#psyker-class
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that staff is bricked
Yup it's dead
Did you Play It for 10+ Rounds?
im not sure i cant remember
If you are fresh 30 or unsure
what the fuck is even that.
ok
Run n Gun on a purge is fucking hilarious.
oh, its not a purge. doesn't matter. that is still ass on a staff.
run-n-gun on any staff is stupid
Probably the only staff where it would be workable
You can Always get a better on 🙂
yea i guessed so
well
It's got decent stats and it's better than a white one, so you could use that until you get a new one
I still hate the aiming for trauma
but a good trauma staff can perform wonders at high enemy densities
In only Meele yes
damn fine
I call this the nut cracker.
No Warpnexus!
I prefer warp nexus over warp flurry on my void staff
but that's personal taste
warp nexus helps me stagger-lock bosses
flurry is better against hordes
But i can still BE disgusted by His 😄
Surge is a nice suprise when I burn ogryn sized holes in mobs
yep, both projectiles have their own cleave
is nexus the one that reduces peril on weak spot hits?
I feel like nexus flurry surge and transfer are all perfectly fine, just a preference choice
so you go from killing 10 to killing 20 enemies
No +20% crit
ok
you're thinking of Transfer Peril
ok
If you want lafloot you can add me and i can send you some Builds or Just Help If wished 🙂
But i for once will Go to bed now
thanks that would be great :)
There is a gold Surge Force Staff in the bounty vender guy, should I buy it?
Ok, so I've tried Purgatus with Scryiers Gaze. Thats quite the experience
Very powerful bursts of damage... with risk of bursting myself
Gold doesn’t mean shit tbh
Post a screenshot of the staff
Milks is a ripoff much of the time
Gotta be really selective what you spend your hard earned currency on
I only use Milkies to buy T4 blessings I don't have
or the rare unicorn weapon Sour Milk may be offering
What to do if my T4 collection is complete?
then you won the game
you beat John Warhammer
and you are now free to do whatever else you want
Thoughts?
Yeah same
Crit hit damage is basically worthless sadly.
And I’d rather take uncanny strike over riposte
Meh. Just tried Assail/Void DD to see if Assail would make a difference in 30 DD stacks. Doesn't really, and feels like a weird distraction to Void. Maybe there's something there if you really lean into Assail headshots and DD.
30 DD stacks does feel pretty bananas though, it's fun to dip into that again
Nice, glad you tried it haha. It works eh? But it's so much work.
I feel like it works. This is what I was using before. But I hated the animation locking.
It does make Purg feel powerful again
Im trying to find a decent chain lightning build for my friend to try, since assail isnt as good anymore
It seems good but I wouldn’t know
Still very new
Yesss I did, lots of micromanagement but the result was there haha
There were moments I forgot I wasn't using Venting Shriek and pressed F while exploding haha
Yeah that even happens to me when I go bubble sometimes.
it is the most micro, because of how long you can stay in Scrier's easily.
Yep, 10 seconds or so and the effect is up again
But man, I feel it now. Purgatus takes much longer to kill compared to other staves
I can't really remember why I stopped playing it. I think just because of how much micro there was versus not doing anything "special" per se, just more damage.
Surge staff is probably the easiest staff to roll cuz the blessing pool is so small
Surge could very well be the strongest staff now
Skip
What you're looking for is like one good t4 perk on a good base and iirc the rest is almost guaranteed
The base stats are terrible and none is the blessings are t4
Yeah, Purg is really slow now. Scrier's makes it feel "strong" again, but giving up all your other tools. No defense, no ranged. Fun build though.
Unpopular opinion... I don't like the darts. I prefer popping heads and my favorite is smite
Does anyone use Focused Channeling anymore?
I may have... stopped using assail in any of my builds
if I have the talents that spread soulblaze on elite kills and also on any enemy dying, can it jump onto a sleeping daemonhost? I feel crippled in my purgatus build because I'm too afraid to even kill enemies near it xD
That is definitely one of the worst itms I've seen in his shop. Do not buy.
Also... getting the warp charge penance sucks.
I like head pop cause I like it when my sword insta kills maulers
The reduced cooldowns is too good
Is that not the 5% elites aura?
My favorite ranged weapon for psyker is the Quickdraw revolver
is assail common at lower difficulties? I don't see it very often in auric/mael
Zarona or Agri?
Its claimed to carry new Psykers to level 30
Uhhh...
Single shots or fan revolver?
Assail imo generates more peril than effect compared to other blitz
Buying this, changing both perks and it should be good to go, yes?
Fan
Yea, it should carry until you get another with tier4 bkessings
Yeehaw
its very fun. And what I cant kill with the revolver, I head pop
Hated how inaccurate the revolver felt
Missed perfectly aimed shots against specialists at 15n
15m
ikr
the fact that it has inaccuracy is so poopoo
why couldn't it have just been accurate but had more recoil so that you could at least control where the shot goes when you get experience with it
I feel like a revo without perfect accuracy kinda defeats its purpose
Thematically it’s very cool but I just found it really annoying to use in practice
Oh yeah it's fun in theory until you get sniped because you aimed ever so slightly too far
it's good on vet
cuz vet solves all the issues
but the non-fan revolver is much better on zea and psyker
vet solves the damage, accuracy, reload, suppression issues that it has
Well i don't play vet so i don't play fan revolver. Problem solved for me 
Hello, i suck with psyker so i come here to ask what blessings/perks should i look for in a purge staff
I enjoy warp flurry on my purg staff, I snagged run and gun as well but I don’t see many rock it compared to unstable nexus so take my advice with a grain of bias
Or whichever the blessing is that gives power on high peril
For beginners, Channeled Focusing might be good though so you don't get interrupted
Nexus is really good for purg staff because crits apply 2 burn stacks instead of one.
