#psyker-class
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And you know this si not happening
Especially since PSYKERS can't summon shit
Sorcerers can
reminds me Inquisitor MArtyr game though
There, if you got high peril,. you would summon anomalies and demons
that are hostile of course
that would be funny
Well .. back in pre-Heresy times... But it does not matter nowdays. But flavory heretically - shiny Ghosts of Gurdsmen fighting alongside rejects ..
Ghosts are not a thing in 40k
If there will ever be any kind of summoning in darktide then I'd imagine it'd be a tech priest class of some kind summoning servitors
That but simply a weakened Daemonhost. Or a pack of Sassy Nurglings
Wrong. There full list of noncorporial warp entities of any kind by any name. But unenlighted simply call everything from the warp - demons 🙂
cloest thing to summon class could be something like Techpriest, maknig servoskulls with machine guns
lol
Dats what I said 
now kiss
Dunno how likely it is they'll actually add a 5th class tho
WHAT IF I KISS YOU, WOULD YOU LIKE THAT?!
WHAT IF TAKE YOU TO A NICE DINNER
As paid DLC - sure
They'd have to make a whole new talent tree, do all the different voices and and dialogue interactions and so on....
Isn't that what the commando vet tree is supposed to be?
Catachan Guardsmen wouldn’t vibe with the Inquisitorial hierarchy
As Ogryn re-skin. Easy to pull for shark 🙂
I bet we get a new human and ogyrn class. Who knows when
Also didnt FS already say no to ratlings?
Ratlings unlikely for same reasons as no scoreboard and body type 1 and 2
do you guys think there will be librarians in space marine II ?
Imagine a Catachan in the “I AM A WARRIOR” scene
well they are about as tall as short ogryns
I don't know, when?
And much more menacing looking 🙂
Maybe we will get Gurlgyrns too
What either of tohse have to do with ratlings
woke morons will call ratlings offensive.
Oh it’s one of those people
Wat
i don't think i've ever seen anyone call a ratling offensive in ever
ugly smelly with hairy legs - woke activists will for sure suspect that it's caricature of them 🙂
uh
So they are Ewoks?
Ewoks are dope man
There were extremely badass ewok in SWTOR
I dont know what kinda solidarity or political point he’s trying to make with his woke screeching. But it’s definitely working on me ngl
lol it’s hard to use that word as everyone has their own definition
It’s a catch all
It has no meaning
Not anymore
It means literally whatever you want it to
Is the woke morons in the room with us right now
it's the soyjack of words
yo look at this tasty cup of orange juice I got
its nice n cold
Add vodka
Ted wtf is that
Vodka is good by itself no need to mix it.
This person is thinking
he would say that
i like drinking cold orange juice
worthy of public execution
how criminal
yall act like its a creation of stan
is that a bowl
Vodka needs help. I like tonic water
Why not other kind of juice? Do you hate apple juice ?
are you sure thats juice
im gonna fuckin add alcohol to it
and not not-juice
so i can deal with u weirdos
Contains less than 2% juice
In form of snacks to accompany it. Though some find variant of mixture of vodka with other beverfges to their likng.
guys tbh i think the ogryn is offensive and we should remove it
and psykers
vets and zealots should only eggsits
can u stop detracting the conversation from my orange juice
noh
smh
you put orange juice in a bowl with ice cubes stfu
that's a a bowl
its a cup
wakcy ass cup
WDYM
what kind of goofy cup is that
@quasi junco also there are few brands of vodka that so smooth .. thay you can barely feel it, until it hits the stomach. That kind does not need help, only snack after to not get wasted too fast 🙂
its a normal cup
did ur perspective of reality get shifted just cuz i took the pic on the rim of the cup
nuh uh
: )
its literally orange juice
corn syrup
I’m partial to Buckeye vodka. Bottled very close to me
woke - insert weird derogatory -
Imagine not drinking out of stainless steel
Fuckn qlcoholics
Jokes on you, I only drink on days ending in Y
im fucked up on four lokos 24/7
I remember those, weren’t they banned?
noh they were remade thoguh
bcuz ppl were getting uber uber fucked up on the og ones, so they dialed it back a bit
no ur not
order a book: https://sites.prh.com/ur-special-coolman-coffeedan
Does block efficiency work on kinetic deflection?
It worked before. And should be working still. I say more - Stamina affects it to - higher the stamina - lower the Peril gain from KD
More stamina makes you gain less preril from KD?
Yup 🙂 It goes into denominator of peril formula for KD and have a very significant impact on peril gain.
Just one +3 Stamina curio makes wonders with it
yeah just make sure its a stamina curio with at least 76 base rating for the stamina part. a 75 one will only give you 2 stamina in mission due to rounding shenanigans.
Imagine peril gain on KD from +9 Stamina (Curios) +2 Stamina (weapon perk) (though we might hit stamina cap if it exists for psyker), and then on top of that get block cost reduction 36% from Curios , 20% weapon perk , and if Deflector blessing cost reduction part will finally actually work (was reported as bugged multiple times) - you will be getting fractions of Peril from blocking
At this point your are tankier than ogryn when blocking.
