#veteran-class

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red robin
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12.5 m?

placid shoal
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ok

red robin
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Idk man, that tends to be the close range number, but don’t take my word for it

ember nest
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I have seen some silly things from like really good players

placid shoal
past stratus
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I think Vet's problem isn't how much you can squeeze out of the class but how you do it. There is one (1) really good build that does a really good job even in higher difficulties. And to get it you must go a very specific pathway avoiding a lot of bait talents that are there just to bait you. And even then with that very good build, you still have to know how to play and be very careful. Idk about others but it gets tiring after a while.

red robin
open ravine
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I feel mortis infiltrate buff should be added to the skill as a permanent buff. Having infiltrate provide a brief team stealth and allow for melee in stealth is great

ember nest
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Zealots hunting you as we speak

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I can hear the charging thunder hammers

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Ur bout to get backshots buddy

strange crow
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Bet will do

past stratus
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Stealth in a team game where everyone has to kill their share of baddies to progress properly is just counter productive

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I stealth, my share of baddies collapses on my team mate.

unreal nova
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Heh. But yeah. Is like what if the psyker inquisitor set but you get serious and drop the second coat.

open ravine
ember nest
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You still see them in auric but much like me

red robin
ember nest
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They are probably penance farming

past stratus
red robin
past stratus
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You risk a team mate getting overwhelmed so you can go stealth and do ONE (1) big attack on ONE (1) elite. In a game that you constantly get overwhelmed by 20 elites at the same time?

red robin
ember nest
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As far as zealots go they'll usually outweigh the downsides by actually murdering the elite and chaining it over and over

past stratus
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I understand how cool stealth can be for the stealthing player, I just think it is a shit mechanic on horde games

ember nest
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Vet has too much downtime between infils imo unless I'm missing smth

ember nest
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If it allowed you to like hunt crusher packs

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Or to systematically exterminate all the specials

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It would be peak

red robin
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Honestly infiltrate is just free obj clear

ember nest
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But it doesnt

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It just lets you- yeah

red robin
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But like good team mates trivializes that

ember nest
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It lets you do the minigames without effort if ur team is dog

red robin
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I kinda just like infiltrate just on weapon specialist double barrel

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Every other weapon feels mid with infiltrate

past stratus
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it's a fun ability I don't think anyone would say otherwise

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it is just not good

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for the overall game

red robin
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Nothing is good compared to shout

past stratus
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I mean stealth in general not just vet

red robin
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Build variety, I’m praying for youuuu!!

past stratus
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stealth Zealots were the most obnoxious thing in existence

unreal nova
past stratus
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it is fun for the stealthing guy that gets to larp as the metal gear man

red robin
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It’s fun to fuck over my team, I think they have had it good for too long

unreal nova
past stratus
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bro is on a mission while his team gets destroyed lmao

red robin
placid shoal
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perhaps hyperbole but does anyone ever feel more lag on vet than the other classes?

past stratus
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it essentially is that

red robin
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Or hit head and get bodyshot

placid shoal
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sometimes I'll shout and it'll come out what feels like almost a whole second later

unreal nova
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I am not joking. When you hear dogs jumping on chaff about to hit you, you know the gud puppos all deserve pats.

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While 300 ping minigame cos nobody wants to do it fun.

red robin
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Idk man

placid shoal
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ya idk

red robin
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I’ve never experienced a whole second of input latency

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But I don’t doubt its existence

unreal nova
red robin
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Explain it to me in league of legends terms

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Who’s shaco jungle in this situation

ember nest
unreal nova
ember nest
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The frequency in which the dog said "no" to some random poxer in an otherwise empty room

unreal nova
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Forgot I can't just bs block stuff and still 10% toughness regen per sec.

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unreal nova
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Is more, but still.

ember nest
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Basically

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Ogryn
Arbi
Psyker
Zel

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All feel incredibly rewarded for doing their core stuff

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Zel has talents that give u toughness and reduction on dodge

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And a ton of melee toughness

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Etc

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Crits that stack into more crits

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Vet has to like go out of its way to fufill specific circumstances, it feels like

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Tech ically u can take that one perk that, if you shoot someone to death, people around it get toughness

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But like

unreal nova
narrow widget
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I like went back from arbi to vet and had the wildest experience like "damn I played like that???"

past stratus
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I always take that talent because I feel like the best choices for veteran are often team based

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and this might be a hot take but I'd like Veteran to be a class that has strong team support options

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but a lot of the coherency shit is just poopoo

red robin
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True

ember nest
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Its ONLY teamates????

scenic basin
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Recon seems to struggle with damage in havoc. Any advice?

hollow ibex
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run an actual melee weapon

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don't use onslaught

scenic basin
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What are good options against carapace then? besides dueling sword

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Anything with uncanny strike I assume

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And what to go for instead of onslaught? Marksman focus?

unreal nova
hollow ibex
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psword

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taxe is also good, lower dps but very safe due to excellent mobility

hollow ibex
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try your best to take redirect fire, and don't take 8 stacks

ember nest
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Nvm

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Old school dt tax

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I keep forgetting that vet is a relic

scenic basin
hollow ibex
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cleave targets

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ps dodge is bad enough as it is KEKW_ogryn

scenic basin
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also what's the set up for it? Power cycler + slaughterer/sunder? also what mark and perks?

unreal nova
hollow ibex
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for havoc prob carapace elite

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might get you two shot crusher breakpoint

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but would double check that

unreal nova
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I wouldn't even complain if vet got a reduced ver due to easier to proc, but nothing.

ember nest
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Dump cleave on ps because it already has a ton of it + brutal momentum, right?

hollow ibex
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cleave targets just barely makes a difference so yeah it's the dump

ember nest
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Ty

scenic basin
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Why brutal momentum? don't energized hits already have infinte cleave unless hitting carapace?

hollow ibex
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no they don't have infinite cleave, it's something like 10 cleave

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brumentum also helps with cleave damage distribution

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sunder if you want to cleave everything, but you end up doing less damage overall

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because brumentum is silly strong

scenic basin
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So something like this? Not sure about what mk to choose

hollow ibex
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yeah that's good, though would test breakpoints for crushers

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and you'll want mk6

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for light spam horde clea

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and PA + L for single target

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and for block cancel

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and for bonus sprint efficiency

unreal nova
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If only no power cycler tax.

