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Brain burst definitely needs a buff. The damage is okay but the recharge time takes far too long even if you use all skill points to optimize brain burst
Brain burst buff is absolutely necessary to make it useful. Increasing the charging time by 25% would help a lot.
They recently did allow speeding up the charge time by 25% via stimms, but I think the problem is that it still interacts horribly with all of the psyker keystones as you lose out on getting any of the keystone stacks if someone else kills the target you’re charging on.
The pre-patch 13 mechanic (or bug, it was never confirmed one way or the other) where you got a warp charge if you had charged at least halfway on an eligible target helped with that a lot.
I agree. Bb is just too slow and needs too many to kill high priority targets. Im honestly not sure just a 25 percent speed increase would be enough
This also applies to the new Munitorum Mk III Shovel - it does less damage than the Standard-issue and the attacks are significantly slower, too. The Mk VII
attacks significantly faster and does the same amount of damage, give or take. In short, the Standard-issue and Mk VII both outperform the Mk III in virtually every way.
Please buff the Mk III Shovel.
I think they also buffed the base speed a little if you use Brain Burst more than once consecutively, but I might be tweaking. Currently, none of my builds use it because it cuts off access to Mind in Motion.
I find that dodging while venting seems to keep your move speed pretty close to normal, so Mind in Motion isn’t a must pick for me any more.
Yeah, it’s also the fact it’s completely overshadowed by the other blitzes that sells it down for me ultimately. I’d be willing to sacrifice Mind in Motion if Brain Burst was worth it.
This has been an argument since I started playing in patch 13.
BB is too slow to be effective against multiple targets and too weak to be effective against monstrosities or ogryns.
25% cast speed for 15 seconds with a stimm (with a 3 seconds injection time) is laughable.
imo bb should be at least 75%-100% on trash ads infested/unarmored
50% on flak/specialist/maniac
25% for ogryns/mosnters/carapace
(something like that its scales with type)
Nothing except Monstrosities should take more than one BB. Simple as.
And Ogryns. They are too… let’s say stubborn to notice they are missing brain.
But 2 BB’s on Maulers and Ragers?! That’s too much.
I’m the opposite >.< Almost all of my builds have brain burst because I don’t wanna be pressing smite or assail all the time
I disagree. Ogryns should still take two. Ysing whichever ult that gives increased BB cast speed and insta deleting a Crusher group would be dumb, especially for how easy and safe it is.
Maulers and under should be free game though. It would still be exceptionally powerful.
The extreme safety of being stuck casting while being unable to apply any CC to the enemy…
If I have to use a staff to apply CC then I’m better off killing the ogryns with the stuff that would be faster and safer…
Yes. You can take cover. You can move. It is infinite range. You don’t need los. It shouldn’t be one shotting Ogryns (maybe empowered psionics, but imo that Keystone needs a soft rework).
What does this have to do with BB
We are talking about a group of ogryns.
I don’t know what game you play but in my runs they appear 10 meters in fron of my face always surrounded by ragers or maulers. I never had the luxury of being able to calmly snipe a group of ogryns by infinite range.
Not to mention standing still for more than 5 seconds is a great way to make a horde spawn.
You do need LOS to start it, and if anything happens (aka the game spawns poxwalkers behind you or you need to kill an up-close special or any of the common interruptions that happen during Damnation), you need LOS to re-acquire it.
I almost typed this, but the node that gives you e-psionics on elite kill would probably make this wildly broken
There’s a class with regenerating grenades that can instantly delete not only groups of crushers, but enitire mixed hordes of 6 crushers, 6 ragers, 6 maulers and more.
There are weapons that delete Crushers on a single hit. There are multitudes of weapons that 2-shot crushers. In melee, or completely safely from range.
Even if BB charged 50% faster than today, it should still oneshot Crushers. This ain’t the old game and the old balance.
I dunno. I find the utility value of BB for being able to kill bombers, trappers, and dogs when they are running out of LoS is worth the price of entry. If you build around BB with the middle keystone and talent that buffs the speed on combat abiltiy use it’s pretty damn amazing IMHO for breaking up groups of crushes, bulwarks, and ragers. Even if it doesn’t outright kill bulwarks or crashes, it staggers them massively and lets your teammates finish them off usually.
I don’t know people seem to think that BB should near instantly charge and one-hit kill whatever it hits. You have two other weapons you’re also supposed to be using. BB is utility first and foremost, and it’s amazing in that role.