psyker-class

[cosmic sigil]

I won't be testing it

[lyric burrow]

yeah it wont work on the regular non suppressable enemies afaik

[strong gulch]

Non elites and non infested. Still a lot volume wise, but ye

[cosmic sigil]

Hmmm it may be helpful against shooters tho

[strong thicket]

If you are close enough for shooters to suffer supression from barrage they are dead meat with surge lol

[cosmic sigil]

Surge targets 3 at max but yeah...

[jovial juniper]

My honest 10 suppression reaction

doesn't even know how to calculate suppression

[lyric burrow]

yeah TB is unlikely to give any real value

so much just supresses enemies

and you get suppression on kill anyway

[strong gulch]

TBH with shooters. LMB already has a lot of suppression, and it doesn't terrible barrage even work shooters.

Still, what other option that flurry?

[lyric burrow]

not much

run and gun ig

[broken carbon]

i think terrifying barrage is around you

not around the kill

[strong gulch]

Correct

You would have to be close

[jovial juniper]

In other words, diving into the wall of shooters/gunners

[strong gulch]

And a non-infested horde

[upper galleon]

you have Empathetic evasion tho

on a crit bonus staff

[cosmic sigil]

yeah true, but i don't think i take it... that point definitely went into KD

[upper galleon]

how

[cosmic sigil]

i could sacrifice one toughness node and not take a stam curio tbh

[lyric burrow]

oh warp charges

thatll do it for points lol

[strong gulch]

Hm, maybe focused channeling as a flurry alternative. Just charge slide everywhere lol.

[cosmic sigil]

ohhhhhh

https://tenor.com/view/the-simpsons-mr-burns-excellent-sly-gif-15090441131025470920

[azure bridge]

when should i use shriek to maximize on soul fire stacks?

after I have already set them ablaze?

[plucky flax]

With what staff?

[azure bridge]

using blaze trauma

[cosmic sigil]

everytime you're above 85% peril and your cooldown is finished

[steady ocean]

been seeing alot of surge staff play lately. Haven't tried it but saw this at the milk shop. Worth messing with or is it mid?

[azure bridge]

you're the resident blaze truama expert if i remember correctly, so i guess i'll narrow my question here, the stacks from blaze truama have a cap of 6 stacks, does that means i need to shriek AFTER i land a blaze proc, or can I use the staff to add up to 6 additional stacks, whenever

[plucky flax]

No just whenever you can cast creeping flames at 6 stacks use it.

If you only wait it's not as efficient.

You are wasting time by not using the warp charges to utilise faster cdr.

[azure bridge]

okay so the loop is basically, as many shrieks as i can get out then?

[plucky flax]

Yeah.

[azure bridge]

I'm guessing that means i need the cdr aura instead of elite killer one

[plucky flax]

Yes cdr aura always.

And psykinetic's aura too.

For extra cdr.

[azure bridge]

yeah that ones golden

also the cdr on trinkets

[plucky flax]

Yeah if you can afford to.

[azure bridge]

take wildfire?

[plucky flax]

Yes.

When I play well I can cast creeping flames every 10s.

[azure bridge]

i'm guessing this is one of the niche situations its a good take?

[plucky flax]

It's actually really good but people here like to meme me.

[azure bridge]

ahh i seem to have fallen for memes then

[plucky flax]

I have like 300k+ warpfire damage on SURGE staff using creeping flames, combustion, and wildfire only.

And more damage from the surge staff by itself.

People also say surge staff bad so...

[azure bridge]

I'm afraid i only really enjoy the trauma staff

too much stuff shrugs off the surge staff when it doesnt crit, purgatus is too short ranged for my tastes, and I loath the voidstrike staff

so trauma it shall be

Behold, my stick

[azure bridge]

how do you maintain 6 stacks of warp charges for every shriek, or does it not matter to have max?

[halcyon gust]

Stacks will generally rebuild fast

[plucky flax]

It doesn't matter but if you play well you should get at least 4 stacks.

Take the vampiric one, not the death from fire.

[azure bridge]

do i bother with perfect timing?

I prefer having toughness on warp kill

[plucky flax]

What's that one? Damage from crit no?

You should take it.

[azure bridge]

it affects the soulblaze i'm guessing?

[plucky flax]

Yeah.

All warp damage.

I only take toughness on crit and toughness on quell when I use trauma.

Toughnes on crit works per enemy, so if you crit and hit 5 dudes you get full toughenss back.

[azure bridge]

thats nice to know

i was thinking it was 5 for just a crit, never you mind the targets

how do i go about handling monstrosities?

my usual go too was to pop two shields and brain rupture them

[plucky flax]

With creeping flames blaze trauma you left click until 85% then creeping flames.

Should give you 12 stacks of soulblaze. Then you bb.

[azure bridge]

I'm guessing the soul blaze hurts them quite a bit?

[plucky flax]

At 12 stacks it's decent yeah.

[azure bridge]

i honestly never knew that

[plucky flax]

Unyielding also take extra damage from dot.

So bleed and burn hurt them more.

[azure bridge]

wow, maybe i DO need mods lol

okay, you've been very helpful, thank you, my final question, if i wanted a bit more toughness, would i be remiss for exchanging wildfire for the toughness on warp kill node?

[plucky flax]

If you are struggling to stay alive yeah... but I'd keep wildfire, switch toughness on quell to soulstealer.

So you can survive easier against horde.

You'd lose the ability to gain toughness on demand but I assume you don't run around solo as much as me.

[azure bridge]

it depends on my situation

its why i'm so focused on the extra durability

pugs have a habbit of splitting up

and i often have to solo sections to either catch up or recover

[plucky flax]

Without wildfire you'd kill horde slower but it'll be fine still.

It's not worth it in my eyes but of course you adjust the build as per your need.

[azure bridge]

i'm guessing the horde includes th really nasty crap inside of it like maulers and ragers?

not just pox walkers

thats a tough choice...

dead shit can't hurt you

welp thank you again, I shall give this a shot

[lethal lagoon]

Giving actual advice on Blaze Trauma

[plucky flax]

[azure bridge]

Hey, I appreciate it, its helpful to have someone explaining the whys behind stuff

[plucky flax]

It's still the worst staff and need buff.

[cosmic sigil]

surge is regularly the staff i do the most dmg with (also, not a void user)

[lethal lagoon]

[plucky flax]

Easiest staff and deal the most damage. FS balance.

I am a surge simp.

[strong gulch]

If you don't have one built, this is pretty good. Swap stam to flak and terrible barrage to nexus.

Surge is fast and forgiving.

