Introduction
Darktide contains a huge arsenal of melee weapons , each with its own use, purpose and combo in combat. This guide will list those melee weapons and basic information regarding those weapons.
Hint:Use the Contents table/Guide Index on the right to quickly find the specific weapon.
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Weapon Modifiers
DamageMobilityFinesseCleave TargetsCleave DamageFirst TargetDefencesPenetrationCritical DamageShredderCrowd ControlPower OutputWarp Resistance
A weapon basic stats is based upon 5 modifiers , those modifiers are scaled from 0%->80%, a max weapon modifier score would be 380 points, with 80% in 4 of the modifiers, and a 60% in a modifier. so a perfect loot weapon does not exist.
Modifier Description Controls the basic damage of the weapon, it also controls the damage done to Infested & Unarmored enemies,as poxwalkers and groaners, those are what a wave mostly consists of Controls Sprinting Speed, , Dodging Speed, Dodge Distance & Dodge limit, the higher the value the better your mobility will be Controls Attack Speed of both heavy and light attacks, while also the power of Critical hits and Weakspots hits Controls the targets can be attacked in a heavy or light attack, the higher the value the more targets are hit in a swing Cleave Controls the damage done to all targets hit in a swing except the first hit target, gaining a higher value, allow a higher damage done to targets except the first target hit in a swing Controls the damage to the first target hit in a swing, heavy or light. weapons with this modifier usually do much higher damage than average to first target an extra modifier than affects mobility modifier, while also other factors as how much a push use stamina, and stamina used while sprinting Controls damage to armored targets, as flak armor, carapace armor, both light and heavy attacks Critical Controls the Critical hit damage , weapons with this modifier would do higher critical hits, ideal for critical hit builds. Only to chain weapons, it controls the damage of shredding (using the chain), as with the use of special ability. A combination of & Cleave , it controls Attack Speed & done to targets excluding first target, while also controls stagger done by attacks Controls certain Charged Weapons damage of the special attack, as it controls AoE size, AoE Suppression and damage. Controls heat generated for weapons that use wrap energy, only for psyker weapons
is the first heretic to be hit in an attack, while cleave damage is every target after.
Attack Types
Vanguard
Wide angle swipe, either horizantal or 45 degrees sweep, used to deal damage to multiple targets at once, best used against hordes or multiple enemies.
Relentless
Similar to Vanguard, Wide angle swipe, either horizontal or 45 degrees sweep, but focuses on staggering targets rather than damaging targets. those attacks do higher stagger, and aims at crowd control more than crowd removing.
Strike down
Attacks that are based to engage a single target, mostly are top down attacks, that are aimed at the head of the enemy, most attacks in strike down does extra damage, due to its constraint to single target damaging.
Assassin
Attacks on single target, that gets higher damage multiplier when targeting a weakspot, or a critical hit, or even both.
Combos
Each weapon have its own combo or chain of attacks in melee, some weapons aims at being more of a single target damaging, while other at horde control and distribution.
Those attack patterns are predefined, player can infuse the light and heavy attack pattern together, as per picture.
First heavy attack is relentless, aimed at hordes, yet following in combo is strike down, if a player want to clear hordes, use of Heavy Attack + Light Attack would allow to reset the combo back to the relentless attack, therefore the player created an infused combo.
Catachan Swords
Named after the planet itself. These swords is common baseline swords of the game, available to all human sized personal, they lack anything special about them as they are the jack of all trades and traditional, therefore they share a huge pool of blessings, their special attack is parry, which blocks the enemy melee attacks even if an attack is unblockable, as in mauler top down attack or crusher top down attack, while also sends out high stagger to the target and damage.
Versatile
Huge Pool of Blessings
Jack of all Trades
Parry Special Attack
Very Basic Class Availability Veteran ✔ Zealot ✔ Ogyrn ✖ Psyker ✔
Although Scab boss attack is unblockable , even if blocked by normal (holding defense or right click) would still bypass your toughness and damage you,parry you immune.
Catachan MK I "Devil Claw" Sword
MK I holds most of its combo in horde cleaning, with heavy attacks are both perfect horizontal sweeps, that allows the sword to cleave multiple targets of the horde on their weakspot, therefore doing very high damage to hordes, its push attack is also a sweep, the weapon lacks any anti single target heavy attack or a combo specific for single targets.
Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘|↓
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | Top down.
Heavy Attack Combo: ←|→
Horizontal Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right.
Good Anti Waves
Perfect heavy attacks for waves
Lacks anti single target Attacks
Push Attack Sweep
Catachan MK IV "Devil Claw" Sword
MK IV is a versatile one of the series, having both anti horde and single target combos to engage both hordes and HvTs effectively, although it lacks any heavy attack combo to be used, it still packs a punch!
Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘|←|↗
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | Horizontal Right to center | 45° Left to Right
Heavy Attack Combo: ↓|→
Top Down|Horizontal left to right.
