The Shock Maul: A tutorial | Darktide

[@basicallybacon2593]

I agree 2H chainaxe when FatShark?

[@TronTuborg]

Make it the 3rd Eviscerator, use the Thunder Hammer/crusher moveset and model (just swap the hammer head for a chainaxe head and bob's your uncle!)

[@declicitous1763]

@@TronTuborgdon’t give them ideas

[@theelephantandtherider9536]

agreed

[@windbeneathmywings4884]

How about a power buckler? I want a melee weapon thats literally just a shield. Time for my Captain Imperium arc

[@theelephantandtherider9536]

@@windbeneathmywings4884 A Storm Shield or the like, would be neat.

[@PCKodachi]

Kommissar Reg is back to remind us to suffer not the shock maul to stay on shelf!

[@crazylasagna3576]

I love the melee combos for this weapon. That, combined with its versatility, has resulted in it being on a lot of my builds.

[@sirgaz8699]

An Arbites cosmetic is one of the few things I'd actually buy. Especialy given I have a shockmail lawbringer vet build

[@Reginald-sc9tk]

Its in the game right now. No wait thats enforcer armor.

[@Bablindel_Slonffth]

The Indignatus immediately became my favorite melee weapon on release. It just feels so good! I know it ain't the best but fast electric bonk stick makes my brain happy

[@ColonelBobfed]

What I'm trying to guage with the mauls, especially the 2H Indignatus, is how they seem exceptionally good at keeping me alive when everything's gone Pete Tong... But how it simultaneously feels like the situation's gone that way because it doesn't kill stuff fast enough, and everyone got overwhelmed

[@Reginald-sc9tk]

At least the 2h indy is an incredible weapon now. The shockmauls are fine, I wouldn't see them as primarily stagger tools. Their more than good enough.

[@Khandones]

Good vid ! The shockmauls are in a perfect spot I think, not AMAZING OMG OP but they're also not Mk 1 DClaw bad. Perfectly balanced weapon. Good step forward for Fatshark balancing.

[@2MeterLP]

Ok against everything is often better than great at one thing and bad at another. It deals with hordes, it deals with mediums, it deals with heavies. When I taser a rager, it is usually finished before the stun wears off, without me having taken a single hit.

[@animeworldorder]

I've been listening to enough Black Library audiobooks that I now know the pronounciation of "arbite" is like saying the letters "R B T"

[@mileator]

Melee combos are important to discuss, and I appreciate you putting a segment about it in your video. As a Dark Souks Vet, I feel melee combat in general is vastly underrated for its complexity. Melee combos elevate weapons like the mark 9 heavy sword and the Mark 7 Devil Claw. The Mk 9 heavy sword has an anti-flak armor special club attack that can be paired with an overhead heavy to deal consistent heavy damage and chew through specialists. It can even be used with a Ninja Zealot for backstabs. The Mk 7 devil claw has a horde cleave combo by using one heavy, followed by one light. It has an anti specialist combo by using two heavies followed by a light. It also has a thrust with its shove. The new Catachan mk 6 knife has a backstab after a punch 👊.

[@Reginald-sc9tk]

Melee combos are one of the reasons this game is such a delight to play.

[@2MeterLP]

I like to pair this with the plasma gun. Because the shock maul deals with most things well enough I can use it most of the time, then if I need a lot of damage fast I can quickly swap to the plasma gun and pop off a few shots, then switch back to the maul while my plasma gun cools down.

[@thunder2434]

Thanks! I was looking for a good review of this weapon as I was thinking of building one.

[@Earliersphere]

this weapon makes me hope we get a shield version, that should still have the taser special attack. need more weapon+shields in game. From what I can tell the Agri is the same as the indig other than a better stagger cleave damage.

[@TheMorbose]

Been using it, fully agree on it being a good middle ground pummeler.

[@agathae_dt]

Entropic / Lighting reflexes is insane right now. There is no cool down so you can spam it. Timed push attacks count as timed blocks, if you time a block on a dog pounce the dog gets stunned. One of the best things about it in my option is stunning bulwarks, packs of ragers and getting that power boost from timed blocks against monsters. Its really good right now and will probably get changed at some point. Skullcrusher is a must pick on everything as its one of the most OP blessings in the game, pairing that with hammerblow is a sure way to get value. On max stacks of hammerblow h2 > light (repeat) applies skullcrusher to everything including crushers (Indi). The Angi's PA has giga stagger and at max stacks of hammerblow applies skullcrusher.

