psyker-class

[potent echo]

Assail works/worked with puncture on bistol

Bleedsails

[olive oar]

@buoyant maple If I remember correctly yout talked about the Illisi cleave, and I got say that using Charged Strike with BOTH +strength blessings with the Illisi is a game changer to that weapon. It becomes something of another world. SG and DD, it becomes a killing machine.

[daring rose]

Question, which one?

[olive oar]

Zarona Combat Shotgun, in the build I just posted

[daring rose]

So why am I doing scrier's gaze

[wind spruce]

You're running blazing spirit FGS on a build with 22.5% crit. Couldve atleast taken riposte over unstable power.

[frigid mortar]

Watched too many YouTube videos

[frigid mortar]

I tried them both and I proc soulfire enough without the extra crit. I'm always at critical peril so the strength scaling wins out.

It's also 27.5% crit because souldrinker is always active.

[olive oar]

Not in the particular build that I posted, but I do have one that uses SG.

[buoyant maple]

Cool

[daring rose]

Honestly, it's for the penance I forgot to switch off of

[daring rose]

It can be nice, but ig I need that greaty

[wind spruce]

True, i was going to say it would take you an average of 13.5 hits to max out soulblaze from blazing spirit on a target but its actually only 11.1 hits. Game changer.

[olive oar]

Here with SG, more melee focused.
https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/a1063036-3b23-4c68-9de0-5da6f0f1817a/warp-lightning-battle-mage

[wind spruce]

Wait did they remove the soulblaze cap from melee blazing spirit ?!?

I swear it used to say max 12 stacks

[frigid mortar]

Just try the build or don't. You proc it off elite kills, enemies dying while it's on them, etc. It's meant to be a team centric Frontline build with durability while retaining good damage.

[daring rose]

Heh, the Lasp is nice but is for picking things off

[frigid mortar]

Fast move speed, weapon swap, reload. I guess it depends how much you use the gun vs the sword.

[daring rose]

I would like to use more gun than sword

[crisp ether]

Pretty sure it's still 12 stacks

[olive oar]

It's 12 stacks, but you're delivering them with a whack to the head. Like, they won't live much after that. The thing about blazing spirit is that it gives its value when you're in a big skirmish, single targets you won't notice its effects.

[crisp ether]

Wait a minute. You run a build that's meant to be constantly high peril

But don't take the node that pretty much makes you near permanently stun immune for doing so

[frigid mortar]

Did not notice any improvement with it. Useless for me.

[crisp ether]

I pray a rager never finds your backside.

[frigid mortar]

I try to avoid being hit in the back, the game is pretty harsh when that happens.

[crisp ether]

Yeah. That's why that talent is so good.

It's hard to be a frontliner when a single walker can completely kill your momentum.

[frigid mortar]

Well that hasn't happened much if at all for me. Did you try it or just here to be a negative presence without even giving it a shot?

[crisp ether]

Dude bubble knight is one of the two psyker builds I run in Havoc.

Ya said its harsh when something hits you from behind. The entire point of that talent is to stop the snowballing that can happen from that exact scenario so not having that on a build meant to be more of a frontliner is just, odd.

Hell my build is still in the Psyker guide here I think

[sturdy reef]

I just go melee psyker in my havocs usually

if I play psyker

[crisp ether]

It's very much still a melee psyker build. Just not like, giga sauced with Scrier's

[sturdy reef]

I like my giga sauce

[crisp ether]

FGS still be doing the big damage

[sturdy reef]

Ive been using the obscurus ever since the FS buff

its good

just do a bit more assail weaving for hordes

[crisp ether]

Obscurus honestly kinda won out of the three from the update I think

[sturdy reef]

it was already the best

overall

[crisp ether]

Deimos damage actually did take a bit of a hit with uncanny nerf

[sturdy reef]

deimos macro'ers in shambles

[crisp ether]

Deimos had and still has that insane thrust stagger.

[sturdy reef]

if you can macro it

sure

lol

[crisp ether]

You don't have to macro it though.

[kind jay]

a fine shot!

[crisp ether]

It's pretty easy to do just naturally.

[plucky flax]

Bubble knight op you must be pro

[crisp ether]

It's fun, idk what to say

[plucky flax]

[kind jay]

should we report bubble knight to fatshark for nerfing?

thats what were doing today right

[crisp ether]

Yeah let's nerf bubble knight

[plucky flax]

If the psyker is not running bubble inferno I'm not taking them

[crisp ether]

Where is my chorus zealot?!

[sturdy reef]

where is my taunt gryn?

[crisp ether]

Where is the taunt?!

[jovial juniper]

Where's my boom box Arby's

[plucky flax]

Tru

Full support only

[rich spindle]

this

[crisp ether]

HK server vibes tbh

[plucky flax]

Smoke vets on hk servers are op though

[crisp ether]

I mean a good smoke vet in general is op

[plucky flax]

I really enjoyed playing with hk vets

So much better than eu vets

[crisp ether]

US vets make me wanna cry honestly

[plucky flax]

And chinese ogryns are op

[crisp ether]

So many of them running shocktroop recon now 😭

[plucky flax]

Eu ogryns just feed or rumbler spam

[sturdy reef]

helbore my beloved

[pseudo geyser]

hey it's better than. no shocktrooper recon

👍

[sturdy reef]

yeah I never see smoke vet in NA anymore

after the krak buff

we dont have carapace hordes nearly as much so you would think smokes/frags become more favorable

[crisp ether]

I've been using frags a lot.

[empty granite]

my tree got deleted

how do i build it i wanna use this

althought now that you can buy weapon until its got good stats instead of waiting 80 years for osmething partially useable to be in stock exists maybe not this staff specifically

[rich spindle]

click the crit stuff

[empty granite]

wait why do weapons cost like 11k on my physker teh ywere only 3k on my zealot

[deft stump]

Lvls.

Higher lvls raises the item lvl you can get and the cost of it.

[empty granite]

i dont know what the dump stat is

[deft stump]

Dump warp resist.

[empty granite]

like this?

[deft stump]

Yeah. It'll work for both rmb and lmb builds.

[empty granite]

is this a god roll?

what perks /blessing do i put on it ?

[deft stump]

Are you firing primary shots or the alt fire shocks?

[empty granite]

the unlimited power one that chains between everything and makes it all explode

[deft stump]

At that point, why care about staff when you just want to spam that uselessly?

[empty granite]

its been a while since i used my physker. around launch when gear was purely rng based on what the shop sold you or you got at the end of a mission

[empty granite]

to do it better ?

[empty granite]

i wanna make it good its been really long time since i last used phsyker

i just remmeber casting lighting that chained across all the enemies like that starwars guy

do i just copy these perks ?

[deft stump]

I don't like smite so can't help you on it. All I know is staves don't matter if you are just going to spam it.

[empty granite]

the one where you do this

and you spam quell between every cast so it stays at 100%

[wind spruce]

Evil bait

[pseudo geyser]

take a look at the pinned google doc guide for psyker

tho i'm unsure if they have rmb builds or only lmb for ek

[deft stump]

They want a smite build.

Palpatine build.

It disgusts me to no end every time I get one in my runs.

[pseudo geyser]

unfortunately this too is in the doc

i think they mean rmb tho judging from the above screenshots

[deft stump]

I guess they mean old EK where it was smite 2.0.

[empty granite]

from what i can remember from when i used to play this class in 2022/2023 i liked using some ability that let me pop the heads of any elite and just managing keeping my queal between 90 and 100%

[deft stump]

Brain burst?

I'll say this, EK no longer works like it did. It's basically a single target staff now.

[empty granite]

is it tho i am damaging this guy

ive got no perks in my skill tree atm so idk if it stay the same or could be better

[deft stump]

It's basically single target that stuns a secondary target as well.

[empty granite]

i like stuns, stuns are good you cant take damage when what you're not looking at cant move

[deft stump]

Yes, but it no longer affects a group. Damage was increased while number of targets got lowered.

