#veteran-class
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Is that faster than the original?
considerably
Yes
Except WS helbore is a meme
@wardns i suck ass at the game please relay this to the devs!
So it’s rly more like 10%
yeah
the literally #1 change it needs is a massive swap speed decrease
U gotta remember that WS doesn’t work with helbore the way it should
and it becomes so much better
No like
Helbore itself cannot use both buffs
The 15% doesn’t exist

Hellbore swaps like a bolter its insane
wdym
WS is coded as weapon swap
It stacks from kill made while weapon in hand
U can’t activate melee specialist with a helbore in hand
oh true
cringe
So melee specialist’s +15%Matk speed is not there
yeah so with the 10%, is it faster or slower than old helbore?
I can't even remember if i grabbed the 10% with my helbore build
They reduced the attack speed of the bayonet, sounds harmless if you haven't played with this weapon, it literally breaks everything, in kill mode you can't kill mutants, you can't kill shieldmen while they're stunned because the bayonet is too slow, this nerf ruins all combinations, you can't kill bosses. I play with this weapon all day long, I have never felt so helpless, I literally have to take the Dueling Sword. And my skill with this weapon is very high, I've been playing with it since release.
Idk I’m too lazy to check
well
at least celerity stim affects it now
although you'd probably want to be shooting under celerity with helbore
does anyone have an old clip from pre-patch of just spamming the helbore stab into a boss?
Check pins on how to build the hell bore
Or use revolver

And speaking of vet and psyker buff

Vet buff missed the mark on all 7 changes
Psyker went from needing 50 nerfs to needing 80 nerfs
Ahhh you mad
Why’d I be mad
I don’t get mad anymore I’m just disappointed
I wish catch a breath was toughness regen instead of damage reduction
More so disappointed at vet buff 7/7 missing their mark
It is toughness gain
Did u read?
No
Let me look at it again
However veteran did get a good new thing
it has been toughness gain for years
Vostroyan veteran coat has better drip than Vostroyan zealot coat
Extremely rare for veteran cosmetic to look better than zealot cosmetic
But here we are
yeah the vet set is the winner
I know that i thought they changed catch a breath
When I saw the aquila at the bottom I knew we were in good hands
Simply peak
@tall torrent I’ve never really bothered checking if this is true
they changed it to be based off taking melee hits instead of distance
imo it's a pretty nice buff
But does Brittleness Bleed increase DOT like Rending Bleed
it’s the exact same mechanic of ADM boost
Or no completely different
i hate the zealot helmet lol what is this
Veteran helmet is so kino
I’ve skimmed sections smh
Besides at this point I may well wait on Steam Version also
I'm just happy that stuff like VoC somehow live c:
Wait 3 months
22 pages of semi outdated info
that means I don't need to change my build
Every month
I find a new reason
To delay it
So I can keep saying wait 3 months
Every month LMAO
I'm surprised you can tolerate the Steam "guide" format
State mandated Vet Guide delay
Darktide devs changing a variable by 0.1 to refuck the Vet guide
the guide has infinite scope creep and will be delayed until the end of time
Anyways I can retain some info just others will be in there and just
Instantly fucking vanish
I should still probably go over it anyways
Up to you I don’t really mind
I’m at like 45% completion
Anyways I gotta do that once I’m home again to force the info in my mind
Many melee weapons to go
Then enemies breakdown
Then curios
Then builds
Penances maybe
I’m kinda considering scrapping havoc stuff
Because there’s not much variety to veteran in havoc now
Your work is appreciated by the way path
With the new modifiers
I think new havoc is just power sword 24/7
It’s the best at confirming kills on elites
power sword? I'm surprised to hear that compared to stuff like Rashad
but I suppose I haven't really read the Havoc changes
Move speed doesn’t matter as much when spawn system is reworked to punish rushing
ah I'll need to read that in detail
Cleave stagger doesn’t matter as much with elite enraging mutator
ah true, better to go for the fastest kill times possible from what I understood
New havoc is not dps check
Probably smarter to just compress it and list why it’s so short
Basically TLDR
But it does check ur dps in being able to confirm kills
TLDR vet is a top 4 class, go play psyker or ogryn
also here are some more hats that inspired the various ones we see in Darktide.
I'm quite the fan of these Vostroyan folk
Ogryn out here putting 8 ragers into heavy stagger state per heavy sweep with Karsolas
Meanwhile vet takes 3x effort for 1/3 impact
Vet needs buff ;)
Vet tree rework 2027
dual power swords when?
But also having 2 would be sick
(I want dual weapons in general)
yippie :D
Exactly
at least the new mode seems fun (even if its too easy)
I need to try the funny fps killer Ogryn lol
It's really fun
"oops all grenades"
even if yeah it's too easy
That's just 'nadier vet taking more 'nadier stuff.
The lightning cloud smokes
with healing and grenade regen
and one hitting enemies affected with lightning
crying
Smiting plague ogryns down
man, colossus indulgence is a snooze fest
It's all the Zealot stuff.
