Max Out Your Damage With This Psyker Build | Warhammer 40K: Darktide

[Music] hello my friends and welcome to the channel for a look at a dark tide pyer build that will have you existing at the edge of Madness and reaping the dark rewards that the warp provides I've tried the more standard Safety First a sail build using venting shriek to keep your peril constantly low and don't get me wrong I enjoyed it it's a very solid build that makes Peril management easy so you don't go fully Mad in the middle of a mission at the wrong time that being said I wanted to try something a little different so for this build I'm running scrier gaze which sends you into a trance that gives you a massive critical hit chance bonus and slowly boosts your damage over time then I'm specking as much as I can into critical hit chance and overall damage increases to max out the lethal potential of each magic Missile in my Arsenal it requires a lot more finesse to manage Peril since you're constantly generating it while in scrier gaze but the stacking damage and crit bonuses become really satisfying once you get the hang of it and I've been successfully running this build in oric level missions for a few days now so if that sounds good for you stick around and check it out I'm going to start off by going over my talent tree for this build and how it all works right at the start of this section though I'll leave up a full image of the talent tree so if you want to just screenshot it and get back to the game well here you go to start this whole thing off I take the four toughness regen talents at the very top of the tree soul stealer quietude warp expenditure and metal with these four talents you're almost constantly regenerating toughness either through taking out enemies with a sail or through the constant Peril generation and quelling that this build is almost always doing next I take battle meditation which essentially gives you a 10% chance to throw a free aale Shard because it quells the exact amount of peril that each shot generates then I take perfect timing which lets you stack up to 15% extra crit chance while using a sail now obviously I'm going into the asale blitz ability next and I take both ethereal and quick shards as modifiers making each missile Pierce more targets and regenerate quicker so they're online more often after this I take the toughness boosts and mind in motion so I can quell Peril while moving quickly and then I go into the pressence aura Talent which just gives you and all allies in coherence 4% extra crit chance simple but quite effective after the AA you get a really great ability for this build and really for any psycher build it's called empathic evasion this Talent makes you count as dodging against ranged attacks specifically for 1 second after each critical hit it doesn't say that there's a cooldown so as far as I know you basically get 1 second of invincibility frames against ranged attacks after each and every critical hit you make and with this build sometimes that's happening constantly this build is all about crits so when once you have your crit chance maxed out this procs all the time and sometimes you basically just become invulnerable to range damage for decent periods of time since you crit so often next I take the ranged damage boost and then go into the scrier Gaze combat ability this ability gives you 10% extra damage and 20% extra critical hit chance as soon as you activate it and then it generates an additional 1% damage buff per second up to a maximum of 30% however you also generate Peril constantly while you're in scrier gaze slowly at first but faster and faster the longer you stay in it once you hit critical Peril the ability ends but the damage bonuses stick around for an extra 10 seconds I also take the precognition ability modifier which makes every single weak spot kill add Stacks to scrier gaze and adds an additional stacking finesse damage increase which also goes up to 30% so with all of these bonuses maxed out you end up with 40% extra base damage 30% additional crit and weak spot damage on top of that and a flat 20% extra critical hit chance the idea is to pop scrier gaze basically anytime you can and build up the 60 Stacks either by passively quelling Peril and just spending time in it or getting weak spot kills to quickly build the stacks without being in it for so long then you play a balancing game between spamming a sail and quelling Peril until you hit 100% then you quickly quell that Peril and spam as much as possible with the full damage bonus before just repeating the process over and over again you really have to spend some time learning the Rhythm but once you get it you'll be stacking up that full damage bonus and watching single aale shards Pierce through multiple Elite enemies in no time at all all right so after picking up sc's gaze next I grab the crit chance and the health boosts and then I start going down towards empowered psionics as the Keystone talent for this setup warp Rider is a pretty nice addition to this build since you're constantly generating Peril and in scrier gaze you're generally going to be over 50% and the Damage bonus from this Talent will be pretty high most of the time because of that but the real meat and potatoes here is