99% of all the ranged Weapons aren’t even viable once you play Damnation and higher. Even with Ogryn the right-Side Tree is not good when you play in higher Havocs. Somewhat decent in Aurics but in higher Havocs just not viable at all and in Auric get completely outshined by the other Options in the…

[image] Terrorgheist: Even with Ogryn the right-Side Tree The right side ability, point blank barrage, is such a bad ability. This ability just doesnt work if you have no ammo. This is especially bad in Havoc where the ammo economy is heavily nerfed

for some reason the ogryn rework nerfed light em up from orbit (deserved) and the rending option. there was like no rework to point blank barrage being garbage. they still won’t even let you see when you activate this ult unless you use mods. do you want to get blurry drunk vision for 10s and only h…

still wild to me that ogryn gunluggers are known in the lore to go crazy and use their gun as a melee weapon when out of ammo or when a reload is due, but the gunlugger tree in darktide does not reference this in any way shape or form and it’s just “buffs to your shooting”

I think someone figured out the best application of the arbites perfect block traits is that you can leave a poxwalker behind you as you push attack swing to trigger perfect block talents in a somewhat consistent manner. I personally don’t see it being much use for zealot, but I also wouldn’t ever u…

You may want to read the descriptions of the highlighted talents more carefully. Also consider the fact that all ogryn ranged weapons except for the heavy stubber perform melee strikes as their weapon specials and these strikes proc the toughness return talents and used to be a critical source of to…

none of those talents encourage you to bash stuff with your gun and doing so is incredibly ineffective, gun swings have absolute trash joke damage profiles [image] Gideon404: and used to be a critical source of toughness for gunluggers. not really lol people did it cause it’s funny not becau…

It’s not in the talent tree but there are a few blessings on weapons that involve using the weapon melee to gain buffs for ranged and vice versa, but they’re definitely not equal in value, most aren’t even that useful. I wouldn’t mind if instead of lucky bullet being this source of free/situational…

Nah Rippergun with Can Opener was a phenomenal tool to get/keep your HH stacks up, maintain toughness, and take on Crusher packs due to its insane stagger. A bayonet plus a volley or two took em out about as fast as the Branx, it was comically good! Back in my day… :grimacing:

Ripper bayonet is still the best one. Not only is there can opener still but before the first stage in the reload you can spam bayonet attacks and they cancel right as they execute. Like most not melee melee it’s still gimmicky but it actually kills stuff and elites. Way stronger than trying to use …

Ranged Gameplay needs to be buffed

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide General Discussion

King_Ass_Ripper October 17, 2025, 2:36am 54

none of those talents encourage you to bash stuff with your gun and doing so is incredibly ineffective, gun swings have absolute trash joke damage profiles

not really lol people did it cause it’s funny not because its any amount of effective

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