#psyker-class
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The daemonhost rituals need to be tweaked to be less boring
it's literally just
"Can you press W? okay hold it"
"no? press s"
If you need help, just ask. Has to be in a private lobby btw.
I think it's harder to deal with in H40, but I get what you're saying.
Make it interesting or shorter.
Then again, they hide them sometimes. 
i mean, if youre offering
I'll get on.
oh thank you
I'll be in the sus Vox. Just add via friend code.
imo make them easier to kill
Gamepass with the surprise Borderlands 3 Ultimate Edition drop 
did you play borderlands 2?
no need then you already played the best borderlands has to offer
๐

I could still go for some wacky Borderlands humor and super random guns though
You can't stop me anyway
reminder to first start up the game on pc
give yourself 999 keys
then play it on xboxe
No 
@upper sun You came too late.
Idk
Everywhere I go they say bl2 good
Then shits on the presequel or something
Which is a fair point to critic on.
BL3 had arguably the worst writing of any AAA game I've played
Most frustrating was that the PCs didn't seem to impact anything. Like, you fought bosses and won, only to get cutscenes of the villain winning. You watch allies get shot from 2 feet away and can't do anything (not that you're in the cutscene). No one talks about you, no one seems to care that you exist. The plot happens parallel to you, but doesn't involve you in any meaningful way
I played the early part and totally agree
Played until the death of ||maya||, beating the boss fight in about three seconds made it even dumber, and the following writing just saw me quitting the game outright
Honestly, this might be why I don't even actually wanna play it.
The updated movement was quite nice; I had set up an autohotkey script + cheatengine table to add sprinting to bl2 myself
Yes, but story is srsbsn.
The lootnshooter elements were also kinda sucky and poorly balanced
Maybe i'm too old for bl3
I installed almost 100GB of BL3 and now everyone is talking shit about it 
Give it a go
But do prepare the 'mute all dialogue' mod
I mean, the jokes have been taking a downhill spiral.
And skip all you can.
If it's as bad as I know.
Thankfully it's on Gamepass, so it's "free" 
bl3 somehow manages to have even worse netcode than bl2

As bad as 1?
Where your jump is on a delay if you have more than 5 ping?
bl3 your character teleports around if you jump lol
So VT2 on high ping but worse.
I will just test it now 
cars cant move straight and attacks are all delayed and goofed
So worse than BL1.
Because at least cars go straight just don't swerve.
And the shooting was perfectly fine.
they managed to make the melee camera lock on somehow DELAYED
yeah on ror2 sp was goofy too
How do they keep getting worse???
Do they not learn?
rot is spreading through gearbox slowly
bl is the reason i think dt's netcode is decent
at least in dt grabs are the only thing thats silly for me
and the dcs.................. (servers caught fire...)
True. Unless you are rubberbanding to heck.
wait i meant dts netcode is decent i edited it now
Is okay if you have stable ping.
100gbs
damn
it was like 30 when i played it
how much dlc slop is in there
Thrown out the window if not.
up till 200 it should be fine
Even 270. When it's not being iffy. It's just 0.4~ sec delay.
nope you're safe for now
Is up to packet loss then.
just 1,2 and presequal
Were you planning to feed?
hey
no
the opposite
give him overlevelled weapons ruin his gameplay experience and leave
Note to self, don't even think of playing with Clad TT.
Definitely a dick move
wait bl4 could do the funniest thing
I like playing with clad. He keeps it real
I have offically made the dumbest psyker build
I call it the aneurism simulator, and I have reduced the game to only holding left and right click and ocassionally pressing f
Where and how can I upload videos?
Sounds like smite to me.
Keep chatting and you'll get red role. That will allow you to post links and pic.
And also react with default emojis apparently, thanks ๐
my main build is heavily based on this one:
which is fun
Be actually playable?
That's not funni, that's expected.
true true
welp if you see any way to make that meme build better let me know
Behold
Infinite Smite
2 free points for whatever you want
Stop recommending it to people 
I was gonna ask what you meant by "better", but Deadvoid got you. lmao
I'd but my last points in soulstealer, KD, or OwtW.
I already have brain damage from people today not knowing how to play pox gas missions, they always think it's the best idea to start rushing ahead when the gas started and then to fight all the hordes and elites inside the gas. Why? 
Note: the infinite smite is somewhat annoying because what you're supposed to do is smite -> get high peril -> quell by activating scrier's -> continue smite until warp unbound is almost over, but sometimes when scrier's ends and warp unbound activates it'll kick you out of smite due to server nonsense
Good
Whenever I play smite for maelstrom I die a little inside
then why do it
Because someone has to have something for the dog/mutie/burster waves, because I don't know how good the people are when we start 
Pfft
I call that 'skill' and just dodge

Just embrace the chaos/handle them with almost any build
Hallways work
Killing the things works
RUN AWAY FROM TEAM and push.
I don't trust pubs to push. They nearly always shoot which is worse than bots.
Since that's 50/50.
With the people I played with today I was happy that I had smite, I don't want to be happy to have smite
I learned that I can't carry pox gas maelstrom 
TBH
pox gas does way too much damage
it was marketed as a choice between PUSHING through and waiting it out
but waiting takes too long and pushing through will delete your toughness in 2 seconds unless you're an ogryn
Pox gas should just reduce your toughness replenished rather than damage you
it already does reduce replenishment but it feels like it barely does
Hell, the other day I had only 2hp left and maybe 10% of my health was corruption, so I thought "I have enough room for corruption, I can run through this" nope, I just died right away
Me with a bubble standing in the gas

And this is when I learned it does damage to your health straight away
wait it doesnt just deal corruption dmg it deals health dmg too?

