#veteran-class
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i still think its good but im not personally good at using it
exactly why i never block (also i run desperation, being above 10% stamina is a sin)
im talking about a rager pack instantly breaking stam
which has happened more than once
cuz enough hit from the first block at the same time, and any that didnt hit proceeded to devour me during the stam break
It’s ok vs like 2~3
Not good vs like 8 lol
it was like 4-5
We love shredder frag
5 still works
they all didnt hit at the exact same time
plus i was on zealot and i think they inherently have less stamina bars
for smaul
idk ive just gotten destroyed every time ive used the shock maul period
Pretty sure zealot has either same or more stamina than veteran (without +stamina curios)
im pretty sure its less but much much higher regen
Zealot base is 3
Veteran base is 2
But veteran gets +1 from confirmed kill starting path
So usually same stamina amount
is it really
ive couldve sworn ive had 3 stam on base knife zealot and 4 on vet
Zealot regens stamina at shorter delay and faster rate
Zealot: 0.75s delay, 1.5/s
Veteran: 1.0s delay, 1/s
Veteran’s price for having the best melee dps in the game is also having the worst base melee-related feel

Cept Vet gets to juice the delay to .75 or .5 if desired.
Yea usually by trading some dps nodes tho
at the cost of any logic in your pathing lmao
Absolutely worth it.
Nah they’re not hard to grab
one requires me to get close to marksmans focus which is my kryptonite
so i wont
It’s just that a lot of the time veteran goes turbo damage for breakpoints cuz he’s really just 10~15% damage off another breakpoint a lot of the time
i skip superiority complex because my superiority is quite simple 
i skip superiority comples cuz it hits no breakpoints on my build and i just take 15% close damage on ability use for bosses and hordes
so you're still just 1 point from the stam regen delay 
1 point that i will not spend
I wish marksman focus had some sort of interaction with melee
i wish it didnt exist
i just hate it
i mmt cheese that penance
fuck that
use mf for rending on melee 
I crab knife’d 5 games 
i stood at mercantile for 20 minutes swinging crouched between 2 boxes
occasionally popping smokes and infil for those respective penances
i hate smokes too
i dont hate infil but i hate the condition for the penance progress for it
True real and based
You mean activate it and walk past everything for passive progress
Which chainsword is best for cc?
Mk4 is the better chainsword
Yeah use that
or upgrade it
if it's bad then itemisation fixes it
literal godroll
true. cool ill see what she rolls up to when i get the mats
Usable but missing a dodge
Wait for update (19 days away) then u can make a perfect axe with that
Literal perfect godroll
…Marksman’s focus.
Can one actually use VoC with it instead…?
i use mf with voc a lot
Yea, was running Exec stance with MF for a penance.
Found out I became too…squishy lol
exe mf is pretty overkill most of the time
Thx.
Just finding a way to grind those 2500 MF kills lol.
Planning to do it with an Accatran.
embrace manstopper 
i forgot to include the video lol
https://streamable.com/5onxxl
Oh yes upgrade that, that axe is a godly roll
will do
@last parcel thanks for the tips - surprised I didn’t think of the shotty for it…
W axe or what
damn it's secrets of the machine god all over again
Man
Do ragers have clunky ass head hitboxes?
I swear I only land phantom hits on them
they twitch due to all the cocaine they snort
watch flak ragers get carapace or some shit
If I wanted a perfect stat plasmagun, what would I be aiming for
Are charge rate and thermal the two stats you want to take a hit?
Probably some lesser number
So probably something like 80 dam / 80 SP / 80 ammo / 70 CR / 70 TR
Powersword bad is definitely a hot take
Feels like you have lead boots on, but who needs to be fast when everything within 10m of you is vaporized
I would like to use psword but I hate hitting charge every 2 swings and without it it's just a wooden paddle
man
Wish the difference between charged and uncharged wasn't so extreme
manstopper double barrel aint no joke
Yes but if you get PC4 then you only have to do it every 3 swings, peak gameplay
i got shattershot and weapon specialist makes it crit basically everytime
kinda wild the store rotated manstopper and flechette in the store
Even w out scattershot youll still guarantee a crit after 3 melee kills
i just like killing 1 guy and hotswapping
i got another double barrel with deathspitter and manstopper
Did you make this?
what do you think
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised by either answer
fair enough
When does the newest patch come? I want to try out the new weapons
Nah the patch, or whatever they call it
Unlocked and loaded?
26th?
unlocked and loaded / itemization is the only one where we have a set date
Lame
What's wrong with it?
Lmao
There was a mfer who had the Rager scream on a sound board and would randomly play it on the in-game chat
jesus
PTSD inducing
I decided to practice melee in damnation and build muscle memory before I move to auric damn
no more auric damns for me
number of things
The story is good though
(I haven't played it)
But almost everyone I met gave it a 9.5 on campaign
first, connectivity is sucking, badly, hard to get into a pvp game
some games start and then crash back to the lobby, on repeat, and if you leave and try to find a new lobby its a coin flip whether it works, or something in the connecting to a server is frozen
two, certain customizations are not saving and I have no idea why
Okay so there is a workaround for infinite loading screens
and the game isn't even fully released yet.
you excited for monday?
