#psyker-class
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Warp charges definitely
Purga/shriek can make pretty short work of rager packs, solo ragers up close can be dispatched almost instantly with deimos or ds4
Purga lmb spam will stunlock ragers
maybe i just need a better staff
EP is good for dealing with Gunner/Shotgunner clusters and annoying specialists
using a 200 rating one in damnation since im still levelling lmao
so its prety slow to kill shit
i just BB almost everything unless its a horde
You want something like this
Yea, good purg staff can handle melee for you
Flak + maniac/unyielding/crit chance
Get a melee weapon with uncanny strike (deimos, ds4)
Set crushers/enemy groups on fire
ya well
Swap to uncanny strike melee
have to hit 30 first before i start rolling
Hit a guy in the head
Your soul blaze will now have the rending properties from uncanny strike
Form your melee weapon
That's how you can get 1 million damage in games
you mean after i hit ppl in head
Yes
Set on fire first
Put a few stacks by repeatedly setting on fire
Then swap to melee, hit head
also maybe this is just coming off vet/zealot
Something like this
but is there like
nothing else to grab in the tree
after i pick up most of the good stuff
1 million DMG done
With purga staff
It's really good, people sleep on it
They dont use it right
i guess i should grab the crit talents
and maybe ranged dmg? idk
but I see
oh right and that evasion
oh
si wildfire useless
is*
i thought maybe its meaningless since everything is already on fire probably
It's not as useless as people say
but idk
But it needs help
Wildfire is good if you don't have that much on soulfire, but not as good on purg
It's not as good as it could be
It's good with Blaze Trauma tho
I also recommend stacking toughness curios
Not wounds
Don't be one of those 90 toughness psykers
i dont think anyone sane runs wounds
or martyr zealots
im doing 2 toughenss 1 hp rn though
is toughness all the way better?
I don't recommend slaughterer
On deimos
Slaughterer is amazing on horde clear weapons, which deimos is not
Executor can let you one shot ragers
With the special attack
It stacks executor+ uncanny strike 4 times in one hit
@jaunty tiger
Ok its time to address a minsconception im unsure about
Toughness replenishment is tied to coherency. That i know
But is it the same as coherency regen? And if not what is the differnence?
Is it that coherency regen decreases the timer of coherency regen firing that is the difference?
It decrease the delay and also increase the regen speed.
Coherency regen or toughness replenishment?
Both for toughness regen perk on curio
Well the toughness replenishment from coherency.
It doesn't increase the replenishment from talents like toughness on kills.
It is a false safety blanket
And having it makes you feel like you need it
Because having wounds means you go down more, therefore proving to yourself that you need wounds
It's a circle of shite
It's good if you still adapting to damnation runs, otherwise, yea
Awimoweh etc
I'm trying to play trauma staff since tomorrow, compared to other build it's very weak (my opinion)
It's so tru
Learning curve is real
Pls buff blaze trauma
Do you have a good Trauma?
If the stats aren't high enough it suffers more than most other weapons
Even below damnation
not about stats, just in some situations you're useless with this trauma
Because its stats affect its functionality more than just its damage
False.
And heretical.
And some blessings, without good ones it's lacking
Trauma is the most versatile staff, it just has short range
Well, it has short effective range, but LMB can deal with range... eventually
Staff LMB has ok dps
hard to deal with gunners with trauma
It has high suppresion amount, so you can suppress gunners with 2 shots and Reapers with 4, so it's worth just to fling it into the crowd
I guess, but how is that ever better than ccing the horde and pushing up to them?
Dome, enhanced psionics, and brain rupture with the fast charge after ability use
Only time youd actively lmb spam them is when theres nothing else around
Or when youre somehow in a bad position
Surge blessing on void strike or even trauma staff lmb actually has really good dps
Or just stagger them with shriek
I'm using it in big open rooms and there are gunners that you can't reach
You can out damage hitscan vets with staff lmb
Also it can kill snipers in 2-3 taps
1 tap with surge
Keep in mind LMB on staff can throw out like 3 projectiles per second
ofc you can deal with them, but compared to some other builds..
You know what, I'm building Surge Trauma and nobody will stop me
is it worth to buy this for 1% more blast and charge
It is a weakness but one you can compensate with your kit
No one weapon can do everything by itself and you shouldn't expect that
The strength of it is enough to be worthwhile
You could also take the venting Shriek with flames to kill gunners
Like you do with a Purgatus
meanwhile Hellbore flexing in the corner
Not really, but it's still a good staff
Shriek range to apply soulblaze is incredible
I like my bubble more, gives you a lot of free space
Hellbore melee works for horde clear?
Yeah, I think we normally end up on the same side of the argument for this
Fwiw I agree with the antidomers that Dome is not so great, but it does fill that weakspot best
Stupidly enough, yes
6 seconds is an eternity if you are focused
Yea, especially if you surrounded by bombers, flamers and trappers
Yeah lol
It used to be able to kill bosses in like 10 seconds
It can't do this anymore sadly 😔
@rigid sky maybe I'm still playing it wrong, but I tell myself that even with a decent score, with the other build I'd have had an easy 20% more.
Score isn't everything.
yeah I know
but when you have 400k damage with one and 700k damage with one other build ^^
Knocking a Crusher on its ass before it can smash your buddy's head in is priceless
Show me your weapons and your talents.
