Steam Community :: Guide :: (Patch 1.8ish, Havoc Update) Loadouts For Havoc and Auric Missions For All Classes

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Intro

Weapons are chosen based off of what I have personal experience using

Out of all the listed builds, my go-to builds for havoc are:
Veteran: Havoc Double Barrel Swap
Zealot: Havoc Dash Build
Psyker: Havoc Voidblast/inferno Build (mostly using voidblast)
Ogryn: Havoc taunt ogryn (with pickaxe)

General Terms

qq

Quickswap - Quickswap. Double quick swap press used to cancel animations and return melee weapons back to their initial chain

bc

Block Cancel. Block tap to cancel the current melee chain and return to the beginning. Both qq and bc are good for chaining favourable initial swings eg heavy 1 if its an overhead and the rest of the swings are sweeps (eg Turtolsky Mk IX Heavy Sword)

shs

(x) Shot Headshots. How many shots to the head it takes to kill

sbs

(x) Shot Bodyshots. How many shots to the body it takes to kill

Veteran - Havoc Bolter Stance

https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9f072de8-e46a-49b9-af3a-546d0cedf41e/bolter-19

Health

Toughness

Damage Reduction

Crit Chance

140

158

15% tdr Passive, up to 33% tdr based on coherency, 50% tdr above 75% toughness

5% Passive

This build is mostly just relying on high damage, single ADS bolter shots to kill mostly anything in one or two shots. It fully commits to backline role, but has bleed nades for all of your horde damage and for a bit of CC when you need it. Works really well in havoc if you have a relatively stable frontline that lets you fully focus on where specials spawn and shooting elites whenever there arent specials nearby

Ranged Weapon

Blessings

Perks

Locke Mk IIb Spearhead Boltgun

Preferred: Pinning Fire, Puncture or Fire frenzy

Carapace, Maniac

Melee Weapon

Blessings

Perks

Swing Combo

Munitorum Mk VI Power Sword (any mark works)

Power Cycler, Sunder. Alternatives: Brutal Momentum, Rampage, Shred, Slaughterer, Wrath, Supercharge. The focus is damage with the least weapon special activations.

Maniacs help a lot for breakpoints, flak, unarmoured, are also good for breakpoints

Into hordes i will Weapon Special - Heavy, if i have Power Cycler then Weapon Special - Heavy - Heavy, if i have Brutal Momentum i will Weapon Special - Light 3x and repeat, and Weapon Special - Push Attack or Heavy into armour. Weapon Special - Lights into rager heads staggers them well

Maccabian Mk IV Duelling Sword

Preferred: Agile, Uncanny Strikes. Alternatives: Shred, Thrust. Agile is mostly to reinforce your ability to spam dodge and not die. Shred or thrust will help increase your damage output instead.

Flak for better breakpoints into headshotting scab ragers. Maniac for the same reason. Stamina can be take as well for more running or blocking

For hordes: Light Spam
For Elites: Heavy spam or Heavy - Weapon Special spam

Munitorum Mk I Sapper Shovel

Take a Swing, Uncanny Strike

Maniac, Flak

For Horde: Heavy spam is pretty safe, mixing in lights will help kill things faster
For elites/Single Target: Maximize Push Attack which is your highest damage attack, includeas many light attacks as you need to keep attacks up when youre low stamina.

Veteran - Havoc Plasma Build

https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9da6e8c3-8bce-4a5a-b87b-dc1eab6402df/havoc-plasma

Health

Toughness

Damage Reduction

Crit Chance

140 (91 after havoc modifiers)

158 (113 after havoc modifiers)

15% passive, up to 33% tdr based on coherency, 50% tdr reduction above 75% toughness

5% Passive

The idea of this build is to try to dps through elite spam in havoc, through the use of plasma and kraks to kill elites and the shout to buy you time if necessary. Keep Their Heads Down!, the 50% suppression node, is suprisingly useful on plasma. it makes it much more ammo efficient at suppressing enemies, which is fairly nice once you reach the later havocs with large ammo penalties.

Spam left clicks mostly into groups of elites and youll kill them quickly. Crits or headshots are fairly effective, so i want to maximize crits incase i miss a headshot. Blaze Away could be taken over Gets Hot!, but I find myself shooting fairly slow to make sure I hit the headshot to maximize ammo.

