missed the unique sliding followup uppercuts

That pull special gives me big billhook vibes from vermintide!

Big Daddy Hank!

I HOPE THE EMPRAH GIVES US BIGGER GUNS! i love that ogryns have two handed weapons now. The pick axe goes well with my miner back story. I would love to see las rippers, las cannons, heavy flamers, i know ow heavy bolters are a no no for ogryn in the main forces but maybe they could make an acception for rejects? I'm bot sure.

That moment when you become the Dakka!

The branx cleave just feels awful. If you screw up the cleave weave, you are stuck with no weapon up for over a second because you are stuck in the animation. Not possible to swap to another weapon also is bad. Might be just me, but I can't properly cleave through enemies because the attack is just so slow. Chip damage slowly drags you down, even when you take all the heavy hit nodes on the tree.

How do you deal with the shield guys?

All 3 of these weapons also have unique sliding light attacks, just like how the reworked power maul got one. My favorite is on the Borovian, you do a sliding uppercut which chains into your light 2 and 3 (uppercut overhead) leading to this rly slick sliding double uppercut before finishing with a light overhead. Also you can do 2 strike down lights on Karsolas after a push attack or special, if you want something faster than heavy strike down into light strike down. That first strike down light in the former chain is also a hidden move similar to the heavy strike down. The Borovians left side light sweep is, to me, still a hidden move because the regular light chains vanguard attack comes from the right side, but we have a separate left side sweeping light to give us a consistent horde clear combo. Appreciate the info, I didn’t know the pulls debuffed the target with taking 10% more damage. Love these weapons so far

The light and medium pickaxes' special reminds me of the bill hook special from Vermintide 2 which has that same stun/pull that is basically irresistible to all non-monster/boss enemies and is considered to be one of the best weapons available to Victor Saltzpyre.

Quick tip for branx, another way to combo into second heavy, is special bash into heavy. It doesnt use up stamina and is a little quicker at times. Situational, but worth knowing

Somehow it has less range than the clubs, and the slide attack speed is absolutely horrendous, i'll stick with my beloved mk1 club

I got a bone to pick with them crushers. Glad we now got the picks for 'em.

Branx is a beast. I’m liking the new weapons. The special, while not super helpful, is still a nice way to push a bunch of enemies without going through the block-push motion. It’s quicker.

the Karsolas has an additional strike down as light attack; doing the special/push attack into heavy overhead strikedown and then following up with a light attack gives an additional overhead strikedown

to be honest it took me a few tries and both the heavy and medium didn't "click" with my playstyle at all. as i was on the brink of putting them down for good, on came the karsolas and i've got myself a new favorite after 3 matches and a somewhat cooperative hadron. now the "get over here" scorpion raking feels soooo good, just fishing a mauler or crusher out of the pond and whack it for good😅 plus the horizontal focus allows for skipping the confident strike blessing and still keep my toughness up in a pinch. thanking you, sah

I love the fact they've added so much depth to these movesets, it actually makes me want to play ogryn more often, and not just gunlugger

I wanna like the Branx but it just feels weird to me.

awesome info, thanks for sharing

I like the light one, it works really well if u have torment and u going heavy hiter build, i csn oneshot crushers with mine

What pickaxes do you recommend with heavy attack focused build? I only use the MK.IIIb for most of the time and am wondering which pickaxe will have a similar pattern compared to MK.IIIb.

Can you special after heavy on the brinks? It may let you bleed them with the attack before quickly staggering them off to a safe position to bleed to death.

Gracias por el combo

This thing has an unusually high crit rate

Needed this vid so bad I've been only one of the picks I didn't realize all of them are the perfect weapons with specialties for different things

Love the branx very random special not really found much use for it, but dam it hits hard like a thunder hammer for a ogryn

Topshelf content as always

thank you for making Darktide content, great work :]

Still no 2h chain axe? Wtf.

You can chain the heavy cleave after using weapon special on the heavy pick axe. Special-> heavy ->light... heavy... if you don't have stamina to push attack.

The awkward thing for me on the Branx is when I try the horde clear combo, half the time the light attack just doesn't seem to come out after the heavy. Even just gently tapping the button it seems to think I want to do another heavy, or it just does nothing.

Excellent video! Love the content! How would you build the karsolas light pickaxe? And how would you rate the pickaxes VS the shovels? My lovely MK 5 shovel for crusher one-shots is eyeing the competition ☺️☺️😘

I been learned how to use them pickaxes on the 1st day 🤷🏾‍♂️ nothing complicated to use or get used to

Gud video pal Hank🫡

thanks hank. loving these picks, hope this guide will help more people pick them up, especially the branx. that slowness takes some getting used to, but man, that strength against all targets is really nice

The pull special can also pull bulwark shields if you space it right

Do you think you’ll do a vid reviewing the power maul redux and how to best use it now?

You can also get the underhand sweep up if you attack while in a slide. Good opener if you charge at an enemy.

with the branx u can do special attack, heavy and light for clear hordes too

For the branx pickaxe, it's light attacks are capable of overshooting bulwark sheilds as long as you are close enough. The first light attack is the most consistent, as looping light to block cancel will constantly hit a bulwark. So it gets that instead of the special pull I guess, or it's buggy idk but I really love it.

I was waiting for this! 🙏

oh the debuff on special hit is interesting, considering that we also have Soften Them Up.

ngl the end lag on these pickaxes kill the weapon for me. Is there a way to manage that or should I just keep to the kourk IV for the combo oriented gameplay?

The legends uploads. I was waiting for this the moment the update dropped! KEEP IT UP, SAH!

I tried it out. Not bad.

“You’re not my dad!” 😂

Nice

Thanks for the lead on overwhelming, good stuff.

Mmm yes coherency toughness regen speed is very useful

Would be better with the archyls stubber because more magazine capacity and more dakka

Love your vids, sah, but could you hover over your loadout for like a second longer? Thank you