4/5 stars. The rules are good. Of note here is that the Word Bearers have one of the better stocked armouries out of all of the legions, and in broad terms the options are attractive.
Burning Lore. For a bit of an investment, your praetors can gain the corrupted type, along with access to being a psyker with the diabolism discipline. In general, this will be worth doing.
Dark Channelling. For units and dreadnoughts, they can be upgraded at the same cost as Burning Lore so that they also gain the Corrupted sub type. Being able to cause fear along with being immune to fear, and functionally having the fearless rule is great. I suspect this calls for large squads to make best use of the rule though. It is also a solid counter to Night Lords play styles.
Tainted Weapons. These weapons replace power weapons to obtain murderous strike at 6+. This is not quite worth it given the points cost increase, but can be nice when it gets pulled off.
Warpfire Weapons. These are direct swap outs for plasma weapons for a small points cost. It removes gets hot, reduces S by 1, and gains pinning. This upgrade is a middling one and its selection will depend on your own playstyle preferences.
Boltspitters. Not much to report here realistically. The heavy 6 on the greater boltspitter is nice I think.
Difference to First Edition.
I like the Word Bearers armour in this edition. It feels better and more refined, with plentiful options to mull over. Tainted weapons in particular are much better in the sense of not dropping their AP, but I'm still not that tempted by them.
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