The force sword special lasts like 2 seconds, causes basically a brain burst but doesnt build a warp charge and is slow to fire. Its boring.
It should be a permanent buff that adds X amount of warp damage to light attacks with a chance to cause soulblaze and triggers the brain burst instantly on charged heavy attacks that then consume the effect and creates a warp charge. The force sword is hilariously weak, sometimes taking 3-6(!) light attacks to kill a poxwalker when not hitting the head, its angle of attacks makes it fairly useless to attack multiple targets and the special takes ages to fire off while building lots of peril.
Good suggestion imho, atm for warp charge upkeep I am just running with Duelling Sword and Kinetic Flayer. This is Libra⌠Psykers signature weapon, so it should be as strong as the ones for other classes, in my view.
I like the idea of the Psyker swords gaining a boost to damage from light attacks, with a brain burst on a heavy. This makes sense to me, and covers for some of the weaknesses of the Psyker.
Iâd buy that on the demons. Mostly I remember Eisenhornâs force sword that he was suppose to take home but ended up keeping. Used it in that dual with the guy who had the chainsword, Arnault Tantalid , Witch Hunter of the Ecclesiarchy.
Destroyed the chainsword. Kind of sad, chainsword was a relic. Force sword was named âBarbarisaterâ but ended up being altered. Need to hit that book again⌠but I have Gauntâs Ghosts on the mind.
Even so, force sword ought to be a lot more impressive, even ones that arenât master crafted.
I like the special on the force sword. The problem with it is not how it works, but that it doesnât do enough damage on high difficulties to be worth going through all the trouble.
Itâs just a simple case of: âIf it doesnât kill in one hit itâs not worth doingâ.
I get having vent be a âforce weaponâ only thing, or at a minimum just âimproved significantlyâ but the flip is there should be more options.
We had an amazing force weapon in Deathwing, and didnât need to vent, we just had a set cooldown for abilities. Pity Deathwing didnât get good lobby support or a lot of other things it needed, was a gorgeous game.
The force sword is indeed hot garbage. The only thing that makes it worth (sometimes) using is if you get one with the deflector trait. Thatâs it. The light attacks do very, very little damage on top of laughable pattern & cleave - and the special attack locks you into a very dangerous and very long animation, for not nearly enough damage.
How was it nerfed ? The push attack knocks down Maulers at the cost of 4% Peril⌠Even I, for all the love Iâm lacking for the Psyker, have to recognize the stagger on this is impressive.
That being said, I agree it doesnât feel great. I feel like the push/push attackâs angles or stagger cleave or something along those lines is a little low ; the effect on enemies doesnât match the visual effects on my screen, itâs not as great at making space as I expect it to be.
Speaking of visual effects, the blocking âshieldâ animation is nice but it also blocks a lot of vision.
The force sword special attack should last until you quell.
As it is, itâs basically useless. A bit like the psyker in the current state for endgame.
Current force sword special gives you stagger and heavy damage on single target in melee. Thatâs exactly what psyker lacks in sooo⌠Itâs good as it is.
Could give warp charge. Thatâs all the changes it needs IMO. Very useful on heresy+
Careful what you wish for everyone. The last time around people complained about the push costing too much peril and they eliminate the big AoE push, and the weapon lost a lot of utility.
Currently - I LOVE the force sword special attack.
Sure, it could generate a warp charge, but regardless the special attack is amazing for doing damage through armor, you can catch dogs with it mid leap. It will one shot Mutants (you can dodge and stab them as they run past you). Itâs incredible for killing elites and specials in close combat. I donât know what you all are complaining about. Itâs is one of the best pieces of the psykers kit currently.
There was literally a thread complaining the force sword is too op. I only just got one and it seems good to me. If you charge it then it does massive damage.
Yeah, the charge damage is enormous. There are other things we could tweak about the force sword, but itâs special attack is not one of them IMHO. Great damage and super thematic too and in-line with the table top game.
Force sword also has unlimited dodge, which is also amazing.
Sure, itâs normal attack strength alone isnt huge, but you can take perks and get it to have 25%+ boost to attack damage. I have one with Slaughter on it (+7.5% damage for 2s on kill and stacks up to five times) and during a horde it turns into a blender.