Flameo Hotman
 Psyker Build - Warhammer 40k: Darktide 

Interchangeable Nodes

• Non-essential Nodes (ones you can swap in favor of a preferred auxiliary node or node chain)
  • Soulstealer
  • Kinetic Flayer
  • Anticipation
  • Kinetic Deflection
    • Pick this one with block efficiency Curios for obscenely strong block
    • Pair this with skillful dodging and you can survive a daemonhost for eons
  • { Health Boost, Warp Rider } (we pick health just to get to Warp Rider)
  • Any of the staff nodes: { Empyric Shock, Channeled Force }
• Alternate Node Routes (minor alterations to the node route that offer slightly different benefits)
  • { TDR, Prescience, Ranged Damage Boost } vs { Seer's Presence, TDR}
    • The former offers access to Anticipation, the latter offers access to One With The Warp and costs 1 fewer nodes
  • { Inner Tranquility } vs { Essence Harvest }
    • More burny or more toughy. I favor the former because I theorize this build can acquire all Warp Siphon stacks within a short period of time, limiting the value offered by Essence Harvest which optimally spaces out stack acquisition every 5s

Play Style

• Inferno Staff
  • Spend 95% of your time burning heretics
    • Fire kills on chaff supercharge your Warp Siphon keystone
    • You're likely far more efficient at killing chaff than your allies, who should typically focus on whichever specialists/elites are scariest
    • Maxed out Soulblaze Damage over Time (DoT) does absurd damage, especially if you have access to rending/brittleness
  • 50%-100% charged right click followed by left click spam
    • This maximizes the value of the blatantly overpowered Blaze Away perk
  • Primary attack stagger is surprisingly powerful and pierces through crowds
  • As with most strong Psyker builds, high peril is good, actually and grants you a wide variety of benefits depending on your node choices:
    • Opportunity to quell for toughness
    • 10% Rending
    • Up to 20% flat damage boost
    • Sizeable Toughness Damage Reduction (TDR)
    • Weapon Wield Speed (aka swap speed) (honestly not important for this build imo)
• Combat Blade / Primary Weapon
  • Choose whatever weapon you want. Nerds will recommend the Dueling Sword because it's overpowered.
• Brain Rupture
  • Useful for picking off ranged enemies your clown teammates refuse to kill while huddling in your almighty bubble
  • Ideally you don't have to use this actively whatsoever
  • Kinetic Flayer gives you occasional, free instakills on Elites/Specialists