#psyker-class
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Not with that attitude
not with any attitude
I'm thinking of making a bell curve meme about the force swordz
it wouldn't work
Definitely not but for a class that can snipe around corners with headpops, an elemental CC staff offhand, it's a well rounded circle. Plus we can, you know, hide behind immediate cover-- Ogryns are forcd to use a shield in anything higher than heresy
"Force Sword is good."
"Nooo! Force sword is a crutch. It has terrible horde clear, and it enables bad positioning!"
"Force Sword is good."
nobody calls fsword a crutch
All I will say is this: for those who know, know
fsword can be very good
Staff is horde clear, fsword is elite kill
Maybe not, but, our peril block can block a while when at 1% stamina.
There are better options but if you do swing>charge hit the cleave is actually not so bad. But I would def consider FSword to be an assassin weapon
definitely
just not against multiple shooters on heresy+ for more than a second
sure, and I like that too
I just want to make sure that people that don't know get the full story
deflector does make fsword better, but it's no ogryn shield
That's facts brother
positioning is still very important, and situational awareness is always key
Depends on if we have 3 stamina curios, +1 stamina on the weapon, and max block efficiency on the 3 curios and melee and t4 deflector
it can absolutely be clutch, especially when picking up downed teammates
I would like to see your video demonstrating that
it's kind of stupid that max stamina is even a part of the peril block equation
and peril resistance isn't
I don't have this, but, stamina and block efficiency affecting peril generation would definitely help
they do, I've looked at the code, and people have done testing
the question is - do they help enough to stand in front of a line of shooters on heresy+
If you hit max peril (kinetic barrier wont work if you're in critical peril) it goes into stam blocking automatically. iirc it's 85% peril? I dont remember
90%
I know, that's why I can say that bs with confidence.
We can then use our career to remove ~50% of the peril too
yep, every ~30 seconds
Also does anyone know the exact percentage that we get the random 10% peril decrease on kill?
How bold of you to assume that I would go to all that trouble and not bring the 12.5% cdr per warp charge with 6 max warp charges. If I'm bringing the bs I stated I will bring the insurance too.
that feat should be reworked
75% cdr, and heresy+ gives lots of 4% chances of warp charges
cut the base recharge time in half, give recharge time on kills, maybe both
I would be stupid enough to go all the way like that. I wouldn't half ass it.

How would you guys buff BB on heresy+?
I'd say taking off one second from cast time, and making the damage scalar to health %
The only thing i really think is we need a more consistent way for the brainburst to do things.
The lvl 30 feat already does this...
Like often it happens where the target gets killed before brainburst does anything.
More then that brainburst is fine
change Wrack and Ruin to be "when hitting elite with BB" instead of on kill
The way to make BB more consistent is to get good.
because 3 stacks of soulblaze is worthless by itself
wrong
BB goes from something that can kill everything to something you don't use outside of fleeing specials or enemies the team can't reach
I know you're memeing but people who have no issues with it, I find, regularly don't do much of the more challenging content
Oh yea? Lmao
Is it just me or does the 25% faster bb charge speed feel more like 33%-50%?
Yeah I mean a lasgun shouldn't do the same amount of damage in 2 shots with 2 clicks
I'd like to see Kinetic Barrage be a constant buff instead of on-ult
That would be very nice
A friend of mine suggested making BB always be a kill, but for larger HP pools it takes longer to charge maybe. Shorter for smaller HP pools.
Dude that would be awesome honestly. A longer risk, a greater reward
But, I think if you are picking targets well and playing with a team, BB isn’t in such a bad state. It’s literally click on target damage from insane distances.
Sometimes I think people want to change things just because
a friend of yours? did they suggest that before or after you read me (and likely others) saying that in here?
And, before someone says, “but, in pugs…”
I've been saying that for a couple weeks now
My friend @north parcel said that
Problem is, on higher difficulties the Director likes to spawn enemies behind you and the chances of you having any clarity of casting in high intensity fights makes it more a weakness
I don’t pay attention to your bullshit
I just joined this discord like yesterday or the day before or something like that. I ain’t sat here reading everything lol
A lot of the time I play back line for my guys. Stopping everything from behind and helping to kill ogryn/other stuff in the front when back is clear.
I’d hazard a guess that, most people poopooing BB are pugging, which, you can’t pug proof these abilities that well without straight up breaking them.
wrong again
but go ahead and take your I've-been-here-a-day experience and project it onto others
I’ve been in the discord a day, not playing the game for a day you fucking invalid.
then you have even less excuse for being so wrong
Cant speak for everyone, but it's 50-50. If we're doing heresy and being charged by two maulers, a reaper, and a shielded orgyn-- our zealot is handling the lesser mobs, our vet trying to shoot the ranged dudes, who do you target with your two BBs first?
Two BBs which wont kill anything by themselves sadly
And here i thought psyker chat wasnt full of know-it-alls. Leys see what the devs think ... by waiting.
Depends on what I’m running. Sometimes I’m stunning shit, charging a FS because on some enemies it just does more damage than BB. Probably bursting the bulwark since they are the most oppressive.
If I’m with my friends which I usually am now - shield guy to stagger with BB and vet blasts him. Then it just depends on the situation
If I have a purge, my zealot friend is dancing a circle around all of those enemies destroying them with an axe
And I’m clearing any horde.
Mauler easy to dodge but sometimes ppl are bogged down. Nice part about KB is I can quickly handle the reaper on 4 then assist with mauler. But every elite wave is different sooo. Yeah. Read the room every time for me 🤣
Love my purge! It’s also my only decent staff lol
None, I use my surge staff to stun them... x.x
give gun psykers more ammo if they dont use bb. 
