The Reject's Guide by Prawko

Item System

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Master your arms.

Enemies

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There are several ways to categorize enemies.

by armour (armour can vary based on body part):
- Unarmoured
- Infested
- Flak armoured
- Carapace armoured
- Unyielding
by function:
- Horde
- Specialist
- Elite
- Monstrosity
by affiliation:
- Scabs
- Dregs
- Undivided

Mission Modifiers

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Each mission above Sedition difficulty can have a modifier. Maelstrom missions have multiple modifiers and are at least Malice difficulty. Auric missions are a mission type unlocked after hitting 30th level on a class, they are on a separate tab, are only Heresy or Damnation difficulty and always have a Hi-Intensity modifier and potentially others.

The Mourningstar

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Melee Combat

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Each melee weapon has a heavy and light attack pattern, with every attack counting towards the chain. If you do a light attack as your first attack, even if your second attack is a heavy attack, said attack will be the second one of the chain. There are four melee attack types - Strikedown (efficient against single targets), Vanguard (efficient against hordes), Relentless (high stagger multi-target, but lower damage), Assassin (fast single target attacks, best against weakspots - typically heads).

You can also block attacks by holding right click, blocking melee attacks from all sides, but draining stamina and push by pressing left click while holding right click. If you hold left click after pushing, you will perform a special follow up attack, specific to a weapon and its mark.

Each weapon also has its own special action, dependent on its weapon family.

You can dodge enemy attacks by holding A, D or S and pressing space, dodges do grant some invincibility frames, but not many, so it's good to move out of the attack's way. You can dodge only a limited amount of times in a row, dependent on a weapon.

Weapons can be inspected in inventory to gain more information on them, they can be also dismantled to gain gold and favorited to avoid accidentally getting rid of them. Inspecting is particularly important for melee weapons, because it allows you to see their light and heavy attack patterns.

Ranged Combat

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Each ranged weapon has two modes - primary and secondary. Primary is used by pressing or holding left click - depending on if the weapon is semi-automatic or fully-automatic. Secondary mode changes the weapon's behavior, it's accessed by holding right click and then using left click to attack.

Ranged attacks cause suppression both to you and enemies. If you become suppressed, your movement speed and weapon handling will worsen, so if you get caught out of position it's usually best to run for cover. Suppressed enemies will run for and duck behind cover and stop shooting.

Each weapon has its own special action, dependent on weapon family.

You can dodge enemy ranged attacks by sliding, sprinting and dodging in the same manner as with melee attacks.

Weapons can be inspected in inventory to gain more information on them, they can be also dismantled to gain gold and favorited to avoid accidentally getting rid of them.

Build Basics

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When composing your build, you need to keep in mind what you want your role in the team to be and how you can deal with enemies. Each build has something that it specializes in (crowd-control, elite elimination, tanking), but each also should have a way to deal with every enemy type, so you need to have some capacity to clear hordes and deal with specialist enemies from close and far. Example - if you plan on running Thunder Hammer and Flamer on Zealot, it's a good idea to get throwing knives so you can deal with enemies further away. To enhance the capabilities of your build you use Curios - up to three additional items, having a main trait (bonus Stamina, Health, Wound or Toughness) and three smaller traits.

Weapon Rating

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Each weapon has a rating of up to 500. Weapon rating is determined by statistics modifiers. Every weapon has five statistics, what those statistics are differs from weapon to weapon and from mark to mark. Statistic modifiers determine how high they are. Statistic modifiers have a maximum, which range from 60% to 80%. Sum of all statistic modifiers is 380% and those are divided between the five statistics. As an example you could have a weapon with maximum modifiers being 80%, 63%, 78%, 79%, 80%. Weapons of lower ratings will perform worse on higher difficulties due to their damage and other statistics being lower than the assumed value, in general up to 100-something rating - Sedition, 200-something rating - Uprising, etc. Rating can be raised by Empowering a weapon at the Omnissiah Shrine for resources.

