#veteran-class

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clear narwhal
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Is 20% base damage a good amount? does it calculate well into actual damage?

slow spade
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Compared to "2.5%" lmao

gusty bison
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Ogryn damage is nice but situational

serene sage
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i used it for some amount of time, it's up every horde lol

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and up for like half the hallway fights

slow spade
serene sage
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remember you don't need coherency for it

clear narwhal
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if you consider that you get it most when you're doing lots of killing, you get it when things get busy, and then you can use it to kill whatever's attacking you

gusty bison
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For a fair number of weapons its kinda pointless

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Its useful if it pushes you over a BP

tall torrent
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It’s not bad by any means

slow spade
clear narwhal
serene sage
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it's everywhere

clear narwhal
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you get it from any teammate kill

slow spade
clear narwhal
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sweet

gusty bison
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I dont mind it.

Its not a bad option if neither ogrynd damage nor rending really helps ur build

serene sage
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so that loner zealot might actually help you out

gusty bison
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Which is true of a lot of builds

slow spade
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Competitive Edge is also easy to see when it procs

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So you don't have the Disrupt Destiny moment

hearty panther
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I'm always edging

serene sage
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🤨

gusty bison
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Example: My bolter build BPs dont change with 25% oggy dmg

serene sage
gusty bison
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Ok fair thats nice

serene sage
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on bolter you mag dump bosses anyway, that's a lot of damage

hearty panther
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The Oggy node is just wild since all of them are also elites and you have 15% for those, too

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So it's really 35% ogryn damage

slow spade
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I take both for the funny damage

serene sage
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little man complex

hearty panther
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Which is incredible.

slow spade
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Somehow I don't instant kill reapers with my plasma

serene sage
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we small but we kill big

hearty panther
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Veteran is fucking dumb lol

serene sage
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deal with it haters

gusty bison
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My helbore also doesnt want ogg damage

hearty panther
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We need an enemy Ogryn Specialist.

thick wolf
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what the fuck is this big E?

serene sage
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🧱

gusty bison
clear narwhal
tall torrent
serene sage
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throw it at the emperor palace window

gusty bison
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Tbf u can beat people up in melee with it

dawn garnet
slow spade
serene sage
slow spade
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I went maniac on my plasma to 1-shot flamers

clear narwhal
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I need maniac on my power sword to 1tap muties

slow spade
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I wish I could spare for unyielding

slow spade
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I found that out the scary way

serene sage
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I don't need anything on my Power Sword because I don't use it

thick wolf
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brunt what the fuck is this mobility

hearty panther
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I know my Bolter one taps Reapers

gusty bison
hearty panther
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And Plasma is like

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Pretty sure you need 80/80

gusty bison
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With e stance?

hearty panther
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To do all the sexy shit

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Ye with X

thick wolf
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I wanted to build another agrippa and brunt hit me with the 9% mobility

gusty bison
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I know mine is deffo 2 tap

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Nowhere near a 1 tap

serene sage
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same

hearty panther
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Surgical?

gusty bison
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Yea

serene sage
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yuh

hearty panther
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Hmmm

serene sage
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not xs though

hearty panther
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How do I achieve such magic

gusty bison
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Im doing around 2.4k

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2.2 to 2.4k

serene sage
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2 tapping reapers?

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didn't you already say you one tap em lmao

hearty panther
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I have Carapace Unyielding too so

gusty bison
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That shouldnt bring 2.2-2.4 up to 4k

serene sage
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I mean if you stack enough headshot damage

thick wolf
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on shotties, general consensus on kantrael shotties?

serene sage
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maybe you can?

gusty bison
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Set everything on fire

serene sage
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there is a lot of headshot damage on left side

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plus 25% from PF

gusty bison
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Make everyone bleed

gusty bison
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Plus focus target

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Hum

serene sage
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im sure you can one shot reaper if you really build around it

hearty panther
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I use no Keystones

gusty bison
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I think its possible

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At what range do u one tap

serene sage
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at 40m out everything is possible KEKW_ogryn

gusty bison
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Inverse falloff baybeee

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Longshot go brr

hearty panther
thick wolf
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also kantael shotties always have the lowest ammo capacity, right?

serene sage
# hearty panther

with that I would need to see a clip of you one tapping reapers lel

serene sage
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that doesn't seem enough?

slow spade
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I use Full Bore + No Respite for funny damage

dusty sluice
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wahhhhh

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no 550

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anyways what should i change

serene sage
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a little bricked ngl KEKW_ogryn

thick wolf
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shit, I might have to sacrifice a bit of my shotty infil talent tree if it meant getting slightly more ammo for kantrael

serene sage
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stats are good, maniac 3 is okay

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I guess you can change both blessings

thick wolf
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and I fear that hadron would brick it

slow spade
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Low stopping power is very bad

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As it determines your damage vs armor

thick wolf
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that's why I want to rebuild an agrippa shotty

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because it has liek 70% stopping power and I'm not sure if I'm too happy with what I got for it

slow spade
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Think of it this way

thick wolf
slow spade
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+10% rending talent value UwU

gusty bison
hearty panther
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calc shows 3300~ damage on a crit headshot

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without finesse math

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because idk how to do it

gusty bison
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If u can kill 5 elites with 2 bullets

slow spade
gusty bison
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Kanny's low ammo reserve is a non issue

clear narwhal
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Is this a good base? can I work it into something nice?