I need to change one blessing on this
Egads
same for this one but it's not the most important on this build
No wonder it isn't working
Nice blessings combo 
Good melee though
Well
Idk actually
Perks are a bit iffy
Damage could be higher
But melee is a tool anyway
Not your main focus
65% charge rate 
But that Transfer Peril and that Charge Rate are both crippling your weapon
I'm not kidding, a Trauma is shit until it is made perfect
OK, cut that left leg off your talents entirely
Yes, I know there are things to change, but I wanted to test the build before investing too much in it
At the bottom
Wildfire without blazing spirit is very interesting
Not sure what you intend to proc it with
It's barely even good even with blazing spirit
Walls are interesting choice too, bit redundant with the Trauma CC. Would take Dome instead but this is more subjective.
I would definitely take the faster charge on Rupture after ability use too
I follow this talent tree from the guide
You don't have the weapon it is for
Not the good blaze trauma build 
Yea, you need Blazing Trauma for it
Blazing Spirit blessing
oh
Tier 3 blessing, applies 3 stacks Soulblaze on a crit
Which applies to anything that your Trauma even tickles
I personally use dome because the toughness regen means I can cover for mistakes
the blessing is important for the build ? if yes I'll invest on it
I like the walls
So even the guys right on the edge of the blast who stumble a little bit
They get the full 3 stacks
Yea, that's the main tool of this build
Vital. Otherwise go Nexus/Flurry or Flurry/Rending Shockwave and run different talents.
I'll try to build a good staff then
I would run creeping flames with blaze trauma though
It enable a lot more soulblaze damage
Subjective. Try both styles.
I did.
Creeping Flames is great with it too
Way more damage.
More power, somewhat less sadety
Safett
Not talking to you directly, just commenting on your advice. But yeah, you are right to point it out as another equally strong build path.
Synergy well with warp charges for more creeping flames spam too
Still enjoying my heretical Warp Flurry + Blazing Spirit combo
Just bear in mind, even once you have a good one you will still suck with it and that's ok
Eventually it clicks
And then it will be your best weapon
And you will develop strong opinions about dome vs Shriek with it
And will join the eternal argument on #psyker-class
The circle of Trauma is closed once more.
^^
As is The Emperor's will.
I have a psyker friend that hit lvl 15 during launch week and got his first purg staff
He hasn't stopped using purg since
Its always funny how entrenched psykers get about their skills
Lyrics:
The sky is red, I dont understand,
Past midnight I still see the land.
People are sayin the woman is damned,
She makes you burn with a wave of her hand.
The citys a blaze, the towns on fire.
The womans flames are reaching higher.
We were fools, we called her liar.
All I hear is burn!
I didnt believe she was devils sperm.
She said, curs...
It is the burden of having an INCOMPARABLE MIND.
the number of possible builds with the psyker is what makes it so interesting
4 staffs since launch...
5 slots is not enough.
Pls Fatshark give me a Biomancy psyker
with mods you can have more
I want to snap an ogryn with my twig arms
More divergence between those 4 staves (and the entire nebulous concept that is Gun) than with most other classes imo.
We already have it, it's called an Ogryn
What the flipnarp is an ogryn
Na don't say that I WANT MORE
what type of staff you want they ad in the game ?
All ik are vet eel and psyker
Ogryn psykers when?
A plasma rifle ducttaped to a stick
"BY MY INCOMRA... INCOMPAL.... BIG MIND"
"3, 2 , 1 Stomp ya"
Beam would be fun maybe
Idk, copy some Sienna bullshit
A staff that turns people into microwaves
Then they can become throwables for your ogryn
Many would sacrifice orphans for a precision staff (that isn't like voidstrike)
It was the day I began my Joker arc
wait tey annoinced nerf for void?
Na back in Patch 13, Voidstrike was comparable to current day plasma
Then it got a heavy nerf :c
yeah i heard last time you don't even need + cara to 1 tap crusher?
It is still great fwiw
Indeed
if this is voidstrike done dirty i don't wanna know how it was before
Apocalypse cannon
You barely needed to charge to get the same dmg as a full charge now
Charge time was lower too afaik
blow a golf ball sized hole through the first ogryn, he is dead on the spot
It's still amazing lmao
Anyone who says that void strike is dead hasn't actually used it
take a shot with LMB, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nail the poxhound snacking on the vet
They just see people on Reddit saying it's dead, and just repeat the statement
Without checking it for themselves
Void is still my fav staff
Occasionally still onetaps crushers, or atleast feels like at does
with surge yeah
if they add this back i would install the game
I don't like it tbh. I want to feel like I'm channelling real power.
Charge times are a part of that
current void stronk, and im used to it, but the long charge times annoy me a bit.
void genuinely feels like shooting a cannon rather than a bomb
i want to feel like i shooting bomb
Being a Black Mage main and all that
Ooh, ley lines would be a fun and terrible gimmick
mage mains, hah
what are ley lines
stand in fire dps higher
Circle you place every 2 minutes that lasts for 30 seconds. If you stand in it, you cast 15% faster.
(except red mage, red mage can stay)
ah that sounds familiar
rune of power brainrot
are you guys going to buy helldivers 2?