[lethal lagoon]

Elites is one of the good perks for Surge, so decent roll. Follow above ^

[strong gulch]

Not 95% peril will I release the charge in time so I don't explode forgiving, but the aim is.

[plucky flax]

Don't even need blitz cancel.

That tech is good but it's only for meme dps race.

(Nobody care damage dealt)

I only care win and plasteels.

[strong gulch]

I do like it has good room for more skill expression. I'm not gonna do it tho.

[plucky flax]

I am simply too lazy to do it.

If I want to try hard I go blaze trauma flicking.

Surge is time to chill.

Surge and burga very chill gaming.

[strong gulch]

I am simply not skilled enough, and that's ok.

[plucky flax]

Positioning, map and spawn knowledge is more important than pure skill in these tide games anyway.

[strong gulch]

true

[south gull]

The amount of perfect runs i couldve had if not for braindead surge psykers

Purge / trauma enjoyers

[remote shadow]

Finally got it

Anyone down to help with Malleus Monstronum?

[azure bridge]

Did this, and it has solved my squishiness issues, kept wildfire

the soul fire really stacks up harshly

[broken carbon]

is that 5 wounds

are u running 3 would curios

[remote shadow]

Two wound curios, that's a Malice match

[broken carbon]

ohhh

[broken carbon]

i’d recommend u get rid of the wounds

n take toughness instead

[broken carbon]

also if u get a monstrous specials, you can do it really easily

[remote shadow]

One day, when I'm not awful at Psyker and avoid putting myself in situations to get stepped on

[broken carbon]

you get stepped on less hard with more toughness

when u get to heresy/damnation, one would curio is fine, in case ur getting used to not blowing up

but on malice with an extra wound built in

you really don’t need it

[remote shadow]

Yeah but I don't have any Darktide friends online to group with, that's why I ask lol

[remote shadow]

I'm pretty good at avoiding blowing up, it's situational awareness that I'm bad at since I'm so used to getting into the middle of the fighting as Vet and Zealot

[broken carbon]

is in a server of people that play darktide

lmfao

u can always check the #vox-lfg-lexicanum

[broken carbon]

yeah that’s fair

but having toughness to die less is much better than being able to die more

[bleak maple]

Someone explain smite, left click and right click

[brazen rampart]

Left click bad. Don't use. Right click chains many targets. Letting go knocks them down.

That's as simple as it can possibly get.

[bleak maple]

Nothing technical?

Just left click bad

No damage diff or anything?

[restive ice]

it's like, immediately tickle one dog

[brazen rampart]

I have no idea of the damage difference, if there is one. I just know left click only hits like 5 things and doesn't do knockdowns.

[restive ice]

i want to rub a poxhound

but like

away from the spiky bits

[brazen rampart]

Right click is the lobby halting thing smiteker does.

[zinc sphinx]

I crush hounds

[brazen rampart]

I dont think you want to touch one at all, considering its organs are literally dragging the ground as it walks. It probably REEKS.

[remote shadow]

Forgot your @, wanted to thank ya; the build you suggested for Perilous Focus worked like a charm

[restive ice]

glad to hear it

[restive ice]

superman sniffing reaction image

[brazen rampart]

Disgusted superman reaction image:

[remote shadow]

Will Brahms protest if I put an airlock directly under Hallowette's post

[eager token]

does auric power supply interruption have the karnak thing

[potent echo]

It needs to be terror in the dark afaik

[eager token]

[ornate hamlet]

skinwalkerman

weirdly enough

it retains the theme of him struggling to be human

[soft stone]

I’m gonna scrap peddler 138/143 if he doesn’t stop offering wound and stamina curios, my psyker is in desperate need of updates to his curios

[bleak maple]

Fr tho does nobody actually know anything technical about smite?

[restive ice]

we're all just too lazy to screenshot part 6.2 in the psyker atheneum guide

[bleak maple]

The what

[restive ice]

the guide in the pinned messages

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2917274959

[remote shadow]

My beautiful BOY

[bleak maple]

This is like a bible of knowledge bestowed upon me

[strong gulch]

Congrats!

I can try to help with Malleus Monstronum. Full disclosure tho, I am having some brain fog / cognitive issues right now. In a few days it'll hopefully get better. Either way, I'm gonna try a match.

Nevermind lol

[strong gulch]

and another congrats

[remote shadow]

🙏 Ty

[lethal lagoon]

Left click is meant to be an instant stun, Largely useless because there are often better options to do in the moment than switch to smite and left click
Right click you charge and use it. When paired with Creeping flames Shriek, WC or EP, and Perilous combustion the DPS can scale pretty high with enough enemies on the screen.

[strong gulch]

Thank you brunt and hadron 🙏

[potent echo]

Idk if I'm dummy but left click smite doesn't even stun immediately

[strong gulch]

Instant cast

[ornate hamlet]

For ogryns and I think ragers it doesn't

But if you wanna shaft a dog or a trapper, it's a great option

[mental rock]

left click then immediately let go for the stun

pretty much only relevant for lone bursters or trappers

[potent echo]

Yea probably good for bursters

iirc smite casting immediately removes all your momentum so I would hate it so much

I rather just schmove and block push

[strong gulch]

If you cast the smite primary and let go, the only thing that doesn't really get stunned or interrupted right away are maulers and ogryns.

[strong gulch]

That is one of the things I don't like. You can't slide cast it the primary.

or I guess smite in general

only slide charge

[potent echo]

Yea I slide charge then cast

So I never lmb cast

[strong gulch]

I wish you could slide cast it. Like a staff primaries. It doesn't have to be continuous. Just a quick BZZZ.

Alrighty, new staff.

[potent echo]

Surge doesn't slow you on casting

Gooded staff

[strong gulch]

ye

Ew. Terror in the dark on Smelter Complex. Throw yourself right into the molten metal.

[vocal socket]

what are the best rolls for illisi?

[restive ice]

blazing spirit + superiority

[potent echo]

Exorcist and shred

Take your pick of anything not from the above 4 and you good

[hasty pier]

lmao

[potent echo]

Oh wow that's getting changed too

[mossy oyster]

https://tenor.com/view/byuntear-sad-sad-cat-cat-meme-gif-25617057

[strong gulch]

There's a guide in the pins called the Atheneum. Mobility is the dump stat, but warp resist can also be dumped surprisingly hard depending on your build or how you play.

Perks are manic + flack
blessings are uncanny + slaughterer. There multiple blessings that work well.

[cosmic sigil]

Wdym? When a description is fucked,.it means they are working on it?