Versatile weapon
Heavy attacks as Combo opener
Jack of trades.
Push Attack, Top Down
Custom Combos:
Anti Waves: Light + Heavy
This combo does constant horizontal sweeps on target weakspots, expect for first light attack of the whole combo.
Anti Specials: Heavy + Light
it would allow the continue using of the strike down heavy attack quickly.
Catachan MK VII "Devil Claw" Sword
MK VII does the highest single target damage heavy attack, which allow it to combat single heavy targets effectively, yet the heavy attack is not the opener of the combo and a shortcut does not really work well to get it.
Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘|↓
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | Top down
Heavy Attack Combo: →|↓
Horizontal right to left | Top down
Best of the Series Anti Specials
Acceptable level of Anti Horde
Heavy Attack Combo Opener
Push Attack Stab
Custom Combos:
Anti Waves: Heavy + Light
This combo constant of heavy attack horizontal sweep, and a light attack slash.
Combat-Tactical Axes
Axes are all single handed axe melee weapons, that does high single target damage and does have a great level of armor penetration, they got a level of critical bonus or first target bonus, multiple variant of axes are there, some focuses on mobility, other on attack speed while others on damage and penetration. due to weapon length, axes requires the player to be close to those nurgle lovers.Axes does not have a unified special attack, each variant have its own.
Combat axes are heavier , that do more damage and stagger, while tactical axes are fast, and does higher damage on weakspot or critical hits.
High Stamina & Dodge Limit
High Damage & Penetration
Low Weapon Length Class Availability Veteran ✔ Zealot ✔ Ogyrn ✖ Psyker ✔
Axe vs Crusher
Antax MK V Combat Axe
The heavy axe of the combat axes, very high damage and impact and the only axe able to cleave multiple targets at once, the axe heavy attacks are all top down which allows effective attacks on weakspots, the axe is heavy therefore its attack speed is low.
Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘|→
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | Top down
Heavy Attack Combo: |↓|↓|↓
Top down | Top down | Top down
Highest Single Target Damage
Only Axe with Cleave Damage
Heavy & Slow Swings
High Stagger Special Attack
Keep in mind Antax is one of the best axes in game, but it have a weird issue, its heavy attack does much lower damage to maniac than light attacks, so targets as flamers, Dreg Rager (non armored angry boi), spam them with light attacks.
Achlys Mk VIII Combat Axe
Achlys is the fast axe of the combat axes, adding high damage
Light Attack Combo: ↓|↙|↘
Top Down | 45° Right to Left | 15° Left to Center
Heavy Attack Combo: |↓|↓|↓
Top down | Top down | Top down
High Single Target Damage
High Critical Power Damage & WeakSpot
Heavy & Slow Swings
High Stagger Special Attack
Rashad MK II Combat Axe
Rashad is a hard hitting axe with extra damage to critical and weakspot attacks while also extra damage against first target, making it ideal vs single target enemies, while also all of its attack are from above, death from above. it lacks any cleaving, it always hit a single target only.
Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘|←
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | Horizontal Right to Left
Heavy Attack Combo: |↓|↓|↓
Top down | Top down | Top down
High Single Target Damage
High Crit Power Damage & WeakSpot
Heavy & Slow Swings
High Stagger Special Attack
Atrox MK II Tactical Axe
Atrox is a light axe with a very fast attack speed and huge damage increase to critical and weakspot attacks,its special attack is a high stagger combo used to stun heavier targets. Atrox attacks are based on Assassin hits mostly, they lack of good penetration and cleave is its downside.
Light Attack Combo: ↓|↘|↓
Top Down | 45° Left to Right | Top Down
Heavy Attack Combo: |↘|↙
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right
Very Fast Attacks
Weakspot combo
Requires Weakspot to do Damage.
High Stagger Special Attack Combo
Atrox MK IV Tactical Axe
MK IV Atrox, tends to have sweeps rather than all top down attacks, which allows better horde clearing or anti multi target than other Atrox axes, while also still maintaining some attacks to be used on weakspot targets.
Light Attack Combo: ↖|↘|↙
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | 45° Right to Left
Heavy Attack Combo: |↓|↗
Top Down | 20° Left to Center
Fast Attacks
Cleaving Combos
Requires Weakspot to do Damage.
High Stagger Special Attack Combo
Atrox MK VII Tactical Axe
Heaviest of the Atrox Series, does highest damage of them all, while also have a lower attack speed than the other variant in exchange, its special attack combo is quite fast when compared to other atrox axes
Light Attack Combo: ↓|↗|↙
Top Down | 45° Left to Right | 45° Right to Left
Heavy Attack Combo: |↙|↓
45° Right to Left | Top Down
Fast Attacks for an axe
Highest Damage of Atrox Axes
Slow Attack speeed
High Stagger Special Attack Combo
Power Swords
Power Swords are an traditional sword that are attached with it two AA batteries, with special attack button, the sword gets powered up, giving it increased cleave, damage and armor penetration and also stagger, power swords are heavy in weight and when powered on stays for 1-3 attacks (depending on blessing), which requires a user to be vulnerable for a period of time between volley of attacks.
