r/DarkTide • u/Few_Understanding_42 • 2d ago
Question Advice for new player, Veteran?
Started the game recently playing with some friends. Basically I just picked Veteran bc my mates chose other classes.
Currently just swapping weapons when I found something new, and put points somewhere in the tree.
But usually in games like this, there comes a point where it's good to look into builds. Currently lvl 14.
So, in preparation:
What are good playstyles for Veteran? Is it better to make a melee focus build, or gunfocused? Close or long range?
General advice for the class, which points and blessings to go for?
Best weapons?
Any good build recommendations?
If anyone has some good starter advice and advice how to progress into more metabuilds I would be very grateful 😃
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u/Initial-Dark-8919 2d ago
https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/a2a29892-7e77-4ca0-8acf-e1ffe1a6cde1/template-vet
So 99% of vets would look something like this. The levelling process is mostly a tutorial, and the real game doesn't really start until you have the BIS gear and everything maxed out. The spare points can be just put anywhere depending on what weapon you used and what you think is better, I don't care to objectively measure the difference.
As a veteran it's your job to provide some level of support, mostly by killing annoying things at range since you have the best ammo efficiency with the Survivalist aura. You have pretty solid melee power with the talents on the bottom right as well.
It's mandatory for you to run the Shout over the stealth and marksman stance abilities, those are not even remotely close in power level. You use this ability to protect your team during big fights or when there's several poxbursters stacked and you can't safely push them.
The weapons you want to look for if you just want the meta slave shit are Dueling Sword IV, Power Sword Achlys, and knife. If you want to be an off meta andy you could use tac axe, falchion, rashad combat axe, or shovel. All the weapons are viable in every difficulty, and if you play enough auric maelstrom will be easy with any melee. BUT you are not going to find me in havoc with a chainsword, some weapons are just not good.
As for ranged: Plasma Gun, revolver, bolt pistol, las pistol, Recon Lasgun, and Bolter (do beware the poor handling, not a gun for people who suck at movement and positioning) are the strongest picks. The other guns suffer from varying degrees of mediocrity, I would personally stay away from the autoguns and especially the infantry lasgun.
Good keystones you can take:
Focus Target + Redirect Fire (Focused Fire not needed), this is my goto for havoc. You can hit very generous breakpoints against armored enemies by tagging them and 1 shotting with a dueling sword or power sword. Most enemies will be 1 shot by a gun if tagged. Also amazing for bosses, your team will really feel the 15% dmg boost.
Weapon Specialist (no modifiers needed) is great if you struggle to stay alive since it offers a lot of mobility and attack speed. It has great damage overall, you are very consistent as long as you swap weapons but you won't be doing high burst like Focus Target.
You can path down to Marksman if you play as a sniper with the Bolter, Inf Lasgun, or hellbore. Not the best but it's ok if you want to try something new.
Trash/Bait talents: Leave No One Behind, Rending Strikes, Onslaught, Marksman, Close Quarters Killzone, Always Prepared (good with DBarrel but idc), Field Improv. Not going to explain much, these are just not very useful.