Or book spam happens.
Seems so, most of the time you won't notice, because if you take the health damage it will just fill up with corruption right away, but yeah don't run through pox gas with low HP
Seems like I can put those DH rituals in regular T5s. 

that sounds like its actually fun
Because it's your favorite map, Consignment Yard?
maybe but also rituals outside of havoc
Replace DH with rituals in aurics 
They need to fix the activation points before they add them anywhere. They should honestly take them out of havoc till fixed
Is the tox gas and tox bomber gas the same?
It better be
What force great sword do yall like and why ๐ฎ
6, simpler combos, easier access to single-target dmg
I can, in fact, load a regular T5 with the Heinous Rituals.
I like mk8, lights for hordes, heavies for single target. I like it simple
are there any mortis power upgrades for smite?
Yes
so literally the mk6 
That you deal full smite damage immediately, whatever that means
is that it?
I ran one trial with smite, and saw zero upgrades for it specifically
and smite is ... god awful to play with
It's the only one I found, only used smite once though
imagine if all it does is make charged strike instant
Either for me.
6 can be more simple to use but also as access to more combos. Has easier access to the big upper thrust stab on the H2 and after the special.
8 has slightly faster lights and easier access to horde clear.
Realistically, for hordes you'll do 2 or 3 hits then block or push anyways.

Thx
The stand outs are if you want faster lights or where you like the big upper thrust to be for the FGS mks.
Make it do literally anything interesting 
I decided on the mk8. I like the first two lights for horde clear
I don't think the smite upgrade does anything. I recall they forgot to include the actual buff code

Fatshark Gaming

none of the testers ever used it so
lmao
8
I simply learned it and can't get the move set out of my muscle memory
Another day
Another demonstration that FS doesn't really care about smite itself
That being said
Smite buff next patch
Calling it
I want them to give us something else
Granted, smite is replaced with smite 2, which sends out ten duplicates of the lightning similar to the shotgun effect

a finger on the monkey paw curls
Nah, Fatshark cares about usage stats so they'll buff gunker because why else would you play psyker other that to play exactly like a zealot/vet? Everyone needs to try it!
psykers
how do i kill a boss as a psyker
praying and tickling them is not an answer
What weapons/build do you run
you stab the boss
A) you are BR build so you jsut do shenigans with ability spam to do mid but acceptable damage
and two of those are not exclusive to psyker
B) you have inferno staff, and you just keep up 16+ stacks of soulblaze and alternate to another source of damage
and the one that is, Inferno, is not anything to write home about in terms of boss damage
C) you have a melee weapon, likely one with good finesse, stab it in it's head
It's actually poor damage
Do not use Brainburst
I mean, unless you have literally invested entirely into BB, then use it a little bit while the buffs last before switching away because BB sucks 
that's literally why i said
BR build
you haev 2 shields, you stacked a ton of cdr, maybe even have 3 ep charges
yes, but also only do it a little
because your buffs expire far too quickly
idk psykers are allergic to melee apparently
while having KD
Is slow otherwise
I mean, generally, yeah
You would be too if a sneeze exploded you into bloody paste
I don't fault noobs for learning 'melee bad' on psyker, lol
Gaze with staff can do good damage vs bosses
It can, but gaze with staff is literally only for bosses
and it isn't really improving your TTK by all that much
damn someone understood
But best staff dmg for bosses is probably Inferno + uncanny melee + scrier's
wait whats gunker?
Gun psyker
oh
Take Vraks Infantry Auto
Take Scriers
See boss
Press ability
Shoot boss
win
tbf scriers makes any gun good tbh

Recon Lasgun also works.
Lasgun does but is less damage
b ut you have kd
If you want to delete bosses, Vraks Gunker is your best option
and 2 of the best weapon types in the game exclusive to your class
Recon las let you hit them from further, and better in general.
because you are not wasting half a mag trying to hit something from a far.
Staves are indeed exclusive to our class and technically melee

i think i grew older by 20 years despite this being my average psyker experience
Hard disagree
Just aim

which 2 weapons aside from inferno?
melee weapons, and gun
I mean, EK staff also does okay if you take +unyielding, but you're not getting great boss damage out of psyker with staff (unless you use uncanny soulblaze)
force sword and fgs
just stab the boss in the face and hold block and dodge back if it swigns towards you
let teammate grab aggro again, rinse repeat
Eh, they're not 'the best'
Dueling Sword was exclusive
but no longer

