#psyker-class
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Sometimes it actually is mostly melee believe it or not
I've went through one of those and the entire time my team had 3 total gunner kills
if only i'd had assail and shield
there were like 3-4 reapers, 8-10 gunners and 30-40 regular dreg shooters, it was nuts and it wasn't even on HISTG damnation just regular damnation
Auric heresy is supposedly harder than regular damnation, so I feel you. Those gunners are ruthless in auric missions
If the director isn’t using up 10% of his power, then sure
man is it just me or does the game feel less stable with every hotfix
No amount of shield is gonna last long under that much dakka
Not unless you have that concentration stim
If you able to pick off some of the gunner yeah
Well there is a minimum shield duration
Gunner resistance is helpful too
what goats the mk6 is the push attack. deals hefty dmg and u can stay in block more for like 80% of time
whats the sweet spot for purgatus burn? 74?
nope was 76 i think but i only have 77% to check
Always 3 Gunner resistance on all my Curios
hidden secret is bomber res and flamer res
there must be a conspiracy to never give me warp nexus 4 on purge
blew 3k plasteel again fo nothing
76
76+ is all the same
id vote for keeping hadron lottery if we can freely modify weapon stats
Ive blown 28k plasteel trying to get surge on voidstrike
@rich spindle
melk got it for me
This should be correct.
I do love the weapons where you want a very specific %
Psyker s are just straight up squishy right?
I feel like I gotta put so much more effort into not dying as an psyker than a zealot idk maybe I'm insane
They’re a glass cannon anyways
Just try not to get hit or die
Comparing survivability with Zealot is definitely not in favor of Psyker
But Psyker is very mobile and can just keep things off them
they are squishy healthwise but have a lot of mobility/toughness gen to make up for it
Meanwhile Ogryn having 66% Toughness DR permanently 
psyker also doesn't have much reason to go as hard as zealot into enemies
its fun >:(
esp with the current kit of force staffs that Psyker has
death be upon you
Psykers can also move around a lot without losing DPS while channeling
dont you literally play the same way
Dodge around
no I spam assail don't associate me with you
thats worse
nuh uh
Assail plus trauma staff =😈
Gun.
waste of a godroll 😭
me when my ep blitz clears infinite amounts of gunners/shotgunners
surely psyker needs it
Me when my EP blitz smite clears an infinite amount of small enemies
⚡
(ignore the venting shriek in the background)
You don't need to vent, that's for rookies
You just need a lot
And I mean A LOT of shitters

if u are smiting enemies and not shrieking i have such an immense amount of respect for you
Battle Meditation does work
so many ppl tell me smite clears perfectly fine and then they are just shitting soulblaze out on the enemies
its CHEATING
hell yeah
(That sucks ass)
my 200 flat damage at max peril
My less than 200 damage at max peril
Yay
Why does it have fall off
???
It's already garbage
I don't know why shriek has two options that are just damage
Where's my double shriek
they should replace it with a talent that kills ur teammates
Let my perils of the warp kill allies
make it launch teammates
hell yeah
I never ran bleed knife back then so I was the victim
the FEAR of seeing blue ticks on your screen after being hit by a barrel
I am really sad I didn't play bleed knife when it triggered on stun grenades
Or itself
Peak beta stuff
🥲
I remember tanking a billion enemies as Veteran and regenerating more toughness than I lost.
Those were the days.
Zealot talents removing their aura
So that 99% of Zealots played without aura without knowing it
Because everyone ran TWBS back then too
I mean I think that was a thing for all classes
Some talents just overwriting aura
theres still a weird bug where i can pick ogryn
I'm trying to think of others major bugs.
Oh the refund resources bug
Which was literally kept for a while because people hated crafting so much
oh right
i didnt abuse that
wonder if i should have
well at this point i have everything so idc
i quit playing around the time ppl found the bug
I only learned about it when they said they were going to let it stay for a patch intentionally
I saw it on Reddit and got to getting every last drop from my plasterl
(same guy who can't open his inventory without crashing)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HOW DO I GET ON LADDERS
Just how it is. Psyker has the best toughness recovery in the game, but fuck does it hurt taking a melee hit when you're below 100%.
The trick is to be frantically mashing spacebar like a maniac at all times

shhh
the game loads models instead of icons in the inventory
if you lower all settings you should be able to open it without crashing
I have it all on low
it's not because of the loading that's crashing it
its because of the memory leak
🤔
and my absurdly large inventory that I didn't manage very much after 1.5k hours
what if you replace all the models with lower res models
if only
there's a native option to disable portrait rendering so I assume there's a similar though not immediately accessible switch for inventory items
really does make me want to learn to mod
theres your homework for the weekend
Which better
more cloud more better theres no difference between any burn higher than 76
Yeesh. I wanted to type “right”, but then I saw the quell speed 
You can delete stuff you know
I'll delete you
Uncalled for
Gotta go fast
I have a very similar bricked piece 
GREASE FIRE STAFF
woah what are the odds

if i didnt know better id say the crafting system is rigged to give us trash
i feel like i see barrage more than anything else
Doesnt help purg has so few blessings
huh
how did this happen
did i really roll a nexus 1
you cant get exalted crap from brunt and i dont buy them from melk
Could be a gift from Jimmy
yeah that seems likely though 77%burn 80% cloud isnt his MO
Run n gun is good on purg #fact
Can't remember which but at least one of my weapons is a Jimmy Space original.