Mastery

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Each weapon family has its own level called Mastery. Maximum Mastery level is 20. Mastery is gained by using the weapon on missions as well as Sacrificing weapons of at least “green” rarity at the Shrine of the Omnissiah. Sacrificing a weapon from the family you are trying to gain levels in will be five times as effective as a weapon not from the family. Weapon family is the same weapon kind with varying marks. “Swords” isn’t a weapons family, but “ “Devil’s Claw” Swords” is a weapon family.

Perks and Blessings

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Each weapon has Perks and Blessings. Perks are another statistic modifier, example is “+5% Critical Hit Chance”. Perks are the same between every weapon. Blessings are unique to a weapon family and are gained by gaining levels of Mastery in said weapon family. Blessings alter a weapon’s behavior based on the user's behavior, example is “Surgical - for each 0.4 seconds of aiming down sights gain one stack to maximum of ten, each stack grants +10% Critical Hit Chance, discharge all stacks when you shoot”.

Secrets of the Omnissiah

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There are non-visible weapon stats that also affect their behaviour, like stagger, armour piercing, cleave, rending, etc. Those can’t be affected nor checked in base game, but usually aren’t critical enough to be worried about them.

Scabs

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Ex-Guardsmen, wearing Flak or Carapace armour and military-grade las weaponry.

Dregs

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Fanatics, using outdated weapons and blessings of the Grandfather.

Groaners and Poxwalkers

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Horde enemies, melee only, usually encountered in groups. Poxwalkers can cause corruption when dealing damage to you. Poxwalkers are Infested, Groaners are Unarmoured.

3. Armoury Exchange

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Here you can spend Ordo Dockets ("gold") buy new weapons and curios from a random list that changes every hour (Requisition Weapons & Curios) or buy the first mark of weapon from any weapon family of profane rarity (Brunt's Armoury).

8. Commissary

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Here you can spend gold on non-premium cosmetics to adjust your character's looks as well as the appearance of your weapons. However, you can not buy titles or trinkets here.

9. Barber Chirurgeon

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Here you can adjust how your character looks, changing anything from skin colour to hairstyle. You can also - for fifty thousand gold - change your gender, name, backstory and personality.

1. Mission Terminal

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Here you can go on missions, either selecting from the mission board or using quickplay of selected difficulty to join into a match. Quickplay grants additional resources for completing missions.

5. Sire Melk's Requisitorium

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Here you can check weekly challenges which then grant you a special currency - Ordo Ingots. Said currency can be spent of limited time very powerful weapons (high Rating, high Rarity, high level Perks and Blessings) or on random weapons with random statistics, rarity, etc.

2. Shrine of the Omnissiah

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Here you can upgrade and refine your weapons for gold, Plasteel and Diamantine, raising their Rarity (Consecrating), Rating (Empowering), changing their Perks (Refining) and Blessings (Re-Blessing). You can also Sacrifice weapons to gain Mastery levels.

7. Commodore's Vestures

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Here you can purchase a premium currency - Aquilas - for real money as well as cosmetics for said premium currency. There are three sets of items available for each class at a time and they rotate between existing sets. However, you can not buy titles or trinkets here.

4. Psykhanium

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Here you can learn the basics of the game and your class (Basic and Additional Training) as well as test out your builds and weapons against immobile enemies on each difficulty (Meatgrinder).

6. Shrine Penitentax

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Here you can check Penances you have yet to complete and claim the rewards for the ones you have done. They grant you cosmetic items like headwear, armour, backpacks, titles and trinkets.

Weapon Rarity

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Every weapon has a rarity, ranging from Profane (gray) to Transcendent (gold). Profane weapons do not have any Blessings or Perks, Redeemed (green) have one Perk, Anointed (blue) have one Perk and one Blessing, Exalted (purple) have two Perks and one Blessing and Transcendent (gold) have two Perks and two Blessings.

