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I feel I may be missing something here... can someone explain how this is supposed to work ? Lets say for example Ahriman generates his four powers from the various disciplines, and each one is something other than Witchfire. So, how does the Staff work in that case ? Or what have I over looked ?

All the staff does is allow Ahriman to use up to 3 witchfire powers in a single turn. If he doesn't have that many witchfire powers (which could easily happen with everything he has open) then that benefit of the staff is lost.

The staff simply allows for Ahriman to shoot three times with witchfire powers when normally he would be limited to one. Ahriman is a mastery level 4 psyker so if he generates 4 warp charges he will be able to expend those warp charges as you see fit; so if he does not generate more than one witchfire power than you can use the warp charges on maledictions, blessings, etc. instead.

So the Staff simply trumps the normal "one witchfire" rule ?.. Would this include the same Witchfire power three times if he has only one Witchfire power ?

Yes.

Yeah it's unfortunate that he can't cast the same power three times.

 Brometheus wrote:
Yeah it's unfortunate that he can't cast the same power three times.

Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Pew pew

 toxic_wisdom wrote:
Would this include the same Witchfire power three times if he has only one Witchfire power ?

No, they have to be different Witchfires.

It's still stupid. Stupid as in good. I won't try to start an argument about how good/bad he is but Psychic Shriek, Smite, and Wind of Chaos is lolz.

It's 6 years and one edition after this thread was originally written. I had an army started back in 2012 right before the 7th edition rules and Space Marine codex came out. As you all probably know, but is worth mentioning, the Chaos Space Marine codex has not been updated since 6th.

I would like to confirm a few things about witchfire powers and the Black Staff of Ahriman as per current (7th edition) rules.

Firstly, when the psychic system was overhauled, did it not make it so that any psyker could manifest multiple witchfire powers, provided they had available warp charges? And;
Secondly, does this still apply:

Pyrian wrote:

 toxic_wisdom wrote:
Would this include the same Witchfire power three times if he has only one Witchfire power ?

No, they have to be different Witchfires.

Or is it that, in lieu of the new rules for psychic powers, Ahriman can now cast the same witchfire power three times per turn? I have seen many people claim that this is the case, but I've never seen a source. I had been assuming that it was resolved in a FAQ, but I haven't been able to find said FAQ.

Please check the date of the last post before adding something to a thread - thanks!

(This one's 4 years old!)