5-8% toughness on Chained Hit.
5-8% Strength for 4.5s on Kill. Stacks 5 times.
2-5 bullets loaded from Reserve on Critical Hit.
7-10% Strength for every 4 Single Target Hits. Lasts 2s and Stacks 5 times.
This build introduces a playstyle that provides huge monstrosity damage to carry your team while being auric difficulty viable. This is assumed and made as of Patch 15. I'll go over some points on what it provides and what are its weaknesses.
You should play this if you like:-
Don't play this if you don't like to:-
The tree focuses on the pointblank barrage ability while taking the Burst limiter override keystone.
Blitz Frag bomb: Even if you only get one, sometimes you just need to clear the room with a big explosion and revel in the silence post boom with your teammates taking a moment to relax in silence.
Ability Point Blank Barrage: This is your go to whenever you need to whip your Stubber out and start making swiss cheese out of your enemies, it has a 10 second duration with a 80 second cooldown, that's 70 seconds of sad downtime. However we'll be talking about how to reduce this in the keystones and other major talents to make it better! The ability modifiers taken are a must, each bullet gives you 2% toughness regen making you able to take ranged damage and shrugging it off. The other gives burning damage per pullet, that's a lot of extra damage since we'll be shooting a lot, scaling more on ogryns and monstrosities.
Aura Coward Culling: Nice bonus damage for you and your team when your shooting suppresses enemies, teammates that suppress also benefit from this aura.
Keystone Burst limiter override: So 8% chance for bullet to be free, shaves off ability cooldown, and guaranteed for that bullet to be a critical hit. 8% might be a small chance, but you are constantly shooting a lot so it procs more than you think and having a Stubber is a matchmade in heaven.
Here are some Major talents that were taken that compliments the build explained:-
Gorgonum Mk IV Twin-Linked Heavy Stubber paired with a melee of your choice is recommended for this build, I'll be listing some alternatives in both sections to suit your playstyle.
Mark 4 Stubber, the big boy damage thats pretty much every heretics biggest fear when being wielded by an ogryn with no thought but only to purge in the name of the emperor. Your modifier dumpstat would be collateral as you need all the others close to 80% as possible.
Perks:
Blessings:
An alternative weapon with the same perks and blessings would be the mark 7 achlys stubber due to the recent buff, this can add overall speed since its so fast to swap to it and shoot with amazing stability and range, though it eats more ammo and has less damage. Rippers are not recommended to be run with the keystone as its ammo count is too low for it to be useful.
Your overall critical chance comes to Weapon perk ( up to 5% ) + Massacre talent ( 8% ) + Ogryn base crit ( 3%* ) These dont even account for the 8% burst limiter override which gives you guaranteed critical chance!.
*As of patch 13, Base crit from classes that were 5% were all changed to different values and I believe ogryn is under that amount now due to the addition of additional critical chance accessable through talents.
Mark 4 knife, another choice of mark 4 that I like due to the animation of the swings, just because your talent revolves around using a gun, doesn't mean you get to neglect your melee weapon. It lacks the good toughness regeneration that your heavy provides from grabbing the top left talent points, but nonetheless you get to knife your way to victory. Dumpstat for your modifier is going to be mobility, if you can make it 60% thats good enough to gain an extra dodge but don't worry about it if its lower to not stress yourself out trying to interact with the rng of the crafting system.
Do not get carapace as the knife just is bad against them, just swap to your Stubber and they just die from that.
Single target combo: Spamming light attacks offers the most damage as it hits quick and is pretty strong, you can throw in the occasional heavy 1 attack if you need to stagger an enemy to stop it.
Multi target combo: Heavy 2 into a light attack looping is your go to for the best to cleave multiple enemies. There's two ways to get to heavy 2 attack, you can either throw three light attacks then you use heavy, or you can use pushblock attack into heavy, use accordingly if you need to create space and stagger enemies.
Other weapons include the bull butcher mark 3 knife with its nice light attack spam for everything, the club of your choice like the mark 3b bully club as it has good multi and single target, mark 1 club is best for single but not recommended with this build. Shovel is also amazing with its huge stamina that it provides for blocking and pushing with good sweeps.
I believe that the beefcake that you are with the perk of having an extra wound by default over the other classes, triple health just makes you so big that you can hit 500+ health to withstand hits when your toughness is depleted. Alternatively you can replace a health% for extra toughness if you feel that you can be sure you won't get hit in melee as more health can make being hit in melee more forgivable. For subperks there is many options, however I have found that ogryn stamina regeneration is so slow that I feel that having stamina regeneration on the perks is the only thing I can recommend. The others could be more health%, more toughness%, bonus ordo dockets, block efficiency, revive speed ally, damage resistance against gunners since its so easy to be shooting a huge hunk of meat like yourself. For combat ability regen, pointblank barrage benefits the most since it has a huge cooldown, but I didn't feel the need to have it on myself.
Mandatory team member:
Good team member:
Bad team member:
I believe this build can be exceptionally strong with the correct premade team that can take your power one step further, it feels amazing and is played best in missions that has a lot of monstrosities spawn or the strength to stop an accidental ( or unaccidental ) Demonhost that would otherwise end your mission early. Thanks for reading and make sure to thank the emperor for every bullet he has blessed that goes through the heretics.