#psyker-class
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Surge+Nexus is the meta as Surge makes it hit twice on crit and Nexus adds more crit chance, but it works fine with other options too
Its strong enough on its own to not need everything optimal
Anything with knife?
thank ya ole mighty psyker
So few enemies in t1-t2 that probably ColumnusV Gunker with Knife for fast movement would be my choice, no need to load any Staffs but just run max speed and instantly eliminate any enemy with a critting burst
trying to get the blessings for crits and double void ball things
But Iw ent for the crits + soulburn thing
not sure if thats any good
š¤ I dont think i've ever used knives
what about staffs and blitz?
mark 4 is the meta for knives right?
Mk3 more single target, new one has better horde clear, both work
Horde clear on both still only just mediocre
eh i can use assail for clear
More consistent damage
Flurry + nexus
One tap crusher / better burst damage
Nexus + surge
In mu experience flurry felt better to use. But personally I'm running surge
stil trying to get that surge blessing
god damn emprah be cursing me with warp flurry
Speed running with knife is just
Sprint speed+ and stamina+
And just do sprinting heavy attack slides
If you wanna be funny yiu can do that with Rev Up too
:^)
But it's not the knife memes
Just ran a damnation maelstrom w just me and a zealoy trauma staff is gamer
I finally got a flury/warp void staff, played a few games and went back to my surge staff. Void staff feels crazy awkward for me.
how should i build this
Is this any good, Siblings ?
What are yalls opinions on the surge staff. Is it good or is it trash.
Not really sure which staff I should take. I do like the damage of the surge staff tho
Imo it's super strong.
I canāt decide between the surge and the trauma staff
Iāve been experimenting with both. And I feel like I like the surge staff better. But I want to know yāallās opinion on itās performance
Surge is really strong.
Two very different playstyles. Best to ask yourself what you like about the Surge staff over the Trauma. Do you like single target more than AoE?
I donāt like how unpredictable the trauma staff throws enemies around
And my sword is amazing for horde clearing
Throwing things around is a staple for Trauma, but you can fine tune your aim to direct which way they get thrown if you want to make sure things don't get tossed into danger spots close to your teammates.
Hmm. Then I need more practice with the trauma staff
I do enjoy the range and speed you can damage high health enemies with the surge staff tho
Eh, kinda bricked imo. You probably want to change both blessings, then you're stuck w the perks.
Ranged dmg to elites ain't bad though
Yeah surge and trauma are good at very different thing. Single target dps vs huge aoe damage (blaze trauma).
I play both extensively. My fav 2 staves by far.
If you're ok w that low mobility stat, then it'll be good enough til you can find another, I suppose. Precog and maniac is good.
surge is ok
good for turning your brain off and letting spark and flame do the rest
I just built a blaze trauma recently and took it out for a try. It was...rough for me. Definitely a learning curve. Do you bring a DS4 w your trauma?
For normal maps I use ds5 or illisi. For melee scab only I use ds4.
Perhaps try it with a deflector force sword to block shooters while you move closer.
Ds5 always used Ds4 personally how good is it?
That's probably a good idea. I struggled in one of the more open maps. The train yard where you move trains out of the way.
Is Mobility a must-have ?
Thought it was a dump-stat, especially on a sword that has this much ease in blocking everything.
I've never tried one that is that low. I think cleave can be a dump stat too.
Preferably still above 50 and cleave isnāt a dump itās just that above 70% it does have much growth but you want it since it feels good on horde with light
My main Ds4 for reference
what was the issue? what was your build too
i think i would be able to help you out
i am under the impression that this is a good staff, even tho i changed both perks before knowing how crafting really worked, am i right?
yeah that's good
Itās a good staff for sure
can you explain why its good is it the blessing that really makes a staff good or another stat?
base stats are very good, blessings are exactly what you need
crit strike chance is good on surge
idk if elite ranged damage is meta, but it's good too
ok ty ty, do blessing change based on the staff or are these blessing good staff blessings?
most staves will be good with flurry/nexus, but it's not always the pick
some will take nexus/surge (the blessing) for example
i think the best hting you can do is head to psk and test out breakpoints and see if they are satisfactory
some BPs i would test is zero warp stack against elites
4 warp stack against elites
Then half charge for both scenario (sometimes full charge could be over kill)
but surge charge so fast anyway
more of peril i guess
but yeah just test your break points
I loved surge when it could hit weak spot still love it but it feels slightly worse just a tad
surge is still fun, even if weaker on the raw damage output side =/
i have been playing around with it and it feels nice to use, i just went on a mission fail streak and wanted to make sure that what i was using wasnt actually bad and i just didnt know
Thatās how all weapons are tbh couldnāt play except with deflector blaze sword for the longest time
im not a surge user so icant help with build but i would encourage you to post your build and let others comment
like your skill tree
use this website
and screenshot
Me even with surge picking smite and thinking yep Iāll need this š
this is what i run on damnation
swap barrier for the venting one on lower difficulties
general guide i made
orange is majority agreed but debatable and/or situational
actually the assail one only the top one should be circled but you are not running assail
why do you not want to take the 5% damage to elites?
