Does anybody else wish that we had an axe with two vanguards instead of strikedowns?

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide General Discussion
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it just feels like having the axes have strikedown instead of vanguard is a wasted opportunity and makes them too similar.

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To be clear, you mean the new PickAxes , not the combat/tactical ones?

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Combat, Tactical or Chain ?

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The BM blessing makes them feel like vanguards anyway.

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Hopefully they rebalance the achyls axe relentless heavy to actually hit more than 1 of anything without BM. But the weapon you’re describing is called a shovel :^]

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no, i mean the actual axes, not the picks.

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all

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Why you would want a melee weapon that doesn’t have option against single target is beyond me.

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They didn’t say that. They said they’d wish they had one with more horde clear potential. There’s plenty of weapons with bad single target in the game and they simply would like an axe to lean more towards horde vs single target. I don’t personally really care, I run Brutal Momentum on all of my axes, besides the chain axes. A MKII Rashad with Brutal Momentum and Shredder, Flak/Maniac/Carapace with good stats eats hordes almost as well as weapons designed for horde clear.

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It does kind of suck that Brutal Momentum is basically a requirement for an axe to be useful for more than single-target damage, though. You end up with only one blessing slot to work with instead of the usual two just because it’s so obviously The Best.

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This mf cant aim up

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Yeah I was thinking of it when I was writing it but hey, I get good single target damage and decent stagger and also good clear, so I guess it’s the price to pay. Not many weapons can do that.

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I mean, the game have light and heavy to enable player to perform both horde clear and single target task so idk what’s the point making one with only vanguard attack and nothing else.

It would be make more sense to ask for one with mix combo between vanguard and strikedown with some actual cleave.

but then again it probably doesn’t matter anyway since the way the game categorize attack chain is rather mysterious, there are tons of stikedown attack that are horizontal sweep and vanguard attack that are vertical.

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could just have the light be single and the vanguard be heavy or the other way around.

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That’s mk.4 chainaxe.

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I just wish the obviously perfect horizontal cleave heavy of Achlys had more than negative cleave. :cry:

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