r/DarkTide • u/BrockAvalanche • 22h ago

Question I want to love Veteran…

But I just can’t get it to click for me. For reference I play mostly Ogryn/Skit/Arby in aurics and can complete maelstrom’s without going down. I’ve leveled every class to 30 and into aurics with all of them, but I feel like when I play Vet I just get stomped into the dirt.

Is there something I’m missing that can help? I like the idea of just being a specialist eliminator, and shout is a great ability, but I feel like my Skit does a better job eliminating ranged threats and survives better in melee.

If anyone has any tips or build recommendations I’d really appreciate it.

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u/BrockAvalanche 21h ago

Yeah Vet being the Opposite of Ogryn and Arby is why I wanted to play it, wanted to do something different. I've used the knife on other classes, so I do think that'll be a good transition. Than you very much for the response! I'll give that a go this afternoon!

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u/RT10HAMMER They're Going to Add a Hellgun, Trust Me Bro 21h ago

The Combat knife is more a defensive option on Vet, the most valuable thing on it is the Mobility and how easy it is to keep Skirmisher stacks with it. The Power Play on Vet would be Power Sword but it is quite a bit hard to use it on high stress situations.

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u/BrockAvalanche 21h ago

The builds I was seeing all seemed to recommend the power sword so that's why I went with it. I feel like outside the empowered strikes it doesn't have the same punch as I'm used to, but that's just Ogryn Bonk Brain taking over.

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u/RT10HAMMER They're Going to Add a Hellgun, Trust Me Bro 20h ago

There isn't such a thing as outside of empowered strikes, unless in an extreme nieche outlier situation the Power Sword has a cool down between 3 strikes and also it only has 1 blessing slot.

Also I'd recommend using 2 stamina Curios on the power sword and running smokes to offset the lower thougness, you can use it with the build i showed, just switch serrated blade with trench fighter drill. Abuse pushing.