#veteran-class

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agile forge
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Currently HB2 (I just stab with bayonet into unyielding)

bitter turtle
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but unlike those 3, they have gaps in their damage spread

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the 3 i listed baiscally kill everything fast

pallid dew
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I'm still using the Agripinaa

bitter turtle
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they have no weakness against any armor type and just delete everything

agile forge
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Which agripinaa lol

pallid dew
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mk 7

agile forge
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Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down

bitter turtle
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agripinna is a forgeworld

agile forge
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There's IAG, BAG, HH, shotgun, revolver

bitter turtle
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not a weapon type

pallid dew
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Combat shotgun

bitter turtle
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so you have to specify what kind of weapon/mark it is

agile forge
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Did I miss anything

pallid dew
bitter turtle
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scattersho tis uh

pallid dew
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Hoping to get an upgrade later on so I can do auric missions without letting the team down

bitter turtle
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an interesting choice on a slug shotty

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well i figure you probably dont have much of a choice anyway

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looks like you got it while levelling

pallid dew
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So far got the axe which need re blessings and now a new weapon

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Yeah

bitter turtle
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if you want an easy gun to build, the infantry autoguns only have 2 important stats to roll on and fairly flexible blessing/perk loadouts

pallid dew
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Honestly if i had kept playing since release I wouldn't have to worry about this stuff

bitter turtle
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and they're easy to play

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just generic assault rifle type guns

pallid dew
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I'm guessing Hellbore is still meta

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And plasma

bitter turtle
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helbore is not meta

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especially not after they nerfed the bayonet twice

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its still good though

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revolver/plasma/ciag share the top most people would agree

pallid dew
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Revolver is top?

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Damn

agile forge
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Vraks 7 too apparently

agile forge
bitter turtle
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i would say v7 is after them

agile forge
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Mostly

bitter turtle
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it is a strong gun

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but it requires

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an insane amount of talent taxes

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you cannot run the gun with anything resembling decent melee talents

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which seriously limits what it can do

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since you give up using something like rashad automatically if you choose to play the v7

white minnow
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you can run v7 with melee talents while being able to hit gunner oneshots

agile forge
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PS6 always has your back

bitter turtle
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you can, but you cant oneshot flamers then

agile forge
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If you are ever unsure of what melee to pick

bitter turtle
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i dont think thats a worthwhile tradeoff for a gun meant to pick off threats before they get close

white minnow
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though settling for a two-shot is good enough

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it's a tradeoff for taking weapon spec if your heart desires and it's a pretty fair tradeoff at that

bitter turtle
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i suppose, but it does undeniably limit what the gun is capable of to lose a lot of those nodes at the bottom of mid tree

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with rending+ogryn damage it becomes fairly decent at armor penetration, like 2k dps on a crusher

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either way

white minnow
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yeah that's just the nature of taking melee talents

bitter turtle
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something liker evolver

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doesnt even have to care about tradeoffs like that

white minnow
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sure but you can supplement that with a psword

bitter turtle
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is my point at least

white minnow
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but the v7 being able to hit gunner oneshots with a melee build is pretty significant

bitter turtle
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you can have your cake and eat it

white minnow
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and you have more ammo to play with

bitter turtle
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ye it is

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i dont think v7 is playable without hitting gunner 1tap anyway

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well

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that's extreme

white minnow
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the v7 offers a differrent type of cake than the revolver

bitter turtle
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but its not competitive

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since that's like

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the best part about the gun

white minnow
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you get to have your melee cake and eat some gunner oneshot cake

bitter turtle
white minnow
bitter turtle
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on vet*

white minnow
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since you can absolutely run it while taking decent melee talents and even dipping into weapon specialist

bitter turtle
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ok

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let me rephrase

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you cant hit all the breakpoints the gun is capable of without sacrificing melee talents*

white minnow
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that just how it be
I don't even think you can hit the flamer oneshot w/o marksman unless you're talking about a crit

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and with deadly accurate

bitter turtle
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yes, with a crit

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you need rending strikes to do a crit 1 shot

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with a crit

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which is very reasonable with deadshot/surgical

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in terms of how fast you can do it

gray finch
white minnow
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crosshair remap

gray finch
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ty

white minnow
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there's two versions (one of them is outdated, and the other one continues on from the previous creator)

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you could still take marksman and reach that oneshot and be able to take +10% melee speed

bitter turtle
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i dont think marksman is very good on v7 ironically

white minnow
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though if you're willing to give up that flamer bp, you can reach weapon spec and still be comfortable with a trapper one-shot and flamer two-shot

bitter turtle
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doesn't offer any stamina management

white minnow
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sure but you don't really need it anyways since it's hitting oneshots and in a ranged fight, you have stamina up permanently

agile forge
bitter turtle
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i like to have something to continuously fuel deadshot personally since you're relying on crits for flamers/ragers

agile forge
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Marksman is the red talent in the left leg that gives 20% power for 10s after ability use

white minnow
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you can just stand there and take ranged hits intentionally to regen stamina

bitter turtle
white minnow
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and you'll only need crits for reapers anyways

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ye i'm talking about the keystone

agile forge
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Ah k

bitter turtle
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esp dregs since it takes forever to kill them without crit headshots

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scab you can spam shots into them and its sorta ok enough

white minnow
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ah for a pure ranged playstyle

bitter turtle
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i think its not controversial to say you usually rely on your gun for ragers no?