Bosses in the current patch seem to love timing their big movement mechanics for your ley lines timings
LOOKING AT YOU ATHENA
AND YOUR BULLSHIT SUPERCHAIN I
We all know that ley lines have a passive that gives them priority target for the bosses AOE
Maybe, but I’d rather see how the game fares for a short time after release, and then I’ll decide whether I am interested
And if you try to delay it you just lose a usage so you have to either try to ping-pong in and out of it or just get like 2 GCDs off and then sadly abandon them
Like I did with Enshrouded for instance
i preordered because of financial reasons
bought like t8 yestd too, sadly no time to play
Darktide burnt me re: pre-orders 
nah i dont care if the game sucks
i had money i needed to burn
to be accurate steam wallet funds
I’m very hesitant from pre-ordering STALKER 2 even, even though I will definitely be interested in the game
my general wisdom is never pre order
kjerad
have i told you before
I wait for biomutant 8 years no preorder.
My friend, that same year, preorder biomutant, battlefield and cyberpunk
Even bought a whole new PC just for cyberp
each game i tell him don't preorder

cyberpunk he tell me "but its cd projekt red!!"
I know what happened to each of these games, so…
battlefield he tell me "i waited for a new battlefield very long already"
on the other hand.. preordering elden ring....
nioh 2 > souls
gamplay*
sorry im a nioh 2 fanboy that wants people to realize nioh 2> souls.
they're close imo. i like souls aesthetics more though.
not close at all
souls very boring
you wait for boss hit, you hit once
nioh 2, while boss hit you can hit him
very c00l
nioh 2 has actual tech
super c00l
i mean, if you're not a Certified God Gamer, maybe
but nioh does have sick schmovement
i see darksouls gameplay, boring as well.
Nioh 2 combos + tech is godlike
darksouls, i defeated dog boss, got bored already
nioh 2 i stopped playing cause no time
i cant blame you. souls is boring to watch most of the time because folks that record their footage play it in boring ways.
hatchet best weapon of nioh 2, best as in to showcase what nioh 2 can do
Alot of hatchet best stuff you need to use with tech
i fall asleep with the axe
kusarigama make YOU into the bossfight, especially when you weave ninjutsu into the mix
also tonfa has cancels
becomes DMC
you know about item cancelling?
you use feather, can cancel end animation with ki charge
then you can spam
dark souls no such tech
also nioh 2 tech alot actually hard to pull of
off*
souls is considerably less cool than elden ring, also, just to be clear. they really went in the right direction by allowing you to customize weapon arts on weapons
it's very easy to style in nioh, imo
but way harder to not have your fights look like shit in souls series
I had a funny double rapier setup with the sekiro mikiri counter as the weapon art, and I was just taking like 11 shots at the bosses before the actual window for me to attack them back
so, it's possible to do cool shit. not quite on nioh level though.
anyway.
HADRON PLEASE GIVE ME BLAZINGN SPIRIT ON MY TRAUMA AAAAA
Sekiro would be likely cooler if there was more weapon arts that could be used at the same time
because with nioh the game can be made very easy with certain stuff
e.g. 3x catto
But when you see somone good pull off stance switch active skill, than machine gun flux weapon switch to instantly do active skill thats the coolest shit ever
i watch good people play and im like holy shit
The problem is that it limits the amount of weapon arts that can be used.
after I made my first blazing trauma, I tried to farm for nexus IV
you know what I got?
but you nned to know they are teching tho
4 blazing spirits in a row
god's will bro
Hadron is a sarcastic bitch and it's why we love her.
can't wait to pay tribute for her to hurt me again
now I know who took all my blazing spirit..
im not muslim, but as they would say "Inshallah"
whip me in the balls with another blazing spirit
all i have is nexus..
VARLET whiplash

the rumor?
its been said yellow quality high chance of having t4
schway?
higher*
you put that on gang, homie?
all the t4s i had to grind for i got within 15 yellows
Yep, got my high level stuff from that
surge took me 12 yellows
this is not actual advice though. xD
i just did and tbh it just feel better that way
sort of like psychological placebo
this is like getting a brewskie at an AA meeting. DT players are genuine gambling addicts
i don't know what breskie mean
a brew, a beer
ah
personally i dislike gambling
and grinding
its jsut this game's isn't that bad
i spent 100+ on BDO
stopped playing after 2 weeks
you see psykers digging through lockboxes for plasteel in Heresy like crack addicts on construction sites
i don't search for plasteel when playing psyker because DD
but on zealot i search for plasteel because honestly most of the time the team can be split
DT has an AMAZING gameplay loop. it genuinely doesn't feel like you're grinding most of the time.
yeah but got repetitive for me
uninstalled after 220 hours
am just here hoping someone ask about void
because this community helped me alot
so i just hope i can help someone else
i should be in zealot chat going by that metric but im ass on zealot
psyker is easier for me
psyker i could top chart 3 categories very easily and consistently
i feel like I'm playing a new game every time I crank out a new build every now and then
zealot is like only if i really play peroperly then i get 3 yellow chart
else its like 2
I tried ogryn already, both club and shield.
Im never touching vet, also never touching column and evisc
Zealot i tried crusher and god rolled caxe
Psyker only played voidstrike because imo assail feels bad, surge stuff is a shitter voidstrike, trauma is voidstrike's twin (straight line vs AOE), purge isn't interesting at all personally.
surge stuff is a shitter voidstrike
I mean this super subjectively btw.