Though this build is just for memes 🙂
Please don't do that at home!
but then, surprise crusher overhead
It was my plan to make that build actually...
Yup 🙂 Build still requires to have good situational awareness and eyes on the back of the head (0ne extra mutation one less.. who cares)
what is psykers flamethrower ability that i see with smite?
venting shriek with creeping flames is probably what you're thinking of
I've been wanting to try a gunpysker build, but I'm not sure what I should use. Any suggested changes?
Right now I'm just using Illisi and Laspistol, but I might try the Columnus
yupp thank you
you don't really need toughness on peril gain, it's our weakest one even with scriers. I would personally lose that and battle meditation. while the aura radius increase is nice too I don't think it's worth the -5% peril gain node in a scriers build. I would use those 4 points between the choices of - quietude if you use assail a lot, more toughness, more points in scriers.
Also that dodge upgrade node next to Empathic Dodge- will make you feel like Neo in Matrix
yeah that is good as well
Anticipation? I've read it was bugged and doesn't provide the +50% Dodge Duration it describes
that's the only reason I had Empathic Evasion specced instead
I think that is correct, you should still get the extra dodge though
That 1 extra dodge may be difference between getting head smashed and staying alive
17
17% iirc
But super rare and bricked usualy
So something like this
small little hotfix
if you only have one empathic evasion is definitely better than the dodge count one. I would personally be too tempted to not have that last toughness node below warp rider too but I like a lot of toughness
I'll probably just swap the scrier's stuff for those then. Not sure I'd feel the 20% MS and TDR anyway
That's what I said, but they said the extra dodge is worth so 🤷♂️
it's worth considering I don't think it's a must have though
It may work but it's melee only and increases dodge linger from 0.2s to 0.3s
sorry if I wasn't clear on that
I wonder if stacking dodge bonuses is worth a build
i personally would not take a bugged talent
wouldnt
who fukin said Anticipation make you feel like Neo lol
Empathic Evasion IS the neo talent
WHAT
Where is this info from
true
the stamina for KD thing is real. I assume he was pulling the formula from the atheneum but it's been that way forever
Pygex did some intense research
3 max stamina curio deflector gameplay moment
to be fair I recall the initial research into how the formula was working was a pretty large collaboration in this channel but he did document it, yeah
It was (and probably still is) in his Atheneum guide
i dont see anything related to stamina in the codex in the kinetic deflection section
I remember it being in there before. not sure why it would be gone
maybe its no longer the case ?
run and gun would have been a good blessing on force sword
let you sprint while blocking
it's definitely still the case, very easy to see equipping one stamina curio and trying it out with the creature spawner mod
Fixed an issue where the amount of bonus Ordo Dockets and Experience gained from Curios would be incorrectly calculated if a player died and was later rescued during the mission.
huh
i guess that one guy a while back wasnt bullshitting
yeah it would get multiplied every time I guess
go figure
huh
#justfatsharkthings
why would that
bug the ordos
lol
what is their code fortress
such a weird interaction
The code must be beyond spaghetti
something about metabuffs not being reapplied to player ids properly in-game
Wibbly-wobly-timey-whimey-spghetting-infnitely-looping-code
With elements like Pinaple picture in TF2. That can't be removed or game will not run
So what stamina exactly does?
this was the old version with the formula for it. not sure why he removed it
I was looking for it. Thanks!
the old wisdom regarding it as I recall was adding stamina first was much more effective than block efficiency and then it eventually switched
i miss good old days of AFK tanking Demonhost as Psyker....
lol yeah, with the passive quelling not being interrupted/set back
When that thing was on - i was testing how much reapers/gunners and coomon shooters can you passively tank with KD when passive quelling balances it out
it should be 97% peril I think and not 90% but I imagine that formula is still the same. for the image.
in general it's still popular but it is a lesser picked one on psyker for sure compared to sniper
Sniper resists on Psyker and vet. Gunner + Sniper resists on Ogryn.
I pref gunner resist cuz you can atleast dodge snipers
I use both
With gunners you can just get instabeamed if youre not careful
Gunner Resist + Sniper Resist + Toughness Regeneration
1x sniper 2x gunner
And i use sniper res only beacuse of shit-netcode that tells you "nope you did not dodged sniper - kark you lol"
You always get hit before the smoke effect though?
More like after shot sound and animation. While being in cover a moment before the shot
i run just enough to not die at half hp to a sniper so I dont get destroyed when rezzed on a sniper shot
Though it's very unstable. Sometimes you can mess-up dodge timing and not get shot....
They are only stably dodgable in Meat grinder. In Missions - it depends on postion o stars more likely 🙂
Seems more like a personal thing tho, prob tied to region because i dont have that experience at all
UPDATE?????
