#veteran-class
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I'm hoping for practical armor for Vet
That's a cool piece of armor
Prob a modded Armor tho
Though I do like what currently did for my Vet
Ooo nice
Also found a reddit gem
This fucking build was recommended
Which is... a thing
What in the Frag is that build
CURSED
I can probably throw together a very adhoc Boltor build that's miles better than that
The worst part is
That was a recommendation for a guy with this buuld
Which frankly is a player i hope never to see on my team

Cos thats clearly the ammo hogger
I been rocking this
That's 100% the "No ammo modifier" on legs
That's a pretty nice Vet you have
Yep
Any Boltgun build that says “gun is primary, melee is secondary” is automatically bad tbh

The remaining half of the reddit thread is recommending the guy runs plasma instead
Unless u run exe stance in fog like craime
Which is 🤮
Reddit people rly have no idea how to play this game
Nope
Reddit is the last place you want to get advice from
They seem to get offended when you suggest the boltgun is a precision weapon that can 1 tap enemies
Boltgun magdump? Play zealot
Zealot actually has the talents to make magdump Boltgun good
I just saw a guy with character level 727 who had added 10% weakspot damage to BOTH his weapons

It’s so good in fact that u can casually 1 mag 60% of plague Ogryn’s health
Proof that you need nothing but time to get high level
And they get mad that they cant kill 3 ragers in 1 clip cos, and I quote: "The weapon doesnt do enough damage. It should 2 shot ragers."
That's actually quite impressive
Cavalcade + pinning fire, get 20% unyielding talent, pop Dmg stim, proc duelist & dance of death from a dodge somewhere, activate fury dash and just hipfire magdump headshot
Yep
God damn. That's insane 0.o
Dash doesnt do anything for Plogryns
As a note
Not just super effective but also very fun
Bolter deals full damage to them
And nothing like Emperor approved Cocaine injected into the veins
I love injecting Zealots with Red stimms and watching them just go ham
Seeing boss hp drop 50% within 2s is a pretty huge morale boost for ur less experienced teammates
Mhm
Thats why I love the thunder hammer so much
Great also for finishing off a daemonhost before it kills ur teammate
I had one game recently as my psyker where a chaos spawn just got stun locked so hard by a combination of VOid strike staff headshots from me and rock head shots from the ogryn
You wake up a host with a swing and listen for the sound of everyone shitting their pants before you cap her again before she even activates
The only issue with this playstyle is that you’re gonna be ammo hungry when you actually do pull the gun out
Can zealot 2 tap ragers?
Not sure, not rly a big deal tbh?
I think with the 25% short range damage boost they can
I played Boltgun + crusher
Heavy sword or crusher are both good weapons to pair with Boltgun
Why would a Zealot shot a rager when they'll just dive into the rager ball with their melee out shounting "EMPEROR DEMANDS YOU TO DIE"
Its not a big deal but its nice to know
Also run throwing knives for special sniping
I know vet can hipfire 2 tap ragers at short ranges
I unfortunately don’t know cuz the 2 weapons I ran with Boltgun bully ragers really hard
Ye
Some vets need to go back to basics
I swear I see storm troopers aim better than some of the vets I seen recently
Speaking of basics
90% bad players in damnation can be summed up as “learn melee pls”
Suppression is like
Not a terrible pick
I just wouldn’t run it for Boltgun
For a shotgun I’d get it
It works for some weapons
I wouldnt run it on any precision weapon
Boltor isn't that weapon
Ye
Reddit people don’t understand what precision weapon is
Add on "Learn to dodge"
I swear I see people face tanking shit 
That’s just part of learning melee
Reddit people get mad when u tell them bolter can 1 shot ragers with good aim and they are like:
"Whatcha mean im not supposed to mag dump my bolter into the wall."
And demand more damage
Not realizing that damage isnt the problem lmao
Boltgun Dmg isn’t the big problem
The big problem is they are shooting walls
The big problem is jank
Also that tbf
If I would make any change to the boltor is just make pull out a good bit faster and fix the various jank bugs it has
Slow draw, slow reload, bad recoil
I wouldn’t mind if they slowed Boltgun firerate in ads down but gave it next to zero recoil
Removing the cocking when you pull out the Boltgun would be good enough for making the pull out a bit faster
Wouldnt feel good tbh
It wouldnt feel like a bolter
Bolter should feel meaty
I mean like
They can keep the high visual recoil
But make the actual bullet pattern recoil very low
So u keep the meaty visual feedback without gimping its accuracy
Fair enuff.
