#psyker-class
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does overload prioritize proximity
Psykinetic's Wrath affects ALL FS attacks so it is hard to know what works with what without testing.
BB counts as a warp attack, though
apparently not for lacerations it doesnt
Not according to all the testing I just did.
So that's fun
at least in psykh
so wait, with lacerations you're seeing BB damage increase?
and psykh is buggy and inconsistent
I'll repost pics
dont think so. p sure it goes for the nearest elite
it might just be that the feat is worded wrong, then
wondering if there is a 'grenade damage' type or something dumb that brainburst technically is
i mean does it prioritise the closest elite
or does it select them arbitrarily
I'd go test this theory in practice before I assume this actually works in a match, we had the same thing happen with ascending blaze, it works a certain way in pskh and doesnt seem to work the same in a match
i would guess randomly
other players don't proc your AB
you have to kill something you've applied soulblaze to
I accidentally tested this and found the opposite. In a match.
are yoiu sure you werent running communion
well. if lacerations applies to brain burst, does that mean that 6 warp charges isn't needed to hit the bb breakpoints
or flayer
what weapons did you have equipped?
cus i was trying a ascendant blaze + cdr build earlier and my warp charge generation was ass cheeks
like, I tried that shit an entire mission, and while that obviously isnt highly scientific or anything, it did seem like it just doesnt work
I'm jumping onto my psyker now to test lacerations
Specifically, just to clear confusion.
Was running AB, wasn't running a Purg staff. Second Psyker in the game was running a Purg staff and AB. I spawned at mission start, outside of coherency, and had to run to the first engagement.
By the time I got to coherency range the fight was over, I never participated, and I had 4 stacks.
guys
this seems like another weird interaction then
im now at 260 hp
if true, that... sounds like a major bug
or you were in coherency sooner than you thought you were
I mean it was a hell of a run to that first fight.
even then he still gained stacks from another psyker's AB, which is just a bug
I mean for the BB pics, it is 15% more damage. Which is what Cerebral Lacerations provides.
yes
Yar
yeah, I'm seeing the same result
I'm gonna try a match
relevant
if crits sometimes dont show up correctly in psykh and other interactions dont work sometimes (in beta i tried out run and gun on a void and it didnt work in psykh but it worked in match)
What breakpoints does 6 warpcharges bring you to?
then I dont trust it too much
I put it there alredy
ah
in my first pin
nice
shame its buried under a trashy gunpsyker build 
we should standarize the numerical abbreviation for feat selection to consolidate information better
Oh anyone can in here? I will have to do that for the my breakpoint calc when I finish the current update.
i mean the
you can ask mods to pin stuff
#-#-#-#-#-# format
idk most seem to use 221133 as the format
ye
I meant in this channel, I have my calc pinned in theorycrafting
K gonna try to find a reaper in malice and see if people will let me kill it
seems fairly unambiguous
that's the one
repost it here, ask a mod to pin it
donezo
alternatively I can put it in my post but that shit's getting bloated
Some people say 1 is the bottom feat though lol
so its betetr to just get a new pin imo
what kind of weirdo would do that
cant say ive seen that happen
Mostly YouTubers
sounds like dumbasses to me
Hnnngh. Berain grabbing good.
so it looks like Cerebral Lacerations boosts all damage an enemy takes except from staves
hey i was right
trauma staff should totally have a short-range shotgun blast as its left click
to compliment the short range of its charge
so you have no ranged option at all?
i usually run KB on trauma for my ranged option anyways
shotgun blast would be a nice bit of zest
i'm starting to appreciate trauma a bit more
I saw a post on Reddit today say the cdr doesnt apply to teammates
the opposite is true
in fact it ONLY applies to teammates
not you
i've had psykers running it in my squad before and it's quite noticeable when it procs
wat
its 4.5 seconds, it just doesnt seem that rad to me
4.5 seconds is huge wdym?
that's on every elite kill so it procs pretty often on high diff
assuming you kill a lot of elites as psyker that is
I mean realistically you'll kill like 1 every time you press F
i know because i hear my vet use his ult nearly constantly
the lines are burned into my mind
zealots would care if you were in coherency with them but they already charged the gunners
and ogryn uh
yeah
also charged
why wouldnt it affect you
it doesnt apply to yourself apparently
+15% combat ability cooldown reduction on Elite kill (Allies in Coherency).
