Note: for some reason my screen shot of the builds shows me taking Wildfire instead of Psykinetic's Aura! Please take Psykinetic's Aura instead of Wildfire!
Great to be back! I have so, so many builds to go through - I think for Psyker alone I have 4 in the bank and working on... maybe 3 more... so that's a lot of crafting to do. With the new "commentary" style videos, I can push out videos a lot quicker - which also means I can cover other classes as well!
Great breakdown, you are right, for a new player it was really good to hear your input on the decision process. You would be surprised how much deeper information you just casually provided.
Glad it was helpful! As someone who was here since the beginning, we take for granted the knowledge we've gather over the years! So I wanted to make a conscious effort to try and make a more helpful and inclusive guide :)
Thank you so much, sir, for this exhaustively researched video, this is exactly the sort of sauce im tryna find at 1130pm on a smoke break to refine my build. May the Emperor bless you!
As a OG Psyker player. You are the wise sage on the hill I go to for build advise. You’ve survived the Black Ships, and the perils of the warp to deliver unto us your knowledge. Thank you for that.
First! Thank you so much for all of your videos! watching your builds and your info dump vids have been a TREMENDOUS help in making me a better player as well as enjoying the game more. I love the narratives, I love the jokes and witty quips, I love the way things are layed out on screen. your videos are so well thought out and every detail is there for a reason. There is no unnecessary fluff in your videos and I appreciate that so much. Thank you for everything you do and I look forward to future videos!
For this video and your previous one, i also like the way you went with the commentary style. i'd love to see even more casual commentary from you. Thanks for the videos.
I'm a completely new player, and I'm really excited for more content like this Your video recommending Darktide is why i picked it up, and I'm thoroughly enjoying it! Building in this game is quite daunting, so help is appreciated I'm also drawn to psykers and magic in games, so I'm looking forward to psyker builds the most
Thanks for the video. Have not played darktide since launch. Loved the physc as my main. I see they really overhauled the talents and abilities. That's cool. Whenever I find myself making a build guide videos, it's longer than I expect. Ha
We are so back! Thanks for the uploads :D i come back to the game after many months and not only i was rusty as hell but i had no clue what would be the best option now im running a build which stacking 3 achievements at the same time so its not efficient but at least i can finish them faster
I really like this. Thank you for laying it out so plainly. I will probably try tweaking it just to end up back to what you showed here, but I can't help myself. Thank you.
Any optimized psyker build will use cooldown reduction on curios, 12% reduction in combination with psykinetic's aura, seer's presence and warp charges will allow you to spam your ultimate before reaching 100% peril in some cases without taking empyric resolve, which makes shield kind of a noob trap when you see the damage output of venting shriek or scryer's gaze build
What ultimate are we spamming here? I see the maximization of CD - which is fine, but to what end? I'm kind of lost with what you are trying to convey with your comment.. As for optimization and min-maxing, I could do that. I have the tables and spreadsheets to do just that. But I don't because its not fun for me. What ends up happening with optimization is the optimizing the fun and diversity out of any build in favour of damage output. So, you're wrong in how to get the most juice out a build - believe me, I am well aware of how to min-max a class with damage, but I don't find that enjoyable for my play style!
Very good video! I always preferred your builds and guides to other channels so I'm glad you're back! Might need to try this build out, never played a smite psyker before!
Excited to try this! Been running lightning staff with high crit and BB and just spamming the single blast attack on everything! Really like the break down and truly appreciate the time stamps!
Great guide! I've also grown fond of the shock maul, happy to see it here. My reasoning, in addition to lighting/electricity cool, was head canon for my savant psyker who I imagine would've use one as an enforcer in his former life. But I also wondered if there was an interaction between the High Voltage blessing and Surge Staff or Smite. Presume this isn't the case if you didn't highlight it?
Unfortunately, the electrocution from Surge is different from that applied by Smite or from the attacks of the Maul itself. So as far as I know, there isn't any cross interaction. That being said, I haven't been able to test it out for myself since this is kind of a 2 person job (1 person stuns with Smite or Surge, and the other bashes their head in)
Love the build. I like this format for actually explaining the build, but part of me prays that maybe doing a narrative short could still be fun. I look forward to seeing 2.0 for some other builds in the future! (Commander Veteran and ranged tank Ogryn most of all.)
I had a lot of fun last patch just constantly using smite and venting shriek with warp charges to just stunlock for incredibly long, so Empyric Resolve is very exciting to see. Psyker has so much extra to play with with this patch, thanks for highlighting some options! Heavy sword is something I'm looking forward to using for Mutie 1 shots.
i like this new style of video you're doing, the slower pace is probably pretty nice for newer players and i imagine they are easier to get out consistently as for the build, i went straight for something similar when i saw psyker had the Shock Maul now because well...the lightning theme is really cool lol personally i like running venting shriek over the shield because i like having the light soulblaze on top of my smite
Venting was the original Ability for the first Storm Witch - which I almost returned too in this version as well! However, for me, the inclusion of the new talents (Empyric Resolve especially), made it necessary to compensate somewhere for the reduction in survivability - hence Dome Shield being the perfect solution!
@@rykenxiv have you seen the interaction with Smite, Scriers Gaze new Warp Unbound, and Warp Siphons Inner Tranquility? it seems a bit excessive in my opinion but still very interesting
Even without Warp Unbound ( can't use Scrier's with Warp Siphon since it eats all the Warp Charges), Smite could already last for a really long time... hahaha I had a game where I was holding Smite for so long, that I got back not 1 but 2 uses of Venting Shriek! It was crazy!
