Auric Quintessential: Veteran VoC
 Veteran Build - Warhammer 40k: Darktide 

Overview

• Veteran's don't need keystones! Of any of the classes, keystones on the Veteran are the least necessary and the cost to take them frequently requires sacrificing a lot of other strong talents along the way.
• Voice of Command + Ability Perks - Voice of Command is such an amazingly powerful ability.  Provides an overtougness barrier that greatly increases the damage you and your team can take, knocks back enemies, and with For the Emperor! and Kill Zone buffs damage.  All on a short cooldown.
• Krak Grenades are universally useful for dealing with clumps of armor, and we get extra krak grenades and two sources of grenade replenishment.
• Can leverage crits well on this build, both for melee and ranged weapons.
• Recon Las-weapons with crit chance and the Shock Trooper talent gives great ammo sustain even without survivalist. 
• Rending from Onslaught works well in conjunction with high rate of fire weapons (i.e. Recon Lasgun, Columnus)
• Good toughness regen and toughness damage reduction talents throughout. 

Melee Weapon Options

Can run this build with pretty much any melee weapon - just make sure your melee + ranged weapon covers your bases well in terms of enemy types.  Krak Grenades help cover Crushers and monsters.

• Chainsword with Wrath + Shred is a great all arounder. Iconic with a wonderful sawing special.
• Power Sword
• Dueling Sword with 
• Shovel (Mk??) - This is great for both anti-armor with the folder marks and provides good horde management and space making.
• Tactical Axe with Brutal Momentum + Shred
• Combat Axe
• Knife

Ranged Weapon Options

• Recon Lasgun with Headhunter + Infernus
• Laspistol
• Infantry Lasgun IVa

Alternatives

If you move off las weapons, can drop Shock Trooper talent.  If moving to a slower firing weapon can also drop Onslaught (and stamina regen node above it). Frees up three points for something else. It's enough to grab Confirmed Kill + Close Order Drill (nice for even more durability). Or alternatively can go down the middle tree to get Rending Strikes and Bring it Down! for even more damage. Opens up the following ranged weapons:

• Columnus Mk V IAF (still benefits from Onslaught)
• Revolver
• Headhunter Autoguns
• Plasma Gun
• Hellbore Lasgun (use one with the proper bayonet attack) (still benefits from Shock Trooper)

Infiltrate combat ability can also be utilized in this build, and it's setup to be able to quickly swap to that ability with minimal impacts to the tree.  Might need to drop a talent (Superiority) to get Overwatch and Hunter's Resolve sub-talents.

Notes

• Executioner's Stance is overall pretty weak, as most of vet's weapons can be built to get to solid breakpoints such that executioner's stance really doesn't add much additional benefit other than overkilling most of the targets you'd use against it.
• The Survivalist aura, since getting nerfed, is a highly taxed node for little benefit.  Since it's on the left side of the tree and you want to go down the middle (Voice of Command) or right side (Infiltrator) it is just too expensive to grab in my view. Better to train yourself to not waste ammo and put the talent points elsewhere.