i wanna do the trick someone suggested here having a run n gun purge and following a zealot around 24/7
I dodge like a crazy person and generally do very well just sucks dick when you make one mistake and 50 percent health gone lol
I wish we could play on lower difficulties but with the amount of enemies on higher difficulties
Or even more
Give me Sedition with 10x more enemies than Auric Damnation
yeah that would be fun
50% is generous from the enemies
Getting the double poxburster is my favourite
You just fucking die
It's actually better if the first buster downs you
double poxburster cant beat smite
True, however, running smite is heresy.
i know and its always the run you dont have it equiped
(Smite is fine, I kid, I just rarely run it)
Smite also gets me the skill to speed up my ability cool down on elite/Specialist kill
so i really dont see a reason to go with something else
use it with kinetic flayer/perilous combustion and warp siphon, you never have to touch blitz and you're almost always at max WC
what's the gun of choice for gunkers again?
Columnus? What about revolver, laspistol?
Saveable? lolololol
Those are the main options tbh
Exactly those.
Tbh maybe savable presuming you're using left or right keystone
is it just me or do zealots talk less shit about psykers if its a full psyker team?
I think a lot of their lines involve another team member piling in with them
Bullying psykers is a group activity
nah not even THE FREAK NEEDS HELP
Would you want to poke a psyker when you have 2 others willing to tear your mind a new one?
Judges are seemingly chill, until Saint Messelina is mentioned
Probably
most likely
yeah h0rny is banned
Thx for the advice
HER NAME SHOULD BURN YOUR HERETIC LIPS
The specific ban list here is wild tbh
as long as edging is banned i'm happy
f
Did one of the Zealots find the stash ™️ the loose cannon vet was hiding in his room
man, grinding the plasteel needed to get Voidstrike's Surge blessing is absolutely infuriating (I usually get tier 4 blessings only upon getting a weapon to the orange upgrade tier)
And preached it to the other zealots
i feel you
Even if you have 3 zealots as a psyker, I think they don't talk that many shit about you
i have zero t4 thrusts
thats what she said
The circle jerking is insane
I'm still waiting on power Cycler 4
My last big ticket blessing I think
AFTER THE BATTLE IS OVER WE SHALL RAISE HIS NAME IN HOLY SONG
SAME! (or at least, I don't have t4 thrust for most weapons, because I think my only t4 thrust is for an ogryn club)
i feel like i have better luck on other chars
I have a feeling I'm keeping both staves
this is one of two shields i ever rolled
nexus t1 to flurry 4 and carap to flak would be nice for a transfer void
its extremely annoying when Melkbucks can't buy you any of the right weapons with the right blessing you need...
Yeah, I'm waiting for a flurry 4 for that void piece
I'm not sure why you would go transfer void these days though tbh, unless you're not taking shriek
I can turn in that nexus 3 now though
i got confused lmao
this thing is pretty good for transfer void but id rather keep using surge/nexus
(i have no flurry 4)
you should just keep farming greys then that modifier stack is decent
oh that's pretty nifty
I unironically use Dome with Voidstrike, but I no longer remember why. Maybe its because of my obsession to always get both Ability Augments or not pick the Ability at all...
this is the one i use tho
it should
I have a bunch of greens and blues. Maybe I'll bite a bullet sometime this weekend and up them all
that's absurd
you had to of used a website to make that
even tho you have a rank 3 blaze everyhing else is near prime
I just finished a damnation run with the wrong weapon on my loadout lol. I had a gun on a surge build
funny thing is there is no blaze 4
Rank 3 only on staves
Only swords can have rank 4
And it's shit on swords anyway
fr
on melee it should apply on hit rather than on crit and even then it would still be "ok"
Or it should apply even if it kills them
For the purpose of wildfire
It might make wildfire less shitty in the process
like if a psyker gets in melee range you gotta kill the thing asap
it seems stupid that i have to hope for a crit to do one tick of extra damage while im hitting something
maybe
but i do like how psykers treat each other
Psykers are one big happy family
trauma bonding
Happy?
they're so kind to each other
when everyone else hates you what other option do you have?
because they know that no one else will be
Ogryn mind kicked in. EVerything is one big happy family
I honestly like all psykers. You guys are great in my books, even though I’m crap in missions
Tiny, that smells funny and use big words...but family
We psykers have to perform our best or else we get grinded down to Nutrient cubes and rations
nah were not cube material were black ship material
I do notice the Corpse starch is crunchier than usual
cannibalism in a neat shrink-wrapped package
You're food for the emperor
We're all food for the Emperor

psykers reviving other classes:
"yes, i enjoy this, i do"
"i've touched you, you're damned now :)"
"by terra, my poor back.."
psykers reviving other psykers:
"(softly) I have you."
