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Can even record background mic or youtube while playin. I like this new Steam feature
if I am listening to music or watching youtube it picks all that up so it's cool sometimes but other times it's like uh well hmm
flapjacks
Well you can set it either or. Just game or system sounds
I have it all muted when I play darktide at least anyway since this game is nothing but sound cues
idk who was responsible or why but someone was like "I came here to add sound cues to EVERYTHING" so like every single event in this game goes 'click' 'hiss' 'whirr' or 'bzoot' or something
Flak + elite/maniac/unyielding
It's a pretty good skin! You can get it on its own
Maybe if a plasma or recon las, or maybe better psword skin comes out i might yoink
Iron sight change
You get a square “ring” to vaguely have an idea of where your shots are going at close range
Instead of the classic “—.—” view lmao
I just wish they knew like you need to have a rear sight as well as a front sight...
thnx boss
I mean yes you can just look down the rail, but, ideally you have a matching tritium rear sight so you can like line it up properly
personally MK4 Bor has better irons imo 
Im surprised in the 41st millenium after humans went thru DAoT optics were never mass produced for every single gun 😭
The Mk4 helbore has my favorite sights in the game
just for kriegers
But a pisspoor bayonet
they decided that empra should decide when they hit
They’re mass produced
We just somehow don’t get them
it is really annoying ngl that they just scrapped the customization system
You could tell from kantrael las
For snipers, marksmen, and Space Marines maybe 😄
But not us penal legions
Because games workshop said no
It was 90% complete and then got scrapped
how many bullets does the laspistol consume per shot?
"We don't want this to be Call of Duty" or so they said
Everyone loves 40k.
Everyone hates GW
MG Mk II uses 2/shot
Mk X uses 3/shot
Tbh most weapons’ sights I’m ok with
I only don’t like the iron sights on helbore lasguns and vigilant autoguns
i still think the mastery skin for all weapons should have a gothic arch laser dot sight
like the kantraels
I like the distinct weapon identity brought from sights
I just don’t like bad sights
the gothic arch sight is just so 40k tho
There's a detail in Space Marine 2 that I love...
Scoped weapons have latin written on the lenses 😄
You basically have to be rich to buy figurines these days
Tabletop sim is where it's at if you want to play these days
Ooohhh I didn’t think of warhammer being on there. Interesting
you can check the worshop for the models iirc
las pistol
just use it on standard WS build?
It works with all 3 keystones
this'll work fine then?
If u want to forego melee talents, sure?
I don’t recommend marksman focus subnodes beyond camouflage
Workshop mods.
which of the recon lasguns are the best?
All 3 are ok, they do different things
XIV has best TTK vs specialists with highest damage per shot, but worst firing uptime
VIc balances firerate & damage
XII fires the fastest (which synergizes with Onslaught talent) but has the least damage, worst reload speed & draw speed
hmm noted. i wanted to know cuz i need to clear an auric melstrom to do the new update missions. and i went further with a XII than i did with a XIV. even though before i felt the XIV was better (though iw as doing it on difficulty 4 before instead of 5)
It really depends on your build and blessing applied.
SOMEONE TELL ME THE BEST BLESSINGS FOR THIS THING PLEASE
wait there is an event?
Slaughterer is good for crusher one tap potential
Brutal momentum for better horde clear
Take ur pick
OKIE DOKIE
If you wanna go for a crusher one tap tho don't forget to get a carapace perk on ur sword
I'd say swap out maniac for it if you're going for it
Power cycler + brutal momentum/sunder
WHY NOT SLAUGHTERER FOR HORDES?
Picking up onslaught and the suppression nodes would benefit lasgun more I think.
Is this just broken
Brutal momentum kills hordes faster
Slaughterer is only useful for killing elites, and psword does that just fine without it.
Running pc + bm together lets you 2shot crushers and maulers.
PA + 1 light is death for literally anything that isn't a boss.
yes
hows this for my recon lasgun build?
Does the atuhor have to update it
Troll. 🫵
Or do I just reinstall
?
it's on the author. he last updated on nov 20th. other commenters mention the same error
"Getting an error after getting into the morningstar: [ERROR] (hook): Trying to hook function or method that doesen't exist: [HudElementCrosshair._crosshair_position].
Also, pressing the "Cosmetics" button on the new TwoHanded Force Sword in my inventory just crashes the game to desktop."
No iron will (generalist), no onslaught (recons require it), recons don't need a keystone.
just disable it for now and wait for it to be updated to turn it back on
oh. i was told onslaught wasnt as good as rending
I think you would do better if you go with target focus
Rending is nice, but onslaught is what recons absolutely require.
@analog yacht made the crosshair mod I think
better?
though actually you might be able to use the mod as long as you dont customize anything for now
This is really bad
this error is for the "Extended Weapon Customization" mod it seems
Maybe he's a Chad and doesn't need all the other stuff.
