Power Falchion is a joke

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It does less single target damage than knife and same damage as tactical axes with the caveat that you’ll be stuck on low mobility and have to manage heat

why bother clutching your teeth and play stupid minigames when you can just grab a low tech weapon with simple movesets and do 10% - 15% more damage

Never liked heat mechanic but thats the best part of the weapon, it would have been great having it back in pre patch 13 where melees did much less damage than now

In the current iteration of the game it has no place in my armory

well, its better than a chainsword i guess

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Finally, Darktide has a balanced and fun 40K Melee Weapon for Veteran.

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so i tried comparing with chainsword mk13 and turns out to be worse, don’t want to spread any misinformation

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Its not that terrible, but its a pretty dull weapon for the only thing ‘new’ here. The new bolt weapons are actually pretty cool and useful. It even lets the bolt pistol step out of the revolver’s shadow. But this thing is strange. It doesn’t get the turbo reach of relic blade. You can keep using attacks when it’s powered up but the stagger and crit/finesse damage are a lot lower than the munitorum power swords. It actually would have been a lot better in the scheme of vet weapons if it was added before this last update. Now you can just grab 0.5s stamina regen on any loadout really and then run Mk6 power sword. Which is one of the best weapons in the game for damage and will bury this thing in difficult content because it doesn’t have a power meter. When you have to use like 8 attacks to drop a crusher with the power falchion you’ll see it right away. Mk6 can drop them in 3 if you get a crit with any one of those attacks (which isn’t unlikely when vet has around 25% crit chance just from grabbing Desperado).

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It feel like poor man’s Relic blade more than anything imo.

Then there’s also Force Greatsword that can shred everything without heat management and get to have warp slash on top.

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i’m not comparing that to relic sword, power sword, or force greatsword

my gripe is that it doesn’t even bring anything more to the table than your standard issue shovels

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HOWEVER, Relic Blade and Power Sword have smaller penors than Power Falchion because you can’t see their Power Fields. Just kidding, although the Power Falchion does a great job at being the One-Handed equivalent of a Relic Blade in my opinion. It’s definitely solid in Auric. Maybe I’m just really good with it due to how well-suited to my playstyle it is, I don’t know.

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The Mk I Shovel actually got giga buff post-update with easier access to Trench Fighter and Serrated Vlade tbh.

You could be melee monster with it even on non-melee build as it can stack bleed really fast, not to mention it also have Uncanny Strike.

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speaking of shovels, they really could have given the latch attack more rewarding damage like they did with chainswords…its crazy how not worth they are. just run skullcrusher on Mk1 and do push attacks after a stagger poke, unless its carapace you usually hit the same or harder. and it has uncanny strikes so gg

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Power Shovel when?

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I like it, it’s great.

It has some of the best horde clear on Vet, it feels good to use unlike original PS which are strong but annoying.

It can kill most enemies, except for maulers/Crushers in 2-3 hits. Even on Havoc 40.

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Right after chain maul for Ogryn.

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It also just doesn’t have that visceral punchy feel of the original. I’m pretty underwhelmed because it just isn’t fun to use like it should be.

Not to me anyway.

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I did one game with it and went back to combat blade. I don’t know, I like tac axe and combat blade most of anything. Always preferred fast weapons.

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I never took it out of Psykhanium because it’s pretty obvious that it sucks. Low damage and low attack speed, that’s a no.

For whatever reason player like it though, so don’t expect anything to change.

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Same. On both parts actually.

I’m honestly increasingly miffed the more I think about it. Like, gee, thanks FatShark, so glad I waited a year for this

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I was using lots of heavy sword before the update and to me it feels on par with a heavy sword while empowered. Which is pretty mid for a “power” weapon to be honest.

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If carapace armour didn’t exist, the heavy sword would be meta. Power falchion is on par with heavy sword while powered, but without the dropoff vs armour.

Power sword is better vs a crusher but that comes at a cost.

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Okay so I did some thinking. I’m willing to bend a LITTLE BIT on Power Falchion buffs.

A friend of mine says that Rampage should be on Power Falchion? I’d still use Energy Leakage and Wrath. But I suppose if other, more directly powerful Power Weapons have Rampage, why not?

I’ve noticed that its base Attack Speed could safely be increased by 5-10% without buffing it into the stratosphere. It IS a little bit too slow without the +10% Melee Attack Speed Talent, I grant.

Fatshark, don’t turn Power Falchion into a new Duelling Sword. Please.

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It feels lackluster compared to knoife on my ranged vet but feels top tier on my melee vet. I feel like the better people get with this the more it will start to shine.

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