Psyker tooltip and gameplay issues as well as suggestions for the class

[BongoSkaggs]

Honestly, I didn’t expect ‘you shouldn’t be able to rely on your blitz to handle 80-90% of all enemies for entire maps’ would be such a hot take or deserving of such aggro. That’s what assail does right now, what smykers actively try to do, and is also exactly the sort of thing that got brain burst nerfed. Let me just quote Aqshy herself from last year. (Emphasis mine.)

@Aqshy

Psyker Changes & Fixes

From the Combat Team:

You should be able to cast 3 head-pops without exploding, landing at 100% peril. There is a 3s delay to auto-quell below the critical 97% threshold for repeat cast. There is also a 10% change built into class to quell 10% peril on kill, allowing for additional casts. Faster active quelling, in general, with extra speed on staves, allow for more player control of peril levels.

So while we have nerfed the number of head pops players can cast without too much peril, we’ve also tuned up other sources of damage (specifically agony stacks) and staff-manual-vent/quell loop for more varied gameplay. Full head pop builds with vent-rolled staves are still viable,

but the old “multiple head-pop > ult > back to head pop” loop is gone.

I certainly didn’t expect being accused of lying and malevolently scheming to nerf the class. Well, at least not by you @Flawless . I just find current psyker to be really bloody boring due to the lack of build variety and I want to see it increased. Something that extends beyond assail, smyker, warpfire spam, voidstrike, utility shield boy, and laspistol/IAG gunker.