New players don't know how good they have it nowadays. Before 'unlocked and loaded' 19 infant children would have been like a tenth of what you needed for a decently rolled weapon. Which would have a 90% chance of getting bricked by Hadron.
As someone who has played 4000 hours of this game, the best way to test your individual skills is to play high intensity heresy missions. It is the exact point in difficulty where players who have learned all the bad habits from lower difficulties go to bite off more than they can chew, effectively leaving you to solo the vast majority of the mission.
That's what I did to prepare to move up to Auric. I tried Auric first as I could do damnation regularly but still had to be carried on Auric. So I retrained. I started doing hi intensity on Heresy until I could go through it without being downed and then without taking any significant damage. Then I scaled up with Hi intensity Damnation and then on to Auric and it wasn't so different to non auric then, it's just less forgiving to mistakes.
Best tip for new players: Learn what bypasses what armor type. Go to meat grinder, try your weapon. There, you understand what to expect when you fire it.
If you're playing a harder difficulty and trying to improve, let your team know. Many of the more experienced players like helping new players improve if there is an opportunity. It also helps manage expectations. If my teammate tells me they're new and trying to learn the next difficulty up, then I am going to adjust how I play. If a disabler is around, I will keep an extra eye on my teammate until it is safe. If an enemy horde comes, I'll get closer than I might have otherwise in case my teammate goes down or gets overwhelmed. Let other players know. I've seen a lot of positive responses to it.
Idk aside from Nurgles blessing smite is pretty OP when used correctly. But I do think assail and brain burst are stronger bc smite doesn't actually kill anything most the time and Psyker has better CC options. It's one of those abilities that gives you less value the better you are at the game but for noobs it's probably S tier.
I recommend binding dodge and jump to separate keys. Newer players jump straight in the air when they try to dodge Crusher and Mauler top-downs if it's bound to the same key. Alt is my jump and Spacebar is my dodge.
Absolutely, and this is why console is much harder to play on higher difficulties. Unfortunately, my PC died a few months ago and I do not have enough savings right now to get a new gaming computer. I'm stuck on Xbox and, oh boy, I can't recall the number of times that I stupidly jumped in the air in front of a crusher or mauler instead of dodging.
Honestly I don't see the point in that. If you end up jumping instead of dodging then you weren't going to dodge even if it was bound to a different key. The jump means you've messed up your dodge, either not having the correct direction pressed or you were out of them. How does rebinding help that?
PRO TIP: Shove Dogs and Poxbursters. If you can see the dog, shove it away instead of side stepping. Do not shoot the Poxburster, shove and backstep away from it.
If you're looking for content creator psyker builds, xstreamdray is probably the best psyker I've ever seen and has plenty of builds. Vamp also has some good builds but he tends to try to get the most out of off-meta builds which is really fun but might be a little daunting for new players.
Was Struggling in heresy getting absolutely shit on, but malice was a cake walk. Started using one of your vet builds with the spearhead/dueling sword and have been absolutely crushing. Confidence+100 here I come damnation 😈
Ur right about the sticking with a class thing helping. I started playing and didn't change class or weapons that it gave me until I maxed their masteries. Finished a highest difficulty before even 30. Veteran shovel infantry lasgun if u were wondering lol.
#2 is good motivation for someone with a maxed-out character and equipment, less so if not, because unfortunately skill is only half the game, stats are the other half.
One way of smoothing out the curve when rising up the difficultly levels is to do a couple of runs on your currently comfortable difficulty, but make sure to run missions on high intensity and/or shocktroop gauntlet, then move up a level but run a couple missions on the new one on low intensity (not applicable for Auric levels of course since that modifier don't come up there). After a couple of the low intensity ones, run regular missions with no modifiers until that feels comfortable, and so on...
These are great tips! The one addendum I have to the tip about dodging over blocking is that new players should also consider when pushing and using push attacks is good. There are some weapons where push attacks are really solid, but pushing in general is a very useful skill to have imo. Working those in let me move from difficulty 4 to 5.
Pro tip for psykers!!! If you use smite as your primary I WILL strangle you!!! (In Minecraft). You have a ranged weapon that requires no ammo, use it. Use smite as a pause button in situations that are just about to go bad. Not when your team is down and not when there are just trash enemies.
