#zealot-class

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sharp zodiac
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More damage

tired hawk
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well other than that lol

sharp zodiac
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Heavies last longer however light revs do less damage, not enough to make them bad but as a more finish off tool

mystic ether
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Personally, I like things like no respite in general just because it fits how I play very well. I can position myself pretty consistently in most maps and messed up encounters where me getting just that extra jump in dmg for already getting staggers off is great.

A crit talent spread knife playstyle with that kantrael and chastise the wicked? Oh boi.

Oh baybee...iz preddigüd.

sharp zodiac
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The horizontal heavy rev can be tricky to land at times but with it you can amount good damage

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And you can also dodge out mid rev to save yourself

placid salmon
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guess that explains the sheer damage numbers i can get with stealth zealot against beasts of nurgle

obtuse stirrup
mystic ether
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You're okay. Ongoing dex class addict. Reverse grip allows me to act human even for a moment.

sharp zodiac
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My tip as well is to rev up heavy on a crusher THEN press chastise

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That way you'll ensure the one shot on the mk2

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Like

obtuse stirrup
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Yeah, if you Chastise first then you boost the initial hit which is weaker

sharp zodiac
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Rev heavy, it connects then immediately press chastise

obtuse stirrup
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Do it the way Luna says and you boost the lethal final tick

placid salmon
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i just deleted 2 of my zealot builds due to redundancy so i guess we're fine

mystic ether
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Vet tends to feel like I need to work harder compared to zealot in that regard but that's mostly due to zealot melee output.

placid salmon
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melk offering me 4 infantry autoguns in this cycle

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thanks melk

mystic ether
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It'd be nice for things like infiltrate to just have inherent out of stealth lowered aggro but I can be patient. Plenty more things for me to play with in this game.

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I await my eyes to glaze over when I play with the ogryn knives again.

placid salmon
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is the lowered aggro inherent?

mystic ether
# placid salmon is the lowered aggro inherent?

I wouldn't know for the deeper systems but with veteran you have a combat ability modifier that lowers your aggro around you for a bit. I see it/use it as a secondary defensive passive rather than offense.

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Since it can buy you significant time to dish out dmg and regroup or just reposition more safely.

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Anything that helps manage the risk of a risky playstyle like say, infiltrate smoke w knife and revolver is pretty nice in my experience.

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The window is tiny though but you really gotta make it work in the heat of the moment lol

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Err kantrael

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Revolver is functionally just easier to use in most cases. Reminds me a lot of crossbows in vermintide between bardin and saltzpyre.

placid salmon
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god i wanna like chastise, but being unable to use it in midair makes me find it janky

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i end up just playing shroudfield and using it like chastise lol

fleet zealot
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why are you trying to use it mid air

placid salmon
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then again maybe i'm just not supposed to be jumping so often. VT2 has voicelines mocking you for it

south folio
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no trimping 😔

placid salmon
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but it's so minor for such a spammable ability

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just let me use it in midair

obtuse stirrup
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Chastise is good for the toughness more than the crit or displacement imo

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And for it being a 2-charge ability

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Well, Fury of the Faithful I should say

spare dome
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it's to swing a fight

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i mean you can also use it to dash 21m and open a fight because thats just fun

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but really its best use is immediately when you take a decent chunk of toughness damage

north sedge
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Chastise just does everything

obtuse stirrup
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Yeah, it's the Eternal Warrior ability

south folio
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it doesn't do my taxes

obtuse stirrup
north sedge
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A dash of toughness, movement, melee dmg, ranged armor downgrade, attack speed, arcos taxes

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Oh and stagger

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I think it's significantly more versatile

obtuse stirrup
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Plus it synergies doubly with the blazing piety tree

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2 charges is huge, but even more when you can supercharge the recharge rate by critting more

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Plus it itself forces a crit

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Any time I try using Chorus instead I regret it

north sedge
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I don't play piety, just speaking on it's own

obtuse stirrup
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It's absolutely busted with Piety man

indigo quartz
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its really fun in HiStG when you're fighting 15+ dudes

north sedge
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Yea I've never touched chorus

indigo quartz
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and you've got an evis 15

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so you're just

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mashing F

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every swing

north sedge
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Eh

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I prefer momentum

obtuse stirrup
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Try Piety with charge some day

obtuse stirrup
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Just one mission, try it

north sedge
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Nah

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Plus 2 of the 3 weapons i play are no good for it

obtuse stirrup
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One out of three ain't bad though

placid salmon
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lmao i got knocked into an out of bounds platform by a barrel

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got put in the timeout corner

royal vortex
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i had to solo clutch after like a single trapper netted 2 teammates 3 times in a row

south folio
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josho moment

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100th solo clutch this month

placid salmon
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hmm

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if i put +25% carapace damage on a weapon that inflicts bleed, will it do more bleed damage to crushers

late cave
timid mortar
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how do zellies recover toughness?

obtuse stirrup
woeful oyster
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Through the power of Faith

royal vortex
obtuse stirrup
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Specifically on melee kills and on most of your ult uses

timid mortar
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So it's no point getting vet-BornLeader perk then

placid salmon
royal vortex
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so if u bleed a guy with a knife and swap to a gun the perks on that gun apply to the dot

woeful oyster
obtuse stirrup
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Ergo, get carried varlet

royal vortex
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that dog was legit an insta-pounce when i was right next to a teammate

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it was the closest thing to not getting pounced at all

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smh

timid mortar
royal vortex
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born leader is p nice if ur not taking any of the other red nodes

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especially if ur playin pubs where ppl aren't gonna be crazy good at staying alive most of the time

timid mortar
royal vortex
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yea

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i mean born leader is kinda hard to gauge the value of

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if ur running like

fading vale
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but with backstab CDR

royal vortex
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gloryhunter plasma + confirmed kill

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ur gonna get pretty decent value out of it