"It doesn't look very comfy down there"
"against both of our instincts, let me help you"
I also like the shriek interactions
there's one thats actually really good
"get up brother, or they'll leave you behind"
The "I'm touching you" one is the best
It's like full on school playground shit
Darktide daycare
Daily life of a Ogryn player
Keeping Little uns from doing stupid things
NO BAD ZEALOT. DON'T TOUCH THE POX BURSTER!
they bounce off of my holy charge!
200iq use fury to avoid burster damage
It's such a versatile tool
my bad G
She didn't protect
e-emperor s-send simpletons
yesterday (?) i had a zealot accidentally explode a poxburster in melee which killed me on the spot, immediately followed by "blyaaaat" in voice chat
how the hell do you get people who use vc
I got one really coughy guy once and one guy that kept making gun sounds everytime he shout his twin gun
maybe it's their national thing
ogryn mindset on the 2nd one
yup
Every 2 or 3 games with me there's usually 1 person on the mic. Most often is call outs
US region?
US Region
EU is dead silent
its kinda sucky having to ask people shit in 3 different languages
KRIEGER HAST DU "FIELD IMPROV"
My favorite VC moment is having a Psyker who doesn't use mic and they went above 100% Peril and only thing you hear on the mic is "Fuck" quickly followed by a Pop

GRANATE IN DEM "AMMO BOX"?
"SZUKSEGEM VAN KONYVEKRE" i need books in hungarian
also very useful
I don't use vc because microphone quality and loud environment, I seek to give a quality match, random unnecessary noises will impact that
geforce now uses the wrong mic for me so i cant do it anyways
don't tell me that's actually what vet is called in german
it means worrier thats close enough i guess
UND SO MACHEN WIR DAS IN DER GARDE 😤
the only people in my VCs have shitty mic 😭
Uh, ammo something
soldier drop the effing ammo box
Yeah figured
"Drops ammo crate. Ammo goblin consumes all 4 charges in a instant and disappears into the night"
teehee
lol wait the ammo boxes have charges and not a set amount of ammo?!? ug ive totally been that guy unaware
im sorry
yup
its not your fault the game doesnt teach people that
i swear to god its like we're playing some esoteric knowledge where you can only know sttuff by asking an elder shaman
lol well where is that info even put if i may ask Ive been playing this game since beta and just found out today haha
like i said elder shaman(a friend told me)
oh so its not instructed anywhere
there's no in-game glossary so you'll have to consult the scattered external resources out there
yeah p much
ok
descriptions and whatnot do not seem to be fatshark's forte
the tutorial is ass
they need to do one on resource management, one on combat, one on crafting and one on movement
what they should do is change its model to something like the ammo pack thats in helldivers so you can see how many uses it has left by how many ammo packs are left in it
varlet ammo cashes come in different sizes take the one more appropriate to your needs while keeping your teammates in mind
varlet if you're at fucking yellow leave the big one to the guy in red
also the wasted ammo mod is helpful
problem with me and mods is as soon as I start i go overboard and install too many
I have a fair number of QOL mods installed such as Numeric UI, Crosshair hud, Better Melk, and more
Oh momma
That doesn't look like revolver
It was....Heavily modified according to Brunt
Whole ass boltpistol right here
the ATF is not gonna be happy
Ngl pretty heretechal
Very, but worth it.....Yes
Magfed revolver hahahaha
check out the dardick
magfed revolver is less absurd than one might think
does disconnecting make you reset progress on the warp battery penance?
Consider, belt fed revolver
I'm "broke" rn. Help me
Jk, just have all this, but I ain’t buying anything
I really don’t know what to get
have you tried everything?
quick question, which psyker personality talks about their "Beloved"?
The Seer
thanks
Whats a sibling supposed to do to get a surge blessing on a voidstrike staff
it can be 4 or 6 charges?
upgrade and upgrade...
wow Melk actually has something uselful -
What curios perks would you recommend guys?
Whichever is your current max iirc. I kept mine at 4 while doing that one
Lots of good options really. Gunner resist, toughness and health is pretty good. Sniper resist isn't bad if you get tagged at all, also toughness or combat ability regeneration.
I kept mine as a mix of
- Ability cooldown
- stamina regen
- sprint/block efficiency
Gunner resist sounds fire tho
Block efficiency is pretty crap on Psyker because you can just add stamina instead (unless you aren't running kinetic deflection)
It's kinda there for the odd loadout without it
what a flex
do i need some kind of perms to post images?