[mossy oyster]

high peril build wants low warp res illisi

insane how 3 activations get you to like >50

[restive ice]

last time, they fucked up executioner's stance but haven't changed anything yet

[potent echo]

Been the case for all the previous times

Whenever blessing goes bespoke it's getting changed

[cosmic sigil]

!!!!

[strong gulch]

The tool tips get broken constantly.

[cosmic sigil]

Do we have the list of blessings affected this time?

[potent echo]

Uh vet chat had some

I forgor

[strong gulch]

Update = get forked tool tip

[potent echo]

Thunderous on chainaxe too

[vocal socket]

how do you even play smite?

[cosmic sigil]

forgor sounds like the name of an Ork in LOTR

[cosmic sigil]

left click for insta smite

[potent echo]

Smite + EP right click win

[restive ice]

right click until 100% peril then left click

[vocal socket]

what about surge staff?

[strong gulch]

@lethal lagoon likes unyielding and cara for perks on EP smite surge. Kill an elite or special with surge staff to get a stack of EP. Then, smite until you reach 85% peril and cast creeping flames to continue the smite cast. It scales with density.

Creeping flames and perilous combustion will take down a lot.

[violet plinth]

Hello, question. Can brainburst crit?

[mossy oyster]

afaik, no

[mental grail]

No.

Smite can't crit either.

[vivid epoch]

Hello sparkys

You all awake?

[thin finch]

not really

[potent echo]

Nuh

Seeping until we get a new staff

[quartz barn]

Im always awake

Mentally asleep tho

[potent echo]

How to nut while asleep

[halcyon gust]

That's the neat part. We're all dreaming while awake

Oh god this dream is full of blood! Beloved change the channel

[half anvil]

comical click on a remote, channel switches to puppies frolicking in grass

[halcyon gust]

Thank you Beloved

[quartz barn]

BOIS I DID IT

I survived a crusher overhead as psyk

Without funny voc shield too cause that guy was down lmao

Went from full health to 2 hp

[upper sun]

atlas: :dentpepe:

[potent echo]

:dentpepe:

[wind spruce]

Can you recreate it in the psykhanium?

[potent echo]

inb4 it was zealot SoC

[quartz barn]

No the zealot was also down

Both pubs went down in a horde and i got clipped mid rez

[potent echo]

pogging

[bleak maple]

Idk the names of talent tree stuff yet but was that with the passive that uses peril to block?

[mental grail]

Which maul is the least dogshit on psyker?

I understand its the the blocky one?

[bleak maple]

Mk3 best shock maul change my mind

The light attack pattern has more wide swings and the heavy has an infinite strikedown

[mental grail]

The Ignatius?

[bleak maple]

Heavy attack pattern I think is wide then strike down but it doesn't go back to wide for some reason

[mental grail]

I'll have to go buy one

What are your fav perks & blessings

[bleak maple]

Uh depends what I wanna mess with tbh

I got like 4 builds for different playstyles

[mental grail]

I guess the Mk III is hybrid crowd clear + carapace option w/ the strikedown?

[bleak maple]

I'd have to show it off later but I've got a fun purge staff build

[mental grail]

The stun > heavy with Mk 1a can stunlock crushers n such

never used Mk III so idk

[bleak maple]

I mean for a psyker I prefer to use a dueling sword

Great pen, mobility and damage

[mental grail]

I'm always running a vent + warpfire purg build so I use force swords mostly.

[quartz barn]

You can also stab through the visor in bulwark's shield

[bleak maple]

[mental grail]

The warp buildup from illisi helps proc the 80~ or so peril you need for the extra wide vent cone

[bleak maple]

Nah there's something in the brainburst perks

That has like a flat 1% chance idk the actual rate to pop a head roughly short of 2k damage

[mental grail]

I typically just bb them

[bleak maple]

With a purge staff you're just throwing tons of chances

[mental grail]

funny

[quartz barn]

Not how that works

It still has a cooldown

[mental grail]

I got the 100 bb specialist kills with solely that perk

[bleak maple]

Ha

[mental grail]

I got the max warp charge bb kills as well

[bleak maple]

Still sad about the warp battery penance I literally got it a week before the change

[mental grail]

I remember tryharding for it, only to get it by accident trying for a completely different penance

[quartz barn]

I got the 4 bb kills on specials within 10 sec before the talent tree rework

Twice somehow

[bleak maple]

Hahaha same

[mental grail]

That took me so damn long

[bleak maple]

I got it because of coherency perk during an auric by accident

[mental grail]

until someone in this channel was like "just go on to shock troop gauntlet damnnation, idiot"

and I got it literally the first game

[quartz barn]

I got it in the investigation mission in the torrent, at the lane at the start that everyone struggles on

Always has a ton of specials and gunners just sitting in the back

[mental grail]

painful flashbacks

before the gunner rework

[bleak maple]

Quick question is smiker a slur cause I got called it once at the end of a mission and was very confused "THANKS FOR DISABLING THE AI SMIKER"

[quartz barn]

Not really, people just salty ep smite is a 0 skill setup

[bleak maple]

Shame it carries some teams smh

[quartz barn]

Tbf every class has stuff that can easily solo missions

[bleak maple]

Solo when

[potent echo]

Solo now

It's easy to setup

[craggy pebble]

I love my smite psykers as a zealot, they hold the horde in place so I can purge them good!

[upper sun]

i hate smite as a zealot whenever it aimed at a hoard because when i have 5 weakspot hits lined up they knock them out off place

[remote shadow]

Malice Maelstrom
"Waves of Specialists"
Looks inside
No waves of Specialists

[craggy pebble]

Idk they all die fast no matter what if you just keep swinging to me? But I’m not one to min-max/optimize the fun out of my games. I’m just here to purge for the inquisition and the big E

[upper sun]

sniper vent purge
look inside
total of 8 snipers

[potent echo]

Janitors 100hours in vs Janitors 1000hours in

[upper sun]

https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/business20/uploads/fatshark/original/3X/d/e/de64067aaba36f60e2ff3921a1627b3e6d17b341.mp4

someone posted this in the forum

lmao

the range is ass on taxe

[lyric burrow]

The push will often push the enemy out of range of the PA too

[remote shadow]

Why is the knife hitting the gunner from five miles away

[jovial juniper]

Probs Fov

[jovial juniper]

It also creates bad habits smh

[plucky flax]

That guy lives in a fishbowl.

[mental grail]

it's a slur for particularly sparky spark 'eads

[upper sun]

thats our word yes they should have said smyka

[potent echo]

UOOOOOOOOOOH NEWS

[mental grail]

Speak, sibling.