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Bromemtum and sunder.

hollow ibex
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oof that'd be insane

unreal nova
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IKR.

past stratus
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brutal momentum makes it so you can slice through 5 crushers

hollow ibex
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imagine if you could

past stratus
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yeah that would be nice

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but a bit broken

scenic basin
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But then zealots complained

hoary gorge
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is it just me or does the progenium-issue backpack use the wrong material for the leather bits

They're reflective like metal

unreal nova
sleek garden
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I use sunder over brutal momentum because I hate crushers

sleek garden
hoary gorge
past stratus
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too much nurgle heretical goo made it shiny in an icky way

unreal nova
scenic basin
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scenic basin
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aNd NOt hHave GoOd MelEE

past stratus
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Range focus in horde games :)

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that surely works

unreal nova
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hoary gorge
past stratus
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I want Vet to have a support three part

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side

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or whatever

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let me shout more

unreal nova
hollow ibex
sleek garden
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It's like using the m16 in l4d

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Range focus achieved

past stratus
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autogun goes clink clink clink against carapace

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I just hope that if they ever rework vet, they make it so their coherency talents are actually good and worth getting

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since they insist in it

narrow widget
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rework coherency so it's actually usable half the time

past stratus
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it's expensive points you put into it for drip sized buffs currently

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in havoc games people stick together so coherency works, it is just vet talents are so stingy. Pay a whole ass talent for some tiny buff

ember nest
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Veterans getting toughness sustain by playing the game normally would be great

past stratus
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idk man, when it comes to toughness regeneration I think Vet and Zealot are good examples. Everyone else that seems to be overtuned on it

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Arby gains toughness for just breathing

ember nest
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Do u want a ton of crit on relic blade? Press the ability button and swing into a crowed or proc rage

Now with the correct talents crit enemies bleed, all your wideass swings make more shit bleed cause you get more crits on bleeding things, and it just feedback loops forever

past stratus
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I don't think that is how everyone should be

ember nest
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Zealot also gains toughness just by breathing

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Just not as rediculously as arby

past stratus
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Zealot gains toughness by being in combat, it is thematic and not infalible as Arby

ember nest
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Indeed, thats what I mean

faint beacon
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Arby can generate toughness by sprinting or pushing the air

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Everyone else besides Ogryn and Psyker cannot

ember nest
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^

past stratus
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I keep telling you that I see arbys fighting in gas clouds

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full toughness

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that ain right

faint beacon
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DR

ember nest
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I mean I can kinda do that on vet too but I need shout

faint beacon
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And toughness regen

faint beacon
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Shout

ember nest
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Shout procs and I get into a decent melee im fine

Arbites can do it w/o that

faint beacon
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And killing every single elite you see

ember nest
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Yep

faint beacon
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Vs Arby who just

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Clicks

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unreal nova
ember nest
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As for zealot I don't tend to care abt tox as long as there's shit to hit in the cloud

unreal nova
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Do note I run forceful.

ember nest
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If there isn't then I must leave the cloud

grand perch
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that moment when youre trying to pick someone up who ledged himself while in stealth, and someone else stands in the exact same spot and doesnt understand he's not the one picking the guy up. then a mutant grabs you cause he made it go there staregryn

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naturally ledged guy died

faint beacon
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Kill people who don’t assist in clearly easy saves

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Also Arby Shield and Ogryn shield plant has proven to be useful to save people after I shield planted and let our veteran revive Bumner without immediately getting torn to shreds

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H40

past stratus
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I still don't know the difference between regular shield blocking and special shield blocking on Ogryn

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I thought it could bounce off shit like muties or other knockout effects

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but not really

hollow ibex
ember nest
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I don't quite think popping ur ult to walk down a burning hall is quite the same

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As an arby not popping ult and just fighting shit while on fire

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And still living

hollow ibex
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i don't think you can do this with any other class tho

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without taking hp damage

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barren girder
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need that node nuked from the game on god

ember nest
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Thats a node vet should have

pastel yew
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eh if someone wants to spend a point to not take easily avoidable tox gas

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so be it

ember nest
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🥺

barren girder
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way too many arbiters in my lobbies causing team wipes by assuming everyone else has it

pastel yew
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there is basically no future in which I take this

barren girder
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and rushing through the damn gas

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separating the team

pastel yew
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I mean depends... outside of havoc? splitting doesnt matter

barren girder
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...it is in havoc

pastel yew
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mmh

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then my argument would be if they're that bad they'd have just fucked up in some other way ;p

barren girder
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also tend to notice arbiters as most likely to run through fires

pastel yew
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I've not done any arbites havoc yet

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idk if I Want to until they get adjusted

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if they even do

barren girder
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based

pastel yew
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I hate how much stagger they have

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this is kind of an interesting point in time as

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we already see people leaving negative reviews because of plasmagun, ds nerfs...