Also, you can finally get full 7 wound buff now with it for Martyrdom Zealots, i think.
Colossus, Speedy Metabolism, and whatever is Corruption cleansing
Literally become unkillable
implying mortis is a mod where you get killed
Oh also In The Thick Of It
Am going in with exe stance mf
Literally free toughness when enemies are nearby LMAO
Catch a breath, if you just don't get hit... What is shooters?
Just sprint headfirst like a zealot into them.
COs you are just playing Zealot but better.'
I mean, the numbers are higher than the talents on Zealot even.
Also, HP regen?
So, about to dive in. What mods broke?
any vet in game rn?
someone said that gets hot was stealth nerfed trying to confirm
Just get the mod and check for urself
is vraksV still strong after leaving the columnus family?
Gets Hot!
Critical hit chance scales by your current heat level up to 27.5-50%. Also increases critical ranged attacks damage by 4-10%.
damn thats a pretty big nerf if true
BWAHAHA, the pinning treatment !
Yeah, hopefully it's just a typo. But fatshark has been known to do stealth nerfs
80% nerf let's goo!
I cant even get my game to load in.. mods are fucked this patch
Gonna go modless like every patch for the first few days
my mod list seems fine after updating
I can get to menu and do everything but if I try to spawn in to pskarium or mission or lobby it crashes
maybe its that mod that preloads the place
Dark cache ?
yup
psyk ward?
I dont have dark ccache installed
ok its most likely you need to update some of them
last time it was numeric ui not being updated crashing me
I remember when the devs said last update on the blog that veteran was supposed to get a new weapon this update. There is no new vet weapon, im malding. Been waiting for melta since the beta.
now its "this year"
if I remember correctly they never said "next update"
they said this year
They have up till midnight 31st Dec 2025 Swedish time to give us a new weapon.
I'm getting some errors at startup like DMF mod manager mod script require.lua medical crate.. but it appears I got it resolved. Thank you @wanton dawn ! MissionBrief is the one that was crashing it for me on load into map/lobby
Dunno what to do about these errors, but that seems typical for release day in this game.
Ahhhh gotcha, i must've heard what i wanted to hear lol
least it's better than verm 2 lol where 2 patch notes ago we got teased new weapons and now it's "Not this year" lol
yikes that must sting
i thought 4x80 + 60 was a god roll?
it's a rounding ui error
oh?
i wonder what the code is doing
like it isnt a world ender
just sorta funny?
oh god
ocd people are probably hard triggered by it 
it kinda itches me in a funny way too but meh
The disappointment when I see Vostroyan skin but the game gets stuck on "communicating with fatshark store" when buying aquilas 😢
the vet skin mogs the shit out of almost all skins
gotta say
huge W
ogryn got the update
The helbore skin is sick
Same as before
Surely not, 0.5 block window sounds awesome
It still has issues vs flak armor
Well aren't you the fun police
Were u talking about DC sword or heavy sword
Devil claw
I play via cloud streaming and I have 20ms latency to the server so 0.5 block window is a godsend lol! Was almost impossible to get it in 0.2
It's actually 1 short of it in live games. One of those 80s is a 79.5 which gets rounded down. The 61 is actually a 60.5 and also gets rounded down.
damn vostroyan skin look sick
wow 
crazy if true
Pretty sure live servers just round down. Is like why anything not 410+ for +3 stam is a lie. It's like 2.5-2.99. The tooltip/psykhanium rounds up. But live game rounds it down.
@tall torrent @wanton dawn So get's hot wasn't nerfed they just changed the wording

I'm a fan of the tall Vostroyan hat I'm debating a purchase
The non masked one for more mixing and matching
hsword is fine into flak ?
@tall torrent can you explain to me how the new catch a breath works? Is it based on not taking damage or having not melee targeting you?
it's meh vs flak, just hard to build breakpoints for elites on vet
any melee hit on u deactivates it for 5s (including blocking hit)
it looks like it got nerfed to me. anyone playing plasma and have some crit statistics?
Have you checked if this actually happens in the game? My friend said his buff didn't go away after getting hit in game but it worked normally in psykanium
might just be the icon being bugged but it looked like he was gaining toughness
damm id rather have it just on damage
actually maybe he got hit by something that wasn't melee
So I'm going to play some DT tonight. The new update seems to add more fun
I don't particularly care for a lot of details in the game, so if it's good for a veteran casual like me, it sounds like it's been a long time coming.
I mean, yeah, but as I wrote in zealot chat, when you play on damnation and get 4 bosses at the same time, and that doesnt feel like a challenge, then something is kinda wrong
I feel like you need to actively try to die on Mortis
I see. I suppose it balances out the near hell difficulty that is that came with the commissar. Still haven't beaten that once yet...
Havoc kinda forces a meta build on you
Full survivality or dont attempt
Ofc if you're really good player then you dont need to, but most, me included, arent, so yeah
I see 30+ havoc without shield psyker, I dont join lmao
Yeah, and this sounds like a fun bonus round. You can take the most meme load out possible?
