as you can plainly see, i have 39/40 kills in a single use of gaze. i only go to that today, a small bit ago as of this post. i used to be perma stuck on 27 because everybody kept stealing my kills even when i asked them to give me space. only today have i managed to get to 33 because my team actually listened somewhat and let me get a few kills, even if they did still steal them to a lesser degree than everybody else.
this is a problem that plenty of psykers have, people don’t allow them to get enough kills and by the time they get to kill anymore than just 20, they’ve already hit 82% peril, even with quelling and peril reduction, that may as well be the end of that attempt, not to mention that people do have jobs that they need to do, not everybody wants to farm for the gaze penance for an hour before going to bed, they need to cook, do the dishes, they need to do so much and they are still expected to be able to do the gaze penance without issues, all of this is assuming that darktide is the only thing that the psyker in question wants to play.
this will take a lot of time, time that a lot of people don’t have. changing it to a static number that won’t reset to 0 when gaze ends would not only allow players to not feel frustrated and quit the game because of this penance being nearly impossible for some people due to teammates getting in the way of it, time not lining up, and even just skill and peril mixing in the worst way possible.
the best way to fix the issue of players not being able to complete this penance due to the reasons already listed is to change the penance objective to be killing 5K enemies while gaze is active would allow players to get the penance without spending so much time on it, it would also allow the players who don’t want to go higher than malice to get it without going into a private game and having their bots die and their friend leave. it’d just be “activate gaze and relax while you purge the enemies of the emperor” like the zealots “blessed be thy aim” and the veterans “sweep and clear” only instead of throwing knives to kill enemies or needing to stay close to your team, its just press a button and kill while your ability lasts, no need to worry about anything else, just kill and live.
i posted this partially because i’m fed up with all these penances that just generally suck to do, like “just a flesh wound” and “defy fate” and “keep your friends close” but the rest of it and the main reason is that the game already doesn’t respect your time, so its about time it starts to respect it at least a bit.
To me, the best way to address this issue, is to not change the penance.
There are very easy ways to complete it.
For example, you could burn a regular horde, or an idle horde in lights out, with a purgatus staff. Idle hordes are large enough in the higher difficulties and if you play aggressively, you can easily get 40 kills from them.
People should use their brains and alter their builds, if needed, when they encounter a challenge.
I literally got this within the first horde on auric damnation with a gunpsyker. Just fire into the horde. If there’s an elite in the horde focus that one. With perilous combustion it’ll proc soulblaze and help you mow down the horde even quicker. There are also a lot of talents to extend scrier’s gaze duration. Quell on kill, quell on non warp crits, etc.
It’s probably one of the easiest psyker penances to get.
Whatever your issue is, it is definitely not the penance, the time you require or anything else.
You simply have the wrong build and are doing it wrong.
I honestly didn’t even know this was a penance, but I guess that’s what happens when you play on Auric.
I’ll basically recommend that, even if you don’t feel comfortable with it. There’s enough leavers anyway up here it wouldn’t be to out of place for you to walk in, activate scriers during the first horde, then just bounce as soon as it hits 40.
They spawn so many things (especially on the higher end modifiers) that going like 5-10 seconds without killing 40 things is a miracle while the horde’s raging. Though, if there’s another Psyker on your team you might be a little pressed, but all depends.
Will also agree with the other suggestions, Inferno + battle meditation and all the other good stuff drops waves in seconds regardless of your team, and using recon lasgun + tranquility in slaughter and true aim basically sticks you at 0 peril until the clip runs dry, so it’s an equal master at dropping everything and nailing down this penance without thinking to hard.
Hehehe I have the same record with the Ogryn charge penance, 59/60 (or total -1 if I got the total wrong).
I’ll be glad when I get it, a lot more meaningful to me than “charge through X number enemies” because it’s actually something cool. The fact that I haven’t organically got it yet – more than that the fact that I’ve gotten so close – adds to the appeal imo.
Like others have mentioned, if you’re specifically chasing the penance there are some good build recommendations. Otherwise, happy scrying!
Oh, dude, I gotchu! Easiest way to get this:
Your scriers gaze build of choice
Your recon lasgun of choice (I prefer the slowest firing one myself)
+5% crit chance
+25% flak damage
Infernus 4
dumdum 4
Load into any Aurich 4 or Aurich Maelstrom.
Listen for a horde spawn.
Wait until the horde is about 10 meters away.
Open up on em, aiming roughly head level, just sweeping the beams left and right. Dont even aim, just enjoy the flow.
Laugh with giddy glee as you cut down swathes of heretics with searing hot las fire.
Get all of your scriers gaze and frenzied killer penances in a single activation.
Do top damage on the scoreboard while taking the constant melee pressure off your team.
Profit.
Ha, I feel we had a very similar topic on this months ago. You can do it with the purge staff thanks to how totally broken it is, or just killing in melee a horde of pox walkers / groaners. With a right build and circumstance it should be fairly easy.
Lol I spent months trying to get headshots with revolver and closest I ever got was 16/20, then I realized BB also counted as headshots and was like “OH. THAT’s how they wanted you to do it!”
Enemies in darktide lurch, stumble, fall, wriggle, jostle, spasm, and flinch WAY too much to consistently get headshots on
That was quite literally impossible back when I was going for it consistently. FS hadnt yet fixed the headshot priority with melees so all it took was one groaner finger to be in front of the head you’re aiming for, and it’s aaaall over.
I quite like the penance as it is. I’ve never been a fan of “use the ability this much” penances that all the new ones added, so this is nice and different. It rewards competence with the ability, not just use of it.
If you struggle with it, try the other suggestions in this thread. My recommendation is to just slap on a dueling sword mk4 with By Crack Of Bone allocated and start dicing when a horde comes.
I have finished zealot, then veteran and then ogryn penances.
So now, I start to complete psyker ones.
This one is simply too easy to do. I have wasted close to 2 minutes to do it
Try to build something around Tranquility through Slaughter. So, you need a ranged non warp gun, like the AIG Columnus MKV and to pick all critics node and also the aura. Pick also the +5% critical chances as perk for it.
You should not have difficulties to complete it now… just pick an high int auric mission.
