#psyker-class
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It's like... it's so close to making sense, and yet just not there...
Regular stairs with security doors achieve same result presumably
maybe it has some advantages for keeping vermin controlled
but eh
we segregate the poors just fine with very energy efficient combinations of elevators and gates in the real world 
real life poors ain't got shit on warhammer poors
Underlevel hives pack heat
Seriously. Just give them some iphones with tik tok installed
sounds heretical
^
imagine a mass of 50+ workers have to go up those stairs 5 times during a 3 hour period
that add a lot of uses to an elevator
Regular stairs though, in addition to an elevator
I know
The real question is, why isn't it handicapable?
cause handi-caps don't exist in 40k
handicaps are just fast track servitors
<.<
Yeah >.>'
Do people use the left click, for brain burst? I almost exclusively charge it with right click.
Yeah absolutely
If I see the target I want no need to precharge I can just aim directly at it
yeah I usually only precharge if it's like, a dog/mutie/poxwalker I can't see yet
I suppose I normally don't use it very often, since I am a sitting target
Mmm. So close to being done with all my Pskyer penances but GOD I can't be bothered to do Malleus Monstronum
It's so dumb
I don't bother precharging if it's above Malice
I think the math is something like... left click takes 45% peril, while right click is 55% peril?? no real testing involved on my part though so that might be wrong
wish right clicking would hold the charge in stock so it can be used instantly on demand like a grenade
yeah, I think the current system is a little clunky, and kinda inferior to a veteran with a gun 90% of the time
like, if theres a bomber, trapper, or sniper that run away behind a corner the moment you spot them, theres nothing better than brain burst to end em
but that doesn't happen often
Brainburst is an armour penetrating sniper rifle
It's better and worse than a veteran's capabilities in all the ways it would be if it literally was
Unfortunately without the coolness of it being a gigantic armour penetrating sniper rifle
just wait until veteran gets that stub rifle that was in the datamining
then we'll have a veritable army of xXMLGPROXx veterans to kill things for us
Idk really what our class actually is. It's like they wanted to make an anti-elite class and then realised they also needed a support class because veteran is ranged anti elite and zealot is melee anti-elite
So here we are. Just kinda doing our own thing sort of
We save ammo for the team, cc, and head pop
has anyone had luck with focused channeling blessing?
Helping my teammates complete their help downed operatives penances faster
we clear hoards way better than a veteran can
Yeah my god roll purge staff has focused channeling, i love having it
Speaking of Veterans, why are there so many that tunnel-vision melee?
power sword has iron sights
Because they act like they've been brainburst once already
usually they tunnel vision melee because power sword is the best melee weapon in the game
Like if someone gets jumped by a dog a fair distance away from the Veteran why the fuck do they start running over with their power sword instead of shooting the damn thing
I feel a bit useless watching only hordes show up and no elites so I jump in with my shovel to melee
and it feels like a waste of ammo to use on them
It's one thing if it's hordes, but I'm talking about Specials and Elites mainly
Like I don't get it
Sure it makes my Heresy runs more... Interesting I suppose, but damn still
yknow what would make brainburst really good? if it's targeting prioritized elites and specials in a crowd. then we could actually do our job
I swear I lost a heresy run because the Vet insisted on helping my Ogryn sweep hordes away and someone in the back got downed
Super tall Psyker meta
i dont know how much it actually matters but I do a lot of crouching in front of my team as psyker
got that slider all the way down
I'm already slightly taller than average and I keep getting shot through my head behind cover
Also what kind of bird is your profile picture?
Reminds me of a frogmouth
I lost a run because our zealot with 4 heath ran off by themself and got jumped by 4 shotgunners near a cliff, and the ogryn that went to save them bullcharged directly off the edge, leaving 2 psykers to deal with like 10 elites total
No definitely not a wren the bastard was too confident to be one
psyker tall enough to launch a void strike at head level and maintain being parallel with the ground 
the bird in my icon is a baby chocobo from ff15 wearing a runescape party hat
Carolina Wren is my best guess, but specifically that picture is me gripping the damn thing because it got into my house for the second day in a row and catching it without hurting it was pain.
To this day I still don't know how it got inside
Twice
I went away on a weekend once and when I came back there was a pigeon living in my house. It came down the chimney
Yeah that sounds about right for a pigeon
Sounds like the classic pug experience
I've been suprised with the pug experience, honestly thought it would be worse
granted heresy is very much touch and go
I played a damnation pug last night on smelter comp, the 3 randoms were already camping the door while I was still doing the 3rd tentacles event in the last area
I was smacking tentacles for nearly 3-4mins? Before I started using voice to say "we're not done yet"
yeah, seen a lot of folks not realize those regen
think as time goes on more and more of whats left of the player base is tide vets
They didn't even go to the tentacle area
ooof
They just went straight for the door after the 2nd event
I was laughing and raging at the same time
yeah, I think the flux of new players has actually been a little annoying
in the sense that they don't seem to have any idea how to play the objectives
everyone new at some point and game doesn't really tell you how to do objectives right away without looking up an explanation
The community seems to follow the soulslike formula where the experienced vets leave or get burnt out and newer players struggle to either change or match the expectations set.