I just feel why kill 1 guy when i can kill 1 guy + 10 zombies.
Also can't 1 tap crusher.
im sure there are situations surge is better.
im like nearly 600 hours in, got all my boys maxed.
i kind if see your point with surge, it's a strange staff
im never touching that cancer of a class
pfoom pfoom gun and psword
just dont play plasma, columnus and power sword if you dont wanna be bored
Ulgo like ypu sparkheads. You kill lots of heretics!
don't kill me but.
I think the fans carry the "view" of the game harder than the devs
Ive done all penances except the mission ones, so im just farming plasteel for guns with a higher base rating
Fans def carry
i keept repeating myself, if the devs put more effort into adding new mechanics that rewarded skill expression instead of tuning stats this game would be A + tier
That would only matter if enemies got buffed as well
the only skill expression i had so far which is so miniscule is using the crusher wep and slide actions on psyker
Still waiting for Chaos Wastes mode
Because rn you just juggle specials on auric+ anyway
they could nerf builds, then after awarding those skill expression stuffs can players reach the same level as now
which would be so much better because you actually have to work for it
INSTEAD OF USING A FUCKING META BUILD AS VET AND FAILNG TO DODGE DOGS BECAUSE YOU ARE USED TO SHOUTING THEM
Just push lmao
Push range vs dogs is like tripple the normal push range
Ye welcome to the playerbase i guess
only vets and sometimes ogryn are this braindead
Imo ogryns in discord are pretty good
Ye true
Sadly that occasionally gets reflected back as well
I remember back when twins got released some guy left just because i premade psyker and vet
Meanwhile i got hm in 2 attempts with randoms
goddam
the only time i tried hm was with agent with 300 ping
my actions took >1 second to register
there was animation delay on enemy of about half a second
i missed everything

at that point i was thinking "oh shit am i going to lose my cred"
Ye same

Tbf i played out of my mind tho
wat that mean
also how come vet get these in one build:
Best grenade that automatically recovers, 1 tap crusher
OP melee
OP gun
Spammable panic button

Slide backwards with ds, shoot charged void mid slide, swap back to ds and push the enemies i slid into, while managing gun twin with bubble
that must have felt pretty cool
but tbh, only reason i want vet nerfed is so i don't get braindead people in my games.
Dont really get to kill anything that way tho, but its a great way to manage enemies swarming from all sides
And using void to stagger ragers you happens to slide into is tricky
my voidplaystyle is literally a tank :p
not so cool like yours
i see three ragers i hold S shoot
I run crit 
Fixed clipping issues for Psyker "Chem-safe Rebreather with Psykana Collar" head gear when having specific hair styles equipped.
PRAISE THE EMPEROR
tbh acting superior because psyker is fun
Also why would i bother to change my name
Only lfgd twice anyway lmao
I mean, we are superior to other classes we have INCOMPARABLE MINDS
Point still stands tho, if i can do AM while being super rusty something is wrong
Auric mael
one point i could neever understand is
everyone say psyker hardest class
but i found zealot to be hardest
more stuff you have to make decision on, and remember
Prob because you actually have to play the game instead of pressing/holding a single button
Also most zealots have no brain
that what i do on psyker
i hold charge on my voidstrike everything die
zealot i have to manage bulwarks, have to try (and then die) to take out 12 gunners
have to melee 2 minigun orgryn
have to take out crusher + mauler + zombie alone (which i felt was harder to do compared to psyker)
reaper*
not rager
i keep calling them rager
I felt like staying alive on zealot is easier, but youre almost always low health
staying alive yeah, but to do anything with impact its much harder
Ye the flaws are more obvious
Also the only class that doesnt get to compensate those because of its design
Vet has ammo aura and aoe def buff
no vet has literally everything
Ogryn just gets to ignore gunners with enough toughness regen
Ogryn gets to ignore everything
And psykers low health is tied to skill
Ogryn most braindead class
to be more accurate, if there are enemies nearby for him to whack
else the gunners will chunk you too if you have no cover
Shield
true, but most pub ogryns don't run that
But pub ogryn
Anyway i gtg, train is about to arrive
Most ogryns run double gunner resist I think, or at least I do
Time to gas a city i guess

you're pretty much immune to reapers though, which is really funny
Yes i am truly dangerous
u mean the knockback?
no the damage lol
with all the toughness damage resist and the added gunner resist they just take forever to kill you
plus there's a node up top that gives you 30% extra DR against ogryn enemies
if you get killed by a reaper it's probably because your keyboard broke
i forgot that gave DR (only remembered about the damage)
yeah it's nuts
extremely good and so high up that you can always take it
and then if you have the added Feel No Pain stacks you're adding another 25%
Zealot has to be constantly engaging to not die
It looks very W+M1 but you have a ton of micro decisions and precision
Psykers are more macro
I like ogryn
turn my brain off and hit things with a shovel
Get hit? Doesn't matter. Get shot? Doesn't matter. Just keep swingin that shovel and it'll all be fine
Ogryn is all positioning and timing
Hence why Bullrush is still the best ability in a vacuum imo
I've been branching out and playing vet and psyker again
wdym
I levelled psyker to 30 before the new skill tree but am just now playing it again
You are right in the thick of it and all the enemy attention is on you, and you need to be actively defending while still carrying a large chunk of the killing work. If nothing stops you you can just keep fighting until the Emperor wakes up
im half joking ish
While keeping your revolver well fed
A lot of zealots are brainless, true
Low floor, high ceiling class.
