#veteran-class
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I wish they nerfed the numbers on those like they did with arby.
2500 kills is hell.
Part of me may try to use recon and just get 15 stacks and sit there unloading.
Doesn't help atm that I'm getting the dumbest teams tonight
No, do not do 15 stacks.
I like veteran but after playing arbitrator all of these classes need a rework, they should not feel this weak.
Not worth.
Ogryn doesn't
Figured 15 gives me space to move
Psykers still okay.
Psyker doesn't need much either tbh
Vet is next on rework
Is max stacks. You take 15, you need 15 to get kill credit.
Arbitrator can walk on flame grenade i touched it as vet with full toughness and health and went down instantly
It says 10 or more but I guess it lies
Camouflage node, stay crouched. Profit
Don't use recon with mmf outside of farming penance please.
Very little benefit
Is why ppl just say crabwalk simulator.
I played veteran earlier in the game when it released then took a massive break, like a year long break and it felt way stronger then than it does now.
I'm not. I use it on my havoc build
For make every shot count mission i recommend revolver with all ammo boost and regen perks removed on the train map and shooting into hordes
I did it today
Double Barrel 
I did archivum for mine. Shot crushers. XD
No need to aim
I count every time to minmax.
Oh yeah, did you manage on overwatch?
True but you have to shoot more, the quicker u can get rid of bullets and use melee then beat the mission the better usually
Still lets you shoot hordes.
I ran out of ammo halfway through, wasn't an issue 
Yup. Overwatcha nd the accuracy one done
MMF is just a boring chore.
Hmm autogun or recon if I'm doing the crabwalk?
Yeah it is.
Anything with accuracy and tons of bullets.
Unless you actually enjoy mmf. Like me
I tried both, recon just has way more ammo with shock trooper
WS only. FT might work now after doggo.
Vraks IAG feels really nice to use with MMF though
After playing with it it just feels unreliable unless I'm doing something like helbore
Keeping stacks is the biggest hurdle
Yeah, at that point I rather use FT
I haven't found out yet who I need to bribe to rework mmf ahead of time
Most pain in the ass keystone of all
Am I missing something or is the shovel's special attack hilariously pointless?
Which shovel
Well on the mk1 it has great stagger and on the folding shovels it can one shot a crusher
The sapper.
Hmmmm...
Mk 1 is poke rager heds for funni.
Mk 3 and 7 is crack armored.
Oh I think my game's UI bugged when testing it out in the Psykanium.
I thought I swapped from the mk1 to the mk3 but I didn't.
I like the mk3 special.
This is fun.
do i need +2 stam on melee weapon
Mk3 is better than mk 7 personally.
Mk7 tries to be mk 1 and mk 3 but it does both worse.
Only just started a veteran so I haven't got the mk7 unlocked yet but the mk3 is very fun.
I only wish it's attack patterns weren't so brainless.
Mk 1 is purely for horde cc, mk 3 is focused on killing crushers and arnoured.
what if i need a horde control weapon ?
2 fold heavy to kill auric crushers.
0o0
Try skullcrusher and decimator. Cara flak.
I am intrigued.
Don't need uncanny.
It's always skullcrusher lmao.
also is better to go %25 flak and cara or %25 unarmoured and cara
Just hit heads.
As a weapon perk? No, not worth it
Imo flak is generally not an issue.
I prefer flak to ensure deletion of every special and gunners in 1 fold heavy.
Go with theirs.
okah
There's a reason why I'm giving an opinion.
You can try it out to see your preference.
But the shovel kinda sucks at unyielding anyway so I don't think is worth.
Can one shot them with thrust + cara 
Yes, but then you have thrust.
I regret nothing (my horde clear sucks)
I'm generally offering a more general one where you can still clear hordes because deci.
when should i start a new class ?
When you want to.
ok then
I levelled up all my classes at the same time
You can have up to 8 characters.
I don't understand decimator, I put it on my shovel and it doesn't kill every 10th man in a platoon
xD
does devil claw sword special can counter boss attack?
Uncanny is just pointless on shovel since no real bonus breakpoints from my tests.
Most, yes.
Am I too Roman to understand these barbaric blessings?
But some it does not. I believe it's overheads that can't be parried? Not super sure.
Just bonk more.
You can. Need perfect parry.
Yes
But I don't know what you need to be to understand Fatsharks descriptions
So 0.3 sec before it hits.
Some are just straight up wrong
Oh that's very learnable.
so how you guys feel DC after the buff?
and why so many impact blessings on a sword
Does impact affect the parry stagger?
Oh any tips for ways to get Adept Assassin completed?
Still has bad horde clear, still struggles with armour
Not really, you just play WS as intended and aim for heads
What's DC again?
Ah, that and heavy sword I never really liked
Every weapon should just be replaced with the Relic Blade. 😃
Lol
Needs more buffs, mostly to flak cara adms.
is it normal to see someone solo a daemon host
Normal no
But it happens from time to time
There some silly builds with thammers, rumblers etc
still have no idea what to do if deaemonhost wakes up
Run and cry
Kill it if there aren't many enemies about
If it's on you
You shouldn't actually run unless you need to buy the team time to clean up. Block 3 attacks then dodge. If you run and dodge desperately, it's very hard to hit the damn thing
should i do psyker or zealot next
what about the door
Hard to setup
Anything you can ring around works.