the real gut punch is when you finally get to the end-of-mission screen and see two level 30s and a 25
this was literally one of my runs earlier today
two of us pinged the DH and the idiot ran right towards it and attacked it, and then when he died, he wrote "sorry didn't see it until it was too late"
That's the vets when they see it go from sitting to floating
Thinking it's triggered
I've had a moment like that except. They were mid sneaking past one and I spawned in waking it up

I was that veteran on psyker in a run the other day. had a precharged BB and was looking around for a trapper that ran off across the chasm, had no idea there was a demonhost over there and popped him one after the vet already alerted them
oof, but that's not your fault
thankfully i had the talent that lets me block forever
so we just kinda cleaned it up
like, i can raise anyone so long as theres no guns shooting me, imagine what I could do if I had deflector
deflector isn't as amazing as you imagine it to be
on heresy+, a handful of shooters will drive your peril up very quickly
makes deflector only good for ducking into and out of cover
or for very short periods in the open
I do imagine it's better than getting shot by everything though
sure, but as soon as your peril hits 90%, it stops blocking shots
it's hard to appreciate just how fast that happens until you see it for yourself
there's a reason why I don't use my very nice blocking fsword
besides the fact that I don't like the moveset
theres so many cases where an entire regiment is spread out, and running in to hit them with a sword only rewards you with an entire salvo of gunfire to the back
reasons to take a surge staff
I love my surge staff
I just wish there was a surge-specific blessing that made it even better
Block cost reduction apparently reduces the ammount of peril generated
we had a discussion on this earlier
and I looked at the code
yes, block efficiency and cost reduction both factor into the peril cost of blocking
Forked lightning surge that still chains when
but there's also a factor using your max stamina
so for that, it's beneficial to also up your max stamina
i really wish charging it longer made it arc to more targets
yeah
it needs more damage scaling and more targets via charging
to include more primary targets
I really dislike the surge staff
Just feels so underwhelming
because it's not really for killing things
using surge effectively requires really paying attention to both the enemies and the rest of the team
that's one of the reasons why I like it
a surge staff keeps runs safe, biggest support staff in the game
I feel it’s only good when your team has the damage and skill to capitalise on the stun
Sure but supporting my random teammates, who often are lobotomized, isnt really the best idea if I can just kill everything myself imo
that's true
If they dont then kill the stuff properly we have a problem

Pretty much how I felt about surge when I started playing psyker more (as zealot main), but then I started winning games easily with it. I like winning.
I feel it’s easier to be useful with purgatus at higher difficulties
Thats why I use the flame staff. everything burns to death and we win
Purgatus just lowers the general HP of hordes making them easier to kill with melee and etc.
Until you meet 2 knife-flamer zealots
Power of DoTs
Dont get me wrong, i know the purg is good
Purgatus lowers the general HP of hordes to 0
It's the I-learned-my-build-from-youtube build, knife zealot
I just wish the build wasn’t reliant on an rng blessing lol
Just use 380 common gear
since I got my fairly incredible purge staff, i've been using that every run, but not using the full flames build. i like the faster BB after ulting too much to use the soulflame one, and the other flame things arent really all that special

so i just use my regular build
Me crying at a near perfect stat knife but no laceration or bleed
I need help with some banger psyker builds, the recon lasgun headpop build aint working for me
The ult soulflame has incredible range though in a cone in front of you and does a lot of damage
but it doesn't really kill much, is my issue
Idk why so many people are trying to get BB flayer builds. They act like it doesnt have a 15 second cooldown
any builds you recommend? just hit 30 as well
It kills pretty much all garbage in my experience and maybe gunners too
It is nice but it isnt being used in the way people think.
on what difficulty? im usually on Heresy
damnation
you need like 5 warp charges to kill dreg shooters
are you using the trait that gives you 6 stacks of warp charges too?
I am experimenting with either that or flayer. I just think flayer is funny so I use that a lot now
what do you guys think of this force sword
Is good
im usually using flayer, it's just nice to get a free warp charge every now and then
Burning enemies maxes your charges almost instantly
But yeah I like the flayer even though it sounds really underwhelming with the cooldown
i find flayer to be a more powerful more consistent warp charge generator than that other 4% on kill
i pick up the cooldown aura instead
upping your warp charge cap to 6 means you can ult (at max warp charges) a horde and kill it with that alone
I pretty much always use flayer when not using the purge staff
This is so true, that it's sad
It's funny that Flayer can proc on BB itself
The cooldown aura is so incredibly good
I learned by accident don't shoot anything near the daemonhost
A reaper moved near it, and I didn't know...
and now I do know...
yeets BOX at host


How would you feel if you're trying to nap and dudes next to you are keeling over dead
Tired
I hate people near me when I sleep so probably good
^
i wonder how fast the host dies with 4 zealots with activated thunderhammers charge at it
It's not them being near you, it's bodies falling all over the ground
probably them shouting when they die
Something just hits different when you've got 4 Ogryns throwing their Boxes all in to the Monstrosities
I need a group or such to help with my monster killing penance
I've got like 8 missions left before I hit 100
Just did that penance an hour ago. It's such bad design
It used to be 100%
Of nurgle? I think that's a bad one to pick
why 10 minutes
Well its not my pick but the game's
You just kill it and find a new one
I had the perfect chance to do it, but the ogryn on my team didn't know to use the slab shield special to block the DH, so he just died to it
half the missions I didnt even get a bosss
holding down a button is too hard
Ogryns arent known to be bright
On heresy? I feel like I always get at least one monstrosity
we played like 4 missions without a single monster
unlucky
the first time I helped a friend do their penance, they managed to do it against a plague ogryn, just kiting it around the whole area
Then you do the 1 uprising or malice run with 3+ monstrocities
fighting plague ogryns in general is just more fun than beasts of nurgle
90% of the time? Beast of nurgle...
Yeah really feels scuffed
Plague Ogryns are really easy to fight
Can do them solo in melee without taking damage probably
Then you get the 1 run where the ogryn somehow knocks 2 players off the map
Getting knocked off the map in this game is just way too easy anyway
Especially with all these fucking barrels behind every corner
Throwing you right over the tiny fence too every time
yeah thats no problem. the real problem is the bloodthirsty teammates with thunder hammers and power swords and twin linked heavy stubbers that deal 50% of it's health in 2 seconds
I had the assassination target ledge me, once
I didn't even know there were ledges IN the arena...
monstrous was one of the easier ones since you just need a willing team
on the really green map, torrent I think, there's the bit where you need to scan before an elevator
the statues by the elevator are actually bottomless pits that you can fall into
extremely annoyed to discover that
They really need to up their safety regulations in the imperium
Some places are OSHA compliant. good handrail placement
I would like to see the OSHA inspection report of Tertium
I bet its stellar
idk, I get a lot of anxiety about asking people to spend time just helping me. Like "speedrun a heresy mission while I have low health" at least lets them actually play the game
just use the lfg channels if you don't want to bug randoms
lots of people are willing to help out
Yeah I did and have gotten it already, but it still just feels bad
Yeah penances that depend on your teammate beeing helpful or not retarded arent really a good idea.