Hi- and Low-Intensity Missions

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According to the prefix, you can either expect a higher or lower amount of hordes and specialist enemies during the missions. Pictured is the symbol of Low-Intensity variant. This modifier can appear in combination with others (example - Hi-Intensity Hunting Grounds).

Hunting Grounds

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During the mission periodically waves of Pox Hounds will spawn and swarm the players.

Power Supply Interruption

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Lights don't work and it gets dark. Flashlights advised.

Pox Gas

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Clusters of Nurgle Corals appear throughout the mission and periodically spew out Pox Gas, which eats away at your Toughness and then starts Corrupting your health bar.

Shock Troop Gauntlet

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Increased spawns of specialist enemies.

Ventilation Purge

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Smoke fills the air, reducing visibility. Also more snipers appear, sometimes multiple at once.

Maelstrom Modifiers

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On Maelstrom missions special modifiers can appear, which can range from reduced ability cooldowns to waves of mutants. There are specific combinations of those, but it's best to give the modifiers a read before queuing up for the mission.

Scab Flamers

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Uses a flamer to flush players out of cover and for area denial. Maniac. Specialist.

Scab Trapers

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Disabler - will attempt to down you by shooting you with a net, however being netted is not like normal knockdown. Usually seeks out lone players. Maniac. Specialist.

Scab Bombers

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Uses incendiary grenades to flush players out of cover and for area denial. Flak armoured. Specialist.

Scab Snipers

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Uses a high-powered rifle to deal devastating single-target damage. Unarmoured. Specialist.

Specialists

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Enemies with a special, unique ability.

Horde

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There are three horde Scab enemies:

Bruisers (melee, Flak armoured)
Stalkers (hybrid, Flak armoured)
Shooter (ranged, Flak armoured)

Elite

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Tougher, more dangerous enemies.

Scab Gunners

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Ranged enemies wielding high fire-rate volley guns. Flak armoured. Elite.

Scab Shotgunners

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Hybrid enemies, wielding shotguns causing high stagger and knockback, switching them for melee weapons after closing in. Flak armoured. Elite.

Scab Maulers

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Heavily armoured slow melee enemies, dealing devastating damage with two-handed chain-axes. Flak armoured. Elite.

Scab Ragers

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Fast melee enemies with high attack speed. Flak armoured. Elite.

Monstrosity - Scab Captains

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Encountered in kill missions as the bosses at the end. Can wield different melee and ranged weapons. Always using a Void Shield, which needs to be disabled first and will recharge after a period of time. Flak armoured. Monstrosity.

Undivided

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Various mutants and monsters fighting in the name of Plaguefather.

Pox Hounds

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Disablers - will attempt to pounce on players and pin them down. Almost any damage will cause them to run away, leaving the player freed. They cause Corruption damage instead of normal damage, which may outright kill a player instead of downing them. Sometimes they can spawn in packs, that variant has lower health pool but remains dangerous due to numbers. Infested. Specialist.

Mutants

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Disruptors - will charge at a player, attempting to grab them, after which they will deal some damage before throwing them. Can cause you to get out of formation or throw you off of ledges which is particularly dangerous. Maniacs. Specialist.

Chaos Ogryns

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Heretics have Ogryns of their own. They can be seperated into three types:

Crushers - melee, dealing extreme amounts of damage. Carapace armoured.
Bulwarks - melee, wielding a big riot shield blocking most of the damage from the front. Unyielding.
Reapers - ranged, using twin-linked Heavy Stubbers. Unyielding.

Horde

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There are two horde Dreg enemies:

Bruisers (melee, Unarmoured)
Stalkers (hybrid, Unarmoured)

Elite

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Tougher, more dangerous enemies.

Dreg Gunners

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Ranged enemies wielding high fire-rate machine guns. Unarmoured. Elite.

Dreg Ragers

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Fast melee enemies with high attack speed. Maniac. Elite.

