I am going to be playing a rank 1 librarian with war cry, smite, and iron arm. I've got a force sword, so I bought a psy-focus with some of my req. I will probably still have 30-35 req to play with and I can't figure out what I should buy. Any helpful suggestions. My renown is currently at the starting point of nothing.

vanxidomor said:

Red-Dot Laser Sight would be my first thought. Why? Because Smite has a radius and you want to have the option to hit with precision.

Charm is also worth a consideration.

For the rest you best consider the mission at hand (will you need melta bombs? As a team leader you might ask for a back banner, etc.). Also you may want to share some req points with another team-mate so that you Devastator can buy more extra special munition or whatever.

Alex

How likely is it really that your GM is going to ok the use of a lazer sight with smite?.....really?

I think he meant use the RDLS on his bolter, so he has something with precision from distance, since smite is an area of effect. personally, my libby's kitted out with a stormbolter w/the three clips (for dealing out a large amount of damage without risk of perils of the warp), well, that and when the time comes, I want to be used to it for when I can snag terminator armor... not like my librarian doesn't have his model kitted out that way in terminator armor or anything <.< >.>

Now that I reread that it does make more sense

I guess it really depends on whether or not you want to be a focused melee fighter or a focused shooty fighter. Most of that choice is made for you sadly when you choose a chapter (really can't figure out why they would take away so many rp options). If I was a storm warden librarian I would probably go for something like a shield, see if your GM will allow the purchase of a storm shield as signature wargear or something. If you are a dark angel I would go with the best shooting option available to you and throw a dipole maglock on your force weapon.

I'd go for charm and a psy-focus. The rest have to depend on the mission. Specialty items like harnesses, grenades and ammo comes to mind.

I've just gotten req items for two missions (35 and 40 req) with my rank 1 dark angels librarian, but on both I've gotten a clip of hellfire for my bolter (we've gone up against tyranids on both), a charm as well as extra repair cement (for no cost, iirc). The last one we got a tiny bit extra req to play around with, so I got a missile launcher with about half/half krak/frag missiles aswell.

Any spare I'd just give to someone else, as there's always something someone else want, and as a librarian, you're often not going to get many things, more than the standard charm, psychic hood (when you got enough renown, and I'm planning on using signature wargear on this too), a psy-focus if you're using invocation, perhaps hellfire if you're up against 'nids or maybe a storm bolter if you want something more than your standard bolter.

Biggest advice I can give, and this applies to any specialty at any time, is to remember that you are NOT required to spend all the requisition you get on yourself. Some specialties can be very requisition light, others live off thier special goodies. If you have everything you need, and most of what you want, dump the rest you aren't using into the squad pool so the squad can get what it needs as a whole. There are often a lot of tool type items that get overlooked when picking personal gear that it's a very good idea to have at least one of in the squad. My personal list of 'pool' items is to have an Auspex, dataslate, cartograph, and a flamer to purge any particularly vile samples that are come accross with fire.

Melta Bomb too, you never know when you'll want to blow up something big... like a bulkhead or the supporting pillar of a bridge or something.