+35-50% Cleave on Hit. Stacks 5 times.
+1-2 Extra Chained Energised Hits and +2.5-10% Impact on Energised Hits.
+3.5-5% Critical Chance on Weak Spot Hit until your next Critical Hit. Stacks 5 times.
+1-4 Burn Stack(s) on Critical Hit to a maximum of 3-12 Stack(s).
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Well Recon Got Buffed in the latest patch 6/25/2024
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This build gets extra good, since our penetration was nerfed but our base damage was raised, the effectiveness of our 50% armor ignore is even stronger!
Anyway back to the Build guide.
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6/27/2024Changes:
-Swapped Takedown and Longshot for Close order and Confirmed Kill
-Fixed some erroneous talent placements
This build is a response to the nerfs to both the old Veteran Recon Lasgun build and the ammo nerfs. Focusing on Weakspot hits allows the magazine depth to be 3-5x higher than any autogun, at about 75% of the DPS. This makes the damage a bit slower, but at the same time, lets you kill entire waves of Ogryns, elites and specialists in a single magazine. All while keeping the executioners stance active for the vast majority of a mission length.
We use the HeadHunter Crit increase on the Recon lasgun weakspot hits, to kill a reaper with about 3500DPS, spending on average 15 ammo, and regenerating 7-8 ammo. This makes the Recon lasgun able to kill 10 reapers in a single magazine. It can also do about 50% of a Nurgle Demons HP in one magazine.
With headhunter 4 and no other buffs, our effective crit rate caps at 40%, giving us a 10-40% effective crit chance based on your ability to hit weakspots. As such, the largest improvements this build can get are %crit chance buffs most notably from the psyker aura, and zealot abilities. (RIP old crit chance node)
With a max crit rate around 40% this will net you close to 4000 DPS on anything not carapace armored, and do about 75% of the damage an autogun would do to carapace.
Recon Lasgun Choices
Mark 2 - Highest ammo efficiency (Recommended)
Mark 6d - Highest DPS against single targets
Mark 7a - Penetration through hordes, highest DPS against Unyielding
Alternatives
The Torrent Lasgun can also be swapped in, as it builds fire stacks faster, and does more DPS to non-carapace enemies, but sacrifices ammo efficiency. This is also true for the slower recon lasgun from my testing.
Additionally, DumDum 4 can be swapped in for Infernus, as it will scale better if you have it available.
How to play:
Try to exist in the "pocket" of your team, and press F, shoot highlighted enemies to keep your buff going, weak enemy ranged units are ideal for extending your ability. Focus on weakspot hits, as getting critical hits does not consume ammo for 2 shots! This means you can have a single shot crit, and make the next 2 cost nothing, giving you a 66% ammo reduction. Your goal is to kill everything you can shoot, and try to make your ammo go for as long as possible. Additionally, since we apply brittle to enemies, we can give our teamates a very large damage buff against Carapace armored enemies. You should expect to do 50-100K more damage than the average veteran, but may get less overall kills due to damage aliasing. Don't worry about that. Be the damage. There is no other full auto build that gets this ammo efficient.
