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I need help on using Eldar psychic powers. When ever i play i don't use them properly. Any help will work.

Give us examples of what you do and list of army you play.

Fortune and Guide go on your guys. Doom and Destructor go on the other guy's guys. You can also use Mind War on one of his important guys, if you want.

Hope you found this guide helpful!

Fortune is used to present a "must kill" target to the enemy, but then make the target ridiculously hard to kill.

For example, you can fortune a wave serpent full of fire dragons, then rush it at his super-important vehicle. He has the choice of either potentially wasting a bunch of fire power on a 4+ rerollable cover save, or simply allowing his tank to die.

Fortune is also very useful on the Eldar units that have good armor saves, such as Spiders, Scorpions, Wraithguard, etc. Fortune is usually not very good to cast on wraithlords, as they are next to impossible to get a cover save for, and most weapons that wound them also pierce their armor.

Doom is what you use when you have a target that needs to die, and you have a bunch of guns with lots of shots but not great strength. If you doom the T4 target of a dire avenger unit, then it will do 50% more damage. If you doom the same target then shoot them with scatter lasers, you only improve the damage by about 1/6. Doom also works very well in conjunction with rending or sniper attacks, so dooming the targets of pathfinders and harlequins is a must to use those units at their highest potential.

Guide is most useful on a platform that has lots of shots, such as warp spiders or scatter laser war walkers. It can also be useful for helping to make sure that key shots hit. When you cast Guide on pathfinders, it increases the chance they'll get an AP1 shot, increasing their capability in an anti-light-vehicle role.

Mind War is only useful if you are within 18" of the bad guys, and outside of a wave serpent, which is a very bad place for a farseer to be! Also, with the generally high LD of most important models in 40k, it has very little chance of accomplishing anything of significance. (I may have gotten the range on Mind War off... it's been so long since I've used it).

Eldritch Storm is also of limited usefulness. At str 3 it's just not very decent unless coupled with Doom, and even then it is lackluster. Its ability to spin vehicles can be fun, but cannot be relied on. It also has very specific rules for placing the blast, that are different from the normal blast rules, but make it difficult to hit multiple vehicles with it, even if they are relatively close to one another.

Thanks for the help. I'll keep what you said in mind next time I play.

Against Eric and I the best ones in my opinion are. Doom, Fortune and Mind War.

Everything Willy said. Really.

Mind War, even against Eric and Nick, is a poor option. If your list has a unit with a target painted on it (that one squad of fire dragons in a serpent, for instance), having a fortuneseer around is a great investment. Even when you don't have an obvious target, it lets you influence your opponent's shooting by diverting it away from a unit that you fortune.

Guide is good, but goes best with lots of shots or BS3 shots (or lots of BS3 shots, COUGHwarwalkerswithscatterlasersCOUGH)

But yeah, re-read Willyd's post.