#veteran-class
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@tall torrent competitive urge worth it?
short answer: no
long answer: fuck no
lore reason?
Looking for chill friends to play with while I work on builds
Because teammates can't kill for shit and 2.5% chance lmao
(Also it never procs when you actually need it)
assuming h40
so first off u need to know that DT uses pseudo RNG, but it's really weird because it truncates chance percentages which stretches out the probability curve significantly towards lows
since it refresh during activate and last for 8 sec
lemme put it into perspective how DT's pseudo RNG works
comp urge is 2.5% chance
"on average" it should work once ~40 teammates' kills
however in the PRD model used by the game, there's only ~50% chance this works once across ~40 teammates' kills
it's theoretically possible to go 1.6k+ teammates' kills before u get a comp urge proc
Consistent damage > gamba
99% of people quit before they win big
it's not that the gambling sucks
this shit so as
it's that, first off, the effect is good but not "that good"
There's also a really major flaw with comp urge.
20% global dmg is good
20% melee stagger is really case dependent and usually doesn't change stagger breakpoints
and 20% suppression we don't care about
and secondly
the RNG is not in ur control
It's a completely dead talent if you're out of coherency.
Meaning, if you happen to be the last one alive, it's just completely dead.
no actually
i was wondering since thge +20% base damage is kinda huge
comp urge doesn't check coherency
comp is any ally
It doesn't?
someone can kill a groaner 125m+ away from u and u randomly get a proc
But that doesn't change the other part.
the buff itself is good but not "so good that it's huge"
Which is that it's just dead if you're the only one alive.
and the RNG is horrible
I actually think
if u wanted comp urge
do urself a favor
and run marksman instead
if ur gonna run a high dmg less uptime talent might as well get smth u actually have control over & know when it's active
Also comp urge procs generally happen during hordes and not boss or patrols where you need the buff the most
comp urge could be ok if it was 5% chance and lasted much longer
Did they buff recon? 😈
Fatshark fears what they do not understand
Thats true
Screen clearing a wall of ogryns is a dopamine hit
I got Hive Scum during the event and it was so goofy
Infinite ammo pickpocket spray and pray everything, then your blitz refreshing when you wipe Crusher walls so you can just use it again on the next wave too
The worst were the burster waves as people INSISTED on pushing them
But it's like 10 bursters lol
-Brick, where did you get that rocket propelled grenade
-I don't know
VoC can't stop more than 1 burster explosion lol
People sprinting at a burster wall to try pushing them and then dying instantly from full HP
It was such a funny event LMFAO
"erm you always push bursters lmao" -> gets hit because they only pushed 2-3 of them
I remember running all max HP curios with HP perks and corruption resist on my Arbites purposely to run at them while Castigator's was up and slap them to see how far they'd throw me
I could get away with however many popped in my face and then do it again just for fun
It was funny how much Arbites just doesn't care about poxbursters
I mean, why would you with 80% DR?
Ehm, 70% now.
That and Arbites has a crazy high HP pool too and stacking HP curios/corruption resist made it feel like the poxbursters only ever tickled LOL
Not as much as Ogryn but like Castigator's
200 HP base still goes far especially with all the funny HP curios
Yeah, I'm not sure if that makes you flat out immune to bursters
No but they don't really hurt
Rumbling Giants had a lot of funny things to play with while it was going but I imagine the average Zealot had an awful time
Ik Casti+Tree pox resist+1 resist curio blessing made you immune which was funny
Arby was funny for infinite shock mines so it never mattered how many Crushers/Bulwarks spawned you were just going to lock them down so the Vet/Scum could clean up
Not a fatmangus zealot
Yummy bursters
Tasty
man do i love the no mans land map
however i do not like that this game just constantly crashes now
idk why
aint got no mods
maybe ill just clean reinstall
do you have amd?
intel
damn
i7-14700f
I am lucky that I had not experienced any crashes
How do I make veteran more fun?
