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 nerfs to mines, just don't waste them as much is all & only use them in emergencies). There are great Dog metas too, but that's for another build, this is just solo. Mostly light spam with maul & use your heavy + light 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, 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 team will love you for it too & help you delete whatever is in your team's pathway. You're the frontliner, just like Ogryn, but only better, you're the tank. 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 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 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 people will use the bolt pistol, which is a part of the meta because it just one shots most things 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' & 'Arbities 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' & 'Arbities 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 poxbursted. 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 myself, 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. 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.

⭐PRO TIP: If you do a special attack before going into the match with the Arby Shock Maul & switch to the shotgun/swap back to your Shock Maul really fast... It PERMANETLY stays in the shock state, so you never have to keep pressing your button to special attack ever again after doing that literally once per-match. Which is completely bugged bullsht. Fatshark should really fix this, honestly. It makes this build more OP & over the top, with more DPS for 'High Voltage' to proc EVEN MORE. Usually, I'm against unethical practices in games, but do what you wish with this information. You're very welcome! Enjoy!⭐