darktide: everything you could ever want to know about psyker from a meta perspective

[@Sudo512]

No, I will not shave my arms.

[@TannerLindberg]

Wtf?

[@John_Astartes]

Respectable. They got their priorities right.

[@jacobvriesema6633]

Damn dude, thanks for supporting my content!

[@J.B.1982]

It’s the Saudi’s. Don’t fall for it.

[@carlotheemo]

So true

[@clevergoblin1714]

Oh god we're one step closer to the two minute Ogryn meta video

[@nicolasvillasecaali7662]

There is hope that we get a second one once Fatshark realises that Ogryns are good enough boys and buff them with extra rations.

[@MrsAikahime]

Tanner just needs to put out an hour long video that starts with the talent tree screen open, he just goes "I don't fuckin know" and the rest of the video is silence

[@clevergoblin1714]

@@MrsAikahime Or he just says "Just go all the way left of the tree for the heavy hitter shit and get all the perks along the top row. That's it." Then cuts to silence for an hour. I don't know the Ogryn meta but looking at his tree it's obvious the left side is the only real choice

[@MrsAikahime]

@@clevergoblin1714 "But bro if you pick the lightest heavy stubber and invest all your points into just using your gun only then your gun performance will be slightly stronger than normal and that's SUPER worth it!" At least Ogryn finally has a precision weapon I suppose

[@Kati_Gory]

Ogyrn buff where his new ability is literally ration’s that buff max hp or total toughness by like 20%. Replaces rocks limited to maybe 3 only. Pls fatshark give ogyrn anything

[@bluelense7]

As an ogryn main, I appreciate everyone advocating for the class getting buffed :]

[@АлександрКуприн-ъ8ш]

It will be nerfed again.

[@MrsAikahime]

Messed up how the "squishiest" class has the best toughness regen, while the big powerful brute essentially has the worst

[@MenwithHill]

Ogryn's issue is that he has insane lows and middling highs. When he's wading through chaff spamming heavy attacks he does feels amazing but the moment he can't proc all of his melee related toughness regen he gets picked off and dies.

[@Bzuhl]

Nope, the knife hit harder than the power hammer so it's generally consistent.

[@Nat-ri3ip]

It's not that weird when you consider Psyker still has much less effective toughness, so higher percentages go a much shorter mile. 0gryn has 50 base thoughness, 20% damage reduction, 20% toughness damage reduction (I'll abreviate that TDR), generaly take 65 toughness from nodes and two 10% TDR nodes. That's before any important passive, just the stat nodes. Assuming all reduction stack multiplicatively, that's an effective 52% damage taken, so around 1,92 effective toughness per points and 115 points for a total of 221 toughness. Lets say we get 2 thoughness curios and 3 toughness blessings from them, bringing us up to 329 effective toughness. Psyker, on the other hand, has 75 base toughness. Let's say they take 3 15 toughness nodes and 2 5% TDR nodes. That bring them at a 133 effective toughness, 198 with curios. Ogryn hit an heavy swing. He regain 20% toughness from the best defense or smash them, let's say 8% from a blessing, 5% per kil and 5% more from unstoppable. Let's say too stubborn to die isn't active. That's 92 effective toughness + 33 per kill. Psyker hit 5 enemies on a crit cleave with a force sword, vent 10 perils passively and all that is warp damage. That's 25% from mettle, 5% from quietude 7,5% on a kill from soulstealer, 5% from souldrinker and 5% from base. Effectively 59 + 35 per kill. Ogryn is the second most tanky class after vet when counting only the ammount of damage it can soak up. No other class can tank a sniper round with no health damage, for example. The problem is that it also has effectively 4 times the hitbox, terrible dodges and the only two things the class does force it to be out in the open so it's not enough.

[@Straddock]

@@Bzuhl what are you saying "nope" to, here?

[@J-Rush]

@@Straddockhe’s probably on drugs I’d just ignore him and let him keep arguing with the vase in the living room

[@sydious_s_snake]

I have been politely encouraged to comment and engage with this video to avoid being executed. Thank you.

[@DramaLlama652]

Don't comment often on things but this was a much needed video and appreciate the time you spent going over all this stuff

[@mcjagergaming]

Minor complaint about "Venting Shriek" because it, and the soul blaze is causes go's through walls It can trigger Deamonhost's. Just a friendly warning for those who might have not know that. Ask me how I know lol.

[@LeFisheboi]

45:39 so for souldrinker, ngl the entire time i thought you were gassing it up for no reason because you had shown that soulblaze was ehhh, but realizing its killing an enemy afflicted by soulblaze and not killing them with soulblaze is a game changer. They really need to fix the wording on some skills

[@agedgouda8809]

Same. “Killing an enemy that is afflicted with soul blaze” would be much clearer. I thought the skill was trash for the same reason as you.