Probably still a better idea to go with better blessings and fix the skill issues rather than taking blessings to ignore problems that will still exist later. Not in a bad way, just a tip in general, to not avoid learning the game
But nexus and flurry are probably the best choices that comes to my head
Unyielding and Flak for Perks. Warp Nexus and Warp Flurry for Blessings. At least 76 burn stat for max burn. Decent cloud radius for range. Damage is your dump stat.
Run n Gun has very limited niche value. With a Scrier's build and +speed, you can do some things with it, but it doesn't really add much t other builds.
yea i just want to try something different with psyker, i have the class left in the dust after i got it to 30
Deathsplitter vs fire frezy whats better
Which gun?
colmus
i have dum dum
you sent this message and i just rolled for one with both tier 4 nexus and flurry
and 79% burn
first try too

How's the cloud radius?
Shit
37
so
i got fucked anyways
all the other stats are over 70
even has flak on it
Damn. Usable for sure.
sooo
im not asking about dum dum
I said which one is better not what is the best perk go read my question
And I answered your exact question
But I'll answer it again since you're so insistent
They are both mediocre.
okay i have dum dum what do i use for my second
It doesn't matter
okay what perk is better for my second death or fire
what? lol
i dont care if it isnt meta, I LOVE SWOOSHIN'
probably death spitter because power doesn't fall off with range like Close Damage does
okay dis i have dum dum i want death or fire as my second what is better
.
is this good?
no xd
why is it bad
bad blessings, t3 perks, only good thing is stats roll
??????
its good chicken
sorry youre unable to understand
you sound mad ignorant lol
just buy it and find out if its good 
you ask why and you cant find out
whats the worst that can happen
TRUE
ok dude, it's fine to be asking for advice and mad that you're not hearing what you want; but giving other people bad advice is just kinda rude
it's not a very good weapon because the perks are not very good, and the blessings are not very good.
its a waste of melkbucks though
he can reroll
sounds like they're gatekeeping
You can beat Damnation or even Auric with only gray gear. That autogun will work. But if you asked me if it was worth buying from Melk? No. Blessings aren't great and Perks are just bad. Best you could do is buy it and throw on Dumdum and Flak damage. It would work.
Personally? I wouldn't get it.
im trying to find the information that says that the flames are soulblaze, where does it say that the flames of the purgatus apply soulblaze?
where do i find that information?
It's through testing that the community knows what it knows
Are you trying to find soulblaze damage?
it's not listed in game but it's there
there's the Debuff Indicator mod
if you want to see how many stacks you're applying
where do i find that?
Basically you know it's Cool Ranch flavour because it's blue. That's it really. If you want solid proof the wildfire Talent works with flames from the Purgatus showing that it is in fact Soulblaze.
Would be a bit odd for a staff to produce standard promethium flames without, well, promethium.
Psyker atheneum
Although, shit. I think promethium burns blue since it's so much hotter than standard flames, so bad example. But yeah I'm also 99% sure staff fire is soulblaze
i tried it, and yeah, its soulblaze
i tried burning only 1 enemy at the meat grinder and it spread to everybody around that guy
That might be perilous combustion and/or wildfire talent
I don't have the exact numbers but something important for the Purgatus is the fact that Soulblaze damage stacks additively until you reach 10 stacks, after that it stacks multiplicatively. This doesn't matter for trash. But it's very important for Elites and Monster dps.
Numbers are all in the pins
It's 2 curves
Uh... 
damage of soulblaze by stack isn't set by a curve equation
last I checked
it's a series of manually picked values for "balance"
it may sound like I'm saying the same thing, but I'm not
Back to the real world, it looks something like this #psyker-class message
The atheneum
last time I graphed the values, it wasn't a clean curve
It's been a while since I messed around with Soulblaze and I've been playing a lot of Flamer Zealot so maybe I confused Burn and Soulblaze stacking?
I mean, that graph is absolutely a curve
it looks very similar to a slerp curve bound [0, 1]
It's similar, but different flavoured
Different damage and duration iirc, don't quote me though, almost no one plays flamer so there's not much info
Soulblaze is Cool Ranch and Burn is Nacho Cheese
in fact, if this equation in the psykanium is accurate, then it's absolutely a curve
base_damage = xx(3-2*x)5000.5
Mmm yes I make those when I drink milkshakes
oh, you drink SphericaL intERPolation curves too?
Yeah man I’m the greedy triangle
I've been loving the Flamer. Even in Damnation. It's also made me better at using the Throwing Knives through necessity lol.
Lmao
couple decades ago, I had a brilliant idea - to create a website at the domain computerporn dot com
and it'd be nothing but pictures of PC hardware
I never followed through with it, sadly
Flamer is nice, but since there are no other sources for burning (other than ogryn PBB augment), I guess no one has the real need to research this 
Just things burning = die
LV 280 veteran went invisible and instead of picking up one of the 2 downed teammates he meleed the horde
we died

i'm having fun with the purgatus staff tho
this thing is fun
go back to your steak knife omori
throws up promethium cooked steak
I do this, also on my bolter build. Quick knife compensates slow draw weapons well when mastered
Throwing knife is great on bolter and flamer
throwing knife overall is kinda weak currently because ammo aura exists
i think once fatshark remove ammo aura from the game pretty much everyone will run throwing knives lol
Can survivalist refill your knives?
I wonder if they're tied to ammo gained or specific conditions
Like, I know you can replenish them picking up ammo, but not if it's the act of picking up the tin or the ammo gain that causes it
Because g*mer code
It's specifically ammo crates, ammor pickups, and killing elites. That's it.
Sounds abnormally normal
This has been a crazy fun build.