yes they are lol
Knife, Dueling Sword
both obscurus and deimos are insane, fgs may not have super impressive unyielding damage but outside of that it's still ridic strong
Crusher is also really strong with its absurd stagger
Relic Sword is a more dangerous version of FGS, FGS only wins through infinite cleave
the only weapon above everything are the pickaxes
and a room wipe
As said, infinite cleave shenanigans
and deflector without a cost to the offensive power like how relic has to rely on heat
You don't even need deflector on fgs tbh
and also it sometimes missing for no reason is just annoying
It's hella block efficient
@copper jay Here's a vid of uncanny inferno boss damage. The debuff mod shows the SB stacks. #psyker-class message
swwword sworrrddd greatswooor
Deflector is kinda trash, ngl
Thanks I just lost my havoc i'll look into that !
Unless you need to block gunners, in which case, just get good at positioning 
What do you use ?
unless you need to block gunners in which case gun
i use it when I can't reliably or instantly proc EE
On wat wep?
Shred/riposte or shred/wrath are the usual blessings
Force sword
smh witch chat
Riposte/wrath maybe but that's a little unreliable
Sure, but generally just dodge and slide. If you're out of all of that, you have positioning problems, generally.
Uncanny/Slaughterer
For the smol force swords yeah uncanny slaughterer
1h fswords blessing variety be like ermm uncanny ermm slaughterer ermm uncanny
Nothing better than good ol rending + strength
Delfector is fine but must work in a build
KD + deflector +9 stam from curios let you afk through the entire mission tho 
Just ask Karien
I mean, I don't begrudge people who use deflector, but there really are replacements for it that are in your kit at baseline
Deflector seems to be like KD no ? In desesperate situations
Bubble ?
KD my beloved
Bubble isn't baseline
I mean talentless baseline
As in, dodge, slide, and use cover
The good ole way
KD works while reviving, deflector doesn't
Which is why i think KD is just flat out better
uh, did Unstable Power for the fgs never say it stacks?
Nah, KD is far better than just 'desperate situations'
murder is also basekit
KD lets you block for, effectively, free
Wrong. It's for cool situations. I'm spreading deflector propaganda with this gif now, I don't care 
Buff icons are just fucked rn, pretty sure it stacks
and blocking for free is cracked in more ways than one
the text description doesn't say the word "stacks"
well fatshark descs arent normal
Revive in the middle of a horde? I don't care, I have KD
Great evidence of positioning issues 
What issues? I didn't take any damage 
You could've been dealing more damage tho 
KD lets you block instead of dodge, which lets you refresh your dodges whenever you need (as long as no overhead), and lets you ignore timing unlike blocking, and is quicker than dodging
If you're quick enough like I am, you can just block to prevent backstabs all the time when you forget that one poxwalker blown into a wall that somehow survived
Just believe in the EE gamble 
KD and deflector can work extremely well for aggression
They can, yes
The emperor protects those of faith etc etc
Literally EE

EE has surprisingly consistent uptime even on trauma staff as well ngl
I take it if i have points to spare nowadays, it's fun to ignore an entire enemy type 
"For my Beloved!"
playing rouge trader rn
it's because crits have a 'luck protection' system that pushes you to be more/less likely depending on how often you're critting
game is peak but the combat is shit
its not finished
and its fucking made in unity
but its peak
sog tradaaa
pog trada
Its so easy to break the game its great
i have 1 tip toss your most hated teammate into the evil pit
Arch Militant and Blade Dancer
Game's rigged ๐
break the game by just selecting psyker
There's no way that's true
looks it up
Huh
It literally says it in the launch slides
Argenta getting 4+ full turns in a single round:
I feel like if you tell people it's easy to break rogue trader you'll hear 50 different ways they broke the game with broken build
my p syker had like 20 deflection or something goofy like that LOL
I made argenta my main character in my first run by accident
Nothing wrong with Unity. Unity's management tho...
implying I don't spam esc while the game opens
Yeah
But sometimes you alt tab while it loads and come back to the unit or title splash
i was tanking the hecking (endgame spoilers) || c'tan shard|| LOL
he wants me
I got it to half then killed it in a single 3000 damage burst attack
On my iconoclast heavy weapons arch militant run
most balanced blade dancer moment
60 round box in one action
i literally rose the difficulty every battle
and we kept outscaling it
hilarious tbh
Ohhhh I should try that
I've just been on daring since my first run because achivements and not having 1:1 enemy stats feels weird
Bladedancer kinda weird if you have more than 2 melee characters tho
Gotta be hella creative to avoid ff 
bladedancer is cool until ur playing mp and you dont get gameplay cause ur friend has one
lmao
My current party is Heretical pyro blade dancer executioner RT, Kibellah, Idira, Cassia, Jae, and Pasqal
The action economy is a joke
Arch-militant RT + Cassia just enables so much bullshit it's insane
cassia is silly
Arch-militant RT + Cassia just enables so much bullshit it's insane
we did toss her into the|| bottomless pit ||in 2nd playthrough though
idk why i wasnt host
What act is that and whats it do
2 i tihnk
I don't remember anything like that
they just disappear forever
๐ญ
might b able to save??? don kno
Heretical pyro blade dancer is funny because I have two force swords that scale of off veil degredation
its some random planet
Been a while
theres literally just a pit there
Actual murder
Is it that jungle world with the black pit
yes
You can throw people in there????
lmao yes
How
u need to talk to the thing in it
and what does it do
it might give a perm buff? unsure
Doesn't it give you +heretic as well
Idk I just talk to it then pass the check to get the tiny weapon skill buff
I remember just noping the fuck out of there 
Oh god time to do another playthrough soon then
Not looking forward to having to redo the entirety of act 1 again 
i wish the enemies did more in rt
Yeah you talk to it then either pass a willpower check or a series of checks and get this
I didn't know you can toss people in
idk tbh
theres also a hecking ||artifact that turns you into a ghoul somewhere? u cant even take it off||
that was also really funny
Halo Device
my rogue trader put that on right away
I intend on using it this run
its so silly
Which is fuckin weird bc aren't those supposed to be really fuckin rare & expensive in lore
theres a fucking choose your own adventure book in the game
Like you can buy planets with those
my god they COOKED
we can probably buy planets tbh
im not wrong
the combat is shit
Fair lmao
Yeah you steal it off a corpse from a world thats been dead for ages
not that it matters every trader requires rep so we can buy less than rejects in dt
I SAID IT
Don't think i ever found it in my playthroughs
COME AT ME
I miss wasteland ambush
no the balancing is terrible in rt

