CLARIFICATION! The heavy attacks have equal damage across all common armour types, increasing infested and unarmoured by 50% and scab by 100% from light attacks. This equalized damage (which is very rare) combined with identical weak spot and crit mulitipliers is why it feels so nice to use! Forgot to add this part in!
I put off leveling Psyker as my last career to 30 because I kept reading people say how bad it was. After leveling it to 30, it's become clear to me that Psyker is the "low skill floor, high skill ceiling" class with the most utility at their disposal to handle just about any situation. I've been playing my psyker for almost 200 missions and have loved every minute of it.
I started with psyker but have stopped playing it as much since the difference in power to it's similarly roled counterpart veteran is too high, it in no way can even come close to competing with what a veteran can do right now. If you don't play the top difficulty of missions like damnnation shock gauntlet you might not experience these crippling output problems psyker has but in those matches games with multiple psykers and no veterans are very telling as things just do not die as fast as they need to despite using the best builds/weapons obtainable.
Yes! I love playing classes that have high skill ceilings with versatility - always means that something to improve and it feels good when you observe yourself getting better at doing them!
@@Wurps I disagree. The difference between Vet and Psyker is that Vet's class-depth and difficulty boils down to "just shoot it." Psyker can be played as a support, frontline, or carry role, whereas Veteran is pretty much shoehorned into the carry role because of their feats and meta weapon pool. A good Psyker player with a surge, trauma, or voidstrike staff can make a bad Veteran player look like a good Veteran player because everything they're shooting at is either immobilized or on the ground, not to mention the free damage buff to elites in the Psyker's coherency radius. The Force Sword's push can knock a crusher on their ass, and brain burst gives everyone on the team a free 25% damage bonus against a bigger threat. The team isnt really at a disadvantage if they don't have a Veteran, but they _are_ if they don't have a Psyker on their team.
6:00 Unfortunately Exorcist doesn't work the same way as Transfer Peril, the main word being "repeated" weakspot hits. Meaning you have to be hitting *the same* weakspot multiple times on the same target for the blessing to work, unlike Transfer Peril where you just need to hit *any* weakspot. Easily testable in the grinder. Build peril to 80, swipe across some heads, peril remained 80.
So I went in tested to make sure I knew how it worked. Yes, it doesn't function the same as Transfer Peril where any weakspot hit will quell peril. Rather, it works as long as you get chain weak spot hits. That means, as long as you get 2 or 3 attacks that consecutively get weak spots without missing in between, Exorcist will work. Doesn't have to be on the same target. A single heavy chop across multiple enemies is still consider 1 attack and therefore is not counted as repeated I compared an Iliisi with and without Exorcist with the same moveset and the one with Exorcist went from 100 to 0 in 9 seconds of constant combat (i'm sure I missed some chain weak spot hits), but the one without took 13 seconds to quell to 0
@@rykenxiv Correction: Exorcist requires "repeated weak spot hits" not "chained weak spot hits" and those are 2 different wordings. For example if you take Shred on Eviscerator and do heavy attack it will get max stacks with 1 swing if you hit 5 enemies. While blessings with "repeated hits" wordings will get you only 1 stack per swing of the weapon
Love this style of Video, Would love to see videos about Psyker Staffs and/or Ogryn weapons and how each one can potentially bring utility in rounding out a squad.
Great video! Been looking for more informative Darktide info! Great call on making it shorter too. Easy to parse and I can watch in while readying up between rounds.
full saying: a jack of all trades is a master of none - but still better than the master of one. most of darktide is knowing your movments, dodges and knowing the weapons reach if you knbow that you can get away with allot bad weapon craft.
Thank you for this guide, awesome work. About your last comment, about it pairing nicely with surge staff or ranged weapon, what force sword would you recommend for a purgatory build ? With what perks ? Cheers !
