My preacher is about 16 or so now and im still seeing the endless lists of axe , sword, knife, las, auto, pistol
Had assumed the fun stuff ie bolters, power hammer , eviscerators . ya know stuff that makes em go splat was trust gated. but now im wondering are they even int he game yet?
also anyone leveling a big un? whats in thier future melee wise?
I have Seen someone with a Flamethrower at around lvl 16.
Ogryn can get a huge shield for melee, haven’t seen any other weapons for him yet.
Force hammers were available in the closed beta for the Zealot, looks like the level they become available has now been increased. Haven’t seen one yet and I’m at lvl 17.
Have seen chainswords (1h and 2h), flamers, heavy laser pistols and various swords and axes.
Got the Grenade Fists for my Ogryn yesterday at level 9 already. They are very great! 
As preacher, I’d seen all of the stuff you listed by level 18; I found a boltgun at 22. They’re all in the game, it just seems like it’s very random.
I honestly think Preachers shop RNG is just fricked because it took me ages to get anything that wasn’t generic garbage. The hourly shop rotation is kind of awful.
You’re not alone there they removed the guaranteed weapon drop for completion too, its now a random reward you might get. There’s even curio slots for influencing that…such a massive regression for an already bad item system. But compared to Darktide VT2’s is a gem.
But yeah the items often being level-locked or too expensive and then just not appearing again is causing some serious repetitive gameplay loops. Missed out on a new weapon for any reason and it might not appear again for several levels.
Powerhammer charged hit whilst using chastise takes out a dreg rager in one hit and either flattens him outright or ragdolls him across the map…Glorious.
well nice to know its in the game at least, or is that from the last beta?
im running out of levels for it to gate it from me now at 21 . i have at least seen a chain sword now .
this seems like a silly wall to put in the way of the big 40k power fantasy i wonder how many people who dont know or just cba to climb it will be put off thinking its all just the base generic stuff.
two possible ideas.
each level give the character a fragile random weapon (skewed to the pool of gated weapons) a grey quality no bonus single map use version of the exotic fun stuff.
the random shop is the ball suck. earned feels better than bought lets have stuff drop , one run of chaos wastes can drop 9 (admitedly junk ) weapons
give us the ability to ask the shop to stock what we want at least to a degree.
Im 30 now, but by the early 20s I had options for bolters and plasma guns, I know preacher can get heavy flamers and bolters, as well as 2h evicerators which are sick
didn’t see my flamer until about level 13. the shop is hot trash.