[empty granite]

is that why you never see physkers anymore

over nerfed and unplayable

[pseudo geyser]

yep pls buff inferno nextp atch fs

[deft stump]

You still do, they are the strongest class still.

Well, skitarii might release super busted though.

Like the other DLC classes before they got nerfed.

[wraith sphinx]

Yeah I'm counting on it

[deft stump]

And I'm expecting them to be nerfed.

[spice aurora]

i almost kill everything but clip is corrupted I HATE SHADOWPLAY

still lost but it felt cool almost doin it

1/4 hp on last dh left then i get trapped >:|

[rich spindle]

dorfan lobby,.....

😮

[spice aurora]

who else is gonna run ahead and spawn 999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 bosses

also i didnt realize hexbound dhs are stupid, they attack so slow

[kind jay]

while loading, i bet my friend the ogryn would kill him. he didnt listen lmao

[empty granite]

guys

i made a tree

can you tell whats wrong with it

[marble crater]

It looks like you took two halves of different builds and stitched them together.
Brain Burst and the add ons don't really have great or any synergy with Scrier’s Gaze and Disrupt Destiny for example

[empty granite]

i thought brain burst would be useful for when theres crushers and maybe beast of nurgle ? i was gonna spent most my time using the staff's secondary fire

[marble crater]

You can just use the staff instead of brain burst for that, they are similar enough. Better yet is to melee.
Though that is not the best use for that staff and you should change the perks to flak and maniac or elite and focused channeling to Flurry, or Surge if you want to spam primary

I always played Elektro staff with Brain Burst, just to have kinetic flayer and then down the left side for Venting Shriek and Warp Charges. More staff spamming, more Venting Shriek for more spamming. Much fun

[empty granite]

im apmming secondary

the one where i charge my left hand and send a wave of lightning

[wraith sphinx]

only one toughness replenishment node is bad, you should remove kinetic resonance subnode and get e.g. soulstealer

[empty granite]

keep my peril at 100% quealling briefly between cast

[marble crater]

Maybe take some inspiration from a build in the pins

[empty granite]

like this?

what do i want these to look like?

i think this is from when it was still rng based system idk

[marble crater]

1 health, 2 toughness. Health, toughness, gunner resistance as perks. Is very standard

Definitely not wounds

[empty granite]

when im at 100% peril, do i need to fully charge this bar or is casting insantly fine?

[empty granite]

i like wounds i pop my self a lot and i use the perk where popping doesnt count as down

[marble crater]

Wounds don't help you survive longer, you need to learn to not explode

Waste of a talent point and curio slot

[marble crater]

When you reach 100% and then do something that generates peril again you will explode. Does that help? If you channel the staff and it reaches 100 nothing will happen if you stop channeling, if you cast the attack you will go boom though

[wraith sphinx]

yes, better

[wraith sphinx]

if you are on PC I recommend this mod https://www.nexusmods.com/warhammer40kdarktide/mods/730?tab=description

[empty granite]

i been doing this

[marble crater]

Scrier’s Gaze works too

[quartz barn]

Run voidstrike
Charge to 100%
Get staggered by basic walker
Attack goes off on its own
Explode

[empty granite]

how long does my ult last for and is there any thing visual i can be looking at while using it so i know its about to end and i need to start quelling again

why are these guys forever on fire?

[summer token]

When one special or elite dies it sets surrounding enemies on fire, if they're already on fire they get more stacks and renew the timer

[quartz barn]

I know that theres a mod to make its duration more obvious

[summer token]

I forgot the talent that does it

[quartz barn]

But i just look at the icon on the buffbar

[empty granite]

kinda tiny, idk what any of these mean

[quartz barn]

Coherency, aura, true aim, no clue, ee and cant read the last one

I think atleast, outside of dd and scriers i dont look at buffs at all

[empty granite]

soo how does modding game work

cuz yeh id use a mod to increase the icon size or make the ult duration more noticeable

like its weird it doesnt just put whats happening in the buff icon ontop of this

[marble crater]

There is a mod that shows you a timer, how modding here works I don't know though

[wraith sphinx]

That is pretty much optimal yeah. I would also recommend reducing peril FX intensity if you find the max peril sound effect to be too loud. It's in the Interface tab of the options menu.

[deft stump]

Should mention it affects all abilities barring scum supply.

Like, try it with piety zealot.

[steel flame]

You know unless you are using smite in which case they put about 15 sets of training wheels on it and it's nigh on impossible to explode yourself on accident

[empty granite]

i spent 900 for a bone i thought it was a whole remodel of the weapon, but it just has a different base model for zealot than it does for phsyker

[steel flame]

Thats one expensive chicken leg

[empty granite]

zealot no skin

[empty granite]

i guess i also get this you can never see in gameplay

[marble crater]

At that point you have other things to worry about though. Such as "why am I using smite?"

[empty granite]

is this good ?

[dusk timber]

Max hp you can get from a curio is +21%

[dire wharf]

Not really

[dusk timber]

So you shouldnt waste resources on it

[deft stump]

Not maxed. Bad choices for subnodes.

[empty granite]

do i buy these instead ?

[deft stump]

Min you work on is a +20% even.

[deft stump]

At lvl 30.

Do not buy before 30.

[empty granite]

am level 30 on phsyker, zealot and hive scum

[deft stump]

You are wasting melk bux before then.

[empty granite]

i dont even know what content ot be running ive only played quick play

literally no clue what this game about or why im doing things

[deft stump]

Oh.

[dusk timber]

Love of the game pretty much

[summer token]

nuh uh, you spent 900 for a bone and 2 leather straps

[deft stump]

Welcome to the FOMO shop. Is why ppl mock it so much.

[summer token]

i bought the $30 pack last time and there's been nothing else worth buying so i just have 6700 sitting in my pocket

this was in like february i think

[deft stump]

Not interested in the Acolytes?

[dusk timber]

AcOwOwwytes

[summer token]

not particularly, my vet and ogryn are wearing cosmetics you unlocked from penances except for their heads, and i don't really play the other classes

i've been on a space marine binge last few days and all the good cosmetics are only from penance equivalents, it's glorious

[deft stump]

Ah.

[empty granite]

idk i had like 7500 from some promo event where you got 5000 credits for $5 and then i bought the imperial upgrade edition and sat on the credits forever i used them on what ever this bundle was , this bundle for zealot , sword skin and still have 820 left

[cosmic cobalt]

basic bitch psyker cosmetics tbh

[radiant frigate]

not wrong

[cosmic cobalt]

If you wear this i think less of you unironically

[marble crater]

Yeah, I can't stand people who buy what they like and brings them joy, ugh

Personally I only buy things to impress others and hope they think I'm cool

[deft stump]

Could be both. But then again.

[empty granite]

i just bought it cuz closest thing to a traditional mage robe and everything else looked barely different from penance gear

i just wish i could remove the coat cape thing

like if they just made that part a backpack instead of part of the chest piece

[marble crater]

If you are (un)lucky they will sell it as a new armor at full price

[deft stump]

Nu.

I'm waiting for another coat as cape.

So I can have a coat on a coat on a coat on a coat.

[marble crater]

Clipping is going to be crazy

[jovial juniper]

Muhfuh

It's not that cold down there

😭

[dusk timber]

The clandestium gloriana in question

[dire wharf]

Karien did you sleep yet

[empty granite]

so this one is good?

[marble crater]

Still 1% of from max, but sure. You won't notice the difference in playing, only when checking your inventory and thinking about what there could be instead

[dusk timber]

You want 21% for hp curios

[empty granite]

i keep getting +2 stamina or 10% tough

[dusk timber]

Stamina curios are +3 and toughness is +17%

[deft stump]

Had like 2 hours missing memories, so I assume yes.

[marble crater]

In that case you should aim for 8 hours of missing memory

[deft stump]

Is psyker, warp reasons.

[deft stump]

Rule of cool does nawt care.