[@nonameguy96]

OH GOD I CANT KEEP TANNERING MY LINDBERG FOR MUCH LONGER

[@Lily_da_Trans]

how can you be so informative and say "silly billy" This is adorable and I will not stop watching

[@TannerLindberg]

Hey thabk you

[@level12lobster8]

Smite is a utility cc. You are bad if you just hold it until your peril maxes out. 2 seconds max is all you need to chain it to max targets. This lets you disengage from a bad situation or aggressively push gunners/shotgunners. It completely knocks down normal enemies after you release it. It lets you "filter" horde out from elites. Makes getting a revive off during horde pretty easy. Also use it to slow a crusher/mauler/rager enemy train to help a teammate out. Tap fire is how you use it. Pretend you can't hold smite for more then 2-4 seconds with out exploding and you can actually make great use out of it. Shut down gunners, quickly knock a horde down, stop you are teammate from trying to dodge 5+ crusher/mauler overheads or just kite out ragers.

[@mind_goblin69]

The problem with smite is that in this use case presented the benefits listed are not exclusively in the realm of smite. To any newer players reading comments like these I would caution you to take into consideration opportunity cost. I would argue that it is a poor pick to bring/use in general (with one exception I will list at the end), not just when used incorrectly when you "hold it until your perils maxes out". In this situation where you want to leverage smite's cc/utility to counter a pressure spike, allow me to present two alternatives to illustrate smite's poor value in the grand scheme. Case 1: you opt to use within this time window Purge/Inferno staff instead with a focus on cc/utility to deal with a bad situation. The flame staff has insane stagger already and is more than capable of interrupting AND killing all the man sized targets(E.G. ragers) around your in danger/downed ally in the time smite would need to spread. Inferno's sustained flame does stagger ragers but if you want to use the left click puffs instead those have some of the highest stagger in the game at the cost of some dps (still more than smite when you factor in soulblaze stacks). You can also disengage with the stagger puff of the inferno more effectively than smite because it does not impose a movement speed reduction. It has 16m of range, smite has a range of 15m (required to start chaining, the chain could touch out further but one unit in question must be within 15m to start). Any distance where you could reasonably push a mass of gunners or shotgunners with smite you could easily just spam 2-3 left clicks (to get said enemies into a maximum suppression state) and just burn them to death with sustained flames. In a shorter span of time, this permanently solves the current problem of ranged pressure instead of delaying it with smite. You are also more mobile doing this than being locked in place with smite. Case 2: you opt to use Trauma/Voidblast instead with a focus on cc/utility to deal with a bad situation. With a base cast time of 1.3s per voidblast and .97 seconds with fully ramped up warp flurry blessing, a fully charged Voidblast is capable of interrupting and knocking down all crushers in the middle of their one shot overhead animation inside of its AoE. Ergo, it is also capable of interrupting any lesser elites around an ally that needs help. While you are CC'ing a pack of elites pressuring your allies you are also one shotting all of the horde inside of your AoE cast. If you have a downed ally or one in massive danger, you can just redirect your voidblasts from your current purpose to the threats to your ally trivializing the danger while still doing damage. You can place the Aoe's center roughly 20m~ away from your character and can easily 2-shot any mansized elite short of the armored ragers(3 shot). In the case where you opt to push gunners or shotgunners you can actually do it from further away with voidblast while killing them in the time it takes to chain as claimed above (the claim is roughly 2 seconds, 2 voidblasts is roughly 2 seconds) Using smite means you aren't using one of Psykers other drastically more powerful tools that ALSO do significantly more dps. Smite takes you out of the fight for X amount of seconds to do something your vastly superior damage tools CAN ALREADY DO. It is a noob trap as tanner listed because of OPPORTUNITY COST. does it do the things listed above?Yes but it is not worth using smite in the way listed when you can instead leverage your other tools in the same time-frame and get more done for your team. At best you can argue its use in a scriers gaze build as a pocket CC option for revive assists to be used rarely and sparingly for the reasons tanner lists in his video. But if your goal was to be a cc/utility anchor for your team you would not be playing scriers/smite to begin with. Scriers gaze builds are more of a straight up melee/gun offensive build and should be leveraged as such. AVOID SMITE AT ALMOST ALL COSTS!

[@yargolocus4853]

Yeah the knockdown is very nice (doing so also increases cleave). Nobody here mentioned that the shove knockdown goes to the direction you are facing when you release. so you can remote shove poxbursters, or force choke pull into a sick melee kill from mid air

[@level12lobster8]

@@mind_goblin69 Because every player only wants to be a meta slave and use nothing but inferno/voidblast staff or recon lasgun with duelist sword.