I guess? I just find it awfully hard to imagine you can lose with healing grenades on vet, or 3 charges on shout
No
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@faint beacon @tall torrent would this be fine for mk knife on vet? Or should I put the point’s somewhere else
I can do another version where I take shredders and path into ws but then waste 3 points for serrated blade
I checked in-game it still goes up to 50% crit
Playing mortis made me realize how tired I am
my brother called this warframe
You showed him that clip
and he called it that
LMAO
i mean you cant see fuckin shit and youre winning anyway
indistinguishable from warframe
is that the nuke that kept going off in the clip
Perhaps
How's the new autopistol on Vet?
Needs more garish colors
Veteran is such a badass knocking over boss enemy with a shout sayin "Stand up and fight" I just love this guy so much
I don't mind number of enemies but then the maps feel claustrophobic
You don't really know whats going on sometimes
oh MAN I just had a really funny idea
exe stance fanning revolver in mortis trials
if you get death dealer imagine the comedy
we only get 1 new enemy so far the chaos spawn which was ported from VT since the game release
I wanna fight a mage shooting fire and lightning at me and show him the superiority of BULLETS
i have little to no hope that fs will ever add a new enemy.
When genestealers
Wrong:
- Twins/Budget twins
- Tox bombers
- Heavy gunner rework (sort of new)
- Flak rager rework to cara (new menace with different tactics required)
- Daemon host
- Scab captain
but that isn't just reskin enemy ? yeah i forgot about host being add later
I want new things to kill
The enemy Psyker could even be a mini boss like the captains
I would not describe tox bomber as a reskin
yeah i might make an unclear statement, the new enemy with new model
Tox bomber is a gloubadier from vt
Larries?
Still different from our friends the bombers
There was an incident in the Spanish community of vt2 related to a streamer
yeah i do miss the fat guy that can stun lock us and blightstromer
Since then hook rats are "Perchas" ane Globadiers are larry
Blight stormers always funny
can really mess u up if the horde lock u down and being surrounded
how long vt2 add the beastman since their launch anyway?
darktide is around 2 years now
I believe winds of magic released around a year and a half after VT2?
I don't remember exactly thoughb
if an enemy starts casting brainburst assail or smite on me im quiting the game
Doesn’t have to be like OUR Psykers
🚬 now hows being picky
I would give the Psyker teleport
?
Like the Twins’ one?
Or more like Daemonhost but to escape?
More like he would go in and out of warp
So Daemonhost
Yeah
But to run away like the cowards the heretics are
Maybe he would just summon thing from warp not even spam enemies but rather something like warp portal opening near you and some demon tentacle trying to hit you for example
You could go very creative with him
It would be cool if you could see just a little of "other side" of warp
https://imgur.com/a/F4VqAy8 these electric smokes are pretty great ngl
Or he would create a small warp zone around him that would change environment that you fight in idk just thinking
But I would like for him to be horror like
also the death dealer "crits don't cost ammo" lets you shoot even if you have 0 bullets
just like ogryn burst limiter override does
Yes that one it's crazy
On my vet it was great
It can also help you to check Crit ratio
and voltaic's instnat kill on shocked enemy works on bosses
which is especially funny with the electric smoke grenades shocking everything forever
almost compensates for literally none of the grenade talents (aside from the 20 second regen) being useful for smokes
almost
it doesn't on half of his guns
well they onyl have 6 of them that's not very many guns
it only works on bracing rippers, hipfiring hs and both modes on twin linked
I think
doesn't on kickback gg and rumbler
I had death dealer and the one that gives infinite ammo
Is there a full list of boons in mortis ?
Can't wait to bring my bolter to trails
so is autopistol any good now ?
Well +25% dmg is significant its propably still bad compared to other options on vet. But not giga terrible like before
New Gamemode basically Vampire survivor mode?
Finally a buff to my Sly Marbo build 
This Mf got an optic on his bolter?
yeah wb it
lovin the drip
this works a s a commissar really well
Hows the update treating us vets?
kill zone and catch a breath are good talents now
so that's neat
they only go away if you take health damage from a melee attack
I'll have to try those out.
No if you block one too
:(
Ew.
So any melee hit cancels them? Blocked or toughness dmg as well?
Yes
I get toughness dmg, that sorta makes sense, but blocking should probably not count as "being hit"
It sucks its still a like A tier talent tho
They stop if you lose toughness as well from melee hits. At least when I messed with it. Gunfire is the only thing it powers through.
For sniper-like builds I'd probably consider them still, dodging is the main survival tool anyway
Or maximum pew with recon.
But there's so many good nodes further down, it's still a hard case to make
CaB btw, I don't use the other.
Fellas does anyone have a hellbore build on their hands? Wanted to try out an actual hellbore build lately
Are there twitch rewards for darktide rn?
Yup
I just push spam a lot to keep Catch and Killteam up
Holy dripsauce 
If you like a garish blue purple psyker set.
I want armored psyker :c
One of my favorite parts about 40k drip are that psykers can and do use heavy armor 😔
Real
It's less armored than the penance set. Unless you count leather caps as more armored than cloth hoods.