Do u know anything about steam guide formatting
"Soon TM"
Shut it on them. Funni.
yeah but its a pain in the arse
Good
You’re gonna be exclusively using that for the guide
There's already new lines of code in the files for zealot (speculation) talents
Get ready to [b][/b] a lot
@tall torrent You gonna add that Deci/skull works on mk3 as well?
It's basically the same breakpoints as uncanny.
Speaking about shovels - what would be the roll on Mk7, if paired with Plasma/Boltgun? Skullcrusher + Deci, Flak + Maniac, Defense dump?
CC it, utilize the stagger to kill it, juke it around
Also don't try to block it's blows while holding a grenade
I've found that doesn't work
hold block and dodge it's attacks
Ideally you go into psykanium and learn it's attacks, dh's comboes are pretty simple
When it stops attacking, you get your dodges back
shocked, honestly
i dno't have the mod ðŸ˜
Best weapons for Havoc besides plasma and dueling sword?
Revolver is pretty amazing
Recon, knife. Boltgun may work. PSword and CSword have potentials but imo risky. I am still testing Mk3 and Mk7 shovels
Recon is good in havoc?
Isit now, tell me more
The projectile for the revolver feels almost as big as the plasmas, go play around with it in meatgrinder
Best for vet rn is technically helbore but it’s not for everyone
Recon is always easy tho
Yup. 9/10 Helbore vets suck
I haven’t played too much with Helbores after the buff. Is Mk5 still the go-to version?
Thank the Emperor, never was a fun of Mk5. Mk4 was always my jam. Now I just need to figure out if it can also work with shovel, for obvious reasons
Do urself a favor and bring power sword
both hellbore builds?
Lol, PSword never left my loadouts since OBT
what to put on the guns
IIIa unarmored + maniac
IV unyielding + whatever honestly
If IIIa had 60 more damage then I’d run elite over unarmored
shout+ no keystone?
@red fox Recon Lasgun is amazing in applying Burn DoT on things. Helps to conserve ammo and also bypass damage reductions for ranged attacks.
I like IIIa and I run WS for power sword
It’s a front heavy keystone anyway
If u run IV I think go with focus target
This makes sense. Need to drop in grinder later and see what to put on 4 in addition to unyielding
im in desperate need fo something else for my vet for havocs
Elite saves u 1 point (don’t need superiority complex for Dreg gunner 1hs)
TY, that 1 flex point on las builds is occasionally needed
Just a basic hybrid build
U can swap marksman for smth else it’s up to preference
Helbore rn is essentially Ogryn’s achlys heavy stubber but with 100x better ammo econ
Which makes it the best sniping gun in the game
Like with MMF?
No Field Improv
Mid talent
Its value is beyond compare.
I think this is for Mk3a, right? For Mk4 I would drop Superiority and Marksman and path to Bring it Down + Focus Target. Question if Focus is needed for any BPs on 4
For IV I’d run focus target
Just focus right? With no augments to it?
Redirect or target down
8 stacks is pretty bad
IIIa breakpoints
IV breakpoints
U can do the maths from there
Core breakpoints for ranged in havoc are
2100 unarmored
2100 maniac
1800 flak
Thank you, much appreciated
Can also run unarmored or maniac
Unarmored gives 1hs Dreg gunner without crit
Maniac gives 1hs both flamers without crit
You can always choose to be the one with it
Well i don't play Veteran to begin with.
Would consider it if vet tree had 6 more flex points
They can fix a lot of current vet tree’s problems by making veteran cap at lv40

Loved helbore on release, got a build for it?
And for recon?
@scenic basin
I don’t enjoy playing recon cuz it’s just spray and doesn’t need headshot
U can spec hard into it or just bring it as backup for melee build it’s kinda up to u
I want to try a "I'm just here to help" build, where I take all of the coherency talents, field improv, those FT nodes that buff your team when the target dies. Get a gun to just spread brittleness, maybe use smoke grenades
Just follow my team around shouting
Congratulations that’s probably gonna be less useful than arb’s dog
Trying to figure out if I dump ammo or charge rate on the Helbore.
Stability
...
Yeah basically. It's insane that FS has put so much of it in Vet's tree
also let's be real here, most players are less useful than the arby dog. How many of them will without fail, consistently murder enemies, never die, never consume any resources, never make any mistakes.
And save you from other dogs
A gun that spreads brittleness? That'd be a helbore with armourbane
Here's my helbore build https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9f3c6424-3c04-4446-9875-2fcdecb5b950/flexible-helbore-grenadier-havoc
idk if I'd ever take a helbore on a meme build where I chose the worse talents FS created for Vet lol
I mean if you want a fun meme, try the helbore mk V with weight of fire and armourbane
It shoots charged shots stupid fast, and you'll be stacking brittleness for every shot
I may or may not be biased towards the helbore 
I should probably update my name on this server to include #1 helbore fan or something
I love the helbore when I'm actually trying, I was more thinking of something like the flame staff brittleness spread, idk if Vet has anything equivalent
Ah
Yeah not really for that case
Unless you run something like recon with onslaught talent but that's not really ideal
@tall torrent if you run WS on IIIa Helbore, would you still run Surgical as your 2nd blessing?
I saw WS and Helbore on the same sentence and received a shock
Then I remembered it might work now
you have to be real snappy with it
Probably not exactly what you are thinking but I run GloryHunter plasma combined with Confirmed Kill making Bornleader restore sizable chunks of toughness for my team.
yeah that probably works, I'm just always confused to why Vet has so many support nodes
His tree could use a rework honestly
does any enemy wearing armor count for the krak grenade penance?
