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Veteran Build - Warhammer 40k: Darktide
Melee Bayonet Veteran (1.2.22)
Veteran Build - Warhammer 40k: Darktide
Weapons
Brutal Momentum
7.5-15% Weak Spot Damage. Weakspot Kills also ignore Enemy Hit Mass.
Power Cycler
1-2 Extra Chained Energised Hits and 2.5-10% Impact on Energised Hits.
Surgical
10% Critical Chance for every 0.3-0.45 second while aiming. Stacks 10 times. Discharges all stacks upon firing.
Weight of Fire
Chaining Charged Attacks reduces their Charge Time by -12--6%. Stacks 5 times.
Curios
+17-21% Max Health
+17-21% Max Health
+1-3 Max Stamina
Talents
Description
Following hotfix 1.2.20, limbsplitter no longer applies to the bayonet, but brutal momentum still does !
For a bayonet build we want either the mk1 or the mk2 variant from the lucius hellbore for the very strong stab attack.. The mk3 variant has a slash attack which is way slower and noticiably weaker.
Brutal momentum applies the same way as it would on your primary, transforming your bayonet in a very potent horde control option with high damage and very spammable. It is good enough that you rarely ever feel the need to block/push: which is good because you don't have access to it ! Note that the bayonet will stagger rager out of their combo. Besides BoN, the bayonet is very good at dealing with bosses. The mark keystone allows you to reach most of the BP you want, including reliable OS mutie on weakspot hit.
Not using limbsplitter means that we have access to more melee weapon. I chose the powersword for this build as I am more confortable with it to deal with crusher and mauler, bayonet main weaknesses. Another advantage of PS is that even if you input special by accident after a bad switch, you are not missing a beat because you want to activate your PS special anyway. Otherwise, you use your melee to deal with poxbuster and block chaos spawn when you are pressured without VoC.
For the question mark talent, those are the things I could want to reach:
- Agile engagement
- Focussed Fire
- Close Quarter Killzone
- Shredder frag grenade (the 5% ranged bonus is still useful when using the hb as... intended)
- Duck n dive
And the things I am still looking into:
- rending strike (not sure if better than focussed fire) (seemingly necessary to reach consistent OS on dreg bruiser without flak perk)
- Superiority complex (cost 2 points because of Fully loaded, useless on this build)
All in all i find this build easier to use compared to previous patch. The loss of limbsplitter was compensated by a better talent tree,a wider choice of melee weapon to cover our weaknesses.
Build priority
- Primary weapon (melee): brutal momentum, then whatever help the most against mauler/crusher
- Secondary weapon (ranged): 2 feats
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