nah, I meant that ctw can bandaid a lot of problems
even when im using a pretty bad melee like taxe
It certainly can. Fury of the Faithful is arguably overpowered I think
Less so than Veteran Shout
But still
2 charges on it + cd reset is a forbidden combo from pre-13
And we all see now why it was forbidden
I would hate to lose it lol
Also that one talent point that lets you just "nope" dog pounces
Clutch: The Class
obv scoreboard doesnt mean much but
its just funny that i can keep doing this
dont even take out the gun (no burn dmg with flamer on the score)
just ctw everything lmoa
I personally think its a lot easier than other classes at least
well, idk about ogryn
since I don't play it
ogryn has a lot of wiggle room imo
because getting hit is less punishing
the little uns just go down after a couple measly crusher overheads
I find zealot and psyker easiest to solo clutch.
But maybe it's just due to me playing these 2 classes the most.
Hey anyone else have this problem with the protective shield? I cannot see through it at all
lay off the spaceshrooms
Very pretty
Oh yes charging mutant is the best .. I cant even see him coming 😄 I have to use my other senses lol
Yeah, actually alot of decisions
I die when I solo dive into 12+ gunners. Very sad.
You're a psyker, listen to their mind
Bro just let the mutant throw you
200iq play. Movement tech
Dodge, dip, duck, dive, dodge
eliminate 5 of them with your Zarona first
then go in while reloading a bullet in between every kill and thinking of Revolver Ocelot.
I'm using kant but your point still applies
But zealot supposed to be melee class
How come I need to shoot 5 gunners first
gotta do something while you're closing the distance right
N0. I press F then 1 second later I'm there
Also not enough time to kill 5 with gun
Other than that, it's managing stuff like bulwark
I think zealot having to change what he is doing alot of the time makes it hard for an average skill player like me to do good with the class
On psyker 99% of thr time I'm holding my stick
gunner hordes HATE him. find out how this psyker holds the W key into 18 gunners and takes 0 damage with THIS simple trick! Click now!
I did actually see someone else post the same thing, common consensus was it's either a driver or GPU issue but I don't know more than that, sry. You aren't alone though! Guess you should just run shriek instead.
interesting technique
getting shot? just say no
bullets cannot legally enter your body without your consent
the craft/farm system is completely shit
Yes
you should be able to swap things out at will
you should not need to find blessings first
but here we are
they need to rework this
i also think blessings shouldn't make or break a weapon
would you believe it if i told you things were worse at release?
Litteraly juste use like 600k gold and still not have a decent staff
spending all your money for shit weapon, here we are
completely nosens

that’s some bad rng
i feel like i get at least one 360+ for every like 200k i spend lol
for fatshark it's normal to do that for like 15min ?
game engagement numbers go brrr
if they want more players playing darktide they have to change this
That won't be for some time unfortunately
Also is it just me or is my audio fucked sometimes where enemies have a lower pitch
Yes.
Like
Did these hounds go through puberty
this has actually helped before
threw me away from a poxburster
🧠
I pray a safe gamble through hadrons roulette
Siblings, please pay respects to my poor mouse, for its RMB has died
suddenly found my purgatus just deciding to cancel its channelling
thought it was lag but nope, think it's the mouse now
You must feed the mouse to the machine
the machine gods arent pleased
you will now put the usb in the wrong side at first every time for the next 10 years
Oh please, I know which side is the correct side at a glance
what kind of blunt do you think I am
A blunt force trauma
at a glance? you look? heretic
Assail is just too strong, you kill every kill elite or special without even seeing them
Assail is one of the blitz of all time
Wait that was my game. 
realy ? ^^
I was like "this guy is good with trauma" ahahah
That's impossible
Thanks for telling me, I'm gonna do some more research and report this
640k damage in 24 mins is kinda okay I guess.
Decided to try out smite after not for a while
BOOORRIIIIIIIINGGG
Not my playstyle
No I wasn't just smiting every breathing thing
Truly one of the playstyle of all time.
I tried it but it felt underwhelming
Assail too tbh
I went with bb in the end lol
Bb is my favorite but I run assail with some weapons
I only really use assail how I'd use brain burst, except for the occasional random bullshit go
Also why does my keyboard even have an American keyboard setting fuck off keyboard
Assail is just better BB for everything but Crushers
Mostly I use it with trauma to reach gunners and snipers out of my range
With purg staff I use bb a lot more
Idk assail felt like it wasn't reliable sometimes
Right click
It can be finicky
Like I have to chuck like 5 for one dude
Right click
yeah its damage is pretty variable
I did 😔
whether it crits or hits a weakspot
Can you say right click one more time
Left click
Motherfucker
But sometimes it just misses weakspot and tickles them
:^)
Idk if there's a trick that is not right clicking 
Having some extra damage goes a long way with Assail
Yeah I’m usually use the right click then spam a couple normal for good measure
stacking buffs usually helps as well as blessings on your other weapons
I just aim high as hell but idk if that helps
Unless it’s a sniper, it always seems to one tap them
e.g., precog and uncanny strike on your duelling sword for maximum curb stomp
Usually i hit heads more consistently but sometimes I don't
Then there's bombers, they're odd in sometimes they get one shottted sometimes no
With the way everyone talked about it
i just swipe my mouse wildly just to lock onto targets and not GAF
You do that with everything
I expected them to autoaim into heads and penerate 10 enemies
it's shrimply optimal assail gaming
Each
Wait yours don't?
