Is there any way to make other weapons good on Purgator?

[⸸ Neon Dog ⛧]

Hi there, I leveled up 3 Purgators. 2 of those are focused on the Psilencer skills, and they are kinda good. The other 1 I tried something different, but he seems to be lacking a lot.

Is there any viable build without using the Psilencer?

[Harukage]

Scattershot is really just a poor mans Incinerator atack. When incinerator is in Purifier's hands that is.

[UR|Dialetheia]

Originally posted by Harukage:

Scattershot is really just a poor mans Incinerator atack. When incinerator is in Purifier's hands that is.

While true, it is likely you will have a level 9 Purgator before you get a Purifier in standard run, and it's honestly also likely you're not going to get a Purifier at all in sub-500 runs, so there's that, too.

Also, psilencers tend to have larger ammo pools with one in particular starting at 7, before skills, traits or wargear.

[GhostyToasty13]

Originally posted by ⸸ Neon Dog ⛧:

Hi there, I leveled up 3 Purgators. 2 of those are focused on the Psilencer skills, and they are kinda good. The other 1 I tried something different, but he seems to be lacking a lot.

Is there any viable build without using the Psilencer?

psicannon is the best for dps

[HozzMidnight]

I like psilencer on purgator and I give psycannons to my justicars. I also like to try and get all the grenade upgrades even though purifier is better for grenades, you can't get one until day 301 at the earliest.

[SirShreds]

Originally posted by Magni:

Psycannon and Psilencer are both viable IMO. It depends on mission and team setup really, and what traits you get on your Purgator and his gun.

Psilencer with support fire and it's stupidly long range and ability to ignore half cover are great for messing up single enemies and generally being the longest-range fire support you can do. And you can still mess up crowds of chaff at close range with Scattershot.

Psycannon meanwhile is the crowd mulcher that excels at pouring out maximum damage overall especially with upgrades to Psychic Onslaught.

Originally posted by Dukenukem117:

Psychic onslaught + grenades hard carries early game when you are mobbed by cultists and zombies. Eventually spamming vulnerability and grenades tend to do more work. What purgators could really benefit from is an 'unload' ability that dumps their entire magazine into a target (unless it dies first).

Well, Psilencers come with that stock, in a sense.

I think its a case of people not readind through and determining their specs for characters early on. I feel like every build is viable (sometimes team dependent...while other are arguably better than others...I just play what feels fun)

Psilencer is an amazing early game weapon as it doesnt require much to be decent.

Psicannon has ♥♥♥♥ ammo and lacking a bit until you put a few points in and like you said is good at mulching crowds.

Incinerator need the Purifier spec which is sort of frustrating but its fine...since you only need to read to see its that great early on...since the purg cant tank damage and there are no abilities that focus on it in their tree.

For ♥♥♥♥ i made a grenade build early on and its disgusting. My purg got the innate +1 ammo for nades and i decided to lean into it. 4 of any nade, I take one damage one and one smoke for when i have a team of all melee. 2 damage nades other wise. Combined with sanctified killzone fully upped you can delete units pretty easily. Combine that with any of the purgators weapons...even slightly upgraded and you delete just about anything.



Honestly the game is easy. I think people put way too much weight in whats meta and not enough tiume into just having fun with it.

Sure I'd like more of a challenge sometimes but there are other games for that.

[OakenWall]

He was just ok early on but at rank 9 he was killing squads of plague marines with his Psicannon. Purgator, chaplain, justicar, apothecary is a really nice setup.

[⸸ Neon Dog ⛧]

Originally posted by SirShreds:

Honestly the game is easy. I think people put way too much weight in whats meta and not enough tiume into just having fun with it.

Sure I'd like more of a challenge sometimes but there are other games for that.

I agree with you. My characters' skills are all around. I'm playing on normal difficulty, so there's no reason to build the perfect best composition to beat the game.

I did the same when playing w40k Mechanicus. I know you can do some OP stuff there, but I didn't look for any build online.

I just made this thread to see if I could get a few tips about the purgator, and got some good ones.

[Etheric]

Interesting take on it.

I found the Psycannon really good early game when you have all the swams of low level stuff, and transitioned to the psiclencer later.

Right now playing legendary and doing long range attacks on the demons, blowing their heads off to make them permenantly crazed is good fun :D.

[Vathek1]

Originally posted by Etheric:

Interesting take on it.

I found the Psycannon really good early game when you have all the swams of low level stuff, and transitioned to the psiclencer later.

Right now playing legendary and doing long range attacks on the demons, blowing their heads off to make them permenantly crazed is good fun :D.

My experience was actually the opposite--I switched to psycannon more often in the later game, as the disruption shot of the psilencer was less effective against overwatching Plague Marines due to their focus stat which allows them to resist the status effect. (Boosting my Purgator's focus with appropriate gear would help, of course!)

[Dukenukem117]

I found purgator to fall off late game once you have librarian (and range isnt an issue anymore). Legendary Chaos spawn have like 60hp+armor and cant be executed. Melee crit builds can reach 15 dmg/strike and cause it to panic and stall for a turn. Ya I can throw stun grenades but so can purifier. Purgators cant execute, are terrible at killing bloomspawn, and there are a fair amount of enemies resistant to vulnerable.

[RobOda]

I like all the guns tbh.

Cannon AOE is fun, but it's also quite strong in power output anyway.

Silencer's disrupt is fantastic when you get ranged Overwatch spam enemies, as you can be extremely precise in opening up a hole for OW zones, to allow your Knights to kill them without damage anyway.

Flamer's pretty neat. I put down the purifying flame AOE under a reinforcement point and the enemies spawned on it and died on the same turn. Flamer's normal AOE attack is quite handy for the bloomspawn ritual missions as they have a nice range to hit all five enemies in one go repeatedly.

[zchbicky]

Psilencers or disrupt servo skulls are must have on bosses. All bosses can be disrupted. Try Kadex fight without psilencer, and try it with psilencer using disrupt shot. Then tell me how it went. Even the last boss (won't spoil the name) is disruptable

[TheoreticalString]

Psicannon is good early game. Problem is a bunch of the Terminators can carry them, so you end up wanting to put your Psicannons there, where they're nearly as good. A Justicar with a Psicannon is almost as good as a Purgator, and with bonus Justicar abilities.

The Psilencer is the way to go, 100%. Once the crit gets up it will rip things to pieces, and disrupt is an invaluable tool. If you need early game power, spec them into the grenades off the bat, then go Psilencer. The grenades will give you more than enough reason to bring them until you get decent T3 Psilencers.

[pascal.difolco]

I prefer Psilencers, super long range, Disrupt (works on demon bosses ...), more ammo, huge crit damage, the AoE attack is not excellent but comes useful

[Nikas Zekeval]

Originally posted by pascal.difolco:

I prefer Psilencers, super long range, Disrupt (works on demon bosses ...), more ammo, huge crit damage, the AoE attack is not excellent but comes useful

I've found it easier to set up multiple targets in a Psilencer's cone attack than a Psicannon's bubble of doom.