Slowing down its rof doesnt really affect it anyway since ur waiting for the reset
Unless u are a reddit warrior that can put 7 shots into a wall and leave the gunner unscathed
More like a Cartoon bullet outline
Yep
Btw have u seen the document I been working on
Nope
Ah
Will have to take a look at it when I got some time
That version was like 2 weeks ago
The current version has all veteran base stat lines & melee weapons done
Always prepared isnt good for shotgund
Tbh
Cos it cant load a special shot
You do take it on the way to reload speed though
Yes for shotguns I think taking that for 20% reload speed is ok
Yep
Its like
The only weapon that takes it
Ye looks mostlyfine
Some stuff I do like taking but i can agree is niche
Like deadshot
The avg person reading this guide will not be able to use it lel
Niche is not “bad”
Niche is “think before u take”
Ye
Besides niche, it goes great > good > decent
I feel like exec stance should be niche then
I was going to then I read what it actually did
The amount of buffs u get is pretty huge
There’re few weapons that genuinely don’t benefit much from it
Gets some silly breakpoints
Does it?
Also keeps it running better than others because bayonet kills can refresh it
I dont think it pushes my mk 2 to any new ones
1 headshot both ragers
lmao
With mk1
Mk2 can 1HS flamers closer
Mk1 might even be able to 1 tap reaper if u build +elite perk
Yes, like I said
After reading the buffs it actually gave I think it’s a really strong ability bogged down by bad pathing
Just 2 stacks of course
Needs crit
Cuz Helbore lower maniac Dmg
Ah fair
And stiff competition
Lemme show u the weapon pages
Proceeds to flail like a lunatic
I think infil is good but also bogged down by bad pathing
Those two make pathing painful
It’s that
When u read the whole thing
Ur gonna realize
Building middle & left at bottom half
Is much more generally useful than going right
Mhm
The exception is agile engagement builds
But those either skip surv or eat a HEFTY tax
melee weapon page for chainsword I made
Ranged weapons I finished infantry lasgun, infantry autogun, Helbore & plasma
Not sure which to do next
Bolder
Boltgun is too hot a topic for me to do rn
Its a popular one
Theres two main builds tbh
Surg DMR
And cava hipfire
You can cater to both crowds there
Although one of them shoyld play zealot instead lel
Otherwise
headhunters
Easy one
Or las pistol
Those are pretty uncontroversial
Volver as well is very uncontroversial
Revolver is surprisingly controversial because one crowd thinks it’s overrated and another thinks it’s the most broken gun ever
I meant like
The build
Wait r u doing a tier list
Also I’m not putting cavalcade Boltgun magdump in there
I’m exclusively putting surgical + PF
No
I mean you can always just not mention what weapons are "better"
But weapons are kinda “rated”
There’s a bracket next to their Mk# that says if they’re great, good, decent, niche, etc
Tbf Id say volver u can very safely put in great without much controversy
is there any nuance/weird shit involved in the difference between Deathspitter and Fire Frenzy?
I alr did
The people who see it as overrated are still gonna agree its a really good gun
Ye
The argument is whether its borked OP or not
Deathspitter is 5 stacks of 6.5% power
Fire frenzy is 5 stacks of 10% dmg
Usually deathspitter is the better pick imo
Power is damage stagger and cleave
Hum
There are niche guns?
U got me
Mk14 revolver
But they both work as intended/written with no secret knowledge?
Boltgun, Even
Really? Boltgun?
Like I know dumdum is weird and better than it says
Both stack of 5, deathspitter doesn’t write it for some reason
Id put V7 in niche before bolter
Would u really tell the avg damnation player to pick up a Boltgun
I would tell them to pick up a bolter over uh
Every other "precision" gun that isnt the volver or plasma
Cos at least bolter does something on bodyshots
Idk I think Boltgun is a really specialty weapon even for precision weapons
Do u trust the avg damn vet with a helbore? Or worse, a vraks?
The difference is Helbore only takes like very generic talent picks to function while playing Boltgun forces u into playing very specific talents
Ok true
But I feel like its easier to tell someone to use X talents
Than to expect them to master a vraks 7
Cos Vraks is really feast or famine
Vraks also requires a razor edge build
Vraks7 I put at good
Mhm its a good gun i agree
Da recoil suck for me to land on head
I just wouldnt trust the avg vet with it
Cos the avg vet cant hit heads
Even with aim assist revolver
I don’t trust the avg vet with anything

True
They could run the most cracked infantry autogun build and still flash a daemonhost by accident
Skill gating :boowomp:
Imho. I would put the Vraks 7 in niche just cos it takes skill to make the most of. Its like deadshot.
Deadshot is good in the right hands. But its not for everyone
Same for V7
What did u put A9 in btw?