its just true
Chaosgate daemonhunters would be decent if it didn't fuckin crash every 20 minutes on modern systems
Im balancing the combat by picking random shit for every char
real
Real
Real
it was gonna be either rogue trader or daemonhunters for me
and ye daemonhunters has some batshit crazy VFX
i heard the game loses like 10 fps if there are nurgle enemies because their goop causes everything to lag
recommended
"oh but this could come in handy on the future"
goop
lore
YES
Is that actually the reason
i WILL have one char specialized in every kind of lore
funny
according to one reviewer yes
I never got far bc i didn't wanna bother troubleshooting lmfao
when did you last try it?
if you havent refunded it give it another try i think its alot more stable now
Refunded it after an hour 30 
Oh i might give it another shot then
Probably gonna go on a deep sale this may anyway
next skulls event everything should be on massive discounts
Hell yeag
is there a mod that shows the amount of stacks/debuffs on targets for psykanum testing?

legend, thanks
@plucky flax penance help?
Possibly asking in lfg chat
ah. Not familiar with it, I'm a one trick psyker
need to finish a mission in under 20 min
At least, I got it by asking in lfg
and keep less than 1 wound of hp most of the time
prolly the train mission would work
Good luck, that sounds even worse than ours. At least you can DH that
the problem is it requires having friends lmao
unfortunately it clashes with literally everyting else except some headgear
but it is nice
Idk the psyker penance set is pretty solid
Nice armored look to it
Funny that psyker always has a heavy armor look and zealot always has a light thing going except that one really bad metal set that seems to be on half the zealots
psyker needs heavy armor to make up for the glass bones
alternatively dress in rags so it looks good with the only cape we get
I like the metal zealot armor 
I also hate the cape and rag thing, itโs weird how common that is
I like the "I just kinda crawled out of a random hab door and acted like I belong" look but it'd be nice to do other things and still have a cape
and yet psyker looks like small man in big armor always
Yo, did psyker get some twitch cosmetic?
Yes.
Was it cool?
They need more armored legging options. Like the ones with the grey and yellow armor
You look like a wild berry poptart
Thanks for your propagande ๐
SO fecking fair
Is shock maul fun on pysker and is this a good roll?
Solo malice mortis till wave 6, raging idiot screaming in Mandarin joins and demands I do everything he says after I solo'd 6 waves. 7th wave, he stabbed enough boomers near me to put my Zealot to 3 out of 5 wounds corrupted and him dying on the last one. Kept raging about no book or corruption removal so I just left.
Considering how bs hp wise my zealot is, that idiot cannot play even uprising.
You donโt want pen dumped
In malice mortis kek
mandarin chad
I wanted to solo.
Why are there weird meta slaves in malice and heresy who suck ass
Is good practice dealing with trapper swarms and such.
It's like the opposite of a sweet spot
they think that the game is all in selecting The Correct Weapons
because they have shit fundamentals
He also got downed at the end of wave 6 due to a single mauler.
and they don't understand how much more effective somebody with good fundamentals can be
After he aggro dumped 5 of them on me.
tbf that can happen to anybody sometimes lmao
sometimes you just fuck up your dodge on that one last mauler
and eat shit
Yeah I figured damn
report him
(and watch as nothing happens)
He had the galls to yell at me to go rescue him and such.
yeah, all that shit is the problematic part
While I'm dealing with all the bs.
I rather take and beat uprising with a newbie who just understands I'm doing everything and just waits for the reward than a loudmouth smartarse who can't even play malice.
I left after leaving a groaner on him+2 bots in rescue.
I mean reporting can work but itโs still a small company so itโs mostly only guaranteed for flagrant cases
Ie someone being n*zi or somethin
But there is a consistent streak of fatshark upholding the social etiquette
imagine getting banned because you sucked in a mortis trial one time
i wonder if they have temporary punishments or if they just permaban, for that matter
IDK, I was just spiteful.
If someone was literally soloing with no medicae because potato bots, don't demand them to do shit you could do yourself.
Bloody arse won't carry the battery himself and demanded I do it before he got krumped.
Are people even banned from the game?
Suspensions and forced name changes are more common
You basically have to be especially heinous or a repeat offender to be considered for a perma
It is possible tho
I've yet to see one
Wait, they actually care about names? I see all kinds of wild, unacceptable ones.
Naw, unless the VC is recorded and they understand mandarin, it won't work.
Itโs a report based system and up until recently it was only through website tickets
I do, why getting more and more tilted.
Yeah. If it's not in game, I can't imagine people will do it.
If he just shut up after dying, is one thing.
It is now ingame, but i only really save my reports for really bad names
tfw no mandarin bro to yell at me 
Maybe if you did video evidence with translation as a ticket you could but thatโs a lot of effort
Play SEA. Get China ppl who plays worse than an account buyer for DOTA2 on team.
I don't record due to already requiring DLSS3 to play this.
Streaming gives me visible lag.
Mfw when I saw a vet named adolf that looked uncannily similar to "funny" painter guy
Wonder if he got bagged
i did that before (minus the translation because all in English), and idk if anything happened
i doubt it lol
I think my first bag was an ogryn named ARYAN who spammed YWNBAW and โ*** *****โ censored for safety but i just found it funny
How someone can be so weird
Because ppl are arses at times.
I've counted at least 4 or 5 uncle ruckus ogryns throughout my time playing
ebt enjoyer, BBC enjoyer, and cbt enjoyer. the dudes who got racist against me when I said "surprised yall managed to be good teammates given your names"
Ywnbaw is especially silly cause you either have to be trans and online enough, or a transphobe who is way too online to know about it, or just find out what it means via chance
Is that someone just trying to speedrun a ban?
Are we back to Club Penguin where ppl just speedrun bans because.
fuck me lmao
i was just on my way to the hard clutch and was like "i should blow a fire barrel to give me time to heal"
apparently slightly too close so instant death ๐
@dull scroll are u in a h36 lobby
yess
sup then lol
wait who are you lol
WeiTuPhat ๐