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I wonder how bad they'd freak if arbites got nerfed

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I don't think their damage is that nutty its just part of their stagger that gives mad boosts. if they had less stagger they wouldnt be able to ignore the game

barren girder
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helldivers and its consequences have been disastrous for the co-op horde genre

pastel yew
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yeahh

livid cape
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Yeah

pastel yew
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I had made this comment somewhere but

pastel yew
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I feel like casual players are way too catered to

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its to the point where the tiny sliver of difficulty left in the game will get erroded and they'll think you're a buzzkill for calling for balance

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like bro

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you can play a lower difficulty

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there are literally a billion turbo shitter difficulties that are completely unused

hollow ibex
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true

barren girder
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have a friend who mains arbiter and got h40 and almost has true survivor after 2 weeks of playin

im worried theyll never try other classes bc of how much easier arby is

pastel yew
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LOL

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I wouldnt be so concerned

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different things appeal to different people

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I tend not to play complex characters out of the box when I play hard games either

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lets you get the basics down then swap to something more fun (veteran)

unreal nova
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Oh yeah, who was it that wanted MM?

pastel yew
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I dont really care how challenging the game is for others though, so long as it's not making my experience worse

unreal nova
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I even had supper and washed up.

barren girder
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in havoc 40
"im worried i have a lot of bad habits i need to work on that arbiter lets me get away with"
"try a diff class then, zealot should help round out your melee game"
"no"

pastel yew
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tbf

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zealot still has

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melee training wheels on too

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just not as bad

barren girder
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yup

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thats why i suggested it

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smoother change

pastel yew
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mmh thats fair yeah

barren girder
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not gonna suggest psyk and vet to an arby main skdjskdj

unreal nova
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Notifs don't tell me reeeeeeeeeeee

barren girder
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i main psyker and have given up on gettin true surv

pastel yew
barren girder
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dying is a peril of the warp

pastel yew
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you'll get it eventually

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just like

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statistically

barren girder
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....i do wanna try running WS DB on havoc now tho

unreal nova
pastel yew
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how is the double barrel post buff?

barren girder
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apparently it can reach purg staff levels

past stratus
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guys I know the Rebreather talent, I just think it is not balanced and trivializes one of the most deadly enemies in the game

pastel yew
unreal nova
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But that person isn't showing up there.

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That's the problem.

pastel yew
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or

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I agree it trivializes them

pastel yew
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I just dont agree that they're hyper deadly

past stratus
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also don't get me started on how the Rebreather is standard issue Astra Militarum equipment and Vet should have it as well

pastel yew
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anyone wearing a gasmask cosmetic

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gets it

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no talent required

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this is the way

past stratus
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imagine cosmetics having impact in gameplay

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crazy world

pastel yew
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get everyone to cover those hideous darktide faces

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its a win win

past stratus
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also just because skilled players learn how to position and avoid gas bombers doesn't stop them from being deadly. Tox Bombers are deadly in lower skill gameplay

pastel yew
past stratus
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which makes Rebreather even worse because Arby players don't learn how to deal with it

pastel yew
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average darktide squad without gasmasks....

pastel yew
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but to me it comes down to "does this effect me" and the answer is not really

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or perhaps just marginally compared to arbites mega stunlock

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idk why they didnt just have... high damage melee and a separate high stun stagger melee

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why combine em

unreal nova
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I can get on now if you are still up.

past stratus
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it affects me directly when I hop in to do a chill regular Auric, got thrown into a pre-made group with 3 arbys spamming voice chat as they W key through the map and die in the first 5 minutes.

pastel yew
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you just gotta change your perspective, enter the temple

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this is a learning experience, you're about to doom guy

past stratus
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Shift+W key into death, into a heated argument in VC

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😵‍💫

unreal nova
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Manual searching pain.

pastel yew
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yeaaaa

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at least discord has some search filtering which is nice but

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still no fun

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I still feel grumpy theres no mid point between hav40 and auric maelstrom

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I just want a casual q thats hard

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unreal nova
pastel yew
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imagine not being able to tank like 4 crusher overheads

barren girder
pastel yew
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literal pleb classes

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they cant even breath in the fart gas

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inferior rebreather designs

past stratus
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also I like the difficulties as is, if you're too good for maelstrom then that's just the price you pay for being an elite gamer

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suffering from success

pastel yew
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and power creep has steadily made these things easier over time

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some of that is me getting better sure, but I've still some terrible habits

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power creep is also almost guaranteed to get worse

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since more people are calling for vet and such to be buffed up to ogryn arbites level

past stratus
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good thing that you're a Veteran and you can challenge yourself by playing the Squigly mode

pastel yew
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dont you think it just

past stratus
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this one here.

pastel yew
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feels a little weird that most of the games difficulties exist for no reason

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beyond playin once or twice as you level

tame lodge
pastel yew
tame lodge
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This post was brought to you by the dodging gang

real lynx
tame lodge
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Shadow dodging money gang

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We love dodging hits

pastel yew
past stratus
pastel yew
tame lodge
pastel yew
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it took them almost two years

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almost TWO YEARS

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to nerf the plasma gun

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and in that time they BUFFED it

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things have only ever been made stronger for the most part

pastel yew
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disgusting

tame lodge
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An entire talent tree located in your kitchen?

pastel yew
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mm'yess

pastel yew
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no my builds are far too potent for you

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the world isnt ready for stam max deadshot meta

pastel yew
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they should add

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imperial assassin class..

