Increase damage of Brain Rupture

[zai4z]

The whole purpose of Brain Burst is to dispose of single targets at a distance in one shot, but this stops working in high difficulties, especially havoc 40, where you can’t even 1 shot a normal gunner WITH Empowered Brain Rupture.

My suggestion is to either buff the base damage of brain rupture slightly, or:

Increase the damage of empowered brain rupture to 100% (up from 50%), and completely remove the peril cost reduction that it gives. If this is considered too much then just 75% will help a lot to hit the breakpoints

[harlekein]

It should just always kill in one shot, with exception for bosses and captains. Then increase charge time based on HP.

[aroth68]

Brain rupture has always been stupidly unbalanced because FS refuses to make it scale with difficulty. BR isn’t like Assail ! It can only ever target one thing at a time. And Smite gets much more valuable as crowds get bigger. BR just gets worse and worse as enemy numbers increase, in addition to their HP, which makes one-shots require Empowered Psionics, and even then…

In Auric and above, I’m certain a lot of people just get Kinetic Flayer and then hardly ever use BR at all, because it’s generally a waste of time.

[Durandal94]

Do need to bring out the Scanners head explosion gif? Yes, yes I do.

[JanZamoysky]

It’s the only Blitz which upgrades are better than the actual ability.

[zai4z]

Bump

[ZoroDaOtter]

It just needs “always kill” tags on certain enemies like Ogyrn rock.

[zai4z]

Maybe