Psyker
Up to 14-20% Strength, scaling with Peril.
25-40% Cleave on Hit. Stacks 5 times.
Ranged hits add 1-4 stacks of bleed to enemies.
This build is a little weird. It's specifically made as a partial frontliner with sniping capabilities, and heavy horde clear. What makes this special is the interaction between the Force Greatsword (FGS) and the Bolter pistol (Bistol). If your FGS special attack projectile hits an enemy while you have your Bistol out, the projectile will cause bleed. Having played Vermintide 2, I also got used to using Q to weapon swap or cancel animations occasionally--so I set my weapon swap button to Q. So most of the time, your combo looks like this: "Special" > "Attack" > "Q" > "Q" > Repeat. If the enemy is right in front of you, you can swap back faster. If the enemy is further away, you have to hold the Bistol for longer to let the projectile hit those targets.
It's a fairly mechanically intensive playstyle because you're also often in the frontline. You will be aiming to use Shriek at 86% peril or higher, and you can charge your FGS up until 99%. Even if you're at 100% peril, you're able to shoot the projectile. I also take By Crack of Bone so that I can quell peril consistently inside of a horde. If I kill one unit in melee this way, I can instantly shoot another FGS combo. This clears hordes and staggers most enemies very consistently. I also take DD with this setup so that I have more consistent melee kills and movespeed. The precision stacks also increase the damage of your bleeds and warpfire (though they won't benefit from the critical and weakspot damages).
For your FGS, I like Carapace because your melee is your primary way to deal with heavy enemies. For the second perk, I usually take Flak because of mixed horde damage. Though Maniac is a solid contender. Unyielding isn't bad because this build doesn't specifically have a tool to deal with monsters. There's also something to be said for +5% critical chance because of how often you're swinging in melee. Against hordes, you'll be warpslashing, but simple light attack spams clears nicely. If you push then light attack, you also get a horizontal sweep that's good for hordes too. Your heavy attacks are for armor, unyielding, and maniacs. Also, do not forget that the "Push Attack" for force swords is a multi-meter heavy push that can knock aside bulwark shields, stagger maniacs out of their combo, and push dogs off allies through walls at several meters away.
The Bistol is primarily a backup weapon. It's how you quick snipe inside of hordes and I often start monster fights by unloading 4 shots for the 16 stacks of bleed. Inside of your FGS warpslash combo, you can also weave in single shots from this weapon as needed for stagger or finishing a target. The first shot is highly accurate as well.
I take Brain Rupture and Kinetic Flayer for very long range sniping as well as peeking from corners. Kinetic Flayer is fun because you hit so many specials and elites with the wave, and it will pop on them often. Also, the Kinetic Flayer is a free use, so it's free damage. Smite and Assail can be swapped in if you particularly don't like Brain Rupture however. But both of those blitzes somewhat conflict with your action choices during combat. In hordes where you might smite, you're likely to be warpslashing. In hordes where you might assail--again warpslash. Sniping, you already have the Bistol and Brain Rupture, so assail sniping is less necessary.
One final note is that I particularly like this build as a pseudo front liner and with other psykers. Since warpfire normally caps at 16 stacks (yes, there are exceptions), a second psyker with fire won't synergize particularly well. However, bleed stacks and warpfire stacks do damage independently, so your dot won't interfere with another psyker. While you can snipe, it's great to have a dedicated sniper on the team so that you can focus on the horde. And while you are frontline capable, you're still quite squishy and lack instant toughness like the Zealot or Veteran. There is also one talent left over from the build I have posted here. I favor Wildfire , Empathic Evasion , Tranquility Through Slaughter , or Toughness Boost . (Toughness is flat reduced in Havoc, and then your % toughness is calculated after that, so increasing your flat toughness has a great effect on your overall toughness)
I've leveled with this build from whenever these two weapons are available. I've used it to carry Damnation with low-levels. And I used it for mid havocs as well. However, I switch to a variant of this build with bubble to better support my team in high havocs. This will also be posted on my profile as well with most of this same information.
(Bubble variant) https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9e5b706e-bc57-4869-85ce-647088fff889/make-them-bleed-griever-bubble