The recon lasgun builds are mostly for single target damage, and Marksman Focus is not really it.
Beginner veteran build
you dont even got fully loaded or onslaught?
He wants recon las build
I would use this if you want recon with exe stance.
Yea, this is playable with recon lasgun
Nah
😂
Superiority complex is not necessary most of the time
^
It only really matters for a few guns
Superiority complex is only for touching up really iffy bps.
Why ws instead of TF?
im confrused. i got sonebody telling me onslaught is key, another showing me to take rending. like idk what to do anymopre
Recon is not a breakpoint weapon therefore WS is the default imo
On a weapon that cares about 1 shot breakpoints and needs specific talents for breakpoints (like plasma gun) focus target is the way to go
Path made a more melee focused build, which means you are using recons as your auxiliary weapon. I made one that intends to mainly use recons.
I find TS is good for single targeting.
Push attack, mk6 is a stab that will do half a crushers hp in one go.
Onslaught can be fun but is not really worth it because you should usually bring anti-armor melee weapons
It also applies to melee though, no?
Yea, it doesn’t really matter for melee weapons’ breakpoints either
And new players don't swap often enough to use WS imo (this used to be a big assumption until I see some pun malice plays)
You get the same result with fire team + 10% melee damage node on top right
Except you also get agile engagement which is way better
i feel like i got bad at darktide since i took a break to play zomboid and then helldivers
For mainly ranged recon builds, though? You take onslaught.
im hitting fucking q randomly for some reason to spot shit and swapping my guns
the muscle memory is all fucked up
I don’t think it’s worth tbh
Oh absolutely not, the pathing is awful for it.
could use a crew later in the week to help me reacclimate to damnations and then auric maelstrom damnations
And mainly using your recon is a bad idea.
If I had to play a mainly ranged recon build I’d drop WS pathing and take a duelling sword or smth
Lmao.
In which case I still wouldn’t take onslaught
That's valid but ew vet ds.
I agree.
ok how abhout this
Why do u need Tac reload
idk i just seem to have it all the time. i think i used it mandatory when iwas on my bolter fix
Drop enhanced target priority and path through the middle at the top because the nodes on the right do not help you much.
You can also drop superiority complex.
Onslaught is only great on a few enemies imo. I played a few games with recon las earlier and outside of big armoured targets, it is so meh.
no
It’s good for Boltgun & combat shotguns
And that’s about it
This will save you 3 points to take focus target + redirect fire or pick up some melee talents.
im listening to your advice i just choose to have that one
Revolver, too
"I'm listening, but I'm not listening."
my guy i just redid my entire build listening to you
I run zealot with revolver and can't stand the reload.
is OK guys, is OK to ask for a build and then tailor it for your playstyle once you have been informed
You are still listening and learning ... I think, right?
Give me a moment I’ll just make 1 for u
im struggling in auric since the update
if im not playing veteran nobody kills the specialists
current build. awaiting veteransteamguide's advice
i want to use the new sword for the psyker but i can only brain burst so many before the horde descends
could be that everybody is focused on leveling greatswords
im watching them and this guy hasnt used a single heavy with the power greatsword
Nah, gunners and reapers are seriously strong now
No sword can't kill those guys from the other size of the room.
yeah ive died just moving in front of one trying to aim at it and it guns me down
its so bad im spending more time spamming lmb with my staff to suppress
the reaper thing is insane
like it wont even be facing you and will be blasting you
at point blank too
people forgot how to dash 😂
grim protocols removes dodging
I come back to Executioner and Marksman Focus with lasgun to run auric earlier, win 3 games in a row without death.
ye its why im running executioner to focus down the shooters since their deadly
i do this literally every game it works so well
but i cant because i want to play psyker
Last point into whatever u want
Then tried last week meta and I got hard time
im support from battlefield
We are not alone, many people struggle
aight ill ill check this out
I’d still recommend an anti-armor melee tbh
i just run shock maul
In that case
For ur recon lasgun
5% crit chance + flak/maniac
Dum dum
Infernus
5% crit chance is mandatory
Infernus helps recon boss dps a LOT
It’s maybe triple? lol
infernus really? i guess yeah with bosses but my main thing is to take out specialists. gunners, flamers, etc
also why no counter fire?
Then run 5% crit chance + maniac
Exe stance doesn’t need subnodes
You’re better off letting it run out and using melee to keep yourself alive
Than to tunnel vision on keeping it up for as long as possible
It’s a sizeable dps boost, but it’s just a dps boost
fair. ill keep that in mind.
Until it ever gets nerfed I feel like voc survivability is just too hard to give up
do you really use puncture or lethal prox instead of surgical on boltpistol?