If you're in a squad with someone they need to transfer party leadership to you and it will start loading you in
And vice versa
may take a try or two sometimes
talking about pvp
anyway, like I made a custom space wolf color scheme, I have the decals and coors unlocked, and the game keeps defaulting the space wolf decal on one pauldron to an ultramarine decal
Yeeaaaah heard about that glitch too
That one seems annoying asf
relatively minor, but since it happens -every- game startup
and I'm not getting in more pvp games to get currency to unlock shit
its fucking annoying
campaign is decent so far, although the bots are, more or less useless
darktide bots are more useful
I've heard that yeah.
I've also heard the enemies have a lovely tendancy to just ignore them too
The ranged enemies seem pretty annoying from what I've seen
the ranged enemies can be horrific
... but I'n kinda used to that from space marine one lol
also darktide
Lawbringer worth using?
The very end is the only thing I have an issue with, story wise. The antagonist was good, the story was good, but the very end just didn't sit right with me, but I think that's on purpose for the creation of an eventual third game. Titus's story isn't over. Not yet.
No respite + full bore / scattershot or scattershot + manstopper good
anyone got a decent shotgun build i can steal borrow ideas from?
lawbringer, not double barrel
thought i also wouldn't mind a double barrel build
This is what I use with one point to spare for the db shotgun
Works with any other shotgun too
This talent is kinda the cornerstone of the build tbh
for lawbringer, would one bullet really matter that much?
i can see the importance with db but i'm not totally sold with lawbringer
The reload speed talents have use for the special loading
I like using scattershot and flechette on the lawbringer
Idk abt manstopper and flechette tho
Maybe not. But reloading on a shotgun is kinda meh
Proper management of WS saves you point tax on reload talents
Because man I hate base special round loading
I think bleeds stack onslaught and cause more dmg to proc on bleed
Idk if that is the case
Just carried an auric maelstrom with a fucking tac axe.
Damnn
I can't believe this build actually works.
Lemme see the tac axe
I might fuck with it after agile gets added with new update
I probably would've done better with unarmored on it instead of sprint eff, too.
Unarmored has its moments
I’ve yet to have one on my weapons
But still
It has its moments
Time to try for ASS.

Not gonna use the tac axe build, though. That was very taxing on my brain, pun intended.
Bro broke the spacebar key chain dodging just to maintain kiting distance
No. I pushed into the enemies.
I just kept critting over and over again and nothing really lived long enough to make me dodge, short of crushers.
Damn you built different
I can’t live without my WS dodge increase
I cannot wait to play with the duelling sword with two dodge range sliders, one being on mobility and the other defence
MK 5 duelling sword I think?
Only one would affect dodges
I hate this world
Or at least a given attribute of dodges
It wouldn’t make sense to scale something specific off of two stats
Guh
The dream is back
Time to use a shitty single target dodge dancing weapon
The duelling swords are getting agile too, which refreshes dodge count on weakspot hit
Release infinite dodge knife my beloved friend
Taxe is not the hero we want but the one we need
Yup, an ogryn is currently griefing lobbies in my server area...
Time for my 13th block!
Ur so real for that
Gobbling up ammo as a glugger is one thing, but literally depriving your team of resources is an entirely different animal.
I sometimes misclick opening a crate with full ammo
I can function with low ammo on weapon spec, but I literally ran out of ammo 3 times because this creature grabs ammo to replace like 12 bullets he shot.
That's excusable as an accident, this guy was just being a turd.
Me and the zealout both ran on very little ammo for the entire mission.
The psyker, Emperor be praised, was using a staff, so she could actually snipe specialists.
That tac axe run absolutely cooked my brain. Swapped to my zealout, decided I wanted to use hsword, and got absolutely fucking demolished every single time I turned around.
Whenever I play psyker to farm penance I make it a point to use staff lol.
I like the flame one, though I might switch over to lightning to match the blitz and a Shock Maul I have that has the electric damage bonus
Well this is gonna be awkward when they finally add hotshot volley guns.
I'm not sure how useful hot-shot blessing will be, might be decent, although I don't much like the helbore weapons since the sights are ass and same for weapon draw time.
Are you on PC? Change the sights via mod
I am, but the devs could also just add the ability to change the sights.
or they could also abandon the idea since the mod already doing the job, unless they also want console players to enjoy it
they did added some fan mods in VT2 to the core game, but its a rare event
so headshots have AOE?
Pass or keep?
(I am…tempted…to say if you are looking for a high damage pistol, you might as well go Bolt pistol. Higher base damage and bigger clip size.)
