Bad news. The best heavy chainsword is worse than the chain axe. It might be better than the chainsword but my testing isn’t complete. I have godrolls of all three. Its easily one of the worst options on Zealot. Not unusable, obviously.
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I remember being one of the few players going with shredder autopistol when everyone was calling it trash, before it was buffed. It wasn’t that terrible: a good niche weapon with increased mobility that paired well with slow two handed zealot weapons. Now it’s so busted I don’t even play it anymore, it makes the game boringly easy. i’m not an advocate of nerfing weapons but in this particular case I would be ok for the autopistol to receive a slight decrease in performances 
That’s still up to debate, and probably a personal preference thing. I’ve been thoroughly testing chainweapons for the last couple months and I will strongly argue that the chainaxe is the worst of the three! 
Chainsword and 2 handed chainsword are subpar compared to S tier weapons but have a few situations where they will be good. Chainaxe is bad all the time, there isn’t a single situation where it is good. I like finding niche roles to weapons, like “it’s bad at this and this, but at least it’s good at that and will shine in a couple situations”. It’s the best “On paper” only when you look at its blessing pool, but in practice… I believe I’ve tried everything with it, every blessing combinations attack patterns angle of approach and went seeking for tutorial and advices from other players etc. And it comes from me, who want to make every weapon in the game work! And I really believed in the chainaxe for a good while 
. Hell I even play the devil’s claw sword and could find some qualities to it! Chainaxe is supposed to be a single target oriented weapons but its somehow bad against single targets…?? The light attacks takes forever to kill an elite even with +power stacks, and the revved special is quite hard to land on a specific target when enemies are packed up, and has a very small reach. Terrible against bullwarks, very easily getting stuck on their shield compared to the other two. It’s the weapon I’ve had the most trouble soloing plague ogryn with, also. It’s not awesome vs horde either, and has crappy mobility which means you can’t dodge dance your way to a pack of shooters and zoom in and out of danger with ease. It’s the only weapon in the game where I came to a conclusion where i’m saying “I will put my chainaxes on a shelve for now and wait for them to buff the weapon before I pick it up again” it’s the LEAST playable of the three in my own opinion.
The second they improve the chainaxe you will see me running around with it all the time!
I don’t understand this. Even the fourth level “Rev It Up” blessing only gives a marginal speedup of 15%. To me, that seems insignificant. What am I missing?
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A 80% mobility eviscerator has a 0.27 movement speed. I think the 0.27 is just a modifier to the base movement speed which I don’t know what it represent. The +15% movement speed doesn’t multiply the 0.27 by 1,15 resulting in a 0.33 movement speed. It makes you go much faster than that. You go around the same speed as a combat knife from what I feel while “running” it. It makes you go very fast
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It’s one of those QoL stuff that makes nonsense when you read them on paper but when you actually play them you are: “okay, this is awesome!”
Btw it also makes you slide longer and further which is immensely helpful against shooters and some melee attacks when you know that zealot takes 0 toughness dmg when sliding
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I would like to think of flamer as an example of how not to nerf things in darktide. Really it should have been tuned back very gradually. They made too many big changes too fast on it.
Actually i would argue the problem wasn’t that they took an aggressive action its that they didn’t rapidly iterate by following those nerfs up with further aggressive tweaks, buffs and nerfs.
I run damnation+ games with the Eviscerator as I do with any other weapon, and I like it better than any of the other ones. The axe is horrible for hordes, and the knife is just clicking too much for my liking. The Eviscerator is rn my fav weapon for Zealot and I think that it is in a pretty good spot. Good horde clear and good armour damage.
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Agreed - I very rarely have an issue doing my job with the Evisc – in fact, I rely on it to be a 1-shot on most specials / elites and it comes through.
Well, if they release a Catachan/“Sly Marbo” cosmetic bundle they will probably have appropriate skins for exactly those 2 weapons. 
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA” - Sly Marbo
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Where exactly is this “good cleave” you are refering to? I haven’t seen it, at least not on any Eviscerator i have used. Outside of the special you might as well be using a LARP Foamstick.
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I can tell you, the larp foamstick deals more damage… the Evi is such an iconic weapon of the 40k universe… but it hits like a wet noodle. its such a shame, all the chain weapons do actually.
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Post your weapon so i can copy it and run it through my testing. Do you use +manaics as a perk?
You know that’s not a bad point about Sly Marbo. I’ll run veteran like that for sure.
Thanks for the lore dude.
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What do you mean “where is the ‘good cleave’”? It’s when I hit dudes, and I hit a lot of them, at once. It’s because, you see, I cleave through them (see what I did there?)
So its really bad without a specific blessing, and somewhat usable with it. Yeah, no further questions. Heavy Blade has better cleave without any blessing. Thats just sad.
Heavy Sword sucks without Headtaker
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There ya go reject! 
‘somewhat usable’? What? Dude, it’s great, maybe you don’t like it due to pilot error.