Imo ogryn melee is really bad, use pickaxe or get burned at the stake.
Weapon balance is a universal problem in darktide but at least humans have 6< options.
Add Saltzpyres warrior priest hammer; dual hammers for ogryn and my soul is yours fatshark.
Eee, nope?
Only two melee weapons are either bad or boring; Paul(powel maul) and shield, rest is good.
Yeah sure some could use some adjustemnts but stil are usable to say at least.
Idk about really bad, maybe not really good compared to the pickaxe.
The shield is amazing.
The Power Maul is in a pretty good place right now. Spamming the power activation attack works quite well vs most enemies and it deals with hordes pretty well. (edit: slide just after activating to keep moving fast)
His cleaver is in a good place also afaik, since you can quickly regen toughness.
The poop shovel is quite good too, I enjoy it.
Iv never been keen on his bully club but some people seem to love it.
The pickaxe is a beast and kinda outshines the others in terms of obvious damage output but all his weapons are pretty good from what I know.
Powermaul is surprisingly good now, still kinda boring because of how sluggish the charge animations are with relatively low payoff. With a light spam build it’s now pretty powerful though
The Paul charge attack is actually a beast but yeah, it does suck having the slowdown on activation. Still worth it imo if you pair it with skullcrusher and supercharge. Since it staggers most anything, you are always doing brittle and more damage to anything you powersmash with it.
pickaxe was pretty crazy overpowered before the buffs to other weapons, but its funny how much it wins by doing essentially nothing (receiving no changes besides what happened to ogg tree). the stuff you can pull with branx atm and no perks of any kinds one shotting bulwark with no thrust is a bit much.
though we could easily say the same for human melee, why bother using weapons that have to dodge dance properly when you still fly around at -4 dodge with the knife/dueling, struggle on no targets and outrun the entire game. dueling has an easier time controlling elites with stagger than being an ogryn. why would you run eg. chainsword or literally anything else but maybe an axe besides meme.
Must be a bait…
Or a joke…
Or if you’re serious, you have a problem with either your build or the way you play ogryn.
I am serious. I play just ogryn cause it is even better than a zealot on melee.
And no I don’t say that zealot is bad… It is pretty good. But Ogryn is making things easier…
A melee ogryn can deal with any enemy, carapace, maniac or other types. A zealot has few weapons that does that.
I play cleaver ogryn… I am really astonished when I see how the cleaver can kill a crusher, a bulwark or a reaper so easily.
And pickaxes are too strong actually with the ogryn changes.
I am some people! Bonk Stick is fun until the game vomits 8 Crushers, then you have to get creative.
Do tell, Ive been itching to try the cleaver, any talent tips or weapon blessings?
Well I actually only like the shield with mace, and the mace weapons.
Maybe I try others now that I have fully upgraded those 2.
Now I understand that the other weapons are more powerful.
Also I am better building “builds” now.
With the shield heavy attack I kill armored Ogryns with 3 hits, withouth taking damage.
PD: you all must pay me 1 dollar per comment posted on this thread.
krourk IV flak unyielding slaughterer confident strike
use with rumbler flak unyielding adhesive shrapnel(oneshots reapers)
so far my most sustainable combo for keeping me alive in havoc with randoms.
I have chosen to go for a push build
This is the current build I really like. The bleed part gives you a resistance. Its weakness, ranged enemies. Its strength… in middle of enemies.
The ability is used to increase attack speed, run through a room or to try to go saving a teammate and to hurt a monstrosity.
The push part I really like.
But I tried also tenderiser. It works bad with a push build. But tenderiser is also a great gameplay. Your punch staggers a lot of things and you get +25% strength for 3 attacks. But sure, not with the push part of this build.
I tried also with middle keystone. That’s pretty good. However, the build here can maintain a full toughness with heavy hits. So the middle keystone is useless, you just loose DPS.
Nice, Ill be sure to try.
Im a Ripper Ogryn at heart, I just like to hold down the trigger at everything! (nice for snipers too)
It is a little vice.
I like it too.
have you played since the update?
wut?
LOL are you kidding right now?
Try the Mk IIIb club with a melee build
Yes, after update Ogryn is more powerful and fun. IMO.
i was being facetious because this post was made after the update and ogryn really doesn’t play like that anymore
You have to be trolling my man. Oggy is now literally OP. Dare I say this… I’d rank him probably as either the second-best class in the game or first as of now. After testing a bunch of weapons in 40 Havoc, so far, his best is Krourk, shield, picks, M3 Bully. He’s literally & figuratively a monster. You must either be playing him totally wrong or you’re relatively new? I actually think there’s some areas with certain blessings/nodes that actually need some nerfs & are obviously over-tuned. I’ve been picking Ogryn’s for my Havoc 40’s & almost all wins now honestly lol.
Well yeah then this whole activation must a problem for me.