#psyker-class
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Nexus and surge is a wacky combo
I wouldnt run surge without nexus
If need be, just keep shooting early
If you want to run flurry I highly recommend transfer instead lol
Warp flurry/transfer peril, warp nexus/surge. The first combo is stronger for horde clear and cc the second.combo is raw sexual dps
Current meta favors warp nexus and surge to defeat armored swarms where horde control has more options though again gunner hordes flurry and transfer work well if u can spam headshots
tbh i want flayer to be turned into "kinetic detonation"
and it gives u an explosion based off the value of the target killed
Based
Or maybe some magical way of using it on trigger
Imagine having an instant charge stored to use anytime you wanr
i miss cerebral lacerations
Same
like i do not like the direction they took psyker's tree at all outside of scrier's gaze and DD
How about running transfer peril and warp flurry with scrier's?
It's too shit for a blessing, but talents are numerous enough
When two people apply the same dot to a mob, does the first applier get the credit for all the damage?
there is a lot of potential in space magic man and the tree just feels restrictive in dumb ways without some of the cooler ideas explored
yup, they "own" the DoT
Tbh
so if they have uncanny or any other buffs that boost dot damage, they apply it
lol
Staves as well
How about running transfer peril and warp flurry on a voidstrike and combine that with scrier's gaze?
forbidden
Transfer peril and surge on void strike is my favorite combo.
Le funi
here we are again i see
do u run scrier's with that?
then wtf how are u gonna make use of that juicy crit?
yes but why run surge when its so infrequent?
might aswell use flurry instead.
Doesn't seem infrequent to me.
instead of surge?
unless you stretch to true aim.
but when using true aim with that you need to set it up
It does poopy tons of damage soooo uhhhh .. /shrug
in aurics you usually cant set it up like that in my experience
Void strike true aim plays itself.
just hit head
yes
Based
but like
but, when you're getting lots of procs of true-aim, is firing into horde, you don't need surge to proc when firing into horde, you need it on high-value single targets
do you spam left click to set up a true aim crit?
no
Surge also counts for more transfer peril.
huh? you only kill em once
the fact that warp rupture has damage falloff is hilarious
obviously, but it can still hit other things.
like it already does just 200 damage at close range, but anything beyond like 5 meters and it's already down to 100
57 at 27 meters 
Oh yeah, this node exists 😂
This is the sub node for shriek right? So the choice there is either this or creeping flames
imagine using shriek without creeping flames
Always flame on
I would actually try the other one, if it wasn't so pathetic in terms of damage
if it was 300, that would at least kill the horde
Because dealing a set instant amount of damage to a big amount of enemies sounds pretty good
At 300 it might be a bit op, i would set it to 250 with fall off to like 150 at max distance
No i like setting everything on fire by yelling at it, esp since u can amp it
Psykers
I do think the damage-on-shriek node should be changed to something else
Go into stealth

"don't consume warp stacks" node

that's exactly what I was thinking
how stupid is it for warp charges to be consumed by default
U cant amp the raw dmg like u can fire, shriek fire comes swap to illis and pump that power
so basically what we had before patch 13 on one of the 3 talents?
Don't remember which one was it, i think it didn't spent charges. Or maybe i am misremembering at this point
pre-13, it was a feat to consume warp charges for cooldown
post-13, FartShack made it default warp siphon behavior
Should i take this perk or +15 toughness? im using assail
I never do
if you have the spare points, go look at getting perilous combustion
or the "dodge for 1s when you crit"
those are very, very good nodes
vastly better than 15 toughness
It's a nice node for when you want to dump assail on a crowd of elites
my assail build doesn't have the spare point for that
Do you always wanna run warp charges for a build with this? im not so sure you do...
if you're wanting to make void staff your focus, warp siphon works well
though in that case, I'd rather run void with surge+nexus
i got chinese food and its fire
chinese food is my favorite food
put it out???
nevuh
nah, eat it while on fire
If you can manage your peril, you can run any of the keystones. I generally stick to inner tranquility (warp siphon modifier) for comfort.
yeah, 30% peril resistance is really hard to pass up
as you already want the 24% damage buff
Directly out of the pan or oven. Too hot to touch. Perfect temp to eat.
just scoop it up with your fingers immediately
don't even think about it
in fact, just grab the wok right off the stove and pour the contents directly into your mouth
Live action
real facts though - I could eat chinese food 7 days a week
haven't been to a decent chinese buffet in years
Hmmm, Worth or naw?
idk what blessing or perks are good on it
Unstable and high warp resist are wonky
you want the rending blessing, I'm pretty sure
Could uh
damn psyker dont have agripina braced autogun?