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even in a melee playstyle i would hesitate to engage like 7 ragers with my melee weapon unless its pre nerf bayonet

white minnow
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i run psword so i'm biased

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dreg ragers get 3-shot but have low hitmass

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scab ragers have high hitmass but get 2-shot

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(this is w/o marksman)

bitter turtle
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a crit should oneshot scabs in the head with 15% elite only

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iirc

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im not sure if rending strikes is necessary

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dregs are sadly just barely short and like the one thing you cant oneshot outside of ogryns and maulers

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without marksman focus at least

white minnow
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with my weapon spec opening salvo one, scab ragers take 1.6k damage with a crit weakspot

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though that's what taking melee talents is for with my build

bitter turtle
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i think my problem with playing the v7 like that

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which i have tried

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actually yes

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since i love weapon spec in general lol

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aspd is fun

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but the problem i had was

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it feels like just a worse version of doing plasma/revolver weapon spec

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rather than playing to the strengths of the gun over them

white minnow
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10 stack is 1.75k maniac crit weak damage

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yeah though they're omega busted weapons so comparing other guns to them is a bit moot and being able to consistently tap gunners from a distance is in general very nice

bitter turtle
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yeah

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but i would say playing the v7 in a ranged focus style actually has an advantage over them

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overall they are better weapons, but they really cant keep up the continuous elite/specialist deletion since the v7's clip size and reload are much nicer than revolver, and the fire rate is much nicer than plasma

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so playing range focus on v7 at least carves out a niche

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if you're meleeing half the time in a melee spec build

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then you might a swell just use the other two

white minnow
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i like v7 cuz i can roleplay as a ranged vet by hitting gunner oneshots even on weapon spec

bitter turtle
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whiel the toher two can't really play like

white minnow
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and i can greed for gunner kills

bitter turtle
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"im gonna shoot 70% of the time"

white minnow
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v7 also seems more comfy than revolver in terms of ammo if i am in the business of continuously proccing melee weapon spec

bitter turtle
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do you mean like

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ammo economy or clip size

white minnow
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just the former

bitter turtle
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well

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yeah

white minnow
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since of course there's the upgrade node

bitter turtle
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its an insanely ammo efficient gun

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i dont know if that's enough of a niche where i'd consider it over revolver outside of fun for a melee focus build

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well, that's just my take anyway

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you can legit fire v7 nonstop through a round and only melee defensively and not run out of bullets, so I want to leverage that

white minnow
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i like to be able to greed for kills when a gunner pack is around but i can't run up to them before a teammate reaches them

bitter turtle
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what i really wish i could do is an infiltrate build on v7 lel

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but you have to give up a keystone for that

white minnow
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at least with what i have, the only thing i'd really give up is VoC to go down infiltrate

bitter turtle
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is what ive tried

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though nowadays

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i'd probably just go 10% melee and ms aura

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and pick up demo team instead on the bottom to make up for the loss of stockpile

white minnow
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yeah p much going through smoke nades

bitter turtle
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i considered going smokes but it seems so pointless

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on v7

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like

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its THE gun to kill gunners

white minnow
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point economy grindset

bitter turtle
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๐Ÿ˜”

rare echo
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which gun of Vet is good for hoard killing?

bitter turtle
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agri brauto

agile forge
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Ideally you don't use it for hordes

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Frag grenades are great, many melee weapons are

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I guess maybe helbore because you can bayonet them lol

bitter turtle
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uh

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definitely not after the nerf

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unless you plan to kill 100 poxwalkers 1 at a time

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there's no cleave after the bromentum nerf

oblique totem
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I tend to use guns for hoards and melee for monsters.

agile forge
bitter turtle
agile forge
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Gun is more for elites and specials, and sometimes trash shooters

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mostly

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But yeah, agripinaa Braced autogun isn't bad at it

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Those 2 shotguns too

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Plasma will ice a whole column of zombies between you and whatever elite you're actually aiming at

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If you're shooting at a horde it's like an edge case really

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There are times to do it but it shouldn't be plan A is what I'm saying

bitter turtle
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if all you care about is your gun mulching a horde

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this is probably your best shot

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its not good for very much else though

whole blade
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is there a ranalds gift website yet? I forgot my builds and my vet got wiped in the last update

rare echo
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since I switch from Psy to vet for penance. I miss hoard clearing ablility/staff a lot.

oblique totem
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I would like a bit more utility. At present I like either the agri braced or the Graia infantry autoguns.

rare echo
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dont thing I will miss it that much

whole blade
oblique totem
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Nice try

pallid dew
whole blade
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and tyhen bring kraks for crushers

white minnow
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prob keep with the agri brauto and go brr

bitter turtle
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ye

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that's my first suggestion

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its decent enough at going brrr at hordes while still doing other things

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lawbringer is pretty much a one trick pony

iron marten
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wtf. got this as a drop

bitter turtle
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well

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you can live with ranged critical chance

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probably just swap the blessings to headhunter + deadly accurate or ghost

iron marten
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I can live with unarmoured as well

bitter turtle
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unarmored is actually good so you're fine there

iron marten
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o rly

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I thought there was a better option

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nvm then

bitter turtle
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im not sure if its optimal but im sure its at least decent

oblique totem
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Huh that's a decent drop

bitter turtle
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you can probably 1tap gunners with +25% unarmored

iron marten
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ez

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well, too bad I'm a helbore gamer

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guess I'll bring this out if I get tired of holding down to charge

oblique totem
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What are the best blessings for the braced autogun?

bitter turtle
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i would take your pick from deathspitter, fire frenzy (damage boosts), or hit & run (immunity to gunners on a close range kill)

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some people enjoy stripped down too

bitter turtle
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on a focus target build with 5 redirect/2 focus stacks

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unarmored lets you critless 1 tap dreg gunners at around 25m~ with longshot

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so that's

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something

iron marten
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neato

bitter turtle
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the distance needed might shrink if you take fire team too KEKW_ogryn

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which is

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a legit consideration since lasguns dont run otu of ammo aynway

iron marten
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yeee

bitter turtle
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its probably not as good as having flak

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but

iron marten
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hey, I ain't gonna complain. The only plasteel spent on this was replacing the blessings, lol

bitter turtle
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fire team shrinks the distance reuqired to 15m

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so

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that's actually

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probably worth it over surv

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maybe?

