Health (alive)
health

150

Health (downed)
knocked_down_health

1000

10%

100

5% of max toughness

8m

1.5s

(allies: 0) 0 toughness per second
(allies: 1) 3.75 toughness per second
(allies: 2) 5.625 toughness per second
(allies: 3) 7.5 toughness per second

2s

2

0.75s

1 stamina per second

0.25m

Minimum travel distance needed before a dodge can be performed

2.5m

How far the dodge can move the character

0.2s

Time until next dodge can be performed

0.5s

Time until next dodge can be performed if interrupted by a jump

0.85s

Time to reset the effective dodge count

0.25s

Grace window after finishing a dodge in which the character is still considered as is_dodging against a melee attack

25%

Maximum dodge time after dodging into an obstacle

0.5

Modifies toughness damage taken while dodging; below 1 means taking less damage, above 1 means taking more damage BUT due to the complexity of the calculation, neither does 0 translate into taking no damage at all nor does 2 translate into taking double damage. For an in-depth explanation, refer to this write-up (still up to date despite some values having changed).

4m/s

4m/s

1.75m/s

1.4m/s

5.2m/s

0.5

This reduces only the bonus to movement speed when sprinting with stamina.

1

Modifies toughness damage taken while sprinting; below 1 means taking less damage, above 1 means taking more damage BUT due to the complexity of the calculation, neither does 0 translate into taking no damage at all nor does 2 translate into taking double damage. For an in-depth explanation, refer to this write-up (still up to date despite some values having changed).

4.2m/s

Minimum movement speed required to perform a slide

1

Modifies toughness damage taken while sliding; below 1 means taking less damage, above 1 means taking more damage BUT due to the complexity of the calculation, neither does 0 translate into taking no damage at all nor does 2 translate into taking double damage. For an in-depth explanation, refer to this write-up (still up to date despite some values having changed).

Can peek above cover while crouched when using Aim Down Sights.

Allows Veteran to peek over obstacles when crouching closely behind them. Usually, while crouched behind adequate cover, the player camera does not move in any additional way when aiming down sights with a ranged weapon. This talent enables a brief 'peek over object' animation in first person and adjusts the camera position so that Veteran's view is less obstructed by the obstacle. Note that this does not hide Veteran's hitbox from enemy fire in any additional way.

Currently, does not apply to: Autopistol and Plasma Gun.

Gain Suppression immunity.

buff keyword: suppression_immune

Grants Veteran immunity to suppression dealt by ranged enemies at all times.

Killing an enemy with a Melee Attack grants +25% Ranged Damage and killing an enemy with a Ranged Attack grants +25% Melee Damage. Lasts 6s.

stat buff:
melee_damage
ranged_damage

Killing an enemy with a melee attack grants 25% damage to ranged attacks for 6s; killing an enemy with a ranged attack grants 25% damage to melee attacks for 6s. Active buff duration starts on the respective kill. Stacks additively with other related damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs from weapon blessings.

Allies in Coherency Replenish 20% of any Toughness that you Replenish. +50% Coherency radius.

function: recover_flat_toughness

stat buff: coherency_radius_modifier

This talent does two things:

(1) Increases Veteran's base coherency radius of 8m by 50% to 12m.

(2) Spreads 20% of any amount of toughness generated by Veteran to allies who are in coherency with Veteran. This effect is always active, even if Veteran is at 100% toughness, and considers all toughness replenished by melee kills, talents, weapon blessings, and coherency regeneration. Does not stack with the same talent from another Veteran, each Veteran spreads their amounts separately.

The effectiveness of this talent's toughness replenishment is affected by Tunnel Vision and certain player debuffs like toxic gas.

+20% Damage (Ogryns & Monstrosities).

stat buff: damage_vs_ogryn_and_monsters

Increases any damage against enemies with the ogryn tag (Bulwark, Crusher, Reaper) and against enemies with the monster tag (Beast of Nurgle, Chaos Spawn, Daemonhost, Plague Ogryn). Stacks additively with other damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs from weapon blessings.