Replace unstable with uncanny, get unarmored instead of block
Walk up to people and do light pokes
rip
Psyker puny arms too weak to hold any of the heavier guns
using that gun on momentum zealot makes me feel like playing csgo
aim head spray pull down
psyker only needs to be strong enough to hold staff properly
thought I'd go try it out with scrier but rip
I think the rolls are good enough I might just grab it for cope to. Incase FS ever adds a way to fully craft a weapn, like change all blessing and perks
Even if the other doesnt work out
I really don't see FartShack enabling further weapon reworking
Just do IAGs instead
likely not
Wut they reworked weapons years into vt2 development
time will tell
idk iags have like 50% less dmg per bullet
braced autogun is crazy efficient in ammo
They removed the DOT element to siennas mace and made it more powerful with raw dmg
Click general direction of head
More than anything else I just want new weapons from the part 2 update. For every class
Abuse finesse
A class would b enice but very unlikely
Ogryn really needs more weapons
I want to have the executioner and Bretonnian swords from VT2
idk we might be getting drugs if reddit is correct
More staffs on psyker would be great
I'm a dirty laspistol psyker as of late
There was a confirmation that we will get new ones?
I'd be more excited if instead of new staves, FartShack made the current staves share blessings
Give me beam staff primary with bolt secondary
Was there? Ive seen all the data mined shit
but
No confirmation
but we dont know what is under part 2
Those are both single target
pistol + rapier would be nice for psyker
Yes
So one would be redundant
nobody knows what "part 2" consists of

If weapon customization mod is anything to go off of
Then make them cleave 
which its probably not
but if it is
there are some very complete weapons in the files
Turn psyker beam into that opening scene from Ghost Ship
db shotgun 
Part 2 is when amogus Morningstar mission is released
Corus primary with bolt secondary would be crazy
PSYKER JUST VENTED
Dumbass that was the leveling cutscenes
Cleave damage is kind of trash right? Is that alright?
The sus impostor sells us ordo dockets cosmetics
No you see that was just a taste
naughty... I like it
Traitor’s curse is to make us play among us in darktide
Real ong no cap?
Warp Rupture is just so, so pathetically bad
If I understand cleave right - the only thing that cleaves on mk4 is the light attacks
At this point I’d just be worried about the perks and blessings
it should deal 500-1000 damage, based on peril
Cleave damage apparently also dictates first target
I just saw someone do pretty well with it.
Ah damn
That sounds pretty important then
it's not as bad as Unlucky for Some where it's literally just a waste of a node
but Creeping Flames is right there and is better in every way
I mean, anything above 70 is already pretty nice
Yeah but some people just love min-maxing to hell
I’d keep it myself though
Ngl I maybe might see a case for warp rupture with purgatus
cleave damage is unarmored/infested/flak armour damage modifiers
I mean, start consecrating
Since the staff softens them and the shout does that little burst
Problem
The burst really is little
but it's bugged to not scale flak adms on the duelling sword so it's whatevs

Oh yeah, I thought you meant the ability.
rupture is bad
You are a veritable encyclopedia
nah nah, Shriek itself is amazing. Easy contender as the 'meta' ability
agreed
penetration on duellies also doesn't scale flak, though it presumably works properly on the mk5
Such a bugged sword and yet it’s still so good
Venting Shriek does about the same damage as a purgatus staff, but you still get to use a staff

Unarmored if you can one-shot gunners, that kinda stuff
Or even
Infested
Rending doesn't affect them and uncanny already can stack up to 125% of it
so true
and with a bit less than double the range
Heavy crits already deal idiotic damage on their own too
yea the heavy crits are uh
you pretty much breakpointing for when you dont crit
just about
Mhm
Mine has 62% damage and no maniac
Mutants still ragdoll with a crit headshot
I think the rest of the specialists doesn't even need a crit
And y'know, I like that
Otherwise it'd be another ughhhh flak maniac weapon
Iags do way more dmg if u can aim
Mine has infested and unyielding
Braced much better if u wanna just bodyshot tho
las need repetitive mouse clicking and bad in close range
Kant is kinda asss
braced autogun > still
Iag is infantry autogun
Just get the mod that makes everyting automatic
Anything I should replace on this
Or just shuck Surge off
also no cleave on recon when braced autogun can hit 2 target per bullet
shit vs horde, wasteful vs elite, braced is just better
i would just eat it for surge, personally
Flurry to nexus and groaners to crit
Recon is terrible lol
is the stinky stun shield bugged? just watched four crushers waltz right through like it was nothing
then what the fuck are you talking about
Recon is the only bad gun...besides lawbringer
But iags are still amazing
Would it be better to take surge off and swap it to this or just swap like you said
Tfw ppl cant read english properly and cant tell iag from las
?