I got a 380 roll on mine! It’s great but I like surge because I like to play support psyker
Let us make bullets with our mind!
yep, trick question, because your two BBs aren't going to kill anything, and you taking yourself out of the fight for 6 seconds is a detriment to the team
what staff is best for healing
I cant wait for the subclass with the "throwing knives"
Disagree with u there because with KB it doesn’t take long at all to stagger the shield @long wharf
Yes I know you're making a point, and my answer is actually proving it.
Your two BBs are at LEAST stunning the bulwark so someone can stab it.
sounds like a zealot subclass
surge is stunning the bulwark, next.
And my purgatus charge up doesn’t take more then a second to clear anything else around me after that
Surge goes through the shield
It does but they datamined it for us. We get throwing knives (assuming as our G skill) and a deployable force field/shield
Yea but you might not have a surge
Only thing is lately I’ve been experimenting with ascendant blaze so I haven’t had KB
Obv
And stuns the maulers
hear me out, failed transformation vegeta + goku psyker build, instead of burst, you float around the room and do +burn +bleed AOE damage in the form of a green funk cloud that wafts behind you 
All I'm saying is I wouldn't be mad if they gave BB some love
No surge for me rn
You might not have a surge, but I will.
Vegito ki blasts
You speak for most of us sibling ❤️
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Of course. Like. If your shit gets buffed it’s gonna be good. I want force sword buffs, but they probably aren’t warranted
Did you ping me 
Love my deflector. Hate the attack pattern XD
Yea @north parcel some spurg thought I stole his BB buff idea lmao
But I told them yours
About having it always be a kill but take longer on big HP pools
No one can ever have the same thought 
Truuu
We’re oysters we share all of our thoughts unintentionally
Freyja is a zealot main he hates us in here
Ah not another shouty
Hey... everyone is wrong sometimes.
Plotting to axe us all a question one day
Psykers also lol
I don't hate freaks psykers
I resemble that remark.
Compared to this chat general is a straight up cesspool lol
We are discussing BB changes @north parcel some people just have shit filled diapers but most of the people discussing it are good. 
General chat doesn't even talk about the game, jist shit slinging between doomsayers and white knights
well if you'd hurry up with the wet wipes already.
I, for one, can't wait. x.x
It’s the same salty comments over and over and over 😵💫
I went to Brazil and they have full on bidets there. They are great
Hello I am from the US and i use a bidet.
However I reside in it, because as a shit person I am with my people 
doesnt help me in this diaper though
... there are fake bidets?
Idk hard to explain you’d have to see it
It’s like a sink for your asshole lmao
🤣
Their plumbing is bad there
Hey, you leave my kantrael 4 out of this!
ANYWAY @north parcel tell them your BB thoughts

Bye babe
Lmao
not purg = no buy
Only real chads use surge
not purg dont spurg
I play this game with the power of friendship in mind so I use surge
Bring a gun
I'd rather die
And flame everything else
This my fren btw I can stay that to him
I go full gandalf with sword and staff
People that get bored with dueling or chain sword lol
Claw and Voidstrike 
I just REALLY like the charge heavy on FS
is that the Kamehameha or the really terrible circle on ground staff?
Void is kamehameha
Void is disk
Sam only speaks in anime
I love how you gotta aim up like it's a grenade even though it doesn't show a trajectory and has a wack ass targeting circle
Trauma is the circle on the ground


And bad yea
It gave me trauma using it, so it's aptly named
Lmao
Trauma gives me trauma
If only it didn't do ZERO DAMAGE outside or the inner centre
#maketraumagreatagain
It would be okay
It'd be amazing if you could use itbehind cover to pop those annoying shooters out
It does 800 in centre, 40 outside 
Id rather play in damnation with infinite dogs, on the desert map with 3 lvl 1 people who have never played a videogame in their life. Than use the Ground AOE staff
Lmao
Now that I’ve triggered someone in chat into being silent I’m gonna go do something at work. Bye everyone!
is there something somewhere for BiS weapon/stats for psyker that i can read about?
The general consensus seems to be Purge>Surge>Voidstrike>Trauma>MKI Autogun for ranged
Mg12>All
Force Sword > MK5 axe >Duelling Sword > Catachan for melee
damn the autogun?
Agripa is always a nice gun
Yeah
Yeah, Psyker only has 4 staff options
Purge is generakly considered the best, although it gas a glaring range issue
And Zealots sometimes run flamer and then purge is just a worse option.
But you can't trust pubs
all staves are equally good because they all have the op staff combo
i will not be taking questions at this time
Purge is good for easy horde clear, Surge stunlocks high value targets, Voidstrike horde-clears and suppresses from a very long distance, Trauma has great CC.
about statwise now?
Well they all do completely different things. So they're hard to compre statwise. But Surge generates peril really fast, while Voidstrike and Purge have pretty good sustain.
I haven't used trauma that mich but it seems middle of the road.
hmm maybe i should say more like when looking for a weapon - whats the best stats/blessing etc lol
Well on purge, Burn and cloud radius are the most important stats.
Charge Rate, Damage, and Radius are important on trauma.
You should look for focused channeling on the purge staff, since you'll tend to use it at very close range
On surge, charge rategives you more damage, but slightly higher peril generation. In general crit power and damage are inportant on surge
thanks much
And transfer peril is a must on voidstrike since you can actually quell more than you generate with each shot
Finally, the deflector blessing on Force Sword is a favourite, combining it with the kinetic deflection feat lets you block bullets and lasers whenever you're caught in the open.
After a lot of testing an some runs with people that should be replaced with bots on heresy+ i come to the conclusion that i actually like the voidstrike
After that its infantry or recon lasgun depending on the mission
I need that range
But what about the flames of a purgatus staff? 
I dont like being ineffective after a set amount of distance
Ah yeah, true true
Purge staff left click is terrible. And the primary had bad range. I'll leave toasting to the zealot.
