Hey all, been loving the game and specifically psyker. I naturally fell into the support/monstrosity soloer/map pusher (surge force staff) role that this class excels at. Basically I pull whatever tool the psyker has at her disposal to keep damage from breaking our bubble. There’s a lot of debate on the best staff in discord. The majority die by the void staff. I say it’s for the dopamine or maybe there’s a second psyker in the group. I digress.
Leveling the psyker during beta, I fell in love with her, specifically brain burst. It’s hard to describe how satisfying it is to pop high value heads, one after another, after another. I quickly adopted tagging enemies. I wanted to pop everything. The runs were easy; I entered heresy…
I quickly found I was wasn’t as strong as I had been. My defining class ability had been diminished to the extent of dying cascading into team wipes because of my ability misjudgments. I had to re-define how to play psyker.
Example of brain burst weakness and why it feels bad:
A bulwark takes 3-5 bb to kill on damnation depending on spec. Quelling or ulting is required to take one out. This is an incredible amount of time dedicated to a single enemy threat when at times there can be 3 bulwarks with other elites, specials and horde. Bb becomes entirely useless in these high stress scenarios. It’s often the last thing I should be doing unless maybe a sniper is owning us.
tldr: Brain Burst "Does x damage to target. Target receives [breakpoint]% subsequent brain burst damage. (Stacking x). Monstrosities are immune to debuff.
Anyways, good hunting
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