+400 :)
Yeah :c just wish stuff was more like the commissary armor where you get some plating
I just hate the colors.
should i focus on impact or charge dmg blessing for shovel ?
Such is life as a psyker seeking armored drip
just put a helmet on 
bad ass af
Phew, tried new havoc
Current 30 is harder than previous 40
Holy moly I like it
I don't like the derank tho... But holy it is fun
Nu, hoods.
"Oops all healers"
I hate the ritual one the most tho
People just push forward making the deamonhost spawn faster instead of hanging back and clearing everything first
Me without a single Paid Cosmetic:
he who has nothing can still give his life for the emperor
is hellbore bad?
Nothing is bad
The only thing that changes is the amount of time you have to hit them
Its not about is helbore bad, its about are you good enough for it
It's one of the greatest ranged weapons in the game
Hidden behind slow draw speed and Crit/Weakspot damage
I guess shock maul and the shotguns (besides double barrel) aren't great rn but everything else is godo
And that fuckin charge that I hate
Unless you get the Vostroyan or Krieg Helbore skins
P2W irons
Drop 10%rending for weapon specialist or the 5% crit for focus target but if you go focus target you'll want 1 or 2 of its nodes as well
get demo team somehow
I guess I'd drop 10% melee attack speed and 25% toughness for demo team & focus target. If you got a slow weapon (powersword etc) you might want weapon specialist.. but taking points of attack speed won't do that 😉
Under shredder go right instead of left node
Which mod lets you see others loadouts? 
Close Order Drill and Confirmed Kill are so good though
Any notable updates for builds?
o4b supremacy 💪
ET crying quietly in the background
ET shares the a landfill with the game of the same name
If Longshot wasn't dogshit it'd at least have a chance
catch a breath over GBITF
depends on what melee u have
kind of
but rashad wants right side stuff
o4b is stronger if you run something like rashad
for a pretty long while rashad was better in most things
but given havoc's current design, power sword pulls ahead
LOL no
soooo.... yes?
good or bad, it sounds like someone snapped their underwear elastic while drowning in a metal fish barrel....
don't ask why I have a reference for that sound, it just does....
that's not an adjective
It's a bust of the nut
sounds painful. You should go to a doctor
Not bad there's just much better choices, like Bolter, Plasma, Infantry Autogun
Recon Las too obviously
I don't even think I wanna host even if I bother. Healing rituals.
Healing one is not as bad as it sounds really
As long as you're not playing anything that is good at cleaving but sucks at 1 target
helbore is very strong in the right situation, just hard to play
and lacks flexibility
Yes, but see the latter part.
Honestly if there's no Enraging Elites
It's better
That's the hardest modifier
Enraging + Ritual is probably the most pain to me
The idea is good I just think that the execution is a little flawed
You can't just add rituals while you also add a chance for a weakened boss, a normal boss trigger near and the possibility of twins/scab captain appearing as well in the same trigger
Also it's the amount of ritualists for each deamon host
IT'S 8!!!
Too much basically. And they are all sponges.
Oh I didn't check them
Bolter/ knife speed vet still possible on high LVL havoc should I take reload node?
Morrow is really tall lol
Knife/Duelling Sword/Powersword are your only real 3 options in havoc
So yes knife works
I use it myself cuz I like speed on my vet
And Bolter?
Bolter is good, but I don't really know how to build around it
I exclusively use plasma on havoc
I also see lots of Recon
Bolter you want puncture for sure and either surgical or pinning fire
It has decent ammo economy if you can reliably hit the headshot, it melts bosses
Yeah, good for new havoc that throws 99999 bosses ar you
Instead of just 6 at max rank
Yeah its worth having someone specifically gear for unyielding now
Taking bolter you really only give up a perk slot and 1 talent point to bring it to near max
Puncture I have I did use surgical before
I'll defenitely be equipping my zealot with bolter that uses unyielding
Surgical helps make sure you drop all gunners in a crit headshot + a follow up. I actually need to test if the new kill zone is reliable enough to get back to 1shot breakpoints
And try to change my talents for the 2 nodes that gives you massive dmg Boost against thay
This honestly will never not be fun, especially with most modifiers wanting you to not really just spam fire anymore
Should be able to 1 mag the special monstrosity 
Pfff yeah
And what about reload time I usually just find space to safely reload with speedy vet it's not a problem most of the time
I use VoC also
Casual Lasweapons W
Your team should kinda have you covered but otherwise slide spam
Ty
What do you guys think is the enemy the Canon Veteran would hate the most,
?
My money’s on Bulwark
Cause they block shots
Or the Rager
That forces them in melee combat
Just throw 2 frags.
Nah I keep the anti-heavy grenade
Rest I can manage but Ogryns?
Pure hate
That’s why I usually leave them to allies
I just snipe specialists and annoyances
Once I blew up a tank, that blew up a poxburster, that blew up some Shotgunners
Was epic
I let others deal with them or just stab with knoife.