oh man achlys twin stubber lugger is fun in mortis
you can shoot almost literally forever
just tape that fuckin trigger down
jo is the perk Penetrating Flame of the flame staff bugged ???
i mean i should do more dmg if i flame them in the face right?
and if i use a knife bleed them and use the armor pen from the knife perk every unit gets more bleeding dmg
i mean is good the staff would be broken but idk why does the perk even exist if its useless
This has info on pen flames
ty
I think most people go with blaze away / warp nexus
yes, that's the standard
You can always do the uncanny thing anyway, imo penetrating flames isn't worth it
The power in PF is being able to use it alongside Blaze Away at range
PF also stacking with other brittleness sources too.
Safer than melee, and with a buddy stacking 40% rending you can deal with crushers as quick as uncanny soulblaze in a lot of situations
As one might expect, PF helps with enemies Inferno has more trouble against (crushers, bosses) while Nexus is more of a 'win more' blessing that is effective for stacking more on enemies (which is more useful against enemies you can kill regardless). Nexus also has synergy with EE.
EE is pretty huge though, it'd be worth it even if that was the only effect of the crit imo
Uncanny + Nexus is definitely a stronger combo, but it's also vastly more dangerous since you have to get in melee range of the horde of crushers barreling down the hallway.
You can just poke a poxwalker to stack uncanny up
I disagree heavily. EE is great, but even with Nexus, Inferno isn't going to be able to keep it up all the time and even further, it's invalidated if you happen to bring bubble (and bubble is for the whole team)
And you can do it via the force sword push attack
Generally, the poxwalkers will be cooked while you apply soulblaze
Shriek is the non-Havoc meta, and that works
but that's because you don't need bubble or EE for non-Havoc 
Cba with Havoc personally anyway
Auric Maelstrom is a comfortable skill ceiling for where I'm at
Demotion makes Havoc a miserable prospect for me lol
Yeah, I don't love Havoc either.
Also, PF only really shows its usefulness in Havoc anyway
Havoc without the quell and ammo nerfs would be perfect
because Havoc just loves to throw crushers at you
"oops, all crushers"
I want Havoc to have no nerfs and just buff enemies
10 billion bosses Havoc
les go