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but for most weapons ur kinda just gonna have to hope its doing something

timid mortar
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I'm currently doing Helbore/VoC

royal vortex
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yea i probs wouldnt then

placid salmon
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i dont feel like grinding for more curios so i'm just using the wound curios i got for a chastise zealot and relying on bleed for the emperor to survive lol

royal vortex
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if u had like a lawbringer shotgun u can fire head height into a horde with et + out for blood with the special shot and give teammates a decent chunk of toughness

timid mortar
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Helbore is surprisingly good at frontline CQB

royal vortex
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it has p good dodge stability iirc

timid mortar
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I can toe-2-toe two maulers wtih a helbore, which I can't do with chainsword.
Chargers and Ragers are just a chance for me to show-off. (don't even slow down)

indigo quartz
placid salmon
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neat

indigo quartz
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its really funny/upsetting if soemone else applies bleed

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or burn

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because if you press Fury/chasitse

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it doesn't get the armor downgrade 🙃

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because its not your bleed/burn

placid salmon
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oh well

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if an enemy dies, it dies

indigo quartz
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it can be the difference of a crowd of maulers/crushers dying

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and them killing 2+ people

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its a very frustrating mechanic

placid salmon
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yeah fair

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I'm trying out the mk15 eviscerator and idk if I like it

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slowness on swing is a pain

woeful oyster
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Fuck the Mk15

placid salmon
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which heavy chainsword is preferred then

obtuse stirrup
woeful oyster
indigo quartz
placid salmon
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you didn't have enough faith

indigo quartz
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I just recommend the 10% attack speed upgrade and fury

placid salmon
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ye I'm using it with fury

indigo quartz
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With 20% attack speed hordes can't get a swing in

north sedge
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Don't mind the doc, terminal case of dumbass I'm afraid

woeful oyster
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MK15 is ass

placid salmon
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I have wrath 4 and bleed on special attack on mine

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not sure which one to give up if I want a better one lol

north sedge
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bleed

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easy

indigo quartz
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On mk15 ?

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Wrath

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Cleave is useless on it atm

north sedge
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but mk15 ideally is rampage + shred/bloodthirsty

indigo quartz
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I'll argue perfect cleave

long sluice
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which on is the one with the cleave lights

indigo quartz
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The QoL is magnificent

north sedge
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i'll argue no

indigo quartz
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And rampage isn't letting you meet BPs

north sedge
woeful oyster
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easy mode brainless light spam

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gross

vivid hawk
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Mornin' fanatics 👋

north sedge
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both evisc are extremely uncomplicated

vivid hawk
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got off Brunt, maybe it'll end up useable

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mk3 is the good one, right?

obtuse stirrup
obtuse stirrup
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The VI is a more versatile one that the other classes tend to use more

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Zealots prefer the III usually

fleet zealot
placid salmon
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rude

spare dome
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i just dont gel with the VI at all

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i dont find it horde clears that much faster, so the two heavies are just in the way of the third for me

lusty turtle
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put uhhh

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is it haymaker? on it

spare dome
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and also i have a knife, im not here to horde clear at all

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i did lmao

lusty turtle
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the chance to instant kill on chained heavies

spare dome
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which was funny

lusty turtle
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its still garbanzo but its fun

spare dome
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I killed two Maulers on an opening hit

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it was serious dopamine

thorn parrot
obtuse stirrup
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Tbh the III kills hordes "decently" with light spam

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You can trigger your next Shroudfield with crit spam from it and then just drop the horde and let somebody else handle it

north sedge
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this is garbanzo slander

spare dome
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graia goes brrr

north sedge
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"let someone else handle it" is basically the knife motto

south folio
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the 3rd weapon--your teammates

spare dome
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idk mk6 to me is like

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if you took the flamer

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and got rid of its infinite cleave but now it cooks one target faster

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like that ain't it for me, its not what i use it for

obtuse stirrup
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And poxwalkers

mystic ether
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Eh, fuck em.

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They're usually shite without their precious best in slot and even then mfkers be shitting the bed anyway with all the nice shinies.

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Nobody respects the poxburster save your teammate from being flanked tech.

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😉

spare dome
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If they die, then they were weak. The God Emperor protects.

mystic ether
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Emperor useless.

obtuse stirrup
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I do love how the personality of Zealots is almost completely opposite from how I tend to play them

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You lay one finger on any member of my team and I will exterminatus you right in the fucking face

mystic ether
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I just do snappy high ms support with either ridiculous or nice enough dmg in most of my builds.

obtuse stirrup
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I like the striker style more

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But done with purpose

spare dome
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I stand right at the front and break the enemy line.

north sedge
mystic ether
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On most days I'm usually sporting the competence to be that confident with my risky play. If I run away, whatever, I run away. I'll be back like 6 seconds later and a whole line of dead assholes we haven't seen yet is on the screen.

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I do like being flamed for somehow "not contributing" when I'm literally the one stopping clusters of dudes from flanking someone and they can't hold two crushers with all the space in the world to move out of the way.

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Last time I just straight up finished the rest of the mission out of spite. Just ran right past the dude who was crying and the others turned into bots.

frank night
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I too win out of spite

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out of hatred, even

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sheer unbridled malice

ripe quest
lusty turtle
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ye generally speaking

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the blessings are mostly focused on weakspots and crit

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the good ones anyway

exotic portal
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Rough carry

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Prefer this over the III knife

fleet zealot
fleet zealot
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until it is done

exotic portal
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but yeah, i main that knife

fleet zealot
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bless your soul

placid salmon
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that's

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not the video I meant to send I'm so sorry

fleet zealot
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what in the god damn

placid salmon
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I'm so sorry LMFAOOOO

fleet zealot
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the ferret video is very cute and fun

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but god dman LMAO i wasn't expecting the other one how do you mis send that

placid salmon
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copied the wrong link in the group chat

visual stream
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Pretty sure he was targeting the ogryn behind me

lusty turtle
placid salmon
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I've made errors that will cost me

south folio
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truly a mechanic to love and hate
pro: you don't get distracted by the sound of enemies that aren't targetting you
con: you can't fucking hear snipers or bursters

frank night
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so has the guy above me

south folio
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...

