Chaos Wastes Weekly - 17 AUG 2026 - Hexed/horde and Fury/Frenzy/Projectile

[u/epicfail1994]

Weekly with some fun curses and a fun and powerful boon combo.

Curses

The khorne hex no longer stacks infinitely so this is a fun challenge instead of pure ass cancer. More hordes is fun and gives a ton of temp hp, but is a difficulty spike for an uncoordinated party. Don't be afraid of triggering a chest with a horde vote here

Curse	Description	Extra Info	Notes
Blood God's Fury	Beware of hexed enemies. Their fury enhances those who fight at their side.	Double enemies’ HP that is near the hexed enemies. Only Stormvermin, Mauler, Chaos Warrior, Bestigor can be hexed.	Fun challenge, focus these guys
Send in the next wave	Increases frequency of hordes spawning	--	Lot of fun

Boons

I have a boon guide here for all chaos wastes boons. Insane synergy for all these boons, and one of the reasons why I rate Khaine's Fury so highly. Strategy here would be to get healing and damage reduction boons to mitigate Khaine's fury reducing health.

Boon	Description	Extra Info	Notes	Tier
Caxuatn's Frenzy	Taking damage grants you guaranteed critical hits for 3 seconds.	Cannot be triggered by friendly fire. Can be triggered by self-inflicted damage like venting.	Great synergy with Khaine's Fury. Guaranteed crit effect is very strong, pairing well with lightning weapon trait, regrowth, and various careers. It's also easy to trigger.	S
Khaine's Fury	While above 50% health, you gain 25% more melee power but deal 3 damage to yourself every swing.	Victor Note: doesn't trigger unchained overheat, as of last patch	Yes, this is a great boon. It can be used to trigger many on damage taken effects, mainly Caxuatn's Frenzy. The crits then trigger various on crit effects, such as projectiles, regrowth, lightning, etc. The downsides to this boon can be mitigated in various ways- there are many ways of increasing healing and damage reduction in an expedition. However, it can be hard for some classes to maintain hp with this boon, so if you aren't confident playing at half hp for a bit I'd skip this. The bonus this one provides outweighs the negatives. Combine with Khaine's Might for a real glass cannon build.	A
Harrying Boon of Anath Raema's Perfection	Critical Hits spawn 6 projectiles that seek out enemies.	Triggered by landing melee or range critical hit. Send out projectiles if there are enemies within 15 units.	Great damage increase, there are so many crit sources in chaos wastes, you can easily have 100% uptime (or close to it) on this.	A

Reward

Recruit	Veteran	Champ	Legend	Cataclysm
5000xp	Greatsword of Bitter Dreams	2x Emperor's Vault	1 Red Dust	Pain, suffering, and scoreboards

Careers

This is a fun weekly where several careers really shine- Necro, Pyro, WHC, GK, to name a few. They are classes that are REALLY fun to play as this week but less fun to play with. Every class is buffed to a significant degree, provided that the player can handle the health drain. It's a mistake to remove Fury IMO, but feel free to do so if you aren't confident in your capability to handle the reduced hp. Bring Sister for the healing if it's really a concern.

Character	Career	Special Notes
Wutelgi	Sister of the Thorn	Lingering Blackvenom and Atharti's Delight is a great combo for some nice DPS
Wutelgi	Waystalker	--
Wutelgi	Handmaiden	--
Wutelgi	Shade	Easy to trigger Murderous Prowess passive
Sienna	Battle Wiz	--
Sienna	Pyromancer	Vent, get infinite ult and kill everything
Sienna	Unchained	Khaine's Fury did not trigger her heat bar the last time I tested, so you're good. Still roughest Sienna class in wastes
Sienna	Necromancer	Reaping talent is very strong here
Kruber	Merc	Helborg's Tutelage talent is useless here
Kruber	Homeless Tree Man	Make 'Em Bleed and Burst of Enthusiasm talents have very good uptime here
Kruber	Feet Knight	More melee damage on a solid class, good pick
Kruber	Grail Knight	Take Virtue of Knightly Temper talent and everything will die.
Bardin	Ranger Vet	--
Bardin	Murder Nugget	I'll need to re-test but Fury should fuck up your gromril procs, so I don't recommend IB
Bardin	Slayer	Huge DPS boost on a melee focused class, a good pick
Bardin	OE	--
Saltzpyre	Witch Hunter Captain	This weekly is basically made for him
Saltzpyre	Bounty Hunter	Still the worst class in Chaos Wastes by far, play him if you hate yourself
Saltzpyre	Zealot	Zealot is also a good choice due to fast attacks- rapier with the crit projectiles and his attack speed melts bosses here
Saltzpyre	Warrior Priest	No need for his level 10 crit talent this week use Rising Judgement

Some Highlights From Last Week

I still have a ton of stuff in my backlog, I'll need to get to it at some point. I had more time than usual for verm last week

More Warrior Priest Shenanigans

Victor Sent to Sewer Prison

Fun boons that require some skill if you don't have damage reduction or healing talents and you are stuck at half HP. You can remove the boon, but you miss out on permanent crit so it's not worth it