#psyker-class

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strange bone
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no but

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what does it do

stuck mica
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If shoot crit, shoot two crits (second bolt is fired like 0.1s after the first)

strange bone
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pepethink so the former

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ok

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interesting

bitter escarp
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it's a very powerful blessing and rare too

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grats on the luck

strange bone
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Combine with warp nexus = giga?

bitter escarp
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haven't rolled it yet lmao

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yeah

strange bone
bitter escarp
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you larp a broadside battlesuit basically

strange bone
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awesome

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wait do i surrender it to unlock it and then put it on this staff I have

spice wasp
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Oooo that looks like it would synergize well with the warp Nexus

strange bone
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Right well I already have this staff with warp nexus

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and it has some pretty good stats short of the charge time

sacred dome
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Dang, all the good rolls everyone seem to get except me 😂

strange bone
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Don't worry my RNG in other games is dead as f

stuck mica
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I'd probably upgrade the blue one above to see what you get, otherwise yeah swapping flurry for surge would be spicy

strange bone
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very nice

strange bone
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yeah that's what I figured

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but also the funny triple 80

zinc phoenix
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I’d upgrade the surge staff you rolled and put warp nexus on that until you roll something better tbh

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It’s not god tier but it’s certainly good enough for the vast majority of the game

bitter escarp
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it's pretty close to a godroll

strange bone
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I mean the more i play the more i feel like everything works in auric damnation provided you're not shit at the game

plucky flax
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Me after 1700 hours in game with maybe 3 truly 'godroll' weapons.

bitter escarp
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yeah if it's not outright shit it's workable

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buuut good weapons just make it much more of a power fantasy

zinc phoenix
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Most of my gear has really weird blessings but it doesn’t matter because I got them moves like jagger

plucky flax
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Pro gamer. Pogryn

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I'm noob so I need op gears to carry me ass.

sacred dome
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I go 100% reverse tactics

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Too lazy to move

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Rely on gear.

zinc phoenix
plucky flax
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It's 85% my gears. whatthefuck_heresy

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I just press random buttons.

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FartShart I beg you please give me blazing spirits t4 on trauma. nooooo

sacred dome
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I want horizontal trauma

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cone of push

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Double push

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F to push one

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rmb to push one

shrewd perch
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I have a question that isnt in the guide! ✋

For the penance 'Prioritise targets' you have to kill 200 elite or specialist enemies with BB. But after i switched to assail, the number still seems to be going up. Is that from a party member using BB? Or is there some strange situation where Assail can proc it too? Because it cant be every elite/special assail kill otherwise i would be going up much faster i think.

sacred dome
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Oh ye going for that one. BB goes brr

zinc phoenix
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I got a second sniper resist blessing on my curios recently and blessed thing has already saved me twice. Of course obesefish has already compensated for that by instructing the pogryn to yeet me off a ledge and having a teammate blast a barrel which blasted a nearby burster I was about to shove which sent me off another ledge

bitter escarp
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benny hill moment

quick tulip
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The Warp gives it's mightiest minds it's wackiest rides

zinc phoenix
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I also did an auric maelstrom yesterday where a stealth trapper snatched me as a I jumped off an area transition so I was downed but then the greatest veteran in the history of veterans maybe ever happened to have the voc res perk so he got me up from below the area transition and then I killed the trapper and hopped down. I have never felt so blessed

bitter escarp
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the one time voc res did good work

zinc phoenix
plucky flax
zinc phoenix
flint plover
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i wish there was a "sniper attract" perk on curios

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that way i could pretend i was at a rave in histg

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or sniper gauntlet, rather

strange bone
bitter escarp
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still pretty workable

silk vigil
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Hey, not bad tbh.

bitter escarp
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yeah swap sustained fire and a perk out and you're sorted

strange bone
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into the fire it goes

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I hope hadron finds it tasty

olive ember
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Every time I queue into maelstrom I end up wondering

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"how are these other guys playing maelstrom"

bitter pelican
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surge or wexus?

rare arrow
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Sustained fire to warp nexus for sure

rare arrow
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Up to you if you wan to replace flurry with surge

plucky flax
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Uh if you can't solo maelstrom don't queue it.

valid marsh
strange bone
rare arrow
# bitter pelican ye was thinking that

I’m not a big surge fan myself. Typically void kills everything anyways, so it’s only useful against a small list of enemies. Though, they are big enemies so it has merit

flint plover
strange bone
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it was doing funny numbers to it

flint plover
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hab dreyko investigation, still doing first servo skull, and for some reason we have 1 person on the other side of the hab and another on the third floor already

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i've never been so confused

bitter pelican
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feel like 5% on armour targets is more than 1% more crit chance

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me neither I just wanted to build one

olive ember
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I'm trash

static needle
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Is there any situation where a chainsword might be a good pick for psyker compared to duelling sword?

silk hawk
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which one? HM?

static needle
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neither

vocal cliff
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Right

static needle
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the colors dont match at all

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if i had to pick, left

silk hawk
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idk i feel like golden mask fits general coloring

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black is more neutral obviously

static needle
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i mean sure

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but the white fabric is kinda outta place

silk hawk
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a bit yes, but it also covered in golden carvings too

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may be if i will find white-ish pants later on

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i can balance it out

long wharf
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I bought that

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because it matches very well with the white and gold recolor of the psyker penance set

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the snow outfit is too pure white, doesn't match with that fabric

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Fashiontide is the real end-game

rich jolt
long wharf
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yep

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WH40K has always been about spending money on your hobby

gloomy magnet
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siblings, some new unit dropped

long wharf
rich jolt
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Btw how do you get your eyes black like that?

rich jolt
silk hawk
long wharf
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am I mistaken or is that Wolfer?

rich jolt
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Not wolfer

gloomy magnet
rich jolt
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Okaythumbsup_ogryn

long wharf
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it looks weird

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only one leg

bleak tulip
long wharf
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hard to tell where the left arm/hand is

rich jolt
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They seem to have the same helmet as the flak shooters

silk hawk
long wharf
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maybe an upgraded Rinda?

rich jolt
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Could be a new enemy typepogryn

long wharf
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no game update

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which means the enemy was already in the files last patch

silk hawk
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more like maulers alternative for existing ones

rich jolt
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It's probably something theyre working on

bleak tulip
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this tweet is 18 minutes old and a teaser