Yea
Puncture + lethal prox is the best build for it
i swear they made suicide bomber explosions bigger
i am pushing them away and sliding backwards and they still keep hitting me
just realised why you did all the crit maxing stuff. shock trooper make sit free ammo. ooh that genius i didnt relaise that part
Opening salvo + crit chance perk + crit chance talent + recon base + veteran base is 27% crit chance
Recon has a 2-crit string
That’s 42.5% crit rate from the first 20% of mag
Plus reciprocity stacks from dodging things
Path, what's the best build in the game period in your opinion
You basically don’t run out of ammo and can spray for as long as u need
EK surge m1 psyker
That’s outside of havoc tho
Havoc needs some specific builds based on modifiers
I've noticed
genius. thanks for the advice and you too @uncut pebble . appreciate it
holy moly
2 ogryns with karsolas pickaxes they still go down to plain scab shooters and horde units
this is auric damnation
the struggle
i need to build this new sword better
also do curio buffs stack? so if i get gunner resistance and another with gunner resistance?
yes but it will be less effective
noted
It’s not additive with itself
The math looks like 1 x .8 x .8 x .8
So it rounds out to around 50%
Instead of 60
If you take three perks
thanks
100% x .8 (20% resist) = 80%
80% x .8 = 64%
64% x .8 = 51.2%
You get the most bang for your buck only doing 2 resists.
Do as you will, they're your curios.
im going 2x for gunners. they shred me
The struggle with gunners is real
i rely on ghost
why cant we get volley guns
so no gunner resist for me
ghost actually became such an important blessing after the various gunner buffs
always was good but now i really feel it shine
Are those numbers only for Damage Resistance or does it apply to all curio stats?
Like say Ability Cooldown
I just run the suppression immunity then kill the gunners as fast as possible
It’s for DR
Dr is calculated multiplicatively to prevent immortality
They do stack
Some stack multiplicatively
Some stack additively
I have this written out in my guide
Check pinned
The only things that tend to stack additively are stacked effects, but even those vary wildly
Here's a random question...
What if...you didn't have a keystone?
Where is the big power sword? Is it just heavy sword or is it a mk of power sword
yeah people have said this before, like "lol what if no keystone" but I think at the very least focus target or weapons specialist are good
not a veteran weapon
What are some good perks for the las pistols?
No I'm being serious.
Would a build work without one?
Is it...possible
idk ask path but I think he said recently like "don't skip a keystone"
I want...to experiment
Works for ranged recon builds
But usually they have significant value behind them
dont take a keystone and grab all the grenade talents instead
I'm gonna run a game doing an experimental build... And I will let ya'll know how it goes 😄
Usually you don’t want to skip keystones
There are rare situations tho
weapon spec too fun to pass anyway
ppl really be like going all the way down to trench fighter and then don't take the funny gun go brrr keystone
So is determined droppable for a recon las build to fit a key stone?
Gamers, what's considered "high" havoc, I'm worried about getting the damn 53rd chestpiece 
Yes, suppression hurts a lot less with a high ROF weapon than something slow and powerful
Is there a dump stat on recon lastgun for mk xii or do i want max in all of them (can i do that with the new system? returning player)
Mobility is your dump
and i guess a follow on- how close to max can i be and still get them to max via omnissiah upgrading to 500
80 in 4 stats and 60 in the last
80% is stat cap
well, I saw a video where someone had like...74/80 grey from the store, upgrading rarity to 500 EDIT: rarity to yellow/legendary not 500 pushed it to 80
that's what i'm getting at
Ya, the second stat is what it will become at 500 at the latest
Stats all upgrade as you raise power level
gotcha- so should i be blowing money til i get 80/80/80/80/60 then upgrade or just in the neighborhood?
Rarity effects amount of blessing and perks
Depends on difficulty
If you just regrinding and get back in do what you want
Then when breaking into auric and havoc stats get way more important
get a weapon with max stats of what you said, then just slowly empower it more and more as you play the game and get currency
yeah basically i'm maxed level but because i haven't played in 15 months i'm starting from 0 with blessing levels and crafting and whatnot and what i need is all changed
if you like how that weapon performs at that statblock, yeah
you can inspect weapons in your inventory and hover over the statbars to see how they actually change
trying to wrap my head around it
Rather dump Collateral on a recon IMO. Probably fine either way
There are alot of vids breaking down the new system
at least blessings and perks are reconfigured using ordo dockets instead of plastseel and diamantine now
much cheaper
What's vet best horde clear? Just power sword with cycler?
And you can actually see what you're fucking getting before you start pouring resources in
It is complex but there are good breakdowns
Shredder frags
Rashad Mk III combat axe
and even if the hadron roll is bad its like 10k ordo dockets at the max to make it a good roll
R1 for life
Kills horde faster than power sword
Dang
By a little
Any combat axe can do that to be real
mixed horde (?) with flanking behaviour, melee + VoC (1)
no grenades
no guns
lots of things are better than ps source: ps hater
Rashad dump stat is first target roght
doesnt its push attack stagger ragers i forgot
Mobility
Do not dump first target EVER
when in doubt, mobility and defenses
O
Rashad kind of just is better
However it costs more talent points to run optimally
So u could run power sword in more builds
Rashad requires talent points?