visual stream
visual stream
frank night
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unfortunately you did not expect the nurglite cha-cha slide

visual stream
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Wish it stayed

placid salmon
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momentum is rly fun

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I slept on it this whole time

south folio
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jogging around in the elevator to get stacks

placid salmon
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literally lol

visual stream
south folio
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and then you shoot your own teammate to proc momentum before hitting an enemy

placid salmon
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what

south folio
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pro momentum-pilled gameplay

placid salmon
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that works??

south folio
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ye

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tsk tsk tsk, not momentum-pilled

frank night
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he will say this

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and pretend it is not 'i wish friendly fire was in this game'

south folio
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i am probably the least bloodthirsty person here

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cease your slander

frank night
fading vale
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I'd just play exclusively with bots or in solos/duos if friendly fire existed

frank night
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post steve

fading vale
frank night
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wow

south folio
# frank night

i say it in the same way that I would say that ants should die

frank night
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why should ants die

south folio
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because they're living in the walls of my house and crawling onto food

frank night
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i see

south folio
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anyways

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kill mittins

fading vale
lusty turtle
frank night
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mod bias

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mod bias

south folio
fading vale
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God remember a couple nights ago

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when some random person was telling the mods they were shit for hate crimes or something

lusty turtle
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wait what

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i missed this

clever rover
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What

south folio
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which weapon/talent was this over again

fading vale
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I think it was an Aquila targeted thing

south folio
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i think i vaguely remember it

fading vale
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it was just one of those self righteous obnoxious types that occasionally show up with no idea how to talk on the internet

lusty turtle
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i don't remember it, but it wouldn't surprise me

clever rover
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Also hey Lazorr! How goes it?

fading vale
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hello

frank night
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some guys rly implode when they are disagreed with on the internet

lusty turtle
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its usually me or aquilla getting targeted

ripe quest
north sedge
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oh yea hot take tuesday

ripe quest
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I think the highlight was def them attacking Aquila for this server only having like 10 mods because their own server had 15 and it was smaller.

south folio
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OH shroudfield

clever rover
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I like stealth flamer

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Is fun

placid salmon
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I use the agri shotgun with shroud

ripe quest
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It's so hard to pass up the armor downgrade with a Flamer.

clever rover
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I’ve been running that Kharn loadout for ages

lusty turtle
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i want them to remove the armour downgrade tbh

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its such a stupid mechanic that makes armour a none issue

clever rover
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Heh?

placid salmon
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you mean the one on chastise?

south folio
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it'd probably be fine if it didn't apply to ranged weapons and for a duration

lusty turtle
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ye

clever rover
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Oh that

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Yeah

placid salmon
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it's a weird mechanic

clever rover
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It’s funny but idk

lusty turtle
south folio
clever rover
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Like shooting a crusher to death with a laz pistol within 2 seconds is just the funniest thing to me

clever rover
placid salmon
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I find chastise to be such a weird skill anyway

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you can pretty much just use shroudfield like chastise and get very similar results lol

ripe quest
clever rover
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Would It be a hot take to say it’s probably in the top 3 abilities?

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At least

fading vale
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chastise is best hands down

ripe quest
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Flamer is already fine for small elites it doesn't need to nuke literally every enemy in the game lol

clever rover
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Not surprised yeah

south folio
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yeah there's a lot to love about chastise

clever rover
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I run chainaxe flamer lol it’s dumb

lusty turtle
south folio
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a very nice upgrade node, toughness regen, +attack speed buff for 10 seconds

lusty turtle
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its only good for teh aggro dump

fading vale
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and revives

ripe quest
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It'll do more damage for certain weapons.

south folio
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and dashing 21m to fuck something up

clever rover
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I use it as a makeshift push

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More than anything

royal vortex
lusty turtle
royal vortex
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chastise would have like three upgrad enodes

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and u could choose between 20% attack speed and the armor downgrade

clever rover
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But it don’t need them period

royal vortex
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and they'd be mutually exclusive

south folio
ripe quest
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Like if you're running a finesse ranged or melee weapon Shroudfield will hit harder typically, even with just the base node.

royal vortex
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and then the 2x chastise node

fading vale
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yeah the movement from chastise be goated

clever rover
royal vortex
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but no they just kinda let u keep all that shit

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for free

lusty turtle
coarse temple
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Wonder if they'll ever change chastise with chain weapon specials

visual stream
lusty turtle
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SURELY my rifle having 40% adm after 16 hits is the problem

placid salmon
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kill crit mechanics

south folio
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surely

ripe quest
royal vortex
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FUCK chain weapons

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we love power weapons in this household

lusty turtle
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i've been reporting chain weapon specials for a while, its gonna be work but i want em to change it

lusty turtle
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glad we can atleast dodge out of a rip now

south folio
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to shift away from the get-stuck-on-a-single-enemy specials?

lusty turtle
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its much healthier where it is now

visual stream
brazen linden
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playing zealot with max attack speed while tipsy/drunk just makes the missions..... different

north sedge
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they need to put flesh tearer lacerate on every weapon

ripe quest
royal vortex
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for the first like 5 matches i played with the more user friendly chain weapons i dodged outta all my fkin revs

placid salmon
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ADM?

ripe quest
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Armor damage modifier

lusty turtle
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armour damage modifiers

placid salmon
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o

ripe quest
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Multiplier that each attack has against each armor type.

lusty turtle
ripe quest
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Oh yeah for Crushers everything gets a damage boost

visual stream
clever rover
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Don’t bully my chainaxe

north sedge
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ok but why flamer so weak?!

clever rover
north sedge
royal vortex
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also

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i can't believe they nerfed kickback

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(stan is discussing lacrosse in the background)

lusty turtle
north sedge
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that's certainly better than discussing german pornos

royal vortex
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i love the vibes of ogryn

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big dumb guy kills stuff

clever rover
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Big lad funny

ripe quest
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Thammer w/ the BM

royal vortex
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but then u play it and its like