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squishier than psyker

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better single target than veteran

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give me 1 hit point and mad defensive options

past stratus
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only if I can be an Eversor and kill my own teamates in a fit of rage before I die of heart attack from all of the chems they injected in me for the mission

junior grail
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New Vet ability

EXECUTE

  • Downs an ally but buffing the whole team for the whole run
past stratus
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true comissar build 😌

ember nest
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Is that zudah head

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@junior grail

junior grail
ember nest
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Peak 🗣️

pastel yew
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each player killed n kicked buffs the team

junior grail
midnight totem
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truth

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my negative review for darktide stays until they fix the shop

pastel yew
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minimal effort & quality for the maximum price

midnight totem
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People fix shit that ain't broke all the time

pastel yew
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I did like everyone getting so hyped about the free funny money from the last event

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except it was like

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500

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which buys you precisely fuck and all

hollow ibex
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one discounted skin KEKW_ogryn

faint beacon
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Hey you can buy the knife skin for…. Uhmmm

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400

unreal nova
faint beacon
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Istfg it was 400

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It’s literally just the knife in red and black that’s it lmao

livid hill
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Yeah lmao. I might actually

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It would be fun

barren girder
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is survivalist mandatory in havoc or is it fine to run move speed aura there too so i still have access to agile engagement?

tame lodge
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It's fine without it

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Just don't go trigger happy

marble moat
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Does lethal proximity also I creas AOE for frags?

past stratus
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Has FS ever mention why they made the bots in DT so soulless and useless?

serene bough
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you can path through the other auras to get agile engagement better, but unless you're running with a full squad already, people will expect you to bring surv

graceful moon
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god i hate doing the 90% penance with randoms

red robin
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Revolver/Plasma and pick easy shots

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Spec for a strong melee vet with invis for gap closing or shout if you just want to face roll your way through

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If you see another vet with survivalist then damn idk what to say mang

barren girder
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is there anything as ammo positive as helbore? i remember trying recon but i dont think i was going whole missions without picking up ammo tins the way i am on helbore lmao

hollow ibex
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i think it's the most ammo efficient gun in the game

barren girder
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sick

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im still not sure what build people use to reach 1 hs breakpoint for crushers tho, unless exe stance really is necessary for that

hollow ibex
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ES will make a big difference

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and then FT or MMF prob

barren girder
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so i really gotta two tap if i dont wanna run ES?

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not the worst thing in the world tho, being able to whittle down crusher/mauler packs at range even without straight up killing is great

hollow ibex
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i mean the 1 tap is a bit of a meme anyway

barren girder
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gotcha

uneven cedar
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Does For The Emperor proc when Infiltrate is used or when Infiltrate's stealth ends?

barren girder
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still probs gonna run the brown mark since 3a cant pen cara

hollow ibex
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could use armor bane

barren girder
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maybe when the rewards from this week's havoc kick in, im back to being diamantine broke lmfao

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i do have another helbore ready for testing mk3a more though

marble bridge
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how throwing is this?

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for recon las shenanigans

hollow ibex
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why mmf

marble bridge
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i dont especially like wspec and the 2 points wouldnt really get me much else i care for

hollow ibex
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mmf is borderline useless

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with recon

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you can just go keystoneless

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esp if you're going to dump a bunch of points into onslaught

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you can also drop determined

marble bridge
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because im gonna suppress them and not get shot at?

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or its just bad

heavy rover
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You can run vet keystone-less

hollow ibex
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unlike ilas

heavy rover
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Like you can assign those points to grenade talents

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Gives you more breathing room when you spam grenades at your feet

marble bridge
tame lodge
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Got enough rate of fire on the recon

marble bridge
tame lodge
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You suppress them back

marble bridge
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true actually

hollow ibex
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half the time you can just hipfire anyway

heavy rover
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It's like that evolution meme. Instead of revert to crab, it's revert to grenadier vet

strange crow
marble bridge
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i am very specifically trying not to just make another grenadier vet lol

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if i wanted to spam my grenades i'd play smyker

sonic pecan
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did they fix veteran today'

sonic pecan
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alright then back to sleep i go

hollow ibex
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keep sleeping

past stratus
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Focus Target is so nice with the Recon

long dove
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how do you know when you get the Havoc rewards?

tame lodge
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You have to claim them

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Every Sunday

narrow widget
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showering you with all the plasteel and diamantine you could ever want

long dove
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Yay

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I'm new to havoc sorry

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Is recon with dueling Saber or psword with plasma better to run?

safe kestrel
tame lodge
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Is the best choice

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This havoc requires you to kill lots of things really fast

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Psword is the best choice

faint beacon
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Tactical Axe is right there also

faint beacon
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Can’t comprehend a good weapon when you see it

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🚬

barren girder
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another WS question: is it generally worth trying to keep 100% melee specialist uptime even if it chews through your ammo? i'd assume it would be for havoc especially when using shotties, but how about lower difficulties?

faint beacon
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Not really honestly

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Ranged is more worth it

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Melee is just a nice touch

barren girder
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so just have the stacks banked for when necessary, then whip out gun with buff

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unless it's dense horde you really need to thin then shoot double barrel every time you get 3 stacks for guaranteed crit bleed?

faint beacon
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Yup

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Manstopper will delete a horde

tame lodge
barren girder
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for mixed horde it doesn't really fully kill ragers i noticed, but i assume the point there is to thin them out with the bleed to be able to shred them faster with the PS?

tame lodge
long dove
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I'll experiment with both builds to see which I like more.

faint beacon
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🚬

tame lodge
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ahem

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The best stagger is death

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ahem

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ahem

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Ugh I think there's something stuck

faint beacon
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The shit ton of chaffe I’m killing and something Ermm

tame lodge
#

blah

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hrurp

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ACH

faint beacon
#

The elites getting knocked around whilst rapidly being whittled to death

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Urrp

tame lodge
#

3 cleave lol

faint beacon
#

Can’t hear you blah blah blah

tame lodge
#

3 cap lol

red robin
#

What weapon yall referencing?