Thanks for watching! Purgatus pairs nicely with either of the other force swords and which you choose will be up to your playstyle! The Deimos is your Elite/Special problem solver and does very well at small groups or the ambient enemies (idle enemies patrolling). Obscurus is a decent balance between Deimos and Illisi but I think has the best Warp Strike (what I call the special attack). Since both these swords will be used for Elite and Special killing - building into Flak is always good, but then its a choice between Maniac and Unyielding (Maniac is more common in this case) Blessing wise, both swords can follow the same builds as I've mentioned in the video for the Illisi, but I think the Obscurus can make the most of Bloodthirsty with its Warp Strike
This was very insightful. I'm in the process of crafting a bunch of these new force swords (so expensive) - with all these different blessing combos you recommend! I'm not that good a dodging yet (I still need a lot of practise), so I was thinking of the Blessing combo of: *_Slaughterer + Bloodthirsty_* ; which you touched upon. If constant dodging isn't ones prefered/perfected playstyle yet, would Special attack spam (as shown in your video); giving 100% Crit chance on Special attack kill + power boost on kill combo from the above blessings be a good enough substitute...?
Absolutely! While Riposte and Shred are the more flexible Blessings, Bloodthirsty and Warp Strike spam can certainly work. That being said, the reason I don't give it as a recommendation is because I find its probably way too much overkill given the situations you'll be using it. The only time the Bloodthirsty will proc is if you kill something with the special in 1 hit - which is done on hordes and shooters. With Slaughterer alone you can take on a horde and shooters with ease, so I find the value in guaranteed crits on them not as good as being able to have better consistency against things that the Illisi's special won't kill in 1 hit - Elites and Specials. Against these enemies, higher crit chance works out better since especially on something like a Mauler who you can't weakspot hit (cuz carapace helmet) but can get body shot crits on works out much better! Hope this helps!
@@rykenxiv So that's the reason it wasn't as recommened as the others. Amazing feedback/clarification. Just one more thing, for the *_Bloodthirsty_* blessing, do you know if for the latest patch does the 100% crit chance, expire after the first hit - or does it last for 5 seconds? It's one of the last force sword blessings I haven't seen yet let alone collected and tested.
@@WakingDreamer01 With the latest change you have 5 seconds to attack something before it disappears. The reason I say attack is because the very next swing you take after getting a special kill, hit OR miss, will use up the Bloodthirsty buff
Also the iconic passive battle meditation has a 10% to quell 10% peril so running the feat that regens on quelling peril is quite good even without the blessing
Have slaughterer and uncanny strike both tier 4 on this sword and it works really well as an anti-everything. Slaughter to delete hordes and uncanny strike lets you completely negate the armor of carapace and flak.
I am so buggled to see someone not using sliding forward during electro staff charging at all... Anyway, thanks for the video, i d underestimated the Illisi
Rolled one with 20 warp resist and 70+ in the other stats, thing is a menace. 3 rubs puts me at 100 peril; gun-psyker pulling his weight in HI damnation.
hey i like this format, and wanted to say i appreciate you explaining lingo in the process! that's just good inclusion, but it's also great for those of us who forget stuff in like a week of not playing 😅.
I would really love to see that original video. I like longer format stuff that goes into every nitty gritty detail more than "top 5 things you need to know" style that leaves me wanting, but I'm unusual.
The only thing I'm sad about is the special attack not counting as a warp attack, and therefore not working with the "Warp Absorbtion" feat (Gain 10% toughness after killing an enemy with a warp attack), which works on the other two force swords. It would give this sword insane survivability through fast toughness regeneration.
I have good news for you - Warp Absorption not proc-ing has been acknowledged as a bug (on the forums)! So it should work when they decide to fix it. But yea! Using Warp Absorption to get a chunk of toughness back sounds wonderful for a Battle Mage Build
@@rykenxiv I would know! I reported it! I personally have been having more fun using a close to melee Psyker more than a Zealot given the ease in which Psykers can lock up an area and close the distance against ranged enemies. The tools at their disposal truly seem to reward hyper aggressive playstyles more than those of the Zealot, so long as you don't take too much damage. With the new 25% bonus damage at high peril, with how quickly you can build and maintain peril spamming the force attacks, it's very easy to simply light attack the hordes utilizing that bonus damage until the peril is quelled enough for you to use the special yet again (Which seems to be a 97-98%!!!)