I admit, if you want the revolver for style, then yes, nothing beats it 😅
See, that'd make sense, if not for revolvers having access to hand cannon and surgical, thereby having higher overall damage.
Also, agripinaa revolvers have a speedloader, so they reload all at once.
And they do silly things for vet, like 1 cylinder-ing a boss.
Huh, good points…I may well invest into one for my PSword Sergeant build.
(Right now a part of the reason I run PSword/Bolt Pistol is kind of a joke referencing the tabletop; almost every Guard sergeant will be taking the upgrades to those from the Chainsword/Laspistol they start with)
(Sadly for some odd reason, tabletop Guard rarely uses stub pistols)
Just know that the zarona is the ADS model and the agripinaa is the cowboy model.
Thanks for the heads up on that.
Now all we need is the akimbo model and we can play as Revolver Ocelot 
“BEHOLD…THE GUNS OF THE LOYALISTS!”
“BANG!”
Incidentally I want to point out an irony I found.
The easiest way to farm MF kills for the penance.
Are actually spray and pray weapons…
Eh, recon lasgun at head level doesn't involve so much prayer
Actually is what I am using so yes, true
Another 1000 to go…
I will miss Vanguard's current effect once the big update drops... Having better sprint efficiency is just too good to have on chainsword vet, and I don't really want to waste a curio slot for longer sprint time...
I posted on the forums asking them not to change it
you should too!
I don't really dare to do so... I am too socially insecure to post a complaint about it...
Lawbinger
looking forward to heavy sword on both vet and psyker, can 1 shot headshot muties with heavy sweeps and no special activations needed for crazy horde clear
think zealot can one tap em with a crit
What’s the best infantry lasgun rn
but yeah vet about to get
a load of other classes weapons
then use them objectively better than those classes
don't even need a crit for mutie 1tap but yeah vet def gonna rock it harder
Vets getting saber? Goated
including a melee weapon from the literal "MeLeE" class
Yea melee and ranged weapons between vet, zealot and psyker are interchangeable soon ish
probably not the ranged weapons
Okay great
like flamer, plasma etc
nah psykers got old shotties and zealots get recon (lmao)
thats it for ranged I think
psyker finally getting shotguns, but will be overshadowed by gunkers going high rof for infinite scriers gaze
oh and braced on psyker my b
Mg 4 if you got a macro.
just get autofire mod for mg4
Cause FOR SOME REASON fat fish devs can't implement. A single, burst and automatic fire selection
Can’t, on ecksbawx
autofire mod should be base game
basic QoL accessability
I just have it on my mouse lol
especially when weapons like the mg4 and laspistol 2 exist
yeah a lot of things should be base game
kantreal mk 4 is my favorite recon lasgun
Facts
It was my fav too before recon buffs
I forgor which one I use for the recon
the fastest firing one
infinite ammo machine
highest single target dps
mk II?
the recon buffs were good though
I think the recons are a little overtuned on vet currently but not massively so
I think 6 is the fastest recon
maybe the 6 then, been a while since I used
The kantreal lasguns need bayonet
Psykers getting 4% peril quell on non warp ranged crit, so we're about to see some pretty ridiculous scriers uptime on recon lasgun gunkers
SG's build are gonna be eating good and hell Staff SG is gonna become quite viable
god i love the mark 3 lucious
Damn
I tried that on psyker the other day
Man getting damage and finesse is a fun mechanic
how cooked is this recon
Speedloader bad, stability bad
I think it's burnt, maxed stability is useless
Would just take speedloader for blessing fodder
For itemization update
2nd very good stats which will get better for itemization update
Blessings are good, (there might be better but they're good)
I dunno enough about the perks to comment however
Or well it's good

thank you smudgels
Okay so you can work with this
Deathspitter to Headhunter imo
and the Unyield to like Flak?
you win!