I can literally see the cooldown change when i kill
key word allies
Like you can visibly see it jump up
???
makes sense
it works tho??
anything saying allies in coherency applies to you
doesn't seem to do that for me
u can test it in 2s in meat grinder
i have
you arent in coherency in the meatgrinder
It used to work
it does work
you do give yourself the coherency symbol in meat grinder
so I would assume your own coherency affects you
like i said go in the meat grinder youll find out within 2s
unless its just generic meat grinder bullshit 
the only reason i haven't been using it more is because i thought it didn't work on me
:(
I mean you can just look at the cooldown jump
maybe dont state shit matter of fact when you arent sure 
impossible
it's a very visible jump
how is this even disputed i thought this was common knowledge
ask peb
looking at the screen is too hard
someone made an ass out of an umpion
iono who peb is
maybe if i state something as a fact enough it'll become so eventually
@orchid nacelle
idk fatshark hates psykers so maybe this could happen
they just nerf aura
i will it to be so
i thought people liked running aura with kinetic barrage specifically because it gives u so much bb uptime
either way wording wise it would make sense if it didnt affect you, game logic wise you do however benefit from your own coherency bonus, so the way it works is logical even though the wording is dumb
The game has much worse examples of poor wording anyways
god damnit just had a situation with 4 ragers and no other enemies... i got 2 kills someone else killed the 3rd
out with a bang will brain burst me IRL
for my next assertion i'm going to put forth that zealots now start missions attached to an ogryn by a leash
so that they can never leave coherency
the zealot will be dragged along the ground forcefully
ogryns need like a heavy sniper or something
rumbler 
theyre just powerless against ranged
ogryns can hit ranged enemies just fine
well not powerless just pretty ineffective without spamming ammo
The grenade weapons actually feel fine for ammo if there's vet aura
if there isn't, well...
Everyone's already talking about new classes being added and I'm just sitting here hoping they make a gearing system that doesn't suck huge RNG-based chunks in the near future
Ogryn has decent guns but an entire feat selection dedicated to close range fights
and the melee weapons are meh
do i need to reroll blessings when that comes out ?
well youll be able to reroll the shop eventually, does that count 
i just want blessing extraction tbh so i dont have 5 million weapons in my inventory
youll get 4 shops every hour and spend your money on something to do so
Oh boy I can have more of the same shit system, and pay currency for the privilege
Cant wait to blow all my money on rerolls and still not find the items I want for builds
I mean what else you using the money for 
Ehh I figure I might buy my own capital ship and peace out from the Mourningstar eventually
How come everyone treats BB like it’s the core of the psykers gameplay when the other classes blitz abilities are even more situational?
maybe theyll give us back the VT2 system and have the shop just be the replacement for the crafting trash we got out of boxes
imagine if grims mattered
or difficulty
do you guys think they'll ever add the bosses to psykhanium
no
kinda weird that they aren't
because its the key to warp charges, other talents working
We have warp charges and feats that synergize with them
It's not like ogryn gets box points for their grenades
but no way to get weapons i want
although i guess ogryns do like their box
O man I want ur plan steel!!!
I think all the best feats are the ones that ignore warp charges anyway
I did not have cooperative team mates to test Laceration.
nah inner tranquility is great
i mean, that's why everyone thinks BB and warp charges suck
Because the goal is to ignore them as hard as possible for your build
I like the bonus force weapon damage in that row
inner tranquility lets you be a psyker longer
I'm just gonna play with Laceration on for a while and see if I get lucky
And be a good lil gun psyker.
does that only apply to sword special and staves or also the FS regular attacks themselves
I would assume the first
now that i know that psykinetic aura affects myself i feel no desire to run anything else
lmao
ok BBoomer
Perhaps it’s because I use quietude and have a staff with really high quell speed but I feel like I thrive at around 75%
I've been alternating between inner tranquility and psykinetic's wrath to experiment and i still don't know how to feel.
Like peril res is nice, but i could also live without it and get a bit more damage and more effect out of quietude
average BBoomer vs average Woomer
It applies to normal hits with the fs too but I mostly use it to juice my surge staff
hmm
they're both such minor effects that i can't really decide even after trying both out
time to shitcan inner tranq then next time I actually play psyker
get some more sword damage
I wanna be able to one shot shooters with FS light 1
is that so much to ask
Idk about that, on paper they both seem like pretty powerful bonuses, but idk of anyone whos looked at the break point yet
im a void user I aint got no time for BB
i use bb a lot with void too
Neat. Force Sword light up is also not a Warp Attack.
that makes arguably more sense than BB not being one
though BB probably just counts as a grenade
I pretty much only use it on bombers and gunners… which is constantly
or shotgunners
just void em
cuz they some 5 at a time
void is too slow for shotgunners
u take like years to kill one
you shoot em twice
meanwhile youre getting shot to pulp by the other 4
the irst time they stumble
why the fuck are you inside of the shotgunner bubble lmao
I can kinda see how aura + KB is less useful of a combo for a voidstrike user
but as a surge user it's great
are you trying to tell me you walk into a fuckpile of 5 shotgunners and BB em all?
what the fuck
aura + ab is love 😄
then how are you getting shot by 4 of them
Not sure why it would be better for the surge than the void. Those staffs are basically two sides of the same coin
they have range but also they spawn out of doors beside you sometimes
its faster to bb them than to slowly void 5 of them
but if theyre stacked up sure
no you see what you do is get the fuck away and then kill em
and yeah usually they are stacked up when theyre spawning behind you
which isnt the norm
The benefits of running aura and kb is you can reduce peril and use BB much more often
Void doesn't need F for peril as much cause of transfer peril blessing, and BB's role as a long ranged attack kinda overlaps with Void's entire purpose anyways
still slower than just bbing them
Goin to bed. If someone manages to oneshot a Reaper with Laceration on Malice+ with a BB by chance lemme know.