Wow this build is SO strong, i literally wipe entire waves of elites/specials or whatever, pretty much always "top score" (to be fair who cares it's coop, but definitely making a huge impact every game). I love how much warp cost reduction there is and the high uptime on the shield and lightning storm have so much clutch factor
Thanks for the video. I've tested most of your builds and I like them. Your preferred storm witch build might work well in a pre-made team where people know what you're going for. But in 99% of random teams you'll get your head caved in, staying in your little dome, holding your "Oh sh*t" button because nobody cares. For every random player, everything big is a nail that has to be hammered and you end up in the middle of a horde and just die. To top that, the damage output is so low that they might even kick somone throwing around little lightnings doing nothing. The surge staff was once the ultimate big single target killer, but it's just a sparkler now. I don't use it anymore until they show it some love. ATM you see more then 50% gun psykers throwing crazy numbers and hoovering up ammo and throwing darts. I can't see me running around with a gun as a psyker, when every other class has guns anyway.
Funnily enough, I run this a lot with pubs more than I do with my pre-made teams. I find that if you can your potato teammates alive they'll be (most of the time for me anyway), able to fight whatever it is you are holding in place (your mileage may vary...) Of course, this build won't be for everyone and neither am I going to be advocating for only maximum DPS builds to be relevant. To be a support class in this game actually takes more mechanical skill and situational awareness than just focusing on getting kills effectively. You need to be able to keep yourself alive above all AND your teammates too (worthless as they may be at times). This build has a low skill ceiling which is perfect for casual play but has a much higher ceiling to reach (on account on having more tools to use compared to a pure DPS build) since you need to be very cognizant of your environment, where spawns are coming from, and where your teammates are and who you can help in that moment in time. If anything this build enables DPS builds to focus on doing just that - DPS without worry (most of the time)!
Good build, I’ll need to make one for it, since the lightning staff needs to get leveled next for me. I personally like using soulblaze builds with the inferno staff and the cleaving blade force sword. Very fun if you wish to try it out.
I wish Surge worked on the secondary attack of this (like Voidstrike) so much, but I fully recognize that would be absolutely mad with how powerful and fast the secondary already is.
You could use this with Voidstrike for sure.. But because of its lack of crit, it won't be as effective (there is a Voidstrike-specific build I'm crafting right now :) )
Nice to see you back! Any thoughts on the Purg staff? I've been messing around with it and its gone from one of my least favorite weapons to one of my favorite since the update
Venting Shriek with Creeping Flames and Eruption works even better with the EP build, you can spam smite for ages and press F key whenever you get close to 100%. Smite will keep shooting and all the enemies in front of you will be be soul blazed, the peril generation will also be near non-existent for 5 seconds as well.
ive used lightning psyker for about a year now and its like playing on easy mode. such a strong build. only problem with the first build is you are completely reliant on your team for taking out long range threats. although you have all the tools to present every opportunity for your team to do just that.. I find in public matches, it never happens. I do get a good team every now and again though. If youre in a solid pre made or just a solid team in general, yea this build rocks.
Hey wonderin if you can help me troubleshoot. I've been using this build, and it's worked well. But have sometimes seen other psychers get 50% more crits, even though I'm heavy zapping just about all day. Assuming we're about the same in activity, any idea how or why other psychers would get so many more? It wasn't scryers, when I noticed.
50% more crit? Well, at best, This Storm Witch has... Base: 7.5% Warp Nexus: 20% Perk: 5% Critical Chance node: 5% Staff Crit stat: 21% Which equates to... 58.5% Crit chance when at 80% Peril 50% more crits would be around... let's say 88% Crit chance. The only way you can get this much more crit is using Scrier's Gaze (so not using Dome Shield). This would push your crit chance up to 78.5%. If you want to really get it up there, then you'll need to also take Prescience which gives you another 5% for 83.5% Crit Chance. To go any higher THAN this... you'd need to also have Soul Drinker - which would mean you need to kill things that have been Soul Blazed (this gives 5% more). Or you have a Infectious Zeal Zealot which gives everyone 10% more crit chance. Hope this helps!
@@rykenxiv I mean instances of crit, rather than crit rating. Although after looking around a while, i think maybe it's soulfire builds, with lots of DoT's ticking to get more instances of crits. But thank you!
brain burst and magic shards still struggle to keep up with the simple utility of smite, but the node that gives a brainburst chance when u hit with staff shot further drives the staff shot builds ive been seeing lately
A few thoughts on this build: - Would the new smite talent which applies electrocution not be very on theme here? I believe it also combos with the shock maul blessing that does extra damage to electrocuted enemies! - Do you feel that the surge blessing outperforms the more traditional warp flurry blessing? I see the logic with empiric shock being taken, but I wonder if the sheer spam of flurry doesn't still result in higher DPS. - Do you feel that the kinetic presence aura is better than the cooldown reduction one? I've generally felt that the most impactful thing one can ever do is use one's ult, so I'm curious if the 7.5% damage is really worth it. Aside from the above, great stuff! Very informative guide with a strong build.
1. Yes! It was originally part of the build BUT because Enfeeble, which was the point of taking up Charged Strike, does not work on ANY OTHER SOURCE of Electrocute for some reason (why Fatshark?!) , it felt like a wasted point since Smite was suppose to be a backup tool and investing in Charged Strike just to apply a small damage overtime buff on a melee weapon that is also meant as a backup was... kind of wasted.. 2. Warp Flurry will definitely boost your chain lightnings output since it charges faster. However, the additional crit chance from Surge and the diversification of your ability to fight enemies across longer distances probably outweighs the extra charge time. Flurry definitely outperforms Surge against monsters since your chain lightning cares not for weakspots, but on the regular, Surge + Primary shots will carry its weight over Flurry 3. In this case, because (assuming you are going for Warp Siphon), you already have a lot of CD reduction to start with. Then on top of that you have Psykinetic's Aura which gives you the active component of CD reduction. The more CD reduction to add, the less valuable the point becomes until it reaches 100% (which means it breaks the balance of the ability that amount to spamming hahah) So, having a Tier III Elite Damage team wide perk is always going to be useful because the threshold for damage not helping tends to be higher. For this build specifically, there are some cases where at lower perils and therefore lower Warp Rider damage, the Crusher doesn't die from a 2 shot as you see here! I even tweaked it to have +10% Elite Damage to just raise the odds a little. The margin for getting a 2 shot is quite slim and getting every bit of damage you can help those odds is never bad (especially for something that depends on crits!)