Requires minimum 5 points into bottom right for attack speed
Good ol trenchfighter drill
Or run shovel
I want crowd clear above everything
Cleave target dump for power sword
Heavy sword is a little underrated for horde clear
It can tear through a lot of stuff and the heavy is serviceable vs armour.
Get demo team and always prepared
Ty
Maybe I was too used to it on Zealot but I found it was pretty bad on Vet without Trench Fighter
And poor against Carapace no matter what you do with it
shreds ragers but breaks when you try to do anything with horizontal heavies' damage
clears unarmoured heads well but falls off quick
Infliltrate build?
okay damn like havoc 25-ish already is hard
Why are you shootin uncharged hellbore shots?
Hand cannon + surgical for revolver is the way to go right
hi can someone show me the best build for a heavy bolter build?
you know, the gun that goes boom boom boom
Guide Cat made this one before
1 point left over with red circles on the options he recommends
That is why I am stopping at a 29 I just managed to finish.
Maybe I will try pushing for 30.
So long as I get the drips, I am happy lol.
(The other two penance drips don’t specify level, so I can just join…whatever Havoc level)
is this a good knife?
i know you kinda need all the knife stats so is this a good split?
you mean orange circles?
and how is this bolter
oh lol
here's the page of the Boltgun from the guide pinned in this channel
You kinda want the lowest stat to be mobility (as in mobility should be x/60)
for perks/blessings recommendations and info
Shattering Impact helps with a breakpoint on Crushers for one less shot iirc?
Puncture can help on some breakpoints but I forget which
I usually go Surgical/Pinning Fire on mine tbh
Did my first havoc cleared pretty easy? but i think that's just because my team was better? maybe end game will auto give us higher level teamates?
wtf is that
snip-ovlver
Steam guide says 1-10 ranks are equivalent to Malice difficulty, 11-20 ranks are equivalent to Heresy, 21-30 are equivalent to Damnation and the extra hard ranks begin 31+
Could be that?
OOOOH
I've seen a few people say difficulty begins to noticeably ramp up at around 25-ish
it also has a lazer lmao
Yea 25+ is where you can feel it starts to get a bit…unhinged.
don't worry if you want a challenge it'll come later for sure LOL
Your head basically has to be on a swivel
if the bullet doesnt kill them i will blind them
And you can expect 0 downtime dialogue
(It’s why I will be cheesing the other two penances by joining other people’s comparatively lower havocs)
im gonna report you to hadron
im gonna become a statistic...
ideal dump stat for psword?
some of these early 20s feels like an auric mael with the damn gas+infected dudes dropping acid shit
idk why but coming back to the game, auric damnations are full of experienced really good teammates but as soon as i queue auric mael i get people who have literally just unlocked auric and are total shitters lmao
probably trying to get to havoc 16
i have many weapons of mass destruction
heresy?
its okay its all from parts from the gaurd
how is havoc mode?
I forgot about penetration
Did someone mention the crosshair mod earlier? I'm only seeing the one about weapon_customization
Hm ok
any1 have a grenadier vet talent build handy
just copied a cursed looking one after a brief keyword search
maybe too cursed
I think you just take frags plus the two grenade regen talents
Then still take a real build
oooh, howd you see those stats
whats the plasma guns dump stat?
doesn't have one
i keep rolling plasma guns with fuckin 8% thermal resist
look at the max thermal resist.
i fucking hate how this bug is STILL not fixed
what do ppl prefer Agni or Munti shockmaul ?
You know Ive always wondered, why is 80% the max?
presumably they wanted to save 100% for a higher tier
Oh
Hope we see that higher tier
Also Ive got no more than 400 plasteel but over 5000 diamantine, Ive hit a sort of bottleneck
dw once you reach a certain point, the bottleneck will reverse and diamantine will be the one you desperately need 
maybe that'll be like a gear rarity they add to help push people up havoc
nahhhhh
Ill always have 5000 more diamantine than plasteel
the magenta 'Infinilegendary' rarity that goes up to like 600 power and 100% rating on stats
🔥
then people will go around saying like "havoc 40 is so easy lol" "havoc is easy now" "well yeah I cleared it at release and it was super hard" "I only could beat it once Infinilegendary dropped"
And you have to dismantle 5 infinilegandaries (0.3% drop after finishing a havoc mission) to get the materials for making ONE item of your choosing infinilegendary
vermintide style
mate, i'd trade you some of my plasteel for diamantine if i could
Please 
Just got on overwatch on malice smh
Not having played 2000 hours
we probably have much leftover from the days were it was worthless
Needing the party system for havoc is so ass
do you really want to do high level havoc with randos though
that seems like a recipe for disaster
If you aren't queuing with people you know its still randos
Either that or mobility
If you run mk2 I would dump mobility because it has an actual cleave move but yeah
Mk2 heavy 2 is a mostly horizontal swipe with decent cleave
And mk5 has the best dodges in the game out of any weapon
(But lower heavies damage than 4 and a similar style)
That last shot was just poor timin on my part
Can anyone help me I’m struggling to figure out how to make my build good?