TOo tired to do this
Or I guess 3 BBs on Damnation
Whichever happens first
Void struggles against any armor tho. It seems to really just be a tool for killing unarmored hoards
I mean i didn't say it fully replaced BB, but the fact that it replaces it for some of the usecases means you need it less often, lowering the value of getting CDR to spam it
it only takes 3 on damn if you have 6 charges
Should take 4 charges adn 3 BBs wtih Laceration
see what it does is it knocks em over and delays them
alterantively just left click heads on scab ragers and gunners and shit
said it before and Ill say it again, once they unfuck the delay on void bolt people will realize how good it is
What do you mean by delay?
the time it takes for the projectile to fire after you click
fuck knows, its the main reason nobody uses left click
and its a core part of psyker kit for 3/4 staves
I actually is left click quite often
i do too
I mean same, but I barely ever see anyone else do so
I just use it for barrels
I have a staff with a high level warp nexus and they crits on left click feel very nice on it
surge users less likely to use it since charged is so good purg is lol and trauma is lol and void also has left click but bigger on charge
but yeah the bolt is fairly slow and has that awful delay so most people seem to use it once, miss their shots and think "wow this sucks" and dont really use it again
void right click actually does less damage to ragers than left click
for example
That’s actually how I felt when I first tried it but it really grows on you
gunners etc
you can two or three shot a gunner with left click
and it has very good suppression
not that shotgunners care about that but ya know
the shooters do
on surge you'd just stun them anyways
the left click projectile has a different trajectory
it takes on the velocity of the player
thats what im saying you dont need it with surge nobody uses trauma purg doesnt have it only void youll probably use it and thats like 1 out of 4 so yea ur not gonna see many
certainly feels that way when youre strafing
If it traveled like the right click for voidstrike it would great.
yep, and that's what everyone initially expects
I mean you need it with surge if youre trying to hit shit further than 5 meters away
but nobody uses it and just spams surge into hordes, at least by the surge geniuses I seem to get in pubs
You need it for surge when you want to shoot a barrel
because you can't lightning a barrel on demand
I surge into the horde around teammates
I ignite all of them with purge
I mean yeah what else are you gonna do you dont have the range on it to do anything else, and its fine if theres elites in there
staff special mellee attack triggering kinetick flayer feels badass
I find the surge has huge range
It can chain pretty far away
Testing it now in psykanium, you just need your first target to be within 20m
doesnt it only do damage to 6 targets or something puny
I could wade into the horde with my axe
but are you
I do when I'm confident in the teammate to handle themselves
Yea it’s not the best for many targets but you can like stun the front rank of guys and hold the rest of a hoard back
depending on the situation you dont really wanan surge hordes because it decompresses them, now if theyre slipping by thats fine and all
and if theres elites in there its good too
but if its just trash in a choke point youre actively wasting your time if you surge em
surging a horde hoping to get the elites is unreliable at best
If you really want to pick out far away targets, KB + BB works fine
then whats even the point of surge
It’s 9/11 for scabs
the whole point is to delay elites intermixed in hordes to my understanding
it decimates scabs, it pins down elites when you can
Idk i've never had an issue hitting elites in a horde with surge
no, surge is not for getting elites intermixed in hordes
surge only hits up to 6 enemies at once
It can one shot gunners, flamers, shot gunners, etc
all enemies beyond the front line of the horde aren't getting touched by surge
what on malice?
because it sure as shit doesnt on heresy
nonsense
It does on heresy
surge crits hard but u know u gotta get lucky
I guess I dont get lucky then
surge on damnation can take out the weak elites as long as they're the primary target
the other 4 are tickled
and you get a crit
fully charged surge can take out groups of scabs as well
it's not just for spamming
idk just aim higher or something. Haven't had issues when i want to target a crusher or mauler in a crowd of poxwalkers
well crushers and maulers stand taller
Actually in the grinder today I hit the mauler with a surge and it 1 shot the gunner next to him
now admittedly I havent use surge much at all but I sure as shit didnt feel like I was one shotting any specials with it when I tried it
I just kind of kept em pinned until they eventually fell over 80 peril later
you can't spam it when you're trying to kill something
I didnt
could just be the surge staff u were dealt by the shop
surge has to tick a certain number of times on an enemy in order to pop on them
I understood back then that you gotta charge for damage too, as I do now
charge determines damage on surge
well that thing would kick ass
I guess I just didnt get lucky on crits then 
yeah, that's a great staff, upgrade it
It needs warp nexus and it will be Armageddon
lol
why not upgrade it
Look at his name lol
not wasting mats and there isnt anything to make it much better
A man of culture
like what else would I want on it
yellow
I really wish warp flurry wasn't broken
I could reroll perks on it I guess but I havent used it since way before that was a athing
Wait holy shit
If i crit with a surge staff and cancel it by switching to my force sword with blazing spirit, the surge inflicts soulblaze lmao
soulblaze surge staff lets goo
😂
surge staff can already roll blazing spirit, right?
why not just AB
no
nah
hmm, thought it could
surge doesnt get shit
thats why I dont know why I'd upgrade it
flurry doesnt work well for it I feel like
flurry doesn't work on any staff secondary
focused channeling is just kind of comfort
My surge staff is still blue as well
so all you got is nexus I guess?