unreal nova
faint beacon
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Tactical Axe

tame lodge
red robin
#

Zamnn

barren cave
#

Karsolas pickaxe is crazy

red robin
#

Any new tech on taxes?

tame lodge
#

Yeah

red robin
#

With the changes?

tame lodge
#

Throw them on the trashcan

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They made them more nimble

red robin
#

It’s so over

tame lodge
#

So you can attack from running

red robin
#

Neat

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All it needs is charging heavy attack that speeds you up

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Love little tech like that

tame lodge
#

Mk4 is now usable but still leaves a bad aftertaste

red robin
#

Or the swinging momentum speeds you up a bit

faint beacon
#

It’s good

red robin
#

Vt2 days of bret sword swinging to run around

faint beacon
#

Higui is just a hater

tame lodge
#

Because I'm right

red robin
#

If taxe ain’t right then imma be wrong

barren girder
#

just give it a shot and if you fw it use it

faint beacon
#

This is him

barren girder
#

too many things to take a grain of salt of on this discord ima be real

red robin
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I like anything that I’ve haven’t gotten bored of

barren cave
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What does the smoke nade do

#

I need to use it for the penance

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Seems like it does nothing

tame lodge
#

It disrupts every ranged enemy with a gun
Dogs
And beast of nurgle

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Just remember to stay inside the smokes

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Depending on your surroundings

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Makes you immune to flamers

long dove
#

I wish Chword was decent/ good in havoc

faint beacon
#

You can actually toss BM for Shred + HT

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mainly if you're running the Push = 75% Cleave

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Arby is like one of the only classes that can get away with that, its weird knowing they have a shit ton more options on Taxe cause of that Talent

tame lodge
#

Tactical Axe is also capped

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So with BM you get to damage 4

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Truly a shit weapon

past stratus
#

I do not like the Taxe moveset

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this is my daily taxe hate post

hollow ibex
#

buff taxe again

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i like seeing taxe haters cope

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^ me sipping the tears of taxe haters (which is of course, cheap lipton tea)

past stratus
#

no you see, I know the taxe is a decent weapon

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I just don't like how it plays

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the animations are fast and floaty

tame lodge
#

Remove the cap then it's a good weapon

hollow ibex
#

honestly taxe is prob a bit too good rn even with the cap

tame lodge
#

Nah

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Cap insta shit

barren girder
#

what source can i go to to check weapon caps

tame lodge
#

No exceptions

tame lodge
barren girder
#

oh theres no collated data sheet or w/e? damn

hollow ibex
#

what weapons even have caps now

#

just taxe heavies?

midnight totem
#

I don't hate tac axe

tame lodge
#

And chain axes

midnight totem
#

But axes are ugly

hollow ibex
#

oh right

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i forgot about chaxes

barren girder
#

wait so taxe has a cap but combat axe doesn't? bruh

hollow ibex
#

Rashad effective has a cap

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One of the others has like no cleave iirc

tame lodge
#

Achlys

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All lights and h1

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0.001 cleave

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💀

hollow ibex
#

i think gale said it's good on arbi

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and then antax is just a worse rashad

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well actually they both prob are

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but sounds like achlys has better synergies

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with arbi

barren girder
#

yea i was wondering if i could just use taxe for WS DB when i dont feel like playing power sword since i find taxe performance better against carapace compared to rashad

hollow ibex
#

rashad should be able to 3-shot crushers

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on vet

#

taxe is prob a bit slower

barren girder
#

huh, does it need crit?

#

i cant make it do that

hollow ibex
#

i think that's with one crit

#

which should be very easy with desperado

barren girder
#

hm

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i'll play around with it when i can hop on later

tall torrent
tall torrent
tall torrent
hollow ibex
#

yeah i forgot chaxe is a thing

round crystal
#

i love the chain axe

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i mostly play auric though, am trying to break into havoc

abstract sand
#

it will give you a higher starting havoc grade

hollow ibex
#

makes sense with all those buffs stacked

tame lodge
#

I was looking for a video like that recently

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But it was Sneaky Cats one

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Where they one shot like 5 crushers in a row

past stratus
#

When are getting peak melee in darktide? https://youtu.be/2qYJI_HLFsY?si=5Vwybg4CODQSOd2B

Build: https://www.ranalds.gift/heroes/5/132221/37-3-4-6/70-4-5-2/3-2-1/4-1-2/7-2-2
NOTE: Unfortunately, in a recent patch they removed Conservative Shooter from the Trollhammer talent pool. RIP meme build.
Also for the last event you can just carry the ball up the ladder I dont know why but I forgot you could and kept trying to throw it up. 2k ...

