Help with sword/psi build

[Antlerkey]

What's popping,

All right so I had some experience with underrail (Haven't completed it but I have an idea from 60 hours of playing it). I was thinking of doing a sword build with one of the psi schools (or two psi schools if possible) for long/medium-range attacks. I was hoping maybe to have good agility/and or dex. Any suggestions?

[redgoesfastfastfastfast]

What psi schools do you want to use? The only one with real synergy with swords is TM, TC has little synergy with swords, MT is decent I guess with cryo orb for opportunist and TFB as well as cryo shield if you want to use parry and riposte and PK is better off with str sword than dex sword

[Guehlfirf]

Can confirm. I did thought control/sword build. It was helpful in the beginning but by the midgame it was wasted points. Better off going for grenades.

Psychokinesis might be a good option. Get force user. If you have decent str get corporeal projection. Like this:
https://underrail.info/build/?FAsKBgMDBwUAMgBkZGQyAAAAGQAAAAAAAGQAAAAAACQ5K2HCjE4NBhRcacKNZ9-_

Temporal works with everything as it's just buffs. If you're into this sort of thing go for it.

Not sure about metathermics. You can build something like this:
https://underrail.info/build/?FAUMBgMDCgYAMgBubm4yAAAAGQAAAAAAAABuAAAAACQ5K2HCjE4GXCosZS49378
But i don't know if you will ever use sword after getting psionic mania.

[Antlerkey]

What psi schools do you want to use? The only one with real synergy with swords is TM, TC has little synergy with swords, MT is decent I guess with cryo orb for opportunist and TFB as well as cryo shield if you want to use parry and riposte and PK is better off with str sword than dex sword

I'm only familiar with TM because of my Shotgun/TM Build but Maybe MT?

[Antlerkey]

Can confirm. I did thought control/sword build. It was helpful in the beginning but by the midgame it was wasted points. Better off going for grenades.

Psychokinesis might be a good option. Get force user. If you have decent str get corporeal projection. Like this:
https://underrail.info/build/?FAsKBgMDBwUAMgBkZGQyAAAAGQAAAAAAAGQAAAAAACQ5K2HCjE4NBhRcacKNZ9-_

Temporal works with everything as it's just buffs. If you're into this sort of thing go for it.

Not sure about metathermics. You can build something like this:
https://underrail.info/build/?FAUMBgMDCgYAMgBubm4yAAAAGQAAAAAAAABuAAAAACQ5K2HCjE4GXCosZS49378
But i don't know if you will ever use sword after getting psionic mania.

Ah ok thank you so much! I'll look forward to see how it goes! Am I be able to do both TM and PK or MT? Or just one psi school, just wanting to double check

[Guehlfirf]

There are some skills to spare. Featwise you have enough for 2 schools.
Main problem will be spell slots. 6 int is 5 slots total.

Psychokinesis you want force punch, force field, electrokinesis and electric trap.

Metathermics you want cryostasis, pyrokinesis/cryoorb (or both), exothermic aura and thermodynamic destabilization (never tried destabilization but it supposed to be strong) and maybe cryokinesis.

So you'll need to pump int for multiple psi schools. At this point better to go pure psi.

[Antlerkey]

There are some skills to spare. Featwise you have enough for 2 schools.
Main problem will be spell slots. 6 int is 5 slots total.

Psychokinesis you want force punch, force field, electrokinesis and electric trap.

Metathermics you want cryostasis, pyrokinesis/cryoorb (or both), exothermic aura and thermodynamic destabilization (never tried destabilization but it supposed to be strong) and maybe cryokinesis.

So you'll need to pump int for multiple psi schools. At this point better to go pure psi.

Sweet! I'll let you know in the future of how it went then once I try this out!

[redgoesfastfastfastfast]

Guehlfirf's metathermics build has a few flaws like lacking fancy footwork and onslaught, I would recommend going something like this instead:

https://underrail.info/build/?FAUNBwMDCAYAAwBuKAAYTywkAEVYDTQ8AABuRgAAUiY5KyzCjBIqZRM8wo3Chwbfvw

Your psi slots at level 20 on this build should be cryo orb, cryostasis, cryokinesis, LTI and PTC.

When you acquire stasis replace cryostasis or cryokinesis with it. Psionic mania + premeditation and cryokinesis/cryo orb gives you some strong ranged options with the latter also letting you proc TFB and opportunist on the survivors, I would not recommend slotting in thermoD on a build like this since you are a melee, though you could use it along with pyrokinesis for big crowd control damage combined with psionic mania.

EDIT: PK build:

https://underrail.info/build/?FA0GBwMDBwYAAwBuKAAYXUcwAEpZADwAAG4ARgAAWCY5Kz_CjBIqE2nCjWjChxTfvw

Slots should be contraction, lti, proxy, tk punch and electrokinesis early on, later stasis.

This build trades off raw nuking power (from Psionic Mania) in exchange for crowd control and quite a few disables (5 ap proxy undulation, 10 ap tk punch, 0 ap electrokinesis from premeditation) I would recommend speccing undulation after flurry ap cost and cooldown. Also you should take taste for blood later on, after you join the Free Drones.