Psyker
45-60% Finesse Damage for 2s on successful Dodge.
Up to 14-20% Strength, scaling with Peril.
Ranged hits add 1-4 stacks of bleed to enemies.
You can Hipfire with this weapon while Sprinting. 6-15% Close Damage while Sprinting. Also reduces weapon spread at all times by 30%.
My build that I've put together with heavy focus on the new Force Great sword,
Blaze Force Great sword Mk VIII:
Mark VIII is an easy pick as you can use just light attacks for hordes, heavy attacks against Carapace/Unyielding and of course the special wave attack against swarms of enemies both elite/specialist's and poxwalker's.
Branx Bolt Pistol:
You can switch this out with the revolver. however i opted to use the bolt pistol as it feels more fun and can easily snipe unwanted gunners/snipers across the map. I also took the Run & Gun blessing as it makes it super easy to quickly swap to the bolt pistol and decimate a Disrupt Destiny marked enemy then go back to hack and slashing.
Talent Tree Key Points:
Toughness/Survivability:
- Mettle: With Scrier's Gaze, crits are generated fairly easily, maintaining your toughness and giving much needed movement speed
- One with The Warp: No brainer node, free 33% TDR so long as you have Scrier's up or spam a non-charged special attack.
- Quietude: Just some extra toughness generation when the effect of Scrier's begins to fade
- Disrupt Destiny: Extremely nice way to cash in some toughness generation, hacking at close range mobs who get marked in hordes with the sword, or decimating long-distance marked targets with the bolt pistol gives decent toughness generation.
- Anticipation: I feel like the extra dash mobility and extra dash is a fairly good take with the reduced mobility of the great sword and mostly makes up for it.
- By Crack of Bone: Allows you to easily maintain Scrier's Gaze for extended periods of time.
- Scrier's Gaze: Your main source of survivability, extra 20% TDR along with the bonus movement speed allows you to dance around the battlefield whilst taking some hits that you wouldn't normally be able to.
Brain Burst:
In my initial iteration of the build, i had taken brain burst with the intention of utilising Kinetic Flayer, however realized that i no longer had the points to grab Warp Rider, so now its just a way to easily grab Psykinetic's Aura to keep Scrier's Gaze CD nice and low. Feel free to iterate over a node and grab Kinetic Flayer for some extra Carapace melting, or just take base smite and grab Psykinetic's Aura that way if you want.
Scrier's Gaze:
Abuse the hell out of this, whenever possible activate Scrier's Gaze (unless its an elevator or dead room) to keep yourself both alive and dealing significant damage to all enemy types. I personally take Warp Unbound here to allow you to utilise the giant wave slash from the Blaze Force Great Sword without overloading yourself and also to have high TDR % from One with the Warp.
Disrupt Destiny:
Even with just a handful of stacks, any light attack from your sword can one shot enemies that aren't elite/specialists, when it comes to gunners and Flak armored enemies, the extra finesse damage allows easy one shot heavy attacks. To keep the stacks of DD up more often, I like to swap between my blade and bolt pistol to snag any longer distance marked enemies, don't be afraid to waste ammo to maintain DD, as you will be relying on your sword 99% of the time.
Curios:
I currently have all 3 Toughness Curios with extra toughness, stamina regeneration and combat ability regen as they feel the most optimal, feel free to interchange stamina regen with any other trait however the extra toughness and ability CD are necessary. In future iterations I may also replace a Toughness Curios with a +3 Stamina one, but I personally haven't ran into any stamina issues with the build thus far.
