I am still over here like… Ok. [image]

[image] alsozara: I’m yet to see this stance justified or explained properly… A faster light attack that is easy to headshot with and takes out any enemies non-elite in 1 attack, infinite dodge, a bit better mobility, warp resistance as a clear dumb stat makes high mobility stat obtainable, better-uncharged heavies against horde that are faster (it is brutally effective even without special), no slowdown on special action… Should I continue? [image] alsozara: Psyker is just a much better melee class period at this point but if you’re just examining the weapons in absence of Psyker’s now frankly overtuned global damage bonuses I’m not convinced what you’re saying holds up at all. We can’t really look at it in a vacuum, both of them are class weapons and should be balanced around the class they are in, but… Even if we revert some of the damage boosts psyker has now, even with the old setup it vastly overperforms post-nerf PS. It was already pretty close with pre-nerf PS (with the damage boost of the psyker I would have preferred it on Vet). In the game, Illisi was already far better in engaging shooter/shotgunner groups in melee due to the 1attack 1 kill without charge and easier engagements and pretty comparable in horde situations. PS was better against elite groups (fighting 3-4 maulers for example), now I have to do some testing if this still holds up or not.

The only thing they changed: Power Cycler now saves you from 2 extra clicks and repeated animations Great balancing, if you want players to suffer from not having one specific blessing.

i think you should read changelog again, there are 4 PS nerfs/bugfixes

Yeah, all in all, now you need to activate it after every swing, or once per 3 swings (with Power Cycler).

its worse, once elite gets hit power is off, its useless against crushers and other elites //edit: unconfirmed speculation from my end, leaving here for context

[image]Patch #7 Munitorum Mk III and Mk IV Power Swords Reduce number of attacks per weapon special activation from 2 to 1. Removed the extra weapon special attacks when using heavy attacks. Power Cycler blessing: Reduce the number of extra attacks per weapon special activation from 3 to 2 Fixed an issue where chaining attacks would sometimes not count toward the number of activations properly. Summary: Powerswords get 1 activation default, total of 3 if running Power Cycler. (Down from 2 default and 5 with blessing) Did you find out about it in-game? Because I can’t see such a thing in the logs.

indeed, its not up there, i am not sure now where i saw it (there are few threads here and on reddit, i must have seen it somehwere or i am losing my mind :p) anyone with power cyclee could test? (i was not blessed with one yet)

This is the second one I bought out of Brunt’s the day it was released. I have been EXTREEEEMELY lucky on my Vet with weapons. My Antax could be better with only a 366 base, but it kills well enough. I cannot seem to land a good Agripinaa Shotgun either, but I got one with 80s and above 75s on all but mobility and ammo… So I am kina like… do those reaaaallllly matter? My other toons have been less fortunate. My vet cannot seem to fail. She must be slipping Brunt and Hadron the contraband or something. Even Melk has a nice treat now and then. headtaker 4 in there for me right now. Need to finish my contracts before 8pm.

[image] castkeyboard: Your medal will arrive in 3-5 business days. Didn’t you toss a fit and quit? Either way, the sword is the medal. Sorry not sorry with all the ‘this game is beneath my skills’ posts, I decided to have a bit of a humble-brag. Kick stones. <3

It just won’t go into my head why they thought further nerfing the base number of powered swings was the issue and not power cycler. The lights even with power ain’t worth it and going out of your way for one charged up heavy is also really abyssmal.

So they nerfed Power swords.

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Did you find out about it in-game? Because I can’t see such a thing in the logs.

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So they nerfed Power swords.

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