Loved this vid, I hope it helps many new PS5 players. :) A few bits of knowlege I have to share: Your mouse needs side buttons for special attack and dodge. [EDIT I miswrote to put block there but it should be on right mouse button] A surround sound headset is a must. Always listen for enemies sneakin up from behind you. Worth looking over your sholder sometimes quickly too as some are silent or drowned out by other sounds. The woosh is an indicator an enmy is about to land a hit from behind, either press block or move or dodge when yo hear this. Never stand still in combat. Moving, even slightly helps to be hit less. Dodging helps more but you can only dodge a few times before pasing slightly to reload it. You can still slide or jump to get out of the way but it doesn't negate attacks that still connect like dodge does. Back against a wall or in a corner to avoid flanking and reduce number of enemiers that can reach you can help a lot as a beginner if swamped, but beware that with increasing numbers of specials in higher difficulty it makes you a stationary target for snipers, trappers and grenadiers. Doorways and similar points are your friend. Use them. Hold block when: jumping into a new game, you might be spawning into acitve melee combat being hit. [Edit: revving or freeing teammates activates autoblock nowdays] When a teammate is netted rush to free them, it takes just seconds but if in the net they'll take damage and get truly downed after a while. Priority is 1 free friend, 2 kill trapper, 3 stay to clear the space for the treammate so they don't stand up just to get knocked down. Buit b e creative and smart, some situations you can't help them (in a fire, you're too low on health) or it's best to take out the trapper first. If you can, shoot specials as they appear. They're out to ruin your day -ruin theirs first. Test weapons before going on a mssion Most melee weapons give more damage from heavy attacks, but some not so much. Some weapons get a huge bonus from critical hits like the combat blade (3x damage). Some weapons have a special attack, it can be great or kind of derpy and useless so try weapons in the PSykhaanum before taking them on a mission untested. Sidestep or lunge forward-attack-back-forward-attack-back (or just swing and go in and out) when you fight in melee. And/or sidestep. Try doing both. Zig-zag the mouse for an angled attacks and simultaneously sidestep to hit more enemies with on e attack. You can start with just swinging and sidestepping. Don't sleep on taking nodes with damage reduction. I did for the longest and now that I take them (all or nearly all) I see clear improved surviveablility on Maelstrom and Auric, but it'll help on lower dfficulty as well. Don't sleep on curios. You can boost toughness, stamina, health or add extra wounds. More wounds means you can get knocked down more times before death but doesn't add any health. A fully evolved curio has 3 slots for minor boosts also. Some choices are meanngless so try addning Stamina regen on all 3, Sprint effciency on one, Abilty regen on all 3 and what I call Support wheels for begnners get resistance to gunners. Once you feel comfortable n otr getting hit and caught staggerd in gunner crossfire often you can swap the gunner resistance to anything else you want.> Have fun. Experiment. No one has yet figured out every secret to Darktde even after 2 years. You may even discover a new mechanic to it.
You definitely want side buttons on your mouse for sure (it's crazy that it's so hard to find gaming mice with more than two of them), but for blocking? I've seen all kind of weird keybinds in tidegames (if it works it works), but I don't think I've ever heard of anyone moving block away from RMB. Even though you autoblock during a res nowadays, it's still good practice to start blocking during it so that your block is up the very moment you're done ressing.
Hey there, just discovered your channel and have been browsing your vids. Appreciate your calm voice and clear logic. Not sure if you'll see this or bother to respond, but I'm going to drop a bit of a word dump here. I've been playing Darktide since beta and while I've tried all the classes, zealot is my favorite. It is the closest I've been able to get to playing a Sister of Battle in a 40k game. Now, you might think that would translate to me being highly skilled at the game. Hell no, I am okay or decent at best. I don't play the game constantly. Only with my friends when we all have a bit of free time and/or feel like some horde purging. I guess I would say I have a love/hate relationship with the current state of zealot and searching for builds to play. I want to play her as a Sister of Battle. I want to use eviscerators, thunder hammers, power swords (once we get those), bolters, and flamers. By the Emperor, the flamer. I love flamethrowers and I so rarely get to use them in modern games. I want to take it in a loadout and make it work so bad, but outside of the gun interaction with the charge skill, I struggle with figuring out how to make it good, if it is even possible. It seems meant to be a horde clearing tool, but then melee zealot should probably be able to do that well enough with any given melee weapon, so it feels like I'm double dipping or just leaving myself too vulnerable to other elements. Add to that, all the optimal guides say to go some version of quasi-stealth build with dueling sword/knife with a pistol or bolter. Maybe I'm just stuck trying to put a square peg in the circle hole. I wish there were more cases of people explaining how to get the most out of weapons that aren't the top of the charts, or at least explain their strengths and weaknesses in more detail so maybe I could try to figure out my own jank that, even if not meta, can at least work well enough with how I want to play the game. I know I don't enjoy the current meta toys of dueling/knife, but I'd at least like to figure out how to use the eviscerator or 2-handed power sword and not feel like I'm holding my friends back or being a burden. I hope the 2h power sword is good. I just don't know what to do. There are weapons and toys I want to use, but any info talking about them seems greatly outdated and anything recent seems to avoid them like a plague. Any advice or help is greatly appreciated. Assuming you've bothered to read this far, thank you for your time and patience.
The flamer is by no means a bad or even mediocre weapon. It is one of the best in the game, but you will have to bring the throwing knife blitz so you can snipe far targets (which you should be doing anyway because it is the best blitz). Use the blessing that scales damage with continuous fire, and position yourself well so you arent interrupted by melee attacks. Thy wrath be swift or whatever that talent is called also prevent interrupts. Flamethrower is amazing horde clear that other classes dont have access to.
@@MisterEtide Cheers for that. If you don't mind one last question or two about the flamer, I've also got the quickflame blessing to help with reload speed, unless you think another one would be better. I'm also not sure about which perks to go with either. I have +damage vs unyielding enemies and maniacs. Obviously retooling a lot of my talents and curios right now in light of what I've gathered from your more recent vids. I'm all ears on any other pearls you'd like to impart.
For psyker I definitely think thw most beginner friendly build is the soulblaze one using the trauma staff and duelling sword. It gives you horde clear, cc and ofcourse heavy heavy damage.