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idk

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10m less needed to oneshot

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you cant make ilas crit on demand because headhunter isnt surgical so its a thought

iron marten
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if I really am that scummy with ammo, perhaps

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who knows, maybe a bolter and a plasma vet might join my lobby

oblique totem
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gun go brrrrr

bitter turtle
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pretty low pickups on my last game with it

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at least compared to the other two gun users on the team

iron marten
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lol

bitter turtle
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like that guy who huffed up 3 ammo crate charges

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somehow

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bolter should be used as a sniper rifle on vet anyway

iron marten
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like a dmr, yeah

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though I use v7 for that, tbh

bitter turtle
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well

iron marten
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I kinda just bring bolter if I want to feel powerful for like 4 seconds

bitter turtle
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my opinion is v7 is basically just a better bolter rn

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bolter's only niche over v7 is hipiring into monsters

iron marten
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though magdumping into a monstrosity with a bolter is never not fun

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ye

bitter turtle
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v7 boss damage is unimpressive in comparison

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but its like

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bolter's perk is monstro damage vs

bigger clip, faster reload, better recoil, better firerate when adsing, don tneed to finger keyboard swap tech to cut down the swap time

whole blade
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Is it worth going down weapon specialist in a melee/run and gun build?

bitter turtle
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not a great tradeoff

bitter turtle
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that being said, the melee buffs are the more important part

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so

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you can squeeze it in to whatever gun if you really want to

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what are you planning on playing

whole blade
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Im using a shredder with my melee I use smoke nades to push guns/elites and to aid survivability in hordes

bitter turtle
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shredder autopistol probably doesnt benefit much from weapon specialist

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but

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you can still do it if you want

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as i said

whole blade
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what wqould you recomend then

bitter turtle
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the melee part is the most important part of the talent

bitter turtle
whole blade
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Like I said im trying to play vet as aggressive and run and gun

bitter turtle
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or guns that have excellent crit strings

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tbh

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i dont wanna push you away from using it

whole blade
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I dont have to go down weapon specialist

agile forge
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Tbf

bitter turtle
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but shredder autopistol

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iks probably

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the WORST gun right now

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lol

agile forge
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Shredder might be the worst gun in the game

whole blade
bitter turtle
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never recovered from losing 80% of its damage

agile forge
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Along with recon 2

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Massive nerf

bitter turtle
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yeah

agile forge
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Pinning fire got murdered

bitter turtle
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pinning fire lost 80% of its power boost

whole blade
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Since when?

bitter turtle
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and uh

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autopistol died with it

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um

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i wanna say like...

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at least 7 months back?

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idk

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its been a while

agile forge
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Autopistol was nothing but a pinning fire stick

whole blade
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I've been using it on damnation auric and its been fine

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if they nerfed it it wasnt enough

bitter turtle
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you can use it

agile forge
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Imagine how you would do with a real gun lmao

bitter turtle
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im just letting you know

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if you really want that playstyle, a hit&run columnus iag will probably legit just be a better version of that

agile forge
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It's currently a gimmicky toughness regeneration wand with inspiring barrage

bitter turtle
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but going back to your question

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for maximum weapon specialist synergy

agile forge
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Which does ok against maniacs

bitter turtle
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weapon specialist was basically tailor made for revolver

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but other guns that are good with it are like

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laspistol (use an autoclicker or your fingers will die)

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headhunter V3

whole blade
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Oooh las pistol for run and gun is a good choice

bitter turtle
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yeah

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just

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use an autoclicker

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especially if you use mark 2

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the fast one

whole blade
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nah im usewd to spamming the las pistol

bitter turtle
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i dont want to be responsible for someone breaking their fingers lol

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remember you get an ROF boost

whole blade
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I used to use it a lot just not in my smoke/command build

bitter turtle
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so you need to click EVEN FASTER

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well

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if you are willing to deal with it without the full auto mod knock yourself out

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there's the mk10 too which doesnt need as rapid clicking

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and hits harder

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both are good anyway

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shotguns are good weapon specialist guns as well

agile forge
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Mark 10 is a suppression immune infantry lasgun basically

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It has much worse Finesse values iirc

whole blade
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is that the brown lasgun?

bitter turtle
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the brown laspistol yes

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it shoots slower but hits harder

whole blade
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not unlocked that one yet

bitter turtle
whole blade
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Can I strewam so you guys can help me pick skills?

bitter turtle
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the rof boost is pretty noticeable but clicking this fast for 30 minutes straight was awful enough to get me to install the full auto mod

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lol

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for mk2

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my partner is sleeping in the room with me rn so I cant' watch a stream

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are you talking about a talent tree?

whole blade
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yeh

bitter turtle
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just tell me

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what grenade you want

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what ability you want

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and i will just make one

agile forge
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Tbh you are still levelling

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So just make sure you get at least 1 toughness regen node from the top of the tree

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And have fun with whatever you like

bitter turtle
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i do play a very

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run n gun hyperaggressive mobile build as well

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so if you want me to just send you what i use i can do that as well

whole blade
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Voice of command and smoke

bitter turtle
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ok

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what melee

whole blade
whole blade
agile forge
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You said you hadn't unlocked the gun lol

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I guess you meant you don't have one

whole blade
agile forge
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Aight, misunderstood

bitter turtle
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do you plan to run shred on your dclaw

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the crit chance blessing

whole blade
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The one I have has wrath and rampage

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it has good stats but I did the best I could with the perks and blessings

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its got 80 everything except mobility and finesse is 78

bitter turtle
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that's fine

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im just asking

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because exploit weakness is valid if you run shred dclaw

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tbh

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it might still be worth thinking about

whole blade
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crits happen regularly enough yeah

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I also got ammo aura

bitter turtle
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id try this with lasgun/dclaw

whole blade
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movement speed over ammo aura?