Ranged Weapon

Blessings

Perks

M35 Magnacore Mk II Plasma Gun

Preferred: Rising Heat, Gets Hot!. Alternatives: Blaze Away, Gloryhunter

Flak for better breakpoints, crit for more consistent crits.

Usually I take power sword, but its low mobility can be a real hindrance so something like duelling sword with high mobility could be taken.

Melee Weapon

Blessings

Perks

Swing Combo

Achlys Mk VI Power Sword

Preferred: Power Cycler, Sunder.

Maniac, Flak Armoured. Flak is a common armour type in havoc, especially with mobian 21st mutator. Ragers will be your biggest threat, so ideally you want to kill them sooner rather than later. Stamina is an alternative.

There's a weird quirk with power sword; with your first activation, the three lights you do will all be sweeps. When you activate it immediately afterwards, it starts on Light 2.
With that said, the horde combo is: Activate - Light - Light - Light, Activate - Light - Light - Heavy. Lights have similar 3rd+ target damage profile to heavies, so the faster swings are going to be more efficient.
Elite combo is: Activate - Push Attack - Light - Heavy. You could do Push Attack - Heavy - Heavy, but the headshot is easier to hit with the followup Light.

Maccabian Mk IV Duelling Sword

Preferred: Agile, Uncanny Strikes. Alternatives: Shred, Thrust. Agile is mostly to reinforce your ability to spam dodge and not die. Shred or thrust will help increase your damage output instead.

Flak for better breakpoints into headshotting scab ragers. Maniac for the same reason. Stamina can be take as well for more running or blocking

For hordes: Light Spam
For Elites: Heavy spam or Heavy - Weapon Special spam

Catachan Mk IV "Devil's Claw" Sword

Wrath, Shred.

Stamina, Crit. Its a little bit about leaning into high damage parry crits. I found block efficiency didnt actually make my blocks or parries cost any less stamina so i skip it

For Horde: Light - heavy loop, occasionally do a parry.
Against elites: Heavy - BC or parry

https://youtu.be/4DZowfmBX4Y

Veteran - Havoc Helbore/Las Ammo Sustain

https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9dbe8065-2257-4415-a9f2-cb5337e57d43/havoc-helbore

Health

Toughness

Damage Reduction

Crit Chance

140 (91 after havoc modifiers)

158 (113 after havoc modifiers)

5% passive, up to 33% tdr based on coherency, 50% tdr reduction above 75% toughness

5% Passive

This build is fairly high efficiency with ammo, between free shots on crit, and ammo aura, you dont really need to pick up ammo ever. Practically i think this build is slightly off meta due to weapon choice, but it has been fairly effective nonetheless.

Usually I opt for mk 4 helbore, but I have had a decent experience using the Kantrael Mk X Heavy Laspistol. It is less capable of killing elites, especially carapace elites. But it is much more capable into specials, and with that much quicker to swap to. If you do take it, I would drop the 25% swap speed, One Motion, either for more damage, or more crit chance.

Ranged Weapon

Blessings

Perks

Lucius Mk IV Helbore Lasgun

Preferred: Surgical, Weight of Fire.

Maniacs, Carapace.

Kantrael Mk X Heavy Laspistol

Preferred: Infernus, DumDum. Alternatives: Raking Fire

Maniacs, Crit Chance.

With this build I opt usually for Turtolsky Mk IX Heavy Sword, for a decent mix of horde clear and mobility. But if you can forgo horde clear then duelling sword mk 4 is a good pick, and if you can forgo mobility then power sword mk6 is strong

Melee Weapon

Blessings

Perks

Swing Combo

Turtolsky Mk IX Heavy Sword

Deathblow, Headtaker.

Stamina, Maniac. Maniac to help against muties

For Horde: Light -> Heavy - Heavy loop, or light spam
Against elites: Heavy - Weapon special or Heavy - Block Cancel.

Catachan Mk IV "Devil's Claw" Sword

Wrath, Shred.