Tier 10... I mean... at best you can its like having 3 curios worth of CD. I don't what a Tier 10 perk would be (100% CD reduction perhaps)... But sure, if you value the additional CD reduction, you can take that - this is just a guide after all, not a rule :)
Any chance for a scryer's gaze build post update? The new weapon changes making everything a pretty decent guarentee to work towards has got me puuuumped to try new stuffs
I have a couple builds in the works, but testing is slow because of the bug that keeps my scraier's gaze up infinitely.. Should be able to share it soon (works a little heavy right now!)
While I agree with you that it is longer as a video, it is a lot more informative, certainly better for new players or returning players to refamiliarise with the game. While this format is less cinematic it has more context.
I've been enjoying the Smite/VentingShriek/Wildfire build with Psionics the last few days, the new -40% peril gain talent is so dumb with Smite when it does 300% damage, you can use Shriek to extend your Smite duration, and it makes stupid space on Aurics, and makes anything less fairly easy.
Unfortunately, Enfeeble doesn't currently work with all other sources of Electrocute other than Smite... however, if it DID work, it would become an incredibly powerful horde clear weapon when paired with Charged Strike!
Played during launch but quitted cause performance and gameplay issues, recently returned and boi, this game is fun. The very first momment i press the smite and asail skill on this class it just clicked for me 😂
Ive been doing some looking. Is it still true by getting 3 Toughness nodes and one curio Toughness maxed is like min maxed out? From a mixmax perspective, last build only needed the 3 nodes and one curio to get to the max.
The Psyker's talent tree has 6 +15 toughness nodes. Regular build paths will usually have you take 2 of them - 3 of you're trying to stretch it. As for curio min-maxing, you could technically go into FULL toughness (3x 17% +15% from curio perks). This would be min maxing your toughness BUT the curio toughness only works on Psyker's base toughness - not on the nodes from your talent tree!
How is it taking the Smite upgrade that lets you electrocute enemies on heavy attacks combined with the High Voltage blessing on shock mauls? Is it worth it?
While I didn't go much into the Shock Maul, I was actually using the Charged Strike + High Voltage combo with Skull Crusher and it absolutely can wreck hordes and melee enemies - even more so if paired with Warp Splitter. The damage over time component from Charged Strike get amplified by High Voltage AND the debuff from Skull Crusher since they will be staggered and on the floor. This turns the minute amount of dot damage into something that can push breakpoints up. Now if only Enfeeble was working properly with Charged Strike... (its not at the moment - only Smite and Enfeeble interact with each other despite many other sources of [Electrocute] existing]
has anyone noticed the quality of players in heresy difficulty has plumetted? especially before 7-8pm CET. some are abysmally bad. i even encountered one, at lvl 30, who put all his points into the top part of his build (we were on the same instance on the ship), prob still waiting to reach lvl 31 ... some day.
You think heresy is bad dont ever go to damnation. Malice to damnation is a cess pool of horrible players. Unfortunately the resource bottle neck in this game funnels people to damnation and many people there are god awful players but theyre in damnation cuz they want the most money and resources. Basically all the good players are in auric or maelstrom anything outside of that is filled with players who need carried through regular games with no modifiers unfortunately. The average darktide player is playing blind and has absolutely no clue what theyre doing. They dont know how to min max characters and they dont know how to properly craft and lack general knowledge about the game like breakpoints and what not. You will see the same horrible players if you move up to damnation.
No doubt new/returning players are coming back as the game is experiencing a resurgence since the latest update! Hopefully my videos can help bring up the overall population skill level ;P One can hope...
I'd like to extend a challenge to you, can you make a viable warp based Scryers build? I haven't had the chance to test it but I'm certain that an infinite Smite is possible with Scryers, I can't test it myself though because my Psyker is lvl-21. (Infinite being Scryers uptime for the 100% peril cast)
Yes! Trauma Staff also gets the Surge Blessing too! The main reason why a Surge Trauma probably wouldn't work as well is because its natural critical rate is a bit too low! Remember - you need to crit to activate Surge!
Havent played with the shock maul since they fixed it but it should feel much better on console. I absolutely hated how it would constantly reset your attack chain for seemingly no reason.
It works alright for crowd clearing, but it kind of struggles against mutants unless you can consistently land headshots. Love it against poxwalkers and regular melee enemies though!
Good question! Quell speed becomes less valuable the higher your warp resistance since you'll technically spend less time quelling over the course of the game. Higher Warp resistance is also a function of your sustained damage output (think of a gun having a larger magazine - you'll be able to fire for much longer before you need to reload or in this case, quell). Although we have very strong Warp Resist from our talents, our talents are modifiers for the actual cost of the "spells" we cast, so the higher the stave's warp resist, the more 'cheaper' it will be overall for dish out attacks even though we have Empyric Resolve, Peril reduction nodes, and Warp Charges with Inner Tranquility! As for Charge Rate, even though this build uses the primary attack a lot, it is still a modifier to our damage output since the faster you can charge, the quicker you can release a fully built up chain lightning. Might not be too much difference, but in clutch situations, having the little bit more charge time can help! For these reasons, quell speed is the dump stat since it comes secondary when looking at a weapons damage output (you only ever worry about reloading once you've dumped as much damage as you can!)
@@rykenxiv Charge rate I can understand if you look at warp resistance at 80 vs 60 it only has about a percentage difference. Meanwhile quellspeed 60 and 80 has about a 30% difference, if I don't remember incorrectly. Also as you mentioned in this video peril at a certain level is beneficial to gain as it also generates toughness. While I can see your point, my argument would be that time spent quelling faster is better than generating less peril, as either way you are going to be hovering around that 75% mark.
Some criticism of this build, and a point: One - not taking the smite perk that increases team damage seems on electrified enemies seems like a miss, especially with the shock maul. It applies electricity very easily with light attacks, and has 24% more damage on electrified targets and electrified gives you + 10% team damage base i think, so with the smite perk that's 44% extra damage on an effect you're constantly reapplying. That's a lotta damage. The comment is that the most effective smite builds ive seen in aurics is somehow tied to soulfire? Venting Shreak? Wild Fire? Have you seen this build around? I've watched entire auric hoards evaporate to this smite soulfire combo.
