#psyker-class
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True glass cannon of this game
Glass cannon with very unstable munitions
I am a bigger danger to myself than the heretics are lol
At least with all the peril flux I regenerate toughness like a motherfucker
yeah im still at the point where I can do auric but position wrong often and take damage. So im addicted to the easy staff spam + BB + venting shriek build
I honestly don't bother with assail on Gunker. Either BB or smite for Auric
Assail on GUnker is good for light cleanup, Psykers are not that good with ammo generation
You just have to be so careful with it
If you forget you are in SG you absolutely will diem
Die
Fuck this keyboard
easy staff spam being.. surge?
purg makes me go š
I've never had any issues with ammo whenever I go into Auric. I just got used to dipping in and out of melee and that was all I needed. I prefer having more uptime in SG than having assail.
However, I do have a dedicated assail build which i like with a revolver. I just don't enjoy combining assail and SG. It's a personal preference
i don't generally like assail but it would be very handy vs snipers if you use a gun since you aren't suppression immune like vet
do u think its bad
it's good at what it does, but what it does is also generally meleeable
and i prefer my ranged weapons to be ranged
yeah. it sucks having to BB trash shooters
(i usually run at them)
Sprint-sliding into shooters is often the safest way of handling them
Be it Purge or anything else
Shriek can deal with them pretty well
staves are pretty shit until you get to level 30 and get high charge rate and damage
Or you can run assail or dome
You can throw some LMB to suppress them for good measure
That is just lovely
Purgatus is probably the best of a bad bunch
Maybe voidstrike because you can do minimum charge shots for trash cleae
even with that, I stuck by trauma staff from the level i unlocked it all the way till even now at level 220
Low level trauma is utter sadness
Almost made me quit psyker on the spot when I tried it

At 30 it is by far my favourite staff though lol
This staff is made to deal mental damage, too bad low level ones deal it to you
Blazing spirit trauma is like a drug
Why are the two psyker builds I like the most also the two most likely to blow themselves up
I could just run venting Shriek on my trauma I guess but I feel naked without the dome on that staff
iāve not gotten a good blazing spirit trauma yet but I like rending since warp flurry lets me throw them out in the oh shit situations
Dome in the corner and nothing but hounds can get you
i could never get past the weird input order for casting shield/dome tbh
always felt off to me
and with the wall i always end up placing it the wrong damn way because im stupid
It's crazy good, your death radius is monstrous
Unless it decides to not crit
You can be a lunatic and try to run True Aim to guarantee that
I just shit out more traumas until one works
Yep, ultimate gambling
But yea, True Aim is the only way to justify Rending + Blazing blessings combination
and it still sucks.
blaze trauma with max nexus and 5% crit is only just about passable on the crit rate. barely.
running it without nexus is gonna show you a very bad time
so, i discovered yesterday that +carapace perk doesnt make any difference on a duelling sword with uncanny
what to run instead i wonder
Unyielding can be a good choice for boss damage,
yeah i think so
why's that considered lunacy
A bit clunky play style, had fun running it tho
Does anyone know if Surge can do weakspot hits on the secondary? Or does it target body all the time?
This a decent staff?
What do you mean? It still adds 25% damage at full uncanny stacks
This was getting thrown about the other night as well and its utter BS. Skip to 0:25 and 1:25 to see the max uncanny hits. I refined the same DS with carapace in second half.
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Not really, no. I would aim for one with higher charge rate for certain.
Actually great
One can get to full peril VERY QUICKLY
Pros: you can get to full peril very quickly
Cons: you can get to full peril VERY quickly
I think I might have one with even lower Warp resist
Amazing for a bunch of builds
If one considers that Venting Shriek is fuelled by high peril, this is almost always a win. But I havenāt won with Hadron yet - thereās still ways to break that thing
Yea, that's good for talents that generate toughness based on generated/quelled peril too. You just need to quell more often so your attack speed may suffer
Yeah, okay, I don't think I want to go any further
Either this lands on Executor/Slaughterer/Uncanny or it's a brick in my book
Real
Rough AF, already bricked for me
I'd keep it for the day I might want deflector
But that ain't coming
Trauma doesn't tend to hit weak spots much
Iām not a big fan of bullet curver ā¢ļø either
I guess you could do it with Assail though
Yep, Assail and leaning more on melee. DS4 light attack pattern is good for farming weak spots, can get you to max just in a few swings in dense horde
Clearly you are not playing the real and meta primary fire trauma

A build exclusive to the truly enlightened
nah man what u actually want is to use blazing spirit for assails
blazing spirit surge trauma
Inflicting 6 stacks of Soulblaze on LMB crit
Yes
i like my rending/blazing trauma cuz i just use assail + ds4 most of the time and only whip out the trauma for danger scenarios
unfortunately does not seem to save u from peril explosions
those extra frames gave u the reaction time to stop the suicide
TRuE
So in that emergency situation you get a massive one proc of blazing spirit locked in...?
