Farseer

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This article has been updated for Soulstorm. The Dark Crusade version is now archived.

Dawn of War Commander Unit

Farseer
Race	Eldar
Version	Soulstorm v1.2
Build Info
Hotkey F	Build Cost 220 80  Build Time 57 s Built From Aspect Portal Unit Size 1 Requires Webway Assembly Limit 1
Unit Stats
Hitpoints	1310/2
Armour	Commander
Morale	500/14/150
Morale Bonus	+200/+2
Death Penalty	-150
Unit Mass	22
Move Speed	16
Sight Radius	35 (cannot detect)
Attachable	Yes
Weapons
Ranged	Shuriken Pistol
Melee	Witchblade

Contents 1 Farseer 2 Tactics 3 Abilities 3.1 Psychic Storm 3.2 Mind War 3.3 Guide 3.4 Fortune 3.5 Eldritch Storm 3.6 Fleet of Foot 3.7 Unleashed Mind 4 Weapons 4.1 Shuriken Pistol 4.2 Witchblade 5 Researchable Upgrades 5.1 Fleet of Foot Research 5.2 Imbue: Fortune 5.3 Imbue: Eldritch Storm 5.4 Farseer Veteran Upgrade 5.5 Farseer Hero Upgrade 6 The Dawn of War Player's Guide

Farseer

"The mists of space and time retreat from my mind."

As Exarchs are masters of their chosen warrior path, Farseers are masters among the Warlocks. They have the ability to not only divine the future, but determine which of the myriad possible futures is the one towards which events are moving. The reasons for their actions are often inscrutable and give outsiders the impression that Eldar behavior is completely random.

Aside from their incredible powers of divination, Farseers can direct the energies of the warp itself to slay their foes without ever firing a shot.

In the original Dawn of War campaign, the Farseer Macha led the Eldar forces from Biel-Tan. Farseer Taldeer led the Ulthwé forces in Winter Assault (but with different stats) and Dark Crusade. The Ulthwé Eldar returned once again in Soulstorm, guided by Taldeer's successor, Farseer Caerys.

Tactics

Compared to other commanders the Farseer has the most special abilities and these abilities are among the strongest (with the exception being that of the Necron Lord). Due to her weak melee attacks and high cost, many players choose to avoid building the Farseer in tier 1, since a Ranger/Dark Reaper combo can work better at that point in terms of damage output. However, it should be noted that her lower than average melee damage is somewhat accounted for by having higher than average disruption when performing special attacks. This often overlooked subtlety, coupled with the fact that she has the highest melee morale damage output of any T1 commander (beating out even the Haemonculus), lead some players to build her not so much for her damage, but for her ability to keep the enemy consistently knocked over and broken. Nonetheless, having her stand toe-to-toe with other commanders is ill advised.

The Farseer is fairly fragile unupgraded and should be prepared to retreat with Fleet of Foot as necessary. The best squad to accompany the Farseer is a Seer Council, but a Howling Banshee Squad is sufficient before the Seer Council becomes available. The Seer Council, aside from simply being better fighters than Banshees, also provide a recharge reduction to all of the Farseers spells.

The Psychic Storm ability does damage over time to a squad and also to nearby infantry. Of note is the fact that Psychic Storm follows the squad even as it moves. This makes it useful against any infantry squad because they are unable to run away from it once it has begun.

Mind War is designed for doing massive damage to a single target whilst slowing it at the same time. Priority should then be given to detector units if accompanied by Rangers, but it is otherwise a potent weapon against other commanders. This is particularly useful against Imperial Guard commanders, who can be often killed in a single hit. Priority should be especially given to Sanctioned Psykers who, in addition for providing detection, have a similar ability that they would use on the Farseer, Strip Soul.

Guide should be used on a ranged squad such as Warp Spider Squads or Fire Dragons to significantly increase accuracy and damage. Choose the squad based upon the target you wish to quickly kill (ie choose Fire Dragons if you need to kill a vehicle).

