How are you even supposed to use the voidblast staff?

[Burgerpunk 2020]

It's absolute ass alll around

[Lil Larrikin]

Hold right mouse button until the bar is full to do a little aoe explosion that has high stagger, useful for knocking over maulers, crushers, bulwarks, ect.
LMB is useful for taking out enemies from range.

[Burnt Pies]

It's really funny as a way of spreading soulblaze; set it (and your build) up for crits and soulblaze spread, throw a couple of booms into a horde and watch them all burn to death a few seconds later. In bad situations, it's got reasonable impact and will interrupt most enemies so you can just explode your own toes to stun and remove nasty melee enemies.

[Burgerpunk 2020]

Originally posted by Kaz:

Hold right mouse button until the bar is full to do a little aoe explosion that has high stagger, useful for knocking over maulers, crushers, bulwarks, ect.
LMB is useful for taking out enemies from range.

Thanks for the tutorial.

Except that staff is bad for everything. The explosion radius, damage falloff and charge speed for secondary is pathetic so it's bad for horde clear, stagger is worse than just using electric staff instead, damage is laughable so it's bad for single targets too. I'ts not Vermintide where magic can hurt other players so the "no friendly fire from explosion" in close quarters isn't even advantage anymore.

i'ts just ♥♥♥♥ staff all around.

[cith]

with more time in the game as psyker and more time with the staff you'll come to see why it's useful. all good that you dont' see it right away. it prob just doesnt fit your playstyle

[Eagle_I_am | .tv/eagle_i_am]

Originally posted by cith:

with more time in the game as psyker and more time with the staff you'll come to see why it's useful. all good that you dont' see it right away. it prob just doesnt fit your playstyle

better say yourself why it is good.

I see possibility to use it as no ammo gun. Same work electro also.
Sourge, warp nexus blessings, spam LMB to kill shooters. Crit LMB shots has great stagger and suppress.
RMB may be nice to clear horde and do some stun and impact into heavy tragets like reapers, crushers, packs of elites. Crit RMB can stun mosnters also.

[Poison]

Originally posted by Eagle_I_am | .tv/eagle_i_am:

better say yourself why it is good.

I see possibility to use it as no ammo gun. Same work electro also.
Sourge, warp nexus blessings, spam LMB to kill shooters. Crit LMB shots has great stagger and suppress.
RMB may be nice to clear horde and do some stun and impact into heavy tragets like reapers, crushers, packs of elites. Crit RMB can stun mosnters also.

As this guy said: Massive amounts of AOE. You can destroy whole hordes easily and stagger even bulwarks and the likes. The staff might actually be the best staff after purge staff. Mind you that this is my personal opinion. The general view, however, is that this staff is really strong.

[Lil Larrikin]

Originally posted by Burgerpunk 2020:

Originally posted by Kaz:

Hold right mouse button until the bar is full to do a little aoe explosion that has high stagger, useful for knocking over maulers, crushers, bulwarks, ect.
LMB is useful for taking out enemies from range.

Thanks for the tutorial.

Except that staff is bad for everything. The explosion radius, damage falloff and charge speed for secondary is pathetic so it's bad for horde clear, stagger is worse than just using electric staff instead, damage is laughable so it's bad for single targets too. I'ts not Vermintide where magic can hurt other players so the "no friendly fire from explosion" in close quarters isn't even advantage anymore.

i'ts just ♥♥♥♥ staff all around.

You're welcome :)

Actually the radius of the explosion is sizeable when you consider the fact that Psyker's have very little AoE attacks and it spreads soulblaze to help with horde clearing.
Stagger is way better than electro staff, electro only briefly staggers whereas void knocks them over entirely.
It's definitely not the strongest staff in terms of straight up damage, but it has a ton of utility. Pairing it with Brain Burst means you have a good ranged option for damage vs. single targets anyway.

[cith]

Originally posted by Eagle_I_am | .tv/eagle_i_am:

Originally posted by cith:

with more time in the game as psyker and more time with the staff you'll come to see why it's useful. all good that you dont' see it right away. it prob just doesnt fit your playstyle

better say yourself why it is good.

I see possibility to use it as no ammo gun. Same work electro also.
Sourge, warp nexus blessings, spam LMB to kill shooters. Crit LMB shots has great stagger and suppress.
RMB may be nice to clear horde and do some stun and impact into heavy tragets like reapers, crushers, packs of elites. Crit RMB can stun mosnters also.

it's good because stagger is good. especially in high havoc. in particular for the melee variant.

[The Hermit Gamer]

It's difficult to use if you're not used to it. You have to be willing to charge it up, not under-cook it, so you have faith that the blast and stagger from the staff will keep you from getting dinged in melee.

Once you get the hang of it you'll find it is incredibly strong, but it doesn't feel so great on lower difficulty. You get more value from it on the highest intensity missions with super dense mixed hordes.

[Knight_of_Gallifrey]

VB is all about that stagger. Even a quick cast will have regular scabs and dregs staggering, a full charge will put a crusher on it's arze. Dropping even quarter charges at your feet can give you space to get out if you fumble and get surrounded.

Biggest thing too remember with all staves is that you can still dodge and slide while charging. Sprint, slide, charge while sliding, and blast those gunners as soon as you stand up. Works wonders on suppression. Bubble shield also makes for interesting times.

[Grr. [SG CMD] Majah Lazah]

Originally posted by Burgerpunk 2020:

It's absolute ass alll around

It is literally the strongest Staff in the game

[Mini]

The Trauma Staff is outstanding in the right hands.

[Freaktacular]

Originally posted by Mini:

The Trauma Staff is outstanding in the right hands.

woah hey pal trauma is a trigger word
that's why they changed it

[Svenson]

When you can actually get a blast off it's really good, just really awkward to not get hit while charging so if your team is overwhelmed I find I don't even get a chance to use it when we need it most. If a Crusher or something is coming at you it helps to place the center of the blast slightly in front of the enemy and it will knock them back instead of just down.

Primary fire I think is the same as the Voidstrike, which is pretty useful for near and far enemies and can be used on dogs or pushing/exploding bursters or even taking out snipers from quite a distance. Spam at chest to slow/stun them and then move up slightly to hit the head and you will kill smaller enemies fairly quick.

[die peacefully]

just don't