Snipers do be wallhacking tho
latency + servers sometimes acting up
smite psyker are something else
How useful is emphatic evasion node?
if you crit a lot you can practically stand in firing line out in the open
I tried testing it in psykhanium. It decays really quickly
one of the best nodes in the tree if you crit a lot
yes well
its only 1 second
its suppose to happen as long as you have something to hit
So its best with fast crit weps I see
no update 
Voidstrike my beloved
like if you're using say a purg staff or columnus or something like that it's incredible
If you run crit gunker with the mk 5 colum, you are practically invincible to gunners
Ok guess imma consider using my points on it. Could be really useful for my gunker
Speaking of gunker, is it better I use laspistol or the semi auto Lasgun one?
laspistol
Is it cause of crits?
laspistol, columnus, and revolver are generally the popular ones but the others are definitely still viable/good now too
that and cause his psyker's mobility is already bad enough
Aight. Makes sense. Lasgun feels slow. But what about the rapid fire one?
the recon lasguns are ok I would definitely prefer the current laspistol over them though
but I use columnus for now on my gunker
Not worth it. Pistol will just feel better. I dont know if it has higher crit chance (Dont quote me)
Damn. Laspistol kind of hurts to use. My pointy finger goes clickin alot
carpal tunnel incarnate
you can consider getting the full auto mod on nexus
there is a mod for that if you don't mind that sort of thing
HMMMM
i dont like it though 
Imma see thanks!
I like the pure close range power of columnus I can't deny that laspistol is super strong and fun to zoom around with though. also style points for being the most lore appropriate gun for a psyker
and yeah the push can actually be useful
not sure offhand but the top range is 131 according to gameslantern. that should be for 100 I think
so probably something like 125
Should be fine tbh
it might affect other armor modifier too, not just raw damage
Crits hit like a truck anyway, so I doubt you'll miss major BPs
true, it does
That's Stopping Power (iirc)
but only for unarmored and infested

I would say it's a very good base, the difference will be tiny
Bricked
thats like a 0/4
Ill use it as a 100% off coupon at hadrons for the next time
cmon fatshark, let us dual wield a staff and laspistol like the models 
When using scriers gaze do you guys try quelling it too? Or nah?
I tried when I used it but eventually there’s too much to quell without getting kills
depends on the situation, but sometimes*
usually you just go ham and wait for the next scrier
Use it more for when you are getting in the thick of things and try to minimize the amount of peril you could use
Like using assail or charging your force sword
Well normally you want to use it with melee or guns, not staves or blitz
no, assail is bad idea to use with scrier
worth quelling if you're near peril-cap in the first 2-3 seconds, but i wouldn't keep doing it to try and maintain scriers, time spent quelling is a dps reduction that scriers won't offset
Laspistol + scrier is highest boss damage Psyker can acquire btw
as apposed to using smite, it's the better option to seeing lots of everything die
Should I change anything on this?
I was just thinking of using it as is until I can find Warp Nexus 4 fodder to eat and re-bless onto it
columnus isn't too far behind on the boss dps if you're hitting headshots. laspistol will beat it easily on a monstrosity in ammo efficiency though because of the burn and missing headshots
vraks 3 used to be better too I think but not sure if that caught a nerf
I'm just gonna keep using the revolver till I get a good laspistol that isn't immediately shitcanned
Is surge staff still bugged?
try out a columnus too, even a crappy one. they are both worth trying if that appeals to you
see which one you like more
a little but it's manageable
Can you elaborate
I do have one. Just the dps on the revolver for landing shots is too great
Yeah is that the headhunter with triple burst fire? Whats a good blessing on it for gunker?
if by bugged you mean still not really benefitting all the time from your surges perks because of the armor types then yeah that still seems to be the case post hotfix
Although, I am thinking I'm not getting as much value out of raking fire as much as a psyker
Fair, thanks
It still targets random body parts. So hitting the arms on a gunner can miss one shot breakpoints without +unarmored
deadly accurate and between the eyes I believe
Gotcha gotcha. Thanks!
Interesting, wasn't that supposed to be fixed?
It also used to do 50% damage when it hit mosst limbs, they fixed that
Ah so it still hits them but just does full damage, is how they fixed it
a weird side effect is the Surge does 2.5x damage to beast of nurgles
could also do headhunter for more dps but it kind of fights against true aim a bit. it still adds more crits but the crit strings devalue it a bit. ghost is probably an option too instead of between the eyes
So now the issue is that even though it does full damage to limbs it can potentially hit different armour types and thus get sub optimal damage based on what your perks might be
am i understanding it correctly?
yes
more accurately it ignores hit zone modifiers completely now. so like it doesn't get a damage penalty against monstrosities anymore
so it doesn't do bonus when it hits the head either?
it does do bonus damage to the head because that is determined by the weapons weak spot damage and not a hit zone modifier on the head
It also does full damage to scab captain's shield
not completely anyways, monstrosities for example do have a 0.8 modifier to ranged damage to head normally
that is funny, yeah makes sense.
we'll see what they do I guess. if their fix for the perk thing is to simply roll back the changes for now that'll be gone
Wait, what’s wrong with Surge? Why does it need fixing?