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chill bro lmao

long wharf
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or yeah, it's not actually out yet

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goddamn, I am thirsty for new content

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shove it into my face already FartShack

silk hawk
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fk it i am gona buy that helmet...

rich jolt
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I think the idea of a watered down in terms of strength rinda as an elite would be kickass

gloomy magnet
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new update = i will repatch mods again

rich jolt
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New update = new jank to worry about

rich jolt
bleak tulip
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why the fuck do people keep thinking we're gonna get cosmetics that make you look like a fuckin enemy lmao

rich jolt
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Because they are clearly heretics

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The inquisition will deal with them in due time

long wharf
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I mean... there have been a few times when I've spun around and shot at a friendly veteran and ogryn

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because in the heat of battle their outline matches an enemy outline

bleak tulip
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also if I had to guess this might be a mission modifier where a captain spawns as a boss randomly or something since this just looks like a renegade captain

long wharf
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a mission modifier for a random spawn captain would be interesting

bleak tulip
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I mean they already did it for the karnaks

long wharf
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it was fun when the twins were randomly spawning

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yeah

rich jolt
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People were asking for the twins to stay

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Also it says "on the prowl" so whatever it is its not waiting for us to come to it

long wharf
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that wording got me moist, ngl

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premature excitement, happens to us all from time to time

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also, I am very guilty of buying Darktide cosmetics

long wharf
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I am FartShack's target whale

signal summit
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Hello siblings, would anyone be willing to help a fellow psyker to get the Malleus Monstronum Penance? Don't know if I'm at the right place to ask..

bleak tulip
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generally better to ask in lfg

long wharf
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your best bet is going to be the LFG channels

signal summit
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Ah yes, already set a request out there. I'll just wait patiently then

long wharf
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typically between 5pm and 10pm EST

signal summit
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Apologies for the interruption!

bleak tulip
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its not against the rules or anything but its less likely youll find someone here

long wharf
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that's when the majority of the community is active

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you can also jump into the other chats asking for help in exchange for helping them with their private-only penances

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it's best to have a group that understands that the goal is penances, not killing/completions

plucky flax
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Good luck me fren.

zealous pewter
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Hey does the MK IV force sword have a Vanguard attack for its secondary? The gameslantern site says it does but in the YT video i'm watching it doesn't appear to

bleak tulip
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the fuck even is a secondary action

long wharf
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check in-game

spice veldt
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I'm not sure what you mean by vanguard, but the mk4 has a stab as it's 2nd heavy

bleak tulip
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gameslantern is weird

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sometimes

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imma assume "secondary" to them means heavy

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and no its more of a stabby heavy

queen fog
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ill is more sweep/vanguardy

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deimos very stabby

long wharf
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deimos is for stabbing, illisi is for slashing

shut shoal
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From other lads perspective is purgatus spam blinding? Been a long time since i've seen another psyker using one.

harsh urchin
long wharf
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it can be a full-screen fire effect

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it's not a big deal if your team is pinging religiously

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if not, well, then it can be a problem

harsh urchin
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main reason you haven't seen too many is probably because it's not that strong

shut shoal
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cool, finally bothered to get a good one a build around it. Don't wanna be screwing other peoples games with it though.

long wharf
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play what you want

bleak tulip
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people overreact tbh

shut shoal
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the perfect teal hue for flame

bleak tulip
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nobody's bitching about zealot flamer and its basically the same shit

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its just not as bright

shut shoal
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tyty

plucky flax
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Because you use purgatus the whole map.

bleak tulip
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and yeah if it bothers someone so much they can mod that shit out

plucky flax
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Flamer only during big mixed horde.

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Blue fire is more blinding than orange fire to me also. staregryn

bleak tulip
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skill issue

harsh urchin
plucky flax
harsh urchin
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flamer is quite a bit stronger though

plucky flax
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I'm sowwy.

bleak tulip
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get stronger eyes

long wharf
harsh urchin
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due to chastise existing

long wharf
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that's Bomber propaganda

plucky flax
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Getting old. Eyes are getting worse.

long wharf
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just get new ones, ezpz

bleak tulip
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but yeah theres already enough shit that makes you lack information yet people still dont ping enough

plucky flax
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I'll go to the local tech priest and ask for a new set of eyes. Cheers.

long wharf
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don't say "eyes"

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say "peepers"

plucky flax
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D:

long wharf
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they're also old

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or even "looker-througher-thingies"

zealous pewter
long wharf
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people still use it

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it is fun to blast the flame out, after all

zealous pewter
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for RP reasons?

spice veldt
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uh oh, a bad flamer take in psyker chat

harsh urchin
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the flamer is really good lol

rich jolt
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I use it. It definitely needs buffed

harsh urchin
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terrible flamer takes lul

zealous pewter
rich jolt
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^

zealous pewter
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let's do a side by side vs the columnus V

harsh urchin
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wdym compared to what? it's just a strong weapon

spice veldt
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it does its job as an infinite cleave weapon

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what more can you ask

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why are you comparing it to a single-target weapon

long wharf
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flamer used to be even better than it is now

bleak tulip
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oh no its this conversation again

spice veldt
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what in the world

long wharf
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it's still fun to sling napalm

spice veldt
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have you considered that two weapons can fulfill different roles

long wharf
spice veldt
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and that single-target damage is not the be-all and end-all, especially when you can supplement it elsewhere

rich jolt
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Its slow and extremely clunky and its damage output without blessings is okay at best

zealous pewter
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right but the flamer's role is bad

plucky flax
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I'll take flamer buff.

zealous pewter
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and it's bad at it

harsh urchin
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wdym lol

spice veldt
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it's role isn't bad, and neither is it bad at it

plucky flax
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As a knife + flamer main.

bleak tulip
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flamer bad lets buff it Smiledog

harsh urchin
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flamer completely destroys mixed hordes

spice veldt
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alright, what is its role, and how is it bad at it?

harsh urchin
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which IMO are some of the biggest threats in the game

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trash hordes are like whatever

spice veldt
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it takes time for it to ramp up, but it's got infinite cleave and will equally spread burn and deal damage to everything in its cone

rich jolt
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I just want a slight handling speed buff and itd be fine

spice veldt
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and compared to purgatus, zealot has Chastise

harsh urchin
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my issue with the flamer

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is that it's annoying as fuck to pub with

long wharf
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Okay, everyone look at the kitty and simmer your tits

bleak tulip
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bad psyker chat take acquired

long wharf
harsh urchin
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if you get teammates that can't kill snipers/bombers/etc

bleak tulip
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fox 2

plucky flax
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Why? I win every game I'm on flamer.

harsh urchin
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but it's a super good weapon

plucky flax
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I play with throwing knives.