best show your build and weapons you use with it
Depends on the weapon
Armor pen
Refer to path’s guide for specifics
Bolter
Can also just answer it
Has minimal supression
Typing out math on a phone keyboard sucks
Saying armor penetration was all I needed lol
If you mean determined, the objective answer is sometimes and it's heavily dependant on weapon and if you use exec stance.
In my subjective view: I never ever use it
Got a wackass build
I see
I say, let empra guide your shots in suppression
Suppression shakes your accuracy around
makes it very hard to hit shit
Like when an enemy hits me a bunch?
they don't need to hit you
They just gotta shoot at you
Like bf1
Yeah that's what I mean
Which is why when you see a gunner shooting at you, it's safe to disengage and shoot back so you dont return fire under suppression
Or the classic
Someone have a link to a good recon XII talent tree and ideal blessings etc?
Try onslaught 
I'm new AF, lvl 20 on my first toon, I don't even know what onslaught is yet honestly.
best node in the game
Pinned guide is your friend
For spam guns 
is that build in the 101 page document? been scroling thorugh that.
I did gather.
Yeah lol. Don't worry too much about it yet
i thought it was a man disguised as a woman
Just experiment and have fun
oh I will, but I like to have a jumping off point.
voice of command
Especially as it seems the XII may be a bit more build specific than my bolter.
That means it’s good on paper but reality hit you with brick
given crit and incendiary aspect.
A niche node that has dubious use cases while looking very good on paper
Spam fir guns can technically make use of it no?
High rate of fire for onslaught good
Vraks mk 5 and recon mk12 are the only guns for that node
And even then, not advisable
But I sure as hell dont wanna burn half a mag to even kill crusha
Exactly
You usually have better options
Shredda pistol 🥹
Apply debuff and engage in melee
Half your ammo gone to stagger a gunner 
😭😭😭
The mark 12 specific
True
I have been doing sly marbo wargear and could say it is not easy
I dont even think he has krak grenades 
What's a good veteran build for Havoc?
Sly Marbo build 
what's that
best build in the game
Shredder pistol and Mk1 Claw
I have a build for auric maelstrom
fuck you

I am not that dumb
Wym
It is literally sly marbo build
+2 wound curio and +3 stamina just to be more closer 

can someone please recommend a serious havoc build
DS + Plasma
Everyone who plays vet well enough to do deep havoc isn’t here
make sure you throw in VoC because why not
Why not infiltrate
because if you're doing infiltrate that's an entirely different build, lol
Havoc isn playable atm
if you want to use infiltrate use infiltrate, you asked for a build I gave you one
why?
This is a skill issue
9999errors and bugged progression
Oh that
That just means it’s inconsistently playable
And progression isn’t bugged to my knowledge, people just don’t read
Being inconsistant means it's kinda not playable in some sense?
Maybe I'm tripping but I've had like two games where I somehow still aggro'd an enemy in Infiltrate.
Yeah I’m just being annoying
Also bots steal health
Which twice isn't much considering I've had a lot of matches today, but still enough to make me like "wtf"
nothing is better than getting hit by a crusher overhead in infiltrate
Wildest fucking take I can say from Havoc and doing a Duo with @tall torrent
Smokes
Unironically are good
Barrel bomb bots 
That and Dreg Rager's lil merry-go-round of arm flailing
Me using Dclaw but ragers are ignoring me:
https://youtu.be/Ap0zu6i35vY?si=OvDPQKRHNx0jDp1v
Rashad + laspistol
Smokes
Unironically
How
Pull pin, release
I mean how this and not PS + Recon
Fair
Watch reaper obliterate your toughness bar in 0.3s and you get 100-0’d within 0.3s
What ability?