High Damage, Stagger & Penetration
Versatile
Requires lot of weapon charging
Heavily reliant of Power Cycler Blessing Class Availability Veteran ✔ Zealot ✖ Ogyrn ✖ Psyker ✖
A Swords with PowerCycler Tier 4 Blessing, can do up to 3 attacks in a row
Munitorum MK III Power Sword
The more versatile variant of the power swords, with a easy to get with heavy attack combo that targets weakspots on a cleave, allows it to engage both specials and horde alike, able to be charged which allows it to cleave up to 10 enemies at once. short height characters or against crusher, lot of jumping is required to target weakspot.
Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘
45° Right | 45° Left
Heavy Attack Combo: ←|→
Horizontal Right to left | Horizontal Left to right
Universal Combo.
High Damage & Stagger.
Requires Charging.
Lack of anti special attack.
Munitorum MK VI Power Sword
The lighter variant of the power sword, with much less stamina usage while running than the other variant, this variant is more specialzed against special and HvT targets within its combos, while also its push attack does very high damage, therefore requires more stamina.
Light Attack Combo: ←|→|↙|↘
Horizontal Right to left | Horizontal Left to right | 45° Right | 45° Left
Heavy Attack Combo: ↙|↗
45° Right | 45° Left
Single target combo.
Strong push attack damage.
Requires Charging.
Cant stagger lot of specials together at once.
Assault Chainswords
FOR CADIA, named after the empire mightiest fortress planet, with the size of the short sword, it can cleave both armored and non armored targets, making it a versatile weapon to be used against specials or hordes, chainsaw weaponry allows much higher damage output against armored target, as it cuts through the unholy armor. Assault Chainswords tend to be heavier than traditional weaponry due to the added chain, therefore Assault chain swords attack range and attack speed are their main concerns.
High Damage
Revving/Sawing stuns most targets
Requires starting of the engine
Sawing makes you vulnerable to attacks
Class Availability Veteran ✔ Zealot ✔ Ogyrn ✖ Psyker ✔ Sawing an armored target
Sawing makes you vulnerable, yet dashing breaks the sawing allowing you to dodge attacks.
Cadia MK IV Assault Chainsword
The lighter variant and the more multi role of the Assault Chainswords, doing lower heavy attack & sawwing damage, yet with an increased attack speed and combo speed.
Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘|←||↘
45° Right | 45° Left | Horizontal Right to left | 45° Left
Heavy Attack Combo: ↙|→
45° Right | Horizontal left to right
Versatile combos
High Heavy attack damage
Requires Turning on Engine
Revving stagger single target & require aiming
Cadia MK XIIIg Assualt Chainsword
The heavier variant of the Assault Chainswords, designed to eliminate single targets with higher efficency featuring heavier heavy attack damage, and stronger sawing damage.
Light Attack Combo: ↙|↗|↙||↘
45° Right to Center | 45° Left to Right | 45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right
Heavy Attack Combo: ↙|↓|↘
15° Right to Center | Top Down | 45° Left to Right
Versatile combos
High Heavy attack damage
Requires Turning on Engine
Revving stagger single target & require aiming
Orestes Assault Chainaxes
Named after a planet also, when axes are not enough to cut a long heretical tree, a Chainaxe is introduced. The lightest weapons of the chain series, featuring high mobility and low stamina usage while running or blocking, Yet they do have lower dodge than chain assaultswords. Chainaxe sawing is different than other chain weaponry, as it stuns the target completely. Chainaxes suffers from low weapon reach and low attack speed.
High Damage
Revving/Sawing stuns all targets (Except bosses)
Best Stamina usage of chain weaponry
Requires starting of the engine
Low Reach
Sawing makes you vulnerable to attacks
Class Availability Veteran ✔ Zealot ✔ Ogyrn ✖ Psyker ✖ A crusher top down attack is nearly unstoppable except with a CC ability, yet chainsaw revving attack stops crusher top down attack.
Sawing makes you vulnerable, yet dashing breaks the sawing allowing you to dodge attacks from other targets.
Orestes MK IV Assault Chainaxe
an axe with a chainsaw, that automatically revvs/shreds when doing light attacks, which makes light attacks good against single target, due that the chainaxe gets stuck on target, and the heavy attack used to clear waves, to use the full capability of the chain,
Light Attack Combo: ↓|↘|↙|↘
Top Down | 30° Left to Center | 45° Right to Left | 30° Left to Center
Heavy Attack Combo: ↘|↙
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right
lot of combos
Auto Revving on light attack
Requires Turning on Engine
Revving stagger single target & require aiming
Orestes MK XII Assault Chainaxe
a variant of Assault Chainaxe, that does autorev at heavy attacks only, this axe does more damage and is heavier variant with lower attack speed, yet higher damage output.
Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right
Heavy Attack Combo: ↓|↙
Top down | 20° Right to Center
Short combos
Auto Revving on heavy attack
Requires Turning on Engine
Revving stagger single target & requires aiming
Tigurs Heavy Eviscerator
Great swords were used to cut through the enemy lines, Tigrus Eviscerator used to cut through the heretics rotten flesh and lines! A great sword with a chain, that does have an amazing anti horde capabilities, while still having a decent anti special. Whats special about the Tigrus is its chaining special ability, it only saw armored targets or specials, therefore even if engine is up and a special within a horde, the tigrus would saw the special target. All of that comes with the Eviscerator is heavy and slow attacks.
Cleaves up to 10 targets
Multipurpose
Requires Turning on Engine
Revving Cleave to Specialist
Slow Attack speed in general
Class Availability Veteran ✖ Zealot ✔ Ogyrn ✖ Psyker ✖ Eviscrator have a feature that is good and bad, when revving is activated, it would cleave through horde enemies, until it reaches an elite/special and saw it, which is good that it automatically targets special targets, yet also left side of the elite is 100% safe from your attacks.
Just as other chain weaponry, sawing makes you vulnerable, yet can be stopped by dashing.
Tigrus MK II Heavy Eviscerator
The all rounder variant of the Tigrus Heavy Eviscerators, doing both anti wave and anti special moves, while sacrificing some of its anti special damage to be a better horde wiper.
Light Attack Combo: ↓|↘|←|↓
Top down | 45° Left to right | Horizontal right to left | 30° Left to right
Heavy Attack Combo: ←|↓
Horizontal Right to Left | Top Down
cleaves up to 10 targets
Wide Cleaving Attacks
Requires Turning on Engine
Revving Cleave to Specialist
Weaker to Specials
Custom Combos:
Anti Waves: Heavy + Light OR Heavy + Light + Light
This combo constant of heavy attack horizontal sweep that does huge stagger to wave sized enemies
Tigrus MK XV Heavy Eviscerator
The heavier variant of the Eviscerators, having a higher heavy attack damage, higher sawing/special attack damage, yet with lower attack speed and attack moves focused more on single target only, the weapon heavy attacks are meant for single targets, and light attacks for hordes.
Light Attack Combo: ←|→|←|↗
Horizontal Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right |Horizontal Right to Left | 45° Left to right
Heavy Attack Combo: ↓|↓
Top Down | Top Down
High Damage Light Attacks
High Damage vs Specials/Elties
Requires Turning on Engine
Revving Cleave to Specialist
Slower Attack speed
Heavy Swords
Heavy Swords, are traditional long swords, they offer great cleave against hordes and decent damage to horde enemies, they also do have great mobility as in term of stamina cost and dodge count and dodge. heavy sword against heavy targets and monsters, as crusher and bosses is quite mediocre.
Decent Cleave & Anti Horde
Versatile
Special Attack high stagger
Low Damage against armored & Monsters
Class Availability Veteran ✖ Zealot ✔ Ogyrn ✖ Psyker ✖
Heavy Swords Special Attack vs Rager
Turtolsky Mk IX Heavy Sword
The balanced variant of the heavy swords with combos for both anti specials and anti horde at once,
Light Attack Combo: ↙|↗|↖|→
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Left | 45° Right to Left | Horizontal left to right
Heavy Attack Combo: ↓|→|↙
Top Down| Horizontal Left to Right | 45° Right to Left
High Cleave Heavy Attack
High Mobility
good opening heavy attack
Special Attack high stagger & Medium Damage
Low penetration
Custom Combos:
Anti Waves: Light + Heavy
This combo constant of a light attack sweep and then a heavy attack sweep.
Anti Special: Heavy+interrupt combo
The first heavy is top down on weakspot, yet its not repeatable by combo, you need to block, sprint for 0.1 second to reset back to get the top down attack.
Turtolsky Mk VII Heavy Sword
Anti wave variant of the heavy swords, with all
Light Attack Combo: ↙|→|←|↘
45° Right to Left | Horizontal left to right | Horizontal right to left | 45° Left to Right
Heavy Attack Combo: ↖|↘
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right
High Cleave Heavy Attack
Decent Mobility
Good Opening Heavy Attack
Low Penetration
Custom Combos:
Anti Waves: Light + Heavy
This combo constant of a light attack sweep and then a heavy attack sweep.
Anti Special: Heavy+interrupt combo
The first heavy is top down on weakspot, yet its not repeatable by combo, you need to block, sprint for 0.1 second to reset back to get the top down attack.
Turtolsky Mk VI Heavy Sword
A Variant of the heavy swords, with a different combo or melee chain attack.