[jade shoal]

Personally, I only find smite annoying when someone is spamming it the whole time. If you’ve got ragers, maulers, and crushers all coming at you, it ain’t a bad thing.

[potent echo]

three... two... one... found ya!

[mental grail]

activates old british lady voice These heretics don't dodge very well, do they?

[bleak maple]

Favourite thing to say at the start of missions

Great minds explode alike

[latent mauve]

@vapid wagon zealot supremacy

[bleak maple]

Is that a zealot I see in psyker chat

[vapid wagon]

xdd

[restive ice]

ahhh im a smyker and i use scriers gaze aaaah

[mental grail]

Why tf would you do that

[strong gulch]

The old lady seer shouts "KILL KILL KILL KILL" during SG. Using un-upgraded smite during SG would be funny.

[upper sun]

yes

this chat is psyker-zealot while zealot is other-video-games

[bleak maple]

tbh yeah I've seen zealot chat

saw them building a wall of peepos the other day

[jovial juniper]

Extra damage

Warp Rider value

[latent mauve]

Finished all t3 blessings

80k plasteel less

[shy hull]

Give psykets a staff that doesn't channel any of the warp

It's just a new melee weapon

[restive ice]

50 million cleave

[shy hull]

Who needs guns? Just use stick

can't hit them? Use bigger stick

[grizzled sierra]

I just put an appointment for myself at work in my vacation
I am the customer now

[jovial juniper]

There's a weapon in lore, Force Rod

Basically a battery

[upper sun]

not bad

i hoarded about 38k now im not about to waste it tho

[restive ice]

ehm can i speak to your manager

[grizzled sierra]

In my line of work it's usually that we give people their new glasses, they immediately pull them across the table with the glasses facing down, just to then leave a bad review about how their new glasses have scratches on them

Some customers are just straight up disgusting too
Handing me their glasses from their face and asking me to clean it is entirely fine, but I do sometimes have to suppress my urge to just instantly throw it into the trash because it's crusted in dirt and probably years old grime and dead skin

[remote shadow]

Kill Team readies up at the same time
Game crashes

[grizzled sierra]

I always laugh when people leave as I join a lobby

[spice veldt]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/925855860557746267/1148583910691836006/JMYS0W5RDOL7U41RPH.gif

[grizzled sierra]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/925855860557746267/1148583910691836006/JMYS0W5RDOL7U41RPH.gif?ex=66c08c9f&is=66bf3b1f&hm=f34400d61269895bce8c6e58573f1df9226aa30e1f6d8c726d6b14b0bb802b76&

[fair magnet]

im ready for this build to be torn apart by everyone now

all jokes aside this is the build i use for auric runs when the team needs a support focus psyker felt like sharing since idk what the opinionated masses think

https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9cc81a0a-0e25-4ae6-af82-2193bf198e6a/area-denial-psyker

[grizzled sierra]

im gonna

im gonna plaaaaay

[jovial juniper]

Swap expenditure for wrath

[grizzled sierra]

gunker

wait actually no nevermind

[mossy oyster]

honestly

id swap OP souls

to bio lodestone

[jovial juniper]

Not wrath, Pyknetics Aura

[mossy oyster]

and i was gonna say that higui but im not super sweaty psyker

I do remember people saying drop expenditure though

cause its mid

so i was gonna rec drop expenditure for psykinetic's aura to spam bubble more

[jovial juniper]

And Kinetic Presence for Seer's Presence

[mossy oyster]

can you get seer's presence and wildfire while going smite?

[jovial juniper]

Yes

[mossy oyster]

yea you can it looks but the tree might be weird

well he has a DS4 with shred

EE might be worth

[mossy oyster]

using your same weapons id probably change it to something like this if I was going "support" heavy

also you can get actual use out of MM/EE with DS4/shred

[jovial juniper]

It's seems like your purgatus has infested, I'd take flak instead

[mossy oyster]

I saw that

but I was just assuming it was locked

cause we havent seen the actual wep screenshots

and the website doesnt really tell

[fair magnet]

i take it speed up on the dogs dont like em much lol

[mossy oyster]

DS4 will be 1 shotting dogs anyway

you'll be fine

[upper sun]

no psykinetics aura is wild

[mossy oyster]

is my build ass for "support" oriented

i just made it up to help him

[upper sun]

you know what is supportive?

cdr on my ult

[mossy oyster]

killing

oh

[jovial juniper]

Nah not enough reason for infested

[upper sun]

dump warp expenditure for it imp

and yeah flak

reset is fine

[mossy oyster]

@upper sun i told him run this

good or bad

[upper sun]

everything else is fine tbh id still go 3x toughness 3x combat and rest is up to you for curio perks

https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9c39d463-1cc1-4b31-a1e6-6656dbc7f336/firepilled-blazemaxxing-pogchamp

this is what i run for purge

[mossy oyster]

i might tweak my smitefire build around to what I just posted

since I have a good DS4/purg my self

yea ill probs do that

[grizzled sierra]

i wanna try somethingusing SG

[ashen vine]

What's the base crit chance Deimos has?

[mossy oyster]

thoughts siblings

[upper sun]

😭 same as last time id put carapace or maniac instead of weakspot

[mossy oyster]

ill probably run carapace

pesky crushers

[upper sun]

ye if you dont have brainburst its important

[mossy oyster]

speaking of BB

mind help me tweaking this 1

[upper sun]

sure

[mossy oyster]

I have 1 talent point because I am unsure of where to put it (it was previously in warp expenditure)

[upper sun]

crit

[mossy oyster]

(since I have illisi generating mad peril) I thought i could actually utilize warp expenditure

[upper sun]

otherwise its alright for EP trauma

[mossy oyster]

the crit node in the bottom right?

[upper sun]

ye

[mossy oyster]

true

everything else make sense tho?

[upper sun]

if you wanna do EP trauma yeah

but trauma same as purge like flak

[mossy oyster]

hmm

yea its just my staves are bricked on the perks part

mostly

[upper sun]

ye

[mossy oyster]

its always one or the other for psyker

[upper sun]

future thoughts for the crafting update

[hot otter]

Justt starting out with Psyker - what build is the most popular for rook's?

[mossy oyster]

true

I appreciate it clad

🤙

[upper sun]

np

[upper sun]

what do you like/have?

if you're under level 30 just try out the weapons

crafting doesnt matter before you're max

[hot otter]

I like the tingly finger skill and the dome shield

[upper sun]

what level are you

[hot otter]

I've been playing Zealot and Vet. I am a massive level 3 right now

[upper sun]

ah well assail rn is gonna do more damage than all your weapons

prolly until level 20 or something

[hot otter]

Ok, good input. I will start with that till 20, tyvm.

