Honestly the Force Sword was very underwhelming to me as a Psyker. It doesn’t feel as clean as the Eviscerator or even chainsword. The special can’t cleave, but does great single target, but I can get the same effect off a Zealot Eviscerator… but better lol. I swapped to the Dueling sword because it feels so much better on my Psyker. Increase dodge distance, faster attacks that allow me to basically deal with hordes and armored enemies solo because they’re almost constantly getting staggered by the rapid attacks and special jab.
So, I think some Force Sword weapon variants might be in order. New attack combos for all of em but some extra flavor of special abilities.
So for example one Force Sword might swing an arc of Warp fire and offer cleave, setting enemies alight with each swing (Of course after you activate your special and generate some peril for your trouble)
Perhaps another variant could perform an explosive backslash that sends enemies flying but takes a bit longer to charge up then other special attacks and likewise gives peril.
Maybe another variant where you stab your blade into an enemy and channel warp lightning into them and surrounding enemies before ripping the blade out.
There are so many fun ways to implement warp abilities into the Force Sword Variants, but this sub par sad excuse for a wannabe chainsword… well… its not doing it for me… which is sad because I know how good Force Swords are lorewise, they just dont pack the same punch or offer as much utility as other weapons. Main thing it has going for it and its the one thing I hear from everyone when I ask them whats good about the Force Sword. “You can block bullets with it.” That’s it. Admittedly, its a nice feature of the weapon, but its not good enough to make up for the rather pathetic combat potential it actually offers.
Dueling Sword may not do a lot of damage but its better at dealing with enemies. It simply performs better in more circumstances, whereas Force Sword is very specific single target.
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Force sword variants are much needed, could be that they don’t want the Telekinetic psyker to have more options (we have many force staves instead?) and will add a more melee focused psyker later.
That could be it. I mean the Psyker is basically Sienne from Vermintide 2. So I can imagine them adding in essentially Unchained Sienna as effectively a Psyker Sub-class in the future.
It’s honestly not that bad of a weapon… It doesn’t get the best of cleaves, but it is insanely fast at swinging so, you can rapidly mow down hordes with it.
That and a good Psyker can charge a powered heavy attack, hit an elite while dodging backwards…
I get a lot of Zealots & Vets being like O.O when I side dodge a mutant and hit it with a powered heavy attack and then consequently blow it up. It’s good fun to see.
That being said, it would be nice to have a cleave variant.
Ahhh but that’s why I use the dueling sword, because it can cleave more and control the hordes more. I’ve actually clutched a few games because of the dueling sword that I can confidently say I wouldn’t have if I were using the Force Sword lol.
Though I do agree that special slaps hard. I just like some bit of cleave in any melee weapon I use. Most of the time ya got that accursed horde to deal with lol.
I mean, if I can prevent meleeing a horde I will… I’d much rather blow it up with Voidstrike or Purgatus too be honest.
That’s our current focus really, the melee part is just to give us an option for stragglers or threats that got too close and for that I much prefer being able to kill elites/specials in one hit, than to sit and try to kill them with the duelling sword - there’s nothing worse than meeting a Mauler or armored Rager with duelling swords :P.
I would, still, like a cleave version because - options and not all staffs are particularly well suited for hordes (surge).
I mean obviously I would try to as well, but when your team goes down and you’re last Psyker standing, you’re going to have to pull out that melee weapon to survive the horde.
Also the dueling sword is perfect against a Mauler or Armored Rager as its special ability, the jab, interrupts their attacks. At least it interrupts the rager and it baseline has a longer dodge range making it easier to avoid a mauler’s heavy swing.