He was my favorite character when I started playing the game but now he’s just kinda
Not fun anymore
I’ve tried a few different builds but none have given me the same enjoyment as other characters
Have you given this a try?
https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9fad575e-f27e-44fc-bd9f-f62dd7ed4001/how-to-have-fun
No I think other than arby I haven’t touched a shotgun in this game
I will give it a try thank you
i noticed you don't have infiltrate equipped was this a misclick?
unrelated but do you have a version of this build that can use infiltrate
my friend is glued to dueling sword infiltrate BAG rightnow for some reason and i want whats best for him
not me fr
someone else that isn't me
i don't know why they like stealth so much aside from it being clutch for rez
There’s an infiltrate build in the pinned guide
Does anyone else not like the dueling sword? Even with proper blessings it just feels like I’m swinging nothing
No oomph
DS doesnt have very rock n roll horde clear
So I haven’t used it since getting its mastery to 20
DS is disliked by many
popping heads on ragers and shit is satisfying but it kinda has the most fuckass horde
truth nuke
and you can do the former with other stuff
Still strong though
plasgun is so BOOOOOORING!!!!!
the poke IS satisfying to me though
unrelated but wtf they added a double barrel
ive been gone way too long
that was a recent thing
Reject plasgun, embrace spray and pray reconlas
nvm
DS didnt even have a parry for a long time
it was in bound by duty that they gave it to dueling sword iirc
Top tier quick stagger
Rip little poke that could stagger Crushers
You will be missed
And mutants
mf youre on the darktide server
Yeah
we all have some kind of problem
you can parry anything right
aside from bullets
Yeah
and explosions?
or grabs
so crusher overhead begone...
im guessing you kinda gotta run plasma or smth to pair with DS? or does other shit have comparable horde
im going to be honest i dont think dueling sword is that good on vet
prob the worst class to use it on
my buddy just likes it :(
gg
He was like "oh the power sword doesn't feel that good" and i went "you really need power cycler for it to feel good on the special" and he went "special?"
lmao
he was beating people with a blunt piece of metal for a whole mission and didn't clock the fact that his power sword hadn't exhibited anything related to its name :(
either way assuming we're just doing auric/maelstroms and not any havoc shit for now, what would be premier hordeclear ranged that i could suggest if someone were to hypothetically be playing veteran and using an unnamed weapon that has bad horde?
You need something for hordes
Double Barrel with Manstopper is top tier mixed hordes muncher
Lmao, 30 minutes into havoc game after clutching... mission aborted
what about bolter 4
Grenade spam with Bolt Pistol lethal proximity
bolter numba 5
Shotgun and weapon specialist
what is a reason to use the mk3 boltgun?
less dmg, less ammo. what is it better at?
AOE mixed horde
And better firing controls
Breakpoints are largely similar between the 2 boltgun variants
ok
am i correct in thinking that ranged weapons have different base run speeds?
They do
every weapon has different run speeds
what are the fastest?
pistols are generally the fastest
I have sprint bonus listed
bro the pinned guide is like 5000 pages and i can never find the info im looking for
control+f
:3
Navigation panel exists
yea i wouldnt even know what section this info would be under
i just spent a minute typing in different search terms with no luck at all
section of each weapon
just search "sprint speed" or something lol
It’s there in each weapon’s section
is the backstab shooting and raking fire on the infantry autogun worth taking?
no
is withering fire worth using on any of the recon lasguns?
XIV with 3 cleave base
dont think i have that mk made, cleave is its stand out trait?
or has something else good running for it
Shoots slower
More cleave
Depends on how much you value being able to cleave through an extra chaff and various scrawny specials/gunners
probably not THAT much, still prying my head to figure a support build for the class that feel that im not scamming my team
the cleave has proven somewhat useful to kill that annoying trapper in the middle of a swarm of walkers
but not sure how good is that
I mean, shout and kraks are the best support 
Reconlas means you’re giving your team most of the ammo, the cleave can technically save even more ammo since you need less shots to wipe a horde theoretically
but the gun itself cost more ammo per shot so am i really saving ammo?
yeah im questioning that one after a use, absolutely eats more ammo in spite of cutting swarms with more ease
Yea, I like not eating the ammo because I like shooting everything that twitches
I use the inf las gun with the max ammo and the node that gives you 20 percent more ammo
So I have like over a thousand ammo
So I don’t have to worry about ammo
I can let others with ammo hungry weapons use ammo pickups
Does finesse effect reconlas at all?
it has some? but i dont think its something you need to boost
It’s really funny that just hipfiring into zombies will get you 15 stacks of Marksman’s Focus, I just don’t know if that does anything 
not that worth imo, better to have other keystones imo
inf lasguns probably care more for it tho
Checked the guide and they have a .75 finesse modifier
that sounds small(?)
Yeah, oh thought it effected critical chance too but it doesn’t. Rip. So no point for reconlas 
it's on the llower end
but honestly still higher than i thought it was
thought it was .3 or some shit lmao
and then there's fucking brauto
💀
like bro
why does this thing have the same finesse as the fucking flamer
Hey can I ask what curios you guys normally run for veteran specifically?