Light Attack Combo: →|←|↙|↘|
Horizontal left to right | Horizontal right to left | 45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right
Heavy Attack Combo: ↙|↗
10° Left to Right (nearly Top Down) | 45° Left to Right
High Cleave Heavy Attack
Decent Mobility
Low Penetration
Munitorum Sapper Shovels
Digging trenches first, then digging heretics, the shovel is a defense focused melee weapon, that have great stamina efficiency , and high dodge count and range, making the shovel a true mobility and agile choice. shovel uses "boink" when it hits. Shovels issue is their simplicity and weapon reach, having nothing special or magical and short in range.
High Stamina & Dodge Limit
High Stagger & Penetration
Low Weapon Length
Mediocre Attack Speed
Class Availability Veteran ✔ Zealot ✖ Ogyrn ✖ Psyker ✖
Standard Issue Munitorum Sapper Shovel
The shovel is a decent crowd controller more than a killer, its special attack have good penetration and stagger. shovel main weakness is its weapon reach or length and low damage against single targets.
Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘|←
45° Right to Left |45° Left to Right | Horizontal right to left
Heavy Attack Combo: ←|→
Horizontal right to left | Horizontal left to right
High cleave heavy attack
Strong Defensive weapon
Decent mobility
Special Attack Stagger
Low penetration
Stun Only Special Attack
Munitorum Mk III Sapper Shovel
A heavier variant shovel that sacrifcies anti horde/crowd control combos for anti special and single targeting. Having a different special attack, which closes the blade/metal part for digging at the end and use it as a pickaxe on the heretics, the special attack do stagger all targets but bosses.
Light Attack Combo: ↙|→|←|↘
45° Right to Left | Horizontal Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right | 45° Left to Right
Heavy Attack Combo: ↙|↓
45° Right to Left | Top Down
Decent Damage with Special Ability
Strong Defensive weapon
decent mobility
Special Attack Stagger & Damage
Low anti horde Capabilities
Special Attack Stun & High damage to Single Target. Show him who is the crusher here
Munitorum Mk VII Sapper Shovel
The middle variant of the shovels, having horizontal sweep combos for hordes, and a special attack for single targets, having lower attack speed than standard shovel while trading in for having a better special attack.
Light Attack Combo: ←|→|↙|↘
Horizontal Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right | 45° Right to Left | 20° Left to Center
Heavy Attack Combo: ←|→
Horizontal Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right
high Cleave Heavy Attack
Strong Defensive weapon
Decent Mobility
Special Attack Stagger & Damage
Low Penetration of non-special attack.
Special Attack Stun & High damage to Single Target. Show him who is the crusher here
Catachan Combat Blade
A standard knife named after a planet, used to back stab the heretics in the shadows, the knife gives the user an excellent level of mobility and dodging allowing it to relocate easily and reach the target back, therefore allowing backstabs , which does higher damage output than normal attacks. thus the combat blade is a anti special single target, rather than horde or multi target weaponry. The knife special attack is a staggering attack.
High Mobility
Strong vs Single Target
Good Armor penetration
Special Attack Stagger
Weak against multiple targets
Class Availability Veteran ✔ Zealot ✔ Ogyrn ✖ Psyker ✔
Flanking Bulwark in a Single Dash
Charging into the enemy, The combat blade allows much higher speed output while sprinting and using heavy attacks, which allows the user to close in quickly into a target after a dash.
Catachan MK III Combat Blade
The focused anti-single target variant, with nearly all of its attacks are stabs and are meant to engage a single target, it does have higher damage than other knives/combat blades, yet lacks good anti horde
Light Attack Combo: →|←|↑|↗
Horizontal Right to Center | Horizontal Left to Center | Stab | 45° Left to Right
Heavy Attack Combo: ↙|↘
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right
High Mobility
Strong vs Single Target
Good Armor penetration
Special Attack Stagger
Weak against multiple targets
Catachan MK VI Combat Blade
A standard knife, used to backstab the heretics in the shadows, the knife gives the user an excellent level of mobility and dodging allowing it to relocate easily and reach the target back, therefore allowing backstabs , which does higher damage output than normal attacks. thus the combat blade is a anti special single target, rather than horde or multi target weaponry. The knife special attack is a staggering attack.
Light Attack Combo: ↙|↗|↖[→[/b]
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | 45° Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Center
Heavy Attack Combo: ←|→|↓
Horizontal Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right
High Mobility
Strong vs Single Target
Good Armor penetration
Special Attack Stagger
Acceptable level of Anti Horde
Thunder Hammers
Using a hammer on a warhammer universe? whats better to do! The hammer are decent anti special and anti boss weapon, which can be charged through its special attack, when charged it does a huge amount of damage & stagger to target that is on impact, the charged attack does not cleave through as in "Tigrus" chainsword, making it requires careful aiming. the thunder hammer is heavy , which limits mobility while also is slow while attacking making it not a reliable weapon in anti horde.