bitter turtle
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are you seriously planning on going smokes and then going all the way to survivalist and then going back to voc

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that is a huge waste of points for a gun that doesnt need survivalist to begin with

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unless you really just love your gungryn/gunker teammates that much

whole blade
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I just like it because its good team support and I can use my gun without thinking

bitter turtle
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you can pretty much shoot without thinking on laspistol as long as you take shocktrooper (i took it)

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if you insist on taking survivalist you can, just you will lose a lot

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in fact

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it might not even really help

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you will probably drop shocktrooper

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which is probably better than nerfed survivalist for personal ammo economy on laspistol

whole blade
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I also picked up close quarter kill zone

bitter turtle
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sure

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personally i think dclaw is a weapon that prefers recip

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but you can take cqkz instead if you 'd like

whole blade
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hmm idk they are both good

bitter turtle
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anyway

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going movespeed aura also gets you

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agile engagement for free

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which i would say is very important on a playstyle you intend to do

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especially since neither dclaw nor laspistol is a weapon that oneshots enemies to begin with

whole blade
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is that a website you used for that skill tree?

bitter turtle
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yes

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gameslantern

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they have a build editor there

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just uh

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do know

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since you said you wanna take smokes

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and your weapons are dclaw/laspistol

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you basically

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dont have away to kill carapace

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unless you plan to slowly parry them to death

civic knot
whole blade
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how do I link builds?

bitter turtle
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i just take a screenshot

whole blade
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I got points left over

finite carbon
bitter turtle
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you are still using laspistol correct?

finite carbon
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Onslaughtttt

bitter turtle
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grab deadshot and superiority complex

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i dont think onslaught will stack fast enough to matter

whole blade
bitter turtle
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rending strikes is good, but it takes 2 points to reach

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you will get more damage just by taking superiority complex and deadshot at that point

finite carbon
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No anti-crusher except running to your teammates I guess

bitter turtle
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yes

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that's what i pointed out earlier

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laspistol/dclaw is basically "i cant kill crushers"

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so

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im not so sure about this pairing

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but

whole blade
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I wish we could name build

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s

bitter turtle
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even with rending strikes

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and shred

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with exploit weakness

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its still slow as hell

bitter turtle
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its not THAT good

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that its worth losing 4 points on your tree

whole blade
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I get uncomfy with deadshot bnot a fun of stamina drain

bitter turtle
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well

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if you dont want deadshot

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drop it

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its not like laspistol is unplayable without it

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you're supposed to hipfire when you dont need the crit boost

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since laspistol hipfire is quite accurate

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if you were to drop it

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you can get cqkz and recip now i guess

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or get on your toes

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or drop invigorated too and grab rending strikes

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since you probably wont need invigorated stamina gain if you arent draining from deadshot

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like so

whole blade
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yeah I got rending strikes. I know dead shot is very strong but it just makes me uncomfortable using it

bitter turtle
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that's fine

whole blade
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I run laspistol on damnation and never used dead shot

bitter turtle
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i played deadshotless laspistol for a while due to point econ

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its not unplayable

whole blade
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lemme gamble a heavy laspistol

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is 79 damage and 74 stopping power good?

sick patio
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when did they change the power sword activation not reseting it's combo chain?

bitter turtle
sick patio
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makes my mk 4 feel more ucky ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

bitter turtle
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make sure mobility is at least 51 too

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i imagine you do not want to lose a dodge

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with your playstyle

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lol

whole blade
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Save or scrap?

sick patio
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what is the mk 4 combo now with ps2? before you could get away with l1 l2 l3 since l3 was vanguard.

bitter turtle
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its just bad

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you want

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ghost/dumdum
maniac/flak/unarmored (2 out of those 3)

sick patio
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now your second charge is sweep vanguard overhead

bitter turtle
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and

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rending strikes makes it

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slightly better against armor ig

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when you keep super complex as well

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lol

whole blade
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the second best i got rn is

bitter turtle
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at least it managed to fit in my 7 second clip limit

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its passable

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if you want to gamble it

whole blade
bitter turtle
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good

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infernus -> ghost

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specialists -> maniac probably

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unarmored is good too but i would def want maniac on a laspistol

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to shore up the weaker maniac multipliers

whole blade
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so gohst over infernus?

bitter turtle
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yes

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infernus sucks

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only for meme slightly more damage on bosses

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ghost makes you immune to ranged fire

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and you can outrun melee with laspistol mobility

finite carbon
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Good Laspistol tho

bitter turtle
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infernus is just kinda meme in general

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its not very good even on the fast one tbh

whole blade
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Now I need people to play with that are not briandead

finite carbon
#

Though PUBs nowadays are really good

whole blade
#

my friend who i used to play with this regularly stopped playing

tiny summit
#

Yea laspistol having innate suppression immunity and ghost is so good. Just a chill time clicking heads

oblique totem
#

No stress, only vibes.

bitter turtle
#

laspistol + knife

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maximum sanic

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my favorite loadout rn

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lol

tiny summit
#

Agile engagement and WS with this mk is fun. It's like a laser deagle. Mulching horde, see a bomber, swap, dome, back to horde

whole blade
#

I can fit almost any weapon into this build right

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like itl work fine

bitter turtle
#

you might need to do minor adjustments

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like

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remove exploit weakness into 25 toughness on something that isnt dclaw

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or adding ogryn damage instead of rending strikes

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but yes

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the general idea is usable

whole blade
#

because we have limited build slots I dont like yper specific min maxy builds

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I just want like 30 slots and the ability to name buiilds

bitter turtle
#

there's a mod for more slots i think

near grove
#

Yeah I think there is, p sure it also allows naming them

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Might be two separate mods

bitter turtle
#

i dont even know why stability is a stat KEKW_ogryn

oblique totem
#

Just another number to let you down

whole blade
#

i like stab tbh

bitter turtle
#

0 stability

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it does nothing

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100 stability for reference

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idk about you

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i cant tell a difference

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lol

odd sparrow
#

Presumably hip-fire is worse?

