Skitarii - Your Opinions?

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide General Discussion
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Some initial thoughts Is anyone else.... Disappointed with Skitarii? - #129 by Downer

Some extra from today:

  1. Voltaic nades should go off faster.
  2. Shield should replenish itself even if its 80+ seconds cooldown and 2 chargers instead of 3.
  3. On auric level ranged ultimate feels strongest and most fun, but i doubt it will work great in havoc, not without veteran on the team who is willing to share ammo. Also bugged with left keystone.
  4. Electro ultimate feels like venting shriek 2.0, kinda boring.Claw is grail knight ultimate from vermintide 2, which is both stronger and weaker than original, stronger because there’s more charges, they go back faster especially with red line capacitors, but also damage feels lower, less cleave on the armored than grail knight sword, no boss stagger. Not a bad option for using slash version with with new gatbage power sword.

Melee Weapons rating:

  1. New power maul, perfectly mediocre weapon. Ok moveset, ok damage, good special.
  2. Transonic blades. Damage kinda low, but good cleave, ok moveset, ok idea with alternative move set, investment into attack speed make them better than chain sword vs both horde and single target.
  3. Power sword. High single target damage, bad move set, feels very inconvenient to play, special attack demands extra charge by holding mouse button for maximum damage, which also adds inconvenience, i have 12 ragers in my face and you want me to hold special slash to deal with them? Nah.

Ranged weapons rating:

  1. Phosphorus pistol. Big damage, 6 rounds, good blessings, relatively fast reload speed, only downside is it’s kinds hard to hit enemies sometimes, not sure why.
  2. Galvanic rifle, great visual design, precision weapon somewhere between helbore and infantry single shot autogun, got bigger damage than infantry, got cleave like helbore, but way less ammo both in chamber and generally. I think it’s ok as secondary weapon, aimboting with ultimate is also fine. But if use as special killer, pistol is better. For some reason don’t apply shock or deal extra shock damage. 5
  3. Arc rifle, it is only really good with investment into ranged talent tree and upper talent tree, also needs crit chance, such investments turn into screen wipe weapon, but still reload speed is abysmally slow, like plasma if not worse, but also plasma got many shots from one reload with really high power and also can hit many enemies, while this one got only 40 shots, thus it demands way more reloading than plasma and this demands either reload speed talents or charmed reload blessing.
  4. New plasma is ok, focused on charged attacks, so possibility of nuking yourself is real, but i think eventually it will not be popular as cleave version because damage on primary is lower and not only does it lack cleave vs enemies, there’s no cleave vs objects that old model has.