Yeah, I wish using purge felt better
Not being able to get rid of elites that are out of staff range got me killed too many times, some people are like golden retrievers playing this game
0 focus if there's no incentive (treat)
Surge just feels invaluable, you make everyone like 10 times better stunlocking
Although, it kills crushers/bulwarks/flak easily by itself
I dont want to feed a melee vets ego tbh
Surge is the Chad staff
Might be a good chunk of pettiness i guess
You buy your team a ton of space with surge
u dont want to work with a teammate in a coop game
I expect teamplay in a team game yes
it's decent for quick stagger instead of swapping to melee or gives you the chance to swap to melee or bb for free
Its not a one way street where one guy has to pick up the slack because people dont want to cover each others back
b ased
ngl i thought was that cynthia from pokemon
When is psyker not gonna get the worst deal of both ends lol
No but there's force axe
Our damage and shit is outdone and our hp is shit with a downside peril that builds faster than Venezuela inflation
Itd be one thing if psyker is stupid damage but glass cannon build but sharpshooter does everything we do but better for example
Long range boi? Blast in the head
Tanky dude? Use the power sword
Etc
Vets all are still breastfeeding. They need all the help they can get
Of a vet breastfeeding? Lol
Whatchu mean I didn’t disagree
Vet is like playing story mode
Melee swap is instant. Swapping and pushing is faster with a higher stagger value.
yeah, but: playing veteran is dull as fuck. and we get multiple choice of staffs
Wo
But op pls nerf as well
Playing vet is like the doom slayer vs a eldar kindergarten school
Playing vet is supposed to be so boring you volley fire yourself irl
But if you really wanna know why psyker isn’t as good it’s simple: the intention for psyker is for them to be a support class.
Shocking, I know. But. It is what it is
psyker's not even that bad. its exaggerated
It’s not. But people think damage is the only thing that matters and thus
Here we are
Na that's not wat I mean
Because a dead enemy is always preferable to a controlled enemy
DPS will always be king, because enemies have to die
Thats just a different form of conrolled enemy!
But a good support means other players are able to do their jobs more easily
Lmao
Anyway. @spice palm I’m sure in 12 years they will put out a psyker class that isn’t a support
How's this unoriginal idea, a melee psyker with a two handed force sword, supported by a zealot with ... shouts n'stuff
Just be good at the game and carry vets on the “weakest class”
that's just the Unchained from vermintide 2 and i completely agree it's necessary for the game
I'm already at the edge of my seat, I can't wait!
Well.. you're going to have to. for at least several more months.
I like when games have an approach where there are obvious support style characters and DPS characters but, as soon as they add a DPS variant for each class that’s all you’ll see
The 1 dimensional thinking hive mind will take over fully at that point
I'd rather be able to kill enemies with my mind then be a living tazer
My best time playing a support in any game in my lifetime was medic in Battlefield 1. Support potential was incredible and you weren't useless in combat either. Never played a game that gave me that potential since
If I wanna support I'd do healing and armor adding
But that ain't in the game
Strange no?
So where the buffed psyker soon
Like dam
Nothing soon
Soon™️
I actually am creeping closer to uninstalling the game
I don't got friends to play this shit with
Oof
Like it's fun until ya realize ya need friends to make it goofier
Nah, you can make it goofier by trying to make your character look as bad as you can
If fat shark dicks around too much longer it’s gonna be like that for a lot of people
The anti-fashion is funny. So many people just quit the moment they see some proper anti-fashion with a knife
Well, play with people in this discord
Those are strangers
anti-fashion as in... people dressing badly?
only temporarily
Yea
The uglier character you have the better
I wanna play with people from this discord 🙂 that would be entertaining
And bonus points for doing it with free gear
lore-accurate Disgusting Creature roleplay
Just check the LFG channels and pick your region
... so do the accents mean that France exists canonically? Or that gigantic chunks of French-accented people live somewhere for long enough that everyone sounds that way? Is there a french hive city somewhere?
send people messages and ask
I love it.
The French surviving the grim dark future is more unrealistic than anything else
Well part of the lore is that human civilization was fragmented and isolated for a long time, so it stands to reason that there'd be different accents.
idk. I think if anyone is coming out on top of a brutal managerial regime it would be the french
but only if they got there as a huge community first. Unless it's not actually French, its just an accent that we can only replicate irl through a French one.
What bout the German psyker
Same issue with him. And anyone else with an accent
German psyker shouting "Ammo!" Is the best thing about this game
Okay, but whose accent is the valid one?
What do you mean by "valid"
Na they should have stoic psyker break the fourth wall like the German psyker
To make it funi
"And anyone else with an accent" this implies that there is a character that doesn't have an accent.
Too bad we don’t have a Newfoundland accent. That’d be pog af
Not necessarily. It just implies innately that other people have an accent
Whatever the case, accents exist and how is the question
fair enough
Good news
Fire staff is useful to light up now that the imperium forgot to pay power bills
whats the best dueling sword?
might be more concerned with perks and blessings, MK V has longer dodge but thats mostly it
still waiting for that force greatsword
They exist ?
one of them is more focused on defence than cleave, one of the other two has a strikedown>vanguard heavy chain instead of a double vanguard. Minor if any changes in light attack moveset
What are you after. Only mobility, mobility and trash cleave, or mobility and with trash cleave and some armour pen?
Oof idk why but it'd be more epic if the lv 30 psyker ultimate to depend on your staff either do a gigantic volly of lightning or fire that does ungodly damage but your at critical peril and stunned for 5 seconds before it is all quelled and your back in the fight and depending on how many warp charges the how long it lasts can go from 5 to 10 seconds
Or just like... Replace the useless staff melee special into a special spell?
