Dear Devs,
Can we please !! for the love of the Emperor!! HAVE A FASTER NORMAL CASTING TIME FOR BRAIN RUPTURE PLEASE! i already know we’re gonna have people coming in saying its just fine, BUT NO! sometimes we won’t have an ability ready to increase the casting speed or already used our blue stem IF WE CAN FIND ONE ON THE MAP… there’s always a time when nothing is up and ready to use but just the normal casting time… which pretty much is sllloooooow…by the time we attempt to use it someone on the team killed your target …85 % guaranteed ! sometimes the normal cast can assist someone from a far IF IT WAS ACTUALLY FASTER. Please take in consideration of this thought… the worst cast scenario is you RE-nerf it ( god forbid ) you guys have nothing to loose by doing this… and to the pros thats gonna come in here and debate and hate on my request …save it… " NORMAL CASTING TIME" could be more beneficial !! P.S JUST RAN A MISSION WHERE I HAD TO USE MY ABILITY to increase the speed of my brain rupture… because i had 4 crushers to kill and a mutant…AS SOON AS I DONE SO, YOUR A.I SENT 5 MAULERS RIGHT AT ME …IF BRAIN RUPTURE WOULD HAVE BEEN FASTER THEN I COULD HAVE SAVED MY ABILITES KILLED THE CRUSHER AND HAD THAT READY FOR THE MAULERS…SO YOU GUYS NERF US SO YOUR A.I CAN CAPITALIZE OFF OUR HANDICAPS THAT YOU GIVES US LIKE THE SLOW CASTING BRAIN RUPTURE! come on give us a break…
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Personal opinion: It would upset the balance and make BB too good.
As a vet main im compelled to personally thank to every psykers the service which they provide us by highlighting specialist with their BB for quick designation for headshot at the deluge of Fatsharks grey ish enemy variants while my own execution stance is down…
I would recommend to a seal of purity but psykers are a nasty thorn in the god emperor vision. Filthy wichs who’s taping in the ruinous powers itself… So know your place !
Brain rupture is a joke, can’t even take out a pox burster with one shot, despite taking a week to charge the damn thing.
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A fully charged rupture should be able to take down a crusher in one shot. It’s a joke that a little knife can take down everything quicker than a rupture.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Complaints about brainburst will never ever stop until it’s both instant and instakills every enemy in the game
And thus the skill issue ever perpetuates until the end of time.
I hate to say it, OP, but BB is fine. Stop using it on Maulers and Crushers. Grab a Trauma staff and knock 'em all down. BB is supposed to be used on gunners and specialists.
And it’s s*** at them too.
The video I posted above shows that BR couldn’t even take out a Pox Burster, one of the weakest specialists. If it can’t take out a pox burster fully charged then what’s it’s point? As by the time you have charged the thing, anyone with a weapon could have killed it.
If it takes long to charge, then it should do massive damage, but it doesn’t, it can’t even kill a pox burster fully charged.
It’s not a skill issue, it’s a poor design issue.
Then that’s weird, because every time I’ve braincrushed a poxburster, they’ve immediately exploded and I get credited with the kill.
Another alternative answer to this is that because it takes so long to charge, bursters could easily close the distance before you’re done charging, so they wanted to ensure that psykers don’t endanger the team by playing like idiots trying to braincrush every burster before they get close by making it not kill them instantly and instead knock them back.
And again, you’re using it on a bad target. Poxbursters are best dealt with either immediately at long range by shooting them before they have time to close the gap or with a push when they start jumping so your entire team doesn’t die. Your best option in that clip was to hit it with the primary fire of the Purgatus to knock it flat and then keep whaling on it until it explodes.
the node brain burst will do 1382 damage to a poxburster, you need one of the many types of extra damage in psyker’s tree affecting warp damage to one hit. but its pretty easy to start the cast above 10 perils if you have warp rider and they die in one hit instead. or you could use warp charges, or the finesse damage boosts from disrupt destiny, or perfect timing.
lol, yeah… no.
I don’t fancy standing around for 5 mins waiting for the purgatus to do it’s job. It’s a good weapon, but it still takes a long time to kill anything.
The brain rupture should have killed it out right and it happens far too often that it doesn’t. What the point in a specialist killer if it’s not the best thing to kill specialist.
It’s funny how in your previous post you bemoan people for using it on tougher targets and that it should be used on specialists, then a video of it being used on specialist shows how bad it is, then you claim it’s used on the wrong target.
Make you’re mind up, is it best used on specialist or not? As the last time I look a Pox Burster is a specialist.
Yes, it’s true I didn’t specify, and you’re right. Poxbursters and Mutants shouldn’t be braincrushed and I should have said that.
I mentioned the Purgatus’ primary fire because it pretty much guarantees a stagger or knockdown on anything that isn’t an ogryn. Maybe if you’d like, you could have braincrushed it then, and the DoT from the fire would have been enough to make its health low enough to die instantly.
To make it clear for the future, here’s a list of things I think you should braincrush:
- Gunners
- Shotgunners
- Snipers
- Bombers
- Trappers
- Hounds
Does that clear everything up? I hope so. If braincrush was more powerful, it would be overpowered - revolvers and the bolter are balanced because they need ammo to shoot, so they can attack rapidly and with high power to melt through armored targets and targets at long range easily. Veteran messes with this balance a little bit because Survivalist exists, but it still stands.
Braincrush is free. It has infinite ammo, the peril it generates can be removed pretty much instantly, it has perfect accuracy, can lock on any target at any distance, and you don’t even need to keep looking at the target once you have it locked. I think being slow is a perfectly fine tradeoff for this sort of utility.