i can farm stacks with ds4 and use the blazing trauma as a vet shredder nade
Late but Auric Mael varies a lot in intensity
or i can just spam them on a melee elite pack and probablistically get a crit proc that way
Sometimes it's literally just hi5stg
sometimes it's not much different from a regular Auric HIST
since i have ~4 casts (each 1.9 seconds, 1.3 to cast and 0.6 seconds of downtime)) to get a crit off to maintain the soulblaze stacks before they decay (8.25 seconds)
it often is, honestly
It's really only in Monstrous Specials and mostly Shooters/Melee where the game feels way different from normal
HISTG can be oddly chill at times
I've played regular Auric Hi-Inten Damnations that are more hectic
but a lot of it is down to your teammates as well
Sometimes the AI manages to use effective tactics and you get outplayed
sometimes the AI just doesn't have a clue how to engage you
sometimes your vet shouts to free you from a slug and it barfs you out into a wall
and then you clip into the wall and fall to your death out of bounds
š
consider not going out of bounds
every now and then i get a 2 minute game where everything is immediately derailed because the ai director gets lucky that the different spawn positions sync up enemies
just that shrimple
and you get dogged once into 3+ flamers/bombers covering a room in fire
and its just like
read that to the tune of total eclipse of the heart

very cool game i got to play
It's all fun and games until the trapper flamer squad shows up
that I mean
or this
will you consider turning off bloom
the game i am thinking of was not won or lost based on my vision
because i was the guy who got dogged first
and this started a catastrophically dumb chain of events that lead to the entire special strike team being condensed into a 20 meter cube of death at the start of enclavum baross
This is my favorite
everyone loves to hold the big open exposed area in front of the elevator here
I have no idea why
also at this point im committed out of spite
you bitch
because this is when the game decides to throw 6 snipers at you
i havent fucked with my settings outside of turning off screenshake in like 1600 hours
yeah i fuckin book it off to the side
Which side is better in your opinion?
You canāt be hit by them if you kill them immediately
I like the left side, facing away from the elevator as shown here
i consider both to be basically the same but probably the left so that you have more room to maneuver so that a single bomber doesn't destroy you

i used to run to the sides until p13 came out and i was forced to become more comfortable playing in dense elite swarms
and now i spawncamp the middle dropdown
Surprisingly, that Ogryn did not get shot at all
makes life a lot easier if ur on a melee build
the nice helbore-shaped weapon in your hands
I do always love when you see teams want to instinctively bunker down into a dead end
I love me some helbore-shaped sticks
(especially when it's one where they can literally drop on your head like the alcoves in the mid-event of warren 619)
and you just look at them and think "yeah we're fucked the moment any kind of flame shows up"
yeah you can funnel melee hordes pretty easily there
"well fuck it we can all broil together"
https://streamable.com/ly7n2z sometimes u just have surprise maulers
(dont ask why theres no sound this is definitely artistic liberty)
and then four bulwarks drop onto your head
or the spot where 20 ragers can jumpscare you from the doors
and also three bombers show up
my favorite part of the warren end event is that gunners on the 2nd floor can shoot down to the scanning area
(i actually hate it)
I just unleash the BEEEEEEEEEEES
Brunt had a really nice blue Rashad for sale with Bromentum and Hadron managed to get a Decimator IV on it :)
only Bromentum 1 but still
This ok or finesse too low?
You will lose probably ~3% attack speed and slightly lower crits, might affect some breakpoints but you will probably still bonk multiple headshots that make several heads fly at once with that, useable but not perfect
I just did my Psyker's melee weeklies lastnight with Rashad and then had to make build for it for my Zealot too as got excited
Could I use it with DD or does it have to be WCs?
I did my weeklies with Gunker build, but focusing on using melee more than usual
DD will only make it better
More weakspot damage
Yeah heads will fly with Brutal Momentum
https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9b500f36-0f49-40b2-a596-5f89e1a261b0/crit-rashad build i made for my zealot with it
You could switch maniacs for carapace if you want it for crushers
You're already going to be dicing trappers and flamers and ragers shouldn't be melee'd so it's really just mutants it helps with
Yep!
Tbh CIAG TTK vs Crushers isn't too bad with SG and DD active
But it's a lot of bullets
And in SG everything is so fast that it consumes too much of your SG uptime
Yeah you can get one down in a pinch but when there's 5 of them you're out of luck
And it means you aren't hurting the stuff you're actually good at
Im not sure if i made mistake with my Rashad as it had Maniacs/Carapace, and i switched Carapace to Flak, but i guess with Zealot you end up more often in situations where you get also into melee fight with suprise Ragers
And Crushers go down by hitting F for Fury and Critting em in the head for ½ their hp
I think nobody really wants to be melee fighting ragers
but if you do you want it to be over fast
(preferably in your favour)
Still happens, best to dodgeslide and switch to ranged, but not always option
huh. good to know. 