XD
Lemme just type these out
I s2g some of these vets can miss with a smartgun in cyberpunk
MG1a good
MG4 decent
MG12 decent
HB1 good
HB2 good
HB3 niche
Recon2 underperforming
Recon6d niche
Recon7a niche
Laspistol 2 good
Laspistol 10 decent
Agrip1 good
Colum5 great
Graia8 good
Colum2 decent
Graia8 decent
Agrip8 good
Vraks3 good
Vraks7 good
Agrip9 decent
Autopistol underperforming
Boltgun niche
Plasma great
Zarona great
Agrip14 niche
Law6 niche
Agrip7 niche
Kant9 niche
I think most of these i agree with ye
And the ones i dont agree with are edge cases that could go either wsy
Which would u change
Graia to great

Brauto lol
Bolter i would put at good. In practice its an easier to use helbore for most.
Autopistol is on te fringe of niche.
A9 is definitely niche. 95% of people arent good enough to use this gun well.
Thats it i would say
Tbh I tried A9 and it’s essentially crouch spray machine
Others look exactly like how i would ut it
Autopistol I think is a really awkward tool for vet
Considering this is a vet guide
Don’t tell me u run onslaught
Raking fire is fine tbh
Yea but its a weird diving build that plays like zealot
I just think running autopistol in the first place and saying goodbye to any semblance of accuracy past 15m is a really bad tradeoff for veteran
Thats a fair statement
When I run that build I am the bullet lmao
Basically ur a zealot
No ifs and buts about it
And I think even for that build the gun isn’t doing that great
IAGs do it better
U could run a laspistol raking fire build and prob do better
Thats for sure
autopistol is fine with exe stance, with the recoil and spread reduction
not the META it used to be
V3 ate a nerf in P14
but i'd rank shredder with the worst of the iAGS and brautos
Its no longer the creme la creme
Cos of the finesse nerf
IAGs out dps it now
Its still a good gun
Patch13 v3 was the real winner yet everybody was on the recon train
Yep
really wish patch notes were easier to access
i dont see the vraks 3 change
Basically they nerfed the living shit out of v3 finesse and unyielding Dmg
● Bash weapon special
○ Tweaked hitboxes to be a bit easier to hit
○ Increased speed of normal/heavy bash
○ Added chain window from hip shoot so shooting won’t lock you out from firing
as much.
● Vraks Mk III Headhunter Autogun
○ Tweaked recoil behaviour
Finesse nerfed from 2.7x to 2.25x
Mhm
P13 buffed all the HHs from 2.25x to 2.7x
Then v3 got nerfed back later to 2.25
How abt giving Boltgun a unique rating
Cuz I gave mk13 chainsword “incoherent” rating
Can work
"Counterintuitive"
Lel
Lets u avoid the hot debate of whether its good or ass.
I think it’s a specialty weapon
There’s only 2 use cases for it
Option 1 is as a specialty precision weapon
Option 2 is magdump boss dps
Tru
Vet just is not as good as zealot at option 2
Mhm
And option 1 is a massive point sink to make the gun function
I suppose ye
That sounds like “niche” 
I guess if u factor in build investment
I pretty much always do tbh
I personally rate guns in context of their better/best builds
Plasma is rated great even though it’s also somewhat of a point sink
Plasma actually has BPs to build
I think its power greatly exceeds the investment needed to make it work best
Yep
Also it uh
Can be used by a potato
Vraks 7 iirc has a razor edge build though
So if u wanna say bolter is niche. V7 should also be niche
Cos V7 is also super build tight and is a even greater feast or famine gun
V7 can function without being a massive point sink tho
Like it works perfectly fine even if u just treat it as a rapid fire helbore replacement
I dont think kant shotgun should be placed with the others
Its in near every department better then the other shotguns
Higher damage, strong special, more penetration.
I think kant9 is generally most useful but still “niche” in the grand scheme of things
Lawbringer could probably just be put down as underperforming
Its very unremarkable weapon overall. espically when compared to its siblings
Has a special that doesnt do a whole lot
Flechette scattershot works I think?
Damage profile wise its outdone by kant expect in like 21-22 meter range.
I think its an actual meme to do that setup
You have to proc the special multiple times, put multiple shots into enemies for bleed to do anything
Hmm ok
Not to mention the lawbringer loses its penetration by going into ADS
And not going into ADS loses alot of shotguns dps to begin with.
So for shotgun blessings
Law6
Full bore + no respite
Agrip7
Full bore + no respite
Kant9
No respite/scattershot/man-stopper
?