[@Reginald-sc9tk]

Interesting! I'll give it a try.

[@GioChilaia]

hammerblow is a must on these two gems imo. also i much prefer agni for some reason. great vid as always Reg.

[@Reginald-sc9tk]

Pretty sure its the better maul but this one looks cooler

[@infrared6973]

I think hammer blow/high voltage and skullcrusher are great picks for these weapons. I think id lean towards hammer blow cuz ive seen people say high voltage can be inconsistent. None the less we appreciate all your hard work reginald!

[@Earliersphere]

Hammer blow is a must for the CC, but yeah I think part of the issue with high voltages is we don't know the electrocution trigger. I think it's stagger related but just guesses at this point. it's a very middle of the road weapon.

[@infrared6973]

@@Earliersphere this is my problem with all of the new weapons outside of the pickaxes. Sure its cool we got some new weapons but none of them are really that good and we all know were waiting another 4-6 months for new weapons which is a real bummer. I dont even think everything should be op when it first releases but atleast give us good weapons cuz otherwise whats the point of us finally getting new weapons. I was more pissed ogryn didnt get any new ranged weapons and we still dont have a new staff. I understand things take time but fatshark is rather annoying. Cool ogryn has melee weapons with varied move sets but outside of that the new weapons are rather lackluster. Also we only got one new map which is disappointing and we still cant choose what map or modifier we even want to play.

[@inpadin]

Took me way too long to realize it's literally just the 1h mace/hammer moveset from VT2

[@flyinmehkite384]

I think they did an amazing job with the blessings, like all of them just fit the shock mauls. Just oozing with flavor. And last night I (FINALLY) was able to roll up one for electrocute and thrust and it honestly felt worse to use than with the support blessings. And yeah, the listing combo thing is annoying. I thought I was screwing up a heavy swing or something, at least I know I am not going insane. I 'clicked' with the 1a and the new shotgun on my support zealot build. I think it may have replaced the Crusher as my favorite zealot weapon.

[@Reginald-sc9tk]

Glad I'm not losing my marbles too

[@Microthic]

Great in depth content 👍

[@phearamax4146]

Captain Haddock going crazy in the thumbnail

[@internethotspot]

FYI; I believe the psyker stun wall’s effect is technically “Electrocute” and may work with the high voltage blessing.

[@Reginald-sc9tk]

That would be cool

[@ErrorGameManiac]

I like the mace a lot. I wanted a more rounded support build for my zealot and this is perfect. Mace good for a lot but not amazing at anything. Boost team toughness and dmg. Flamer for hordes, and at first I could not let go of fire grenade as that feels like it just melts everything other than bosses, just toss 2 against strong elites. But having trowing daggers means I can deal with specials too. So I cant kill fast or do a lot but I can be the support for my team to at least keep things going smooth for everyone.

[@OniGanon]

I found this thing difficult and annoying to use because it's all too easy to get stuck into a vertical swing loop. But it opens Bulwarks up with the special attack, which is pretty nice.

[@Tanstin1]

Very helpful. Thanks

[@preposterous_fox]

I want to like the shock maul but I feel like a weapon that focuses on staggering enemies instead of just killing them leads to getting overwhelmed as more and more enemies spawn in on you, just due to the nature of Darktide. The ability to shock e.g. Bulwarks is certainly nice but I find myself going back to swords instead most of the time.

[@2MeterLP]

Standing in front with the shockmaul lets my teammates get the breathing room to unload into the horde. I taser a rager, my teammates finish it off, without any of us taking a single hit.

[@interrogatorchaplain8335]

I think the problem with the melee combo is it's like the chainswords Don't rush it too hard if you do you bypass the attack your doing before it can do the full hit to every enemy I've had to slow down my combat with them to hit more

[@frostyheretic299]

God emperor bless your work regi!

[@danielsula4720]

another certified hood classic.