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i am doing nothing

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and i am doing everything

fleet zealot
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god why do people just be terrible now

lusty turtle
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90% dr and the damage output to kill god

royal vortex
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u dont really have to move, u dont really have to aim

lusty turtle
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its so one note and brainless

fleet zealot
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like why tf you have to troll on ogryn

royal vortex
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the most i have to think is trying to line up bm on new shovel but guess what

fleet zealot
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and just stand infront of your teammates on purpose

south folio
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25% toughness every heavy

royal vortex
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the shovel hitbox is so fucking wide two maulers standing shoulder to shoulder will get hit by the swing

ripe quest
royal vortex
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so u barely even have to line guys up

ripe quest
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no TDR only HDR

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we ball

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2k effective HP

royal vortex
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this sounds awful

lusty turtle
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yeeee thats the dream isn't it

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or like, less free DR

south folio
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this baby can fit so many poxbursters

lusty turtle
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more DR that requires you to do something

fleet zealot
royal vortex
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they need to lower the DR in general and try to find ways to make ogryn feel a lil less awkward to play

fleet zealot
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liek god damn tho i don't que up to play with trolls

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i come back to darktide and somehow the playerbase worsens

royal vortex
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i feel like the gameplay is just a lil too slow if ur not a stats inflated passive defense meatbag (to paraphrase crab)

ripe quest
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Yeah I feel like we shouldn't be able to surpass like 30% DR unless in a 'the stars align' moment.

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At no point should a sniper be toughness tankable.

fleet zealot
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if the vet asks you to not body block him don't get salty and body block him harder on purpose

royal vortex
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ogryn also suffers the most from weird delay timings and shit

visual stream
south folio
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solution: make ogryn teammates stop sniper shots

royal vortex
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and like the solution to having an awkard and clunky character to play is to not make them have the most ridiculous stat spread known to man

south folio
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fair and balanced tradeoffs

south folio
ripe quest
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I think they could forgo total DR on Ogryn and give him the Ironbreaker special with occasional melee hits ignored.

royal vortex
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DO NOT FIRE THE MOMENT YOU INPUT

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THEY HAVE A DELAY

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WHY

lusty turtle
royal vortex
south folio
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and also additive DR

royal vortex
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ogryn keystones could use like a ground up redesign

ripe quest
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imagine a world where Chorus on Zealot is the most impactful DR buff in the game

royal vortex
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ogryn's entire tree is legitimately just passive buffs

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its insane

visual stream
# royal vortex THEY HAVE A DELAY

Your keyboard inputs are actually the character's brain telling them what to do, the ogryns are just so dumb it takes the signal longer

lusty turtle
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same for movement speed, movement speed buffs should be active rewards like psyker

ripe quest
royal vortex
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no this argument is wrong because u can actually think of nodes that change how u play

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on ogryn

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u don't

ember yew
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nerf

royal vortex
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nope not a nerf

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because the implementation of them is terrible

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the entire idea of all 3 needs to be thrown out p much and they need to make something that can at least let you have a modicum of decision making

visual stream
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Getting into psyker was so weird coming from zealot because it's like. Almost EVERY single bonus you get is something you have to make happen

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Instead of "more damage the more times you swing your melee weapon"

south folio
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just warming up the muscles

royal vortex
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imagine if heavy hitter was a keystone about hitting heads in melee

south folio
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new passive: good cardio -- you don't consume stamina on sprint anymore

royal vortex
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rename it skullbreaker

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badum tsss

ember yew
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🍖

south folio
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y'know, a movement/stamina keystone sounds pretty baller

buoyant pecan
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And don't tell me that the knife builds wont use it

south folio
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the knife users will have to decide between blazing piety or this

tropic harbor
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New passive: throw saver. Auto kicks every knife zealot and veteran out of your team

buoyant pecan
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They will use movement

royal vortex
buoyant pecan
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As it enhances the speedrunner

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For better avoiding your team and running off solo

ripe quest
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w/ the dodge buffs and all

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just schmove

south folio
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i want my stamina and then some benefit for being at high stamina
where's my good cardio

royal vortex
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nah

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have a keystone about spending/regainning stamina

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the point is u keep a flow going

south folio
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mmmmmm

royal vortex
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u could do smth funny like melee rending based on stamina spent in the last x amount of seconds

ripe quest
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OH that reminds me I almost flipped out last night because the rampage bug looked to be setup on All or Nothing and Limbsplitter but they have some Fatshark magic that makes it not happen.

south folio
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explain in human language

royal vortex
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when arco asks u to translate u know shit is weird

south folio
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shut up

royal vortex
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lmao

vivid hawk
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what should I change?

royal vortex
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smackdown to uncanny specialist to maniac

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and u have a p good knife

ripe quest
# south folio explain in human language

Rampage bug, the thing that caused it looked to be happening to Limbsplitter and All or Nothing in the code. I was wrong, they're not bugged, but they're so close to being bugged.

vivid hawk
south folio
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

royal vortex
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pog

south folio
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i can't believe they're avoiding past mistakes

royal vortex
ripe quest
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so close. A literal copy-paste away from getting 2.24x damage depending on stamina %

south folio
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god damnit

vivid hawk
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@royal vortex how does one actually use the knife? KEKW_ogryn

ripe quest
north sedge
royal vortex
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preferably with a 50 second clip of you fighting poxwalkers

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there's a couple different things u can do

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the push attack on the knife is v good so u can kinda spam it

ripe quest
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Heavies are good, PA spam is really good. Combo stuff n whatnot.

royal vortex
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special punch -> light will give u a heavy that comes out faster

ripe quest
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L3 is funny

royal vortex
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the l3 (stab) is really good on it

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so u can combo to it

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if u wanna get all sweaty

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it also has an innate 25% backstab damage

vivid hawk
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momentum or crits?

royal vortex
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blazing piety probs

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it has like a 3x finesse multi

ripe quest
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weakspot to crit weakspot is a small damage increase

royal vortex
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that's entirely weapon dependent the fuck are u on about

ripe quest
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I'm talking about knife rn

royal vortex
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yeah it's diminishing returns but it still scales off the finesse multis

copper hawk
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bought new boots