I usually dodge, special, step back
lore wise probably the other "veterans" or guardsman like the moebian scions or snipers
Moebiand have Scions?
But yeah most likely the guards
elites have the scion helmet and hotshot lasguns
Sorry Wich ones are the elites?
You mean Gunenrs and Shotgunenrs?
Fair
Didn’t know they were Scions
it doesnt explicitly say they are, but they're based on them
with the same gear and similar armor but moebian themed
do mods work yet
some got updated tho like scoreboard and numeric ui
They’re not
Scions have carapace armor
These guys wear flak
They’re at best grenadier-adjacent
which gun is absolutely stupid good when given full auto?
God imagine full carapace gunner firing line strafing around
I guess laspistols and the blue lasgun variant. Otherwise everything else is already full auto or doesn't need it
That just made me realize there's no normal pistol in the game. Any not comedically big handguns in 40k?
That sounds amazing. I'd love to try the graia braced and the recons
Ooh Bolter if you handle the recoil
Bring the bolter back to when exe stance reloaded your weapon. But better
Boltgun
Didn't know that was an indulgence. Can't wait to try that lol
That means you can keep weapon specialist fire rate for a long time since you can hold the trigger down the whole time 
crash out of server in havoc game, try to reconnect, game crashes. Fatshark pls.
Ah there
Stormtroopers so
@tall torrent did you see what I @ you at?
Yeah it was way too piss easy
What is your build support ?
I'll show you later, doing rogue trader for like the next hour then gotta go to snooze for work
Sure ! Have fun !
But TLDR: Toughness sharing for team + Increased toughness regen + new node for regen on no melee damage
That effectively makes you a walking psyker bubble so long as you don't skill issue in melee
It made things laughably easy for me
i'm gonna be so for real right now, ogryn is so op there's no point in playing if you get one with a frag bomb on your team in trials
Oh are you constantly "regening" toughness while at full?
Infinite double nukes or Infinite insta boss kill rocks
nukes
everything dies immediately
and when i get at least 3 enemies to myself, fuckers shoot it with a shotgun
AND on top of it all, i got the electricity archetype
The 5%chance to kill a shocked target also exists. The instakill things are fine for this silly mode I guess but I hope they don't bring them anywhere else
see, i don't know if it's good or not
because i never got to do anything
I EXCLAIM HAPPINESS AT NOT PLAYING WITH 3 OGRYNS AND THEN THE GAME CRASHES
Yeap
Silly
No
Where ? 👀
Great to know pubs in even mid havocs are now impossible to win because players cant even survive 5 minutes
@tall torrent it was this
Open Darktide
Go to character select screen
Select veteran
Press X
Hold confirm

Be nice to me
I could spend 3 on serrated blade
U could also delete ur veteran unironically
And psyker too
What even are those builds
Me when I want mk vet
mercy killer is not strong enough to warrant serrated blade
Also I’m remaking it you big
FAT
ABHORRENT
meanie
tbf trials are easily winnable with every class
but yes, ogryns clear time is pretty unmatched
literally using anything other than death dealer archetype is equivalent to stabbing shards of glass into yourself
so when i'm trying to gather some semblence of having my build not feel like shit (because i'm running autopistol with kraks and exe stance), getting super good builds on teammates hurts extra
Death Dealer is good for like
WS Vet/Glugger/Gunker
like its genuinely good for those three

Infinite double healing ogryn nukes seem pretty balanced 
i love having infinite plasma shots.
On god, they kinda need to buff this blessing
I'm defenitely not a hidden zealot player that wants more powercreep 😇
bruh
I can help u
Where can I put these other 2 points?
I blocked celine so I can't queue into them sorry
(Also I love path I mean none of this seriously)
why do u go survivalist for this build
I mean, the first 3 waves being Sedition-level with Damnation hp is pretty snooze. Like, a couple of gunners doesn't feel remotely interesting.
Start the match on what wave 9 is and go up from there.
Because you go through SO MUCH double shotty ammo.
Fully Loaded and Superiority Complex.
Like every couple melee kills ends up being an assured crit with a double barrel. So you're swapping it in constantly for a single shot that gets refilled
nah it's not that ammo hungry
No agile engagement rip
When I run it, I do.
This is quite literally the same build I have for my double barrel and it works wonders.
can't think of a reason to run survivalist for it outside of havoc or CIVI
too much ammo on the map alrdy
Too much investment for that node unfortunately :c
Unfortunately yeah, but it's pretty good
It's real good if you're going Infiltrate though.
I'd say just go on the right side of the tree instead
Survivalist (like Path said) is pretty overkill
Though I do also aim to be mostly ammo drop agnostic.
Like I feel bad taking more than 1-2 big bags a map
Issue is that going right side means you also have to take smokes.
Only reason you'd run out of ammo is if you die and get revived and get stuck in the same spot for 5 mins
And shredders have insane synergy with flechette.
no? just take krak
Kraks are bad.
Kraks actually make sense in that build for extra monster damage and telling bulwarks to fuck right off.
