TL;DR
Walk to your ship's bridge, find High Factotum Janris Danrok standing by the console opposite the Command Throne, near the Koronus Expanse galaxy map. Talk to him and pick the line "My retinue and I are in need of training." That panel lets you reset any party member's talents, abilities, skills, and even their advanced archetype. Right now, after Patch 1.6, every character in an existing save has one free respec waiting. Go spend it before you spend a single point of Profit Factor.
Where to respec in Rogue Trader
The respec NPC is High Factotum Janris Danrok. He lives on your ship's bridge, a couple of steps north of the Koronus Expanse globe, at a console off to the side opposite the Command Throne. If you are standing at the galaxy map, turn and he is right there.
Talk to him and choose "My retinue and I are in need of training." That dialogue line opens the respec panel. From there you pick which character you want to rework and see what it costs in Profit Factor before you commit. One NPC handles the whole roster, so you do not hunt down separate trainers for each companion. Your protagonist and every recruited companion reset from this same conversation.
The free respec in Patch 1.6
Here is the part worth acting on today. Patch 1.6, the Sixth Gargantuan Update that shipped on 11 June 2026 alongside The Infinite Museion DLC, carried more than 1,800 balance changes. Owlcat handed players a way to adapt to all of it: one extra free respec per character in any existing save.
This bonus sits on top of your normal respec allowance. If a character had already paid for two or three resets, this one is still free, and it does not push up the price of your next paid reset. The escalating cost counter stays exactly where it was. The grant exists so a build you spent forty hours tuning under the old numbers does not feel wasted when half its talents got reworked. For the full list of what shifted, see our Patch 1.6 notes.
A few practical notes on the 1.6 grant:
- It applies to existing saves only. Start a brand-new game on 1.6 and you level into the rebalanced numbers from the first point, so there is nothing to undo.
- Most characters use Danrok on the bridge as normal. Some characters who are temporarily away from the ship get a field respec option on the quickbar, so you can reset them wherever the story has stranded them.
- The free reset is per character, not one for the whole party. Every member of your retinue has their own to spend.
If your save predates 11 June, open it, do a balance pass on whoever the patch touched hardest, and burn the free respecs while you have them.
What a respec changes (and what it cannot)
A respec rolls back everything you chose while leveling and lets you re-spend it from scratch:
- All talents you picked at each level.
- All abilities and passives.
- Your skill point allocations.
- Your characteristic increases from level-ups.
- Your advanced archetype, the Tier-2 specialization you select at level 16, plus your exemplar path on top of it.
That last point is the one most players miss. A respec reaches past your talents and into the whole second half of your build. You can pivot an item:officer into a item:master-tactician or a item:grand-strategist, or take an item:operative down a completely different second-tier road.
What stays locked is everything you decided at character creation: your Homeworld, your Origin, and your starting Tier-1 Archetype. Those three are baked into the character and no respec touches them. If you regret your Origin or your first class, a respec will not fix it; only a new playthrough will. You also keep all your experience. Respeccing the protagonist costs no levels. You stay exactly as far along as you were and simply redistribute every point. If you are deciding which Tier-2 line to pivot into, our class tier list ranks the archetypes head to head.
The companion floor: late joiners give you less to work with
Companions carry one rule the protagonist does not. You can only reset a companion down to the level they were when they joined your retinue. Every level they earned before meeting you is fixed, and a respec leaves those choices untouched.
The gap between joiners is wide enough to change how you plan their builds:
| Companion | Resets down to | Practical effect |
|---|---|---|
| Yrliet | Level 15 | First 15 levels locked; you rework everything above that |
| Marazhai | Level 29 | Only the top of his build is yours; his second archetype is fixed |
item:yrliet joins early, so you reset her back to level 15 and have most of her progression to redesign. item:marazhai shows up far later, and his floor sits at level 29. There is so little room above his join level that you cannot change his second archetype at all. Plan a late joiner's build knowing you inherit most of it. The earlier a companion walks into your retinue, the more of their sheet you actually own.
What it costs in Profit Factor
Rogue Trader has no gold or thrones to spend, so respecs are paid in Profit Factor (PF), the same resource that gates your trade decisions and dialogue checks. The cost climbs each time you reset the same character.
The first reset on a character is free. Each one after that costs one more PF than the last: the second costs 1 PF, the third costs 2, the fourth costs 3, and so on up the ladder. The counter is tracked per character, not shared across the party, so resetting item:argenta has no effect on what item:cassia next reset costs.
That climb is why it pays to be deliberate. Respeccing your whole party on a whim, then again next chapter, drains PF you would rather spend elsewhere. Reset the characters whose builds genuinely need rework, lock them in, and leave the rest. With the 1.6 free reset in hand, you can afford one clean rebuild per character before the ladder starts charging you again.
If you want unlimited resets
Players who treat respeccing as part of their normal theorycrafting loop usually turn to mods. ToyBox, the general cheat toolkit, and a dedicated FreeRespec mod both live on NexusMods and remove the PF cost entirely. They are worth knowing about if you reset constantly while tuning a build. For everyone else, Danrok and the free 1.6 grant cover what you need without leaving the game.
Reset, then plan the new spend
A respec is the easy half. Deciding where the points go next is the real work. Once you have rolled a character back, map the new path before you start clicking talents, especially if you are switching advanced archetypes and need to know which Tier-2 line actually pays off for that character's weapon and characteristic spread. A worked example helps: this Officer rebuild shows where the points land once the dust settles.
Build: db54005058efTake Danrok's free reset, sketch the rebuild, and commit it once. For a deeper walkthrough of where an Officer's points should go, see our Officer build guide.