Hitting at least 3 enemies with an attack, increases your damage by 24-36% for 3 seconds.
35-50% Cleave on Hit. Stacks 5 times.
Ranged hits add 1-4 stacks of bleed to enemies.
Point blank shots cause an explosion. Explosion Radius increases by 10-25%.
Came back to Darktide for Grim Protocols update after 2 months of playin nothing but Space Marine PvP and found that my DT skills were in the shitter. But all the folks I play with wanna climb the havoc tree, so I needed a safety net so I could "get good" again. That said, I tested this build on Aurics, Aurics Maels and low Havocs and it worked great for me. Figured I'd post it here so that I didn't lose it after then next time Obese Fish resets my talent trees.
That said, here's the deal:
WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT A META.....I've played almost 3000 hours of this game. If you've gotten THAT sweaty with a tide game, you know that your build and kit are NOT the primary determining factor of your ability to successfully complete a round of higher difficulty. So don't fucking @ me. Take things in your kit that bolster your top strengths and weaknesses in gameplay. Slap Pox Hounds (or Rats). Profit.
As far as the build:
Chorus for the Safety Dance. I found that I was getting surrounded and bullied because I wasn't paying attention to how I was pathing on a map (running out in the open, not keeping a wall on one side, panic dodge spamming, etc) and it was embarrassing. So I went for something that would let me open up space on demand while I knocked the rust off. Don't just pop it whenever its up, hold it for things like creating breathing room so you can reset positioning or giving everyone DR cause you just looked at the rest of the groups health bars and they look sick. Or ledge monstrosities with it if you want. Shit, who am I to tell you how to play? If you need to use it more frequently than every 60s or so (depending on group comp) then somebody, probably you, is fuckin up REAL bad and ya might wanna figure out why that is and fix it before getting into the harder content.
Marty keystone for the attack speed and Damage boosts cause I wanted to play with the Relic blade while working on the new content and the base attack speed felt too slow to me when paired with the just the 10% boost from faithful frenzy and Piety keystone. Relic blade has great crit dam profile though, so leaving scourge in and grabbing puntuce on the bolt pistol at least gives a 35% crit chance boost over base (5% on blade) on demand. Just whip the pistol out and hip fire a shot into something in the pack that takes you more than 1 hit to kill so you can carry the bleed with you in the encounter. Also gives you a quick way to stack max bleeds on monstrosities before closing to melee. (I'll type the rest later)