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marble bridge
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can we get actual pole weapons too

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like the elf javelins or something

civic apex
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You’ll have more auto guns and like it

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:c

calm shard
#

tempted to engage in deranged behavior and drop both grenade regens on my exe stance infantry autogun build

hollow ibex
#

wtf

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show me where syvat touched you

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you poor man

calm shard
#

eh actually

#

probably not worth

#

those 2 points wouldn't go into anything substantial

past stratus
#

Are you dropping it for longshot and deadshot too?

calm shard
#

I already always use deadshot on exe builds

#

Not in melee often enough to have good uptime on it xd

hollow ibex
past stratus
hollow ibex
#

i prob already have KEKW_ogryn

civic apex
#

The guns feel weird to use as the only dmg source

#

Most of the enemies die by melee anyways

civic apex
#

Mmmmm ammo

calm shard
#

nah

#

helbore IV

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never grabbed an ammo tin

civic apex
#

Wild

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Survivalist op

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Nerf

hollow ibex
#

vet too op in general

#

nerf pls

civic apex
#

Nerf helbore buff arb

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Arb needs inf cleave

faint beacon
#

its funny how long longshot has been bad and they just simply refuse to do anything with it

past stratus
#

oh I played with a John Warhammer before

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Vet

tame lodge
#

🚬

hollow ibex
serene bough
#

I still think the sensible balance option for vet is to nerf recon back to dogshit tier

round crystal
#

vet keystones should be scattered to replace the shit nodes

#

and replaced with heavy weapons keystones, like grenade launcher, volley gun, unique relic blade or powerfist + bolt pistol maybe. that are all usable for a small bit after combat ability

ember nest
#

you want a relic blade

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keystone

#

?

round crystal
#

wait wait hear me out

hollow ibex
#

turret keystone

ember nest
#

what's with people and turrets

round crystal
#

its one handed and paired with a bolt pistol. and you whip that bitch out with your combat ability

unreal nova
ember nest
#

okay but the're either going to be dogshit, or trivialize parts of the game. There's no happy medium w/ those.

round crystal
#

you're probably right

unreal nova
round crystal
#

uhhh, is that a tabletop character?

unreal nova
round crystal
#

the only books ive read so far are siege of vraks and the gaunts ghosts series

unreal nova
#

Very Hawt Commissar lady.

sonic kayak
unreal nova
sonic kayak
#

That's some proper kultur right there

unreal nova
#

Always think she runs Bistol+Powerfist and taught Fuklaw about it.

round crystal
#

its a cool combo. Have been dying waiting for vet content, I hope we get some cool new weapons soonish

#

and emperor willing, a skill tree rework

hollow ibex
round crystal
#

what year is it now

past stratus
#

hopium

round crystal
#

its all I've got

civic apex
#

Arbitrator is vet 2.0

#

You’ll lose it when you see zealot 2.0

wide obsidian
ember nest
#

I just want a more meaningful turret stance (some heavy personal damage mitigation would do nicely) and something that makes infiltrate not a "get your buddies smacked by a crusher" button

ember nest
#

nah castigator's purpose is a bit different

#

That's more of a "you can't fuckign stop me" stance

hollow ibex
#

tbh you can already do castigator turret if you want

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just stand still and blast things

ember nest
#

turret stance as in you are the turret
castigator's doesn't really give you much of a damage buff unless you somehow kill a ton of elites/specials during it

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exe gives u a damage buff

hollow ibex
#

true

civic apex
#

Don’t really need a damage boost if you can two shot a pack of specials in h40

ember nest
#

so something like that that just gave you a decent amount of toughness DR and no flinch would be good because in the situations you want to use it, you're usually getting shot at

civic apex
#

Isn’t it the stagger that causes the primary aim troubles?

ember nest
#

like the enemies staggering or you staggering

civic apex
#

You getting staggered

ember nest
#

ye I think so

civic apex
#

You being suppressed is minimal

#

And the stagger stems from taking dmg

ember nest
#

you can take a perk that leaves you unsuprressed the whole time iirc

civic apex
#

The suppression is very hard to notice

#

On oneself

ember nest
#

I notice it when I get suppressed

civic apex
#

Ah, i find it not impactful on my aim

past stratus
#

suppress this

ember nest
#

?

civic apex
#

Oh I don’t really use the gun guns

past stratus
#

what the heck I didn't remember the Ilas had such violent suppression

#

maybe the guy that picks the suppression immunity talent is right

calm shard
#

Ilas gets the worst of it

#

Genuinely unusable if you are being suppressed by anything

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Iag is bad but managable at short range

#

bolter is irritating but usually doesn't matter

#

shotguns also get it pretty bad but who gives a shit their use case isn't against enemies that can suppress you anyways

manic umbra
#

What’s the build for taxe rn

#

Been sleeping on it for too long

past stratus
#

for any melee you just pick desperado and trench fighter

manic umbra
#

I mean blessings/perks*

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And best mark

tame lodge
#

🗣️

#

It's just a casual melee build

past stratus
#

idk what it is but let me try to guess. Brutal Momentum + whatever the fuck

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yeah the Hammer says Brutal Momentum + Headtaker

hollow ibex
#

perks i run unarmored + carapace

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though tbh you could prob swap out carapace for something else

hollow ibex
#

or HT + deci if you like to suffer

#

mk4 is also funny for the memes, but strictly worse

grand pumice
#

hows plasma gun?

hollow ibex
#

still very strong, still very boring

grand pumice
#

asking for friend whos a newb vet

hollow ibex
#

still a bitch to roll

manic umbra
#

never woulda thought i'd see taxe being meta

#

ish

grand pumice
#

elaborate on strong

hollow ibex
#

good damage, very good cleave, good mag econ, decent ammo econ, good breakpoints if built right

tall torrent
past stratus
#

I'm rolling with 60% thermal resistance on mine and it is not too bad

#

using optimized cooling

hollow ibex
#

best i got was a 70-70 after 2.5m to that scammer brunt

calm shard
#

I got mine in 2 minutes lol

#

the duality of darktide luck

#

And I don't even use it because I don't like the plasma gun

fleet cloud
#

Bomber resist includes those AOE fire pads as a result of their bombs right?