Stamina, Crit. Its a little bit about leaning into high damage parry crits. I found block efficiency didnt actually make my blocks or parries cost any less stamina so i skip it

For Horde: Light - heavy loop, occasionally do a parry.
Against elites: Heavy - BC or parry

Achlys Mk VI Power Sword

Preferred: Power Cycler, Sunder.

Maniac, Flak Armoured. Flak is a common armour type in havoc, especially with mobian 21st mutator. Ragers will be your biggest threat, so ideally you want to kill them sooner rather than later. Stamina is an alternative.

There's a weird quirk with power sword; with your first activation, the three lights you do will all be sweeps. When you activate it immediately afterwards, it starts on Light 2.
With that said, the horde combo is: Activate - Light - Light - Light, Activate - Light - Light - Heavy. Lights have similar 3rd+ target damage profile to heavies, so the faster swings are going to be more efficient.
Elite combo is: Activate - Push Attack - Light - Heavy. You could do Push Attack - Heavy - Heavy, but the headshot is easier to hit with the followup Light.

Maccabian Mk IV Duelling Sword

Preferred: Agile, Uncanny Strikes. Alternatives: Shred, Thrust. Agile is mostly to reinforce your ability to spam dodge and not die. Shred or thrust will help increase your damage output instead.

Flak for better breakpoints into headshotting scab ragers. Maniac for the same reason. Stamina can be take as well for more running or blocking

For hordes: Light Spam
For Elites: Heavy spam or Heavy - Weapon Special spam

slightly different grenade choice, but rest of the build is the same
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC8c4ZJcXyk

Veteran - Havoc Double Barrel Swap

https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9dc07847-9d27-4b78-a648-e3e976170e3b/havoc-db-swap

Health

Toughness

Damage Reduction

Crit Chance

158 (103 after havoc modifiers)

165 (120 after havoc modifiers)

5% passive, up to 33% tdr based on coherency, 50% tdr reduction above 75% toughness

5% Passive, +5x5% based on dodge, +10% melee, 33% ranged crit per melee kill

This build is fairly high efficiency with ammo, we will mostly be left clicking since it has a better minimum pellet count efficiency than right clicking. Snipers will die pretty quickly to long range shots because of the minimum pellet count, 3 shots without crit or 1 crit + 1 non crit shot will kill a sniper regardless of distance.

The build will heavily rely on shooting with crit, and shooting into non-carapace bulks of enemies.

Ranged Weapon

Blessings

Perks

Crucis Mk XI Double-Barrelled Shotgun

Preferred: Manstopper, Deathspitter. Flechette helps for long range special breakpoints, but usually only contributed about 10% of total ranged damage.

Maniacs, Flak.

Melee weapon choice is something that can get your crit reset quickly as well as something that can deal good armour damage.

Melee Weapon

Blessings

Perks

Swing Combo

Maccabian Mk IV Duelling Sword

Preferred: Agile, Uncanny Strikes. Alternatives: Shred, Thrust. Agile is mostly to reinforce your ability to spam dodge and not die. Shred or thrust will help increase your damage output instead.

Flak for better breakpoints into headshotting scab ragers. Maniac for the same reason. Stamina can be take as well for more running or blocking

For hordes: Light Spam
For Elites: Heavy spam or Heavy - Weapon Special spam

Munitorum Mk III Sapper Shovel

Skullcrusher, Thrust.

Elites, Maniac. Maniac helps with mutie and dreg rager breakpoint, Elites helps with dreg shotgunner, crusher breakpoints

For Horde: heavy - light loop or light spam.
For single target: Activate - Heavy - Heavy or just Heavy - Heavy

Achlys Mk VI Power Sword

Preferred: Power Cycler, Sunder.

Maniac, Flak Armoured. Flak is a common armour type in havoc, especially with mobian 21st mutator. Ragers will be your biggest threat, so ideally you want to kill them sooner rather than later. Stamina is an alternative.