[empty granite]

best toughness i got is

i dont have any more currenty to keep pulling

[rigid sky]

That one is health

[dusk timber]

Thats health

[rigid sky]

Tbh it makes such a small difference anyway, just check Brunt every time an hour passes and you are playing

If you have 16%s, even 15%s to begin with, you are fine

Just keep them until you see the 17s show up

[cloud folio]

i want 21 max health

[empty granite]

what do i put on these

secret no emote

i just put +20% chance as curio as item drop from finishing a mission on all 3 of them

soo 60% total

[deft stump]

Doesn't work that way.

Is like 12% chance.

Actually. Like 8-9%.

20% of 5% is 1%.

[empty granite]

i just had a full squad wipe 30 seconds into a new mission on the 1st wave. i got downed and nobody attempted to revive me till my bar was like 70% gone, the 1 player who did had no help and got downed moment i got up soo i tried get them back up other 2 players ran 800m away and got downed same time as me

quickplay really is quick some times

[deft stump]

That is just how pub is. I sometimes question playing with bots is better or worse.

Or no diff.

[dire wharf]

@empty granite what difficulty?

[empty granite]

herasay

[deft stump]

Yep. Gotta be able to solo there.

Most are Malice or Uprising tier players thinking they are too good for those.

But not good enough to even get into damnations.

[rigid sky]

There's a lot of "speedrunners" around atm

[deft stump]

Also that. New event pushes team speedruns to whack totems.

[empty granite]

i just play heresay cuz theres enough enemies that 1 player isnt soling everything

also i tried queuing for higher difficulty once and had nobody join for an hour and went back lower

[deft stump]

Well, when everyone else dies...

[jovial juniper]

Totens can still be 1 shot by haymaker

https://tenor.com/view/this-peak-is-this-peak-so-peak-peak-it's-just-so-peak-gif-1360442599844596686

[rigid sky]

I say speedrunners, it's more like engagement-minimisers

[deft stump]

They just want to get it over with.

[rigid sky]

Goes slower that way thouhh

[deft stump]

Bet you if the event was like old, they would get their 500 and be done.

[rigid sky]

Plus they skip totems

[deft stump]

They expect others to do it.

[rigid sky]

I genuinely think it's just people with shit personalities

I am judgemental as fuck about them

Like people who don't indicate on roundabouts

(utter utter bastards)

[deft stump]

I mean, you have asshats that go to malice to speedrun and mock actual newbies.

[quartz barn]

Real issue is you going down 30 sec into a mission

50/50 meant as a joke but also as legit point

[deft stump]

I had to block two idiots recently because they were acting like asshats to someone who was slower.

On malice.

[quartz barn]

Why are you playing malice?

[deft stump]

I'm just playing half asleep.

But can't sleep.

[rigid sky]

Tbh, it astounds me that this has not been more of a normal thing in this game

[quartz barn]

Flexing on first timers smh

[rigid sky]

I am pessimistic and anxious as fuck about online gaming communities usually

Darktide's has been probably the best bunch of randoms I have ever played with in general

Maybe up there with early team fortress 2

[quartz barn]

You also grow into it

[deft stump]

The asshats are just a very loud minority.

[quartz barn]

Best advice i can give is to know where you stand

[deft stump]

Most ppl just play silently.

[rigid sky]

I mean when I see it, I think "wow... I used to think this would be every match, but it's actually rare enough to shock me"

[quartz barn]

And make a mental canon about where others stand to preserve your sanity

[rigid sky]

League of Legends really did a number on my mental health tbh

[deft stump]

Naw. I literally don't care and was just brain off and doing event.

[quartz barn]

I mean i was a jungle main in league

Fun times

[deft stump]

Yep. The few black sheep that wakes you up on it.

[quartz barn]

Real way to play jungle is to pin the other team's lanes against their jungler

[rigid sky]

But yeah, for me (and I imagine you and most of us) "brain off" means "enjoy slaughtering nurglites" not "skip all the nurglites"

[quartz barn]

And win because theyre just argueing all the time

[deft stump]

Boom, Boom, BOOM!

Everyone gets a 'nade.

[deft stump]

Offlane solo support in MLBB. Because fuck do I know SEA cancer lanes.

A good Jungler shows up every so often to jump idiots that eat enough chip and chase me to tower things.

[empty granite]

yey 3 of my team mates got downed infront of me in middle of a crowd of everything, i miss timed my thing and overloaded. exploding everything around me so i was able to revive 2 players and they revived the 3rd

[plucky flax]

Its only 2133 for you? Too early to sleep

[dire wharf]

Karien has been up for 99 hours straight

[plucky flax]

She's built different

[deft stump]

10:35 pm.

[plucky flax]

Thought you're on the same as vietnam time

[dire wharf]

Exactly 12 hours ahead of me

[deft stump]

Nope. Is just close enough is easy.

[plucky flax]

I actually just got here yesterday

Damn bruh is so hot

[deft stump]

US East, heh.

[marble crater]

Where?

[deft stump]

Yeah. 36°C middle of night.

[plucky flax]

In nam my boy

[marble crater]

[plucky flax]

Cosmetic surgery tour

[marble crater]

This guy is always somewhere else

[deft stump]

SEA night temps.

[plucky flax]

I want to stay home more tbh I dont like to travel

[dire wharf]

Yep

[deft stump]

I mean, plane sucks.

[plucky flax]

But its so much cheaper if I want to do eyes surgery here compare to uk

[dire wharf]

Are you having a 3rd eye installed

[plucky flax]

Gomna get rid of my annoying glasses I put up with for the last 10 years

[plucky flax]

Yeah i could see behind me soon

Never getting dogged or trapped from behind again

Don't stare

@marble crater help

[marble crater]

Maybe she also needs eye surgery to reduce the starring at people

[plucky flax]

https://tenor.com/view/william-weir-event-horizon-sam-neill-wont-need-eyes-to-see-gif-15977214

[deft stump]

If you sponsor, sure.

[marble crater]

I don't have that kind of money

[dire wharf]

I tell you using the backside buttons on the elite 2 controller has been such a game changer for playing on controller

[marble crater]

Back paddles are very nice indeed

[deft stump]

You are talking to two ppl who uses controllers with back buttons.

[marble crater]

Technically wasn't talking to us directly

[deft stump]

I suppose.

[marble crater]

Can't wait for my controller to break eventually so I can justify buying a new one

[dire wharf]

Who

[deft stump]

Well, good excuse to wait for the Cyclone 3 for me.

Though was thinking maybe just getting the G7pro 8k like months later.

[deft stump]

@marble crater and I. Lul.

[plucky flax]

I use back buttons

[deft stump]

It's no secret we use Gamesir controllers.

[marble crater]

8k?

[deft stump]

Yeah, mostly for the TMR 2.0. Sticks.

[plucky flax]

Buy steam controller

[deft stump]

You buy and send me? Can't get it direct here.

Literally not avaliable in region.

[crisp oriole]

I havent touched darktide in a while, but reading patch notes rn
did they really buff inferno staff??

[jovial juniper]

3 times

In the same patch

[marble crater]

Looks like they aren't licensed for Xbox, sad

[deft stump]

Yep, cos Xbox don't support 8k and stuff.

[marble crater]

The normal pro will have to do then

[deft stump]

Mhm. I'm just interested in the Cyclone cos usually bigger and cheaper.

[dire wharf]

@deft stump @marble crater how do you have your back buttons set up?

I have dodge on the right amd slide on the left

[marble crater]

Left is combat ability and right is switching to blitz

[crisp oriole]

I bet some dev who sucks at the game played psyker and felt like Uh this inferno is trash against heavies literally unplayable

[jovial juniper]

Then they removed crushers from the game

[fading sentinel]

they are still in havoc don't worry.

[fading sentinel]

inferno is broken & i haven't seen a psyker not use it since the update.

[deft stump]

Sprint/special.

[crisp oriole]

Psykers are main characters now

[deft stump]

I'm too lazy to change it just for Darktide.

It's been the sticks.