hearty panther
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groaners really do be the final boss

gusty bison
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For agri

tall torrent
clear narwhal
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lmao

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good thing it was in melk then and not something I took to hadron

thick wolf
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melk kantrael

dusty sluice
slow spade
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But idk much about bolters these days

atomic zephyr
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how did you get a t2 on a 380?

slow spade
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imo, I would go Surgical + Pinning Fire

slow spade
atomic zephyr
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either that or from bruntshop

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honestly

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i'd change both blessings to a higher tier surgical and either pinning fire or shattering impact

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20% maniac is solid and reload speed isnt the worst thing to have on a boltgun

sonic marlin
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this is pretty great right? Is this like between columnus mk5 and agri iag?

bitter turtle
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only loses a little dps compared to columnus and has the stability to snipe faraway targets fairly easily

sonic marlin
hearty panther
bitter turtle
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dumdum + stripped down for utility

bitter turtle
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dumdum + raking fire if you wanna do the back shooting meme

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honestly

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the 2nd talent isnt that important

dusty sluice
atomic zephyr
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checks out

sonic marlin
atomic zephyr
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i need to figure out a good graia iag
every one i pick up just feels meh

bitter turtle
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flaniac good

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5% doesnt make a big difference for an automatic

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you arent missing any bps

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you just shoot

sonic marlin
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cool, needed a change from columnus

bitter turtle
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you basically build it the same exact way

sonic marlin
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im going for agri iag but i haven't rolled a decent one yet

bitter turtle
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its just more range for a bit less dps

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agri can be built like an HH autogun but I think its easier just to play an HH autogun

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i remember helping someone test the other day

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to oneshot bp gunners you need to jump through a lot of hoops

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like

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needing kill zone active (no enemy in 8m) level of hoops

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ofc you can just build agri like columnus too and it works fine

thick wolf
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big E reward, and a comparison to my older shovel

tulip condor
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Hey, not a plasma fan but gonna give it a try. Whats the ideal perks and blessings you want to handle maelstorm?

agile forge
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I feel like something like Maniac/Unyielding is the way to go on perks but I'm not sure

tulip condor
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mmmm then Ill guess ill use what i have

agile forge
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I think of all the blessings, Gets Hot is a bit better than the others

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and Blaze Away

tulip condor
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Sounds like these 2 will do just fine then

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aight, thanks for the tip

hearty panther
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left one is best in my opinion

agile forge
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80 damage 80 charge rate 80 stopping power

hearty panther
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and yea theyre quite good

agile forge
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sad 5% crit chance perk though

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perks are way more important than blessings for plasma

hearty panther
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ye

tulip condor
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is what it is. Could make until I got better perks

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got the resources for sure

hearty panther
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honestly its w/e you want/ w/e youre willing to work with

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plasma is right on the edge of a BUNCH of breakpoints and you can push it in a bunch of directions

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but youll never get ALL of them

agile forge
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although it's not too big a hassle to just LMB twice generally

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Plasma is too efficient

hearty panther
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yea its not like the killshot is far behind

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imo flak is the best one

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bodyshot scab gunners is pretty big

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and for me the best part is if your tree is set right you can also two-shot bodyshot maulers

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and since they love to pile up

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extra emphasis on the plural

tulip condor
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I think thats what im asking. what i need for those breakpoints

hearty panther
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x stance usually

tulip condor
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ah

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hate

agile forge
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Use voice and just click an extra time if you need to

tulip condor
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yea

hearty panther
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thats why its a w/e you wanna do thing

terse idol
rain flower
sonic marlin
terse idol
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Easy game

thick rose
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WITNESS ME!

hollow ibex
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F

thick rose
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its funny but im not sure which part of me is laughing

crude ermine
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The evil part

thick rose
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actually think that stripped/dumdum unyielding and like flak or carapace isnt that bad

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yo

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h o rny is blocked

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really

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lmao

hearty panther
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stripped down is quite good

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its just not damage and for some people that's apparently inexcusable

wanton dawn
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Stripped down issue is that it is hard to get meaningful value out of it in practice

wanton dawn
crude ermine
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Pnis

tiny summit
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Like how Warframe has how many mods dedicated to just flat out more dmg

crude ermine
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Some of them just existing for the sake of existing

wanton dawn
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Also stripped still got nerfed by losing passive speed boost whatthefuck_heresy

crude ermine
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WHAT

hearty panther
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stripped down is actually stupid strong

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since a) we have duck and dive

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you can literally be intangible FOREVER

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just keep holding sprint

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and b) you recover one entire stamina bar when you are shot by even a single bullet, and yes even if its toughness damage

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the game will literally feed you the ability to proc stripped down again the moment it runs out

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but yes i do sincerely miss the move speed version of it

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i used that shit so much

wanton dawn
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Losing speed passive also nerfed melee avoidance

crude ermine
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Stripped down, agri IAG, deadshot, duck n dive

Because SOMEONE said it in the wrong chat smh

hearty panther
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point B is universal for all classes

thick rose
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once they unfuck the stagger bug I guess it becomes slightly less good

hearty panther
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which is why i dont even really run duck and dive that much

wanton dawn
hearty panther
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my point is its a good fucking blessing

hearty panther
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if youre getting shitfucked in a corner by five gunners you can just press Q and hold shift for a single split second and turn around again to leave

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the game will legit give you all the tools to do it

wanton dawn
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"I love stripping down", said the vet

tiny summit
crude ermine
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As you should

thick rose
# terse idol What bug

you arent meant to get knocked back into totally uninteruptable staggered state by gunners and shit (when you have toughness?)