Eldritch Storm is a powerful ability that affects all enemy targets but is especially powerful against vehicles and buildings. It is best used inside an enemy base so that it can hit the most targets. Buildings obviously cannot run away, and it will be difficult for enemies to move their infantry and vehicles out of range without allowing you to completely annihilate their base. NOTE: The Eldritch Storm has rather an interesting effect when it kills an allied infantry (like allied computers in skirmishes or accidentally killing your own Avatar with it) as it conjures a rather small replica of the storm at the Farseer's current location which does damage her and other nearby units as well. This occurrence is not rare and happens quite frequently.

Abilities

Psychic Storm

	Psychic Storm			Hotkey: C
	Requires	Nothing
	Target Types	Any enemy infantry, heavy infantry, commanders, or daemons
	Range	35
	Area of effect	10	Cooldown time	155 s
Effects	The Farseer unleashes a power psychic blast over an area, damaging enemy infantry every second over 10 seconds. Damage shown is the total over 10 seconds.
Damage Values Infantry Vehicles Buildings Daemons Base Damage Low Med High H.Med H.Hi Cmdr Low Med High Air Low Med High Med High Morale Min Max Min.D 120-128 120-128 160-170 160-170 160-170 128-136 - - - - - - - 160-170 50 50 160 170 50

Mind War

	Mind War			Hotkey: M
	Requires	Nothing
	Target Types	Any enemy infantry, heavy infantry, commanders, or daemons
	Range	30
	Area of effect	0	Cooldown time	110 s
Effects	Does damage to the targeted unit over 5 seconds and slows the target by 25% for the duration of the Mind War. Damage shown is the total over 5 seconds. This ability automatically targets squad leaders over regular units in the squad.
Damage Values Infantry Vehicles Buildings Daemons Base Damage Low Med High H.Med H.Hi Cmdr Low Med High Air Low Med High Med High Morale Min Max Min.D 315-440 284-396 315-440 315-440 315-440 315-440 - - - - - - - 315-440 315-440 50 315 440 5

Guide

	Guide			Hotkey: G
	Requires	Nothing
	Target Types	Any friendly infantry, heavy infantry, commanders, and daemon medium
	Range	40
	Area of effect	Entire targeted squad	Cooldown time	150 s
Effects	Improves the accuracy of the target squad by 30% for 25 seconds. Depending on the squad's initial accuracy with their weapons, this can be a boost to overall DPS by 40-50%. Also note that a guided squad firing on the move has 300% the DPS of an unguided one.

Fortune

	Fortune
	Requires	Imbue: Fortune
	Target Types	All friendly units
	Range	Self
	Area of effect	15	Cooldown time	Passive ability
Effects	All nearby friendly units receive 10% less ranged damage.

Eldritch Storm

	Eldritch Storm			Hotkey: E
	Requires	Imbue: Eldritch Storm
	Target Types	Any Location
	Range	35
	Area of effect	10	Cooldown time	180 s
Effects	The Farseer casts a massive psychic-powered storm that blasts the area with psychic discharge for 5 seconds, affecting all units within the area of effect and well as throwing them back with the force of the Storm (40-50 force). The damage of the spell has a radius of 10, roughly the size of the targeting cursor, but the knockback of the spell is in a radius of 20. Units caught within the the damage radius also have their movement speed slowed by 25% for the duration of the spell. Damage shown is the total over 5 seconds.
Damage Values Infantry Vehicles Buildings Daemons Base Damage Low Med High H.Med H.Hi Cmdr Low Med High Air Low Med High Med High Morale Min Max Min.D 250-300 250-300 250-300 250-300 250-300 250-300 250-300 250-300 250-300 750-900 750-900 750-900 750-900 250-300 750-900 100 1000 1200 50

Fleet of Foot

	Fleet of Foot			Hotkey: F
	Requires	Fleet of Foot Research
	Target Types	Self
	Range	0
	Area of effect	Entire squad	Cooldown time	Toggled ability
Effects	When activated, the squad moves 50% faster but loses 50% accuracy with all weaponry.