[crisp oriole]

Rest of the team are like robins running behind batman

Bros Im about to download darktide again and try out this massive inferno nerf

[fading sentinel]

psyker without a ogryn is still...

[crisp oriole]

Liability

[fading sentinel]

the liability is no longer our concern

[dire wharf]

Special sounds like a good idea

[fading sentinel]

playing havoc 40s again made me realise still that psykers hug near ogryns like nothing.

they follow you like rats lol

but they keep a bubble around me so I'm happy.

[deft stump]

Is to avoid damaging the sticks tbh.

[dire wharf]

Oh boy, I didn't even consider that, now I'm definitely going to move it

[deft stump]

Is why left sticks drift faster, you need to click and hold up to sprint usually.

Now my bumpers die faster lul.

[dire wharf]

Clicking to enable sprint annoys me so much

[deft stump]

Thus, left stick on left back button.

[dire wharf]

How many back buttons do you have on your controller

[deft stump]

I have an old T4Kaleid.

Upgrading will be much later. Too ex, so dealing with a half ded left bumper.

Because Darktide lul.

It still works, but gotta be pressed in a specific spot basically.

[dire wharf]

Karien out here playing with a half broken controller and 300+ ping and still kicking butt

[deft stump]

Eh. Is just the dodge button. Everything else is fine.

[dusk timber]

everyone say thanks to karien for carrying us

[deft stump]

I DO NAWT CARRY!

[dire wharf]

Now i feel extra bad for causing us to wipe

I added sprint and special to the back too, lets see if my brain can adjust

[marble crater]

Karien carried me in h40, there is even video evidence of it

[plucky flax]

Its all sold out anyway

[deft stump]

Don't know, page just shows "This item is not available for purchase in your region" for me.

[plucky flax]

Its sold out in uk anyway. Unavailable for order

I have it on my wishlist

[deft stump]

Also, I don't like the Dpad positioning lul. Am just used to Xbox style.

[plucky flax]

Ps > xbox style

You as an Asian with small hands should prefer ps

Unless you have big hands idk

Me hands smol

[deft stump]

I actually have long fingers.

[plucky flax]

Dainty digits?

[deft stump]

Also, I like bigger mouses as well.

[plucky flax]

I use g502 thats the biggest i would go

[deft stump]

I use it because it was buy 1 get 1 and I got the get 1.

[plucky flax]

Man that's good deal for g502

Wireless?

[deft stump]

G502 Hero.

I had it for years now though.

[plucky flax]

Wired in 2026 D:

[white sky]

My favorite mouse was the G600 and Logi doesn't make it anymore

[mental rock]

I got a g703

With a power mouse pad for wireless charging

I quite like it

[dire wharf]

I wish my hands had more fingers

[icy breach]

Better than dogshit on batteries thats gonna run out & cost you a game

[mental rock]

That's why you get wireless charging

[icy breach]

I prefer cable - reliable

And can always use it to whip your ass

[mental rock]

Fair, but I've never had issues with my current setup

[icy breach]

[mental rock]

I was once in the wired only crew myself

But I have seen the light

[deft stump]

That's extra cost.

[mental rock]

A small price to pay(for me)

[silver wing]

the only thing id use wireless is a headset

otherwise wired is more reliable

[mental rock]

Y'all say that but I've had way more issues with wired mouse than wireless, although I guess you could argue that's anecdotal

[silver wing]

ive had the same wired mouse for like nearly 10 years

[mental rock]

And I've had to replace 4x wired mouses, while none of my wireless have had problems

So what's your point

[deft stump]

I literally had a wireless keyboard refuse to pair with it's dongle before.

[silver wing]

i mean tech stuff is just rng tbh

sometimes its just buns no matter if its wireless or wired

and breaks a month after you get it

[mental rock]

Gee it's almost like arguing about these types of personal experiences is pointless because it's all anecdotal anyway

[mental rock]

Exactly

Its why I no longer think of wired as more reliable

[deft stump]

This is every single new official Xbox controller.

They drift after a week to a month for me.

[silver wing]

le poor ps5 controller getting stick drift after 1 month

or less

[deft stump]

A controller half it's price lasted me 5 years now?

Is why I never complained about the Gamesir. It really did endure alot of things.

[silver wing]

i have a whack ass gamepad that's still alive

the logitech f710

i got it a while back and its served me well

it outlasted like 4 ps5 controllers

[terse lintel]

smash or pass?

[icy breach]

Do you even clean them?

[terse lintel]

and how much aquilas can be considered lowcost how much do i have to pay

[icy breach]

I’m not into dogshit thank you

[dire wharf]

Added a 3rd back button and my brain said FU

[deft stump]

They are new. I do clean them but it did nothing. Even opened up one to deep clean did nothing.

And I found out M$ really doesn't want ppl opening up their newer controllers.

Karking thing is hell to open.

Like, 360 controller is easy. One/X/S is hell.

And to be fair, that one showed signs of degraded potentiometer.

After 1 week.

IDK what TEMU grade thing they used.

[dire wharf]

@deft stump weapon special on a button instead of stick button is sooo nice

[timber finch]

I have this visual issue with the "scholastia psykana" chestpiece, occurs modded and unmodded, at highest and lowest fov , seems to be rare for others

[radiant frigate]

https://tenor.com/view/sog-cat-soggy-cat-sogged-cat-get-sogged-get-real-gif-26481153

[deft stump]

I know, if you remember to use it. LUL.

[marble crater]

Almost can't recognize you with the new elf

[radiant frigate]

too colorful?

[marble crater]

Just too unfamiliar

[clear stag]

Insane work.

[dire wharf]

Its kind of frustrating learning the new layout

[deft stump]

True. Is why I usually set things up when first boot so I never need to relearn.

[dire wharf]

I'm a little procrastinator

[steel flame]

Smite would be an excellent tool for use in a crystalline will build since you can line everything up and tick it into explosion range but since you can't ever blow up from smite it's useless

[radiant frigate]

sounds like you need to stroke your sword one too many times to explode

[steel flame]

Some would simply call that endurance

[thorn cedar]

You can do it actually.

Smite to 100%, the autoquell kicks in, do right click again and it'll take you to 100% during the charge animation and then when you go to fire you'll perils

I have done it, more than I like to admit, mostly because of JaD.

[clear sundial]

is warp unbound good?

[crisp ether]

Depends. If you're using a staff or assail a lot, it's quite nice to have.

[clear sundial]

inferno staff

the 10 seconds countdown is quite hidden though

and I have to remember to lower peril or I die

[crisp ether]

Hmm.

Honestly I actually don't think it's all that useful particularly for that staff unless you're running an extremely low Warp res build

[clear sundial]

is the gaze good though

or is the bubble shield better

[marble crater]

Venting Shriek

[clear sundial]

I dont like

its a fart

[marble crater]

What does that mean

[crisp ether]

As in its not that strong?

[thorn cedar]

based opinion

[verbal thistle]

based

[crisp ether]

I mean, extremely based tbh

[thorn cedar]

i too think the peril fart is boring and stinky

[crisp ether]

Venting shriek is really one note imho

[clear sundial]

boring

feels like worse voice of command

or whatever broken thing veteran gets

[crisp ether]

It serves a very different purpose

And is very broken in its own right

But it's also boring so

[thorn cedar]

VoC is a bit better now since you aren't guaranteed 100% gold toughness uptime anymore

So you do actually have you use your head SOMETIMES before pressing F

instead of just doing it off cooldown every time

But it's not like, substantially more involved or anything for this change, it's just a bit more.

[crisp ether]

Bubble shield is good and easy to get value out of. Gaze is in that same vein of brokenness except you actually do kinda need to know what you're doing with it.

[clear sundial]

what staff is good with warp unbound?

[crisp ether]

EK staff

[keen cargo]

any staff

[verbal thistle]

all

[crisp ether]

I mean all of them are pretty good.

[thorn cedar]

Fire is the least good with it but they are all good with it.