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they fixed it then, unfixed it in a recent patch]

thick wolf
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is stability important for boltgun?

hearty panther
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yes

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oh god yes

thick wolf
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damn it brunt

stiff glacier
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Are the headsets that veteran bots wear only for them?

hearty panther
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less so with X Stance

terse idol
thick wolf
hearty panther
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yea if you use x stance then the stability is almost whatever

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but that sway is hilarious

terse idol
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I thought it was intended that gunners would keep you back so you can't just run into melee in a straight line with toughness

wanton dawn
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Bolter plays exec stance and deadshot nowadays

terse idol
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Especially on damantion missions with weakened monstrocities

thick wolf
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whenever I use bolter I just magdump the nearest crusher

hearty panther
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its very theraputic to just

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click on the bad dudes slowly one at a time

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and it really does have goofy crowd control

thick rose
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hahahaa

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you cant say s ex tape

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fucken

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americans

hearty panther
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oh

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fucken youtube sometimes

thick wolf
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I can barely aim with the buggy ass ADS it has

hearty panther
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there we go

thick wolf
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may as well just treat it like an oversized videogame autoshotgun against anything close to me

hearty panther
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thats silly i sent that to two other people and didnt realize it was still stuck on private

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nobody TOLD MEEEE

thick rose
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I recently read that if you ADS/unADS between shots its hacky?

hearty panther
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yes it resets some of the visual recoil

thick rose
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I dont fuck with bolter because the animation when you pull it out annoys me on a certain level

hearty panther
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but it also cuts down on some surgical ticks

thick rose
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"high functioning auricism" I think its called

wanton dawn
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Bolter dont need duck n dive: target down is enough to keep your stam fed for deadshot

hoary horizon
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Veterant? Ulgo has queshion

crude ermine
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What's your question ulgo

wanton dawn
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Go on big man

hoary horizon
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Do you think trainning lady likes Ogryns?

crude ermine
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Of course

wanton dawn
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Errr... probably, in her own way

terse idol
hoary horizon
terse idol
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Rather than the plasmagun being

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Uhhh

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I draw it and left click

thick wolf
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just M1 and win

hoary horizon
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Thanking you veterants

terse idol
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Then swap back

wanton dawn
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You're welcome champ

thick wolf
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kinda wild it only expends three shots for what's basically an oversized quake 2 railgun shot

terse idol
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Plasmagun had caused irreplicable damage to gun balance

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And its terrible

thick wolf
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I was expecting it like 5 or 10 or something

wanton dawn
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Bolter require some talent optimization to get the best out of it

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But honestly ? Feels good to play

terse idol
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Yeah

wanton dawn
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Still the best sniper weapon imo

terse idol
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I feel like if we balanced plasma gun like it, it would... actually be balanced

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Maybe increase the draw speed on plasma and increase ammo consumption big time

tiny summit
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Now need the balance and/or removal of VoC and Focus Target and buffing the other 2 skills

thick rose
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it would be more palatable to me if the animation for drawing the bolter was a big labored swing

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the charging thing every time is annoying 😮

wanton dawn
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Plasma need primary nerfed and charged buffed

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Bolter need better magdump

faint perch
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the bolter needs a damage increase imo

gusty bison
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Eh

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How does that help

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Ngl

crude ermine
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Needs a size increase

wanton dawn
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Nah, ads bolter does huge dmg

gusty bison
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It already 1 taps most things

crude ermine
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Comedically size increase

gusty bison
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More damage doesnt help it one tap most elites harder

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Unless u wanna start 1 tapping crushets or smth

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But that requires a ludicrous damage buff

wanton dawn
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You reach 50%+ crit on ads bolter

thick rose
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bigger ammo pool would be nice

wanton dawn
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80% if you wait to aim

thick rose
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just less annoying

gusty bison
tiny summit
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It's more so the handling of the bolter compared to every other gun and especially plasma

gusty bison
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If ur using it properly

hearty panther
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bolter handling is fine

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in that it is entirely in line with what it is

thick wolf
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was never a fan of deadshot

hearty panther
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huge and fucking clunky

tiny summit
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Though I do want bolter to just completely penetrate through a horde

crude ermine
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I always liked that part of it

thick rose
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I dunno how to say this

crude ermine
wanton dawn
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Bolter problem is that you cannot go melee talent to use it properly: too much required node

hearty panther
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you can

gusty bison
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The main thing is the hipfire is complete dogshit

tiny summit
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It should create holes through poxwalkers

gusty bison
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At least on vet

thick rose
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Ill skip the I can do X and just say that the reaon I dont use the bolter is because of the ammo pool and the time to ready it.

gusty bison
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On zealot is salvageable

tiny summit
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Counterpoint: mag dumping makes joy in my head

thick rose
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just small adjustments to those two things and I would enjoy it

hearty panther
gusty bison
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The ammo pool is mostly infinite tbh

hearty panther
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thats my bolter tree

gusty bison
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I dont think it needs a buff there

