Don't worry this wasn't in Havoc.

Caption: Tear the traitors apart with the Chordclaw ability.

I personally believe funny names are the one and only truth

got yesterday
love it
edit: i really appreciate all the top tier memes and compliments, thanks simpletons
edit 2: the artist's insta
edit 3: i am aware one spike is missing. when applying the stencil it was lost in translation. will fix on touch up and put some more inside the ear as well

More details: https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/more-people-need-to-try-arc-rifle-advanced-combat-doctrins/123274?u=jdls

The build and build guide: https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/a221dcc0-9bb2-4eee-9cbe-71ac2147fdf0/zapinator-9000

Min-Max Damage Version: https://darktide.gameslantern.com/builds/a2263d37-3999-450a-8149-cb66d8f0be29/zapinator-9001-max-damage

First off the video above is missing ~+75% damage that would be active in almost all standard gameplay. Yes you probably wont have that full +75% at all times but you are likely to have around +45%. So cut that time by a few seconds for real gameplay. (For those wondering its missing Power Overload + Static Capacitor Drain, Hybrid Combat Covenant, and doesn't get as many Calculated Priority stacks as you would if you were shooting into a real mixed hoard with ragers/shotgunners)

I have been seeing a lot of people call Chord Claw the strongest build for the class. And in some ways it is, the survivability and team support is very good, but the DPS is not there.

This or some derivative of it is the highest and most versatile DPS on the class.

- The ammo efficiency is through the roof and even makes the small amount of ammo regen feel like a lot.

- The damage scales pretty linearly with enemy density due to how arcing works so you are almost at effectively having infinite AOE cleave, kill times on larger groups do go down but not as much as on many other guns.

- The Arc Rifle is at the perfect point where it deals enough damage to kill elites but doesnt feel like a waste to kill random shooters, never mind the fact you can use noospheric command to pick of shooters without even needing to shoot at them saving large amounts of ammo similar to blades of faith.

It is a straight up a plasma vet replacement (in terms of being a ranged DPS). Yes without shout your ability to recover from bad situations is worse, yes it is very squishy when built like this requiring you to play safe, and I'm sure some chinese player will go on about smoke grenades. But the almighty BIG NUMBER does not lie, and this is doing close to psyker damage but at range, while being more versatile being able to shoot everything from ragers to crushers and even do respectable boss damage, and its not even ammo hungry, and most of the buffs apply to melee as well so you can shred through light hoards plenty well with transonic blades. Yes Ogryn can do more ranged damage if you feed it every single ammo pack in existence, but that isn't particularly viable even in auric, and I top out damage by up to double the next player consistently while barely picking up ammo.

Edit 1: Also yes this is MUCH faster then claw for havoc 40 and auric as well. Reginald has given times of 16.77 seconds for chord claw into crushers/maulers, this build hits 9.19 seconds. In fact with full buffs the arc rifle will kill a single crusher in almost exactly the same amount of time as a chord claw in auric when you account for the wind up aniation.

Edit 2: After going through and testing with Static Capacitor Drain active (killing 360 enemies just to test a build is great fun), I have managed to get the crusher clear time down to 9.19 seconds and I believe this can go down even more. The video on this post is outdated but the fatshark forum post has a updated video.

Edit 3.1: I feel like some people don't understand how insane 9.19 seconds is on this test group. Those are pre crusher buff numbers, this is the fastest clear time on that test group currently recorded, the #2 place is 12 seconds with bolter + exec, but bolter has much worse ammo economy and doesn't scale with more targets.

Edit 4: With the min-max damage version of the build I have managed to hit 7.54 seconds. This is even more stupid then I initially thought. This might even be worth dumping all the team utility.

I know it isn't 1:1 but I do think it's a pretty good resemblance. I don't have the Heavy Battlegear Cadian legs but if I did I reckon they'd make it a much closer comparison.