VoC
Is somehow balanced in havoc
Damn
Because of the insane ranged enemies’ damage
Bro is cooking
You can pop VoC and immediately get shot by 1 stalker burst and ur overtoughness is gone
Just as the founding fathers intended
Why is infiltrate not good
Since you can go invis
2 point extra cost + enemies have higher health so u don’t get to kill as many in low profile
Darktide vet in damnation:
Toughness: 200
Darktide vet in Havoc:
Toughness: 3
Can you send the skill tree for havoc plos
what are the marks for sapper shovel
HI there, is there anything i should change before going to try havoc ? im not a fan over the powersword, got a dualing word and shock maul i could use to. appreciate all tips : ) @tall torrent do you have any tips ?
like difference
Gotta say I think FS is just making vets more tabletop accurate in terms of durability
man if you wanna use infiltrate, use infiltrate
you don't need permission
No I like VoC
I was just curious
I play duo/trio so we always have bot for survivalist ammo gain
Fucking you don’t understand
Krak & smoke are different roles
I only played till havoc 12 so yeh idk
DS >>> PS, use that instead, I would also try to pick up one of the stamina regen delay reduction talents at the bottom left or bottom right of the tree but that's just me
can't stand playing without them
This mode is broken
Not like reaper already had insane HP damage modifier 
Nobody can fire that fast in reality
It’s meant to be hard
Reaper has high health damage but low toughness damage multiplier
This mode however cuts your total toughness
Anyways we found a work around for the “Pus Hardened Skin” modifier
Looks like I'm cooked
Use anything with Infernus
What's that
The value is fucking insane
Damn
Pus Hardened Skin is enemies have 50% Damage reduction to ranged attacks
Gunners and reapers with it
Infernus + Ghost Laspistol?
Are fucking nightmares
Does any dot help? Like bleed?
Make 2 laspistols
One with ghost + dum dum for regular play
One with ghost + infernus specifically for pus-hardened
Yes any
Flechette and Shredders are recommended
Pus-hardened reduces ranged damage taken
DOT is not ranged damage
Psyker I suggest Soulblaze
What point should i remove to get that Stamina regen delay?, wich mark for DS and perk,blessing
Cool, but what if Im melee vet 

You run smokes or krak depending on your role
But tbh
either of y'all try the double barrel out at all?
This is like the only mode in the game where smoke is legitimately one of the best things u can bring
Way too risky on higher waves
35+ Havoc
Ammo tins are reduced by 75% total ammo given
Glad smoke has a place now 🥹
ah damn, shame I didn't realize ammo got that scarce even with scav
Seems like veteran havoc meta is
Rashad
Laspistol
Infantry lasgun 7
Plasma gun
Recon lasgun
It why we’re recommending anything
Damn this looks surprisingly close to what an actual guardsman squad would use
With a laser
Shocktrooper has insane value on builds
Minus rashad, should be using combat blade or claw
Max rank is -75% gains from ammo pickups
Ammo tin goes from 15% of reserve to 3.75% of reserve
Nah
man I've been playing Rashad + Plasma + VoC for ages already, was kinda hoping the shotty builds would be viable all the way up
Axe is very common for imperial guard melee combat
Heavily depends on role
Heavy Sword 9 you could use
But you risk having no carapace option
Heavy sword 9 is really fucking good in a horde clear role
If ur teammates got carapace options u can basically murk everything else
Ok that was something I did not know 🥹
Rashad is love, Rashad is life
Rashad is the costlier multi purpose tool
There is no problem the Rashad cannot solve
Can it fix my tax filing for my tithes

Proper Rashad kit kills crushers & maulers in 3~4 hits (instead of 2~3) depending on crits in havoc scaling
like onetapping entire columns of ragers
Which is really fucking good in a mode where a duelling sword may take 5
give them the big bonk
Wait didnt know rashad can 1 shot ragers?
Thought it has kinda meh finesse for weakpoints
It can’t 1 shot ragers in havoc
Ragers have up to 3k health
Clearly someone was lying 
Rashad takes like 5 light atks for Dreg rager
At max scaling
If u crit / have PA mixed in it’s more like 4
For scab rager it’s 3~4 depending on crits & PA but scab rager has much higher mass so u only stagger one at a time
Would chainaxe hold up 🧐
Unlike Dreg rager where u can stagger 3 at a time
Me personally, I wouldn’t
isn't the overhead chop way better for scabs than light spam?
Welp one way to find out
The unfortunate reality is that there’re way more elite spawns than you’re probably used to
And Moebian 21st modifier is a thing
Im not used to anything 
I’ll put it this way
At max scaling
A single poxwalker has 4 mass
Your chainaxe heavy attack gets to hit 2 poxwalkers
And you’re done
that's a thick boy
Getting max headtaker & slaughterer stacks only allows u to hit 4
If u do not have brutal momentum or dedicated cleave blessings
You’re simply not cleaving shit
+9 stamina it is 
Nah
If you don’t build enough health
Getting hit by a single Poxburster/sniper instantly downs you in 1 hit
At max rank scaling
Man, will I finally have to turn try hard to even attempt to get to havoc 40
MILF: Man I love Frags
Did you already get to rank 40 or is this theory based on code or something else
Can I get a consise professional veteran build? I’m just not smart enough for all this man
If you're below lvl 30 you don't need a build yet
I’m already
I like the boltgun and recon lasgun but I don’t know which melee is the best
Boltgun is pretty good. Best melees are Dueling Sword, Power Sword Mk6 and Rashad Combat Axe.