Anyways, i should have kept the Carapace there and test it more in Psykhanium but defaulting to just Flak&Maniac is so easy and sort of "safe"
Though not optimal in every situation and weapon obv
Even going +10% weakpoint could have helped reaching some BPs like Scab Bruiser oneshot to the head
Now it takes Headtaker stacks to happen
Weapon not 80 in critical stats either so will just have to live with it not being totally perfect, works more than well enough still
Yeah you're probs better off with maniacs on average so I wouldn't stress, especially on zealot
Got Headtake IV to add to it, just got below 100 plaststeel atm š
I actually reckon unarmoured is pretty damn good aswell for breakpoints
My Psykers Rashad had to be sacrificed for that, but i picked better base from shop already for Psyker too
But that's probably because I've been using tac axes too much lmao
Yeah watched your TacAxe video, smooth head chopping
Psyker's new axe in the making
Could still be bricked ofc, but just basicly needs Brutal+Flak anymore to be workable already
20% power vs 25% from IV
Exactly.
Ok well my rashad did well enough to get me through an auric maelstrom just now
not sure if I like it more than my Illisi
think if I got a godrolled Illisi I'd prefer that but my slaughterer/bloodthirsty isn't the best
Does carapace dmg on revolver actually give and substantial breakpoints? is it worth running?
You can pretty consistently hit a two shot head shot crit breakpoint with carapace and hand cannon
i tested in psykanium with DD
carapace is just useless hahah
no breakpoints given
post clips of the tests plz
That wasn't the result I got, I'll have a look again in the morning
This is also not how Darktide and Psyker specifically works, though. There is no strict breakpoints especially for something like crusher vs revolver. There's like six variables at play. DD, scriers, warp rider, distance, weakspot, crit. Not to mention team damage.
still cant oneshot
therefore its redundant
No one was ever claiming it could one shot.
It's most certainly not "redundant".
Ridiculous.
alright im back with my magic stick whats the other blessing i should put on this / perk probably flak i assume
Pretty bad rolls unfortunately. I spose you could put flurry and flak on it and make it works
better than nothing for a start
they need to remove runngun from the game
or at least make better blessings everything is good for force swords staves only have 2-3 good ones per staff
Yes I witheld the med stim from my two teammates on their last wound.
Yes I let the zealot die so I could farm kills as they climbed up.
Yes I left the veteran for dead the instant she went down to save my own skin.
Yes I was deaf due to the music and got backstabbed fifty times in 1.2 seconds to a surprise horde from the back a few minutes later.
We recovered and won tho.
No I like it on my purgatus
I'd say rework it
STOP HAVING FUN
Videos like this show why you should run perilous combustion
Make it so on staves it reduces the movement penalty for casting
The amount of damage it would have done in an encounter like that would have been insane
I could but I don't like it for a few times elites like to camp next to the DH. That and the visibility goes a lil too ass for my liking.
I thought fire from PC doesn't spread to DHs anymore
and that was a temporary bug
My anecdotal recollection is that I've brain bursted snipers and gunners fairly close to DHs recently and that the fire didn't spread to them
Maybe it doesn't, I haven't ran it for a couple of months so it might've been patched since I turned it off.
One thing I will say that you have to be careful of when you're fighting around a DH
is chucking staff LMBs
the suppression radius on those things is HUGE and they make daemonhosts very excited if a LMB flies even remotely near them
maybe it's the daemon inside the host that senses the warp and wakes up, or something
this isnāt horrible, run n gun to flurry and swap specialist to flak, can get away with a true aim build
Have any of you tried revolver knife psyker?
Might try to run a build thou.
I think it would be funny
Found one
but why
SƩrge staff
totally
Votekick speedrun
Maybe
Thought it would be funny to run it with the most knife zealot looking cosmetics I can
At what point is Voidstrike Blast Radius too low?
1%
Assail > All
i never really feel the blast anyways
its more like a big rock
i would like those stats on a roll
ive been trying it out some recently. its...fine? psykers other abilities and tree so strong enough it doesn't really matter much what you run. mobility + uncanny from knife is nice for shriek and assail. revolver is just kinda there for things out of reach of assail. there are much better options but its a decently fun build and not so bad that its griefing
K
i would not run scriers tho
noticed with a surge staff that sometimes enemies blow up suddenly. what causes this? how can i cause it more often?
are u using brain burst
Ah
ah. thankyou
running a full storm witch setup right now
YUMMY
smite, surge staff
very nice
optimal? probably not. fun? very.
hmmm
you're not gonna believe what sword i was running, too xd
surge always feels underwhelming to me idk why
by far my favorite melee weapon in the game
i have a good staff and all that
could it be the damage seems misleading?
maybe
it's surge normal ^^
spam it more
1k kills 700k damage in 27 mins
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 Ā· Assassination Ā· Damnation Ā· Hi-Intensity Shock Troop & Mutants Gauntlet (Hunting Grounds) (Cooldowns Reduced)
Loadout: MK IV Duelling Sword / Smite / Force Surge Staff
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thatās prob the key or iām charging it too long
what's the dump stat for surge staffs?