Yuh
sweet ty
Same question tbh^
Or is hellbore really something you need patience in ADSing to shine instead of quick swapping as much as possible to proc WS
Been trying to make hellbore work but it just feels so sluggish to me coming from a former chronic revolver user lol
I feel WS may be OK on IIIa, but I would for sure go Focus Target on IV. Reason I am asking all of this, is I am currently a bit stuck and bored on work, so trying to frankenstein something of a build to test later
yeah, I feel ya. I am also getting bored of just running Plasma/Boltgun/Recon in high Havoc, so looking for a switch
Yea surgical is usually first pick
kk, ty, I will try to test it later and will see how it plays
although, I am pretty much running high havoc with a pre-made so YMMV
Falter is a decent pick for stopping attacks if u don’t 1 tap
Hotshot is funny and I wish it wasn’t bugged
WoF always decent pick
I enjoyed Hotshot when I used it, it feels forgiving
what’s the play style hybrid/WS hellbore builds supposed to be like
never played too much with the hotshot. what's the appeal here? make it feel like mini-plasma?
It applies to your melee as well
Also it's bugged so the tier 1 blessing gives the best value
this might be wrong but WS to me is the keystone that best illustrates how you should be playing DT. You do a bunch of melee then you pull your gun for a few seconds to deal with dangerous or far away threats
So the play style is always kind of locked into that
yup, and Reciprocity, Desperado and Trench Fighter Drills are just 3 very good perks. So if I can path to grab these without gimping the build too much, I am always happey to do it
I really wish those nodes were better positioned, maybe in the middle of the tree
yeah, agreed. I hope vet rework comes out after the zel.
Pretty good; replace rending strikes with focus target keystone & you’ll be slaying 
I was hoping to keep rending strikes to up the damage to shredders and on power sword, does it make a notable difference?
@tired egret
Lol nah; i was thinking you took it to up the dmg vs cara with armorbane but if thats your reasoning then nah
What's the perk set up for helbore on this ? @tall torrent
Which helbore
mk3a
Unarmored
Maniac
I also assume you run surgical/weight of fire + armorbane?
No
Surgical
Falter / hotshot / WoF
Armourbane is nearly worthless
Helbore is not a sustained dps gun
And why unarmored?
Wdym by that?
Dreg gunner 1hs in havoc scaling
And tox bomber 1hs in havoc scaling
Is 68 thermal 72 charge rate for real minmax.
69 thermal 71 charge
Ah I see. Sweet, focus target it is then
Do stacks from WS speed up the charge rate for helbore?
No
It affects the coded interval for firing
Charge speed is unrelated to that
Wdym by that?
burst damage yes dps no
That axolot becoming path acolyte

It’s not a gun u shoot repeatedly at 1 guy with most of the time
What’s the target prio with hellbore
Obvs specialists and shooters first, but does it have any place vs melee elites?
IIIa and IV do high damage to both ragers on weakspot hit, and IIIa can one tap both if crit weakspot
IV can normally one tap scab rager to the head without crit
However this is not smth I would count on
Rager headshots are finicky
Bring a melee that can stagger groups of them
As for carapace and ogryn enemies
Melee is ur better solution
Well
U kill them in 2 headshots with IIIa if 1 crit
And usually 1 crit headshot with IV
Falter also allows u to stop their ranged attack on headshot (only for IIIa and IV)
Helbore is about as cracked as it gets for sniping them
Yup, also +unyielding (and maybe +elites) on IV, although for IV specifically Surgical + WoF would be my pick
V is just shy of a little bit of damage to be good
When veteran gets a talent tree that doesn’t make damage juicing a pain I think all 3 will be top tier
But rn it’s just IIIa and IV that are top tier
The thing about V - when you see it (along with shovel) on a teammate, expect to put extra work in this pug 
Now, I just got completely random thought - is it possible to make a Havoc 40 vet build using Infantry Lasgun/Heavy Laspistol? 🤣
ew
Quite literally the hardest hitting weapon
I used to run infantry lasgun back in the first season of havoc, I got havoc 40 and true survivor thanks to ghost 
Laspistol is fine
Gunners in havoc 1.0 was something alright
Inf las is also ok
Also I ran deadshot on that infantry las build 
Gotta make that tiny tin of ammo stretch for as long as possible back then
Build found here, Credit goes to ScabsAteMyLegs:
https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9da7999f-314a-47e5-a245-2df66897ac31/ammo-fountain-havoc-40
Ghost is goated, same with Deadshot on Laspistol
I don’t like helbore IV as much
It sorta soft locks u into dedicated left/middle build
Doesn’t play that well with WS
Ty, will watch in a bit 
I just wish the bayonet of the helbore4 wasn't that
But it's good enough for trash specialists
I wish helbore charge speed was closer to plasma
Helbore IV just feels way too slow
Must be the stockholm syndrome speaking but I don't mind it lol
id like the ilas or laspistol optic attached to helbore
iron sights on that gun is still so ass
Dont worry im NOT using the weapon customization mod to put a scope on the helbores
For rashad do we like unarmoured or maniac more
No siree not me
unarmoured is pretty much a must pick
Whats the logic behind that out of curiosity, is it just for the general horde?
