Cannot select Sword of Faith on level up

[Razer]

Sword of Faith Sanctic Psyker ability states it has 2 prerequisites.
1. Sanctic Powers
2. Psyker Terminus

I have both of these, but the ability is locked. Bug? Or description error and there are more requirements?

[Razer]

Ok I figured it out. It also requires Hammer of the Emperor psyker power, but that one isn't listed in the requirements. Well that sucks. Anyway, had to respec my character again to get this correct.

So it's an issue in the description.

[stax]

The powers are organized into tiers. To get a particular power, you need to pick up at least one power of the previous tier. So either Hammer of the emperor, or Light of the emperor.

[Razer]

Originally posted by stax:

The powers are organized into tiers. To get a particular power, you need to pick up at least one power of the previous tier. So either Hammer of the emperor, or Light of the emperor.

Yes I needed one of these two. But the issue is, there's nothing in the description of the ability that tells you this.

[stax]

Originally posted by Razer:

Originally posted by stax:

The powers are organized into tiers. To get a particular power, you need to pick up at least one power of the previous tier. So either Hammer of the emperor, or Light of the emperor.

Yes I needed one of these two. But the issue is, there's nothing in the description of the ability that tells you this.

It is only shown in the ability information window on level-up. When you look at it outside the level-up process, the prerequisites are not shown. Just one of the many minor bugs still there.

[Razer]

Anyway, this ability sucks. Even with starting 7 resolve, then boosted by vanguard skills and word of the emperor and 5 psy rating this thing does less damage than my normal force sword. Plus it is a huge impact on veil degradation and with warrior boost to attacks you tear the veil in a single turn. This sucks. What a dumb ability.

[stax]

Originally posted by Razer:

Anyway, this ability sucks. Even with starting 7 resolve, then boosted by vanguard skills and word of the emperor and 5 psy rating this thing does less damage than my normal force sword. Plus it is a huge impact on veil degradation and with warrior boost to attacks you tear the veil in a single turn. This sucks. What a dumb ability.

The damage scales with resolve. Resolve can be boosted through the roof. Look at Air of Authority combined with Linchpin. And of course, it is an anti-demon, anti-chaos weapon so you need to attack those targets to see the full potential.

[Razer]

Originally posted by stax:

Originally posted by Razer:

Anyway, this ability sucks. Even with starting 7 resolve, then boosted by vanguard skills and word of the emperor and 5 psy rating this thing does less damage than my normal force sword. Plus it is a huge impact on veil degradation and with warrior boost to attacks you tear the veil in a single turn. This sucks. What a dumb ability.

The damage scales with resolve. Resolve can be boosted through the roof. Look at Air of Authority combined with Linchpin. And of course, it is an anti-demon, anti-chaos weapon so you need to attack those targets to see the full potential.

Yea that's why I took Vanguard on top. So I have already a lot of resolve and decent psy rating and still it does paltry damage. And the infinite resolve scaling with word of the emperor is tearing the veil as well, so this just sucks. Unless I'm fighting demons this ability is beyond useless.

[stax]

If it does paltry damage then you do not have lot of resolve. Make your MC officer master tactician. Use Air of Authority to boost resolve of allies. Every ally then pumps your MC's tactical advantage stacks everytime it begins a turn or kills an enemy. Use those tactical advantage stacks to Linchpin yourself. It basically pumps the TA stacks into resolve at a 5:1 ratio. You can even do it twice per turn if you have Fervour. And none of this touches the veil.

This is what makes the sanctic staff so overpowered. The sword is less so because it scales with resolve/4 (staff scales with resolve/2) but it is still very powerful.

[Razer]

Originally posted by stax:

If it does paltry damage then you do not have lot of resolve. Make your MC officer master tactician. Use Air of Authority to boost resolve of allies. Every ally then pumps your MC's tactical advantage stacks everytime it begins a turn or kills an enemy. Use those tactical advantage stacks to Linchpin yourself. It basically pumps the TA stacks into resolve at a 5:1 ratio. You can even do it twice per turn if you have Fervour. And none of this touches the veil.

This is what makes the sanctic staff so overpowered. The sword is less so because it scales with resolve/4 (staff scales with resolve/2) but it is still very powerful.

I think i had about 20 resolve when I used it. I can of course get more, but the problem is investing so much effort during battle to boost this thing seems poor while you could be doing something more useful.

[stax]

There's plenty of overpowered stuff in this game that does not sound too good on paper until you make a dedicated build exploiting it :)

[Razer]

Originally posted by stax:

There's plenty of overpowered stuff in this game that does not sound too good on paper until you make a dedicated build exploiting it :)

Yea, but with 5 psy rating and 20 resolve the base stats should be 31-34. Compared to my Force Sword with 14-20 you'd expect it to do more damage. But it doesn't.

[Jivebot]

Originally posted by Razer:

Anyway, this ability sucks. Even with starting 7 resolve, then boosted by vanguard skills and word of the emperor and 5 psy rating this thing does less damage than my normal force sword. Plus it is a huge impact on veil degradation and with warrior boost to attacks you tear the veil in a single turn. This sucks. What a dumb ability.

I was pretty bummed too. I thought at the very least it would look like some sort of cool glowing lightsaber or spirit sword. It's just a basic ♥♥♥♥♥ one handed sword. lol.

[Razer]

Originally posted by Jivebot:

Originally posted by Razer:

Anyway, this ability sucks. Even with starting 7 resolve, then boosted by vanguard skills and word of the emperor and 5 psy rating this thing does less damage than my normal force sword. Plus it is a huge impact on veil degradation and with warrior boost to attacks you tear the veil in a single turn. This sucks. What a dumb ability.

I was pretty bummed too. I thought at the very least it would look like some sort of cool glowing lightsaber or spirit sword. It's just a basic ♥♥♥♥♥ one handed sword. lol.

It should look like the flaming sword of Saint Celestine or some such. I have a Force Sword equipped and litterally nothing visually changed when I activated it, other that my offhand weapon was gone.

[Jivebot]

Originally posted by Razer:

Originally posted by Jivebot:

I was pretty bummed too. I thought at the very least it would look like some sort of cool glowing lightsaber or spirit sword. It's just a basic ♥♥♥♥♥ one handed sword. lol.

It should look like the flaming sword of Saint Celestine or some such. I have a Force Sword equipped and litterally nothing visually changed when I activated it, other that my offhand weapon was gone.

Oh yeah. lol. I was straight up pissed the first time I used it and my Inferno gun went bye bye.

Just seems like a downgrade anyway you try and dance around it.

Like, if you're gonna take my offhand weapon at least make the sword a high damage two-hander.