Talk until your name turns red
blegh i just wanted to ask for blessing/perk advice
@echo bobcat ask
just ask or type it down?
i got a columnus v with good stats but meh blessings and bad perks and im not sure if should change both perks or perk and a blessing.
perks: stam t3 elite damage t3
Bless: deathspitter t3 raking t4
am i gonna be better off just keeping the blessings and getting like flak/maniac or should i roll a blessing for dumdum
raking -> dumdum, stam -> flak?
i was leaning that way, not sure between flak and maniac ill probably use the meat grinder to decide
Just finished warp battery
Flak because auric has a lot of flak enemies
in general most of the enemies are flak somewhere its pretty much a solid buff
is headhunter IX probs the next best rifle for gun psyker in the case that columnus is nerfed?
if you click any enemy you can see their armor types
yeah i was leaning flak but i was going to check the breakpoints on some key enemies.
if i find myself playing gunkyer in auric with columnus ill almost certainly take flak
Probably other IAGs or laspistols are next in line
Although I could imagine headhunter rifles being good too due to the great finesse modifiers
i prefer the IX tbh
but it def doesn't delete a crowd as well
it is really nice for keeping DD stacks up
one of big damage blessings though i think is total overkill
so i don't know if its actually good
Never really used headhunters
Too spammy for me
I feel sorry for my mouse with the VII
Also in general I feel like bad maniac modifiers are a death sentence for guns
But maybe less so on psyker
Because with all the crazy damage boosts you get it's probably still fast enough
Psyker worries more about TTK on ogryn and bosses imo
I've only tried CIAG as far as guns go for gunker
its def effective
and feels the strongest when it is effective
i just don't love the recoil/firing pattern at ranges i find myself wanting to shoot at often
feels like such an ammo waster at midrange
I use Assail on gunker mostly to avoid the stereotype lol
Also because it has really nice synergies with SG and DD
i would like to use assail
but i don't want to give up the cooldown on kill perk
and assails sadly locks you out
i just run mostly decorative smite
SG does already cool down quite fast though
it does, ill probably try assail soon
Assail is so strong, it's only kept balanced by the fact that psychinetic aura is locked from it
its probably worth it most of the time, esp if another psyker has it.
Just bear in mind, with Assail and SG, you will blow up a lot until you get very used to it
ive done some sg staff
Just accept it and keep going
but i probably just wont stack them much
OK then you'll be fine lmao
or use it at the start of SG to hordeclear
You just gotta be aware of where you are in the SG phasing
Once it gets to like 20 you just have to stop
the shooting and melee are so poweful during SG i just don't see myself wanting to assail that much
except right at the beggining if anything.
Assail saves you from having to reload
is the main thing
and you can quell while it's out
I try to activate SG well in advance of needing it
and stall with assail until the wave's about to break on us
but then again, my gunker is my least competant psyker style
I'm great offensively but I'm as glassy as it gets
im pretty comfortable with the psyker sg melee
does quelling with a blitz just some some kind of base quell speed
What melee do you like for it?
would it be the same as quelling witha sword?
Yeah, I think blitz quelling is like a staff with 50% speed or a sword
dueling and deimos both.
I use illisi for my gunker because I find anything single target my gun can kill np
also with SG and DD stacks up, you can one-shot a mutant with an illisi heavy
not even an empowered one
just a basic swing
i like deimos because it usually horde clears well enough
and one-shotting mutants with horizontals is such a deliciously vulgar display of power
and i can two-tap kill or knockdown flak ragers, maulers, crushers no charge no stacks.
The other one I wanna try is a devil claw IV
dueling just scales like crazy with the right side and the mobility is good and fun, really enables you move and heavy attack spam
its pretty nasty defensively
oh i run deflection on my force sword for now
mostly just trying it out
since it just doesn't feel like it needs a damage blessing. other than uncanny strike
i think it might be clutch to save me from gunners if my ranged immunity falls off in a bad spot.
that's how I've got my deimos set up as well
but I only use it with my short range staves
that sometimes struggle with big target killing
so purgatus and trauma
yeah it was orginally for my trauma
lmao I honestly thought red names were a time thing
I guess I just wasn't chatty enough
Definitely take Assail with that to help with the ammo imo
and came the the conclusion that at least for the columnus, ammo kinda a dump stat.
its missing 4 mag compared to 78 40 total, i eyeballed the ammo restore, but it wasn't crazy.
granted mobility isn't doing a ton
I mean, tbf, the damage stat is also surprisingly unimpactful for CIAG too
The range is quite narrow
yeah stopping does alot
It's all about stopping power
but you need both for breakpoints with stacks it seems like.
For psyker I value stability too
without*
My veteran just uses E stance to force it to be stable
But psyker is more prone to missing
i found the the columnus
my vet just uses revolver because it is a funny little deathstick
adjusting the recoil well
made up for a lot and you could lose some stability and still hit good groups
it still has a big starting kick at 78% stability and imo adjusting that to hit heads is like 90% of making the gun go crazy, felt really similiar with 10 and more less close and mid range.
i have no idea what its like for vet though, mine is level 4
i'm starting to think that a big reason i don't vibe with gunker is that i am a lot more used to single shot weapons
It's even stronger lmao
its maybe a little less synergistic overall
what, exec columnus?