More so than other builds anyhow
I dunno. When I run this, combat knife and shredders do the job just fine. I always feel really limited when I try kraks.
Only time I even consider them as something worth using is for like
Beasts of Nurgle.
I prefer shredders, totally
And that's it.
I literally never took smokes after the penances anyways
Any monster feels good to throw them at. To me double shotty feels bad to shoot at monsters.
So yeah I’ll just go for kraks
Knife can do some work on them.
How I run WS Vet
But it's nice to just unload on them and move right along.
No need for Infil or Kraks
That's my other double shotty build.
I’d prob take fire team but meh
almost to a tee
are u saying that because ur a havoc-only player or are u saying that because u simply don't like them
I'm not a Havoc-only player.
It's just annoying when I throw a krak at a reasonable situation.
And then some dude with a dueling sword completely trivializes said situation.
Monsters and bulwarks?
That’s less of a krak issue and more of a dueling sword needs nerfs issue
It's really more that kraks just don't hold up atm because of how slow the detonate time is.
If they just made that faster, they'd be so much better.
Hell, make them impacts.
They're still not gonna be the best grenade for general use even then.
don't rely on krak for smth within poking distance, idk
I still think swapping damage on the ds4 to the ds5 would do a lot. It's slower on heavies, so not nearly as spammable.
No. It's just annoying that the current meta kinda invalidates using them a lot of the time.
I've toyed with the 5 and it feels much better into armor. Takes a couple extra hits to kill crushers.
Isn't just a poit poit
It's like, why would I take this thing when I might not even be able to use it?
And it's not an every game basis.
Of course not but, it's enough that it just makes the blitz feel... not great a lot of the time.
reason kraks arent good is theyre for like only crushers or bulwarks and it only kills 1 maybe 2
Didn’t really know what else to pick and it’s good
And again, detonate time is just so slow that even if you try to throw it at something at a distance, someone could just end up obliterating what you tried to kill anyway.
If they just shortened that, I think kraks would be in a much better spot.
u only rly need survivalist for like 2~3 guns outside of havoc / CIVI
Yeah that wouldn’t be terrible
You'd be surprised how much that 15% Elite damage actually helps since they're the beefiest things you have to worry about usually.
doesn't matter that much for DB breakpoint
It matters with the bleed.
which enemy
doesnt really matter vet auras are useless
there're some weapons that benefit from superiority complex in breakpoints, but that's not a long list
Anything. Because the bleed can let you basically ignore the breakpoints with the lingering damage, especially if you're constantly proccing it.
Really, the one thing about that build I'd say. You might wanna trade Riposte for Flesh Tearer to really max out the bleed potential.
Especially since if you're really fast about swapping, you can get your melee kills, switch, shoot, proc bleed on a crusher and abuse your Uncanny to do some really heavy damage with just the bleed alone.
How would you build it?
agile engagement does more than superiority complex in this case
instead of survivalist get tinkerer and fire team
ur looking at a gun with basically lowest talent dependency
with a melee that has very high talent dependency
also you'll have an extra point left over you can put into the toughness regen thing under frag
wait u wont have extra nvm
wait you will have extra
Yup i was hoping to path to it
last 3 points into either
ammo + superiority complex + stam regen delay
or
CQKZ + stam regen delay + fire team
But I wanted shedder and catch a breath
also take out precision strikes like wtf is that
keep shredder
more stabby stabby shooty damage!
Better off with Invigorated if you want stabby stabby!
Huh?
Precision Strike is like 2 wasted points on that build. Ngl.
whuh? why is precision strikes bad in this case
precision strikes on shotgun is trolling
it's the knife though.
Dont need it
knife good
Knife does mad damage alone without it
Knife has insane weak spot damage and that gets boosted way up by Precision Strikes.
It's one of the best weapons with that specific talent.
2 points to get it which is bad though
If you want mad dmg, get serrated and chuck on Mercy Killer
no stam regen delay node for knife is kind of crazy lol
Mad damage on knife is shredder and uncanny lol
yeah I was just using what he had
I would get desperado and the .25 node on the right
but id have to take close quarter killzone 🤮
Just run 3 stam curios hue
its about the regen not the total stma
Or Invigorated and run the block poke meta
knife's dps is pretty dependent on stam regen delay
For db?
it's good tho
cuz it's not as good
Because stamina delay affects your regen at all times, and significantly so.
knife max dps is PA spam
PERSONALLY. I don't feel the need for it myself. But I get why it's a top pick with the knife.
Mk6 push attacks are bonkers.
Still saving a whole point. Than the delay
It's not that required.
What’s ur perks and blessings for knife
I never did switch my vet knife to 6. It's 6 on vet and psyker though
I would 100% recommend switching it on Vet.
Especially since it's also a lot better for horde clear, which Vet particularly benefits from.
You still have great single target with push attacks.
I just like the movement on the charged heavy on the mk3
Probably, just never messed with it.
It does but it's a vanguard cleave for the first in the chain.
Which honestly, is not a bad thing.