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Swap time is

wanton dawn
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Lemme show mine

gusty bison
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Well

hearty panther
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from the same vid where i was one tapping reapers

gusty bison
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I getcha

crude fiber
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Braced bolter variant for better full auto spread

thick rose
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remove braced from the game

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thanks

gusty bison
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But like there is a serious danger of say

hearty panther
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and yea the mag dump for vet is just

gusty bison
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Making every gun the same

hearty panther
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do two shots at a time

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dont actually magdump it lol

gusty bison
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Mhm the 2 tap is ok

thick rose
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actually. I read someone say that they should have made braced autos LMG variants with big mags

hearty panther
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i have no evidence but i swear the game cant keep up with the RoF

thick rose
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that would have been so smart

gusty bison
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But the ads is just better

hearty panther
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and some shots just get ate by already corpsed enemies

gusty bison
wanton dawn
hearty panther
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its really just for zealots with chastise

gusty bison
hearty panther
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and duelist

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really though

gusty bison
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Cos zealors can -75% spread -50% recoil

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Which is massive

hearty panther
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well its more the armor downgrade

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and it only lasts for 3s

gusty bison
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Suddenly u can chain headshots

hearty panther
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which is slightly longer than a botler mag lasts

thick rose
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I hate agri braced on vet and love it on zealot

gusty bison
thick rose
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so yeah

gusty bison
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Tbf

hearty panther
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so sure, vet and zealot both can kill about the same amount of crushers

hollow ibex
hearty panther
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but zealot does it in 3s lmao

gusty bison
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Yep

hearty panther
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with no recourse for ADS use after

gusty bison
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Cos zealot can laserbeam headshot while downgrading to flak

crude fiber
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Braced weapons on exec stance are great. Don't want to try them without tbh

crude ermine
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Never tried brace weapons

hearty panther
hollow ibex
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I use braced Agri on vet without exec and it's great

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Don't need exec for it

wanton dawn
thick rose
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people always say in vet "braced agri with exec" but it sounds like staring into the sun can fortell prophecy to me

hearty panther
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you can save on the reload nodes by learning this

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yes you can reload it in under 5s this way

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for x stance to reproc

crude fiber
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Columnus braced auto with death sitter fire frenzy is pretty fun

gusty bison
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Thats its entire thing

pliant sentinel
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Hello fellow guardsmen

thick rose
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agri IAG is easy to use

gusty bison
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Which is a perfectly fine thing

thick rose
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and it is the perfect gun in so many situations to me

gusty bison
gusty bison
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The entire premise of brauto on vet is that you arent bothering to aim for heads

hearty panther
tulip condor
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Brauto is basically going Rambo

wanton dawn
hearty panther
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you do need 4 stacks of PF to do it

hearty panther
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and it does have to crit but

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surgical

gusty bison
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Ye i think fox and I thought u meant without x stance

hearty panther
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oh no

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definitely not without

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i tried real hard

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its the 25% weakspot that puts it over to do it

gusty bison
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And 25% base damage

hearty panther
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yes but you can get 25%+ from target keystone

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but it wont get you there

frank ether
gusty bison
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Ah

hearty panther
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even with redirect fire

gusty bison
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:3

hearty panther
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vet is seriously broken

gusty bison
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At least more reliable ones

hearty panther
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zealot can ramp up hilariously in a fight

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but vet is baseline like 70-80% what zealot does in that long fight

gusty bison
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Mhm yea zealot has higher peaks

thick rose
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I have found col and grai braced much better than agri

frank ether
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It doesn't reach the highs zealot can reach though

gusty bison
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Ye zealot is a rollercoaster

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Vet is consistent

hearty panther
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its so dumb

crude fiber
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Grai braced rn KEKW_ogryn

hearty panther
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put weapon specialist and momentum side by side

gusty bison
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Very consistent

hearty panther
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make it make fucking sense

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and dont even get me STARTED on VoC. AGAIN

crude fiber
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They even buffed it last patch I think and it's still pretty bad imo

thick rose
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grai braced is the only braced gun where I think bracing has a point

gusty bison
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Turns into a laserbeam

crude fiber
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I'll take your word for it, I'll stick to colomnus

gusty bison
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Cos zealot cancels out the sway

thick rose
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im like a bracist

gusty bison
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When ur braced

thick rose
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so dont listen ot me XD

frank ether
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you can also eat carapace with brauto on zealot

thick rose
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press f to murder

frank ether
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fury of the faithful is funny

thick rose
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man

crude ermine
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Hnnrrnng I hate the brace race

crude fiber
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The faster fire rate is cool but it's dps even then isn't very good. I'll actually try on zealot since they get the reduced spread

thick rose
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am i a moron or is it not clear that fury makes guns go carapace die

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on zealot

crude ermine
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Both

hearty panther
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its not stated

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its magick

thick rose
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im really lazy with RPG shit

crude ermine
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Kidding

thick rose
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I literally hate reading

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in games

crude ermine
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I sentence you

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To read the darktide code

crude fiber
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Fat shark doesn't even do that

thick rose
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I wish I enjoyed theorcrafting, its such a drag to my extreme gamerism

crude ermine
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That are not FS devs

crude fiber
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How much fire rate boost can zealot get with fury and momentum?

