Power Sword - what is it good for?

[AmDDRed]

Like, I understand it should be something that kills when Powered, but it's like trying to sharp a heavy poking stick and only then it deal enough damage for something. On Auric Damnation Maelstrom missions it's good only when you get buffs from your comrades - otherwise, being a bit too far from them, cornered, you're just a dead meat slowly kicking incoming hordes with a useless piece of metal, that you don't have to recharge, even you add +2 stamina and 20% running.

I've tried to compare this to chain sword - and it's completely different feeling, that you're having a SWORD in your hand and you can resist any enemy, with enough agility, so you can outshift ogryn, you can kill hordes.

Power Sword requires rebalancing, or it's just a toy to throw away after Malice.

[Eagle_I_am | .tv/eagle_i_am]

Veteran's power sword actually strongest weapon in game with mechanic that requre learn key combos and repeat it a lot.
It staggers berserkers with lights, achlys mark can one-two hit kill heavy elites, scandar can cleave infinite mixed horde, stagger and kill a lot of touched, both solve pox horde problem for vet completely even if none in your team bother clear trash from you to let you actually do job - snipe things.

In comparison with chain sword - chain takes to kill things around you forever, what acttually power sword do with cuple swings

[JDLS]

The power sword used to be the best weapon in the game so it got heavily nerfed, the duelling sword is the current default metal pick since you shouldn't really be hitting hoards much as veteran anyways.

I personally think they need to redo it to use the heat mechanic from the relic blade, as the current power cycle thing doesn't really do enough for how long it takes to activate. Even when it's powered on it still kills heavies slower than the duelling sword. And the only thing it does well is kill hoards, something veteran doesn't need to be good at.

[vodan]

Power sword have amasing things, but bad mobility
Amasing things are - just damage, you can kill hordes good, you can kill crusher/bullwark/reaper in 1 second if you do it right, you can stagger 4-5 maulers at once if you have sunder blessing, and with sunder if you have bullwarks near you you can hit horde like usual cause attack will not stop on 1-2 shields. But if you got cornered with no way to dodge back you might just die or barely have a chance to attack cause a single received hit will discharge sword.
And one-handed chainsword is good and reliable in any situations except fighting big bunch of crushers/bullwarks/reapers alone

[Mari]

It's good for WAR.

HUH

Good God, y'all.

That's what it's good for.

[Real_]

Originally posted by AmDDRed:

Like, I understand it should be something that kills when Powered, but it's like trying to sharp a heavy poking stick and only then it deal enough damage for something. On Auric Damnation Maelstrom missions it's good only when you get buffs from your comrades - otherwise, being a bit too far from them, cornered, you're just a dead meat slowly kicking incoming hordes with a useless piece of metal, that you don't have to recharge, even you add +2 stamina and 20% running.

I've tried to compare this to chain sword - and it's completely different feeling, that you're having a SWORD in your hand and you can resist any enemy, with enough agility, so you can outshift ogryn, you can kill hordes.

Power Sword requires rebalancing, or it's just a toy to throw away after Malice.

https://youtu.be/ggcSlbYWTn4?si=Qjr1pF6mF48GZ55a

[AmDDRed]

Originally posted by Real_:

https://youtu.be/ggcSlbYWTn4?si=Qjr1pF6mF48GZ55a

Yeah, it's cool to show controlled simulation in Psykanium, with one type enemy let out, and you have the time and space to maneur and recharge.
What would you do when you have hordes incoming, and you slash the first line with charged attack, and then you find that 2nd line of horde is already there, while you stil have to recharge Power Sword to make it "sharp", otherwise, if horde is not just minor bums but semispecialists, moebians, you're baked. And if you meet ogryn squad with maulers and specialist support, requiring you to maneur like hell, you wouldn't be able to do it: the Power Sword make you so slow, that you might think - "should I switch to rifle to run and lean faster?!".
That video is a theoretical show, good, I dunno, OK T4, ok, for T5 with Low Intensity modificator, when the enemies are rare things, and you don't need stressfully think if right now will be the moment your lean move would be the last because you'd be eventually stopped by some boxes or unholy promethium, and the blighted heretic in filthy Chaos God name will strike you down.

[Nihil]

Originally posted by AmDDRed:

Like, I understand it should be something that kills when Powered,

Well we had times when it did just that very flawlessly. But then Fatshark decided that it is OP an unbalanced and ended the fun. Which would be okay. But then why don't they do the same with other OP weapons like the dueling sword?

[MrHugz]

It packs a punch, but the poor mobility is what kills any interest in using it for me. I personally wished it behaved like the relic blade or the SM2 power sword, where activating changes the move set. That being said, at least it can stand its own in damage against all targets, the chainsword suffers greatly on single target DPS and heavily armored targets.

[Stainstein]

you feel the power!

[Real_]

Originally posted by AmDDRed:

Originally posted by Real_:

https://youtu.be/ggcSlbYWTn4?si=Qjr1pF6mF48GZ55a

Yeah, it's cool to show controlled simulation in Psykanium, with one type enemy let out, and you have the time and space to maneur and recharge.
What would you do when you have hordes incoming, and you slash the first line with charged attack, and then you find that 2nd line of horde is already there, while you stil have to recharge Power Sword to make it "sharp", otherwise, if horde is not just minor bums but semispecialists, moebians, you're baked. And if you meet ogryn squad with maulers and specialist support, requiring you to maneur like hell, you wouldn't be able to do it: the Power Sword make you so slow, that you might think - "should I switch to rifle to run and lean faster?!".
That video is a theoretical show, good, I dunno, OK T4, ok, for T5 with Low Intensity modificator, when the enemies are rare things, and you don't need stressfully think if right now will be the moment your lean move would be the last because you'd be eventually stopped by some boxes or unholy promethium, and the blighted heretic in filthy Chaos God name will strike you down.

the power sword is a great weapon i did 2 damnation's with it not to long ago, still one of the best weapons in darktide the vet has, it can clear hoards fast take down crushers in around 2-3 hits with the same time as it takes the DS or the force sword mk4, it as great stagger even without powering it on, with some of the highest blocking efficiency i've seen outside of the ogryn.

if you don't understand how power cycling works mechanically and what the power sword is good at or bad at you will have a bad time. its as good as the DS (Dueling Sword) its just more technical with a higher room for error but also a higher room for recovering from your own mistakes.

i'd suggest taking a power sword mkVI with power cycling and brutal momentum into the meat grinder after watching the bulk of the video not skimming or 2x speed but watching the video.

[Mari]

Originally posted by Real_:

its as good as the DS (Dueling Sword) its just more technical with a higher room for error but also a higher room for recovering from your own mistakes.

hahahahahahaha

[Real_]

Originally posted by Mari:

Originally posted by Real_:

its as good as the DS (Dueling Sword) its just more technical with a higher room for error but also a higher room for recovering from your own mistakes.

hahahahahahaha

its true but if you're screwed with bad placement and movement nothing will help you except a psyker judgment or a zealots stun grenade

[box]

If you're cornered and alone on Auric Maelstrom, you've got bigger problems than the utility of a power sword.

[Secret Asshole]

https://youtu.be/ztZI2aLQ9Sw?si=D8EawcPB4jKhvYjJ&t=5

[The Hermit Gamer]

Power Sword is one of those weapons that in theory has the raw damage and cleave to allow you to brute-force your way through fights, but if for whatever reason you can't it has awful mobility and can get you killed easily. Still with the right blessings it can one-tap crushers, melt through the densest hordes effortlessly, and do very solid boss damage. On a Veteran with Weapon Specialist the mobility issues are also not so bad.