Classes (Bureau)

There are 4 classes of agents available on The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, plus Carter, which belongs to a unique class (Leader). Each class has 5 levels of abilities, with the player choosing between two abilities in some cases.

• Leader
  • Level 1: Lift
  • Level 2:
  • Level 3:
  • Level 4:
  • Level 5:
• Commando

Commandos are your main combat class. They use regular rifles as weapons and have the highest durability of any class.

Rank	Ability Tree 1		Ability Tree 2
Level 1	Deniable Ops		Taunt
Level 2	Pulse Wave
Level 3	Tunnel Vision	Machine Gunner	Endurance Adds another bar of health.
Level 4	Personal Shield	Plasma Field	Resilience
Level 5	Peak Conditioning Adds another bar of health.	Wave Amplification Increases damage from Pulse Wave.

• Engineer

Engineers are a class that mainly focuses on battlefield control. They use shotguns as weapons.

Rank	Ability Tree 1		Ability Tree 2
Level 1	Grease Monkey		Scatter
Level 2	Mine		Endurance
Level 3	Demolitions Expert Decreases cooldown on Mine ability.	Shotgunner
Level 4	Rocket Turret	Gun Turret	Endurance
Level 5	Fortified Turrets Turrets deploy with shields.	Monkeywrench Increases damage against Mechanical targets.	Heavy Metals

• Recon

Recon are your anti-personnel soldiers. They use sniper rifles, with abilities focusing on hitting enemies hard and on being able to get into good flanking positions.

Rank	Ability Tree 1		Ability Tree 2
Level 1	Endurance Training		Critical Strike
Level 2	Hard to Kill	Sniper	Eagle Eye
Level 3	Cloak Makes agent invisible for a time.	Diversion	Endurance Adds another bar of health.
Level 4	Crack Shot Reduces cooldown on Critical Strike.	Armor Piercer Critical Strike now does heavy damage to armor and shields.
Level 5	Fire Mission Calls down an artillery strike that damages friend and foe alike.

• Support

Support class soldiers wield pistols, and focus mostly on defense and improving your other squad members.

Rank	Ability Tree 1		Ability Tree 2
Level 1	Officer School		Combat Stims
Level 2	Shield Sphere		Endurance Adds another bar of health.
Level 3	Disrupt	Weaken
Level 4	Medical Breakthrough	Guardian Angel Agent takes greatly reduced damage while on a Revive order.	Helping Hand Reduces all ability cooldowns for entire squad.
Level 5	Savior Greatly increases bleed-out time for units in squad.	Mirror Shield Sphere now reflects shots to attackers.	Endurance Adds another bar of health.