I feel like it was in a fine state before but it just keeps getting buffed. First it quells 50% peril (which already intrudes on what Venting Shriek is supposed to do) and now Endurance is base and the result is that it just gives a ludicrous amount of buffs.
The only real downside is that it doesn’t have any instant knockback value or gold toughness, which means you have to rely on system mechanics to defend yourself, but this is less of an issue when you can kill everything REALLY fast. With the Psykinetic’s Aura buff you can essentially have 100% uptime on the buffs.
I feel like it should be nerfed. Removing the peril quell on pop would be a good start.
Hard agree, Sciers Gaze was in a good spot before it quelled 50% peril. Now with endruance being base kit and regenerating 2.5 toughness a second you’re virtually unkillable. Especially so if you take one with the warp.
I certainly wasn’t mad it got quell on use, but I wasn’t struggling without it before hand.
And I’ll take a “free point” in having endurance baked in.
But, yeah, neither felt necessary to make it competitive/usable.
So? Absolute majority will never take it to havoc. It is irrelevant ultimate, gun psyker just won’t be accepted in the most groups inside party finder, because other classes also very strong in melee and good with guns and on top of it, they bring bigger team utility for the team, aside from arbites, all of them can bring bigger utility from their ultimates than gaze psyker or arbites. So people only want bubble, sometimes allow sneeze, because it clears screen way better than gun psykers. The reason they buff it all the time is because it’s just not being picked for high level play, it can’t top bubble, sneeze, shout, book, taunt.
Not because it’s weak though, but because the other most popular alternative - the shield - is much more useful for the group and reduces skill requirements too. SG (before latest buff at least) would need you to be skillful enough to survive range attacks without the shield at your fingertips, on a squishy class. For many it’s too hard.
Pretty accurate, if Smite was redesigned it could also be a much more versatile group support Blitz as an alternative to shield, so Psykers could go Gaze and still provide meaningful contribution in higher difficulties.
Smite would now:
Stagger distant Gunner groups for teammates to close the gap.
Stagger Bosses for teammates to revive downed players
With Empowered Psionics it would:
Debuff initial targets with 40% increased damage from all sources
Stagger Ogryns for the full duration of Electrocution (8s)
With Enfeeble it would:
Debuff enemies with Electrocution status effect, reducing their attack speed hy 25% and increasing weakspot damage they take by 15%
You guys sound like you haven’t played non standard psyker builds since Patch 13. SG, Endurance, One With The Warp has been bread and butter of gun/melee psyker builds since then.
SG dumping peril on use has been a more recent addition, but it hardly makes a difference if you pay attention. If anything you would be doing melee/gun psyker a favour by removing it. You want to ride high peril at all times.
I couldn’t care less about staff playstyles these days, SG psyker has been fun before the recent changes, both in Auric and Havoc. Unlike some other playstyles / classes, it actually requires you look at the screen.
it continually creeps up and still doesn’t match the gameplay arc of staves freely milling entire rooms and recycling ults, literally clearing density faster than it can pile up. but it is fun to have a turbo buffed psyker state outside of said gameplay puddle. it just goes to show how dumb fire staff and the like are that this gets buffed this much next to it and people still use Ol Freebie.