Think it’s worth running Marksman’s Focus with that modifier? 
at least 1 hp, then a mix of hp/stam/tough depending on gamemode/preference
Yea didn’t think so, thought maybe the rending and reload speed might be neat too but I can just nab those in different nodes 
because otherwise it would make the inf lasgun shining buffs irrelevant
I love the cleave talent with the mk12 recon las. It feels so good 
Picking my chainsword back up for a melee vet build
Im finding its surprisingly adept versus everything
Might just because Im running shred, and it procs that damage increase by 20 percent if melee crit node for ridiculous uptime
you didn't run into any crushers perchance?
1 stam/1 toughness/1 hp, 1 stam/2 toughness (this is risky, but viable on aurics and below.) or 2 toughness/1 hp.
Kraks
Damage and crit boosted revs also killed them pretty fast, imho
You should wait
ye level matters for all things shop
what would be the best gun to do this killshot ready penance? infantry lasgun?
Power Sword 6
wait it counts on melee kills?
kill x amount of enemies under y stacks of mmf
So yeah as long as you have the y stacks of mmf it'll count
But if you still want to shoot hordes for some reason
Recon XIV
Helbore V
Bolter
IAG Agri 1
Scattershot Manstopper Zarona Shotgun
Spam special shot at head level
Reconlas mk12, just hipfire into a big horde and you’ll max stacks and get a bunch of headshot kills 
I farmed this penance with the combat shotgun at the start of mercantile where it spawns endless waves
Well kraks would do it. Revs are also pretty bad against carapace
Well, it won't handle havoc hordes of rotten armor
But the occasional handful, its more then sufficient
Now, if some of the weaker crit blessings got a little something
Crucial Roulette and Devastating Blow for example
Not the biggest fan of the chainswords. Always found the movement with it kinda awkward
how do u slide sideways or backwards?
Dodge button -> direction plus crouch
i mean they're purely a weapon for horde clear
if there's anything slightly girthier in the horde
its effectiveness drops off very very quickly
I havent played Vet in a while. Did they buff shout revive?👀
Kinda. Shout cdr got nerfed overall. Shout revive got the reduced radius and the increased cdr removed
Anyways it's not a detriment to pick it nowadays
So go forth
Yell at them to get up
GET THE FUCK UP 🗣️
Im doing havocs. And its really tempting. But not sure what to sacrifice. It's either conditional reload speed or extra grenade (and grenades are essential against rotten armor)
You see that's the problem
I don't think I would pick it into rotten armor
Vet never has remaining points
straight to the graveyard
For fun stuff
Just don’t take a keystone smh
Shocktrooper gang 💪
Tempted to take Covering Fire with how much I end up spraying enemies near teammates because they don’t notice the dudes poking them in the ass
I made up my mind. The reload speed increase if there is ammo in magazine is not really worth it with bolt pistol. might be more useful with larger magazines, but 8 shots run out before you know it
thats why i run it personally
I love that talent with reconlas 
vet needs a melta hell id even take a hotshot lasgun
Hii! What are the blessings/perks/dumpstat/mark for heavy laspistol?
bleed for sure
i use dmg to staggered as second
for blessings that is. if u mean bolt pistol
Theres enough weapons that lack marks. Or weapons that can be added easier than melta
I'm currently asking for heavy laspistol recommendations
ah, my bad
mk ii is the good one
maniac/unyielding + dumdum + ghost/infernus
pinned guide has more info
ohh sweet, thanks!!
If the goal of rising heat and get hot is to edge the plasma gun around 80-90 heat why do I want 69 thermal resistance just to get me one more shot from 0-100
because its an extra shot before you need to wait for cooling down
from 0-100 heat, yes.
80 thermal resist gets two shots from 80-100 heat.
60 thermal resist gets two shots from 80-100 heat.
