After levelling to 30 and letting the honeymoon phase feelings fade a little, here are my thoughts on them for improvement in no particular order. I had lot of fun with the class, and hopefully these thoughts help improve it somehow. Synergy between nodes and weapons Some of these nodes that you …

[image] junkoito: It discourage using stimm supply or stim dependancy at the same time, as these do not synergize and is hostile to the presence of each other. It does, in fact using middle keystone is better for this ultimate ability. While other two ults can both work together with their de…

I agree with your points here, especially the bonesaw one! I feel like if it got some more innate cleave and faster heavies it would feel better.

I’d like to add one thing (with the caveat that it seems like the talent also isn’t working as it’s supposed to): Return Battering Momentum’s effect to apply to ranged attacks as well. The original description was “Hitting 3 or more Enemies with a single attack grants +50% Cleave for your next atta…

For me, the dodging seems really off, enough so that I wonder if the talents I took to increase it…. are doing the opposite. I play a LOT of psyker. And it seems like I can barely dodge anything as Hive Scum. I’m fighting for every single dodge because if I miss one, even if it’s just a mook, there…

Added in a bit more thoughts to the post.

Played HS for about 15+ hours now. Completed Auric Maelstrom multiple times, and am about to take them into Havoc. Here’s some important takeaways I’ve noticed: Their weapons have very stingy cancelling frames. The needle gun, dual pistols and dual autos all require a full animation cycle before …

[image] palarious: For me, the dodging seems really off, enough so that I wonder if the talents I took to increase it…. are doing the opposite. I play a LOT of psyker. And it seems like I can barely dodge anything as Hive Scum. I’m fighting for every single dodge because if I miss one, even if …

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