columnus iag is sex
I rest my case
especially with weapon customization mod giving it a sight
LOL
hooooly
Up to yoy
If you have something you want to put it on then take it off
at least the damage roll isnt bricked on the second one
Otherwise if you dont u can just craft onto it until you want to take it off
Look at it again lol
I think you need to use a bettee font on your phone/computer
who the fuck type iag as Iags
to be fair you did capitalize the i in iag
but then again lowercase l has a little curve to it
ill
Phone does that automatically
I'm not gonna manually change it lmao
not a big deal tbh
ciag my beloved
but being a rude cunts get rude response, simple as
being rude goes both ways, bud
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bro changing the font on discord's pc client isn't even a setting
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buy it, on principle alone
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and then hold onto it forever, knowing that should you try to upgrade it, Hadron will ruin it for all time
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not a lot of people really use taxes anymore
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ahem everyone does taxes
...
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taxe is as fun as actual taxes to most ppl rightnow
Its also kinda a bad model iirc
I think the 2 has the best swings
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I would save up some good rolls if you see them
The other ones have linda weird swings
there a not zero chance they will get buffed
remember how bad kickback used to be
now its quite good even after the nerfs for ogryn
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no
but I think it might get buffed
there are plenty of other weapons that have been buffed to be good
not as much as kickback
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but its possible
They are good. I think I like D4 better but thats not to say they are bad by any mean
but you never know what might occur
and it seems prudent to grab a decently rolled weapon or keep it
even if its trash now
We taxing?
4 has the best light directions
Unfortunately the heavies are the same damage as mk2's
Despite being insanely vertical
Honestly my suggestion is keep swinging and spamming lights
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You do miss the zealot and vet attack speed tho
Yar
And it doesn't have the heavy power of maybe all dueling swords
Taxes are already pretty good
They just are a bit harder to use
They got capone so I guess I cant argue with that
I'm not sure theyll get too buffed
Taxe specials are my favorite part
Because they're already decent
They stagger so fucking hard so fucking quick
special taxes are my least favorite
Like for example, taxe with the vet node
If you look at most of the melee weapons in the game across all classes that can use taxe
there is generally a better answer than using taxe
That gives 10% crit and 25% finesse is insane
Psyker is arguably the least equipped for taxe
Yes but that applies to everything
Does it?
Like why use any melee besides HS
Dclaw, I guess
dueling sword mk4
Or why use any gun except plasma on vet
Chainsword suffers a bit
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Stats are good but rating is too low
But its not quite that cut and dry I think. There are arguements for example in using a evis or thammer over a HS. They may not be the best of fit your play style but it seems like for taxe there is never an option that isn't completely better on every level
Unlikely to roll good stuff
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taxe suffers from a lot of things
Psyker gets scrier and a 5% crit aura
It leans dangerously towards "scrier or fuck off" for me
I dislike the design of scrier personally lol
I wish they made it more like a crit zerk mode
I dislike it in the sense I dislike exec stance
Rather than a godmode
If it were me
I wouldve made it so SG made u do a lot more dmg but also take more dmg
You get a magic class and give it an intangible damage buff ability? Fucking really?
So it was a true berserk kinda thing
It can explode minds and we get "warp use sanctioned" for an invisible number increase
Like fuck off
At least exec highlights enemies
Dear Psyker friends,
I'm curious about your preferred staff in combat. What makes it your favorite?
