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I remember the last Eldar FAQ had it so a farseer cannot cast buffs on units outside of his wave serpent. Well that is no longer there now. Does that mean you can once again buff from inside a tank?

No, because the rulebook requires LoS for psychic powers and Wave Serpents and Falcons do not have Firepoints. You can however cast on himself/his unit or on the vehicle they are embarked upon.

 Farseer_Kaiser wrote:
No, because the rulebook requires LoS for psychic powers and Wave Serpents and Falcons do not have Firepoints. You can however cast on himself/his unit or on the vehicle they are embarked upon.

And even if they did have firepoints, you still couldn't use them for Blessings/Maledictions, so you still couldn't buff from inside a metal box.

The powers like divination generally say "blessing that targets a single friendly unit within 12'" etc.

That means the same as:

Q: Can Psykers use a Transport’s Fire Point(s) to manifest powers
that require line of sight whilst still embarked? (p78)
A: No. Note, however, that witchfire powers specifically
allow you to do so and are the one exception to this rule.

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How about if you are inside a building? Does it count as a transport?

 sudojoe wrote:
The powers like divination generally say "blessing that targets a single friendly unit within 12'" etc.

All Psychic powers need Line of Sight to their target If a psyker is embarked on a transport you can not draw line of sight to any unit outside the transport. (Page 67).

Actually, the BRB says that while embarked on transport you may only cast blessings that target the embarked unit. Making the FAQ completely useless anyway as it was already spelled out

I, for one, hate that rule... if I can shoot out the hatch, and that requires LoS, why can't I cast powers that ALSO require LoS.

Stupid.

But nope, gotta get out of your sweet ride to cast powers like that.

Agree with you there Kbob, it is one of the many illogical rules you can find.

Oh, and you can't just get out to cast the ability either. It has to be done at the beginning of the movement phase. If you move the model to disembark, or any model for any reason, then it can't really be argued that you are still in the 'beginning of the move phase' requirements to cast.