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Snipe dem specials.

spice veldt
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i can feel my braincells eroding each time i use purg/flamer so bad weapon

long wharf
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I don't like using purge because it doesn't feel good to use

rich jolt
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Its probably not a good or responsible idea but i run flamer with flame nades for double firewhatthefuck_heresy

long wharf
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there's nothing visceral about it

long wharf
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there are no blessings that chance how purge is used

rich jolt
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There are blessings that make it much much better

long wharf
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I didn't say it doesn't kill

plucky flax
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Flamer is good for zealot. Purga bad for psyker. whatthefuck_heresy

long wharf
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I said it doesn't feel good to use

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I don't find it fun nor engaging

bleak tulip
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guys void it bad it doesnt even set enemies on fire without a blessing

rich jolt
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I meant to use mainly. Without chained secondary charge its very sluggish

bleak tulip
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buff fire void

plucky flax
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Void is okay a bit too hard to play.

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I only play auto aim staff like surge.

long wharf
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give void infinite cleave please

bleak tulip
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yeah I am consistently at 300 apm thats why I dont play so much sadcat

shut shoal
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was not aware this question would start such a heated debate

rich jolt
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Revert assail nerfs and nerf bbthumbsup_ogryn

hearty dagger
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Day...I don't even know anymore of upgrading Illisis so i can get bloodthirsty

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Still no Bloodthirsty

plucky flax
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It's one of the rarer blessing.

long wharf
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bloodthirsty is only good for memes now

plucky flax
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Along with surge on void.

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Or power cycler 4 on power sword.

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That shit is rare af.

long wharf
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I don't even use my god rolled power sword anymore

hearty dagger
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Funny thing is, i rolled a Voidstrike with WN and Surge.

shut shoal
long wharf
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charging it every three swings isn't fun

hearty dagger
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I haven't even gotten one Illisi with Bloodthirsty

long wharf
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void's charge time makes it need more cleaving

bleak tulip
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mfers still havent realized you can use the staff without full charging

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its been over a year

hearty dagger
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I ran voidstrike for ages before it got overbuffed at which point i became a flame staff psyker.

shut shoal
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surge on the otherhand is just autoclick with an occasional F to win

hearty dagger
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I refuse to run the meta.

plucky flax
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Based surge enjoyer.

long wharf
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oh, speaking of which

shut shoal
long wharf
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@harsh urchin I am formally declaring you correct in our prior disagreement about how to build a surge staff

bleak tulip
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they should bring back the infinite surge cancel 😔

plucky flax
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What's the build?

bleak tulip
plucky flax
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Maybe my surge staff is trash.

long wharf
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what is that nonsense

plucky flax
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25% flak 25% maniac.

bleak tulip
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you dont remember that?

long wharf
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nope

plucky flax
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It's called skills.

bleak tulip
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yeah

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thems the days

shut shoal
# bleak tulip

dear god i get enough audio glitches with that staff as is

bleak tulip
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this was back when surge actually didnt do damage too so that was fun

shut shoal
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speaking, anybody else get a weird triple tick sound crap with surge regularly?

harsh urchin
spice veldt
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ohhhh the surge cancelling

harsh urchin
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i cant even remember

spice veldt
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the good ol' days

long wharf
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crit chance vs +elite perks

bleak tulip
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not only the cancel but the fact it doesnt peril your balls

spice veldt
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can't believe they took this away from us 😔

tacit sorrel
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Did peril work differently back then, because the continued spam at 100% peril is what I find questionable.

harsh urchin
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oh yeah, crit chance is like super not worth except on a few specific builds/weapons

plucky flax
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Just queue up a game with purga cos I'm lazy and want to put minimal effort. nooooo

spice veldt
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it's the same, but there was a bug where cancelling the surge cast with sprint avoided the suicide animation

long wharf
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if you want minimal effort, you run assail

plucky flax
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It's the worst staff but the chillest to play.

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Even easier than surge.

fickle swallow
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Surge is just so comfy to play. For quite some time I play purgatus & void only and I didn't get into surge build until recently, and I find it to be the psyker playstyle with the best QoL. I can finally lay back and relax when playing psyker instead of being in a spin and panic all the time.

long wharf
lunar hollow
olive ember
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Doesn’t avoiding the suicide animation just mean you instant blow up

bleak tulip
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now it does generally eah

spice veldt
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you neither entered the suicide animation or blew up

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you could just continue spamming it with sprint cancelling

bleak tulip
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fun fact, if you ledge yourself with a headache you just fucking die

spice veldt
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so sad

olive ember
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Oh wait

bleak tulip
long wharf
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"era" = 1.5 months

summer prairie
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We had a few days or a week of bleed stacking itself and shriek making all targets bleed if you had it on your knife

shut shoal
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the fact that i can top entire missions knowingly using a suboptimal build with surge feels a bit wack

summer prairie
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still didn't feel as good as the current shriek

bleak tulip
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I remember when ogryn bleed triggered the instant kill

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🥲

long wharf
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or when the blessings that can insta-kill humans could insta-kill anything in the game that wasn't a boss

bleak tulip
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and yeah bleed self stacking was funny

spice veldt
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including your own teammates

bleak tulip
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yeah

spice veldt
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bleed knife players truly were OP

long wharf
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just further proof of how not-ready-for-release the game was on release

shut shoal
long wharf
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oh, it was

summer prairie
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infernus also didn't have a stack cap other than the general 31, so you could run infernus recon + bleed self stacking shriek

long wharf
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I said "further" proof, not "only"

shut shoal
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still want 100% on my weapons, 80% feels so euuuugh

long wharf
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yeah, infernus recon at release was nuts

limber silo
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I still enjoy me a little infernus on my lasguns

long wharf
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it's memey at this point

