VOIDSTRIKE AND ASSAIL PSYKER - Auric Maelstrom Gameplay｜Darktide 

I'd love a shotgun-like staff personally.

Beam and bolt staves would be very welcome

@@Statue_00that would be Amazing

A fully charged Voidstrike staff can one-shot a Crusher with the right build and a weakspot crit. Which you can guarantee. The key to the build is the Surge blessing (not to be confused with the Surge staff) which doubles your shot on a crit, firing a second projectile at the same charge level as the first that auto-crits. This is highly synergistic with a talent introduced in the rework called “True Aim,” which gives your ranged attacks an auto-crit every 5 weakspot hits. The Voidstrike projectile cleaves, which means if you fire into a crowd at head level you can gain all 5 requisite hits in a single shot. This means that a properly built Voidstrike user can fire back-to-back double crits into a horde constantly, killing everything in a straight line. When fired through a doorway or down a hallway, the carnage is unreal. And all without taking a single ounce of ammo. It has its downsides, namely its linear damage and long charge time making it difficult to use when enemies are spread out, but used smartly and with your team it is simply an insane damage cannon.

Thank you so much for the detailed response,@@delta57dash. I will have to keep an eye out for this Surge blessing in Melk's shop and give it another try then.

roll a void with max damage, peril quell, surge and warp flurry for blessings, I assure you the on-hit damage compared to the plasma will be lower, but you will have a much higher, much more consistent overall damage and will prove to be an extremely useful asset for the team. Like Delta said, with the right build and a little bit of luck for a crit, you can sit crushers down in one shot up to Damnation, anything below that just melts (packs of ragers, gunners/shotgunners, bulwarks, reapers, maulers, etc)

He probably rebound his dodge key

The secret you looking for is... practice.

Well I think it's because of playstyle, I take nexus because I think surge procs more often and is more effective

You get more DPS by charging your attacks more instead of having weaker shots that crit more, but warp flurry and warp nexus together are the ideal combination since you can fire faster and upkeep your Perfect Timing talent (3% damage on crit for 10 sec, stacking 5 times), firing 2 shots with surge won't proc your crit talents twice and the double damage will often be overkill

True Aim requires 5 weakspot hits which means you can fire at a group of 5+ and instantly trigger it. You don't really need Nexus.

True aim give’s guaranteed crits on 5 weak spot hits, shoot into a crowd at head level gives you that easy.

@bobertastic6541 what... nm I just spam crafted trauma staves.

@@Roughneckjarhead oh I see what ha mean. I thought you were asking how much it activated so much

It flew 🤣

He needs to be strong offensively because otherwise he would be bad. He has very little hp, toughness and stamina without reliable ways to regenerate toughness.

This was true before the class overhaul, but it absolutely isn't in the current patch. Ironically, this video is a great example of that. Assail takes virtually no mechanical skill to use and will completely shred unarmored targets at mid-range. Voidstrike really just requires you to spam charged shots and you'll delete everything in front of you like at 16:07. If they don't get deleted because they're a chunkier enemy, it ends up like at 17:00 where they get constantly stunned while you backpedal. Its very mechanically simple in practice.

@@TUX3D0S more like on paper, in practice it feels a lot more clunky than, say, a plasma rifle vet. The need to (much more slowly) charge up every shot makes it much harder to do under pressure without asubstantial amount of skill (and chocoB is obviously very good at everything) and even then, there's a limit to how many enemies it can pierce, even if they're all unarmored, and also it's a projectile and not hitscan, which makes landing shots, let alone headshots difficult against anything that's not a huge crowd and moving. In other words, if you play the voidstrike staff perfect, you'll only be about as good as an average plasma gun vet. (there's things about Assail that I can mention are relatively clunky too, but this is already getting way too long to write...)

@@TUX3D0S I'll admit that 16:07 is essentially the IDEAL situation for a void staff where all enemies are perfectly lined up and that's where the weapon shines(even though the plasma gun overshadows it there, but you can also make the argument of "infinite ammo" being better), however 17:00 seems like it required about the same amount of effort, if not more to "backpedal" away from, while only dealing a fraction of damage of what an ogryn, a vet or even a zealot can do in that situation(while still maintaining similar, if not better stagger...)

This is really just a showcase that Psyker can still solo and clutch instead of being a Smite-bot relying on others to kill. Sure it takes more effort but there's multiple ways he could have done it, he just chose this one

They were most likely using the "trick" (or exploit) that when you go down you alt f4 out of the game so a bot will spawn to assist your remaining teammates. You can reconnect to the session this way since the game thinks you just crashed or disconnected.

he has tens of thousands of hours across all the fatshark games like darktide, i assure you he can complete anything in any way possible with his eyes closed at this point

Thats not true and he wouldn't even agree him self. Look at his stream or comments on his own skill. He never speaks super highly of him self. Also darktide is insanely solo unfriendly solo auric malestorm is genuinely closer to vermintide 2 modded relm level of hard than it is solo cata levels of hard. Theres a reason you see all the great players chocob included. Primarily posting duo content. Even if you CAN play at the level needed to solo a malestorm. It takes usually over an hour to finish the run. And it takes around 10 to 30 runs to get a good one going. And im saying that as someone whos actually gotten past mid map events in solos. ​@monray4255