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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, Scab Bomber or Scab Trapper 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 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 reload missing bullets directly from your reserve, and On Your Toes to replenish 20% Toughness.
Aim and Delete: Activate Executioner's Stance, aim at the target (triggering Deadshot), and shoot the head. 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 activates Weapons Specialist (+15% Melee Attack Speed and +10% Dodge Speed/Distance) and On Your Toes again for another 20% Toughness. Combined with the Agile Engagement damage buff, you become a lawnmower. Return to step 1.
Ranged Synergy (The 1-Tap Machine)
Every melee kill stores +33% Critical Chance for your next revolver shot, so just three kills in the horde make your first shot a guaranteed crit. Stack Deadshot (+25% Crit Chance while aiming) and the Surgical blessing on top of that, and Hand-Cannon turns every crit into +60% Rending. Add Precision Strikes (+30% Weakspot Damage), the +25% Weakspot Damage from Executioner's Stance, Bring it Down! (+20% vs Ogryns & Monstrosities) and Superiority Complex (+15% vs Elites), and a single critical headshot deletes a Crusher.
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. Poxwalker hordes will melt.
- Skirmisher : Sliding or sprinting before shooting or striking grants up to +25% additional Base Damage. The build highly rewards aggressive mobility.
Krak Engine
Krak Grenade is your answer to anything your revolver can't finish. Grenade Tinkerer adds +75% damage and Grenadier gives you an extra charge. You rarely run dry: Demolition Stockpile restores one every 90s, Demolition Team has a chance to refund one whenever you or your team kills an Elite or Special, and Field Improvisation lets ammo crates refill them.
Team Utility
Born Leader : Because you run Confirmed Kill (Toughness on elite kills), Catch a Breath (Toughness regen when not being targeted in melee) and On Your Toes (Toughness on every weapon swap), you generate Toughness constantly. Born Leader transfers 20% of all this generation to your allies in Coherency.
Field Improvisation : Besides restoring your Krak Grenades, Medi-Packs heal faster and cleanse Corruption, which can come in clutch.
Ability Uptime
The Bigger they Are ... makes Executioner's Stance also outline Ogryns, Captains and Monstrosities, and raises its duration to 9s, if you need more options or easier targets to kill while the stance is active, i suggest swapping for Counter-Fire instead but duration is lowered to 6s. Since killing a highlighted enemy refreshes the stance, every Crusher, Bulwark or Reaper you drop keeps it running. Tactical Awareness doubles your cooldown regeneration for 3 s on every Special kill, so you will spend a massive portion of the map with your ability active, completely making up for any lack of base damage.