Would be cool if it scaled depending on target hp. So super quick for grunts then slower for a mutant etc.
Totlaly agree it’s pointless at the current speed. As you say the team kill the target before it’s finished it’s cycle.
I got two damage buffs based on the amount of peril, warp rider and unstable power on me force sword.
In the video it goes of at 23% ish so that about another 10% damage on top.
Even with damage buffs it still didnt do it.
Right… so requiring ammo is balanced, but having to charge, manage your peril, or potentially killing yourself isn’t. As justification as to why it alright for plasma guns, bolters, revolves to one shot, but a psyckic attack direct to the brain shouldn’t.
Sorry, but that is one weak arguement. I have run bolters on my veteran and have only ran out of ammo… maybe once or twice, if that. I am really struggling to remember time when I have.
Agreed. Well, on that BB needs to be more.
BB isn’t useless like some people paint it to be, especially since they changed / fixed it by finally making Kinetic Resonance and Empowered Psionics stack a few weeks back. But it’s definitely not balanced with the other 2 blitzes either. Imo it has 2 main problems:
BB is an expert skill
Using secondaries for instant hits, sliding while charging for mobility & ranged defense, prioritizing correctly both to deal with the biggest threat and so you don’t waste 2s + peril on something that’s getting shot anyway… all of these require skill. Same thing with builds too. To make BB fast & effective, you need Kinetic Resonance and/or Empowered Psionics, but they ofc come at the cost of other talents and keystones which would benefit literally everything else. Yet KR takes timing and planning, while EP needs to target elites to recharge itself.
All in all BB is just a lot of effort in build & gameplay, yet rarely worth its cost.
BB doesn’t fit the meta since the class overhaul
Even before the overhaul BB was far from OP. But back then it was the only way to get Warp Charges, had several feats/talents to buff it, and the game had far fewer enemies and far weaker weapons & builds in general to compete with BB’s single target dmg. But ~6 months ago all of that changed.
Now there’s probably like 4x more enemies, each with more hp. All classes and weapons were buffed to compensate, so kill times are half of before. Most weapons & builds for the same reason have tons of cleaving and AoE to deal with so many enemies. Meanwhile BB is still about as slow & weak as before, still only single target, and on top of all that it lost basically all its many talents and interactions. So it was nerfed in a number of ways from a place where it wasn’t OP to begin with.
Cerebral Lacerations (+25% dmg taken by anything hit by BB) is gone, Kinetic Flayer was nerfed (its whole point was stacking Warp Charges & BB talent effects without casting BB itself, now it does neither), Perilous Combustion which was previously buffed to HITS not kills specifically for BB, was likewise nerfed and now isn’t a BB thing at all but rather something you use on basically anything else. Even Warp Siphon was changed to dump the charges on ult, when stacking those charges FOR that ult and Kinetic Resonance used to be the main way to spam BB.
The end result is an ability that’s a shadow of its former self and no longer even mechanically necessary. Small wonder smite & assail probably see 100x more use, and many of those uses being essential for clutch, while BB is more of a fun little diversion to take out some single thing while you slide over to the next cover.
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Imo Kinetic Flayer needs to be changed completely, having none of its synergies from before while still stuck with the same sad 10% proc rate every 15s is pointless and not a single build really needs it. Cerebral Lacerations needs to come back, and either BB’s cast time or dmg or other features need some looking at in general. That and / or BB needs to be incorporated as a special case into the talents themselves:
- Perilous Combustion could proc on kill OR a hit from BB
- Warp Siphon could stack on specialist+ kill OR a hit from BB
- EP could do with a further dmg bonus for BB
- Disrupt Destiny’s finesse bonus should apply at least in some extent to BB (crit / weakspot bonuses in general don’t, despite BB being a guaranteed weakspot hit). Tbh, I’m not 100% sure about this since I can’t test it in the grinder, but I’m reasonably certain it doesn’t.
Aaaand just as I said that, I made a new novelty build for it. First I just wanted to make another attempt at BB that wasn’t EP, so Purge & Warp Siphon for low CD’s was a given. But then I realized I could make the whole thing range immune with a fast crit melee, and that I haven’t made knife builds in a while. Which ofc led me to “ooh but if I stack both SB and bleed I should have insane DoT with BB for the biggies”, thinking that would come together nicely.
Well long story short, this thing is a monster and hecking fun to play too 
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… doesn’t fix the problems tho. BB should have wider applications than just something like this.
If you insist on using BB as your main weapon, well, you’re going to be sub-optimal, but you can build to make it more feasible and keep the attacks going stupid fast and strong.
Use a purge staff with Warp Nexus/Warp Flurry and +5% Crit Chance to help with hordes. Then I guess a Deimos or Mk4 duelling sword built however you like.
You can pop endlessly on groups of elites and just keep the bonuses automatically rolling with almost 100% uptime even just on your own. If your team kills a few elites too you will recharge your ult before Kinetic Resonance expires on the previous one. Whole swarms of shotgunners or ragers can be handled in no time. (Primary fire on purge staff can also keep all non-ogryns stun-locked if you really start to get overwhelmed)
Additionally, this is one of the best monster-slaying builds. Use the staff to get to 15 stacks and 80% peril, use Shriek on the monster to boost stacks to 21 which will begin to melt him. Then just BB away until he’s dead. It should only take a few seconds.
Small caveat, Psykinetic’s Aura only procs when you kill the elite/specialist enemy. Unlike Ogryn’s ability cooldown, you gotta do it yourself - same with Veteran’s.
Huh. Then it must be possible to do it on your own because I have recharged my ult before the 10 sec cooldown ran out plenty of times.
It probably helps to run CDR on curios and the purge’s soulblaze probably contributed as well.
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