High Single Target Damage
High Stagger & CC
Special Attack Charge Good vs Single Target
Low Mobility
Stagger Hordes more than kills them
Special Attack have Recoil
Class Availability Veteran ✖ Zealot ✔ Ogyrn ✖ Psyker ✖
Thunder Hammer Special Attack
Crucis MK II Thunder Hammer
A variant of the thunder hammers, it have a better anti horde capabilities due to the horizontal wide sweeps.
Light Attack Combo: ↓|↘|←
Top Down | 45° Left to Right | Horizontal Right to Left
Heavy Attack Combo: ←|→
Horizontal Left to Right | Horizontal Right to Left
High Stagger
Strong vs Single Target
Charged Attack does huge Single target damage
Charged Attacks mini stuns the player for 0.8 seconds
Weak against multiple targets
Crucis MK IV Thunder Hammer
same mechanics of the thunder hammer, as in able to charge attacks with special action key, this variant does have a light attack combo for waves, yet it does lower damage and not a good combo starter.
Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Center
Heavy Attack Combo: ←|→|↓
Horizontal Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right | Top Down
High Stagger
Good Anti Wave Combo
Charged attack does huge Single target damage
Charged mini stuns the player for 0.8 seconds
Weaker damage than other Variant
Blaze Force Swords
Blaze Force uses the warp energy in combination with the sword, allowing it to channel warp energy into the sword to peform special attacks, the sword is able to be charged with warp energy that does huge bonus to damage against a single target in cost of peril (psyker heat). blaze swords are specialized to either fight single or horde not both, blaze sword push attack, do long range push against single target rather than attack
Decent anti special
Uses Wrap Energy
High Reach weapon
Generate Heat/Peril with special attacks
Non Versatile
Class Availability Veteran ✖ Zealot ✖ Ogyrn ✖ Psyker ✔
Blaze Force (Special Attack)
Deimos MK IV Blaze Force Sword
Variant of the blaze force swords, with combos mostly against single target, its special attack works like a chain weapon, sticks to target and deal damage over time.
Light Attack Combo: ↑|↘|↙|↘
Stab | 45° Left to Right | 45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right
Heavy Attack Combo: ↙|↑
45° Right to Left | Stab
Fast Attacks
Long Reach
Charged attack good vs single target
Special Attack generate peril
Weak anti-horde
Obscurus MK II Blaze Force Sword
Variant of the blaze force swords, that is used against single targets , with combos that support hitting weakspots and a special attack that does high damage against single target, it lacks anti horde/wave.
Light Attack Combo: ↙|↗|↑
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | Stab
Heavy Attack Combo: ↓|↘
Top Down | 45° Left to Right
Fast Attacks
Long Reach
Charged Attack good vs single target
Special Attack generate peril
Weak anti-horde
↙↘↓↑→↖←↗
Illisi MK V Blaze Force Sword
The only crowd control anti horde variant, with a combo of wide horizontal sweeps , in trade of doing lower damage againt single target, and combos that do not target weakspots, its special attack is also designed to engage multiple targets at once unlike the other variants.
Light Attack Combo: ↙|→|↖|↗
45° Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right | 45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right
Heavy Attack Combo: ←|↘
Horizontal Left to Right | 45° Left to Right
Fast Attacks
Long Reach
Charged attack good vs multiple targets
Special Attack generate peril
Weak anti-special
Illisi Special Attack
Maccabian Dueling Swords
Ever wanted to look fancy while killing heretics? that is the dueling sword! Combing decent mobility and fast attacks speed, allowing great mobility for the psyker, the dueling sword is a true versatile weapon, able to engage both single targets and hordes, while not excellent at both. dueling sword special attack is high stagger quick stab.
Decent Mobility/Dodge
Fast Attacks
Special Attack Quick Stab with Stagger
Situational
Class Availability Veteran ✖ Zealot ✖ Ogyrn ✖ Psyker ✔
Dealing with heretics in a fancy way
Maccabian MK V Duelling Sword
The variant of "strikedown" attacks, with most of it attacks angled from above, allowing to engage specials/elites easier , yet having only two attacks that cleave against hordes, making it a problem to deal with hordes.
Light Attack Combo: ↖|↗|↓
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | Top Down
Heavy Attack Combo: ↓|↓
Top Down | Top Down
Best of Series Targets Weakspots
Fast Attacks
Special Attack Quick Stab with Stagger
Weakest in Series Anti Horde
Maccabian Mk II Duelling Sword
The variant that is best anti horde , with nearly all of its attacks are angled which allows cleaving into multiple targets at once, it does have a good anti special/elite heavy combo opener. Mk II variant is less effective against single targets in general.
Light Attack Combo: ↙|↗|↖|↘
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | 45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right
Heavy Attack Combo: ↑|↘
Stab | 45° Left to Right
Best of Series Anti-Horde
Good Heavy Attack Opener
Fast Attacks
Special Attack Quick Stab with Stagger
Weakest in Series Anti Horde
Maccabian MK IV Duelling Sword
The Versatile variant, having light attack combos for hordes and heavy attack combos for single targets, with light attacks doing cleaves and heavy attacks does stabs, that allow reaching longer.