You don't need to do cancel tech it's just for memes.
No dump stat get everything high.
ya i dont want to do the tech
quick way to get me some carpal tunnel
Well you don't need to do it. It's only marginal dps increase.
word
Charge rate has the smallest scaling so that can be the lowest stat.
whatās the optimal charge time
But still high is better as it's a damage stat.
should i be full charging surge every hit
Not if you know the enemy has low hp.
HP bar mod is very nice for surge indeed.
iāll give it another go tonight
nice roll
perks are iffy and i wouldn't have been mad if instead of warp flurry i had gotten soul blaze instead but i like flurry, too
Change both perks to flak and maniac.
that's good
in a row, too
poor
i feel for you sibling
there is no blazing spirit on surge methinks
thought there was? maybe i'm fooling myself
in which case it's a nigh-godroll
There is not.
my stats aren't as good as that and that's enough for me to carry
mayhaps itās time to drop blaze trauma and become lightning man
once again
all stick good (but hate purg)
with assail you kill everyone without even seeing them
I'm playing assail + gaze
scriers gaze surge smite possible
yes but why
for fun 
vacuum up that ammo sibling
perilous combustion with no other sources of soulblaze does like nothing
the diamantine plasteel system makes zero sense
the negative point compared to vermintide is that it takes a long time to gather resources, the drop rate is bad, so you have to craft everything yourself
you can argue the crafting grind is intentional whatever
what i mean is that you end up needing plasteel not diamantine
but they serve the same purpose
yes
so why is there even 2 resources
just to make it look varied
it ends up just being a plasteel grind
convert system 2024 maybe ^^
back when i was starting out, i was so hyped whenever i saw diamantine. it's in the name, diamant-diamond. rare stuff. now i'm a plasteel addict.
petition to add the option to entirely unlock weapon stats with diamantine
it does make sense in the eyes of the devs they just thought everyone would upgrade every weapon they got
they didnt realize that they suck at balancing and everything bricks at purple unless it has 2 good things
out of 30
oh so the rate at which you use them and gain them is equal if you play the game as intended
i guess thats better
still i would never create two currencies used for the same thing
imagine if you had to pay brunt ordo dockets and arbitrary paper bills and you got both from missions
it makes no sense
is Fatshark ever going to fix the fucking assail & enhanced blitz interaction? ffs
no you only get +2 shards thats it fuck you
Was it 350 or 360 that gives you a chance at IVs on first blessing?
more number = more better
+2 but once you use them they're GONE
No fucken duh
what does enhanced blitz even do
gives more grenades and makes them stronger i think
what about zappy hands and headsplosion
makes scabs sad before their heads explode
suppose to give +2 nades to anyone with nades. for psyker, its suppose to make brain rupture and biolightning use less peril or something. Assail gets +2 darts....and then they don't come back
assail still does get -50% peril at least
For brain rupture and assail no. I guess it matters when min/maxing biolightning with charged pushes
if you kill a couple of shotgunners or ragers in a mixed horde it certainly does something
seen someone that ran it and no other soulblaze and it did like 7.5k damage total
over an entire mission
auric damn?
makes me wonder what my surge had
i hate getting diamantine for weeklies because people now refuse to pick it up
Its existed nearly since the launch of darktide.
i got plenty they just all brick
Y' is iggy not here yet=
What gives more value stacking finesse or damage? Like is precognition worth it on dueling sword?
what
Run one more to aquiant fpr bprtj.'
yes
Bru'.....h??
i have no idea what you wrote, it dosnt make sense to me
Aquain't me brudda
Do not harassh..
remember to quell
Fking master alreay
the 10% chance to quell is not really that good
it's saved me a couple times. feels like i owe it a spot
Soulsteal is really good
you shouldn't need battle meditation with venting shriek imo
perilous combustion is really good
warp rider and kinetic deflection
going without any of those is feels bad man territory
perfect timing is kinda nice
is it the fire shriek you have?
or did you take the poopy direct damage one
I can't remember which one is which
what warp charges does to a mf
i have the damage one
Bruh moment.
the thought behind it was that i'm not doing fire this build, just smite and lightning
Yes
it diminishes with distance from what I remember
soulblaze just does outright more damage
don't worry about thematics so much
it's just better damage
the logic behind it is that burst damage is better but keep in mind vent is also a knockdown
so they will take the dps while on the ground
idk theyre both fine imo
it doesn't feel bad, especially with how smite damages smalls a little and shriek can finish them off
flame shriek will do it better
legitimately
it is just higher damage
changed it still. good to know the numbers are better
not exactly sure i need kinetic deflection. i don't tend to get into situations where i need to block all that much
:((((((((((((((((((((( im so over this bros......
and if i do, i have the samina/other stuff to get out of that situation
What melee are you using
illisi
illisi is love
illisi is life
Thats a caxe right?