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Vet can get 20% from wep specialist

crude ermine
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Iirc

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A lot

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Idk if chastise affects fire rate or not

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Never thought about it too deeply

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I rushed guy and it dies

hearty panther
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40%

crude fiber
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Fury is 10 I think, is momentum 1% per stack? Cause I'd want to test that then with blue juice on grai braced lol

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Damn thats crazy

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Double what vet van do

crude ermine
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Zamn

frank ether
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fury is more for downgrading armor

crude fiber
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Sure but I just want to brrrtt

crude ermine
#

And for saying fuck you to many things

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Except bursters

hearty panther
#

bursters too

#

dash at the right moment and it wont hurt you

crude ermine
#

True

thick rose
#

hear them at the last second and have heart attack

crude fiber
#

You think their suicide bomb will save them from me?

crude ermine
#

But that'll only happen if they pull a ninja

thick rose
#

speaking of audio

crude ermine
#

Go on

thick rose
#

that top of hotfix 31 wasn't "we fixed audio" is one of the things of this time in space

crude ermine
#

I've been having moments where hounds and mutants sound like they went through puberty twice with their lower pitch

crude fiber
#

After extensive community feedback about audio issues we've decided to nerf recon lasguns

crude ermine
#

I was very concerned when I first heard it

thick rose
#

they also fixed "female cosmetic upper clipping"? but like.. every one of those chem dog sets has totally dogshit shoulderpads that sit out like a dogs testicles

crude ermine
#

Interesting analogy but yes

crude fiber
#

They no longer think

crude ermine
#

I don't blame them

merry oak
#

It's begun

dusty sluice
#

how would i do a funny lawbringer manstopper build

slow spade
#

Manstopper + Scattershot is how I would do it

dusty sluice
#

but ye

slow spade
#

Ah

dusty sluice
#

thats what i'm going to do

slow spade
#

Sadly at work :c

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But try to pick up the Ping keystone or Marksmen keystone

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Considering Law shotgun + Manstopper wants the funny crits

dusty sluice
#

also stopping power too low orrrr?

hearty panther
#

find out

#

see if you can still ADS click shooters in one shot to the head from distance

slow spade
#

Can't 1-shot scab ragers

#

Brb holding x on it UwU

dusty sluice
#

and use dclaw for ragers and stuff

slow spade
dusty sluice
#

ah, mb

slow spade
#

Even my No Respite + Full bore Kantreal has issues unless they're close :c

dusty sluice
#

seems fine tbh

#

with flakiac or just flak it should be good

slow spade
#

Brb holding X on it

dusty sluice
#

wah

sonic marlin
#

Can yall tell whats wrong with this picture? Its not about the missions being organized

flint lake
#

You can make it work if you enjoy it but you’ll just be building a plasma vet with extra steps

dusty sluice
#

The silly

flint lake
#

Shotguns need another buff. They should be at least powerful enough with optimal perks and blessings to one tap dredge shotgunners

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With a body shot

gusty bison
#

Thats... a lot of damage

#

1k without crit?

flint lake
#

I really don’t want to hear about how you can do it already with a headshot from a couple meters away.

dusty sluice
#

So any suggestions for silly build?

gusty bison
#

With how fast shotguns shoot thats a bit much

gusty bison
#

Agrivolver and Shovel for a lot silly

dusty sluice
gusty bison
#

Oh

dusty sluice
#

But those are some very silly ideas

native hamlet
gusty bison
#

Gotta max that crit

flint lake
#

Shotgun + shovel with stealth using the melee tree

dusty sluice
gusty bison
#

And go for reload speed

#

Wep spec agile of course good combo

flint lake
#

Reload speed is convenient but not super necessary so long as you’re good about regularly reloading when you’re repositioning

gusty bison
#

Its useful for loading the special shot

#

Since what u wanna do is

#

Special shot

dusty sluice
gusty bison
#

Load

#

Special shot

gusty bison
dusty sluice
#

Ye

flint lake
#

Talent

#

You’ll need the damage from perks

dusty sluice
#

Would ua and flak be good?

flint lake
#

Flak and maniac

dusty sluice
#

(I already have ua on my roll and I’m lazy)

flint lake
#

God rolls should feel godly

#

Unfortunately the shotgun remains mediocre at B tier

#

Close to A

dusty sluice
#

It’s not meta

#

But it’s not bad

hollow ibex
#

Not everything needs to be a plasma

dusty sluice
#

Ye

terse idol
#

Its okay

#

Yeah

#

I mean this is why balance talk is kinda scuffed

#

We got two of the best weapons to compare

#

Pgun ciag

flint lake
dusty sluice
#

Mmmm, I love comparing a shotgun to a fucking “plasma gun”

flint lake
#

I make the comparison because folks try to build it into one with man stopper and Crit