Talking with azrael appearently HH isn't that much of a dps increase
Better to run straight damage 

reciprocity is enough
Flak instead of Unyeilding headhunter instead of deathspitter
And that’s a godroll
headhunter doesnt provide much of a bonus to critchance as the description implies
recon builds tend to be built around high critchance wich resets the bonus from headhunter so it ends up being under 5% crit iirc
I swore by the vraks 7 being the funnest head popper, but damn do the Agripinaa MK 9 go hard
Agri IX users rise
I used the weapon customization mod to make it look like a m16
Just to enjoy the burst fire more
God mods are amazing
There’s one that makes sprinting hybrid and reset if forward key is pressed
agri ix is more of an AN 94
Waiting for Itemization for this one
Good point
i save m16 for vraks iii
Bought this and im just holding onto it
The other one would be fitting
Give it an AK styled barrel
thats the best way I can really explain making an AN-94 on Dt of all places lmao
Yeah I can see it being doable
There’s a lot of wiggle room
Also, I played a run of darktide and my headphones died during a run
Man audio design is insane for spatial awareness
Literally felt like a schizophrenic turning around every two seconds because I know for a fact a disabler was plotting for my downfall
Like my aim was worse because the sound of ranged units readying a shot makes me vindictive and makes my aim better from sheer distain over their smug smiles pelting me behind cover
Also the sound cue of a incoming melee attack is such a grace
Vermintide 2 and Darktide are literally a different PvE beast that hits my dopamine with how much the game design blends together
I WANT THESE KARKERS DEAD
unrelated note, voice of command is a bit silly w/ tactical awareness and I love it
playing darktide without headphones is truly a miserable experience
Spatial sound is the greatest innovation of technology
oh baby when the dogs start swarming and you just get to keep mashing the CLOSE, KILL AND DO IT AGAIN button, that's good shit
I hate the specialists so much that I can divine their exact location just from their sounds
I run across the whole map just to kill them
Hiding pussies
Lmao that’s my favourite part of infiltrate, run into them and gore them
The worst part abt that tho is if you get disabled that’s the hot wash of shame for fucking up and putting the team in a bad spot
they're just practicing for the update
I've just been busting my ass for 10 minutes trying to clutch as the last guy remaining and right before I can revive my allies a chaos spawn busted out of the wall
Did you let the emp down?
Just play norms
4HEAD
Bro is an op and a professional hater
How it feels when a CS busts out of a wall and you're solo clutching
actual fucking OP
One thing I hate about chaos spawns is their tiny head and frantic movement
so juiced that i cant tell if i want to kill my ops or fuck em
Rip the weakspot dmg
I'm starting to think that farming is more efficient on norms now.
Since there are soo many trash PUBS on auric trying to get a fucking orange colored title, you will complete more games on norms at a much faster rate, therefore more mats.
Yeah
I just go in with 3 ordo docket gains and quick play
you get around 60k ordos
normal damn with em is like 40-50k
Normal Damn I use for mat grinding
Plasteel-Diamantine
Yeah
I keep doing the dumb thing and use my crafting mats to twerk stats and blessings I want to use
Twerk lmao, tweak
I was playing normal damnation (hi-intensity hunting grounds)
Build for Scout Laz Gun MK 7 + Chain Sword (Cadia mk13) + Krak nades?
you can use something like this
deathspitter + dumdum on the recon lasgun
wrath + shred/rampage on the chainsword
ok thx
isnt it just sat & sun has more people with busy lives that have some free time to game
(RE: incompetent pugs)
just in case i like chainswords because they can deal with Carapace armor pretty good with alternative attack + ok against hordes
you should just man up and carry harder instead of weaseling your strategy
if you want guaranteed quality you queue with them otherwise take what the emp gives oyu
Any thoughts on Covering Fire? Been using it for a while now and gotta say, watching my Psyker or Orgyn going to full Toughness in 2 seconds flat when they are getting swamped feels good since I'm keeping em alive
Some folks did some math and classified it as underwhelming
I fucking love Covering Fire
+every class has ways of Regen during horde
Man I love having a support build using born leader and tunnel vision stacked up
ok but
fuck I can't find a gif for it
Look at all that toughness
Using a las pistol with reassuringly accurate with deadshot is tons of toughness generated with confirmed kill and exhilarating takedown
I'm not crazy on it, but it's a funny meme, the problem being iirc toughness regain is based off of base toughness
Not toughness + curios
they should uncap toughness for like a day
You just run like
Glory hunter on a plasma gun, covering fire and the other toughness share stuff
And you can give back some toughness
But VOC is gonna cover the majority of all toughness gain and damage reduction
Born leader is based off your regen, with a big toughness pool it’ll grant 15% of what you get to your teammates
Wait I thought it was still based off of your baseline toughness
does that mean I don't become a toughness dispenser with born leader + exhilirating takedown
And tunnel vision amplifies the gain by 50-75%
You can't just stack 3x toughness curios
You're a toughness dispenser from VOC alone
The issue I see with this is
Yeah but more
Alot of damage sources
Can also just delete your toughness
With only over-toughness being enough to mitigate the full damage from sources like snipers or burster
So I mean it's cool to keep your allies topped off from chip damage
It adds up
Not as much as VOC already provides
I bet the psykers on my team appreciate it despite not noticing it
Hmmmm
nah psykers got busted toughness generation
It adds to the overheal of shout and born leader works even if you’re full toughness
It’s a fun build for warrior priest vibes
It’s an option that’s fun for me
I remember using power DI and I healed 80k toughness from born leader alone
Encourages coherency play too
I mean it's fun
Glory hunter and all the toughness share nodes
And VOC and the talent that reduces voc off elite kill
Yeah, I got that part since I use the mod that lets me view exact numbers for HP and Toughness. So far, it kinda works for me since I used the Torrent-Type Recon Lasgun to mow down entire hordes around em quickly. Here's my current build atm.