I forget weapon names all the time
OH
Well if you take the bullet blocking blessing it is very much worth it
You can hold off multiple gunners at the same time
deflector is really nice
the tree broke
What do you mean the tree broke
L
for some reason the game keeps giving me 380-370 illisis
you prolly sold a weapon the whole build breaks if you do that
i did, long long ago, and it hasn't fixed itself
You have to go and replace whatever took its slot automatically on sell
Then itll stop
i think i have a total of maybe 10 loadouts saved and only like 2 are ok
I have 3 one is ok
it's fixed. one of the relics was broken
should i keep "unlucky for some" or "one with warp"
What does the second one do
Take one with warp
one with the warp is great
Thank you for agreeing with me my ego grows larger
one with warp seems so good for how unlucky i seem to be getting in terms of teammates
true servitors it seems
man how often do you want your tream to get knocked down?
it's not that i want them to get knocked down, it's that they do
and when they do, i get toughness back and am able to take down things
Get better teammates
Yeah but if you have more toughness you can do more in general
poor
anyone ever had an orange exclamation mark?
p sure they do
t2s are better. more money all around and less boring
i was helping a friend level today i had enough fun carrying
sedition has 0 diamantine
i just wanna turn off my brain and do weeklies
uprising has 40
rolled a good surge staff, wish me luck with a voidstrike one
Groaner damage
nah camping the store is better
this is how i got my illisi collection
i have so many i bricked one for fun
just looking for double balls as blessing
I saw a psyker with purgatus staff doing the one click flame burst like really fast. Like 5 times a second almost. Is that from a blessing? Because when I do the single left click attack it's like a long winded single burst and can only do it once a second.
To be fair I haven't really experimented with purgatus that much so idk
prob a quell cancel
quell cancel likely
So it that just left mouse click, quell, left mouse click, really fast?
Gotcha. I'll try it out in meat grinder. Thanks for the replies yall
Why is columnus so much better than every other gun?
why cant we dual wield staves yet?
I've been using the burst HH with auto mod and it feels weak compared
You would think slow rate of hire = hit like truck
the HH guns are good but they rely entirely on headshots and the maniac damage is low
but they can put out some pretty good boss damage thanks to the finesse
esp on psyker you can make good use of the finesse stuff with vraks 3
vet too most likely
Would be incredible
one surge one purg
High fire rate, high damage per shot, long crit string (4), very accurate
You'd think with their niche HHs would have good antimaniac
yeah that would be nice
Is Agri similar to Vraks in terms of it's relative armour effectiveness?
are purgatus staff stats similar to zealot flamer? where damage doesnt mean much but the important stats are cloud radius and burn?
yeah same thing
Exactly that
Better blessings though
And peril is friendlier than ammo for hordeclear
And no annoying draw time issue
I gotta say though I think purgatus is weaker than it was pre patch 13
Way too many points to invest for me to enjoy it as much now
Still good though
sire melk and his tacaxe of gaslighting you
you should wait to swing. but also always be swinging
Either swing once or at least 3 times
2 is death
Or better yet
Swing it directly
Into the trash
yeah the best option would be to just brain burst melk where he stands on your way to the mission terminal
but they haven't added that yet
Yep, same breakpoints too
You want 76% burn for max stacks (15)
Iād say Zealot Flamer is overall a stronger weapon, but a lot of that is due to the class itself
"why aren't you swinging"
"why are you swinging"
Zealot has more frontline durability, and using Chastise lets Zealot ādowngradeā the enemyās armor to the next tier
so zealot flamer is actually pretty amazing at handling crusher and mauler patrols, as well as boss damage. Also, Zealot can somewhat cover the flamerās ranged weakness by running throwing knives
I havent even gotten any T4 on psyker today
Purg still has good horde clear and has the big benefit of not requiring ammo, but its weak against armored targets due to the lack of the Zealotās anti-armor capabilities (unless you run a melee weapon on psyker with Rending, in which case you can light a target and then swap to the melee to build Uncanny stacks)
But that melee swap play style requires more micromanagement than most players are willing to put up with
The other problem is that Purgatus competes with even better horde clear staves in the Psykerās kit (Trauma and Voidstrike). These two staves are also much better at handling armor
And Voidstrike has decent boss damage to boot
Assail and Brain Burst can cover for the Purgās short range, but Brain Burst is inefficient at best in all but the most niche situations (like securing kills on fleeing targets)
voidstrike my beloved
And Assail means you give up Pyskineticās Aura, which is one of the strongest standalone talents in the game
The biggest thing
Is that Trauma and Void are so satisfying to use
Their sound design and explosion visuals pack so much oomph
I find I don't miss it on my assail builds
Yeah itās definitely not a necessary talent
Purgatus feels like a garden hose
it's a firehose
a firehose of soulblazing warpfire
I wish it felt that impactful
But itās especially nice for Purg because one of Purgās strengths is that it has natural synergy with Shriek
Purg bubble is funny
yeah, it really doesn't
speaking of voidstrike, thanks brunt
If you are gonna use bubble I wouldn't with Purgatus
But it was much better when Warp Charges were bugged and you could create a network of bubbles throughout the entire arena
prepare your butthole for Hadron
void is a bad staff because I have never owned one above 360
you just spray and then sometime something dies
oh i am well aware
I only bubble with Trauma
I really want to like purg, but yeah itās just not as satisfying or as useful as trauma or void
not great not terrible
Itās just easier to build a good one and easier to play it
Trauma Bubble is underrated
depends entirely on how you want to use it
Trauma has good synergy with Shriek
i like the secondary fire
well, yes
I love how they say ranged damage like seriously not like anyone wants a perk for the bash
but do you want to go nexus/surge or flurry/surge?