I run Agei shotty with fullbore manstopper
But thats a meme build
It works
But its meme
Not a normal build
Full bore is actually pretty solid on the kant aswell
Spread too wide for much use besides ogryn & boss Dmg
If a single pellet misses on a rager it’s not gonna activate
From what i saw testing it in the psykanium the range it had was still pretty respectable on the kant
And I don’t think full bore gives any notable breakpoints for kant9
No respite gives consistent 2 shot on elites
If deathspitter worked for the fire DoT kills I’d put that as 2nd best
but it doesn’t
also just checked
Kant9’s fire DoT kills CANNOT activate agile engagement
It’s so over
I wouldnt see shotguns either as complete BP weapons
They suffer harsh damage falloff.
I’d call retaining consistent 2 shot vs any elite within like 15m a breakpoint to care abt
Yes but extending that breakpoint to longer away is also good to do with that weapon.
Just went ahead and changed AE’s description in talent tree
Improves dps & dmg breakpoints for weapons with fast swap speed. Can activate from melee kills with ranged weapons, but not from dmg over time effects (ex: Mk9 shotgun’s fire shells).

that is another reason
why
i didnt like the meme bleed fire kant
for weapon specialist, it does not proc
so you have to wait for them to bleed out before yous witch
really
MEH
Not sure about underperforming
Why?
Actually
It’s very weird
DoT kills contribute to whatever weapon u had when the kill happened for weapon specialist
Yeah
So you actually get melee kills tavks
Lol
I was hoping it'd activate melee wep specialist since someone lied to me and says it does
Forgot who
It's a balance between damage, stagger, spread
The special creates breathing room and thin hordes
here's what im rocking for columnus V now, but thinking of making another.
any specific perks/blessings to look for?
Left one is lawbringer right one is kant
There are very few ranges where lawbringer actually has higher damage.
Fuck it
I’m adding a new rating
“Weak”
All 3 tac axes go in there
Lawbringer can go in there too
Didn’t want to type underperforming cuz it ruins the format’s clean look
are tac axes just worse knives thinkinemoji
Worse combat axe
They’re a bit better than knife at horde clear but worse mobility & single target Dmg
fair. it just feels like it takes way too many hits just to kill anything with em, never understood the use case for em
With old BM they were ok
or maybe you gotta build specifically for it 
The new BM is much more geared towards horizontal/diagonal high Dmg per hit weapons that want 1 hit kill breakpoints
Let’s just say that tac axes aren’t like that
It is kinda interesting that shotguns can reach up to 90m
wish they'd add a human-sized shotty that performs like the uh, ogryn kickback
We should get the same magfed shotgun that scab shotgunners use
yeah or just a magfed shotty
like current shotguns are alright, but the reload method makes them not worth imo
3 shots from them was downed i think as vet or psyker.
1 shot was enough to instant break toughness
We need a Pancor Jackhammer
just did a high intensity hab dreyko
that mission is the definition of evil..
felt like a real kriegsman though lol
Yeah, you gotta ping where you're going
Part of me likes it because it's like the only finale that is challenging and has an actual "extraction" portion that isn't just a free walk to home free. But also the other part of me says "holy shit the director needs to learn pacing". Most other finales? Chill. Likely the least stressful part of a mission. Hab Dreyko? This finale is like a failure of enemy mob pacing
Yeah some parts of dreyko are nuts
Kind of fits the setting bc it is a hab afterall
I've seen so many teams wipe at the first scan section when they don't know how to deal with the endless enemy spawning.
which mission is hab dreyko again?
The "new plague strain" mission.
Finale is running around a Plague Tree.
oh THAT ONE
I want more missions with actual escape gauntlet sections.
I mean, this is just about perfect. You want flak/maniac which you already have. There's very little to do other than go for 80% stopping power and T4s. Ideally I'd want T4 Dumdum locked so I could swap in and out the other blessing. Deathspitter, Raking Fire, and Stripped Down are all ones I would use in different builds.