Scrier is just a bland DPS boost
It does it fairly well and I don't question the effectiveness
It's just
It's like drinking water
It does what it sets out to do, but what it sets out to do is boring
i dont like scrier as well, but it feels pretty powerful in close quarters with a sword
Surge is probably my favorite staff to use
what people usin on their trauma staff nowadays ? XD
It has a low amount of blessings, easy to build and it chains RMB super fast
Easily my best staff
i dunno, i just havent quite gotten used to the surge staff
i dont like the way surge is now, i reallyy hope they redo this weirdness
It's one-dimensional
i find myself struggeling when the situation gets heated
It's easy to use and safe to spam
maybe this one for a scriers
But yeah, for bigger problems it's not quite nice
It's the slow and steady staff to me
i really like the IV force staff against tox bursters. One little orb and they go tumbling
I have no idea which one that is 
Its alright
Which one would be better?
But psyker only has a few weapons the class has synergy with
So if you're trying to be effective you're limited to a few guns
not sure, some1 else gotta answer
with ones?
which*
2, but the mk5 does about 30-40% less dmg than the mk4
So most people use mk4
Ah kk, I got an MK4 already but wanted to build a collection of weapons I don't have yet. MK 5 is pretty good for defense
Usually the revolver, laspistol, vraks3 and colum iag is what people use
the extended weapon customization mod is something else
psyker deimos now looks as hard as it hits
Gun psyker is perfectly viable on high difficulties
Dare I remind it's a class with a third weapon
voistrike psyker with the smite skill
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It's what made shredder psyker such a beast before, as well as the gun being busted
Perfectly
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Crit damage is an ass roll, but the blessings and flak are great
Shredder psyker used to be a class that had a melee weapon, a mid range gun and a long range wall-bending pocket sniper
any psyker build recommand?
Shredder psyker had no weaknesses in the past and accentuated the true strength of the class
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The fact it's versatile as all fuck
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You just named a weapon and a Blitz Skill
We don't know what you expected us to understand from this context-less information, but
cool
I mean i don't think your class mattered lol
Every class was insane with shredder
Well, yesb
Because PF was just that broken
Ascendant Blaze with PF was pretty funny though tbh
But the thing was that you could always snipe an enemy with infinite ammo
Because you always had BB
But now you can invert that
Revolver assail
Suddenly your blitz carpets an area and your gun is sniping specials
You have 3 slots to do 3 different things if you so wish
The other classes press G and get a consumable in their hands
You get infinite ammo magic
I always loved that about psyker
You could always weave your blitz into attacks instead of using it in emergencies
fuck it, no soulblaze for today
i really like zealot's throwing knives because of how much more resuppliable they are
That too
I never realized how broken vets ammo economy was so I played Psyker constantly
free money and ammo
Knives can be really annoying sometimes, but it's basically a psyker blitz
Free dolla??? +
Quiero dolario
It'd be cool if Zealot Knives pulled out the Knives
Instead of just throwing it
So you can
Oh I dunno
adjust your aim
I think
that'd probably add a forced animation to pulling out the knives similar to assail
which'd make them way less fluid to use
It'd be interesting to have a quick blitz button
personally I love how it is, with how fast you can throw them, feels incredible
headshot rager with knife my beloved
I mean, look at Revolver and Achlys Stubber
You can skip animations by aiming and/or shooting
You know how some shooters with quick melee allow you to equip the knife?
Just make it like that for Knives
assail is near instantly actionable after swapping
the funny cod underhand knife thing
we deserve to have it
it's just the firing animation that has an uninterruptible time of 0.2s for the first shard and 0.3s for the second
fast casts would be such good qol
Honestly I think it'd do wonders to the combat flow
New assail is so much better, after playing with it for some time, its in a very good spot. Not useless, but will also punish idiots who try to use it as main weapon
New assail is comfy to the point I don't feel like I'm missing out not getting cooldowm
N
totally unrelated question, i read the curio section in the guide, is toughness regen speed actually that important
I havent been running it, but would i feel a tangible difference if I did
Yesn't
I have found a use for Warp Rupture
on Psyker, I vote no
got this white from the hourly shop and ofc hadron bricks it
At the very end of Shriek's cone you won't deal suppression because the knockback is so low
but the 50ish damage that Rupture does apparently applies suppression
godroll congrats
for some fucking reason
Running it on 3 curios is pretty fast, but it's something I learned to play without
I only use it on my loner zealot
oh bc of the perma coherency, that's good
Ye
ive been using combat ability regen but idk if it's actually doing anything so i was wondering if i should swap it
And I spend 2 points to raise it even more
For shriek and scrier I'd keep it
Shield isn't liberally used enough to warrant 12% cooldown to me
that makes sense, thanks
I'll see what I got after I get home
Off the top of my head I can name revolver assail and IAG brain burst
Or 7d recon if you're a sociopath
Headhunters fall into assail to me
Shredder is a fat no
And I think that's actually all guns
Oh, laspistol
Laser weapons benefit from brain burst because of the carapace and bulwark damage
Headhunters struggle a bit with it but you can do knife or dueling sword with uncanny
Which staff should I use for nexus and flurry?