#

It’s never going to be match up to it

#

Without significant changes to the current balance of either weapon

dusty sluice
#

Unless fs completely nerf plasma to recon level

dreamy lantern
#

id hope they atleast plan to nerf plasma lights

flint lake
#

Recon isn’t as bad as people say

frank ether
dusty sluice
flint lake
#

Recon requires though that you get headshots using marksman’s focus

#

It has a high skill ceiling

south garnet
#

Recon is """usable""" it's just not competitive at all, which is the reason people dunk on it so badly, because it performs poorly in basically any functional category one would prioritize during weapon choice

frank ether
wanton dawn
#

Recon is prob the lowest dps gun in the game

white minnow
#

...well, you have to do that for it to be at least average

dreamy lantern
#

people meta chasing is cringe

#

im usually running shotgun or a braced autogun and clearing dam fine

white minnow
#

high skill ceiling is not quite the right term if you're forced to perfectly use it for it to be at least average

frank ether
#

Like I have no problem with busted guns but at this point I want those two nerfed so ppl can stop the victim complex

dreamy lantern
#

but people are ADAMANT you need the best gear and options at all times

hearty panther
#

me with my taxe bolter

south garnet
#

I can also complete runs using knife special only, that doesn't make it a "good weapon" though respective to others

wanton dawn
dreamy lantern
south garnet
#

But ultimately recon's biggest issue isn't even that it's not competitive, it's that it's utterly boring

white minnow
#

yeah, the lack of recoil just destroys the skill ceiling aspect of it

#

it is as point and click as an automatic weapon can be

flint lake
light ore
#

i'm pretty sure fatshark is terrified of nerfs cause then negative reviews get put on the front storepage complaining that power sword went from 8 charged swings to 3

wanton dawn
#

And agri brauto

white minnow
#

recon lasgun is also one of the guns with the worst synergies with marksman

wanton dawn
#

And inf lasgun

dreamy lantern
#

i kinda want em to differentiate the accas more, turn the 6 more into an lmg and 2 more into a dmr so the 3 can stand apart and be good separately

white minnow
#

it's crits strings got nerfed and it has bad finesse multipliers

dusty sluice
white minnow
#

what is the ??? for

dreamy lantern
fossil nymph
#

good gun

white minnow
#

it is very self-evidently one of the guns that benefits the least from marksman

wanton dawn
white minnow
#

i didn't really look at the damage table to avoid being too sad

dusty sluice
wanton dawn
#

Gun that are not that reliant are columnus iag, plasma and zarona

dreamy lantern
#

its super depressing

wanton dawn
dusty sluice
wanton dawn
dusty sluice
#

I use it with Rashad which eats most of my talent points

wanton dawn
#

Lemme get the build

dusty sluice
#

Ty

south garnet
#

the best damage table in the world can't help a weapon's handling feeling like an incontinent piss dribble

south garnet
#

in my mind

wanton dawn
south garnet
#

I don't have a single build that touches a keystone anymore ha

dusty sluice
south garnet
#

Nothing against the keystones really, I just prioritize other elements

wanton dawn
#

I stole it from someone else

dusty sluice
#

Nice

wanton dawn
#

Was impressed by the perf

fluid solstice
#

Are there server issues rn by chance?

#

that you may know of?

south garnet
#

Mine seem "fine," by which I mean to say they are in the expected tatters held together by loose duct tape because it's been so long since a proper server refresh

sonic marlin
#

it transfered from my veteran lol

native hamlet
#

lol

frank ether
fluid solstice
south garnet
sonic marlin
wanton dawn
white minnow
wanton dawn
#

And weapon specialist does increase fire speed

white minnow
#

just fatshark implementing it in a bad way

fluid solstice
#

we'll hope for the best

sonic marlin
#

nah ur settings file is gone now

#

gl

fluid solstice
#

I’ll live

sonic marlin
#

its fine unless u got shit ton of mods

fluid solstice
#

I have a couple but those are pretty easy to configure

sonic marlin
#

smh getting a new character to 30 is annoying as hell

fluid solstice
frank ether
fluid solstice
#

bastard

wanton dawn
south garnet
#

More diversity in enemy types would do a lot honestly

tall torrent
#

Trying to give MG12 its 1 tap breakpoints without exe stance is actually cancer

dusty sluice
#

would this work?

#

for smth like this

wanton dawn
#

60%+25%+10% and base 5%

dusty sluice
#

is it needed with scattershot?

wanton dawn
#

Well, its still 40% crit without scattershot

dusty sluice
#

ah

wanton dawn
#

If you spam special shell you can drop reload speed

#

Cuz you would only use standard shot under pressure

dusty sluice
#

ig

wanton dawn
#

Maybe i should revisit my lawbringer

dusty sluice
#

extra rld speed is kinda nice

tall torrent
#

I wish the refresh node for exe stance would be changed to smth like “add 5s to existing duration”

idle swallow
#

The fact that you need to spend a point to refresh the timer on highlight kill is wack and should be baked in by default

raw steppe
wanton dawn
#

Really now ?

raw steppe
#

Ye they changed it in p14

dusty sluice
#

and the highlight ranged enimies

fossil nymph
#

Wiener

wanton dawn
#

Granted those patch were beastly

tall torrent
dusty sluice
south garnet
#

man thank goodness there are some regular people and not weirdos in this game

idle swallow
wanton dawn
dusty sluice
tall torrent
wanton dawn
#

HOTFIX ?

