Generally when against a thicc horde or armor, you want your spam special heavy attacks with power maul. The maul has infinite cleave when doing so, although there’s huge cleave damage falloff. You be applying bleed to everything in the swing though. You can stun lock everything except monstrosities and crushers doing this. The explosion itself is the main cause of the stun lock, not the swing, so you’ll be locking things behind you as well. The explosion benefits from the ogryn skill that increases explosion radius. Combo it with the damage stacks to staggered enemies blessing and you’ll be able to stun lock entire rooms while amplifying any damage the enemies receive. Used like this, it’s actually an excellent crowd control and support weapon.
@@steveSmith-lh6mf in my experience, the criticism against power maul is largely an inflated meme born from not understanding the full strength of the weapon. Echo chambers allowed the meme to spread in ignorance. This is part of why you almost never see anyone use the tactic I described; it’s an unknown for most of the community. The tactic I described, when used properly, is actually part of my strongest auric maelstrom carry build. If there is a skill ceiling where its effectiveness falls off comparatively to other weapons, it’s far beyond what the average player will ever come close to reaching.
@@AegisAuras i think its more people want to see it be like thunderhammer where it does big damage instead of support/crowd control. personally im gonna try your build out sounds fun to me
You've described exactly the reason I abhor the maul like I did the pre rework crusher, and why I hope someday soon it'll get a proper rework. Mass CC is one of the biggest problems plaguing Darktide at the moment, and the only way to make this weapon "shine" is to abuse it and ignore mass as a mechanic.
@@telopots I assume your discontent comes from the impact mass CC has on game flow; making the game easier? It does change game flow. Whether or not that effect is balanced or positive I see as another topic of discussion. I’m speaking regarding the prevalent opinion that the weapon is bad efficiency wise, as in, it is ineffective and makes winning a match more difficult and less likely. This is the majority of the narrative I’ve encountered against the weapon. Most believe the weapon is bad rather than broken.
8:39 It's very Easy Zarona only goes through 7 Poxxers, anything bigger will have progressively worse penetration, damage is reduced depending on enemy mass (or something sensible, it's a .45 Colt gun VS anything else, it's stupid powerful) Make bolters great --again-- as they should be
I feel a little healed whenever you sarcastically call out your teammates as I remember all the awful games I've had with people who are bad at the game and have no sense of fun (I can forgive one or the other but not both)
@@whateven1743 oh, you're talking about the discussion at the start? If so then probably about a foot long, considering a similar proportion of penis length to height compared with a baseline human
they call the club 007
0 kills
0 cleave
7 groaners staggered
What should be the strongest weapon. A lightning bat that explodes on contact held by a guy that can curl 300 pounds. Is awful. Top comedy.
I've ran this thing without any bleed talents. And it was actually miserable
i really hate that this weapon that this weapon is so slow to the point that is not even a viable option to use in any ogryn build
2 ogryns, 1 power maul
you are so real for the first 30 seconds of the video sis, slay
Generally when against a thicc horde or armor, you want your spam special heavy attacks with power maul. The maul has infinite cleave when doing so, although there’s huge cleave damage falloff. You be applying bleed to everything in the swing though.
You can stun lock everything except monstrosities and crushers doing this. The explosion itself is the main cause of the stun lock, not the swing, so you’ll be locking things behind you as well.
The explosion benefits from the ogryn skill that increases explosion radius. Combo it with the damage stacks to staggered enemies blessing and you’ll be able to stun lock entire rooms while amplifying any damage the enemies receive.
Used like this, it’s actually an excellent crowd control and support weapon.
if you want to stunk lock shit just play smite psyker
or do everyone else a favor and dont use smite or the power maul, they're terrible
@@steveSmith-lh6mf in my experience, the criticism against power maul is largely an inflated meme born from not understanding the full strength of the weapon. Echo chambers allowed the meme to spread in ignorance. This is part of why you almost never see anyone use the tactic I described; it’s an unknown for most of the community.
The tactic I described, when used properly, is actually part of my strongest auric maelstrom carry build. If there is a skill ceiling where its effectiveness falls off comparatively to other weapons, it’s far beyond what the average player will ever come close to reaching.
@@AegisAuras i think its more people want to see it be like thunderhammer where it does big damage instead of support/crowd control. personally im gonna try your build out sounds fun to me
You've described exactly the reason I abhor the maul like I did the pre rework crusher, and why I hope someday soon it'll get a proper rework. Mass CC is one of the biggest problems plaguing Darktide at the moment, and the only way to make this weapon "shine" is to abuse it and ignore mass as a mechanic.
@@telopots I assume your discontent comes from the impact mass CC has on game flow; making the game easier? It does change game flow. Whether or not that effect is balanced or positive I see as another topic of discussion.
I’m speaking regarding the prevalent opinion that the weapon is bad efficiency wise, as in, it is ineffective and makes winning a match more difficult and less likely. This is the majority of the narrative I’ve encountered against the weapon. Most believe the weapon is bad rather than broken.
8:39
It's very Easy
Zarona only goes through 7 Poxxers, anything bigger will have progressively worse penetration, damage is reduced depending on enemy mass (or something sensible, it's a .45 Colt gun VS anything else, it's stupid powerful)
Make bolters great --again-- as they should be
Paul gaming
new power maul found let's go
Finally the CBT stick
I feel a little healed whenever you sarcastically call out your teammates as I remember all the awful games I've had with people who are bad at the game and have no sense of fun (I can forgive one or the other but not both)
Player is cheating by using the power button.
I showed restraint
12:37 you called?
how big would an Ogryn be
about 8ft tall and almost as wide
@@ieatmentoss1714 not what i meant
@@whateven1743 oh, you're talking about the discussion at the start?
If so then probably about a foot long, considering a similar proportion of penis length to height compared with a baseline human
fisrt!
ZAP CLUB too non-lethal
switching to GRENADE CLUB