Also penances that want you to sabotage your team are a genius decision for sure like the suicide one
I get you
my psyker complains about the absolute state of the place, probably because she's memorized the OSHA Guidebook
I read it daily before bed too
the Atoma Lex doesn't cover safety rails
Somewhere in the handbook there's a note about keeping explosive barrels away from railings
in the grim darkness of the far future, there is no osha
always keep them behind small pillars so you cant see them before they blow you into the void
more like OSHIT amirite
okay, that's enough psyker for one night, time to stab everything with my zealot
how does one do malleus mostronum 
Get a willing team with a shield ogryn. Shield ogryn wakes it up and holds the special block. He blocks infinitely and you just stand there BBing it while the rest of the team protects you
you can do it with a plague ogryn or beast of nurgle too but you have to kite them
so best is to get a daemonhost?
Some maps spawn daemonhost somewhat close to the starting area so you can try doing a duo of that with a bro shieldgryn
also does the damage have to be 90% brainburst?
yeah
you absolutely have to get the killing blow
it's best to be in a premade group specifically for penance completion
so everyone understands what's going on
pugs will just fuck you over
It's a really stupid penance
there are worse ones
seer saying "poor dog" with genuine sadness after killing poxhound is probably the funniest ive heard
I'm so close to being done with my psyker for awhile. I wana move on to my ogryn already...
Sadists
People who don't play their own game
Reject brain blast. Embrace box
Funny thing that for me. Once I nearly had it in a pug with a Beast of nurgle. 3 people 1 bot. Bot was dead. Zealot fucked off to nowhere. Ogryn kiting the beast. Had it down to <1/4th hp but the horde the zealot was holding back apparently killed him and ended that. It was at the start of the enclavum baross mission
FR dude. Zealot penance was actually fun to do, psyker penance literally be like
Very true since the penance actually legit tells you to kill yourself
Psyker’s have the worst penances. I got all the vet penances already (granted I cheesed the last one) but I haven’t even bothered with the blowing yourself up one beyond a few tries where I felt dirty
Straight up griefing
The one in thrownside where you have to hack the elevator always spawns groups of 3-4 shotgunners from behind a wall
The location is in a guide to and its probably one of the best places to do it if you suicide right when they climb over
Kinda hard to do without a friend though and in a public game you will surely end up dead and everybody annoyed
i managed to get that one by just like, paying attention, and using a trauma staff to kinda push them together and put me at high peril
Yeah its doable but absolutely braindead design compared to the comparable tier of penance for other classes
saw three shotgunners in a hoard, thought "oh shit, I can try for my thing here", went for it, and got it in one
imma run gaia autogun/knife psyker
i tried to do that once, but my party had trigger happy vets with bolters 
bleeding knife zealot has no business being this silly fun to play
we had/have a group of psykers ofr helping each other with penances
Maybe not, but, that's asside from the point!
I use the force sword on DH, the charge attack does gud damages
force sword makes many life problems go away 
So this baby came up on my contract Acquisition reset just now. Can I as a Psyker, make any use of it? 🤔
Some people use knife on the psyker but i don't really understand it
Could you? Yes. Should you? Probably not
This looked so good till I saw the modifiers.
You could reroll the weak spot damage, more damage to elites isn't terrible at least... unlike crit damage...
the 3 more important stats are above 50%
warp resistance, quell speed, damage
That's useable, just not worth the price
If I wanna get something from Melk, I'd rather all the important stats be above 70.
Speakin' of Surge staves and Emperor's Blessings, I've got a real nice one but unfortunately it has Run 'n' Gun
Probably the best Emperor's Blessing I've ever gotten
My Zealot has the only good Melk weapon I've ever seen
+75% damage is pretty nice
Only good Melk weapon, lots of subpar or alright ones
yo that's close to what I have, run n gun stalks me hard on my consecrates
It wasn't a god roll on the stats, but, the t4 headtaker was a very VERY nice roll
Run 'n' Gun is a curse yeah
I almost want to get the bleed knife as just something to have. 😅
Run n gun is useable... and that's about it
able to be used, but, not really great in any way
I supposed it's better than an axe with limbsplitter and brutal momentum
So basically, it's crap
nothing is better
on anything but psyker
nothing is worse, you mean?
nope
Cause you're saying nothing is better than run and gun
on a staff
like not even t4 deflector on a force sword
no, I'm saying nothing is better than a combat axe with limbsplitter and brutal momentum
oh
not for psyker for melee
For zealot and vet it's kind of a waste of a mix of blessings
for psyker it's like the god roll of blessings
for zealot, nothing beats bleeding knife for melee
Uh... except literally everything >.>
I'm literally killing everything with a knife, this is ridiculous
Guess it's fine
It's just: past malice, the knife falls off hard
does it?
Yeah, if your party doesn't have something to compensate
Knife zealot is good, saying nothing beats it in melee is, well...
my knife doesn't have that one blessing that gives extra damage to weak spots if they're bleeding
heresy?
and my pistol only has CR1
If you don't have a flamer to compensate for the horde clear, it gets messy
knife/brauto works fine in heresy imo
Is that on psyk or zealot
Zealot
Oh
In context of the zealot flamer talk
Let's get things straight, Knife on zealot is fine on damnation.
