Shock maul buff, change?

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Gameplay Feedback
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I love the shock mauls, great job FS, however i have some ideas of how it could be improved in some scenarios.

The main build i use for Shock Mauls: Shock Maul - Build for Darktide - Darktide WH40k

  • Unyielding - The damage against unyielding feels a little week, taking too long to kill monstrosities, bulwarks and reapers with it (compared with “similar” weapons).

  • Maniac - i’m referring exclusively to ragers and mutants, compared to Indignatus Crusher, combat axes or other weapons, i don’t feel the same confidence to fight hordes of ragers with the shock mauls, could it be because i don’t have +25 damage on maniac?, often if i fight (melee) more than 6/7 ragers (without ulting FotF) i find myself wasting “until death”(this doesn’t happen with scab ragers).

Breakpoints are not reached often to one shot mutants even weakened ones, how i said i don’t have +25 damage on maniac, soo i might be wrong.

  • Mobility: why Dodge Limit is caped on 4, Dodge Distance is 0.89 - 0.96 (worse than combat axe or any similar weapon), it really doesn’t need to be like that.

  • Blessings: I feel like most of his “unique” blessings are very mid.

  1. Entropic: does it have cooldown or has infinite uses, im currently using it on my best shock maul, but it doesn’t feel that great, why would i be blocking a enemy to electrocute him instead of just swinging at him until he or the horde is dead?, i can see the use of it if you are caught in the middle of a big horde, but still, i just prefer to keep swinging at them.
  2. Stunned Expression: remove its cooldown or reduce it, if i’m fighting a horde can the blessing guess the highest priority enemy or just stun a groaner every 3 seconds?
  3. High Voltage: I guess if you like to use the special attack u could find a use for it, otherwise as i said, if you are getting +25 damage against a groaner every 3 seconds thanks to “Stunned Expression”, i’ll let it pass.
  4. Opportunist: it gives u +25 Rending on Staggered enemies, who are the most difficult enemies to stagger? exactly, the ones i want to use rending on.

Give these blessings and functionality to Indignatus Mk IVe Crusher.

  • Special Attack: I don’t like how the SA works, especially in how my game runs (200 ping, big stutters), i think it can be inproved in a way that helps blessings too. Rework it, instead of a electric stab, now u charge the shock maul and the next hit this gives you +25% chance of electrify an enemy (base chance to electrify an enemy will be 5%). Now it can electrify several enemies at the same time (max 5, idk).
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I would suggest taking Hammerblow and Skullcrusher. You’ll stagger all the ragers and do good damage to them. It’s very safe. Additionally with Fotf for more damage and stagger is a bit nutty. (Haven’t tried this loadout on Vet or Psyker. I soent 3 million dockets getting this shockmaul on Zealot I’m not doing that again.

I agree on having more Unyielding damage. I honestly wish bosses had different or a unique damage type. I’d be fine with Shock Mauls being bad against Bulwarks and Reapers but I really don’t like it’s low boss damage.

I currently really like the special attack, I think it’s cool and thematic, and situationally useful. I would’ve liked to see at least 1 blessing that interacts specifically with the special attack however. I need to check if oppeetunist works against enemies that are stunned.

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Just make it so it doesn’t require hammerblow to be able to stagger Rager/Ogryn.

It’s a bit stupid when combat axe can do it consistenly without any help from perk or blessing while literal weapon that have crowd control for stat can’t do it.

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Ragers are not crowds. Ragers are squads of elites. Ogryn too.

IMO the real problem is that the axes can stagger these targets so easily and that should be removed.

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I mean, almost every game use that word to refer any kind interupt action now single target or so idk? also are we gonna argue about what is consider to be a ‘crowd’ ? lol

but yeah, if they not gonna buff Shockmaul stagger then just nerf Combat Axe’s instead, people are not gonna be happy though.

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Axes mostly ignore stagger reduction, which lets them dab on Ragers during their 50% stagger resistance they gain while attacking. Especially with how easy it is to add power (and therefore more stagger) through their blessings.

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