Can someone tell me how to use a psyker?

[Boomstar]

They seem to use 2 abilities then just explode. That seems excessive like unusabley excessive.

[lordgizka]

You sure you weren't playing Darktide? It takes a lot for perils of the warp to come up here. Also you have conventional weapons.

[Zanza]

If you mean when using Idira, well she basically has a low percentage chance for things to go wrong when using any power because she's an unsanctioned psyker. Shouldn't happen too often though, I've just had her move people around or knock a group(allies and enemies within a certain range) down. Never had her explode though.

[PK_Thunder]

Don't use Idira. Throw her out the air lock once you get the chance.

She's absolutely suicide at high difficulty levels.

[Dirteedeeds]

Originally posted by PK_Thunder:

Don't use Idira. Throw her out the air lock once you get the chance.

She's absolutely suicide at high difficulty levels.

Plus i have had demons pop in using her. She does more damage then my pyro psyker. Just sad i feel useless when it comes to Idira.

[The Seventh Son]

What kind of psyker are you playing?

I'm level 8 and non of the fights have been even close. My Lord Captain is a Warrior/Biomancer and I have Idira.

Warrior Biomancer: I'm running a chainsword in one hand, a pistol in the off hand, and a staff as swap-to. I have iron arm and Invigorate as my Psyker spells. I'm using Biophysical distortion to catch enemies that live by a small amount of HP, Adrenalin Surge allows me to cast Iron Arm for free on the first turn. Since Iron Arm sticks around the entire combat I jsut always have this on. Corpus Conversion Makes Iron arm makes Invigorate and iron arm even better. Idira's Forewarning increases Dodge and parry, Then Cassia's Reveal the Light increases willpower and toughness. This character can usually kill at least 2 enemies a turn and is hard to kill.

Idira(Ranged Operative Divination): Idira I run 100% ranged. She is either going to use her staff and do a chain lightning or Psychic Shriek depending on the battlefield. I'm using Second Sight to give her attacks more range, Advice and Guidance adds 10 to weapon and skill and ballistic skill until the end of combat the first time Idira applies a buff to an ally. This makes Forewarning even stronger. Stabalising Factor keeps the Veil Degradation down, and Subtle Manipulation allows me to cast spells even if there's someone in her face.

I don't consider veil degradation that much. It goes down by 1 every round, and with Cassia's Stable Routes you can lower it even more every round.

The main thing is figure out how you want to deal damage, then decide on some tools to help support yourself and others, and use those tools to first support the front line, then the backline. Don't sleep on the support skills. You're limited on attacking, and most support abilities last the entire combat. This is huge.

[Boomstar]

I'm talking about idira yes i had her put the defense buff on someone and then chain lightning this is the very first round no build up of the veil mechanic. And she just died. Seems laughably excessive. Just gonna kick her out asap i guess.

[PK_Thunder]

Originally posted by Dirtee:

Originally posted by PK_Thunder:

Don't use Idira. Throw her out the air lock once you get the chance.

She's absolutely suicide at high difficulty levels.

Plus i have had demons pop in using her. She does more damage then my pyro psyker. Just sad i feel useless when it comes to Idira.

She does more damage only because she has a higher psi rank than you.

Which is the same reason why she summons chaos spawns out of nowhere.

[friday]

Yea.. had Idira summon a daemonette in my backline, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ me up. Didn't bring her after this incident, rolled a psyker merc instead.

[Dirteedeeds]

Originally posted by friday:

Yea.. had Idira summon a daemonette in my backline, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ me up. Didn't bring her after this incident, rolled a psyker merc instead.

lol this happened to me, It popped up right beside her and raped her in two rounds...was kinda funny.

[PK_Thunder]

Originally posted by Anarchy:

Originally posted by lordgizka:

You sure you weren't playing Darktide? It takes a lot for perils of the warp to come up here. Also you have conventional weapons.

I had Idira blow up at like, 7 perils, still gonna use her because 10 WS/BS plus dodge for the entire combat is really good for whoever she buffs.

Warrior/Sanctic also works well as a sort of 'Paladin', because it also has some ok buffs imo

Idira summoned 2 daemons and turned one of the basic enemies into a Chaos Spawn during my fight in the electro temple on Rykad.

You know the one that's timed or you die.

So while Abelard is being beaten to death by that thing, the rest of my party is desperately trying to finish the encounter. She got benched right after.

I'd rather do less damage than randomly summon boss enemies during a fight.

[The Seventh Son]

Originally posted by Dirtee:

Yah got to give her a pistol or sniper rifle. I have had things come in from the warp and rape my team.

This becomes way less of an issue once you get Stabalising Factor.

Even still, I've had two daemons pop up and attack me during combat. While everything else has at most 50 HP, the Daemons have over 100. Because of all the buffs, my melee jumps on them and they're a non-issue.

Might be an issue late game, but where I'm at it's free xp.

[Zarquon]

Originally posted by The Seventh Son:

What kind of psyker are you playing?

I'm using Second Sight to give her attacks more range,

Does Second Sight work for you? i got the ability and the tool tip didn't show any increase in range for psychic scream or ignite. Counted the cells range on the abilities and that didn't increase either

[Nightmarian]

Originally posted by The Seventh Son:

Originally posted by Dirtee:

Yah got to give her a pistol or sniper rifle. I have had things come in from the warp and rape my team.

This becomes way less of an issue once you get Stabalising Factor.

Even still, I've had two daemons pop up and attack me during combat. While everything else has at most 50 HP, the Daemons have over 100. Because of all the buffs, my melee jumps on them and they're a non-issue.

Might be an issue late game, but where I'm at it's free xp.

Idira as an unsanctinoed pysker has a chance to cause perils on EVERY cast, not just when the veil is highly damaged.

If you're a sanctioned psyker, this isn't the case, and Cassia doesn't damage it either and can in fact fix it with her abilities.

[LukanGamer]

ya they need to tone down how often and easy its pops especially for her... like seriously seen 3 different (which is neat) demons, but each were on 3 different maps and then each time 2/3 knocking her out ...

Some laugh at BGsee WIldmages and Neera, but I think even neera would say they need to send the red mages after them if it was not for fact the demons f off/vanish if you win battle against normal enemies.

[Azukaos]

Idira is around lvl 10 in my team and i never seen her summon anything so far.