Ogryn's NEW Pickaxe Movesets TIPS & TRICKS - Darktide

With more sauce and spice than the Ogryn's existing melee arsenal, I thought it was worth showing you guys some of the combos and attack chains that are hidden in these movesets. Enjoy!
The Ogrynomicon has been updated for Patch 19 and now contains datacards for the Pickaxes with our crafting advice on these new weapons: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...

[@sydious_s_snake]

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

[@FireAnt]

Yeah, we cooked :D Pickaxes are the most involved weapons ogryn ever got.

[@taesaes701]

Yes. As soon as I played my first mission with the karsolas pickaxe I told my friend "Looks like Ogryns back on the menu boys."

[@OrAngelicBlitz8633]

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.

[@bigsadge747]

God i love the pickaxes, but i dont know if it can beat the shoveaxe

[@Mogg798]

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

[@user-py8hx5yc2s]

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

[@frogg5949]

if you do a shove attack before that you get 4 pretty good sweep attacks in a row

[@Evan_Fields]

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

[@HGTBNKJKJJM]

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

[@baneoffenris8247]

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

[@samfish2550]

It pushes well, if you have the bleed on heavy perk you could use it as a quick shut down after a heavy if it fails to kill, keep them from being a problem while the bleed finishes them.

[@HadiCHNikoo]

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.

[@heftyjo2893]

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

[@ashyone]

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

[@juggernautguy7442]

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

[@tyrannowrecks]

thank you for making Darktide content, great work :]

[@OrAngelicBlitz8633]

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

[@agedgouda8809]

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

[@moxtordoki96]

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

[@johndane9754]

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

[@thecosmicpj7458]

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

[@IndexGamingChannel]

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

[@LukeUnnotable]

I was waiting for this! 🙏

[@fyng.1582]

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.

[@hankjw_dt]

@@fyng.1582 The Heavy sweep has a very long backswing. You need to wait longer than you think before it'll accept your light attack input.

[@edoute]

awesome info, thanks for sharing

[@J.B.1982]

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.

[@Vulcanerd]

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.

[@joshwongwai3532]

That pull special gives me big billhook vibes from vermintide!

[@hahaureadmyname]

missed the unique sliding followup uppercuts

[@arlomiedema4255]

Topshelf content as always

[@thegametroll6264]

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.

[@bigsadge747]

This thing has an unusually high crit rate

[@grayconol]

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?

[@OrAngelicBlitz8633]

If attack speed is a big issue for you, at most you'd want to try the Karolas first. It even gets a modifier for attack speed unlike the other two. If you certainly don't like that one I don't recommend the other pickaxes for you, because they do get noticeably slower and more combo reliant. The only work-arounds are block canceling (such as the 4th light on Karolas for the best horde clear) or purely knowing the combos. Lastly, the lights on Branx are well paced in my opinion and is certainly one of the faster pickaxe options in that regard, but it's horde clear is very slow.

[@hankjw_dt]

There's no way to mitigate how slow they are. If you don't think that is worth the killing power, then the Krourk Mk4 will remain the weapon for you.

[@jakl]

@@OrAngelicBlitz8633 What do you mean by "Karolas gets a modifier for attack speed"? Is that a unique perk or blessing? Or just some hidden property?

[@hankjw_dt]

@@jakl Karsolas has the Crowd Control stat that affects attack speed. The other two Pickaxes don't.

[@GoldenChainsaw]

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

[@emilianomendoza9664]

Gracias por el combo

[@alias-yv2ro]

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 ☺️☺️😘

[@hankjw_dt]

@@alias-yv2ro Karsolas can be built all sorts of ways. Headtaker/Slaughterer for maximum buff stacking, Torment/Thrust to buff the strikedown combo after Special instead, Confident Strike + a Power Blessing for Gunlugger builds that just want to spam light attacks, even Wrath works for insane amounts of cleave.

[@alias-yv2ro]

@@hankjw_dt how about thunderous? Would that help its crusher killing potential?

[@narkosfera1421]

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.

[@samfish2550]

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.

[@infectedanimal9830]

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

[@hankjw_dt]

@@infectedanimal9830 yes!

[@infectedanimal9830]

@@hankjw_dt awesome, thanks

[@Just_Some_Clown]

Gud video pal Hank🫡

[@joshwongwai3532]

Big Daddy Hank!

[@LLu-picopickle]

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.

[@hankjw_dt]

@@LLu-picopickle The Karsolas is most similar to the MK3 bully club.

[@Troupe_Master]

How do you deal with the shield guys?

[@stianta_]

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

[@hankjw_dt]

@@stianta_ I suspect the attack range problem is a bug, I've reported it internally and hope to get it fixed soon.

[@stianta_]

Great 👍

[@williejackson6905]

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