Purgatus feels really safe to use with shield for horde clear. Double Shield lets you take full advantage of Kinetic Resonance when you need to shred with Brain Rupture. EP is the icing. Chaining BR on a group of gunners is 
no it cant
but the thing is that there's no situation ever where you would rather have knives over grenades currently
due to the existence of ammo aura, even on mission modifiers like histg or no ammo pickups which are designed to choke your ammo supply, you still have infinite ammo
once ammo aura is removed and you actually do have to do more ammo management, i think throwing knives will be a lot more popular
I did a "no ammo pickups" maelstrom earlier and it was as if the mod wasn't there
because survivalist is so stupid lol
At this point I warmed up to knives, but I still prefer not to use them because their throw is subject to ping and I don't want to deal with that bullshit on a precision consumable with like 12 ammo
its not too big of a deal cuz they recharge whenever you kill stuff
just throw 2 if you miss lol
Anyone wanna drop in while I try to get malleus monstorum?
Figured I'd ask here instead of lfg cause I figure yall are better at getting it x)
I've been putting off getting that penace forever, so I'm down for a trade.
Is that the private game psyker penance? If so then I am also willing to help
Also need it myself
is there a difficulty setting for it?
Heresy or higher
do the rapiers have a higher crit chance than usual or is that just a myth i see going around?
i don't think they do, though i'd have to use inventorystats to check
Nopers
Person might be confused cause Psyker has a higher base crit chance.
interesting, like base crit is higher without any of the crit perks in general?
Base 7.5% crit yeah
huh, i thought it was 5% across all classes
is psyker just the acception to this rule or does each class have unique crit chances?
I think it's 2.5 Og, 5 for Vet and Zea, and 7.5 for Psyker.
Don't quote me though.
we just got it actually lol
What map and modifer did you use?
I guess it doesn't matter, just play a random hi-int t4 till a boss spawns.
I did it for my friend a few days ago on a random no modifier difficulty 4
Didnt get the chance to do it for me though
there's usually at least one daemonhost even in difficulty 4
so its not that hard to get
Your friend just gotta run shield ogryn
You can try it again next time on an auric. After all there's a higher chance apperently.
#psyker-class message
sit in a corner and put the shield down
I mean at t4 you can probably just have both psykers attempting it take turns with KD
yeh
Since there's like one monstrosity and one daemonhost
and shield ogryns be shield ogryns
and anyone else can just help clear the specials/ads around
Just gotta find a party in general to do it with
I'm bored wanna try to two man it 
probably doable
Gotta makes sure the bots are dead first though 🙂
Oh I can join if needed
I'm down grab it now, what's your fatshark code?
9157757538
it's gunker time
i heard soulblaze has diminishing returns but i never seen an definitive chart on what the numbers are on each stack
is it worth going to high stacks for boss damage
because i been doing very well with dome and dont want to use shriek for just more soulblaze
If only the mobility was even 51%, so it had 5 dodges
Lastnight Zealot channel taught me that, while some people doomed&gloomed my 60% mobility combat knife (while other stats were maxed)
What should I be putting on my curios? I’m a staff psyker
You want at least >200hp
The rest can be anything
Oh you need at least 20% sniper res also
Just so you don't die in 1 shot after 1 wound
I like the setup of:
Toughness curio (17% max (i think 👀)
Hp curio (21% max)
Stamina curio (+3 is max)
20% gunner resistance, 4% combat ability regen, 30% toughness regen speed.
if you're a noob like me who explodes every now and then thanks to peril mismanagement, consider a single +1 wound curio
I just picked my first 21% hp curio 10min ago for Psyker 👌
I’ll be using that, thanks!
is wild fire worth taking on a purg staff since it only targets low sb count enemies?
I think the idea is to pick all soulblaze talents for purg as thats what makes it work
It’s fun if you run dome shields! You can basically have enough cooldown to place domes and set another before previous expires. Super helpful for the team.
Welp, asside from this dueling sword being a bit low on the finesse stat I am pretty excited to see how Hadron destroyed my hopes and dreams for it when I upgrade it to orange lol.
This is what I have been working with, otherwise x.x
apparently if the enemy already has 4 or more stacks of soul blaze, wild fire would not spread to it
I will spread 4 stacks in that case
Unless you are talking about the enemy that is next to the one who died, in that case 4 stack soulblazed will consume 1 spread stack to refresh duration and 5 or more stacks of soulblaze will not get targeted by wildfire
so in a purgatus build where i am spraying everything evenly with stacks, wild fire is not very useful?
i run dome not shriek
how do i durable on psyker
It will prebake the horde behind the door
But other than those niche situations the effect is kind of meh
shooting for one health and 2 toughness with toughness, health and regen speed
Gotta love how with t4 transfer peril you can just left click with the voidstrike to reduce your peril, as long as you get headshots >.>
And the biggest issue is the opportunity cost, psyker has alot of better talents
thx
I can't wait to get a voidstrike with a high warp resistance instead of a high quell speed... but this is what I got atm... I have t3 flak because I was too poor to afford the t4 perk x.x
how do i wanna run my curios on my psyker?
it was a choice between keeping 20% carapace damage or 8% crit damage, so I chose the one that I would find more useful :/
You want 200hp minimum and 20% sniper resist
The rest you can run anything
will one health curio do that?
You need two iirc
i have a shiny 20 percent one with a locked 5 health stat
Or one with multiple 5% health perks
yeah i was gonna do two toughness with one health and all health, all toughness, then one resist to snipers bombers and flamers
Yea 1 health curio with multiple health perks
The rest you can do whatever
You can go full health why not
it's doing OKAY in grade 5 it's just so glassy lol
does 3 20% sniper and gunner resists with 159 toughness and 198 hp work?