Does not buff damage against Captains/Twins who do not have the monster tag.

When you haven't been the target of a Melee Attack for 5s, you start to replenish 5% Toughness per second.

function: recover_percentage_toughness

If not on cooldown, replenishes 5% of maximum toughness every second; the effectiveness of this toughness replenishment is affected by Tunnel Vision and certain player debuffs like toxic gas. The talent goes on cooldown for 5s after Veteran has taken a melee hit or has blocked any enemy melee attack. Does not interact with coherency toughness regeneration.

There is currently a visual bug: Only when connected to game servers, the buff icon does not get updated. It will always show as 'active' in the buff bar. The actual buff provided by the talent (toughness replenished over time) does get activated and deactivated as expected.

Up to +33% Toughness Damage Reduction the more Allies in Coherency.

stat buff: toughness_damage_taken_multiplier

Reduces toughness damage taken by 11% per ally in coherency. Stacks linearly with itself (i.e. 2 allies = 22%, 3 = 33% toughness damage reduction), and multiplicatively with other damage reduction buffs.

Replenish 10% Toughness on Elite or Specialist Enemy Kill, and a further 20% Toughness over 10s.

function: recover_percentage_toughness

Killing an elite or a special does two things:

(1) Immediately replenishes 10% of maximum toughness per kill; can proc multiple times when cleaving.

(2) Additionally per kill, replenishes 2% of maximum toughness per second for 10s. This replenishment over time effect can proc multiple times when cleaving and stacks without a cap (the default HUD displays only up to 15 buff icons at once).

The effectiveness of this talent's toughness replenishment is affected by Tunnel Vision and certain player debuffs like toxic gas.

2.5% chance of +20% Base Damage, +20% Melee Impact & +20% Suppression for 8s whenever an Ally kills an Enemy.

stat buffs:
damage
melee_impact_modifier
suppression_dealt

Whenever an enemy dies to anything but Veteran, there is a 2.5% chance for Veteran to receive a 20% increase to any damage, melee stagger strength, and suppression dealt for 8s; can be refreshed during active duration. The damage buff and stagger buff stack additively with other related buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs from weapon blessings; the suppression buff stacks additively with Keep Their Heads Down!, Ogryn's aura Coward Culling, and weapon blessing Powderburn.

When you kill an Enemy with a Ranged Attack, Allies within 8 metres of the target Replenish 15% Toughness & receive +15% to all Base Damage for 3s.

function: recover_percentage_toughness

stat buff: damage

Whenever Veteran kills an enemy with a ranged attack, any ally who is within 8m of the killed enemy replenishes 15% of their maximum toughness. The effectiveness of this toughness replenishment is affected by Tunnel Vision and certain player debuffs like toxic gas.

Also increases any damage by 15% for all affected allies for 3s; can be refreshed during active duration. Stacks additively with other damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs from weapon blessings.

+30% Damage to Ranged Backstab Attacks.

buff keyword: allow_flanking

stat buff: flanking_damage

Enables flanking. Increases damage by 30% when flanking; stacks additively with the flanking damage buff from Raking Fire weapon blessing, and multiplicatively with other damage buffs and power level buffs from weapon blessings.

'Flanking' refers to ranged attacks executed from within a specific angle[i.imgur.com]behind an enemy's back.

+25% Critical Chance & +60% Sway Reduction while using your Ranged Weapon's alternate fire, but lose 0.75 Stamina per second and an additional 0.1 per shot.

stat buffs:
critical_strike_chance
sway_modifier
spread_modifier
recoil_modifier

While aiming down sights and having more than 0 stamina, grants 25% additional crit chance, 60% sway reduction, 19% spread reduction, and 12% recoil reduction; these buffs stack additively with respective buffs from Executioner's Stance; the spread reduction also stacks with the related buff from the Run 'n' Gun weapon blessing; the recoil reduction also stacks with the related buff from the Powderburn weapon blessing.