I would honestly love dealing with a ton of regular monstrosities.
Would you like it without derank?
MmmmmmmMMMMMMMMmmmmmmMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmm I'd like it better, but I'd probably still enjoy other modes more. It's just too long.
think of the TEN PERCENT damage boost to the other 3 though
am i insane or did unstable power get a buff
i swear it was 4% per stack before but now it's 5
this is what happens when i take a short break
Think of the TEN PERCENT you can save at geico
15 minutes can save you 15% or more on your car insurance
Sorry it was me
is KD popping anyone else?
Maelstrom is sillypants time compared with even Havoc 20 now
Is charged strike still turbo ass
the Graia Mk VII is actually pretty good on a Scrier's Gaze Psyker. 
I've been goofing around with SG FGS. It's very fun. But I am not great at it, so I end up making one mistake, getting staggered, and getting squished
It's kinda weird. I don't hate the derank for climbing. It makes it feel like the rank matters instead of just getting into a lucky 40 once.
But I have serious issues with what it does to the system. People are significantly less inclined to try out bad maps, include weird builds or comps, or bring someone along who isn't the right rank.
And as I enjoy havoc in general, I've always been happy to jump into 20s and 30s just because. I didn't feel the need to run the couple of Meta builds, and if they're bad, I get clutch practice.
But now I get deranked if I screw around with someone low rank. I hate the feeling I get when people suggest havocโeven in the discord. Like, I don't know their rank, their skill, or if they're serious or fucking around.
If I'm losing to some bullshit map I just want to be able to repeatedly bash my head at it
Yeah. My goof around recently has been SG knife. SG fgs was a ton of fun though. But the mobility of the knife turned it up to 11.
Fair analysis. I would agree that what it does to the system is pretty problematic. I hit 40 last week and I've been avoiding havoc since. Prior to this change, I was going into anything 25+, but now I just don't want to play it.
and also I'm v publife so like, I wouldn't have an issue playing shitshow havoc constantly if I'm not being penalized for losing 3 games in a row + it warps people's brains so they demand metashit
I think the climb isn't too bad. 1-3 levels per map rather than simply highest achieved.
I don't personally feel like deranking is fun, or that it adds extra meaning to the rank. It just makes me feel like I wasted my time playing if I lose 3 in a row. Really, it saps the fun I felt climbing last "campaign."
And the premade I played with to hit 40 went on a losing streak once, and everyone felt bad. We were taking 30+ minute breaks after each match
Rank decay for not playing is "fine" but loss of rank really brings out the Gamers
Climb is fine. Not complaining about that
Loss of rank in a team game, PvP or PvE, is a recipe for blaming other people.
If someone loses a 1v1, it's not as easy to blame someone else. I mean, people still do, but it's not as easy. If someone loses in a 5v5 or 4vDirector, it's way too easy to say, "The Veteran sucked, cost me my rank," or, "Jungle didn't gank, GG"
I understand the need for entropy in the system because I'd seen some absolutely terrible 40s. Like idek how they functioned in low havocs.
But they built in a really unforgiving one. It could have just been a 4-6 week reset like they just did for each "season"
The slower climb with that level of entropy would feel good. Like it takes some time to get there and maybe a random ranked cosmetic for being 35+ every couple of months.
That would be where they could do the lazy recolors of stuff in the store.
Or even just like a couple hundred aquilas. Get people used to buying from the store, and they might buy more.
People will find a way to get carried in any system. Some H40s will be quite bad, unfortunately. I think going up 1-3 ranks at a time is a decent way to slow down the carrying or avoid a single lucky match. But this feels more like a system built around "engagement" than gameplay. Fatshark wants to make a live service game without understanding why live service works.
I probably won't play havoc again until the derank system is changed, and it feels like there are way fewer games in party finder than two weeks ago.
I could never get any of the knives to work for me. They just don't click
Tune down gunners to lessen the need for a meta. Add in more aggressive derank so people feel the need to stick to a meta.
Thats not really how meta works
...?
Theres always going to be setups that are stronger than others, depending on their usecase
Ye but you phrased it as if using meta / not sticking to it is bad
Prior to the change, the meta was pretty rigid with most players because a single shooter could knock anyone from 100 to 0 in a volley. So people took defensive abilities to avoid that. Better players could use what was perceived as less optimal.
Post-change, there are higher stakes to losing, so people feel the need to stick to the most effective builds to avoid losing. Again, better players can use less optimal builds to win.
I think having an oppressively enforced meta is bad, particularly in a PvE game.
And right now it feels oppressive because of the attitude around losing more than the difficulty
Its not enforced tho, its just that offensive options need to put in a lot more effort than defensive ones to turn the tide
My experience has been different. People get really upset if you aren't using what they consider optimal, because they perceive that as a risk to their rank.
Post-update has had the first Havoc ragequits I've experienced.
- oppresive meta is only a thing when something is best in slot for every situation (like ds)
I also think DSIV is too strong
As I said, I don't think the meta is oppressive currently due to difficulty. I think the changes have made more playstyles viable for more players.
I think it's oppressive because people are saltier and more stressed
But for things like havoc you can pretty much use w/e as long as youre good enough
Outside of weapons that kinda suck atm compared to others
Voidstrike gets outclassed pretty hard for example
But most people, myself included, are not really good enough to use anything.
I can win at 40 on Psyker w/ DS and trauma or purg, or on Zealot with book. I doubt I could win on Veteran or Ogryn.
And if I went into 40 with Veteran, Ogryn, or a Psyker build I am not as comfortable with, people would be angry because I'm potentially costing them ranks.
Rather, I have seen people get angry. Not at me, but at other folks who went off-meta
Which I didn't see before the update
That has less to do with meta, and more with player skill
As in, people couldnt contribute enough with what they used
I feel like you're not listening to what I'm saying. Meta compensates for skill. A good player on meta is still going to be worse than a great player off-meta. Most people are not great. So they don't perform as well off-meta, and they feel forced to use meta due to the attitude around Havoc. Thus, oppressive meta.
It reminds me a lot of League of Legends rage, back when I played that. People decide you've lost based on weapon selection/champion selection and are already frothing
Particularly people on a losing streak who keep saying, "I will play until I win."
And they redirect that frustration at an easy target.
It's not a matter of game difficulty enforcing a meta. It's a matter of player attitude. Deranking makes people feel bad. People who feel bad lash out. It's unpleasant for everyone.
Yes, some things are better and will perform better. But I saw waaaaaay more variance in builds pre-update, because most people besides the host had nothing at stake but time
And because of the deranking everyone is expected to run the safest loadout
But that doesnt make it meta
It literally does
Same thing in league btw, not every build works in every elo because it requires a certain amount of game knowledge, regardless of winrate
Different levels of play have different metas
If you run a build that can snowball easily, cool. But those builds also get shut down easily resulting in said champ being useless for the rest of the game
The meta is whatever is most likely to result in success in the relevant situation. Or the general public's consensus of what will result in success
Vs the usual build that has a lower winrate but gets compensated easier
whats some of the best havoc builds, wanna try some psyker
DSIV, trauma, bubble, warp siphon and BB has shown the most results for me
also obscurus, assail, bubble, DD with trauma has been good, depending on the teamcomp
Bubble burga
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Purgatus w/ Nexus and Blaze Away. Rending trauma. Bubble.
whats a bubble burga
i tried trauma with terrifying barrage and it felt suprisingly good on havoc
Fire staff and bubble shield
Isn't the issue with terrifying barrage that most weapons suppress already?
fire staff meaning purg right
yes, but i noticed that for flanking trash hordes for example, you can just hold them in a single spot with terrifying barrage
It is the old name of Inferno
Yes
plus in mixed hordes, it slows them down
If you go to the skin tab, its default skin is still called Purgatus.
and makes corner fights more favourable for you
Pen flame purg + ogryn with brittleness is the best combo Iโve played in havoc so far
Fair. If it works, great. More variety in builds is good
brittleness is underrated it lets your teammates shred bosses 2x faster
yes
I think brittleness is appropriately appreciated
It's pretty ubiquitous in high havoc
yeah brittle trauma is a chefs kiss
A lot of people dont take it cause its more a team talent
is there brittle on purg?
However, that's mean your teammate will do more damage on the score board and you can't brag with that.
I see it on at least one Ogryn, Zealot, or Psyker in basically every mission.
Eh its more for boss damage and psyker sucks at that at least in my experience
Psyker is not good at boss damage
Yes, and it lets you reach 60%
Psyker has to put in way more work than Ogryn or Zealot to do boss damage.
Well. Or just stand in the corner and spew soulblaze and keep blaze away stacked
You don't understand my joke...
It is about denying other people from doing more damage than you.
Isn't it 20% though?
I understand it, I make others use it so I top score 
sciers, DD and DS4 has some chunky boss dmg
I think they're better suited for crowd control tbh
Fair enough. I haven't used SG enough to say. Still feels like it's more work than an Ogryn or Zealot, though
if theres no book up
yeah, definelty
Veteran and psyker definitely have to be more careful
you get like melted instantly
and can die in a few poxy hits
so for purgatus go brittle + damage at high peril?
Gazer staff can do a lot of boss damage, or overall damage for that matter.
Nexus and Blaze Away imo
If you are the second psyker, you can output more damage than anything with gazer.
My SG meleeker experience has been that I am a dervish of death until I misstep once, get staggered, and become a smear on the floor
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Just use staves...
No
I feel like scriers should give some stun resist
or maybe some melee talent should give it
I don't take meleeker into H40. I am not good enough for that. In the land of high havoc I keep to purg and trauma
Then there is no point of playing damage zealot.
it's fun, but one mistake and you are ded
ish
Eh. A good team can compensate for mistakes. I had to clutch at the mid event of ascension riser on an H40 the other day. Everyone else died, had to get them back up
i play pubs
And others have clutched when I got slapped once by a poxwalker and imploded
Yeah the stronger the team the more you can make mistakes
poxwalker got hands ngl
It is funny because stronger team means people would make less mistakes in the 1st place.
What a paradox
I had an oggy go down 4 times in a run ๐ฌ
stronger team makes you more confident, thus making you do possible dumdum plays
Hero plays, thank you
just had to pick up his rocks
It was a wild game though 44 minute h40
Stronger teams are also better at carrying eachother
It lets you reach 60% on top of the usual 40 from thunderous
hi. what cool combos for mortis trials have you found? i think nothing beats scrier's gaze gun build with death dealer
mass brain burst is also pretty cool
I mean, standard Inferno/Bubble works pretty well, but not because of Mortis buffs 
Although grabbing the pyro buffs makes Inferno do double DoT insanity and Bubble can electrocute enemies trying to enter it, giving you even more time to burn them
Honestly tho, nothing beats the funny insta-death rng from some things like Ogryn's rock
cuz it works on bosses
not really a combo tho
for purgatus do u spam m1 or hold rmb
i alternate, 2-3 m1 for stagger and then a half charge of m2 for damage
i think purgatus works good with voltaic because of 5% to electrocute an enemy on a range attack
i'm not sure if it takes dot damage into account, but anyway it should be good with just m1 spam
pyro gives you burn stacks on ranged attack
it also (sometimes) buffs soulblaze
so like
that's many times better than a minor chance to electrocute
RMB always
well, always when safe
m1 is purely to stagger
RMB is the dmg provider
If you use any staff, there is very little reason to take voltaic.
Sadly, voltaic generally falls behind pyro by quite a bit
Most the the reliable ones are either melee or standalone.
If you run melee, it is not at all.
I mean, neither voltaic or pyro are good for melee
Deranking moment
Also probably a bad time to be looking if you're in the US 
12-14 hours from now is pretty great for teams. Same with the discord teams.
can someone explain what the difference between m1 and m2 brainburst is?
That's a little tough.
m1 charges faster but needs a target, locks on, and loses charge if target dies first
Havoc is cross server, the game is less popular in other part of the worlds than NA and EU timezone.
m2 charges slower, but no target needed
same peril consumed?
m2 very useful when you know enemies are coming but cannot see them
same damage?
ah i c
because it's slower charge
I mean, m1 locking onto a target can come in handy, but losing the charge if the target dies is... very problematic in current Darktide.
Because BB is very slow.
and BB highlights the target
yeah the headglow is a dinner bell for your teammates
and your allies have guns
I would probably recommend just focusing on getting closer rather than bothering 
Swap to melee and charge
sometimes you just wanna get out of dodge
also sprinting and sliding while charging brainburst makes me feel badass
You do you.