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fire stack damage has been nerfed a few times

limber silo
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Not on laspistol imo

olive ember
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I miss when recon las was good smh

limber silo
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makes it so dum dum is always stacked

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but damage wise it's pathetic

long wharf
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and then there was bolter's pinning fire that was nuts

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then shredder pistol's pinning fire

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then they attempted to fix weapon blessings being active when not the active weapon

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but the revolver fell through

limber silo
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I do miss the days of reaching ridiculous amounts of power with some blessings

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Someone would always argue that UP was op on FS, but slaughterer gave 75% power vs it's 20%

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Now I just use both on my gunker build so now my illisi is nuts with SG active

junior linden
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I swear to god I keep accidentally falling into meta builds

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"oh autogun seems fun"

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Then I get called a sweat iT HURTS

tight moss
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I mean let am call you a sweat

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Do what you want homie

junior linden
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Thank you

tight moss
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Don't let nerds constrain you

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Beat them up and stuff them in lockers instead

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🤓

junior linden
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Scrier's Gaze makes me feel like I'm on the emperor's own adderall

tight moss
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Smoking some of the warp dosh

long wharf
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the emperor's special warp stash

idle bay
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Warp Dust you mean?

long wharf
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that Chaos Ganja

idle bay
rare arrow
long wharf
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it certainly works with gunpsyker

limber silo
junior linden
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Yeah, columnus is broken

idle bay
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Even poorly rolled like this will do?

limber silo
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that's not a bad roll tbh

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but the perks aren't that important on it

junior linden
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More than fine

olive ember
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Today I learned there’s invisible fire

onyx sentinel
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looks sick

junior linden
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The traitor captains look really cool up close like this, never really got a good look at them in game

granite mauve
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i think the helmet is new

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didn't use to go this hard

onyx sentinel
willow hazel
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Anyone else like Speedload on their Columnus?

granite mauve
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i think they're teasing that we'll get to have a random chance to get a scab captain in the middle of the mission

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much like we got 1 of the twins at random

onyx sentinel
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That’d be pretty cool

junior linden
# olive ember Today I learned there’s invisible fire

This was an issue at NASA at one point, to deal with the invisible fires they were having, they'd carry around wooden brooms and stick them out in front of them, if it burst into flames, they found the fire and they knew they probably shouldn't walk any more forward and call their supervisors

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I'm serious

junior linden
static needle
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Bricked?

long wharf
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sadly

static needle
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This one is a definate invest tho, right?

long wharf
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definitely

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you want hand-cannon and surgical on the Zarona revolver

static needle
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is surgical 4 really that important?

long wharf
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depends if you already have it or not

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that revolver is still good

static needle
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how about perks? cara and unyielding?

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are those BiS?

long wharf
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I'd replace unyielding

static needle
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with?

long wharf
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flak or maniac

static needle
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why tho? you want to hit weakspots with this thing no matter

olive ember
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psure maniac and flak both give breakpoints

long wharf
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right, but do you always?

static needle
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i got this too

long wharf
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with that revolver, you have a flex perk to play with

cerulean fox
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is chaining BB on bosses the highest DPS?

long wharf
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no

static needle
cerulean fox
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ah, not running sciers or autogun...

static needle
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well when it comes to staves

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im not sure tbh

cerulean fox
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i think i've seen that purg staff does good dps at high stacks but then you switch out

static needle
#

i just know autoguns + scriers melts bosses

zinc phoenix
#

Too bad we can’t use trauma and depression to kill bosses with psychic damage 😢

harsh urchin
#

Flak gives crit body and non crit head

#

Maniac gives a crit head

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Or the other way around idr

cerulean fox
#

I've been having a lot of fun with this, but not sure how to roll it

#

spamming special attack over and over with a high peril build

#

blazing spirit is kinda meh since it usually just kills things outright

harsh urchin
#

Do you need to kill crushers

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Yes = uncanny, no=slaught

cerulean fox
#

I thought I saw somewhere that rending gives a reduced bonus +damage to all enemies - is that true?

harsh urchin
#

It only works on armor and non trash yes

cerulean fox
#

ok, found the patch notes. anything that isn't naked/rotting. thanks!

rare arrow
#

Could also do uncanny strike and deflector if you want a more defensive option

harsh urchin
#

he wants to use bloodthirsty

rare arrow
#

Ah I didn’t scroll up enough to see that

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Admittedly I’ve never used bloodthirsty. So is the rotation for this special into H2, or just special H1 spam.

limber silo
rare arrow
#

It doesn’t seem good

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As they mentioned, it already kills I’m one hit

long wharf
#

it used to be the best blessing for the force sword

rare arrow
#

So guaranteed crit on the second hit seems meh.

harsh urchin
#

it's not bad

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for clearing mixed hordes

#

with ragers/etc

long wharf
#

used to be 5 seconds of guaranteed crits on special kill

rare arrow
#

But doesn’t everything in the psykers kit do that?

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Smite and assail, void strike, train, purg (except carapace), etc

#

Having a melee weapon that does the same thing seems, idk like it narrows the build

limber silo
rare arrow
#

I’d prefer deflector so you at least have it as a defensive option for non-shield builds.

limber silo
long wharf
#

it's a very rare t4 blessing

limber silo
#

Learn how to use cover and you can go without it

harsh urchin
#

not really because having more options simply... gives you more options lol

#

for example, if you used revolver shots to clear out ragers

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and now you don't have a shot for a special

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vs if your melee weapon just clears everything

rare arrow
#

We are the Swiss Army knife of classes

limber silo
long wharf
#

I run slaughterer+deflector on my force swords

rare arrow
#

If bloodthirsty was out here adding mutie/crusher one shots then we are talking

limber silo
#

Just don't stand in a firing lane

harsh urchin
#

mutants and crushers aren't super threatening tbh

limber silo
#

Slaught + UP/Uncanny/Riposte/Precog

zinc phoenix
limber silo
#

there are so many good blessings on FS that Deflector is kinda in a weird place for me

harsh urchin
#

yep

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that's the main issue

#

you're giving up

#

a good blessing

rare arrow
#

I don’t use slaughterer either, but I also don’t use force swords

zinc phoenix
#

Deflector is a good blessing 🧠

limber silo
#

If those blessings weren't good (like they used to be) then Deflector would be BIS

limber silo
rare arrow
#

Deflector is absolutely fine, it’s just less damage for more survivability.