[upper sun]

np

theres an image somewhere in the channel for the best talents for low levels i dont have it tho

[mossy oyster]

oh yeah I got this

any thoughts

[upper sun]

flak to maniac and untstable to uncany and its pretty much peak

I think it should be able to oneshot muties on weakspot

[mossy oyster]

yeah unstable with that much peril res 🙃

THE EMPEROR IS REAL

thank god

I have it

[upper sun]

nice

[mossy oyster]

I also apologize for other siblings who dont have good force sword blessings

this isnt a flex

also no one runs executor slaughterer huh

now which one would I be running this on

maybe my smitefire build

[upper sun]

pretty much anything

if you need clear heavy 1 light 2 reset or light spam or for single target light 1 heavy 1 loop

[mossy oyster]

H1 L2 push ?

or just block then repeat

[upper sun]

there is one person that runs executor uncanny

[mossy oyster]

that

doesnt sound bad

id prefer slaughterer uncanny though

[upper sun]

H1L2 then whatever either continue with lights or reset

[restive ice]

i got this while levelling and forgot about it for 600 hours
time to put on surge + terrifying barrage

[upper sun]

i am gonna ask fatshark to make that mod bannable

two teammates quit and one got hounded a level above

ok

i didnt wanna play anyways

[mossy oyster]

hopefully that aint my luck

just hopped on my soyker

also

https://tenor.com/view/dog-blown-away-blown-back-gif-22009589

the urge to forbidden soyker axe

give me a force axe god damnit

also a power axe for zealot

[broken carbon]

just clutch

idiot

[stark crown]

We love watching the entire team quit before the match even gets going

[broken carbon]

that’s when i lock in

and die immediately

[stark crown]

Simply solo the DH bro

[upper sun]

no

not in the mood

[broken carbon]

i did that once on psyker

was agonizing

ds4 my beloved

[stark crown]

I recall stalling the DH for over a minute with… whatever sword uses Peril for blocking

I’m not very smart on my Psyker weapons

[restive ice]

all melee do if you have the kinetic deflection talent

[stark crown]

Probably that

That’s probably what happened

[broken carbon]

not a sword, it’s a talent

oh

[stark crown]

But I stalled for over a minute

[broken carbon]

backup said that

[broken carbon]

yeah you can stall nearly indefinitely with venting shriek and a staff for faster quelling

[restive ice]

star wars intro text

[stark crown]

I don’t know what happened I just recall someone pissed off the DH, and I kept stalling it cause it went after me for some reason

[broken carbon]

and a +3 stam curio*

[stark crown]

Horrible timing to cause Director said Woe crusher horde upon thee

[broken carbon]

more stamina means less peril gen from kinetic deflection

[broken carbon]

lmfao

[stark crown]

I literally just stalled the DH as my team killed the crushers and horde that followed before they finally helped me

After a minute of blocking and dodging lmao

[broken carbon]

yeah that’s how it goes sometimes

assail with KD

let me solo a horde and a DH at once

“b-b-but assail is bad now!!”

god i hate that guy

sry

hatemaxxing rn

[stark crown]

The closest I can get to deleting a horde is Bolt Pistol with Lethal Proximity and spamming shredders

[broken carbon]

tanner, he’s a darktide youtuber

[stark crown]

There’s a reason I stay in Veteran chat

[restive ice]

tanner is in every channel today lmao

[stark crown]

Lmao

[broken carbon]

do u know that lethal proximity buffs ur grenades

[broken carbon]

cuz i keep bringing him up

because he’s so wrong

[halcyon gust]

You can solo with the bots

[stark crown]

Correct! We found this out a while ago and I’ve been preaching it to every Vet player

[halcyon gust]

Nothing is gonna make me swap from my Laspistol as Vet

[broken carbon]

oh were u one of the ones that found that out?

nice

[stark crown]

It’s just Veterans less mind numbing version of Smite

Yeah me and Path read the fine print

Contemplated testing it

And I was the one who did it and found out it does nukes lmao

[broken carbon]

pawesome

i wish i was good at vet

or like

liked vet

[stark crown]

They ever nerf Puncture with Assail?

[broken carbon]

not that i know of

[stark crown]

Cause I recall that synergy was actually stupid

[broken carbon]

i haven’t tried it though

[stark crown]

I should honestly try it once I’m off work even though I vowed not too

Curiosity is winning

[jovial juniper]

Let's see

Bleed the target

Shriek for 6 blaze

Then uncanny+executor

(small window before it drops)

[mossy oyster]

would it be worth

getting 5% ranged damage

while running purg

[broken carbon]

no

i dont think that effects the burn stack damage

and that’s where aknots all of ur damage is coming from

and 5% is pretty minimal already

[mossy oyster]

its either gonna be kinetic deflection

or a TDR node

as my last point

I had solidity but my purg staff has good quell stat

the emperor really wants me to become a gunker

[broken carbon]

i’d say KD

[broken carbon]

purg doesn’t generate much peril in general, so you don’t need to worry about that

[mossy oyster]

hmm

but i dont block alot is the thing im thinking

[broken carbon]

what weapons?

[broken carbon]

you don’t, but once u realize u have neigh infinite blocking u can get away with a lot

[mossy oyster]

well yeah it is peril compared to stamina

so that is true

[broken carbon]

i run it on my DS4, and it’s saved runs

[broken carbon]

i run 2 toughness and 1 +3 stam

bad positioning and getting swarmed by everything?

block, build peril

shriek

[mossy oyster]

that is a good strat but I just hate having dog water positioning

in literally any game

[broken carbon]

locked crit kinda sucks but overall solid

[mossy oyster]

but i'll think about scenarios like that

cause those are where it really shines

[broken carbon]

yarp

i love it

[broken carbon]

if you want another point cuz u can’t decide

you can drop wildfire as well

idk if anyone else has explained 2 u but wildfire sucks

[mossy oyster]

it also sucks cause this build has no range

smite fire

I argued in my head it would be better on crazier modifiers

like maelstroms or HISTGs

cuz purg would have more shit to burn

[broken carbon]

yeahh

i like taking assail with purg

gives some much needed emergency stagger and range clear

[mossy oyster]

its kinda crazy i have like the extremes of every range

[broken carbon]

lmfao

[broken carbon]

wildfire?