The reason I like this weapon? It actually hits the head. A lot of weapons refuse to do that lol. An Evicerator heavy horizontal attack will not hit the head 99% of the time unless you're on the stairs or something.
@@Xandros999 There's some invisible mechanic I've heard called "head magnetism" basically if it hits the head or not when the animation swings into it lol. Something ALL weapons should have but...
@@Acesahn I think in general many hitboxes are just broken, especially for ogryn. You can hit the head directly and it won't register. The latrine shovel doesn't have much of that particular problem though.
Good video. The Illisi has been my go-to since the patch and I haven't even considered swapping back to my Antax when I have this beautiful tool to use. It is currently acting as if it has Deflector inately (so it can block bullets, though I doubt this is intentional and will probably be hotfixed sooner or later) and it means I can run it with two damage blessings and still push groups of shooters more aggressively that I would otherwise. It is like the Power Sword in that it's very, very simple to use correctly, and it does almost everything you need it to do, and do it admirably. The Deimos is supposedly just as good (though admittedly I have no experience with it yet) and it's good to see Fatshark is giving us useful and fun toys to play with.
Man! Your videos are always so informative and well explained. Appreciate the work and research you put into them to help us other Varlets out. "Men united in the purpose of the Emperor are blessed in his sight, and shall live forever in his memory." -Ecclesiarch Deacis IX
So... Ilisi melee psyker? Special attack regularly to build peril. Crit + exorcist to quell that peril. Inner Tranquility to turn that quelling into pretty constant toughness regen. I like the idea of just hanging out up front next to your friendly neighborhood Zealot.
The blessing 4:27 *Unstable Power* is an absolute joke compared too the other +Power blessings? I looks like the have forgotten someting? Maybe STACKS like the other blessings have!?
Yes! Unstable Power stacks up to 5 times - every 20% peril you have gives 1 stack for a max of 25% power and critical peril. Pairs nice with Warp Unleashed!
Still like the original sword more, but I'd use this over the Deimos, because the Warp attack on the regular sword is easily good enough for the more powerful mobs. I'm usually only using the sword when hordes overrun anyway, so a single target sword makes no sense to me.
I though the same thing, but rolled a decent one and took it into Heresy. Lemme just say, its horde clear is WAY better than its description would lead you to believe. Lighting fast attacks that actually do have some horizontal swing to them (not unlike tac axes), and it's light attacks base damage is just nuts, letting you whoop up on elites when you need to. Then of course, it's always nice to have that pocket special that hits like a truck, dropping crushers in about 2 hits with the right blessings/feats. I'd recommend giving it a shot if you haven't. I haven't gotten a great Illisi yet, but so far the Deimos has absolutely out-performed both of the others as a horde-clearer, which is not even its supposed purpose.
Not yet! But don't depend on bugs for your build to work - instead, use it to decide if you enjoy having the blessing and decide if you want to build a sword with Deflector!
While this is in fact true, it has been acknowledged as a bug! That being said, now is a good time to test out if you like deflector or not without having to commit to it on the sword
Ilissi was easy to come up with builds, I agree on all the points too, Have all 3 builds, crit build having a perk bonus to crit too. Now let's figure out how to make a demios not suck.