#

More damage is not strictly better

#

It’s just a different avenue

limber silo
#

I stray away from choices that can be remedied by playing better

harsh urchin
#

right but more damage is always better if you can simply deal with it lol

limber silo
#

Also, the ranged invincibility on crit completely nullifies Deflect

flint plover
#

the kind of things people say to subtly say "im better than you"

harsh urchin
#

it's not really that

limber silo
#

How will I get better if I lean on things that I don't need?

harsh urchin
#

it's just that due to the existence of classes without deflector

rare arrow
harsh urchin
#

darktide gives you options to dodge ranged

#

that work on every class

#

via ogryn, zealot, vet, etc

flint plover
harsh urchin
#

and it's a pretty big opportunity cost

#

to sac a blessing for deflector

limber silo
#

Kinetic Deflection however... I can't live without that

harsh urchin
#

especially since the blessings are so good

rare arrow
#

I just don’t entertain the “play better” arguement

rare arrow
long wharf
#

honestly, kinetic deflection needs to be something all force swords do when the player blocks with one

limber silo
#

I'm not an idiot who gets rid of all survivability because I just need to "play better"

west fox
#

is this good or trash? Idk how valuable cleave is on this weapon, as it's all strikedowns

harsh urchin
#

yep

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it's all a trade-off

#

for example, I also take KD on all my builds

#

because it's too good defensively

#

but saccing a blessing on a FS

#

is very hard for me

limber silo
#

I tank up as much as needed then I ask "what do I not need?" and usually the answer is stuff like Deflector, Momentum, etc.

harsh urchin
#

because each blessing is like 30% more damage

#

30-40% more damage

limber silo
harsh urchin
#

so giving up that for a defensive blessing is a very tough choice

west fox
#

idk. I barely play this class

#

that's why am asking

harsh urchin
spice veldt
#

cleave basically doesn't matter

limber silo
#

Decap + Bromentum is kinda crazy

harsh urchin
#

decap kinda sucks unfortunately

west fox
#

So I buy this then

harsh urchin
#

cuz it only works on trash

#

and doesn't help you against the targets you really need the power against

west fox
#

hmm

limber silo
#

120% fineese is kinda nuts

harsh urchin
#

no bcz i think it already one-shots everything you hit

#

in the head

#

and you have BM

limber silo
west fox
#

I won't get it then

#

thanks Dis

limber silo
#

wouldn't doing more damage increase the cleave cap?

harsh urchin
#

we're ignoring it in favor of BM

spice veldt
#

and the damage falloff of the 5th target being hit

limber silo
#

Idk, last time I tried to use a combat axe it didn't seem to be as op as pre rework

teal needle
#

Yeah I'm struggling to think of illisi blessings besides slaughterer that i actually care about

spice veldt
#

it's less safe now but does more DPS, particularly against bruisers (assuming you can hit the one-shot on them)

limber silo
#

Then again, I hate combat axes

teal needle
#

Like i wouldn't judge anyone at all for running deflector on illisi you aren't giving that much up

limber silo
#

Where are my two handed axes? Where cog axe on Skitarii (where Skitarii?!?!)

harsh urchin
#

not trying to be mean or anything but that's very surprising

#

because FS probably has the best blessings out of any melee in the game

ornate hamlet
#

The strikes that are most likely to lack canny

harsh urchin
#

uncanny, slaught are extremely good

#

precog, bloodthirsty, unstable are quite good

zinc phoenix
#

Idk I do most of my in close killing with blaze trauma so giving up melee damage for good survivability is easy trade

#

Me jumpin around like a jelly bean on auric mael makin the boom booms 😂

#

Maybe people who roleplay as blunts care more about the sword

limber silo
#

My blessings for Deimos are Uncanny + Deflector, but Illisi is Slaughterer + UP

limber silo
zinc phoenix
#

I like trauma + deimos and surge + illsi as my staff sword combos. If I were gonna do a col IAG with gaze I might go ds4 for the poke of doom tho

#

But… glowy sword 🤔

limber silo
#

My blessings for [REDACTED] is there a third FS?

teal needle
#

Yeah, you just need slaughterer to 1-shot into crowds of everything short of elites, i usually whip out staff for elites. Or assail/bb

zinc phoenix
#

Oscurus the OG

#

It’s too bad oscurus is bad, I miss using mine 😢

limber silo
#

Illisi with Slaught+UP and SG active is just chewing through hordes

zinc phoenix
limber silo
#

Plus I use it with my gunker build

teal needle
#

Trauma may be the worst killing staff except for surge but it's super easy to get kill steak callouts with it lol

zinc phoenix
#

Find poxwalker horde -> two shot all of it -> endless callouts

limber silo
#

I only seem to get the callouts on Trauma when I'm in a hallway

#

otherwise enemies are too spread out from throwing them everywhere

zinc phoenix
#

You have to give them a sec to regroup

#

Trauma is not a spam staff

limber silo
#

I like trauma, don't get me wrong

#

I just don't have BS on it

zinc phoenix
#

Oh I have a pretty wicked one

#

Anyway lighting everything on fire and then screeching more fire on them is a lot of fire

teal needle
#

I usually pair dueling sword with trauma staff, extremes in opposite directions

limber silo
#

I do chainsword and trauma

#

Generalist staff with generalist melee

teal needle
#

And drop shield with that combo because doorways into gunner rooms suck otherwise

zinc phoenix
#

Just do deflector Deimos and shriek

#

You can walk into room, ree, refuse to explain, walk out

limber silo
#

CS + Trauma
Duel + Purge
Illisi + Void
Illisi/Duel + Guns
I don't use Surge because it's yucky

zinc phoenix
#

Surge is based, stacks peril like a monster and snapshots specials real nice

#

Also all the crits

teal needle
#

I just can't deal with surge, it feels like VS just does the same thing about as well and then does a bunch more

limber silo
#

No unique blessings at all smh

zinc phoenix
#

🤷‍♀️ I only surge when I’m doin smite fire madness

#

And for that it is great

limber silo
#

So... you use Surge when you have something else to carry it? At that point it's a glorified peril stick