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will rage if when i get them

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they somehow don't fit my feet

ripe quest
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Bodyshot to crit bodyshot is huge, weakspot to crit weakspot is small damage increase

copper hawk
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despite being literally an identical boot to the ones i was issued many moons ago

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when i was a bright eyed bushy tailed pfc..

ripe quest
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Well, typo smaller not small

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I'll find numbers rq

vivid hawk
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@royal vortex post a "good" knife build?

north sedge
vivid hawk
north sedge
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oh i know, i just want to meme

royal vortex
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if u wanted to use immo nades to solve the problem of horde clear u could do smth like this though no faithful frenzy or sustained assault is sadness

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if ur taking a flamer or a brauto or smth to shoot poxwalkers with u can go throwing knives and use the points for other things

vivid hawk
royal vortex
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yea then u probs put the points u dont use towards the damage/attack speed stuff at the bottom

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u could also use stealth if u wanna be a ninja but i dont use shroudfield all that much

spare dome
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Voice of Terra > Health Regen imo if you're doing brauto kant w/e

royal vortex
vivid hawk
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@royal vortex something like this then?

spare dome
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anything thats mulching crowds

copper hawk
royal vortex
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impossible

royal vortex
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smh

vivid hawk
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well, now that I have this thing

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I'll probably never use it

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okay, maybe I will use it, just to I can punch spam something to death

royal vortex
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hell yeah

vivid hawk
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does a ton of damage too

obtuse stirrup
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I feel like if I wanna use Fury of the Faithful then I want something wider than a knife

royal vortex
vivid hawk
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Knife seems okay against small groups, but anything larger than a Slaaneshi sleepover, and you definitely start to slow down

north sedge
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oh you forgot the first point earlier, you're supposed to say knife 3 shots horde

vivid hawk
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Guess I've already failed as a knife zealot

royal vortex
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ur also supposed to say the mk6 knife is a "better hsword"

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a very true and realistic statement

vivid hawk
north sedge
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and if anyone ever challenges you, say "idk works for me"

south folio
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if it's better then why do i have to hold LMB for sweeping attacks

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checkmate

royal vortex
south folio
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the sheer muscle strain of having to hold down my mouse button will have critical consequences

lusty turtle
royal vortex
lusty turtle
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people shouldn't be allowed gameplay opinions

royal vortex
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its some shit

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every update brings out some of the nutsos

south folio
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oh boy i can't wait for the next patch

royal vortex
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the longer between updates the more the crazies get stockpiled in the bad take reserve

north sedge
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the only real opinions allowed should have at least 3 mentions of meta within a sentence

royal vortex
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TRUE

south folio
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and unceremoniously diss on weapons that are already established to be strong

royal vortex
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hsword is too slow 😔

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i can't believe some of the ppl who would say that are the same people who thought bull butcher on ogryn felt fine

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its fkin ogryn bro

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ur always slow

median steeple
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man that hammer just cant kill these bosses fast enough

north sedge
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this meta combat meta blade meta VII meta build will make hsword look un-meta meta meta, meta

royal vortex
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mate, team, meat

north sedge
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AINL

placid hedge
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Got this from Big E. Can I save this Crusher?

royal vortex
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its a lil unfortunate but u can make it work

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thunderstrike to skullcrusher sprint efficiency to probs flak

opaque island
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what should my talent tree look like if I want the BIGGEST possible crucis bonk on a target

placid hedge
royal vortex
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it's a 3/4 crusher which isnt bad at all

placid hedge
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Ill have to try it out. Havent gave the crusher a chance yet.

royal vortex
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there's a crusher guide in the pins if u wanna check that out

dense field
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Just swap sprint and thunderstrike

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And it's good

woeful oyster
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Ts is good. But they don't want to hear it.

royal vortex
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it's good if u close ur eyes and do ur best not to think about what the blessings do and how they synergize with skullcrusher

woeful oyster
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It is brain off, yes

north sedge
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your brain is off usually, for sure

woeful oyster
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for slighty less stagger

royal vortex
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your reasoning for it most certainly isnt involving the brain

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yeah

woeful oyster
royal vortex
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thunderstrike's one upside is the ability to support teammates

north sedge
royal vortex
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but the problem is nobody unless u really try in a premade with comms is consciously taking advantage of the increased impact

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whereas hammerblow or trauma both provide consistent +impact amounts that are equal to or greater to thunderstrike

woeful oyster
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Ts lets you take advantage of any stagger. Yours or anyone elses without having to build stacks or worry about a timed window.

royal vortex
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and lets u get enemies into a stagger state easier to get the extra damage from skullcrusher

opaque island
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what does impact do really, i know more impact makes the ragdolls go further, or ive heard it does

royal vortex
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in the world where trauma and hammerblow have way stricter activation conditions

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u might have a point

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but just pushing enemies will give u stacks

royal vortex
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on hammerblow cleaving guys will build your swing to max stacks in one hit

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and u can't go "but hitmass" because the activated attacks baseline have infinite cleave and an activated heavy has an aoe blast radius

woeful oyster
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That's fine

royal vortex
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so you're just wrong

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and i would appreciate if you stop trying to mislead people

woeful oyster
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But Ts isn't bad

south folio
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does thunderstrike work in the sane way (active while the enemy isn't staggered) or in the insane way

royal vortex
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yes it is

woeful oyster
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Nah

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It's just your preference

royal vortex
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none of these are like, points that bring up anything worth considering

ember yew
south folio
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not just preference esp since trauma/hammerblow persist through different enemies

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and also i don't trust thunderstrike to work in the sane way

royal vortex
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because the only thing with reasoning behind it is "you don't have to build stacks" but in the vast majority of cases trauma/hammerblow is doing something useful while thunderstrike isn't

south folio
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if it works like skullcrusher does

woeful oyster
royal vortex
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and maintaining/building impact stacks is so incredibly trivial

woeful oyster
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Ok

royal vortex
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what a riveting conversation

ripe quest
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@royal vortex So, looking at BP's impact on damage numbers for the Mk III Knife. Considering Uncanny as a given, BP from base is ~20-40% damage increase depending on the armor type. BP from base + scourge it's ~3-15%.