That kinda works
Lol
But my idea still stands
A epic ass LV30 ultimate that u can swap with another
hey, staff melee head wonk is fun when you're fighting a lone groaner
Staff is just meaty wack then a chuckle
Just upgraded this from a blue. The emperor protects.
nice, andyou haven't rerolled perk yet
That sweaty blessing roll
Were you afraid for your Plasteel? 😂
Just a little. ive got a pretty big chunk saved up tho
Im also pretty sure rerolls become free after a certain point of you buying em in the same instance. that happened on my vet
Yes re-rolls are free after 99 diamantine and 299 Plasteel but you can't change blessings yet
I have constantly zero Plasteel since I am looking for a bloodthirsty FS
Its 100% gunna be your first roll after you give up
Bru there's too much rng in darktide
And it's like rngesus is kicking you in your ball every millisecond you play
At the speed of a astartes not in a good mood
I do remote work so I have a constant supply of FS waiting in line to be upgraded as soon as I can play and get the mats
FS?
Force sword
Buying all the greens and whites so I can roll for the first blessing on them
Once the blessing extraction is released™️ I will slap bloodthirsty on a good FS but for that to happen I just need to find one
Oh they removed dogs?
Most likely will destroy the weapon in the process but that's speculation
Yes it's lights out Daemonhost club time
...
Why did Fatshark get so obese?
They knew how to catch but had no idea how to release.
Hm. Is that... interesting?
i mainly use the voidstrike to delete everything so anything with high mobility/shields to get people away from me
In that case Mk V. Just be aware that the defence roll and mobility roll can have wasted stats, you want the dodge +% to sum to 15 as close as you can. The more the sum is over, the more wasted stats there are on it.
Knife is also a really good mobility stick if you run Kinetic Deflection. The push attack spam on it is super safe and deals crazy DPS.
is the peril shocktrooper best build?
There is no best build. It all depends from your team comp.
And player skill is much more important than the build you are using.
so if im playing with 3 randoms and dont know their build
It's hard to do everything at once. I'd say prio is shooters and fast specials. Crushers and Bulwarks are scary but you can usually stall a bit to kill them and BB always works
If you want to get a high win rate with randos
Purge makes horde clear a non issue but shooters much more annoying
so what build? 😄
If you can make it work I run gun Psyker and it's pretty effective. Mg12 lasgun + Force sword or dueling sword, then ascendent blaze lets you delete hordes that you shout on.
The other feats are preference imo.
okey thats good thanks!

But trying out until you find your niche is the most fun imo
Make sure you stack before you use ascendent blaze though
4 stacks will put every normie mob into like 20% hp so they need one hit to die. 6 is required to outright kill them without other damage
has anyone seen bloodthirsty on a blue or purple force sword?
when do you unlock the flamethrower staff?
i've bloodthirsty on a purple FS
15
what perk do I roll on this?
personally I think 10% damage against specials doesn't provide too much value overall. I'd reroll that to 25% damage against mutants maybe
I am a force sword player and the game said not anymore
Precog is aight. 
Is it any good?
Even with rampage you don't hit any groaner/poxwalker breakpoints unless you also have warp charges. I guess with one warp charge, +25 unarmored and rampage you could one-shot groaners with light attacks
the mk5 is all about its heavies anyway
pygex: The blessing seems decent, but I haven't actually used it at all outside testing due to the otherwise poor stats
I would probably still reroll specialist damage to unarmored or infested damage
I'd combine it with a horde clearing staff and use it to kill elite single targets
you don't need block efficiency either but meh
cause the thing is, as nice as it is, if you wanted it to clear multiple groaners or infested you'd have plenty of better options that aren't the mk5 duelling. so building it that way seems suboptimal to me
it's not garbo though. it's a good blade. you can clear peril and overhead heavy elites into oblivion. rampage isn't ideal but meh
1st time since release!
i got a staff as emperors blessing
but its sheit :X
I received a 460 trauma staff from the empurrurr... has anyone stuck with these at t4 up?
For MagicMike wherever he may be
What perks are people running on their psyker curios? Are there ones that sit above the rest, or are they all just kinda whatever you need most?
block efficiency is nice if you're running with kinetic deflection and force sword w/ deflector
otherwise you can just go for the usual stuff that you think you'll need, hp/tough/sniper resist etc
cool
So, finally reached lvl 30 on everyone, and the one thing I've noticed is that you have to work SOOOO MUCH harder on Psyker than any other class. Where as the Vet, you can literally phone it in and pretend like your playing hard.
Lots of key combos and tactical decisions to make... you are never quite on rails like you can be with vet
Reminds me of a high intensity heresy game I joined and was immediately greeted with a zealot saying, "fucking psyker"
devil's paw strikes again
Zealot was my easiest 30 but I don't feel as versatile as I do on my psyker
I guess it's not totally unusable?
Vet's definitely easiest, but I don't think psyker is harder than ogryn really
Ogryn is just big and gets shot up
I actually hated looking for ammo after I finished my Psyker lmao
way harder to position yourself as ogryn I think, and mispositioning yourself is the main way you die in this game
All the stupid perks on vet, I barely need any ammo
oh and they just "hide" if they stand still
actually the damage range on force sword is pretty narrow, I'm only missing out on like 10 damage so I guess that's not that bad
I wish we could get warp charges if we use the alt on the sword
that'd be nice
Finesse and first target are where the force sword damage lives
if you have a dogwater finesse roll the rest can't save it
I think the best thing for warp charges would be if they didn't vanish all at once
in that case I guess yeehaw on the above roll, I'll give it a go
Well, it depends where the break points are, because it's not the best swinging weapon. So if you have to add an extra attack to kill all the time, could be annoying. Worth testing in meat grinder.
good point
Agreed!