[@mind_goblin69]

@@level12lobster8 sure but you're making an argument/statement for it on a video about high level play/meta. people click on videos like this for high level play type information. this isn't a video on whats the most fun. in terms of subjective fun im sure smite is great, but objectively it's shit.

[@Idontknowwhat2type]

@@mind_goblin69I used the void blast with smite. I tap if team is getting overwhelmed or hold for revives. When I’m in a solo situation against gunners and crushers smite lets me stagger the chaff and focus range or crushers. While purge could do the same for close enemies smite lets me have superior range damage with ball shots. 60-70% of my game is focusing threats before they get to the team. Smite allows to tap and forget bursters before they are in range faster than any other option in Psyker. Smite is a realistically a fine tune ability. It allows you to control for random elements that aren’t handled correctly. If everyone plays amazingly flawless it won’t get much team value. I view it as a team meta management ability as as opposed to a hoard one. Hoards don’t decide how you use it usually it’s how you team handles hoards that decides it. It makes tough spots easier when you know when to use it. You could argue if you play more dps you could do the same but it also requires more risk. Smite is the safer option when you choose the right time. It’s a preference. I also run glass cannon Psyker builds when I’m confident my team has survivability

[@MagosMirin]

Tanner the second monitor has never been happier.

[@averysmartrock8218]

20:16 they've actually updated it recently, couldn't tell you when but kinetic flayer is listed as a 'very weak talent' now, perhaps worth looking over it again?

[@Miriosu]

Just made a Psyker after the havoc grind and this is the perfect video to put on while farming materials. Thanks for all the tips!

[@cowboybeepboopbop6312]

the ogryn video grows closer by the day, you can't escape it forever tanner

[@CT--fp4se]

Dude you had a good point about fatshark describing what abilities do,have the reason I watch your build stuff is because of the explanations on stuff beats fatsharks descriptions by a mile

[@pendragon7294]

you take kinetic flayer to do damage, i take it to hear the brain burst sound effect. we are not the same. /s

[@channingtaintum]

I remember when FartShart removed the “pop” sound effect and the community went ballistic, demanding that the dopamine-sound be added back in.

[@J.B.1982]

This

[@simoncorn1151]

The fact that fatshark essentially pretend that tanner doesn't exist is wild to me. You literally make the most useful comprehensive guides ever and make the community better, and I'm not even talking about the fact that the game is unstable af and you're still pulling people like me in to play it

[@FireOfSinaii]

Nice to see someone point out psyker is the best class in the game, everyone blindly thinks zealot, zealot isn't even close with current meta Purg staff.

[@manyrandomnumbers]

Gunners aren't dangerous if you know how to dodge, slide, stagger, use cover, and combine all those tools to avoid damage (when you aren't just flat-out killing them). Most players are either unaware or ineffective at using passive defensive skills to avoid ranged damage. Gunners are dangerous to most players. Just a point of clarification.

[@KageRyuu6]

I think Skill Floor/Ceiling is a more useful metric than simply ranking. As such Psyker has a Mid Floor and a High Ceiling, meaning, if you can get it to work it'll work okay while the best can do so well, but if you can't it'll suck to be you. Comparatively both Veteran and Zealot have Low Floor's and High Ceilings, meaning anyone can play them effectively and the best can do so well. But poor poor Ogryn has a Low Floor and a Mid Ceiling, meaning anyone can play them effectively but there's only so much they can do as them, mostly because of their size and pathetic mobility.

[@MisterEtide]

BBC fent reactor

[@prawn1545]

Nice cameo 1:37:11

[@mrcowman1092]

KZbin immediately asking if I want to convert this comment to English is proof we are still top of the food chain.

[@bcatgamering]

Been going through your older vids since I found your channel recently as I started to want to get into Havok. I wanted to say mad props for taking a lot of the advice from the comments- your videos have gotten so much better since all those months ago. You've always had the best info to share, and now the way you share it is also extremely palatable to people who before wouldn't be willing to put in some of the extra effort to digest it. Good shit dude, and please keep sharing your passionate and informed takes on a beloved game.

[@henriverbrugghen8715]

Love your guides for Psyker! Helps me understand a lot more!!!

[@rocketsocks3116]

Ok now im starting to think he says "empa-thatic invasion" just to trigger us. "Marty-dom" i thought maybe. but now hes adding a whole ass extra syllable to empathic?