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Both peak with Unyielding damage.

royal vortex
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i would imagine scourge isn't very consistently up on knife unless ur running an idiot bleed build because ur not hitting a single guy that many times

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(i am guessing)

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unless it's a boss or w/e

ripe quest
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I mentioned it because of it peaking with Unyielding damage,

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it would usually be up with bosses

royal vortex
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yea

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i think these numbers should get better for blazing piety if u have precog/duellist too, no?

tired hawk
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very important

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what's the best way to get the shocking stuff penance

median steeple
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flamer

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ime

tired hawk
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mmmmm true

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forgot about that

ripe quest
royal vortex
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if there was any weapon that would get the best return on crit/weakspot i would assume it to be knife outside of deadly accurate guns

coarse birch
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i cant think of anything else

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duelling sword?

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though thats not zealot tree obv

royal vortex
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well specifically what ur lookin for here is stuff that has conditional bonuses that fully or partially apply only to crit/weakspot bonuses

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knife gets precog + duellist

coarse birch
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ah i see

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uh yeah i cant imagine anything getting better return then for sure

placid hedge
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After reading the crusher guide got me thinking my tree over on other weapons. What would be the best weapons to take Desperation talent with?

ripe quest
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@royal vortex Ah so a correction rq, I was misleading. Prior message the 20-40% came from 75% crit chance vs. 20%. The 3-15% came from 75% crit chance vs. 50%.

With precog and duellist up 75% vs. 20% is +60-40%, 75% vs. 50% is +20-10%, and 45% vs. 20% is +28-11%.

royal vortex
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i see

ripe quest
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It seems alright considering you also get crit CDR at an okish rate. If anything this has just made me want to pick up Scourge on knife more lol.

obtuse stirrup
royal vortex
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so debatably devil claw 7, i think achlys caxe maybe, uhhhh

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probs knife

placid hedge
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There is a PA in there for clear

royal vortex
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yea u could get away with it on that

ripe quest
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The PA is a utility move, can't imagine it would proc Desperation a lot.

royal vortex
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although i've heard (don't really use it so can't confirm) you wanna do heavy -> light -> block cancel reset

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oh man this thing swings so slow u fully regen the stamina lost if u do push attack -> heavy

placid hedge
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Never knew that. I always thought it was heavy Light into PA

frozen glen
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man i miss the evisc guy in zealchat who would spout questionable game decisions at times

ripe quest
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Yeah you'd need to spam the PAs or also block stuff during the PA.

placid hedge
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Yea I feel like mk2 always has good stamina tbh

north sedge
royal vortex
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say his name.

frozen glen
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sometimes i can still hear his unhinged comments

north sedge
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c*ntra

ripe quest
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I feel like puri probs got a bunch of people to do that like, heavy light light heavy PA combo or whatever

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Heavy light light PA loop maybe

median steeple
placid hedge
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tbf the PA does have a nice horizontal but I can see getting back to the heavy faster being better especially running Viscous Offering.

north sedge
ripe quest
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I remember when I had to scroll through pins past his Evis guide each time I wanted actually good blessing/perk options

coarse birch
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i remember his skill tree was also like

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no defensive anything

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past base martyr

ripe quest
royal vortex
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(unlike the chad Crusher Guide)

ripe quest
royal vortex
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😔

coarse birch
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i love bloodletter

ripe quest
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I run crit CDR build on Mk II Evis just so I can get Bloodletter without removing a blessing slot nodders

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Maybe they should call it like Bloodletting or something to fit in with it better sillygoofy

north sedge
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Flesh Tearering

south folio
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bloodlettering

south folio
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kill mankar

vocal pulsar
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HATE RTHIS GUY

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HATE THIS GUY

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DONT LIKE THIS GUY

north sedge
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Flesh Bloodlettererate

vocal pulsar
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ARCO BAD PEROSN NOT GOOD GUY

south folio
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sounding like cica as the days go by

vocal pulsar
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YOU WILL KNOW FIRE

placid salmon
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do you guys like the heal 25% of damage perk

ripe quest
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Yeah it's fun.

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Far better than Voice of Terra

placid salmon
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well I've probably said before but I was trying a build that tanks using +5 extra wounds and BftE

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but I feel like it's lacking without the heal perk

wraith bolt
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got a few questions

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how should i improve this heavy sword and is this flamer worth buying?

royal vortex
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swap block efficiency to maniac on the hsword

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keep the old flamer till u find one with >76% burn

wraith bolt
wraith bolt
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ty

placid salmon
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what's the burn breakpojnt do

coarse birch
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allows for max burn stacks if its like purge staff iirc

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i forget how many stacks you lose though

frank night
heavy arch
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i hate knife zealots i hate knife zealots i hate knife zealots i hate knife zealots i hate knife zealots i hate knife zealots

hollow ember
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was so hyped for this rip, replacing TS > Hammerblow but if anyone has suggestions for the perks let me know

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I am just having this temporarily to give this weapon a try, heard good things about the crusher

coarse birch
hollow ember
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Guess since I am going momentum then block efficiency gonna be little bit more useful than crit dmg as for which perk to add prob gonna have to test breakpoints with creature spawner

ember yew
coarse birch
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if you can only choose one id probably do flak

hollow ember
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have it on 2nd monitor, though it has a lot of options in terms of perks so gonna have to test it on creature spawner and decide which 1 perk to get that is most important

hollow ember
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also I am not sure which type of mobs crusher struggles against to build against due to lack of experience

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so yea need more testing

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I feel like I spend more time in meat grinder than in matches haha

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Been wanting to try crusher but reading that guide for the first time with the combos was a bit intimidating

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but now since i got nothing else might as well give it a try

lone pecan
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Even the things you struggle against can be staggered until they are dead

hollow ember
coarse birch
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it does a bit less damage vs flak compared to unarmored and infested