Mr E, to discuss further my earlier posts on this matter of flame grenades. Here's how to get the otherwise weak flame grenade to kill specials and harm even Monstrosities: Get the right side of the middle path down to it in the skill tree. This boosts the fire damage (may be counted as ranged and it also gets added general damage from these nodes). I've gotten numbers like 600 600 600 300 300 ... damage ticking from just the fire in the psykhaanum on unyeilding targets. On a beast of Nurgle you also attack it in melee of course to kill it (crits in the back or the tongue from the front), the trick is to keep them in the fire to fry them. The fire affects the crushers the least but it does do something even to them. I do try to shoot monstrosities first with my Boltgun and it has a brittle blessing on it which also contribute to it taking damage from fire. If you have a weapon that causes bleed, putting bleed damage on an enemy and burning at the same time seems to cause further synergy as these interact and don't just stack. Maybe the bleed can cause the fire to crit... I'll look into this further. Also the fire looks cool. Rule of cool is also a consideration. :)
@MisterEtide I know you like the knives. But I've tried the knives and I have a really hard time being effective with them and keep missing my grenades and performing worse. I may just be a dog too old to change because I ran the flame grenades since launch... Sad now... Ok I can try knives again, only for you Mr E.
Are you going to make the next video about how to beat auric and especially auric maelstrom missions? As you said there's a lot to learn but for me some of the auric maelstrom missions seem just impossible with a group of randoms.
Psyker is pretty tough to build out, it's so god damn squishy and it's tough to get defensive nodes and have everything else you want/need. I didn't really like it at first and I do think the meta is a little tight on psyker plus scriers gaze is kind of a boring ability, that being it's still a super fun class, just not when shotgunners sneak up on you.
This is your tip 3, but I see you recommend your recon build in tip 2, so I am responding to that. Personally, I think that if someone wants to improve, they need to play a melee centric build while learning. Most of the skill in darktide is how to handle yourself in melee in challenging positions. Strong range trivializes much of the game. I think that the recon in particular is a crutch, because it is so ammo efficient that you hardly have to melee at all if you don't want to (until you have to clutch and you are fucked, because you can't handle yourself in melee). Not only that, but with that gun one doesn'tt even have to be accurate cause the thing is a fire hose with a dot on it. Just my opinion. I have a friend who basically only plays ranged and that is fine, but he thinks melee is spamming lights and dodging and that will only carry you so far. (granted he plays the highest difficulties, but he always falls back on ranged efficient builds and typically falls apart if he has to clutch).
Good psyker build is hard to find. Especially when some skills that class has simply do not work or don't work the way description says. *cough* wildfire/penetration of the soul *cough*
Great vid but one thing i have issue with is telling everyone to play harder level. In the Vacuum of elite players who have so much experience in this game they know how to react they can run highest difficulties with grey weapons and no skills pretty much. This is low % but as the game is designed pre level 30 they should consider the tier of their capabilities of the average player. I.e. level 19 in a level 4 will struggle with damage, knowledge of game play, and just having a build that functions. I have seen so many times where the team gets wiped because a bunch of sub level 30 players are diving in too deep. While in the way to advance your skill this is good but its super inconsiderate of others play time. So usually its best to tier up to 30 before you embark on level 4-5+ game play. Level 1 is by devs said to run 1-10. level 2 is to run 10-20 and level 3s 20-30. Those areas stick closer to the average skilled player learning and leveling up, and once your gear and talent trees are meeting the area of the game then i wholly agree you cant learn unless you try harder levels. Now i know Mister E could make a new character and most likely run way higher levels but that is sheer skill, which comes from knowledge of the game, and lots and lots of practice. So while i support pushing uplevels for skilling up i dont support it when you are sub level 30. In most cases you will just need to be carried and a challenge for randos. With friends that is a whole different story. if the group knows your low and is like yeah ok we are find with then go for it you do you. but if you're sub level 30 please get to at least 30 before diving into 4,5s and up for the sake of other players.
I dont think new players are often going into those 4s and 5s, much to the contrary, i see a ton of players who have 40-60 levels and are still playing malice, its very common for people to lack confidence and get themselves stuck on low difficulties. I just want to encourage people to push themselves higher and further.
Keep an eye on the shop, it rotates every hour. Also melk offers fully powered up items that rotate once daily- youll need to do some weekly quests to buy them though
Auric= only difficulty 4 and 5, always high intensity which means more specials more elites and bigger hordes. Health and dmg of enemies is the same as normal 4 and 5s.
@@MisterEtideso it’s the same as normal malestrom in the main board and normal high intensity 4-5. Sometimes I find the normal board harder as teams are way more variable
I love fast and frictionless. So I’m old at 42 and no sweat on Xbox. I play Damnation just fine but it took a lot of practice on a controller. I just don’t bother with anything higher because I PUG and I get into “this isn’t relaxing” mode.
Hey there. I'm new to this game and i like to know how to see enemies health bars?Can't find it in the options.I'm on PS5.Thanks in advance.Have a great one.