because CDR matters more, (e.g. its like a 4 second reduction)
5% has no real meaningful thresholds unless you know exactly what you are doin g
for the smite one, because its kind of shit (forgot the explanation but any regular here will tell you that)
this one because you can quell while sliding
this one doesn't work
Why no lighting storm I feel the like it feels great on smite did it get nerfed.
It does work
not effective / meaningful?
It does exactly what is typed in the description, but the effect is rather obscure and applies to a portion of how dodge works you typically donāt consider
oh yeah ti doesnt extend iframe right?
It extends the duration of āpost-melee dodge stateā from 0.2 to 0.3 seconds
IDK if itās the right term for it
wat does that mean
Seems great with ds5 but idk about anything else
I never said that 
(But Iām not the authority here, I usually have my own takes on things)
And Anticipation is still a relatively low value skill
copy this one but change vs to bobble
so sorry, i meant the psyker regulars around here when i said "you guys"
thats a build by top 1% psyker
Wait, and whoās that 1% top Psyker?
mr pygex

actually i shouldnt tell him to copy it
but rathert tell him ti sby pygex
all my builds other than the void one which is prob same for everyone else out there is quite personal
You are :3

Iām constantly having skill issues as Psyker, but I suppose itās part of the process of getting better and/or understanding more about the game
I wonder if stacking Corruption resist against bursters is the way to go, to not instantly die from 3 consecutive explosions

Stack hp and corruption resistance 
(Maybe 2 if Iām unlucky and get hit by the inner corruption radius)
When patch 13 came out people shot bursters in my face all the time. Its calmed down now. I think all the new players left.
why is soul blaze so important and could i drop all aspects of soul blaze for more defensive stuff? It seems like every build is just about raw damage but if i am in a lobby with 3 other people who are building to deal as much dmg as possible do i really need to also? the reason i like psyker is for the utility it has.
Can confirm; I only play Darktide for three hours on Sunday with my friends who I convinced to play at Patch 13
Of course you can man play how you want.
thank you, this community seems to have a much more lax view on metas then a game like Destiny (my other addiction), but i am more asking why the focus on soul blaze is it just for the damage?
Yeah kill stuff fast = less chance of taking damage too
Change this to DD. It outclasses warp charges in almost every instance
whats the key stone on left again?
ok i wasnt sure if it made enemies more susceptible to dmg or made them easier to stun if its just about damage i am gonna drop it
Get rid of wildfire too
Unless you are using a purgatus staff wildfire is completely useless
It does like 6 damage per tick which is absolutely nothing
Itās a waste of a skill point
Not to mention they have to already be on fire for it to even proc
I would swap wildfire for an ability cooldown talent
As those are actually incredibly useful
there was one where you kill an elite and it spreads soulblaze?
That oneās basically another throwaway
As it deals like 12 damage over time
And pox walkers have 300 health
You do the math
Itās garbage
Also force push I would not take
Itās only really good when using purge staff with the soulblaze trait
Or when you are using it as training wheels to learn a new staff
Otherwise take bubble or scryers gaze
do i have to kill the enemy for the stack or can allies kill them in coherency?
It's objectively mandatory for a surge/smite build
I believe you do. However you gain almost 40% damage increase and 50% crit damage against the target

(Also fun note scryers gaze is the BEST damage buff in the game)
Scryers gaze is absolutely busted
Smite is iffy. I personally think itās garbage as it takes you completely out of the fight waiting for your allies to do the work when if you equipped something like a trauma staff everything would already be dead
And please do not use smite on pox walker hordes. Dear god.
Itās a tool that helps the team get out of a jam utility for if stuff goes sideways killing shouldnāt be the priority clearing the mission is.