There's a weird quirk with power sword; with your first activation, the three lights you do will all be sweeps. When you activate it immediately afterwards, it starts on Light 2.
With that said, the horde combo is: Activate - Light - Light - Light, Activate - Light - Light - Heavy. Lights have similar 3rd+ target damage profile to heavies, so the faster swings are going to be more efficient.
Elite combo is: Activate - Push Attack - Light - Heavy. You could do Push Attack - Heavy - Heavy, but the headshot is easier to hit with the followup Light.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVIY7SWvx3M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L52jMqgxyIw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NjBU6YaRU8

Zealot - Havoc Wound Builds

https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9e3a5e26-b064-4b2b-b14f-5dfef7d0693f/havoc-marty-thammer-alt

Health

Toughness

Damage Reduction

Crit Chance

221

136

5% tdr Passive, 50% tdr extra on Crit, 60% dr extra on health damage taken, 6.5% tdr x 7 depending on wound amount

5% Passive

Two variations to the build: Thunder hammer with flamer, and tactical axe with bolter.
Thunder hammer with flamer is much less mobile and more reliant on team being able to screen, but you have a flamer to do overwhelming horde damage.
Tactical axe with bolter has really good captain dps, especially void shield damage, but is worse against regular bosses. you have more mobility, are less reliant on the team, and it is generally easier to survive. Bolter is there to cover carapace weakness.

i have started to try out replacing I Shall Not Fall with Duellist. More damage against monsters, worse survivability against gunners and somewhat worse against bosses. To be determined if I like it more. Alternatively taking Second Wind over Enduring Faith for toughness dodge and a regular reliable DR over crit DR

Ranged Weapon

Blessings

Perks

Artemia Mk III Purgation Flamer

Preferred: Everlasting Flame, Blaze Away

Flak, Maniac, or crit chance

Locke Mk IIb Spearhead Boltgun

Preferred: Puncture, Shattering Impact

Maniacs, Carapace.

Melee Weapon

Blessings

Perks

Swing Combo

Maccabian Mk IV Duelling Sword

Preferred: Shred, Uncanny Strikes. Alternatives: Agile, Thrust.

Flak for better breakpoints into headshotting scab ragers. Maniac for the same reason. Stamina can be take as well for more running or blocking

For hordes: Light Spam
For Elites: Heavy spam or Heavy - Weapon Special spam

Crucis Mk II Thunder Hammer

Preferred: Thrust, Headtaker

Flak, and crit or unyielding. Unyielding helps significantly speed up boss TTK, but if you dont mind slightly longer boss ttk then crits can be nice as a general boost to damage

For almost everything, just heavy spam

Atrox Mk II Tactical Axe

Preferred: Brutal Momentum, Headtaker

Flak, and Stamina or unyielding

For almost everything, push attack -> heavy or heavy spam. If theres elites in a group, light attacks will be good damage, but mixing in heavies helps control

Thunder Hammer version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P936gD-Ygrg

Tactical axe version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3TfJ2SUC-c

Zealot - Havoc Dash Build

https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9da6da9a-a4f1-4d94-b264-ec7b5bb0b0f2/havoc-flamer-dash

Health

Toughness

Damage Reduction

Crit Chance

200 (130 after havoc modifier)

130 (85 after havoc modifier)

25%tdr passively. +50% tdr on crit. 60% extra dr on health damage taken

5% Passive, +15% during Blazing piety, 3x10% on hitting bleeding enemies

Dash requires you to be able to dive gunner groups confidently. If you dont have a team that will dive with you, you can use flamer to suppress and kill gunners. Start a right click long spew, and try to dash towards the deepest gunners, shoot towards as many as possible to keep suppression up and kill them. If you start flaming, then dash, you can dash a long distance while keeping up the flamer fire for suppression. its really nice to do since you also wont be cancelled by getting shot and having toughness broken since youre invulnerable to range during the dash

Ranged Weapon

Blessings

Perks

Artemia Mk III Purgation Flamer

Preferred: Everlasting Flame, Blaze Away

Flak, Maniac, or crit chance

Accatran MG Mk II Heavy Laspistol

Preferred: Dumdum, Infernus. Alternatives: Raking Fire, Speedload. Focus is Damage with burn to help with boss dps and general ammo economy if you bother to let things die to the dot

Crit for more consistency with infernus, otherwise flak, maniac, stamina, reload speed, unyielding

There's few weapons I've tried outside of duelling sword for havoc. It's hard to replace high mobility and high damage that is so strong into diving gunners

Melee Weapon

Blessings

Perks

Swing Combo

Maccabian Mk IV Duelling Sword

Preferred: Shred, Uncanny Strikes. Alternatives: Thrust.

