Tag: Warhammer 40K

Note: Updated for Season 6 (December 2022)

Warhammer 40K Inquisitor Martyr is a great action role-playing game (aRPG). You as an inquisitor may find yourself constantly shuttling across the planets dealing with ongoing conflicts and heresies against the Emporer. This game offers many game modes and features. One of the more holistic and rewarding features is the season journey. This guide aims to help the new players in completing the season. If I can do it, so can you!

This is a text-based guide. I also have a video guide for you on YouTube. Should you wish to play together, my Cabal is 2038RedRidingHood.

Expectation on Season Journey

I am a big fan of aRPG genre, and I am a big fan of season gameplay. Like Diablo 3 and Path of Exile, this game introduces new season mechanics for each season. The season journey provides an excellent tutorial on the various aspects of the game that you may otherwise miss out on. There are also cosmetic rewards that can be earned. To summarize what to expect on Warhammer 40K Inquisitor Martyr season journey:

• Solo vs Group Play: The entire season journey can be done solo. You do not need a group at all to complete it.
• Duration: The journey can be longer than other games such as Diablo 3. Around 100 hours.
• Difficulty: This journey has more depth than say Diablo 3. The difficulty level is reasonable and is perhaps easier than say Path of Exile.
• Reward: Minor cosmetic rewards for ship decoration. Portrait frames like Diablo 3. Loot boxes and in-game buffs. In-game currency Favour is awarded for more cosmetic item redemption at the vendor (such as footprints, more ship decoration, avatar frame, etc.)
• Leaderboard: Unlike Diablo 3 that mainly tracks greater rift clear time by class and set, this game tracks “glory” weekly – an in-game currency that is rewarded when completing missions.

Notes on Difficulty Level by Objective

Some objectives below are marked as trivial because you may complete them without even knowing that they exist. Harder objective doesn’t necessarily mean that they are difficult to complete. The game mechanic may not be obvious or intuitive and may require a bit of Internet research to understand how to complete the objective. Or it could take time, especially when you are not aware of the requirements upfront. Last but not the least, the difficulty level is relative to the tiers the objectives belong.

Tier I Agent Guide

#	Objective	Descriptions	Difficulty	Tips
1	Sacred Duty I	Reach Level 20	Trivial	Play story mode.
2	Article of Sanctity	Equipe a Relic Item	Trivial	Relic items are brown.
3	Laudable Commitment	Complete a Random or DLC Assignment at the Astropath	Medium	Astropath is actually a person next to the Starmap. You may request a random assignment from him. You must complete the entire chain of missions.
4	Empyrean Discernment	Find Uther’s Tarot & Complete 5 Tarot Missions	Hard	Uther’s Tarot Card is a random world drop that is likely to be found in chests and from commanders/ villains/ elites. Using a Venom Tarot card in a mission may also increase the drop rate. You can convert Uther’s Tarot Card into any unlocked Tarot Card via the Inventory tab (with the gem sign). To complete a Tarot Mission, equip at least one card through random missions or void crusade (not story).
5	Homage to Omnissiah	Learn Your First Blueprint	Easy	Blueprints are world drop. Right-click on your inventory to learn them. The Store also may sell but it costs Flavour, which you may need to unlock DLC.
6	Tribute to Omnissiah	Craft an Add-on from any Blueprint	Medium	Visit Omicron at your ship (unlocked through story). Under the Crafting tab, use the filter “Add-on”. Craft any item.
7	Faith in Omnissiah	Enhance an Item	Easy	Visit Omicron at your ship. Under Modify tab, place an item, go to the 3rd tab and add 5 crafting capacity.
8	Studies in Adaptation	Use the “Reroll All Enhancements” crafting function on an item	Easy	Visit Omicron at your ship. Under the Tech Tree tab, unlock Optimisation. Under Modify tab, place an item and reroll all enhancements.
9	Informal Affiliation	Visit the Keeper of the Forge (Custodian Rebus)	Hard	Custodian Rebus is a vendor that visits during weekends. The easiest way to find him is through the game interface at your ship. Click through the tabs on the right and if he is there, there is a message and within the message, a link to click onto him.
10	Ambitious Prosecution	Complete an Intel Mission	Easy	Intel is a random world drop. Right-click on your inventory to start an intel mission.
11	Full Gear	Equipe Artificer or better quality items in all Your equipment Slots (Set I & Set II too)	Trivial	Artificer is a purple item. Do it for both sets.
12	Curio Collector	Collect 100 Cortex Fragments	Trivial	World drop mainly through chests and elites.
13	(Season 6) Fully Imbued	Achieve a full Enhancement stake	Trivial	Keep killing, stay alive.
14	(Season 6) Harbinger Eliminated	Eliminate a Harbinger of Escalation	Trivial	Marked as a green icon on the mini-map, take out the hordes first to remove Harbinger’s health buff.
15	(Season 6) Battle Prayer	Activate a Seasonal Shrine	Trivial	You just can’t miss it.
16	(Season 6) Escalation Cache I	Open a Seasonal Chest	Trivial	Seasonal chest golden in color is marked as a yellow icon on the mini-map. Need a key to open it. Harbinger enemies has a chance to drop a key.
17	Augmented Means	Use a Consumable Buff item	Trivial	Random world drop to buff XP or DPS. Alternatively, you can buy a Mind Reset from the Store to reset the passive skill tree.
18	Benediction of Reprocessing	Salvage 100 items	Trivial	In general, salvage all the relics (brown) and above at Omicron. (And sell the lower tiers at the Store). But for this objective, you may wish to salvage all.
19	Display of Authority	Modify your Inquisitor’s Appearance	Easy	At Omicron, under the Appearance tab, have fun with the feature!
20	Formula of Dedication	Modify your Inquisitor’s Inoculator	Easy	Visit Matrodora at your ship (unlocked via story). Modify your equipped Inoculator.