Do we know how medpack, ammo crate and stim spawns work?
I had the great opportunity to play the same maelstrom 3 times yesterday and all 3 times I found a medpack and stim in the exact same chest.
Is the spawn the same for everyone for that rotation of the mission on the board, i.e. if 10 teams start the same maelstrom, will the medpack be in the same chest for everyone, or was this just a huge coincidence? 
Almost perma up, depends on how much it gets shot and how much you kill
Depends on map seed
And chests are random
And chests are random
Bubble has 20 HP, each ranged attack takes off 1 HP and then it's immune for 0,33 seconds. So it has a minumum up time of 6,6 seconds before it breaks
With the amount of elites in there tho you'd get another one before it pops anyway
But everyone gets the same seed while it's on the board? 
Was it pox gas? Might have just been luck + high stim spawns
No
Seeds are generated before a team lands
This is easily seen if you do solos
Items outside of chests are set and dont change unless you reset the solo, but chests will always be random
It was pox gas and it wasn't always the same stim in the chest, but it was very suspicious that the same chest always had a medpack
To my knowledge certain chests have priority for crates
Usually the bigger ones and close to main path
Was one with 3 spaces and on the main path yea
Sounds about right
Well now I know, thanks 
Not sure how this would have been useful, if it was the same for everyone, oh well
Not really helpful outside of solos