Weapons are Torrent-Recon Lasgun with Crit % on Weakspot Hit. Been mowing down hordes and killing Elites/Ogryns and Bosses with this. Granted its reduced damage but the value of keeping the team constantly topped off had been paying off
True, las pistol is the freest toughness regen blessing just from crit kills
I feel like problematically
Most runs end because you took burst damage in a single instance that people couldn't react to
Waaa!
Trueee
Still ain’t stopping me
One can argue the best support build is the guy who has the damage to nuke specials and shooters
Las pistol has insane finesse properties with crit and headshots
Marksmen focus is a nice branch with tunnel vision
Hard thing to manage is 15 stacks of MF with tunnel vision giving 75% toughness replenishment
Me as I play ilas exclusively to delete all the ranged units on the map
Me as a One (1) crusher comes in
Which is unique from the toughness regen curio that only affects coherency regen
Tunnel visions toughness boost applies to all sources of toughness replenishment
I wonder if there’s a better generator than exhilarating takedown and reassuringly accurate which can be freely farmed off chaff
Because glory hunter and confirmed kill only apply to elite kills and ammo on revolver is sparse
700 kills to go…
On the discussion of toughness battery you tend to want to run 3 toughness curios so you can give your team as much toughness from Born Leader as possible
it sounds insane but its beyond fucking helpful
Vets generally want to run Toughness Curios anyways
Because it gives them more toughness to abuse Iron will
If anything gets nerfed someone is gonna complain about no matter how minor it is or how justified it is
I do like the idea that Veteran is a toughness focused class though
Yeah, three toughness curios averaging a hypothetical 250 + 50 from shout is 300 toughness, RA blessing 16% (48/84), ET talent 15% (45/78).
84 and 78 is from 15 stacks of MF giving an 75% increase from tunnel vision, that’s 162 toughness per critical headshot kill, the 15% from born leader generates 24.3 toughness for every teammate per chaff critical weakspot kill.
My math might be severely off
man that's a lot of numbers
Its usuall the % off the total you have and then whatever is simply % off the Base added on
so your's might be bloated slightly
True
basically expect small numbers not big numbers
Math was never my thing
All I know is born leader generated 80k toughness alone in a match based off power DI tracking its numbers, its the little numbers that add up to that big tally
do i want flak/elite or flak/maniac on the mk4 chainsword
its good with toughness generating builds
Flakiac
Elite is better on Knives or Plasma
thank you
All I’m saying, I’m coping hard and just want easier games for the randys I am queued with
I call it the babysitter build
Simply improve upon one's own skill so you can hard carry and it just feels casual
I just want my teammates to stick it through and not leave once they go down
It’s lonely carrying at the top
I want shared success amongst my teams
I do shock-trooper helbore mk2 with either kraks or psword if I can't trust teammates to do literally anything
That’s still useable
Get Flak and Dumdum as your others and you have a good Graia
Fuck the CIAG
Stupid gun
ciag can giag on my coc
man I am dogshit at psyker
What else should I alter on this?
Ain't gonna use it at all.
238 to go for MFp penance.
Then I only have to do 111 Adept Assassin kills (changed in the middle of it)
Then I Finally would have completed all Vet Penances lol
Just nice to see a actually decent gun on my damn vet
Itemization?
Since my Psyker is hogging all of them
I’ve been rolling a bunch of 380s on Vet
Ain't my playstyle to spray and pray To the emperor
None of them being weapons I use
Click on heads
I assume
A handful of clean las pistol shots does well and I benefit from shock trooper making that ammo last longer
You’d probably like the ILGs
Helbore?
Oh thank the throne you have taste
Me who is religious about using the Agri IX HHA
Path thinks I’m fucking insane
I simply just like it
you're still insane tbf
Can't wait for Crafting rework so I can improve this
having everything except mobility at 80% also hits a lot of breakpoints
mainly bruisers iirc
been trying to roll a rashad and ive kept each one that dumps mobility in hopes itemization will improve them x)
no you’re just insane
I'm just hoping it doesn't get nerfed
you just do flak —> unarmoured and it’s great right now lol
Hes hating my Agri IX swagger
from the notes theyve released so far its getting a buff to its heavy attack but no nerfs in sight (yet)
this is not mutually exclusive with insanity
It is thank you
So far outside of some minor Ogryn skill tree changes. No real weapon nerfs
You go insane when you start realizing you’re carrying frequently
Honestly crazy its getting a buff lol, one of the strongest weapons in the game. Not that I'm mad
It should
I wonder if in a year the power scale will push the difficulty into malice
its minor but yeah lmao
No I think ur alr

I still think the recoil on it is ass
Might be cuz its so hard to make a good one. Even a slightly imperfect one is drastically worse. Once the rework comes and it is easy to have a good one, it will probably see a nerf
Hey, I am trying to come up with more "Do this one thing" penances as opposed to all they grindy ones we got in the last batch. Any thoughts/suggestions on these?