its to hit breakpoints
Mainly for bruisers so you can hit the breakpoint with headtaker and brutal momentum
You go from killing 1 every 2 swings to killing 4 per swing
what is a bruiser
i seee
Dreg bruiser is my nemesis
they're pretty dangerous as horde enemies go
you need unarmoured perk to get a one shot vs the one that visually doesn't have headarmour
I heard weapon customization causes bugs and kills your frame rate
Idk if that’s true
not really
especially if you deactivate weapons shown on the body you save a lot of fps
woag
The timer between shots is the worst cause charge on the shot itself can be fixed with WoF
Thats why its soo dog
Its not present on other helly marks
@tropic notch what helbore do you run on this build? https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9d51275b-f9c4-4494-9b88-bfafbbbf4981/terrible-vet-build
Mk1 devil claw will cut their head
4 or 3a
I like how slow the IV is because it is rewarding to shoot it, though it does feel bad in general when the game is more fast paced
which I think the game pace definitely changed with this new patch
Does field improv affect the whole team or does it have to be the vet who drops ammo crate / health ?
Whole team.
You can even be in rescue.
Can't wait FS nerf the shit out of plasma gun and make 1 single viable veteran build render useless 
Only time it won't if you aren't on the map in some way.
Only then the vet skill tree skill rework can commence due to backlash
He doesn’t know about the hellbore or dbarrel 🥀
Why would you even use dbarrel as vet tho
When arbites exists
Hellbore is off-meta weapon at best
It’s his best weapon with weapons specialist
true, a viable weapon stops being viable when they add new classes
Not at all it’s buff made it amazing
Yeah ws with always prepared makes you feel like you’re playing ultrakill
been buffed significantly, and is very definitely THE meta ranged weapon on vet atm
true...
this reminds me of someone complaining the other day that you cant shoot through teamates
RIP bozo plasma RIP bozo DS
nerf helbore
even better on psyker
Nah psyker can’t run flechette
Good to know Paradise spread enough DB psyker propaganda
Taxed too much, no points for it.
why wouldnt they
i need to try and use the power sword again
ive been messing around with a combat axe and the devils claw
Cause it’s very dumb to give up scattershot or manstopper
you should be able to abuse limbsplitter by block cancelling
I miss the times when Lightning Reflexes had no cooldown
Ur silly!
Nu. I just want to help team when it isn't just 3x arby.
Limbsplitter propaganda in the big 25
Flechette & manstopper for vet with WS
Yeh
This isn't restricted to only ranged
so its just a different flavor of WS but on Psyker
since when does shovel have rending on weakspot hit blessing
Any revelations on claw?
i love parry
and swinging sideways heavies
also aim for dreg bruiser chests and scab shooter legs
Are you playing psyker now? 
You demo the parry follow up attack?
It’s buff helped it
The parry attack into inputted follow up
I use the mk1 so it's just parry light heavy
Or if you are parrying multiple you just push and go back to heavies
Any science on perks and blessing?
It needs cleave so cleave blessing
I’m Mr unorthodox and like trying anything on it
Give shovel parry
Taking it with hammerblow and savage sweep can stun lock a horde
True
it won't kill them all very fast
But it's probably the safest anti horde option
I take rampage though
Hammerblow on arby reminded me how fun impact and stagger is
Shame vet got a dated kit tho
Also I wish claw had perfect parry blessings
Like one that gives the parry attack 100% crit on perfect block with 2-4 seconds of finesse strength buff
If arbites can have weakspot strength coded in, I fail to see why vet won’t get it
Marksmen focus has finesse strength listed but it’s basically coded in game as dmg
remember what they took from you as an Arby player
Staggerclaw would've been the funniest fucking thing seeing
How can something being taken away that they never had to begin with?

Nonsense
What grenade do you go with on a vet?
I see a lot of people saying shredders
shredder is your go to nade
Frags
Tbh I wish smoke nades didn't blow
Kraks are a nice safe bet if you aren't running any oh shit carapace spam weapon but shredder does the best utility
Shredders just do everything lol
Thanks all 🙂
i love uncanny bleed interaction 
remember when smokes were debatably the considered worst blitz in the game
🚬
The zealot players getting tilted you brought smokes untill the 5 billion reaper pack shows up
i hate kraks
Okay, but you say this like it's unfounded. It genuinely causes the ai to do weird shit that will actively fuck you over if you're under heavy melee pressure.
If they halfed the timer on kraks they would become S tier
They still are S tier for me
Live footage of a mobeain 6th gunner before he get truth nuked my dogC4
I personally love shredder
I'd expect a player with 100 hours to at least understand what the smokes do and be able to adapt around them cause they're a huge benefit instead of a downside lmao
cough cough
if you don't know how to use it to your benefit genuine skill issue
you love the option most people use?
Hours played does not equal any amount of skill you may expect
Youth is no guarantee of innovation and age is no guarantee of efficiency
frags are good and simple
kraks are simple and bad (except into bulwarks, fuck them)
smokes are good and fucky
smokes would be mildly less fucky if they were quick toss like throwing knives
Whats actually good about smokes
throw them between you and the gunners for ranged safety
they have to reposition from Albuquerque to Timbuktu to get LoS on you again
Hmm
Screw that, they do in 80 days around the world when they see smoke
Immunity to ranged
Immune to dog pounce
Flamers won't fire
Or will run around
Shotgunners will have to get closer
Trappers will have to hug you
BON's will have to literally get right in your face in order to vomit
instead of from a distance
I wish there wasn't such a huge tax for the vet tree
snipers completely give up
Rodin (Rodin LT in Havoc included) literally just quits functioning unless you get close to him and then he'll attempt kicking you
..... huh
He literally just stands still and gives up till the smoke goes away
One would think he's used to it, but no.