Movement is the main thing that helps you stay alive
Why not, it's just more resist
But sniper does 120.5 damage per shot
I probably could forgo some sniper resist for some more hp or toughness, tbh...
I just don't have amazing curios on my psyker :/
i'm a big fan of bomber resist
because the fucks always find the right time to throw the wrong grenade at you
So 20% res puts it at 98 dmg
So you can survive more than 2 sniper shots
With 200hp
i'm doing brain burst with venting shriek and empowered psyonics
so with my full resistance that I have for snipers they do ~62 damage if I get tagged
illyses force sword is my main weapon or dps doooer
It's multiplicative
which means I can tank 3 shots without going down from full hp
I know
I multiplied 120.5 x 0.8 x 0.8 x 0.8
So yea
what should i have that's not a staff for my secondary
Main reason for me is one 1 wound, you won't die to sniper
That's good enough for me
Yea and no. If you only mindlessly flame one way it's not adding that much since only the new targets that run in will get some stacks, however, if you do only do 1/2 to fulm RMB which is plenty of stacks to kill all the trash, you can flame 2 or 3 directions and effectively multiply your DPS
Soulblaze has exponential scaling for the first 10 stacks. Wildfire allows you to start from 4 stacks instead of 0 which ramps up your damage a lot faster. Anything above 8-10 stacks on trash is overkill and doesn't really affect the time to kill that much, purgarus does around 3 stacks per second and crits apply double stacks, so you only really need to flame each target for a second when you have wildifire going on.
if I change my hp curio to a toughness one I can only take 2 shots. I go to 178 toughness and 165 hp instead of 159 toughness and 198 hp :/
Meh I want the hp curio, tbh
why go HP tho you always get tough back
I just wish I could get 1 more +15 toughness talent, tbh
not a critizism just wondering
So that I am a little more stable on my overall build, since I am not 100% used to playing psyker. I have had mixed luck in the past with 3 toughness curios, so I want to try 2 toughness and 1hp for my curios
If I go DD or EP I can get extra toughness node
Some people go pure hp
It just allows you to make more mistakes
@spice veldt were you able to figure out if vet can tank a sniper to toughness without overshield?
Personally I am a huge fan of full toughness curio loadouts
I usually do 3 toughness curios on zealot and even Ogryn sometimes. I mix it up between hp and toughness on my Ogryn tho
I used to run full toughness and then I die to a sniper when on one wound 
For my Vet I learned that I want 1 or 2 hp curios, tho
Skill issue 🙂
(also I run 40-60% sniper DR on all my chars.)
i don't ever really have issues with snipers unless i fuck up bad
Cool, but what if, Deez nuts
Also: Gotta love the description of the 250 assassinations portrait, hehe.
1 stam 2 toughness, kinetic deflection from talents. Learn to use sprint slides, dodges, dodge slides and pushes. Psykers are extremely tanky but require active defense. It's a learning curve.
i got deflector on my force sword and that shit is DOPE
i ll keep that in mind. Rn my computer cant run mods and has low fps so i am limited to playing spray and pray. When my good pc gets fixed I will play like you say when i can see enemy hp
whats a good build for flurry/rend trauma?
Rolling a Blaze Trauma
with the perk that converts stamina into peril on my build i can just sit there and tank if i have to push forward
Deflector is nice when you start out but if you focus on learning positioning and movement you will grow out of it
i just like it cuz i can look around at what's going on for a second in damnation lol
fucking randoms push so hard you don't know if shit's coming from front or back
they act like they run really fast and the enemies despawn lol
nah i haven't tested it, though my initial impression is that it's impossible
also i watched your purg staff video and its a very refreshing to see purg to be played that fast.
the enemies never go away, they just move forward to overwhelm you elsewhere lmao
Being fast is just better for Auric
I don't use HP bar mods. You will get the feel by practicing. The only mod you actually need is NumericUI for the dodge counter to see when your dodges reset.
The Psyker Atheneum:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2917274959
0:00 Stats, Perks and Blessings
2:30 Example Build with Reasonings
6:20 Quell Cancelling LMB
7:00 General Tips
9:47 Actual Mission
The faster you are the less the game gets mad and suddenly spams waves of garbage at you
mathematically it seems possible
but i dont think it's worth?
The ideal is that you actually move forward while fighting if possible
Oh you watched it already 😅
I thought someone would give you a real answer after my joke 😆 , anyway, here's a standard build.
yeah but running past hordes of ragers or maulers is not a good idea the director don't despawn them lol
it just puts them in front of you again
ty! 🙂
oh right i forgor about sniper res
Depending on the map you're in that can be better or worse
Learning how to keep pace with pubs is also just a pub skill anyway, and why I don't play Psyker unless I feel like tryharding or use bubble.
1225*.5*.67*.8*.8*.8
Pubs are just so wildly inconsistent
Pubs
with IW, + close order drill + curios
id just rather move steady
meaning you can tank it with 210 toughness
but 3x sniper curios is
too much investment imo
Just play the Psylot build and go fast, allies except knife zealots will have it hard time to keep up with you
Pubs are snail pace though 99% of the time.