[@LeFisheboi]

My one good use case for smite i have. I find it convenient to use to stop the game for a sec so my teammates can revive or pick at a gunner/sniper/bomber they couldnt focus on before. But at higher levels of play i dont know if that'd work, and I could also just use burst to take the gunner/sniper myself.

[@yargolocus4853]

Support still matters for sure. You're paying damage (from the entire team) to get breathing room. This can save you if you're being overpowered, or it can doom you if the endless enemies overpower your clear speed

[@TheLoki7281]

as a, currently at least, vet main, the bubblebutt smiker is my favorite psyker and team mate. nothing comes close to it except perhaps for other shouty veterans. they do pretty much the same dmg as every other psyker, they take exceptionall care of the chaff and let me fokus on killing the priority targets. from a team play perspektive... why would i ever choose an assail or gunpsyker over a smite psyker?

[@dirtwizard432hz]

Thank you for explaining Smite so accurately. Its use has positives and negatives, but it's mostly just nerfing your team if used poorly. I always joke with my friends that a smyker adds 10-15 minutes to every mission. I think Smite needs to be reworked so that it has a cooldown, you charge it up and dump it on high threat groups to stun/knock them on their asses. It should be a reactionary tool like vet's shout, and not a channeled ability that makes you go full retard.

[@thegreatazal5021]

I prefer waffles myself Calling smite a “Crab Bucket” ability is extremely funny because being kinda new I almost fell for it till I actually brought it to the Psykanium and realized there was actually no way to make it or charged strike work

[@fosterbennington6405]

I took it because I wanted at least one themed build for each end of the tree/cool weapon. Found myself almost never using it except maybe on the massive packs of hounds

[@henrikandreason7261]

I think its good on big packs of ragers too, all though then you go for a 2 second stun so they get knocked down on the floor and you can join the killing But sure, it still takes away damage through blessings that zealots and vets and/or other psykers use.

[@thegreatazal5021]

@@henrikandreason7261 yeah against a pack of ragers I’d rather just kill them all with a scriers las build or stun AND soul blaze them with venting shriek. Actually assail is great for ragers and can kill them in as little as 2 hits

[@wobin_dwonderdog]

Empowered Psionics is best used for the Double Wall Shield/Brain Rupture/Kinetic Resonance chainpop build, which I feel is very iconic for Psyker.

[@bcatgamering]

Unlucky for Some could refill toughness, stamina, AND grant 50 golden toughness to all allies anywhere and I still wouldn't consider actually taking it.

[@shanehunt3019]

*clears throat in Sir David Attenborough* In our journey across the hunting grounds of Selachimorpha Rotundus, we've seen a predication of ogryn predation. Whether this be favoritism towards other species, or a lack of understanding towards homo sapiens gigantus, possibly even hostile to their very existence, the mechanism for this curious behavior is unknown. Conservation efforts are underway, but unfortunately in this ecosystem, Selachimorpha Rotundus reigns supreme.

[@ExRosaPassione]

I think Mind in Motion is a trap node, because your ms isn’t reduced while quelling with a staff . So it only affects quelling from Blitz and Force swords, which you can just use by crack of bone for since it’s so close.

[@JorgeCruz-mi5gc]

"Let's look at a completed build" Meanwhile scrolls down too quickly.

[@spookini5521]

Very helpful since I'm trying to learn psyker as of recent, always appreciate your passion for this stuff

[@Zino145]

Another thing to make kinetic flayer worse is that it can happen on force sword push attack, and poxbursters are very easily push attacked to safety. Nice design fatshark.

[@OrAngelicBlitz8633]

1:42:00 Tanner: "breaks the game" Game: *breaks

[@averysmartrock8218]

1:23:09 quick question, i'm fairly certain melee weakspot hits *do* count toward true aim, when used with something like the bolt pistol and only using it to take out a distant gunner or something, turns that shot into a guaranteed crit which might reach new breakpoints, right? assuming it does, the biggest benefit to this would be the consistency because although psyker does have high crit change through talents and stuff, it's never gonna be guaranteed

[@IdaKicker]

I really like the addition of reading the nodes. I'm not looking at my screen most of the time when i'm listening.

[@drkatz1192]

Thanks Tanner! Been waiting for this for quite a while 😊

[@drkatz1192]

Loved listening to you talk about Smite. Preach my friend! Hate that ability so much, both using it, and having it on my team.

[@illoney5663]

One thing to note on Mettle with Purgatus specifically is that the toughness regen will not trigger on crits after the first one that hits an enemy when you're continuously flaming them. Though if you move the flame away from that enemy and back, getting a crit when doing so, it will trigger, which makes this a moot point in a lot of horde scenarios, but it is worth noting and does make it slightly worse with the Purg specifically (still crazy good though...). Edit: 59:59 From my testing, that doesn't seem to be how it works? Far as I can tell, you need at least 75% peril when using VS to gain the full six stacks.