Faded on that Tox Gas
That's why he's throwing Gas Mines everywhere. So he can huff it.
does vet bother with chainsword or not really
Pretty sure it's not really, I just like the sound
nobody bothers with chainsword
if you want some competent chain weaponry, I recommend the chainaxe
Bet
flak maniac, headtaker slaughterer, dump defenses
Only Ari can make chord not dogshit
I just liked the sound design
The rev just screams "someone's day is about to get ruined and it aint me"
God bro
Heinous Ritual is one of the worst fucking havoc modifiers
When a hexbound daemonhost spawns on the otherside of the map
So you just lose
Chain weapons are not that charming on vet or psyker
Psyker?
You mean zealot?
No no
Psyker has some chain weapons I think doesn't it?
Chain weapons are broken op on zealot
Huh.
Yeah chainaxe is on psyker
Not so much on psyker or vet
Chainsword
I never knew that, I main force sword
also on psyker
Exactly
pay your lip service to the chaxe it is a beautiful weapon
they all fuck on zealot
huh, bet
but only because zealot is a melee class
If you slap enough damage and attk speed buffs on a weapon, it will eventually become Stier
martyrdom can make the worst weapon feel good
What would you guys say is the plas guns dump stat?
its 1 of 2 weapons that actually wants it more then a flat dump
Whats the other?
this should be he oher way around
ripper wants a certain ammo stat
nobody is at peace while running martyrdom, thats the fun of it
Which class is the ripper on?
Ogryn
after playing martyrdom I cant play anything with low attack speed anymore
eviscerator eventually stops feeling like a chain greatsword and more of a chain katana
Im trying to do the fun task of getting the best roll of every weapon on every character rn
And finishing up masteries
What would be the helbore dump stat? I personally picked ammo
Stability
Why wouldnt it be stability
Stability first
Ammo second
Weapon so stable it's akin to immune to suppression
so mobility < stability < ammo?
Depends on the weapon but mobility and defense are often dumps
Stability, warp resist and collateral sometimes
I meant for ranged mostly, ik defence is a dump too
This was annoying we were doing a heresy shock troop inferno mission and the one player purposely shots the dh but none of us could dps it and so 2 of us just moved on while this guys tries and fails then gets pissy with us because we did the correct thing in that situation
huhu, "Lethal Proximity
Point blank shots cause an explosion. Explosion Radius increases by 10-25%."
does it NOT increase our grenade explosions anymore? cant feel a difference in psykhanium
Just use it with krak. Throw it at the silver eagle on the floor infront of the dog. If it hits the dog, it still works.
Psykhanium.
so in missions it doesnt work consistantly?
No, it's just actual blast radius is still too small.
But is an easy way to see if Lethal is changed.
Kraks were designed when there were less elites
Because normally, kraks will not even glance a hit on the dog.
Now that I actually think about it arbites and ogryn are designed around the current difficulty while vet and zealot are still the old difficulty.
pysker just was cracked from the start and only has had some tweaks to be viable even now in the difficulty it wasn't designed for
Game was made harder to please ppl without buffing the og chars to fit, classic.
Me personally I would have just soloed the dh
ik this but idc bc commissar cain cosplay
I wish they would like do something for marksman focus on vet man
Being able to use them to your benefit doesn't change the fact that they still do things to the ai that if you are not expecting it could get you or your teammates killed which is compounded by the fact that often you are not the one throwing the smokes when this happens. I never said smokes are bad, I said that you make it sound like the anger pointed at a compounding factor to ai doing weird things is unfounded.
I feel if they made crits count towards generating stacks it would be made so much better
Skill Issue?
Like seriously I dont see how thats an issue if its more beneficial especially when its easy to learn what it does lmao
Additionally if your only way of dealing with gunner or reaper packs is smokes, you've misplayed heavily. Also suppression exists as a mechanic if you're looking to open sightlines into packs of already firing gunners. Ask @narrow frost about how nuts elecrtokinetic staff suppression is.
imo its just not as useful as the other two keystones and its harder to use bc this game has a lot of running and sliding and dodging
but it is useable
More beneficial in a vacuum maby, but not in the face of the cavern that is shredders or krak utility.
I feel while marksman is great on the las weapons and autoguns it can run into issues on shotguns, bolters and plasma as the hit zone makes it so head shots while viable are not as consistent but vet gets crits quite often so having crits count towards marksman stacks would make it universally viable
If you like smokes that's fine, but at a certain point it does become a redundant utility that could be replaced with better positioning and gamesense and gives you access to the insane utility of the veterans other grenades when not being used.
Smokes are good.