I forgot to test if fire frenzy is still 8m too. I'll check later I guess. Probably still is.
iirc it's still targeting random bodyparts, which is a problem because armor types will differ based on which body part ends up being targeted even though they fixed the previous issue with limb damage being random. so they fixed one part of it, but not the other.
Yeah still 8m. I just tested it shooting something at 14m and didn't get firefrenzy.
there are no undocumented changes
😡
Damn, I never noticed. I can see how that makes a big damage difference, hopefully FatShark figures it out
Basically with a nice rolled surge and +25% flak you could always 1 shot shotgunner.
Now it's up to RNG if you 1 shot it or not.
And you know shotgunners are kinda strong.
btw would any of you be interested if I posted some napkin math regarding surge + flurry vs surge + nexus and why I think the former is superior
on the void staff that is
relying on true aim for the crits is definitely good too, yeah. flurry is really nice. I was using a transfer + surge one for a bit there but haven't used void in a while now
I personally don't rely only on true aim
I fit 15% crit into what I'm using as well
anyway I'll type the shit up
I guess I would have had 10%
so likely missing the crit perk you have
well, 10% extra
I take the 5% crit node, the 5% crit aura, and have 5% crit on the staff for the numbers I'm about to list
I stopped using void for now purely because my buddy I play with most often is a plasma vet and shooting balls at empty air outside of chaff started to get tiresome
completely understandable, if my dedicated group is running another void or a plasma I generally end up bringing the surge.
yeah I love the staff, but we really were just doubling up at that point as you say
at least one of us was wasting their time a majority of the time and it was most often me outside of a horde
I like trama force’s stagger potential so I rock that if my homies got decent special clearing
Takes a while to line up good shockwaves tho considering to maximize damage they need to be in the middle of the circle
But there’s windup after u press the button so you’ll need to lead on some enemies
I rolled up a pretty good fire trauma staff the other day nearly by accident
build's p fun honestly
trauma is just one of those staves where you build up an instinctual range sense over time and can eventually accurately flick the circle without even really paying attention to it
Trauma is really bad and need buff. Especially blaze trauma.
Not if you master the F L I C K
lol hope this is satire

Dunno why I have a giraffe
so we got a hotfix, did surge staff break?
My understanding is Surge Staff still targets random limbs, now always does Body shot damage, but still targets the armor type of the randomly selected limb
Yeah surge is fine
purg needs big buffs, its UNUSABLE
Purg is worst staff currently imo (no meme)
now I'm just imagining it pushes you back instead and people using it as a movement tech to go fast through a level
"Dange. Dangle. Dangle. HELP!!"
-Some poor seer psyker
Fresh 30 Psykers reading this:

i can read the uwu and owo on that screen
I really just caught people in gen chat lackin' with this

Surge is probably my fav staff, its a mini brain burst
I'm pleasnatly surprised and diasspointed at same time. I was expecting them breaking something else by accident.
Surge is most boring to play
Critstrike is fun
But I don’t take with a plasma or bolter vet in group
I have veri low skills so I need auto aim like surge and smite. 
Being Lazy is best excuse 🙂
I'm using it all the time!

Smite is great. Maybe I have skill issue but it’s hard to aim surge in a mixed horde.
Apparently you need Your char to be a certain height
In such cases i just spay&pray with SUrge's LMB until sitaition beacomes more targetable.
Trauma doesn’t have these issues 😛
How similar is smite to surge staff?
They look and feel pretty much the same stagger
And DPS
are you high
Surge is highest single target dps
smite is lowest
and they serve opposite purposes
smite is mass stun
surge is single target damage
FE seems to think Smite needs more damage as that’s what EP grants it
Surge is single target damage with some CC against your target as a bonus
Rather than reduced peril gen
Smite is mass CC against many enemies with low damage
Replace the faster chaining with reduced Peril gen
-30% Peril Generated would be neat instead of +30% Faster Chaining
Valid the flick is pretty fun
tried assail...i miss smite now
On the topic of smite, remove LMB
Had to have a very heated conversation with baby sibling on the utility of RMB
i didnt know smite had a right click for the longest time :3
that’s my issue with it
LMB is just stronger RMB
Don’t ever use it
I’ll exclusively use LMB if there’s a single rager or crusher without a horde
Smite rmb is actually good to use
Otherwise 99% of the time it’s RMB
Psyker is gunning with added circuit maintenance
What is the difference between rmb vs lmb smite
Don’t you love cooling yourself down
Rmb can stun a large group of specials/elites much faster than holding lmb
a friend told me that you couldn't blow yourself up with Smite
“Single target” lmb smite vs crowd rmb smite
But lmb can keep going until you run out of peril
i proved him wrong >:)
Lemme try this stuff out
Psykers blowing up is all fun and games til everyone does it at the same time
Then it’s really awkward
That literally what warp battery does
Also I realized that seer calls his assail crystals "little ones"
It’s basically instant gratification vs. stunlocking.
I cant blow up with smite so jokes on my other siblings 
i can
Do you want to stunlock a group of crushers or quickly stun 6 ragers
Lmb for the former rmb for latter
... so can rmb
So?