All that spd will just be running in circle with the zoomies
I'm always pushing the front on any build
90 percent of the people i run into just ran past half the shit lol i don't know the pubs you dealing with
you mean running past everything threatening so your teammates have to eat it? lol
I'm usually pretty far in front of damage, so no
I'm also the only motherfucker on the planet who kills ranged mobs and bruisers, esp the lone ones 😦
Nah it's not that high percentage.
i'm just talking about dudes with knife zealots and shit that just zip around past anything large lol like somehow they're gonna win if their teamates die to the heavy shit they leave behind
Darktide is in it's waning phase atm, so it's definitely not 99 atm
Maels are boring again
I guess it depends on time of play and server location though
I play too late.
darktide is like a year old i wouldn't say it's waning
I mean waning after the huge burst after patch 13
It was sticking around 13-15k for a long time
and now it's finally dropping hard
Steam charts I mean
There's still xbox and gamepass sure, but I imagine the trend is similar there
i wanna get one of those razor naga mice for this nonsense lol all this dodging and weapon changes and sliding got my pinky hurtin
Become a hero instead 
gross
.<
nah i won't switch from razer my kbm are over two years old and still feel brand new
It's just part of the cycle of Darktide being mostly patch based
yeah, I know, it's just sad cause it's probably quitting time for me too soon.
New updates are needed to bring back
I'm completeing contracts less and less 🥹
It's all good
Don't be sad you're quitting
Be happy you had a fun time before you did
tbh game was trash before the skill trees came about
Once the game stops being fun
It's best to put it down because there's no sense playing something you dislike
Yeah I had to solo half a horde a day ago because the three others were on a speed run and I happened to be the target for two mutants and a dog but they didn't care
Nah, this is objectively the best horde type gameplay on the market, so I wouldn't call it trash. More like hidden Early Access game pretending to be a full release.
nah it was like trash endgame borderlands for me before
now it's like a gory borderlands endgame

You get more loot in Borderlands tho
"Bro, hurry up, we are waiting"
Spams ping 23 times
Also said by the guy with the least damage of course
Because not having scoreboard definitely reduces toxicity 
While having 150 plasteel in view and not picking it up 🙂
I mean the metaphorical "Spams ping 23 times" guy.
i know i was just making a statement lol
Ah, just making sure lmao
"I never have enough plasteel"
Also them at the end of a t5: 30 10
ok but then there's guys that'll be out sniffing the roses on grade 3 maelstroms that you're doing for money
like they're actually gonna see meaningful mats from it
grade 3 maelstroms also give a bizzare amount of exp, nice for when I was lvling my friend.
had one guy search the whole damn map on a bet once to find 160ps and like 60 d

I just do them for money so i can buy a boatload of crappy grey weapons until that one pops
i knew it was a small plasteel stash. i took it anyway because i am a gremlin
Nice dump stat lol
is melee psyker a decent build?
im doing force sword and i don't know what to do for a gun
need my peril for quick BBs so i don't wanna run a staff
i guess what's just a general all around good gun to fill in the gaps between BB and sword
like
downing shooters
There's a funny one with like illisi and a blessing called bloodthirsty or something like that... Crit every attack for insane cleave and damage
all of the blessings for the illisi look savage as shit if i'm being honest
im gonna keep my deflector one and make a different one just cuz the deflector is flat out cool for some of the missions on damnation
Yeah it's balanced weapon right now. Everything is decent but there's still better options
what would be a good gun to fill in the gaps between brain burst and melee?
with illisi? Probably revolver or laspistol
Columnus, it's just good for psykers
basically the only thing i struggle with is like ads shooters
Or a revo yeah
i am a revolver enjoyer..
There you go
not a huge fan of the new one tho
zarona just slaps
i like the new revolver, especially when you get some sick shots off with the hammer fan
You know, it shoots piercing rounds because of the size, but with a revolver design
piercing, accuracy and damage come at too big of a cost on the new one imo
it's so weak its almost sad
but the columnus autoguns are pretty good at dropping ads?
like headhunter or the other one
Hm, I'm tempted to try this with the surge staff tbh... for the talents near the top.
I suppose it does, it's the main gunker weapon but i don,t use it.
This is with assail
Anyone knows what is the dump stat for illisis?
it's so dumb lol the thing i often fail to mitigate is ads with guns
they just pick you apart in those long areas if noones runnning anything great at ranged
Embrace Eternity
ithere's nothing in the info about it
or am i not seeing
I know, that's why i ask lol

Well i got a few weird ones i upgraded a bit for blessing farm, anything worth keeping?
then i got unarmored and maniacs for perks
finesse is important for illyses imo but im kind of a knob
Finesse is always important, i don,t think i like the first one.
I would personally use the top right, but none of em are great. Low damage unfortunately.
I don't know how bad 29% mobility will fel
So I'd personally run that just to check
i don't wanna know lol
I can test it i guess, because if it's fine that's a good sword.
It somehow still has 5 dodges, and -8.15% distance. Sprint speed doesn't matter so it's not too bad i think
And what about that one?
mine has 64 warp resist and it's not awful
it's not a stave and ideally you're not charging all the time
just when you gotta show that maniac who his dad is for me or show off to the bois
what exactly does the charge even do?
i just like it because it's a lawnmower
The charge just increases the power a lot
and what exactly does power do?
Damage, cleave and impact
Yeah, some thammer or axes that can get up to +20% power means you get a lot more of everything
If i had to run deflector like wouldn't let it go.... What would be a good perk for illyses to complement that?
blessing i mean
basically if you could only pick one blessing for illyses what owuld it be
Blazing Spirit.
i'll try for it. i got unstable power on it rn but it's level four
Update when
okay i got a columnus with 79 damage 78 mobility 78 ammo and 79 stopping power
51 stability
is that a deal breaker?
Not really no
Go for Slaughterer
Unstable is also decent, better with a low warp resistance version as you can power up once or twice for more peril and get an instant jump on power.
holy shit this is straight from the hands of hadron, I haven't rerolled any of this
The emperor truly blesses me this day
Carapace is okay-ish and you can change infested to Flak. But that Terrifying Barrage should get switched to Flurry
I don't have flurry. and infested would definitely get swapped off but for stats handed to me by rng, I'll gladly take em
Mostly the fact that both terrifying barrage and warp nexus are tier 4 and I got the tier 4 warp nexus on a staff with an 80% crit bonus already
Carpace isn't the BiS in terms of overall DPS, but crushers can be a major threat. Plus melee maels.