Only Trauma and Void can get soulblaze and its 1 or 2 stacks
the charge breaks the chain of attacks
I can't justify upgrading surge staff for basically nothing when i need the plasteel for curios
even though it's my most used weapon
like, if sweatlords like jsat use blue surges in damnation duos, why upgrade lol
yeah i thought it was funny too
because surge's utility doesn't come from its blessings, sadly
clearly he must think its aint worth it and he sure used it a lot more than I did
this is the shit i've been using
this is my best surge staff
sounds like poor people speak to me
sorry not all of us spam malice runs to farm plasteel
I just have more important things to spend my resources on 
also I dont even really play psyker much anymore because I cant get any decent swords or staves from the shop
I trolled myself today. selected surge by accident when I wanted to play void
that surge was all my luck on psyker it seems
I really enjoy surge
theyre all pretty fun
it's a more tactical weapon
depends on team comp
it's cool for the power fantasy of shooting lightning from your hands but it is very not mechanically demanding
if I wanted my team to do all the work I'd play fuckin ogryn or something
you have to understand that with surge you're leaning into the support role
well no shit
lock down elites, groups of gunners, help teammates getting swarmed
I'm fully aware and it's still boring 
¯_(ツ)_/¯
lightning is cool
its just so utterly boring
nah its not boring
makes carrying easy though, so there's that
i find purg extremely boring
and locking out a gunner group is convenient
all subjective
surge works well for me in pugs no problem. doesnt matter that we arent like commumicating or planning ahead
nobody said it doesnt work
pretty easy to understand "if blue lightning ally alive, me have crutch of insane CC"
People talk about needing to rely on teammates for damage being a huge problem in pugs, but like 90% of people in pugs run full damage builds anyways so i don't really see the issue.
The problem with pugs for me is people keep trying to kill themselves and surge is great for stopping that
Like it's "team dependant" but like most teams work with it
surge kills everything except horde and dregs anyway
only one who should be trying to kill myself is me doing going out with a bang
yeah see this is the part I have trouble believeing from everything ive seen and done with it
what does it not kill?
poxwalkers
well you have to left click sure
join T5
this'll be fun
clueless
spawn on top of a Plague Ogryn, 3 reapers, and a shooter squad with half hp to no fault of my own
surge doesn't quickly kill much
epic
2
have to charge a bit but it doesnt matter
does it really matter when it literally can't move?
I mean it matters because its not alone
yeah his friends are dying too
we get it, you find surge boring
you need to understand that other people find it engaging and incredibly viable
The real problem in pugs (herecy and damnation) is that people play malice and learn to just run forward, which gets them annihilated by the third corner.
is psyker surge staff crit still bugged?
in fact, I don't run damnation without surge
never was
I mean i use surge with the expectation that either i'll switch to melee and kill it, or i BB, or a teammate does it.
Surge doesn't really kill stuff on it's own that well
when did I say you cant do what you want lmao
or that you cant find it fun
fake news, thanks
there's a known bug with the meat grinder not showing crits as yellow sometimes
not fake news
Yeah but the damage and all related effects still happens.
It's actually very easy to see with Zealot Crusher as well. You still trigger the bleed on crit feat despite the numbers being white
i mean what i read of it being buggedd as fake news, thanks y'all
Surge crits do still show as yellow though, so i don't see what's wrong with surge
it sometimes doesnt apparently
seems to be pretty consistently working actualy
I'm gonna suuuuuurge
it's surgin time
Aaaaaaa I'm suuuuuuuurginggggg
actually it's bed time
So explain to me why a dum lightning staff that can only target 4 enemies is better than less dum fire staff that can target a bajillion
But fire stuns also
it staggers
no way blazing spirit surge staff!!!
Blazing spirit viable???
look at that beautiful 18 dps
now see how many stacks you can apply before they run out
burn dots aren't bad
soulblaze dots are bad
I would need to actually crit multiple times in a row
dots in general arent great in a game like DT but yeah soulblaze specifically is even worse
anyone know why the rating on the stats go down even though it's the same?