[verbal thistle]

every single thing in psyker's kit works good with high peril

literally how the class is built

[crisp ether]

But EK Gaze is... something else

[clear sundial]

its the one doing smite?

walmart smite

[crisp ether]

Yeah

[keen cargo]

idk man EK sucks kind of compared to other options

[verbal thistle]

me when I lie

[crisp ether]

Another who does not know the Surge Surge staff

[clear sundial]

do you full send it or just spam?

[keen cargo]

I really like it i play it a lot but it's not as good as Inferno by thousand miles

[clear sundial]

also how does blaze force sword work?

how do I know when its charged

[crisp ether]

On a gaze build?

[thorn cedar]

you swing it at enemies and they hurt

oh

you use special and itll make a noise until you swing at a baddie

or it expires after .... five seconds?

[keen cargo]

yes precisely, i tried out a lot of stuff with it and played a lot of the primary spam with double shot

[clear sundial]

also I think with warp unbound I can tank anything with deflector blessing on sword and stamina to peril guard perk

[keen cargo]

nope it only works below critical peril

[thorn cedar]

Not quite for the Deflector talent

[crisp ether]

Cuz honestly inferno gaze while it's strong

[thorn cedar]

yea

what salty said

[crisp ether]

It's kinda awkward.

[jovial juniper]

No no I agree
Ek sucks
#buffEK

[thorn cedar]

it's the same with Just a Dream, the talent turns off when you're at and above 97%, even if you can't explode.

[crisp ether]

Like having near 100% crit and turning EK into a machine gun just gets nuts with Warp unbound and EE

It is genuinely not okay lol

[patent steeple]

you know why I dislike Just a Dream with Gaze? its because JaD makes me hit max peril quicker, meaning I lose the big buffs from Gaze being active...

[clear sundial]

whats EE

[patent steeple]

Empathic Evasion, the "dodge all ranged for 1 sec when critting" talent node

[thorn cedar]

I love it because I'm a based Mind in Motion user and I can just walk away while quelling and not even care about getting sprinkled by gunfire or the occasional melee hit bouncing off of me.

Also nullifies most of the nonsense that is pox gas.

(Quietude is of course needed)

[keen cargo]

Who the hell playing psyker is below 25% peril at any time like wtf

[verbal thistle]

me

recently I've been using 0% peril build

its been fun

the entire match I dont gain any peril

[fathom adder]

Perils of the Warp when Safety of Realspace shows up:

[olive oar]

Some of my builds, specially those that relies on improving the time that SG stays active to benefit from it for longer

[rugged mountain]

anyone have a good psyker build for a new player

[thorn cedar]

what's your character level

[rugged mountain]

15

[thorn cedar]

just keep vibing

assail is a solid pick

but builds are always going to assume you have all 30 talent points available to spend for synergies and stuff so its not worth worrying about any of that yet

best you can do is focus on taking less and less damage every game and find new weapons to try that you enjoy swinging

[rugged mountain]

alright

[clear sundial]

whens next shop rotation?

[jovial juniper]

But it doesn't line up with Skittles release

Jun 4 and jun 18 are supposed to be rotations

Skibidi drops jun 23

So maybe they'll postpone the 18

[keen cargo]

i disliked assail for long but man it's so good i take it 100% of the time now after hundreds of hours of gameplay on psyker really assail is king of clutch

[thorn cedar]

I just enjoy the micro of being able to weave it inbetween melee/ranged attacks and having what is essentially infinite back-up ammo for special sniping

And yeah it helps it's pretty strong lol

I find Smite fills a similar niche but the micro of swapping to it for the left click is a bit jankier/more involved unfortunately

[keen cargo]

i really dislike smite, it slows the pace of the game

[thorn cedar]

Yeah Smykers suck but Smite is pretty dope

[keen cargo]

you should not be pausing as a psyker you should just be non stop agressive (i feel like)

[thorn cedar]

Love the blitz, hate how most people approach it.

It's somewhat on FatShark to figure out a solution to rein it in but at this point it's pretty clear that they're okay with it doing what it's doing (infinite Smykers)

This was old tree stuff but I made an attempt to argue against Smykers as best as I could, and at least a few people claim to have opened their eyes.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkTide/comments/1h1d0ps/everything_i_know_about_smite_the_damage_sucks_or/

All the numbers are still correct at least.

[jovial juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/i-agree-with-you-on-everything-erb-my-dad-epic-rap-battles-of-history-vs-my-dad-gif-7577716703079138205

https://tenor.com/view/erb-rap-battle-my-dad-epic-rap-battles-of-history-rage-gif-8341339856327275257

[keen cargo]

now this is some very very interesting tech i was unaware of i am going to extensively try this out

thanks

[thorn cedar]

very welcome

[olive oar]

This take is numerically correct and completely wrong. When they measure the time to kill a single unit and use that as a scale it misses the most important aspect of the Smyker, is that they can kill 100 enemies at the same time. So yeah, measuring the kill time by units, it will seem low, but it takes 18 seconds to kill a Havoc 40 Rager , but it also takes 18 seconds to kill 40 Ragers.

This is my dedicated Smyker build, usually I take the vanguard or rearguard and kill everything all at once, if not enough targets are present, due to Charged Strike, I can switch to melee and attack ( A sore weakness of the smyker build, that people disregard as most don't understand the build inherent weakness. ).
https://youtu.be/p4455DhoR6c

[thorn cedar]

Incorrect, you slowly kill 100 enemies with baked in damage fall off as the tethers spread. You are not dropping all 100 targets in the same window, just in the same cast.

[olive oar]

Or this showcase in the psykanium, a pretty impressive time, I might add.
https://youtu.be/KGmjfwm041U

[thorn cedar]

With EP this is still pretty quick but it is still more flashy than it is impressive.

Mostly though the post is to discredit the use of Smite as your only damage source and/or as a mechanism to feed Creeping Flames

[olive oar]

Most of my games with Smyker, I'm the most damage dealer or second most. It's pretty competent, but I might add that I'm competent at slide dodging all the way to keep myself where I'm needed.

[crisp ether]

So you really do just

Hold smite

The whole game?

[thorn cedar]

Smykers do that, yeah. He's definitionally correct.

[crisp ether]

😐

[dire wharf]

And afterwards too, I don't stop until the TV turns off

[verbal thistle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1272804331497979935/1450700850132418651/Kill_All_Smykers.gif

[crisp ether]

Thank you Ainz, very cool. 😭

[dire wharf]

In the words of the famous psyker DMX; they see me smitin', they hatin, patrollin, and tryna catch me smitin' dirty

[jovial juniper]

Yes that's how you play smite correctly

https://tenor.com/view/avengers-killing-you-means-infinity-gif-14715327

[marble crater]

Also how you play smite incorrectly

[dire wharf]

https://tenor.com/view/hold-stonk-hold-wallace-hold-braveheart-stonks-gif-20142609

[keen cargo]

i see people writing "o7"
anyone know what it means ?

[marble crater]

It's a salute

[crisp ether]

Salute

[keen cargo]

ahhh lol i see

[marble crater]

The 7 is the arm

[olive oar]

Hold, or press the button. But it's not that simple, otherwise everyone with an Inferno staff build would be a top player.

[crisp ether]

I mean fundamentally that's still

What you're doing.

[olive oar]

Aren't we all doing that? I, when playing smyker have to decide when to cast it, when to stop casting, when to activate SG and so forth and so on. Thing is, some people think it's not fun, for me that view is completely valid. What I don't accept is to call it weak.

[ripe gazelle]

brain burst with the free burst talent i lowkey cant drop that. on top of smite being harmful/unfun half the time...

[ripe gazelle]

What the ****. I didn't know you could make it near indefinite

[crisp ether]

No because not every build that uses smite constantly holds it down

Not every person that uses it does that either.

That's why there's a specification for a psyker that uses smite, and a "Smyker"

[olive oar]

Most of my current builds that I use smite is not a Smyker. I'm using it most for the charged strike. That's a beast.