[@nines7357]

Breakfast analogy was the best part of the video tbh

[@bearjew212]

Tanner what if Warp rupture changed to 250-500 direct "Knock down" Damage? Or Warp Pinning aka temp CC pinning them to the ground?

[@ZappBranniglenn]

Waves of Mutants eventually break through the Wall because it has a health value like the bubble does and each bonk is dealing damage to it. It typically takes the entire wave for it to happen, but you got to be ready for it to pop. It's not a bug. It was also really good for the beast of nurgle event two months ago, since you stand in front of him to bait the vomit and the wall absorbs it. I also like directional wall in conjunction with brain burst and Kinetic Resonance. Having two uses of it means better bursting down of bosses and gang of elites. But I don't think that's a compelling enough reason to give up Venting Shriek in most builds.

[@level12lobster8]

Enfeeble pairs with the charged strike. It stacks multiplicatively with damage taken debuffs (from all class effects), damage increases, and power level increases (+strength blessings). So any heavy attack weapon will have your damage debuffs, damage increases, and power level buffs from blessings multiplied by 10% on top of +10% damage. Niche but not super bad and it should be increased to 20% or 25%. Try this with your inferno staff psyker and an enfeeble smite psyker. Watch the soulblaze dots get double dipping +10% from buffs/debuffs scaling and +10% damage output. Doesn't need to charge smite until after you start burning and only needs to smite for about 3-4 seconds to have it fully chain. Linger for 2 seconds and everything will already be dead.

[@babayagagaming123]

i'm a veteran nerd myself, but i appreciate these for other classes from you, variety is the spice of life and sometimes i wanna use psychic fire, good stuff as always amigo !

[@LocalInnocentHereticJoe]

Kinetic Deflection is pretty much only good if you want 3 toughness curios instead of 2 and a stamina. I take it cause I like blocking and that makes me able to just tank hosts if I go full in on block efficiency and peril gen reduction plus a vent so my team can safely take it while I just agro and tank. My boss damage is already horrible so I might as well just take agro since that's better than nothing. I'll still take it regardless if I'm doing that tanking stuff or not purely cause I like to know that I can still block regardless of my current stamina situation or if I'm going full London mode with the Mk6 knife on something.

[@Aalienik]

About Kinetic Flayer. If you just look at the numbers without context it seems like it might not be bad. A brain rupture does 1350 damage. Lets say an average run takes 25 minutes. In a theoretical run where you constantly fight specials, elites and monsters, you could in theory proc Kinetic Flayer four times every minute, which add up to 100 ruptures. In practice, you'll never proc it that often of course since there's some downtime even on the hardest difficulties and you need to hit a 10% chance once each cooldown is up. But lets say we cut the theoretical max down to half. That's 50 procs a 1350 damage ie 67,5k extra damage. Not too bad for a single node. Of course, this damage goes down more still, since sometimes kinetic flayer will proc on enemies low on health, and I suspect even a practical proc-rate of 50% might be optimistic.

[@tommytsunamy7319]

THANKS TANNER. After watching the soldier breakdown i was waiting for the updated psyker tree

[@robertmartinez601]

one thing to say about smite is that you can let the lightning spread a bit then quickly let go and have it knock over everyone it was hitting. not amazing, has helped me at times when my team flounders though :)

[@someguy8443]

I really wish the other classes had the nuance and potential of Psyker

[@drizzletegu]

Creeping Flames needs over 83% to apply all 6 stacks, not 60% which is only 5 stacks I think. Still much much better than rupture though considering all the other benefits soulblaze gives beyond damage that's already more than plain 200 Warp Unbound is good on voidstrike and especially surge staff psyker to have 10 seconds of not having a mandatory quell tax after every attack regardless of being at full toughness, it's like a second warp flurry blessing for attacking more often. Scrier's base bonuses already turn off at 100% and gives you a 10 second lingering buff off the extra damage you gained, warp unbound just makes you unable to explode during those 10 seconds which means less forced quelling downtime True Aim was godlike on voidstrike before it got nerfed to only gain a stack per attack and not per enemy hit. Now it's mediocre

[@helioselexandros]

Ive been playing this build since i staryed in oct. I didnt understand much of the inner workings until this video. Great job bro i appreciate the work

[@YizzTheEunuch]

1:14:30 My 2 cents on Kinetic Deflection is this: I enjoy using it for a blocking security blanket since I run Purgatus/Shriek soulblaze, and if I'm in a situation where I need block a lot (monstro/boss, tons of ragers in a bad situation, etc) I like being able to throw up a block and ramp up to high peril quickly for a max soulblaze Shriek so I can stagger + DoT whatever the problem happens to be. I agree with you Kinetic Deflection isn't great, but I enjoy using it and I used to take it all the time. Now that I'm better at the game I find myself taking something else in its place (currently I take Kinetic Resonance instead for Brain Rupture spam in key situations like you laid out early in the video).

