It does take practice tho. Kids can also learn better than adults in many situations.
Thanks 
You’re talking to the wrong guy. Why would I put double bleed on a knife? I’m running uncanny/flesh tearer.
I’m talking to all the guys. Sorry if I’ve made an impression that I imply that you personally use that. English is not my first language, sometimes I just fail at it.
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Of course, like everything else. Practice and effort behind it.
The knife should be used as a tool to only improve basic mechanics (placement, timing, decision making), but not to the point where you become well accustomed to it’s inherent benefits, slowly forgetting the importance of basic mechanics.
Either way the only reason why the knife is even considered one of the best is it’s massive room for error unlike any other melee. Without the movement, the knife becomes lackluster and on par, if not a bit worse, than/with every other melee. Lower movement or the damage and it wouldnt make sense for a knife that’s light and meant to hit vitals.
People just mad because anyone and everyone can and are using the knife. Ay I get it, stupid zealots getting a kick out of outperforming others by using a garbage weapon.
“Theres a reason why almost every soldier, if not every, during the medieval period had a dagger on their person. Apart from other weapons like swords, mauls, and spears being used, daggers were the most common and most flexible in use ; carried by lords and knights to commoners and their children.”
You just had your post as a direct reply to mine, hence the misunderstanding. No worries your English is perfectly fine mate
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idk about “only”, but I do agree its a great tool to get better at the game regarding placement and dodging. Like I mentioned earlier, its pretty much how I learned to dodge in V2.
Im still not sure I could solo auric damnation with the knife tho 
In other words, I highly doubt its as op as some are making it out to be but I also dont doubt its very strong, especially in the hands of an experienced and skilled player.
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It’s extremely good in terms of inherent benefits, but extremely sh!te because of those same benefits.
A player can be easily deluded with their own skill because they perform better or die less with a knife. The reason why I say “only basic mechanics” is because sharpening anything else other than placement, timing, and decision making with knife would not be applicable to other weapons that differ in type, speed, and tech.
Obviously different things can be learned from different weapons, but knife has many more skills that are transferable to other weapons. Unfortunately, many fail to see this and are content with knife boosting their gameplay.
N ye soloing is a b!tch in DT even for the best players. Teamwork, or at least having useful fodder in the team, is essential to success more than anything.
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I deffo got better at V2 and in turn started off strong in DT because of my experience with daggers.
Would highly recommend it to anyone struggling with basic movement etc
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I don’t really run it very often, I was posting about it earlier but I was more using it as an example of the knife being able to become proficient at horde clearing while still doing all the other things (elite killing, boss damage, mobile gunner killing etc) well.
Fleshtearer uncanny is the undisputed king along with the more esoteric dodge blessings on zealot but my point was really just that the knife has no real downside. I don’t think double bleed is that far behind though if you actually understand how fury of the faithful works and if you’re running a crit spam build with CDR. It doesn’t let you threeshot bosses and you have to dance around crushers logner than usual but it gets proportionally stronger and more braindead at dealing with everything else. You can just lightspam a fat pack of gunners down and it bleeds out and dies faster than you could otherwise punch stab em.
Carapace armour is surely designed to deflect sharp objects and bullets.
IMHO knives should be bad against carapace. There are no weak spots to slide a knife into. It should be useless. Ditto swords and, to a lesser extent, axes.
But a blunt object should do a lot of damage. Massive internal trauma injuries. Eg hammers, crushers, flails if we get them. And heat should broil the inhabitant: flamer, purgatus, incendiary grenades, plasma.
No doubt there’s a board game damage system, but tbh, I’m not a wh40k fan so I don’t care.
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100%, its a starter’s weapon and should stay as a starter’s weapon. Real pros take advatange of better weapons. (Not saying I am one obv)
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I personally think you’d be hard pressed to find a solo auric maelstrom clear that doesn’t involve the knife, dueling sword, tac axe or laspistol. The mobility IS infact the strongest thing in the game that a weapon could provide and can’t be beat by any other weapon property.
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Theres a bit of everything but movement is really the greatest power in DT rn ; and it only makes sense for better skilled people to not need as big of a room for error/movement, and could instead leverage dmg.
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So aside from the game, knives are incredible vs heavily armoured soldiers exactly because they can slip in between plates and small unprotected places.
But yes, blunt weapons are brutally effective vs armour and u dont need to be as close, you can just brute force swing that thing around.
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How?
Carapace is a single hard shell, not layers of plate armour. There’s no way to penetrate!?
Watched the video. Is that chain mail?
Very different from a Carapace piece.
^ this guy is playing dumb
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I just recently hit ~1k hours in the game and just started using the knife on my vet. I’m not a great player with it, but it’s loads of fun zipping around slicing and dicing heretics.
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That’s not really how armor works. You couldn’t move in it, if that was the case.
(Caveat that I know nothing about 40K lore and if they have some fantasy imaginary property of fully encased armor that is still somehow flexible)
Unless you’re suggesting the Ogryns in the game are actually small people sitting inside an Ogryn-shaped mech, I suppose.
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I dont like it. Its boring not my playstyle. Combat axe for life
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