Yeah, e stance columnus is actually fucking busted, you just fall apart if you get attacked
wait you're saying the columnus is stronger on vet than it is on gun psyker?
It feels like it to me
because it feels so absurd at its effective range
because the recoil is better controlled
yeah that would be nice
the damage is similar
because outside midrange...
with deadshot up it's a lot higher
but deadshot falls off quick
I run two stamina curios and the +1 talent and it still falls off lmao
full stamina vet build when??
yeah the ammo scaling on the columnus is quite low compared to other guns
yeah idk if i'd take mobility over it 100%, but when i got that one, i realized it was no problem.
walp i got my columnus in a good spot and backup on deck incase it gets nerfed
any trauma staff perverts enthusiasts in here?
probably my favourite staff
are you running a soulblaze setup or no?
blaze trauma yes.
trauma is nice overall
it widens the damage out really nicely
i've done it both ways they both seem to work really well
and its my favorite playstyle
i should try flurry nexus
but i haven't gotten the crit and blaze blessing combo yet
It's like the only time I even take wildfire
yeah I wouldn't run blaze trauma without nexus too
missing out on ~20% crit is a big deal for that
ok i thought so
I've even only got nexus III, it's good enough
ill probably just keeping running a no blaze version
try it with any rank nexus you can get
trauma is my only god roll in 700 hours of play this game smh
i actually tried dropping all blaze talents
was interesting
allowed me to pickup kinetic
So the only blaze talents I take with my trauma are perilous combustion and wildfire
I actually prefer bubble with it
and it lets me take EP which helps with brain rupture
i do venting with creeping flames
All of my other staff builds are creeping flames
I just wanted to have at least one build that used shield, and it seemed to fit trauma best
i was doing venting for bigstacks to make it roll when i was doing it
there's a lot of situations where a bubble is the best answer for your team to be able to push up
and trauma kinda covers what shriek wants to do already for me (although you could make that argument about purgatus too and I use shriek with purgatus)
yeah i was mostly using vent to staff more
and make stacks of soulblaze move through big trash groups
ive def thought about running bubble after i stopped doing any soublaze
i feel like bubble works well for purge
because its a great tool for forcing pubs to group
I deal with the wave you for the love of god watch my back
randoms watching your back is an absolute diceroll until they prove it isn't.
they cant take aggro thats good enough 
when im like slaying down a hallway or something esp on gunker heresy+ and someone moves up from behind me and I just get beat by trash... y u do this
i swear to god at least the bots know enough to not walk in front of someone mag dumping
is there a way to zoom out the skill tree?
nope but i think theres a mod that squeezes it together
you can also use this to show a build
thoughts on what i should do to this for non blaze trauma.
blaze trauma is kinda rough to roll you need very high blast and charge rate as well as flak
dont throw away any staves tho they're working on a crafting system that will hopefully unbrick my gear
yeah i still have this, which i might try to turn into non blaze trauma
if im not going to blaze its flurry and then rending is basically the only perk save nexus that does anything for charged attack right?
yeah flurry makes the charge rate faster and the rending scales with charge time
i cant say how good it is tho i never tried rending/flurry
i've heard that trauma isn't affected by its own rending
but i haven't really tested it
it is affected
but flurry is good
brittleness is a target debuff while rending is a player buff right?
is there a way to view weapon base crit stats in game?
just that it has <100% on only flak/carapace and brittleness blessings were implicitly nerfed
yeah
so it should effect the second strike
e.g., uncanny strike gives stacks that grant rending% to attacks from you
brittleness blessings allow your attacks to inflict brittleness which grant rending% to incoming attacks
i dont get the difference
im smooth brain
oh ok i get it now after reading what clad
typed
brittlness gives everyone who attacks that target rending but only for that target
arco use big words
smooth brains of the world unite!
so rending t3 gives 30% rending with a full charge
i think it should should through target closeness to the center might also play a part
is 30% rending removing 30% DR or not really?
its addind dmg afaik
btw, rending is weapon based right? so hits on groaner heads will trigger dmg against crushers too right
as long as your stack didnt go away i think so
id love to see the actual formulas but im not really sure if it removes armor protection or adds damage
A weapon has a base damage, and then it has armour damage modifiers that affect the percentage of the base damage that it deals to that armour type (unarmoured, infested, flak, maniac, unyielding, carapace). E.g., the force swords has an ADM of 65% against carapace on heavy attacks. This means that it deals 65% of its base damage to carapace.
rending% will increase that armour damage modifier number additively. E.g., if your attack deals 65% damage to carapace currently, then +30% rending means that you'll do 95% damage to carapace now.
When you reach 100% adm (armour damage modifier), then rending%'s effect is reduced to 1/4ths. E.g., if your attack already deals 100% adm to carapace, then +40% rending means that the adm will be 100% + 40% * 1/4 = 110%.
