12-24% Rending on Enemy Weak Spot Hit for 3.5s. Stacks 5 times.
Continuously chaining more than 2 attacks gives 2-5% Power. Stacks 10 times.
Adds 2-8-6-12 stacks of 2.5% Brittleness to hit enemies, based on charge level.
10% Critical Chance for every 0.3-0.45 second while aiming. Stacks 10 times. Discharges all stacks upon firing.
Keep in mind you can tailor a build to suit your playstyle. Don't need weapon specialist? it's fine you can put that point somewhere else, it's up to you! take this build as a nice start.
I love the Helbore lasgun and I often come back to this build to modify a thing there and there after a bit of testing.
This is an actual viable build that is not just a fuckin meme like many most builds posted on this site. (I'm looking at you, veteran watchmaster, infernus for the helbore wtf are you doing, ammo as dumpstat wtf? mobility as..dumpstat but the HELBORE DOESN'T HAVE MOBILITY)
This build is an excellent all rounder with great survivability and crowd control (you can spam grenades thanks to demolition stockpile and demolition team, noice!), it's not a OMG ONE SHOT ONE KILL LE EPIC SNIPER build (tho you still can one shot most things if you can aim), it's more like a midliner role (but good in melee) with a lot of teamplay value with the shout and the armourbane blessing (try it, it's awesome) and don't forget the grenade spam for max stagger+horde killing.
Helbore Mk V (the fast firing one) it's fast charge rate let's you take quick snap shots without needing weight of fire (shortened charge time) so you can pick Armourbane instead wich allows you to soften targets for you and the rest of your team (you shoot a crusher twice, no need to charge the shots fully, and you can bayonet it to death, super fun). Surgical is there to give a nice boost to your dmg and synergises well with shock trooper.
"But I don't need to bayonet a crusher to death!"
How dare you? But seriously, it's ok to swap armourbane for weight of fire if you prefer the shooty side of the Helbore....and while you're at it, you can totally use the other marks if you want, I just find the Mk V more suited to my playstyle because of it's faster charge rate and faster reload, and I don't mind shooting my target twice instead of once.
No Respite is a good blessing as well because it also applies the damages to your bayonet stab
Well, I usually use a knife but since it's a kriegsman build... But the MkI shovel is amazing for stagger and crow control, with good damages and good attack speed. Uncanny Strike so you can do good damages to crushers and maulers when they jump on your when your pants are down, and remember that uncanny strikes also boost your grenade bleed dmg as long as you hold the shovel. Neat! Decimator gives you strenght, and strenght is GOOD.
One Motion is quite nice with the Helbore so you don't lose your sanity with the insane swap speed, and it's in the way to Out for Blood wich is an amazing node that gives you toughness for ALL your kill, so imagine how nice it is when you throw your grenades into a horde.
Shredder Grenades are just the better option since krak grenades are good for killing 1-2 crushers when you're lucky and can't deal with a whole horde. Smoke grenades are just garbage and are bugged. Get Back in the fight could potentially save your life if shit hits the fan but I like to use Catch a breath now because it saved me quite some times when I was in the pox gas.
Survivalist is the better choice because if you think 5% more dmg will help you and your team, oh my god...
Kill Zone is on the way, and gives a nice boost to your ranged damage so why not? JUST DOOOODGE!
Demolition stockpile so you can kaboom a lot more, Voice of Command with Duty and Honour to boost the overall survivability of the team even more.
Precision Strike is a must have because it also boost your MELEE dmg to the head, Superiority complex for more dmg again, and Shock Trooper so you never run out of ammo (seriously I do Maelstroms without ammo pickups and it's fine) and you'll also reload less.
Born Leader is kinda ok? but it's a coherency skill so keep that in mind but it's still better than For the Emperor wich only last 5 sec. I'm not sure about Keep their heads down, because supression is great but I don't know if the Helbore deals a lot of it. If you think it does then Keep their heads down woudl be the best choice.
Tactical Awareness is an obvious pick for more shouts. Iron Will for more survivability and Demolition team for MORE KABOOM (it procs more than you think, I mean if you don't play in Malice)
Reciprocity is just amazing for this build, keep in mind it affects both your melee and ranged crit chances
Desperado and Trench fighter drill are there to boost your shovel so you're surprisingly good in melee. (now boost your bayonet speed, noice)
Weapon Specialist is an excellent, amazing keystone that will boost your shovel insanely and give your first helbore shot a garantee crit without waiting for the surgical stacks
Well first, this is a Kriegsman build, not a stealth sniper one. Second, while the dmg boost given by those abilities are nice, they'll never beat the usefulnes of the veteran shout for you and the rest of your team.
Marksman's Focus is only good with fast-firing weapons so it's a terribly bad choice for the Helbore, avoid builds telling you to pick it.
Focus Target would be an OK pick with Target down and Focused fire but your points are better spent elsewhere.
While I'm quite sure about my weapons blessings, I didn't do enough testing on wich perk would be best and atm they're just tailord to my likings, but if you think maniac or unyelding are better dmg, be my guest!
It's ok if you think my build doesn't suit your playstyle but PLEASE STOP UPVOTING THE VETERAN WATCHMASTER BUILD IT'S AN ABOMINATION. It uses the worst nodes and promotes some that don't even make sense.