Logistics. Restore 50% of your teams total Ammo and 75% of their grenades with a single field improvised ammo crate.
Triage. Heal X toughness with a single field improvised medicpak.
Moral Support. Heal X toughness in a single match (doesn't count overtoughness)
Militarum intelligence. Resolve a faulty interrogator during one activation of Infiltrate.
Emperor’s Helping Hand: Revive/Rescue X teammates using infiltrate. (Okay, this one might be a bit grindy)
Combat Prowess. Deal X damage in y seconds after using any combat ability.
Cadia Stands. Complete a map with 2 wounds and 2 grimoires on heresy or above.
Big Game Hunter. Kill X Ogryns in a single activation of Executioner Stance.
Krak Shot: Kill 2 or more Ogryns with a single Krak Grenade.
I would really like to come up with more "Skillful" ones (relatively speaking). Is there anything ya'll have done that was a particularly skillful one-off vet-specific thing?
Penances?
Yup
Yep! Sorry, revised it
He dropped map focused ones in #theorycrafting
me trying to do cadia stands with 3 wounds on malice
Ah, right, doy
THINK FAST: you turn a corner and find 3 ragers waiting for you. what do u do ?
VOC
That or PA with the Caxe
you win 
ME WIN
Without HT stacks u only stagger 2
Jokes on you I always run HT
I mean it as in, if u don’t have any stacks at that moment (just entering combat)
The grindy penances should be separated into solo missions. Felt like an ass trying to grind out the smokes on auric
Or difficult rooms.
Block some of the attacks then as well seeing I’ll get stacks from it
The PA
that is
other acceptable answer is parrygod the ragers with a combat sword 
Tbh
Dodge slide back, get some distance, run back a bit then u can fight
I hope they tweak rager spawns at some point maybe this upcoming patch
If they’re not gonna nerf them individually
I don’t mind it too much
actually now that they buff the combat axe can you oneshot a rager with heavy attack headshot ?
With +25% maniac yeah
I honestly like current iteration ragers
Shredder nades knock down a giant pack of ragers, bleed dot + boom make them alot easier to manage.
this is huge. if you can get the oneshot brutal momentum comes into play
Needs crit tho 
limbsplitter 
ragers are either no problem at all or a BIG effing problem lol it makes things spicy
everybody gangsta till 20 ragers roll up
Theyre like termites. They aint been dealt with the house comes crashing down
But the hist rager spawns need to remain untouched. It feels staple to the experience at this point.
Along the lines of 3 trappers in a row
I like seeing a squadmate getting bullied by 2-3 ragers and being able to come in behind and lay them out, it makes me feel like a good teammate
boom, back shots
I've been liking chaxe more and more with these rager spawns since the light attack stuns their dumb asses pretty consistently
They got green knobbies on their back for shootin
If no spawn change then their attacks need to be tuned down
Mission modifier where all basic grunts above poxwalkers are replaced with ragers
Yea 1 at a time
That’s the thing most weapons aren’t designed to handle multiple ragers at once
That's when you bring in the lethal proximity nades
Lethal Prox Shredders with Grenade Tinkerer
Each Rager spawned gets their own, unique nerf.
Each rager gets severe anxiety when in 2m of reject unless in a group of 10 or more.
That final event be final
I relate to this on a spiritual level
use high damage single shot gun (zarona revolver, plasma, headhunter, etc)
stab 3 people
shoot specialist/elite in head
repeat
bolt pistol?
which penance is that
weapon specialist
if you want
kill 250 specs/elites with crit weakspot hits while wep specialist is active
👍
knife + columnus/zarona
why knife?
melee kills count and knife has a high crit rate
chainaxe not good for this task?
i just took whatever melee since shooting heads was enough for me
MK6 is better imo
bless/perks?
Truly me and @tall torrent’s magnum opus
What lasgun is the best? I know it’s not the hellbore (sadge) so I’m not even gonna argue for that
all of them are pretty good, i prefer iLas
Hell, are the laspistols any good?
mk2 is good
the mk2 is fine
Been kinda disappointed with the bolt pistol
the other one is kind of lacking
helbore is good
Right finally got the MF penance.