It doesn't. The display is lying to you
it'll just stay the same
display bug when in doubt
game still in beta
typical FatDev UI shenanigans
that's what happens when you hire a bunch of devs who've never worked on anything before
and have no QA in place
and do no testing
They would never do that
...would they?
it's precisely what they did
Maaaaan
how much does First Target actually matter on force sword
does it directly multiply the special damage
a lot
FatShark hired a bunch of people just for Darktide
First Target doesn't matter much at all
for force sword
it doesn't affect the special attack at all
Do they go on a newbie hiring spree before every game they make?
and force sword doesn't have good sweeping/cleaving attacks
fuckin tripping
if you aren't constantly hitting multiple enemies per swing, the you aren't taking advantage of first strike
you'd wanna double down on the single target part right?
"first target"
You'll be doing nothing but first strikes on enemies
first target doesn't apply if you only hit one enemy on the swing
the text says it all
yeah lmao
no
it's the only target
first implies multiple
but
alright man you might wanna go to bed
Yeah and Fatshark is known for being veeery clear in their tooltips
that's your first target
Every THammer zealot would be malding rn
the description is wrong
that's why the FS tooltip accounts for the first target damage
thats pretty fair actually
yall making me load the game back up
done that so many times
bruh
either way, "not a lot of cleave", youre still hitting multiple targets anyway
the first target you hit is your first target
even with FS
yeah you aint doing eviscerator levels
but youre still hitting at least two things
light 1 and 2 hit multiple
melee attacks don't hit every enemy simultaneously
heavy 2 has a better angle to hit multiple than heavy 1 even though it hits multiple too
either way first target still matters
does first target affect the special damage?
no
alright
shouldnt
finesse does though I believe
Pretty sure first target works even if there's 1 target, if the arguments that happen in zealot chat about thammer is to believed
@bleak tulip Tried void
enjoyed it
until I realized it's much harder to defend myself than it was with trauma
yeah
trauma is great for clearing out some breathing room around you really fast
the radius is surprisingly big
you can still right click when theyre really close, but you dont get a get out of jail free card like trauma-ing yourself thats true 
void aoe is dogshit, dont aim at the ground ever if you did that
it just staggers a bit
I also don't get to give my teammates a get out of jail free card, not to the same extent anyway
well yeah thats not its job
you railgun the horde before theyre even in surge, purg and trauma range
thats the glory of void
yeah void is all about that gauss cannon shit, the actual detonation sucks
trauma is also great at clearing space to res people with
the detonation really only comes in handy when your shot terminates on an armored elite and staggers some trash around it
one trauma m2 + peril block = free res 100% of the time, unless there's shooters nearby and you aren't running FS
Ok i think first target works on force sword special.
Left did 1137 and right did 1089. It had more damage but did less cause of first target
It wasn't a weakspot hit, so finess shouldn't be doing anything either
that would confirm that first target works on one target then too I guess
since special definitely only hits one
okay, it looks like first target is always in effect
another description wrong
Does this surprise anyone?
hitting two guys in the meat grinder, the second guy is taking much less damage than the first
but all my testing and feel told me it still works
¯_(ツ)_/¯
I think it's just the description that's wrong
I think it's basically working as intended
the correct answer is whichever option is better for the class, its the other one
did anyone use kinetic shield before 1.0.21?
trying to confirm whether it was an actual balance change or a description change to match reality 
I mean it wouldnt make sense that it does more damage to the first target only when you hit something behind it
and with that, I'm going to bed
It would be extremely weird if the weapon did less to the first target because you didn't have a second target
so I would hope its the description
in other words, it's a pointless stat
nah its just a damage multriplier past 50%
what
after that shenanigans with the damage tables of trauma I really don't know what to think anymore
and a damage deficit below 50
it makes no sense for there to be a stat for additional damage to first enemy hit
instead a stat for how much damage is lost on consecutive enemies hit with the swing makes more sense
I'm still sad over that
need a fucking farseer just to figure out what shit is suppose to do what
thats cleave
on a related note, are Beasts of Nurgle weak to explosive damage like bursters are?
Nah it makes sense as a stat for weapons where you want to focus on first target damage.
It's the whole identity of the thunder hammer for example
okay. let's say that hypothetically. there are two enemies in front of you. you cleave one, but miss the second one. does the game account for the fact that you WOULD have hit a second target?
if you hadn't missed?
no, that would be stupid
where are you going with this
first target always applies to the first target hit
regardless of whether you cleave
well yea
reminder that as far as I know every weapon has all of these stats, but the rolls only apply to certain weapons
He's saying there's no way for the game to know if there even is a second target at the moment of impact with the first, so the idea of first target requiring a second makes no sense
i see no reason to doubt this
thank you
like to my understanding every weapon technically has a defense value
but only few actually roll for it
for the others its a fixed value
i dont even entertain the thought that first target only applies when u hit multiple targets its pretty obvious to me
at least thats my understanding
might be old news but run and gun works on rmb charge now
every weapon has all the stats they just dont have a range
what is the theory behind melk's misery acquisitions
they suck
do they roll a random melk-tier item or a random shop-tier item
thats not a theory
the theory is that he hates me personally
I mean he rolls only purples and yellows
the shop only rolls blues
an below
its entirely luck if melk has any decent base stats though
i got a lot of blues like 2 purples and 1 orange curio from melk
You guys are actually doing the mystery acquisitions?
at this point he only ever has yellows and purples for me
is it ever worth spending MelkCoin™️ on his mystery thingies
lol no
i still have 3k+
I dont think anybody tried super recently but after release someone did and itwas like 99% dogshit
might as well gamble
They're talking about the mystery acquisition rolls
i just tried like an hour ago
if it can ony roll purples and yellows then you could probably cop a pretty nice curio for one expenditure of 250
You're actually doing them?
