What is the best staff for Psykers in your opinion?

[Marcus]

Hello, I been trying the Pskyer and experimenting with different staff. Personally I quite like the void blast staff and the lighting staff. Which staff do you enjoy using? Thanks.

[Anri of Astora]

surge staff are best, followed by purgatus

[SmallGespenst]

Depends on what you want, Surge is great for stunlocks, Purg is probably the best anti-horde, and Trauma and Void are good all round (though I do prefer Void)
none of them can cover every scenario and which one is best depends on what your team is lacking

[Narky]

Surge. Works into every composition.

[KayO]

Most psyker tryhards will recommend the Surge staff for T4 and T5 because it can be used to stunlock enemies for your zealots to finish off.

An interesting strategy I've seen some other psykers use, is to clear out entire hordes with Ascendant Blaze combined with Warp Battery. These psykers tend to do most of their ranged damage with Brain Burst in order to build up their warp charges, then use a Recon Lasgun as backup for when they don't have time to quell their peril.

[Narky]

Originally posted by KayO:

Most psyker tryhards will recommend the Surge staff for T4 and T5 because it can be used to stunlock enemies for your zealots to finish off.

An interesting strategy I've seen some other psykers use, is to clear out entire hordes with Ascendant Blaze combined with Warp Battery. These psykers tend to do most of their ranged damage with Brain Burst in order to build up their warp charges, then use a Recon Lasgun as backup for when they don't have time to quell their peril.

Brain Burst is inefficient and should only be used to clip wayward Sharpshooters/specials when your sharpshooter can't.

[Dr. Badnews]

depends on the team comp, if you have no flamers/ fast horde clearers, Purgatus. If you do, Surge for that perma stun on bigger folks and bonus damage on armored units

[EastCLiff]

Force sword.
It's not a joke, seriously and literally.

[KayO]

Originally posted by Amour fou, animus:

Brain Burst is inefficient and should only be used to clip wayward Sharpshooters/specials when your sharpshooter can't.

I know.

This more of a wacky strat for PUGs on T3 and 4. Use the Surge staff and a well coordinated team for T5.

[Professor H. Farnsworth]

Surge and Purgatus staff takes the price big time, it depends on your team.. Purgatus is amazing for hordes especially on T5 and Surge staff for Elites/Specials and them pesky Scab Shooters.

Either way you can't really go wrong.. Just don't use Voidstrike/Trauma both just spray enemies everywhere.. Bad for business.

Generally I would take Surge if you're in doubt about your team's ability to kill hordes.

[Jamie7Gs]

A trauma staff with +6 rending on full charge with 80 charge/peril is worth considering as well. That's like a 1.2 second full charge rending debuff on a huge AOE. Great for chonkers mixed in with the hordes.

[Khloros]

For fun? void, great for horde clearing. To be the most beneficial to the team? Surge. Being able to outright deny mutants, and pox bursters is insane.

[KTVindicare]

For me. My preferences go Voidstrike > Surge > Trauma > Purgatus

I see little to no reason to ever pick the Purgatus staff over any of the others. You're sacrificing range, CC potential, and damage vs armored by taking it.

All of the Staves are good vs Hordes, but the other Staves bring something else to the table, Purgatus is ONLY good vs Hordes it's not good vs anything else.

Trauma Staff is a little bit better. It deals greater burst damage and causes great amounts of stagger vs Elites in addition to having good horde clear, but the high peril cost on the explosion REALLY hurts it. If it had more void resistance it would be much better.

For me, it's really just a contest between the last two. Surge gives you strong CC ability at medium range. Void Strike gives you long range Horde Clear, and Suppression capability while still being strong enough to also kill elites. I find more value in what Void Strike brings more often than I find myself wishing I had the CC of the Surge Staff.

[v4nd4hl]

recon lasgun

[Fudman_OhTu]

I like surge for the stuns but honestly all the staves kinda suck imo

[Khloros]

Originally posted by Fudman_OhTu:

I like surge for the stuns but honestly all the staves kinda suck imo

TBH i really wish staves came with different primary fire moads as well.

WTB beam staff