Light Attack Combo: ↖|↘|↙
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | 45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right
Heavy Attack Combo: ↑|↑
Stab | Stab
Versatile Variant
Fast Attacks
Special Attack Quick Stab with Stagger
Cleavers
Smol Knife for a big boi ogyrn, not be mistaken by its size, as they do deal a huge amount of damage with attacks, while also allows a good mobility for the player. Cleaver also sports a large amount of blessings which allows it to excel in multiple situations, its special attack is a punch that does huge stagger. Cleavers tend to be short, which its only drawback.
Swift Attacks
High Stagger & Cleave
Special Attack Punch That Staggers
Low Weapon Length
Class Availability Sah ✖ Shouty ✖ Big Boi ✔ Spark Head ✖
Cleaver Special Attack vs Mauler
Krourk Mk VI Cleaver
Balanced Cleaver between Anti Special and Anti Horde, with light attack combo focused on single targets, with 3rd attack in light combo ignores a decent amount of armor, its heavy attacks are centered around clearing hordes and waves.
Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘|↑
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | Stab
Heavy Attack Combo: ↙|↘
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right
Versatile Combos
3rd Attack on Light Combo ignores % of armor
Special Attack High Stagger
Low weapon reach
Krourk Mk IV Cleaver
The focused more of anti special/elite with all of its opening combos are against single target , while ignore a decent % of armor, making the Mk IV a decent ant single target, but a less effective weapons vs hordes/waves.
Light Attack Combo: ↑|↑|←
Stab | Stab | Horizontal Right to Left
Heavy Attack Combo: ↓|↘
Top Down | 45° Left to Right
Best of Series Anti Single Targets
Speedy attacks
Fast Opening Sttacks
Special Attack High Stagger
Low weapon reach
Weaker than other variants in wave clearing
Bull Butcher Mk III Cleaver
Variant of the Cleaver with most of its attack pattern is anti horde, except for its opening of heavy attack combo, Bull Butcher most of its attacks are wide cleaves.
Light Attack Combo: ←|↘|↓
Horizontal Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | Top Down
Heavy Attack Combo: ↓|↘
Top Down | 45° Left to Right
Wide Angle Attacks.
Anti Special Heavy Attack Combo Opener
Special Attack High Stagger
Low weapon reach
↙↘↓↑→↖←↗
Brute-Brainer Latrine Shovels
Krieg uses smol shovel, Kreig ogryn uses big shovel! A Shovel for ogyrns only, a multipurpose weaponry for the ogyrn able to engage both single targets and hordes at once. A basic large shovel that is a versatile weapon in ogryn hand, with both combos to engage hordes or single targets, its weapon reach and average attack speed is its main issues.
Multi-Role
High Stagger & Cleave
Special Attack Differs per shovel
Low Weapon Reach
Class Availability Sah ✖ Shouty ✖ Big Boi ✔ Spark Head ✖
Brute-Brainer Mk III Latrine Shovel
With a special attack that gives high stagger to target, the shovel is a jack of all trades , that does everything, yet not having anything special.
Light Attack Combo: ←|→|↙|→
Horizontal Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right | 45° Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right
Heavy Attack Combo: ↓|→
Top Down | Horizontal Left to Right
Versatile
Multiple combos
Special Attack High Stagger
Low weapon reach
Special Attack Vs Mauler (Bullying Mauler)
Brute-Brainer Mk XIX Latrine Shovel
A variant of Latrine Shovel that have combos for both hordes and single targets, light attack combo for waves and heavy attack combo for single target, with a special attack against single targets also, which switches the shovel to a pickaxe and does a top down attack, the shovel resets to normal after the attack, also the attack does not always stagger the target.
Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘|←|→
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | Horizontal Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right
Heavy Attack Combo: ↙|↘
20° Right to Center | 20° Left to Center
Versatile
Multiple combos
Special Attack High Stagger & Damage
Low Weapon Reach
Special Attack Vs Crusher, keep in mind , it does not always stagger crusher while attacking.
Example of Special Attack not staggering crusher
Brute-Brainer Mk V Latrine Shovel
A variant of Latrine Shovel that have combos for both hordes and single targets, While its light combo is for single targets, and its heavy combo is for single target, It have a special attack against single targets also, which switches the shovel to a pickaxe and does a top down attack, the shovel resets to normal after the attack, also the attack does not always stagger the target.
Light Attack Combo: ←|↗|↙|↘
Horizontal Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | 45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right
Heavy Attack Combo: ←|→/b]
Horizontal Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right
Versatile
Multiple combos
Special Attack High Stagger & Damage
Low Weapon Reach
Special Attack Vs Crusher, keep in mind , it does not always stagger crusher while attacking.