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And movement penalty

whole blade
grand perch
#

What mod is letting you choose perks and blessings ?

bitter turtle
bitter turtle
#

100 stability hipfire

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if there is a difference, i dont see it

bitter turtle
grand perch
bitter turtle
#

even if that were true

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the difference between 0 (nearly impossible) and 100 (actually impossible) is so minor it could written off as a placebo

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if we're tlaking about real values it might as well not exist

agile forge
#

Can anybody compare stability values on CIAG?

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I'm struggling with mine on my gunker but it's like 50 stability

odd sparrow
#

Try moving as well?

bitter turtle
#

dont feel like recording it again

#

but yeah

odd sparrow
#

But yeah infantry autoguns stability actually matters

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Ok fair thanks

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The difference between a low stability columnus and a high level is night and day

bitter turtle
#

for ciag

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again, too lazy to record

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they both kick up to the same height as far as i can tell

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but 0 stability kicks up much faster

odd sparrow
#

As far as i remember anyway

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That makes sense.

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Cause im only really having trouble with high stability columnus on long salvos

bitter turtle
#

you can compensate for it

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but you need to move your aim down quicker

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than if you were using high stab

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if you i gnore the kick

grand perch
#

i remember going to back to low stability headhunter autoguns for my hardcore challenge. was not expecting the ridiculous kick low stabily headhunters have

bitter turtle
#

the accuracy is actually about the same

bitter turtle
grand perch
#

coincidentally thats the one i used. hipfiring became the norm

bitter turtle
#

yeah

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0 stability ciag

grand perch
bitter turtle
#

i can still compesnate for

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this though

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i know i said iw as lazy but i just wanted to record to show just how awful the kick is

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lol

grand perch
#

its like youre firing an anti-material rifle in semiauto

hollow warren
#

Now I hate myself for gluing the two screenshots together. Because this looks absolutely sick.

Why couldn't Obese Megalodon give us a proper Moebian loyalist helmet like this? Why did it have to come in two separate pieces? wtfgryn

whole blade
#

I want nam era flak jacket and steel helmet

bitter turtle
#

its probably when they update the penance track

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kinda dumb

hollow warren
#

I want Moebian VIth heretic outfits too

hollow warren
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specially that scab gunner helmet with the plume

bitter turtle
#

its a crime we dont have these

tiny summit
#

Datamine worth of money or goodwill building

pallid dew
#

Or is that a mod?

bitter turtle
#

Old leaks

candid mulch
#

I'd love to see Karskin Hellgun and power gauntlet for Vet, Hellgun would be great, and gauntlet would be a equivalent (or so) for the Thunder hammer

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fut it seems this giant fish company devs will jsut wait another year to add content

junior needle
slender turtle
sleek garden
# bitter turtle

Still surprising that it puts down crushers with any sort of urgency

#

I usually use this one or the mk1

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And mk1 is just heavy heavy light

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Not a swift combo

#

Only one stikedown in the whole kit but it does obliterate groups of idiots

somber axle
#

Imagine a penance that makes you perform 3 Auric Maelstroms in succession all finished in under X amount of minutes with no deaths

hollow warren
#

hell naw

somber axle
#

It'd make the helmeted version carry a bit of prestige too

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See someone with it if it takes something like that? Then you know they worked for it

hollow warren
#

I'm still struggling with the Auric Storm Survivor penance... and you're talking about this?

somber axle
#

Yes LOL

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It is my tinfoil hat theory

north pebble
#

they could have made a version like this too, respirator looks more cool

somber axle
#

It's either going to be locked behind harder penances yet to be unleashed or it'll be like Soldier 69 said and they'll just be cosmetic shop rotation for irl money

hollow warren
hearty panther
#

smh cant believe people still struggle with ASS

hollow warren
#

with that blue plume on top

hollow warren
#

I'm a casual player, I mostly dwell around heresy/damnation difficulty levels. auric maelstorms make me sweat out of sheer stress to not die

hearty panther
#

if u want ASS u gotta carry urself there and u gotta be ready to eat whatever it throws at u

hollow warren
#

and I'm still at 3/5 to my ASS certificate

merry gale
#

it's not required to get to 4500 mind you

north pebble
#

which penance are you guys referring to

hearty panther
#

penance?

hollow warren
north pebble
#

oh wait, my bad. didn't know what ASS meant staregryn

hollow warren
#

I feel like auric maelstorms will be a lot easier if the entire team goes slow and steady, instead of rushing it like mad

stable socket
#

depends on what you mean by slow and steady

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you kinda have to keep up with the special spawn rate or you die, and (unless whole team is psykers) there's a finite amount of ammo

hollow warren
stable socket
#

ideally you should be able to move forward while clearing horde and killing whatever specialists show up during the horde, really the only thing where you have to back off is big carapace packs or monstrosity

unique sorrel
#

yeah, lingering for 1-2 extra special waves really hurts

stable socket
#

especially with tox bombers nowadays you have to keep moving forward

hollow warren
#

well yeah, slowly creep forwards while clearing a horde. I didn't mean stay in once place and kill everything that comes at you

stable socket
#

if the team stops to clear the horde and a tox bomber gets a single throw off, it's very likely that the team will split in different directions

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whereas if everyone is moving forward, when the tox bomb hits everyone will keep moving forward and out of the cloud at the same side

hollow warren
#

and for the love of god, I've seen way too many people shoot the burster when some else tries to push it

stable socket
#

pacing is really important, you want to be going forward as fast as the team can manage

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yeah generally whoever is closest to the burster should be responsible for it

hollow warren
#

I'm horrified going through auric mael with my psyker seeing how squishy and vulnerable she is, but somehow out of the 3 maelstorms I've completed so far, 2 are with a smite/bubble psyker

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the other one is with a feel no pain ogryn

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lost a 2/5 previously, now at 3/5

#

I hope I won't fuck this up

stable socket
#

eventually it'll happen!

