Arby's OP Melee Meta Havoc-40
 Arbites Build - Warhammer 40k: Darktide 

DEAD OR ALIVE, YOU'RE COMING WITH ME! 🤖 ⚖️

This is strictly a dogless melee loadout version from a meta perspective. What I think is probably the most no-brainer meta you can get for Havoc-40. Lonewolf/Break the Line is the meta now with infinite shock mines (yes, even after the cooldown nerf to mines, just don't waste them as much is all & only use them in emergencies). There are great Dog meta's too, but that's for another build, this is just solo. Mostly light spam with maul, plus use your heavy + light/shock combos for armor/bosses (make sure you're always aiming for the heads to proc all the passive nodes with your combos). You know the drill. It's a very simplistic build, you just keep spamming lights most of the time, plus shoving for the cleave into hordes & constantly charging into packs of enemies to stagger lock, then go ham with your beefy attack speed from your passive's, that's it. Use mines on choke points or in the open, mostly for those pesky armies of crushers/maulers/ragers that come your way. Mines just totally negate/surpass them for the most part & your crew will love you for it too & help you delete whatever is in your team's pathway. You're the frontliner, you're the tank just like Ogryn. You basically fulfill the same role. You need to be constantly in heretics faces to upkeep Forceful stacks. Basically, you're going to kick@ss & take no names, because you don't give a fk about the enemies. All you need to do is stagger lock everything & charge, that's your job. Keep the heretics off your teammates. You are the imperial cop & the law, so keep the heretics in their place & be very aggressive.

IMPORTANT NOTES: There are a bunch of things I would like to mention, because you do truly have some options for sure. You can always go for 'Execution Order' & path that way for slightly more damage, but 'Forceful' is cushier for Havoc-40's & better for stagger locking everything & I strongly feel that stagger locking/being more tanky is of more value in Havoc-40's, because it makes it so that nothing can really fight you back to apply damage to you. Plus, 'Execution Order' isn't that much more damage on the Scoreboard at the end of that day testing between the two, personally. Most of the good Arbiters will use the bolt pistol, which is a part of the meta because it just one shot's most enemies to the head, technically, but of course I love the shotty. Choose whatever range you desire on this one, whatever makes you feel more comfortable. Another thing is that you can drop 'Will of The Lex' & 'Arbites Vigilant' for 'True Grit' & 'Rebreather' to be very safe while playing Havoc's & also switch to shield too if you want, but personally, I wouldn't do this because you're leaving too much DPS strength synergy off of the table without 'Relentless Strikes' & 'Arbites Vigilant' if you switch off of those nodes or weapon for this to work & stack for DPS. It's up to you though. I just find it rare that I'm in tox gas or that I get over-headed or even pox-bursted. You can totally change it to those nodes & it would make total sense for sure, feel free. If you're a fellow sweat-lord like me, then you don't need either of those safety crutch nodes, of course, just the damage. You can put on one 21% Health Curios to your other two, 17% Toughness Curios & also add 5% Health on each Curio perk to spec into 'True Grit' if you're going for the safe route, you might as well optimize for its value if you want to play it safe. Also, a couple last thoughts... feel free to take the Arbites Grenades to be a bit more tactical, I just like mines more so because it just holds everything in place for quite a while for free kills. Another big detail that I see with these kinds of builds is that a lot of players don't take 'Targeted Brutality' & this is a huge mistake in my eyes, because it massively shaves off your CDR time for you to then charge again with your ULT much sooner = more DPS. You can also put Gunner Resistance on Curios too, I just feel the extra toughness suits me more, but if you struggle in Havoc's, feel free. On your Shock Maul you could do Flak as a perk choice instead of Unyielding, this is just as valid in just a different kind of a way is all, that's up to you. Also, if you're doing Rotten Armor modifier, I'd drop 'Relentless Strikes' for 'Thunderous' just for the Brittleness factor to make it easier to punch through. I think it's perfectly fine the way it is personally if you're not doing Rotten then keep it as is. This is more of a rough template of what I perceive the meta to be. It's pretty down-right obvious what the meta is, like duh... Arby is a very simplistic class, just like Ogryn, so this was easy-peasy to figure out...

There are similar builds like this out there, but in my mind, this is the best variation amongst them & the most effective. The others just miss the mark in my personal judgment. This build was carefully crafted to perfection & well-thought-out. I tested this to the bone; all the nodes/blessings/perks synergize & coincide with one another for you to be an efficient killing machine. I would consider this to be the definitive meta solo-wise. No need to thank me, just get out there & lay down the law!💪 

Thank-you for the likes, everybody, I really appreciate it!