Flak for better breakpoints into headshotting scab ragers. Maniac for the same reason. Stamina can be take as well for more running or blocking

For hordes: Light Spam
For Elites: Heavy spam or Heavy - Weapon Special spam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBipmusRPK0

Zealot - Havoc Chorus Spam

https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9db151b8-fb33-4912-95f7-6cc345e844eb/havoc-chorus-support

Health

Toughness

Damage Reduction

Crit Chance

200 (130 after havoc modifiers)

100 (55 after havoc modifiers)

10% tdr Passive, +30% tdr upon 5 pulses,

5% Passive, +15% when Blazing Piety triggers

This build tries to maximize how often you get crits. safer than trying to maximize backstabs, but still with good ult uptime

Flamer is the main thing I will take just to clear large groups of enemies

Ranged Weapon

Blessings

Perks

Artemia Mk III Purgation Flamer

Preferred: Everlasting Flame, Blaze Away

Flak, Maniac or crit chance

Accatran MG Mk II Heavy Laspistol

Preferred: Dumdum, Infernus. Alternatives: Raking Fire, Speedload. Focus is Damage with burn to help with boss dps and general ammo economy if you bother to let things die to the dot

Crit for more consistency with infernus, otherwise flak, maniac, stamina, reload speed, unyielding

There's few weapons I've tried outside of duelling sword for havoc. It's hard to replace high mobility and high damage that is so strong into diving gunners

Melee Weapon

Blessings

Perks

Swing Combo

Maccabian Mk IV Duelling Sword

Preferred: Shred, Thrust. Alternatives: Agile, Uncanny Strikes. Thrust taken to try to ensure backstab 1 shot kills.

Flak for better breakpoints into headshotting scab ragers. Maniac for the same reason. Stamina can be take as well for more running or blocking

For hordes: Light Spam
For Elites: Heavy spam or Heavy - Weapon Special spam

Psyker - Scriers Staff Build

https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9db5951d-3f20-4834-8926-c09f873c62f4/auric-staff-scrier-2

Health

Toughness

Damage Reduction

Crit Chance

165

105

15% Passive

10% Passive

More of a fun build than anything. The build focuses around high scriers uptime, high crit from it, and good control. Try not to blow yourself up

Ranged Weapon

Blessings

Perks

Equinox Mk III Voidblast Force Staff

Preferred: Warp Flurry, Blazing Spirit.

Flak, Crit.

Rifthaven Mk II Inferno Force Staff

Preferred: Warp Flurry, Blaze Away.

Maniac or unarmoured, Flak. Flak is worn by most scabs, maniac for dreg ragers, but otherwise unarmoured is also a big category of units

Melee Weapon

Blessings

Perks

Swing Combo

Maccabian Mk IV Duelling Sword

Preferred: Shred, Thrust. Alternatives: Agile, Uncanny Strikes..

Flak for better breakpoints into headshotting scab ragers. Maniac for the same reason. Stamina can be take as well for more running or blocking

For hordes: Light Spam
For Elites: Heavy spam or Heavy - Weapon Special spam

Catachan Mk III Combat Blade

Flesh Tearer, Lacerate, Uncanny Strike. Alternatives: Mercy Killer, Executor, Precognition, Riposte, Ruthless Backstab. The focus is on bleeding things to death, and improving the bleed via rending or just trying to outright kill them with headshots. Mobility is a big factor for taking the knife

Crit chance if you take Flesh Tearer, unarmoured helps against Dreg Gunners, maniac helps against Dreg Ragers

Push attack into most things, push attack - heavy - light for stamina conservation and light spam into hordes occasionally

Psyker - Havoc Voidblast/Inferno Build

https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9da6eda5-2fdf-463f-b0cb-4501bad36020/havoc-voidblastinferno-bubble

Health

Toughness

Damage Reduction

Crit Chance

165

105

20% Passive, 10% to 33% based off peril

5% Passive

A safe build into havoc. Trauma helps dealing with mass ogryn and elites, doing decent damage and having really good control to prevent you from being overrun. Inferno provides a little more damage at the cost of control, good for when you already have enough control. Whether you use soulblaze based trauma, or warp flurry is up to you, practically most of your damage is going to come from trauma itself and not the warpfire.

