Short Straw Class Poll

[Dumlefudge]

I just went into the Psykhanium, and you need

• 15% peril
• 10% elite damage aura
• Empowered Psionics

to 1-shot ragers.

Perfect Timing (+warp damage on crit) could be subbed in to help offset one of the first two requirements; Malefic Momentum isn’t accessible when you take Brain Burst, so that’s not an option

There is an acknowledge bug where Warp Rider is calculating damage based on Brain Burst’s base damage instead of Brain Rupture’s base damage, which may nudge you over the threshold (or enable taking another aura and the Ranged Damage node without losing the breakpoint)

Brain Rupture Bugged with Warp Rider

Issue Description: Brain Rupture does not receive the full benefit of Warp Rider. At 100% Peril, it only receives a 13% damage increase (1445 damage at 100% Peril w/Warp Rider, 1275 w/o Warp Rider). The only reason I can think that Brain Rupture would be the only thing affected by this (I tested other sources of damage, all 20%) is that it might use the Brain Burst damage base with an additional source of damage (the Brain Rupture damage) that isn’t being boosted by Warp Rider for some reason. …

EDIT: Or go full insanity mode, take Scrier’s Gaze and just spam elites with it. When it expires, quell a bit (Empowered Psionics casts at 100% peril kill you right now, there’s a bug report for it already), and use the extra 10 seconds of +10-30% damage to continue your massacre. Conveniently, if you’re charging Brain Rupture, you can cast Scrier’s Gaze without interrupting the charge.

The Precognition upgrade to Scrier’s Gaze is very nice, since Brain Rupture is always a weakspot kill.