[mossy oyster]

smitefire build im running smite/deimos/purg , EP BB build im running trauma/DS4, and Assail wall build im running DS4/Void/DD

[latent mauve]

Death to smykers

[mossy oyster]

all my builds are either far range close range or just the BB build that covers everything

[broken carbon]

also if u decide to switch to assail, i’d say swapping to DD would be good

[mossy oyster]

(but the assail void build covers literally everything too)

I have an assail build

[broken carbon]

assail void is soooo balanced

[mossy oyster]

PC and wildfire

[broken carbon]

PC is overpowered

wildfire sucks

[eager token]

wildire do be a lil mid

[mossy oyster]

ok ill drop wildfire for KD

sounds good

[broken carbon]

wildfire doesn’t spread 4 stacks to each enemy, it spreads like this

enemy dies with 4 stacks of soulblaze on them, with 4 enemies nearby

each enemy gets 1 stack of blaze

[mossy oyster]

woe, death at every fucking range

to everything

[broken carbon]

plus everything is gonna have more than 4 stacks anyway via purg staff

[mossy oyster]

the fuck everything build I like to call this

[broken carbon]

almost my exact void build

[mossy oyster]

dogs/muties? wall fuck em, crushers ragers/maulers? void surge fuck em

[broken carbon]

but shriek instead of wall

[mossy oyster]

giga horde? assail fuck em

its literally fuck everything the build

its so good

[broken carbon]

lmfao

[mossy oyster]

broken asf

all my psyker builds r fun i just gotta play him more

[broken carbon]

it gets worse if u run shriek creeping flames

[mossy oyster]

been getting too many good rolls on zealot and practicing other shit

oh I know about shriek flames

im just a big wall fan

[broken carbon]

anything with 2 specials or elites and the entire room melts

[broken carbon]

fair

[mossy oyster]

honestly

I love both bubble and wall

but wall is proactive

[broken carbon]

they’re fun yah

[mossy oyster]

bubble encourages sitting still

and

i kinda dont like that

ngl

[broken carbon]

i wish wall had a bit shorter cooldown

[mossy oyster]

toughness regen broken and shit but sometimes your team cant keep the bad shit out

i.e no ammo mod maelstrom

wall feels like a moving bunker

and I love it

[broken carbon]

lmfao

troo

[mossy oyster]

so many places to put walls that you wouldnt think of unless you ran it

and if its wave of dogs/muties

free

ez

[broken carbon]

https://tenor.com/view/dono-wall-gif-24048347

14 mutants when wall

[mossy oyster]

https://tenor.com/view/brick-wall-harrypotter-harry-potter-gif-5046633

https://tenor.com/view/harry-potter-wall-harry-potter-hit-wall-harry-potter-train-station-gif-22382683

they all line up to go into the dead space 2 eyeball poking machine

(my DS4)

[broken carbon]

cross my heart and hope to die

stick a needle through my eye

[mossy oyster]

yknow

i did a masochistic ass challenge for that game

[broken carbon]

or is it “the eye” not “my eye”

[mossy oyster]

i loved it that much

[broken carbon]

what was it

[mossy oyster]

stick a needle in your eye

[broken carbon]

ohg

epic fail

[mossy oyster]

zealot difficulty no saves entire playthrough

no deaths

funny enough "hardcore" mode is easier cause the enemies hit at survivalist difficulty which is just hard difficulty(you just get 3 saves the whole game)

so this is actually a harder challenge

[broken carbon]

oh

nice

[radiant frigate]

only one gunner DR?

[broken carbon]

i can’t wait for the dead space 2 remake

[mossy oyster]

oh i just realized im doubling on snipers

lemme double on gunners instead

[broken carbon]

i’m manifesting it into existence rn

[upper sun]

Quickplay had the audacity of putting me in power outage after i finished the event

game REALLY doesnt want me to play today

third try

insta fail

[eager token]

is the rinda event on auric yet

[buoyant maple]

no

[eager token]

[buoyant maple]

and lights out is just bad

[eager token]

i dont mind it

[upper sun]

🤔 i have almost 1.9 mil

what should i waste it on?

[jovial juniper]

Mk12 lasgun

Idk

Or a Dclaw 1

Kek

[restive ice]

shredder autopistol
inspiring barrage
all toughness nodes
kinetic flayer bb + ep with the toughness on use node

[upper sun]

😰 Uhhh

maybe for vet

[upper sun]

disgusting i love it

i already have a bunch of 12 bases same for dclaw 1

[mossy oyster]

when you can win an A-I-II but you have 2 rock eating ogryns

1 of them just stared at a flamer and died

[restive ice]

i think i cooked

[somber crow]

got this as a drop, what to do with it? psyker

[jovial juniper]

Uncanny Strike
Deflector
Flak
Maniac is my go to

[mossy oyster]

something like this

[plucky flax]

Uncanny carapace maniac.

[broken carbon]

exorcist to uncanny/slaughterer, weakspot to carapace or unyielding

maniac isn’t needed imo, most things get one shot by h2

you’ll miss mutant one shot by a bit but it’s not that big of a deal

[broken carbon]

or elites

[broken carbon]

uncanny or slaughterer depends if u want horde clear or armor clear

[somber crow]

im sorry but like, i dont understand a word 😦

im super casual

[mental rock]

what are you confused by

[upper sun]

change the blessing called exorcist to either uncanny or slaughter uncanny imo

and weakspot the perk change it to either carapace/unyielding/maniac

if you're new id say maniac

[somber crow]

thanks, now i get it

im not new

i have 310h

but i dont know how these things work

[upper sun]

ah okay

[somber crow]

i just play with whatever i find cool at the given moment

[upper sun]

maniac is for mutie one tap

[somber crow]

i can change it later anyways

[upper sun]

carapace is for dealing with crushers easier unyielding is for bosses

see what you need the most

weakspot and critical damage are horrible perks that dont belong on any weapon

they're calculated badly in game and do less damage than anything else on top of being too conditional

[somber crow]

oh ok

io dont think i ever used any of those

i usually use stuff that make reloads faster or give cleave and things like that. utility

[upper sun]

as a good rule of thumb if a melee weapon has uncanny/slaughter/brutal momentum/headtaker put those on it

[rigid sky]

Mooooostly

[upper sun]

for ranged weapons surgical/deadly accurate/hand cannon/dumdum/infernous/deathspitter/fire frenzy prolly forgetting a few big ones ranged weapons are a bit more varied

[upper sun]

90% of the time EVERY TIME

[rigid sky]

Power cycler above slaughterer

[upper sun]

yeah on one weapon

[rigid sky]