Tier II Interrogator Guide

#	Objective	Descriptions	Difficulty	Tips
1	Sacred Duty II	Reach level 40	Trivial	Play story mode.
2	Asset Reclamation	Hunt down a Wandering Servoskull in any Void Crusade	Easy	Servoskull spawns randomly in one of the Void Crusade missions. You can see a special additional icon at the Void Crusade Map. You must destroy it within 30 seconds. Pay attention to a special icon on the mini-map as you encounter Wandering Servoskull. There is an audio cue too.
3	Crusade Minoris	Complete a Void Crusade	Medium	At level 50, you have access to the Void Crusade (the game will prompt you). You may take the shortest route to one of the Supreme Missions (golden icon) to complete this objective.
4	Shaper of Fate	Collect 500 Fate	Trivial	Keep playing, don’t lose momentum!
5	Small Favours	Collect & Exchange 200 Cortex Fragments for Favours with Custodian Rebus	Easy	Visit Custodian Rebus to exchange 200 Cortex Fragment for 2 Favours.
6	Confiscation Protocols	Discover, Protect & Open Up 5 “Spoils of War” Chests	Easy	These chests do not appear on the mini-map. Follow any Void Crusade guide in Steam (that has the maps) that reveals the treasure location. There are plenty of “Spoils of War” chests. Just stand next to it and kill the Daemon within 30 seconds.
7	Venerate the Omnissah	Learn 10 Blueprints	Trivial	Once you start playing Void Crusade, you will have plenty of Blueprints.
8	Aegis of the Omnissah	Craft a Relic item from a Blueprint	Trivial	Visit Omicron in your ship and craft a Relic item (brown).
9	Studies in Fabrication	Unlock the Rerolling Feature and Reroll an Enhancement	Easy	Visit Omicron in your ship, unlock the appropriate Tech Tree and reroll an item affix to a different one.
10	(Season 6) Circle of Harbingers	Eliminate 5 Harbingers of Escalation from different fractions	Trivial	Keep playing, don’t lose momentum!
11	(Season 6) Fixed Enhancement	Use an Enchantment Clamp	Trivial	3 types of clamps can be obtained from loot or purchased from Ragna Van Wynter.
12	(Season 6) Blessed Mandate	Generate a Seasonal Mission	Trivial	Once the green bar above the health bar is full, at the ship, start a seasonal mission through UI (top right). Advise having 2 keys prior to the mission as 2 chests are guaranteed.
13	(Season 6) Rewards of Escalation	Use a Void Key of Escalation at a Void Crusade	Easy	From level 35 onwards and once having a Void Key of Escalation (check inventory currency tab), start a Void Crusade (follow the in-game tutorial). Upon finishing a Void Crusade Supreme Mission, use all the keys to open the chests.
14	(Season 6) Escalation Cache II	Open 5 Seasonal Chests	Trivial	Keep playing, don’t lose momentum!
15	(Season 6) Loop of Enchantment	Have Enchantments in the Enchantment stake rerolled 50 times	Trivial	Keep playing, don’t lose momentum!
16	Extended Duty	Complete 20 Random Missions	Medium	Just take time. Suggest completing this objective alongside other objectives in this tier or next. Suggest looking for maps with Influence less than 800 (above 800 there are no more rewards as it is considered as “max”).
17	Study in Augmentation	Reroll a Base Attribute on an item	Trivial	Visit Omicron in your ship, unlock the appropriate Tech Tree, and reroll a Base Attribute.
18	Tactical Alertness	Defuse 10 Skull Traps (by destroying them before they activate)	Hard	You know you have triggered a Skull Trap when all of a sudden, you see a red line and then some bad things happen (such as turrets or mobs are spawned to attack you). See screenshot here. To spot these traps – two tiny skulls hiding in a map – requires a high level of alertness (hence the objective title). It is especially hard if you are a melee character speed farming mission. These traps are common in ship-type of maps. Use a ranged weapon to take down both skulls before triggering them. You could also let it naturally be completed (e.g. barrel explosions etc. do destroy them before you know it). If you are desperate, do missions that are inside a ship. Or once you have accidentally triggered one in a story or void crusade, press Alt-F4 to kill the game and restart again (which is too extreme for me, but is an option).
19	Empyrean Journey	Complete 15 Tarot Missions	Easy	Apply at least 1 Tarot Card for any Random Mission, Intel, or Void Crusade. Try to apply all 3 if you can (pick the least harmless ones if you have a problem with the debuffs) so that you can complete another objective down the line.
20	Refined Competence	Have 3 Active Perks	Trivial	You gain perk slots as you level. Just pick an active perk once you have it unlocked.