Saying it's the best melee is just heresy.
That
Like one of those clickbait youtubers
Useable? Yes. Best? No, lol.
Axe zealot with a decent elite killing gun tho
Ever since I found better melee options I have not gone back to the knife, on zealot.
Sadly a lot of peeps on youtube and reddit now believes the knife is the best melee on zealot
I wonder if they actually tested other weapons
I've never thought that. There was a time it was the best melee I had, at the time... but never the best melee for zealot
Or if their zealot experience isn't limited to "I leveled zealot to 30 and played some games with it"
Sick as hell? yeah. Fun? Totally. Best? ... no.
Depends on what you're doing. It's unquestionably the fastest plasteel vacuuming speed tool.
Lol.
It's the best for griefing your team 
^
And for immediately catching shade xD
"What a waste of a build" "You're using the knife build?!"
"Looky here boys, we got a knife zealot"
"You know that's little more than a toothpick, right?"
But seriously though, I don't mind random knife zealots as much as you see me flame them. It's just the newbies who think they're unkillable with it and end up ruining the run that I hate.
as long as it's not carapace - why not carapace? because there's too few of those enemies?
Tips for getting the "going out with a bang" penance? My explosion never seems to kill anything
Found this joke, again. Still just as funny as before. xD
most oppressed class yea
Know you're gonna fail, probably many times. So when it does fail, don't feel like it's your fault.
Soften the elites up, first
Appreciate it, good way to look at it
give them a good frisk with your melee
not too rough
not too soft
Then BAM if their faces!
whats the fastest way to get my peril to 100%?
Also having your team keen on what your doing is vital
surge staff/flame staff, I think
both are petty good at it, if you don't know what you're doing
Funny thing is I got the flawless execution just by playing my usually style as Ogryn
Trying to avoid damage, killing elites, keeping my teammates alive to cover my hapless ass
I think the 10th mission was that low intensity damnation mission my friend dragged me along on, when I was lvl 20
idk how I didn't go down that run... but my pulse was at least 150 the whole run
saying I was on high alert would have been an understatement
Do low-tier blessings get upgraded when you upgrade a weapon
Or do they just stay the same
stay the same
looking at the wording for 'going out with a bang':
- (do I have to kill 3x elites with 1x overload?)
- (or can I kill 3x elites with 3x different missions)
think it's the top 1
It's absolutely the first one
Ye
best thing to do is heresy, has big groups of elites
with other psykers to help ideally,
since you will fail
and pray your group isnt running bolters
I must admit, I love they psyker archetype but man, I can't wait for that gunslinger class
In order to help someone here I used force sword and corralled a group of 4 maulers and a couple ragers until they were able to detonate themselves properly
other than that it's fairly straightforward. MM is the one you will literally never achieve naturally tho
MM is just, horribly designed
if it was, finish off a monstrosity with BB
sure
can be a bit tricky
but itd' be doable
90% of hp with bb will never, ever, happen naturally
Unless you clutch in uh.. in one 1/1000 scenario
I'd get it
yes if entire team dies and you decide to become a dodge god it's doable
unless a dog kills you of course
I think MM and pick n mix are only ones I have left
I still havent pulled off going out with a bang
and tbh pick n mix is fairly doable in some defend position sequences
oh, i also havent managed to get the one about shoving 7 over
Oh the push one can be cheesed
but that one is simple enough, it's just rare people don't just shoot the horde when you prep it
which was my issue last time, someone naded me as I shoved them over so it didnt count
solo into logistratum where there is a bridge without railings at the start
and just wait for first horde to spawn
loop around it and push
pray ur bots dont kill too many
ye I know location, just need to kidnap someone so I can make match private.
even if I chose difficulty 1 there's apparently people playing that
maniacs, truly
nah, just people who touch grass
The vigil station espionage objective finale where you're guarding the interrogator in the middle defending two bridges, is really good for this.
there will always be multiple big hordes of poxwalkers just running at you and you can ult them off the bridge
only issue is any half decent team will be clearing them
You could definitely get 20 on the vigil station map
so at least it's a bit ezier
are there such things as MM groups
I found a group for it in the vox lfg channel here
oh awesome
I just did mine 1hr ago. you just have to make sure a teammate doesn't help you.
I had surge and atrox5..
- you can hold that bridge without even using the staff.
- as long as you don't get a burster.
- block/push/hit repeat.
- when you got a bridge full, (f)
we all took turns getting it
id be down for that during weekends if it still happens
it's not like a recurring event or anything, you just ask or look to see if anyone else is asking
ah kk
would it be expected to have a shield ogryn available or can we just tank with force sword
when I did mine only two of us had shield ogryns. Have you tanked a demonhost with a force sword before?
i don't think it's as easy as some people make it out to be
definitely not as controllable either
compared to a shield ogryn I mean
stack block efficiency and it's doable if you good
if you suck don't even bother, get ogryn
I wonder if we will get actual energy shields if the defender psyker subclass makes it in
achully
maybe in 2025
Ogryn with Refractor Shield.. Yum.
Have you considered Enclavum Baross 2x platforms on either side of the BridgeControls?
Or the AgiesStation at the top of the stairs.. (when you hold the stairs, the climb to flank you)
- The (f) will do damage, the fall will do more..
- hit them diagnoally and yo can get a whole line of them climbing onto the ledge
they need to die I feel a proper fall of doom is more reliable
the absolute easiest way to get Cliffhanger is mission that starts with you crossing a bridge that has a thin walkway over an abyss parallel to it
chasm logistratum or hab dreyko
psyker is really good at ressing people
Way I got cliffhanger was Hab Dreyko at the end sequence on the way to the Valkyrie, there's that piping you run up and a bunch of enemies drop from above right onto the edge, and usually quick enough that teammates won't clear them before you get the chance
God Roll fr
I got a 460 trauma staff from the emperor. It's... not too bad... but impractical.