Also if you grab damage on stagger on the maul, go can get significantly better damage on elites. Light headshots on the maul can build up stagger on even crushers which is crazy.
My initial build for this had Enfeeble with Charged Strike to work with the Shock Maul! HOWEVER - Enfeeble does NOT work with any other source of Electrocute except for Smite which is a bummer (I have also posted in the forums to check with Fatshark but no response yet). As for most effective Smite builds, I suppose you could do that - building Venting Shriek + EP + Smite, but it really is kind of overkill and an over-investment for a Smite build since even without the soulfire dot, you can already bring down rager hordes with this build
@@rykenxiv man that sucks about the enfeeble thing. It sounds unintentional, hope they rule in our direction.. It especially sucks because it sounds like it is supposed to combo with the heavy melee causes electrocution talent.
Heads up that in your walkthrough you take Psykinetic's Aura after saying its awesome but in the screenshots it is showing you taking Wildfire instead, is there a reason for that? Love your content.
That is the reason why this build (and most builds that use that talent node) is squishy! Dome shield is there to give you the space and time to think about how you want to react to a situation while giving toughness regeneration passively!
@@rykenxiv I tried it out but had disastrous results in Heresy. It's as much a skill issue for myself as it is with a PUG, but I died multiple times and had to switch.
@@jasonwells3387 Good on you for having the self-awareness! This build relies a lot on having high situational awareness to really shine since you need to take care of yourself and your teammates! That being said - not all builds will be to everyones tastes or will fit their current level of play 😌
I can't bring myself to use a non force weapon. Well aware of other melee weapons, force weapons are just so dam good with unique blessings. Quell on weakspot being a powerful one. Soulblaze on crit being another.
Psykatine builds are useful but always annoy me because they feel like I kinda go from supporting the team but still capable to supporting the team and needing them. If surge worked on the secondary of the surge staff, it just did a bit more damage in general, and smite did good damage it wouldn't feel so meh to me. ...or since the staff has a random 4 skill points just sitting there... what if they gave it soulfire on crits? 👀 if there was a perk or trait on the tree so "electric" attacks would also apply stacks of soulfire? Make a jellyfish build? That would be fun...
I wished it had Blazing Spirit! Lord help those heretics if it does because i would just be firing M1 from the beginning of the mission until I get back on the ship
@@rykenxiv Ha yeah its defo manageable i find myself babysitting pubs more often than not so i burn more ammo than usual on auric swarms and whatnot just to have a zealot nab the ammo anyway. who knows maybe ill play psyker after this video
I don't mind the build-along format, But by all means please talk about the talents. Anyone that doesn't talk about the talents is boring, and they often leave out important synergies.
iam not playing this game but wtf why your sparks not jumps from enemy to enemy? Electric damage should be AOE not single target..... this game is lacking ...
@@akiranakahara7569 smite hinders your teams damage and it makes hordes super boring. If your gameplay is hold rmb then lmb you are lucky if your team tolerates you, this is the case on malestrom and auric
@@majorandras7474tf are you yapping about never seen anyone get kicked for using smite in the higher difficulties. Get off the game and stop playing if your that toxic
While I can agree to an extent that smite spam is boring (i was there during the infinite smite bug and even used it myself hence even from a Smite users POV its boring), I don't think kicking is the way to go about this.
Note: for some reason my screen shot of the builds shows me taking Wildfire instead of Psykinetic's Aura! Please take Psykinetic's Aura instead of Wildfire!
So glad you're back! The update has gotten me back into the game so I'm excited to checkout guides from my favorite Darktide TH-camr
Great to be back! I have so, so many builds to go through - I think for Psyker alone I have 4 in the bank and working on... maybe 3 more... so that's a lot of crafting to do. With the new "commentary" style videos, I can push out videos a lot quicker - which also means I can cover other classes as well!
Great breakdown, you are right, for a new player it was really good to hear your input on the decision process. You would be surprised how much deeper information you just casually provided.
Glad it was helpful! As someone who was here since the beginning, we take for granted the knowledge we've gather over the years! So I wanted to make a conscious effort to try and make a more helpful and inclusive guide :)
Thank you so much, sir, for this exhaustively researched video, this is exactly the sort of sauce im tryna find at 1130pm on a smoke break to refine my build. May the Emperor bless you!
Glad you found it useful!
As a OG Psyker player. You are the wise sage on the hill I go to for build advise. You’ve survived the Black Ships, and the perils of the warp to deliver unto us your knowledge. Thank you for that.
First! Thank you so much for all of your videos! watching your builds and your info dump vids have been a TREMENDOUS help in making me a better player as well as enjoying the game more. I love the narratives, I love the jokes and witty quips, I love the way things are layed out on screen. your videos are so well thought out and every detail is there for a reason. There is no unnecessary fluff in your videos and I appreciate that so much. Thank you for everything you do and I look forward to future videos!
First indeed!
@@rykenxiv Senpai noticed me 😱😱😍😍😍😍😍😍
Great build and I love how you went through and explained how it works. Looking forward to trying this one out!
For this video and your previous one, i also like the way you went with the commentary style. i'd love to see even more casual commentary from you.
Thanks for the videos.
I'm a completely new player, and I'm really excited for more content like this
Your video recommending Darktide is why i picked it up, and I'm thoroughly enjoying it! Building in this game is quite daunting, so help is appreciated
I'm also drawn to psykers and magic in games, so I'm looking forward to psyker builds the most
Thanks for the video. Have not played darktide since launch. Loved the physc as my main. I see they really overhauled the talents and abilities. That's cool.
Whenever I find myself making a build guide videos, it's longer than I expect. Ha
awsome darktide content man! As endgame player I still love the breakdowns just to hear what someone else thinks about it, keep it comming.
Subbed when you put up the time stamp. Thank you, that is very convenient.