because Shriek makes traumaās high peril build tolerable, and it offers additional soulblaze stacks
or flurry/transfer
just hit level 30 on my psyker so now im actually looking at builds
But trauma bubble lets me safely nuke hordes or gunner nests without worry
Plus Bubble has lots of neat utility that helps the team, like completely shutting off entire gunner and shotgunner hordes or nullifying flamers and trappers
i think wanting stuff is a mistake upgrading it and seeing what path hadron allows you to go with is a safer bet
Bubble with EP brain rupture :)

I mean, that's all any of us can do, anyways
doesn't mean we don't have wants and desires
Hadron just doesn't give a shit
Lovely way to break through a chokepoint
6s is a lot of brain bursts with both of the speed boosts
letting go of wants and desires is the first step to becoming a tech priest girlie is just recruiting
Bubble also does this weird thing where mutants will collide with the center
bubble can also shut down BoN entirely
Uwotm8
Is that a thing?
I had a friend use + crit chance based on peril and reduced secondary cast time
Turning slugs into giant toilet bowls with bubble looks so funny
I prefer nexus+surge
and itās useful
Yeah itās⦠weird
Next time a mutant charges into your bubble, check to see if they slam into the center of the bubble as if they hit a solid wall
Flurry/nexus for indecisive fuckers
no, SG really isn't for void
And nexus/surge for elite nuking
Some lunatic earlier was advocating this
Itās as if Mutant charges have projectiles at the end of their hitbox ir something lol
Never tried it
SG?
who?
idk if dogs interact with the bubble the same way
But it sounds hilarious
SG = Scrier's Gaze
surge/blazing spirit, path IV
gotcha
But I was reviving an ogryn yesterday, and a dog straight-up jumped over my tiny psyker
ive been using bubble mostly
not great, as you're killing everything you want to light on warpfire
Like I was standing completely still and the dog sailed over me
same problem as Illisi with blazing spirit
I wish I had saved a clip
blast radius though, no?
SG purg is kiiiind of a thing
blast radius is the dump stat for void
For real though don't bother with SG outside of guns unless you just want to do something crazy
not a good thing - you can't hit weakspots with purge nor soulblaze
I wish big boom blaze Voidstrike were a build 
I'm not actually sure
Yeah itās just a dumb meme at best for the crit chance
you'd think so, but the blast radius is already so small, that it wouldn't really matter
But itās pretty much Shriek or bust with purg
You need the ability to push without stopping uptime imo
That's what differentiates it from trauma with bubble
Trauma is cc
Purgatus loses damage to do CC
So yeah, as you say
Yeah thatās why the old conga line of bubbles was actually nice with purg
Purgatus needs shriek
You could create a tunnel of bubbles to essentially walk up to gunners and burn them all
It was very funny, even if shriek was still better
I just want a new staff or two maaan

I want staff specials replaced with something actually useful
Give us molten beam staff
and I want staves to share blessings
Yes to both of these things
Most of the funny melee special attacks on ranged weapons are actually somewhat useful
Or very useful on mk 1 and 2 Helbores
The staff bonks are just there to be funny
Can you push a poxburster over with it at least?
I donāt think so, not sure lol
Jfc
At least gun bashes usually can
Can shove one with a stubber for instance
Without needing to swap
I killed a Bulwark with a staff bonk the other day
aw, streamable dropped my video of my psyker with a force glaive
LEGEND.
let me reupload it
Thatās how much I hate em
Force glaive and force dagger when FS
Force shovel
Force rock
Force rokk
Oh wait thatās just assail
yep
Shared ogryn brain cell engage
In the tabletop RPG, Assail is literally throwing rocks and other junk
BEEEEEEEEES
Oh yeah I remember assail got datamined WAAAY back in beta, and it was called force knives
I think there's a different power that Assail more resembles right?
