To use Smite without feeling like youre trolling your team, you need to basically spec into Empowered Psionics. And even then having a massive, on demand, hard stun on anything but a boss or Nurgle Blessed enemy is just incredibly broken design.
Maybe replace it with telekenesis from Vermintide. Except you can slam enemies into the ground. The bigger the enemy, the bigger the radius and damage. EP can make it an AOE lift, so you can slam a patrol into the ground or something, idk.
Smite is not a great name for what it currently does either. When I hear Smite, I don’t think of lightning tickles, I think of a full lightning bolt with accompanying thunderclap. Or for a telekine, a telekinetic fist or foot or something slamming down.
That’s why there’s always a poxwalker behind them there to bonk the psyker when they try.
At least in my experience 
300% this, Smite should be something short, sharp, and powerful.
That’s how it should be. A fire and forget bolt (similar to Surge staff) that does noticeable damage to the target it hits (but less than Brain Burst), then arcs to all nearby enemies in a determined radius and stuns them for a set amount of time. Limited to 3 charges, one charge regens each minute.
Primary fire just knocks a single enemy to the ground, unlimited use exactly how it is currently.
I dont like the charge idea. I feel like its boring design and just needlessly limiting and just makes it feel like a different Assail.
Imagine if you hurled lightening bolts like in Elden Ring instead, that would be so cool.
You don’t have to reinvent the wheel
All Smite needs is to not be utterly braindead
Exactly like the Boltgun and Plasma Gun which requires absolutely no skill, no target priority wisdom, and basically aims for you, you don’t make them hit like wet nerf guns, you fix those by making their ammo drastically more limited and precious
Exactly like VoC which requires absolutely no other skill than pressing one button every 5 to 10 seconds, you don’t make it weaker, you make using it an actual important investment of a precious resource on a long cooldown
Exactly like Vet grenades, especially the Krak grenade, you remove this utterly stupid auto regen so people learn to use their resources instead of just pressing muh buttons
Exactly like Stealth and Combat Knife, you massively increase Stealth cooldown, and you remove the essentially infinite dodge on the Combat Knife so people actually learn to dodge instead of mashing evasion against the air because why not
Exactly like the Duelling Sword with this silly addition of the Thrust and Agile blessing which were not needed in any way shape or form and just participate in the general dumbing down of the game by letting players just mash buttons without any form of forward thinking
Exactly like Lasguns and Recon Lasun in particular, you don’t nerf their power, you nuke the ridiculous unlimited ammo which doesn’t even require Survival Aura to be self sufficient
Exactly like the Ogryn Nuke, you give them one and only one per mission (looking at you Maelstrom modifier), and it’s not replenishable in any way
It’s not different with Smite, make it actually Peril intensive, easily 3 or 4 times as much, make Psykers blow up if they let it reach 100%
That’s it, you fixed Smite, you fixed Darktide
Stop this pathetic excuse of a braindead spamfest centered balanced
As if the current design isn’t boring already, simply point and hold M2. 
It should be limited if it’s going to be an effective stun against all enemies that can lock down entire groups.
If FS wants to keep mass stun, then some enemies should be immune to it. Muties should be stun immune when charging. Crusher permastagger immunity should be extended to stun. Bulwark shield could stop smite from spreading. Permasmiting should shoot your threat level through the roof.
This way the smyker still has to play the game.
So your response to boring to design is to make it boring and not fun?
I am going to go on a rampage if this ever happens…
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