Unleashed Mind

	Unleashed Mind
	Requires	Nothing
	Target Types	All enemy infantry
	Range	Melee
	Area of effect	10	Cooldown time	Passive ability, once every 10 seconds
Effects	When engaging in melee, the Farseer unleashes a powerful shockwave from her mind, knocking all infantry around her (15-20 force).

Weapons

Shuriken Pistol

	Shuriken Pistol
Damage Per Second Values Infantry Vehicles Buildings Daemons Morale Base Damage Low Med High H.Med H.Hi Cmdr Low Med High Air Low Med High Med High DPS Base Min Max Min.D Initial DPS: 7.3 13.5 6.1 7.3 7.2 7.0 8.4 4.4 0.7 8.4 6.1 3.2 0.7 7.1 2.6 0.4 1 33 22 1
Cost	Default Weapon	Range	25	Setup Time	0 s
Build Time	Default Weapon	Accuracy	70% (100% w/ Guide which increases the DPS by 42.9%)	Refire Rate	1 s
Area of Effect	0	Requires	Nothing

Witchblade

	Witchblade
Damage Per Second Values Infantry Vehicles Buildings Daemons Morale Base Damage Low Med High H.Med H.Hi Cmdr Low Med High Air Low Med High Med High DPS Base Min Max Min.D Initial DPS: 35.3 52.3 35.3 56.5 41.5 54.3 16.1 16.9 65.0 10.0 23.5 10.0 10.0 41.2 65.0 37.5 75 54 76 10 With Farseer Veteran Upgrade: 40.6 60.1 40.6 65.0 47.8 62.4 18.5 19.5 74.8 10.0 27.1 11.2 10.0 47.3 74.8 37.5 75 62.1 87.4 10 With Farseer Hero Upgrade: 48.7 72.1 48.7 77.9 57.3 75.0 22.2 23.4 89.7 10.0 32.5 13.5 10.0 56.8 89.7 37.5 75 74.5 104.9 10
Cost	Default Weapon	Range	Melee	Setup Time	0 s
Build Time	Default Weapon	Accuracy	100%	Refire Rate	1 s
Area of Effect	0	Requires	Nothing

Researchable Upgrades

Fleet of Foot Research

	Fleet of Foot Research			Hotkey: F
	Cost	50 50	Research Time	60 s
	Researched From	Webway Assembly
	Requires	Nothing
Effects	Activates the Fleet of Foot ability for Guardian Squads, Ranger Squads, Howling Banshee Squads, Dark Reaper Squads, Fire Dragon Squads, Farseer, and the Seer Council.

Imbue: Fortune

	Imbue: Fortune			Hotkey: F
	Cost	75 35	Research Time	39 s
	Researched From	Soul Shrine
	Requires	Nothing
Effects	Imbues the Farseer with the Fortune aura.

Imbue: Eldritch Storm

	Imbue: Eldritch Storm			Hotkey: S
	Cost	125 40	Research Time	50 s
	Researched From	Soul Shrine
	Requires	Nothing
Effects	Imbues the Farseer with the ability to cast Eldritch Storm.

Farseer Veteran Upgrade

	Farseer Veteran Upgrade			Hotkey: H
	Cost	100 25	Research Time	39 s
	Researched From	Soul Shrine
	Requires	Nothing
Effects	Increases Farseer health by 400 to 1710. Increases Farseer health regeneration rate by 0.5 HP/sec. Decreases Farseer ability recharge time by 10%. Increases Farseer Witchblade damage by 15%. Increases Warlock health by 150 to 400. Increases Harlequin health by 150 to 775.

Farseer Hero Upgrade

	Farseer Hero Upgrade			Hotkey: H
	Cost	125 50	Research Time	50 s
	Researched From	Soul Shrine
	Requires	Farseer Veteran Upgrade
Effects	Increases Farseer health by a further 300 to 2010. Increases Farseer health regeneration rate by a further 0.5 HP/sec. Decreases Farseer ability recharge time by a further 10% (19% total). Increase Farseer Witchblade damage by a further 20% (38% total). Increases Warlock health by a further 150 to 550. Increases Harlequin health by a further 150 to 925.

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