Green for base, but that blessing is nice. Reroll the sprint.
left
yeah thats what I thought, ill upgrade the green and see what I get
The focused channeling blessing is S-tier on purgatus, but the green one has better modifiers. Grab the green one and keep it til you can put focused channelling on it.
is its perk good on the green?
Looks like I should just avoid this week.
Its middle of tue road IMO, tgat weapon is already great against groaners and poxwalkers. So its kinda overkill.
Malice week
any hidden change between tier blessing with Focused Channeling?
Rerol grims and 25 missions, scrips isn't so bad.
Anything that's speeds trash horde clearing for purge is great
It only spawns at tier 2 AFAIK
ok
What ended up as 12 grims, was what I was rerolling. Can't do it anymore.
Damn
Team grim pickups count
25 missions is not that bad too
better not reroll and get the 6 secondaries on x mission

okay this is what it ended up rollig, which perk to reroll?
Crit damage
yeah, crit damage does next to nothing for you
though if it was crit chance, that's excellent
warp flurry is pretty alright, I think most everyone usually wants warp nexus though for extra crit chance
so what perk should I target once I See it?
I thought warp flurry was broken?
I have no clue, any number of things could be broken right now
I’ve tested it myself doesn’t seem to increase charge speed at all
The psyker staves really got the worst of it when it comes to buggy blessings
eh, it'll probably be good once it's fixed lol
Yea lol next year
I am sad that knife zealot is more fun to play than psyker
Purg build question: Does Warp Battery or Kinect Overload pair better with Ascendant Blaze?
greetings fellow schizos
I mean, I'm not wiping the horde out with my knife, but I'm not afraid of it
I prefer overload because I like feeling like my extra stacks are doing something but 6 stack ult is really good
as long as you have room to dance, you're fine
both are good in different ways
battery if you're using blaze
if you're using kinetic barrage, overload
overload plays very well with blaze too
anyway random question, the hell's the difference between these two besides numbers
if you tend to use your shout against shooters a lot (don't play with a vet, etc) battery is going to be better
Agreed
movesets
my psyker's primary weapon is actually the fucking brainburst
Something we can't see
maintain max warp charges; burn any nearby enemies if possible, use my trusty sword against small groups of enemies; my purgatus against huge crowds that are too close
overload gets slept on but those stacks don't care about the stack limit on your staff
makes mixed hordes easier
so if you aren't worried about dying to shooters and spend more time flaming, overload is probably going to do more
the trash dying piles stacks on the ragers etc mixed in
tbh my brainburts priority is usually Trash melee > shooters > gunners/shotgunners/snipers/ragers/hounds/maulers > mutants > crushers/reapers/bulwarks > monstrosities
Overload makes me feels good with a purg staff. I get depressed when nothing is burning.
it also plays really well in multiples
because of the clown shoes way multiple psykers with AB works
i know it's obvious but it's good taking care of some regular shooters while you dont have to focus on the many elites
Does soulblaze apply through overload supress?
I don't think so
yeah, it's the things applying it that do
i just kind of see it as the occassional crowd clearer, most times "I want my peril gone now so i can keep brain bursting this fucking boss"
besides why waste an ability if my staff can let me use fire
Right. I don't believe I've seen any kills or suppression via Kinectic Overload. If anything it's another way to tag elites for the team.
I'm ready for a new boss.
time to see if I’m not the only one thinking of a space marine boss then
lemme just get the popcorn
personally looking forward to fighting archaon
I’m assuming that’s a nurgle psyker
archaon the everchosen, supreme champion of all four chaos gods
never seen a lasgun in his entire life though
so who knows
A scab militarum tank crew would be amazing.
A tank I think would be more of an objective than a boss
sounds like a bit higher on the power level scale compared to four bumpkins who can barely take down a daemon together
archaon's from warhammer fantasy, so maybe we can just dome him with a bolter
okay, but i'd safely assume he'd get a tad stronger since those times since that's like
idk, a 40*,000+* year timegap
and if he's the champion of all the chaos gods, with that amount of time i'd assume he'd become significantly powerful and possibly learned the tools of the time
The problem is most of the cool 40k stuff is OP by lore for our rejects.
A single ork boss maybe?
I mean yeah that's cool and all but how about an orbital bombardment?
Like literally just glass the fucking planet
"I wield a thousand swords at once, fear me"
"Say goodbye to your planet knucklehead"
like for him to nuke the planet or us
because if us, then why is darktide even a game lmao
No I mean WE nuke the planet he's on
what are good perks and blessings to look for on force sword ?
deflector slaughterer shred bloodthristy
deflector
ty
spicy mk4 making me feel like trying it
Good start
What's your guys' favorite type of melee for the psyker? So far I'm like the dueling sword a lot more compared to the claw sword. Haven't tried force sword yet tho
caxe
I enjoy dueling sword and axe
Isn't the axe really bad at clearing hordes tho? Since it's single target right? Doesn't cleave
Depends on the axe
Antax mk5 with brutal momentum has infinite cleave and a spammable horizontal push attack
With brutal momentum bless you deal with hordes easily
I use atrox mk 2 on my psyker because the game hates giving me good anta mk5's, decent enough for hordes
Ah ok. I'm at a point where most my things have no bless
and praying to the Omnissiah that Hadron won't brick your shit
I really like an nice heavy axe if I'm going purge otherwise dueling sword or claw are preferred for hordes. Feels good to bury that axe in some rager trying to get in my face and stagger him with the special attack
anyone down for a damnation?
I can play psyker with purg or surge staff or ogryn with mk III cleaver & GG
fair warning: i've never completed a damnation
Why's everyone run dueling sword?
I tend to run harder single target weapons or really big crowd clear
mobility good
hey does anybody have a resource that names all the mk variants of each weapon and the movesets
i guess i need to lurk this channel to figure out a good psyker build since up till now i've only really played my ogryn lul
there are a lot of viable ways to psyke, just need the right gear I guess
Yeah, gear (and desired role) makes the build more than selected passives, unfortunately.