Nope, but it does have its own move tech. Mostly Heavy block cancel depending on the anim
or moveset of the combo
...What? You still have the forward momentum with the heavies with the Mk6.
approx same movement as mk3
It's virtually the same thing.
Tad slower but still good
u can say it's technically slower
if u can sprint 156m+ without running out of stamina and sprinting in a straight line with perfectly timed heavy atks
Mobility is dump stat ye?
If it's slower, it's so marginal that it basically doesn't matter.
A MK3 Lunger is still faster than a MK6 Move Tech artist. But a tad is just marginal.
You're still a speed fiend with either or.
nah, tested
they're the same speed for all practical distances
Movement speed don’t mean shit if skirmisher is anti movement tech
From PSykanium or field operated?
the reason mk3 is "technically faster" is not even really faster
I hate that the talent is so my playstyle but clunky to use
it's because mk3 has slower atk speed with heavy atks
u get to hold heavy atk longer
if you can tell the difference between mk3 and mk6 movement speed, you are some kind of alien creature
mk6 comparatively holds shorter due to having higher atk speed (and better dps lol)
It depends on release timing too.
Mfs built different
It does -feel- a bit slower to me, but it really doesn't amount to anything.
it's not even 1-2m less
Builds up overtime in a race perhap. Then we account for latency.
it's so small of a difference that the exact scenario of mk3 being measurably faster is not available in the game
move speed curve whenever u turn and this affects things
so has to be straight line
Pretty much what I mentioned.
I think the only scenario where this would even matter.
Is if you were like playing solo and completely breaking the game by outrunning everything.
not even enclavum bridge is that long lol
still doesn't matter for speedrunning because move speed curve
and mk3 is only "faster" by attacking slower
Then yeah like, there really isn't a difference that's actually measurable.
Like if it's that marginal that 99.9% of the time, it's not even an applicable difference, it might as well not exist.
Yeah.
Or rather... 100%. Because if you're getting bogged down by enemies, you'll never run a distance where it matters, ever.
I guess it comes down to, the two fastests runners and which one bites the dust
Who abuses move tech better. Not the knife marks.
Knife marks has advatanges.
mk3 is simpler, mk6 is better
I think. There's one case where the mk3 can shine better.
Stealth builds. Because of the opening heavy and how backstab damage is applied specifically for the combat knives.
And stealth lets you get backstabs a lot easier.
I kinda liked 3 on zealot charge because it felt more consistent. The 6s charge heavy just didn't do it for me.
But for most situations, I've come to prefer 6.
Not for Vet at least. I know Shroudfield can result in some absurd numbers. But Infiltrate doesn't have a damage multiplier like Shroudfield does.
doesn't matter for shroudfield breakpoint
same exact 1 taps
I don't really care about knife lunge tech on zealot when you have a billion stamina and sprint speed already
plus relic blade exists
Ngl, knife on zealot is like the easiest thing to do known to man. Doing it on Psyker and Vet seems more satisfying.
I mean relic blade can m1 until everything without carapace is dead
hot take. I feel like I perform better with the knife on vet than the the dueling sword.
even on havoc
Knife with the right blessings can do it all. Dueling sword always feels kind of lacking for horde clear for me.
the best horde clear is infinite cleave plasma 
plasma is not infinite cleave
I know the numbers don't line up but maybe it's just how I play that affects this as well since I try to lean on maxxing out bleed damage as much as possible.
I'm pretty sure I've seen plasma do 20 headshots in a line for the penance before
that's still not infinite
plasma hipfire cleave is 50
Not infinite. Just absurdly high.
50 is 5 scab maulers/ragers
20 bodies and through walls is plenty of cleave
Like if you're hitting trash, it's virtually unnoticeable.
It basically is shooting malice hordes.
there're specific things with infinite cleave
you can stand at airlocks with stance up and kill the whole next room 
I haven't screwed with it on high havoc but I've never had any issues with auric maels
Even “infinite cleave” is not technically infinite cleave lol
There’s a hard limit on how many enemies can be struck by a single atk in this game
so is shredder autopistol good now
always has been
I need an excuse to switch off run and gun pistol zealot
its not a kill every enemy type, its an anti maniac/utility ranged weapon
It was never really bad. People just always knocked it as bad because it's not good against armor.
Maniacs and unyielding? Very good though.
Just use a melee weapon that is good for armor and you're set.
Not every weapon has to do it all.
Exactly
I just wish it also had stripped down
so I could take 9 stamina and never drop below ranged immunity
If anything, it's probably one of the best boss killing weapons as of now with the finesse multiplier changes.
Just spray away at the weak spot and watch it melt.
Oh yeah. I saw a snippet of someone testing that in the psykanium. It was beautiful.
Honestly, I feel it would pop off with weapon specialist too with the heightened movement speed curve and sprint to fire.
Lets you keep a really good momentum switching from melee to ranged.
we talking about shredders.. for real for real?
or is this like "lawbringer shotgun is awesome" for real
I mean the autopistol got a buff. It was actually a pretty good buff.
yeah I didn't try it yet... fighting mods most of yesterday. do you combo it with psword or ds4 or what
It probably isn't going to be like, game changing. But the weapon was never that bad to begin with. Again, people just always knocked it because it's bad against armor but that's a circumventable issue.
