Havoc 40 | Arby | 1.5M Armor Support
 Arbites Build - Warhammer 40k: Darktide 

HAVOC 40 | ARMOR SUPPORT

Here is my H40 support build for hard countering Rotten Armour, Stimms, Encroaching Garden or Final Toll. 

You will frontline and control the battlefield.

BUILD CONSIDERATIONS

MELEE

• Arbites Shock Maul. 
  • Carapace, Unyielding
  • Execution, High Voltage
  • Hit Combos
    • Out of Mine
      • Heavy 1 > Weapon Special > Repeat
        • Heavy 1 staggers, and the Special Alternate Fire electrifies the enemy maximizing Shock Maul Blessings
    • In Mine
      • Heavy 1 > Light 1 > Repeat
      • Heavy 1 > Weapon Special > Repeat
      • Heavy 1 > Block Cancel > Repeat
    • Trash Clear
      • Light 1 > Heavy 1 > Repeat
      • Block + Push Attack + Heavy 1 > Repeat

RANGE

• Exterminator VIII Shotgun
  • Flak, Maniac
  • Full Bore, Sustained Fire

CURIOS

• +17% Toughness - Combat Ability, Revive Speed, Gunner Resist
• +3 Stamina - Combat Ability, Revive Speed, Stamina Regen
• +21% Health - Combat Ability, Revive Speed, Gunner Resist

This Curio setup of Toughness, Stamina, and Health is my default for Arby. 

The +21% Health puts you in a great position to have 3 True Grit procs and survive. It then gives a little leeway for any other chip shots you might take. 

Then the +3 Stamina helps with many stamina intensive builds I run with the Arby giving me a pretty good feel regardless of what I build.

H40 TIPS

A few tips when playing the character

• Frontlining
  • You will be setting the frontline for your team. Even if you have a Shield Psyker, they will be following you.
  • If you find yourself staring at your teammates' backsides 
    • Then you're not doing your job.
  • If you do mess up, the build will give you 3 mulligans via True Grit.

• Corralling, Kiting & Culling
  • When pulling aggro it's important that you setup the chokepoint/killzone. 
    • You don't have to Break or Mine right away.
  • General rule: You want 80% of the horde coming after you AND you want to be able to funnel 80% of that horde
    • The remaining 20% is easy to pick off for your remaining 3 allies
  • Your first evaluation is after pulling aggro > WHERE do you pull it to?
    • If out in the open > pull back to choke point
      • Follow the When to Break & When to Shock considerations below
    • If out in the open and surrounded
      • Panic Shock Mine
        • You got caught > Focus solely on clearing your path back to the choke point or kiting path
  • Your second evaluation > kiting paths & distance left
    • Since you're pulling most of the aggro, it's not hard to just kite and pick off enemies.
      • If your choke point breaks down > If you have large maps and can move back > use it to your advantage
      • Very often all of the Armoured enemies will chase after you and so your teammates can stand in the horde without any issues dealing damage

• When to Break & When to Shock
  • In S3 of H40, Shock Mines were hilariously busted. Now you have a 90s cooldown, and thus can't just spam these things. 
    • Being methodical with how you frontline will heavily dictate your team's success.
  • Break the Line
    • This is your default
    • You should be able to use this 4-6 times per mine recharge. 
    • Break the Line + Arbites Vigilant will give you two 25% damage bonuses.
      • It's easy to hit 5 Elite enemies during ability, and get off 10 hits to maximize Forceful + Arbites Vigliant synergy
    • One important note: You don't have to attack what you knocked over.
      • You can use this ability to cull the herd while kiting.
      • One common way I use this: Crusher/Mauler/Rager mob
        • Break the Line into the Crushers, then immediately pull back to kill the Ragers.
        • Then 1v8-10 Crushers/Maulers is much easier.
  • Shock Mine
    • Your rule of thumb to mine is about 20+ Crushers/Maulers.
      • To newer players anything below this number this looks very, very scary. It's really not.
      • Ragers are easy to kill via Break the Line with the damage bonuses. 
  • Shock Mine > Break the Line
    • If you mine first, then Break the Line, you will have full 6 seconds of both +25% damage buffs, and another 6 seconds with just one. By the time the mine ends, you will have Break the Line almost off cooldown. 
  • At this point reevaulate the Coralling, Kiting & Culling considerations.

• Specials & Disablers
  • Since you're frontlining, Specials & Disablers will be the bane of your existence. 
    • Here is how you win in every situation.
  • As a habit, when not in combat always switch to your Exterminator and reload.
    • If in mobs or while Shock Mine is down, reload your gun before Break the Line. 
  • Most of the time, the armored elites will create a natural blockade to gunners
    • If there is no blockade
      • Sniping Reapers is #1 priority. These will melt you.
      • Pushing Gunners is next priority
      • Even if you're surrounded by Armor, understand that only 1-3 of them will every attack at once.
        • This makes them very easy to dodge. This is also where most people panic and don't realize how the games' code of enemy attack patterns work in H40. 
  • Trappers, Snipers, and Bombers
    • Create space via kiting, Break the Line or Shock Mine
    • Then identify and shoot in the face ASAP. Since you're frontlining, they're coming for you because your advancement triggered their spawn or aggro.
  • Hounds and Mutants
    • Identify, then Block + Push Hounds, and dodge the Mutants
    • Then kill them.  

• Boss Fights
  • You're not going to melt the boss, but you can draw aggro for the person who does kill bosses.
  • When drawing the aggro, you can dodge, reload your gun, and shoot any Special that shows their face.

• Clutch Revives - Break the Line plus the setup I showcase will allow you to revive anyone while they are staggered. Or you can always Shock Mine. Just be aware if they are stagger immune and can still attack.