Festering Grounds always had one of my favourite escapes back in Vermintide
Mr Catto answered all my questions but please do bossman
They really should remove BM from rashad
You take that back
You’re high
nah
i wanted to avoid that
bc the point of the doc
was just to asnwer ppl what to put on weapon
not tell them which weapon to play
:p
Then not opee anymore
Rashad without BM is literally unplayable
This is one of the VERY few weapons that goes instantly unplayable without a specific blessing

But also
But sir
All 3 combat axes without BM would be unplayable
Just horrible take
:(
Only combat axe with some innate cleave is Antax
Which goes up to 1.8 at 80% cleave target roll
And it’s still really bad
antax has the push-attack at least
It’s just completely unplayable without BM
What if, they made BM slightly worse then?
w/o bm, rashad would be relegated to a single-target role which would be fine though it'd ideally have some form of cleave after such a change
Why do u need it to be worse
and the combat axes also can stack two power blessings if nothing else
its acceptable at single target
but not good enough that it would be able to thrive if thats all it could do
Decimator is not that great tbh
So weapons are more distinct
Rashad is distinct
It’s the ultimate resource sink

Dats true but Rashad do everything
as some flavor of single-target
though i agree that purely single-target melees without some oomph like knife's mobility are going to be a worse option in a horde game like this (depending on ranged weapon)
It’s very strong at everything but unless you have 4/4 perfect it makes you have to put points into melee dmg
And that means it won’t fit into some point hungry builds
they can just nerf one of the damage types
if they really want to nerf it
you have plenty to choose from
dont need to completely neuter the horde
BM does need to be touched in some way
Like, if you’re gonna be playing Boltgun veteran, it’s hard to fit Rashad
well it's an axe and i hope it should retain some good single-target
Would be kinda hard to realistically nerf it
Honestly I'm just thinking out loud. Ofc I'm still going to grind my Rashad 
BM is the thing that's messing up the weapon's identity
bm should be teouched the same way power cycler needs to be touched
I would honestly be ok if they rework BM again
weapons shouldnt be so ultra dependent on it to function
Carry its first target dmg to 4 enemies on weakspot hit, no weakspot dmg bonus
Old BM inf cleave was bonkers
This doesn’t sound the worst
And prob takes away the bruiser 1HS breakpoint necessities
Make attack speed slower when using BM 
But at the same time
This can also be very busted because that’s essentially sunder but always on
So idk how they can really realistically nerf BM at this stage
Wat if they do this
a simple numerical change would be to drop it from 4 targets to 2 targets
Or reduce number of cleave by 1
better to 4->3
3 is ok tbh?
bm should be a weapon property rather than a blessing. achlys h1 should be more brutal than rashad lights
going to +1 target from +3 is literally over a 50% nerf
because you also get the good single-target that comes with rashads package
idk about you but i prefer incremental nerfs
yes the point is to nerf it though?
over what happened to recon
2 is way too low for horde
yes
yeah and a weapon should make sacrifices
sure, you can play around the lower hordeclear with your other weapons
weapons should have meaningful differences and properties
if you want a weapon with good hordeclear
go take another weapon
that's the solution
in a game with many weapons to pick from
Ye dat how I feel too
That’s the issue then because if BM gets nerfed into that status, veteran melee meta just devolves into power sword 24/7
i agree with that and i think its fine to nerf it
That's why peesword should be nerfed
sure, and we can make changes to the psword as well
but why not try 33% nerf
instead of 66%
lol
like i said
whats wrong with incremental nerf
sure we can go with an incremental nerf
BM cleave 3 is fine, 2 is way too much
Everyday I love arco more ||because he validates my opinions||
but i still think that +2 targets is already too good
we already see what happen when they nerf a shitton all at once
(recon)
becomes meme status
It’s not going to be as fast as swords anymore and that’s good enough
and im not convinced that a 2 target rashad would distinguish itself enough from knife to be worth
its slower to kill elite, slower mobility, all it gets is 1 more kill in a horde?
Imo it should be something like, at a high level
Knife struggle to even handle horde
Rashad struggle to clear horde but can handle horde
Other weapons can clear horde
deterministic kill 2 bruisers with a single swing would put it above the knife clear
If Rashad only hits 3 enemies then both DC & CS would beat it by a pretty wide margin in killing poxers while Rashad still has better bruiser performance
yes, it would be above knife clear, but is the tradeoff actually worth killing 1 extra target in a horde
both can 1shot on attacks in hordes
Handle as in not die from horde, clear is well urm, you really "win"?
How do u plan on nerfing it lol
i don't value mobility very much so sure i consider it worth it
That's up to the player and his preferences
yes, and im saying I dont think its enough to distinguish the weapon, so im advocating that an incremental nerf first is better
and i dont see the harm in it if it hypothetically happened
the worst case scenario is
oh no
rashad is above average still
instead of worst case being
I don’t think there’s even a need to nerf BM lower from 3
another unplayable weapon
I never thought about it because I feel too repulsed.