And getting yellows???
well i only got 1 orange
out of...?
i think i bought like 10?
did u win?
base stats still the same melk ballpark or higher
I guess they wouldnt be any different considering theyre so much cheaper
hey so are there any plans in the crafting system to boost base stats, cus like ive played like 250+ (lot of which is post bata) as a psyker and most of the gold gear i get have those high 450-465ish from empirer rewards but there all mostly guns instead of staffs. like im not against psykers with guns, i understand that some people like that, but most if not all psykers i see in game are using staffs not guns. is there a good reason for guns being in the possible drops for psykers besides drawing out my time grinding out t5s pointlessly, im just frustrated at this point
no idea
i cry
its not mentioned in the crafting post
so its either much later or some other way to get past 80%
some of my best weapons are guns lol
I mean my best staff is a surge and I dont use surge so

we all have our cross to bear
my cross being quite lucky on an eviscerator roll so now I play zealot 
like i want to get good with all of them but i cannt get any of them with good stats
I wonder whether devs predicted the vast majority of psykers would only use staffs
maybe
skill issue unfortunately please camp the shop harder
the shop sure as fuck doesnt feel like it
kek
luck if you get more than one psyker weapon in there
they just didn't design enough staves so they decided to pad out the weapon list with guns
idk I just kind of dont use generic weapons on any class
on zealot I use eviscerator and flamer or bolter 
i mean, 4 is good so far right now but there are like 20ish guns that are in that pool of odds
well, bolter is shared with vet tho
yeah but I cant get it on psyker so its not totally universal
im more talking about shit like autoguns
or generic lasguns
technically none of them are universal cause ogryns exist
why use those on zealot or psyker
technically ogryn doesnt do damage so who cares 
but fr ogryn gets fucked over its sad
I tried playing it for like 5 hours and just didnt have fun with any melee weapon and only fun with rippy
everything else i tried sucked
Siblings, post your fashion immediately 
they should give ogryn like 50 more toughness and more melee damage
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they should give ogryn some more weapons with horizontal sweeps rather than every other attack being a strikedown or some weird shit
Hello fello psykers. Is there a good reason why i should take the force sword over the chainsword? Seems like chainsword regular clicks kill much faster than force sword, and the alt fire seems to do identical damage
ogryn has arms bigger than everyone else's entire body but have underwhelming melee
swag thats why
you can get deflector, the block push is better (stage 1 that is) and its got a better moveset for clicking heads specifically
kek
also I wanna say the special is faster
just realizing now that trauma can roll transfer peril
but maybe thats just my brain being dumb
ogryns do have crazy good stagger with melee weapons though yeah
mainly blessings
specifically deflector
they cna sorta just stunlock everything
hope you love left clicking
xdddd
Idk if it actually finishes faster, but i swear it staggers earlier. I get hit by ragers if we attack eachother at the same time on chainsword but this never happens with force sword special
does staff left click have some deviation on it or something
it feels kind of awkward
every single one of these rolls shouldnt be possible on a trauma staff lmao
How much peril from 1 m2?
it has a delay and probably some momentum inherited from your movements
ahhhh
the thing i dont get with staffs, why is it only the flame staff that doesnt have a bolt
lul
I dont know if that stat there even works
m2 = rmb
I see! I'll fish for better swords once i'm 30
yeah no shit I mean the first one 
Why, when I asked what m2 peril cost was 
yeah go stay up until 9 am then and still be coherent
its 2 am here and im waiting 3 minutes so that i can sleep knowing that i really didnt miss anything good
which staff has the flamethrower and at when do I unlock it?
purg
Oh no whatever would you do without the 298 base stat heavy Las pistol
purgatus and like 16 or something
oh damn okay
you get trauma first
Trauma is okay. Needs good bars to excel
KEK
I never really check the shop anymore
i honestly only really want a 370+ force sword and a 365+ voidstrike
and thats kinda it
i want a chainsword
i guess a chainsword too
All my equipment performs decently well on T5
emperor gave me this one yesterday but i havent used it yet
So there's hardly a need for me to seek out 380s, when A. They're rare as fuck and B. Provide no substantial bonus
heh
Only 380 I have is a fucking mk2 tac axe lul
340
yeah i've been talking with people and it seems like
i kinda have more 380s than should be legally possible
lol
i think i have 11? now
somewhere between 8 to 11
alright im off to bed
I've never seen a 380 for a weapon type i actually use
yeah half of them are random greens i probably wont ever use
but i bought them just in case
I just don't even check unless it's the right weapon, so idk how many i missed
anyone willing to help me get Malleus Monstronum? Will help you with yours/other penances.