Ranged Weapon

Blessings

Perks

Equinox Mk III Voidblast Force Staff

Preferred: Warp Nexus, Blazing Spirit. Alternatively take warp flurry over blazing spirit. Remember to swap from In Fire Reborn (10% chance for warpcharge when enemy with soulblaze dies) to psychic vampire (4% chance for warp charge whenever you or allies in coherency kill an enemy)

Flak, Crit.

Rifthaven Mk II Inferno Force Staff

Preferred: Warp Flurry, Blaze Away.

Maniac or unarmoured, Flak. Flak is worn by most scabs, maniac for dreg ragers, but otherwise unarmoured is also a big category of units

Melee Weapon

Blessings

Perks

Swing Combo

Maccabian Mk IV Duelling Sword

Preferred: Shred, Thrust. Alternatives: Agile, Uncanny Strikes. Thrust taken to try to ensure backstab 1 shot kills.

Flak for better breakpoints into headshotting scab ragers. Maniac for the same reason. Stamina can be take as well for more running or blocking

For hordes: Light Spam
For Elites: Heavy spam or Heavy - Weapon Special spam

Catachan Mk III Combat Blade

Flesh Tearer, Lacerate, Uncanny Strike. Alternatives: Mercy Killer, Executor, Precognition, Riposte, Ruthless Backstab. The focus is on bleeding things to death, and improving the bleed via rending or just trying to outright kill them with headshots. Mobility is a big factor for taking the knife

Crit chance if you take Flesh Tearer, unarmoured helps against Dreg Gunners, maniac helps against Dreg Ragers

Push attack into most things, push attack - heavy - light for stamina conservation and light spam into hordes occasionally

https://youtu.be/-OMn96stjD4?si=wAgzvvyNV8vabriC

Ogryn - Havoc Taunt

https://darktide.gameslantern.com/build-editor?id=9e847c6a-c367-4ce6-a81f-24b15289bddb

Health

Toughness

Damage Reduction

Crit Chance

330 (215 after havoc modifier)

123 (78 after havoc modifier)

15% above 75% stamina, 10% on elite kill.

2.5% Passive

*You could drop No Hurting Friends (very bottom, just above middle keystone)/Slam (middle, just below middle ult) for Steady Grip (very top right)

Maximizing damage with pick, you become really good at dealing with elites and bosses. your horde damage is usually more than fine, and big push, taunt and rumbler provide cc as needed

Rumbler is used as a CC tool moreso than a damage tool

Ranged Weapon

Blessings

Perks

Foe-Rend Mk V Ripper Gun

Preferred: Can opener, Flechette

Critical, Maniac

Krourk Mk IIa Heavy Stubber

Preferred: Opening Salvo, Headhunter

Maniac and Flak.

Lorenz Mk VI Rumbler

Preferred: Adhesive Charge, Blaze Away

Elites, Unyielding

Pickaxe choice i think is just whatever you like to use. i usually use the branx but either of the other pickaxes work

Melee Weapon

Blessings

Perks

Swing Combo

Branx Mk Ia Delver's Pickaxe

Headtaker, Thrust. Alternatives: Slaughterer, Confident Strike, Torment.

Flak, and Unyielding. Carapace can help with crusher 1shs breakpoint

For hordes Push attack -> Heavy, then heavy -> light. for single target heavy -> light

Orox Mk II Battle Maul & Mk III Slab Shield

Skull Crusher, Brutal Momentum.