69% lets you do eight hipfire shots in a row
Realistically you’re not going to be edging heat all the time
played some Heavy Sword w/ Bolter in H40, it's actually really good now, very reliable general-use melee
Is the helbore build in pinned guide generally going to be fine, or would I want something with a bit more emergency melee capability if I don't have a good frontline and/or is that even viable with a helbore build. or do you lose important breakpoints
Holy punctuation
deals with Rotten Armor Crushers decently well
Best thing to do would be to try it out and see if it fits your playstyle, it should be a pretty decent build tho
Tactical Axe is the go to melee for heavy investment on ranged
Solid
Safe
Fast
how much ammo do you go through
I ran it on some auric yesterday but had a psword. but I was moreso wondering havoc since I haven't dipped my toes in yet and ave limited resources to invest (haven't found a good taxe yet either)
I'm trying to revamp too many of my classes right now so I'm thin on plasteel 
If the taxes is a good investment I'll focus on that first
helbore builds typically just run DS or combat knife
I was told DS sucks yesterday am I getting ragebaited. If I have hb and ds where is my horde
like egoists said
DS is overrated on vet
No no DS is pretty good
In fact
It's too strong
That being said
Barely any horde clear
people say it sucks because they dont like people using it
I run it with dclaw, it helps with those situations where you just need to defend yourself, like mass ragers
Like helbore ds sounds like a nightmare if a group is on me
hell, helbore's bayonet is already great
yeah there's no point in taking two weapons that specialize in the same fucking thing
knife i can understand
DS with helbore is dumb
I'm gonna just
Go taxe
My carpal tunnel hasn't progressed far enough to need an alternative
It's more so because ds has pretty good mobility and block is decent too, also it has a parry
having a block-everything button after shooting shit with Helbore is always great
The new gear progression system is so much nicer when I last played it was basically pure rng 
not as good as dclaw tho, I'd rather have something that's a lot more specialized at a specific task. You can't tank gazillion ton of ragers with DS's parry like Dclaw can xD. Helbore already fills in on DS's role anyway
but obviously, no wrong choices here.
ps would be pretty much a wrong choice its just too immobile
and your taking zero melee talents with helbore
I'll prob try DS with a different gun at some point, I do like the wep although last time I used it it had the mutant stagger poke
PS on helbore is fine
basically yeah, needs sth mobile and defensive with Helbore
PS is strong even with 0 melee investment
nah
you have to work around the shit dodges
Yeah the h40 havoc players I've seen all run DS, scabs is one, my friend plays hb vet too on h40 with DS
but PS is powerful on any build you run
I will definitely try it but like I said I haven't havoc so will be a while before I h40 since I don't plan on getting boosted
My friends are very new and don't play shooters much to begin with lmao so I think it'll take a while even best case 
i mean its just not worth it to handicap your survivabillity when your not using it as much and with no melee talents
I mean I run power sword on havoc 40
Havoc is character dependent right so if you have h40 on one char you need to get all the way there on another?
(in helbore build)
yep, it's a helbore build too
no melee talents is irrelevant
and whether you can cope with psword dodges
depends on your own capabilities
no, once you clear havoc 40, it'll show on all your characters
i get not running psword with helbore
Oh nice
but it's hardly an objectively bad choice
psword is literally never an objectively bad option lol
Different strokes or whatever
a lot, but it was vs Rotten Armor so needed lots of ammo. Dc'd midway so yeah, 2 scoreboards here.
Its a nice reminder that a lot of this game is playstyle and preference
jeezus thats a shitton of ammo
I just like shooting things so I figured helbore was prob best pick and I used it a bunch before
Satisfying popping heads of basically any elite
other dudes were using flamer and stuff so if I see I pick up, that's about it really xD
no point leaving them untaken
the zealot was actually pretty conservative then he only picked up 2 ammo satchels and 2 crate charges
the ogryn too
he didn't use his flamer much, given it was vs Rotten Armor, Ogryn was on shield, mostly shielding
it was Grenadier Gaunlet, so yknow how it is with the dmg xD
I just feel like that sort of build doesn't really fit a team's niche or more like isn't the best at one role
Like the psyker mopped up most the melee and ranged elites and specials were about the same, while plasma vet would at least probably have more ranged elites/ranged specials
Yall is there any fix for the psword being super slow?
like its dodges are slow, you get your dodges back slow, swings slow, charges slow
why does everyone say its so good then?
It's tradeoff for high damage/cleave
thats really bad tradeoff though
You don't really get your dodges back slow
Because all your dodges are replenished once you stop dodging for 0.85 seconds
With it I cant dodge out of most attacks, what point is damage when Im always dead?