But if you want a build, like actually something decent, then you need to max the mastery with a weapon so that you can pick the needed blessings for it yourself.
What blessings are good?
Depends on a weapon, a lot of them have different ones
For the dueling sword I can't say much because I don't have it built properly, but gimme a second to log into the game, I'll get the screens of the power sword and rashad
mass increase is the most boring thing
rashad ur way out of problems
what do we do with 250 crushers and maulers, rashad takes like x4 more time than DS

No?
Rashad is 3~4 hits vs crushers & maulers
FS making sure brutal momentum stays meta af
These auric maelstroms got me feeling real discouraged
Just try!
Send your build too btw, just weapons isn't good enough
Some of darktide's best moments are in the suffering incarnate modifiers
I despise the pus skin modifier. You enter a room and there's like 8 gunners, 3 snipers, 2-3 reapers and you can't properly kill from range half of them.
Smoke them out 
Rush them
How do I take a picture of my whole build?
1 reaper is enough to kill you in like 2 secondsw, fuck am I gonna do with several + gunner squad.
Best I can do is throw a nade, do 3 slides, shit myself and die
do it in parts if you cant
Infernus can kill them
Krak'em out
it seems to bypass/ ignore this
How do I max out all the 80s on weapons?
You can use this website too
darktide.gameslantern.com/build-editor
you cant
You can't. There will always be 20% missing in total.
one stat will be 60
Pus-hardened reduces ranged damage taken
DOT is not ranged damage
Doesn't help when I like running boltgun and plasma ,_,
But your weapons have all 80v
Look again, mobility 60.
it seems at one point it was
when Dumdum reacted with it
Run perpedincular at like a 70° angle, sprint slide chain into dodge slide, take ranged evasion talents, get gunner resist on curios.
you could get a permanent dumdum uptime as long as someone is burning
WTH boy 3 combat ability regen on curios
Block efficiency too
This is so hard man
soo when are we getting sniper scopes on the helbores?
Just make 3 screenshots of your screen each, going down the talent tree.
Preferably combine them in 1 long image in paint or something if you can
Never, empra decides if you will hit your shot guardsmen
You know what else could work? And it's somethin I've found I enjoy...
Shredder grenade and mercy killer.
you can get them if you are on PC via mod
Still sucks, zoom and tunnel vision is worse than the sightless irons that helbor has ngl
sir yes sir
Combat ability uptime is goat
It won’t even let me send pictures
It's really not. With stance you can have virtually unlimited upkeep in fights and at high difficulty you can enough elites to regen VoC and Infiltrate in like 5-10 seconds at times
The new Helbore skin has decent iron sights
Better than standard, anyway
Personally still prefer mk4 imo
I mean, same
Tan bore*
wdym
But that abyssmal bayonet attack...
True 😭
if you make them with prt scrn then try putting them with Ctrl + V
At least 2~3 shot cara fools and 1 shot everything😎
You know... I wonder...
You loose upkeep when reloading bolter and you have it ready for another go. Its also about showing badguys to the team, so they could focus groups of shooters. But i forget to take that node, did i?
Is the revolver really that op?
yes
probably the best vet gun
Meh. I think boltpistol better
Awww....
I thought equipping the new skin on the Mk4 Helbore might change it's bayonet attack, since it's a pokey bayonet and not a knife
It doesn't...
If it did explain the other helbor skins that use mk1 model
Also mk4 best model bc it has a nice wood grip and stock
Can someone send me a good revolver build?
Lasguns need cleave. Or any kind of buff, really. They are annoying to use.
For weapon specialist builds it is.
Are you an aim ace?
Not really but with practice I’m sure it couldn’t be hard
Oh, it masks them like that
With what game mechanic are you good exactly?
Lasguns need any sort of buff. They are obnoxious to use
It's so that you can mow down a bunch of elites having an easy time spotting them and having increased damage to have to make less double-taps.
I dont doubletap anything really becide ragers and ogryns
But they buffed gunners it seems, and it's not yet tested it
But before the update i onetap gunner in the head
No HP changes
Just effective range and movement while firing
And accompanying ai changes
Ragers could live through the headshot. Not for long tho
so what exactly is "havoc clearance level" 🤔
What rank are you at
👻
i thought it was gonna be super crazy but its not super bad
just kind of a little bit more amped auric maelstrom
Me never talking in party 🥹
Nonono I dont mean you, its my reaction 😭😭😭
this party finder system is super fucking ass
I think I need actual friends to play 
are you NA
NO
9999 error irl

What side is the melee side
Top 3 ranged weapons? (Personal preferences)
Weapon's expert? Right side
Although you don't need to go full right side for the pure melee build
75% goes in the middle, the last 25% are all over the place, with the keystone being Weapon's Expert
Of an overall build how essential are the weapon blessings?