I like assail as we got it
Some weirdass dark psyker thing that blows you up very fast
I think so
Somebody posted about it on reddit a while ago
Bubble was also in the code as a staff iirc
Thank fuck they didn't go with that implementation
Yeah that would have been awful lol
Unless the bubble dealt damage or something
Which would have been very dumb
It was just a placeholder line of code though iirc
No damage values or anything
Thatās Coruscation Staff from vermintide basically
Iād use it too
Itād have to be heavily nerfed from VT though
Because that shit is busted there
Give me a life leech staff with a chaining soul drain beam that restores toughness mhmm
Tbf soul stealer does that
Well
Battle Wizard Build: https://www.ranalds.gift/build/FCDpy6S1Qz98s4c8e5zV/view
Weapon: Fire Sword / Coruscation Staff
Difficulty: Cataclysm (OnslaughtPlus)
Map: Righteous Stand
OnslaughtPlus: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2179403386
Player: TtotheOBI (Waystalker/GER)
Kemur 2020 (Grail Knight/JPN)
...
The whole top of tree does that
Yeah I think the top of the tree is supposed to represent the Life Leech Biomancy spells
Suggestions for blessings change?
swap both blessings
Hand cannon, probably crucian roulette
you want hand cannon and crucian roulette
This but a big warp vortex
If you do Zarona, take Surgical over Crucian
how many shots for this thing to kill crusher?
with the right blessings and both shots criting? two.
Hard to tell on psyker typically
with DD
Since SG, warp rider, DD changes shit
with DD+SG, you'd have to test it yourself
Too bad Siennaās soul stealer staff in VT is literally just a better brain burst
I mean, itās cool for that game
You can with 15 stacks of DD, scriers activated and high peril
very situational tho
But thatās what Iād like a life leech staff to be
I gotta try this now, just for the memes
"I cast Fuck Right Off"
I canāt find compilation footage of the other Sienna stages turning green when used on necro
"I cast Lead Poisoning"
Maybe on my break
i should try VT2 more someday
it just felt very hard to go back now that im so used to DTs gameplay
Yeah itās hard to go back to a game with inferior movement
And I have nearly 3k hours in that game playing twitch cata and modded
I have no desire to play a fantasy version of Darktide
Itās okay, 40k is basically Fantasy anyway š
it's science fiction
Iām a sucker for Warhammer Fantasy
Itās sci-fi, but in the way Star Wars is scifi
Star Wars is Sci-Fi Fantasy
I don't think Gundam ever qualified as hard sci-fi
the best example of hard sci-fi right now would be the show The Expanse
Gundam 1979 had psychic powers with the Newtypes, but otherwise it was basically space opera
Thereās definitely harder scifi out there for sure
"psychic powers" automatically precludes it from being hard sci-fi
True 
Newtypes were always a funny addition anyway, since it happens very late into the original show and it comes out of left field
What was Tomino thinkingā¦
I never got into Gundam
He is a mysterious man
Iām not a super huge gundam head
Iāve only really watched 79, Zeta, and some of Wing
It a series of vastly varying quality
Can point blank actually be better than crucian roullete for crit chance?
point blank relies on melee kills and then immediately switching and shooting
thats doable tho
i think...
"Blessing text"
i mean, im using agripiina revolver
dunno if crucian really is the way to go. its way better for crushers without it
it's not only much harder than you think, but if you're doing any sort of aiming, it's really not reliable
how so? you mean cause of spread?
the Agripinaa is firing multiple shots with the special
at least, you should be rapid firing the special, that's the whole point of the gun
with a ramping crit chance from crucian roulette
does that have to mean that aiming it is bad? you can still one shot gunners and stuff
I mean, you don't have to aim
When i say "aim" im referring to picking off targets with it rather than fanfiring all the time
it also seems like a very ammo inefficient
if that's how you want to use it, you're better off with the Zarona revolver
its got the ammo capacity of a bolter and 3/5 of the dmg
Zarona has better accuracy, range, and piercing
zarona is not good for psyker cause of that slow reload. even with 10% reload speed, its simply not viable
have tried many times in auric
it doesnt hold up
i do think that the agrii will hold up better for psyker in generall cause of a far better reload speed
zarona is easily the best gun in the game bar plasma
it's a true Hand Cannon
What's the hive mind's opinion on blessings for surge?
there is no hive mind here, sibling
Warp nexus, warp flurry.
Lies.
and damage isn't dump stat for surge
You must be assimilated.
nein
running primarily assail shards with the agrii as my backup and I'm definitely using it more and to greater effect than when I ran the other revolver. The reload speed is a big difference in practice
if you can aim, the Zarona will kill faster
like I said, better accuracy and range
and it'll pierce
Shards overhead solve distance issues, I specifically need something to dump damage quickly while dodging
what are these takes?? it cant hold up in auric for psyker cause of a shit reload. You NEED those fast reloads to make gunpsyker do its job. It might be good on zealot cause he is chunky with lots of toughness talents to be able to reload and tank a hit or 2, or veteran because of lots of synergies in the talent tree. For psyker its just not cannot hold up in auric hi shock.
running assail+revolver mandates a horde sword
That's really what I'm using it for, and it works for my build better than the zarona, after having tried both for an extended period of time.
nobody is telling you to run revolver on gun psyker in auric maelstroms
My sword is Deimos
doing the same loadout
you're using the agripinaa for the horde?