Tips for Perk reroll? : /
Man that's pretty solid as is. I wish I had something even close to as good.
Yeah that's pretty decent
Dunno how many ogryns you'll kill with that though so unless you wanna dps bosses with it you could look into rerolling unyielding maybe?
Idk
Yeah - guess u got a point there. I wonder which Perk might be a fine replacement.
I would roll the unyielding into flak. The only enemies that are unyielding are Bulwarks, Reapers and monstrosities. Bulwarks you rarely kill with Purge because of the shield and Reapers rarely because they most often fight you at a longer distance. You rarely purge monstrosities because adds are always your top prio as a psyker. Flak is like half the enemies in the game and will allow you to melt Maulers.
finally realized what I dislike about Surge. thing is absolutely useless during a hoard
like, outside a hoard, against roaming ranged guys? it's fine, it works, ranged guys during a hoard? you'd be better off running at them with a melee weapon
Not exactly - if hoard is far away - you can kill quite a lot of them by spamming LMB headshots , and also suppress the living shit out of it.
very nice dodges, underestimate horde clear, decent mono target dmg
And after it get close.. yeah, put the Surge staff away 🙂
i prefer force sword to nuke mono and purgatus for mass hordes
they complete each other well
but like, using quietude with surge must not be what it's best with, probably better with the warp weapon kills one
i think you got it the other way round quietitude is great with surge
I have setups:
- Deflector Force Sword/Purgatus
- MK V Axe / Surge
For 2 different moods 🙂
I spent about 50% of that run with zero toughness because I couldn't manually quell pretty much the entire time
high intensity missions are really not made for surge staff it seems
I've seen so many people saying quietude works with passive quelling, but I haven't seen it a single time
no it works fine i think you just gotta get used to it
Wot
it does though youre probably doing something wrong
so the mission I was doing was that repair mission, where theres an absolute constant flood of enemies while you're trying to kill corruptors, right?
it was just a terrible idea to bring out a surge staff at any point at all during that sequence unless my teammates burned away all the trash
and even then, there's always one more behind you
well yeah, why would you use surge on trash hordes except for when you want to go high peril to do passive quell + quietitude
I wanted to get to high peril so I could quell with quietude.
if youre behind teammates sure if not just go kill some trash with melee
so spam cast a couple of times and switch back to melee
I use quietitude in any difficulty, if there is no quell time you often can melee or F or use staff quell for a short period.
just switch to your axe and push cut for a bit
maybe it was my chainsword is why I had such a difficult time, but i dont have an Antax with brutal momentum yet, so I dont have much better for taking care of hoards
Y
it's heavy arc isn't wide enough for what I'm used to I guess
Ngl at first I thought you meant literal, high-intensity modifier missions here lol
Because I breeze through high intensity t5 just fine with surge
oh no no, it's great for that, i forgot that was a thing for a sec lol
but like, missions with constant floods of trash is what I'm talking about
surge is fine u just gotta get used to the playstyle
If you dont like chainsword maybe give dueling/claw sword a try
you cant just use surge all the time
I would use either of those, if the game would give me a decent one
Well checking the shop is the game's current endgame for a reason kek
it's also potentially a teamcomp issue
if nobody is equipped for horde clear/knows that's their role you can have a bad time with surge
Yes I can reee
I've got... a 350 modifier mk1 devils claw, but mk1 feels... unresponsive
it's got a strange slowness, i can't really describe it
Try mk 4, cleave combo is pretty straightforward and the overhead spam for single targets is surprisingly good
Devastating strike/shred
My psyker doesn't have that exact combo (only shred and some other crap) but it melts hordes just fine
Meanwhile my zealot does and ive used it on t5 high intensity too
well jusy pray to emprah harder
im not even on damnation, just trying to get my last penance on Heresy still
I've been playing since beta and I still dont have a god roll antax 5
Just keep checking shop 
my zealot has one, but it has to just sit there and rot while I level my other classes and get their earnable cosmetics
give it to me
now
hadron griefs all my 2nd bless consecrates
now i just save my 370-380 base weaps until crafting is out
my psyker clearing high intensity w/ claw 4 and surge
it's only baross tho
it's not even that good of a roll, but god Damn does it shred through everything
it was a gift from the emperor when I got it
that's not bad, damage should be higher than cleave targets imo but still pretty decent
would a trash force sword be worth running if it has level 3 deflector on it?
uhh I personally wouldn't
I feel mostly limited by RNG. Currently running Surge + Force Sword.
I want to run Purgatus, but the only stave I've gotten with reasonably good rolls is this one and that was ages ago.
yeah not thinking i want to - bu wasnt sure
but up to you if you really want or need deflector
it's really that good on zealot, veteran, And psyker
Big chonky one
your purg isn't even that bad, you can start running that
The quell is arse though.
It's still a staff
yeah, still usable with the decent burn and radius
It'll fuck no matter what
if you literally have nothing else
Try it in the psyk if you're really unsure but it should be fine tbh
if you can get one with brutal momentum, it's really night and day as opposed to having one without it
I'm doing a lot better with Surge atm. I find that I get overrun and have to melee more on Purgatus whereas Surge keeps them at bay more than long enough for bots or my team to wipe the horde.
god roll axe is good on any of the 3 classes even vet
antax mk 5 seems to be the most popular choice, and for a good reason
I run mk 2 atrox on my psyker because all mky mk 5's are ass, also decent for hordes
man, i do really think hadron's concecration costs way too much
that's like 7-8 difficult runs while collecting everything you can find to get the slim chance to upgrade a weapon to be not terrible
more like, the ratio of plasteel to diamanthine we spend is bs
i honestly dont mind higher plasteel costs if we can dismantle weapons for plasteel
but i'm sure it's immeasurably complex
they could reduce the plasteel cost by half and I'd be satisfied honestly
alright, I have 5 missions left until I hit 100. thats 5 missions to try and get malleus minestrone
i think tomorrow I'll try out the LFG thing, see if people wana do some penances
I would like a base amount of plasteel and diamante granted just for completing a level with the amount based on difficulty
Would also make you feel less pushed into checking everywhere in the level for mats
you mean you don't like getting 40 plasteel after clearing t5 enclavum baross, regardless of modifier?