Just use your sword
It's a good tool
So the problem with smite is that yes it stuns the horde but itās taking you out of the fight
pushing shit off ledges like a cat is always funny
And then it requires another player to be taken out of said fight to kill your horde
Thatās 50% of your teams damage focused on horde clearing
basicaly surge headshot?
kills extremely slow, makes it much harder to mass blend them with cleave on melee weapons
also burns peril on a nothing target
Surge can not target headshots with the charged attack
This
You're overthinking it lmao
"look ma i staggered the pox walkers... oh fuck crushers"
smite is great
smite is pretty good
someone answer me plos
but not against pox walkers
it's just fucking boring
Trauma staff or push with your force sword
I run wildfire 
No assail is a new player trap what are you saying
and has a garbage design
A force sword secondary push will knock down crushers
because it is good š”
One crusher
Smite will stop a pack
yeah but theyre threats in groups and when mixed with other enemies
ragers tho
Smite has you stay in place
nurgle blessing crushers laugh at trauma and force swording a group of a dozen crushers is risky business
then why am i so bad with it huh?? care to explain??
Not fast enough to hold a pack there plus all the other mix ins and horde lmao
peepol halp me
not anymore
vitamin deez deficiency
Snappa said no as in no to the headshot
more than once ive been caught off guard by ragers during a horde
Surge staff can not target headshots with the charged attack
it used to do that but not anymore
You can dodge with it anyone who stands still is new or doesnāt use smite right
W or L trinket?
Thatās decent
Mid
Mid
But I would look for one with better max health
Damn it
I also run smite 
My current ones are
+1 Wound
+2 Stamina
+15% Toughness
18% is too low.
thanks
so sad.
I was thinking FS could make psyker have more build variety by chaning this node to something like
"DD now retargets the closest applicable enemy when target is more than X meters away"
evne without surge headshot i think thats a good change still
makes DD easier to play
at the cost of 1 node
we'll see when they make DD work properly
disrupt destiny feels like ass to play with but it's nice having the double movement speed buffs
can you remind me why its not working properly again
the economy seems fine to me to just be based off of kills as long as it actually works
outrunning zealots is funny
DD kinda works if you go lasgun assail
also arco, just wanna ask
is it possible to make a surge assail build?
I thought it would be very cool to qq swap surge staff into assail and then qq swap to your weapon to get the blessing thing
kills on marked targets sometimes does not grant stacks
more cancels than gunker
sounds good
Also this discounts empowered psyonics which aināt great but with smite can kill hordes
but assail needs EP
and smite seems ot need warp
when do you get the toughness bonus from using psionics with smite
so im not sure how to build it
need ur help bossman
assail is perfectly fine without EP
This guide pretty much explains everything
My surge blitz cancel vid got more dislikes than usual. People be hating on memes. 
try using assail plos
i think would be very cool, and thats prob going to be highest execution psyker we have
smite swap to assail swap to melee
You do it as you fren.
whats fren
I'm not removing wildfire for assail on surge.
w
Please. Itās trash
Absolutely garbage perk
Yeah but the beauty of 30 points system is you can play however you want.
Pls no flame 
Ngl I think I had wildfire on most of my builds until a month ago
I just don't like assail. Feels clunky
you picked flame š¤Ø
Smite just so good at locking up a horde lol it increases survival alot on auric
I have a dedicated flame build in hopes it will one day be a better option
It has a harder time the higher the difficulty but itās still always okay
focuses on toughness, movement speed, and critical hits
arco this work?
the warp charge soulblaze perk aint worth it imo
sure y not though I don't like the warp charges branch
only if using purgatus
Put it back on
warp charges are nice when using venting shriek and shield
am i dum dum, i remember surge procs soulblaze
could just be dum dum
What changes should i make
Iāll think about it
im gonna try scrier's infernus recon again
I got a 380 purgatus so might be worth it
wish me luck
run EP?
I think it's fine since surge does generate a bunch of peril
just to make taking solidity less painful because of puppet master
No laz pistols funnier (I love not using an auto clicker the wrist pain is great)
i'll test peril brekapoints with the smite --> assail tmr
i hope its at least decent
surge*
surge --> assail
at max stacks of ws
would this be able to proc?
siblings how's it going?
It should reset the oldest stack with a new stack on gaining a new charge? I think
loading into auric damnation with a test build and 3 bots
Yeah it'll be funny do it
if u have enough currency, do it
Replace blaze with repost and itās decent
just to have it in your book I suppose
french
toast
Latino
shut up
and dance
Frenchphobia
olivephobia
Deserved because olives suck tbh
:(
they should make it so your teammates can also see the marked enemy so they can let you kill it
haha no
anyone bought the chem dog psyker set? wondering if the helm changes your voice
cause then they would definitely kill it xD
just to fuck with u
or because they dont play psyker and dont know what a blue marked enemy means
we'll just have to see how it's economy looks like when it functions properly
put a big red x in front of the enemy for other players
duh
lmao
would not be annoying at all lmao
it's impressive how long DD hasn't been working properly
what's not working about it
you occasionally don't get stacks from killing marked enemies
dinosaur duck
i think they should buff wildfire
there was a video posted of somebody not getting any DD stacks for a few minutes
despite killing marked targets
they should buff every gun i use
this gud? š
good 2 know, not trying dd until they fix it
Eh
Low penetration is gonna hurt
And the groaners and bad blessings won't help it
So at best you'll be getting a 3/4 with bad penetration
Let's be real it's still gonna one shot 90% of enemies
Surgical
@cold elm
@cold elm_tv
50 minutes ago
Ok. Ok. Iām sold. Iāll put down my staff and pick up a columnus. Damn.
