Assail, And my thoughts.

[SEXTON HAVER]

As someone who has gone past and level psyker, ogryn, Zealot to max., And now at level 17 with vet, I feel that past diff levels T1-T3 psyker with Assail isn't as broken as people claim, There's great videos on it summing it up, When I picked it up I expected to be brainless with it and not need to think, instead I found myself having to throw almost half if not all of my shards out for hordes on T4, T1-T3 were much much easier and did mean I could turn my brain off.

This is the problem with Assail. It's not overly strong at T4 and more so T5, But it's strong in T3 and really really strong in T2.

The issue I see is: Do we nerf it due to lower diff or do we go off the idea of T4 and T5 diff.

As someone who played old BB psyker, It's refreshing to feel strong with psykers. But smite is terrible for anything but CC, And not very enjoyable to build around, BB is still good old BB and has it's major flaws, If it had a boost in range and maybe speed, I think it would probably be picked more over Assail.

The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfOYYIZLTL0

[Deathspider12]

Not even 30 and talking about Assail in T5 ...
Nothing Personal but first get the full Talent tree Unlocked and then try again on T5, there you see that 1 psyker with assail already kills everythink faster before you as a Veteran can even shot, if you have 2 psyker with assail, well good luck killing something, you pretty much run after these 2 psyker the rest of the round.
The Problem with Assail is that its Cooldown is too low, its Charges too fast and does too much Damage for some auto-seeking missiles.

[Tunnfisk]

Originally posted by SEXTON HAVER:

As someone who has gone past and level psyker, ogryn, Zealot, And now at level 17 with vet, I feel that past diff levels T1-T3 psyker with Assail isn't as broken as people claim, There's great videos on it summing it up, When I picked it up I expected to be brainless with it and not need to think, instead I found myself having to throw almost half if not all of my shards out for hordes on T4, T1-T3 were much much easier and did mean I could turn my brain off.

This is the problem with Assail. It's not overly strong at T4 and more so T5, But it's strong in T3 and really really strong in T2.

The issue I see is: Do we nerf it due to lower diff or do we go off the idea of T4 and T5 diff.

As someone who played old BB psyker, It's refreshing to feel strong with psykers. But smite is terrible for anything but CC, And not very enjoyable to build around, BB is still good old BB and has it's major flaws, If it had a boost in range and maybe speed, I think it would probably be picked more over Assail.

The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfOYYIZLTL0

As psyker main with some 700h+ in the game with twice as much in VT1+2, it is that broken. Opinions will differ, but at the end of the day, that ability is going to get it, one way or another.

[SEXTON HAVER]

Originally posted by Deathspider12:

Not even 30 and talking about Assail in T5 ...
Nothing Personal but first get the full Talent tree Unlocked and then try again on T5, there you see that 1 psyker with assail already kills everythink faster before you as a Veteran can even shot, if you have 2 psyker with assail, well good luck killing something, you pretty much run after these 2 psyker the rest of the round.
The Problem with Assail is that its Cooldown is too low, its Charges too fast and does too much Damage for some auto-seeking missiles.

I am level 30 in psyker, I should have worded that better, I'm finishing my last class which is Vet.

Following that: I do agree the cool down is a bit too fast, If it was slowed down, I think we would see that it isn't all that strong, It would allow people to still use it effectively but have to add more thought to it... 200-300 damage isn't all that powerful in higher diffs like T4-T5.

If we nerf the damage and such, BB will be the only worthwhile choice but it ISN'T worth taking
smite isn't fun.

[coldgarden]

It's pretty funny when they throw too many shards and have a brain explosion.

[The_Gay_Agenda]

As a Psyker main with 1600 hours Assail and the buffed Void staff allow me to carry Aurics with ease. With Scrier's and Destiny stacks I can solo every encounter short of Monsters and Bosses. My team simply has to follow me around and act as my meatshields.

This is not how my Psyker functioned before. It sucks. When Assail and Void are inevitably nerfed I can finally have my class back and the swarm of Psykers in Auric queue will go away.