Will be quite a bit before I can finish the last one.
yea
helbores are great and ammo efficient, they jsut need practice
mkIa for infantry lasguns and then recons go ask vet chat, but all of them have their uses
Bandit
This is the vet chat
Zealot chat that’s all I’m saying lmao
i'm stupid dw
You’re good
recon mkvid is very very good at shredding just about anything with the correct build
Idk if there's a best lasgun for any of them tbh. They're all good at different things
WHOS TYPING
YOU
Whenever she speaks in here you basically hear a clown horn start playing and comedy immediately follows suit
vet chat is quite silly, most of the time it's stuff like "how's my gun/melee" or "is x on the mourningstar x?" and sometimes its like "we need to discuss lotara saryn and her washboard abs IMMEDIATELY for TWO HOURS"
Zealot chat is 90% off topic
if zealot chat wasnt at least a third theology and random related bullshit i would be disappointed
I finally finished the weapons section in my guide
Mg1a is highest damage but also goes through ammo fastest while Mk IV is the infinite ammo iLas. XII exists for the very obscure niche of lower investment to reach breakpoints vs the Mg1a at the cost of slower fire rate putting DPS way behind the other variants
Helbores are all good dogs bront but I personally prefer the Mk II for how funny it gets with Exe Stance
Oh and the Recon thing
After years of development
Hopefully
It has been worth the wait
In preparation for next patch
True just hold onto it for now
Cough up the HHA section right now mister
Recon Mk II: Ammo efficiency
Recon Mk VId: Armour piercing with Onslaught
Recon Mk VIIa: Cleave
They're all very fun. Recon Mk II feels good if you are trying to use a Recon more like an Infantry Lasgun. VIIa is fun for mowing down crowds. VId is full all around with a funny build and just sorta shreds anything you put in front of it
Saving this
what do u think abt the presentation
it's an impressive and eye-pleasing dataslate
Tickles the brain
It’s good
Staple of Vet chat basically where we tend to get straight into the stats
the template could have a slightly more pronounced division between the marks, like a white line or whatnot - but quite good
Also I’m surprised Agri 9’s monster isn’t a tinsy bit more though I haven’t tested it’s performance vs 7
I tried really hard to squeeze all the necessary info for a weapon family in 1 page
I just know 9 and 3 shred boss Weakspot hits
It’s because even though u can 1 mag a boss, the overall TTK is pretty long (compared to top performers), and it’s extremely reliant on deadly accurate + weakspot hits
U kind of don’t get that time luxury in actual games
You’re talking about body hits as well
Well not necessarily
If boss is targeting u, u get easier headshots, but it’s also safer to just melee
Literally unless it’s Plogryn or BoN you’ll rarely hit headshots on a small or very frantically moving target
If boss isn’t targeting u, u need stagger to get easier headshots
But you can’t hold boss stagger long enough for mk9HH to do high damage
It is rated a bit higher because mk9 actually kills things in 1 burst often
Mk3 tends to need 2 bursts
how do you feel about the mk10 Heavy Laspistol mister 95571
Battle of mid
No
I literally never noticed
If u mod u can make Vraks 3 & 7 have same zoom as 9
But normally Vraks 3 & 7 have the highest ads zoom in the game
i mostly use it due to preference, i like the slower firerate
The problem with mk10 is like
That’s why
though it REALLY doesnt do a lot if you dont hit heads with the mk10
Was a pistol

4 headshots? i run deadshot and it only takes a headshot and bodyshot
Yeah but that’s with Deadshot
U can build it to crit 1HS flamers
And deadshot is kinda like
Peak copium
thats fair
A lot of hemorrhaging guns tend to need Deadshot
I’d rather take reciprocity over deadshot
And I don’t even play reciprocity most of the time
Back when Recon was absolutely dogshit
You had to use Deadshot
Now it’s kind of a
Oh you can use it if you want
back when recon was dogshit you had to use everything
What a rollercoaster of a gun lmao
had to turbo damage your weapon just to get minimum performance
i can and will pull my beta company helmet on you young man, i know the game
I’m gonna hold off on blessing section until update drops
Need a whole revision on that
doing the emperor's work 955 🙏
Can’t wait to do heavy testing!
i feel like theyre gonna add another couple weapons with UnL
I think that’ll be somewhere like December patch lol
U&L has a lot of stuff already
mostly just a guess based on the name Unlocked and Loaded
I think
Path is just going to update this one as updates drops
I think in my personal opinion
Itemization rework
Weapon variant merge
Mastery system
Psyker talent tree expansion
Tons of weapon changes
New mission (train)
We should call this the Guardsman Handbook
Yea I was playing wukong for 2 weeks
journey to the west hive city
Now that the update balance stuff is out I’m continuing
Nah
Hammer of the Emperor

Okay fair
Oh right, I didnt realize half of this was in UnL
very cool!
the laceration dissertation
What does UnL mean
Unlocked and Loaded - Update in like, 2 weeks?