I normally play auric heresy or normal damnation have done malstorm on heresy, how much harder is auric damnation ? Can play all characters on auric heresy
Hello Mr. E, I use your beginner meta-loadouts video and played zealot but I could not mentally function as it required too much brain power and my controller was not advanced enough so I quit zealot for quite some time and just played a big funny guy but then I decided after watching a professional zealot that I would go back, and after pain and suffering, because I could not mentally function as I said, before I unlocked the heavy chain sword and zealot became one of my favorite classes what I am requesting is make a video for idiots like me because for controller, it’s very hard to use extremely high skill ceiling builds thank you
@ oh yes I did but I kept on trying to train myself to use heavy attacks to hit the head very painful experience but I’m doing well now with thunder hammer I don’t have to use my two brain cells
I'm no expert... But after enough playing of the game, one who plays a melee character might have an easier time playing with headphones on and their eyes shut. And if the antax axe is the bearded hand axe, I must highly agree, as the bearded axe is my absolute favourite. It just feels good to meet a horde with it in hand and proceed to lop off every head I can find. *Edit I did look it up, and it is indeed the Antax 5 combat axe. Love the attack pattern and the power attack. The alternate attack (some kind of thrust) isn't so great but still, my favourite weapon.
@@themarlboromandalorian then man, I am either just an absolute idiot or extremely bad I got way better don’t get it wrong. I’m on level four now I just hope he makes a video for people who struggle with zealot in the beginning and struggle with that at even though that may be a extremely small minority so far I’ve been kicking ass with the thunder hammer I may try the combat ask again if it goes well I’ll tell you
@@themarlboromandalorian OK so I just tried it again I went down once got kicked that may have genuinely been the worst zealot experience of my life i’m gonna give it one more shot to be fair I was playing 50-50
Ps5 player. I cant decide between Assail or Smite. I know smite gets hate, but i enjoy that a lot more than Brain Burst. Able to lock down enemies for allies on controller who dont have the best aim to lock in and get headshots, while giving a 10% buff to damage. Brain Burst is good, but the charge time is too slow to properly kill enemies before literally anything else can kill them. I have a recon lasgun, if im charging brainburst i could slowly get the kill or switch to my gun and kill that enemy and three others by time burst would go off Assail has just been fun to spam, it doesnt feel too effective compared to just using a melee but its still cool
@MisterEtide I just checked it. It looked good besides the shield. In my experience that was pretty bad when team had to keep moving. Isn't Scrier's Gaze way better?
@@clevergoblin1714 Shield is the best and probably the only objective reason to play as psyker (i.e. except personal preference, penances etc). However, Scrier's Gaze lets you play like a much more fragile but possibly slightly higher DPS version of zealot or veteran. Unless you're using Voidblast, in which case you can deal with crusher packs more easily than any other class, but the staff is difficult to use and just infeasible in many cases (stairs should be considered heresy, IMO).
@@tuesss how is the shield best?? I'm sorry I don't see that at all and from other videos I've seen from creators I trust way more than you, shield is not a good option So what makes you say it's "the best" exactly?
There’s this content creator named tanner lindberg who makes really good builds, but I stopped watching him after he bullied my favorite UA-camr engee so hard he deleted his channel
Thanks so much for the pro tips mister e!!! 😀I never thought sacrificing nineteen infant children would improve my gameplay so much!! Awesome guide ☺
Anything for grandfather
New players don't know how good they have it nowadays. Before 'unlocked and loaded' 19 infant children would have been like a tenth of what you needed for a decently rolled weapon. Which would have a 90% chance of getting bricked by Hadron.
9 out of 10 gamers recommend getting good as part of improving your skills
As someone who has played 4000 hours of this game, the best way to test your individual skills is to play high intensity heresy missions.
It is the exact point in difficulty where players who have learned all the bad habits from lower difficulties go to bite off more than they can chew, effectively leaving you to solo the vast majority of the mission.
That's what I did to prepare to move up to Auric.
I tried Auric first as I could do damnation regularly but still had to be carried on Auric.
So I retrained.
I started doing hi intensity on Heresy until I could go through it without being downed and then without taking any significant damage. Then I scaled up with Hi intensity Damnation and then on to Auric and it wasn't so different to non auric then, it's just less forgiving to mistakes.
Best tip for new players: Learn what bypasses what armor type.
Go to meat grinder, try your weapon.
There, you understand what to expect when you fire it.
If you're playing a harder difficulty and trying to improve, let your team know. Many of the more experienced players like helping new players improve if there is an opportunity.
It also helps manage expectations. If my teammate tells me they're new and trying to learn the next difficulty up, then I am going to adjust how I play. If a disabler is around, I will keep an extra eye on my teammate until it is safe. If an enemy horde comes, I'll get closer than I might have otherwise in case my teammate goes down or gets overwhelmed. Let other players know. I've seen a lot of positive responses to it.
Ps5 player here, I've been using your veteran build and its carried me into heresy level missions. Thanks for the guide.
Youre welcome, its a nice easy time
Whatever psyker build you choose, your local zealot requests that it’s not a smite build.
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Tanner watchers rise up
Idk aside from Nurgles blessing smite is pretty OP when used correctly. But I do think assail and brain burst are stronger bc smite doesn't actually kill anything most the time and Psyker has better CC options. It's one of those abilities that gives you less value the better you are at the game but for noobs it's probably S tier.
I recommend binding dodge and jump to separate keys. Newer players jump straight in the air when they try to dodge Crusher and Mauler top-downs if it's bound to the same key. Alt is my jump and Spacebar is my dodge.