#

I use Smite + Shriek for mixed hordes and that's about it. It's so boring

hasty breach
#

just checking. IS THERE a lacerate tier 4 on dagger?

limber silo
hasty breach
#

i was worried it was like burning spirit

harsh urchin
#

just fyi

limber silo
#

So far the only blessing I've seen that doesn't have a T4 variant (if it has variants to begin with) was Blaze Away on Kickback

harsh urchin
#

lots don't.

limber silo
#

for some reason BA only goes to T3 on Kickback specifically

harsh urchin
#

run n gun, blaze, flechette, manstopper, focused channeling

hasty breach
limber silo
#

Let me clarify: Some blessings don't have multiple tiers at all. BA on kickback DOES, but not T4

limber silo
harsh urchin
#

there's also a few that're 4 only, like bloodthirsty, surge, old powersword

limber silo
#

BA on other weapons: T1 - T4 exist. BA on kickback: T1 - T3

harsh urchin
#

uh no

#

i'm pretty sure BA stops at 3 for all weapons lol

limber silo
#

am I insane?

#

lemme check again

flint plover
#

Does anyone know of a bug where the surge staff visual effect looks bad?

#

I'm getting this out of nowhere

analog agate
#

Still trying to find out which one is better as blaze trauma. Just got the high dmg one (has to be after 30 million overall). @plucky flax have you found a difference between 80% dmg or much lower dmg in your play time?

teal needle
#

Surge staff audio sounds like a computer locking up and always stresses me out

harsh urchin
#

on all weapons

limber silo
#

okay, so I am insane, I have been farming stubbers for months and getting mad for no reason at all

#

dammit

peak kelp
#

what are good perks to put on flame staff

ornate hamlet
#

He fell for the BA4 meme

plucky flax
#

To 1 shot dreg bruiser without any buff.

#

With low damage like that to get 1 shot dreg bruiser you would need very high peril, or at least 2 warp charges.

#

It's a significant breakpoint imo for blaze trauma. As you still want to kill everything inside your epicentre.

strong gulch
#

Yes look at that left blaze trauma.

limber silo
plucky flax
#

It's nearly as good as mine. Pogryn

analog agate
#

🙂

limber silo
#

I've seen people say Nexus/Flurry + RnG but that's just weird imo

strong gulch
#

The only time to stray away from those is if you are trying to do something really specific or meme.

static needle
limber silo
# static needle ??

It's not like the bleed serves any purpose on psyker other than proccing mercy killer

static needle
limber silo
#

exactly

#

why use lacerate at all then?

static needle
#

i dont really see the point of running flesh tearer tho

#

most of the time you apply bleed faster with lacerate

#

and it helps with hordes too, no?

spice veldt
#

lacerate = not hitting heads

limber silo
spice veldt
#

and given that the knife is a finesse weapon

#

what you gain in bleed with lacerate, you lose in damage from not hitting heads

limber silo
#

Acrotash and Dis are right lacerate sucks

static needle
#

cant it help with hordes tho?

limber silo
#

Bleed makes sense on ogryn and zealot

zinc phoenix
#

Lacerate is great

#

At sucking

limber silo
spice veldt
#

hordeclear is a foregone conclusion on knives so i don't bother with it

willow hazel
#

it's not actively bad

#

just passively bad

limber silo
#

If you want hore clear on your melee, take a horde clear melee dude

zinc phoenix
#

If you want to meme infinity dodge just go ds5 and look classy doin it

limber silo
#

I guess the new knife is okay-ish at horde clear, but requires lots of screen sweeping and can be solved on other classes better

lost cove
#

How viable is just using smite for the entire mission?

zinc phoenix
limber silo
#

Garbage idea, have fun having everyone else hate you for it

zinc phoenix
#

You don’t smite forever, you smite for a four count and then everything else falls over

limber silo
#

Smite is a tool

#

not a weapon

#

use your weapons

lost cove
#

Thats the point

zinc phoenix
#

Smiting a horde and then screeching it to death with fire is funny tho

lost cove
#

I have no weapons

limber silo
lost cove
#

I spent all my ordo dockets on swords

zinc phoenix
#

Ok well be a troll then

limber silo
#

Play on lower difficulties to get some moneys then buy some weapons

lost cove
#

Is it truly not viable to just crowd control for the entire session?

limber silo
#

tbh tho, you don't need god rolls to do damnation

limber silo
#

you are effectively neutering your team by 25%

#

don't be an ass. If you REALLY want to go weaponless, just do empowered psionics assail

willow hazel
#

actually lacerate may be the best blessing for stealing bleed damage

lost cove
#

What about empowered psionics smite

limber silo
#

it's not as good as before, but it's still a better idea

limber silo
lost cove
#

Ehh, i'll try it

limber silo
#

don't

#

for real

#

it's a bad idea

lost cove
#

Why so

limber silo
#

just use your shitty weapons

#

it'll be more effective

harsh urchin
#

he's prob just playing on like malice or something

limber silo
harsh urchin
#

it'll be fine lol

lost cove
#

Isnt all you have to do is drop a shield and then shock things

#

Been working for me

willow hazel
#

EP Smite builds are good, just not the most broken thing psyker can do

plucky flax
#

I use lacerate but on zealot.

#

On psyker I use flesh tearer.

limber silo
willow hazel
#

If you hit a bunch of enemies it does a lot of damage

limber silo
#

the fact that it makes you deal 20ish damage a tick instead of 10?