If you want to do well in higher difficulty, it is a big boost.
Many of blessing can lead a weapon from 3-4 hits an enemy to 1-2 hits.
What would people think of Chink in their armour if instead of the flat 10% it was 4% rending per stack of MF? That way you could have 40% at 10 stacks and 60 at 15 if you take LRA.
I have max “stat” weapons, of a few kinds but I don’t know how to farm the desirable blessings.
I finished 2 auric maelstrom’s yesterday. So I must be decent right? 😂😂
That's a long answer
I know. It was more or less a joke
I’ve been able to finish all the content I’ve wanted to finish with the game. I just don’t really understand the weapon crafting system
Like, people can run auric mael with a knife and almost never use gun.
In my case, I almost never use the melee weapon
What are you using?
I was straight maining the plasma gun
Oh

I hate to say, but it sounds like you get carried...
Yeah...
I could very well be. I have 3 buddies I play with. They don’t seem to tell me I’m bad
No shame though, everyone gets that once in a while when they want to have some fun build.
What melee do you carry?
Shovel or chain sword
If you want a good all around, then Rashad Axe has your back
I think I have more or less copied the “team leader” build that is the most popular build on the build website
If you play with friends, you guys can giving tasks on who does what.
So it is easier to run some build.
But also, I’m reasonably good at all shooters.
I feel like being able to dodge and kill priority targets is universal in coop shooters and the more nuances of the game are required with randoms who are genuinely bad
If you play public games with random, you need to be self sufficient, which will not happen if you don't use melee 80% of the game.
Wrong chat sorry
But also, none of my friends seem to use their guns period.
Zealot, and Psyker
Almost no one ever uses ogryn
I also have 300 hours as just veteran
Maybe I should try another class..
Just try public games and you will find yourself a different experience
Yeah
I mean, a lot of hours doesn’t mean I’m good at the game though.
It's then you need blessings and other things to keep yourself alive
Most of my hours were in year 1 when you essentially gained nothing for playing past level 30
I don’t play this much anymore, but I’d like to try and play it more
But I also have 600 hours on verm 2, so I understand how to “play” these games
But I don’t understand the builds at all
Well, doesn't help that the build system between VT2 And DT are night and day
Essentially
And I’ve always played these games in a group. So I’ve never deviated from one or two classes
You might want to try randoms every now and then and get a feel for it, because schedules never line up. Most folks are friendly. Just don't look like you're actively hampering the team and you'll do fine
I tried to do 3 auric maelstroms the other day alone
And I had a terrible experience
But I’m pretty sure that most people who have very low hours on the game are just strolling into it
I may be bad, but the people I was being queued with were significantly worse
Get more melee practice in, because depending on the AM, you would burn through all your plasma ammo before you hit a third of the way through the map
I don’t quite literally only use the ranged weapon
I won’t shoot rank and file with the plasma rifle
But, I do spend a lot of time just shooting back line enemies
Even then, you will probably be taking care of the near endless waves of elites and specials
But also, so many randoms in pub just stand and eat machine gunners or shot gunners. Nobody breaks LOS. Shit like that which seems universally obvious to me is what I see a lot of people die to.
And aside from the psyker. It would seem pretty obvious that you can’t dodge bullets.
Not all blessings are made equal.
Uncanny strike is otherworldly strong
Could almost say that it's uncanny even
But yeah, the guns I like aren’t particularly that great anyway
Recon las gun seems incredibly mid
lmao no it's great
Poor performance vs flak is kinda damning
And I think I’m still living off the cope of the pre-nerf power sword
Just get power cycler 2
Multiple dead ragers from 100-0 per swing
4 empowered swings to kill a crusher
Still the strongest melee weapon in the game
Dueling sword is more overpowered than the og psword imo
And doesn’t the updated rager have the carapace armor now?
I will have to try
I'm iffy on that but yeah it's definitely a fight
I don’t play enough to have a strong version of every weapon
Bro imagine if relic blade had uncanny strike
Like the thing has no downsides it's insane that they gave it to everyone
Jesus
And I fall asleep playing anything below damnation
Real
I also got lost in the sauce with SM2 for awhile
I have a recon las gun build that will carry
You need to build it right
Could you DM it to me?
I’d be curious to take a look
It's a horribly unbalanced experience.
Heavy has the perfect closing tool and a built in delete button with the multi melta
Like especially the trinkets (forgot their name) but I just have 3 random ones.
I use the mods that let you use any weapon on any class
Get 17% toughness in all slots
Modded SM2 is the superior experience IMO
I believe I have 2 of them with toughness.
I run one health
I also have not attempted to mod darktide so I have no ability to gauge my performance match to match