Tier III Master Guide

#	Objective	Descriptions	Difficulty	Tips
1	Binharic Scripture	Apply a Psalm-Code Doctrine	Hard	This mechanic is not at all obvious. Basically, when slotting a predefined combination of Psalm-Code into your gear (which share the same slot as Shards), you get a specific buff on that gear. That buff appears ont your gear as additional text. Refer to official compendium and pick Psalm-Code Doctrines that work for your build. You may need to farm for a particular Psalm-Code (use Tarot Card to help). You any also craft a higher tier one using the lower tier ones through Omicron.
2	Archeotech Composition	Combine one type of Archeotech Shards to reach Level 3	Easy	Move all the Shards from your stash into your inventory. Visit Omicron, forging, shard crafting tab.
3	Radiant Glory	Collect 10 Spark of Glory	Trivial	World drop. Or salvage Archeotech Relic (red) / Ancient Relic items.
4	Archeotech Bulwark	Wear an Archeotech Relic Armor	Trivial	Red item.
5	Archeotech Armament	Equip an Archeotech Relic Weapon	Trivial	Red item.
6	Machine Enlightenment	Max Out the Tech Tree	Easy	Collect credits (play missions, sell purple and below at Store) and collect Fate (play missions). Unlock at Omicron.
7	(Season 6) Escalation Acquisition	Purchase an Escalation Stash	Trivial	Purchased from Ragna Van Wynter using the badges collected from loot.
8	(Season 6) Cycle of Enchantment	Have Enchantments in the Enchantment stack rerolled 200 times	Trivial	Keep killing, don’t lose momentum!
9	(Season 6) Righteous Sentence	Kill a Seasonal Boss	Easy	Seasonal Boss spawn chance is 15%. Average requires 7 Seasonal Missions.
10	(Season 6) Escalation Cache III	Open 20 Seasonal Chests	Easy	Keep playing, don’t lose momentum!
11	(Season 6) Harbinger Prioritized	Eliminate a Harbinger of Escalation without killing the minions first	Hard	Need a Harbinger such as Alpha Legion to chase after you faster than the minions (e.g. won’t do with Tyranid Harbinger). Kite the Harbinger very far away from the minions and kill it.
12	Expropriated Repository	Open Up 20 Void Chests	Medium	Keep playing Void Crusade, don’t lose momentum!
13	Archeo-Enhancement	Socket a Shard into Your Gear	Easy	Visit Omicron, forging tab.
14	Thorough Crusade	Complete a Void Crusade wtih all Info-fragments within 75 minutes (On-mission Timer)	Hard	You need to have a reasonably good build (and gear) during leveling. I have a speed run guide. I would recommend Viridian Void Crusade. You may need to skip treasures in order to save time. Be very careful not to miss Info-fragment. You can’t go back once a mission is completed.
15	Prognosticated Offensive	Complete 10 Intel Missions Combined with at least One Tarot Card	Medium	Intel missions are harder than random ones during leveling. Use a minor Tarot Card if you are not ready to deal with challenging content.
16	Comprehensive Proficiency	Max Out 3 Passive Skill Trees	Easy	Your build may not need to max out any given Passive Skill Tree. Having said that, if you must for this objective, you can easily reset the Passive Skill Tree using Mind Reset consumable. You can buy that from the Store for 14k credit each.
17	Accouterment of Authority	Use a Unique Avatar Frame (of any color)	Easy	Visit the machine behind Void Crusade in your ship. Cosmetic tab, Avatar Frames tab. Pick the one you earned from the last tier.