#

hotfix

dusty sluice
#

i have no clue how this works

wanton dawn
#

Yeah, we can block ppl now pogryn

wanton dawn
tall torrent
#

It’s a meme node basically

#

If you’re gonna take this, take the 5% crit chance node instead

wanton dawn
south garnet
#

It's okay for revolver but it's not good or great

tall torrent
#

Meh

idle swallow
#

Need a single shot laser musket to take advantage

tall torrent
#

If it worked like applying to any reload (including partial reloads) then it’ll be a lot better

tall torrent
south garnet
#

if wishes were horses I'd be playing darkhammer or whatever this game is called 2

tall torrent
#

That’s like 90% crit chance already?

dusty sluice
#

i just saw a lvl 978 not taking duty and honour in the mourningstar lmaooo

tall torrent
#

If weapon specialist on top of that then it’s already >100%

wanton dawn
#

Sure, but that's a easy grab that give you consistent 100% crit on a build that abuse crit

dusty sluice
tall torrent
#

Actually weapon specialist already gives u near 100% crit chance

33% (1 stack)
60% scattershot
5% base crit chance

That’s like 98%?

tall torrent
dusty sluice
#

iv dclaw

#

or knife

tall torrent
#

Uh

#

Maybe drop confirmed kill

#

Go out for blood

#

Take 5% move speed path

idle swallow
#

drop iron will because you're a chad who will never get hit (pro gamer)

dusty sluice
tall torrent
#

Which shotgun are u using

#

Kantrael?

dusty sluice
#

for the funnies

tall torrent
#

I don’t think you’ll be getting as many special/elite kills to be getting as high value out of CK tbh

dusty sluice
#

good point

#

so grab deadshot or ofb?

tall torrent
#

Both?

#

Can’t u go this

dusty sluice
wanton dawn
#

Oh, make me think, i need to test a theory

dusty sluice
#

i am very silly

dusty sluice
merry glade
#

i swear im dc'ing more and more each hotfix

dusty sluice
#

mod issue?

merry glade
#

likely. i'll have to run through em

wanton dawn
#

Bwahahah, I WAS RIGHT

serene sage
#

this looks cool

#

we need those

wanton dawn
#

Taking serrated blade on thunderous rashad increase TTK on at least dreg rager from 4 hit to 3

#

Because the bleed stack thunderous faster KEKW_ogryn

dusty sluice
#

how much extra cleave does manstopper give?

sharp ember
#

enough to hit everything in a patrol line

dusty sluice
sharp ember
#

20 extra poxwalkers dead

dusty sluice
#

yey

wanton dawn
#

I am going to try a melee rashad with serrated blade KEKW_ogryn

dusty sluice
sharp ember
#

alright check this out

#

https://youtu.be/7ztDPr-9NQY?t=368 this video claims and seemingly proves almost 100 poxwalkers

Hey guys, it's Swiggs!

Personally, shotguns are my favorite weapon. Not just in Darktide, but across pretty much any game that I can get em in.

But Darktide's shotguns are up there for sure. Brutal blasts that rip apart Poxxies at point blank and reliable enough to go the distance for some frankly ridiculous countersnipes, they are versatile p...

▶ Play video
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so basically plasma-tier cleave

sharp ember
terse idol
#

Yess shotguns are

#

Something

#

Not my vid but very funny

sharp ember
dusty sluice
sharp ember
#

yeah, groaners are made of wet paper so any attack in the game will hit at least 2 of them

dusty sluice
sharp ember
#

nah, that's just a really weird and gnarly screencap

dusty sluice
#

ah

sharp ember
#

but yeah i know at least some parts of this guide is outdated

#

the darktide calculator says the mk13g chainsword's cleave lights have a value of 4.5

#

but it can only hit 2 scab bruisers, implying 2 scab bruisers have at least equal to 4.5 mass

frank basin
#

What about mk4 cleave heavy?

sharp ember
#

ah shit hold on i wrote that wrong

#

the mk4 chainsword heavy has a cleave of 8, and that hits 3 bruisers comfortable from memory

tall torrent
dusty sluice
#

the kant with flechette doesn't seem to apply bleed to everything hit

#

any reason for this

sharp ember
#

i haven't observed that behavior before

tall torrent
sharp ember
#

says here scab bruiser mass is 3.5 which tracks with mk13g chainsword light only able to hit 2

tall torrent
#

Yea

frank basin
#

Is shotgun bleed bad?

tall torrent
sharp ember
#

shotgun bleed is strong if you can reliably stack it

#

it lets you use lawbringer like a kantrael without using the kantrael

dusty sluice
tall torrent
#

Basically
If you’re counting on shotgun bleed to kill a lot of things for u, it won’t happen most of the time if your teammates aren’t brain damaged

frank basin
#

Yeah teammate take over your kill spot

#

With their Muh meta weapon

#

Specially ogryn (archly) stubber

sharp ember
#

this shouldn't happen with a lawbringer spread shot shell

terse idol
#

Just shoot that line without anything

acoustic sapphire
#

Does Precision Strikes apply to melee damage? I'm building a Commando.

idle swallow
#

ye

acoustic sapphire
#

Nice.

tall torrent
#

Which is kinda hilarious

acoustic sapphire
#

There's more melee focused talents than I have points for. It makes me sad.

frank basin
#

Enemy moving count as staggering?

sharp ember
#

if it makes them stop moving and wince it counts as staggering

frank basin
#

Does fire dot crits proc?

sharp ember
#

i do not believe dots can crit

white minnow
dusty sluice
white minnow
#

you can also go down krak and VoC, but you are missing just 1 point from getting the overtoughness node

acoustic sapphire
#

I started off making a balanced spread of toughness regeneration, and grenades, but now there's barely anything left for melee damage, and crit chance.

