Death by Cauterization
 Zealot Build - Warhammer 40k: Darktide 

TESTING IN PROGRESS - debuff crit zealot

Core Gameplay Intention 

Stack high amount of stagger to bully anything below bosses. Stack up bleed and burn stacks using crits. Combine all damage amp / debuff enabling dot damage cook bosses. ALSO giving debuffs allowing team to be more effective.

TLDR - Use crusher for stagger and adding debuff. After use laspistol for even bigger dot

Crusher

• High stagger let's us abuse all enemies except bosses
• Skullcrusher & Thunderous lets us support our WHOLE team's damage to enemies
  • Skullcrusher adds damage taken for all chaff / elites
  • Thunderous for all unyielding enemies
    • the brittleness will enable our burn and bleed to deal consistent damage to higher hp targets
• Perks
  • Carapace - crusher already has penetration stat HOWEVER, it is mediocre pen versus this armor type so we must compensate
  • Maniac - makes all ragers ez to deal with
    • Crusher also has overall low damage to bosses directly so unyielding is unnecessary
      • we will use the blessing instead to cover this weakness
• Combos
  • For Chaff - Light > Heavy | Repeat
  • For Elites - Heavy > Light | Repeat
  • For Bosses / More dps - Push Attack > Light | Repeat
  • For Bulwark - Special > Push Attack > Light > Heavy | Repeat
  • Side note, any time the weapon makes a motion going towards the left of the screen you can heavy follow up leading to a wide sweep and vise versa for overhead

Heavy Laspistol

• More ammo efficient and precise over range than the recon lasgun
• With crits we will apply burn
  • will be easy to proc due to blazing piety
• Dumdum will amp the burn and bleed we are stacking onto enemies

Immolation Grenade

• Usually I would use a sunstorm as a emergency rez guarantee, however immolation will allow us to also damage bosses and apply MORE stagger to enemies. But yeah save it for rez or if boss rush

Curios

• Stamina & Block Efficiency???
  • Crusher is very effective at using push attack and will need as much stamina to use that consistently
    • Due to this there is a high chance you can get hit causing block chips to stamina, this will be our main way to counteract that without wasting a point on retaliatory defence
  • Also will aid when going for a revive
• No ally revive?
  • Providence node is mandatory for our tree damage path which is equivalent to TWO of ally revive curios so no need

Talent Tree Key Points

• NO RESPITE (INTERCHANGABLE NODE)
  • If you notice you happen to get hit a lot during your push attacks / stunned during revives due to your playstyle
    • You can swap no respite for retaliatory defence
    • Retaliatory defence will give you more room for any block chipping as it negates the stagger and replenishes you right back to 50% stamina
      • this is pretty much 50% EXTRA stamina to work with, basically making you have a mini until death whenever blocking
• Book
  • Golden Toughness is always strong
  • More damage amp for our burn & bleed
  • If there is the rare instance of bosses near ledges, book can be used to push them off for a free kill. 
    • EVEN WORKS WITH DEMONHOST
• Grievous wounds and Punishment
  • Give us insane stagger letting us absolutely pace enemies with stagger
• Zealous???
  • Crusher is a stamina intensive weapon and we need as much uptime as possible
• Prime Target, Stalwart, and First Three Points
  • This is the CORE of our toughness repleneshment
  • I personally believe blood redemption is horrible especially since it requires you to KILL an enemy for mediocre toughness gain
    • into bosses blood redemption is wasted
    • the difference with Prime target is that we have toughness replenishment over time which allows more uptime and also gives us MORE DAMAGE as well
  • Also second wind helps us with gunners, idk if this is a bug but I notice I can occasionally get free toughness by when sliding ranged attacks