You could probably make a list of like 6 blessings in order which will always be taken in priority sequence

[upper sun]

ye

[rigid sky]

Infernus is more marginal tbh

[upper sun]

well not me i am a thrust enjoyer

issue is with thrust it stacks at various speeds across many weapons

like with maul even if you do a heavy attack as soon as you can you get 1 stack minimum

[rigid sky]

And many weapons with it still don't want to use it so much

[upper sun]

while ogryn shovels

[rigid sky]

Ogryn cleavers can get thrust, and it does work just fine

But it's still like a third or so choice

[upper sun]

ogryn heavy weapons have needlessly long cast times because the game assumes you have heavy hitter all the time

[rigid sky]

I miss the triple strength thrust bug

[upper sun]

imo heavy hitter attack speed should be reduced and the difference added to ogryn in general

[rigid sky]

Fucking up Crushers with a rashad was awesome

Heavy Hitter is a lame keystone anyway imo

Gets worse the better your team is

[upper sun]

i cant play ogryn without fnp tbh

[rigid sky]

I'm getting into BLO

And I still take HH a lot

It just feels bad

[upper sun]

i did that once and it was disgusting

bosses just MELTED with PBB

but it made me a bit too squishy

[rigid sky]

Does help with the infamous lugger ammo economy a lot though

[halcyon gust]

Used to run FNP until it got nerfed. Now I run Heavy hitter as my Key stone

[strong gulch]

It's been too long since I cut my nails. The feckers are long enough to reach keys beyond what I'm clicking.
Me: hits attack button
My nails: wield stim. DO IT

Clipping my randomizers off now.

[upper sun]

i only played it after the nerf

[upper sun]

[halcyon gust]

Per nerf it was really good.

Since you only lose stacks when you took health damage and the defensive boosts were additive to your other TDR

[upper sun]

its still good

[halcyon gust]

As long as you maintain your toughness which as Ogryn is really easy to do. You basically maintain 10 stacks at all times

[upper sun]

but much like the attack speed game expect you to have it so ogryn without it feel way to squishy

i'd take like 20 chip damage every 30 enemies

[halcyon gust]

As long as you grab all of Ogryn's inherit TDR nodes. You'll be fine

And have something to heavy smack to maintain your toughness as you dodge, slide toards shooters Because everyone else sucks at dealing with shooters

[upper sun]

i just lost a riser game because we got 20 gunners in the open train area

i get it

that game was fucked fron the start tho

[halcyon gust]

How much fun you have as Ogryn is based on how well shooters are controlled

[upper sun]

we kept getting bulwark and crusher packs

[strong gulch]

My reaction was angrier and confused.

[halcyon gust]

Though the shield does help a good bit wtih shooters if you get the "Enemies are taunted on block" skill

As shooters hitting the shield will be taunted and try to melee you

Gunners and reapers...

[upper sun]

ye

[halcyon gust]

They'll keep blasting away

Scab shotgunners will melee you

Dregs are kinda iffy

[strong gulch]

@lethal lagoon Emperor wants me to do low warp resist.

[lethal lagoon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBdnti4_UUg

[mossy oyster]

eviscerator music

[strong gulch]

I thought we had a bot, but it was actually vet player walked forwards and backwards and shooting slowly all at en even tempo.

[round coyote]

That’s why you control the shooters, tbh. I don’t rely on runts. I was playing with like, 2 vets and a Psyker and while they were all built for anti range, they kinda just ignored em.

You rely on punies, you lose. Shrimple as.

[jovial juniper]

That's why you play Staff Psyker (purg not included)

Your bolts have the best suppression on the game

Iirc

[round coyote]

I have a staff. It’s just, taller than me, with a long heavy arc at the top. With it, I can cast head explosion, and crusher one shot.

I play staff Ogryn

[jovial juniper]

Too bad Trauma staff needs buff
With it you can basically kill/control almost every enemy

Even force BoN to spit your ally

[remote shadow]

Tfw finally finish all of my Psyker penances sans Lifeleech 5 so I can go back to playing brainburst shriek Psyker

Tfw don't remember the flow of brainburst shriek Psyker so I blow up in a Sedition

Just finished doing the Telekine Shield penance, for reference

I may very well end up swapping out my staff for a Columnus or Zarona ngl

[fresh reef]

probably the most horrendous build I've constructed thus far

[restive ice]

die

[remote shadow]

That's an odd looking Maccabian

Remind me please, what are the best blessings for Columnus?

Rolled one with Fire Frenzy and Deathspitter III

I have Fire Frenzy, Hit & Run, Sustained Fire and Dumdum IV

[jovial juniper]

Needs Dumdum

[remote shadow]

Aight

Welp

Definitely rolling with the Columnus

Hadron just bricked my Zarona

[smoky python]

quick question yall, what's the dumstat for shock staff?

[remote shadow]

Quell Speed

[smoky python]

appreciate you my g

[remote shadow]

Np

[remote shadow]

Absolutely devastating

Meanwhile, the Columnus

[round coyote]

I mean, you could just replace both blessings and it would be pretty decent, but honestly I’d just eat one of the blessings for the future.

Up to you though.

The perks could definitely be worse.

[restive ice]

i wonder if that +6 elites and the elite damage aura would let you oneshot dreg gunners

[round coyote]

… questionable. Running surgical though, probably. The stats are pretty good.

Besides, hand cannon does the heavy lifting for everything else.

[restive ice]

well yeah a crit would kill pretty much all the normal elites. but consistently hitting that breakpoint quickly would mean it's not a brick imo

[round coyote]

Yeah spose so.

[strong thicket]

Run n gun on purgatus. Does it have any semblance of use?

[restive ice]

triple stam, triple sprint efficiency, scrier's gaze
go zoom

i also did a 10th of the damage i normally do

[strong thicket]

I figured but you know

High stagger memes zooming around

[restive ice]

well it was still funny

[jovial juniper]

Probably for extra close range damage (needs more testing)

[mental grail]

Are the Accatran lasrifles not dogwater after the buff?

I want my bullpup gunker

[cosmic sigil]

Recons good

[jovial juniper]

They are usable now

[cosmic sigil]

Dumdum + infernus + scryer

[mental grail]

which one?

[cosmic sigil]

More than usable tbh

[jovial juniper]

All of them, Mk2 is the safest pick rn

Ammo efficiency my beloved

[mental grail]

thank you sibling

[strong gulch]

The 6d lasgun is what typically recommended for its faster fire rate That feeds infernus, EE, and other crit talents. Take true aim.

Assail helps with ammo.