So it is stupid to have exactly same talent
There is never a need to single target a stun outside of pushing a pox burster
EP Smite needs reduced Peril Gen though tbh
Yeah but I feel like lmb is a bit more peril efficient
i want infinite smite back
I want to believe™️
Plus, Warp Siphon applies to all Peril, not just the Blitz
EP also gives the +125% Damage.
They should make is deal 0 damage to stop people from trying to use it as a weapon
eh i say lmb and rmb smite are useful
But maybe -50% Peril Gen for EP Smite then
Stray bombers n such but yea nothin rmb emote couldn’t handle
125% of almost nothing is still almost mothing
Removing the damage would be a bad move tbh
You fool I’d try to make it work via kinetic flayer 
I agree
And remove LMB
Less peril, 0 damage. Better skill
CC with no damage is bad.
It's already bad
It’s the best CC in the game
So just reduce Peril Gen
It doesn’t need damage
It’s to put the bonerus on others
You have 3 people to deal damage
That’s why I purg
rate my banner, siblings
And the worst damage In the game, but people still spam it cuz they think it hurts enemies
😭
which one is each reject
My genuine reaction:
Healthbars not being default actively hurts new players tbh
People who spam it on 10 walkers = bad
10 ragers = good
I couldn't agree more
no corresponding lol
With the health bar comment
i want to think the veteran is the one in the back (head on hand) the ogryn is the one glaring at their desk, the zealot is the one writing, and the psyker is staring at the veteran like "are you signing my EXECUTION WARRANT"
I think I have one of their skulls on my belt
Naw, kill the ragers
Only use it on ragers to make space to DPD
DPS*
Still a nice banner
if you gave me a couple hours with photoshop i could make that into (shitty) reality 🤔

Smite is meant to CC a horde with specials and elites inside, as it allows your teammates to focus them
What Smite isn’t meant for, but capable of, is stunning entire hordes that would otherwise simply be chopped up with no issue
Having a hard time targeting a mauler because he’s wearing horde armor? Stun the entire group and pop his head open
But for the love of god stop stunning basic chaff hordes unless you’re being overrun
AND USE RMB
LMB DOESNT EXIST STOP USING IT
I agree with this entire post
i will keep using lmb
Perish
Acceptable
MOUTH BUTTONS
The only time I smite trash is if someone is being revived
Smiting a horde so your team can focus a monster is also based
But please stop smiting hordes simply to be doing something
Just kill them
It’s not rocket science
So... still no fix for psyker's surge staff and smite hitting weakspots?
Wrong, LMB is a great tool for for suppression and while moving up to new positions quickly while firing.
Nuh uh
I kinda think they should just leave it... it has enabled some builds
LMB and RMB both slow, but RMB spreads faster
Smite is great on all staff builds but trauma imo
The charge is negligible
LMB is nice to have when there’s a single crusher bulwark or rager
are you stoopid
But too many greenhorns use exclusively LMB
SMite kills hordes just fine
do i swap specialist to maniac
Illisi does too
duh
What the Hel am I looking at
Force Hammer?
why the fuck it is a hammer
Get crit chance
apologies in advance, gonna dump my wall of text about this
specialist to crit?
Crit is very nice imo
As you get a crit bonus with surge
And you FEEL it
It’s glorious
I take Maniac + Crit Chance whenever I can
Why use Flurry + Surge on Voidstrike?
In this target dummy simulation I'm working with, I'm using the following rules:
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We're ignoring "quell time" for the sake of simplicity, we're only talking about actual uptime here where we're charging/firing. Quelling all the way to zero still gives us enough time to fire off another shot with Warp Flurry, so it's not like we're losing that cast speed buff.
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We're always hitting the weakspot. (In an alternate case where we're hitting the body or anything other than the weakspot, nexus is more valuable damage wise considering the difference between a bodyshot and a crit is much greater than the difference between a weakspot hit and a weakspot crit.)
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We are ignoring True aim for the sake of simplicity, but this works out in the favor of Warp Nexus numerically in the simulation. (More on that later)
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We're using the same tree for each staff which will give us 10% crit chance, and each staff has 5% crit on it. (This could be seen as an advantage for Warp Nexus outside of this test, since it's otherwise feasible to maintain a 30% crit chance without having to use a perk slot for crit while also getting bonus damage to another armor/enemy type.)
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We're using the damage values for unarmoured, both staffs have 80% damage and 80% charge rate rolls.
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We're assuming Warp Flurry is constantly at 3 stacks, and Warp Nexus is constantly giving the full crit chance benefit.
So. First we start off by figuring out how to calculate damage over time. I chose an arbitrary length of "uptime" to test the staffs with, which is 100 seconds. Next, we figure out how many fully charged casts we can get off in that period of time. I'm pretty sure a Voidstrike staff with a charge rate roll of 80% takes 1.65 seconds to charge, and with fully stacked tier 4 Warp Flurry it's cut down to about 1.23 seconds. By dividing uptime by cast time, we get the total number of fully charged shots over 100 seconds. With fully stacked Warp Flurry, we get 81 shots per 100 seconds of uptime rounding down. With no Warp Flurry, we get 61 shots per 100 seconds of uptime rounding up.