calm shard
#

did you need to ask in every single chat

#

pretty sure somebody coulda answered in any one of them

fleet cloud
#

yes

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yes i did

sly blaze
#

How do yall feel about competitive Urge, i feel like its worth it in higher difficulty

tall torrent
calm shard
#

bad uptime, kinda okay buff

#

even in that high density it's not...great

tame lodge
sly blaze
#

yeah i also feel that the uptime is not too great

tame lodge
#

It's there™

#

And it exists ™

sly blaze
#

REAL

past stratus
#

isn't competitive urge like 2,5% chance to get a pretty underwhelming buff?

tall torrent
#

But 2.5% chance on pure RNG, triggered exclusively by kills not by you, for a buff that lasts only 8s

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Is pretty meh

#

If it wasn’t pure RNG (cumulative 2.5% chance up to 100%) and worked off ur own kills then it’d be good enough

calm shard
flat cypress
#

Does anyone have a good build for veteran my buddy’s playing it and has no clue what to do for his skill tree

hollow ibex
#

has instructions on how the build is meant to be used

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at the bottom

round crystal
umbral scaffold
#

It's nice to see some different weapons and skills compared to the usual ds plas voc build

#

Hopefully vet returns to its former glory soon

calm shard
#

I think it would be really funny if shock trooper worked on all weapons

#

Can you imagine infinite ammo bolter or infantry autogun

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actually probably not hard to imagine them

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becaues of helbore and recon lasgun xd

tame lodge
#

Or like

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Mortis Trials

grand perch
#

instead it gets competitive urge and extra suppression....right

round crystal
#

It has access to all three keystones if someone wanted to take one yes. If you really, really an extra 20% of damage after waiting 10 seconds, you are very welcome to go for focus target. Weapon master doesn't really add anything to this build, and neither does marksmans focus...

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So yes. Competitive Urge which is basically always on in high intensity giving a constant +20% base damage, +20% melee impact, and +20% suppression was chosen instead. The extra suppression given by KTHD makes gunners and reapers a complete non issue.

grand perch
#

ngl giving up the steady bonus damage from ft and extra swing speed / fire rate bonus from WS to lean into meme mechanics like suppression and an infamously unreliable competitive urge is kind of crazy

round crystal
hollow ibex
#

i've seen worse on GL

round crystal
#

Frankly you could run that build with 5 or 6 nodes left over and be completely fine on Damnation / Auric

warm schooner
#

competitive urge is just odd

round crystal
#

it is odd

grand perch
round crystal
#

its basically a buff every 40 kills

warm schooner
#

it really doesn't proc as often as you might think

round crystal
#

no, but by law of averages, it usually will when you're in the thick of things. It's just for fun on a simple build

warm schooner
#

keystone is w.e, even marksman or some of the earlier talents makes more sense

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or stamina regen delay reduction

#

more reliable, fires more often

#

marksman especially if you can reliably land weakpoint hits is nice

round crystal
#

brauto just doesn't make great use of that

warm schooner
#

since it works on melee or range

round crystal
#

its already going to delete anything at close range

#

chainaxe would for boss damage

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but thats about it

#

Already 1 shot crushers with chaxe

#

reapers melt

warm schooner
#

killing bosses faster is not nothing

round crystal
#

true, but the build has regen kraks

past stratus
#

I think an important aspect of this conversation is that the keystones, no matter how janky still give you control over your gameplay. You do a thing and you receive your benefits. So you can plan your steps while you play and effectively deal with situations with those in mind.

#

it is not comparable to the gacha talent that has a small percentage of giving you a buff

#

not that I'm against anyone playing a gamba build, twinned blast, and all of that

#

just being pragmatic about it

round crystal
#

RNG is not preferred. Ideally, the veteran would have a tree more closely resembling the Arbitrators and we would be having a different conversation.

#

I am the author of that build, and I have already adjusted it to include your suggestions, it was just built that way originally because the build already had absolutely everything it needed for the difficulty it was created for.

The type of people willing to run brauto and chaxe at this point are not going to notice weakspot damage on shout.

midnight totem
#

Lol competitive urge, lmao

tawny timber
round crystal
#

demo team is superior on high intensity shock troop.

tawny timber
#

"RNG is not preferred"

#

type shi

round crystal
#

Okay, you can take one grenade a minute, or chuck a couple of shredders in auric and get them back when they go off lol.

#

I don't think I'm wrong for suggesting that demo team is far superior. Not to mention, every time demo team gives you a nade, it resets the timer for demolition stockpile, meaning it will basically never trigger on higher difficulties.

past stratus
#

The problem of the build is lack of control on a class that is all about control. Veteran is not a run and gun, plug and play type of class. In higher difficulties you have to be very aware of all the steps you take to engage combat. If you take a mistep, it is very likely that you might get punished. So knowing that once I swap from my sword with 10 stacks of WS, I have a guaranteed crit and knowing that with my current setup a crit from my Bistol will 100% kill a gunner. Means that I can plan my actions to get rid of that gunner for sure, based on only my own ability to perform the task (hitting the shot)

round crystal
#

That has never been my experience with that build.

past stratus
#

maybe you're a god gamer, who knows?

#

maybe you thrive in incertainty

#

built different or whatever

round crystal
#

It's the agripinaa braced.... it doesn't really need crits. neither does the chain axe

#

I know that if I charge a heavy, whatever it hits will die. If I shoot a group of enemies, they will get supressed, and then die..