Flak, and maniac or unarmoured. Maniac helps into mutants and dreg ragers, unarmoured is more universal into dregs

Heavy - Block Cancel into everything

Krourk Mk IV Cleaver

Confident Strike, Slaughterer

Flak, and maniac or unarmoured. Maniac helps into mutants and dreg ragers, unarmoured is more universal into dregs

Light spam into everything, light -> light -> heavy for armour

Ogryn - Charge Ogryn

https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9e847e9a-4468-4766-88e7-c8d7d071b05b/british-are-charging-in-2

Health

Toughness

Damage Reduction

Crit Chance

300 (185 after havoc modifier)

140 (95 after havoc modifier)

123 (78 after havoc modifier)

10% on elite kill, 6x8% per bleeding enemy

2.5% Passive

*You could drop Pumped Up (far left in the cluster of nodes just after blitz) for Steady Grip (very top right)

You can play really aggressively because of how much hp you can light spamming with cleaver, you can easily outheal gunners as long as you have decently timed dodges. Worst case you can use charge as a get out of jail free card.

Ripper is used as a stagger tool to stop reapers from shooting, or specials from doing their job. Blessings and perks dont really matter because of that, but can opener is used to boost cleaver carapace damage a bit. flechette, ranged crit and maniacs just there for the occasional increase in special damage.

Ranged Weapon

Blessings

Perks

Foe-Rend Mk V Ripper Gun

Preferred: Can opener, Flechette

Critical, Maniac

Krourk Mk IIa Heavy Stubber

Preferred: Opening Salvo, Headhunter

Maniac and Flak.

Lorenz Mk VI Rumbler

Preferred: Adhesive Charge, Blaze Away

Elites, Unyielding

Melee Weapon

Blessings

Perks

Swing Combo

Krourk Mk IV Cleaver

Confident Strike, Slaughterer

Flak, and maniac or unarmoured. Maniac helps into mutants and dreg ragers, unarmoured is more universal into dregs

Light spam into everything, light -> light -> heavy for armour

Branx Mk Ia Delver's Pickaxe

Headtaker, Thrust. Alternatives: Slaughterer, Confident Strike, Torment.

Flak, and Carapace. Mostly to try to kill crushers with a 1shs

For hordes Push attack -> Heavy, then heavy -> light. for single target heavy -> light

Orox Mk II Battle Maul & Mk III Slab Shield

Skull Crusher, Brutal Momentum.

Flak, and maniac or unarmoured. Maniac helps into mutants and dreg ragers, unarmoured is more universal into dregs

Heavy - Block Cancel into everything

Ogryn - Gunlugger

https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9e847fcd-27f5-4684-b07f-b6afa13a03eb/spamgryn-2

Health

Toughness

Damage Reduction

Crit Chance

300 (185 after havoc modifier)

140 (95 after havoc modifier)

123 (78 after havoc modifier)

10% on elite kill, 6x8% per bleeding enemy

2.5% Passive

I try to spam with ult into elite packs and bosses, being more conservative and building up melee kills for guaranteed free shot when theres a horde and its only trash. Rock is a fine pick over box for better special sniping

Ranged Weapon

Blessings

Perks

Lorenz Mk VI Rumbler

Preferred: Adhesive Charge, Blaze Away

Elites, Unyielding

Foe-Rend Mk V Ripper Gun

Preferred: Can opener, Flechette

Critical, Maniac

Krourk Mk IIa Heavy Stubber

Preferred: Opening Salvo, Headhunter

Maniac and Flak.

Melee Weapon

Blessings

Perks

Swing Combo

Krourk Mk IV Cleaver

Confident Strike, Slaughterer

Flak, and maniac or unarmoured. Maniac helps into mutants and dreg ragers, unarmoured is more universal into dregs

Light spam into everything, light -> light -> heavy for armour

Branx Mk Ia Delver's Pickaxe

Headtaker, Thrust. Alternatives: Slaughterer, Confident Strike, Torment.

Flak, and Carapace. Mostly to try to kill crushers with a 1shs

For hordes Push attack -> Heavy, then heavy -> light. for single target heavy -> light

Orox Mk II Battle Maul & Mk III Slab Shield

Skull Crusher, Brutal Momentum.

Flak, and maniac or unarmoured. Maniac helps into mutants and dreg ragers, unarmoured is more universal into dregs

Heavy - Block Cancel into everything

arbites temporary build dump for now

Because arbites has such free exchange between blitzes and abilities, you can really use any ability you feel you would suit you better, just change which small node you take between +25% cleave or impact. These builds are somewhat experimental.

