Upcoming Best Hive Scum Build In Warhammer 40k: Darktide

The best Darktide Hive Scum build for my money isn't about melee at all. Just like the Arbites before it, the Hive Scum class can be extremely strong in close-quarters, bashing enemies with his Crowbar or chem-laced Bone Saw to apply DoT effects. But does it feel different? Not really. Where the Hive Scum truly shines is as a dual-wielding gunslinger.

This is all thanks to one of the strongest abilities I've seen in Darktide—Enhanced Desperado. It was so strong in fact, that Fatshark nerfed it while it was still in early access, but it's decent even now. This state makes you immune to ranged attacks and gives you infinite bullets. Why yes, that is rather good for the first class to get dual-wield ranged weapons in the game.

If you want a melee-based Hive Scum, the leveling is very straightforward, culminating in the middle of the three trees. However, if you want something a little more fun than the pure melee carnage we're all used to, here's my favorite ranged build for the new Hive Scum class.

As mentioned, it's easy to put together a super strong Hive Scum melee build, but is that interesting? Not really. My favorite build for the Hive Scum and the one that's most enjoyable, turns them into a John Wick-esque gunslinger with infinite ammo and strong dodge-based survivability.

This build centres around Enhanced Desperado—a strong combat ability that lets you enter a state with infinite ammo, immunity to ranged attacks, and faster sprint. This has a short-ish cooldown (that you can make even shorter with your stim) and you can prolong it for a while simply by killing highlighted enemies.

The rest of this build focuses on enhancing your ranged attacks and damage, getting you an additional charge for your RPG blitz ability (which also does massive damage), and I've also recommended my favorite Hive Scum melee weapon you can fall back on if you do somehow find yourself out of bullets.

These are the weapons, blessings, perks I recommend for Hive Scum, but you can, of course, use whatever you enjoy while leveling to unlock these. I've also included my recommended Stimm Lab setup for the Hive Scum (this being the consumable stim they can take to grant buffs).

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While the Bone Saw is also a very good weapon (especially if you want something that can instantly apply DoT chem toxin to enemies), the Crowbar feels a lot more reliable damage-wise. It's quite simi

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