In addition, rending% itself is capped at 100%. Let's say that you have tier4 Uncanny Strike, which should give 120% rending at 5 stacks. However, you will only receive 100% rending from it at max.
ARC OEDUCATION TIME
arco
u should write
general darktide "what game doesn't tell you"
thing
I say thing because its not exactly a guide
codex?
maybe but i'm too lazy and prob somebody has written a guide with some of that information
you would think that but knowlage in DT is spread verbally and through wise shamans such as yourself
wait wait fuck forget about that
i already nuked zealot chat with talk of top and bot talents
the DT eldritch lore is spread through osmosis
yeh but its in some middle of paragraph that most people would prob skip thru
sniles
If there's a vet it's super good.
this staff is fucking busted even if im not all that great with it yet
the vet on my first attempt was good tho
If you know hot to kite with the trauma staff, you’d pretty much be a tank psyker
should i play trauma...
no its very weak leave it alone
That’s up to you. I find it very helpful on higher difficulties
i think the answer is no, i shouldn't
Not unless you have the right blessings @upper sun
its very weak needs to be buffed
i don't really vibe with that style
it doesnt even stagger bosses its so weak fatshark pls buff
Stop saying it’s weak. It’s not. It staggers pretty much everything but bosses. I use a chainsword for boss damage
its totally weak and fatshark should ignore its existance
The same people who "Shoots anything that moves" in the same modifier
And wonder why they have no ammo and force to melee things.......And proceed to die in a very painful matter because they had no Anti-crusher melee and got the pancake special
Trauma is so fun
and surprisingly precise since the damage epicentre is smaller than it implies
I encountered a vet who had an infinite ammo build in a no ammo pickup mission. Really efficient vet
It's a great build
yeah assuming you dont use your gun for clear which a lot do
Gun for clearing is really just for e stance builds, that don't belong in that modifier
gun for clearing is silly and you should feel silly!!
Hehe nice joke
what if trauma explosions worked with surge
true aim + surge + blazing spirit when
Yes
what if you could dual wield staves
what if we had a melee staff
force quarterstaff type deal
channel your inner monk
alt should switch staves to melee mode
Real
Not putting my gun away and cancelling E stance for a few poxy bois that break through to reach me
rmb light = sweep heavy = single target stagger lmb = block
bonk is such a lazy design oryn has stupidly fun alt attacks
oh sorry im dyslexic other way round
Damn your gameplay seems so slow and chill.
When I'm on trauma I play like I'm on crack.
my heart was not chill at that moment 
Ammo is the dumpstat on columnus, the modifier range is absolutely tiny
yeah even with 20% extra ammo youd only get like 30 extra bullets
Why would you put unarmoured on trauma? It only affects 1 bruiser,1 shooter and groaners
That’s an old picture. I updated the perk. Don’t know what is it since I’m not at my PC rn
Fair
I was just showing the blessings
infested is good on trauma if i remember correctly as it allows you to oneshot them
The thing I most noticed watched this clip is that you aren't charging while running away. Instead of just sprinting away to make distance and turning around before starting a charge, start charging while sliding away for distance and then turn to drop an already primed full charge on the enemies
You already one shot poxwalkers very easily
Infested is garbage
i think it doesnt one shot them
Even if you don't one shot them you completely control them
back in the past but no you annihilate poxwalkers nowadays
Better to worry about the tougher parts of the mix
yeah but the impact spreads them and makes it harder to hit them again
and poxbursters take 10x explosion damage so they're not a concern
I'm like 99% sure you don't even need a full charge to oneshot them
im pretty sure it doesnt
yeah far from ideal i still need to get a lot better with movement
You spread them usually into more poxwalkers anyway so you can just pop them again
If you crit they die to flames anyway
yeah i think i like flurry nexus more than blaze
Poxwalkers have 375 health iirc
yeah 375
i forget if trauma has <100% adms against infested but trauma damage got scaled way past than what walkers got scaled anyways
yeah ur right
Takes awhile especially when your brain is focusing on how to use a new weapon
but i still am not sure why blaze trauma is so famous
killing non armoured stuff is easy anyway and against armored targets it doesnt do much
id better have flurry nexus to kill them faster
Because you can just keep dropping blue circles and the trash that isn't even inside the circles will die off
And it does to a lot against flak
it would make sense if i could couple rending+ blaze
At the epicentre though
Trauma already pierces armour very well
Major pet peeve of mine when people say armoured targets in darktide
You take blazing spirit to widen the killzone
Flak is so different than carapace
The damage on the outskirts is very weak
So just say carapace if that's what you mean
It's mostly stumble
