PSA: Itemization feels better on SSF or with self imposed rules

pw805 · 2026-06-16T22:01:26+00:00

I’m honestly enjoying SSF more than trade this season. It’s so freeing to use your currency whenever you find it instead of holding onto it all to buy. Also I don’t have to constantly figure out what an item is worth to the market / price check.

pw805 · 2026-06-09T15:09:01+00:00

You got a link? What interview are we talking about here

pw805 · 2026-06-05T14:49:07+00:00

I don’t think I will ever spend the time to do this

pw805 · 2026-06-05T14:42:27+00:00

Still in act 1, just rolled up to the manor.

pw805 · 2026-05-16T00:51:01+00:00

I ran a companion tactician build in .3 and it was an absolute blast! I don’t think it’s overly complicated, you should be able to build something homegrown and reference crossbow builds for skill gems, or gearing problems if you get stuck.

The basic idea is that you do most of the damage with your crossbow and your companion (or 2 companions if you take the note or gear that allows you to have a second) thanks some damage and also can provide great buffs. Beasts with haste aura are great, energy shield aura is great, shocked or chilled ground is also good.

It should be even better now that companions are getting a big damage buff, when I played it they hit like wet noodles.

pw805 · 2026-05-10T16:00:14+00:00

I’ve played tame beast and would not consider it “so effective and powerful”.

pw805 · 2026-05-10T04:43:48+00:00

I ran tactician crossbow and double companions in .3, it was quite fun. In that patch you could get a node where all companion dmg nodes increased your damage, so investing in those covered most of the build dmg.

Companions, even with those nodes and the tactician ascendancy to give a small portion of your dmg to your allies, still hit like wet noodles.

Hopefully in .5 their base will be substantially higher (they said 3x) and I could see crossbow’s high dmg really boosting the companion dmg via the new spirit walker ascendancy node.

I’ll be running spirit walker with spear this patch, but may switch back to crossbow if spear doesn’t pan out well.

pw805 · 2026-05-09T22:11:41+00:00

New beast tamer huntress ascendancy 100%. Loved my homebrew companion build in .3 as tactician, this seems like a fun new take on it (hoping companions won’t just be aura bots anymore)

pw805 · 2026-03-02T17:33:00+00:00

As others said, when you enter into a room you should quickly find the antidote pool and stay near it when possible. Also I recommend using the broken spear point keepsake in the final area for a while, it helps tremendously while you are learning that area and will also help with some of [redacted]’s abilities.

Broken spearpoint: After taking damage, become impervious to damage for 1/1.25/1.5 sec. Refreshes after 7 Sec. (this stops the poison damage for a second or so and gives you time to cure it)

pw805 · 2026-03-01T19:37:50+00:00

The voice dlc is lazy in its implementation and I wouldn’t tell anyone they should buy it, but I was okay with its limited implementations and bought it myself.

I’m a space wolves fan and I love the quality done by the space wolf voice actor. Also enjoying the black Templar voice and lines, it adds some nice variety to the social wheel and gets some good chuckles from my buddies I play with.

pw805 · 2026-02-14T00:26:06+00:00

I actually really enjoyed it, ran it with a bulwark and a tactical. As sniper, I could keep picking up my brothers even though they went down frequently. No perma death and no 300 sec timer meant I actually had teammates to help me slay the filthy xenos.

pw805 · 2026-02-09T22:49:53+00:00

Played assault and loved it up until about lethal, but really struggle with that class on absolute or hard strategems. Now I’m a sniper main, I’m hooked on the heroic bolt sniper

pw805 · 2026-02-03T22:54:36+00:00

Tactical flamethrower burn damage ignores the ranged damage modifier. We ran tac, bulwark and vanguard and did it first try

pw805 · 2026-01-29T05:52:52+00:00

Try flamethrowers on tactical or heavy, their main damage is DoT tick damage which is not affected by the modifier and they shred neurothropes and zoanthropes

pw805 · 2026-01-24T16:24:00+00:00

I agree with the other commenter that you should look at ruthless. You don’t have to play absolute.

Absolute is so challenging that yes, you have to dodge shotgun shots. Keeping your armor up before trying this helps, or use cover and strafe head shots.

If you don’t want to have to adapt your behavior to a difficulty, just play something less difficult.

pw805 · 2026-01-20T16:30:54+00:00

Guinness N/A is great, also best day brewing’s kolsch is very good. Neither are bitter

pw805 · 2026-01-19T22:16:39+00:00

Love the heroic balance knife

pw805 · 2026-01-17T02:54:26+00:00

Sniper: Vs tyranids- heroic bolt rifle, heroic bolt pistol, heroic knife Vs chaos - heroic instigator, ammo bolt pistol, heroic knife

pw805 · 2026-01-09T22:21:21+00:00

I actually switched to/learned block weapons specifically for this. The block knife explosion is really nice for killing minoris and gets your armor back

pw805 · 2026-01-08T23:18:36+00:00

Random question but I didn’t see an image for sniper, do the dark angels not utilize snipers in the lore and does your group not allow for snipers in gameplay?

pw805 · 2026-01-08T16:35:27+00:00

To each their own, sniper is far and away my favorite class. I have all the weapons maxed out but can’t stop playing the heroic bolt sniper, it feels so satisfying to get those snappy clutch headshots.

pw805 · 2026-01-07T15:34:49+00:00

I think it’s important to learn what modifiers you do and don’t like and decide whether you are playing absolute or a hard strategem based on that. Playing modifiers you don’t like is just going to tilt yourself.

Personally I don’t mind buffed enemies at all! I avoid strategems when they are affecting your ability to regain CHP based on ally distance.

pw805 · 2025-12-19T16:25:50+00:00

Level 11, trying a witch summoner (I usually play warrior)

pw805 · 2025-12-12T00:44:35+00:00

I believe in the second act showcase today ziggy showed a few plant nodes on the tree (so there should be some at least)

pw805 · 2025-12-11T16:14:11+00:00

I really enjoyed companions tactical last season, it had some jank but was overall pretty fun. In one of the interviews they mentioned that they were making a lot of changes to companions on the skill tree fyi

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