Smoke could do withe either ES outlines while enemies are inside or provide a brief stealth effect on detonations so the gang can do teenage mutant ninja turtle disappearing act
Basically just some fun and somewhat helpful additions
feels a bit niche for me
Even with marksman weapons, I prefer focus target as it just so much more useful and consistent
Me when I’m pinned by gunners and I smoke and they stop shooting
It’s not a vacuum
Yeah I also think maybe reworking marksman to give increasing toughness reduction could be nice, basically help turn us into a scion while laying down the fire
I wish we could become tempesrous aquilions :(
It's a misplay
Yeah but that was back when the difficulty of the game was lower and now vet acts like wet tissue paper without certain builds
I mean if I stumbled upon 112 gunners smokes are godly

Helps with res as well
Yes vet was op back then but I feel now that vet would feel okay
They certainly weren't at what ogryn is now
vet is good now and has some fun builds but it is not up to snuff with arby and ogryn tbh
you have to work a lil harder to do good as vet
still doable but idk, it doesn't have the variety of arby and ogryn which should be better soon
Vet is designed for the old difficulty and needs to be reworked for the current difficulty
Get rid of majority of greys and update blue nodes to be more proactive and add more tree merging to allow for rerouting without spending on tax
i agree
also would be nice to make it more compact like arby
ever since i've played arbites, going back to veteran makes me miss execution order for that elite highlighting
i feel like i have a major skill issue when i can't have 100% uptime on VoC in fights
its mainly cause Arby is overtuned so its noticeable between what should be balanced and what clearly isn't
I almost feel like EO is a stolen vet skill
but it would totally be way too strong on vet even for just highlights
Its too strong on arbite
fair
lol nah
I feel it should be nerfed to only mark line of sight enemies
Not just mark everything in a 50 meter radius
okay, so 2 things of note here, becuse you clearly haven't been following this conversation for v long. 1: I never said that smokes were bad, that is not how we got to this point, I said that the annoyance toward smoke users is not unjustified after @faint beacon made a comment about zealot players "getting tilted you brought smokes untill the 5 billion reaper pack shows up" to which i proposed some reasons for why this annoyance wouldn't be completely unfounded. This devolved into a back and forth that boils down to a non argument about the relative value between shredder/krak grenades and smokes which changes varies wildly between hypothetical scenarios and levels of play. My response is that shredders and kraks will help you out of far more scenarios, or keep things more manageable than smokes will in 90% of games. Finally, 2: get preggers reacted.
Smokes are good.
on the topic of nades, people praise shredder nades quite a bit but even with a build that lets me spam them, they feel slightly underwhelming?
or am i expecting too much from the hype
The good tenderisers
You really need to drop two nades to kill shit. And if everything does before your bleed really kicks in, they’re trash
And breakup gunner mobs allowing you to breathe
It’s just that they’re one of vets only sources of infinite cleave
And even if it’s straight up worse than what psyker can do
Infinite cleave is infinite cleave
Cough cough plasma
Nades on Vets are grossly misinformed due to a Vet main I shall not speak here
i see, they still serve a solid purpose then
Cough cough power sword as well
One of. And plasma doesn’t have infinite cleave.
Also not infinite cleave.
The real reason shredder nades are good is the same reason why Purge staff is the best staff in havoc
Pretty close though
it's also good to save them to stagger bulwark / crusher crowds
No
Only carapace really stops it
Bm stops at 3, no?
It drops off fast once the big elites get involved
Brutal Momentum is a funny kind of infinite cleave where it's theoretically infinite hitmass cleave but only up to five different targets.
would sunder give the infinite cleave you're looking for?
sunder to power sword, i mean
Sunder does not, but it does let you bypass some things that would normally hard-stop cleaving.
ah
i always knew Veteran was being replaced by Arby but never imagined that it would consistently be "double its damage, far more tanky" levels of better
that bleeding thing is really nasty
and even without it they can put so much damage
nothing like walking into a h40 as a brand new 30 arby and then wrecking face despite having no idea how to build the class
still prefer vet though
its still refreshing to have the class capable to clean a room of elites because Exe stance helbore is really good now, or box down an entire horde with the ole 1-2 of shovel - DBshotgun cleave
Besides certain weapons I feel vet still out DPS arbite
nah, kinda the other way around, Vet needs its best game guns to outgun an arby
bolter with Exe stance its actually quite killer
but the thing is that arby is super sturdy for the capacity it has for death
at most ranges
you can get away with some absurd shit
the saving grace so far is that most arbis are absolute trash from what I've seen
mate, it doesnt matter, i have saw some really bad ones that dont know where they are swinging their attacks, but the class is carrying them
HARD
its so true
at least in high havoc positioning starts to matter
so eventually they can't math their way out of the problem
nvm i forgot to take grenade tinkerer, that's some hella range increase
Paints you
I should super preg you
Cuz is funny
it's nice to see people saying smokes have some use now as opposed to before
where I'd get shit on for just having it equipped in lobbies
people do that in most games, almost unavoidable
i'm willing to bet that you can put a good player on a build that would be considered horrible overall and they would still do better than those who criticize others
smokes are really useful because getting deployable cover and forcing ai enemies to engage in melee is VERY strong
people that though otherwise just see no bonus damage and ditch them as lesser
but when the obj is in the open with an army of gunners arround, they will remember that its not just damage what they need
I think that's enough darktide
Crusher did overswing
I dodged
Crusher tracked me through dodge with his overhead
I think he was tracking my teammate actually
Teammates are just another difficulty modifier
I'm trying my god damn hardest to level up havoc rank lol
I suggest leveling up your skill and not havoc. "Leveling" up havoc will come on its own when you improve your own gameplay.
Brother my gameplay is fine
I can't dodge a crusher overhead that isn't meant for me
when my teammate is just walking in my ass
The crusher overhead was tracking him that's why my dodge didn't stop it
My condolences
I don't know how I find these fucking people
"I'm just gonna walk in a straight line towards the pox hound"
"I'm sure I won't get pounced"
Best thing to do in this situation is to not follow them into the pit of death and let natural selection take its course.
Then I'm stuck fighting 3 chaos spawns alone.