You didn't push enough
Some people argue otherwise, it has good stats on paper, but yeah mobility sucks and it's pretty clunky to use
it feels like the duration is so much longer
like as if its got an extra 0.3s tacked on
but how are you pushing, charging and attacking all at the same time? there's too many buttons
Yeah
Feels
But in fact still 0.85
I recommend going for a .25 stamina regen node on the talent tree
By practicing
You can activate push light light light
You can activate push attack light light
honestly Im finding it too many inputs as it is to have to keep activating it every few attacks
would be nicer if the charging animation was also a block, or if we could do both at the same time
he already holds it up like as if he's blocking anyways
when you've played enough it becomes muscle memory O_O
up to taste, it was Ventilation Purge Sniper Gaunlet as well so I wasn't the best at clearing ranged elites (while Psyker Wildfire kinda just do it nonchalantly most of the times), and Rotten Armor isn't typical to make comparisons. If it was non-Rotten, it'd be a lot different for sure. Plus, a lot of the times I was overshooting too.
I like Bolter vs ranged elites cuz it can stagger multiple gunners and 1-2shotkill them, oneshot basically all the disablers. Rotten Armor is an ammo-eater tho, but Bolter is better against them than Plasma.
I'd imagine so, but I wonder how long is long enough?
cuz if its too much time I'll just drop it and go back to use an axe or chainsword
Its pretty much muscle memory for me
But I like the weapon and the game
If you don't like a weapon, no amount of playing will get you used to/happy with it
There are plenty of other weapons
I like the game, but its hard for me to like the weapon when I can't kill 2 ragers with it without dying
Like me, I hate axes
You should be able to kill 10 Ragers without dying with a power sword
Rashad is bread and butter to lots of vets here. Hate it
huh, Im almost halfway there
It's extremely doable
all of that was mostly on vet too
I will say hivescum is better melee vet this patch at least
ok nvm Im nowhere close then lol
that time is split between all 6 characters for me
And thats executioner stance vet
exe makes it better because no hitstun and toughness regen
Im queueing into another one so my responses might be a little slow, but it really doesnt feel like it
I guess gold toughness would do the same thing until you get hit like once
Are you running mk6?
like Ill get hit once and my dude is disabled like as if they cut his spine out
oh boi i havent checked my hours for a while lol
I wish there was hit stun resistance somewhere in melee vet right sidetree
he wont charge, wont dodge and just becomes useless, then dies 2 hits later
That's more hours than DT whole existence 
I cant check right now as Im in an expedition but I believe so
Is your push attack a swing or a stab?
stab
Yeah more hours than DT whole existence

still pretty impressive to have hours almost 1/6 of the games existence
checked my hours and found out it's currently Mixed, i wonder what's the deal with it
saw a few of them talking about the new mode, ig ppl just don't really like change or sth.
new mode is pretty dead on auric first time I queued no one joined 😭
I mostly just quickplay lol
u get matches there pretty reliably
Trench fighter drills talent
because you can kill a crusher with somethng like 6500 dps lol
man I hit a scab rager with three lights and still needed another 3 after
how are you doing the entire crusher's health in one second??
hit weakspots
also talents probably
Push Attack
if Psword gets any better mobility, Vet would NEVER take anything else lol
Cuz everyone playing it seriously is speed running malice for progress lol
Tech remnants don’t scale based on difficulty atm which sucks
Doing that 250k TR penance in the mode’s current TR scaling on auric is just asking for slower progress
Game modes to fall asleep to
If they make auric TR 4x higher then I will be playing auric for it
People grind on sedition?
Lowest expedition difficulty is malice
shit man I went to the psykhaunium and had both a damage stimm and close quarter killzone and it only reached 3.8k
that was to the head as well
w/ skirmisher as well it was 4.1k
Push attack + L4
Check pinned guide on moveset
huh
Thats… bad
I never realized that there's a short window after the PA where the charge is still active
Yea ik
cuz usually it just fades out right away after a pa
https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/expeditions-initial-feedback/120087
I wrote a feedback piece on new mode
I’ve played expeditions a decent amount and have unlocked all 8 current grid points & gotten ~61k tech-remnants (TR), so here’s my general feedback for the mode. I want to start by saying that I enjoy the mode despite its faults, and that the mode is quite refreshing compared to the main game mode and the last 2 (more like 1.5) modes we’v...
I think I just had an aneurysm
It’s pretty good
Oh my bad
Plasma obv still top tier gun
Sorry I'm a lil green ;-;
50% Melee 50% Ranged builds
Even if I have 90 hours
mk6 PA L L combo
Oh, ooooh
Vig auto doesn’t really need dedicated ranged build to work (u can run it on a hybrid setup and do well)
What's the stuff for it?