We are so back! Thanks for the uploads :D i come back to the game after many months and not only i was rusty as hell but i had no clue what would be the best option now im running a build which stacking 3 achievements at the same time so its not efficient but at least i can finish them faster
Love the videos, these build guides with your thought process in them are great!
Excellent video, glad to see you back! The update brought me back, too.
Awesome video! I never really knew how to build out my Psyker. I can't wait to see your other builds!
Big fan of this build process style for casual/new players like myself. Thank you very much! :)
I really like this. Thank you for laying it out so plainly. I will probably try tweaking it just to end up back to what you showed here, but I can't help myself. Thank you.
My jaw dropped when you flattened that mauler using only primary attacks. Absolutely nuts.
Any optimized psyker build will use cooldown reduction on curios, 12% reduction in combination with psykinetic's aura, seer's presence and warp charges will allow you to spam your ultimate before reaching 100% peril in some cases without taking empyric resolve, which makes shield kind of a noob trap when you see the damage output of venting shriek or scryer's gaze build
Warp charges aren't even necessary TBH just go with Disrupt Destiny for speed bonuses and a near permanent damage buff instead.
Absolutely agree. With the power output of the build you dont need the shield at all. Everything is dead before it can be a problem.
What ultimate are we spamming here? I see the maximization of CD - which is fine, but to what end? I'm kind of lost with what you are trying to convey with your comment..
As for optimization and min-maxing, I could do that. I have the tables and spreadsheets to do just that. But I don't because its not fun for me. What ends up happening with optimization is the optimizing the fun and diversity out of any build in favour of damage output.
So, you're wrong in how to get the most juice out a build - believe me, I am well aware of how to min-max a class with damage, but I don't find that enjoyable for my play style!
Very good video! I always preferred your builds and guides to other channels so I'm glad you're back! Might need to try this build out, never played a smite psyker before!
Hope you enjoy it!
@@rykenxiv I have been!
Excited to try this! Been running lightning staff with high crit and BB and just spamming the single blast attack on everything! Really like the break down and truly appreciate the time stamps!
Thanks for this great build! Your video helped me out to get motivated to play Psyker again.
Glad to hear it!
Great guide! I've also grown fond of the shock maul, happy to see it here. My reasoning, in addition to lighting/electricity cool, was head canon for my savant psyker who I imagine would've use one as an enforcer in his former life. But I also wondered if there was an interaction between the High Voltage blessing and Surge Staff or Smite. Presume this isn't the case if you didn't highlight it?
Unfortunately, the electrocution from Surge is different from that applied by Smite or from the attacks of the Maul itself. So as far as I know, there isn't any cross interaction. That being said, I haven't been able to test it out for myself since this is kind of a 2 person job (1 person stuns with Smite or Surge, and the other bashes their head in)
Your builds served me well in the past, definitely looking forward to the playtesting!
Thank you for the video! I just started playing the game for the first time
Great guide, really enjoyed this format!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Just carried a whole team in Hi-Int Shocktroop with this exact build. Works like a charm :)
I like this method of building the character with the audience.
Haven't played in a while. Incredible video great job!!
I’ve been waiting for this. Thanks Ryken!
Hope you enjoyed it!
Excellent guide. Thank you!
Awesome video! Thanks for the walkthrough
Excellent vid!
Love the build. I like this format for actually explaining the build, but part of me prays that maybe doing a narrative short could still be fun.
I look forward to seeing 2.0 for some other builds in the future! (Commander Veteran and ranged tank Ogryn most of all.)
after the patch this is my first build and its awsome i like how smithe is working for alonger time now
Man, my controller picked a terrible time to break. This looks awesome!
Great video, love the build
I had a lot of fun last patch just constantly using smite and venting shriek with warp charges to just stunlock for incredibly long, so Empyric Resolve is very exciting to see. Psyker has so much extra to play with with this patch, thanks for highlighting some options! Heavy sword is something I'm looking forward to using for Mutie 1 shots.
Would like to see gameplay video of this build - would like to see when you use what abilities
awsome build , thanks dude
I haven't played Darktide in ages but this build looks fun, I'll have to check it out next time I play the game.
i like this new style of video you're doing, the slower pace is probably pretty nice for newer players and i imagine they are easier to get out consistently
as for the build, i went straight for something similar when i saw psyker had the Shock Maul now because well...the lightning theme is really cool lol
personally i like running venting shriek over the shield because i like having the light soulblaze on top of my smite
Venting was the original Ability for the first Storm Witch - which I almost returned too in this version as well! However, for me, the inclusion of the new talents (Empyric Resolve especially), made it necessary to compensate somewhere for the reduction in survivability - hence Dome Shield being the perfect solution!
@@rykenxiv have you seen the interaction with Smite, Scriers Gaze new Warp Unbound, and Warp Siphons Inner Tranquility? it seems a bit excessive in my opinion but still very interesting
Even without Warp Unbound ( can't use Scrier's with Warp Siphon since it eats all the Warp Charges), Smite could already last for a really long time... hahaha
I had a game where I was holding Smite for so long, that I got back not 1 but 2 uses of Venting Shriek! It was crazy!
This is so good
Wow this build is SO strong, i literally wipe entire waves of elites/specials or whatever, pretty much always "top score" (to be fair who cares it's coop, but definitely making a huge impact every game). I love how much warp cost reduction there is and the high uptime on the shield and lightning storm have so much clutch factor
Thanks for the video. I've tested most of your builds and I like them.
Your preferred storm witch build might work well in a pre-made team where people know what you're going for. But in 99% of random teams you'll get your head caved in, staying in your little dome, holding your "Oh sh*t" button because nobody cares. For every random player, everything big is a nail that has to be hammered and you end up in the middle of a horde and just die. To top that, the damage output is so low that they might even kick somone throwing around little lightnings doing nothing. The surge staff was once the ultimate big single target killer, but it's just a sparkler now. I don't use it anymore until they show it some love. ATM you see more then 50% gun psykers throwing crazy numbers and hoovering up ammo and throwing darts. I can't see me running around with a gun as a psyker, when every other class has guns anyway.
