What's the secret to perilous focus?

[Ultimate Pheer]

I've been trying for a while now, and I can't seem to get it; I take the Illisi, I go to maps with huge hordes, I turn on gaze, and Ican never seem to kill enough. Was Gaze nerfed at some point to generate more quickly? I have the skills that decrease peril generation and even the blessing that reduces peril on hit, and I still can't seem to get it.

I'm even using the voidstrike with transfer peril alongside it, and that isn't helping either.

[Ishan451]

Use a gun. Like an Infantry Autogun or Recon Lasgun. Any horde killing gun.

[Ultimate Pheer]

Is there any specific combo of stats and blessings? Or should any work on a moderately sized horde, and I'm just ♥♥♥♥ at this game?

[Anaryl, Emperor of Sol. GEH]

You have to decharge the peril at least once during the 'spree'.

I really struggled with finding the right conditions for this at first - but it turns out it was pretty straightforward - basically go to Carnival on Heresy or Malice + (ideally by yourself) and after you breach you get to the corridor with all the guys - and just open up.

The gotcha that I missed was one guys post which said "make sure you start quelling at around 50% peril" - I t ried this and it ended up being at 90% but it worked first time. That's basically the trick - trying to do it on one 'quell' won't be enough. Just try to quell once and keep going.

Got it first try after that/.

[Rift]

Get an Illisi Mk5 force sword with the blessing "Exorcist". Every weakspot hit after the first will instantly quell 2-5% peril, and can activate multiple times per swing if you're fighting a dense horde. This combined with the talent "Battle Meditation" should let you easily finish the penance by mashing light attacks into a crowd.

it's important to note that Exorcist will not activate if you oneshot an enemy, as it needs consecutive headshots to work. As a result, blessings or talents that push your light attack damage too high may make this penance harder to get.

[Skyisblue-.]

Get a decent columnus auto rifle, go to any map with decent bottlenecks and wait for a horde, hit F and start blasting. With the right scriers gaze build you will probably end up just accidentally getting this so long as you are willing to unload into pox walkers.

[Real_]

its allot of rng and timing] the way i completed perilous focus was i used the "accatran mkii recon lasgun" with [dumdum]4 and [infernus]4 this gun is a bad roll other than those 2 perks just aim for the face and be close enough for dumdum to work.

the class perks from the top i picked
[battle mediation]
[perilous combustion]
[blitz]brain rupture]-> [kenetic resonance]
[wildfire]
[aura]seer's presence]
[ability]scrier's gaze]->[warp speed]-> [endurance] then
[keystone] disrupt destiny] -> [purloin providence]

you will have 6 points to use how you want after i would suggest putting them in anything relating to crits or peril generation.

its a dumb build just like the penance you just wait for a wave and pull out the lasgun and shoot a funnel point everything explodes and gets set on fire no need to swap just shooting and dodging ignore quelling just wait for it to go to peril to go to 0% before activating it again.

if you need a melee just go with a clasic "deimos mkiv blaze force sword" with [uncanny strike]4 i had to complete this on damnation i wasn't getting enough enemy's, i took me 8 games using this build.

[Lucius]

There's no secret, just keep using it on hordes. No need to use exorcist blessing (which suck by virtue of locking you out of precog or riposte or whatever else, ie taking exorcist has a high opportunity cost) you'll get the penance eventually.
Keep using scrier's gaze anyway afterwards because it's very strong in general.

[Arani]

Originally posted by Ultimate Pheer:

I've been trying for a while now, and I can't seem to get it; I take the Illisi, I go to maps with huge hordes, I turn on gaze, and Ican never seem to kill enough. Was Gaze nerfed at some point to generate more quickly? I have the skills that decrease peril generation and even the blessing that reduces peril on hit, and I still can't seem to get it.

I'm even using the voidstrike with transfer peril alongside it, and that isn't helping either.

What is Perilous Focus? There's no search for penances so I have no clue. I did all the psyker penances within the first week or so after the penance patch came out tho.

If it's about stacking Scrier's up to 30, the easiest way to get there and keep it there is Precognition and an Illisi with Exorcist. If it's not about stacks but total duration, then Reality Anchor & Illisi with Exorcist, along with a staff to quell (so Quietude). Tho it's a bit so-so since Precog makes the killing itself easier so in denser mobs it might last longer than Reality Anchor. Depends on what the penance needs. Precog is definitely the better pick overall if you can go there.

Either way, anything that buffs the Illisi would be good, so Disrupt Destiny to buff its weakspot dmg and Slaughterer on the Illisi to buff the raw dmg & cleave. Tho back then I think I just used Shred for the crit & crit-based talent synergies.

Exorcist's description is wrong tho. It's not repeated weakspot hits, it's comboed weakspot hits. So no specials, pushes, not even push-cancels, nothing. Just lights & heavies one after the other. Basically do heavy > light > repeat over and over at head height, and it'll be proccing with every strike. That's pretty much my standard Scrier's melee build and on T5+ there's more than enough mobs to keep it going for ridiculously long. Between how fast Precog stacks Scrier's up like that and how long it can keep going, Exorcist is just insane like this.

Edit: Also that skull stimm (the one that buffs attacks & reduces peril costs) helps a lot.

[Neptune Towers]

Originally posted by Arani:

What is Perilous Focus? There's no search for penances so I have no clue. I did all the psyker penances within the first week or so after the penance patch came out tho.

I think it's the one where you need to kill 40 enemies under Scrier's Gaze in a single activation. I've been stuck at 37/40 for a while now. I don't really like that ability and can't make myself try too hard.

[Ishan451]

Originally posted by Ultimate Pheer:

Is there any specific combo of stats and blessings?