While aiming down sights, drains 0.75 stamina per second and an additional 0.1 stamina per shot. When stamina reaches 0, the talent loses its effect and applies a fixed immediate sway.

For example, a Veteran with 7 maximum stamina aiming down sights for 5s and shooting twice during this time will have 7-(5x0.75+2x0.1)=3.05 stamina left after the 5s have elapsed; or 44% as per player HUD. The stamina cost reduction buffs from Invigorated and Celerity Stimm reduce this drain effect.

Note that this talent has no effect on Plasma Gun.

Replenish 1 Grenade(s) every 60s.

Recharges 1 grenade every 60 seconds; does not interact with the 'Enhanced Blitz' difficulty mutator.

You have a 5% chance to replenish a Grenade when you or an Ally in Coherency Kills an Elite or Specialist Enemy.

Whenever Veteran kills an elite or special, grants a 5% chance to restore 1 grenade to Veteran; procs regardless whether Veteran is in coherency with allies or not. Also grants a 5% chance to restore 1 grenade to Veteran when an ally who is in coherency with Veteran kills an elite or special.

+10% Melee Critical Hit Chance & +25% Melee Finesse Bonus.

stat buffs:
melee_critical_strike_chance
melee_finesse_modifier_bonus

Grants 10% additional crit chance to melee attacks and a finesse damage bonus of 25% to melee attacks boosting crit and weakspot damage; only the finesse bonus also applies to melee special actions of ranged weapons. Crit chance stacks additively with other sources of crit chance; finesse bonus stacks additively with other finesse damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs from weapon blessings.

+30% Stamina on avoiding Ranged Attacks by Dodging, Sprinting or Sliding.

function: add_stamina_percent

Replenishes 30% of maximum stamina per dodged ranged attack; has an internal cooldown of 3s. Procs on regular dodges, sliding dodges, and dodges while sprint dodging (note that the is_sprint_dodging[i.imgur.com]condition requires the character to have more than 0 stamina).

The Ghost, Hit & Run and Stripped Down weapon blessings can also proc this talent.

Replenish 15% Toughness and gain +10% Toughness Damage Reduction for 8s on Ranged Weakspot Kill. Stacks 3 times.

function: recover_percentage_toughness

stat buff: toughness_damage_taken_multiplier

Killing enemies with ranged weakspot hits does two things:

(1) Replenishes 15% of maximum toughness; can proc multiple times per shot when cleaving. The effectiveness of this toughness replenishment is affected by Tunnel Vision and certain player debuffs like toxic gas.

(2) Grants stacks (up to 3); stacks last for 8s, can be refreshed during active duration, and are dropped ony by one. Per stack, reduces toughness damage taken by 10%; stacks multiplicatively with itself, up to 27.1% at max stacks (1-0.9³=0.271), and with other damage reduction buffs.

Melee Critical Hits increase Damage by 20% for 6s.

stat buff: damage

Hitting an enemy with a critical melee attack (including melee special actions of ranged weapons) increases any damage by 20% for 6s; stacks additively with other damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs from weapon blessings.

Ammo Crates also restore Grenades. Medi-Packs Heal +100% faster, cleanse Corruption & Replenish 1% Toughness per second.

buff keywords:
improved_ammo_pickups
improved_medical_crate

functions:
reduce_permanent_damage
recover_percentage_toughness

Upgrades the properties of deployables: Lets deployed ammo crates also restore all grenades to players. Lets deployed med packs heal corruption damage up to the next health segment, doubles their healing rate from 6% of max health per second to 12%, and replenishes 1% of maximum toughness per second. The toughness replenishment is also active while on full health.

This talent upgrades all ammo crates and med packs deployed by any player as long as Veteran is 'alive' (this includes being knocked down and waiting for rescue after respawn).

Note that the healing effect is always actively 'fighting' against the initial grimoire_chunk of 40 base corruption damage per book. But since the chunk cannot be removed, this can quickly drain a med pack's limited reserve of 500 health. To a minor extent, this also applies to players who are knocked down within the med pack's 3m radius: Despite the consumption of the health reserve being reduced by 70% when healing knocked down players (the amount of health restored to knocked down players is also reduced by 90%), the med pack still can drain fairly quickly.