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Absolutely, and this is why console is much harder to play on higher difficulties.
Unfortunately, my PC died a few months ago and I do not have enough savings right now to get a new gaming computer. I'm stuck on Xbox and, oh boy, I can't recall the number of times that I stupidly jumped in the air in front of a crusher or mauler instead of dodging.
Honestly I don't see the point in that. If you end up jumping instead of dodging then you weren't going to dodge even if it was bound to a different key. The jump means you've messed up your dodge, either not having the correct direction pressed or you were out of them. How does rebinding help that?
In the settings, there’s an option to dodge directly backward while standing still, allowing you to jump while moving forward.
PRO TIP:
Shove Dogs and Poxbursters.
If you can see the dog, shove it away instead of side stepping.
Do not shoot the Poxburster, shove and backstep away from it.
If you're looking for content creator psyker builds, xstreamdray is probably the best psyker I've ever seen and has plenty of builds. Vamp also has some good builds but he tends to try to get the most out of off-meta builds which is really fun but might be a little daunting for new players.
Xstreamdray gun Psyker is v good and tons of fun
How to improve at darktide :
1. Have faith in the emperor
2. Go get them champion !
Thanks for the vid. You've quickly become one of my favorite darktide content creators!
Mr E is awesome!
Ryken XIV has some AMAZING psker builds recently
The thumbnail lvl99 inquisition boss supposed to be in nothing but his trousers
Thank you MR. B! Now I will take my first level 30 Ogryn into Auric 5 Malstrom with my Toughness Regen build
Was Struggling in heresy getting absolutely shit on, but malice was a cake walk. Started using one of your vet builds with the spearhead/dueling sword and have been absolutely crushing. Confidence+100 here I come damnation 😈
BUT WHAT IF I LIKE THE FRICTION? I want it to be as miserable as possible.......
Then go up by two difficulties and no duelling sword allowed
@@MisterEtide what's 2 above auric damnation with a Deimos force swords and void strike staff scriers gaze?
@@akujie4821level 40 new mode no healing.
As a new PS5 player this video changed my life! Also great financial advice!
(I am a veteran PC player trying to trick the algorythm here)
Your passion for this game is awesome
Count down to step into the game on ps5 and I plan to rock Ogryn, cant wait! Thanks for the tips!
Ur right about the sticking with a class thing helping. I started playing and didn't change class or weapons that it gave me until I maxed their masteries. Finished a highest difficulty before even 30. Veteran shovel infantry lasgun if u were wondering lol.
#2 is good motivation for someone with a maxed-out character and equipment, less so if not, because unfortunately skill is only half the game, stats are the other half.
Skill is like, 80% of the game. Auric maelstrom can be cleared with level 0 characters with grey items
One way of smoothing out the curve when rising up the difficultly levels is to do a couple of runs on your currently comfortable difficulty, but make sure to run missions on high intensity and/or shocktroop gauntlet, then move up a level but run a couple missions on the new one on low intensity (not applicable for Auric levels of course since that modifier don't come up there).
After a couple of the low intensity ones, run regular missions with no modifiers until that feels comfortable, and so on...
These are great tips! The one addendum I have to the tip about dodging over blocking is that new players should also consider when pushing and using push attacks is good. There are some weapons where push attacks are really solid, but pushing in general is a very useful skill to have imo. Working those in let me move from difficulty 4 to 5.
Yeah definitely push, but you dont have to let enemies hit your block to push! I shove anyone i see even attempting to throw an attack.
Your voice is so nice and calming.
Pro tip for psykers!!! If you use smite as your primary I WILL strangle you!!! (In Minecraft). You have a ranged weapon that requires no ammo, use it. Use smite as a pause button in situations that are just about to go bad. Not when your team is down and not when there are just trash enemies.
Loved this vid, I hope it helps many new PS5 players. :)
A few bits of knowlege I have to share:
Your mouse needs side buttons for special attack and dodge. [EDIT I miswrote to put block there but it should be on right mouse button]
A surround sound headset is a must.
Always listen for enemies sneakin up from behind you. Worth looking over your sholder sometimes quickly too as some are silent or drowned out by other sounds. The woosh is an indicator an enmy is about to land a hit from behind, either press block or move or dodge when yo hear this.
Never stand still in combat. Moving, even slightly helps to be hit less. Dodging helps more but you can only dodge a few times before pasing slightly to reload it. You can still slide or jump to get out of the way but it doesn't negate attacks that still connect like dodge does.
Back against a wall or in a corner to avoid flanking and reduce number of enemiers that can reach you can help a lot as a beginner if swamped, but beware that with increasing numbers of specials in higher difficulty it makes you a stationary target for snipers, trappers and grenadiers.
Doorways and similar points are your friend. Use them.
Hold block when:
jumping into a new game, you might be spawning into acitve melee combat being hit.
[Edit: revving or freeing teammates activates autoblock nowdays]
When a teammate is netted rush to free them, it takes just seconds but if in the net they'll take damage and get truly downed after a while. Priority is 1 free friend, 2 kill trapper, 3 stay to clear the space for the treammate so they don't stand up just to get knocked down. Buit b e creative and smart, some situations you can't help them (in a fire, you're too low on health) or it's best to take out the trapper first.