No shards + deimos for horde
deimos is good at horde with slaughterer
try it
its pretty good
it's not as good as Illisi with slaughterer on the horde
then again
dump shard, slice slice slice stab, dodge back, shards, dodge in, slice slice slice stab
but you do you
you cant destroy ogryns or bosses with illisi
assail does the rest tbh
true
Deimos heavy attack lets me 3 shot crushers
but you can destroy ogryns with Zarona revolver
2 shot with DD hehehe
@long wharf @long wharf @long wharf
boggle up boi
its for killing elites and specials, obviously
what are u running on it?
and the Zarona does that better than the Agripinaa
Are you just stacking damage modifers like disrupt destiny, scriers gaze to deal damage with melee?
Becuase ye that is going to turn deimos into a good horde clear.
yuh
exactly
not consistently enough with that god awful reload
by the time the zarona has one bullet in the chamber ive already reloaded the agripiina
pretty much
and do u have a build one might see? š
One sec
@long wharf Dont get me wrong, i would use Zarona any day of the week if the reload wasnt super bad
behond the new game breaking bug from our shield psykers!
but i need something more snappy

I have a slightly hard time though seeing the angry-peanut revolver being meta viable
actually, sibling, your GPU is dying
Only thing notable about it would likely be its unyielding damage.
my gpu is 6900xt
might want to let it cool down fully
doesnt have to be meta. just has to be servicable
check the temps while in-game
sibliing and i run tekken 8 which was released 2 weeks ago
just fine
so no its this frekaign game XD
I don't have the time to teach you about computer hardware and GPU malfunction symptoms
so, enjoy
the Warp calls, sibling
Fatshark doesn't make AMD drivers

yeah, anyways
a shame you had to lock in block efficiency
dafuk
I don't care that DD is better than warp charges, warp charges lets me assail more
you aren't using Warp Siphon, though
you're using EP
which Assail does benefit from
You can 2 shot crushers with 15 DD stacks with this
how about ur curios?
DD makes your assail way better
not optimized, just running toughness, stamina, sprint efficiency, etc
Yea, EP is more safe and consistent choice if you don't want to deal with DD jank
I prefer EP for assail
doesnt happen often tho
really dislike DD's current issues
on high levels, the EP warp charges are proccing every time I kill an elites, so I can frequently just flood a new room with shards and wipe everything that isn't a bulwark or crusher.
@plucky flax OUTDAMAGED NOOB
what were you running?
(inb4 you say only 20k, I joined 1/3 through)
I'm usually top 1-2 on damage for the lobby on Auric maelstrom
Void assail w/ warp charges, no surge
if it works, it works :p
Psyker's kits can dish out a lot of damage
Great for gunner cleanups
Feels good to go "I've got a solution to this one ogryn, stand back" and then wipe the room in 5 seconds
wouldnt shards be better to run with DD and vent, and battle meditation tho? idk how much DD actually improves their dmg.
yes, its much better
as long as you like using DD, that's fine
it's very understandable to not like DD, especially in a competent group
no problem with it at all as long as ive got assail and as long as it decides to work
where everyone is killing things, and you frequently aren't getting to kill your DD target
You just need to hit the DD target for it to refresh it
thats kinda a skill issue tho no? just throw an assail at a lesser target and boom, 3 stacks
exactly, this too
This isn't untrue, but also it doesnt become problematic that much, especially once you're built up you just need to tag to maintain
Great minds
Yeah I found it hard to keep DD up because it moved my target priority from what was actually dangerous
i see a blue man and i stop everything iām doing to assail them specifically
shame about the group of gunners past him in the room that are more important, right?
or the DD target switching on you as you engage the old one
right, it's an extra priority to juggle which breaks my flow
thats uhh, a personal skill issue ive had myself xDD getting distracted by DD. But fr once u got those 15 stacks, just nudge any DD target within 30 seconds and ur good. The time spent on DD with more than make up for it by the sheer DAMAGE!!
very understandable that one can find DD annoying in this way tho
Probably solveable with more time in the DD build, but I can't be bothered when I'm pulling my weight consistently
im also being consistent while using DD. Its fine not to like it tho
Getting back the stacks isn't too bad either since headshots are pretty easy to nail. Getting 3 stacks in one go is pretty nice. Though, I definitely understand why you'd go with EP
I find myself bored and wanting to try new stuff rather than it feeling like a bother
And I'm treating shards as my primary weapon, so having more of the resource is always preferable
this is the biggest reason to go EP with assail
EP lets you use assail for longer periods
only assail just gets boring xddd
not to me, I love it
Sorry what were we saying was the blessing preference for Surge staffs?
warp nexus + warp flurry
surge staff only has 4 t4 options
and the other two are objectively terrible
you want +flak
shame about the damage
This is what im running for new revolver atm:
No battle med? I'd prefer it over warp expenditure any day
Revolver is fun on psyker
Pair mine with brainburst and empowered psionics so i can immediately evaporate any annoyance
Gmod disintegration sfx
Having your blitz and ranged both be focused on single target seems overkill