#

the faster specialists die the easier the run will be

hollow warren
#

the two maelstorms I did with psyker were specifically the "mostly ranged, only scab faction"

#

two maelstorms and I've completed that bubble penance, lol

stable socket
#

oh yeah that modifier is one of the best

#

hunting grounds + many specialists is also psyker food if you run venting shriek + creeping flames, one shout with 85%+ peril will burn all hounds to death with no further intervention and then psykinetic's aura will refund all of your shriek cooldown for the next wave

hollow warren
#

the one I did with ogryn was a nurgle's blessing hunting ground, I think

hollow warren
stable socket
#

actually i'm not 100% sure if 6 stacks is enough, i feel like it is but there's a chance you may need to manually kill one with staff lmb for perilous combustion to put 3 more stacks on everything - 9 is definitely enough

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ok after testing in psykhanium i was wrong - 6 stacks is not enough. perilous combustion is needed so you have to kill a few (testing indicates you have to kill 2 for a total of 12 burn stacks at 0 peril, with higher peril and the node that gives you power with high peril you can kill with 9 stacks) manually but once you get the chain going they will all burn, i regularly get like 8-10 offscreen hound kills with shriek plus a bit more damage

unique sorrel
#

almost as bad as the people who always flee from the bursters and wind up pulling them into the squad lol

sinful swallow
#

melk coming in hot

tall torrent
idle swallow
#

Harvest blood letter and move on

upper lichen
#

is it possible to find ammo crates in "no ammo pick ups" maelstroms?

stable socket
#

i have never seen one

sinful swallow
#

i run laspistol anyways for running around

agile forge
#

Hunting grounds dogs are much less tough

winged warren
# hollow warren and I'm still at 3/5 to my ASS certificate

if you really want to get it:
Just quit when you are going to die

Else just play and you will get it naturally trust me.
I only got it today (was surprised)
I feel theres no point for it since i always outdo those with ASS. And its like at least 2/4 people going to have that title in a5mael pubs, theres really nothing to show for (esp when you consider those people could have just cheesed it)

#

i got it playing martyr zealot with chastise

#

its really not the flex you think it is

junior needle
#

Try not to release penances that encourage horrible in game behavior challenge (impossible)

winged warren
#

i didn't cheese it but i still don't want to wear it

junior needle
#

Fatsharks fix for that seems to make it so that joining games in progress and getting disconnected/crashes also bricks it

oblique totem
#

Chainsword with Bloodletter and rampage.
Good or no?

winged warren
junior needle
stable socket
junior needle
#

Where they stopped cheesing for it by making so that ANY in progress join stopped you from getting credit

stuck geode
#

Can i just magdump into enemies at the beginning and do the rest in melee for "make every shot count"?

junior needle
#

Just do the boss mission and magdump into the shields

stuck geode
#

oh okay

stable socket
#

i did mine with a kantrael shotgun because it's very hard to miss with that thing

stuck geode
#

sounds good

tall torrent
lilac eagle
#

So does that mean crit damage on ranged weapons is also trash?

#

Cuse thats like... My entire lasgun build lmao

sinful swallow
#

im happy with the blessings i can just RR the perks

#

that blows though if thats the dodge threshoild

hollow warren
junior needle
#

Crit/weakspot damage stats only apply to the bonus damage your weapon deals on these respective hits, and not the whole hit

#

That's why the stats are always weaker than they seem, and why the perks are low value.

#

That 10% crit damage turns into like 2-6% in reality

junior needle
#

Because of the pecularities of chainswords crit damage falloff

tall torrent
junior needle
tall torrent
junior needle
#

Rampage gets better performance on scab bruisers compared to shred on a 13g but only by some seconds

iron chasm
#

Is there any build that would make use of this? It feels good but I need an optimal build.

junior needle
#

iirc on less beefy chaffe shred catches up though

junior needle
iron chasm
#

Good to know.

junior needle
#

Your priority is dumdum>flak/maniac perks>second blessing

#

for ciag

tall torrent
#

Swap carapace to flak
Reload to elite/maniac

junior needle
#

You can basically choose whatever you want for second blessing

tall torrent
#

Sustained fire isnโ€™t great but columnus5 relies less on 2nd blessing

junior needle
#

Elite will be more useful if you don't play stg

#

Which has considerably increased maniac spawns

agile forge
#

I don't hate unyielding on it either btw

#

But elites probably more generally useful than unyielding

tall torrent
#

Itโ€™s so overtuned it can get away with a lot of stuff

#

Maniac is fine I just donโ€™t think itโ€™s non-interchangeable

next spade
#

thoughts?

tall torrent
next spade
#

well I do have basically god version already
first blessing was rampage 3

tall torrent
#

Supercharge isnโ€™t that good unfortunately

#

Ideally you want power cycler + BM/sunder

next spade
#

what was bm?

