havoc 40 DEATH LASER OF DOOM infantry lasgun
 Veteran Build - Warhammer 40k: Darktide 

Everyone keeps building their lasguns with Headhunter and Deadly Accurate , and they're all wrong. THIS is the proper way to build a lasgun. 2 million damage, havoc 40, guaranteed

all you need to do is constantly shoot the shiny enemies and krak ogryns who come within 20m of you, and suddenly your topscoring and the team is playing around you to keep your pew pews active as long as possible. absolute sleeper build, its amazing

WARNING: FULL AUTO MOD REQUIRED UNLESS YOU WANT CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME. THERES ONE ON NEXUS MODS OR YOU CAN USE A MOUSE PLUGIN

here's why the build works for those interested:

No Respite is a scaling damage modifier that gets you up to +100% damage on a fully knocked down enemy. at the MINIMUM, it increases your damage by 20% after 1 hit, likely 40%. the community has slept on this for lasgun for too long, it always procs at least a little.  thats part 1 of the build

part 2 is crits and Infernus. stacking Deadshot and Reciprocity we can reach a very easy +30%/+50% crit chance, which is around the level where you get diminishing returns on crits as the RNG crits begin to always roll non-crit once you get enough guaranteed crit. then we use Duck and Dive and 1 stamina curio to keep Deadshot up while shooting. we dont care about getting to 0 stamina in this build since we have that 0.25 stamina delay reduction, giving us the same delay as hive scum.

part 3 is of course Marksman's Focus, giving us a finesse bonus of +112.5%, which applies to crits, which we are doing tons of. by the end of these stacking modifiers, you can dispatch every enemy including maulers/plasma gunners with just a few hits in their soft spots.

with Withering Fire you can actually fire into hordes and melt them into nothing! it also lets you shoot through players, ragers, small gunners and unarmoured elite gunners.

kraks are taken too which came as a shock to no one. with this build its essential that your not cucked by a sticky bulwark or crusher. they can also full stagger a boss giving you +100% lasgun damage against them for a couple seconds. good value, though bosses are not your concern. leave that to the scums, zealots and oggies. unless theres a beast, then shoot its mouth and kill it within the minute

there is only 1 real switchable which is replacing Duck and Dive with Tunnel Vision for the stamina regen. this makes you better as shooting into hordes but takes away boss damage and counterfire into gunner lines. dealer's choice but i found Duck and Dive more useful. the rest (including Withering Fire is essential to get the most damage output. if your on auric maelstrom you can switch out Grenade Tinkerer with Tunnel Vision or Field Improvisation. the other nodes for damage is sand on an ocean with the stacking damage modifiers already in place

downsides are that you can get bursted down quite easily by specials and hordes, so we take the celaving power falchion to unfuck yourself from a horde with low stamina and bomber/sniper resist to avoid one shots from those classes. the thing is though, if you shoot enough and let the team give you space you end up shooting every special and horde before they come close anyway. its extremely satisfying.

and yes, you can genuinely outdamage the flame psykers with this build. if gunlugger can do it, so can you.