[@Space-O-2001]

Thanks for the hard work doing this monster, ignore the vocal minority, most of us value your passion. Just focus on sharing your knowledge and let the lack of experience of others dig their own graves. Also stop taking random comments to heart, it's the double edge sword of being on the internet.

[@restoreleader]

Im not sure about that smite - its value is elsewhere. Its CC, it can completely freeze one front while the rest of the team is resolving situation on the other side. Even if it will help slow critical situations only sometimes (intelligently used), its probably much more value than brainburst will ever provide by those few random kills. Obviously, general population will use it all the time, every time so your arguments are valid - yet experienced player can use it in a better way as an additional tool, not as main entertainment

[@K0YK]

I usually pick smite when I'm not with the flame staff because one thing only: poxbusters. Smiting and releasing a poxbusters kills it without it needing to get close, so sometimes when the team is hard pressed with 2 bosses and specials and mixed hordes with shotgunners and all sort of crap you just don't have time to wait and push those poxbusters. Charging a smite for just 2-3 seconds to kill 1-2 poxbusters that could have wiped the team is invaluable to me. another time that I might use it is to help get a revive done to reset the situation. If the game goes well I might end up smiting only once or twice per game, but its always worth it. Brainburst has no use to me when not on flame staff because I can quell cancel left clicks on all my other staves to get snipers and gunners way faster than brainburst can.

[@jungleboot9392]

Trauma staff with Blazing Spirit is literally unlimited Veteran's Shredder Frag Grenade. They both stagger horde, knock down crushers, apply DoT (but Trauma has cap of 6 stacks) nice balance Fatfish

[@jungleboot9392]

Perilous Combustion stacks up to 31 times, like Ogryns fire ult. So you apply 16 staks with staff + 6 with ult and then elites die and push staks further

[@reillymcentee2168]

Pancakes are still really damn good

[@illoney5663]

I would actually say the Force Swords (specifically the Deimos) are best built with Riposte (because Psyker gets so much from crits) + Uncanny (because the charge hit will let you instantly build four stacks) and Warp Resistance dump stat as a means to very quickly build to high peril.

[@wesleyeberly228]

Whilst I absolutely agree with you when playing at high levels, smite is good when you’re stuck in lower difficulties with players that don’t run dodge based blessings, who also have a hard time dealing with both hordes and specials alike. Mostly related to the fact I play on console which results in more bugs.

[@GrimUndead94]

Once had a strange metaslave creature in a game that was yapping about how vets without ammo aura are trash while smiting bosses and telling me "It's for more damage and that's what a guide says. Go read."

[@rodonunez_]

Enemies do not bug with the shield when they pass through. The ability only stop them once. If you place 3 shields, you will stop every special 3 times unless one of the shields fall. I think the frontal shield is not th3 best, but it's fun with waves of poxbusters, mutants or dogs. Absolutly not necessary, but fun.

[@F3rum]

I got the "enhanced descriptions" mod, because Fatshark is incapable to write down what skills actually do.

[@whatisgoingoninmiami]

I've been looking forward to this video.

[@khalilb9864]

Same I’ve been having to rewatch the video of him shitting on Mr E’s psyker breakdown

[@whatisgoingoninmiami]

@@khalilb9864 they just need to kiss. lol. it'll be fine

[@atyerfly]

Not only your explanation deserved a like, but when you hit skibidi bullshit at 1:38:30 you just left me no choice not to give it to you. Great work, dude

[@RedShocktrooperRST]

I know it used to be the case that Smite's modifiers also applied to the lightning staff, meaning that a Shock staff with Assail and Empowered Psionics was absurd. I take it this got patched at some point and I wasn't playing Darktide during that time.

[@DaivdBaekr]

I've used bubble and smite 99% of my time in pugs (former to nullify shooters and encourage puggers to move up and latter as a break-glass thing if we're about to wipe) but you're right about both

[@Nat-ri3ip]

The enfeeble buff you propose would make charged strike actually useful.

[@aeyasera]

kinetic flayer should be changed to always proc the first time you hit a target you marked i feel like that would make it actually reliably useful

[@DarkerSavant]

Warp unbound allows me to kill elites with surge or trauma and get back warp siphon charges to rinse and repeat. I've gone on 2 minute killing benders with it. It isn't just voidstrike builds.

