Do people know how to build brain burst

I have been on the forms for only a short time now but it seams like a daily occurrence that some one is winning about bb. I love pscyker and one of my first builds for him was bb with the shock staff, and tbh that thing carried me all the way to difficulty 5. BB IS NOT SOMETHING YOU WIP OUT ON RANDOME ELITES. its used for chipping monstrosities down quick. You use a rappid attack weapons( in my opinion the shock staff alt fire works best ) to proc the random chance bb on elites. If your using a staff i suggest the left final tree for pscyker. If your using bb itself then run the middle tree, and if your using a gun run right. As far as i have seen it preforms well in all of these senerios. bb is in a good spot and i feel like there are other grenade abilities that could use some love instead.

PS:
Sorry to all who have been complaining about bb i get your sharing your opinion and there is nothing wrong with that just saw it often enough that i wanted to share my take

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Winners win.

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Nah, it’s sucks compared to the other two, and it’s actually a cool mechanic but it needs a speed buff. I wouldn’t even mind a peril increase. Just let me pop them faster.

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Empowered Psionics and spamming dodge with Deimos makes BB go Brrrr

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I just want to be able to target things properly. BB failing to target enemies because theyre behind a railing, or being unable to target the gunner you want to kill because BB will only lock onto the poxwalkers in front of them, makes it really frustrating to use.

Also the fact that your team will often kill the target first doesnt help.

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This is the big issue with BB to me. It fills its role as a tool very well, but unfortunately it is inconsistent when it comes to said role.

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There’s a few different types of complaints about BB. Yes, some of it comes from ppl who can’t prioritize targets, can’t pre-charge with secondary, don’t even know how to slide around while charging. And yes, that’s a skill issue no doubt about it.

But some of it comes from a different place, from comparing BB to staves & the other blitzes.

Smite can stop every enemy dead in a huge area, cleaving through all oggies and reaching all disablers anywhere in there. It’s the equivalent of an actual ultimate ability, offering a total reversal & turning a certain wipe into a joke of a shooting gallery. All with with no CD, low peril cost, and once properly specced doing enough dmg to kill everything except oggies & muties in there while it does.

Assail lets you turn a group of gunners & ragers & most anything else into mush in the blink of an eye with barely any aiming required, can easily be mixed in with melee, and works as a long-range auto-aim sniper too. All with a very low CD. Both Smite & Assail are universally useful almost all the time, routinely making a big difference every time they’re used.

But BB? BB is a slow & expensive single target tool in a game where the threat is always in numbers. Even on single targets most staves do a better job, but there’s almost always more than 1 target so staves getting ahead isn’t really even a question. Ofc it can be useful and is if you know what you’re doing, but those uses are rare, and almost never make the kind of difference smite or assail would be doing. It’s more of a highly specialized support tool for the few builds with no other ranged & anti-armor options.

Sure you can turn it into a decent boss-killer with stuff like investing in Kinetic Resonance, Empyric Shock and Empowered Psionics with other buffs. But that’s a crazy amount of talent points & a keystone invested all to conditionally do about as much dmg as you could with a single bleed knife in literally any build at all. And even for all that investment, it’s unlikely for that BB to ever have the same impact a literal zero-invested smite can on a regular basis.

tldr; The problem is not that BB isn’t useful at all. It’s that the other blitzes enjoy a much higher frequency of being useful, with a lot less conditions, need a lot less skill to use, and overall have a much larger impact when you do use them.

I don’t even think it’s a serious problem myself. Not all weapons, abilities and classes are supposed to be exactly equal after all, that would just make for a boring game with no interesting choices. But it’s not hard to see why not all people are comfortable with that.

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Look at some bb builds and trust me you wont have that same opinion

That is fair and tbh i feel like if they fix the targeting side of thing a lot of the problems that it has in #s would be fixed but ya it is intesive and far less versatile

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I really don’t like Empowered Psionics Brain Burst, as the second you don’t have a stack ready to go base BB feels absymally awful (this isn’t true for Assail, idk about Smite but I assume it’s the same). And with Warp charges it just feels kinda meh, and whenever you use the ult you feel the lost damage from warp charges.

Honestly I don’t know if there is a way to build BB to make it a main part of your arsenal like you can with the other 2 blitzes. It seems like it currently just exists to kill Snipers and Gunners outside of your ranged weapon range and not much else.

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Honestly the issue is more that Smite and Assail are no longer blitzes like the rest of the game, but have become the main weapon for psykers. Pulling out an occasional buff stacked BB chain is entirely how a blitz should work, not a “I’ll occasionally pull out my melee/ranged weapon in the ridiculously brief period that my blitz is out of shards/I’m not pressing smite”

Make Smite and Assail more of a blitz, and fix the targetting of BB and psyker will be in a much better position

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That’s not entirely wrong.
BB is useful against several targets, and you should choose them. I use it mainly against snipers, but also against a dog isolated, or a special / elite that is running away, or elite / special that is far away (like a reaper, a gunner etc).
What is great with BB is that you don’t have to be in the line of sight of its victim. Once you target the enemy, you can hide and still kill it.
Also, this is a good tool against monstrosity that allow to damage them without taking the risk to stay close to it.

But sure, BB is not a tool against numbers. It is a tool against the annoying threat that can make your team wipe if this one is not removed.

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BB is best for killing disablers /specials around corners, at least thats the best application i’ve seen for it in maelstrom solos.

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It does need a build just to be a worthwhile blitz. Without Empowered Psionics or Kinetic Resonance it’s really hard to justify using it. Also the indicator that tells teammates your BBing a target needs to be removed completely and be cast into the warp to suffer for eternity.

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Share one

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Aim above their head, and drag your cursor down until you get the right lock. Jump if needed.

Apart from not being able to target thru fences, you should have no trouble picking out prio targets from a crowd with.

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Thanks for the tip i will have to use that from now on

I will post my build here once i get on my computer

Brain bursts doesn’t prevent scab bombers from throwing grenades and it chargers too slow. Might as well just shoot them. If you don’t have a staff brain burst is too slow to deal with dreg stalker hordes mixed with gunners.
Assail stuns scab bombers and causes them to drop grenades, can stun and kill groups of gunners, can stun and kill specials, can kill groups of snipers quickly, can kill waves of pox hounds easily, can kill or stun flamers in a pinch when you are surrounded by a horde.

Assail makes brain burst pointless especially since there is a trauma staff and the eye poking sword.
Brain burst is only good in specific situations.

I clear elites pretty well with brain burst. Personally, I prefer it over assail as with my setup I can quickly pick them out of the crowd instead of the crystals running out or targeting other enemies.