Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr Hierophant Class DLC Review

OVERVIEW

NeocoreGames has released another new class to Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr, the Hierophant class. The DLC adds several new features including Retinue, that will help a player’s Inquisitor on their missions.

Developer: Neocore Games
Release Date: November 12, 2024
Price: $15 USD
Platforms: Windows, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox Series X and S

Thoughts on the Hierophant DLC

Screenshot of gameplay from the Warhammer 40K Inquisitor Martry video games Hierophant DLC.

Not to be confused with the Tyranid Hierophant bio-titan, an inquisitorial hierophant is often a priest in the Imperial Ecclesiarchy who will join an inquisitorial retinue to aid in the hunting of daemons and other chaos-spawn. In the Hierophant DLC, however, the Hierophant is an inquisitor with a retinue they command.

The Hierophant has three classes: a Confessor, a Cardinal, and a Drill Abbot. The Drill Abbot focuses heavily on melee and features excellent crowd control options with little cooldown or devotion prerequisites. The abbot also has incredible damage reduction and can instill their retinue with righteous fury and berserk tokens.

The Cardinal background grants additional max devotion for spellcasting, and synergizes well with their retinue: each hit scored from their retinue heals the Hierophant and has a small chance to reset skills at random. The Cardinal can also gain vulnerability efficiency and stacks of general vulnerability for spells cast. The Confessor Background grants additional movement speed to the Hierophant, as well as the possibility of granting their retinue incredible power that explodes their enemies on kills, igniting any nearby enemies in the blast radius with a fiery conflagration.

The Hierophant class comes with many new skills and perks to unlock and explore, as well as a new mechanic to Inquisitor: Martyr, a retinue. This retinue consists of up to four Al companions that assist the Hierophant, consisting of any combination of a Crusader, Assassin, Psyker, and Battle Sister.

These Al companions can be controlled and managed via the brand new “orders bar” that displays various special skills to modify your retinue behavior, all the while applying multiple stacking buffs.

The Hierophant DLC also consists of several new equipment options including Curios for Inquisitorial belt-gear that applies either passive auras for your retinue or more active “on-use” effects. This equipment also consists of the Dialogus Staff and the Libram, which enable the casting of many new and unique spells as well as still more additional buffs and benefits for the retinue.

Finally, the Hierophant DLC introduces among the vast array of new equipment options an entirely new class resource: devotion. Building up enough devotion will allow the Hierophant to unleash either powerful areas of effect blessings or devastating spells to purge the heretics of the Cagliari sector.