18 days
New update here soon
Look I know
There’s going to be a DS4 meta
I’m STILL GOING TO USE THE HEAVY SWORDS
YOU CANT KARKIN STOP ME
i am going to continue to use my shovel and chainsword
Can’t wait for damnation QP vet to load in with a DS4 + recon and do <200k damage
Itemization might make them really damn good Tbf
hope so
Me who still out damaged them cause I refuse to not use the Agri 9
Lmao
Nah after patch I’d suggest going Rashad
Can't wait to see them throw a krak and still get hit by crusher overhead and insta-leave 
U can make actual good rolls of super strong weapons (that are very roll dependent)
Heavy sword will be cool
But I hate the uppercut swings
i play darktide to be johnathan guardsman
I play Taxe 4
Do you think this bothers me
Lmao
it's already established that you are insane
You’re Karkin insane
never denied it
Day 1 update I’m locking in with godroll PS6 + boltpistol grenadier build
im gonna be honest i really wanna like the bistol, the recoil is too much - it's lore accurate but it is too much for my enjoyment
Okay hear me out
Look at that image
d1 im looking for a mk 6 knife and manstopper god roll
You can make the dumbest fucking grenadier build possible
I already have godroll plasma + combat axe waiting
God roll Agri 9
god
btw im pretty sure you can buff the grenedier build with a weapon that has uncanny
Patiently waiting
playing smite psyker was the most displeasurable experience ive ever had on this game
since you can make bleed nades or bolt pistol bleed do 100% rending
It’s so fucking boring isn’t it
Lmao
it's kinda boring innit
very exciting
i run dual-shield brain-burst emp-psy psyker
just have shield penance left then I can stop touching psyker for a while
i actually think i lost braincells using smite
It’s not really necessary because of 2 things
- Grenadier build needs a horde clear melee that also does well in monster damage (which shovel is not made for)
- The other uncanny melee weapons need pretty heavy melee spec which grenadier build can’t afford
regular smite or ep smite
empowered but still brain numbingly boring
run this build hugz, it's probably the most brain-on class i have
my mind stimulates while using it
ok ill try
the entire match you are basically trying to head-pop specials and put up shields where your team wont be riddled with holes or hit by specials
it's something like this
my veteran build meanwhile is as such:
but with tinker not covering fire
tyvm ill try after i eat dinner
then i can return back to shootboy once im done
Wouldn’t suggest longshot tbh
i willl shoot you first
no doctors
i make ample use of it, i try to snipe shit with my mk10 every 3 seconds
do you want to try an action movie veteran build that im running 👀 it incluedes weapon spec and the hacker shotgun
elites entering my sightline at any range are getting shot
the issue is that it's not helping much most of the time
explain
at 13m it's like +0.6% dmg
im aware
lol
It’s better to invest the point into oh I’d say
even so, it isnt falloff
Hm
u could put that point into 15% elite dmg
Superiority complex imo
works all the time
i will at least give it a shot, you're probably right
Honestly I’m surprised you’re not running a keystone
i simply dont need one 
Especially WS if you’re swapping between shovel and pistol often
Hell I’m curious why you’re running grenade tinkerer on kraks
Boss busting?
and breakpoint on ogryn since im not using bring it down
ah, either way it's more damage
We could invest it elsewhere
barrelled myself, derp rip
Let me look over it real quick
i'm fine where it is, i chunk the fuck out of bosses
I’d say that’s really your only reason to keep it
Cause you could swap it for Bring it down
nah, im more of a human-size elite killer with kraks in case of oggies or bosses
that and toughness resupp
I’m more so trying to figure out in the long run if it’s more effective for you to run
GT or BiD
Honestly it wouldn’t hurt to do some test runs
Also I respect leave no one behind talent
im not really interacting with ogryn much outside of throwing kraks at them, else i likely would use bring it down
it's a lot of boss dmg
But you know what you could replace the node leading into that and the revive talent
Agile Engagement
That thing is really nice to run if you swap between pistol and melee frequently
I’m not too sure if you do it often though
Unsure how you play it
they better start 
i'm usually middle of the pack with my pistol out, melee is for hordes and surprise rager jumpscares
True…
So like the moment you see any ranged elite you swap
longshot more like longshit
if im not being swarmed, yes, they are being shot on sight
Yeah try AE
You might notice the difference
25% melee or ranged on swap for 5 seconds after getting whatever kill is
Really fucking good
i ran it on my old commissar build with the bistol
knee-deep in melee with chaff, swap and vaporize a special with a hipfire, back to swinging
It might make your Laspistol feel actually like a space deagle
So I suggest giving it a try
But if you don’t like it revert back to the revive for support
i'll probably stick to support, i enjoy propping up the team
i enjoy crippling the team
now that i think about it im almost running my commissar build, im just dressed as a Sgt
Actively shoot barrels
You guys have teams?
I have a commissar build if you want a toughness battery
undercover commissar
I just need to be home to send you it
i will definitely look at it, a bit later since i gotta go to work
Toughness battery just being you generate the team an unhealthy amount of toughness
have a good evening gentlemen
When are we getting hotshots?
oh no yeah thats basically my role now, that and killing specials
When shartshark blesses us
With the backpacks?
Or maybe Aquilon style battery mags
I’ll toss you it when I’m home just check in here when you’re off
Me I’m currently working a solo shift and it’s extremely fucking dead
So here I am
I wouldn't mind having bulbous battery mags like these
Me