Ecclesiarchy-Issued Brit | Auric
 Zealot Build - Warhammer 40k: Darktide 

Ecclesiarchy-Issued Brit

Special thanks to Hrup in the Darktide Discord for help with the Skilltree.

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OVERVIEW

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With the upcoming nerfs to shroudfield, Its time for us to adapt, to become stronger, to conqueror the known world, to have horrible teeth! It is time for us, my friends, to return to Londoner. This build rocks for plenty of reasons, the insane horde clear, solid elite and boss killing, but above all else is the survivability typically not seen with other Knifelot builds. Ive ran this build on Auric Damnation and Auric Maelstorms alike and found myself going down less than even Ogryns and VoC vets simply because of our insane uptime on Fury Of The Faithful. With a 50% crit rate, every swing is a coin flip to apply bleed and lower our cooldown by 1.5 seconds, and trust me, with Inexorable Judgement, we're gonna be swinging quite a bit. In general, this build goes hard, so incredibly hard infact that I wouldn't recommend bringing this into anything below normal Damnation because of how easy it makes the lower difficulties. If you're after a build that can dish out top-of-the-line DPS and keep you alive and well while doing it, this is the build for you.

Pros:

• DPS
• Survivability
• Combat Ability Uptime

Cons:

• No team support
• Lacking on range
• Must be decent with throwing knives

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Gear Breakdown

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The Catachan Combat Blade is at the core of our build. A fast-swinging, high damage and high mobility weapon that can apply tons of buffs and debuffs in a matter of seconds. Either mark with work for this build, I just prefer the Mk. 3. For perks, either Unarmored Damage or Flak Damagewill do nicely, each with their own benefits. Unarmored damage can allow us to 1-Shot dreg gunners and flak can allow us to one-shot flak ads, either way poth picks are valid. Combining either perk with Unyeilding Damage will significantly increase our boss damage when combined with our blessings, but if you cant get Unyeilding on your knife don't sweat as there are plenty of perks that can work listed at the end of the section. For blessings, I personally prefer Riposte for extra crit rate and Uncanny Strike for the crusher and flak killing potential (with five stacks of Uncanny Strike all armor is ignored.) For our ranged option, plenty can work but my choice Is the Purgation Flamer. With the flamer, even the largest of Hourglass hordes become trivial, just alt fire into the crowd. I'd go for Flak and Elite damage combined withQuick Flame and Blaze Away for increased damage and reload respectively. When it comes to curios, 2 toughness 1 HP is the best play. CDR is required and from there anything goes. I like toughness and gunners personally but experiment and find out what works for you.

SWAPABLE STUFF

Knife:

• Uncanny and Riposte -> Mercy Killer Flesh Tearer
• Uncanny or Riposte-> Precognition
• Flak -> Unarmored or Maniac
• Flak or Unyeilding -> Elite
• Unyeilding -> Unarmored or Flak (whichever you don't have)

Flamer:

• Quickflame -> Overpressure
• Quickflame -> New ammo refill on crit blessing
• Flak -> Unarmored
• Flak -> Carapace
• Flak -> Maniac

Alternate Weapons:

• Flamer -> Autopistol, Revolver, Columnus Infantry, Braced Autoguns, Any shotgun
• Catachan 3 -> Catachan 6

Curios:

• One toughness -> One HP or One Stamina
• Gunners -> Stamina Regen Speed, Snipers
• Toughness -> HP

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Talent Tree Breakdown

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Key Talents: Backstabber | Scourge | Blades of Faith | Duelist | Fury Of The Faithful | Invocation of Death | Inexorable Judgement

To start, we wanna grab Anoint in Blood for free ranged damage and Purge The Unclean for boss damage. In total, this is a free 45% increased ranged damage to bosses and a 25% increase on melee damage to bosses. From there we start going down the right-hand skill tree grabbing Backstabber for boss/elite DPS, Scourge for crit and bleed, Blood Redeption for toughness regen,  capping it off with Enduring Faith for increased survivability.