Hey just wanted to say a thanks for this video. I had looked at the weapon, saw the low damage on the light attacks, tried it out a bit and wasn't impressed with the low damage on horde clear. Didn't even notice it had such a massive weakpoint damage bonus! Just gave it a try in an actual game knowing that I 100% needed to aim for headshots, and it performed great! Happened to find a 375 rating blue in the shop just now which really helped there, lol.
i didn't had any expectation for this sword but dude! i actually carried a diff 5 with this! it destroys every lesser enemy and you have your other attacks for big enemies, plus the charged attack is very good, and the best part is i still dont have a second decent blessing! i cant wait to change it for a good one! i got slaughterer level 2 and with that you good for diff 5 anything else you get is a plus,, pretty good sword
From what I have read on Reddit, you can have extra blessing instead of deflector as it’s currently activating deflector without the blessing even being on the sword 😅
Great as always. I like the review format and it plays to your strength - straight and to the point. I have not gone into the new swords but may do so after your thoughts. I currently run a Mk V with deflector 3 and slaughter 4 so am pretty happy with the load out.
I'd greatly recommend using the creature spawner mod for these showcases involving cleave and other stuff. Good vid. Also, even after the nerf. Bloodthirsty with slaughterer is still the best choice IMO. No Psyker is going to use the Illisi against bosses and monsters if they are going for optimal play.
Bloodthirsty has its place for sure - if you want to make a spam build of course. It's still a strong blessing on the Obscurus since it lets you chain 1-shot almost all Elites and Specials with Blazing Spirit
@@rykenxiv Yup, the only "mandatory" one is slaughterer because increased power is just so busted on a horde clear weapon. You can hit max stacks in one swing. Most people are getting into the groove of spamming charge after every heavy anyways due to the fast passive quell. So getting free guaranteed crit for every single swing might give some new breakpoints on ragers or maulers once slaughterer is fully stacked with mixed horde. Both crit chance blessings are even more niche than bloodthirsty IMO. And the Illisi is the weakest force sword for bosses and monsters, so I'm not sure if would be wise to split it's roles like that.
deimos with slaughterer is waaay better imho, deletes anything in front of you (even hordes) ... while this one kinda struggles against couple of elites ...
I'm glad the Deimos works for you! But for me, it's limited cone of attacks makes it so it takes more work to deal with hordes as compared to the Illisi. That being said, when dealing ambient enemies or small groups, I think the Deimos fairs much better due to its sheer damage!
CLARIFICATION! The heavy attacks have equal damage across all common armour types, increasing infested and unarmoured by 50% and scab by 100% from light attacks. This equalized damage (which is very rare) combined with identical weak spot and crit mulitipliers is why it feels so nice to use! Forgot to add this part in!
What does this mean we should go for on perks?
Same mentioned in the video! This is just to clarify something important about the sword that I missed out on!
I put off leveling Psyker as my last career to 30 because I kept reading people say how bad it was. After leveling it to 30, it's become clear to me that Psyker is the "low skill floor, high skill ceiling" class with the most utility at their disposal to handle just about any situation. I've been playing my psyker for almost 200 missions and have loved every minute of it.
I started with psyker but have stopped playing it as much since the difference in power to it's similarly roled counterpart veteran is too high, it in no way can even come close to competing with what a veteran can do right now. If you don't play the top difficulty of missions like damnnation shock gauntlet you might not experience these crippling output problems psyker has but in those matches games with multiple psykers and no veterans are very telling as things just do not die as fast as they need to despite using the best builds/weapons obtainable.
Yes! I love playing classes that have high skill ceilings with versatility - always means that something to improve and it feels good when you observe yourself getting better at doing them!
@@Wurps I disagree. The difference between Vet and Psyker is that Vet's class-depth and difficulty boils down to "just shoot it." Psyker can be played as a support, frontline, or carry role, whereas Veteran is pretty much shoehorned into the carry role because of their feats and meta weapon pool. A good Psyker player with a surge, trauma, or voidstrike staff can make a bad Veteran player look like a good Veteran player because everything they're shooting at is either immobilized or on the ground, not to mention the free damage buff to elites in the Psyker's coherency radius. The Force Sword's push can knock a crusher on their ass, and brain burst gives everyone on the team a free 25% damage bonus against a bigger threat. The team isnt really at a disadvantage if they don't have a Veteran, but they _are_ if they don't have a Psyker on their team.