But tbf after the bullshit I said would you really take what I say seriously 
as if we have too many choices already
wheni was writing melee weapon
i went
"wait is that it" lmao
well, we do have a lot of good choices
not that many weapons in the game
I value ur input as much as I think ur shitposting
it's not patch 12 anymore
Thr remove BM thing defo I didn't think through, I admit.
idk
i think it only feels like u have a lot of choices to play stuff in this game bc you spent 10 years rolling the weapon out
kek
there's not that many weapons
for a class
Yes a lot of options
But after writing every single veteran melee page those “other options” it really wasn’t that diverse of a selection
i think it's quite a lot
the amount of weapons we have are to the point where i'm pressed to think of a new weapon that can distinguish itself from others
besides animations
Like my feeling is, why would anyone run say a horde clear melee like dclaw when there's rashad, peesword that can do that AND kill elites/specials
There's 2h powersword in the files, but I too struggle to think how to fit that into the game
"put one light in the middle of your heavy spam :^)"
of course they dont distinguish themselves
yeah and differing combos can get covered by weapon variants
yes
1h psword is already slow and already minces everything
Dclaw is specifically for the parry
repeat for almost every weapon class
DC is a lower point investment weapon with very high defense stats
2h powersword slower and mincier?
yeah i was just referring to between variants and not within
e.g., between caxes and tactical axes, not within caxes
We’re getting rinda’s sword aren’t we
im just saying, plenty of ways ot distinguish new weapons
they just dont
nor am i really expecting them to rework movesets tbh
they shouldnt anyway
yeah though i'd consider that just a combo rework
just make a new weapon
for how braindead comboes are for a lot of weapons
So I guess the variety is in terms of how much plasteel and dockets the player needs to spend? But I feel players are going to grind for the S tier weapons anyway.
point being, we already lack options for sufficiently different gameplay between weapons
Give me a bretsword and I'll play for another 1000 hours 
id rather not kneecap something our of existence
or risk doing it
see: recon
u can call it boring but a lot of ppl liked it because we're literally scraping the bottm of the barrel for "different weapon experience" in some cases
Are u like entirely missing what I’m saying
literally shooting bright lasers and having 0 recoil was different enough for some ppl to consider recon their favorite
the majority of weapons in this weapon are really fucking good
it's not like they're going to simultaneously kneecap every weapon
you still have your other options
im not talking about what they're going to do ro not do
because this is all a hypothetical nonsense discussion anyway
not like fs is reading this
You said DC don't need that much plasteel and docket to be gud? Or point investment means the skill tree
What if I'm fs
Point investment refers to talent points
i do since i consider 4 targets way too much, and 2 targets appropriate
My main problem with the "lack of variety" is that it takes so much goddamn effort to customize weapons the way you want and try out blessing combinations, it takes a fucking college degree to learn the wacky shit for every weapon
2 is way too low

yes and some people think deleting voc will fix vet balance
Oh.
Does a god roll rashad even need point investments?
Zealot cleave...
im not saying you're right or wrong that 2 is the correct number
Is kiinnda big as a comparison
but just do incermental nerfs so a weapon isnt unplayable if ur wrong
i consider 2 fine for a weapon that can make use of BM on bruisers and occasionally elites mixed into a horde
and for a weapon with good anti-unyield and anti-cara
and if ur right, wow, we live with an above average rashad for 2 more months
If BM was 2 cleave, you’re essentially looking at chainaxe horde clear without chainaxe’s anti-elite power
Like if I pick up a new weapon and it sucks ass, am I just bad at it? Is there a single blessing that makes it shine? Is it a stat, perk, talent, and blessing combo that makes it work?
Also if y'all talking Rashad, it's already a sloww weapon
Yeah Rashad
Chainaxe seems to horde clear relatively well
esp in a game with shitty crafting/progression system like this
The new one at least
u really dont want to risk literally bricking a weapon
If you roll 4/4 perfect, not as much
Like if I could walk over the hadron and try out whatever combo of shit I want on a weapon and then test it out, i'd probably use a lot more weapons.
mods are here for thaat
As it stands I master like 2-3 options per slot per class and call it a day
You technically, can with mods
i consider the crafting system as something that feels really bad but the consequences of it are less than how it feels
they should just remove BM and give enough base cleave on caxes to keep them viable
it sucks for weapons whose breakpoints are tight
agree
that's what i mentioned with pcycler
well it's partially also the weakpoint damage
bm is the same imo
but it's fine to have <t4 blessings and imperfect stats
Ya, my point is people are going to go for a god roll anyway
just fucking delete them and buff the weapons appropriately
Second it's BM AND unarmoured AND a breakpoint
and esp after they reduced the variance between blessing tiers
or make BM into like, a generic stat boost, weakspot damage+increased cleave on weakspot kill
on some weapons
blessings shouldnt be literally required for a wepaon to function
depends on the blessing
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
bloodletter IV is a pretty big difference from III
and iv ebeen rolling
for 2.5 week now
lmao
Even if you put all your time, energy & resources into making a godroll Rashad, it’s still not very likely that you’ll get 4/4 perfect (unarmored, flak, BM, headtaker)
I mean, until blessings like literally change how some weapons function rather than work, I might agree
But as it stands, blessings that "change your gameplay"
Just don't compare
To the straight damage options
Ghost on lasguns...