though poxwalkers are getting annihilated in the epicentre and the outer radius is trivial damage
Yeah and that killzone is MASSIVE
Like twice the radius
better queestion is why is the turama stagger aoe and far better than surge
The blazing spirit basically turns the damage profile from ^ to /\
Trauma has to be aimed
fatshark being unsure about how to tackle explosion weapons
Slower charge
Making the area some ridiculous multiplier larger
More expensive on peril iirc
("aimed" in the loosest sense)
anyway im still bound to the mereley 30% crit chance which has to trigger twice on the same enemy
as far as I can tell, some people don't like the novelty of the trauma aiming system (even though it's just the same as a grenade/rumbler)
in the meantime i could have killed them w flurry
tbh at the very least surge secondary target should do 50% damage not like 5%
aiming is is absolutely trivial because it's an explosion weapon that can be sammed
and with a nontrivial epicentre radius
i'm going to kill anyone who says there's any skill to using trauma
theres skill using trauma
you're dead
on stairs
TRUE
compare my gameplay to agent's
fatshark should bite the bullet and finally give trauma the nerf it needs
delete this post right now
yeah though it just seems like you're a subpar in general rather than it being a weapon learning issue
I genuinely think there's a fair bit of skill to it, blazing spirit actually takes a fair amount of the skill out because you can just spam it and still do fine if you're missing the epicentre
i don't because you have a lot of leeway and the explosion radius is way too big for what it is
But without blazing it becomes a lot more noticeable if you can't aim
people just mix up their dislike of the trauma aiming system and conflate it with taking "skill" even though it doesn't take much to aim it
they should nerf its radius so it actually takes "skill"
you dont need to aim a big ass circle
It's also that it's a steep learning curve
void is the only staff that you really need to aim
You need to aim the centre of it if you actually want to kill stuff and not just knock it over
if people can aim rumblers or grenades easily, i'm sure they can aim the trauma trivially
I think void is easier to aim than trauma
i want a staff that lets me fly whilst spraying gas on my enemies below
Hans Volter staff
the fart staff
tbh that would require fatshark making correct map boundaries and the tops of buildings
which is not gonna happen
Trauma is easy but i played a lot of tf2 demoman which is similar
Surge: needs buff
Void: balanced
Purg: needs more than 2 blessings
Trauma: noob crutch needs nerf
Trauma takes a lot of skill. I learned how to kite with it and it made my playstyle a lot better being a tank psyker
Some new blessings for Surge would be welcome
noooo 😢 just buff surge and delete barrage from the game
Imagine if Trauma could airburst like the sticky bombs
i am currently imagining cannon of haima
Delayed explosions maybe
Low ammo or high peril cost
maybe it ends up being less direct damage and more supporty
Actually tbf ogryn already has a sticky launcher
so we can look at how that functions
laser staff
guys, what blessings do you prefer with the trauma staff
Rending shockwave and warp flurry (both IV blessings)
After using nexus and blaze for a long time I think rending and flurry is probably better overall
Blaze is more fun tho
What does that blessing do?
3 stacks soulblaze in a huge aoe on crit
Larger than the normal trauma radius
You target the crusher in a pack and all the trash dies around them
Can’t you just get that in your talent tree though?
Yes, but only 4 stacks on kill
With this you can crit twice to get 6 stacks and any trash will die
I prefer flurry to nexus when using the brittleness blessing
Nexus gives you a slight damage boost but being able to throw out faster staggers and armor degrades is better imo
mmmm, okay thx guys
til thers only soul blaze 3
i was spending steel on sb4 💀
btw can we rename surge staff to cinnamon toast staff?
Nexus mods
btw, which melee could help with horde situations as gunker (I use Gaze, so I haven't considered illisi yet...)?
I use a dual sword, I forgotbthe name of it but it's the MK IV one
its not exactly good for hordes from my experience...
click faster
chainsword if not the illisi
It is when you pop scriors gave and twaptwaptwap
chainsword also happens to be one of the best crit weapons for hordes so it's got that for it
which one, mk4 or mk13g?
Look up chocoB's gunner build, he posts a auricular damnation video, I changed mine slightly to his but it's good stuff
Rofl phone auto corrected auric
i haven't really run it much on psyker but either works
heavy spam (or h1 -> h2 -> l3 -> h4 if you don't mind learning the combo) on mk4 and light spam on mk13g
I actually do have an illisi with Unstable Power 3, but it also has Deflector 3 and I kinda fear I will accidentally block bullets while Gaze is active, and thus explode...
ehhh screw it, I will try illisi first, then grind for a decent chainsword if it doesn't work.
kinetic deflection cannot explode you
unless you then empower or use a push attack
push attack might be the thing that I need the most in a pinch, so its probably gonna be the reason why i would explode often...