Funnily enough, I run this a lot with pubs more than I do with my pre-made teams. I find that if you can your potato teammates alive they'll be (most of the time for me anyway), able to fight whatever it is you are holding in place (your mileage may vary...)
Of course, this build won't be for everyone and neither am I going to be advocating for only maximum DPS builds to be relevant. To be a support class in this game actually takes more mechanical skill and situational awareness than just focusing on getting kills effectively.
You need to be able to keep yourself alive above all AND your teammates too (worthless as they may be at times). This build has a low skill ceiling which is perfect for casual play but has a much higher ceiling to reach (on account on having more tools to use compared to a pure DPS build) since you need to be very cognizant of your environment, where spawns are coming from, and where your teammates are and who you can help in that moment in time.
If anything this build enables DPS builds to focus on doing just that - DPS without worry (most of the time)!
Looks good. Imma try it in a few hours after work
Good build, I’ll need to make one for it, since the lightning staff needs to get leveled next for me.
I personally like using soulblaze builds with the inferno staff and the cleaving blade force sword. Very fun if you wish to try it out.
I wish Surge worked on the secondary attack of this (like Voidstrike) so much, but I fully recognize that would be absolutely mad with how powerful and fast the secondary already is.
Oh it would be devastatingly strong if it could work...
The damage demo was very helpful. It makes me think this would be great with a Voidstrike staff, too.
You could use this with Voidstrike for sure.. But because of its lack of crit, it won't be as effective (there is a Voidstrike-specific build I'm crafting right now :) )
Nice to see you back! Any thoughts on the Purg staff? I've been messing around with it and its gone from one of my least favorite weapons to one of my favorite since the update
Fortunately, my next build is going to be an update to my Cinder Mage - and boy, I've been loving this new build a lot! Can't wait to share it next!
Absolutely busted weapon
Zealot is my main but I'm gonna give this a try thanks for the vid
Venting Shriek with Creeping Flames and Eruption works even better with the EP build, you can spam smite for ages and press F key whenever you get close to 100%.
Smite will keep shooting and all the enemies in front of you will be be soul blazed, the peril generation will also be near non-existent for 5 seconds as well.
Ryken - doing the Emperor's finest work as always! Can't wait to try this out on some filthy heretics!
Go forth and blast them with warp lightning!
Psy aura is a must have if you are not using Assail, it is just that good.
ive used lightning psyker for about a year now and its like playing on easy mode. such a strong build.
only problem with the first build is you are completely reliant on your team for taking out long range threats. although you have all the tools to present every opportunity for your team to do just that.. I find in public matches, it never happens. I do get a good team every now and again though. If youre in a solid pre made or just a solid team in general, yea this build rocks.
Hey wonderin if you can help me troubleshoot. I've been using this build, and it's worked well. But have sometimes seen other psychers get 50% more crits, even though I'm heavy zapping just about all day. Assuming we're about the same in activity, any idea how or why other psychers would get so many more? It wasn't scryers, when I noticed.
50% more crit? Well, at best, This Storm Witch has...
Base: 7.5%
Warp Nexus: 20%
Perk: 5%
Critical Chance node: 5%
Staff Crit stat: 21%
Which equates to... 58.5% Crit chance when at 80% Peril
50% more crits would be around... let's say 88% Crit chance. The only way you can get this much more crit is using Scrier's Gaze (so not using Dome Shield).
This would push your crit chance up to 78.5%.
If you want to really get it up there, then you'll need to also take Prescience which gives you another 5% for 83.5% Crit Chance.
To go any higher THAN this... you'd need to also have Soul Drinker - which would mean you need to kill things that have been Soul Blazed (this gives 5% more).
Or you have a Infectious Zeal Zealot which gives everyone 10% more crit chance.
Hope this helps!
@@rykenxiv I mean instances of crit, rather than crit rating. Although after looking around a while, i think maybe it's soulfire builds, with lots of DoT's ticking to get more instances of crits. But thank you!
brain burst and magic shards still struggle to keep up with the simple utility of smite, but the node that gives a brainburst chance when u hit with staff shot further drives the staff shot builds ive been seeing lately
A few thoughts on this build:
- Would the new smite talent which applies electrocution not be very on theme here? I believe it also combos with the shock maul blessing that does extra damage to electrocuted enemies!
- Do you feel that the surge blessing outperforms the more traditional warp flurry blessing? I see the logic with empiric shock being taken, but I wonder if the sheer spam of flurry doesn't still result in higher DPS.
- Do you feel that the kinetic presence aura is better than the cooldown reduction one? I've generally felt that the most impactful thing one can ever do is use one's ult, so I'm curious if the 7.5% damage is really worth it.
Aside from the above, great stuff! Very informative guide with a strong build.
1. Yes! It was originally part of the build BUT because Enfeeble, which was the point of taking up Charged Strike, does not work on ANY OTHER SOURCE of Electrocute for some reason (why Fatshark?!) , it felt like a wasted point since Smite was suppose to be a backup tool and investing in Charged Strike just to apply a small damage overtime buff on a melee weapon that is also meant as a backup was... kind of wasted..
2. Warp Flurry will definitely boost your chain lightnings output since it charges faster. However, the additional crit chance from Surge and the diversification of your ability to fight enemies across longer distances probably outweighs the extra charge time. Flurry definitely outperforms Surge against monsters since your chain lightning cares not for weakspots, but on the regular, Surge + Primary shots will carry its weight over Flurry
3. In this case, because (assuming you are going for Warp Siphon), you already have a lot of CD reduction to start with. Then on top of that you have Psykinetic's Aura which gives you the active component of CD reduction. The more CD reduction to add, the less valuable the point becomes until it reaches 100% (which means it breaks the balance of the ability that amount to spamming hahah)
So, having a Tier III Elite Damage team wide perk is always going to be useful because the threshold for damage not helping tends to be higher. For this build specifically, there are some cases where at lower perils and therefore lower Warp Rider damage, the Crusher doesn't die from a 2 shot as you see here! I even tweaked it to have +10% Elite Damage to just raise the odds a little. The margin for getting a 2 shot is quite slim and getting every bit of damage you can help those odds is never bad (especially for something that depends on crits!)
