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Class
Weapons
Rampage
Hitting at least 3 enemies with an attack, increases your damage by +36% for 3.5 seconds.
Savage Sweep
Hitting at least 3 enemies with an attack, increases your cleave by +200% for 3 seconds.
Hand-Cannon
+60% Rending on Critical Hit.
Surgical
+10% Critical Chance for every 0.3 second while aiming. Stacks 10 times. Discharges all stacks upon firing.
Curios
+13-17% Toughness
+13-17% Toughness
+13-17% Toughness
Talent Tree
Description
This build transforms the Veteran into a high-APM hybrid specialist. You act as the main frontline horde clearer with the Catachan Mk VII "Devil's Claw" Sword , switching in the blink of an eye to a sharpshooter focused on deleting heavy threats like the Crusher and Scab Mauler, or specials like the Scab Sniper, Dreg Tox Bomber and Scab Bomber before they reach the team.
The Core Gameplay Loop
- Engage in Melee: Start combat by slicing the horde with your melee weapon. This clears space, keeps you safe, and generates Weapons Specialist passive stacks for your ranged weapon.
- Identify and Swap: Upon hearing a Special or spotting an armored Elite, instantly swap to your Zarona Mk IIa Quickdraw Stub Revolver. This swap consumes your stacks, triggering Always Prepared to passively reload missing bullets directly from your reserve.
- Aim and Delete: Activate Executioner's Stance, aim at the target (triggering Deadshot), and shoot the head. The first shot has a massive critical chance and weakspot damage bonus. Getting a ranged kill grants a stack for your melee swap and triggers Agile Engagement for +25% Melee Damage.
- Fall Back and Shred: Immediately switch back to melee. This swap consumes your ranged kill stack to activate Weapons Specialist (granting +15% Melee Attack Speed and +10% Dodge Speed/Distance). Combined with the Agile Engagement damage buff, you become a lawnmower. Return to step 1.
Ranged Synergy (The 1-Tap Machine) Since the revolver cylinder only holds 5 bullets, the addition of Opening Salvo makes your first shot upon drawing the weapon automatically gain +10% Critical Hit Chance. Combining this with Deadshot (when ADS) and the quick draw from Weapons Specialist, a 2-tap on a Crusher becomes mathematically guaranteed the millisecond you pull the trigger.
The Melee Engine Your melee weapon becomes a horde shredder that scales with aggressive movement:
- Reciprocity: Dodging grants up to +25% stacking Critical Hit Chance.
- Desperado: Adds another +10% Melee Critical Hit Chance.
- Exploit Weakness: With so many guaranteed melee crits from the two passives above, you easily trigger +20% extra Damage for 6 seconds. Poxwalkerhordes will melt.
- Skirmisher: Sliding or sprinting before shooting or striking grants up to +25% additional Base Damage. The build highly rewards aggressive mobility.
Team Utility:
- Born Leader: Because you run Confirmed Kill (Toughness on elite kills) and Catch a Breath(Toughness regen when not being targeted in melee), you generate Toughness constantly. Born Leader transfers 20% of all this constant generation to your allies in Coherency.
- Field Improvisation: Ammo crates now restore your Krak Grenade, and Med-Packs cleanse corruption, saving entire runs in Auric Damnation.
Tactical Awareness is the glue for your ranged uptime. Every Special kill you get reduces your Executioner's Stance cooldown by 3 seconds. Since you have Counter-Fire active (which highlights and resets the ability on Scab Shooter and Dreg Stalker kills), you will spend a massive portion of the map with your ability running, completely making up for any lack of base damage.