i dont really check the weapon stats, ijust know that a level 400/405 green is a 380
oh nice
so basically im loooking for like 425+ blues and 395+ greens and 380 bases
Finally, a good fucking force sword.
you know if i had a better %crit roll on my purg staff, i'd def roll crit on my force sword
ok srssly bed
cya
gn
gnight
350 greens
or maybe not, forgot
man, when the AI director breaks... ugh.
But did your ration limit increase?
did we ever as a community figure out which first tier talent to pick for purg staff
no
I like essence harvest, but many (most?) like Quietitude
think most agreed absorption isn't great for purg
I think if they made it so you actually procced absorption on a fire kill it'd be easier to pick
among many other things, purgatus is a mess
essence harvest and quietitude are both inconsistent in different ways
so I don't actually like any of them
the fact it has two nearly completely independent kinds of damage really fucks with its perks/blessings/feat interactions
I think I'd run quiet with a non-fs melee weapon and essence otherwise
i run quietude with force sword anyways
that's my thinking, depending on which charge-generating feats you pick
you can just manual quell with a staff
meh I run quietude
if I really need to spamming force pushes will build up the peril I need
or blocking
or if you really want to regen toughness and literally no one is alive near you, you could spam special
tho if no one is near you spamming staff is faster iirc
kinda feels like quietitude nonbos with 6 charge peril resist
Using peril is easy. Everything but basic FS swings builds it
worth buying?
🤔
Maybe if you’re using an axe with quietude you wouldn’t want it… but I will whip out staff for some CC in the middle of a melee for some peril which will then give toughness regen using combat axe
its been a while since I've seen a low level surge
I'd say the one you have is better
More zap CC
At that level nothing matters
Just buy stuff to test them out
He already has the weapon type and it’s a lower rating even
Coin will not be a problem in the end game, you will have a surplus of it
Just a tiny bit more damage, but surge is best for its C C C not damage, so less peril generation and faster quell is better
And it won’t raise his inventory rating level, presuming that effects store rolls
You are discussing over numbers that don't matter
When you get to 350+ base staff staves then we can continue this discussion
Both of those staves will be outdated in 5 hours of game play
I find endgame Boring so I just switch classes after level 25-30
So why blow the coin the only time coin economy means anything?
To see stuff for yourself and it's still extremely easy to come by?
ordo dockets are worthless anyways. takes less effort to afford it than to ask
just buy it
Ok, let’s not give advice then
We still don't know the prices of Blessing crafting - dockets may or may not be involved.
dockets surely will be more costly in the future
You certainly won't care about the 5k dockets you spent early on. It's not that important of a decision
Trust level is the only variable for what level of items you can get.
Lower level gear is like 1/3 the of a heresy run, so that really doesn’t factor.
Better to spend the dockets on something actually different, even if trash
At this point of "engame" i'm spending it on : 1) High base stats weapons 2) Good base stats + perk curios 3) Useful Blessing on weapon to use it in crafting
Oh yeah, at end game that’s the only things to spend money on besides some armor recolors
Also things that may prove useful over time
Sadly there is no re-colour of Maleus Monstrum armour. And it does not need one - it's perfect
I'd rather spend aquillas on another urinal-headgear, then dockets on another re-colour 🙂
There has to be a limit for "is this worth a buy"
If we start comparing every 120 stat item here on the way ppl level up themselves it will be just useless clutter as those people will soon get rid of the item they bought anyway
The point of "is this worth a buy" is when you have a weapon with a good stat total and then we discuss if the stat distribution, blessings and perks are good or not.
And that will be a weapon someone will use for a long time or end up with
Do remember that datamining has shown an unimplemented shop function to reroll the Armory inventory for an increasing cost of dockets.
the recolored hoods are nice tho on the docket store
yea, the best thing you can do to improve a weapon if you're not 30 is to just level
grey one with mask - is the only one i bought in using it non-stop 🙂
you'll see a much better option within ~5 levels probably
then it won't need to be a question
chill out bro they are new players. I used to post 110 staffs on here and asked if its worth it pre-beta. If people knew this they wouldn't ask
But if you want a FS with deflector with decent enough stats grab it imo
I'm not sure about that, feels like a trap tbh. having deflector can be great, but it's too weak of a crutch if it can't function like a decent melee weapon in malice+ due to arbitrarily deflated stats since being acquired at a low character level
what would be good blessing for this sword
because I am playing heresy
and its like a backscratcher
Try mark 4 or 2. They have cleave on it.