Just like in VT2 I feel like there is an active Bias on certain characters
Not sure if thats by design or what
if you don't have Deflector, then it will be fun just to use that.
since I already have Maniac on it, I'll probably reroll Weak Spot Damage to something else (or at least a higher version of Weak Spot), any thoughts?
I have a couple others with deflector but they are absolute trash lol
Flak
I'm thinking either 10% weak spot or 5% critical (to go with the raised blessing), but flak is for sure the usual go-to... and considering all the helmets, probably best
Im pretty sure that veteran was the first class designed
So its just a simple amount of dev time assigned to differnet classes.
This is the best one I have with deflector
Unyielding is also better on force sword than most weapons, since hitting ogryn/bosses in the head is something you do with it a lot
Just the talent tree of the veteran feels the most complete
Trash blessing
Veteran has the lowest amount of trash options in the talent tree
I'll probably go with flak just to make clearing trash easier, might change it later
+crit seems useless, I would keep +maniacs, and then flak.
imo you don't have to roll another damage stat on it if you're already hitting breakpoints + you're usually on your staff anyway and using force sword mostly for individual elites/specials, you can just run with block efficiency
Not that you're likely to use FS on maniacs but at least it's there in case
once you hit the free rolls yeah, costs nothing but your sanity to swap for whatever role you have in mind for it
oo yea block efficiency, maybe
oh nerds i forgot blcok eff... yeah just default
or yeah just roll for flak or the usual safe perks if you feel like you're doing enough blocking without block eff, all up to how you play
FS on maniacs (specifically mutants) is very common, if you have a force sword that's your best option to kill them by far
If you want to absorb bullets, I find block eff is great. If it's just melee and you're not a total madlad, i dont find i need it as much.
you charge when they do and one shot them
just don't be like those random shieldgryns that just brace their shield on almost every encounter kek
Mutants yes, the rest not so much
I would be happy with +maniac, but it wont get a ton of mileage
yeah, swordfighting with ragers and trappers isn't the best use of your time
Currently the sword has maniacs and weak spot damage, so weak spot is definitely the swap. Probably flak for the time being as even with my other, lower-level Deflectors I usually didn't have an issue tapping out
just remember to hit reapers in their big fat guts
Weakspot is probably still better, but just barely (assuming +25 flak)
10% weakspot would def be more widely applicable
I'm thinking of obnoxious unarmored too
if you're mostly using surge/purg on scabs anyway then i personally wouldn't roll for flak
Finesse boost weak spot damage already, so you have a bonus to weak spot built in.
Reaper specifically your WS damage may still be better than +25 flak vs their body.
Also heavy attack FS is top to bottom so you're hitting heads already
default L attack dmg is 55, ws is 131, so even assuming it only applies to the "extra" 76 damage that's still an extra ~8 damage on even light attacks assuming I'm always swinging at heads
25% flak would be ~14
Not inconsiderable, but the variety of weakspots realistically you should always be aiming at with a FS (and the heavy damage WS attacks)...
Probably weak spot damage
and if WS damage applies to the entire sum listed under damage breakout, that's 13, making it the obvious winner in every case
WS bonus only matters for some breakpoints. If it doesn't help you get over a break point, it's useless.
If it does, it's amazing. Consider what targets you will be using FS on.
Well that is the only thing it can do, so that's what you test for
wow a non-dog global modifier
Hadron said time to brick this bitches shit twice HAHA!
who needs damage anyway lol
im so sorry
Note my recon lasguns so I can feel like I'm contributing to the team as a part vet
nice haha
seems to take 3 hits for trash heads on dam no matter what pretty much
so maybe block efficiency
y know you just inspired me to find my best trauma staff and give it a try...
holy crap with the raised critical chance from the blessing plus the weak spot damage I get 300 DPS on crushers without even charging the sword lmao
alright guess I'll keep weak spot for toughies
feel free to do so
lets hope it works
same as me
just thought its funny having a 316 with 4 almost 80 stats
Well the damage range is 90-150, so 80% is probably around 130? tops? your 3% damage isn't the end of the world, and you have max utility. Maybe it's useful?
dont like the feel of trauma so far...
so i dont think i will buy
the blessing also doesnt work thaaaaat good with it so would have to check if there is sth better
don't worry, most people don't like trauma staff
believable, i've seen 3 in T4
It should be lights out as well so wouldn't be surprised for 4 to spawn even
Trauma staff sucks wieners
the most annoying condition, jesus fuck, i'd rather take on unending hounds
☝️ Hates challenges created by atmosphere
no just doesn't like not being able to see shit dude, it's also a beautiful game - so i miss out on that
Theyre the same picture
man that assassin final boss fight music when he goes HAKAKA AKAKAK WAKAKAK HAIKAKAKA he dont miss man he dont miss
nope
Denial
Thats top tier, especially for a 338
First mission with lights out, psyker wakes up a daemonhost
thankfully he learned his lesson when we ran into two more
Suffer not the Daemon to live [nods in approval]
did you just come to pskyer chat to complain about our sibling?
no complaints here boss
kinetic deflection is so fucking godly
playing a damnation assassination mission and I picked up 9 people just in the boss fight
ewww limbsplitter
brutal momentum+limbsplitter is literally BiS
If only I had better memory then a damn potato and would remember it doesn’t protect me from snipers 😡😭
No no this is smart. The daemonhost glows. This is like a portable lantern
What, you think a sniper would deal ranged damage?
I foolishly assumed they would shoot with bullets and not their mind 💩
Haha
So does this just mean fuck the psykers who want to use staffs?
Purgatus is a big torch right?…
Also.... If I do quick play... How tf am I supposed to prepare for the special condition? The fuck
i will light up the path with warp light
New challenge. See how many daemonhosts you can wake up and activate while sprinting thru the level
Lights out is a bad condition and I will fight anyone that disagrees
I don't need to light up the path. The Emperor will show me what I need to see
Lights on condition instead. Brightness of screen is intensified 10x. Cannot be changed in menu
Your opinion is wrong
Special conditon: Nurgle's rot. Every enemy (including walkers), upon death, damages nearby players within melee range with the sweet juices of Nurgle.