@@channingtaintum You're also picking it up after a recent round of buffs. Keep that in mind. At the game's release, Psyker was unmitigated garbage.
I run three different builds: fire, lightning, and autopistol, all with this sword btw. Psyker is so versatile. But also squishy. Very squishy.
6:00 Unfortunately Exorcist doesn't work the same way as Transfer Peril, the main word being "repeated" weakspot hits. Meaning you have to be hitting *the same* weakspot multiple times on the same target for the blessing to work, unlike Transfer Peril where you just need to hit *any* weakspot. Easily testable in the grinder. Build peril to 80, swipe across some heads, peril remained 80.
This frustrates me to no end. I realize it would be kind of broken, but as it currently is, the blessing is just useless
So I went in tested to make sure I knew how it worked. Yes, it doesn't function the same as Transfer Peril where any weakspot hit will quell peril. Rather, it works as long as you get chain weak spot hits. That means, as long as you get 2 or 3 attacks that consecutively get weak spots without missing in between, Exorcist will work. Doesn't have to be on the same target. A single heavy chop across multiple enemies is still consider 1 attack and therefore is not counted as repeated
I compared an Iliisi with and without Exorcist with the same moveset and the one with Exorcist went from 100 to 0 in 9 seconds of constant combat (i'm sure I missed some chain weak spot hits), but the one without took 13 seconds to quell to 0
@@rykenxiv Correction: Exorcist requires "repeated weak spot hits" not "chained weak spot hits" and those are 2 different wordings. For example if you take Shred on Eviscerator and do heavy attack it will get max stacks with 1 swing if you hit 5 enemies. While blessings with "repeated hits" wordings will get you only 1 stack per swing of the weapon
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Can we expect the same review for Deimos MkIV Blaze Force Sword ?
Yes! That is in the pipeline!
@@rykenxiv Amazing, I love your videos !
Love this style of Video, Would love to see videos about Psyker Staffs and/or Ogryn weapons and how each one can potentially bring utility in rounding out a squad.
Great format - I look forward to more weapon breakdowns, especially the staves.
A staff review is in the works at the moment - won't be long to wait!
@@rykenxiv Excited!
Seems like Shred/Slaughter would be the go-to blessings for damage. Blazing Spirit/blood thirsty sounds fun to t
I have been checking Melk every day for weeks and no bloodthirsty on either eviscerator or force sword.
Great video! Been looking for more informative Darktide info! Great call on making it shorter too. Easy to parse and I can watch in while readying up between rounds.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
full saying: a jack of all trades is a master of none - but still better than the master of one. most of darktide is knowing your movments, dodges and knowing the weapons reach if you knbow that you can get away with allot bad weapon craft.
Thank you for this guide, awesome work. About your last comment, about it pairing nicely with surge staff or ranged weapon, what force sword would you recommend for a purgatory build ? With what perks ?
Cheers !
Thanks for watching! Purgatus pairs nicely with either of the other force swords and which you choose will be up to your playstyle! The Deimos is your Elite/Special problem solver and does very well at small groups or the ambient enemies (idle enemies patrolling). Obscurus is a decent balance between Deimos and Illisi but I think has the best Warp Strike (what I call the special attack).
Since both these swords will be used for Elite and Special killing - building into Flak is always good, but then its a choice between Maniac and Unyielding (Maniac is more common in this case)
Blessing wise, both swords can follow the same builds as I've mentioned in the video for the Illisi, but I think the Obscurus can make the most of Bloodthirsty with its Warp Strike
@@rykenxiv Many thanks, I will experience with both and see which suits my needs !
This was very insightful. I'm in the process of crafting a bunch of these new force swords (so expensive) - with all these different blessing combos you recommend! I'm not that good a dodging yet (I still need a lot of practise), so I was thinking of the Blessing combo of: *_Slaughterer + Bloodthirsty_* ; which you touched upon.