[@BlackOctoberFox]

I have played very little Psyker, I watched this to learn more about it. I am so glad that my feelings on Smite are vindicated because every time I have a Psyker on my team with Smite, I am wishing they would just pull out their sword and staff and actually kill things.

[@Hakkene]

if ur feeling regret over putting warp expenditure in gunpsyker just change it in linked lantern under that vid

[@nuggs4snuggs516]

I have tried the heavy attack smite node, but you have to sink two points into it because you also need the "electrocuted enemies take bonus damage" to make it do anything. I found out in like... One or two games this was shit, though, because either you one-shot the enemy, would've two-shotted it anyways, or there are better ways of killing an enemy faster with blessings that save you two skill points

[@prich0382]

Blazing Spirit only gives 4 Stacks of Soul Blaze on Crit and max Stacks of 6, So Venting Shriek boosts it to a max of 12 unless you get your ult back so quick to vent again

[@J-Rush]

It’s funny, psyker was one of the last classes I leveled up and I didn’t think I would like him very much. But he ended up being my favorite class and now I only ever wanna play psyker

[@level12lobster8]

Since you go over talents a lot, "Enhanced Descriptions" mod would be handy. It has little explanations on the way things actually work, what it actually interacts with, and red text note if the talent or blessing is currently bugged. Example: On "Psykinetic's Aura" it states how much time the 5% ability cooldown time provides for each class ability. 1.2s for gaze, 1.5s for vent and 2s for shield.

[@YizzTheEunuch]

Solid video again Tanner! Keep up the good work 🤍

[@gaborsafi]

I agree on kinetic flayer's cooldown is too long, but it's still fun. It's like having an unexpected small gift now and then. Of course, in Auric fun in itself will not save your ass. So yeah, it's probably better to spend a skill point on something else.

[@PotatoIsMe6660]

"Zealot is like pancakes. He's impossible to fuck up." I don't think I've ever made pancakes correctly...

[@level12lobster8]

One note about the Kinetic Flayer. There is one time I can say it is decent. With empowered psionics, while you are currently holding at least 1 stack. The +50% damage actually applies to the free brain burst procs. 1859 on crushers, half hp, and 2300 on everything else. Half of any ogryn enemy hp or it is just dead. Every 15 secs a free elite/special kill isn't that bad.

[@Redditor6079]

Exactly, with my Hand Cannon, Carapace and Surgical Zarona, it allows Crusher 1 taps to the head. Flayer pretty much works when the cookdown is done. It's pretty consistent extra damage against Elites/Specs.

[@sleepysounds90]

Decent as a little extra for boss dmg too

[@АлександрКуприн-ъ8ш]

I maybe mistaken, but it procs on multiple enemies every 15 sec, if there's 20 crushers, you burn them, 10% procs and brain burst hits most of them, i had moments where i deleted instantly big hordes of specialist and crushers.

[@K0YK]

"every 15 seconds a free elite isn't bad", now try playing havoc 30-35-40 and tell me if an elite every 15 seconds is good when you get zerged by 30-40 elites at the same time

[@level12lobster8]

@@АлександрКуприн-ъ8ш just one enemy, regardless of how many you are hitting at the same time.

[@bael5397]

I've only found one build where Empryic Resolve is Voidstrike-Scriers Gaze because you can often keep Scriers Gaze up for multiple minutes in combat, which is great for damage. With that said, if you're not good at dodging it'll absolutely fuck you because the node in itself makes you a glass cannon.

[@randomguyblank1616]

here's my two cents of kinetic flayer. If they just remove the cooldown it'll be fairly balanced, I say this because haymaker is a blessing in the game with effectively double the proc chance and no cooldown (and noone even chooses that blessing anyways).

[@draccondracul2082]

It would melt a boss in seconds with the inferno staff...

[@level12lobster8]

Should try using the creature spawner trials to show off some stuff. Despawn the default enemies for an respawning preset enemy comp. Has well over 20 different trials to chose from a drop down in mod options or keybind to cycle through. It has presets such as 60 pox walkers, ranged pressure: easy/normal/hard/insane or melee challenge: Insane (auric maelstrom mixed horde) and such.

