Stimmtec: Will It Blend? Hive Scum Blender Build
 Hive Scum Build - Warhammer 40k: Darktide 

Chem gas! Don't breathe this.

The build you thought how bleed Zealot would play like, and one of the few builds I've found that can actually kill heavies without massive resource dumps.

Lets you tank, kill, and crowd control to your heart's content. Lug around the needle gun for emergency boss damage, and lob a few chem grenades when it gets a little too spooky for you.

STRATEGY

• Pretend you have a brain and try to dodge with good timing (or just mash dodge like I do) for a massive boost to your crit chance and damage. Charge up your heavy attacks to poke armored heads, and use the shiv's auxiliary shivs (AKA its projectile alt fire) when you remember you have them, since they do huge DoT. It also messes with your muscle memory from Zealot considering the arc seems much, much heavier.

   

• Use Rampage! when you see a group full of juicy elites (or just to get your toughness back when you're charging a bunch of gunners like the brainless living blender you are) and save your stimm for when you see a gaggle of armor enemies to bully (or when you just feel like it). If that sounds like too much thinking, then just use it as much as you want, since Sample Collector will proc non-stop as you mindlessly slash at everything.

   

• Improvised Mk I Shivs will do DoT damage from Coated Weaponry and raw damage from... everything else on top of constantly landing crits and melee hits for Adrenaline Frenzy to trigger, all while Hyper-Violence gets optimal damage bonuses while you crowd clear. Stoked Rage and Adrenaline Unbound keeps your toughness up constantly, and pairing it with Rampage! and Precision Violence gives you endless toughness regen.

   

• Your Branx MKII Needle Pistol comes in two flavors, yellow mode and blue mode. If it's just a fellow, hit them with yellow, but if it's more than two, hit them with blue. Yellow mode is a massive DoT that you want to save for bosses, but you can use it for Crushers you don't feel like dealing with or ranged enemies. One tap kills most specials (but slowly), and you should generally only pop three at max (except for armored baddies). Blue mode is an AoE DoT, so use it whenever you're feeling lazy. The Branx MkVI Needle Pistol has an alternate blue mode on its MkVI that instead makes enemies explode they they die from the DoT, but it feels very ineffective. Either way, set it to yellow mode and mag dump bosses. The reason why damage is its dump stat is simply because it only affects the actual needle you hit them with, which... doesn't really do that much. The first tic of DoT immediately overtakes the damage you're losing out on multiple times over.

ALTERNATE LOADOUTS

• You know the drill. If you don't like Boom Bringer, get Chem Grenade or Blackout.

   

• Don't be greedy and try to snag Spur V. The cooldown on your stimm becomes ridiculous if you do. Just stop a node short.

   

• Channelled Aggression can be swapped out for Long Lasting if you rely on your stimm instead of your ability to kill armor enemies (or both), but it's up to your experience dealing with them and whether or not a normal stimm lasts long enough.

   

• Don't bother with a crit chance blessing on your shivs, it's just a drop in the bucket since you already crit constantly. If you don't care about the extra 4% attack speed, then swap the extra stamina modifier on it for flak enemy damage.

   

• Your curios don't have any combat ability regeneration because Rampage! doesn't really suffer too much from a lengthy cooldown, especially considering it's one of the few (if only) abilities that debuffs you after you use it. You want a stamina curio so you get more mileage out of Swift Endurance. Just one works, but if you're a madman, you can throw in another, maybe even for all three, you rascal.

   

• Hyper-Violence is your massive workhorse in this build. If you take it off, your DPS will plummet. Also don't take Hyper-Critical since it has anti-synergy and will also nerf your own damage.

   

• If you hate your teammates, you can also swap Gunslinger Improved for the blatantly worse Ruffian. The crit aura is useless to you since you already have an absurdly high crit chance.