Train yourself to just do pushes against hordes
i would know i pretty much am roommates with sefoni
It's the second part, the "attack" that is just a bigger shove, that costs peril
just tried DD with surge - it sux
how so
no dmg and wc peril reduction missing
Disrupt destiny is some ass
30% more crit dmg sounded good enough to try it xx
Understandable
I'm currently using EP Smite with mine but I kinda don't like it
I might change to WS
Keeping smite though
Illisi imo
i love my mk6 with uncanny bleed but i miss the force sword push down against crusher gangs
nah it still needs 4-5 hits for a crushers but i get ur point
problem is u are lacking boss dmg (except BoN)
True.
mk6 bleed uncanny best boss dmg melee for psyker imo
Tbh I mostly just deal with my psyker builds sucking on bosses
but yes i miss horde clearing with illisi
But it hurts being in a full team where everybody has that mentality
Everything goes great until a fucking pogryn manages to just stonewall you
i always build for last man standing
cuz thats whats happening quite often
currently i have to decide whether to take quitetude/soulstealer or kinetic deflection
as i dont wanna miss out on empathic evasion
Surge and dueling sword will get you overwhelmed by mixed hordes if you have to deal with them alone
Saw a guy take out every enemy in the game with knife heavy spam on psyker last man standing 🤷♂️
I dont take kinetic deflection
Not worth the two talent points and blessing spot on force sword to me
i just got ambushed by two trappers at the same time but the second one was in the shadows 💀
anybode has experience with revolver psyker?
Only person I ever saw do that build well is @near wyvern
Blessing isn't fully necessary to get value from KD
It can be enough to just be able to block and dodge/push through a rager mob
Or tank a few boss hits
he is using assail which is good i guess but i like headbursts for bulwarks
BB and revolver have too much overlap
You pick one or the other
You can do either assail revolver or smite revolver
Good luck pushing through a horde without KD
And Zarona is the way to go now that Assail Weave is dead, Agripinaa revolver has no uses for a psyker
I always run KD, it's extremely strong and too easy to access to not pick it
yeah i thought so, have to carry that burden with bulwarks then
Oh, uh, it was about this
assail weave u mean the salvo bonus dmg/flying shards bonus share from guns?
so we are not swapping to gun after firing some shards?
Just kill tham 💯💯

Oh yeah, how could I forget about the universal solution for everything in this game
Killkillkillkill
When Assail weave was a thing you would throw 2 shards, fire once, wait a couple seconds and repeat but that is literally dead.
Now you just dispatch ranged and soft elites with assails, revolver specialists and revolver or melee hard elites. Make sure you have hand cannon and surgical.
k ty.
i have a zarona with hand cannon and surgical and a agripinaa with hand cannon and point blank, and i like zarona more but maybe agripina is better - why did u mean it has no uses?
Wait KD with deflector and block effeciency curio might be goated
I can't make it fit in my purgatus build :/ but I aim to not have to block much
Stamina is better than block eff
bruh what u running in ur purge, my purge build has so many free points
WS lmao
nooo
BOTH
purge has no peril generation anyway and EP makes up for the missing bulwark/crusher dmg
Don't care about the peril
Actually I want more peril
I take essence harvest
Ignore weapons and curio
I think we've argued about this before
Yes
You disagreed with me taking empathic evasion
sometimes i play with dome esp when i wanna feel like a tower
But if I take Purgatus I aim to take it in a team where it makes sense to have it out 95% of the time
ah funny how we differ - i really build every build to play the game solo
My Trauma and Void builds are more soloable
and tbh the new bb with ep is so fun, and with blue stim its like crack
It's the fucking best
That's why I take it with bubble too
I can sit in my bunker and just crunch all the gunners and snipers
yeah thats what im talkin about :D
But I save that fun for Trauma
i just like to play with vent for more boss dmg
Warp siphon with the faster BB speed after shriek perk is pretty similar to EP 🤔
btw, are there stats how empathic evasion counts when using purgatus?
how many crits could be possible per second
hows it counted
Purgatus crits a lot
I think your burn stat determines it
The rate at which it ticks
the ticks do not crit i think
I mean the application ticks
Emanating from the purgatus
Well they all apply at the same time
So EE will proc x times all in the same moment
So the durations don't add up
As far as I can tell anyway
But still, purgatus does more crits per minute than any other psyker staff
but i am not
It's the Swiss cheese model you know
would be interesting to know if it crits more than once if i hit more enemies at the same time
You're trying to reduce the chances that a stray melee will tag you at below 100%
Every layer of nope that you have is another potential dave
...
Save
Because dave comes in and blocks for you
hm
Which is why I never go without quietitude, soulstealer, etc
Each one is another chance to top toughness up before I make a fucky wucky and a bruiser donkey punches me
yeah i played mostly league before and psyker reminded me of a lifestealing build which i enjoy
I used to be a Singed main
Which obviously meant I was terrible with every other champ
It is an honour to fight gas
I quit back in like 2014 or so for mental health reasons lmao
Rejection sensitive dysphoria and League are a bad mix
well thats a long time ago
is health or toughness better on psyker?
Toughness generally
Just beware the poxburster 2-shot
but i was playingin this season too
shieet, i have some trinkets to change then
all three are health right now
Health isn't exactly bad
It's just not as good as toughness
Also optionally 1 stamina curio
It stretches out your block with Kinetic deflection a lot
kasadin was great
Nah long after Kass
zoe?
i stopped playing 17 and came back for a season in 20 i think just to get diamond again
I think maybe Rumble was the new one when I first started
why the stamina? in case of having to face tank monstrosities?