Dreg Shotgunners

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Hybrid enemies, wielding shotguns causing high stagger and knockback, switching them for melee weapons after closing in. Unarmoured. Elite.

Specialists

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Enemies with a special, unique ability.

Dreg Tox Flamer

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Uses a tox flamer to flush players out of cover and for area denial. Causes Corruption damage. Maniac. Specialist.

Dreg Tox Bomber

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Uses Tox gas grenades to flush players out of cover and for area denial. Causes Corruption damage. Tox gas empoweres other enemies. Unarmoured. Specialist.

Monstrosities

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There are four monstrosities in game. Three of them can spaw during the mission and attack players, that being the Beast of Nurgle, the Plague Ogryn and the Chaos Spawn, one of them can be randomly encountered on the map in an asleep state - the Daemonhost. If a player walks nearby a Daemonhost or shoots close to it or shines a flashlight at it, it will awaken and can start chasing the player, dealing damage and Corruption to them and others until they or another player dies.

The other monstrosities each have a different move-set, with the Chaos Spawn being able to grab a player and bite them to regenerate health as well as flail them around, dealing them and others damage, the Beast of Nurgle vomiting ooze that causes Corruption and being able to swallow a player, dealing them Corruption damage while inside it and the Plague Ogryn being able to charge to knockback players.

Corruptor

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Corruptor is more of an obstacle than an enemy. It is the daemonic growth that will have to be destroyed in some missions. After destroying all three tentacles before they can regenerate, it will open its eye, which, if damaged, will burst, spewing Corruption-dealing ooze as the Corruptor dies.

Monstrosity - Cult Champions

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Encountered in Rolling Steel missions as the bosses at the end. Can wield different melee and ranged weapons. Always using a Void Shield, which needs to be disabled first and will recharge after a period of time. Flak armoured. Monstrosity.

In-mission pickups

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During missions on Atoma Prime you can find various pickups to aid your team or gain other benefits.

Stimms

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There are four kinds of Stimms that can be picked up and used in-game:

Celerity Stimms - increased Stamina regeneration and attack speed

Combat Stimms - increased damage
Concentrations Stimms - lowered cooldown of abilities
Healing Stimms - restore some health and cleanse all of Corruption

Each player can only carry only one Stimm at a time. Stimms can be handed to other players like Ammo Crates and Medipacks.

Grimoires and Scriptures

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They can appear as secondary objectives during missions for gold and Plasteel, it's either two Grimoires or three Scriptures. They take up the slot for packs. Grimoires can not be dropped and cause Corruption to the entire team, they also disappear upon the death of the player carrying them. Grimoires can be permanently discarded as a special animation, but that does cause them to be irreversibly destroyed. Scriptures can be dropped, don't cause any negatives to the team besides taking up the pack slot of up to three players and they do drop when the player carrying one dies. Scriptures can be handed to other players like Ammo Crates and Medipacks.

Ammo Crates and Medipacks

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Those are deployable support items that every player can benefit from. Ammo Crates have four charges of refills of maximum amount of ammo for a person and Medipacks heal allies in radius. Each player can only carry only one of either deployable at a time. Ammo Crates and Medipacks can be handed over to other players.

Plasteel and Diamantine Stashes

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Plasteel and Diamantine Stashes can be found randomly during missions, granting varying amounts based on size, either Large or Small. Those can later be used to upgrade weapons between missions. They are not carried, instead they are added to a tally for the entire team and every person gets the total amount collected.

Heretic Idols and Martyr Skulls

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During missions you can find up to four Heretic Idols. If destroyed, those will grant some Plasteel to all players. You can also find Martyr Skulls, which will also grant some Plasteel to all players who already found it, if at least one person who picked it up did it for the first time. Amount of Plasteel granted by both depends on the difficulty, the higher the difficulty, the higher the payout.

Poxbursters

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Poxwalkers rigged with a melta bomb to explode. Cause area of effect damage and Corruption to players caught in the blast, also knocking them back. Infested. Specialist.