No clue, sorry 
blessings correct?
Yes
Decent
Just don't rely on it to push through trash mobs in higher difficulty like with Illisi.
any funny mortis builds
If you get the right archtype, yes
There is an upgrade that applies burn from assail and another that gives you assail if you kill something with assail
which 1 is easier to wipe the map
Between Assail and BB? Assail
Assail definitely
Infinite ammo gunker is fuckin funny tho
Grab a shotgun or somethin
If you can get both BB legendary upgrades (is it possible?), it's pretty funny.
BB can kill 10 targets at once, but you still have the cast time, so it's still meh in practice
EP + KR 
Yeah you can get 10 BB + Sets everything on fire
is there anything funny for telekine or smite
Shield walls can apply electric damage, smite is just sad
not feelin the obscuras rn
u have to farm uncanny stacks first to become decent at armor?
am i supposed to special
Nah just click heads
the combo is heavy swing down, light up then light stab
The only useful force sword special is on the illisi tbh
feelin like deimos might be better
For single target? Probably
Obscurus is like a weird middle option between them
Can deal with anything and everything if you get used to the combos tho
pretty high commital st combo tho
Yeah illisi has only usable special from one handers
nah obscurus takes way less damage amp to kill armor fast
Deimos is better at single target with more investment in normal damage talents
Obscurus os the weird option thats better than the other 2 once aclimatated with
I dunno I don't like using it
Not much to see iirc, there's a lot of jank ass camera manipulation involved to get weakspots 
Yeah
Gives you motion sickness if you're watching and not playing