Ill have this one also but VI

#

both are really amazing tho

tall torrent
junior needle
#

Supercharge bad

next spade
#

ah yeah

#

hm ironically the MK3 with both anti carapace ones is way way worse than the VI with none

#

on carpace I just noticed

tall torrent
#

Because mk3 is the worse power sword

#

Pretty substantially worse tbh

next spade
#

no wait I mistook them
damn this stupid customization mod gets you so confused

#

M3 takes 3-4 hits for a crusher (non melee build) with charge
the 6 needs 8 hits which is complete garbage

tall torrent
#

Push atk > L4 > L1

#

If u build it right it takes just push atk > L4

next spade
#

not sure if I get the combo, when do you charge?

tall torrent
#

Special action > block cancel > push attack > L4 > L1

next spade
#

so the stab right

stable socket
#

yeah a powered stab headshot does hella damage

next spade
#

yeah seems to do twice of heavy

#

ok now I got it

stable socket
#

mk3 has less raw power but i like the feel more, and with +carapace i can still get a quick 3-hit crusher kill with push light light on the head without brutal momentum (i run sunder instead)

next spade
#

seems like Mk3 has the same combo basically, the push deals 150-200 dmg more even but thats likely the brittleness

#

its probably the supercharge doing it but m3 feels way easier to deal way more damage to armor

midnight totem
#

I'm kinda happy seeing people finding it relatively difficult for weapon specialist penance

next spade
#

any thoughts on laspistol blessings? I have infernus but even with full crit build it dosnt seem to really do anything

tall torrent
#

Dum dum is mandatory

next spade
#

its pretty good

tall torrent
#

Oh itโ€™s mk10

next spade
#

but infernus really? its like 10 damage and the pistol does such high burst and slow firerate

tall torrent
#

Yea no mk10 is not that good

#

Mk10 doesnโ€™t want Infernus

#

Mk10 wants flak+unarmored, dum dum + ghost

#

But itโ€™s still just not that good

hearty panther
#

The X should have deadly accurate

tall torrent
#

Mk10 is basically MG12 but it takes 3~4 hits to kill a flamer

#

Itโ€™s just not good

next spade
#

X is the new one the slower one right yeah

tall torrent
#

Yea and itโ€™s horrible

hollow ibex
hearty panther
#

Its just an aggressive K12 really

#

better mobility, hipfire, draw

#

and pretty wild flak numbers

tall torrent
#

The maniac ttk really kills it at least for veteran

#

I would unironically take a recon mk2 over the mk10 Laspistol for killing flamers

hearty panther
#

after that ragers nerf idk

#

theyre very easy in melee now

tall torrent
#

Rager nerf is a lot better I like it

hearty panther
#

the hardest part is not double dodging out of habit >.>

next spade
#

they need to do something with laser in general

civic knot
#

Any suggestions?

midnight totem
#

This is almost perfect as is

next spade
#

also how is laser the worst on maniac, its like the only thing where laser really would hurt, on bare flesh

#

its great you can keep it, try bloodletter the trick where you jsut tag and run away, if you dont like that put the kill damage one on it

midnight totem
#

Maybe crit to manic, or Unyielding or carapace

next spade
#

id put carapace on it, its a carapace destroyer weapon in general thats the purpose

midnight totem
#

I don't recall the breakpoints

tall torrent
civic knot
civic knot
next spade
#

its the best weapon ingame if you play maelstrom scab melee only

civic knot
#

Why slaughterer tho? isnt headtaker bloodletter good?

midnight totem
#

Bloodletting isn't really necessary on a chainaxe

#

Unless you really hate bosses

#

Even then

#

You'll get more overall bang for your buck just by stacking more POWER

next spade
#

jesus i just tried the X pistol, not doing that again

midnight totem
#

Sitgryn I like the x pistol...

ebon umbra
#

use what you like

next spade
#

I guess its for a very mixed melee ranged mobility build

tall torrent
quick burrow
#

whats the normal mk5 colum IAG build? shout with focus or marksman?

tiny summit
idle swallow
#

MkX laspistol just needs to shoot a smidgen faster and I think it would be in a good spot

crimson pebble
#

What best perks for knife

idle swallow
crimson pebble
#

Using if w plasma so could do either

tall torrent
#

Thatโ€™s for veteran

#

Idk zealot breakpoints for knife

crimson pebble
#

The ones on it rn are 15block efficiency and 8% dmg to specialists which do you think i dump

radiant chasm
#

at least specialist gives you something

tiny summit
#

I think the mkx is fine. I think many other weapons are just too strong

radiant chasm
#

if barely

sinful swallow
tiny summit
#

Yep

sinful swallow
#

Never have to take ammo packs, still one shot specials

tiny summit
#

Mkx is pretty good actually. It's just also you know competing with weapons that cook, clean and do your taxes

sinful swallow
#

Can even spam horde with pen and STILL not worry about ammo

#

True

midnight totem
#

Pretty sure my plasma only does cooking because cleaning and reloading takes a while

#

But cooking is 5 star

tiny summit
#

Well the reality is that you dont need to reload that often

crimson pebble
tall torrent
idle swallow
crimson pebble
tiny summit
#

Does it need help or does it fall into a niche and the other weapons we see are overtuned where they fit into any build

midnight totem
#

It needs a lil* help

tiny summit
sinful swallow
#

I just want a punchier sound on it

midnight totem
#

There's not much the heavy laspistol does that the lighter laspistol doesn't do as well or thr revolver does better

quick burrow
#

i really wanna like the veteran i really do its great but every time i play i get 2-3 ogryn team mates and im reminded why i play psyker

tall torrent
tiny summit
#

Lacerate is bad. Just dont

sinful swallow
crimson pebble
#

Was either that or haymaker

tall torrent
midnight totem
#

No

tiny summit
tall torrent
midnight totem
#

Don't get me wrong, I have a well rolled x laspistol

#

I love it

misty oar
#

Its been a while since i last played whats a good veteran build

midnight totem
#

But it could use a small buff

midnight totem
#

Slightly less recoil, more fire speed, manic damage

tiny summit
#

Actually that needs to be updated

midnight totem
#

Then it'd be perfect

tiny summit
#

OfB even better now

midnight totem
#

Also it's push attack is just

#

Funny

tiny summit
#

Pushing your way through cringe

midnight totem
#

Even the revolver does a pistol whip

#

Let my laspistol do a pistol whip

tiny summit
#

I think it's only viable thing is that you can push a burster

crimson pebble
agile forge
misty oar
#

My outfit is
The steel legion looking helemt
The combat chest and legs from the pre order

agile forge
#

It benefits so much from every part of both

#

Tbh i don't think e stance is normal on anything though

misty oar
#

And theres backpacks that i keep forgetting about

tall torrent
misty oar
crimson pebble
#

Iv got the plasma for the metal men so we game

grand perch
tiny summit
#

Gonna take my shredder nades, with my shredder pistol and my bleed/lacerate knife

grand perch
#

so go ahead if you wanna do that

tall torrent
tiny summit
#

More

grand perch
#

yup

tall torrent
tiny summit
#

Gonna take serrated blade on my shredder build

misty oar
#

I wonder if the rumors of tyrinids of the planet are ever going to happen or was that monster some new nurgle pet

umbral garnet
#

PUFF THOSE CLOUDS, BABY

#

Make the heretics choke on your sweet delicious flavoured air.