If you can, shoot specials as they appear. They're out to ruin your day -ruin theirs first.
Test weapons before going on a mssion
Most melee weapons give more damage from heavy attacks, but some not so much. Some weapons get a huge bonus from critical hits like the combat blade (3x damage). Some weapons have a special attack, it can be great or kind of derpy and useless so try weapons in the PSykhaanum before taking them on a mission untested.
Sidestep or lunge forward-attack-back-forward-attack-back (or just swing and go in and out) when you fight in melee.
And/or sidestep. Try doing both.
Zig-zag the mouse for an angled attacks and simultaneously sidestep to hit more enemies with on e attack. You can start with just swinging and sidestepping.
Don't sleep on taking nodes with damage reduction. I did for the longest and now that I take them (all or nearly all) I see clear improved surviveablility on Maelstrom and Auric, but it'll help on lower dfficulty as well.
Don't sleep on curios. You can boost toughness, stamina, health or add extra wounds. More wounds means you can get knocked down more times before death but doesn't add any health. A fully evolved curio has 3 slots for minor boosts also. Some choices are meanngless so try addning Stamina regen on all 3, Sprint effciency on one, Abilty regen on all 3 and what I call Support wheels for begnners get resistance to gunners. Once you feel comfortable n otr getting hit and caught staggerd in gunner crossfire often you can swap the gunner resistance to anything else you want.>
Have fun. Experiment.
No one has yet figured out every secret to Darktde even after 2 years. You may even discover a new mechanic to it.
You know, the game automatically blocks for you when reviving or releasing allies!
@@MisterEtideI keep using outdated tips from launch it seems.
Ok, I'll try this, makes life easier. :)
You definitely want side buttons on your mouse for sure (it's crazy that it's so hard to find gaming mice with more than two of them), but for blocking?
I've seen all kind of weird keybinds in tidegames (if it works it works), but I don't think I've ever heard of anyone moving block away from RMB.
Even though you autoblock during a res nowadays, it's still good practice to start blocking during it so that your block is up the very moment you're done ressing.
@@Aalienik My side buttons are special attack and Slide. I put block on rmb yes, I just recalled wrong. I 'll edit it ;)
Hey there, just discovered your channel and have been browsing your vids. Appreciate your calm voice and clear logic.
Not sure if you'll see this or bother to respond, but I'm going to drop a bit of a word dump here. I've been playing Darktide since beta and while I've tried all the classes, zealot is my favorite. It is the closest I've been able to get to playing a Sister of Battle in a 40k game. Now, you might think that would translate to me being highly skilled at the game. Hell no, I am okay or decent at best. I don't play the game constantly. Only with my friends when we all have a bit of free time and/or feel like some horde purging.
I guess I would say I have a love/hate relationship with the current state of zealot and searching for builds to play. I want to play her as a Sister of Battle. I want to use eviscerators, thunder hammers, power swords (once we get those), bolters, and flamers. By the Emperor, the flamer. I love flamethrowers and I so rarely get to use them in modern games. I want to take it in a loadout and make it work so bad, but outside of the gun interaction with the charge skill, I struggle with figuring out how to make it good, if it is even possible. It seems meant to be a horde clearing tool, but then melee zealot should probably be able to do that well enough with any given melee weapon, so it feels like I'm double dipping or just leaving myself too vulnerable to other elements. Add to that, all the optimal guides say to go some version of quasi-stealth build with dueling sword/knife with a pistol or bolter. Maybe I'm just stuck trying to put a square peg in the circle hole.
I wish there were more cases of people explaining how to get the most out of weapons that aren't the top of the charts, or at least explain their strengths and weaknesses in more detail so maybe I could try to figure out my own jank that, even if not meta, can at least work well enough with how I want to play the game. I know I don't enjoy the current meta toys of dueling/knife, but I'd at least like to figure out how to use the eviscerator or 2-handed power sword and not feel like I'm holding my friends back or being a burden. I hope the 2h power sword is good.
I just don't know what to do. There are weapons and toys I want to use, but any info talking about them seems greatly outdated and anything recent seems to avoid them like a plague. Any advice or help is greatly appreciated. Assuming you've bothered to read this far, thank you for your time and patience.
The flamer is by no means a bad or even mediocre weapon. It is one of the best in the game, but you will have to bring the throwing knife blitz so you can snipe far targets (which you should be doing anyway because it is the best blitz). Use the blessing that scales damage with continuous fire, and position yourself well so you arent interrupted by melee attacks. Thy wrath be swift or whatever that talent is called also prevent interrupts. Flamethrower is amazing horde clear that other classes dont have access to.
@@MisterEtide Cheers for that. If you don't mind one last question or two about the flamer, I've also got the quickflame blessing to help with reload speed, unless you think another one would be better. I'm also not sure about which perks to go with either. I have +damage vs unyielding enemies and maniacs. Obviously retooling a lot of my talents and curios right now in light of what I've gathered from your more recent vids. I'm all ears on any other pearls you'd like to impart.
For psyker I definitely think thw most beginner friendly build is the soulblaze one using the trauma staff and duelling sword. It gives you horde clear, cc and ofcourse heavy heavy damage.
dropping a like for the awesome thumbnail haha
Mr E, to discuss further my earlier posts on this matter of flame grenades.