Issue being BIS blessings are full pain
like pcycler
classic fatshark balancing ending up making caxes and heavy swords better
by reworking BM to "fix" them
Ghost lasgun is totally fine
the cleave is alot worse
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
the BM rework was an objective buff to caxes
Giving up DA, and Headhunter
killing 4 elites per swing is ridic
Not thriiilled
way more valuable than old BM
You can live without DA cmonnn
it just isn't as braindead
Which elite, shotgunners?
I thought the BM rework amde it so it didn't infinite cleave
But ghost lasts way too short for it to really matter
killing 4 elites per swing> infinite cleave (but damage would still fall off)
So DA it is
Maybe not 4 elites on a caxe
being able to do 4x first target damage compared to infinite cleave to an indeterminate amount of enemies ends up being better damage
4 bruisers
Combat axe is not 1 shotting 4 elites per swing lol
shotgunners, idk if vet can go up to killing 4 ragers/gunners
it does lmao
Hmm then can I ask, if a good rashad compared to dclaw, with same point investment, can dclaw do what rashad can do?
I assume rashad doesn't have as much clear, but dclaw clinks cara, not so sure about flak
Like is the better horde clear when the horde clear is already good enough, be worth the wlite and special killing power?
Only shotgunners and that takes a lot of build to do
One shots some weenie elites 
Rashad doesn't have parry
dclaw kills crushers you just parry
You must hit the head tho
just get headtaker stacked, line up a headshot,
YES you should always be doing that
Can you parry the OH?
rashad is what you go for if you want lowest common denominator ez gameplay
Real question, how much have you played veteran so far
Yeap
Not alot, that's why I'm saying such stupid stiffs 
ya

i currently use rashad on my vet and usually get 2-3 elite kills and mostly not getting 4 jsut cause I usually just gun them down at that point
Ok go play DC instead
also, being short hurts
i think you have a lsgith advantage to getting weakspots if you are taller
If I'm running a Power sword with the Revolver, would point blank be a better blessing to have than surgical?
Yes you do
Point blank is horrible
Tall kings gang
But but can you answer the question? Pls pls pls pls.
Think of it like I'm asking why would people run dclaw over rashad, assuming he is willing to build a good weapon
Because when you’re getting turbo-fucked by chaos spawn + ragers, a Rashad isn’t going to save you from going down
You can fight 20 ragers with a DC sword
Rashad is better, if you roll a perf one. Dclaw is solid with even a mid roll. Dclaw has much stronger defence and lets you parry your way out of crazy shit even if its ttk is slower
You’re usually not winning 1v20 ragers with a Rashad
Unless u dump all your resources
Grenades
Magdump
Shout
But you have gun :(
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Nsybe I should try using dclaw tho
smh ppl making me get off bg3 to fact check
u cant
well
maybe if you also take 10% melee
this is also a perfect 80/80/80 axe
took desperado, elite dmg, precision
max headtaker
Unarmored perk 
Which gun are u planning to bring to 1v20 ragers at close range exactly
Peegun
i AM
running unarmored
kek
that was a given
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking here. If you want to run rashad and shoot a lot of shit with a gun then go for it. Dclaw has its own use case and people who like it too, you dont have to want to use it
u have to on vet
No no but you shoot them before they come close. And and, is 20 exaggerating or you fought 20 ragers in current patch ( genuinely asking, maybe I'm really lucky)
I'm no axe main
Ok but if I can interject myself. Dclaw does sound very cool now
Thanks for sharing
why do ppl literally make shit up 😔
I’m not exaggerating with 20 ragers in Warren 6-19
20 is about the most i've seen at once, packs are regularly over 10-12. You dont always see ragers before they get on you
You have options to fight ragers as veteran but that usually means you need to dump your resources, whether that be grenades, ammo or ability
what difficulty do you play on? not being shitty or anything I'm just curious
But like that's what resources are for 🤔
You can have a lot of it over a mission but to dump everything all at once is always going to impact your decisions for the next fight
Yeah most of time the "bad situation" I see is 12 rager, maybe I did see 20 rager but didn't notice
And Rashad is not very good at fighting multiple (3+) ragers
On other classes a5mael and a5histg. Vet I'm still grinding out so it's laughable difficulty.