I'd be a fool to ask more of hadron
Barrage to flurry, infested to flak, solid staff 
I like +carapace
Should be fairly easy to get at least T3 Flurry on an separate staff to roll off. For good and for bad, Surge has a dismal amount of blessings in it's pool.
Carapace is okay imo. Even if it doesn't hit a break point, you're probably team shooting so it's more likely with teammates
I think it depends on why you need the staff
I mostly use surge to babysit teammates rushing a 6 ogryn squad they obviously can't handle
Might as well hit them a bit harder
It's annoying there are two surges in game, i always just think of the blessing i want for my Voidstrike
Devs should have picked dictionary and look for similar word but not exact same
Should be called Splooge instead.
It's even more annoying that Surge isn't on.. the Surge staff. C'mon Fatshark. It's right there! And Blazing Spirit on the staff that shoots fire!
Moar. Moar fire.
Blazing spirit on purg would be hilarious
Imagine running gaze on a purg with blazing spirit
One LMB crit and you're on like seven stacks
You'd kill stuff very fast. 
You can get Flurry very easily by rolling another Surge staff. Higher base item level the better obviously. If your first blessing isn't T4 Nexus/Flurry or Terrifying Barrage (any rank), change the blessing to Barrage and then roll it to gold. You have a very high chance of rolling Flurry or Nexus. even starting with no blessings it doesnt take very long to get T4 of both. (this is specific to Surge because of small blessing pool). You just need to roll one good perk and you're good to go, generally.
Only 5 blessings so yeah, one of the rare ones where % are bit on your side already
And once you have one with double T4 you start rolling and looking for one with natural T4 nexus & flurry for the double perk fix
Meanwhile 9 possibilities with my Voidstrike 🧙♂️
now what if soulblaze could trigger crits
gentlemen, what's a practical difference between smite primary and secondary modes? is secondary straight up better?
secondary chains and spreads faster while primary feels more like a "you in particular sit still"
does secondary work worse against a particular target?
not particularly, but there's merit in stopping a specific target potentially instead of the whole crowd so as to not ruin a funnel for your team or something similar
most people will just use the secondary anyway, but that's the use I could see it having
maybe, i guess. ok, thanks.
is 1% burn THAT important?
if you care about minmaxxing, yes. otherwise no
zero difference whatsoever. press V and take a look. burn bar determines a rate of application and stack cap. it'd be the same for both of these.
76 is the minimum needed for max stacks iirc, so in this case yeah they both work for that purpose
someone else also said i should switch the 25% more dmg perk with more chrit chance but idk
talking about the one on the right
run a few missions with one, swap to the other and run a few missions with that, stick with the one you feel does better. play more missions as needed
that's how I'd go about it, anyway. but I operate more on feel than raw numbers usually
crit on purga only applies 2 stacks instead of 1, so doesn't do a whole lot. damage perk is better.
it helps reach the stack cap faster, but both have merit. hence "test which feels better"
Yeah fair but i might just stick to Maniac dmg
No but it takes 1 second to charge it up where as if you want to push a single burster, stop a running/jumping dog or interrupt a flamer, netter or a bomber it only requires one quick tap of LMB which is almost instant
wat
praise the rng
Congratulations 😎👍
Not surge voidstrike 
tried to build it but i got this 😄
Xd
I think I have to leave the DT facebook group. Someone just brag posted about this. Why did he do that to his revolver? What did it do to him?
The game doesn’t really do a great job at telling you what critical damage is, so it may appear as a good perk to include initially on your weapons
And people usually don’t bother reading more than what they should about the game, hence they might think it increases the total damage on critical hits. Bigger hit = good, right?
More crits = better, right?
Yeah totally, I remember thinking crit damage was good at the start. Crit damage is usually good in games, it's just this one with the weird math. But why didn't he even look up good blessings for it?
Evaluating blessings on your experience is also rarely productive if you can just ask people here, in this Discord or any other space where somebody with more expertise might help. Or you will keep any blessings you might have, because one does not care what they do, if anything of significance.
I was rolling out some Columnus MKV IAGs for my Scrier's Psker build and I got this fucker
I basically one clip Nurgle.
Sounds like a lot of effort.
And then the Maccabian I was trying to pair it with came out like this
This could use Dumdum as a blessing
Yeah. Dumdum to replace Deathspitter was what I was going to do. Just need to actually roll it 😩
The last 7 Columnuseseses I've rolled have all proc'd Deathspitter first
Both of those are really good. Awesome getting 25 unyielding naturally like that.
My only gripe with the dueling sword is that I wish the dump stat would have been Cleave and not Finesse.
I'd probably roll carapace and shred on the mk 4 though
But maybe riposte works out too, there's a whole lot of dodging involved when running mk 4
The Riposte works so well with it, tbh
I tried it on one with, and one without, Riposte and the perk just makes crits proc constantly.
Alongside all the other bonuses.
Shred vs Riposte though?
Riposte
This then isn't quite right
I leveled up with Uncanny+Riposte and really liked it
Between shred and riposte I think it's very much up to playstyle. Both give equivalent amounts of crit but just trigger in different ways.
Picked from Melk's because knew those will be good once i hit lvl 30 too sacrificed and reblessed
I like shred more because I tend to block push a lot when fighting hordes so dodging out of attacks isn't really something I do mid fight like that
Im like non-stop sidestep evading so i suppose Riposted might work better for me
Do the vermintide2 style circling of the horde blob
Also probably caught it from starting with Zealot and seeing backstab talent --> okay gotta sidestep to hit their backs
That worked better in VT2, hordes in DT are smarter and surround you easier
Yeah ive noticed, its not like herding sheep anymore
It’s easier to do it in open map areas
But its addictive playstyle and makes you feel like you on top of things
But still, yea it’s hard
this worth a buy from Melk?