The only thing I would change is the aura. To use your analogy, Seer's Presence would be like having a tier 10 perk on one of your curios.
Tier 10... I mean... at best you can its like having 3 curios worth of CD. I don't what a Tier 10 perk would be (100% CD reduction perhaps)... But sure, if you value the additional CD reduction, you can take that - this is just a guide after all, not a rule :)
Any chance for a scryer's gaze build post update?
The new weapon changes making everything a pretty decent guarentee to work towards has got me puuuumped to try new stuffs
I have a couple builds in the works, but testing is slow because of the bug that keeps my scraier's gaze up infinitely..
Should be able to share it soon (works a little heavy right now!)
While I agree with you that it is longer as a video, it is a lot more informative, certainly better for new players or returning players to refamiliarise with the game. While this format is less cinematic it has more context.
think for your 2 build paths screenshot, the talent said wildfire even though u prefered psykinetic aura
Oh wat.. That's strange...
I've been enjoying the Smite/VentingShriek/Wildfire build with Psionics the last few days, the new -40% peril gain talent is so dumb with Smite when it does 300% damage, you can use Shriek to extend your Smite duration, and it makes stupid space on Aurics, and makes anything less fairly easy.
Enfeeble synergizes with the Shock Maul, I wonder how much value it gives? Probably very little.
Unfortunately, Enfeeble doesn't currently work with all other sources of Electrocute other than Smite... however, if it DID work, it would become an incredibly powerful horde clear weapon when paired with Charged Strike!
@@rykenxiv What a shame! Fatshark lied in their talent description again. Thanks for the info.
Carpal Tunnel gaming!
Fortunately, I have the auto-fire mod that saves me from this fate haha
@@rykenxiv I'll have to pick that up!
Played during launch but quitted cause performance and gameplay issues, recently returned and boi, this game is fun. The very first momment i press the smite and asail skill on this class it just clicked for me 😂
Any advice for a Zealot backstab/ninja hiding build?
Are we getting a veteran build video soon?
Ive been doing some looking. Is it still true by getting 3 Toughness nodes and one curio Toughness maxed is like min maxed out? From a mixmax perspective, last build only needed the 3 nodes and one curio to get to the max.
The Psyker's talent tree has 6 +15 toughness nodes. Regular build paths will usually have you take 2 of them - 3 of you're trying to stretch it. As for curio min-maxing, you could technically go into FULL toughness (3x 17% +15% from curio perks).
This would be min maxing your toughness BUT the curio toughness only works on Psyker's base toughness - not on the nodes from your talent tree!
Ryken videos, Best in slot!
I am verteran psyker playing since the game came out… I still don’t know the talents really beyong keystone, blitz, and aura
How is it taking the Smite upgrade that lets you electrocute enemies on heavy attacks combined with the High Voltage blessing on shock mauls? Is it worth it?
While I didn't go much into the Shock Maul, I was actually using the Charged Strike + High Voltage combo with Skull Crusher and it absolutely can wreck hordes and melee enemies - even more so if paired with Warp Splitter.
The damage over time component from Charged Strike get amplified by High Voltage AND the debuff from Skull Crusher since they will be staggered and on the floor. This turns the minute amount of dot damage into something that can push breakpoints up.
Now if only Enfeeble was working properly with Charged Strike... (its not at the moment - only Smite and Enfeeble interact with each other despite many other sources of [Electrocute] existing]
has anyone noticed the quality of players in heresy difficulty has plumetted? especially before 7-8pm CET. some are abysmally bad. i even encountered one, at lvl 30, who put all his points into the top part of his build (we were on the same instance on the ship), prob still waiting to reach lvl 31 ... some day.
You think heresy is bad dont ever go to damnation. Malice to damnation is a cess pool of horrible players. Unfortunately the resource bottle neck in this game funnels people to damnation and many people there are god awful players but theyre in damnation cuz they want the most money and resources. Basically all the good players are in auric or maelstrom anything outside of that is filled with players who need carried through regular games with no modifiers unfortunately. The average darktide player is playing blind and has absolutely no clue what theyre doing. They dont know how to min max characters and they dont know how to properly craft and lack general knowledge about the game like breakpoints and what not. You will see the same horrible players if you move up to damnation.
No doubt new/returning players are coming back as the game is experiencing a resurgence since the latest update! Hopefully my videos can help bring up the overall population skill level ;P One can hope...
For sure, good players are exclusively in malestrom now. Nowdays all you get are smite psychers, infantry lasgun vets with the krak grenade and such
Man, PS5 verion of game in 17 days! I will save this as I will play psyker!
I'd like to extend a challenge to you, can you make a viable warp based Scryers build? I haven't had the chance to test it but I'm certain that an infinite Smite is possible with Scryers, I can't test it myself though because my Psyker is lvl-21. (Infinite being Scryers uptime for the 100% peril cast)
In your build screenshots you have WIldfire instead of Psykinetic's Aura.
Yeap.. That's an error on my part - have added a correction to my pinned comment!
Does the Trauma staff get Surge also? I wonder how effective left click is against a crusher with full or half stacks of brittleness
Yes! Trauma Staff also gets the Surge Blessing too! The main reason why a Surge Trauma probably wouldn't work as well is because its natural critical rate is a bit too low! Remember - you need to crit to activate Surge!
@@rykenxiv Dang, you're right. Somehow i forgot you can only have two blessings on a weapon
Havent played with the shock maul since they fixed it but it should feel much better on console. I absolutely hated how it would constantly reset your attack chain for seemingly no reason.
It works alright for crowd clearing, but it kind of struggles against mutants unless you can consistently land headshots. Love it against poxwalkers and regular melee enemies though!
Isnt warp resistance and charge rate much more of a dump stat for this build once you actually look at the stats?
Good question!