[crisp ether]

No one thinks Smite is weak

What a lot do think is that it shouldn't exist in a state where you can reach an infinite cast

Which is what that reddit post was getting at actually

[olive oar]

Well, I suppose I could live with shorter casting, if it did proportionally more damage.
Also the casting time was the second nerf after the Bound by Duty update, as they nerfed many things that allowed effectivelly infinite smite. Although if battle meditation triggers enough times, and that other talent that reduces cooldown as well, it can chain more than once.

[ripe gazelle]

more damage less time would be super cool in my wholly inexperienced and uninformed opinion

[crisp ether]

Honestly smite being a sustainable stun that you have to hold doesn't even sound like something that should be called "smite"

If it was like a sudden cast that causes a hard stun in an AoE that does good damage? Now that sounds like something that can be called Smite.

[thorn cedar]

Right now the cast off is worth 500ms of cast time in damage, you could just up that number significantly so as to incentivize letting the button go

Imagine if letting Smite go did the equivalent of five seconds of smiting in damage

You would always be better served doing small bursts under five seconds

[olive oar]

My main problem with this solution is that what sets Smite appart is the huge amount of targets it can have, so your solution although elegant, would make it explode in damage.

And I can't think of a solution that would please everyone and make Smite do similar damage, as the way it currently is, it CAN deal a lot of damage, specially on how dense the hordes are.

[thorn cedar]

That's what we want though.

[fathom adder]

And lo, did the LORD smite His enemies (He gently pressured them over a long period of time, causing little direct damage but making it hard for them to do things)

[thorn cedar]

We want it to do its damage quicker so people aren't just holding the thing down for twenty seconds.

[olive oar]

This is a SG problem, not a smite problem. Warp Unbound

[thorn cedar]

But we also want it to be able to be held down for lengthy periods if/when a player would like for those occassions where you really do need to stop twenty crushers and maulers and ragers to do a revive/obj.

So the trick is to just make short bursts more valuable by ... moving the values.

That way players don't mentally trap themselves into thinking holding smite for twenty seconds is what's doing damage

(Becasue it won't be anymore)

I also want left-click Smite to no longer consume EP charges

But that's just for me, just a little treat for daddy.

[rich spindle]

Free stunlock on command is boring

[crisp ether]

Maybe a multifunctional deal where M1 is a sudden stun with good damage with a good chunk of peril generated and M2 is the sustainable one but the sustainable one is also tweaked so it's not as sustainable but does more dps, at increased peril generation.

[thorn cedar]

Free instant cast single target stunlock though is based

[rich spindle]

That could be fun

[fathom adder]

Smite having an instantaneous effect would also work a lot better with EP (assuming EP doesn't change much), the current EP incentivizes holding down Smite as long as possible (or at least until you get your charge back)

[thorn cedar]

yea same thing really

[crisp ether]

Like it's just weird

[thorn cedar]

since EP just goes "triple this" to all damage smite does, cast-off included

[crisp ether]

That m1 is just a weaker but slightly quicker to cast hold to stun

They could have made the ability more interesting actually giving m1 a different purpose

But alas

[rich spindle]

Peril is too ez. You need some trade off to not make stunlock boring game design

[crisp ether]

[thorn cedar]

it's just to instantly stun one target

[crisp ether]

Which it doesn't even do depending on the enemy cuz of hit mass sometimes so you still have to hold it at times

[thorn cedar]

Scab Ragers and Maulers are the breakpoint yeah

everything else tho, they stop

and even the Ragers/Maulers stop when you let it go

You gotta fight your brain on that one though

cause if youre pannicked your brain is gonna tell you to keep holding it down until they stun but actually you have to stop smiting so that the castoff staggers them

[crisp ether]

See this is kinda what confuses me about it then. Because yeah it has the means to instant stagger on let go.

And yet you can still hold M1 even if M1 is only gonna be for one target to get off your ass

So why does it even have the ability to be held in that case?

[thorn cedar]

It's just that at 10 hitmass those two fuckers break the rules a bit.

They'll still stun if you hold it down but it takes slightly longer.

If you're looking to stop an attack from them then you have to watch the tether latch and then let it go, and then the two stagger effects together are enough to stop them.

Everything else you stun them the instant the tether reaches.

(Except for Ogryns and other obvious shit, also Nurgle Blessing)

[crisp ether]

If anything M1 having a hold to stun could just be misleading people into thinking that's the optimal way to do it.

[thorn cedar]

For me it's the fact that it draws and fires instantly clued me in that it's really just for point-and-click control.

Flamer about to flame you? G+M1 then swap back.

[crisp ether]

I guarantee you that not every player is gonna see it that way.

[thorn cedar]

Definitely not seeing as I blow a lot of people's minds with my post lol

[crisp ether]

And that's honestly my big issue with Smite and how it teaches bad habits

[thorn cedar]

Doesn't help that the vast majority of guides do the same.

[crisp ether]

It leads you to a thought process that actually isn't helping you as a player

[thorn cedar]

"Win Games With This INSANE One Click Build!!! 🤓 ☝️ "

[fathom adder]

What if:

Smite LMB: Near instantaneous to cast, zap target you're aiming at for minor damage (not improved much by EP), heavy stun, electrocute debuff. Reasonable cooldown prevents spamming despite fast initial cast time.

Smite RMB: Hold to charge and LMB to cast, like a Staff. Zap target you're aiming at for moderate damage and heavy stun, lightning chains to more targets (subject to hitmass), deals more damage, and causes longer stun based on charge time. Electrocutes all affected targets. Longer charge also = longer cooldown. EP can improve any combination of damage, stun duration, cleave, cooldown, cast time.

[olive oar]

Yeah, but we have Electrokinetic

[fathom adder]

If we want to go really crazy with it, make this version of Smite apply Soulblaze stacks based on charge time too

[thorn cedar]

Yes but even when you don't.

[spice aurora]

i hate party findr

[kind jay]

party decliner

[rich spindle]

Why you spell it like dat

https://tenor.com/view/skeptical-futurama-fry-hmmm-i-got-my-eyes-on-you-gif-17101711

[spice aurora]

https://tenor.com/view/dave-chappelle-president-dave-chappelle-run-gif-5273047

[marble crater]

https://tenor.com/view/caught-in-4k-you-exposed-gif-21379673

[spice aurora]

scum and psyker xd

[daring epoch]

scrier smite is still good? no one talks about recently for some reason

[lone ravine]

probably because stunlocking an entire screen to death is kinda boring

[daring epoch]

ah

[verbal thistle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1272804331497979935/1450700850132418651/Kill_All_Smykers.gif

[daring epoch]

what would yall say would be a fun build then

[daring epoch]

lmao

[lone ravine]

any other scriers build would probably be more enjoyable

meleeker is stupid powerful and silly to do

[marble crater]

Elektro, Assail, Dueling Sword, Gaze

[daring epoch]

flame?

i like being a caster

[buoyant maple]

Obscurus, assail, 2x shield wall, void strike, DD

[daring epoch]

i have no idea what any of that means lol but ill look em up

[knotty saddle]

are those even things

I dont recognize those

[marble crater]

[buoyant maple]

There’s a force sword called Obscurus Mk II

Assail is the 3rd (right side) blitz (green square) on tree

Shield wall is the middle ability, u can get a subnode that gives it 2 charges

Voidstrike is the big Blueball staff

DD is the right side keystone

[daring epoch]

which of these is a simple caster build idm using my brain a bit tbh been playing hivescum all day lol

[buoyant maple]

Am I missing smth here or did u not understand that this is everything that goes into the build

[marble crater]

They are all part of the same build, for more builds check out the pinned message here in the channel

[jovial juniper]

Too good even

And if you ask me what's a fun build

Double Shield

Brain Burst

Hands gameplay

[open pulsar]

probably because it's the most boring build in the game, but it's always effective

[marble crater]

at putting people to sleep

[knotty saddle]

I leave games with smykers

[plucky flax]

Bubble knight or surge surge

[rich spindle]

Flat bubble knight

[fathom adder]

Knight of the Wall

[toxic slate]

hi

[empty granite]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1046914150363844779/1508458072782147665/image.png?ex=6a159c8e&isu=6a144b0e&hm=c7da0d5c54602d57ed236dbf268dfdcdef028aed0c8655c5e3702fd08a8216ae&

What do i put in the perk section on these things

[dire wharf]

Toughness is always good

Toughness, stamina, combat regen, gunner resist

[knotty saddle]

I always go triple gunner resist

because fk gunners

[wind spruce]

Surely you recognise assail, voidstrike and 2x shield wall haha

A staff, a blitz and a combat ability = unfathomable

[knotty saddle]

I only recognize cds

[wind spruce]

Like... avril lavigne's Under My Skin?