I did it together with the Disrupt Destiny Penance, using the Penances ability to quell Peril by murdering Destinied Marks.

I also had "Brain Burst" for Kinetic Flayer, so it would trigger on Elites inside the Horde, which then would give Soulburn to the enemies around them, softening them up.

Increased the Finess Damage of Scier's Gaze over the Peril reduction... and used a Columnus Infantry Autogun with Dum Dum, Fire Frenzy and a good stability and ammo stat.

Originally posted by Ultimate Pheer:

Or should any work on a moderately sized horde, and I'm just ♥♥♥♥ at this game?

I did it on Auric missions, so they all had an HI modifier and then pretty much any Horde will work. You activate it when a big horde runs at you, you gun them all down... the only penance i had quicker was the movement penance of the Veteran.

I kept Disrupt Destiny Rolling as much as i could (prioritizing the Marked enemies - as i was doing that Penance right along), and that is pretty much all she wrote.

[Ishan451]

Originally posted by Arani:

What is Perilous Focus? There's no search for penances so I have no clue

Psyker Penance... very last row, 2nd from the left.

It's "Kill 40 enemies under the effect of Scier's Gaze with a single activation"

[Arani]

Originally posted by The Rats in the Walls:

Originally posted by Arani:

What is Perilous Focus? There's no search for penances so I have no clue. I did all the psyker penances within the first week or so after the penance patch came out tho.

I think it's the one where you need to kill 40 enemies under Scrier's Gaze in a single activation. I've been stuck at 37/40 for a while now. I don't really like that ability and can't make myself try too hard.

Just that? You should try it on Damnation / Aurics, 40+ mobs there with 1 Scrier's should be a breeze. It's just a handful of well aimed Void blasts really.

But yeah I get that it might take some getting used to. Took me months after the class overhaul came out too. But it can be really fun.

If it helps here's some tips for why & how it can be fun, beyond the usual gunpsyker shenanigans:

• Scrier's with both Empathic Evasion & Anticipation and a fast and/or crit weapon makes you immune to ranged (1.5s immunity per crit, so anything that crits more often than that). Laspistols, Surgical weapons or any melee that fits the bill will do.
  
• Purge is a crit weapon since the crits stack 2x Soulblaze. Even on its own the secondary channel crits frequently enough for a constant range immunity from Empathic Evasion. It's easily the most warp efficient of all staves and its primary spam staggers almost everything. All in all it's a very safe & easy staff and matches well with Scrier's.
  
• For staves in general, note that Quell Speed has top heavy scaling. The difference between 60/70/75/80% Quell Speed is *massive* and I'd almost argue that any staff with below 75% Quell Speed is bad. But this is especially true for Scrier's, especially without Transfer Peril.
  
• As I said in my previous post, Scrier's is about the only thing that can make for a true melee psyker build. You can use a variety of weapons here but Illisi is overall the easiest to make work on account of its fantastic blessings & utility. Duelling Swords ofc are popular and better for armor but way worse for everything else.

[Buzzles]

Heresy Hi, pick a map that's got a mini arena, such as Ascension Riser when you're doing the powercells+console to move the trains.

Sit at one of the spawn doors with an Illisi, swing away.

You can normally quell at least once, normally twice, before peril goes up too fast to counter.
Take the skill tree perk that lowers peril on kill as a bonus.

You do not need an illisi with Exorcist, just the normal Slaughter + Uncanny Strike will be fine.

[Anaryl, Emperor of Sol. GEH]

Originally posted by Arani:

Originally posted by Ultimate Pheer:

I've been trying for a while now, and I can't seem to get it; I take the Illisi, I go to maps with huge hordes, I turn on gaze, and Ican never seem to kill enough. Was Gaze nerfed at some point to generate more quickly? I have the skills that decrease peril generation and even the blessing that reduces peril on hit, and I still can't seem to get it.

I'm even using the voidstrike with transfer peril alongside it, and that isn't helping either.

What is Perilous Focus? There's no search for penances so I have no clue. I did all the psyker penances within the first week or so after the penance patch came out tho.

If it's about stacking Scrier's up to 30, the easiest way to get there and keep it there is Precognition and an Illisi with Exorcist. If it's not about stacks but total duration, then Reality Anchor & Illisi with Exorcist, along with a staff to quell (so Quietude). Tho it's a bit so-so since Precog makes the killing itself easier so in denser mobs it might last longer than Reality Anchor. Depends on what the penance needs. Precog is definitely the better pick overall if you can go there.

Either way, anything that buffs the Illisi would be good, so Disrupt Destiny to buff its weakspot dmg and Slaughterer on the Illisi to buff the raw dmg & cleave. Tho back then I think I just used Shred for the crit & crit-based talent synergies.

Exorcist's description is wrong tho. It's not repeated weakspot hits, it's comboed weakspot hits. So no specials, pushes, not even push-cancels, nothing. Just lights & heavies one after the other. Basically do heavy > light > repeat over and over at head height, and it'll be proccing with every strike. That's pretty much my standard Scrier's melee build and on T5+ there's more than enough mobs to keep it going for ridiculously long. Between how fast Precog stacks Scrier's up like that and how long it can keep going, Exorcist is just insane like this.

Edit: Also that skull stimm (the one that buffs attacks & reduces peril costs) helps a lot.

You openly admit to the use of macros. Not only did you not achieve them but your advice is about as helpful to real/legitimate players as machine code to a heart surgeon.

Stop trying to milk those macros for validation - none of what you achieve is real or legitimate - without the tactile feedback of doing it yourself - you may as well be just describing something you saw on stream.

Games are about interaction, somebody using games as an interactive movie (e.g. with cheats) have little insight to the actual practice.

[Fed]

Get autogun, mow down 1 horde in an auric, done