Table of Contents
Class
Weapons
Confident Strike
+8% toughness on Chained Hit.
Execution
+20% Damage Bonus vs Staggered enemies.
Scattershot
+12% Critical Chance for each Enemy Hit by your previous attack. Stacks 5 times.
Fire Frenzy
Gain +10% Close Damage for 3.5 seconds after killing an enemy at close range, stacking 5 times.
Curios
+13-17% Toughness
+13-17% Toughness
+13-17% Toughness
Talent Tree
Description
Progressing throughout Darktide and growing as a player. I've found Arbites, to be an extremely satisfactory class in survival, and clearing all your foes with ease. I've limited the filler talents - this build is built around you being a ranged fighter. Shotgun is your best friend. This is a build I've customized and adjusted to my playstyle:
Shotgun, will be your main weapon:
* Lots of Critical Hit Chance / Critical Hit damage. Comes from our Talent tree, Weapon, and Blessing. Horde will melt, specials will melt by the multiple in seconds.
* 30% rending and stacks of brittle applied by the dog. Allowing you to blast apart armored foes like swiss cheese.
Plus, you've 25%+ Damage against Flak Armored / Maniac. Which means 55%+ Damage against Flak/Maniac, along with stacks of brittleness applied by dog - reducing their armor more. As for Carapace armored foes, the big hammer foes. Don't worry about them. You'll be fine. Can also do well lowering the armor of bosses and damaging them nicely.
*You've pretty great sustain, don't melee unless you're out of bullets. Dodge, Gun, Run. You're on the front line destroying everything.
Plus, should your toughness and life be threatened. Can pop your ult, and get all your toughness back along with maintaining survival.
Don't worry about Nuncio-Aquila, your own survival matters way more. It'll keep everyone else alive.
You also got 85% resistance against Gunners, isn't that cool? Run into the battle!
* You've good cooldown regen, reload speed, ammo. Can reload, blast, reload blast to effectively clear enemies and maintain your ammo. Should you expect tough enemies, can use weapon special to reload an electric shotgun blast. Which is good to use on engaging. Don't prioritize the use of it in a heated battle. use as needed.
*Overall? Have faith in the build. I haven't tested it out in Auric difficulty yet, but I find myself always on the top in the scoreboard. Played effectively, efficiently, and overall thoughtfully. You'll do well. Be sure to grab ammo wherever you can. Should you have a mod for seeing lootables - that'll greatly help your shotgun sustain.
Conclusion? You'll melt everything you meet in combat with your shotgun except bosses. You can damage them, sure - but when you're being engulfed in enemies and specials/elites. I'd blast them all to shreds before focusing the boss or doing both.
You've good survival / sustain. No enemy should be able to really touch you. But if you're trigger happy and blast a Daemonhost. You're a goner my friend.
Go have fun being extremely powerful wielding a shotgun as Arbites. Be sure to target all your elites/specials best as you can. You get buffed from slaying targeted enemies.
In time, this may end up being a build you enjoy as well. You'll keep everyone safe and melt everything before you. There's great critical damage potential and overall damage potential.