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 Knife Claw Skitarius
 Skitarii Build - Warhammer 40k: Darktide 

 Knife Claw Skitarius
 Skitarii Build - Warhammer 40k: Darktide 

By Effigy

Class

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Weapons

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Catachan Mk VI Combat Blade
Transcendant
Catachan Mk VI Combat Blade
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Penetration
[80/80]%
First Target
[80/80]%
Finesse
[80/80]%
Damage
[80/80]%
Mobility
[60/80]%
10-25% Damage (Flak Armoured Enemies)
10-25% Damage (Unyielding Enemies)
Riposte

Riposte

+20% Critical Chance for 6s on successful Dodge.

Flesh Tearer

Flesh Tearer

8 Bleed Stacks on Critical Hit.

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Branx Mk XI Phosphor Blast Pistol
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Branx Mk XI Phosphor Blast Pistol
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Ammo
[80/80]%
Penetration
[80/80]%
Critical Bonus
[80/80]%
Damage
[80/80]%
Mobility
[60/80]%
10-25% Damage (Flak Armoured Enemies)
10-25% Damage (Maniacs)
Man-Stopper

Man-Stopper

Increased Cleave on Critical Hit and gain +25% Ranged Attack Stagger.

Surgical

Surgical

+10% Critical Chance for every 0.33 second while aiming. Stacks 10 times. Discharges all stacks upon firing.

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Curios

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Blessed Bullet
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Blessed Bullet
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+1-3 Max Stamina

+1-3 Max Stamina

+2-5% Toughness
+6-12% Stamina Regeneration
+4-10% Revive Speed (Ally)
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Blessed Bullet
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Blessed Bullet
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+13-17% Toughness

+13-17% Toughness

+2-5% Toughness
+6-12% Stamina Regeneration
+4-10% Revive Speed (Ally)
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Blessed Bullet
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Blessed Bullet
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+13-17% Toughness

+13-17% Toughness

+2-5% Toughness
+6-12% Stamina Regeneration
+4-10% Revive Speed (Ally)
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Talent Tree

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Description

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The idea here is to use various generic damage buffs along with crit chance and attack speed to scale the knife base damage and DoT from bleeding/electrocution. Ideally, you want to use Chordclaw Strike every 10 seconds or less to upkeep Moebian Conductor and get more value from Voltaic Restoration.

 

Mk VI knife has decent horde clear, but Axial Slash significantly improves clear against dense/mixed hordes. Knife also lacks crowd control, which Axial Slash provides. The stun-on-crit provided by Electro-Strike Conduit is excellent with the knife and is one of the key factors making Skitarius a strong user of the weapon.

 

System Shock applies 10% brittleness per Electro-Strike Conduit proc up to 40% max. Combined with 7.5% rending from Foe-Render Creed and 15% from Branx Mk XI Phosphor Blast Pistol debuff, this gives you up to 62.5% rending and works on both your DoT and direct damage.

 

I was initially using Sequenced Charge for extra damage scaling, and it is good. Due to Skitarii's below-average stamina recovery, it's easy to run out of stamina when using push attacks on a regular basis, so I find Evasive Servo Recovery more useful after a good amount of time playing with the build. Going that direction also allows us to drop Residual Current Buffer (which is decent, but better with Redline Capacitors) and take Ablative Wards for better survivability against poxbursters, pox gas, and other sources of corruption. Having Ablative Wards is often the difference between going down or getting killed if you get hit by a burster, so I've come to value it a lot.

1 week ago