[mental grail]

what perks?

crit chance and maniac/flak?

[upper galleon]

Dont need crit chance with true aim

[strong gulch]

Yeah. Flak is the main one. Maniac after that. Unyeilding is also good.

If rolled one with everything just right except the 2nd perk was crit chance, I'd keep.

but also gamble more

[restive ice]

nah perfect 550 or scrap

[strong gulch]

true

[mental grail]

this is me lmao

[mellow dock]

@supple dock Do you have a good Psyker build with smite?

or does anyone?

[restive ice]

all smite builds are bad for the soul

[jovial juniper]

Take Trauma Staff instead

But do you want a build with WS or EP?

[mellow dock]

Surge and smite

ive never really used it much

id like to try out smite

to its max potential

[restive ice]

ah, estonian penetration smite

[strong gulch]

If you're gonna smite, this is Atlas's build. Take surge staff with unyielding and cara. Kill an elite with staff to get an EP stack, then charge and cast smite, and fire shriek at 85% to prolong the smite cast. Creeping flames and PC will kill everything short of crushers in addition to smite damage. This scales with enemy density.

[mellow dock]

im using that exact build

im not quite sure how everything works together though

[restive ice]

[mellow dock]

i just copied this build

https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9ba81400-4c60-4362-9756-f93428dfc021/azyr-psyker-smite-venting-shriek-empowered-psionics-auric-ready

[restive ice]

[strong gulch]

I listed how it works. ⬆️

[mellow dock]

yup reading it

[strong gulch]

BUT I get reading and appling are not the same.

[mellow dock]

thanks potato

i get it now

basically i need to get an EP stack

ive been using it regardless of EP

[strong gulch]

np

[mellow dock]

is the damage difference alot with an EP stack?

i mean very noticable?

[worn heron]

smite

:<

[strong gulch]

Yes. Play around with it in the meat grinder. On T5, it's not enough to kill ragers on its own, but it ALMOST is. That's where shriek + creeping flames comes in. The 6 SB stacks plus not interrupting the smite cast is enough to take out a rager. It takes about the same amount of time to kill 1 rager vs 25.

PC gets rolling and things die even harder.

[mellow dock]

i see

very interesting

ive never really used it before

[mellow dock]

so always always kill an elite first to get the EP stack first

and only then use smite

[strong gulch]

PC and creeping flames don't have caps the way stave do. So PC can keep stacking up, and creeping flames can apply 6 SB stacks on top of whatever is already applied. The gobal SB stack is limited to 31 tho.

[mellow dock]

gotcha

thanks for the info potato

going in to game to try it out

[strong gulch]

Pretty much. You have a 7.5% chance to get a stack passively from kills, but yeah get a stack then smite. Get interrupted out of your cast or accidentally cast a small smite (even LMB / primary) and that consumes an EP stack.

[mellow dock]

gotcha

tyvm

[strong gulch]

[vernal agate]

salvagable for gun psyker?😅

[jovial juniper]

Yeah, put flak on it

Dumdum is what you really want

[vernal agate]

Should I keep hit and run?

Change the blessings to flak/carapace or unyielding or something?

[jovial juniper]

It's usually Dumdum+Fire Frenzy

But HnR is good

And then it's Flak + Maniac/Cara/Unyielding/Elites

You choose

[vernal agate]

Awesome 😁😁 thank you! Any idea if melee weapons on gun psyker are like, the usual? Deimos/dueling sword IV?

[potent echo]

Those are the best anti elite and anti boss sticks yuh

[cosmic sigil]

i like hit and run

[plucky flax]

I use dumdum sustained fire

[cosmic sigil]

ciag is flak/crit chance + dumdum

everything else is your preference tbh

[mental grail]

my go to columnus perks are maniac/flak

dum dum / fire frenzy

[cosmic sigil]

deathspitter is better than ff

[mental grail]

https://tenor.com/view/the-road-to-el-dorado-both-both-is-good-gif-8304204

[cosmic sigil]

also, that weapon shreds maniacs, i would go elite or unyielding

[cosmic sigil]

except deathspitter has cleave

[mental grail]

yeah, but ff is still very good

so it's it's really up to pref

[cosmic sigil]

it's not a bad blessing to have yeah

[jovial juniper]

With 2 stacks of deathspitter you can start shooting through 1 poxwalker

[woeful shale]

can any1 pls show me the current meta dps build for pysker ?

if anyone has time ofc would appreciate it

[mental grail]

staff or gunker?

[woeful shale]

staff

[mental grail]

🤢

smyker w/ voidstrike and EP

[tired estuary]

honestly just void, you don't need to subject the entire team to smite ep cbt

[mental grail]

I mean

why wouldn't he

[runic kiln]

fuck am i gonna do with this lmao

too busy mainhanding staves

[cosmic sigil]

Fucked beyond repair

[mental grail]

^

axe is cooked

[halcyon gust]

🧱

That is a nice paper weight though

[near wyvern]

Depends a bit from the mission level. For anything under damnation, staff will not be the best DPS. Columnus, Assails and Creeping Flames is the way to go (Psylot build in Atheneum).

Once you get into damnation and especially Auric Damnation, the Soul Smite (from Atheneum) which uses the Surge staff is the absolute best DPS build out there as it gets better the more enemies there are, not just because it deals huge amount of DPS but also because it stun locks everything but monstrosities while doing so as well, giving your team free smack time.

Just remember that "top DPS" will always be the one who clears the most trash units and being a top DPS doesn't necessarily mean you can carry the team. Trash is only a fourth of your problems, elites, specials and monstrosities need to get handled as well.

Luckily with Psykers you can often effectively deal with all but Monstrosities on many builds. There are a couple builds that are good against Monstrosities as well but in general Psyker is the worst class overall for DPS on bosses. Most of the time you have to rely on your melee weapon for the Monstrosity damage or Brain Ruptures, both which are not ideal DPS.

[halcyon gust]

Though such builds tend to bias towards the gunker playstyle where you can melt down single targets really good, but you kinda trade off your ability to deal with hordes and Mixed hordes

[mental grail]

Gunker is the only competitive Monstrosity build, and its mid.

[near wyvern]

Which is why Psylot uses the Creeping Flames, allowing you to press a button to clear the room and use Assails + Columnus/Knife to clear the remaining elites and specials

If you are dealing most monstrosity damage as a staff user it doesn't mean you deal good monstrosity DPS, it means your team has no good monstrosity handlers, change my mind

[halcyon gust]

Or your team just leaves you alone with the monster as those 5 lone bruisers in the corner is Way important that a BoN about to eat you