Tier IV Grandmaster Guide

#	Objective	Descriptions	Difficulty	Tips
1	Sacred Duty III	Reach Level 70	Medium	By the time you finish the story, you should be around level 70. If not, keep playing Void Crusade, don’t lose momentum!
2	High-risk Offensive	Complete a Void Crusade in “Hardcore Mode” (One Life Only)	Medium	This could be easy or hard depending on your build and gear. In general, invest passive points onto Health and Defensive. Invest in defensive attributes. Build up resistance. If you are not confident, pick the shortest route to Supreme Mission. If you must, ALT-F4 when get defeated by mistake before clicking “Quit”. Suggest to “master” one instead (all keys, all info-fragments) if you have a strong character and hence complete the next tier’s “Legendary Crusade” at the same time
3	Archeotech Masterpiece	Combine one type of Archeotech Shards to reach Level 5	Easy	Visit Omicron, forging, shard crafting.
4	Impeccable Crusade	Master a Void Crusade (complete all missions plus one Supreme Mission) with all Keys and Info-fragment	Hard	Again, this could be easy or hard depending on your build and gear. Pick an easier Void Crusade such as Ebony, Viridian, or Amber. Avoid Azure (end boss has tons of armor) or Zircon (higher level maps towards the end). Read up on how Void Crusade’s difficulty works. Follow guides on Steam. Suggest to go “hardcore” if you have a strong character and hence complete the next tier’s “Legendary Crusade” at the same time
5	Supreme Requisition	Pick up 1,000,000 Credits	Trivial	Sell all items up to purple at the Store. Keep playing, don’t lose momentum!
6	(Season 6) Wheel of Enchantment	Have Enchantments in the Enchantment stack reroll 500 times	Easy	You’d get there before knowing it.
7	(Season 6) Harbinger Purgation	Eliminate all types of Harbingers of Escalation	Easy	Takes a bit of time. No extra effort is required. Just keep playing against different enemy types. A total of 10.
8	(Season 6) Escalation Cache IV	Open 50 Seasonal Chests	Easy	Keep playing, don’t lose momentum!
9	Binharic Binary	Collect at least one of Each Type of Psalm-Codes	Medium	It does take some time to collect all. You could accelerate by crafting the higher tier ones through Omicron, forging, code crafting.
10	Venerable Aegis	Fully unlock an Ancient Relic Armour	Medium	First, you need to collect an Ancient Relic preferably from Void Crusade. Second, you need to complete the mini-missions as per the item to unlock the affixes.
11	Venerable Armament	Fully unlock an Ancient Relic Weapon	Medium	As above.
12	Inquisitorial Auxiliary	Buy a Summon from Custodian Rebus	Easy	You can spend Favour at the vendor to buy a Summon to help you for 5 missions. Don’t think too hard on which of the 3 to get. They die fast.
13	Exalted Equipment	Gear up with “Archeotech Relic” Items of any Level (Minimum “5” pieces)	Easy	Equip 5 red items.
14	Brink of Perfection	Max Out an Attribute Bar (Tier V)	Easy	By now you should have enough points to max out one attribute. There is no cost to adjust between the attributes.
15	Interpreter of Fate	Collect 2000 Fate	Trivial	Keep playing missions, don’t lose momentum!
16	Adept Augury	Level up a Tarot Card to Level 3	Very Hard	How hard this is, depends on how soon you realize that you should not level up more than 1 Tarot Card at a time for this objective and the next tier’s one (level 5). The cost of leveling a Tarot Card escalates. You may realize that you need to keep grinding Void Crusades just to farm Uther’s Tarot Card. Level up Venom Tarot Card, which gets you more Uther’s Tarot Card as you play missions. Always use Venom Tarot Card when you can. Convert Uther’s Tarot Card into any unlocked Tarot Card that is not at the max level through the Inventory tab (with the gem sign). You can level up a Tarot Card once it is at max progress using Credits. You can only do so through the Mission game interface.