#

It is not a lot of damage

willow hazel
#

if you are hitting a couple hordes they die pretty quick

#

It's decent

limber silo
#

Ep smite get out damaged by just about every single thing in the game

willow hazel
#

it just depends on the density

limber silo
lost cove
#

Been running auric damnation, warp charge for shield spam seems ok but im considering empowered smite

#

Dont see many assails, just brain burst

willow hazel
#

idk which one the poxwalker is, but it's like 300

willow hazel
#

yeah sounds right

limber silo
#

dealing about 20ish damage a tick to kill a poxwalker is around 4 seconds to kill

willow hazel
#

groaners are 300 then

limber silo
#

yes

#

Smite without EP doesn't even kill every groaner from 0 - 100% peril

#

Smite with it just barely kills an entire horde from 0 - 100% peril

willow hazel
limber silo
#

It does not kill any specials or elites except bombers, it is not for killing things

cold elm
#

this is currently being sold by melk. should i buy it? if i do i will be broke

limber silo
lost cove
#

Isnt it fine to let others kill too?

willow hazel
#

yeah it's also not a single player game

limber silo
rare arrow
willow hazel
#

but don't let that get in the way of all the doom in gloom

cold elm
lost cove
limber silo
lost cove
#

Ehh, i'll change if i start losing

limber silo
#

The truth is smite spam is one of the worst ways to play psyker, both from a fun standpoint and a strategy standpoint. If staring at a horde is your idea of fun tho, have fun

lost cove
#

Its fun to win

peak kelp
#

is all the 25% damage perks useless on purgatus staff?

willow hazel
#

no they all affect soulblaze damage

limber silo
peak kelp
#

k

#

5% crit worth taking?

zinc phoenix
limber silo
#

keep in mind, the damage perks are basically "bonus damage to everything you do while holding this thing,"

willow hazel
#

crits apply 2 stacks of soulblaze, so probably

rare arrow
limber silo
harsh urchin
cold elm
#

speaking of soulblaze purgatus staff. brunt has finally after 1.3 million credits wasted gifted me this. what should i change on it

zinc phoenix
limber silo
#

EP is good for BB and Assail. Smite is probably the most likely to save your run, but not if you spam

rare arrow
harsh urchin
#

you have enough crit for all your talents just from blessings + being a psyker

zinc phoenix
#

I mean the big time I’m pulling out smite is them oh shit moment

rare arrow
#

Flak and maniac being the other two

zinc phoenix
#

That said I run smite with warp charges

zinc phoenix
#

Because I want 🔥 🔥 🔥

limber silo
#

I run smite on DD and WS

harsh urchin
#

who is telling you it's BiS?

zinc phoenix
rare arrow
#

My brain? But you could also look anywhere

zinc phoenix
#

It’s about your brain

rare arrow
#

We aren’t hitting any kind of crit cap, and while both flak and maniac are good on purg neither hit thresholds that push it to a faster ttk

harsh urchin
#

umm... hmm... how do I say this

rare arrow
#

Though, 5% more crit on a weapon that tags an entire horde is very impactful

zinc phoenix
#

I take the 5% crit but I view the doing of math to be heresy

rare arrow
#

Flak and crit have always been the purg go tos

harsh urchin
#

the only point of crit on it is to activate talents like ranged immunity, because trash dies instantly and non-trash hits the stack cap pretty fast

willow hazel
#

5% crit is 5% extra soulblaze for Purgatus

harsh urchin
#

and you have nexus giving you like 20%

#

and psyker giving you 7.5%

rare arrow
#

And 5 from the perk for 5 more

zinc phoenix
#

I’m seeing a lot of heresy in this fucking chat

rare arrow
#

Because you’re building a crit build and don’t sacrifice points that you are focusing?

tight moss
#

Smite stun is incredibly valuable and yeah you will be trading off some damage but if you run burn shout build you'll still buy your team more than enough space to do their job

#

Damage aint everything

harsh urchin
#

it's not a crit build lucian

tight moss
#

Bosses will fuck you up tho

harsh urchin
#

crits give you +1 stack

#

but you hit max stacks very fast on enemies that don't die

zinc phoenix
harsh urchin
#

and enemies that die die regardless if you crit or not

tight moss
#

But smite autokills pox walkers

harsh urchin
#

add that to the fact that you have high base crit

#

and the 5% perk is pretty much wasted

tight moss
zinc phoenix
rare arrow
#

Agree to disagree I suppose

analog agate
tight moss
#

I shall tell them you said hello my friend

#

But yeah ideally you want a light mix

rare arrow
#

Out here taking every crit talent and blessing, but thinks the crit perk is bad. I don’t really know how to defend it against you.

tight moss
#

Still, smite's incredibly good.

zinc phoenix
#

BB underrated

tight moss
#

(Betting it will get nerfed honestly)

zinc phoenix
#

Nah

#

There are so many more busted things you can do

#

Like gunlugger has infinity health and does absolutely absurd damage

#

You get punched by pogryn and take like 1 toughness damage

tight moss
#

Ogryn strong, yes?

harsh urchin
#

it's the same reason finesse builds don't take crit and weakspot on perks

tight moss
#

Now if only gunluggers stopped stealing every ammo bag off the face of tertium

harsh urchin
#

crit and weakspot are just numerical inferior

#

to 25% damage perks

tight moss
#

But power has a price

willow hazel
junior linden
#

dealing with a horde so it doesn't ambush us in the next area where it's a lot harder to deal with them
get spam pinged and accused of stat padding

zinc phoenix
harsh urchin
willow hazel
#

purgatus doesn't have breakpoints. 5% crit is 5% more soulblaze, the reason to run the staff

harsh urchin
#

even with non breakpoint weapons such as IAG or shredder

tight moss
#

Ogryn big brain here!

harsh urchin
#

the 25% perks are just numerically overtuned compared to the weakspot/crit perks

tight moss
#

Haha I run into lots of gungryns on Auric Maelstrom that suck up ammo like vacuums, you are appreciated sir

willow hazel
tight moss
#

They'll shoot everything, even chaff

harsh urchin
#

even on vet/zealot

tight moss
#

I appreciate when a gungryn knows how and when to conserve ammo

limber silo
static needle
harsh urchin
tight moss
#

Most runs get killed because of a lack of CC, rather than a lack of damage

limber silo
#

not to mention it doesn't even kill all the pox walkers

tight moss
#

Bruh you just gotta stand there and hit smite

#

Poxwalkers all die if you hit them w/ lightning

lost cove
limber silo
junior linden
#

the way I control the crowd is by making the crowd cease to exist

tight moss
#

^ Thats the ideal but I still highly appreciate my smite psykers

limber silo
#

I don't die because I got caught in a horde, I die because there's too many bombers, crushers, hounds, etc still alive

cold ivy
#

nets and fire

willow hazel
cold ivy
#

those two together end a lotta runs

tight moss
#

I mostly die to nets lately

#

fuckin nets

static needle
#

i wonder... if im gonna use catachan 6 knife with scriers gaze, is it worth running flesh tearer with uncanny or should I go with precognition/executioner instead?