On a dedicated ranged build it’s one of the strongest guns in the game
Capable of hitting havoc 1 burst breakpoints pretty easily
Neat
I haven't played Vigis in a while so I don't have any builds ready for it atm
The pinned guide probably has it
yeah that's good to know, thank you
I was gonna look there just in a min
When in doubt
Guide it out
It’s not a build dependent gun
What mark would you use the vigi autogun?
III
VII has better cleave but not as good breakpoints
IX has better carapace ADM but not as good breakpoints
Is there some kind of bug with the plasma gun?
I say 7 or 8 times times I whip it out -- my player is jammed to strafing left constantly. & it's always left.
I don't have this problem with my other Veteran main guns nor my non-main guns.
So bloody annoying in Auric & Auric Maelstrom difficulty.
I actually hate the pullout time nerf more than the cleave nerf
It’s noticeable but not by that much
Just run one motion lol
I always have, it still messes with my muscle memory
it adds like 50-100 ms more time to each weapon swap which is annoying
The cleave nerf I don’t think most people will notice unless they were shooting through a lot of maulers before
And charged shots are still worthless overall
people who use plasma to clear hordes*
Are u playing controller or mouse & keyboard
Keyboard + mouse.
All default since day 1. No mods either. Totally vanilla Darktide.
Do this then
k
There's no real bonus to one motion with knife and revolver is there
There isn't. I just miss Vanguard for that sweet sweet sprint efficiency
With knoife and bistol, the increase is basically pointless for most parts and is more for swapping to frags.
Cos yes, it works to make pulling out 'nades faster.
Nice. Though I suppose most players shouldn't have any trouble pulling nades when needed
Still nice to be able to drop them faster at times.
I have done with and without often enough that I can say it can be a diff of ministunning the arena or you get bonked by 20 ragers.
how many ragers
A lot
Whats the consensus right now, confirmed kill or out for blood.
confirmed for blood
Ck better, aye?
as opposed to out for kill
CK first
You know, when they release dual las pistols for hive scum, I hope vets get it too
why the zealot build in the pinned guide for assassin doesnt consider "Time to Kill"? i dont think the Thammer can realistically skip it to kill some enemies, am i wrong?
Mmmm
not ideal
doesn't change breakpoints that much for shroud
optimistic
outside of the vet power sword clone
the last time any already class got a brand new weapon was over a year ago
if we're not including weapon marks I think we've had more gimick modes than weapons released in the last year 
I would like for them to release weapons that can be used by multiple classes though
hive scums dual pistols make me so jealous
I wish they were on vet they look so badass
I wish Hive Scum had recon las
veterans. i have done it
2500 dead teammates 😔
I've had missions where I've taken more damage from teammates than enemies
I wonder if I ran into you UwU
europe
i also don't intentionally detonate barrels when teammates are near them
i cry and stall so they move out, meaning i get fewer kills, but still
i'd rather have 5 more heretics to kill than to have a worthless loyalist
Teammates the second I start shooting a barrel to blow up some enemies: 
it was nicer before crusher buff
gun doesnt cleave, doesnt do dmg
Averaging higher cleave than most weapon
Way higher damage than most weapon
Your shit is laced dawg
What blessings you running
I swear if you say armorbane

Are you charging it?
What blessings you running
Are you using the right mark? 
give me a moment

still gotta get it up
i know, but still the fact it feels so underwelming is insane
Yeah you're definitely feeling that low stopping power
+5% crit chance 😭
no?
get another armor perk there
unyielding?
whatever it is you feel youre struggling the most
I could swear there's a breakpoint for flamers or something with maniac on the Mk V but that's for Auric
could be worth testing in the Psykanium
the difference between a 1 tap flamer and needing 2 taps for headshots feels pretty big
If it's a multiplier then yeah
need flak armor
Try swapping to the mk III helbore
the mkV has the bayonet i enjoy,
The mk III has the same bayonet
Mk3 also stabs
Mk4 slashes
imagine even with all the buffs the gun still feels underwhelming asf
Nah
huh>?
1 shots everything
Mk V is more like a regular lasguns
they changed it?
Changed what?
