Catachan Zealot Crit-Fishing
 Zealot Build - Warhammer 40k: Darktide 

Zealot Crit-fishing build using the Catachan MKIV as an all-rounder melee weapon and Agrippina MKVII Braced Autogun with Stripped Down for navigating hordes of shooters.  The way I play this build is largely around charging at things and hitting them hard with Heavy attacks.

Not tested on Damnation yet.

Horde clear combo:

Light1 -> Heavy2 -> Repeat

• Open up against hordes with Heavy2 to hit as many things as possible.
• Generally shouldn't bother full-charging the Heavy2 since it's better to just let it rip early so you can fish for crits.
• Dodge every now and then between attacks.
• Use Fury of the Faithful for a guaranteed crit which will apply bleed on everything you hit, which in turn increases your crit chance on followup attacks.  
• Every individual enemy you hit with a crit triggers Invocation of Death to massively reduce the cooldown of Fury of the Faithful allowing you to repeat the cycle.
• With big enough hordes, you can use Chastise every other cycle of your combo.  Sometimes faster.
• If you need to retreat cause your teammates are moving on without you, switch to the autogun and magdump.

Gameplan for Elites/Specials:

Gunners

• Charge at them and hold Heavy1 to one-shot

Shotgunners

• Charge at them and hold Heavy1 to one-shot

Mutants

• Charge at them and hold Heavy1 to one-shot

Trappers

• Dodge then run at them and hold Heavy1 to one-shot

Dogs

• Dodge then run at them and hold Heavy1 to one-shot

Ragers

• With big packs of Ragers, the crit on Heavy2 is enough to stagger them and give you breathing room to go Heavy1 -> Heavy2 again
• Riposte is extremely good at killing them fast.

Maulers/Crushers

• Swap to Autogun and magdump.  Once you're out of ammo, Charge in and keep swinging with Heavies.
  • Consecutive Heavy1 or Heavy2 crits to the face are enough to stagger Crushers such that it interrupts their attacks.
• Dodge side-to-side ALWAYS.  Especially with Crusher/Mauler packs.  If you dodge backwards, they will still track you and walk forward while they're charging their down swing.

Plague Ogryns:

• Riposte means you can clear this boss without taking literally any damage.
• Either Heavy or Light spam works but Light spamming is safer since Heavy2 has ending lag that prevents you from immediately riposte-ing.
  • Save your Chastise for a charged Heavy1 for big damage.
• The stomp is riposte-able.
• Spam Heavy combo to the face.

Chaos Spawn:

• Riposte.
• Dodge back when you see the windup for the grab attack.

Beast of Nurgle:

• Swap to Autogun, Charge past them with Fury of the Faithful and mag dump into their back.