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I don't think Thousand Sons need a nerf.

Thousand Sons would be worth it if you didn't have to pay so much up front for the squad because it's got a bad psyker for a squad leader. I think 23 points is reasonable per dude for what they can do, but adding what comes out to about 56 points for a guy stuck rolling on the worst psychic powers table in the game is pretty frustrating. If they made it so Doombolt was the primaris power, TS units would be vastly more usable on a typical game as I can actually get things done with the squad when I get that power.

Yah, the central issue for TS is the tzeentch table. The primaris is so bad that I'd rather not fire it and risk perils on the sorc. Similarly the buff one is so bad to not be worth casting either. The only castable power is Doombolt and even it doesn't synergize with the squad at all. (The template power would be okay also if it were 1 warp charge but its not worth 2.)

what about making the soul blaze rule more like the rules phosphex gets in the horus heresy rulebook, or give weapons with soulblaze the wildfire rule from codex:eldar?

I like the D3+X hits, x been the number of wounds a unit suffered from Soulblaze shoots this turn.

It can be very low output, or it can get high depending on the numbers of units you have with this.

Plus if your Warlord gets the crappy " their attacks have soulblaze", it gets a bit more worthwhile.