A lot more sneaky bastards in this game, VT2 was maybe a bit too fair in that regard
I Love Block pushing with psyker force sword
Yes
Gamble and upgrade it
If you dont have Surge yet, GET IT
Also tiny chance of lucking out Warp Nexus on it
I wish it did damage though, so annoyed every time I swap over to a force sword and the block push just pushes them!?!?
Man, I don't think I've ever block pushed a single horde.
What blessings perks should I aim for?
What about a face stab? A cool sweep?
That's what the chained attack after is for.
Nexus and surge for blessings, perks I'm not sure since I don't really enjoy voidstrike
Ah yes of course
Flak should basically be a built in perk by this point. It goes on literally everything.
Feel like i spend more time watching the website that shows store contents than playing the game, which leads to another point, should level all the classes so could do it for all instead of just 2
Lack of freetime/gamingtime is only thing holding back
Also my deep dislike for Shia Labeouf
At least enjoy this shite while you can't play.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkTide/comments/190v6y0/this_section_the_slammer_of_magistratutum_hl1866/
(it's painful to watch) 
Your vid? I also just joined the Crusher club, but only had time to play with it once
I kept bonking people on the floor and running, just to notice they stood up and didnt die on first bonk
Then keep bonking them
Yes lesson learned
It's a redditor
Yes its the guide i actually followed too + some advise here
Made by our lord saviour, @lunar hollow 
The man who sacrifice lots of resources to get a god tier crusher 
I just grabbed the first one that wasnt total ass, to see how the gameplay is
Honestly kept forgetting the L+H+L+H hordeclear and so on, but was my first time out with it
Has room for 1 change more
Think i was out of materials to do it
Oh yes, fucking love that part both on gunker and purgatus
Always scramble to have ammo and cds ready for it haha
The main thing to look at the horrendous crusher push attack spam 
i guess im keeping deflector. i plan to swap crit to unyielding and burning spirit to uncanny strike but ive heard a lot about executor
would probably go with a purgatus build so deflector isnt a disaster for out of range stuff
whats a good blessing for voidstrike?
Warp Nexus + Surge usually
Warp Nexus and then either Warp Flurry or Surge depends what you are after
Transfer peril if you want to use scrier’s gaze ability lol
There is no reason to go surge and nexus if you aren't also going carapace and elite dmg, with the purpose of 1 shotting maulers and crushers on damn
Otherwise go flurry and transfer for infinite casting of fully charged shots without quelling
alright im farming surge
still looking for a decent voidstrike staff
i have been playing purgatus for too long
🫡GL
and maybe warp flurry so that i can send hail storm of explosions
So uhhh
i wasn't recording
but i just joined a match
and i spawned under the map
and died
Fatshark quality
hey psyker femboys hows this
Good but not perfect
Deflector is great, id switch blazing spirit to slaughterer or unstable power
what blessings do people take on a dueling sword
Ideally shred and uncanny strike
You can also swap shred for rampage, or just use any of the dodge blessing
makes sense
I have shred on ds so checks out lmao
do you have it because its locked or by choice
By choice, pref it since i mostly use it on single target specials and movement, not general use
Rampage is good when combined with pushing, but i never melee after that
Tldr pick whatever fits your playstyle
shred's not bad at all
more crits is always good when psyker already has a lot of native crit chance
eats up bosses
Scriers gaze enthusiasts (me)
I use that shit off cooldown
crit? CHANCE? that sounds a lot like chaos....
Who tf doesn't. Piss easy to stack up and with uncanny strike results in the best melee DPS available to Psykers (DS4 poke poke)
Not to talk about how it scales with mettle and empathetic evasion
lemme guess you think Rampage is actually proccing on anything besides push attacks

It’s certainly a surge staff
Hadroned
You can shoot it while running to the dumpster

back to brunt's 365+ gacha\
🫡GL
Does force sword block push pox bursted back?
Yeah prolly 5% crit instead of sprint eff and you're probably good
You should probably also switch carapace to flak, but you don't NEED to do that
You will also want to make sure you take Solidity in your talent build to improve that average quell speed
Unless you are going CDR + Shriek (and hence are dumping peril by shrieking a lot)
No update 
I agree with the above sprint eff to crit chance and then I’d leave it alone
Its depressing how the by faaar best psyker single target melee option is a single DS mark. It's like theres no other options cause its just simply superior in every way
First time i see 17% and been playing and checking shop daily for 3 weeks now
I have seen one 21% HP and I've never seen a 17% tough, and I've played since launch
You will fustrate yourself if you want best-in-slot min-max perfect gear
Dont have such OCD, but that was certainly instant pick, could still become useless if it rolls all 3 as useless
The difference between a "perfect" and "meh" item is like 5% on rolls, which translates to like 0.5% damage calcs
Yeah im fine with playing items aslong as they perform their main task, some tiny % imperfections are fine
For the most part, items of 350+ item level with no stats below 50% will get you results within a couple percent of theoretical results
But certain specific ones have strict breakpoints, like id never go below 51% mobility as then lose max evades
There are a few key stats on key items, such as blast radius on trauma or cloud radius on purgatus that are very very important to be above certain thresholds for maxmimum performance, but those are edge cases and you'll find them all documented in the atheneum
looks ||fun|| to me
got one 17 from my boy melk
Are there any illisis enjoyers here? I got a few weird ones i upgraded for blessing farm and idk if they are usable
Blazing spirit kinda memey. Slaughterer good
That mobility lmao
These are all maximum meme
If you have the goods upgrade em all and then whichever seems best go with it for now
Nah need
i once had a revolver with a crit bonus of 10
the base 344 one has the correct distribution to be a nice Flame Illisi, and already has the required level 4 Blazing Spirit.
