Then for the psyker, apart from force weapons for melee, their ranged will probably just be different staves that have different attack patterns. My big hope for this is that all the psychic disciplines are represented: Biomancy, Divination, Pyromancy, Telekinesis, Telepathy, and Sanctic and Malefic Daemonology. That’d be much more interesting to me than everything just being generic blue energy attacks.
Each discipline has a variety of direct attacks and team buffs as well as enemy de-buffs.
-Biomancy uses biomantic lightning, life leeching (lol, we can be the leeches now!), and haemorrhaging as well as healing or invigorating allies.
-Divination is mostly just buffs and debuffs, but really good ones, so something like auto-crits or the Potion of Prophetic Strike would work.
-Pyromancy is what it sounds like: Sienna in space. Fire attacks, burning, fire shields, and more burning.
-Telekinesis uses a lot of smashes and crushing (probably like the head-pop we’ve already seen) and shields as well as teleportation to cause havoc.
-Telepathy uses direct mind attacks but can also link together and buff the team if they stay close.
-Sanctic Daemonology is the most difficult discipline to master as those who try are too often lured into the closely-related but opposing discipline. It uses direct attacks of pure warp fire (rather than the tainted variety) which is especially effective against daemons but is just as effective against their corrupted mortal followers. The sanctified warp essence can also be channeled into allies for massive buffs.
-Malefic Daemonology is the dark version of that. Far easier to learn but still difficult to master, at least with your soul intact due to the risks involved. Most powers involve summoning daemonic servants and binding them to your will or inflicting direct damage with corrupted warpfire. Buffs in this discipline only affect daemons and psykers (both ‘friend’ or otherwise) and, fortunately, cannot be used on your mundane, Emperor-fearing allies.
So I think we’ve already seen a little variety across these disciplines. Most abilities seen in the footage would likely fall under Telekinesis but some might be Biomantic lightning as well. Hopefully, they don’t avoid pyromancy out of a desire to not overlap with Sienna, that would cut out a lot of potential. The cool thing is that unlike the separate Winds of the Old World, humans have no restrictions on learning multiple schools in 40k. I think that any of them could be overlapped except for the 2 opposing schools of Daemonology. Those two are the only ones that are mutually exclusive by the lore.