+25% Ammo.

stat buff: ammo_reserve_capacity

Increases Veteran's maximum ammo in reserve by 25%, rounds down.

Stun Immunity, Slow Immunity for 6s & restore +50% Stamina when your Toughness is broken.

20s Cooldown.

buff keywords:
stun_immune_toughness_broken
stun_immune
slowdown_immune

function: add_stamina_percent

Every 20s, when Veteran's toughness reaches 0, grants immunity to stuns and slowdowns from both melee and ranged attacks for 6s; lets Veteran move through fire patches without hindrance. Additionally, when toughness breaks, replenishes 50% of maximum stamina.

Improve your chosen Grenade.

Krak Grenade: +75% Damage.
Frag Grenade: +25% Damage & Radius.
Smoke Grenade: +100% Duration.

stat buffs:
krak_damage
frag_damage
explosion_radius_modifier_frag
smoke_fog_duration_modifier

Increases the explosion damage of Krak Grenade by 75%; increases the explosion damage of Shredder Frag Grenade by 25% (does not affect bleeds applied by the explosion), and increases the radii of its epicenter and max range by 25% to 2.5m and 12.5m respectively; increases the cloud duration of Smoke Grenade from 15s to 30s.

The grenade damage buffs stack additively with damage buffs from Bring it Down!, Close Quarters Killzone (if within 30m to the enemy), Competitive Urge, Covering Fire (if applied to Veteran by another Veteran), Exploit Weakness, Infiltrate (if thrown while invisible), Redirect Fire!, Skirmisher, Superiority Complex (against elites), and aura Fire Team.

You can carry 1 extra Grenade(s). 20% chance to throw an additional Grenade (this still only consumes a single Grenade).

stat buffs:
extra_max_amount_of_grenades
extra_grenade_throw_chance

This talent does two things:

(1) Allows Veteran to carry 1 more grenade; stacks additively with the 'Enhanced Blitz' difficulty mutator that adds another 2 grenades to Veteran's maximum grenade capacity.

(2) Grants Veteran a 20% chance to throw one additional grenade when throwing grenades; does not interact with the 'Enhanced Blitz' difficulty mutator. The twinned grenade's fuse time is increased by 0.3s.

+50% Reduced Toughness Damage if above 75% Toughness.

stat buff: toughness_damage_taken_multiplier

While above 75% of maximum toughness, grants 50% toughness damage reduction; stacks multiplicatively with other damage reduction buffs.

If Veteran has bonus toughness (yellow) from Duty and Honour or Zealot's Chorus of Spiritual Fortitude, the talent considers the temporary new maximum for its 75% threshold. For example, with 198 max toughness, the talent will be active as long as Veteran is above 198x0.75=148.5 toughness; however, with 50 bonus toughness, the new temporary threshold is (198+50)x0.75=186 toughness. This temporary threshold lasts until the duration of bonus toughness expires.

+75% Ranged Attack Suppression.

stat buff: suppression_dealt

Increases the amount of suppression dealt to enemies by 75%; stacks additively with related buff from Competitive Urge, Ogryn's aura Coward Culling, and the weapon blessing Powderburn.

+15% Base Ranged Damage when you have avoided Melee Attacks for 8s.

stat buff: ranged_damage

If not on cooldown, increases the damage of ranged attacks by 15%; stacks additively with other damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs from weapon blessings. The talent goes on cooldown for 8s after Veteran has taken a melee hit or has blocked any enemy melee attack.

There is currently a visual bug: Only when connected to game servers, the buff icon does not get updated. It will always show as 'active' in the buff bar. The actual buff provided by the talent (toughness replenished over time) does get activated and deactivated as expected.