empowered psionics which every psycher player already probably knows is kind of the bomb if you plan on using your Blitz ability as your main damage when using a sale empowered psionics gives you a flat 7.5% chance that each kill will grant the next aale charge minus 100% Peril Cost Plus 50% damage and not consume any ammo this is already quite strong each aail charge can potentially take out multiple enemies especially with the damage Buffs and that triggers multiple chances to get a stack of empowered psionics and just giving you free shots and extra damage all the time with the overpowering souls modifier active you're guaranteed to gain empowered psionics on any Elite kill and this build is kind of meant to Target big groups of Elites and just wipe them out with the big crit damage so you'll be gaining these guaranteed charges quite often next I also take charged up which lets you hold three charges of empowered psionics so if you get lucky on the percentages or you manage to nail two or three elites with a single fully stacked charge you can get these triple stacks of empowered psionics actually quite easily to round off this section of the talent tree I also take psychic leeching which just adds even more life steal to this build and it also restores toughness to your teammates while you're using your Blitz turning you into a little healing station of death as well empowered psionics is great all by itself but importantly for this build it makes sc's gaze a lot more manageable you generate Peril while in scryers gaze but with empowered psionics you are constantly getting Stacks that make a sale cost no Peril when you use it this makes the balancing act around your peril generation a lot easier and for probably probably the first 15 seconds of scrier gaze you almost won't even notice the extra Peril since you won't be spending much to fire out your aale shards after this I spend my last couple talents to get over to the Puppet Master Talent which increases your coherency radius but more importantly the solidity Talent this one is a lifesaver for this build increasing your peril quelling speed by 30% so not only do you move faster while quelling because of mind and motion from earlier but you reduce Peril much more quick quickly which really is helpful at letting you stay in scrier gaze for longer periods of time and max out those 30 stacks of extra damage more consistently and that basically covers it for the talents I'm using on this build I've really enjoyed this setup as I feel it provides a pretty engaging gameplay Loop of building up those stacks for extra damage and then unleashing supercharged assale volleys on big groups of Specialists and Elites in the oric missions watching A Single Shard take off the heads of multiple Gunners and flamers and shotgunners never really gets old to me and I find that the sheer damage of each shot when it full Stacks made clearing some big annoying mobs in oric missions actually pretty simple now when it comes to the equipment on this build I'm going to be really upfront and say that I don't have a lot of recommendations outside of running a void staff in a dueling sword I'm not an expert in the blessings on these weapons because to be quite honest I barely ever used anything except a sale on my psycher missions so I never really spent a lot of time Min maxing the stats on these things the void strike staff is really quite useful for a few situations first off it's a nice fallback if you ever run out of a sale charges and because it does warp damage it synergizes with some of your talents from the tree the staff is also going to be what you pull out when you run into armored enemies like Crushers and monstrosities since a saale specifically is kind of useless against armored enemies for the dueling sword this thing is just a nice pairing with the empathic evasion talent that grants you the dodging status on critical hits you can boost the crit chance of this sword with blessings and you have a lot of Base crit chance from your talents and this thing attacks really quickly so you can fish for crits while fighting off hordes that surprise you out of nowhere I'll be honest though even in oric missions I found I was usually just backpedaling and spamming a sail at hordes to wave clear them really quickly but you will be forced to swap to your sword sometimes when you get really surprised and need to push things back for my curious I focused on getting combat ability regeneration on all three of them so I can get back into sc's gaze faster and then I tried to get extra wounds just in case I go over 100 Peril and go insane other than that damage reduction from snipers or Gunners is also pretty nice and that more or less covers it for my psycher build I'm definitely Keen to hear your thoughts on it is the risk worth the reward or do you think being safe and going for venting shriek to just get rid of your peril is worth losing out on so much potential damage thanks for checking out the video I've got links to my twitch stream and Discord server down below for anyone interested and until next time stay safe out there in the hive City

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Length: 10min 14sec (614 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 19 2023