Voidstrike staff is too powerful vs others.

[Dominus Logik]

For the pskers 4 available staffs the Voidstrike is far too good versus the others.

the surge staffs lightning is okay for some light crowd control but is completely worthless once you exceed 6 or so enemies its more of a hindrance than help but it also takes between three and four zaps to kill dregs on malice. at first when taking it through the meat grinder I figured it was just meant to kill armored elites but if feels like its weaker when taken into actual missions. having a unique light attack could make this staff much better

the fire staff does way to little damage per second to do its job of killing groaners and poxwalkers since they usually will reach you and slap you around a bit, there is room for this staff to have a good build using 6 warp siphon stacks and the last perk that makes soul fire build warp charges, the staff itself just needs a tweak to be better against hordes.

the trauma staff isn't really bad as much as it is boring, the charge up for its heavy is a bit too slow and its reach is too short to be useful but maybe some better stat roles can get it to work out but the staff still feels like a straight downgrade to the voidstrike.

the voidstrike staff itself is good but its also too good, the penetration and explosive radius of its charged shots makes it too much of a jack of all trades, it has high single target damage and it clears hordes better than anything else in the game from my experience so far. I think maybe a slight nerf to the penetration is needed to bring it more in line with other tools but they have to buff the other staffs if they nerf this one.

[JinxTheWorld]

How about not nerfing the only good staff? How about buffing the trash staffs to the void staffs level? Did ya think of that?

[Draescan]

It's not that it's too powerful. The voidstrike just hits the middle ground perfectly and because of that it feels more satisfying to use. It's supposed to be a catch all, and it does so well. The issue is that the other specialist staves don't do their jobs well enough in general to justify switching off of one in particular that you prefer. Almost all the psykers I see late game are using the surge staff. No one touches voidstrike for the most part out of hazard 3.

I prefer the voidstrike because it's just "good" for most things, not amazing, not fantastic, just good....and doesn't have that annoying ass issue the surge staff does where I finish my chain lightning and randomly gain another 5% peril for no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ reason and starts the self destruct sequence XD

[Hmmm]

i can't even use the fire staff, it just instant crashes everytime

[Theutus]

İlk olarak JinxTheWorld tarafından gönderildi:

How about not nerfing the only good staff? How about buffing the trash staffs to the void staffs level? Did ya think of that?

This, thank you.

[Nokturnal]

IDK if the Flamethrower Staff I found was just complete trash or they're all complete trash, but it couldn't even kill a regular Dreg Gunner with a full blast of it's right click and that ♥♥♥♥ takes a while to go off lol. It also is just a worse version of Zealot's Flamer. Best use I could make of it while testing it on a map was spam left click just to stagger enemies, because it's damage felt non-existent lol.

And yea Trauma could definitely use a buff to how big the ground explosion starts. It's entirely too small and you gotta spend a lot of time and Peril to make it big enough to actually kill a good amount of enemies.

Even Voidstrike could use a buff (I just call it the Fireball Staff), both Trauma and Voidstrike's projectiles could have their speed increased. Even Voidstrike's AoE on the fully charged Fireball could be a little bigger, though that might just be due to the one I was using. It does good single target though.

[Orius]

İlk olarak JinxTheWorld tarafından gönderildi:

How about not nerfing the only good staff? How about buffing the trash staffs to the void staffs level? Did ya think of that?

100% this. Voidstrike feels great. That's something to aim for, not the other way around. How anyone would want to nerf it is beyond me.

[Muu]

İlk olarak JinxTheWorld tarafından gönderildi:

How about not nerfing the only good staff? How about buffing the trash staffs to the void staffs level? Did ya think of that?

Exactly, thanks for beating me to it

[DUCKER]

Only reason it seems good is because all the other staffs are trash.

[Black Hammer]

Lightning isn't trash, the CC is excellent and represents a competitive option next to voidstrike. The other two staffs just don't perform their role well enough.

Trauma staff needs more range and either a larger AOE or more damage to the few things it does hit. Flamethrower needs to output damage faster, have its particle effects accurately represent its AOE (right now the VFX are much wider than the actual effect), and offer either a better range option on LMB or some sort of proper hitstun.

[Donnicton]

İlk olarak JinxTheWorld tarafından gönderildi:

How about not nerfing the only good staff? How about buffing the trash staffs to the void staffs level? Did ya think of that?

Sadly as a longtime Sienna player that has generally not been Fatshark's Modus Operandi. If there's one good staff in a selection of bad/mediocre staves, the good staff is what will be nerfed to put them all on the same level.

[Zheppon]

İlk olarak JinxTheWorld tarafından gönderildi:

How about not nerfing the only good staff? How about buffing the trash staffs to the void staffs level? Did ya think of that?

if only everybody have this kind of mindset

[Booh]

Sure, if it's too overpowered, other players may feel useless and carried but I doupt it would happen because of one weapon. And it is just because the other staves aren't that great.
That put aside, what's the issue with cool weapons and why call for nerfs ?

Wait am I enjoying myself a little ? Devs, nerf it now !
*penitent picks up his whip again and starts lacerating his back*

[Ghuldarkar]

Not surprised fatshark loves the "fireball" staff the most, again.

[Draescan]

İlk olarak Ghuldarkar tarafından gönderildi:

Not surprised fatshark loves the "fireball" staff the most, again.

I wouldn't go that far. I don't think it's intentional with how stylized the other staves are. Especially the firestorm wanna be. There's too much attention to the nuance of the individual staves for it to be a simple case of picking a favorite. They've simply fallen behind where the psykers need them to be in order to be competitive.

People swear by that surge staff but I cannot figure out why (beyond the stun I get that) you would want to use the darn thing. It's limited on the number of targets it can affect at one time best I can tell.

[Donnicton]

İlk olarak Draescan tarafından gönderildi:

People swear by that surge staff but I cannot figure out why (beyond the stun I get that) you would want to use the darn thing. It's limited on the number of targets it can affect at one time best I can tell.

Basically the logic is that in like 4+ you want to have Surge staff so you can keep everything spam staggered while your other teammates secure the actual kills. Which is complete dogvomit from a gameplay perspective, but results-wise it does the job.