If constant dodging isn't ones prefered/perfected playstyle yet, would Special attack spam (as shown in your video); giving 100% Crit chance on Special attack kill + power boost on kill combo from the above blessings be a good enough substitute...?
Absolutely! While Riposte and Shred are the more flexible Blessings, Bloodthirsty and Warp Strike spam can certainly work. That being said, the reason I don't give it as a recommendation is because I find its probably way too much overkill given the situations you'll be using it. The only time the Bloodthirsty will proc is if you kill something with the special in 1 hit - which is done on hordes and shooters.
With Slaughterer alone you can take on a horde and shooters with ease, so I find the value in guaranteed crits on them not as good as being able to have better consistency against things that the Illisi's special won't kill in 1 hit - Elites and Specials.
Against these enemies, higher crit chance works out better since especially on something like a Mauler who you can't weakspot hit (cuz carapace helmet) but can get body shot crits on works out much better! Hope this helps!
@@rykenxiv So that's the reason it wasn't as recommened as the others. Amazing feedback/clarification. Just one more thing, for the *_Bloodthirsty_* blessing, do you know if for the latest patch does the 100% crit chance, expire after the first hit - or does it last for 5 seconds? It's one of the last force sword blessings I haven't seen yet let alone collected and tested.
@@WakingDreamer01 With the latest change you have 5 seconds to attack something before it disappears. The reason I say attack is because the very next swing you take after getting a special kill, hit OR miss, will use up the Bloodthirsty buff
"The Crusher is too THICC"
Settle down now Ryken, the commissar wouldn't like hearing that kind of talk...
Also the iconic passive battle meditation has a 10% to quell 10% peril so running the feat that regens on quelling peril is quite good even without the blessing
Illisi + heavy attack + special attack = all living creatures will die.
I've got a IV blessing giving me a 100% CRIT chance after every special kill.
Have slaughterer and uncanny strike both tier 4 on this sword and it works really well as an anti-everything. Slaughter to delete hordes and uncanny strike lets you completely negate the armor of carapace and flak.
That's a good call! I'll have to try this for myself too!
I am so buggled to see someone not using sliding forward during electro staff charging at all...
Anyway, thanks for the video, i d underestimated the Illisi
Warp unleashed and the blessing unstable power what work the same you are a straight up killing machine from what i understood.
Rolled one with 20 warp resist and 70+ in the other stats, thing is a menace. 3 rubs puts me at 100 peril; gun-psyker pulling his weight in HI damnation.
hey i like this format, and wanted to say i appreciate you explaining lingo in the process! that's just good inclusion, but it's also great for those of us who forget stuff in like a week of not playing 😅.
I would really love to see that original video. I like longer format stuff that goes into every nitty gritty detail more than "top 5 things you need to know" style that leaves me wanting, but I'm unusual.
The only thing I'm sad about is the special attack not counting as a warp attack, and therefore not working with the "Warp Absorbtion" feat (Gain 10% toughness after killing an enemy with a warp attack), which works on the other two force swords. It would give this sword insane survivability through fast toughness regeneration.
I have good news for you - Warp Absorption not proc-ing has been acknowledged as a bug (on the forums)! So it should work when they decide to fix it. But yea! Using Warp Absorption to get a chunk of toughness back sounds wonderful for a Battle Mage Build
@@rykenxiv I would know! I reported it!
I personally have been having more fun using a close to melee Psyker more than a Zealot given the ease in which Psykers can lock up an area and close the distance against ranged enemies. The tools at their disposal truly seem to reward hyper aggressive playstyles more than those of the Zealot, so long as you don't take too much damage. With the new 25% bonus damage at high peril, with how quickly you can build and maintain peril spamming the force attacks, it's very easy to simply light attack the hordes utilizing that bonus damage until the peril is quelled enough for you to use the special yet again (Which seems to be a 97-98%!!!)