Deez
Goteem
Mk3 and mk5 have had stabs since forever
Yeah
Mk4 is the slash one
mark 3 never done that
Mk 4 is the slash
it was a slash like the mk4
not anymore then
Mk III has always been a stab
check it out immediately
The real stabs are the friends we barreled along the way
Mk4 doesn't have a stab because it's the hardest hitting ranged weapon in the game
So it can't be good at everything
Why stab when shoot good
Single target? Helbore
Hordes? Helbore
Ammo? Infinite
Can't be good at everything
🚬
If I didn’t mind charge up weapons, I’d Helbore. I’m lazy tho so I reconlas
yeah i will
cheers
so the mk3 stabs now?
all i remember long ago when they first added it, i used both and never touched them again
i dont keep up to date with all the reworks
the mk5 just felt solid with the stab bayonet mostly
Yeah they changed the names
im pretty sure you only really go for carapace on mk4
idk i come back after having a good build before they added all these item systems and added the mastery system
so not for the mk3?
im coming back to the game after a few years honestly
so if you have any insight on whats useful and not
i appreciate it
is mk5 standard for helbore or is the addtl damage from mk4 meaningful if you're running weight of fire anyway
irrelevant with stacks up on MF
yes
between the two
VI
ty
check pinned guide
what Zealot keystone works better for the Rashad Caxe?
oh right yeah that was before the MF buff
Martyrdom or IJ
Attack speed melee damage
sry bumping this, or is it just pure preference
helbores are all good
which mark you use is up to personal preference
(mk5 is the best
)
rolled a 70/70 thermal/charge plasma.
Close enough.
whats optimal?
@tired egret
it's mainly preference and whether you want to be able to 1 shot all Ogryns and 2 shot Crushers reliably with the IV, or if you want something speedy enough to clear lots of targets with less time charging with the V, and the IIIa as the middleground if you want something faster than the IV but with more damage than the V
personally prefer the V just because you can skip Weight of Fire on it and put Hot Shot on it instead because the cleave gets funny with Hot Shot and Withering Fire
they're all really strong with Exe Stance/Marksman's Focus anyway
h mm okay i swapped to mkv and the problem was i was still on surgical wof
i can't aim for specials as fast as that shit was charging lol
that's what 'm using
surgical wof on mk5 is goated
ilas if it were good
it definitely wasn't bad the charge was just sof ast
i'm not sure which fires faster-- ilas mk ix or helbore mk v with wof
ilas mk ix is quite slow
mk v hb has the best damage:charge performance right
the speed takes getting used to but WoF Mk V feels really good to use when you get the pacing down
everything just evaporates so fast
pinned guide says 69/71 thermal/charge
I'm assuming 69 thermal is the minimum for eight m1s without venting heat.
yup
just looking at the variance in charge time, 71 charge would give a m1 0.645 between shots and m2 1.29s
idc enough to continue gambling for a hundredth and thousands of seconds.
i spent 2.5m and best i got was a 70/70
i used plasma maybe 10 times in a thousand hours of gameplay lol
I got really lucky on mine and decided to see how many dockets I'd spend after saving up like 6 million and got it in 3 rolls
it's just however Brunt's shop is feeling I guess
i think i spent 3 mil
When does the cosmetic shop rotate, debating if I want the Cadian or Stygian armor 
No way I'll change the mind of someone in such delusions
Mk5 helbore>>>>>inf lasguns
Recon lasguns > everything else
Heavy laspistol > heretics
I want to be dumb and run headhunter on my recon las
no carapace damage no good
Anyone wanna hop on and help me level up my veteran?
my normal playstyle just doesnt fit the helborn as much as the Infantry (specifically Mk2)
what's a helborn
the charging lasgun with the bayonet on it
the krieg las
god damn it, i must be more tired then i though i didnt notice i misspelled it, shows how little i use it
im not saying its not a good weapon, it has its uses, just like every gun and melee has its strengths and weakness, i have just never found success with it
Glorious Helbore Superiority
fair fair
helbore is an acquired taste
plus im bloody poor in the game man
give it time, soon you will have enough plasteel to build your own deathstar
I know, this game loves giving me platsteel but basically no diamantine, i wish i could trade some of the plat for diamantine
Helbore needs a buff fr fr
And a fookin sight
I HATE that a full charge does not drop what i clicked on.
Hitting rapid heads is to hard in a normal fight to ask of me to hit 2 or 3
I want my one charger to make everything short of a boss fall over.
Like the arbys shotgun does. But y'know. To one target
veteran class really needs the hotshot lasgun
So you want the mk4

Literally the hardest hitting ranged weapon in the game
mk4 with uncharged shots will one shot most human sized enemies lol
Nuh uh
Not good enough ffs
Also untrue
3k aint enough for me. I miss when i could hit for 10k a pop with my plasma gun xd
build issue
Simply. No
Fun issue
It sucks to use. Charged or uncharged.
