Going to try this. I love psyker, but man I just get shot to pieces. Seems like a lot of this is contingent on your team actually staying together. I have a similar build, but bring the bubble just to deal with all the effing ranged units. I die more to 5 random ranged scrubs placed around the room than anything else.
Glad to hear you'll try this out! Regarding survival issues, positioning and movement are key. Maybe I should make a video about this ;) The idea though, is to dodge and slide into positions and away from gunners. You can't necessarily avoid all damage but you will negate most of it.
Love this build it's exactly what I was looking for because I love the trauma staff more than the others. Only change I may make is remove warp rider for kinetic resonance. I know you said everything is needed in the talent tree, but I love the quick clearing of brain rupture with reduced peril. I feel like warp rider was the only ability that was just raw damage, but is there absolutely anything else I could drop except that one? I assumed that 5% crit chance node was a must to help upkeep the fire.
Made this to answer your question, hope it helps: darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9b98f0bd-c1f4-4656-a645-a16219326e38/duotide-trauma-alternate Warp Rider is 20% damage, whereas dropping Warp Battery is only 8% (this impacts our cooldowns a bit too though). Also in Fire Reborn is nice for ultra spicy stuff but 99% of the time it's overkill. I dropped both of those and replaced them with Kinetic Resonance and Kinetic Deflection but you can spend those 2 points however you want. Please let me know if I misunderstood your question or if you have follow ups.
If only my allies would protect me the way these bots protect you)) Then it would be possible to disperse any power of the psyker, but as it is.. I have to go into control and defense 😢
This is essentially my exact build except i bring a different melee. I bring a Devil's Claw IV for the parry, it lets you solo chaos spawn and the heavy can 2 shot mutants, 1 shot with weakspot
I am working on a melee build although I have to say it really isn't the Psyker's strong suit. I will try this sword out as I never revisited it after launch.
@DuoTide Good luck with Brunt's stupid lottery of an armory...I've tried mk II and IV pretty intensively, I prefer the faster parry animation and heavy attack from the mk IV, but both are good. They don't need much from perks to hit breakpoints, so I typically run block efficiency and weakspot damage.
Wildfire isn’t a super great skill, it’ll take up to 4 soulblaze and spread that to up to 4 enemies. But like 1 per, so you’ll only ever spread a max of 4 stacks per kill, and I just can’t get behind how disappointing that is
It's not always about direct damage; spreading the soulblaze means you will get more warp charges overall as more enemies will have soulblaze on them. This means you can use your ult more frequently which in turn also applies more soulblaze. It's all about building into that synergy. It's also a way to kill way more stuff than you otherwise would; if a bunch of enemies have 4 stacks (which would almost kill them but not quite) and a few have 6 then wildfire will help spread those additional stacks and eventually kill everything. Beyond all that, if a fight lasts longer than a single burst, all enemies entering the fight after that burst will effectively begin the fight with at least 1 stack of soulblaze but many will have up to 4. So instead of having to spread 10 stacks to burst, now you only need 6. Your soublaze will then melt anything with 10 stacks (4+6) instantly which brings us into my previous point. Which in turn brings us back into this point. #synergy If you had asked me about this talent before the class overhaul I would have agreed with you but now I feel it is a must have on any soulblaze build.
I've build you Trauma build, but I have to say as nice as it looks in the Psykhanium, it doesn't really work in T5+ for me. To unreliable and in order to pump out some damage one has to stay always on crititcal peril. Enemies who have soulblaze get wiped out by team members long before something happens. The overall damage output seems very low compared with all other staffs and as soon as large hords come along I'll get pushed in to a corner and have to fight my way out woth the sword. It might be my disdain towards the trauma staff. I hated this thing since close beta 1.
This is what I run in true duo damnation high intensity shock troop and it performs very well. Watch the gameplay in the video, there's really no reason to use your sword for ad clear. This only works if you have staff out all the time. Do you have the scoreboard plugin? I am getting top damage in literally every game.
@@PetetheSweety I'm often in the 600K-800K region with the trauma staff at damnnation. It is feasable. But I prefer the chainsword. It is not has fast as the dueling sword, but it is still fast and I down need curio to add stamina.
If you rolled the staff with the brittleness blessing along with the soul blaze one, would the brittle stacks increase the soul blaze damage? Does soul blaze damage change with armor type? Either way, that would give you much more boss effectiveness at the cost of some charge time. Very creative build!
I wouldn't do that as you would lose 20% crit chance and proc soulblaze almost half as often. The only enemy that takes significantly less soulblaze damage is the crusher and we can CC him into oblivion anyway.
@@DuoTidegotcha. Yeah I wasn’t thinking clearly. I thought you had warp flurry and not nexus, which of course you want with the crit build. I got a god roll brittle/flurry staff. If I find another good one, I’ll try to roll this soul blaze version.
@@timelyspirit GZ on the drop! The soublaze is core to this build though. If you want to use flurry then I would use a different build, one that includes as much warp resistance and peril quelling as possible.
I would say it's a bad combo using Blaze and the Brittle Blessing, you don't get enough Crits to trigger Blaze and it's too slow to stack Brittle fast. If you want Blaze, go Nexus for more Crits, if you want Brittle, go Flurry to make charging faster
It feels bad to use but it's very powerful; one of the most underrated tools in the game IMO. It's an auto aim snipe, something super important that a lot of builds struggle to include; we get it basically for free. We already do massive CC + massive AOE damage, throwing in a 1 tap snipe means the only thing we can't do is instantly delete bosses. When you think about smite and assail, what do they really bring to the table? CC and damage, but we have staffs and swords for that so they end up being redundant in pretty much all builds (of course there are exceptions). They are fun though, I can't deny that. I think Brain Burst needs a small reduction to it's cast time, just 20% would make it feel much better.