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for the horde clear combo

hollow ember
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ah gotcha

coarse birch
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which is l1 > heavy

lone pecan
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Light spam in hordes works well enough for me and for big things I use the special to stagger

coarse birch
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light spam will work baseline however light 1 into heavy one will be much better

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cause your getting about double damage on that sweeping heavy

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before taking into account perks/SC

hollow ember
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damn this weapon kinda cool

lone pecan
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Yes, and I tried, but whenever I try a light and heavy combo on any weapon it works for a bit but somewhere I get mixed up because of blocking and such and the combo is ruined, so I stick to all lights or all heavies, easier for me. I don't use weapons where that's too detrimental KEKW_ogryn

hollow ember
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oooh so for single target u reverse with H1 > L1

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and horde L1 > H1

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cool

coarse birch
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the push attack is also good for single target

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it has good finesse

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activation push attack into the head will be your best damage vs crushers and whatnot

mystic harbor
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im in the wrong channel omg

lone pecan
hollow ember
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ah i see, btw ty for all the info

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super useful

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oh seems like there is no weakspot dmg with activation

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prob gonna need to install enemy debuff mod to understand how stagger works more and how it interacts with skull crusher perk

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oh the mod even has skull crusher debuff already, sweeeet

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I feel in game having that would be too much visual pollution but useful for testing in meat grinder

lone pecan
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IIRC skullcruser works like this; you stagger an enemy and then when you attack them again, while they are staggered, they get the debuff loregryn so it won't apply them on the first attack that staggers them

hollow ember
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ah i see

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ty

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i thought a stagger gives 3 stacks skullcrusher but with activation it gives 6, interesting

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I staggered with normal hit and it gives 3 stagger like i thought it should

ripe quest
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Pushes stack it as well iirc

hollow ember
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I guess the activation does something weird

ripe quest
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The thing with Skullcrusher is you gotta hit them while they're in the staggered animation to get the damage.

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So like w/ a Crusher a cool setup is a special PA into the overhead combo and it'll chunk Ogryns.

hollow ember
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damn this weapon is deep

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the heavy evis just chop things down haha

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i kinda like the combos and stagger interaction

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also ty for the info

placid salmon
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I swapped from piety to momentum on my stealth build and while I prefer its effects, it's hard to not notice just how much less cooldown I'm farming

hollow ember
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thought skull crusher tier 3 would do it but having 1 activation gives max skull crusher makes huge difference like 20% dmg increase

placid salmon
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my build has both crit CDR amd backstab CDR

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now I know which one was really pulling its weight

hollow ember
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doesn't pious work with stealth build if u going momentum?

north sedge
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The whole point of piety for most weapons is the cdr, so it's not exactly surprising

timber ether
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40% TDR and bleed upkeep is pretty lit too

placid salmon
hollow ember
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ah i see

haughty locust
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What perks are best for a flamer?

north sedge
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It's just more consistent since you need backstabs for the other

haughty locust
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Unyielding I know is one

north sedge
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Flak

haughty locust
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I'm torn between flak

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yeah

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I figured

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flak and unyielding?

north sedge
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Or flak elites

haughty locust
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Ooh, elites is a good choice also

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I do like cooking pogryns though...

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Yeah I'll go with flak elites for good measure

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thank you

north sedge
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🫡

placid salmon
haughty locust
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End result, got pretty big blessing RNG

north sedge
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Both are quite good, just depends on weapon (frankly cdr is out of control overall)

placid salmon
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chastise is def meant to be spammed to some degree

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ignoring its insane armor ability that isn't mentioned at all

north sedge
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🤔

placid salmon
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does using shroud before it's done regenerating toughness reset or stack the toughness regen

ripe quest
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Just normal usage you get a 20% attack speed buff for a 1/3rd of the cooldown.

coarse birch
ripe quest
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I've gotten the funny BM 4k on Crushers with the Achlys Caxe before, such a dopamine hit.

dark zealot
dark zealot
split ibex
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Hmmm. Crits are kinda bad on Crusher, right?

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But I still want knives

dark zealot
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gonna be honest i dont really get the point of those

split ibex
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I guess the dodge toughness talant is good

dark zealot
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they just do the revolvers job worse

split ibex
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that's the thing is I don't need fire or stun with crusher. So I might as well get regenerating sniper killers

dark zealot
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sure if you dont have the revolver and maybe need to do it faster, but thats a more gimmicky (and un-reliable) scenario

fleet zealot
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knives are free and don't even need to swap

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probably best paired with a flamer

dark zealot
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sure but have much less cleave and an arc

split ibex
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I just use ciag if I'm not running Blazing Piety

split ibex
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20+ meters

dark zealot
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yeah its hella fun

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but so is burning all those heretics

visual stream
split ibex
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Probably do something like this for crusher build

fleet zealot
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manstopper (blessing) works for throwing knife

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surgical also works with throwing knife

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it usually inherits the perks and blessings of the weapon that is out

spare dome
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damn near everything does

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it doesnt earn rampage for some reason

dark zealot
spare dome
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wrath it does, that one is fun

placid salmon
dark zealot
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why not just use either of those guns?

polar nexus
ripe quest
polar nexus
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and the best part? no suppression on knives AFAIK

ripe quest
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Also a good amount of the complex (as in a lot of checks in the code, you'd be surprised what's considered complex here) blessings do not work with throwing knives.

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like iirc BM doesn't work with them

polar nexus
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you won't regret it

polar nexus
split ibex
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Thanks for the suggestion though

ripe quest
polar nexus
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that is true 😄

hollow ember
torn flame
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Brace Knuckles for Zealot when?