Needs scope. Needs a small dmg it charge speed buff. Less stager when charging and getting hit
anyone ever tried the revolver with crucian roulette? and keeping it on 1 round?
Being a better gun is fun xd
Thats why i want the double barrel to kick ass
Since that would be fun. Its already funny to use
It already does
It just. Doesnt do anything
You must be baiting
I rank the las pistol above it. And i hate that thing
Re-looped from the peak of insight back down to the what ifs for funny.
Its horrible
Yeah man you're baiting
No armor pen. Low cleave
Its much lower than the bolter to
Bolter used to be S tier. But now its like a low A
Db is C at best
If u build around it. But thats most weapons
now I'm kinda curious who has the most hours in Darktide
it's a better countersniper than most guns lol
But they have like 300hp xd
Of course one pellet will kill them
Anything can bully a sniper
I've been playing since beta according to steam I've got 1,472 hours but I also took a year long break off Darktide so I definitely don't have the most
Fellow beta soldier O7
there's probably at least someone out there with double that though
ok let me see you hipfire and single shot two snipers from 50 meters away with another gun
I had some alpha playtesting. But only like 8 hours
DB is one of vet's strongest guns
Plasma gun
XD
I work a full time job and play other games but if someone plays Darktide all day everyday they could probably have 4k-5k hours
Recently I saw a player with 4k hours
not going to get both if they're not lined up one after another
aren't there level 2500s?
yeah that checks out LOL
I do work full time. 50 hours a week. But i have a few more hours than that. At least 800 might be idle hours for shop farming before times ago xd
i'm sure there's players with more than 4k hours
I'm trying not to resort to chatgpt 'cuz that's just too easy. Give me a name for an old lady zealot who has the agitator personality
Something reasonable
Not like double cheeseburger
I got a few more than 10k.
I can suggest the name I've been sitting on for the eventual Mechanicus class
Averia/Avaria (both mean Malfunction in a language I forget, maybe polish/spanish/german idk)
Make a gimmic up
playtime doesn't necessarily make opinions more valid
My last one was radio head. And i would play music on soundpad
Loud Lady
No but it sure should help xd
u'd think but after a certain point it somewhat goes opposite direction
Nien
Lmao he did say Ellie
it does happen surprisingly often
Yeah but also ellie feels too normal lol
Could always go with Elleanor
Naaa my views are definitely different. But i've played the game in every way you can really.
u play solo/duo?
Solo. Duo. Full stack.
🤝
I've done it all to hell n back.
duo is unironically the best way to play dt
the bro you're talking to 📷
no u
Same grade as normal shotty
I will take no further objections
thinking helbore (best ranged vet gun) and DB (best melee vet gun) are bad is truly a good example of this
have you tought about starting a youtube channel?
i think you'd do really well
Hell naaa
seriously man
Can someone give me their plasma build for havoc
you should start a YT channel
Recon is still my baby
Ick
I honestly don't enjoy playing either personally lol
but they not bad
You guys couldn't wait to hear my other opinions.
is ur steam page bugged cuz it doesn't show dt on there
Im on at like 8-9pm est. I'll chill in one of the vc's and go over shit
One of the many games hidden due to meanie's leaving comments after games
lmao
Just like tf2. And csgo xd
I think there's one in the pinned guide
helbore i can understand but not liking DB??
I don't enjoy it that much tbh
which is weird cuz I like ext3
db is not best melee vet gun
Helbore slow. Db not enough pow behind the boom
and yea DB is not best melee vet gun
its plasma 😂

it's either plasma or revolver
you gotta cover your weaknesses with your other weapon
Relvover is B tier
can't hear you over the sound of my infinite cleave going brrrrrrrrrrt
if plasma is considered S id place it in A, its one tier under
Plasma is like A+ these days.
revolver only issue is ammo
then out of vets arsenal theres really no s then
how dare you
Fear me
It's S in auric I suppose
stinking devs want to force everyone to go into melee like a peasant
Yea. Talking rank for hav 40
Is the worst
Its so un fun
Its not hard. But it slims your loadout. And makes your game take longer
the only time recon was S was prob pus harden?
Also. Green raged crusher upon yee
its slims your loadout because it is hard lol
back when the trick was using infernus to cope with pus harden's DR
after this patch itll be a lot harder they hit both shout and bubble