Next, we throw crit into the mix and figure out damage. The staff I'm using for these numbers deals 1165 damage to an unarmoured target on a weakspot hit, and 1487 damage on a weakspot crit. We also get two hits when we crit. So total damage during uptime is calculated as follows: # hits * (1 - crit chance) * weakspot damage + # hits * crit chance * crit weakspot damage * 2. Crunching all this out puts Warp Nexus + Surge at 109,054 damage and Warp Flurry + Surge at 116,519 damage over 100 seconds of uptime. (I went ahead and calculated Warp Flurry + Warp Nexus this way as well and it came out to 103,381 damage)
So let's talk about how any of this can actually apply to field conditions. Firstly, It's obvious that the Flurry + Surge numbers are highly dependent on an individual player's ability to hit headshots. If you don't think you can do this somewhat consistently, especially under pressure, obviously it would be advantageous to run Warp Nexus instead of Flurry because the damage increase is from crits is much greater on non-weakspot hits. However, if you do feel comfortable with being able to hit weakspots consistently, Surge + Flurry is the superior choice (especially when we factor in True Aim) in my opinion.
True Aim is oviously great for any flavor of Void Staff you may choose to run, but I think it's important to note that the more you trigger True Aim crits, the less valuable crit chance as a stat becomes for your build since these crits are guaranteed. Hell, if circumstances were constantly ideal and you were always shooting down a level hallway at tons of enemies, you could forgo crit chance as a stat altogether. Alas, missions are not like that, and that's why I personally still invest into crit chance outside of Warp Nexus so it's still easy to maintain stacks of Mettle/Perfect timing when I don't have a multitude of heads to pop.
Lastly, I should also mention the inherent advantages of having a lower cast time. With Warp Flurry, your ability to react to threats quickly is increased, the likelihood of an attack interrupting your cast is decreased, and because you spend less time charging you actually build less peril per fully charged shot. Taking surge along with it means you also retain the ability to do wonky shit like oneshotting crushers.
TL,DR: Flurry + Surge is p fuckin good and fun imo.
there
insomnia go brrrrr
Flurry and Nexus is the meta as far as I’m aware
dude
already we all the starting assumptions...
it makles whole discussion pointless
too many assumptions that are simply not true
And biggest thing
Why is the first point weakspot damage and weakspot crit on surge
That you can keep Nexus up all the time if you just quell to 70%
Which normally can’t deal weakspot
They should buff or take another look at brain rupture
Catter
I'm aware. It was simply for the sake of simplifying the math
it is about Void staff
it simplifies it to the point of being wrong
not wrong
to the point of being IRRELEVANT
because with these assumptions you talk about different weapons basically
So nothing concluded from this math can be applied to actual Void
I’m so sorry
I agree but also disagree because I feel like BB could easily become overtuned
If nothing else, make it prioritize specialists and elites and ignore chaff
BB is my favorite ability
+150 hours with it
Admittedly not a lot but I like to think I understand it’s complexities
And where it belongs balance-wise
And after having just leveled a new Psyker for a new voice
Holy shit
New players do NOT understand BB
The problem is that why should i use it? If it's supposed to be vs carapace then Veteran for instance can already do it but better with krak nades. Krak nades are just BB's but actually kills what you use it on
unlike BB
BB has more range than Krak Nades
And stuns briefly
🤷♂️
Not limited by grenade amount either
But I do find myself racing against Krak Nades with BB, it’s an apt comparison
It happens ALOT
If it's dead it's irrelevant and nades aren't a problem for veteran anyway if you spec into regen nades and getting them from ammo
I exclusively play Psyker and I’m not familiar with Veteran Tree so I can’t comment
I just hear the Krak Beep and stop casting BB because I know it’ll be dead
Immediately swap targets if applicable
in terms of pure damage bb is the winner but obviously it needs a pal
It does already i am pretty sure
Or an aggressive weapon switch
how so?
Which Psyker wants to do that
True enough. I do go into how this would apply in actual missions, and why I think the way I do about flurry + surge. I think doing an actual raw damage output test would require much more complexity/effort, more than I'm willing to put in. I just know that both meta versions of the staff straight up feel worse than running those two blessings together. Main reason I qualify it all with "imo".
Doesn’t unfortunately, if a chaff is standing in front of a specialist or elite( like in a horde) it’ll target the chaff
BB can chian kill infinite amount of ragers and shotgunners/gunners like nothing else can
i would say BB only good on auric
Really?
below auric simply not enough elite density
Thankfully most specials and elites are taller, but some animations make them hunch over so it’s difficult to target them
look at the amount of elites killed
Also the amount of props you can see through but can’t BB through is annoying!!!
I run BB on Auric Damnation
It’s good
brain burst is cool, but i love the Assail Shards
You are TAINTED
lol
Only if you directly click on them, it is pretty easy overall to weave cursor along chaff to target elites/speciasl
But those die pretty easily anyway assuming the team is paying attention. My point is i think BB should do more damage, i don't think it's worth using presently
It rewards engaging from far away with advantage and hunkered but dedicated bb is slightly traumatic
it's similar to an ability of a character of mine that predates my knowledge of 40k so
RMB or LMB?
