Havoc 30-40
Psyker :
13 Assail cant kill 1elite
( Gaze 100% peril + all damage and rendering skills + purple skills + all buff)
and most of time , they r not even toxic armor or ogyrn boyz….
U serious?
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Yeah assail builds really got hit. You gotta have an anti-armor melee weapon to go with it
It still does its job. Brain rupture is the elite killer, smite is a cc tool and assail is a horde and gunner clearing tool.
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But then I can’t have my one tool that does everything! You expect me to have a build that fills a role other than “jack of all trades, master of all?” this logic is what got the briar javelin nerfed unnecessarily!
/s if it wasn’t obvious
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sad
While I do generally agree with the ‘nay say’ers’ opinions regarding having to use the other tools/make up for this new lack of capability in other ways or use the other blitz’s, I will say it does depress me greatly as an Assail enjoyer to see the absolute state it’s in after the armor/health re-balancing.
Some of my favorite times in darktide is ‘getting that wave just right’ with assail, throwing warp crystal down a hallway or corridor filled with a mix’d hoard of ragers, gunners, and poxwalkers all in between. piercing each of their skulls as your warp climbs, still not killing them outright in one ‘dagger’, but two to three usually doing the trick, and watching the cleave increase as more and more fall to your constant barrage. Getting the free crystal every elite that falls, melting the wave throw after throw, before gleefully smiling at a completely empty corridor, with like 1-2 crystals still floating around your person in the aftermath.
I’d get those moments maybe 1-3 times a game with my Assail builds (the rest had Ogryns or Maulers and such and needed to be dealt with in other ways), and I’d love it every time, but now that’s functionally impossible. With all the meat and armor in the way, Assail dies the moment there’s anything tougher than a specialist in the wave, and makes it’s job pretty much moot. There’s a reason people are seeing such an influx of Smytkers in game, it’s the actually functional (for better and very much worse) of the two blitz’s, that actually does the thing of ‘get rid of the wave in front of me (even if it takes 40 years and turns the game off for everyone else). Assail doesn’t really do that now, it’s functionally just a mid range melee weapon, which is outclassed in every way by the Greatsword existing. And I personally find that very sad.
I’d enjoy a personal modifier for Assail that lets it cleave through armor insanely effectively, but it’s damage modifier to it is basically next to nothing. I think that would help it a lot in filling it’s roll, cause right now the moment you see 10 scab ragers/maulers or a couple of Ogryn in the horde (or heck, even just the mobian 53rd), you might as well have not had a blitz, and I miss having my ‘mid range melter’ tool as an option.
And no, BB is not a replacement for ragers, it’s meant to kill every other type of elite I get it, but stare down the routine 10 rager swarm with BB and a half charged Combat Ability and tell me ‘BB clutches this 100%’. Assail used to be perfect for that moment, it sucks now, makes me sad.
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Good idea
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