frank basin
#

Out for blood as toughness regeneration

sharp ember
dusty sluice
acoustic sapphire
frank basin
#

So you want be spy tf2

dusty sluice
#

MY EARS

acoustic sapphire
sharp ember
#

i love you manstopper

tall torrent
#

Serrated blade is super niche tho

earnest lodge
#

Very

dusty sluice
#

real?

frank basin
#

Pls not the blessing lacerate

#

With other bleed crits

acoustic sapphire
#

This is my current knife. I'm saving up Plasteel to make a few more, and get those sweet IV Blessings.

dusty sluice
frank basin
#

Flesh tearer staregryn

acoustic sapphire
#

I could run my Chain Axe, but I'd lose the speed boost.

sharp ember
#

bleed knife? ogryn_pathetic
bleed grenades? OmegaGuardsmanHype

frank basin
#

Love XII chainaxe

sharp ember
#

chainaxe melee vet is one of my favorite setups tbh

dusty sluice
#

are so fun

sharp ember
#

more of an agri shotgun guy myself

#

or even wop out the laspistol

dusty sluice
acoustic sapphire
#

I'm going to run the Chain Axe this round, and see how it feels.

frank basin
#

I think is going be bad?

#

If you want be zealot-lite

acoustic sapphire
#

No, just trying something new.

sharp ember
#

you're probably in the range of 1 shotting crushers with that chainaxe with a fully charged rev

#

i wager they'll bleed out if you hit em in the face

acoustic sapphire
#

One Heavy reved, and one lite is a kill.

faint perch
acoustic sapphire
#

On Damnation. Probably one shot on Heresy and below.

dusty sluice
frank basin
#

Lot furries here

faint perch
tall torrent
#

Thinking of taking this out for a spin

#

But the 1 tap BPs are so hard to build

frank basin
#

What’s bp

earnest lodge
#

British Petroleum (break point)

#

How many hits you need to land to score a kill

#

It's important for slower weapons

idle swallow
#

hadron don't wanna give me the thrust 4 otherwise I would go harder for the one shot

sharp ember
tall torrent
#

I don’t care about flamer 1HS as much because I realized I could 2 bodyshot them with this

sharp ember
#

i'd cope if 1 head 1 body is good enough

tall torrent
#

I could but

#

MG1a could hit for like 900 headshot

#

For the same 1HS + 1 chest result

frank basin
#

Counter mass

#

Countermass shot

sharp ember
#

does mg12 still boast higher unyielding multipliers

tall torrent
#

So I basically rolled this mg12 to collect dust

tall torrent
#

And higher weakpoint multi I believe

#

On flak it’s like 2.915x
MG1a is 2.615x

sharp ember
#

inchresting

tall torrent
#

But the biggest change I want for infantry lasguns is cleave buff

#

At the very least give MG12 same cleave like Helbore lasguns

sharp ember
#

i'd like if the mk3 helbore had extra cleave since it's the hardest hitting one

nimble sentinel
zealous wyvern
#

i thought the whole "charged for 1-4 swings" was darktide nonsense

sharp ember
#

it mostly is

#

a psword with a power cable attached is not gonna turn off

#

i headcanon we only receive bargain bin pswords

#

morrow absolutely has a psword that doesn't turn off

idle swallow
#

we got them great value power swords

muted knot
idle swallow
#

at least a little cleave so I can shoot thru ogryn's big butts

serene sage
untold mulch
#

We are in a high position

Both by the amount of stimm usage and the mountain of corpses we must climb through

hearty panther
serene sage
frank basin
#

What if he last over 5 hour?

nimble sentinel
serene sage
wanton dawn
serene sage
#

Your teammates will do it

#

It's like your Mom complaining that you never clean anything and she has to do everything while cleaning the bowl that you are actively eating from KEKW_ogryn

wanton dawn
#

Twas bolter with 2 other vet

serene sage
#

Better start flaming em

#

Let em know

wanton dawn
#

Ammo eater KEKW_ogryn

crude ermine
#

Woww you got pounced 8 times?

#

Smh

#

Gotta bring that number up

#

32

slow spade
#

do better next time Veteran Uwu

#

also that Vet that took 415 damage and never used a med station

#

lol

crude ermine
#

Oh I didn't realize they fixed the magnetism on the IAG's on console

#

Neat

wanton dawn
slow spade
#

that hurts the soul to see :c

wanton dawn
#

what ? THe melee damage on bayonet ? KEKW_ogryn

slow spade
#

the lack of ammo pickups 😔

wanton dawn
#

I though i was at 0. Probably took something by mistake

slow spade
#

all the ammo is for the Vet

#

no questions asked

crude ermine
#

I got grabbed by a mutant

#

And a sniper still fired

#

I was basically fucked

slow spade
#

don't get shot

#

ill-advised

crude ermine
#

I'm more impr

#

Essed

#

Still shooting my head whilst a meaty steroid man was moving me up and down

wet elk
#

jesus lol

slow spade
slow spade
#

Hadron has willed it UwU

tall torrent
#

+8% groaner & poxwalker damage

Shattering impact III
Volatile III

frank basin
#

is flechette and scattershot are gimmick?

tall torrent
#

Flechette apparently doesn’t apply for all enemies hit by kantrael’s fire shot

#

And relying on the dot to kill a lot of things for u is not good

frank basin
tall torrent
#

Works? I guess?