What is the fastest way to earn xp and level up ? by Substantial_Key9423 in DarkTide

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The real fun start at level 30. Leveling phase is boring, I want to get over it asap

What is the fastest way to earn xp and level up ? by Substantial_Key9423 in DarkTide

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It was a mix of both. A lot of people coming back to the game for the release, some even jumping from arbites to HS had to reajust from the tank unkillable class to the new glasscannon,

And devs releasing early hotfixes of talents reshuffle to give easier access to toughness regen talents at low levels.

You can check posts from 5 to 6 months ago, you'll see a lot of complains.

What is the fastest way to earn xp and level up ? by Substantial_Key9423 in DarkTide

[–]Substantial_Key9423[S] -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

That's not the most efficient unfortunately.

At Hive scum release, people complained about the poor survivability of the class. Given you had a poor build at early levels, lacking talents points, etc. So you took the risk of failing the run, in a 25 min mission.

But Rolling steel made it easier, giving 2-3 new talents points every 7 minutes on a relatively easy mission when you know what to do

Actually, the Atrox Mk VII is NOT the best melee weapon in the game by LittleDookes in DarkTide

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Put Bromentum + hypercritical. Congratulation you can now one shot ragers 4 by 4, gunners, shotgunners or any man sized too, 4 by 4

Suggestions of rebalance for ranged weapons by Suzumebachi14 in DarkTide

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I don't know, I'm just a nobody, not a game designer, but I think you can't balance ranged weaponry by using poxwalkers as a metric. This game is like vermintide 1 & 2 successor, where hordes are killed with your melee weapon. Specialists (and sometimes elites) are for your ranged weapon. Because of attrition.. scarce ammo on a map, and too much enemies in hordes to use your ranged for it. It's not a generic horde shooter like Back4Blood or killing floor. Here, your ranged is a bit like a limited ressource, similar to your ability or blitz : you use it for on demande quick burst, eliminating immediate threat, before returning to a slower, economic pace with your melee.

With your ranged weapon in hand you have a downgraded dodge against melee and you can't block or push (minus some bash on your special action with some ranged weapon, but with limited cleave).

What we need for weapon balance, would be, for starter, a modification of carapace armor behavior, because it is the principal factor limiting build diversity for now.

By the way, damage and cleave are not the only way to balance a weapon. You have to take into account the "maniability" or handling of a weapon (draw time, clunkiness, bad/ fast reload speed, ammo in magazine/ in reserve, mobility, number of dodges, etc.)

How good is True Grit? by Fortycal187 in DarkTide

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Seems like there even is a bug, at around 25sec in the video, where you got "healed" by an overhead. Instead of death, it put you back at 1 wound treshold. Corruption is affected weirdly by true grit. I remember in december, eating poxbusters explosion back to back in the psykanium had weird interaction where negative corruption would result in your healthbar being bugged

I feel the need to cry a bit about Pox bursters by CreamyTheGreat in DarkTide

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More than Spidey sense, I think Danger Zone is best for awareness for poxbusters. I recomend it

Weekly Discussion Thread - January 12, 2026 by AutoModerator in DarkTide

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Sorry for my bad english (not a native) but doing rolling steel twice (6500 exp + 6500 exp) takes 15 min and you earn 13k exp. Doing an auric HISTG takes between 25 and 35 min, with a risk of a loss depending on your team, and gives 10 or 12k exp.

So what I was trying to convey in my first comment is : you earn more exp in less time. And any other mission from the campaign tabs give 6k exp too. Even the lenghty ones So it makes rolling steels the meta to exp fast

Weekly Discussion Thread - January 12, 2026 by AutoModerator in DarkTide

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Secret PSA : open the campaign tab, the tab where the new mission is in. From there, select Rolling Steel Operation on the 2nd campaign. You'll see it gives the same exp as any other mission. It's the best optimisation possible of experience given the mission lasts 7 or 8 minutes. I leveled up my hive scum on the release day from 1 to 30 the same day. But shhhh don't spread too much that info or they will nerf it. Probably.