I see where all of your opinions came from lmao
Not quite lol
Most of this stuff I knew already
However I was not aware of the columnus and how strong it was
guys i think we need more psykers
Nah. Not enough brain bois
imagine all 4 running gun
I personally donāt usually run guns with psyker and has no idea how strong they were
also don't know, I just heard that they goes through ammo like ogryn chew down ration 
why is the dueling sword so meta? what makes it so much better?
surgical precision heavy attacks with huge damage and crit
horde clear isn't the best tho
big damage makes the brain happy juice
so you have other ways to deal with the horde
like assail, trauma, purge, void
you have options for what weapons you prefer
Dueling sword 4 does yuuge damage on the heavy poke attack that can one shot mutants, and has really good natural penetration, blessings are also really good
so if ur not running that you should run what sword?
successful builds will have different bases covered by their weapons
It practically bypasses carapace armor
wrong question - what are you running?
shield gaming
surge staff
illisi
same tbh
on a vid i watched it said to run the Ds or the Deimos but i should run the illisi?
has very good horde clear
dueling sword and deimos are both single target weapons
Deimos and DS are for armor/elite takedowns, ilissi is for horde slaying
Illisi is the horde clearing melee weapon for psykers
oh ok ok
it's objectively the best choice for horde clearing
Illisi my beloved
he meant Illisi
using voidstrike force staff, where should I aim the orb at? the ground or directly at enemy torso?
got it, thanks 
what do u guys think about my mk4 dueling sword?
You can also go for their head for weakspot damage
Some tho it may be tricky
stunlocking bosses with voidstrike is always good times tho
just let vets know beforehand so they don't choke on the grenade throws
it's definitely... something
like if you asked Thor what a sword looked like

problem is you can see the clipping of the staff part into the dueling sword handle
also this is a surge staff lmao
At the head
Voidstrike staff is the only staff thatās charged attack can hit weakpoints and crit at the same time
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pretty good
You got fucked on the burn tho. :/ unfortunate
Canāt hit max warpfire charges with that one
It'll still work, just won't be as efficient as higher numbers
best staff i have by power
That will be a decent workhorse until you are able to roll a perfect one
If you build into crit chance that will be a very nice staff indeed
Hope you donāt run into crushers tho
rn im still trying to fill out my sticker book for psyker
thats why playing stupid is for
what*
force sword charge
Fair
Although
If you can get rending on your force sword your soulblaze stacks will go right through carapace armor
Is quite nice.
i have uncanny 3
Then you have crushers covered.
Very nice staff indeed
Purge staff is underrated imo.
Itās the best control weapon in the game
Itāll do for now
But I would work on getting a replacement asap
That 349 is painful
Block and sprint eff is not too bad however
Especially block depending if you have the block peril perk or not
sounds usable/good to me? more I frames is always good
it does stuff but it's also against melee specifically and the dodge window is pretty long anyways
Damn no one gonna mention the knife levels of mobility?
worht it
rip first target
Yeah but look it everything else
I'm hoping I can get a 4/4 with rending or brittleness
Definitely worth it
Ehh. Thatās fine
Finesse is what youāre looking for anyway
Although that first target is going to bite you when it comes to charged attacks
I've heard Obscurus moveset isn't as good as the others, but if your comfortable or like it more than go for it
Itās not really the greatest. But itās a decent middle ground between the illisi and deimos
Which is better then?
Depends on personal preference
Deimos is the best for single target
Illisi is the best for horde clearing
Obscurus is decent at both
Deimos horde clear honestly isn't even bad, I'd mark it as the best all rounder
True
obscurus is more of a worst deimos than any middle ground
I prefer the illisi due to its special attack doesnāt make me stick to enemies
I feel like most of the time I don't even use it because I can just get more attacks in instead
The Deimos pokes are baller though. L1 into H2
Honestly if youāre going for single target drop the force swords altogether and grab a dueling sword
can this get saved? š¦
though illisi special spam is the best if you can afford the peril and space and there's a decent amount of density
it just feels braindead but it is what it is
Get rid of deflector
what to replace? š
Put on ripost or uncanny strike
and how about perks
Preferably uncanny
Perks are actually pretty decent
Thatās actually a pretty decent sword overall
Is blazing illisi ever worth running compared to other options for melee?
is it maxed at 4 as usual?