Here's how to get the otherwise weak flame grenade to kill specials and harm even Monstrosities:
Get the right side of the middle path down to it in the skill tree. This boosts the fire damage (may be counted as ranged and it also gets added general damage from these nodes).
I've gotten numbers like 600 600 600 300 300 ... damage ticking from just the fire in the psykhaanum on unyeilding targets.
On a beast of Nurgle you also attack it in melee of course to kill it (crits in the back or the tongue from the front), the trick is to keep them in the fire to fry them.
The fire affects the crushers the least but it does do something even to them.
I do try to shoot monstrosities first with my Boltgun and it has a brittle blessing on it which also contribute to it taking damage from fire.
If you have a weapon that causes bleed, putting bleed damage on an enemy and burning at the same time seems to cause further synergy as these interact and don't just stack. Maybe the bleed can cause the fire to crit... I'll look into this further.
Also the fire looks cool. Rule of cool is also a consideration. :)
Nah the dots just stack normally, they are separate debuffs. But also the flame nade is bad, dont use it use knives
@MisterEtide I know you like the knives. But I've tried the knives and I have a really hard time being effective with them and keep missing my grenades and performing worse.
I may just be a dog too old to change because I ran the flame grenades since launch...
Sad now...
Ok I can try knives again, only for you Mr E.
@@thunder2434 just practice practice. Its gonna be harder if youre on controller tho, i forget if you are
@MisterEtide No, I play on PC.
Heard what you said but nevertheless which Spyker build would you success? Think your assai/recon is pretty solid and brings bubble to team aswell
That or like a purg/lightning staff build with vent, really easy to put out decent numbers and clear the hordes for the team
I'm here I made it in time to learn from the best of darktide
Are you going to make the next video about how to beat auric and especially auric maelstrom missions? As you said there's a lot to learn but for me some of the auric maelstrom missions seem just impossible with a group of randoms.
Thats a decent idea
@MisterEtide Thank you for the compliment, keep up the good work :)
Psyker is pretty tough to build out, it's so god damn squishy and it's tough to get defensive nodes and have everything else you want/need. I didn't really like it at first and I do think the meta is a little tight on psyker plus scriers gaze is kind of a boring ability, that being it's still a super fun class, just not when shotgunners sneak up on you.
I will say E you’ve shown me the way how effective ogryn can be when you take advantage of what he does best
For some reason i replied and it didnt show up, but yeah bully those enemies
This is your tip 3, but I see you recommend your recon build in tip 2, so I am responding to that.
Personally, I think that if someone wants to improve, they need to play a melee centric build while learning. Most of the skill in darktide is how to handle yourself in melee in challenging positions. Strong range trivializes much of the game. I think that the recon in particular is a crutch, because it is so ammo efficient that you hardly have to melee at all if you don't want to (until you have to clutch and you are fucked, because you can't handle yourself in melee). Not only that, but with that gun one doesn'tt even have to be accurate cause the thing is a fire hose with a dot on it.
Just my opinion. I have a friend who basically only plays ranged and that is fine, but he thinks melee is spamming lights and dodging and that will only carry you so far. (granted he plays the highest difficulties, but he always falls back on ranged efficient builds and typically falls apart if he has to clutch).
Yeah you need a grounding in melee mechanics to really be able to win consistently in this game
Good psyker build is hard to find. Especially when some skills that class has simply do not work or don't work the way description says. *cough* wildfire/penetration of the soul *cough*
Great vid but one thing i have issue with is telling everyone to play harder level. In the Vacuum of elite players who have so much experience in this game they know how to react they can run highest difficulties with grey weapons and no skills pretty much. This is low % but as the game is designed pre level 30 they should consider the tier of their capabilities of the average player. I.e. level 19 in a level 4 will struggle with damage, knowledge of game play, and just having a build that functions. I have seen so many times where the team gets wiped because a bunch of sub level 30 players are diving in too deep.
While in the way to advance your skill this is good but its super inconsiderate of others play time. So usually its best to tier up to 30 before you embark on level 4-5+ game play. Level 1 is by devs said to run 1-10. level 2 is to run 10-20 and level 3s 20-30. Those areas stick closer to the average skilled player learning and leveling up, and once your gear and talent trees are meeting the area of the game then i wholly agree you cant learn unless you try harder levels.
Now i know Mister E could make a new character and most likely run way higher levels but that is sheer skill, which comes from knowledge of the game, and lots and lots of practice.
So while i support pushing uplevels for skilling up i dont support it when you are sub level 30. In most cases you will just need to be carried and a challenge for randos. With friends that is a whole different story. if the group knows your low and is like yeah ok we are find with then go for it you do you. but if you're sub level 30 please get to at least 30 before diving into 4,5s and up for the sake of other players.
I dont think new players are often going into those 4s and 5s, much to the contrary, i see a ton of players who have 40-60 levels and are still playing malice, its very common for people to lack confidence and get themselves stuck on low difficulties. I just want to encourage people to push themselves higher and further.
@@MisterEtide yes i agree after level 30 they should strive to higher levels and better gear for sure.
love the thumbnail
i’ve almost maxed out your veteran build!
What’s a good way to start gearing up in early game?