[@SuperGiga64]

Entropic guaranteeing a strong stagger could be nice. Make it a good blessing for dueling/kiting ragers. Overwhelming Force is so underwhelming right now. I dont know why the game adds extra variables to certain blessings that arent even game changing (Overwhelming Force only having a percent chance of procing every 5 seconds and Point Blank only being a percent chance for a crit after a melee kill).

[@Reginald-sc9tk]

Its almost cool, but isn't.

[@Kaydin66]

5:56 i think you mean it chains into light 4 (and that seems to be what the visual block thing shows) light 4 is the horizontal relentless we see after the slow motion heavy 1 (not the diagonal vanguard of light 1)

[@HatBoozeParty]

You can actually go from heavy 2 back to heavy 1 by starting a run on the odd numbered heavy swings while charging the heavy (H3, H5,...), but its kinda of slow so not always worth it most of the time. Really neat tough.

[@Reginald-sc9tk]

Good tip

[@unfortunateTimetables]

I prefer Thrust for good power attacks. I'm often starting my crowd combos with them, and chaining overheads on armor. Not even sure if that performs better than the stagger blessing combo. Feels good tho!

[@gronkotter]

I noticed Deimos is at the bottom of the horde table. Not sure what you are doing, but it's definitely just "mid" rather than bad at hordes. It's better at horde than the second best DT weapon - chainaxe 4 ;) I completed the "kill shitloads of enemies in one scriers" with Deimos. Unstable power is pretty weak on this sword because you won't regularly use specials, and changing to melee is triggered by what's in your face, not peril level. Any of the other power blessings is better, slaughterer especially for hordes. Precog/riposte are quite strong too. Uncanny obviously BIS. For hordes, moving the mouse left to right during L2,3,4 allows cleave of multiple enemies.

[@Reginald-sc9tk]

I can't say, I didn't do that test. Not everything in the data is going to be absolutely correct. It may be that the weapon was designed around some other purpose or the build used was suboptimal. My data set is limited in a lot of ways. But its generally fairly accurate.

[@westernlynx396]

Regi my guy. The blessing that gives rending on staggered enemies is huge for this weapon. Start the engagement with the special attack for ez stagger.

[@Reginald-sc9tk]

Like I said, I did test it into a mauler and it didn't change the times to kill really. Maybe it's better on, say, vet. But I couldn't find a clear line saying what was what.

[@IroskTheOrc]

No @westernlynx396 it's a straight down grade from high voltage, which gives 25% damage on electrified enemies.

[@jonathonredacted3396]

​@@IroskTheOrcrending pierces armor. If you wanna kill a mauler or crusher then you need rending not raw damage.

[@attackmanatee02]

Is high voltage only for the maul's damage? Does it increase all damage the enemy takes, or only the damage the maul does to the enemy?

[@Reginald-sc9tk]

Just damage the weapon deals.

[@slowenbrau1859]

Looking at the Entropic blessing, I'm very disappointed that Fatshark is still failing at understanding the usefulness of on-block buffs/abilities. The only time blocking a melee attack happens in darktide is when you're in a really bad situation that you'd rather not get into or you're fighting ragers which now have dodge-able attacks anyways. The buffs In Vermintide 2 were way more significant and blocking was a lot more reasonable, but even then they were still very situational. The only reason on-dodge buffs aren't the same is because of how lenient the dodge system is compared to Vermintide, and the constant ranged attacks that let you proc them.

[@Reginald-sc9tk]

I know people say dodge is very generous but there's something to say for how much dodging you have to do in the face of both ranged and melee simultaneously

[@slowenbrau1859]

@@Reginald-sc9tk Very true. You kinda need the I-frames it feels like it gives you. I'm very curious to see how the game would look if the direction and distance of a dodge actually mattered against melee attacks targeting you.

[@Reginald-sc9tk]

@@slowenbrau1859 I think we can guess based on our shared negative experience dealing with the chaos spawn's tentacle grab. You can dodge that sucker frame perfect and still get grabbed and it feels awful. You have to dodge right, not even back right, right.

[@Kaydin66]

does the impact from Punishment affect ranged? I'm guessing it does not. also, is stagger cumulative in this game? can back-to-back identical impact hits result in a greater stagger animation than what each of those hits do on their own?

