Drasius wrote:
Fearless on csm units is very handy. It also appears you've forgotten pyromancy exists, since there is no other way to explain why inferno is not on your worst powers list. 2 warp charge for a bolter strength large blast? Forget that noise.

If you're allowing other race specific disciplines, tzeentch for csm is going to make the worst list easily. While I think that a poisoned flamer is pretty terrible for 2 warp charge, the real turd is boon of mutation. Take a str 4 ap 2 ignores cover hit, if you survive, roll on the boon table (where you're almost certain to get something useless). What's that, aspiring sorcerers only have 1 wound? Well, sucks to be you costing 58 points then, doesn't it? Even on a normal sorcerer, you only have 2 wounds to start with, so taking a wound to get +1 initiative while you're wielding a force axe doesn't exactly strike me as the best course of action. This would be a terrible power if it cost 0 warp charge. While tzeentch's firestorm isn't great, at least it doesn't actively damage or kill the caster.

Neophyte2012 wrote:
Well, here is my list for the BRB table powers:

Best Powers:
1. Invisibility (Telepathy);
2. Perfect Timing (Divination);
3. Cursed Earth (Malefic Daemonology);
4. Forewarning (Divination);
5. Prescience (Divination);
Tie 5. Psychic Sherik (Telepathy);
7. Shrouding (Telepathy);

Worst Powers:
1. Crush (Telekinesis);
2. Assail (Telekinesis);
3. Haemorrhage (Biomancy)
4. Hallucination (Telepathy);
5. Inferno (Pyromancy);
6. Scrier's Gaze (Divination);
7. Banishment (Sanctic Daemonology)

 ZergSmasher wrote:
I have come to really like the Dark Angels Interromancy discipline, especially the one that gives a unit Rage. It makes Ravenwing Black Knights and Deathwing Knights really nasty. The others are good too, as any ability to mess with your opponent's stats can swing a game potentially. A lot of people on this thread have said that most of the powers are situational; this is definitely true of most, although some (i.e. Invisibility) are almost always good. There are some that get really good on certain units; one good example I can mention is Slaanesh Daemon Princes with that lash thing getting Iron Arm.

bibotot wrote:
For the Eldar, best powers would probably be Fortune and Embolden/Horrify and worst power Will of Asuryan. Runes of Fate got overall worse with Doom and Mind War much weaker than before, so people would not use it that often anymore unless they have both Jetbike and Spirit Stone of Ana.

Do you agree or disagree with my opinion? Comment below, let me know. And, if you have other psychic disciples, why not share your thoughts on what are powerful and what are crap?

Kaela_Mensha_Khaine wrote:


How did doom get weaker? And Will of Asuryan is better than Executioner. As for runes of battle discipline has a few major drawbacks. Either you are using warlocks in guardian squads or you are using Spirit seers and either losing out on unit special abilities or Wraithguard and they just aren't as effective. And as the name states the powers work really well for Battle. In that regard Embolden/Horrify is only the best if you are running a freakshow list, or enough hemlocks to make it worth it, because you can get fearless from either an Avatar or WoA, otherwise the blessings of almost any other power is better.

Conceal - better cover save so less likely to need a moral check. Best power for warlocks in guardian squads

Destructor/Renewer - One of my favorites and my vote as best for either. Destructor is nice, but Renewer is amazing. Give a wound back to an Exarch, Farseer, PL, or a Wraithknight, and can be effectively used by either locks or seers.

Empower - good on combat guardians where you (hopefully already have Fearless from an Avatar which you should be taking if running combat guardians) or Wraithblades

Enhance - same as above

Quicken - extra 3 inches on a run whats not to love (outside from jetlocks)

Protect - giving guardians a 4+ which increases their survivability and on waithguard/blades giving them a 2+ is huge.

WiggleToast wrote:
Tyranid Primaris, hands down the worst. Never gets used, because it's never needed.

 koooaei wrote:
Purge soul is better than ork power 'eadbanger. 'eadbanger requires a target to fail a toughness test. It's rightfully considered one of the worst in the game.

I'd also call another ork power bad. Power vomit. It has an impressive profile of s7 ap2 flamer. But it's on a slow model with 6+ armor that benefits from being in a large squad of boyz to generate additional warp charges => you don't want to stick in front => will never use it. The only real use is when you roll around in a vehicle but than you're joined by a squad of guyz that do want to make it into combat. If you use it, you'll flame the opponent out of combat. If you use it against something that won't die from s7 ap2, you most likely don't want to charge it with a small squad anywayz. Besides, it's mastery level 2. So, way easier to peril. And wierdboy is ld7. All the bad stuff in the world will happen.

Let's put it this way. I've played new orks since they've come out. I've run wierdboyz in more than half of my games. Across this 1.5 years, power vomit only managed to get into range once. And that time it bounced off a rhino. Even 'eadbanger did more for me - even though, it's a very weak power.

I know that power vomit might be a deterrence for deepstrikers...but in reality, deepstrikers don't want to fall in front of your large blob anywayz - they want to fall onto your weak backlines. So, it is only mildly useful in a list where wierdboy's in a vehicle but than it might also bring more harm than good.

So, in my eyes, Power vomit - the worst, 'eadbanger - the 2-d worst, banishment - the 3-d worst. It will at least be reliably good against daemons.