😔
I think you just have the wrong assail
get the kitchen upgrade node for assail
I use my trauma staff to commit tax fraud
That’s how I ended up in this game actually
I ended up here because I did vehicular manslaughter with my voidstrike
i killed 3 men
Apparently the balls are considered cars in some places
And that I shouldn't throw them at my enemies faces all the time
You should
Thats a lot of damage done for such relatively low elite & specials killed. Was it just a low intensity and you guys killed a lot of horde or something? Usually when I see ~600-700k, you also have like 100 elite & 100 special kills per player
if your using trauma blaze i feel bb is better for overall clear
I got both 1,000 melee kill contracts after spending too much rerolling
Then immediately got matched with two vets and a gunker, all with colmmnus who hosed down everything
I only got 71 kills for them in that match
bb gives you extra cover for bigger enemies like muties and monsters
also assail for horde clear doesnt make much sense when you use trauma blaze with blaze shriek
or for elite clear because trauma is already really good at it
i fucking love voidstrike ♥️
amen
bosses are pretty painful but unless i'm doing monstrosity maelstrom or whatevs, I like assail just for killing stragglers I don't think it's worth using trauma on
BB is weird because you won't use it for 90% of the match
but in the 10% it is a godsend
but then you'll run into a trapper running away behind a corner
Yeah lol
Or gunners behind boxes that your staff LMB can't hit
and then you'll go
"Oh hey, that's neat"
A lot of the displeasure around here comes from the fact that you can't use BB as a primary damage source
which is... fine
though i don't like the "enemy running behind cover" example since that's just BB covering its own weakness
of not having the damage and stagger frontloaded
i can't imagine playing BB as your main source of damage lol, that sounds even more tedious than smiting everything
it's fixing a problem it creates and that's to be expected
i mean BB should at least be interesting or have more mechanical depth
Yeah you have a point. Though in the situations I'm thinking of, it's more for catching targets that people are going to have a hard time catching due to being caught up doing other things
it's both below average AND boring
It definitely should have more depth though
hotfix 🙂
no warp charge/gaze fix 🥲
Psyker blitzes are pretty dull in general
yeah i hate them all
assail just happens to be the one i like the most just because you can make yourself do something interesting with it
Definitely my least-favorite aspect of the class
but like, beyond that, i hate all of psyker's force staffs and blitzes
I'd take Assail if it didn't mean giving up Psykinetic's Aura
smite could be so cool
a lightning-themed blitz
It has potential to be cool
but no it's just stuns and you just hold a button to make enemies do nothing
could be. too bad it's the hold left click and hope someone else plays the game for you button
but it's mostly just reused code from the old Surge staff
p much
It’s a good ability tbh
yeah, it's strong
good but not very fun
Oh it's definitely good
i just absolutely despise its design
just dull
Just not a riveting one
it's like if vet ammo aura was a blitz
and while you used it you cant do anything lmao
psyker is the one class that makes me disappointed in fatshark
cuz it's the magic class and it's grounds to do cool shit
It's funny because Sienna's Soulstealer staff is literally just Brain Burst, but it's much faster (in a game with fewer ranged options) and the sound/visual design is a lot more satisfying to me
I mean, no? Not at all
There’s a big difference between resource gain and locking enemies down with active cc
okay take it literally ig
Bb is faster if you use the talents for it
oh yeah I meant baseline
eh, i just dont like the feel of bb. kinda goes against the fast-pace of things
i want something like faster charge when hovering over an enemy or something
it'd be neat if they, like, made it faster to go off but made a "fixed" cost to it. so you couldn't just dip to 95% and recast.
or something idk
well, i don't think we can get around the inherent design of BB without making it something different
single-target lock on ability that has to be charged before using it
The funniest thing about Brain Burst in general
i'd prob just add more cool effects once you get a cast off, especially with EP
maybe like. you can charge it pre-emptively but it reserves x% of peril
is that it's more associated with Orks than human psykers
Why are we using an orky spell lol
psykers are the most oppressed 😔
If you run the node for increased cast time on ult as well as the middle capstone it casts quite quickly
You just have to maintain your buffs, which makes it more fun imo
eh
it's just the thing i take now to get psykinetic's aura lmao
hardly any casts other than the passive proc
but then i am sad and cry when i have to braianburst a special
Why?
you don't get EP charges on special kills?