Revolver is just point and click whatever twat you want to ragdoll
It's like opening the console on Skyrim and typing kill
Make another staff to put nexus and flurry

Is smite a thing or is it nerfed to Bejesus and back ?
Smite is a thing
Funny stun for when times are dire and the ragers multiplied like rabbits
Maybe its because my team doesn't really watch my back that I am getting interrupted midway every cast
You might be casting too often
I was using it with Wrap Charges to get a feel for it.
which one is better for venting shriek, soulblaze or flat damage
I think poxers have 300 hp on damnation
groaners have 300, poxwalkers 375
Ah, so there's a difference, good to know
damn i'm starting to forget the patch 12 numbers for them
200 for groaners and 300 poxwalkers, so the relative difference between their hp did shrink
I guess they figured that giving poxwalkers more hitmass made the difference up
carnival is soooo laggy
Maybe servers are having a seizure
:/
But servers aside my game only had lag after the patch, when it rebuilt shaders
Legit had a 3 second freeze and then it slowly died down
Are there illegitimate freezes?
my first 100
yrd
your irrelevent
you gotta try harder than that
not worth it
you just a hater always gotta be punching down
well, at least you recognize your position
discord people be like
why you bein like this 
any brain burst builds? specifically for malleus monstronum?
His irrelevant what?
More of a teammate issue there, psychic shriek and fast brain burst on ability helps
You can avoid soulblaze to avoid damaging the boss too much
is the game telling me i should do a lmb crit build?

Haven’t been following recent hotfixes, how is the surge staff? Are there any new changes for us?
As in does the surge staff still target limbs
i think vet is in a good spot balance wise, but I think people just find the builds too restrictive?
does the surge blessing mean it shoots out two chain lightnings extra if your initial cast crits?
i don't think surge blessing applies to any secondary attacks, just lmb
In comparison to the other 3? Nope
so if you shoot one left click out and it crits, it instantly launches 2 more lil balls?
There's no Surge Blessing for Surge Staff
when crit happens it shoots another shot
and yeah no it's a trauma staff
vet still has PS PC4, kraks/frags, the funny ammo passive, decent gun weapon options, the very good shout combat ability, idk it feels nice but i'm a noob so i'm not saying this as fact just my thoughts
Oops wrong @ message but you get the idea
sort of but not really. afaik, the damage is normalized across body parts, but it still targets random body parts. So it'll hit different armor
"the damage will be normalized" = still targeting random parts
I wonder what build I should do for this funny trauma LMB crit build. ... is the answer scrier? lmao
surely not
yeah, vet feels fine besides the bloated tree and whatnot
i'm sure there's more to be said with regards to balancing and fine-tuning, but I do think that people like to overstate how bad something is
especially in the post-patch 12 era
Yeah like I think it feels bad to make vet builds
so even if they're good, it doesn't feel good? that's the impression i get
hey im new here where can i put in a ticket for a discovered class exploit
either on the forums https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/
or here https://support.fatshark.se/hc/en-us/requests/new
thanks
do I save this for later to slap another blessing or just take the precognition blessing and start all over again?
purg stagger is so good
i can just give a dog an incendiary boop and it sits down
you can stagger everything except crushers, reapers, and monstrosities afaik
it melts nurgle beasts
Quick question is Helenica a good zelot name
i named mine after a meme, im a mighty mage named Catan, with the unspoken title of The Settelr
No. Princess Bashy Bits
/jk
Lol trauma lmb scrier crit might be kinda fun? idk
What did you find?
is rampage good on the duelist sword?
what should I reroll?
1 shot literally everything minus boss
super high dmg on boss
How is that an exploit?