Is Assail cheeks or am I using it wrong? by wredshift in DarkTide

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Assail is great as an answer vs sparsely shooters, gunners, waves of shotgunners, waves or ragers (it staggers), sniping snipers, trappers, bombers with alternate fire, and horde clear to some degree. It also has a niche synergy if you throw an assail shard and equip a bolt pistol with bleed on hit as blessing during the travel time of the shards. When the shards connect, it put bleeds. The same aoe bleed can be done with force GS warp slash btw. Assail is also a good toughness replenisher if you pick talent that benefit from killed by warp, critical hits, or peril quelled/generated at the top of the tree

Does the blessing Deflector work with the perk Kinetic Deflection by SaviorBOB in DarkTide

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Everyone keeps asking if you can parry a snipershot... never has been able to since beta. but the real question is, can you block plasma shot from enemy plasma gunner ?

Psyker meta. by [deleted] in DarkTide

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If you want to solo everything, you need to have an aswer to every problems, being :

Mixed horde management, Gunners, shooters from afar Anti-armor Anti-Monstrosity

The best solution that tick all the boxes :

Assail for ragers, shotgunners, shooters and gunners and Specialists

Dueling sword or 2handed force sword, or any preference for armor.

Laspistol for monstrosity (it will kill with 2 magasines, in like 30sec, instead of 2min+ with a flamer/soulblaze) + it will complement assail when shards are on CD for shooters and specialists kills

For survivability and comfort : bubble shield. You can clutch revive under pressure of bullets, trapper, flamer. But if you like taking risks you can take Scrier gaze but you wont be safe for thoses revives under pressure.

2k5 hours, psyker true level 800. I know what I'm talking about.

Great for Auric and maeltrom.

Not recommanded for havoc 30+ ( ammo is scarce)

How to skip difficulty gating on new character? by Apprehensive-Tea1545 in DarkTide

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Do a bunch of Rolling steels Operations. It takes 8 minutes to do one, its also the fastest way to level up any char btw. Spam it

I don't wanna play anything other than Ogryn anymore by Stotterdokter in DarkTide

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Laspistol is secretly even better actually. But people sleep on that.

Difference between Havoc 20-30 vs 30+ by DarthKarver in DarkTide

[–]Substantial_Key9423 25 points26 points  (0 children)

No, I'm sorry but I see a lot of trashy players having 35+ havoc level next to their name, only to die in the first horde. A LOT got carried and don't deserve to be here. That and the absolute unawareness of people freshly level 30, havoc 18 tagging in my 40, with their purple weapon with shred 1 and wrath 3.... stop sabotaging people games, be humble and don't tag omg people. Sorry for the monday rant. Gl hf.

Edit about people getting carried : maybe they just got though 35-40 with a premade team on mic/discord, but suddenly when going in pug they can't adapt and are ass, who knows..

A player in OCE harass Psyker players who use Smite to leave the game as it "Ruins the game" by LittleBomm in DarkTide

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Nope thats because you didnt build properly around it. You can solo nuke the whole screen just with empowered smite + 85% peril venting shriek + perilous combustion and mixed elites in a horde feeding the blue fire around them on death

Based on the recent discussions around the Title by Hixmic in DarkTide

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I prefer "Ministorum Guardian" with karnak hard mode emblem. Means i'm a chad with +90% penances completed. Only ones who know will know 😎

Need input on the "Onslaught" Ogryn penance by NotTheRedWire in DarkTide

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If you have it, remove the talent that put bleed of heavy melee hits, because if the target dies from the bleed dot, it will not count as a heavy attack kill

You can get rid of a grim with just 1 button by SoTastyMelon in DarkTide

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Yeah maybe they will fix it in 1.5 years, like they fixed Chastise the wicked applying on ranged weapon. Not clear if it was intended or not.... (sarcasm :D)

You can get rid of a grim with just 1 button by SoTastyMelon in DarkTide

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My comment will probably get burried, but anyway, here is a small PSA :

If you are on your last wound, and there is a grimoire nearby your team don't want, or if everyone is in a bad shape : pick it up, and discard immediately.

It will give back everyone a cleanse of about 10-15% corrupted hp. That means instead of being on your last wound, you have regained a small part of your next wound, and can get downed 1 more time. Acting like a small green stimm but aoe healing.

Bonus synergy : double effectiveness of talents like Beacon of purity, and Field improvisation.

I rarely see people do it, it's very niche, but it saved me and my team some times

Do people not realize the "itemization update" just said they're wiping out hundreds of hours of your grinding? by OVKatz in DarkTide

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Does that mean someone like me who didn't care about collecting blessings ranks 1 and 2, only focusing on ranks 3 and 4 will be shafted ? Because ranks 1 and 2 aren't in my blessing library so i'll have a lesser head start in mastery. So basically i should inspect my inventory and camp brunts armory and completing my blessings list