#

why don't we all just run the plasma gun and dueling sword with WS, that'll be neat!

tame lodge
#

Too much single target

past stratus
#

I don't like Plasma gun with WS

#

FT is way more comfortable

round crystal
tame lodge
#

Oh I wasn't talking about your build

#

That being said

round crystal
#

oh okay

round crystal
#

what, you prefer the variant that chains on light attacks?

tame lodge
#

Yeah

round crystal
#

fair

tame lodge
round crystal
#

this buiild is meant to be noob friendly

tame lodge
#

It can actually clear hordes (both still capped)

round crystal
#

Shovel is the only thing I can think of that might round it out better in melee

#

obv the plasma sword but those builds are already out there

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and the dodge is not forgiving

formal ice
grand perch
#

no CDDC would buff hotshot veteran by a lot KEKW_ogryn

little path
#

What I want is the LMG lasgun these traitor gunners havae

round crystal
#

would interfere with backpack cosmetics : (

#

probably a no go lol

#

would love the volley gun though

little path
#

Most backpacks look ugly anyway

round crystal
#

true

#

I want a power fist for vet unique weapon

little path
#

I think that would go on like

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a sisters of battle class

round crystal
little path
#

wtf

round crystal
#

guardsman def get em

little path
#

that's goofy as hell

#

Give me 4 marks

#

and only 1 is good

#

but yeah for me a true LMG weapon for guardsman would be nice

#

or a true DMR weapon

#

that isn't the lucius because the lucius is a pain in the ass to use

round crystal
#

I think the twin linked stubber the ogryn has was originally supposed to be an automatic vet weapon

#

its on our art, up in the top of the skill tree

#

lucius would benefit immensely from not being so slow to swap to ; (

#

I would love a long las, but this games balancing would make that so terrible

little path
#

also get rid of the charge mechanic

ember nest
#

I just want our fuckin hotshot las man

round crystal
#

yeah

#

I wanna cosplay the tanith 1st

little path
#

hope for hotshot/hellgun

#

and hotshot volley

round crystal
#

and more closed helmets

little path
#

wait no, they made hotshots and gellguns separate thhons now

round crystal
#

hotshot is basically like a plasma gun now right?

ember nest
#

no

round crystal
#

hotshot lasgun was armor piercing with a power pack

ember nest
#

depends on the mark

#

technically scab gunners use them

round crystal
#

hotshot volley gun?

#

or is that not a thing

#

also, for long las, they could make it a special ammo for infantry lasgun

#

like the special ammo for exterminator shotgun

#

thats how it works in lore anyways

ember nest
#

overcharge mechanics could be kinda neat

round crystal
#

Dan Abnett wrote Gaunts Ghosts, and is writing the story for Darktide. Wouldn't hurt to use some of his stuff

little path
#

okay okay

#

so now currently in official lore

round crystal
#

in that series, there are hotshot battery packs I think. they also have overcharge or undercharge on their lasguns

little path
#

hotshots and hells are kind of the same thing

round crystal
#

what are they now

little path
#

With names being interchangable OR based on pattern

ember nest
#

vets should be reworked to effectively allow for bootleg stormtroopers

little path
#

but overall basically just interchangable names

ember nest
#

that's more or less what we've become at this point

little path
#

so kasrkin

round crystal
ember nest
#

kinda but more on the side of tempestus scions

round crystal
#

minus the carapace armor and heavy weapons

#

A Tempestus Scion in service to the Inquisition.

ember nest
#

we're doing shit as dangerous as they do, in less numbers

Clueless I think we're qualified

round crystal
#

sorry, hope images aren't a problem.

#

we are officially part of the warband at level 30 right?

little path
#

🤷

#

rannick is a fucking moron so uuuh

#

who knows

ember nest
#

from what the dialogue says yeah

#

but

#

the whole situation is

#

a little weird, just because of what grendyl's done

round crystal
#

grendel is a strange creature

ember nest
#

he's pressganged a lot of random mfs into this campaign

little path
#

we know who grendyl is now

round crystal
#

who be

little path
#

A ghost

round crystal
#

?

little path
#

he haunt the ship

round crystal
#

o i c

ember nest
#

we

little path
#

he is literally the ship

ember nest
#

that's

#

so funny

#

so we're crazy ass mfs running around and serving a strange ghostman who has...posessed brahm's ship?

#

this is why I like 40k

little path
#

Also he's the shipmitress brahms grand dad

#

he literally just keeps listing the ship in his kid's inheritence

round crystal
#

but if he's with a rogue trader

#

why does he care about / order around the inquisition

little path
#

so when one kid dies the ship is passed down to the next kid

#

and then uses the kid as a mouth piece/ puppet

#

by uuuh

#

being spooky at them I guess

little path
round crystal
#

i think..

little path
#

probably

ember nest
round crystal
#

that grendel is zola

#

and it was a prank

#

but now its gone too far to back out

ember nest
#

she joined after though

#

like way after

round crystal
#

as far as we know

ember nest
#

you gotta remember that grendyl's been around for about as long as Morrow has

little path
#

but what if

round crystal
#

sure but zola is a genstealer

little path
#

zola is the god emperor

ember nest
#

which used to confused the shit out of me before the whole "Ghost" thing

round crystal
#

they can live for at least thirty years

little path
#

and has actually pretended this whole time

#

Yeah grendyl be a ghost

#

he might be in a spirit stone

ember nest
#

when u hear that the inquisitor that kidnapped morrow is grendyl's...friend

little path
#

like an eldar one

#

maybe

#

But yeah give us Hotshot/hellgun/Both as different guns. One being an LMG and other being DMR

#

also power fist

#

and then give ogryn just regular fists

#

like if you unequip your weapon you just throw hands

ember nest
#

I forsee this game getting slowly more rediculous as time goes on

#

I see the day when the chainsword somehow ends up in S teir

round crystal
#

i mean

#

chainsword is one of best horde clear in game, no?

little path
#

nu

round crystal
#

it just doesn't really do carapace

ember nest
#

maybe the eviscerator

round crystal
#

not even