Seems to be a decent one. Not the best total but nice blessings. I would reroll sprint efficiency for a +25% damage of your choice
are dueling swords even good now
since they removed movement tech whats the point of running a DS
when you can run antax or FS or even just a devils claw
I just meant for leveling, if someone wants to move up in difficulty then using appropriate gear should be a priority. Some blessings are rare so you can't always expect to see it again in 5 levels.
Yes. They are ok DPS on mutants and provide good mobility for quickly repositioning yourself, which, believe it or not is one of the most important things in damnation.
agreed, that makes sense
agreed
mobility is good
¯_(ツ)_/¯
maybe it's just me but the extra base mobility of the dueling sword is meh at best
especially since psyker is typically backline
It's the dodge slides that make it good for mobility. There are many and they go far and fast.
fair enough
The running speed bonus is just a nice addition
how is game
game good 
less lame than u
loll
godem
why is the surge staff so bad at killing hordes
it hits like 5 enemies and kills 2
because it is
purga is better for deaing w hordes
but surge is better when staggering elites and ranged
The blessings on this look good but is it worth buying this with these stats?
It's got really high first target, but the damage and penetration seems like it may be a problem unless those blessings make up for it and I'm not experienced enough to know if it will
Out of 6 matches, I've received a gold gun and sabre and a purple gun 😦
if you feel like you could make it up I would consider it heavily. i play on t3 tho. that's at least a weeks worth of coins.
I usually play on T4 or T3, and have been heavily considering trying to get a decent axe and I wasn't sure if these stats being low were a deal breaker
The blessings look really good and the perks feel like they work fairly well in making up for Surge Staff's shortcomings
surge is a crutch for bad teams kinda
id ask again in a few hours. a lot of the server is asleep
there are break points that Im only starting to understand
Unfortunately I mostly play pub so I don't really have that many good teams. If I'm playing with friends I tend to run Purgatus and Deflector FS
I'll come again in about 3 hours then, hopefully there'll be some experienced people who can give more input
Thanks
god its like pugs get worse every day
I'm just a bit wary of buying this because it's pretty pricey
mk V with brutal momentum is a nearly perfect defensive tool, with kinetic deflection you can tank anything but bullets and the push attack cleaves so its stats arent the priority but they would be nice. However weekly currency is well... contentious
Since the push attack cleaves and hits multiple enemies, would that proc Headtaker multiple times?
so if you want it, buy it but you'll likely find an upgrade
procs on hit so I'd say so
Hmm... I'll think a bit more on it then.
Thanks!
I just really wish that currency in general was shared
I have a lot on my Zealot and Veteran that goes nowhere
It'd make it a lot easier to make decisions like this
yeah, not like you can catapult a new character to the top with it since low levels weapons are actual garbage
Yeah, it's kind of ridiculous. I also come from a background of D2 and DRG so I'm pretty used to shared currencies, for both, and gear, for the former, so this throws me off a bit
im so frustrated with pugs tho, just had a veteran walk up to a demonhost and shoot it in the face then get mad when he instantly died
you mean you can't spend dozens of hours on both of your characters every week?
huh
I lost a 11/15 Flawless Execution streak just because some Zealot decided to rush a Daemonhost when I typed in chat to avoid it because everyone else was down and it was just me and him
I wish everything was shaired.
Needless to say we both died pretty quickly because there were still plenty of mobs around
earlier someone got lost... lost
with objective markers, they were a whole section behind
Yeah I played like an actual b*tch for flawless execution
like I waited for malice lesser hordes, and only played if I had atleast two friends with me
like if you wanna kill demons I'll tank it, a shield ogryn can tank it. Zealots and vet will die
zealots can tank it if they know what they are doing
I was quite confident in carrying but that game was incredibly cursed and that single Zealot got us all killed since we were all already weak and in a bad situation
It's kind of amazing how less hordes sometimes still drops like
3 Crushers.
2 Maulers.
4 Ragers.
clearly this zealot did not know what they were doing
Knife zelot can dash around it ok. but your team needs to hit it hard
lol dodge tank? lets let people who can withstand it do the tanking instead of giving people carpal tunnel
yeah I circle kited a daemon host on my taxe zealot for a while but I was stuck with a bunch of brainlets who couldn't even deal a quarter of the boss health
Unfortunately most of my friends are in the US and I'm in Asia so I don't really have that many people I can play with at convenient times
I'll game with ya, I'm US but im night shift
I'm US I just have zero sleep schedule after pulling an all nighter the day before a final to study lol
I appreciate the offer, but I'll have to hold off on that since I'm still recovering from medical and so right now is just store checking simulator haha
thats the whole game what do you mean
how charming
i was like why are they talking about that penance
then again I was always told "just tell your ogryn friend to help you"
left
left is better, but at that point just wait until you find a 380 one tbh
well shit I gotta grind
meh idk when a 380 one is gonna pop up
at this point I'm thinking of all in with the stupid gambling
even when you get a 380 there's no guarantee it's better than a 370 or even a 360