The regular shotgun based build i will use for boss damage in havoc
https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9f3c9c63-886e-4281-be6b-98904f6d7afd/skullcrushershotgun

shotgun based boss damage but with a dog
https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9f3d4903-faf0-40e5-8180-733338ae0601/skullcrusher2dogshotgun-2

and a variant using bolter. This one uses nuncio as a means to show you can take whatever ult you want, but also because it can be a really nice way to generate toughness during boss fights because otherwise your best bet for toughness gen is blocking attacks, and you wont gain stamina much because you wont be able to kill anything to instantly refill stamina
https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9f3d42b8-5505-41e5-9bb4-ad5b76230415/nuncioish

the big difference between the two is that bolter is more burst oriented, so boss will die faster but the big drawbacks is that bolter is a slow pull out which makes it more awkward to use as a special sniper, and much less ammo efficient to kill a boss compared to the mk8 exterminator shotgun. the shotgun uses less of the ammo in its pool. in the tests i did i used 15.5% of my ammo to kill a h40 plogryn that wasnt moving, with 100% hs rate, with skullcrusher but no other buffs. while also using 4x special shot. if you used regular shots, it would be 20% of your total ammo. while bolter used 34.5% of my total ammo. this is in addition to the small ammo pickup efficiency of the shotgun: you get 5 shells (6.25% of your ammo) + 6 special shells for a total of 12.8% ammo refilled including all special shells. because of this, i will try to overuse special shots, shooting specials and things that dont benefit from the 25% brittleness (lasting 8s) just for the better ammo efficiency. This compared to bolter which gets 8 shots back per small ammo, which is 6.4% of your total ammo.
tl;dr shotgun build for more well rounded build, bolter build to double down on boss killing

Axe + shotpistol based boss build. This one gets a different category because rather than focusing on ranged weapon for boss damage, we use axe for boss damage and our ranged weapon for control + special sniping. i have a lot of fun with this build because i try to use shotpistol weapon special push every 5 or 6 axe swings into a horde, and i try to maximize how often i swap to shotpistol to CC elites with heavy weapon special.
https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9f3c9ca1-dd27-498e-8178-72555ef27c46/axeshotpistol

for higher levels of control i love using the shock shield. block shots, flash the enemies and you do pretty good damage. really respectable damage from the shield, and shotgun will make up for the lack of mass elite killing power.
https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9f3c9cec-d115-4cd1-9b0a-1ef664d9123a/shockshieldshotgun

alternatively theres this crusher build that is stagger and parry based (with dog). fairly safe in my experience
https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9f41f8fd-d8bd-4f5e-826b-33e1364859c0/crusherstaggerdog

non dog version:
https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9f486707-96ad-4ef2-a510-ed571d02977b/crusherparrystagger

Castigator + shock mine build; this build i use when i feel like i will have to try to be more clutch focused or i have to anchor more. the shockmines have insane uptime and refill often, you can more or less use one for every encounter with elites where theres more than you feel like you can safely deal with. The shock mines will help guarantee rescues and revives as well. Castigators is there to minimize any random positioning mistakes from resulting in death. You could take the 50 damage max talent, but between castigators and just playing better, i think its an unnessecary for my own capabilities, and when i did use it, i think i only had its effect trigger once over three or so games.
https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9f3d49ed-5788-44b6-9870-e605c0e51c68/castigatormaulgun-2

misc builds/more off meta builds

far off meta builds. things ive been having fun with in havoc. that type of stuff

psyker
inferno-crit psyker, with assail to deal with shooters and deflector for survivability:
https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9dc47f80-9aa3-4a3d-8d4e-60709106014b/crit-melee

zealot
relic build that ive been having fun with on havoc 40:
https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9ea980eb-dc15-4491-9584-cf3f67a69eca/reliczealotdash

tactical axe + bolter builds. surprisingly effective
marty version:
https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9e0bfb5f-9999-49db-949c-42ed25656769/havoc-marty-taxe
dash version, easier to survive but slightly less damage:
https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9e0bfcfa-6040-48cd-b3ff-b23d6c3d1dc5/havoc-dash-taxe

axe + double barrel marty build. pretty fun
https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/9f0f5b8b-45c3-48fb-86f1-216daf9251d0/axe-double-barrel

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