I would raise slaughterer to t4
T4 slaughter on illisi can 1shot pox walkers when fully charged up
blaze is pretty horrible
Donāt use blaze. The fire damage isnāt worth it
Just use light attack
Does the job better anyway
Things will be dead long before the DoT does anything to help
Itās like 20 damage per second. Which is basically nothing
Seeing as pox walkers have 300 hp
banger trauma staff
On damnation
375
Finally, pole weapons
Change the animation to a downward hammer ground pound and ur golden
this guy gets it

what yall run with blaze trauma?
I feel like BB without addon talents is best choice for blitz since trauma can do everything except for rlly long range
I've a got a Nexus/Surge Trauma just for the memes
This is my setup
so we've heard 
But... this is the first time I've mentioned it

It's kinda fun though
the suppression on primary is nuts
And yes I could just use a voidstrike (and do) but sometimes trauma stagger is nice
on force sword, what's max uncanny level?
3
thx
Any higher just gives you an damage increase
why so many of them stay at 3 š¤
I get where u coming from but im kinda gross so i love it
This is for blaze + nexus trauma. Feedback?
Not bad
I would get rid of venting shriek tho
Shield is vastly more useful
And scryers gaze is just stupid damage
Especially on trauma staff
will this sword become gud if I put slaughter and uncanny on it?
Your opinion is invalidated lmfao
Not bad. Not bad at all
Bro venting shriek is literally just training wheel for people who donāt know how to control peril
this is pretty much correct for blaze trauma. i dont love in fire reborn and go psychic vampire but otherwise you should have pretty good success with this build
i also personally like to go empathic evasion
unironically advocating scriers gaze on staves without any means to quell peril while shooting? instant heresy warning
hahahahahah
I missed the blaze part
.
scriers only kinda works on voidstrike iirc
It is usable on trauma due to the enemy density you expect to fight with it
what would u change except for fire reborn? anything?
is it easy to crit with illisi blaze force sword?
uh i mean it has really fast attack speed so i think??
Yes
u tryna proc something?
Very much so
Illisi is probably the best sword to stack crits with
As it has a wide sweeping horizontal attack pattern
Can hit multiple heads at once
And multiple enemies
At once
Not to mention the force blast is a guarenteed weak point hit
this is my preferred build for blaze trauma on t5 maels https://darktide.gameslantern.com/build-editor?id=9b2dd1eb-16e0-44f8-8a79-82dd805de4d0
thanks. just asking cuz the sword have 10% crit damage
its a little more defensive but i prefer that
that stat sucks, its calculated as a component so in actuality it's like less than 5% crit dmg bonus. Its big sad
i personally go deflector deimos with blaze trauma
the +crit dmg perk is poopoo

what if I put shred on it for extra crit chance? š
u trolling or wrong link?
oh wait i see
you didnt bother changing weapons from default
i didnt set the weapons/curios, just the skills
I would rather have sprint efficiency than +crit/+weak spot they're that doodoo
My personal preference is slaughter and precognition but uncanny is a good choice too
I am now a Deimos sword believer
Precog because I spam dodge when Iām fighting hordes
that said i think smite surge with shriek is a lot easier to run in t5 maels
Heres the thing... If youre gonna use vent with those 2 subtalents, you dont want 6 warp charges imo. 6 warp charge are harder to get and only reward u higher damage when you have more than 4 stacks. Running the 5% ranged dmg node is way better since its there no matter what, making you deal good damage with and without all warp charges
also wtf no warp rider? heresy
No i mean
perfect timing
not warp rider
.
perfect timing is basically constant 15% more damage if you use it right
i find im constantly capped out on warp charges during the moments i actually care about spamming on, so i dont mind having it
and perfect timing is good, but id rather not give up the ability to flex up to 6 warp charge or just ignore gunners
then again, 2 stacks perfect timing is just better than 2 warp charges. And you have 5 at your disposal
The idiocy I see on Reddit
You can literally stroke your sword a few times and shout at the enemies in the psykhanium to check for damage
Some people just can't be assed to do even that
redditors cant think that far
Does soulblaze kills count as warp kills?
i think its totally valid going 4 warp charge and perfect timing, but losing EE is pain lol
Yes

Soulblaze is a type of warp damage 
anyone else think EE is paramount? the only reason it can be useful is to dodge gunners
and if you have a vet who knows remotely what they are doing
there can be a LOT of gunners
the gunners will be dead
it's 1 second on a slow charge staff
left click spam
if im goin up against gunners im gonna be left clicking a lot
left click spam restricts your movement like a bish, assail doesnt
i dont think youre doing ur job then, as a trauma psyker
cursed purgatus?
