LORETIDE - Veteran - Cadian Sergeant - Mk II Laspistol + Mk XIIIg Chainsword
 Veteran Build - Warhammer 40k: Darktide 

Lore

~From https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Sergeant_(Imperial_Guard)~

"A good soldier obeys without question. A good officer commands without doubt."

— Tactica Imperialis

A Sergeant is a noncommissioned officer (NCO) rank within the Astra Militarum. They are the assigned leaders of individual squads and conduct much of the day-to-day training and operations within any platoon of an Imperial Guard regiment. Those few battle-hardened Sergeants who have proved their fidelity, loyalty and valour are promoted to the seasoned rank of Veteran Sergeant. These combat veterans often find themselves in a leadership role, mentoring less-experienced troops and junior officers. They lead by example, inspiring courage and awe on the field of battle, instilling their wisdom and battle-field experience upon their subordinates -- and often their superiors as well. Veteran Sergeants often have access to non-standard gear as well as a variety of items, such as peaked caps and refractor field gorgets, normally reserved only for officers.

Build Overview

This build is focused around melee and being right up in the thick of it. The Chainsword XIIIg light attack spam, coupled with crit and rending talents makes this is a powerhouse in melee and there is nothing it can't handle. Ragers will fall to your attacks, and the special activation lets you do significant damage to boss weak spots.

The Laspistol is there as a method of triggering Weapons Specialist so you can get that sweet +15% attack speed for your Chainsword. It also has fantastic weakspot damage and will let you deal with ranged enemies adequately, if a boss comes out and you aren't in melee range then Infernus along with weak spot hits will let you do decent boss damage until you can close the distance.

Krak grenades give you an extra tool for crushers and Voice of Command, paired with the For The Emperor! and Close Quarters Killzone talents, will significantly boost your melee damage when you need it, as well as giving you a fantastic crowd control tool and toughness boost.

Make no doubt about it, this build is focused and getting right in the enemies face and shredding everything to pieces with Chainsword crits. The 

Ranged Weapon: Accatran MG Mk II Heavy Laspistol

PERKS

• + Flak/Maniac damage to let you kill Specials and Flak Elites faster.

BLESSINGS

• Ghost - Although an argument can be made for Dum Dum, your primary weapon is going to be your Chainsword. The Laspistol will only come out to deal with an urgent threat or if there is nobody nearby to whack with your Chainsword. This blessing when paired with the suppression immunity talent will let you tank ranged enemies for your team while clear them with well aimed weak spot shots.
• Infernus - This increases your DPS on Specials and Monstrosities quite significantly.

Melee Weapon: Cadia Mk XIIIg Assault Chainsword

PERKS

1. Melee Critical Hit Chance - More passive crit helps boost your overall dps. We aren't using Wrath or Savage Sweep blessings so we rely on our incredibly high alpha damage for killing large groups.
2. +Unyielding damage - The raw melee damage out put is enough to kill everything in melee, so Flak/Maniac aren't required. This perk will boost the Chainsword shred damage and the bleed from Bloodletter.

Ranged Tactics

The Laspistol is incredibly mobile and accurate, with strong weakspot damage. Although we will primarily be in melee with this build, this weapon lets you quickly swap to ranged and take out any ranged enemies or disablers with accurate weakspot hits, then switch right back into melee to enjoy the increased attack speed and dodge from Weapons Specialist.

Fortunately, the weapon is strong enough with weakspots that if necessary we can hang back behind the team to focus on taking out shooters/gunners/reapers reasonably fast.

Crit weakspot hits on monstrosities will do very high damage, and coupled with Infernus will let take out a large chunk of hitpoints before you close the distance to use your Chainsword special ability.

Melee Tactics

Left click spam, not much more to it then that. The crits, +melee damage talents, and the Rending talent, will let you kill large packs of ragers and maulers safely, as they will be staggered and your alpha damage will be very high.

Special attacks will let you 1 hit everything besides Crushers and Bosses/Monstrosities,

One thing to be careful of is the attack pattern of the light attacks are mostly diagonal slashes, and care should be taken to avoid missing your attacks.

Doing a quick swap to your Laspistol and killing 1 normal enemy every 10 seconds will let you keep Weapons Specialist up the whole time, the extra attack speed will be a huge a dps boost.

Talents

Straight down the middle to Krak to give us our main anti-Crusher tool. We grab Survivalist for the ammo regen, but also go right to get the +10% melee damage and crit talents.

Voice of Command and passive grenade regen is taken for the insane survivability and crowd control it gives. When paired with For the Emperor! and Close Quarters Killzone this will basically turn you into a Khorne Beserker, giving you insane DPS with your Chainsword and letting you make mincemeat out of difficult mixed hordes.

Weakspot talent, Rending, and left side of the melee tree down to Weapons Specialist finish of the build with significant increased melee damage and attack speed.

Curios

Player preference.