Auric/Maelstrom Recon Lasgun Mk7
 Veteran Build - Warhammer 40k: Darktide 

Notable talent choices / curio / perks / blessings / roles / explanations:

Talent choices:

• Confirmed Kill stacks with itself, each kill gives a buff that provides you with 20% Toughness over 10 seconds.
• Krak grenades give this build a much needed boss damage buff.
• Fire Team is more or less a talent tax for Reciprocity and Shock Trooper, while at least providing the team with a 5% damage increase
• VoC with DnH gives the team good survivability (gold toughness will allow you to negate the damage of 1 burster or 1 sniper shot or 1 crusher/mauler overhead).
• Focus on crit rather than brittleness or rending with this talent pathing and the 4-5% crit perk on the recon gun / shovel thus getting @50%/@30% crit chance when deadshot and reciprocity stacks are involved.
• (Optional)You can change the small 5% crit node for Competitive Urge (procs at @40+ kills from the whole team except you) or Demolition Team (procs at @16+ elites/specialists, waves of specialists are your biggest friend) if you need more help during Melee Scabs/No ammo modifier.
• Focus Target and Target Down are a great combo for you and the team, it provides you/team with up to 25% toughness on a 5stack proc (good at avoiding chip damage) and gives up to 25% stamina for Deadshot, while also debuffing beefier enemies with a receive up to 20% more damage.

Curio choices:

• With the amount of block efficiency that you get from perks , you can block @20 rager hits or 1 mauler overhead hit (tested with standard shovel, no gold toughness).
• Stamina regeneration helps with restoring stamina as fast as possible for the deadshot bonus.

Weapon perk / blessing choices:

• Recon Mk7 has cleave therefor it can pass through the horde and hit flamers/bombers/trapers/dogs, it can also pierce shotgunners.
• Dumdum blessing boosts the dmg of infernus burn, at max stacks maulers/ragers burn for @200 dmg, and bulwarks/reapers/bosses burn for @400+.
• The standard shovel is useful due to the stagger of the special attack that can stun notably mutants, crushers, maulers, bulwarks, ragers, reapers (weakspot hits work the best), with uncanny strike and reciprocity stacked the push attack of the shovel can 2-3 shot a crusher/mauler (control them with the special attack). 
• Use heavy attacks on pox/groaners hordes and light attacks on mixed hordes ( bruisers / ragers / maulers). 
• Skullcrusher can be applied on bosses right as you stagger them with VoC for 80% more dmg for the whole team on them for 5 seconds, it also slightly boosts krak grenade dmg making them deal @17-18k dmg if you use both grenades in fast sequence.
• When there are 4-5+ crushers throw krak grenade on the leading one and stagger/push with special shovel attack to stumble him into the others for a multikill. This works better around corners or obstacles, the more they path into each other the better.

Roles:

• Moderate horde clear and horde control with the shovel.
• Crits give good dps against most specials/elites ( can use debuff mod from nexus to see burn stacks on enemies, at 12 stacks most of the will die from dot).
• Good boss dmg with shovel skullcrusher krak VoC trick (it also boosts weapon dmg on boss).