Grass is green
seen worse xD
understandable xd
i tried to make it look kinda like a flamer
put an eviscerator on top so we can have a fake chain lance š¤
mans cooking
I really hope they give us some two handed long weapon, like the mauler's weapon, or chain glaive
I mean as a trauma psyker u wanna be killing shit in close proximity, no? instead of trying to snipe gunners with left click spam
and at that point, just use BB
gib 2h force sword
the obscurus?
meme p much
ah
the nice thing about most soulblaze application methods is that it spreads it in a wide area
blazing spirit on force swords spreads it quite minimally and you're just going to outright kill things with the direct damage
but like... is it still a meme even if u use in fire reborn?
prolly, cuz psychic vampire exists and that benefits from ally coherency kills
whatever the math works out to # of proportion of enemies that die with soulblaze and whatnot
no but like, if a horde of 20 is running to me and I soulblaze vent Im gonna get at least 2 charges if im not super unlucky
so that actually incentivizes that you use the ability even when u have charges
But on the other hand, vampire works without your input
but on the third hand, getting it pretty much on demand is better, and faster?
on the fourth hand, i think we've mutated
I use vampire even on soulblaze builds.
???
why
you are doing the horde killing
with purgatus especially
It's more consistent for me.
heres an example of how good it is
Then how to get warp charges in melee?
All my warp charges build with soulblaze (surge, purg, blaze trauma) I use vampire. 4% any kills is more beneficial than 10% from only soulblaze kills for me.
maybe i guess
watchu think then?
https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9abf4f34-113a-44be-aeb9-245de708dc30/soulblaze-3 is this fine?
Whats the burn value I'm looking for on purg staff? I remember it was 70 something
76
cool thank ya
peril resistance per warp charge is really hard to beat
you can have both????
nope
.
oh, you meant Vampire the node
not Essence Harvest
for some reason I always get those two mixed up
for purge, there's basically no reason to not go with In Fire Reborn
for everything else, you go Psychic Vampire
even blaze trauma?
yes
because you aren't applying soulblaze freely with trauma, only on crits
you're going to be better off with Psychic Vampire
blaze trauma can be fun, but it's not the most optimal way to play with soulblaze
It's super trash 
this is a demonstration of what lacerate does
tbf that's not really bad either
just good fundementals to know how to kite
and the build features how incredilby safe ( and broken ) trauma use is when you're decent at it
yes, but having to do that much kiting means you're either out of position, unable to deal with the enemy in a timely fashion, or your team is absolute garbage
not saying anything about how trauma was used in the video
I'd argue that's the mark of a good build if you can clutch
But I'm thinking of it in the perspective of a solo player who doesn't rely on his team lol
basically, blaze trauma is only effective at killing the horde with soulblaze
That I agree with too, ye
and its effectiveness at doing that is much less than purge
Yep lol
I saw
I mean
tbf purge downside is that it's purge
and Purge doesn't "do anything" vs hordes like that
yeah, purge doesn't feel good to use, to me
Purga against crushers and bulwarks xd
purgatus downside is that it is also dead boring
but then again, so is most staff spam
to run up to stuff
there's nothing "beefy" or visceral with the purge staff
flamer has some great sound design
"Might as well use Trauma because at least I can solo everthing with it"
I would like to see anyone play solo without kiting.
