I really tired of looking at the 375+ gun modifers popping up in the armory when using a random gun is worthless on a psyker. The staffs are perfect for them and there needs to be something added that gives incentive to using a lasgun or whatever weapon of choice. Shredder was a huge thing for a minute but one gun is not enough to justify an entire armory of weapons that i use on my Zealot and Vet. Same with Melee weapons. I have a beast sabre and force sword so why would i use any other? It feels incredibly pointless to have them in my inventory when i could just give them to my other characters to use. It doesn’t ruin farming because there’s always a better option down the line. Why not experiment with the skill tree that gives guns a creative purpose for psykers? Idk if that would be lore accurate to have a momentary buff that gives guns a quick edge of fire rate or no ammo usage or a momentary damage buff that can be on par with a bolter to a monstrosity or something. Literally anything that can get me to use guns on my psyker would be better than it is now, which is no reason at all.
There’s more than just old shredder, honestly new psyker has so much better toughness regen options if not for hitstuns they would be the best class in the minute (easily Zealot for me but the large oaf is also topping damage). But it is kinda hard to justify bringing when staves are so dumbly strong while also freeing up resources for the group (which is more noticeable without the 3 ammo crates). Staves CC better than an ogryn which is more practical for most players and across a wider skill expression. Gun psyker can do like 20-30% more damage maybe, hogging reserves and with high skill. That’s about as far as I’ll rate it after heretically spending about 2 weeks gun psyking to prove to myself that the loadout is at best fun and not really great outside premades that don’t mind funneling you ammo to do what you could do with a staff for no ammo and better CC.
This problem is twofold.
First, fatshark needs to give us a way to target a selection of weapons from the armory exchange /and Emperor’s Gift. Brunt’s Armory is not a realistic option for many players in its current form. Maybe they could just buff it to always give 360+? The weapon pool is way too big to not have a better way to get a specific weapon.
Second, (balance aside) gun psyker totally needs some help in the ammo department. I haven’t played with every gun to test ammo efficiency, but the few I’ve used have felt hellish if the group was missing Scavenger or had another ammo hungry teammate. It won’t ever feel good to go from infinite ranged potential to having to play conservatively. It feels especially bad when psyker’s gameplay and talent tree is primarily ranged focused.
Perhaps it’s just me though? My pouches do seem to have holes in them at the end of every mission… maybe the heretics are looting my ammo when I’m not looking 
my idea :
when psyker is using a mundane gun rather than a staff, their concentration is freed up, let the psyker toggle a sense brains (and hence, headshot weakspots) as a self-only visible highlight/aura akin to vet’s outline power. groaners and poxwalkers are too far gone to have the brain aura, dogs, mutants and ogryns are too dim to sense. this will still give utility in sensing and countering many human enemies.
i do not recommend making it replace the major activatable powers but as a side option enabled only when wielding regular gun. maybe have it generate peril at whatever rate you deem fit while turned on so its still a tradeoff, but… switching to another weapon or warp blitz in order to quell will get annoying… so maybe have it on its own separate cooldown
Give all non-psyker weapons a little bit of auto-aim.
Give autoguns MORE AMMO lol
Gun Psyker builds with the Infantry Auto Guns and the las pistol are incredibly strong right now. The only issue is ammo economy.
Generating peril on a psyker who’s using a lasgun would be suicide lol
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