You have a reliable push atk that staggers like 3 Dreg ragers at most
Scab I think only 1 because high mass
Dat is true. I tried duelling 3 ragers with rashad in psk and was very hard. :(
DC doesn’t care about that
Lock yourself in a room with rager groups
You’re winning
Eh
Imo weapons should be different that the player should have to carefully consider which one to go with in their build. But that's what I want rather than what I think is good. I don't think any take on this is wrong or right.
I just use ps6
Peesword 
What’s ur most played class so I can have a point of reference
The choice is kind of simple, there's no real "anti horde" gun so your melee should always have some sort of anti horde
Psyker is +60, zealot is +50, oggir is +10
brautos
i always brauto/iag with knife
I think that is the case currently in the game. Vet has a number of melee options with different use cases / playstyles. There are some objectively terrible ones but most are decent and a few are overtuned
gets boring though
Perhaps
you can do gud spraying hordes with those though
never, mowing down fools with the agri brauto never gets old 
But you don't get ammo back from killing trash
yes I too love taping down my left mouse trigger
I played only like 1-2 builds per class, maybe more on zealot if you consider all the different combinations.
That's why you keep seeing me ask about how different weapons compare
Survivalists 
and walking forward
Try them first then come back with ideas 
Yes and that currently is the case for veteran melee
this might be a hot take
but i think rashad is just alright if you dont go right tree
it swings
real fucking slow
if you dont have aspd boosts to tape that up
@winged warren you know what, dm me
Okeh bos
You mean go right tree or don't go right tree
go right tree
well first you probably want 5% melee and desperado minimum to hit the correct bp for vet
but i always feel like
it swing way too slow
Weapon spec helps alot too
if i dont go all the way to weapon spec
10%
yes i know
im saying i think its just "ok" without weapon spec
above average but not tippest toppest tier to me
On my chainaxe build it's actually respectable horde clear lol
but that might be a hot take
at the very least
i can say i dont enjoy it very much
at base aspd
😔 i go to darktide jail for my hair usy
mr catto now in my top 5
I draw the line at chainaxe4 so I’m quite ok with Rashad base atk speed
I've been playing for 850 hours and I'm still missing 3 blessings
Maybe one day the emp will take pity on me
When the base stats on the mission reward are questionable, but you got a tier 4 blessing you didn't have previously.
idk if you saw my earlier reply to you
vet cant oneshot with a perfect max headtaker stacked rashad
even a dreg shotgunner
actually
i just eralized
i took every single boost on tree
except fire team kek
either way not really realistic
Is supercharge even a good blessing on power swords?
no
Rip
so the sword above is basically just another sticker in the book then?
Yes
well at least now the only 2 tier 4 power sword blessings I'm missing are bromentum and the one that gives insane cleave on charged hits (i think it's called sunder, but i don't know for sure).
Yes
chef kiss I love it when the emp gives me a T4 for the book
But yeah unforunately that blessing isn't very good atm lol. Power cycler, bromentum, and sunder are the top dogs rn
I had a sword that had pcycler 4 and sunder a while back, but it's stats were garbage (no stats above 65 except mobility, which was only 68), and i was forced to either rip pcycler or sunder.
Should have kept the sword
I probably should have...
Oh well, whats done is done
Spilled milk under the bridge
My friend got mad at me because I out-damaged him with this thing... while he was using a godroll plasma.
Well, your friend is not real good 
then when he makes it go "jk"
You mean agri shotgun isnt meta?
A bigger revolver that can break bulwark shields.
damn
can break bulwark shield
AND is just a bigger revolver
its basically plasma + revolver
omega god tier
The sound of the slug breaking a bulwark shield is also very satisfying...
smh impotent plasma users
if you mean racking up damage score probably
you want a gun that can shoot into hordes
Yes
I think you're correct
Highest single target would be ciag
I just toss a grenade into hordes and start swinging my chainsword...
assuming it's just a standard horder without specials/elites mixed in
Highest in no ammo is plasma though
I've went through auric damnation levels with the agri-shotgun and only ever needed to pickup a singular small ammo tin...
granted, i was constantly loading slugs and aiming for heads...
If you dont shoot horde and bring surv any vet gun can go full map without pickup
true
im gonna make a 7 sometime
and try
like that guy we played w
he picked up no ammo
I might try someday too
that was actuallay the part that surprised me
Granted, you can pad your scoreboard by playing aggressive
yeah
but you
were also playing aggressive
running past all the goddamn plasteel
Behold: The Cadian flashlight!
:(
You wanted a recon to be top dog ? 
i still outscored him