Which I mean tbh I could maybe do on arbite
but not on psyker
Happens
ds works with everything, no one knows what the changes will be
does rashad have an especific wave clear combo? it feels pretty bad to use
rashad needs a specific set of blessings, perks, stat break points, and talents before it hits god tier level wave clear
once you have those just mash m1 and occasionally push attack
Yeah Rashad is all or nothing
makes sense i was struggling a lot with it but i havent upgraded it fully yet
I’d just try it when you’re max level and have a max roll with the right perks or blessings
Rashad really is trash if it can’t hit bruiser breakpoints with light attacks
rashad is a classic example of a weapon that relies on brutal momentum
u dont hit those breakpoints u arent killing shit
Yeah
Light Light Light Light Light Light Light
If there's 3 dreg Ragers
Push Attack
Light Light Light Light
Or was it pa 3 lights
Howdy, anyone up for penance assistance
my loose cannon vet has a commissar hat and also voc and I like to think she stole the hat from the commissar on the morningstar and is just like prancing around playing commissar to piss all of her superiors off
Friends?
You think we’ll ever get a melta?
power fist with a claw skin for vet...in 3040
in other news, i have come back to using the Plasma gun and i must say that without factoring the stupid cleave it has, the gun do feels kinda mid
I love rail gun my beloved
But most plasma gun builds are either melee focused with heavy plasma support or are target priority builds which are both limiting to the gun you have in your hands.
bleu pew gun doesnt feel that nice for me, the day they remove that cleave that makes it good on havoc it will be a really interesting day, because to this day i dont get the hype
I always thought it was the closest wed have to a anti tank rifle bc it got thru stuff but they kinda made it to where that's only reliable if you use it frequently most people use it then go back to like a bolter or auto gun
Don't copy me. 
my canon for me loose cannon vet getting commissar gear is that she once stole it from a death one in an operation and began to give orders to everyone, no one realized she was not the real one and at the end of that the coat and hat mysteriously disappeared, so now in the mourningstar it is confiscated but since she always figure a way to take it back people just let her wear it around.
I love that
If it doesn’t get 1 taps on gunners and flamers then yes
Is why I said the new system just annoys people. Bad players just get carried to auric by the good ones.'
Also, bad players from before the update were more or less grandfathered in as well.
also the amount of BS atm
I got hit byu a burster
flung me into a Crusher hit
then flamer on my downed body
I jsut wanna do this damn penance
Sorry was me
I’ll practice more
In my defense, someone tossed me off a cliff with a barrel
But basically, hat was stolen from the last commissar attached to her old squad. Useless kark fell to Nurgle faster than anyone else so she took his hat and played motivational speaker to keep morale high as it's just them and remnants of other squads holding out. The Inquisitor thing was uhhh, a one night stand with a now MIA lady. Traded her stuff for simple thing to go AWOL, knowing too much and just wanting to be over it all.
Tbh sometimes you get plain unlucky im ngl
Play other servers maybe?
these people
Sorry I’ll practice more
Like it would be nice to at least make it passed the first room
What region do you play in?
I blame op classes, people that has no clue what they are doing go into higher missions think too high of themselves
however what happened last night where a friend went down to a sniper and the other guy just stood there in front of the sniper pickign my friend up. We were at the end, literally ripped defeat from the jaws of victory
should be NA
Bravest Emperor's soldier
People going form Arby and oggy to vet or zealot
it's usually psykes and what not
Psyker you legit need to have at least decent mechanics
or the two Arby's that held ammo boxes the entire run while the Ogryn and I sat on empty ammo. They dropped both only at the end.
I once saw one that could not melee to save it's life (I tried to keep him alive, it was not possible)
What region? West?
Bet they got carried by dog and thought too much that they needed no dog and then they died
no idea, how do I check?
Dog carry a lot of folks because their ai is quite good to protect them
Oh no the Arby's were fine. I think they were duo
Should be on mission board im in west Tennessee so I’m na west
Also I'm noticing more people not picking me up and just letting me die
Yeah, but the damage the dog save is good, and since they are greedy they don't share ammo crates
Sometimes that happens to me it’s better to have one player for the the entire team
Honestly going for bad revives causes a lot of team wipes
Yesterday i got to greedy in a havoc 40 and was punished by reapers
Died

Was mulching everything tho
Reapers and being alive is a paradox
oh currently on NA east
You should’ve seen the kill feed
which is fair but when I can easily be picked up and they just ignore me
then they just wipe to everything afterwards
what penance?
Tbh they aren’t too difficult it’s when I jump instead of dodge or they are too spaced out
But mostly they suck
On overwatch been trying to do it legitimately with randoms for 3 days. Everyone in party finder isn't helping either im about to kick down difficulty and cheese it. I got it on my main account by sheer luck now I want my back up to get it.
That's why I keep the jump button in a different key, it's annoying trying to dodge and getting a jump
Halt a lot of momentum for me
Prob one of the first things I did
Do it on malice bro or just ask a friend to let you fall off the map and then finish it alone
Haiiii @unreal nova
- a wild Karien is judging us
I have been here.
I'm gonna go grab dinner and take a break for now but if you gents are on later id love to have you.
I just crashed coursed my Vet's lore and such.
And just lazing aroud cos thundastorm.
Hard without friends no one is know likes warhammer or darktide
It’s easy I’d be glad to help
that sounds heretical of them
I mean, always just do stuff on the lowest possible diff...