[knotty saddle]

no like c deez nutz

https://tenor.com/view/laughing-cat-catlaughing-laughingcat-point-gif-7577620470218150413

[wind spruce]

You cant get under my skin bro, avril's got that locked down

[daring rose]

Heh, Gun-psyker with the Heavy Lasp feels nice

[dire wharf]

Yes it does

[daring rose]

A quick reload after playing the bolt pistol

Found someone probably running the same kit as me

[wind spruce]

No way?! Thats unreal

[daring rose]

Its probably just popular :p

[wind spruce]

Yeahhhh i was being sardonic haha

[daring rose]

Ik lol

But the greaty does feel good

[ripe obsidian]

Or were you being salmonic

https://tenor.com/view/dungeong-gif-15689004941277764080

[wind spruce]

How dare you

[wind spruce]

You rn

[subtle edge]

Any recent builds for this class that are pretty good?

[nocturne oxide]

Nah, psyker only good to feed corpse emperor

[subtle edge]

Lol

[dire wharf]

BFG + blazing spirit

https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/a00aa358-26ff-4d52-91ba-559682ebd0e9/zazys-blazing-spirit-greatsword-unga-bunga-experience

[kind jay]

do items have cooties or something? whys everyone so afraid to pick up crates and ammo lately

like i dont mind when im using a gun cause hey all the ammo for me (even with 2-3 other ammo users)

but my braincell is frying

[wraith sphinx]

Well yeah you put psyker cooties on it

[kind jay]

shhh dont tell them that

[wraith sphinx]

No they already know

You're done for buddy sorry

[kind jay]

my moms gonna kill me bro

[clear sundial]

Is infinite caster build good for endgame?

Warp unbound type shi

With staff and BFG + deflector and stamina to peril guard for tanky.

[rich spindle]

yeah you can play anything in endgame

[plucky flax]

No you must play inferno and bubble

[clear sundial]

how do I reach high crit rate?

are there staff perks that boost crit?

I need it for empathic evasion

[quartz barn]

Warp nexus can give up to 20% based on your peril, the 20% is at 80+

Crit chance perk, 5%

[clear sundial]

so I need it

also whats the difference between BFG and BFS

[quartz barn]

Warp nexus is pretty staple on all staves, basically reach 80 peril and get into the cast-cast-quell rythm

[clear sundial]

I also run warp unbound

[steady turtle]

So i took a couple years break (i think) and now coming back it feels like my level 21 psyker does zero damage lol doesn't help that i cannot equip my better gear for some reason?

What sort of builds do well right now? I was trying to make smite work i think its called with the electricity and i was using the electric staff with the force sword, i honestly felt more effective just using my sword because when using my lightning it took forever to kill anything and i was mostly just holding things in place until my team killed them for me

[leaden berry]

Smite isn’t used for damage, it’s used for massive amounts of CC, basically an “oh shit!” button.
They’ve gutted the electro staff’s CC ability and turned it into more of a single target damage dealer. There are ways to make smite actually dish out some decent damage but you need the Empowered Psyonics keystone. You could even take Scrier’s Gaze with this and become the ultimate sith lord

[silver wing]

smite is used to make your teammates hate you

[leaden berry]

Rn the meta seems to focused around inferno staff + bubble and crit Soulblaze build. But basically any crit build with Psyker will net you some serious damage

[leaden berry]

I see a lot of people say this but I personally don’t get how locking down a bunch of elites makes your team upset. Care to explain?

[silver wing]

it's partly tied to the smyker stereotype of fully relying on smite and then getting obliterated when the most minor inconvenience happens upon them

[long saddle]

it's not only that, because a lot of classes have talents that rely on dodging that you then prevent from everyone else

[silver wing]

you nuke zealot's survivability if he can't dodge

[long saddle]

it also makes the game fucking boring

if psyker wants to "support" then at least shield is static

[leaden berry]

I think the same about the inferno staff

[long saddle]

but best support is always killing

[kind jay]

it turns the game off, effectively

[rich spindle]

we want to dodge and interact with them

[long saddle]

totally fair, the difference is that inferno is stupidly good

instead of just stupid

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1272804331497979935/1450700850132418651/Kill_All_Smykers.gif

[leaden berry]

Yeah, the dodge grievances actually make a lot of sense now that I think about it

[silver wing]

i love this gif

[leaden berry]

Okay that DOES look hella annoying

I shall be changing my ways for the good of the team lol

[kind jay]

[long saddle]

it also keeps stuff spread out instead of them grouping up for good clearing

and who knows when the smyker stops and you're suddenly surrounded by a bunch of stuff

[leaden berry]

Personally I’m a voidstrike scriers enjoyer

[long saddle]

ye it's the only way I'd play with ball

[leaden berry]

Fatshark, we NEED more staves

I don’t play a space wizard to use a gun

[kind jay]

we do need more staves but gunker is pretty fun

a gun is just a staff that shoots bullets or lasers

[leaden berry]

Ye but we already have every other class for guns
I want more space magic

[steady turtle]

Ah that's a real shame ill have to play around with it now is the scriers gaze the one that makes your peril rise until you cap and gives your buffs for it? And is empowered psyionics the one that is like a 10% chance on kill to empower your skill?

Because those two are what i was using and the damage was absolutely pathetic still lol

Like 150% of my peril to just about kill a small horde of trash enemies on diff 2

[marble crater]

EP gives you empowered Blitz with a chance to refill a charge

[cosmic cobalt]

pizza with NOTHING

[steady turtle]

Yeah that's what i was using then

[potent echo]

Can they ever make smite a damage blitz

[steady turtle]

Maybe i set my stuff up wrong but yeah smite damage with as much investment as i could was pathetic lol

I was a cc bot that did more damage with my sword

[potent echo]

cc bot is true

Imagine if we could customise bot players

Mm triple smyker

[quartz barn]

Inb4 true survivor h40 all bot run

[kind jay]

granted but an immortal burgle follows you the entire game and if it touches you, you die

[quartz barn]

Thats just a chaos wastes modifier

[radiant frigate]

does it vomit

[kind jay]

no. it reads your diary out loud instead

[radiant frigate]

anyway that just sounds like a normal lore-accurate burgle

[radiant frigate]

[potent echo]

Hamburgle

[drifting oar]

The time to use smite is when you see people getting overwhelmed and that's about it.
You know they're getting overwhelmed because most haven't unbound jump from the dodge button and they turn into kangaroos 🦘
Once they start clearing and you're reasonably sure they can handle the rest, pull your weapons back out. 🙂

[potent echo]

Or you can just throw 1 assail and delete the entire horde

[drifting oar]

Exactly

[rigid sky]

Just gotta watch out for the decoy burgle

[fierce peak]

https://tenor.com/view/always-sunny-frank-oh-my-god-i-get-it-danny-devito-oh-my-god-gif-7680438033688249755

980hrs in and I'm playing my 30 Psyker now

[dire wharf]

Psyker is squishy but fun

[wraith sphinx]

@radiant frigate I have bonded with the funny elf over shitty teammates today :^)

[radiant frigate]

so true bestie

[marble crater]

https://tenor.com/view/she-said-the-thing-he-said-the-thing-you-said-the-thing-they-said-the-thing-gif-25968882

[restive nebula]

Does cleave do anything for inferno staff?