purge is just a hose spilling out feathers
Must be god
impossible lul
The only way you survive hordes like that is by looping
that or you speedrun with stealth
Darktide really wasn't meant to be played solo
so you can bypass choke points
It's not
but people like me are just crazy
maybe one day we'll get class-based bots, but I wouldn't hold my breath
Yet blaze trauma is a very good clutch tool
even if we get class based bots
it'll still suck
vt2 bots were just tanks
and there's honestly something hilarious to me
about 2 guys using crackhead weapons to beat a map that people fail to
trauma is best at keeping things on the ground, for sure
it's probably the best "solo" ranged tbh
it's definitely the safest, I'd say
then again
Darktide is just "boring" if you play it with the intention of yrying to solo/duo unfortunately
because the entire game becomes a puzzle of loop kiting
but some people like that ( like me ) so I think that's still fine
don't have to like niche gameplay options
It's just for tryhards
or for people who wanna appear like an unwashed sweatlord who's spent 2000 hours in a tide game
( also me )
I only have 1.7k 
i have like 700+ combined off vt2 and darktide
but I spent 200+ hours on vt2 learning how to solo
so I'm incredibly biased in how I enjoy it nowadays lol
I hope blaze trauma gets buff. Direct buff to me 
So yes keep spreading the words. Trauma bad 
I wanna hordeclear like a boss
and headshot with left click cancels
š beam staff my beloved
Soonā¢ļø 
:prayge:
So i have 6/7 of tier 3 blessings, missing just the only one i need, Blazing
Gotten some of em like 10 times by now
I guess i had too favourable opinion about the crafting RNG
Me trying to get a knife blessing
I get the same Lacerate 3's I keep getting over and over
Just play the super good rending trauma 
Knife i had opposite luck, decided i wanna try it, made couple knives and had instantly IV uncanny&precog
The problem is that your expectations are prob unrealistic
And your weighing of importance is also wrong
Perks and blessings have different priority on different weapons
there are weapons which weigh PERKS > blessings, weapons which weigh 1 blessing > perks > 2 blessing, and weapons that weigh 2 blessing > perks
it's pretty reasonable to get a 3-line weapon, whereas a 4 liner weapon is just fully rng
knife for example is one where the 2nd blessing doesn't matter that much
im looking at the zealot tree
christ
this shit is broken
why dont we get any of that
so you hunt for uncanny + 2 perks for the first knife you make
90% of our tree is +1% chance to do damage and +2% chance to hit a boss
yea psyker tree has weirdly powerful small nodes
or one with the warp
compare any single perk to loner
are absolutely disgusting 1 pointers
well
loner is trash
so even the shitty perks beat it LMAO
wounds
most non-shit players run 2 wounds in aurics
nah its just flat out better just because pysker is more fun doesnt mean it has better talents
you only need wounds if you're dogshit player or playing the wound build
idk this is gonna go same way as the smite discussion
wound build is fire
you're so convinced that you're right that you're not listening to anything else anybody says lol
why is loner the one talent that you pick from zealot's tree as the comparison
i shall stop speaking
out of all the good talents on zealot's tree
Zealot casually being stun immune and having like 5 damage reductions
idk the whole zealot tree feels weird to me
i look down on loner since it's milquetoast like the majority of auras are
why did they add a stealth element in a game where you are insentivied to stick together
the basic ability is just a sworse version of the ogryn ability
would trying to grab peril quel on kill be better than smth else?
i suppose there's only so many permutations for ults and they're bringing ideas from vt2
Using purgatus
you're incentivized to stick together but you can also do that with stealth ults
psyker has really good talents, if you want to shit on a class's talent tree go look at veteran, where running no keystone is meta
the game has team components and that's that
id say remove the block for peril and add battle meditation
you specifically don't want battle meditation on purgatus because you don't want to randomly lose 10% peril right before you cast venting shriek
vets fine vet is just a class for people who play call of duty and dont wanna bother with builds or theory crafting
oh ye true
peril block is such a crutch, i can't live without it
dunno man, zealot tree offers amazing survivability, but it feels like psyker's talents offer way more dps stuff
I feel attacked.
loner is 'orrible
I wouldnt necessarily call it a crutch when its on the class with no grenades and half the stamina of everyone else
curse clear or 15% toughness dr are way better imo
Stealth loner martyrdom goated zealot build
i mean, you have the most aoe dps outside nades anyways
peril block just feels way too good
free revives
wildfire sux too

bleed on zealots sucks
It'd change your life.
they said the same thing about heroin
2k plasteel wasted and still no blazing fire 4, but thank hadron for the 3x brittle i already have
xd
I gave up
I'd be big mad
And then milk gave me blazing spirit a week later
Is it like getting smackdown 4 on all your knives, like I get?
blazing spirit 4 is one of the few blessings that are worth to grind for 4
you're talking about on a force sword, right
Was there a t4 ? I thought it only went up to three on trauma
trauma staff
ah damn
Yah only up to t3
its okay, i did the same fucking thing a few weeks ago..
i was thinkin about the sword
the sword does have a t4, which is what confused me
for soulblaze in general I think you can get up to 15 from staff + 6 from venting shriek
staff blazing spirit has a cap of 6
:(
god beware that one staff would be good at killing elites AND have some boss dmg
wait, really
Fatshart hates fun
i wait for the day theres a plasma gun alike staff
so if I crit three times all I'm doing is refreshing the soulblaze at 6 stacks
yup
ffs
i want a proper precision single-target staff that matches the DPS of guns
quell cancel, i guess
and then I will cream from using it with buffs up to delete single targets
still not particularly reaching the DPS of guns
yeah..
and especially not against unyielding, esp with the 50% unyielding ADM that bolts have for no damn reason
Give up warp gun
warp glock
fartshark
blam blam blam
cough it up
can somebody explain me why crushers wont go down if hit with fully charged trauma (near the center)
happens very often for me
they get a period of stagger immunity on being staggered
i thought only their stand up animation has that immunity
they in particular have a long period of stagger immunity
i think reapers and bulwarks have it as well?