[@heftyjo2893]

The inability of players to not listen for disablers is just mind boggling. It's to gotten where I hear the audio queue for the disabler and I first locate the threat and I position myself to have room to evade or counterattack. And then I actually start looking at the positioning\disposition of my teammates to preplan how to get them back up. Specifically, I look at the player who is just in headless chicken, mash the LMB button mode, and has no wherewithal that a disabler is on the field. I mean it's one thing when I see you've just turned level 30 and still learning the flow. But I see just way too many +500 players who just seems to outright purposely ignore disablers as if they don't matter. I see way too many instances of players evading a net and they have all the time and space in the world to just pull out a gun or whatever and just quickly eliminate the trapper. But nope, they just turn around and run off to go stab something else or go looting crates. Meanwhile, the trapper is just traipsing across the arena to go reload and come back. And then of course they get trapped later on and are in the chat begging for someone to save them. There's that old say, "When you sweeping the floor, mind the corners.". The reasoning being that if you don't sweep the corners when it's a small mess, it's just gonna grow into a bigger mess.

[@westisnt]

By Crack of Bone is great with psykinetic wrath for keeping it going in a melee psyker build

[@Dalpha101]

35:51 louder for the people in the back. Had an entire argument with a dude who couldn't understand how bad it is when watching my screen showing him how bad it is

[@wobin_dwonderdog]

True aim could so easily be fixed by just becoming 'next non-crit will be a crit'

[@foowii4421]

The only time i would consider taking Kinetic Flayer is maybe against the Karnac Twins.

[@dragonproductions236]

If charged strike applied the smite stun (because that's what the description sounds like) it would actually make it ok.

[@RedShocktrooperRST]

By Crack of Bone is really good with Scier's Gaze because I insist on trying to out-melee the team zealot. I succeed startlingly often. The Emperor gave me a greatsword and damn it I"m gonna use it. On the Shield: I've always thought that the wall should impart a damage bonus to all your side's attacks going through it. Maybe that's the fact that I used to run the shield in Titanfall 2's tower defense mode though.

[@nicolasvillasecaali7662]

Really nice that im now walking my way into making a psyker so this is nice to have, thanks!

[@drkatz1192]

Seems like most Darktide content creators keep mispronouncing this, but it’s EM-PATH-IC Evasion. Not empathetic evasion. Lol.

[@gordonfogwill4885]

Just wanted to make a small correction to Creeping Flames: The stacks of 1-6 are split evenly across 100% peril, meaning that 0-16% is 1 stack, 84-100% is 6. You do not get 6 stacks from 60 peril, you get 4. The same goes for Warp Rupture, the damage is basically 100 + peril% Also another thing: "Killing an Enemy with Soulblaze" should really be "Killing an Enemy *affected by* Soulblaze" on talent descriptions, as you showed. The funny thing is that you were melee killing enemies to show this, but you would actually get more toughness back from letting the blaze kill them, as it counts as a warp attack and it would get you 7.5% toughness from Soulstealer, as opposed to the 5% from melee kills.

[@BALLHOLE-3VEG]

For the mettle movement speed comparison, with no movement speed buffs heavy 1 makes you run at 5.79 units/s and heavy 2 moves at 6.95. With 3 stacks of mettle, I move at 7.99/s with H2 and 6.95/s with H1, so it's worth considering that some of the movement boost you got from your 3 stacks of mettle test was from doing a H2 not an H1 like you did without mettle

[@schizoking4509]

kinetic slayer saved my life a bunch of times. it staggers crushers out of their chargattacks, when you're surrounded it's king

[@schizoking4509]

it also synergises well with melee, if you're swinging against ads you likely won't proc it, push, pull out your gun shoot a rager you'll get it procced real soon. damn i just took it out but now i wanna take it back in

[@yee2631]

The 15 second cooldown is way too long for it to be worth a talent point, I can't imagine most people getting much use out of it in any consistent manner

[@wizard_4194]

the special attack on alot of melee weapons also stagger the crusher lol pretty much everything in this game staggers a crusher

[@mattkent5869]

Good morning, provided I have less than 200 hours and I am just starting to acknowledge what the consensus is on meta tools, I have 3 questions. 1) how do you bring all your HUD in the center, and if that's a mod how is it called? 2) does maxing your FOV have gameplay implications, except a better awareness? Would you say it's mandatory to tackle higher difficulties? 3) I watched your video about Havoc 40, why riot shield Ogryn is suboptimal? To my limited understanding it can create a choke point where there isn't one. Is it just that it's so much better to actively look for chokes and allocate the ogryn slot to more damage? Thanks

[@owa1985]

You take Perilous Combustion to kill things. I take Perilous Combustion to show when I killed an elite (qol). We're not the same. (Also for helping everyone, especially myself, with aiming, but eh). But thanks for talking about the throughput aspect.

[@ooglyboogly2989]

I know this kinda broken but what if true aim also said "When a non true aim crit happens guarantee the next hit is a crit."