~~only way to trigger it if you use the MK4 is to use lmb. Doesn't really synergize with its gameplay style imo.
if you use the other duelist sabers because you want to it can synergize better~~
note i'm still a noob
its ez mode
just me thoughts
i run rampage on modes except melee/monstrosity maelstrom
since it's still bugged to give 2.04x damage
purg is really good against dogs, an apparently can instantly stagger ragers too
so many bugs lol damn it
trust no one
this shit slaps on malice
this game is heretical
it slaps on damnation too
both perks to maniac and unyielding or flak
its horrible on uprising and below because thers just not enough shit to light on fire
well that run went to shit, the zealots were gun zealots and we had no front liners
yo my build slaps on low intensity sedition
lmao
Whens power cycler blessing for force swords?
i think its already a thing, but i really want deflector
power cycler is a blight upon this world for balancing
i wish to not see it for the force swords
dueling swords already have competition, these things hit like a truck and have amazing emotional response
i feel good when i hit a charged warp strike on a boss and wipe out a sixth of its health
Everyone using dueling and force swords
I'm using devil's claw 🙂
Balance is for the heretics 
i have a 544 devil's claw on my vet and it is fucking beautiful
devils claw is the only weapon i cant get into
Why??
it’s not the stub revolver that’s why
feels to slow and not enough dmg
I can buy the not enough dmg but slow???
Can deal great amounts of dmg tho
it doesnt stimulate my zeolot adhd gotta go fast neurons enough
but it also isnt a thunderhammer
I use it on my zealot too and it's lovely. Great weapon for a crit/parry build
dang
I might try purgatus. Not being easy to get used to the new surge reality
Left click spam, isn't it?
yeah, left click has more stagger. but right click can build stagger too
swap unarmored for crit chance?
the purg staff is only good when it actually outputs fire
I miss the bugged surge
Unarmored let's you oneshot dreg gunners
Depends if you care about it or not
you can one shot em anyway you just gotta charge more
which you do all the fucking time anyway
Unarmored head shot is like 1100 ballpark
They have 1400 hp
So you need around 25%~ buff
i just set them on fire
Warp rider perfect timing etc
although these cultists are surprisingly fuckless about being set on fire, they power right through
unless the spray is actively on them, then they stand in place
which you also get very easily unless you run EP like a pleb
that's prob what got me confused
either way imo you don't need unarmoured
Usually it's for alpha striking a dreg patrol
have stacks of your choice and have like 50% peril, donezo
second shot+ you also have perfect timing
I run flurry surge and don't run crit chance so I just trying out different perks
Yea I run DD
think you can still one shot crushers sometimes if the stars align with dd
though I haven't tested it, I just could swear it happens on occasion in matches
even without +cara
I haven't really investigated that BP
this is a good one
actually nvm its not
terrible perks, precognition ehh
all round bricked
Riposte
but both of your perks kinda mid
and your finesse is kinda low
you should take tht uncanny for a future one
easier to control a large group with left click, but right click still works if there's less or you can funnel them through a tight space
you need to mix between left click with right click
so that they not only stagger but also die faster
I have fallen in love with crit lmb trauma staff just messing with it in psykanium lol
Turns out the value is piss shit low compared to the right tree buff
Would be worth it to trade shriek for shield in a purgatus build?
Do people ever take the sub nodes of Smite or nah? not sure if either of them are worth it
doing a quick discord search apparently Enfeeble might be slightly bugged in some way, too? not sure
Depends on what you want
Doing a discord search I think smite's extra talents (enfeeble and lightning storm) still work with Surge staff?
people were talking about this this month so i assume it still works
game is so buggy lol
what does lightning surge even do with smite, +1 target isn't a lot given how many it already hits
assuming we aren't taking it just for the surge staff
well i'm in psykanium so i'll test it out real fast or something
been goofing around with trying to make a crit lmb trauma staff after i rolled this
I imagined +1 target is +1 chain to each target it hits
As in if it hits 5 and chains to 5, it can chain to another 5
if you want to lmb with crit you should use the Surge staff
im pretty sure none of the smite talent affect surge staff anymore
and depend some people do take it some people do not
I thought the surge staff did not have the surge blessing. Is the surge staff better at the lmb crit despite not having surge blesssing? or was that misinformation.