You have three stacks
at least with the lodestone upgrade
yeah and i'm not a fan when I'm BBing more than a couple of specials
Smite is the same way, you really shouldn't be using it for the vast majority of the match even in auric maels.. But when you do need it, its awesome to have. Nothing like run-saving smiting packs of crushers that are right on top of your team
something something the gamefeel is suck
You should be using any nade for 90% of the match or more
Like ogryn nukes, just throw one every 30 seconds or so
like i've tried to make BB interesting by taking all the upgrades and EP and QQ cancelling it and it's just still very lacking to me
alright but psyker is evidently a different case than the other classes
I can’t agree, but if you don’t like the feel you don’t like the feel
you get upgrade nodes for your blitzes, and two of our blitzes require you to hold them out to use them
Only times I use BB is if I'm running EP and I only use it with EP then. I will almost never self cast BB with the very slow cast
well, I was ok with brain burst in patch 12 since it's whatevs and the speed was good nuff for the amount of enemies that got thrown at you
I run it with left ult so I can have the casting time up whenever in need it
and i don't like EP being the straight up numerical buff that it is
main use i get is painting an area where a distant gunner/sniper roughly is
Ep isn’t needed for specials, but helps a ton with elites
they implemented empowered blitz in one of the most boring fucking ways
at least with vet nades they're distinct and more of "throw and forget" sort of deals
what else would you put?
I do wish Psyker left tree had some more soulstealy/lifeleechy talents
they could just remove shredder frag grenades having bleed by default and have that for grenade tinkerer instead
or we got a staff that did that
for some reason vet gets all that shit for free
whereas psyker has to spend points
with psyker's blitzes, they have a greater potential to be a "third weapon" type of deal
Give bb an aoe stagger, give smite something like a push effect, make assail fire an extra projectile or something
and consequently that let's you give more stuff to psyker blitzes and do more with them
BB staggering/damaging targets around a kill would go a long way in giving it utility
i want smite to be a melee-themed blitz
With the damage and stagger scaling off the enemy you kill
lightning punch LMB and a shorter, more interesting stun on the RMB, as well as keeping Enfeeble, and smite becomes something that you might mix into your melee combos
You kinda sorta can get that with the talent that makes elites burn enemies around them when killed. But it’s not a bb thing
I think it WAS meant to be that way when we still had Wrack and Ruin, yeah
cool interesting effects
That'd be super cool
if you jank smite out, you can pull enemies towards you which is a really cool concept for melee and should be made a proper thing (that isnt really janky)
though then the people asking for Hammerhand Psyker would get sad
oh yeah that's neat, like proccing the stagger forward anim on enemies
On a side note, I wish assail just traveled in a straight line when fired instead of honing
Give me a node for that or something
i like assail as it is cuz otherwise you'd just have zealott knives
I just don’t like the feel of how it works
Maybe if they ever port Sienna's bolt staff to this game
I’d rather click heads
quickswap weapon that you can fire and forget and is best used at intermittent intervals to take advantage of perks/blessings on your other weaponis
Pretty sure void staff is basically the darktide bolt
yeah i feel the same, but i'd rather the "click heads" sort of thing be on a staff primary
Though if we get any new staff in this game, my guess is that it's going to be Beam in the form of Molten Beam
Yeah Void is functionally a combo of Fireball and Bolt staves
That’s why I’d like it as an optional node
assail being a quickswap tool is the identity i want it to keep
I don’t want to force people into it but I’d like the option
yeah but i also do not want anything that brings it closer to zealot's knives
well it's like a mix of bolt and fireball staff
Melta will probably work like Sienna's beam as well, but with a limited range
and maybe a fatter beam
smite is technically also quick swap tool but it just takes so long to properly zap somebody to pull them in it's a gimmick more than anything
I mean it’s not really a gimmick, it’s just cc for your team
It’s good it just doesn’t deal damage
it's zealot's stun grenade except somehow even more boring and with more uptime
Basically yeah
I use smite on gunker
yeah but trying to use it proactively with the whole pull jank doesnt work
You don’t need ammo but I exchange you have to channel it
but that's because I don't have a decent way to stagger with my weapons
I would never run smite Ina random team
I mostly use it on rager and bulk hordes
Does Surge on a Trauma staff affect secondary action?
nah, that's still bugged
🥲
HOPEFULLY it's a bug
like run n gun from laspistols.... though that one i think might be a bug
i have a feeling that somebody just slapped surge onto trauma just cuz trauma and voidstrke both have equinox in their name
they just gave all the blessings to trauma for no good reason
smite with randoms is torture
420 Traumatime
I hope you have a decent one.
I got some workable failed blazing attempts to try it on, but cant play Darktide until about 1h later
Hope its fun, tried trauma only one mission while leveling
why do ppl on reddit say disrupt destiny is awful
i have been doing well with it so far in game
because it's redditards and they dont know what they're talking about
It's very fun I can attest to it.
like "dont even try it."
they refuse to do any research ever
But, your mileage may vary depend on how much you want to flick. 
I'd say it won't be fun if your charge rate is low. That's probably most important blaze trauma stat. Though 80% on all 3 damge stats are preferred of course.
This one saw the light when they witnessed me in action 
#psyker-class message
ok, 5th mission in a row where DD was definetly bugged for real
most of the time just the speed buff for 2.5sec
very rarely got stacks even when i definetly stabbed a guy in the head or shot him
yeah seems like the bugs are the real killer
when DD works, my uptime is fine and it's a cheap keystone
damage wise, it also doesnt feel like thats just a visual bugf
if i have stacks i onetap the mauler, without it, i do not
and i think that people kind of underestimate the +weakspot/crit damage
like, the damage calculation for them isn't great
its so good, but it literally doesnt work most of the time at all
but i find very little online for it
but it's free and on the mk4 ds with a 2.48x weakspot multi, +15% damage and whatever 2.5% * 15 was again, it translates into 1.4x damage on a weakspot
i haven't encountered the bug yet so my opinion of DD hasn't been soured so far
like, is that literally just happening to me?
nah
other people have had it happening to them
and i saw a video of the phenomenon
No +5% crit but atleast the right blessings, good enough?