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there is no sound for this

hollow ember
torn flame
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the emperor requires the holy sound of his enemies falling

hollow ember
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the no sound for the clip if that is what u meant

hollow ember
ripe quest
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Like 90% sure chainsword with no talents would do more damage there

hollow ember
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but yea i get what u mean

polar nexus
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who want toughness on stacks when you have tg on dodge 😦

torn flame
proven thicket
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does thunderous apply extra brittleness stack on a revved up chainswor/axe attack?

proven thicket
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so thunderous on mk xii chainaxe = good?

vocal pulsar
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it is better on the old chaxe

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so not the xii

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xii wants headtaker + thrust

torn flame
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There fixed

hollow ember
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haha

torn flame
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you do this again and it's the heretical execution you deserve

hollow ember
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o7

torn flame
hollow ember
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though I usually listen to secondary stuff on my 2nd monitor so I don't want that to be captured and be a distraction, need to check the audio stuff and let it only capture the game audio

sterile dune
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So heavy sword is really better than eviscerator just not as cool right?

ripe quest
proven thicket
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so a revved hit doesn't count as multiple hits?

ripe quest
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It doesn't no.

proven thicket
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ok

hollow ember
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sadly no

ripe quest
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Also Thunderous is Carapace exclusive. Otherwise Headtaker will be better.

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Even then Thunderous is a debuff so it's debatable since both Chaxe's can 1 shot all elites.

fleet zealot
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Evi can't kill 4 ragers in one swing

ripe quest
# vocal pulsar yes

You might've noticed when bleed procs thunderous, the Chaxe itself only applies 1 proc per hit regardless if it's a rev or not.

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bleed will tick it

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It's so nuts to me that when Orthus came out I 5/5 rolled a Mk XII with HT + Slaught. Fatshark really wants me to keep using them.

sterile dune
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I have a crit evi now, I think I need shred blessing on it

ornate bone
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I'm almost sure the chain revs only apply one stack

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Or at least they don't apply per tick

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I tested it in the psykhanium and the damage in the middle ticks, which is the same, didn't change mid-rev

fleet zealot
ornate bone
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Raton

ripe quest
ornate bone
ripe quest
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There was a funny interaction I was trying to get on Zealot where you use a Flechette + Man-Stopper Lawby and use Shroudfield crit CDR with a Thunderous melee weapon.

ornate bone
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I thought they fixed bleed stacking blessings

ripe quest
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So you proc Flechette twice and you swap to your melee.

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It was working last night so not sure.

ornate bone
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Then it likely is

ripe quest
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The entire interaction is easier on Vet due to Onslaught, you can like, completely shred small elites with it.

ornate bone
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I tested mine much earlier

polar nexus
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and buff your teamates

ripe quest
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I think Josho was looking into a setup like that.

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Ever since P13 my Vet builds have been batshit according to Vet chat dwellers so I leave it to the people over there.

polar nexus
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i wonder if you can use both onslaught and uncanny for the bleed

shy hull
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What is a good perk combo for crusher ? Flakniac or unyielding carapace ?

polar nexus
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does onslaught only works when you have you ranged wp equiped?

polar nexus
ripe quest
hollow ember
shy hull
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thanks

polar nexus
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uncanny won't stack but you can stack it before the nades

hollow ember
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np

ripe quest
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I usually try to aim for some gimmick setup on Vet builds and just spam it whenever.

hollow ember
ripe quest
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I'm not a Youtuber no.

hollow ember
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gotcha

polar nexus
#

Hello Varlets!

Happy New Year!

This is the first video of 2024 and I thought "What better way to start a new year of Darktide, than to take a moment to look back at all things we've covered on this channel and take stock at how far we've come?"

This was technically supposed to be the last video of 2023, but because of festive shenanigans, I h...

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fading vale
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I like my video of my first time using a crusher

dawn wharf
fading vale
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and spamming special L1 the entire game

polar nexus
coarse birch
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was this pre buff crusher

royal vortex
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i tried crusher when i was leveling zealot and was like "i want something heavier that pens armor"

polar nexus
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i have seen your video 😄

royal vortex
hollow ember
fading vale
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yeah this was when crusher released

coarse birch
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tbf that might have been the best thing back then

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i do not know though

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i saw it used once

fading vale
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well, special L1 spam was the right way to use it back then lol

hollow ember
royal vortex
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it used to be one of the worst weapons in the game to use

hollow ember
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oh is it the hp buff again

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prob the case

fading vale
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cause it's a completely different weapon now

hollow ember
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ah i see

north sedge
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no they reworked it completely

royal vortex
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and the old activations all had the same aoe blast radius

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so all u could do was stunlock stuff and let other ppl kill it

fading vale
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and it was a huge radius

hollow ember
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damn it was rough back then

coarse birch
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it was just a CC stick

polar nexus
hollow ember
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i kinda like crushers being unique with the combos now

fading vale
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yeah it's cool now

royal vortex
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yea crusher is bangin

north sedge
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it didnt even have combos, it was just little slaps

ripe quest
spare dome
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i think it was day two or three of the crusher being released

polar nexus
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assuming you get to that 100%

spare dome
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i clutched a game with it on damnation, it took five minutes, and it was just me bonking down a horde with endless charged lights for a fucking eternity

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i stopped using it after that lmao

ripe quest
north sedge
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i used it once just diving into a game blind and then never touched it until the rework

ripe quest
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Esp since the shovels get it too

royal vortex
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theres a clip somewhere where a dude is at the elevator at the end of excise vault and there's a shit ton of poxwalkers and he can't get them out of the elevator

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because he's using pre-rework crusher

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and everyone else is dead

royal vortex
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sharpening my shovel

coarse birch
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The meta

ripe quest
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Josho did you see the thing I pinged you about regarding Lawby

royal vortex
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uhhhhh

coarse birch
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Sorry META

royal vortex
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was it the "better than plasma gun" thing

ripe quest
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mhm

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Well, I didn't say it was better than plasma entirely

royal vortex
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yea i mean if u can hit the bad guys with the bleed consistently it does good

ripe quest
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just like, mixed hordes

polar nexus
royal vortex
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in a live game its a lil more annoying but also like

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i play it once or twice a month

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and then do smth else

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so i havent really adapted to The Playstyle™️

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i miss when scattershot was 4% crit chance for hitting 3+ guys and never more

coarse birch
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And lawby special shot didnt do anything

polar nexus
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who could design a blessing like that lmao