Psi Operative (TJ)

Psi Operative

A mysterious new branch of study for XCOM, the Psionic Operative utilizes their mental abilities to great effect to boost their allies and cripple the will of enemies.

Class Overview

The Psi Operative in Long War of the Chosen is slightly different from the one in vanilla XCOM 2. Like in Long War 2, some abilities require other abilities to be learned as a prerequisite, but Psi Operatives now also need to gain experience to level up as other soldiers do, limiting the amount of perks that can be trained.

Psi Operatives focus entirely on psionic abilities in their perk tree, leaving little in the matter of using regular guns. However, Psi Operatives get Quick Study, letting them train up Officer abilities faster than other soldiers. The Psi Amp lets the Psi Operative use psionic abilities, improving them and their Psi Offense stat (which is used for Insanity and Domination) as it's upgraded.

Psi Operatives are automatically granted all abilities in the first two ranks when first trained.

Weapons

Primary: Rifles, SMGs, Shotguns.

Secondary: Psi Amp

Abilities

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Rank	Ability
Initiate	Soulfire Does guaranteed Psionic damage to an organic enemy. Ignores cover, armor and shield HP. 0	Earth Heal Harness the energies of leaf and loam to heal the target over time. Bleeding out allies will be stabilized.	Corpore Sano Psionically heal an ally from moderate range.
	Telepath	Telepath	Mysticism
Acolyte	Insanity Debilitating telepathic attack that can inflict different negative conditions, including mental control of the target.	Mind Merge Grants bonus will, critical chance and ablative hit points to an ally until the beginning of the player's next turn.	Mindspin Launch a mental psionic attack, inflicting a negative mental effect. 3-turn cooldown.
Adept	Fortress The soldier is immune to fire, poison, acid, and explosive damage.	Solace The Psi Operative may immediately extinguish mental impairments for a squadmate.	Phase Walk Temporarily phase out of existence to teleport to a nearby location.
Disciple	Marionette Control Psychic. Seize control of a robotic target, as if manipulating a puppet.	Soul Steal Soulfire transfers the damage done back to the Psi Operative as health and grants an ablative HP for 3 turns.	Singe Primary weapon attacks have a 33% chance to set fire to enemies, and Shred 1 armor.
Mystic	Soul Mania Free Psionic attacks on any enemies that enter or attack from within 2 tiles. Guaranteed to hit but will not target robots or units with Shadowstep.	Fuse If an enemy is carrying explosives, they can be remotely detonated by the Psi Operative.	Stasis Completely stuns the target for 1 turn, but renders them immune to any damage or attack.
Warlock	Fireball Kinesis. Launch an explosive ball of fire, damaging and igniting everything in the targeted area.	Null Ward project psionic shields around the soldier and nearby allies. The shields will collapse if this soldier is killed.	Adrenaline Open a small Psionic rift that disables the weapons of any units caught in its radius, and deals damage within that radius after one turn.
Magus	Null Lance Project a beam of terrible power that damages every target it passes through. This attack can penetrate multiple enemies and obstacles.	Soul Storm Summon meteors of psionic energy to deal damage to enemies inside a target area, and destroy their cover.	Compulsion Psychic. Compel an enemy to fight for you, albeit only briefly.
Master	Void Rift Generate an explosive field of Psionic energy that immediately damages everything within. Organic enemies have a chance to suffer Insanity.	Schism Insanity now does a small amount of guaranteed damage, and applies Rupture to the target.	Mind Control Psychic. Compel an enemy to fight for you.

Ability Prerequisites

In order to obtain certain psi abilities, the Psi Operative first needs to acquire a prerequisite perk (shown with colored arrows on the diagram below):

It's worth noting that abilities which are connected to multiple other abilities unlock all of them at once - for example, picking Fortress adds both Bastion and Null Ward to the pool of available perks for a given Psi Operative.

XCOM Abilities

XCOM row abilities are able to be purchased when the Training Center is built. The cost is 10 AP per tier level.

Training Time

Training a rookie into a Psi Operative takes 2 days in Rookie difficulty and 4 days in all others. Training a new ability takes a base number of days plus additional days based on the difference between the Psi Operative's rank and the ability's rank:

Base time = 2/4/4/4 days

Rank time = 5/6/7/7 days per rank difference

Times are based on difficulty: Rookie/Veteran/Commander/Legend

Each scientist staffing the Psi Lab will increase training speed by 100%, meaning the training time will be reduced by 50% with one scientist and by 66% with two.

If a Psi Operative is training in the tube and you send them to infiltrate a mission, another soldier can train in that psi tube; the soldier that was in the tube will be on hold upon return from their mission.

Stat Progression

Rank
Per Level	Health	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
	Aim	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
	Will	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Psi Offense	45	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Total	Health	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	3
	Aim	2	4	6	8	10	12	14	16
	Will	5	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
	Psi Offense	45	51	57	63	69	75	81	87

Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4
Hard Target	Lone Wolf	Combat Fitness	Transmit Prana
Close The Tired Eyes	Ray Of Life	Resilience	Impact Compensation
Will To Survive	Infighter	Brawler	Lethal
Fortify	Tradecraft	Kyrie Elesion	Searing Lance
Zone of Control	Acidball	Psychic Reload	Street Sweeper
Restore Life	Poisonball	Evil Gaze	Pandemonium
Flush	Ball Lightning	Lightning Bolt	Phantasmal Killer
Kinetic Rescue	Kinetic Pillar	Fire Whip	Delayed Blast Fireball
White Flame	Thunderous Roar	Caustic Lance
Bring 'Em On	Holo Targeting	Hunter's Instincts
Target Focus	Close and Personal	Speed Shift
Healer's Mind	Silence The Sane Mind	Aim Shift