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Hive Scum Build - Warhammer 40k: Darktide
Bladed Mementum Heavy Sword
Hive Scum Build - Warhammer 40k: Darktide
Class
Weapons
Headtaker
+8% Strength for 3.5s on Hit. Stacks 5 times.
Bladed Momentum
Hitting multiple enemies in one sweep gives +8% Rending for 4 seconds. Stacks 4 times.
Pinning Fire
+5% Strength for every Enemy you Stagger. Stacks 5 times.
Run 'n' Gun
You can Hipfire with this weapon while Sprinting. +15% Close Damage while Sprinting. Also reduces weapon spread at all times by -30%.
Curios
+17-21% Max Health
+1-3 Max Stamina
+13-17% Toughness
Talent Tree
Stimm Lab
Description
This is an attempt to maximize the effectiveness of Bladed Momentum and Rending on the Turtolsky Mk IX Heavy Sword .
The main combo is the new Special + Light attack -> Heavy Spam(particularly the Heavy 1). The special applies 10% Brittleness to the target, and the light attack has very good cleave properties and doesn’t stop on carapace. Try fighting within a horde so you can maintain your rending stacks. You can reach, I believe, 57% (with no rending stim) rending plus 10% brittleness on top.
I think all Heavy Swords have the same Special + Light combo, so you can use whichever one you prefer.
I was playing with it on Auric Expeditions - carapace isn’t a problem when all the buffs are active. It just doesn’t die instantly, of course. I don’t know the exact breakpoints, but in the Auric Psykhanium it can output around 1500 non-crit damage from a heavy attack after Rampage and with 3–4 stacks of Bladed Momentum which are easy to maintain in a horde.
The ranged weapon is whatever - I just like the stub pistols. Any anti-special gun would suffice.
I take the regen stim so I can stay in Rampage! more often.
Battering Momentum and Battering Strikes are here to offset the loss of Brutal Momentum . It might be enough to use just Battering Strikes , but I can’t properly test it.
Forge's Bellow is here to give some breathing room in a mixed horde, since the Heavy Sword isn’t a stagger machine. Can be changed to Street Tough , but that can’t really be used offensively.
A Tertium Welcome , Quick and Deadly , Forge's Bellow , Battering Momentum , Adrenaline Unbound , and Boiling Blood are mostly flex talents that can be moved around.
Chem Grenade is here to help with really big packs of armoured elites.
It’s nothing crazy good, played a few runs in Expeditions and it was pretty fun non-stop fighting with scab elite groups. Gonna try it in a scab only mission next.