Quell speed becomes less valuable the higher your warp resistance since you'll technically spend less time quelling over the course of the game. Higher Warp resistance is also a function of your sustained damage output (think of a gun having a larger magazine - you'll be able to fire for much longer before you need to reload or in this case, quell).
Although we have very strong Warp Resist from our talents, our talents are modifiers for the actual cost of the "spells" we cast, so the higher the stave's warp resist, the more 'cheaper' it will be overall for dish out attacks even though we have Empyric Resolve, Peril reduction nodes, and Warp Charges with Inner Tranquility!
As for Charge Rate, even though this build uses the primary attack a lot, it is still a modifier to our damage output since the faster you can charge, the quicker you can release a fully built up chain lightning. Might not be too much difference, but in clutch situations, having the little bit more charge time can help!
For these reasons, quell speed is the dump stat since it comes secondary when looking at a weapons damage output (you only ever worry about reloading once you've dumped as much damage as you can!)
@@rykenxiv Charge rate I can understand if you look at warp resistance at 80 vs 60 it only has about a percentage difference. Meanwhile quellspeed 60 and 80 has about a 30% difference, if I don't remember incorrectly. Also as you mentioned in this video peril at a certain level is beneficial to gain as it also generates toughness. While I can see your point, my argument would be that time spent quelling faster is better than generating less peril, as either way you are going to be hovering around that 75% mark.
'You are Psyker Harry'
- Hagrid probably
Some criticism of this build, and a point:
One - not taking the smite perk that increases team damage seems on electrified enemies seems like a miss, especially with the shock maul. It applies electricity very easily with light attacks, and has 24% more damage on electrified targets and electrified gives you + 10% team damage base i think, so with the smite perk that's 44% extra damage on an effect you're constantly reapplying. That's a lotta damage.
The comment is that the most effective smite builds ive seen in aurics is somehow tied to soulfire? Venting Shreak? Wild Fire? Have you seen this build around? I've watched entire auric hoards evaporate to this smite soulfire combo.
Also if you grab damage on stagger on the maul, go can get significantly better damage on elites. Light headshots on the maul can build up stagger on even crushers which is crazy.
My initial build for this had Enfeeble with Charged Strike to work with the Shock Maul! HOWEVER - Enfeeble does NOT work with any other source of Electrocute except for Smite which is a bummer (I have also posted in the forums to check with Fatshark but no response yet).
As for most effective Smite builds, I suppose you could do that - building Venting Shriek + EP + Smite, but it really is kind of overkill and an over-investment for a Smite build since even without the soulfire dot, you can already bring down rager hordes with this build
@@rykenxiv man that sucks about the enfeeble thing. It sounds unintentional, hope they rule in our direction..
It especially sucks because it sounds like it is supposed to combo with the heavy melee causes electrocution talent.
How did he put the lightning icon for the build ?
You can change the symbol when you create a loadout! If you are on PC, its right-clicking the icon
@@rykenxivnever knew that, thanks !
Heads up that in your walkthrough you take Psykinetic's Aura after saying its awesome but in the screenshots it is showing you taking Wildfire instead, is there a reason for that? Love your content.
Corrected! Maybe I potato'd somewhere and it became Wildfire in the screenshots...
what about the -30% loss to toughness thanks to empyrean talent for -40% peril?
That is the reason why this build (and most builds that use that talent node) is squishy! Dome shield is there to give you the space and time to think about how you want to react to a situation while giving toughness regeneration passively!
@@rykenxiv I tried it out but had disastrous results in Heresy. It's as much a skill issue for myself as it is with a PUG, but I died multiple times and had to switch.
@@jasonwells3387 Good on you for having the self-awareness! This build relies a lot on having high situational awareness to really shine since you need to take care of yourself and your teammates!
That being said - not all builds will be to everyones tastes or will fit their current level of play 😌
I can't bring myself to use a non force weapon. Well aware of other melee weapons, force weapons are just so dam good with unique blessings. Quell on weakspot being a powerful one. Soulblaze on crit being another.
Psykatine builds are useful but always annoy me because they feel like I kinda go from supporting the team but still capable to supporting the team and needing them. If surge worked on the secondary of the surge staff, it just did a bit more damage in general, and smite did good damage it wouldn't feel so meh to me.
...or since the staff has a random 4 skill points just sitting there... what if they gave it soulfire on crits? 👀 if there was a perk or trait on the tree so "electric" attacks would also apply stacks of soulfire? Make a jellyfish build? That would be fun...
I wished it had Blazing Spirit! Lord help those heretics if it does because i would just be firing M1 from the beginning of the mission until I get back on the ship
can you do a zealot suppott
Will do!
Ngl the vet survivalist nerf still has me on life support
Haven't played Vet much since the update, but I think its fairly manageable with a more judicious trigger finger (your mileage may vary)
@@rykenxiv Ha yeah its defo manageable i find myself babysitting pubs more often than not so i burn more ammo than usual on auric swarms and whatnot just to have a zealot nab the ammo anyway. who knows maybe ill play psyker after this video
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I don't mind the build-along format, But by all means please talk about the talents. Anyone that doesn't talk about the talents is boring, and they often leave out important synergies.
there is no survivability, the rangers kill very quickly, the block breaks through very quickly, the curiosities do not save
smite 🤮🤮🤮
iam not playing this game but wtf why your sparks not jumps from enemy to enemy? Electric damage should be AOE not single target..... this game is lacking ...
What is this comment?! 😅😂
It used to be that way, but they changed it since we have Smite already!
Anyone watching this video, smite spam and youll be kicked
No
@@akiranakahara7569 smite hinders your teams damage and it makes hordes super boring. If your gameplay is hold rmb then lmb you are lucky if your team tolerates you, this is the case on malestrom and auric
@@majorandras7474tf are you yapping about never seen anyone get kicked for using smite in the higher difficulties. Get off the game and stop playing if your that toxic
While I can agree to an extent that smite spam is boring (i was there during the infinite smite bug and even used it myself hence even from a Smite users POV its boring), I don't think kicking is the way to go about this.