Is the 5% crit critical for it working?
Also if someone has great trauma build, pic or link, id be interested 😃
"In addition, playing with Fire Trauma effectively does require mastering the Quell Cancel tech."
Also, i wanna learn this, teach me senpais!
Real blaze trauma build here at the start of the vid. Melee can be whatever you want
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmMGD1ev5rE
Using Mk5 duelling sword for fast movement and repositioning. More vulnerable to shooters without deflector but it's very comfy to kite monster and dodge muties.
Patch 1.2.22
Smelter Complex HL-17-36 · Strike · Damnation · Hi-Intensity Shock Troop Gauntlet (Hunting Grounds)
Loadout: Mk V Duelling Sword / Brain Rupture / Force Trauma Staff
00:00...
skullcrusher dclaw supremacy
Thanks will have a look 👍
2 shield ogryns 1 rumbler 1 kickbacc 
I passionately hate brainburst though...
Penance hunting with it made it to my "never again" list
Oh well, ill give it a second try perhaps
Does Uncanny+Slaughterer help the fires with Trauma?
Seems most targets die before to make switching worth it in your video
Yeah i actually see switching to Sword with pack of crushers here
Now i just need this same helmet too to perform at this level
any thoughts on what i should change the other perk to for a 420 build
flak
been sitting on the crit dmg cuz idk if its even worth it to swap off it
does that make a big diff?
yes
as deranged as it sounds, it does
those sick bastards
Usually I switch to uncanny sword against crusher after knocking it down. You can also just trauma it until it dies too.
But melee with uncanny is faster.
If crushers are in a massive mixed horde I'd use trauma.
But if it's 2 or 3 lone crushers then melee.
This feels fairly slow in Psykhanium at killing stuff, i guess it really starts working when things get more crowded in actual mission?
Of course if you use illisi or a melee without uncanny then just trauma them.
Density in the meatgrinder is nowhere near enough.
Use creature spawner mod and spawn like 50+ enemies and see how fast you can kill them.
Need to get that mod
Think ill go try mission, no low intensity as that would be counterintuitive i guess
Yeah low intensity play surge it's much faster.
It's mostly for hishock and maelstrom.
The more enemies and better blaze trauma perform. 
Think i have 1 game played also with Surge Staff (same as trauma)
Just been doing Voidstrike
Purgatus while leveling
Surge is so good it does well in any difficulty.
Also it's incredibly easy to play (auto aim)
saw another psyker doing surge staff in auric quickplay dodging and slide dodging every nanosecond on literally any enemy like a pro tekken player doing korean backdashes, it was kinda amusing to watch
they didn't go down during the mission so I guess it was worth it in their eyes, don't think that much inputs were required tbh
Ever since i keybinded dodgeslides easily available, ive been probably overspamming em nonstop too much too
It can be as easy or as intensive as you want. Here's an example of micro heavy surge gameplay using blitz cancel tech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz7L0QuU6Us
My fingers hurt from doing blitz cancel. D:
Yes weapon customisation mod still screws up the vfx. :c
Patch 1.2.22
Magistrati Oubliette TM8-707 · Assassination · Damnation · Hi-Intensity Shock Troop & Mutants Gauntlet (Hunting Grounds) (Cooldowns Reduced)
Loadout: MK IV Duelling Sword / Smite / Force Surge Staff
00:00 Build
01:25 Game Starts
it takes the same amount of time to kill 1 poxwalker as it does to kill 100 poxwalkers
that's the deal with purgatus
Was testing Blazing+Nexus Trauma Staff, but yeah density screws it up too there
Which is more important, that +5% crit perk or stats being 80ish or just 70ish with the crit?
I'd say 80ish with quell speed dump
+5% crit chance isnt a lot, but it definitely helps
Nah warp resist dump for blaze trauma.
i was also of that opinion, mostly because sometimes i go half a match without seeing blue man
Although you still want it to be like 60 something.
and then i wonder what i picked the talent for
High quell speed let you quell for 2 ticks from 100% to do another full blast.
warp res lets you quell for less time before popping another blast
Not if you play at 80%+ peril to fully utilise warp nexus.
A full blast from there jump your peril gauge to 100%.
I suppose there's a case for quell speed if you prefer faster quell over slower buildup, but I'm a slower buildup kind of guy
both achieve the same goal though, just in different ways
I'd rather be able to use my attacks at a higher peril level safely than manually quell to a safer peril faster. lets me squeeze more out of scuffed situations where my peril is high. if I need quick quelling, that's what the 10% peril quelling chance on kill and shriek are for
all of my staves are godroll/balanced now
all stats 70+
however that said
quell speed would be my dumpstat on every stat type, if i needed a dumpstat
I also prefer quell speed to warp resist on purga.
I want to build peril fast and that thing is so slow with peril build up.
this is respectable
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