Needs Big Head mode special condition. Everyone has bigger heads with appropriate hitboxes
1.) Purgatus is a giant torch
2.) Voidstrike projectiles glow in the dark
3.) Surge staff targets regardless of visibility
4.) Trauma takes a big L lmao
play with 3 ogryns for even less visibility
You can't really use most of those as a good source of light
purge works for your team but not really for you
You dont really need to see to target with purgatus
like, shooters are already the hardest enemy to deal with
Same with Surge
lights out is just a buff for them
Yeah the added challenge is really fun
Mini mode: all enemies are 5x smaller in size, hp, and damage. There are 10x more enemies
The warp works in mysterious ways
Maybe 20x more
I think being able to combine conditions would be fantastic... if only the game let you set your own conditions and choose your own maps
High Intensity + Power Supply Interruption would be terrifying
immeasurably complex to allow
the conditions currently have the huge downside of making quickplay annoying as fuck lol
No different than if players could choose their own maps/conditions
All conditions all at once
Condition: All perks and blessings no longer apply. Modifiers are decreased by half
Crit bonus too high
Does any surge force staff kill scab shooters
I feel like all you have to do to kill Scab shooters with surge staff is sneeze while holding it
Don't they have like 350 HP. Surge only seems to do around 350 at most (barring crits)?
I'd have to log in to check how much damage it actually does. Base damage vs. Flak on my secondaries was around 440, I think, but as we know the surge staff has variable damage per hit
I got into a mission but yeah it does seem to do way more to Flak
Though that's only the first target isn't it.
nice rolls at least and a fun theme
Working on my Psyker rn and I wanted to ask for the Warp Siphon charges, do those buff all damage you deal or just warp based damage?
Ok thank you, using a flashlight right now for a weekly and didnt know if that affect my guns damage
yeah you're good, guns are pretty fun with flayer as well if they have a high RoF
I wish psyker could see the souls of enemies in darkness mode maps
give psyker innate nightvision like that
i don´t want to use flashlight guns on my psyker
i can play other classes if i want to pew pew guns
I kinda like the tension of no light other than my teammates sometimes
or you know, give me a damn headlamp...
i know, i know
sorta
"in the grim darkness yadda yadda yadda"
If only we had ducktape
reminds me of doom3
"couldn't possibly have torch and gun together"
except now it's staff
Melk almost had something decent for me for the first time ever
Nice try Melk, maybe next month
so close
go away
Never
This is great. Limbsplitter on a tactical axe not sure about though
Limbsplitter to ruin the Headtaker blessing is a real Melk Moment
At least Hadron has the good taste to insult you while she ruins your weapons, for that real "Step on me robo-mommmy" energy
Hadron can fuck off. At the end of the day I know where I'm sitting for lunch and that's with Sweet Sefoni
She has a supernatural laugh and she sees me as a plaything. Ideal wife material
so hypothetically on what difficulty do you think you could carry a lvl 10 vet player with 2 bots
not personally but statistically
I carry lv 30 players that act like bots all the time in damnation so.
Malice
Bots will get themselves killed
So its just me and the lvl 10 vet
I dont trust the average player, espically a lowel one.
Vets would have even worse statistics then then averages of other classes.
is there even a way to do lights out as psyker w/o a gun thats got a torch?
not really that huge a deal imo
in general
ye still though
Does force sword warp resistance carry over to staff?
no
Does quell speed stat affect passive quelling, manual, or both
It only should affect active quelling, but I decided to see if I noticed a difference in passive quell only because I've never tested it before. If there IS a difference in passive quelling speed while holding the staff then it's not noticable between a 78% quell speed Voidstrike and a 42% quell speed Voidstrike, which was the lowest I could find in my inventory
the very first Doom3 mod was someone adding flashlights to all the guns
The lights out effect has brought me back to really wanting an autopistol with cavalcade (crit chance) and Inspiring barrage(toughness regen).
What perks or stats should I be looking for, for a surge staff
Warp Nexus, lots of crit bonus
@maiden wolf I heard crit was bugged
It's not
Hmm ok
Just a rumor that arose from the variable damage on a Surge staff
Sustained Fire sadly only works on the left click attack
But the secondary perk doesnt matter much once you have Nexus
Okay
And for perks what's good for the surge staff?
Not the blessings lmao
Is more damage to pox walkers good
Not really no
can brainburst crit?
As mentioned look for crit enhancing perks, Also things like Flak, Carapace, etc are okay if you cant get those
O shit
oh wait
im dumb
it was the double brain burst i think
but it stacked up to one number
It's definitely a flayer proc unless you were doing something to stack +Power before you BB'd
And if that's the case then I'd be interested to know what it was
I just had flayer cause the same display bug in the meatgrinder just now, so I;m guessing that's it
siblings, how much does damage matter?
God roll, buy it immediately
dmg range on purg is not very hi, radius and burn are where its at
Not much
you'll likely get more active use out of flak than specialists, upping crit to %5 probably isn't that big of a gain. But I'm not a dmg calc either.
das a decent staff
I currently have it on crit, but I think I'm going to make it flak
I have enough crit from shred/warp nexus
Purge really likes crit because a crit applies 2 stacks of burn
not quite a god roll without warp nexus either, but definitely good
on purg? very very little, its damage comes from burn and crit
I guess I have to login and buy these :x
thanks for all the answers guys, quess that flame staff will go nicely with https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1046914150363844779/1060753987244138496/image.png
People keep linking 370-380 Force Swords and it keeps making me sad because the highest I usually find are like 330
The highest I have is a 518 total T4 Deflector which Hadron gave quell on weakspot hit when I consecrated it
I was like "GIVE ME DAMAGE THAT ISN'T DAMAGE"
Deflector/Slaughter never
That's a huge deflector
Random question: how do you all feel about Purgatus left click?
