Best Warhammer 40K Darktide Veteran Build

In Warhammer 40K: Darktide, the Veteran is one of the many classes you can use and build your character around. Veterans specialize in ranged combat and are often seen as the leaders of every party. They also tend to be tanky and deal tons of damage. However, building an effective build is far from easy.

This guide’ll review the best Veteran build in Warhammer 40K: Darktide. The guide below covers everything from the weapons and Curios to the talents and modifiers, without wasting any more time, let’s get into it.

Best Weapons For Darktide Veteran Build

Since the Veteran excels at ranged combat, we’ll be going with a long gun for our primary weapon and a melee weapon as our secondary:

Accatran Mk VIIa Recon Lasgun (Primary weapon)

We’ll use the Accatran Mk VIIa Recon Lasgun as our primary weapon for this build. This weapon has virtually no recoil and a very fast RPM that pairs perfectly with its large magazine size. This weapon damages Flak Armored Enemies and Maniacs up to 25% damage. Additionally, it comes with the following perks:

• Infernus: This perk grants you up to 4 stacks on critical hits.
• Headhunter: The Headhunter perk grants you a 2-5% critical hit chance on weak spots until you land your next critical hit.

Munitorum Mk VI Power Sword (Secondary weapon)

Regarding the Secondary weapon, we’ll be going with the Munitorum Mk VI Power Sword, a melee weapon capable of taking on multiple enemies at once. This sword lets you deal up to +25% additional damage against Maniacs and Flak Armored Enemies and comes with the same perks as the Accatran Mk VIIa Recon Lasgun.

Best Curios To Pick

You can equip up to three Curios’ in Warhammer 40K Darktide. We’ve highlighted the three best ones for this build below:

Blessed Bullet (+13-17% Toughness)

This Curios grants you up to 17% Toughness and comes with the following perks:

• +5-20% Damage Resistance against Gunners and Snipers
• +7.5-30% Toughness Regeneration Speed

Blessed Bullet (+17-21% Max Health)

This Curios increases your max health by up to +21% and comes with the following perks:

• +5-20% Damage Resistance against Gunners
• +6-12% Stamina Regeneration
• +7.5-30% Toughness Regeneration Speed

Blessed Bullet (+1-3 Max Stamina)

The Last Curios increases your Stamina by up to +3 and comes with the perks listed below:

• +5-20% Damage Resistance against Gunners
• +6-12% Stamina Regeneration
• +7.5-30% Toughness Regeneration Speed

Best Talents

Talents make up the bulk of any good build in Darktide. For the Veteran, the Skill Tree is split into five branches: Passive, Aura, Blitz, Keystone, and Ability. We recommend acquiring the ones listed below:

Passive

1. Longshot: This talent grants up to +20 ranged damage the farther you are away from your target.
2. Close Order Drill: Close Order Drill increases your Toughness Damage Reduction by up to +33% the greater the number of allies you have in coherency
3. Confirmed Kill: With this Talent, you can regenerate 10% Toughness every time you kill an Elite or Specialist enemy and an additional 20% after the fact.
4. Catch a Breath: This talent replenishes 5% Toughness per second when no enemies are within 8 meters of you.
5. Demolition Stockpile: Demolition Stockpile replenishes one grenade after every 60 seconds.
6. Precision Strikes: With this talent, you can do an additional +30% weak point damage.
7. Determined: Determined makes you completely immune to suppression.
8. Deadshot: This talent gives you +25% critical damage and reduces your weapon sway by +60% when using its alternate firing mode. However, this comes at the loss of 0.75 stamina per second and 0.25 stamina for every shot you take.
9. Fully Loaded: Fully Loaded grants you an additional +25% max ammo.
10. Shock Trooper: With this Talent, you consume zero ammo whenever you use Las-Weapon.
11. Superiority Complex: Superiority Complex grants +15% base damage against Elite Enemies.
12. Tactical Awareness: Every time you kill an Elite Enemy, your Ability Cooldown is reduced by 6%.
13. Iron Will: Iron Will reduce your toughness by 50% if your health is above 75%.

Aura

1. Survivalist: Survivalist replenishes 1% ammo every 5 seconds for both you and your allies when any one of you kills an Elite or Special enemy. This talent only works if you and your party are in a coherency.

Blitz

1. Krak Grenade: The Krak Greande sticks to Unyielding, Flak, and Armored enemies to deal massive damage.

Ability

1. Voice of Command: Voice of Command refills your Toughness and Staggers all enemies within a nine-meter radius.
2. Duty and Honor (Voice of Command Modifier): This Ability Modifier grants you and your allies an additional +50% toughness for 15 seconds.
3. For the Emperor (Voice of Command Modifier): This Modifier gives you and your allies +10% melee and ranged damage as long as you are in coherency.

Keystone

1. Marksman’s Focus: This talent grants you 3 stacks of focus for every ranged weak spot kill. Each stack of bonus then grants you +7.5% Ranged Finesse and +1% reload speed. However, sprinting, moving, or sliding instantly exhausts your focus stacks.
2. Tunnel Vision: Tunnel Vision grants you +5% Toughness Replenishment for each stack of focus
3. Camouflage: With this Talent, you’ll gain 1 stack of Focus every 0.75 seconds if you’re stranding skill or crouch walking.

Best Modifiers

Modifiers enhance your build in several ways. We recommend getting the following:

1. Stamina Boost: +1 Stamina.
2. Toughness Boost: +15 Toughness.
3. Health Boost: +5% Health.
4. Ranged Damage Boost: +5% Ranged Damage.
5. Reload Boost: +5% Reload Speed.
6. Toughness Damage Reduction: +5% Toughness Damage Reduction.
7. Suppression Boost: +25% Suppression.
8. Ranged Damage Boost (II): +5% Ranged Damage
9. Toughness Damage Reduction (II): +5% Toughness Damage Reduction.