Gears Tactics Skills: The best class skills

In this skill guide to Gears Tactics you will learn:

• Which classes are available in the tactics game
• Which skills you should unlock best
• What active and passive skills are all about.

With Gears Tactics, the action game series Gears of War makes the leap from 3rd-person shooter to XCOM-like strategy game. This genre switch not only works amazingly well, but also brings plenty of tactical challenges.

One of them is to improve your team wisely after each level increase of your soldiers. Therefore, in the following guide we will give you an overview of all the skills of the five different classes. We explain what active and passive skills are and which talents you should unlock.

General tips about the skills in Gears Tactics

The skill system of Gears Tactics shouldn't pose any major problems for old strategy buffs. Nevertheless, there are a few things to keep in mind or basic information that is good to know in advance. In the following, we'll give you tips on which abilities you should unlock, which you can see in the tables by the bold text.

• In the course of the campaign you will hire several different soldiers. These can be heroes, but also normal fighters. All of them come in one of five classes: medic, vanguard, scout, weapons expert or sniper. Accordingly, all of them also have their own skills.
• The skill tree in Gears Tactics always offers four specialization areas, which have a different weighting. Here you can choose freely, but since strong skills usually require the unlocking of another talent, it is worth thinking about a specialization.
• As already described in our beginner's guide to Gears Tactics: When putting together a team for a mission, it's best to make sure that the soldiers are fairly balanced. Otherwise, some will level up very quickly, while others will go into battle with their starting configuration.
• Gears Tactics gives you a choice of active and passive skills. Passive skills are effects that always work on the character and, for example, shorten the cooldown time for grenades before you can throw them again. Active skills, on the other hand, are those that you have to execute specifically in combat, such as a precision shot from a sniper.

• In the skill overview, Gears Tactics already shows you how many actions the active skill uses up (indicated by the circle symbol) and how many rounds you have to wait before you can activate it again (indicated by the hourglass symbol).
• If you make a mistake when developing a soldier, you can reset the skill tree completely. However, you should not do this lightly, because this option costs a rare resource.

What are the best medic skills in Gears Tactics?

The medic class can be the most important man on the field in tough battles, so that your fighters live to see the end of the mission. Therefore, you should actually upgrade this class so that the healing abilities have a greater effect.

This way, you'll be able to reduce the cooldown of the Stim Grenade, which boosts soldiers within a certain radius. It's also a good idea to add additional healing capabilities with the Command, Wound Patch, and Stim abilities and their respective upgrade levels.

Don't rely on the grenade alone, as that can quickly backfire if things get dicey.

General Skills

Surgeon Path

Each of the five classes in Gears Tactics offers four different specializations, in which some skills build on each other.

Combat Medic Path

Role Model Path

Strategist Path

Class: Vanguard

For the Vanguard class, there are several skills that also have an effect on the comrades in the team. we especially recommend "Bloodsucker" here, as it regenerates a bit of health for each soldier when he hits an enemy with a shot.

The further you advance in the campaign of Gears Tactics, the more experienced your fighters will be. But your opponents will also become stronger. Some skills, however, make it easier to fight big hunks. But beware: Some of them can't be used against bosses.

But also "Intimidate" can be very helpful in many situations, especially if several opponents have activated their ability "Fire Protection", which is interrupted with it.

Bleeding" is also very useful for this class, because you can injure an enemy and he will then be able to suffers damage on a regular basis. This way, you may even clear him out of the way when he moves out of your field of vision.

General Skills

Warden Path

Paladin Path

Shock Cavalryman Path

Storm Path

Class: Scout

The Scout class is recommended to be heavily upgraded to its stealth ability. This makes it invisible to enemies, albeit initially especially when it is not moving or performing any action.

However, you can use it to slowly sneak behind enemy lines to attack well-entrenched opponents from behind or at least flank them better.

With the skill "Assault", which grants you an action when you kill opponents from concealment, you also open up an escape route directly again, if necessary.

General Skills

The soldiers in Gears Tactics come in five classes, all of which have their individual skills but also armaments.

Scavenger path

Butcher's Path

Reconnaissance Path

Command Path

Class: Weapons Expert

Thanks to the right skills, the Weapon Expert can easily eliminate even strong opponents or hordes of enemies. That's why we recommend the skills "Ultra Shot" and "Explosive Shot".

The first skill is especially useful for the thicker hunks that get in your way. They have a lot of life energy, but with a full magazine it quickly runs out - provided your soldier hits.

The exploding hits, on the other hand, are especially useful against groups of creepers or against monsters that have positioned themselves clumsily, i.e. too close to each other, so that with one shot you might take out all the surrounding enemies at the same time.

General Skills

Specialist Path

While the regular opponents in Gears Tactics usually don't pose much of a challenge, you'll be glad to have your soldiers properly skilled when it comes to boss opponents.

Artillery Path

Explosives Expert Path

Gabe is sort of the main character of Gears Tactics and is on your team from the start. He has the Medic class.

Defender Path

Class: Sniper

For the sniper last but not least, we recommend you especially the skills that affect reloading and action points. The precision rifle has comparatively little ammunition in the magazine, so you will have to reload bullets more often with this class. Anything that saves or returns action points is worth its weight in gold.

Moreover, the sniper rifle inflicts high damage and hits its target more reliably than most other guns, even at long range. Therefore, an extra shot can save many a situation thanks to more action points.

General skills for the sniper in Gears Tactics

Sid also accompanies you from the beginning in Gears Tactics. He belongs to the Vanguard class.

Precision Marksman Path

Assassin Path

Sniper Mikayla only joins your team in the course of the story, and only reluctantly at that. However, we didn't want to do without her anymore.

Hunter Path

Stalker Path

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