... wtf is that question
Not when we got other options that work more effectively
why would RMB in mixed horde situation
SHAME
actually
If you have troubles clicking in mixed hordes. rmb might be the way
keep charging it and jumping until you are certain you stick it to chosen target
All I’m saying is that I’ve had too many situations where I’m actively trying to target a big boy and BB says it would rather target a chaff, and I think that’s cringe and heretical
Well i did not
I cannot think of a single situation where you would WANT to use BB on a chaff
And when that does happen
it takes 0.25 of a second to change to the right target
before talents rework i did that all the time against shooters
Same
But I’m also permanently attached to a staff for suppression
So I don’t do it as much anymore
And 90% of the time I run BB I use EP and I can’t waste those stacks
I tested it on a Daemonhost today in public IV and got about 15 seconds of spinning
easily enough for a team to do it
It would be nice if flayer only procced on elites/specialists
Yeah
I forgo it because I waste it on chaff
Plus if you leave it, you can get Kinetic Deflection
Which is 👌
Oh for sure
What Blitz?
.........
BB Vent EP can’t reach Kinetic Deflection if you take flayer
I am not your baby, darling
There is blitz, aura and ult
Ult
mostly shield
For void? I prefer nexus and surge
of coruse
I agree, Shield is clutch
Just so useful
Sisters of Battle become moist in the nethers when there’s a Smite Bubble Psyker in the vicinity
Truly the heroes Atoma deserves
Hopefully the straight chad shield, not the noob bubble
I’m also addicted to the 30% faster Quell
No Flayer for me
Might reconsider if it’s changed though
Bubble fucks dude
rectangular shield is bad
Toughness Regen is baller
And it absolutely destroys beasts of nurgle
Can’t vomit while inside it
So can’t eat players
Yes
(They need to be covered in vomit to be swallowed for those unaware)
Bubble is definitely S+ tier
ye bubble op
It is not. You get two and they block pounces and muties
What would you rank creeping flames shriek?
Solid A
I’m a Creeper Flames Shriek enjoyer myself
Same
deez nuts

So tru mame
True shield is better
Only noobs use creeping flames pls uninstall.
I like it but I also prefer shield
I’ve clutched revives with it though
(I only use creeping flame)
scrier op
Scrier LAME
Gazer 
STINKY ASSAIL USER
I laugh at psykers using bubble on the waves of muties maelstrom.
Chad shield blocks them all
imagine using assail
Which of these staves would you use and which would you rip the blessing from (to put on the other)?
Only really bad paykers use it.
Assail has done irreparable damage to the community
But assail is fun
being stuck with 25% infested not great when u got the other staff tbh
Pff, i one shot them all with deimos
Don't need stinky verison of shield for that
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. I just got the left one
If assail is stinky, then I’m a huge stinker and I’m ok with that
i'd grab nexus off the right one and put it over run n gun on the left one
no
Yeah, and then add crit perk, right?
It doesn't deal half damage to limbs now tho
its ok u can still do ten gazillion barillion gorillion damage with a meme surge staff build
Used to be stun lmao haven’t played since beta
The minor inconsistency tears at my soul
Surge is great
Yeah but it does less damage on multi armour enemies.
When it hits arms.
Only if you have flak, and it hits the unarmored part
if i can hit 700k with scrier surge you can hit 1.5m with creeping flames surge, trust
I used to be able to 1 shot Dreg gunners
Now they’re left with a bit of health
At least trappers still get mulched
That’s good
Just not sure if I want to keep unyielding or the 10% elites damage
Elites
embrace the flak unarmoured meta....
Yeah and all of this is because of 'cosmetic change'. It used to always hit body
Depends on game length, I haven't hit a million yet and I play pretty efficiently
Cheers
It was better before no question
But it still slaps hard
lol FS letting the receptionist code their games
yeah but scoreboards dont matter so it's okay even if you don't hit 2 gorillion damage
I still use Surge because I’m nothing if not stubborn but please fix my child
He is sick
I've never gotten more than 100k damage I'm not that good and only play in sedition.
Only 100k damage?
Damage matters, but I have played games with people that were pretty weak on damage but they had excellent team play and game sense and it felt good
gotta embrace the scrier surge staff meta
Bro make the jump to Damnation
gaze it
It’s not hard

Sorry I prefer to chill and game.