+20% Assist Speed & Revive Speed. +20% Movement Speed and Stun Immunity when moving towards a Knocked Down or Incapacitated Ally. Whenever you Revive a Knocked Down Ally, they receive +33% Damage Reduction for 5s.

stat buffs:
revive_speed_modifier
movement_speed
damage_taken_multiplier

buff keyword: stun_immune

This talent does three things:

(1) Always increases Veteran's interaction speed by 20% when reviving knocked down allies, rescuing respawned allies, pulling allies up from ledges, or freeing allies from nets; stacks additively with Revive Speed (Ally) from curios.

(2) Additionally, if an ally is knocked down or incapacitated, grants Veteran immunity to stuns from both melee and ranged attacks and increases movement speed by 20% as long as Veteran is looking towards the ally (view check ignores map geometry); the movement speed buff stacks additively with related buffs from Infiltrate, aura Close and Kill, the small movement speed node, and weapon blessings like Rev it Up.

'Incapacitated' includes: netted (by Trapper), pounced (by Pox Hounds), grabbed (by Chaos Spawn, Daemonhosts, Mutants), consumed (by Beast of Nurgle), hanging from ledge, and waiting for rescue after respawn.

(3) Allies assisted by Veteran gain 33% damage reduction for 5s; stacks multiplicatively with other damage reduction buffs.

+15% Clip Size, rounded up.

stat buff: clip_size_modifier

Increases Veteran's maximum ammo in clip by 15%, rounds up. For example, Veteran with a weapon that has a max clip size of 45 bullets will now have a clip size of 42x1.15=48.3 bullets which is rounded up to 49.

You deal +10% Ranged Damage to targets within 12.5m and up to +25% Ranged Damage to targets further away. Maximum bonus at 30m.

stat buffs:
ranged_damage
ranged_damage_far

Increases ranged damage by 10% at all distances. Against targets beyond 12.5m, ranged damage increases linearly up to +25% at 30m:

+50% Weapon Swap Speed.

stat buff: wield_speed

Increases wield speed by 50%. This reduces the time of wielding actions when swapping item slots (weapons, grenades, stimms, med packs, ammo crates, books, etc).

For example, when switching to Boltgun or Helbore Lasguns in order to enter alt fire (right-click), it takes 1.25s (Boltgun) or 0.83s (Helbore Lasgun) until the shooting/charging actions can be started. These times are reduced by the talent to 0.83s and 0.55s respectively. For other weapons, this talent does not provide significant wield time reductions.

Continuous hits to a Single Target applies 2.5% Brittleness for 5 seconds to the target. Stacks 16 times.

stat buff: rending_multiplier

Repeated melee and ranged hits against the same target apply a rending debuff ('brittleness') to enemies boosting damage against armor types Carapace, Flak, Maniac, Unyielding (including damage of explosions and DoTs); procs on the second hit against an enemy, lasts 5s, and can be refreshed during active duration.

Stacks additively with the unique rending debuff from Exploit Weakness, with other rending debuffs ('brittleness'), and with rending buffs that only boost a character's own damage ('rending').

The first 20% Ammo after a Reload has +10% Ranged Critical Hit Chance.

stat buff: ranged_critical_strike_chance

Grants 10% additional crit chance to ranged attacks as long as the ammo count in the current clip is at or above 80%. For example, with a weapon that has a clip size of 43 rounds, the additional crit chance is granted for the first 9 rounds (i.e. as long as the current ammo in clip percentage is greater or equal to 0.8; 35/43=0.81 but 34/43=0.79).

Your Kills Replenish an additional 5% Toughness.

function: recover_percentage_toughness

Replenishes 5% of maximum toughness on any kill; procs on melee and ranged kills as well as on kills from explosions and DoTs. Procs additionally to weapon blessings like Inspiring Barrage, Reassuringly Accurate, Gloryhunter.

For example, when the talent procs on a melee kill, it replenishes 5% of maximum toughness additionally to Veteran's base 5% of max toughness gained on melee kill. So killing three enemies with a melee attack with 184 max toughness, Veteran would replenish 184x(0.15+0.15)=55.2 toughness (HUD rounds: 56).