Tier V Heroic Guide

#	Objective	Descriptions	Difficulty	Tips
1	Duty Eternal	Reach Level 100	Very Hard	After level 70, it is harder and harder to gain XP. Do lots of Void Crusade. Use Murder Tarot Card. Use Meme Virus consumable (through Void Crusade chest). Keep on playing, don’t lose momentum!
2	Sweeping Crusade	Complete all 9 Void Crusades	Easy	Keep playing Void Crusades. You don’t have to master all.
3	Legendary Crusade	Master a Void Crusade in “Hardcore Mode” (One Life Only)	Hard	Easy or hard depends on your build and gear. Suggest completing this one and the previous tier’s ones (“Impeccable Crusade” and “High-risk Offensive”) at the same time. As mentioned, Ebony, Viridian, and Amber should be the easier ones to master.
4	Expert Augury	Level a Tarot Card to the Max (Level 5)	Hard	A common mistake is that people may level one too many Tarot Cards at the same time. If so, this may take a very long time. Stop leveling more than one Tarot Card as soon as you know of this objective.
5	Transcendent Armament	Gear with Fully Unlocked “Ancient Relic” Level 90 Items (Minimum “5” Pieces)	Medium	Start collecting Ancient Relic items as you complete Void Crusade. Ideally should unlock those that you may need (as it takes effort to fully unlock one). You just need 5 items to complete this objective. You don’t need to go on any mission with all these 5 that may or may not be useful to you.
6	Protector Magna	Reach maximum influence in a whole Subsector (All solar systems within the subsector)	Hard (and Very Hard for Tech-Priest)	Ideally, you should use pen-and-paper to keep track of your Influence progress for each of the solar systems against the four subsectors (via Starmap). As you level to 100, try to avoid doing random missions for solar systems that have already exceeded 800 points (that’s the “max”). If you are too lazy to track progress manually, keep doing random assignments on solar systems with less than 800 Influence points (last column). If you track your progress manually, suggesting to target 2 to 3 subsectors. Abandon unwanted random missions if need to. Eventually, the ones you want will be spawned.
7	(Season 6) Ultimate Escalation	Kill all Seasonal Bosses	Insanely Hard	To spawn the last Seasonal Boss is a 1.5% chance (15% chance a Season Boss will spawn and there are 10 different bosses). Luck is required. Pray to the Emperor. Average requires 201 Seasonal Missions. Note: I will create a video guide on this.
8	(Season 6) Carousel of Enchantment	Have Enchantments in the Enchantment stack reroll 1000 times	Easy	If you are committed to the objective above, I don’t see why you won’t get this done way before the one above.
9	(Season 6) Spoils of Escalation	Use a Void Key of Escalation in all 9 Void Crusades	Medium	Make sure to have a Key of Escalation (check the inventory currency tab) before completing the Supreme Mission.
10	(Season 6) Escalation Cache V	Open 100 Seasonal Chests	Medium	Keep playing, you know the drill.
11	Ultimate Penance	Complete a level 100 (or higher) Intel mission while only wearing Mastercrafted items (Set I & II too)	Very Hard (but Fun)	Mastercrafted Items are the blue ones. It only comes with 2 to 3 affixes without the special ones. Start collecting decent blue items that are relevant to your build as you play high-level missions. Use all the crafting experience you have to make a set of the best Mastercrafted item you can have, complete with the same set of Psalm-Codes / Doctrines / Shards. Reroll to the desired enchants and reroll the numbers to near max. Avoid Rescue or VIP missions as the NPC’s may perish before mission completion. Take Destruction Amplification consumable.
12	Binharic Choir	Wear 3 Different Psalm-Code Doctrines at the same time	Easy	Add sockets to the max for those items that you can. Apply three different Doctrines as per the official compendium.
13	Empyrean Odyssey	Complete 20 Full Deck Tarot Missions at level 85 or above	Easy	If you are serious to get to level 100, you should by now apply a full deck to most of your missions (1 major and 2 minors).
14	Contempt for Peril	Complete 5 Missions on Difficulty Level 110 without Death	Hard	You could try to gear up for it. The reality is that once you have decided on a build that can take you to level 100, getting an upgrade could be harder and harder. Ranged build is perhaps easier than melee at 110. It just takes time. Purge is perhaps the most doable one among others. Take Destruction Amplification consumable.