It's true, selfish in war only spams smite to give the team CC

They play sedition to help noobs level
Heresy pubs are the true difficulty now
Legend has it they are actually John Warhammer, and they roll into sedition to hold all the enemies in place for noobs while gathering all the plasteel
I just got out of a match where we triggered a DH, had a zealot die (as in DIE) 4 times and we still made it
I've heard if selfish in war joins your sedition game, you always get a transcendent god roll from big E
True facts
Happened to a friend of a friend
hacker
Barrels are the worst enemies in sedition
Insta kill you
I’ve found Auric damn can be easier than standard due to the quality of player that queues for them
I was messing around with a deimos last night, and it's shameful I only found out recently they buffed the force push distance
Deimos force push into the heavy lunge is outrageously good at dealing with crushers and ragers
Illisi still makes sense on all staves but purg tho
It's a fine weapon, but it's not as if deimos can't slay horde just fine
I’d like to see a comparison
Illisi H1 into L1 horizontal chain is excellent, no argument there
But it is hard to discount being able to dominate rager and crusher packs
But how do you kill them when you get stuck in the suck
This though
The light chains are almost the same, except diemos gets a high damage stab too. With slaughterer you are killing 1-2 per swing, same as illisi
Leveling my new Psyker, I firmly believe the hardest difficulty in the game is Heresy
Block, swing swing, block
Same as always. When you are pushed in like that, you cant be charging heavies
Block push dodge, same old same old, it's not mechanically different thete
I think dueling sword may be higher now
Hmmmm
You can go directly into H2 from a block push
I just L1
Try block pushing a crusher into H2
You can juggle crusher and rager packs as the H2 floors both on a weakspot
The heavy stab btw not the light
Yes
Oooooo
Block, push, H2
I need to try that then
I’m so used to L1 H2 that any change will be good
Same tempo for Illisi
Lul me latest meme clutch got 1k views.
lol why would I want to melee a rager. (Blitzes and ranged weapons) go brrrrrr
Sometimes you got no choice, it's an important skill to have up your sleeve
If you can solo rager and crusher packs, you will survive more
Could you post video showing how
Ragers scare me so I avoid them on principle
BrainBlast from a distance
They smell
Like assail users
I suppose I could, fine if I just quickly stream it on twitch?
Uhhh I’m at work
I was just hoping for a 10 second clip

K why don't I link you my twitch account and you can check the clip there at your leisure
❤️
I'll do a small clip
Thank you for Your service
Rhinoxerous - Twitch https://m.twitch.tv/rhinoxerous
Let’s take a look
One sec about to record it
No rush
You can push crushers?
Deimos is incredible
Made it look easy
It’s my go to for crushers
Each damage tick from the warp imbue adds a stack of uncanny strike
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So if you hit it on the head you can almost OHK
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I am a Psyker I will use the warp weapons
That’s not meta that’s skill
A rare commodity
Now… how’s it against hoards 💀
Because hoards just surround me
And it’s death by a thousand cuts
(hordes)
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Hordes are ez pz
Block to stun them, light light light repeat
I’m brain dead
You can also block and dodge to slip through like a fishy
I’m still trying to get over not having infinite dodges
Not hoards
My muscle memory lingers
Unless you consider them hoards of xp
You use it exactly as you would an illisi, just light spam
XP is mission based
With slaughterer it reks hoards
Wait, people light spam the Illisi?
It works
Often
Yes
I do Heavy -> Light for awesome horizontals
Though H1L1 is the way to horde clear
We need power cycler
Not even, H1L1 turns it into a Dclaw style chain
I do block push special heavy
or h1l1 spam
L1 H2 is just horizontal sweeps
So is H1L1
but empowered h1 feels very satisfying so
or wouldn't be L3
Whatever it is
Heavy, light repeat
It's horizontal and great
But if you are surrounded and can't wind the heavy it's light spam, or if it's just a few guys in reach
Diemos light spam is one shots with damage spill over, so it kills horde pretty quickly
Not as fast, but it gets the job done
i'm suffering rn
I don’t know what it is about the Illisi but it just feels better than Deimos for me, even if it doesn’t have the fatass stab damage
Maybe because it’s got the crit = weakspot going for it
Poor Obscuris left in the dust
fire staff i should change terrifying to warp nexus right?
It walked so the other two could run
Yes
Also what the hell is that staff
Jamie can we get a zoom in
shovel
Enhance
Just dodge and light spam into horde and you are ok
The damage is nice
If you aren't dodging, you're dying
It's better now
Yes, but it's nice
It is
I thought purg was best on crit builds?
It has nice damage
T4 Perks and Ble-
krieg psyker needs a force shovel staff that shoots fire
I agree
I cri every time I see the main way people using the illisi being normal attacks
no idea how to use it
special and light or special and heavy
There are a lot of times there isn't opportunity to charge the special and charge a heavy swinf
I need to make a new test to get numbers to once again convince people to use the special
I mean just dodge
you don't have infinite dodges anymore but it's dodges
Sometimes I don’t have time to charge the special sweetie
dodge sideways and you won't have any problem while they're efficient
I must kill
the special activation isn't that slow
Special attack has an animation
It’s not slow, and it’s the only sword that doesn’t slow youre movement while doing it
is this a decent illisi
Depending on the density, uncharged heavy light will drop stuff faster than taking the time to charge
if you're dodging backwards, try not to do that against hordes of trash mobs
just dodge sideways if possible
I’d argue Deflector + Uncanny would be better
I don’t like slaughterer myself
spam that, and spam specials