It's not a trick question lol, I just recently finally got a Purgatus worth using and I'm curious how others Pyskers tend to utilize the left click, if at all.
in store, worth?
Use it when manouvering
as in, fire it off quickly when passing enemies so they are staggered a little bit and dont immediately stab me
but that's my take
you spam left click if you wanna stagger elites/specials, very handy vs dogs
also faster than charging if there's a shooter on your face, gives you time to start using rmb
yeah, good when running to cover and if there's some shooters around
in general it's more of a "you want to stagger someone now so you can use right click or get out of immediate danger"
if I have time to just spam it I'd be right clicking
Ah cool, that's basically how I've been using it lol
Doesn't seem to stack the Souoblaze much though. But it certainly wrecks doggos XD
one of the reasons why I didn't mind doggo modifier so much
if anything, more doggos means more practice with dealing with the little shits
Stats good, weak spot damage perk bad, warp flurry bad. If you buy it, you're rerolling the bad perk and hoping you get nexus on an upgrade imo. Also depends on whatever your current best is
Initiate with left click before charging a right click. Purgatus left click has really high stagger, you can stunlock enemies with it.
I've found that building peril with your force staff before running in with a non-force melee is a great way to generate toughness passively with quietude
I guess that's an old tech, but I think its one that would be valuable to new psyker players whi haven't unlocked the better feats.
Grab good Trauma staffs for when they get buffed.
I got two 380s. Maybe I could dual wield
Only when Ogryn's get a two-handed melee weapon.
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2004698925208033853/10C231C48E8CF9853436BCA1BEB1793924AF9266/ store was kind today from a grey.
wtf
You lucky fucker.
Melk had this too, figured I'd buy it but I dont really like void.
maybe try for the lottery today too
It doesnt
Didnt think so was testing it now :x
But still you can put a different blessing on it eventually
Maybe even.... next week?
is that a normal next week or fatshark's next week
We get updates next week, but updates on the state of the game.
I doubt we get actually game updates
A Fatshark next week, of course
Especially since they were saying a large amount of effort is going into console port right now.
possibly the best melk item i've ever seen
console port? so more people can be content starved?
Actually same for me For, normally melk is like sub 330 items.
loses points for being a void staff, but pretty amazing for what it is
laughs in Sienna 4th
what it probably means is they started considering it just now and have written it on a notepad
I'm sure there is a lot they are working on, but I think people need to expect that we probably wont get anything significant update wise till probably feb/march. But that may just be being pessimistic.
Your pessimistic is potentially accurate though
i'd call it realistic given their track record
I actually think crafting is way off, at least from what they said they overhauled the whole thing.
Which makes it was probably still in design/dev during launch.
Put that behind normal bug fixes/hotfixes and console.
The whole Crafting system should've been a thing at launch.
I doubt crafting will be done for months.

Apparently they had a system in place that they felt was worse than what we have. So they ripped it out and started over.
Should've just delayed it imo
I assume all of the weapons with 3 versions used to be one version
Cant, shareholders and the big money people wont let them
the shop was probably a lot more manageable in that world
Plus was end of quarter, gotta make those sales margins
Doubt it.
I mean they were one version with like a +fire rate mod, or a +damage mod, that would make it functionally like the 3 versions
but off of 1 base version
in addition to like modular flashlights and the like
I actually ended up switching to Chainsword from Force Sword specifically to take advantage of this.
I also found that Quickswap alternating left clicks from Chainsword and Purgatus is better stagger than Block/Push XD
Yeh chainsword feels solid across the board, I'm still rolling a bleed dagger which I hope to make stronger once crafting patch kicks in.
Chainsword rev is faster to do than FS special, does similar damage and costs no Peril ...
plus the natural peril quell with it out.
no force push and deflector tho
Laughs in no deflector for 130 hours
👆 Fastest case of armoury itemization
I gave up trying to get a Deflector sword. Ill be happy if i ever see one, but Im not burning myself out chasing it down.
I kind of wish you could trade items between characters/players. Id gladly give away the old ones Im not using anymore
Since you asked
It reminds me I need someone to help me get MM one day
Yo
All they really need to do is replace the empty yellow creates with "Damaged wargear" that we can salvage and turn into gear of our choosing through sopending plasteel and Diamantine 😛
Lights out is gone already? Good while it lasted
walk out into darkness without flashlight
So someone joked about it in a post. But if there is a dog affix, maybe they make a burster affix.
pls no
trapper affix
I wouldnt mind having instances of higher special spawns of varying types
or maybe more spawns of ragers/elites/crushers
trapper spam would be funny because you could lose instantly
every time i do excise vault after the servitor colony part the hordes never stop
guess dogs do that already tho
I sure do love traps
Melee frenzy - remove all ranged enemy spawns (incl. specials), double or triple the melee special/elite spawn rate.
Yeah I have the same thing happen a lot, but not every game. It's definitely some kind of glitch
okay, time to do some meme runs
... as long as you don't charge your force sword while at 100% peril, you don't explode
yes
does charging the fsword make it count as a warp attack?
I think so? But it doesn't count as BB
I feel like the special action for the Force Sword should always have been to apply the Blitz action on hit.