the surge blessing doesnt increase crit so first of all having surge blessing doesnt make lmb of any staff better at critting
secondly yes the surge staff have a very high crit chance
I mean, it makes its crit damage technically better
But what about dps?
that's the end goal
well
It just has to be weighed whether the lowered crit chance with double shot makes up for it or not
you are talking about using LMB
with surge
blessing
i dont think dps is the conversation you are in
because
this is just gimmick now, youre not going to squeeze out a lot of dps out of lmb
I can't actually figure out what the smite +1 chain Lightning Storm talent does while messing in the psykhanium
just targets one extra target I thought?
OK i understand now
The lightning storm +1 chain makes it so held LMB smite hits 2 people at the start instead of 1. this speeds up spread of smite to other nearby/behind targets.
Doesn't really seem to do anything to smite RMB
yes, ive been trying out purg w bb + shield and its been nice.
Purg really likes shriek
Shield let's you be defensive but I don't play purg defensively 
shield lets me stop my teammates from dying, the silly guys
If you see a horde of gunners you don't shield up and cry, you just dive in 
ZEALOT PSYKER
With a better flamer

SHANK THEM IN THE EYESOCKETS
What do you think is the least chosen personality for Psyker?
male enforcer guy, I think?
least chosen of what? oh personality
What do you mean its in the question?
u said "personaly" and i didnt think very hard
yay i did it
Sorry mate
if they’re not crazy they’re not chosen
i'd pick enforcer too because people seem to grow really tired of his lines
male enforcer, at least
not sure about female enforcer lines
female enforcer at leaast has the french thing going for her
i see the non-beloved crazy psyker the least.
first it’s seer, then beloved, then just crazy
I love my Male Savant Psyker
Dude’s just grounded and appreciates the people around him
He’s got some nice friendly lines with others too
always see savant and male seer psykers, barely anyone uses female seer
It’s also nice that all three Vet voices seem comfortable with Savant
Likely because he’s the most similar to the Vets of anyone else around tbh
what's the recommended upgrade for this purgatus stuff? Carapace > Crit and Upgrade Warp Nexus to IV?
Yeah imo
carapce -> crit chance
Carapace to Crit and Warp Nexus to T4, ye
sounds good
honstly its not even needed to alternate, just lmb is good enough
but yea great job 
People need to stop crutching on smite so hard, I just finished a game with a lvl 400 psyker that did 1/2 of the damage I dealt out, just smiting away instead of killing stuff
is assail a good blitz to run with the surge staff or should I stick with bb?
if they run staff with smite, its really hard to play normally
definitely assail
surge and bb share the same role
and smite?
smite surge both eat too much peril
which of these two is worth picking?
pick pierce for sure
regen too probably
smite works well with gun because you can smite then immediately start shooting after the push, guns also have the power to punch through hordes to hit specials/elite
i am reminded that talents occasionally do exactly what the description says
I run BB with surge, for the free brain burst procs
brings a tear to my eyes
sometimes the localisation guy gets it right
ethereal shards bumps assail's target limit from 2 to 3, so it's pretty neat
lightning surge seems to do nothing for the surge staff anymore
win for consistency?
yeah charges/shriek/smite/surge is what I currently use for auric damnation quickplay
just, I get a point or two back
I skip the talent for 10% damage, it's still bugged and even if it wasn't I don't think it's worth taking
if that's Lightning Surge
it was a bug that that had affected surge before so yeah it's gone
carapace to maniac
YEAAAAAAHHHHH
alternative between allow you to kill more in a mixed horde
yea depends on the situation
Plus it’s probably more engaging to do than lmb spam forever
true
it kills faster
this tho. i had a game w two ppl playing taser tag w the enemies the whole game T-T
The best support is killing 
I’m still pretty new but I imagine best use of smite is occasional RMBs when swarmed, and rare LMB when there’s a huge pack of bulwarks or something you can trap with one smite lmb
Or a funny ep smite build idk
stalling elite packs is great
stalling horde trash is GROSS
purg staff > smite
:)
dont spread that around too much or the devs gonna nerf purg next 
Yeah I was talking about using rmb against an elite swarm specifically
Better to kill them
But if it’s an emergency rmb smite feels pretty fast

I’ve never tried it but it sounds very finicky
Will probably try it one day if I ever get a good surge staff, for the memes
Or ep smite becomes buff
surge or smite
never forget that releasing the smite early knocks down everyone you have stunned
except for those with high poise ofc