It's okay meme but slaughterer would let you kill stuff a lot faster.
Flame illisi is the one where you just activate every attack and destroy hordes?
I already have a 372 illisi with uncanny and riposte (locked), but i want one with deflector to run the kinetic defletion builds
Deflector slaughterer my fav illisi build.
if u have bloodthristy u activate every attack, if u have shred, just normal light attack
With flak maniac.
I think slaughterer + uncanny might be mine
also thinking about going back from slaughterer + unstable to slaughterer + uncanny
the damage just isn't the same 4 me
Slaughterer is must on illisi. 2nd blessing is up to your playstyle. You can go more defensive and safe with deflector. More power with unstable. Or more armour piercing with uncanny.
Fatshark. Please. I beg of you. Let me have a force dueling sword
With the DS4 poke
I find slaughterer t4 gives me all the power I need for horde clear.
My illisi builds have crusher damage via other means.
So I don't need uncanny on mine.
I like exorcist on my illisi with scriers.

uh... this is good right...?
I think i will upgrade the 29% mobility one just to see if hadron decides to have fun with it.
Is okay.
is there a blessing that is needed for the blaze sword?
No opinion on bloodthirsty because I still don't have it
kinda new to psyker, normally play vet
Yeah slaughterer I just explained above.
For illisi in particular. For deimos it's uncanny.
back to the hadron gacha then
Nothing is really "needed" but illisi is a horde clear sword and slaughterer is good to clear the horde faster
You sword is fine, change executor and block eff and it should be great
For the bloodthirsty one
Yeah depends if you want to keep it on of course
hmmm
Light spam with illisi does a lot of horde damage with slaughterer.
Staff got Hadron'd what should i replace
Weave in a few specials here and there and they'll die.
hmmm as per usual, perk is crit rate right?
I'd grab surge to use on another staff. Charge rate is kinda low.
shame
You got surge though. Its a very rare blessing.
What all influences Brain pop damage?
Block to flak executor to slaughterer
High peril if you have warp rider. Ep keystone if you have stack. Warp charges if you have stack.
What are the best options for melee rn? Just started using my psyker again and I think I need to refresh my load out
should i get that?
Anything that influences all damage, warp damage, or BB damage
I don’t like the mk5
Do we have any good monster damage options other than guns
So I wouldn’t
ds4
Purgatus with creeping flame and bb is serviceable.
DS 4 and BB
Last monster maelstrom game on trauma I had 2nd highest monster damage.
Or even highest can't remember.
Depends on the team tbh
Yeah
All the dueling swords are pokey. None of them sweep
Other classes will outperform psyker real easy if they try
Surge is fairly okay at monster damage too.
Agree to disagree
Nah thats just vs monsters
In terms of monster damage
especially with unyielding 
Psyker has the best control and dmg output
I have maniac unyielding 
You really want flak on surge
:c
Big shotgun 1 shot breakpoint.
I mean voidstrike with surge blessing is also fine
I do not
huh... does wildfire (enemy dies to soulblaze, nearby takes 4 stacks) work with the flamethrower staff...
Yeah.
as that is technically soulblaze?
It works with anything soulblaze related.
oh god
Creeping flames too.
would u switch out maniac with flak?
cause I wanna keep unyielding 
Yes I would have flak as 1st perk then 2nd one up to you.
It's fun. You may get the occasional person being mad about the vfx but it's fun
Also trauma staff
Nope
Cloud radius is pretty important but idk how much worse that is
Depends on how much you got
It’s like the second most important stat
Cloud radius being down affects range iirc too
10 more rolls then
Damage and warp resistance dump stat for me on purga
You lose monster damage with sub 76 burn.
Burn is it’s actual damage stat
purg already has such low peril gen, quell speed and warp res don’t matter too much
Depending on the cloud radius the first one may be better
come on... hadron... dont fuck me over with plasteel gacha
Rolled this, thinking rampage to uncanny strike and one of the perks to maniac. Any thoughts?
... not a good sign
Sounds good if you're not planning to horde clear with it.
Not DS4. No opinion
I already have a good enough DS4, changing things up
yes
yes, it works wonderfully
Flurry nexus are the blessings for purg
huh
Yea. It's pretty much flurry and nexus 🤷♂️
as i said, vet main here, dont know a single thing about psyker
Mfw I played a meme left click only purga round with nexus and run and gun (it wasn't good) 
Purg is particularly fantastic with flurry because you can quick cast m2 and make your subsequent charges reaaally fast without losing much if any dps
You just hold RMB to charge, never let go, then press LMB to burn, never letting go of RMB. As long as you hold RMB, flurry remains stacked
Replace both perks and it’s great
Yea pretty good for your 1st orange purg
perks for this?
Crit chance and flak imo
Nah
Perks to 5% crit and 25% to flak and that's great
Rip cloud radius man
Nah it does enough to unarmored
It’s already one of the best horde clear options, it don’t need to be better
so flak and crit rate then\
Against unarmored*
Maniac is an option also over flak
^
Crit + maniac or flak,
Perks is flak + unyielding/maniac/crit chance up to you for 2nd perk.
oh yeah... ragers
Maniac is also good if you don’t like elite maniacs
i kinda... plasma gun em on sight
I run flak unyielding personally.
Purg m1s already vibe check ragers tho so idc about maniac dmg on purg tbh
I personally like flak/crit because outside of ragers, you are rarely burnings the other maniacs