i forgor
i know that reapers have an extended period of suppression immunity but i'm not sure about stagger
when do they have that?
crushers get it after you stagger them
reapers get a period of suppression immunity after being suppressed for some time
i didn't do particularly extensive testing on reapers
so if a light stagger hits and they dont fall down, the fully charged one doesnt do shit?
that would make sense
at least to my exp
I recall medium stagger triggering their stagger immunity nowadays I think?
it didn't used to but i am 70% sure it does nowadays
yeah and it catches you off guard quite well
charge a ssecond shot, nothing happens
ye
it kinda ruins the trauma staff even more
i hate that its the best staff
it's nice so that you can't chain stagger them
at least in this respect, it has a limitation like this compared to smite
i hate stun/stagger CC so I personally appreciate things like this
doesnt explain the plasma gun oneshotting 3 bulwarks with a single shot
us psykers just need to get good, im afraid
i mean ok let them stand up, but not going down on a fully charged trauma just bc they got hit with the edge before?
plasma gun design-wise simply clashes with how the game is right now
it's supposed to be a super powerful gun that's limited by heat and ammo
I believe it has a hidden 30-40% negative modifier for ammo pickups if I am correct, so it's theoretically supposed to struggle for ammo
but because vet ammo aura exists, this downside is completely negated
similarily, your damage output is supposed to be limited heavily by heat mechanics
it's just that ammo pickups/survivalist are calculated based on your reserve ammo, so plasma is particularly affected since it has a 50/50 split of its ammo in the mag/reserve
but the heat mechanics dont do anything rn cuz each shot is like 15 heat or so and there's not a ton of management you need to do
so ultimately what happens is that none of the designed downsides are relevant
ah i see, yeah that makes sense
but yeah survivalist completely invalidates the ammo limitation of the weapon
the (lack of) resource management in this game makes me so sad
the problem is that certain modifiers IMO would be so much more fun
like the modifier for "no ammo pickups"
"histg" would also choke your resources a lot more
and it'd be more fun IMO
what do you think about voidstrike with warp flurry + transfer peril?
i have a very good with warp nexus + surge but its to slow for my taste
but as of right now i think it's easier to run out of ammo in malice than it is in auric histg lmao
flurry transfer is fine
it just won't be as strong as surge
you don't have to charge up the staff all the way fyi
you can do quarter and half charges depending on what you're fighting
most trash will die in a quarter charge
whats the breakpoints for bringing down ogryns? 3/4?
depends on surge proc
but yeah just try it out in meat grinder
charging all the way to kill trash is super overkill
idk i dont like the crit mechanics because then i have to edge peril
and that further delays the next shot
Anyone know if the Gnosis Pattern Rebreather with Psykana Collar adds the heavy robotic voice filter?
Supposed to, but we know Fatshark
I think that might actually be the one where some of the lines come out unfiltered
I thought the lines from all voice-filter cosmetics had an issue with cooldowns not being filtered. Maybe that's just in addition to what your refering to.
The hair sticks out the back, too
No
Only a gas filter voice
The helmet that did have the robot voice is gone
Siblings, is it still heresy if I accept Tzeenchs gifts if its for the benefit of the Imperium? Asking for a friend
(the friend is Tzeench)
Ayo imagine if Fatshark added "voice modulation" on the description of voice modulation cosmetics
So the Thrice-blessed guy navigator hat and the Savlar ones are the only ones with the heavy robot voice filter?
not too fond of voice modulation
I can't remember the names
Swear i had a guy in a match with this helmet and it had robotic filter
these two I mean
also some voices work with it much better then others
Left does have the robotic, not sure about the one on the right
Ye, this two have same modulation
Ngl I haven't had this happen to me
Or at least my dumb ass didn't notice it
Sour Milk's offerings of cheese
i betting on a godrolled knife with t2 blessings
Hoping for some nice stuff for my fresh lvl 30 ogryn
the voices told me you wont get anything good š¦
My Beloved told me I will
oh sonny boy, you've been lied to
well see who speaks true
Yes inquisition? This guy right here

It's not chaos, it's big E, surely 
we need an emoji that's the hamburglar but with inquisition symbols on his hat
so we can have inquisitors going "robble robble"
if its big E you would hear 100 voices telling you random stuff
Seems like your voices were right
and survey says
is shred 4 any good?
yes
you want to grab any t4 blessing on a weapon type you care about
that's the best use of Milkies
yeah prolly im thinking of trying out duelling swords
the ds4 is what you want