Right now I'm just wanting to work on Killshot Ready
Shoot me a dm and I'll text back when ive recuperate wish you could just play offline solo.
What’s your build looking as well?
Randoms are less skilled lately on lower with influx of new ppl
after Killshot Ready is down can just work on Adept Assassin and Armourbane normally
I mean, you just have to carry them.
Got a mobility critical build the typical lasgun boss melter rn
Go Bistol for Armourbane. Lethal Prox into scab hordes.
😦 then id be looking out for them and me
whatya mean?
I mean yeah, I think they've just been on a hunt kick which i just got out of, mine craft and hunt have been my go to last month.
Lethal Prox makes the explosion radius bigger, so you can get more kills.
I only thought that effected the Bistol shot
You throw them into mobians or scabs because they count as armoured.
huh I gotta try that then
Nope, they affect grenades, if nothing changed.
Specifically, Frag, Shredders, Kraks, Impact.
I wonder if the Mortis Trials is an easier way to get Killshot Ready completed
Hell yeah kinda my gun psycher build
THe easiest is most boring. 45 mins in mercantile.
Farm in kitchen with another player to go private.
oh do I have to have the Bistol out for the explosion radius buff?
This will help a ton it’s probably vets best build atm
Epic
If you wanna debate hellbore and such
Nope. THe way it's coded means you don't need it.
Oh hell yeah. Recommended difficulty?
Thanks homie I'll make em scream or whatever after dinner
Armourbane? Any. Just gotta roll scabs.
Havoc 40 approved
Auric or damnation means you can possibly get more per blast.
oh no I meant the Killshot Ready
Oh, That's any diff. I did mine in low havoc duos with a friend.
Damnation spawn rates with malice HP lul.
You just need a second player to start private and NEVER put the second C4 mine to the wall.
Go into the room to the right of it. That's the kitchen.
Today has been quite bad for my morale, not a single game capable to outgun the Arby menace
It’s crazy Fr
Not even venting purg psyker can lol
Bolter, sniper, recon, just not get enough to beat them in damage, even when I cleaned a room full of gunners with me sniper Helbore, it was epic
I just went back to zealot
Dog alone outdamages a psyker.
Sorry brother. I feel the same frequently. I know the feeling bro
And Orgyn, me ole main, is on the chaos side now
Zealot trails behind him well atleast I do if they have a dog
Only me spark head is the only I can race in raw damage vs the police
Okay thank you!
Melee psyker
It sucks more because I LOVE tank classes but hate OP ones, so I'm in sadness
Make sure you take the crabwalk node and just melee with crouch... I suggest keep swinging or a turbo controller.
I love shock trooper and I will always have a place in my heart for recon lasgun
Melee soykers rise…
Meleker with bolter and vent actually bested them relatively consistently
I’m telling you
It’s pretty funny
Im sorry, I WANT To like them. But their tree is just GARBO
I know, is one of me most played styles with brain burst
Idk why melee psyker will out dps everything lol
Actually completed close with the Arby with the BB build
Glass cannon
I was just gonna use a gun
Did I show you my assail gaze tac axe 40 run?
but if not I can just just use a macro I think unless that's bannable
Naw, those are mods most people don't reeeeeeeeeee at. It's basically an autoclicker.
i dont think i saw you posting that? assail gaze tac feel like a natural combo tho
That shovel vet kinda went off
I did die due to getting double bursterd
Only once tho lol
Yeah by macro I meant autoclicker. I used to use one for Foxhole
Modifiers were rampaging final toll
Basically, in most cases, don't talk about it in game.
i like those because in havocs i had ritual bug and trigger in absurd scenarios
i swear someone at obesefish is getting its giggles from being an a$$
Tbh I did struggle against a max rampaging bulwark and crusher
I tried to whittle them down with trauma and they just became red

But they got brittleness doe!
you really need fire to kill the bulwarks when they get red, huge Plasteel wall of jerks
Real
I really wanna get that mod just so i can see if im the shitter in every party
I just think it’s neat
yea, i like seeing a breakdown in helldivers
I’m ngl i never compared myself to others in havoc 1.0 or even now
Havoc 1.0 I’d have like 500k because I was book boy
Operation keep psyker alive
I used to think killing a crusher and running around with a knife was godlike gameplay
Yea same
Watching good players clutch
The best way I got good was watching other people play and recreating it
Inshallah
There was this zealot named vovi who is amazing and showed me how strong he could be
So I watched him
Copied him
i was so close to clutching the other day and after clearing all the gunners and ragers and snipers it aws just the horde left and then game said woe 5 crushers
Now I solo deamonhost just like him
Only thing I take pride in is conscientious on team play, like stimming corruption or pinging ammo
And just like he was told his gameplay gives people motion sickness i too was told that lol
The pipeline from seeing good gameplay to doing it is so real
Fortunately vet is built to just not need ammo pickups or grenades (if running grenade & ammo regen + optional shocktrooper)
Gotta use immersive evasion mod with the setting dialed up + weapon fov
stares in bolter vet
Love that mod
I saw that I thought about getting it lol
I love weapon fov
Adds a lot to frenetic gameplay
Every dodge feels like this
Weapon fov can break a lot of weapons’ first person view
Cuz most cosmetics don’t render enough of ur character’s arm
I know it’s pretty silly
I kinda like it
U like seeing half ur arm not render with a melee attack?
Yeah
Is there a problem officer
Just looks like a poorly made unity trash game.





