Slowgryn
 Ogryn Build - Warhammer 40k: Darktide 

Hi everyone, sharing the Slowgryn build. Name comes from the usage of the two slowest weapons in the Ogryn arsenal. It works for a slow paced combat loop with high defences and makes up for a somewhat chill experience in pugs. A build for those not affected by the Zealot brain plague. (just banter, i love a zealot running around :))

So here is the pitch, this build is Defense, Quality of Life, Fun, Pug Friendly. I started the build by putting togeter some defensive nodes that I enjoyed so lets start by laying out the defensive choices:

Feel no Pain, Pained Outburst, Thoughest and No Hurting Friends are a match in heaven, looks like they designed them to be used together hummm... If you have 10 stacks of feel no pain you can tank a crusher overhead to the face or two pox bursters at the same time and still come out like you took a normal hit and lost some health. In case you take smaller hits because you are having a bad day at dodging, No hurting friends will top off and you are back with damage reduction and more damage. Pained Outburst is a get out of jail card, when you lose stacks from 5 to 4 this will put you back on your feet with toughness and even bounce off dogs! Feel no Pain makes you the perfect character for doing hacks, just sit there and enjoy the minigame while enemies tickle you.

Delight in Destruction / Mobile Emplacement / Steady Grip and Pumped Up are the kings of defensive quality of life. They are just there ensuring you don't bother thinking about anything else than rations.

Pitch being done, lets solve the damage now, this is were the build tetris began. As it is, it was already out of space for you know, damage, cleave, what special skill to use.

Let me preach you the chorus for the Branx Mk I Pickaxe and the Achlys heavy stubber. You know what is better than picking all the chad defense nodes? Not having to think about damage cause this two weapons dont give a F. They already pack the hardest shots and strikedowns, who needs damage? wtf. All of that being said, lets understand how they come together here.

The Branx Mk I pickaxe is usually a second pick because is slow, dosen't have the pull shenanigan, does not have an immediate horde clear loop. BUT, normal attacks and heavys are the easiest and hardest strikedowns you can dream of, you just raise the pickaxe and send your enemies straight to hell, save for bosses, nothing survives two of the heavy strikedown, let alone one.  Lets talk the intricacies, the special is a slow poke that nobody seems to use it, so here is how. That poke will stop any enemie that is not a boss, just poke them, ragers bounce back, crushers bounce back, reapers bounce back. Dont have a second to heavy a crusher, poke him, dosent have the time to heavy a reaper that locked into you, poke him. Kudos if you poke a hound mid flight. Now for the horde clear. You have feel no pain so dont be a coward, get in there and start your loop. Hold block and initiate a push and dont let the attack button release. Tou will follow that push with a vertical strong horizontal slash and will wind up the fattest diagonal heavy strike in the game that will cleave any horde. Follow that by a normal attack and you will have the same mirrowed attack, just not heavy, follow with another fat heavy and there you are, doing an X shaped loop killing and bleeding everything. The pickaxe will bounce of armored crushers and maulers, but it is not a free bounce for them, they will die to that if they keep eating. Your heavy will insta kill mutes so no need for rock if you dont want to.

So there you have it, if the superior heavy pickaxe it is not for you, i believe the other two will suffice, you can test it for me Pal :D

Finally the Achlys heavy stubber. Don't you hate small gunners? Bullying ogryns, OUR PALS, left and right in pug teams that don't take care of them? So in case you find yourself surrounded by those pests, pull of the biggest of the big irons, aim and shoot. Just shoot them you know? Only runts need cover.

 With Massacre, Lucky Streak, No Hurting Friends, Steady Grip and Mobile Emplacement it becomes a classic duck shooting game, the better you shoot the more you ramp that crit chance, the more you one tap them. The ammo efficiency is ridiculous.

I picked bull rush cause I didnt feel I needed to do specials skills as often so I use that to put bulwarks down, rush gunner packs, stop bosses, that sort of stuff. Pick any granade you feel like as well, all good.

If you took the time to read all of that thank very much. I hope you enjoy the build. If you branch it to the right side of the tree it becomes the ogryn sniper in case you dont have veterans in your team, branch to the left and it becomes a boss killer and horde clear machine. This version is for pugs in damnation and auric damnation, best of both worlds for fun. I didnt test this in Havoc40 and I dont think it fits that intense cenario since it is not a place for all rounders.