That way if we get subclasses down the line with something other than BB, the FS can be naturally tailored to each subclass in a way that fits the lroe of Force Weapons being made for their users
fs special counts as warp attack for warp absorption but isnt a warp attack for cerebral lacrations iirc
Cerebral Lacerations specifically applies on BB, so currently theres no reason for it apply from anything else. Though i stand by what i said prior 😛
I think I'm seeing an issue with the charged fsword attack not proc'ing AB
I'd like FS to count as BB. It would give more class coherency I think.
when it crits, and soulblaze is being applied by the ticks, I think maybe it's not counting because the total attack starts on-hit, maybe?
It should specifically cast BB, not just a mimic of it.
Does charged FS do the same damage as BB right now? I like how FS works, just literally let that burst be a type of BB.
I think ive seen it do between 450 and 800. Havent tested it in the grinder for a while
Huh, weird
If it actually did just allow us to drop a BB instead of the weird little pop of damage it does, it'd help with generating WCs and synergize with a bunch of our feats too.
something is definitely fucky with the charged fsword attacks
They seem to do more damage against armor sometimes. No idea what that's about
I can see blazing spirit proc when I crit on a special attack
You know whats real fucky though? Staff leftclicks (Not Purgatus) deal their exact damage to all enemy types except Crushers, hitting them in the gut does 90% less damage lol.
seems consistent for me
Grats flamer.
the worst stat to have low is low, though
Now watch it roll ass blessings 😛
anyways, I think the fsword's special attack isn't a series of hits
I think it counts as only one hit
Thats because it is only one hit
even though we see "ticks" of damage leading up to the big hit
Technically 2 if you count the swing to trigger it
which means there goes the idea of using the special to apply a lot of stacks of soulblaze
FartShart really can't let us have nice things
I think this change would be rad, the FS is already pretty stacked with weird abilities, but fuck it, I think exotic items are rad.
Honestly itd fit with Psyker lore on Force Weapons more than the current weird suction pop it does lol
yes the special doesnt proc stuff like exorcist
such bullshit
I wish there were more talents (or traits or whatever they're called) that adjust BB in interesting ways. Most of the BB adjustments are uninteresting.
Realistically, We should only have access to Force Weapons.
The lore is pretty unambiguous in stating that any melee weapon can be made into a Force Weapon barring chain weapons
It'd open out playstyle a lot more if we had a Force Combat/Tactical Axe that had the basic moveset of those axes but had the current FS Block/Push mechanic and Special action triggering a BB
Same with the knife etc.
which means there's no reason to keep playing around with blazing spirit fswords until I get one with Bloodthirsty on it
The lroe supports those weapons being able to become Force Weapons
where can we find it confirmed that Burn is a clutch spec on the purg staff?
by inspecting any purge staff and looking at the modifiers yourself
i'm checking the primary fire right now and here's what i've found
80% burn = 11 stacks of 2 dmg, 15 max DOT stacks, DOT 0.34
53% burn = 11 stacks of 2 dmg, 13 max DOT stacks, DOT 0.37
max stacks is very important for soulblaze
right, but it seems like that huge percentage difference makes a very small difference in stacks, and DOT
yea
if you dont need 15 stacks then u can focus on cloud radius
dont really know how the dot scales with rolls
since that number doesnt really mean anything
makes sense
yeah i guess i'll just focus on cloud radius because that actually seems to scale significantly
That looks like about a 10% increase in DOT stat damage for those values just going by math
Curious to see what that actually looks like in in-game numbers
Probably can't test it tho unless you have two pieces of the same gear with matching gear score and stats
in-game numbers as in the amount of stacks and each stack's damage?
In game numbers as in damage against the enemies in actual gameplay
Like in the psykanium
what is the worst stat on voidstrike?
Quell Speed is the only one id consider for worst
Ah gotcha I thought those were the stats you pulled from the weapon itself
Blast Radius is pretty dumpable
Disagree. High Blast Radius helps it control hordes.
Oh boy, a minor stagger and 15 damage
That minor stagger can save your life.
Most of the time you're aiming for piercing headshots with voidstrike, anyway, so the blast does absolutely nothing
so use this?
Yeah thats a pretty nice voidstrike
Transfer Peril is BiS for Voidstrike
what is the second blessing I should aim for?
Sure, Warp Flurry are good secondaries, good luck getting Surge though.
surge?
Nexus is pretty good as well
"2 shots on critical hit"
wait
I know it's important and one of the recommended blessings for it but what did BiS stand for
has surge always been in the game?
Best in Slot
I swear I have never seen that one
Ah ok
It has, and that's because it's an exceedingly rare blessing that only spawns at T4
what rating is t4
understood 😉
Yes. Trauma is the first one unlocked. Then surge. Void is third and purge is the last one unlocked
As in how much does it add in terms of points? I think 55
we are talking about the blessing lol
question why do I keep seeing weird nonsense on darktides build site?
why does this staff have melee buffs
Unfortunately the third party websites arent really up to speed
Surge wasnt even listed as a Voidstrike blessing as late as mid-December IIRC
I see
so what should I be running on void strike for perks
that is essentially what I am looking for I am assuming crit and weakspot damage?
Flak damage is good, so is weak spot damage and crit
This was the super cool high stat weapon that Melk gave me today
Gee thanks Melk.
There is literally not enough currency on offer through the contracts to buy this.
What does Surge blessing do?
Two hits when a critical hit is scored
Do you prefer using the axe as a psyker?
How often do you notice crits happens?
I used a Mk. 5 Combat Axe with Surge staff, and a Force Sword with Voidstrike. Psykers have a base crit chance of 5%
If you roll surge you'd want to roll a crit perk on your voidstrike
Ah I see....
I have yet to try the combat axe or force sword
But Hadron's says you can only choose 1 perk to re-roll for a weapon
But can you only re-roll that one perk once?
Or if you don't like the new one... Can you re-roll that same one?
Or you're stuck
You can reroll it as often as you want, as long as you can pay for it
The cost eventually becomes free
After how much cost? Lol











