New Admonition Enemies? And others!

[IGN_Vera]

@BizarreSalp

They move slowly, attack slowly. Their hits are not “Crusher overhead” level, but they are hard to block and give you Corruption on hit.

@BizarreSalp

Their heads are a weak spot, but they take less damage to this weakspot than other enemies - the goal here is to make finesse weapons (which typically are very strong) a little weaker against them

@BizarreSalp

They have a lot of health, and pressure you just through being hard to get rid of.

@BizarreSalp

They also need good stagger resistance. I’d say on a tier between Crushers (who we can bully fairly easily now) and Monsters. You should be able to stagger them, of course, just not easily.

Great to see someone else suggesting Plaguebearers! These characteristics are all pretty much right in line with the Plaguebearer I suggested a little while back, a Plaguebearer would be a great alternative to Crushers to spice things up. They’re basically the main lesser demons for Nurgle so not unreasonable to see them on the battlefield if Beast of Nurgle already exists in Darktide.

The only thing I would add is give them passive slow healing, forcing teams to focus them down immediately or reposition.

Meet the Plaguebearer

Also like the ideas of Rot Flies as bosses, Nurglings and Glitchlings as Specialists that can deny player combat abilities within their close proximity.