its really strange, dreg shotgunner gets knocked down, but scab shotgunner stays standing 
Exactly this
Killing them is permanent CC
I just tried out taking 6 charges with perfect timing on a surge venting shriek build. It felt great getting +40% damage and -36% peril generation
scab #1 
Is it just me or does the void staff stuff feel boring
It's not just you
its eh
i actually like it alot 
Like I would rather force lightning, if it did any damage
i used to love it, but now im in love with surge
if you play with DD its kind of funky and challenging
Surge does lots
but im a purg main so anything that requires aiming is already fun
have u not played post-patch surge
rather post-hotfix
Nah, tell me about the funni
I am running surge and did 820k damage, next highest player dealing damage was 450k
does nutty damage now, go test it in psykanium
It does tons of damage
Any excuse to not use void
Surge, shriek, creeping flames, warp siphon
That's the bones of the build, and it crushes
Yup
Creeping flames on it
Wildfire I like, and the one that procs fire on spelites kill
I did the omega sweaty Boi, which was crit headpop void
if i wasn't a coward that always puts down shields for my team as psyker i'd try that build
I ran that with two level 300+ psykers in a game. I had double the damage of either of them
Don't need to hide in a shield if ur killing everything
Surge with damage talents and + maniac pops flamers and trappers like water ballons
The staff also procs the free brain bursts all the time, basically on cooldown
Shield is fine, I would take it if I ran void
Or even purgatus
@echo turtle this tree working?
That will work though I would alter a few things
Unless you are running 6+ stam you absolutely need kinetic deflection
Brain burst needs only 1 point for free procs, faster cast on special activation is a waste as you pretty much never want to be using brain burst
+10% toughness Regen for the party is a dead point remove that too
Grab perfect timing and mettle, those will get you more damage, speed and Regen from your crits
Swap warp siphons 10% on soul blaze to 4% on any kill
Swap 2.5% healed toughness on peril generation to 5% healed on quell
I would take the cool down reduction over 5% damage to elite aura, and I would grab empathic evasion if possible
The surge staff has a 40% crit rate at high peril, the ability will proc a lot, it isnt necessary but it may keep you alive
Make sure you have a deflector force sword
Surge blessings are Nexus/flurry. Flak/maniac
Should I rip out soulstealer?
No, I think I mentioned all the stuff to rip out
aight
you think Kinetic flayer works on surge?
its a bit random, innit?
on faster firing things like purg or columnus gunker I can understand taking it, but it's just as likely to pop a poxwalker than anything else
It looking like this
no perfect timing 
he definitely said to take KF
This is how I run it.
I take +6 stam via curios block efficiency and +2 stam on sword to give up KD
wrong reply pft 
So that's a baseline, feel free to tweak from there
But you see what I am working with
i rather drop flayer to get 5% crit
for sure
also empathic on surge is quite ehhh
Naw flayer is way better
could also drop wildfire
Also, I need a good cope for... surge
your main source of soulfire is shout and that's evaporating rooms anyways
if you are not taking fire reborn no point with wildfire
People say that, but I am getting huge damage in game with this
I also like faster brain burst on shout but that's also because I get grouped with mouthbreathers that don't know what specials are
you get huge damage without
80 flayer procs is going to get you like 100k damage
Which is 1/3 alone what most of the psykers get that roll into games
on poxwalkers though
Taking 5% crit over that is a mistake
80% of the time
Naw, its nailing elites a lot
100k damage but you cant control where it goes
it might go onto an already dead elite
it might go into an already dead special
it might go into an already dead horde
I can see it in game get a lot of elites
Well, This is the build I run and I get double what people are getting rolling into aurics
Flayer is a bad talent tbh
So something I do is working well
I pretty much only take KF on gunker for boss murdering
It's not that it doesn't work, it's just that RNG on something like that just sucks
yea working well doesnt mean its good
THANK THE EMPEROR
i can work well with recon gunker too
People here like to tell me how wildfire and brain burst is bad, then roll into games and deal no damage
There's instances where it saves you and instances where oopsie you just flayed the poxwalker before shooting the crusher
you bitch
UwU?
you've never grouped with me, so don't talk about my damage
I spent like a solid 2k before getting it, so I'm lucky
this is my last game, so I would say the talents I suggest work just fine
that is seperate from total damage
that's your kinetic flayer procing
800k damage, and 400k overkill
100%
naw
sur eis
no