Keep an eye on the shop, it rotates every hour. Also melk offers fully powered up items that rotate once daily- youll need to do some weekly quests to buy them though
@@MisterEtide Thanks i'll keep a look out. Also hope they patch in the brightness for the PS5 version.
I am still confused. Is auric harder than normal maelstrom / general levels. Or is it just you need to be lvl 30
Auric= only difficulty 4 and 5, always high intensity which means more specials more elites and bigger hordes. Health and dmg of enemies is the same as normal 4 and 5s.
@@MisterEtideso it’s the same as normal malestrom in the main board and normal high intensity 4-5. Sometimes I find the normal board harder as teams are way more variable
Which marks do you think its best for the recon lasgun?
XII if youre going for fire
I played on gamepass when it first came there for about a few days then stopped. I’m excited to play this on my ps5
I love fast and frictionless. So I’m old at 42 and no sweat on Xbox. I play Damnation just fine but it took a lot of practice on a controller. I just don’t bother with anything higher because I PUG and I get into “this isn’t relaxing” mode.
“””old”””
Hey there.
I'm new to this game and i like to know how to see enemies health bars?Can't find it in the options.I'm on PS5.Thanks in advance.Have a great one.
Its a mod for pc only :(
I normally play auric heresy or normal damnation have done malstorm on heresy, how much harder is auric damnation ? Can play all characters on auric heresy
not much harder, just come prepared for more elites and specials. the damage they take to kill and do to you is the same as regular damnation
Is it a mod to have the platform icons show in the player names?
Yes, its “who are you?”
@MisterEtide thanks mate
Hello Mr. E, I use your beginner meta-loadouts video and played zealot but I could not mentally function as it required too much brain power and my controller was not advanced enough so I quit zealot for quite some time and just played a big funny guy but then I decided after watching a professional zealot that I would go back, and after pain and suffering, because I could not mentally function as I said, before I unlocked the heavy chain sword and zealot became one of my favorite classes what I am requesting is make a video for idiots like me because for controller, it’s very hard to use extremely high skill ceiling builds thank you
Did you try the antax combat axe? Just keep light attacking and everything will die!
@ oh yes I did but I kept on trying to train myself to use heavy attacks to hit the head very painful experience but I’m doing well now with thunder hammer I don’t have to use my two brain cells
I'm no expert... But after enough playing of the game, one who plays a melee character might have an easier time playing with headphones on and their eyes shut.
And if the antax axe is the bearded hand axe, I must highly agree, as the bearded axe is my absolute favourite.
It just feels good to meet a horde with it in hand and proceed to lop off every head I can find.
*Edit I did look it up, and it is indeed the Antax 5 combat axe.
Love the attack pattern and the power attack. The alternate attack (some kind of thrust) isn't so great but still, my favourite weapon.
@@themarlboromandalorian then man, I am either just an absolute idiot or extremely bad I got way better don’t get it wrong. I’m on level four now I just hope he makes a video for people who struggle with zealot in the beginning and struggle with that at even though that may be a extremely small minority so far I’ve been kicking ass with the thunder hammer I may try the combat ask again if it goes well I’ll tell you
@@themarlboromandalorian OK so I just tried it again I went down once got kicked that may have genuinely been the worst zealot experience of my life i’m gonna give it one more shot to be fair I was playing 50-50
Only the tip?
I don't trust any player in Auric Maelstrom that's below lvl 100.
Ps5 player. I cant decide between Assail or Smite. I know smite gets hate, but i enjoy that a lot more than Brain Burst. Able to lock down enemies for allies on controller who dont have the best aim to lock in and get headshots, while giving a 10% buff to damage.
Brain Burst is good, but the charge time is too slow to properly kill enemies before literally anything else can kill them. I have a recon lasgun, if im charging brainburst i could slowly get the kill or switch to my gun and kill that enemy and three others by time burst would go off
Assail has just been fun to spam, it doesnt feel too effective compared to just using a melee but its still cool
Try my assail hybrid build
@MisterEtide I just checked it. It looked good besides the shield. In my experience that was pretty bad when team had to keep moving. Isn't Scrier's Gaze way better?
@@clevergoblin1714 Shield is the best and probably the only objective reason to play as psyker (i.e. except personal preference, penances etc). However, Scrier's Gaze lets you play like a much more fragile but possibly slightly higher DPS version of zealot or veteran. Unless you're using Voidblast, in which case you can deal with crusher packs more easily than any other class, but the staff is difficult to use and just infeasible in many cases (stairs should be considered heresy, IMO).
@@tuesss how is the shield best?? I'm sorry I don't see that at all and from other videos I've seen from creators I trust way more than you, shield is not a good option
So what makes you say it's "the best" exactly?
That shield is absolutely amazing and Spykers best utility for team.I love that hybrid build personally.@@clevergoblin1714
I love you
There’s this content creator named tanner lindberg who makes really good builds, but I stopped watching him after he bullied my favorite UA-camr engee so hard he deleted his channel
That’s my villain origin story, for sure
Psykers... friggin gross.
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Just play stealth zealot and speedrun to the end of the mission. The enemy can't kill you if they can't catch or find you.
I would hardly consider that playing the game 😂
Tip#6 play with a controller
Isnt it better for aim and movement on K&M?
Yes hes memeinh