I like hipfire run & gun types personally. one reason I like recon and plasma cause u can hipfire them quick
not gonna mention the Z word
I haven't tried it in full application. But I have used it in the psykanium with a combat knife testing it out against certain mobs.
It actually feels really good to shoot.
shit I gotta take off my russian black hat and put on the beta hat if Im gonna use the shredder tho
there's definitely a lot of negative reinforcement when you take autopistol and get wiped by a crusher/mauler pack tbf
Only thing is, flak and carapace. Might as well not.
I could see that putting some people off yeah
Well yeah. Because it's not meant for that.
ohh.. its (still) bad against flak? thats not great 😉
at least you can kneecap maulers, right?
Well, it's not as bad. The finesse multiplier helps.
+specialist +flak ?
But you should avoid it if you can because it still does feel underwhelming
But anything that's flesh will just melt.
I'll give it a try! I gotta do the stupid mastery penance anyway. Might as well craft like 20 or 30 shredders for fodder to make hadron happy
do you guys think fatshark will remember that veteran is a class in the game, too
I mean, we got some... questionable buffs so... MAYBE?
The one thing I hope, is that they give the tree a touch up like they did Ogryn.
Just let any blitz link into any side of the tree.
There are so many build possibilities that are neutered by the way the tree's pathed.
no
Hell just do that for all of the classes. Build variety is better for the game's longevity.
People were saying gets hot wasnt actually nerfed, but I dont trust fatshark. Anyone using plasma, recording crit%? Or know where to look in the source scode?
Why are we bitching they gotta fix zealot tree first we'll be fine until then
Also, lemme just rephrase for the autopistol.
If you're hitting weakspots, it can shred flak too now.
.... are you a mk1 shovel gremlin or some other shovel gremlin
If it wasn't 50% before it never was following this change
I saw that, but I don't believe them. Game companies always fuck up this kind of thing or sneak nerf in wide changes like this
thats right. heavy bonks are the way.
As long as you know the push attack is actually really damn strong and you know how to chain it, you'll be just fine for crushers.
Eh, dont u just special stagger them
How do I know skullcrusher is worth it over decimator
Depends how much you’re not swinging at air
Because decimator-
Yeah.
And sometimes, your teammates will actively be the reason why you can't take as much advantage of it.
Someone recommend a mod that tracks debuffs but then its been broken for stagger since months, no updates. So dunno how to actually know skullcrusher is doing diddly squat. Maybe if I put in a lot of time in testing and record damages but meh
While skullcrusher, your teammates can effectively raise your DPS significantly.
Oh I see, so teammate staggers are the key concept
And yours. Any staggered enemies take way more damage.
I was thinking I dont stagger a lot with special.
Most of the time if I'm using shovel its cause I'm memeing with recon-onslaught or some other stupid spec
Gotta combo them with the special rather than only using the special
^
Build up impact
And also intertwine pushing. Uncanny helps a lot in that regard as well.
I'm pretty shit at push attacks. I can do them but I'm really shit at managing stamina then.
Do you use any stamina curios?
I use a +3 stamina curio and a +1 from top middle usually
Might wanna consider either giving yourself a second or even third, or taking a stamina regen delay node.
Gets Hot! isn't broken
( I value 33% toughness damage reduction + 1 stamina over +25% draw speed significantly)
Vet can be pretty loaded with toughness without any curios at all.
50%? it said it went from 10-someting-50% to 10% flat
yeah and it's because of how the data reads
Thanks. I haven't used plasma in a few months .. good to hear its still really strong
You shut your mouth!
It's... kind of in a league of its own.
There's a few weapons that are stronger in the game!
Probably
I'm sure those filthy space wizards have a fire staff or something
Yeah. And those weapons are problems for their particular classes in their own right.
From what I hear zerona zealots still, nerf zerona!
zarona been power crept in mortis and havoc
I mean it's still amazing for general use though.
But yeah it isn't nearly as prominent as it used to be.
Especially with people learning how powerful bolter can be on Zealot and utilizing the knife tech.
Don’t ask path about my reading comprehension
What perks got touched again?
Kill team and catch a breath?
Kill Zone and CaB
They are good, in firefights.
SERRATED
You gotta god dodge any melee.
MY BLEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blocks still break them.
+1 stack. So, gud?
maybe if you're using mk3 knife + lcerate lol
or taxe mk4 light spam
idk if it's worth on anything else
I have it on my blu knoife build since mercykiller.
small question: did the buff to the shredder gun did something good for the gun?
Yes. It kills things it can kill faster.
Most impressive stuff so far is dealing 60k damage to unyielding in one mag
that sounds like it is still kinda sh!tty
Naw. Just don't shoot crushers.
makes sense
which build can make out the most from not target by melee talent build ?
Any suggestions to make a build using it (the shredder gun)?