Crazy I know
so now we start running malice speedruns to farm plasteel
then the newer players wonder why we're speedrunning
Not if they gave big enough modifiers for Heresy and Damnation
you'd think that we'd get higher amounts of plasteel considering its higher costs
Well you do get more currently, just still not enough and too prone to RNG swings
Also most people don't want to try to full loot
So I just chain cleared dozens of Malice runs with my Surge, but my first run with Purgatus and I get overrun before the first monstrosity fight. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.
M1 to stagger and spread fire, melee with force sword as needed, M2 with short bursts if my team is in a good position and holding the line.
you struggle clearing waves with purge on 3rd diff?
Your M1 doesn't spread out just fyi
Surge stops pretty much everything in its tracks and the brain burst from overload gets me tons of kill spam. Purgatus doesn't seem to stagger as well.
It's just the initial shot that will do anything.
Absolutely. I really don't feel it works as well for me as Surge and I don't know why.
you see the wave coming, you charge the right click
you unleash it, the wave should die
Yup, and then I have a pile of flaming mobs on top of me.
dash backwards while charging again, repeat
show your staff
i can clear waves with similar staff on damnation
Full charge every time?
unless you do not hold the aim at the wave
and you just fling about
as in do 360 or something
the staff adds DOTs, 1 dot per 0.3s
so you add 3 dots per 1s more or less
full charge is like ~9-10 i think
if you streamed the game, i could tell you what you're doing wrong
cause you should be able to solo clear waves on 3rd diff
- Primary fire doesn't spread so you have to spam it to stagger more than a single line.
- Secondary fire should stagger normal horde mobs enough that they won't hit you before you can charge again.
- Stick with at least one teammate as a shield and make sure to check behind between charged uses
join the vc, i'll show you if yo uwant
Bruh a zealot died solo to a plague ogryn on my current run
guess he learned how to use the purge staff
Trying it
#traumaforcegang
right click -> full charge -> hold at the wave -> when no charge left -> dash back while right click holding/charging it again -> unleash the charge
only problem you are gonna have is like 2-3 enemies
ogres and that full metal one
just pull out the lightsaber
i pref mk 5
will probably be the best melee for another 5 years till they add new stuff
NOT THE QUELL SPEED
melts my eyes too
i got one with similar warp resistance
what a flashbang of a ss
i think res is better cause you can purge more, especially if you stacked talents towards it
i can spam all day long
are you carrying the team now @prisma lichen
Hardly. I'm having specific issues with elites that I used to be able to just lock down with Surge and now I have to actively dodge them 🙂
send me your steam friend code
Just cleared another Malice, but it's a lot sweatier.
i'll join the game and show you
I think it's actually pretty important to have a high quell speed percentage
But I'm the lucky sob that got a purge staff with high rolls on everything except damage, which is the dump stat anyways
This feels like the warp resistance barely matters (peril gen 19.65 vs theoretical 18.5 at 80 on the tooltip)
That number is probably not absolute, but the proportional difference is only 6.2%
You also get to stack warp resistance via a feat for purg, which isn't the case for quell speed
is dmg a dumpstat? arent breakpoints important?
Damage is a dump stat on purgatus because it's a variable of 3. Burn does the great majority of the damage inflicted
DMG important only for Void.
And even then it's kinda workable around.
@wheat quartz
4% crit
i prefer quell speed over warp resist, because quietitude
5%
not sure if it's even worth rerolling for 1% more
it should be free
do items run out of how many times you can reroll?
no
hm ok
It costs 99 Diamantine and 299 Plasteel until you hit free rerolls
yea that probably
Probably bribed Hadron with WD-40 flask
he owes me for putting run n gun on all my staves anyway
she
pronouns pfft
It's mostly irrelevant with AdMech anyway
this has nice stats, very similar to mine, missing warp nexus tho
Are Joust/Celestine/Cahan in here by any chance? Just played a good damnation game w/ 3 psykers but the in-game social tools are such shit I can't figure out how to add them as friends... (I'm Coldstacks in game)
Try to take a look at "Previous games". Not sure if it even work tho.
i remember playing with a celestine a couple of games ago but i thought that was a default randomised name lol
go to steam, click VIEW in top left, click PLAYERS
then click "current game" or "recent games" to find them
yeah, Celestine is too generic. Like i saw 3 of them at the same time.
theres quite a few people who use the default names so its pretty hard to tell
lol.. what an axe
Tried that, no one there under current or recent...
Haha maybe it is, idk
Anyway it was a good group, maybe I'll find em somehow
I have very similiar 380 but with nexus.
Unless you are running Deflector build and then Force sword seves very different purpose
ForceSword against hordes. (movement-set)
It's a 'quality of life' thing.
- you can jump in and nuke a single elite
- the rest of the 90% of the game, you wish you had an axe (or two bodygyards) in every encounter.
Deflector is good - but a sign your team failed.
ABK - always be killing.
fatshark nerfed psyker across every trait, even force sword was nerfed
I always assume that random team i matched with will have some kind of failing.