misty oar
tiny summit
#

I think the only thing living long enough for those stacks to matter is monstros

tall torrent
#

Take serrated if u play mercy killer

crimson pebble
#

Once watched a guy go whole match only using bayonet on helbore

tiny summit
#

No

#

Heretics deserve no mercy

#

They should feel the pain of 1000x annoying cuts

tiny summit
misty oar
junior needle
#

You can see why if you look at the inspect screen for the knife

#

Weakspot hits do about 2.7x the damage

#

And bodyshots comparatively do very dinky damage

junior needle
# crimson pebble So is this just mid as hell or

It's not good for vet apart from the flak roll. Lacerate is just outright bad. Flesh tearer is technically more acceptable (provided you build for it) but not really competitive with other options like it can be on zealot, due to vet lacking vast quantities of on demand crit.

#

You also want uncanny for bleed memes (and in general because it's BIS) because it affects dots.

#

I'd change both blessings

north raptor
#

does the smoke grenade do things now?

last parcel
#

@somber axle even the emperor is telling me to use recon

north raptor
#

AGH so many mods

last parcel
north raptor
last parcel
tribal tangle
#

this in melks shop

north raptor
#

but it JUST prevents things firing at you? or does it not yet

tribal tangle
#

is in*

tall torrent
tribal tangle
#

Swaps?

#

carapace

#

?

misty oar
#

I love this outfit

#

I love this sword

#

And the gun

#

I run out of ammo it makes a neat spear

junior needle
#

Good thing I'm not playing KEKW_ogryn

misty oar
#

Yeah definitely noticed it . thankfully my gun acts like a spear

#

I hate the smoke gernade might change it to be something more explosive

last parcel
tribal tangle
#

imagine using guns for things other than shooting specialists

last parcel
#

every poxwalker is special

oblique totem
#

Remember to grab the ammo bags before even reaching yellow ammo

north raptor
#

well yea thats how you get free dialogue

oblique totem
#

Yeah but do Ogryns really need ammo?

junior needle
#

Does anyone ever really need ammo?

#

You got a melee weapon

oblique totem
#

Strictly speaking, no

#

So feel free to grab all the ammo you see. If the team dies, skill issue.

idle swallow
#

Skill check all your pub lobbies by taking all the ammo, sigma grindset moment

ebon umbra
#

i like to bring a bolter or a plasma when I see a gun psyker team. i say: veteran get your ammo, I will use my mind powers to defend us

#

even if im red i'll tell them to get it

junior needle
#

Recon users are truly the most sigma of vet players

somber axle
oblique totem
last parcel
oblique totem
#

Free from what?

last parcel
somber axle
#

The Helldivers 2 server has two very different halves of the community split between bugs and bots

oblique totem
#

Ah- hm.

somber axle
#

The bugs side is the wild side

#

The bot side is the meme side

junior needle
#

Most agree on one thing

#

It was very interesting to see the people who were saying "stop complaining sony won't change their mind"

hollow ibex
oblique totem
unreal bone
#

Man I'm not gonna lie

#

Beginning of Path of Redemption I was like

#

Man Tox Bombers are so cool

#

Now

#

Kill all tox bombers, behead tox bombers, drop kick tox bombers

#

Actually the most annoying shit in the entire game is a fucking fog of farts

regal smelt
#

At least they don't instantly throw them upon spawning in like globes

oblique totem
regal smelt
#

Wish the nade pin sound was different from the scab bomber so I could at least know if I'm about to be extra fucked

idle swallow
#

Giant fart reverb sfx as tox bomber pin pull que

regal smelt
# hollow ibex It is tho

Both sound like the same loud ding and aren't clearly distinct . The throws themselves are definitely different

hollow ibex
#

I thought tox bomber doesnโ€™t have the ding

#

And it's just some hissing sound when it's thrown

#

Could be wrong ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

radiant chasm
tiny summit
tiny summit
tiny summit
last parcel
regal smelt
idle swallow
terse idol
tiny summit
idle swallow
wise granite
#

im surprised the inquisition hasnt called exterminatus on this off topic lol

#

though im glad helldivers isnt being screwed by sony after all

#

super earth and the imperium are like brothers in bad government crime

tiny summit
#

A guardsmen is only so strong to 1 really strong "hear me out"

tiny summit
wise granite
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better have your shotgun loaded

hollow turtle
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Lol I'm constantly switching between Darktide and Helldivers. Edgy grimdarkness with RPG skill tree vs. Maniacal purging with airstrikes.
Either way, I get to enforce my religious zeal alongside my trusty and (mostly) competent squad members.

agile forge
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For the Managed Emperocracy!

swift bear
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How can I get a +3 stamina curio? this one says it's max rank but only has +2

last parcel
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base rating >75

bitter turtle
swift bear
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thanks!

bitter turtle
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75 will say 3 but it is a lie

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its actually only 2

swift bear
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I shouldn't have upgraded this then lol

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oh well

hearty panther
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i have somehow found myself utterly addicted to the bayonet