Full Melee Damage Vanguard SLAUGHTERS Xenos & Chaos - True Solo Absolute | Space Marine 2

In this video we run a melee damage vanguard build. We take 'Melee Mastery' for 10% multiplicative damage against majoris or higher and 'Melee Champion' for 15% additive damage both melee and divekicks. Usually additive modifiers wouldn't buff divekick, but there is specific code to do it for Melee Champion. And multiplicative melee perks do increase divekick damage. We didn't go with "Retribution" for the 25% additive melee damage when you have no ammo on equipped gun, because it's hard to maintain it and I wanted equipment restore perk for unlimited "Sanctified Reliquary" uses. Unlike Inferno Pistol's "motivated melee" perk which does not require you to have the inferno pistol out, Retribution does require the empty gun to be equipped. We use Inferno Pistol just for the "motivated melee" that gives 20% additive melee damage.
We take all the divekick damage perks. Collateral Damage gives 50% damage to divekick and Tenacity gives 130% after ranged kill on 15s cooldown. And the two melee perks also increase divekick damage.
Sanctified Reliquary received a small buff from 25% damage to 35% damage additive and has 2 charges. Still not great, if it was multiplicative it would be much better as it would also buff divekick damage. At 1:03 I could have picked one up early, but I missed it during the actual game. It's actually decent against Helbrutes due to it staggering it on activation.
Block Power axe is probably the best melee weapon on Vanguard after the buffs so we pick that. It also has a multiplicative perk that increases 10% damage against majoris or higher which does affect divekick damage.
We also use the Heroic Instigator Bolt Carbine as the primary. It is one of the few heroics that didn't get any changes from the PTS as it was already good. I still think it is a better gun on sniper as he has ammo regen perks and perks that reduce the spread of bolt carbines. It is sometimes a little hard to land headshots due to the high spread.

Version 11.1

Loadout:
Primary - Heroic Instigator Bolt Carbine
Secondary - Ammo Inferno Pistol
Melee - Block Axe

Build: https://imgur.com/a/MW6o63I

Chapters:
0:00 - Mission Start and Build
3:57 - Triple Lictors
7:07 - Lictor & Ravener
8:52 - Helbrute Boss Fight
12:03 - Finish Up Sorcerers & Rubrics
14:49 - Melee Terminator & Missile Terminator & Sorcerer
16:50 - Double Lictors & Biovore
18:27 - Helbrute Boss Fight 2
23:53 - Double Melee Terminator
25:41 - Fix Elevator
27:50 - Sorcerer & Missile Terminator
31:11 - Daemon Host
31:56 - Melee Terminator & Missile Terminator
34:27 - Melee Terminator
36:39 - Massive Wave
39:09 - Melee Terminator & Missile Terminator & Sorcerer
41:33 - End game stats

Map: Vox Liberatis
Difficulty: Absolute
Solo No Bots

Settings:
Resolution: 2560x1440
Render Resolution: Quality
FPS Limit: 120
Quality Preset: High
Motion Blur: Off
FOV: 1.20

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