@@DuoTideit REALLY rounds out a psyker that is already covered in the hoard clear department. Personally I run a pergatus staff with the wildfire perk, so I end up using brain rupture with enhanced blitz, meaning I can absolutely decimate hoards of elites.
@@DuoTideit REALLY rounds out a psyker that is already covered in the hoard clear department. Personally I run a pergatus staff with the wildfire perk, so I end up using brain rupture with enhanced blitz, meaning I can absolutely decimate hoards of elites.
Wildfire will not spread soulblaze stacks with enemies with just 6 stacks, it caps at 4. It isn't as strong as you think alas. Venting shriek will add on top of Wildfire though. If you are going to use trauma on the boss, at least left click his head, right click spam on a boss is the least damage you can do to the boss with your set up, and it's actually one of the two slowest ways you can kill a boss as Psyker. The other is right click with a Surge. You have headpop, which even with your build that doesn't get cast speed will be faster. If you are going to run with other people in your party (or other bots in your case) you will be better off with the talent that gives you warp charges on kill, as it counts yours and those of other people. If you were trying to stack "soublaze" on him, a Purgatus would have done it quicker, and still left click to his head or BB with your loadout would have been faster.
Regarding Wildfire, I never said it would pass on 6 stacks of soulblaze. It can pass up to 4 which will then stack with other sources and it all builds into 6+ stacks. It's about stacking and wildfire is part of that process. Keep in mind, Wildfire saw a small tweak some time ago, I forget what it was but whatever I say about it will be a tiny bit wrong due to that. "If you are going to use trauma on the boss, at least left click his head, right click spam on a boss is the least damage you can do to the boss with your set up, and it's actually one of the two slowest ways you can kill a boss as Psyker" -> For sure, but my goal here is more to show the AOE power of this build rather than a boss KT. IMO if you run this build, you will be much more helpful to your team if you just focus ads instead of boss. "If you were trying to stack "soublaze" on him, a Purgatus would have done it quicker, and still left click to his head or BB with your loadout would have been faster." -> I feel like you're missing the point with what I'm doing. The first time I damage a boss, I'm showing a completely unrealistic burst just to show how high the AOE numbers can go. The 2 boss kills I did on my solo bot run, I am using right click because there is an endless horde and I want to keep it at bay. At no point is my focus to kill the boss as quickly as possible. Regarding getting the charges from soulblaze vs team kills: this is particularly difficult to test for but you can see the synergy with what I've done right? If I use combat ability on a big enough group of enemies, I get all my charges back instantly. This wouldn't happen with the charges on team kill. In a run with randoms does this happen? Well it happens when shit hits the fan which is when you most need it to happen so yeah kind of. The truth is with this build, the game rarely spawns enough stuff to really get the ball rolling. If you are playing with randoms and you're good at the game I would still recommend charges on soulblaze, if you play with people who are good at the game and you are getting less kills then maybe switch over.
@@DuoTide You are misunderstanding here, Wildfire will not go on anything that already has 4 stacks of Soulblaze. I didn't say it passes 6 from Venting Shriek. I said that if it already has Soulblaze on it from Venting Shriek Wildfire will have 0 effect. Wildfire caps at 4 stacks always. Just like Purgatus caps at 16 stacks. So does the mob already have 4 stacks of Soulblaze? Wildfire won't add any. Does the mob already have 16 stacks of Soulblaze? Purgatus won't add any. Venting Shriek however will add on top of those when those have been applied in advance, as it has a cap of 31. As to the rest, I have thoroughly tested the fastest ways to kill a boss with a staff Psyker. It isn't by right clicking a Trauma on a boss. It's good for clearing the stuff around it.
@@Xariann I don't misunderstand wildfire, that's literally what I said "It can pass up to 4 which will then stack with other sources and it all builds into 6+ stacks". Put 4 stacks onto an enemy and now instead of starting from 0 when you stack from other sources, you start from 4. "As to the rest, I have thoroughly tested the fastest ways to kill a boss with a staff Psyker. It isn't by right clicking a Trauma on a boss." - I never said it was. "It's good for clearing the stuff around it." - Yeah I know, that's why I did it.
@@DuoTide Yes you do misunderstand how Wildfire works. I have tested how it works. I have an addon that tells me how many stacks go on stuff. Wildfire will never add any stacks to anything that already has 4 stacks. It's how it works. I spent hours testing debuffs.
Unfortunately I can't really answer that as I don't use the sword for melee outside of the heavy attacks for 1 tapping specials / elites. As such I have done no testing on different blessing combinations relating to ad clear. The problem for me is I just can't think of any situation where a sword is more effective than the Trauma except killing mutants or nearby elites. Why invest into horde clear on the sword if my Trauma can do it better? I feel it makes more sense to use the sword for something the Trauma can't do. The reason I say mk2 might be ok is it still has a thrust heavy however is chains into a slash heavy and does less base damage. You're doing a lot more for your team when 1 shot-ing mutants than you are having 2 options for horde clear. If you are worried about Trauma staff performance in melee, watch the gameplay. It's genuinely better than a sword. You'll notice sometimes switch to sword while horded to create a bit of space but I don't really use it for damage in such a situation. If you just like using a sword, then I would recommend a different build; sword + surge staff is a much better combo. If you do this, I would recommend Illisi over Duelling swords.