Oh! Thank you for your service! o7
The reason I like this weapon? It actually hits the head. A lot of weapons refuse to do that lol. An Evicerator heavy horizontal attack will not hit the head 99% of the time unless you're on the stairs or something.
You may like the vet shovel too. (With ogryn shovel I have to crouch to get headshots because he's max height)
@@Xandros999 There's some invisible mechanic I've heard called "head magnetism" basically if it hits the head or not when the animation swings into it lol. Something ALL weapons should have but...
@@Acesahn I think in general many hitboxes are just broken, especially for ogryn. You can hit the head directly and it won't register. The latrine shovel doesn't have much of that particular problem though.
A "lightning review" *Uses Surge Staff in video* 😂
Good video. The Illisi has been my go-to since the patch and I haven't even considered swapping back to my Antax when I have this beautiful tool to use. It is currently acting as if it has Deflector inately (so it can block bullets, though I doubt this is intentional and will probably be hotfixed sooner or later) and it means I can run it with two damage blessings and still push groups of shooters more aggressively that I would otherwise. It is like the Power Sword in that it's very, very simple to use correctly, and it does almost everything you need it to do, and do it admirably. The Deimos is supposedly just as good (though admittedly I have no experience with it yet) and it's good to see Fatshark is giving us useful and fun toys to play with.
Your videos are so enlightening! 😲
Man! Your videos are always so informative and well explained. Appreciate the work and research you put into them to help us other Varlets out.
"Men united in the purpose of the Emperor are blessed in his sight, and shall live forever in his memory." -Ecclesiarch Deacis IX
So... Ilisi melee psyker? Special attack regularly to build peril. Crit + exorcist to quell that peril. Inner Tranquility to turn that quelling into pretty constant toughness regen. I like the idea of just hanging out up front next to your friendly neighborhood Zealot.
It's even better now that they've fixed the special attack to work with Warp Absorption!
The blessing 4:27 *Unstable Power* is an absolute joke compared too the other +Power blessings?
I looks like the have forgotten someting?
Maybe STACKS like the other blessings have!?
Yes! Unstable Power stacks up to 5 times - every 20% peril you have gives 1 stack for a max of 25% power and critical peril. Pairs nice with Warp Unleashed!
Still like the original sword more, but I'd use this over the Deimos, because the
Warp attack on the regular sword is easily good enough for the more powerful mobs. I'm usually only using the sword when hordes overrun anyway, so a single target sword makes no sense to me.
I though the same thing, but rolled a decent one and took it into Heresy. Lemme just say, its horde clear is WAY better than its description would lead you to believe. Lighting fast attacks that actually do have some horizontal swing to them (not unlike tac axes), and it's light attacks base damage is just nuts, letting you whoop up on elites when you need to. Then of course, it's always nice to have that pocket special that hits like a truck, dropping crushers in about 2 hits with the right blessings/feats.
I'd recommend giving it a shot if you haven't. I haven't gotten a great Illisi yet, but so far the Deimos has absolutely out-performed both of the others as a horde-clearer, which is not even its supposed purpose.
My fav sword. Great vid man! New power sword has deflector "in them" by default - did devs fix that?
Not yet! But don't depend on bugs for your build to work - instead, use it to decide if you enjoy having the blessing and decide if you want to build a sword with Deflector!
Oh yes pls more of this
this review format is excellent. keep it up.
I really like the detailed mechanic breakdown and interactions with blessings and suggestions you made.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great content. Earned a sub. More coming would be great.
Thanks for the support! More to come indeed!
putting deflector on any of the new force swords is useless because they have it built in
Until they fix it - it's been acknowledged that this is bug!
Oh on the illisi it has deflector by default, no blessing needed
While this is in fact true, it has been acknowledged as a bug! That being said, now is a good time to test out if you like deflector or not without having to commit to it on the sword
@@rykenxiv yeah don't rely on it staying i'm useing for the fun factor, i do think deflector should be default on all force swords!
