Fire of the Faithful
 Zealot Build - Warhammer 40k: Darktide 

This is Theory Craft as there is no way to test this on 9/20/26 

Looking at the skill tree, I had thought I was going to have to ditch my poor finesse weapons Combat Knife and Dueling sword (or Tac Axe) and finally have to learn the shove heavy attacks of Relic Blade with Crit builds spamming Chorus changing, but then I saw the light

A light which anyone who got crit builds in Psykanium knows how OP it will be the combo of Zealous Pilgrim and Fire and Fury

SPAM light and LIGHT UP your enemies to ensure they also see the light. 

BURN and BLEED from either combat knife or dueling sword will make the cleave of Havoc a non-issue as you just double slash across the front of hordes getting all those lovely dodge bonuses.

Punish Impiety would be my pick for Combat Mark VI shove stabs speeding up attack speed in combo with Fure of the Faithful ALSO speeding up attack speed and Zealous Pilgrim ALSO ALSO speeding up attack speed netting a full 40% attack speed will have Zealot madd swinging like a Hive Scum but fewer drugs needed. 

Crit builds will have MASSIVE up time on this, probably around every 12 seconds getting another 4s of insanity burning.  

Should be interesting, glad so have so many options open up, might only slightly miss gold toughness now.   Range is users choice, if you go flamer pick dagger for nades.  Hubris, Good Balance, Blazing Piety are optional if you want 3 points to pick something yourself. 

Edit, This is now AFTER play testing this build Risen just simply beats out the Toughness DMG reduction perks by over capping your Toughness EVERTIME you use Fury of the Faithful (FoTF).  POP a single melee hit then swap to your bolt pistol to blast hordes with BURN and BLEED almost every 13 seconds (relys on killing an elite with your FoTF, 15 sec otherwise).  You COULD still run the flamer and hit max stacks 2x as fast with this build but I enjoy the Bolt Pistol and actually running the nade of my choice right now (flavor of the day change nades and gun however you want.  Recon Laz Rifle no longer needs infernos you can run a dang Infantry Auto Gun (finally) and achieve the same results with this build.  

I like Unfaultering on the Dueling Sword (simply a quality of life pick) but Punish Impiety or Holy tools would probably be better if you use the Parry or Shoves more and will Slide charge heavies attacks ALL the time.  

Hubris and Imbalance are still great if you want that over Risen and something else. 

For me the Burn on Ranged and Melee for 4 sec after my Ability Spam was Very much worth the gold Toughness.  Amazing update. 

Have fun guys

-Scrounger