[jovial juniper]

No

The cons of not interacting with cleave

https://tenor.com/view/conquest-invincible-conquest-invincible-i-am-victim-of-my-own-success-gif-8922187105091212590

Wait

It does

Buff the cleave on your melee bash

💀

[dusk timber]

Nerf the cleave on your melee

[quartz barn]

Can staff bonk even multihit

Like will that cleave bonus allow it to hit more enemies

[jovial juniper]

Yea
22 cleave
Second highest non infinite cleave in the game

[olive oar]

I urge you to try this specific combination then, it will be eye opening: https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/a16d8e16-c437-480a-a82b-081dcce4cb53/hellblaze-slinger

[leaden berry]

You’re amazing, I’ve been looking for a good soulblaze ball build!

[deft stump]

That makes literally no sense and feels like a massive injoke.

[olive oar]

And you guys stop sullying Smite's good name while I'm sleeping, just like the Emperor I do watch!

[marble crater]

Is the good name here with us right now?

[jovial juniper]

[thorn cedar]

Smykers can continue eating my ass.

[deft stump]

Don't care. Every smyker I see in pubs is dogdook.

[rich spindle]

Smite and blazing spirit are the greatest things in the game

[jovial juniper]

#thatswhyfatsharkshouldbuffitmore

[quartz barn]

Unfair, everyone is dogdook when compared to you

[silent bay]

What's the dump stat on the Electromagnetic Force Staff?

[marble crater]

Warp res of course

[silent bay]

is that the dump stat on all stalves?

[marble crater]

Not voidSTRIKE, there it's radius, but for anything else that has warp res, it's warp res

[jovial juniper]

If M1 maxxing charge rate

If M2 maxxing Warp res

[marble crater]

https://tenor.com/view/i-guess-memes-meme-gif-17950413

[jovial juniper]

Well, you see
If you're just blue balling people you don't really need charge

[silent bay]

And for pretty much all melee it's either mobility or a defensive right?

[silver wing]

dump warp res on force swords and mobility/defense otherwise

sometimes cleave targets

[thorn cedar]

dump damage so you can fight longer and enjoy more darktide

[deft stump]

Nope, am not that good. But most smykers are below average.

[dusk timber]

Its still warp res

[olive oar]

When going for blazing spirit you want that blast radius as big as possible

[marble crater]

On voidblast, sure

Not on voidstrike

[olive oar]

Yes Voidtrike

[deft stump]

Eh, can do both. It really changes nothing. Staff still needs a massive buff.

[marble crater]

I'm not having this conversation

[deft stump]

Sadly.

[olive oar]

Pick the build I posted, test it out and see by yourselves, tell me if it needs a buff after that.

[jovial juniper]

It's psyker
It always needs a buff

Fatshark knows that

[silver wing]

another scriers gaze buff coming right up

[main jolt]

psyker getting neglected is accurate to the lore

[deft stump]

Waiting for the day we need a url link to Fatshark forum post for the description because even 8k screens cannot show the full tooltip.

[main jolt]

should i use the obscurus or the deimos for a flamestaff build

[jovial juniper]

Obscurus for big damage
Deimos for safety

[main jolt]

i'll give the obscurus a try

[dire wharf]

How come BFG's don't got cool names

Just mk 6 and 8

[jovial juniper]

Covenant is right there 😭

It's also like
Name of the planet of origin

Deimos is Mars moon though

https://tenor.com/view/ishowspeed-ishowspeed-yeah-right-ishowspeed-yeah-ishowspeed-right-ishowspeed-stream-gif-2870397197282141259

[quartz barn]

Based and ever so humble, I kneel

[cloud folio]

did the event get harder?

[quartz barn]

Did they fix it atleast

Or are we still on 5 aquillas

[cloud folio]

no it progresses

and now we are at after 30

[quartz barn]

No clue if it got harder tho

I did all my runs on sunday and would instabreak totems with scum's rpg

[jovial juniper]

No clue if it got any harder but I played most of mine last Saturday and gambled on insta killing the totems

The hardest mission I had was Excise Vault because the totems were all near the end of the map

[dire wharf]

Embarassing failure on no mans land, fell off the bridge twice

[cloud folio]

now it progressed and it is harderf

[void quarry]

Holy shit Pick N Mix sucked but finially got it

Just took a horde of 50 shotgunners to get lucky enough for the vets not to kill em all

[cosmic cobalt]

oh damn

apparently dd is broken again

if you got killed and revived it no longer mark shit

[olive oar]

Guess you're unlucky, been playing with it a lot lately and never got this bug. Knew it was common but I never used it a lot before to know.

[cosmic cobalt]

this is the first time this happened to me

[mental rock]

Used to be harder too

Same with cliffhanger, and malleus

[iron grail]

New to the game, smite a good blitz?

[mental rock]

They're all good

[night hound]

So what's the 'meta'/safest or easiest pysker build for someone who doesn't play psyker?

[sturdy reef]

is anyone else getting repeated crashes as soon as they try to launch the game?

and I did disable my mods

[void quarry]

True still gotta do cliffhanger, I remember trying to do it when the game first came out and boy I gave up

Still doesn't beat taking no melee damage with vet because holy hell that was a nightmare

[spice oar]

Inferno staff

[mental rock]

Eh it wasn't that bad for me, just do a low int malice

[spice oar]

= win game

[mental rock]

Think I got on overwatch second try

[void quarry]

Eh I did it back in day one with the old pens as I did both in the same game.

[snow granite]

Is 80% Warp Resistance ideal on the Voidblast staff? been using one at 60% and I feel like I'm building peril too fast.

[fathom adder]

Warp Resistance doesn't scale much from 60-80 and Voidblast doesn't want to dump anything else

[dusk timber]

no

[night hound]

Is there like a go too inferno staff build posted somewhere I could use as reference? :>

[dusk timber]

pins

[snow granite]

There's a google doc in the pinned messages, dunno how up to date it is.

[fathom adder]

It's mostly up to date, the only major change recently is that you can't use Uncanny Strike on melee to boost your damage against everything you've set on fire anymore

[edgy heart]

can i take in fire reborn without flame staff? just with perilous combustion and wildfire? or will psychic vampire be better in that case?

[dire wharf]

@night hound there are tons of great builds pinned

[marble crater]

Unless they changed it, Fire Reborn also works with other psyker's soulblaze, so I always take that with warp charges

[ripe obsidian]

I am daring. I've only looked at this chat like once in the last month; you should be honored to be so blessed as to receive my reply.

[ripe obsidian]

Psychic Vampire kinda sucks tbh.

PC + Wildfire will struggle with uptime, depending on difficulty and how effective you are at killing elites, but IFR is still potentially better than Psychic Vampire.

IFR is not limited by coherency. And if you're using fire shriek, that'll make a huge difference, too.

I generally only take Psychic Vampire in the rare instance I am using a) a Telekine Shield build that is b) not melee and c) not using a staff that produces fire.

B/c fire shriek means, well, fire. Melee means you should be using DD, not WS.

[ripe obsidian]

I'll fix that. Or make a note of it. Uncanny does still boost damage, I believe (but I am not sure, as I haven't played in a bit), but as with before, it's only meaningful against Crushers.

[fathom adder]

It does still boost damage, but it now applies Brittleness instead of giving you Rending, so you don't boost all your soulblazes, just against things you actually (weakspot) hit in melee

[thorn cedar]

Yeah it's not nearly as absurdly free as it was before.

Really it's better that somebody else runs Uncanny for you and hits the Crushers instead of you swapping.

[ripe obsidian]

Does it still work with force sword pushes?

Push attacks*

[dusk timber]

probably

[ripe obsidian]

This is a good change tbh. I'm glad it happened. But it still only really impacts crushers, since soulblaze is >=100% ADMs elsewhere.

[dusk timber]

but it would apply only individually to each crusher you hit