Force Sword is bugged - if you are low on stamina Kinetic Deflection (and Deflector blessing) will not work
literally everything was nerfed on psyker, every aspect of the class lol
including force sword
so just use axe bro
it hits hard af and has good pen
absolutely true 😦
I've been doing Flawless Execution for the longest time... the number of times the fk off to hunt Script/Grim (when the mission doesn't have any)
- view of my team (name-markers on differnt parts of the map)
Psykers get nerfs ™
i still haven't messed around with duelling but i probably wouldn't like it more than axe
aint that big a deal anyway since you can run whatever
I did Flawless Execution ( 15 runs) on Ogryn automatically without thinking on Heresy runs with randoms
it's that easy on big guy
its personal preference and if u like axe go ahead but other people prefer other things
of all the bad players i run into, Ogryn are most of them Wyck, vets are 2nd common bad players
most of the crap players are playing ogryn for sure
Ogryns go down a lot in my experience
at least they're taking advantage of that extra wound they have
:/ psyker is my main
and when you run into those players who are always lagging behind and never catching up with the group, you'd think they'd be psykers but NOPE they're vets almost every time
Zealots with lasguns hanging at the back
I don't understand how people fail to play Ogryn - easiest class to play. It takes a deliberate effort to fail as Ogryn.
As Psyker main i switch to Ogryn sometimes to do chill Heresy runs
well theyre a pretty big target and are pretty bad at dealing with ranged compared to others
i rarely see bad zealot players honestly
As a N00b, I didn' know the map - so I didn't want to play ogryn.
- i have 4 leaf clover now - but I'm still trying to memorize the grim/scrip locations.
Even if your team sucks ass - as Ogryn you can carry a trash team
imo ogryn is the worst class
if they had a precision ranged weapon that isnt just spamming grenade gauntlet it would be cool
Just don't fall into a Shield Trap - it's worst weapon for Ogryn .. even worse than Kickback
this isn't vermintide, they're pretty random
Latrine Shovel/Mk III Cleaver/Paul (power maul) + Grenade Gauntlet - and you can deal with anything
the locations HAVE been mapped.
there's no point to that, you want to search the other areas for other mats anyway bro
I actually think ogryn ranged weapons are fine.
I just think their melee isn't good enough despite their entire feat tree emphasizing close ranged combat
i'm in agreement.
zealot > ogryn
At best it's like... balanced
...if they were a regular sized character
...while the other classes have actual broken shit
the only thing i like about ogryn is being able to carry items and move faster while doing so
everything else about the class is doo doo
like we look at ogryn being a melee class and vet laughs with their power sword
or zealot with their 75% crit dr
Melee weapons are good - With Cleaver you delete eveything in seconds on massive scale.. save for Bulwarks and Crushers, with Shovel you delete everything a bit slower, but can easily brutalise Bulwarks and Crushers
Ogryn not being immune to damage while charging unlike Zealot is pretty rough.
Unless they remove slide carrying this is a non-benefit
nobody slide carries
Meanwhile sliding while carry item and move as fast as ogryn
The other classes have abusable broken shit
Meanwhile ogryns are like actually balanced except with the additional downside of being massive
Cover doesn't work most of the time but for Ogryns there is no cover 
Ogryns need to be stagger immune imo
Zealot having TWBS to ignore stagger is huge.
i dont really know what ogryns bring besides i guess dealing with enemy ogryns
I don't not everyone is experienced:
I still have to tell people about
- slide carry
- shield-special.
If you play Damnation and you don't do these things.
KICKED
JK I suffer through newbies
why play damnation at all
Because I enjoy suffering.
Revolver - KICKED
Knife - KICKED
Straight to jail ™
its fun sometimes
Psyker - KICKED
true, you shouldn't even play psyker on damnation
brutal - but fair.
wait --- WHAT?
You should play with 4 Psykers on Damnation for maximum fun!
We did this and it was horrible.
Psyker is fine on damnation
4 psyker is actually fun on other difficulties, but not damnation
The Psychic Communion meme wasn't as good as it sounded.
It's not about being good - it's about suffering 🙂
We certainly suffered.
Good!
I think it could be fun and it did make me feel that Quicken has a purpose
Not a good purpose but it was fun to get shout back the moment I shouted
If Quicken also doubled quell it would actually be a good feat 
Is 'shovel' making a comeback?
There is a bug that allows to use Ult twice in a row, when first use does not spend a charge
I love that basically all classes have this
Zealot can get ult back and its even possible to recreate, but its not reliable
I got it to work maybe 30% of the time in Psykarnum
forgor ogryn
No, no I did not.
ogryn too fat
damn psyker is so weak. tried to play it after zealot and guardsman and this is so bad almost useless
ogryn bad class
We have 3 spots like that for grimd 
Psyker is not supposed to be strong - it's designed to be a glass canon I think
- slowest movement
- attack patterns are very (direction/target/duration) specific
ITS NOT A CANNON ITS JUST GLASS
Psyker is more like a crappy glass sniper rifle with a sonic boom every 30s
Not Glass! A Dried old rice paper!
Yes very bad ...
I think maybe running 4 Ascendent Blaze would be more effective with the Psychic Communion memes.
Though technically invulnerable at certain conditions, but still old dried rice paper
Psyker and slowest movement ???
I mean peril block is fine but WHAT ABOUT DAMAGE???
What damage ? 🙂
blocking is pointless
From the StartingPoint, Vets, Ogryns, Zealots always outpace you.
By first encounter you're at the back.,
Peril block is useful for revives
If you run the meme sword I guess
Run superior Duelling Sword and slide past those slowpokes
Psyker reviving without Peril Block is
Sad
WTF is a peril block.
you guys act as if using peril block to revive people is important, yet i bet not a single one of you run any curios with revive speed on them
Psyker reviving without peril block is dead
It's when I block your peril.
There is no glass cannon
We are glass support
Saves me a curio perk to run stamina regen 
u dont need revive speed to revive tho
you don't need peril block either lol
psyker is usually better off keeping enemies OFF friendlies who are trying to revive
I've saved plenty of damn runs with peril block revives
What if you don't have friendlies that try to revive