tight moss
#

Or sometimes mixed horde

limber silo
#

Smite is not bad, you're just using it in a garbage way

willow hazel
harsh urchin
limber silo
#

Smite + Shriek is good for mixed hordes, but the smite only exists in that combo to get your peril up fast

junior linden
willow hazel
#

Yeah don't only use smite. Kill the lone mauler with a melee weapon please

tight moss
#

I actually kinda like assail but I hate brain burst, myself

limber silo
#

6 stacks of soulblaze kills gunner patrols. Smite doesn't even kill all groaners if your rng is even mildly low

tight moss
#

Smite is by far the best choice imo

analog agate
#

So yeah, for trauma the breakpoint for a dreg bruiser (without dmg to unarmored) has to take into account you must have one warp charge at around 74%. You cannot kill a dreg bruiser, even with 80% dmg, with one shot at low peril

tight moss
#

Hoping brain burst gets buffed to be faster

teal needle
#

I'm a bb apologist

tight moss
#

I see the rare psyker that gets value out of it, but it does such a niche thing

junior linden
#

Id like assail if it's nodes weren't poop from a butt, I like brain burst with warp charges

shut shoal
#

as anybody but the smite psyker on the team. Stop smiting poxwalkers, just let them walk into my weapons so they die faster please.

limber silo
static needle
#

For using catachan 6 knife with scriers gaze, is it worth running flesh tearer as your second blessing or should I go with precognition or executioner instead of FT?

limber silo
#

Precog

spice veldt
#

assail has nice nodes on its own

static needle
limber silo
teal needle
#

Bb with empower and two charge drop wall means you can super comfortably no-brain shottie or gunner or rager packs

spice veldt
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the only real flaw of the right side that i see is that you have to path into mind in motion when going left from assail and scrier's gaze is the ult along the right branch

limber silo
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I prefer precog

junior linden
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My issue with assail is that after the nerfs id rather just shoot them with my gun or my staff or actually have crowd control

limber silo
static needle
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is executioner always better for bosses or have i got things twisted? @limber silo

willow hazel
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assail is great crowd control

spice veldt
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and helps with your ammo economy

static needle
spice veldt
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assail's nerfs are overstated

willow hazel
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I mean it staggers ragers and maulers

spice veldt
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it got a milquetoast nerf to its CD and damage

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and it still has 10 max shards to burn through

static needle
spice veldt
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its ammo economy still needs to be shot in its knees

limber silo
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you gotta build executioner

static needle
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true...

willow hazel
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When they nerfed the CD, most psykers weren't even running Quick Shards anyway

limber silo
junior linden
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If it didn't lock me out of Psykinetic's aura I'd still use it don't get me wrong I just like smite as a panic button

static needle
limber silo
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Depends on the knife

static needle
static needle
junior linden
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Gunker gang

limber silo
static needle
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gunners especially tbh

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more than ragers

limber silo
static needle
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hm

limber silo
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or push attack spam

static needle
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does it have better heavies than knife 3?

limber silo
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it's decent

shut shoal
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is it me or is the newer knife just kinda shite?

limber silo
willow hazel
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just you

harsh urchin
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skissue probably

limber silo
willow hazel
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The new knife has push attack for single target, like the old one, but also better AoE

long summit
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For Staffs, what has a better primary fire Void Strike or Trauma? Or are they the same?

willow hazel
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same

junior linden
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Same

long summit
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thanks

junior linden
willow hazel
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if you are running the Surge blessing on Void, it affects primary

dreamy girder
limber silo
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no I can't with seer's presence

static needle
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would u if u ran crit aura?

limber silo
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I would, but seer's is better imo

static needle
limber silo
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don't like it

static needle
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i guess u still have a point to spare for it tbh

limber silo
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I run knife with purge when I do

junior linden
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Knife seems cool but I reaaaallyyy like dueling sword

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Sidestepping a mutant just as it passes you and weakspot heavy killing it chef's kiss

limber silo
junior linden
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In my experience with pve games

static needle
limber silo
static needle
limber silo
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I just use purge for boss damage

silver solstice
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Question for you guys, Disrupt Destiny's Cruel Fortune talent in the keystone gives you two additional stacks of disrupt destiny on weakspot kills. Does this work at all with the surge staff? I think I heard that the surge staff could no longer hit weakspots on the charge attack now.

teal needle
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First we gotta hunt down someone who actually uses SS and DD

harsh urchin
silver solstice
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darn shame

static needle
silver solstice
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yeah I that should work. Assail already goes for head head basically...

static needle
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BRUNT WTF..... staregryn

lost cove
static needle
silver solstice
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hope hadron blesses you

static needle
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mhm

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just need some plasteel is all

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ima poor fugger

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makin ends meet to feed my plasteel craving family

half iron
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every day i wake up i have 28 plasteel

strong gulch
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My cat trolled me pretty good. I play mouse and keyboard, but I left my controller plugged in. He walked over and stepped on the joy sticks mid match. My camera was a spinning. 😵‍💫

Luckily a trapper caught me and safely tucked me away until everything was sorted.

teal needle
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All cats belong to tzeentch

analog agate
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Carry much for these guys with the blaze trauma?

near drift
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Pro tip: don't play columnus gunker and dump all your ammo into the first few hordes then die several times because you can't survive in melee for 5 seconds

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just quickplay things

cold elm
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normal quickplay damnation is harder than auric damnation solely because the teammates in normal damn are clueless

analog agate
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Mine was from auric staregryn

plucky flax
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Out of ammo got me.

cold ivy
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do most gun psykers run assail or smite? cuz assail shreds everything not in carapace, i feel like that alone is enough to carry you for horde clear

cold ivy
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ah ok cool

cold elm
static needle
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its worth it cause it can stagger and kill mixed hordes decently and helps you keep ammo consumption down by 50%

static needle