Example of Special Attack not staggering crusher
Bully Clubs
A maul or a club used to bully those heretics. A decent CC weapon that staggers and throws all human sized heretics, the clubs also give a decent amount of mobility as they do provide higher stamina, the clubs special attack although is named "punch" but its a wide attack slaps that do have a combo. clubs do have slower than usual combo openers, and do lack top down "Strike down" attacks in general.
Great CC weaponry & High stamina
High Stagger & Cleave
Special Attack Wide Attack Slaps
Mediocre Against Single Targets
Class Availability Sah ✖ Shouty ✖ Big Boi ✔ Spark Head ✖
Slapping the Heresy out of a Rager
"Brunt's Pride" Mk II Bully Club
The versatile variant of the series , featuring combos and attacks for both single targets and crowd control at once, as its 2nd heavy attack is a "strikedown" it can easily accessed by combing light + heavy attacks, its combos are not linear, mixing of heavy and light is recommended.
Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘|←|↘
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | Horizontal Right to Left | 45° Left to Right
Heavy Attack Combo: ←|↘
Horizontal Right to Left | 45° Left to Right
Versatile
Multiple combos
Special Attack High Stagger
Combos aren't Linear
"Brunt's Basher" Mk IIIb Bully Club
A variant with nearly all of its combos is based for crowd control, with wide horizontal sweeps and angled sweeps, making it a potent anti crowd weaponry and type of the bully clubs, Brunt's Basher only anti single target is its 3rd attack in the combo, which even does better damage than heavy attacks, which makes it lacky against single targets.
Light Attack Combo: ←|→|↙|↘
Horizontal Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right | 45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right
Heavy Attack Combo: ↖|↘
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right
Best of the Series CC
High Stagger & Damage
Special Attack High Stagger
Weakest of the Series Anti Special
"Brunt Special" Mk I Bully Club
The focused more on anti single target variant, with a good opening heavy combo "strikedown" allowing to engage priority targets better, making Brunt Special a truly anti special, yet lacking good combos for hordes.
Light Attack Combo: ↙|↘|↑
45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | Stab
Heavy Attack Combo: ↓|→
Top Down | Horizontal Left to Right
Anti Special
Good Heavy Attack Opening Combo
Special Attack High Stagger
Weakest of the Series Anti Horde
Single Variant Weapons
All Weapons that are of single type in game.
Indignatus MK IVe Crusher
A Maul, used to crowd control, dealing heavy amount of stagger to targets, its special attack button allows it to be charged, when charged it does an AoE on impact, that staggers specials easily, allowing it to also crowd control specials and elites. its drawback is its single target damage and limited mobility.
Light Attack Combo: ←|↓|↙
Horizontal right to left | Top Down | 45° Right to Left
Heavy Attack Combo: ↓|→
Top Down | Horizontal Left to Right
High Stagger
Good Anti Wave Combo
Charged attack does Stagger and AoE
Weak anti special weapon
Class Availability Veteran ✖ Zealot ✖ Ogyrn ✖ Psyker ✔
Special Attack
Orox Mk II Battle Maul & Mk III Slab Shield
Want to be a bulwark? Here you are! Shield + Maul loadout, giving the ogryn a very defensive orianted weaponry that focuses on protecting himself and little humies around him from incoming ranged fire and melee fire, the weapon doctrine is based on blocking attacks rather than dodging attacks. Its special attack is planting the shield into the ground, making the player unable to move yet block damage without costing stamina, this weaponry lacks in terms of damage and damage against single targets, while also attack speed.
Light Attack Combo: ←|→|↙|↘ Using Club
Horizontal Right to Left | Horizontal Left to Right | 45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right |
Heavy Attack Combo: →|← Using Shield
Shield Bash | Horizontal Right to Left
Blocks All Attacks (Except Disablers)
Good CC Weaponry
Low Stamina Usage per Block
Special Attack Hunkers Down (Disable use of Stamina when blocking)
Slow Attack Speed Weaponry
Only First Attack of Heavy Combo is Anti Single Target
Class Availability Sah ✖ Shouty ✖ Big Boi ✔ Spark Head ✖
Orox Special Attack hunkers down, all of that blocking and not a single stamina drained.
Achlys Mk I Power Maul
a Club or Maul used to bash those heretics around, a decent crowd control weaponry, doing wide sweeps attacks that sends the heretics flying around, with nearly all of its combo is based on anti horde/wave rather than single target making the weapon excel in a single situation only. Its special attack increases cleave and increases stagger done per attack, while also damage, allowing to damage single targets with greater efficency.
Light Attack Combo: ↓|↑|↙|↘ Then repeats ↙|↘ only.
Top Down | Down to Top | 45° Right to Left | 45° Left to Right | Stab
Heavy Attack Combo: ↙|↘....
Horizantal Right to Left | Horizantal Left to Right
Decent Anti Horde
Speedy attacks
Light Attack Anti-Horde on Repeat
Special Attack Adds Cleave & Damage
Weak Against single targets
Class Availability Sah ✖ Shouty ✖ Big Boi ✔ Spark Head ✖
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