@@rykenxiv Shouldn't be a bug tbh
Very helpful video. Please continue these
More to come!
I do prefer deimos but this one is great too. Deimos when?
Deimos is in the works but I gotta give some love to the other weapons too!
Good stuff. Would love to see more of these weapon reviews!
Thanks for watching! More to come!
Great video with so much information
Glad you enjoyed it
Ilissi was easy to come up with builds, I agree on all the points too, Have all 3 builds, crit build having a perk bonus to crit too. Now let's figure out how to make a demios not suck.
Very the nice review indeed sir, now I know what god roll to go for. Maybe can add recommended attack combo/pattern for melee weapon with next review?
Sensei Ryken once again blesses us with his wisdom. Thank for you for this enlightenment sir.
Nice was waiting for this.
More to come!
Hey just wanted to say a thanks for this video. I had looked at the weapon, saw the low damage on the light attacks, tried it out a bit and wasn't impressed with the low damage on horde clear. Didn't even notice it had such a massive weakpoint damage bonus! Just gave it a try in an actual game knowing that I 100% needed to aim for headshots, and it performed great! Happened to find a 375 rating blue in the shop just now which really helped there, lol.
i didn't had any expectation for this sword but dude! i actually carried a diff 5 with this! it destroys every lesser enemy and you have your other attacks for big enemies, plus the charged attack is very good, and the best part is i still dont have a second decent blessing! i cant wait to change it for a good one! i got slaughterer level 2 and with that you good for diff 5 anything else you get is a plus,, pretty good sword
This was a great review style. I especially appreciated the overlay of the blessings as I'm still learning the game.
dope vid, cheers
Appreciate it!
From what I have read on Reddit, you can have extra blessing instead of deflector as it’s currently activating deflector without the blessing even being on the sword 😅
Yup, it's currently working but it's a bug. So best to take advantage for it now to see if you enjoy using it!
Unstable Power is really strong if you are also using Warp Unleashed
Indeed! No need to think about managing buffs!
Great as always. I like the review format and it plays to your strength - straight and to the point. I have not gone into the new swords but may do so after your thoughts.
I currently run a Mk V with deflector 3 and slaughter 4 so am pretty happy with the load out.
That's a perfectly fine sword!
Really like this review format, great work!
Much appreciated!
Great video! I love this style of review and look forward to more.
Awesome, thank you!
Great format looking forward to more!
Thank for watching! More to come indeed!
I'd greatly recommend using the creature spawner mod for these showcases involving cleave and other stuff. Good vid.
Also, even after the nerf. Bloodthirsty with slaughterer is still the best choice IMO. No Psyker is going to use the Illisi against bosses and monsters if they are going for optimal play.
Bloodthirsty has its place for sure - if you want to make a spam build of course. It's still a strong blessing on the Obscurus since it lets you chain 1-shot almost all Elites and Specials with Blazing Spirit
@@rykenxiv Yup, the only "mandatory" one is slaughterer because increased power is just so busted on a horde clear weapon. You can hit max stacks in one swing.
Most people are getting into the groove of spamming charge after every heavy anyways due to the fast passive quell. So getting free guaranteed crit for every single swing might give some new breakpoints on ragers or maulers once slaughterer is fully stacked with mixed horde.
Both crit chance blessings are even more niche than bloodthirsty IMO. And the Illisi is the weakest force sword for bosses and monsters, so I'm not sure if would be wise to split it's roles like that.
deimos with slaughterer is waaay better imho, deletes anything in front of you (even hordes) ...
while this one kinda struggles against couple of elites ...
I'm glad the Deimos works for you! But for me, it's limited cone of attacks makes it so it takes more work to deal with hordes as compared to the Illisi. That being said, when dealing ambient enemies or small groups, I think the Deimos fairs much better due to its sheer damage!