[@Reginald-sc9tk]

Punishment doesn't effect ranged attacks. But it does effect chastise/FotF. Stagger is cumulative to a point. JSat has a great video on how stagger works. But basically within a window sequential attacks stack.

[@Kaydin66]

@@Reginald-sc9tk ahhh i c, ty

[@Kaydin66]

@@Reginald-sc9tk ahhh shit dude. telo says punishment is universal. can i get confirmation on whether it increases gun stagger (i currently don't have access to the game)

[@Reginald-sc9tk]

@@Kaydin66 If it is universal that is literally hilarious, but I wouldn't doubt it. Telo is very likely right.

[@Kaydin66]

@@Reginald-sc9tk I mean, is it that crazy? what gun other than maybe revolver would you get a lot of value out of that. I was originally thinking about a headhunter with falter. swap out of melee to cc a few elites with some bursts.

[@infrared6973]

I constantly screw uo the horde clear combo with these weapons and I hate that you have to reset it but thats just a skill issue lol. Something about the hand eye coordination of light heavy light heavy and then switching for single target and then back again i always seem to screw up😂. I need to roll more mauls but it also takes time to build up resources once you spend them all.

[@Shamblesx2]

Is that spreadsheet available to the public?

[@Reginald-sc9tk]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6mcgJ6ZiNyEl80 You betcha, check the description

[@ShupperDupper]

i tried it a decent amount yesterday as i caught up on 7 months not playing. it does not replace my beloved crusher but it’s close… i have the same issue with dropped combos, but MOST IMPORTANTLY the rumble on controller going off the entire time its empowered is downright unusable.

[@Reginald-sc9tk]

Thats a function? Lmao

[@oliverheitmann7932]

great breakdown! Is it possible to get your data sheet for the different weapon preformances. i'd like to have it as an easy referance point.

[@Reginald-sc9tk]

Check my catalogue for a video titled data for the data God in the thumbnail. Its from about 3 months ago, cyberpunkish background.

[@Reginald-sc9tk]

How about i don't be dumb and just link it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6mcgJ6ZiNyEl80

[@oliverheitmann7932]

@@Reginald-sc9tk ah thats my bad haha, probably shoulda've figured

[@oliverheitmann7932]

@@Reginald-sc9tk thanks for the great work you do, you da man!

[@robertswinea1824]

losing the combo has happened to me fairly frequently as well (like 2 or 3 times a game) just throwing that out there

[@Reginald-sc9tk]

Glad I'm not alone.

[@samfish2550]

I still prefer my power maul, at least I used to, currently it just kinda hurts my soul, but still... Like in the context of when I last played a while back I enjoyed it. Brutal momentum and weak spot damage mixed well with the ogryns multi hit heavy toughness regen perk. The stun and lockdown mixed with ok single elite target damage was good for keeping elites supressed while my team took advantage of the window. It was a solid defensive weapon that benifited the team and could hold it's own. Now it lost a lot of the ability to stall crusher hords and feels infinitely worse.

[@Bakamelon69420]

Can you do one on the Catachan mk III combat blade?

[@Reginald-sc9tk]

I may get there eventually but I'm mostly focused on new toys over old ones.

[@Bakamelon69420]

@@Reginald-sc9tk Got it. Loving the way you do your videos on these weps. Wish this was a thing back in Vermintide 2.

[@Reginald-sc9tk]

@@Bakamelon69420 Wish I had gotten started earlier, I only caught the tail end of vermintide from a player perspective.

[@MorteWulfe]

Our-bit-tees or our-bite-teez. Not our bite man! Just kidding with you, but it is a Latin base so most people do not know how it is spoken.

[@Reginald-sc9tk]

If you give it the ol' search engine the jury is out on how it's pronounced in GW land. I've always heard it arrr bites for better or worse its stuck that way.

[@MorteWulfe]

@@Reginald-sc9tk Well that being the case, would you call an Arbiter an Arr Biter? 😜

[@Reginald-sc9tk]

What about yaaarrrrbiter

[@theblackaphid2257]

Desperate for a plasma gun vid in this style

[@Khandones]

Left click

[@djkatfishbeats]

Algorithm

[@guardsmanjones1703]

First.

[@Ebb0Productions]

Damn it! I wanted to be first.

[@bearjew212]

This shock maul is so MEH but I love the way it looks.