The effectiveness of this talent's toughness replenishment is affected by Tunnel Vision and certain player debuffs like toxic gas.

+30% Weak Spot Damage.

stat buff: weakspot_damage

Increases the weakspot damage of melee and ranged attacks by 30%; stacks additively with related damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs from weapon blessings.

+5% Critical Hit Chance for 8s on successful Dodge. Stacks 5 times.

stat buff: critical_strike_chance

Successfully dodging enemy melee or ranged attacks (except Gunners, Reaper, Sniper) and disabler attacks (Pox Hound jump, Trapper net, Mutant grab) grants stacks (up to 5); stacks last for 8s and can be refreshed during active duration. Per stack, grants 5% additional crit chance to melee and ranged attacks. 'Successful dodge' means dodging an enemy attack that is locked on the player with an accordingly timed dodge or sliding action.

The Ghost, Hit & Run and Stripped Down weapon blessings can proc this talent (only against ranged attacks).

Gives +10% Rending to all weapons.

stat buff: rending_multiplier

Grants 10% rending to all attacks boosting damage against armor types Carapace, Flak, Maniac, Unyielding (including damage of explosions and DoTs like bleed and burn applied by Veteran). Only affects Veteran's own damage. Stacks additively with other rending buffs ('rending') and with rending debuffs that are applied to enemies ('brittleness').

2 Stack(s) of Bleed to the target on Melee Hit.

Hitting enemies with melee attacks (including melee special actions of ranged weapons) applies 2 stacks of bleed; up to 16 max bleed stacks on a target. Can't apply bleed through shields.

Bleed: same as other sources of bleed; lasts 1.5s; ticks every 0.5s; refreshes duration on stack application; above average armor damage modifiers across the board, low armor damage modifier against Carapace.

Critical Hits with Las-weapons consume no Ammo.

buff keyword: no_ammo_consumption_on_crits

For Helbore Lasguns, Infantry Lasguns, Laspistols, and Recon Lasguns, allows every shooting action that crits to not consume ammo. Weapons with guaranteed crit squences (Recon Lasguns) don't consume ammo on any of the critical shots.

+6.25% to all Base Damage for 10s after Sprinting or Sliding. Stacks 4 times.

stat buff: damage

Sprinting and sliding actions generate stacks: The first stack after sprint start or slide start is generated after 0.5s, subsequent ones every second. When starting to slide, hitting an obstacle (thereby stopping the sliding action) before 0.5s have passed does not generate a stack. Stacks can be refreshed during active duration.

Per stack, increases any damage by 6.25% (up to +25%); stacks additively with other damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs from weapon blessings.

+15% Base Damage (Elite Enemies).

stat buff: damage_vs_elites

Increases any damage against elites by 15%; stacks additively with other damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs from weapon blessings.

+100% Cooldown Regeneration for 3s on Specialist Enemy Kill.

function: reduce_ability_cooldown_time

Killing a special reduces Veteran's remaining ability cooldown by 1s per second for 3 seconds additionally to Veteran's base ability cooldown rate of 1s per second; can be refreshed during active duration. This would result in a total cooldown reduction of 6s per proc (3s from base rate + 3x1s from talent).

Procs additionally to Concentration Stimm's remaining cooldown reduction effect of 3s per second. Does not interact with Combat Ability Regeneration from curios which only reduces the maximum cooldown of a combat ability.

+25% Reload Speed if your weapon contains Ammo.

stat buff: reload_speed

Increases reload animation speed by 25% if the current ammo count in clip is above 0 when reloading. Stacks additively with reload speed buffs from Marksman's Focus, Volley Adept, Weapons Specialist, the small reload speed node, weapon perks, weapon blessings, and Celerity Stimm.

This also increases the speed of the loading special action of Combat Shotguns.

+10% Melee Attack Speed.

stat buff: melee_attack_speed

Increases melee weapon attack animation speed by 10%. Stacks additively with related buffs from Weapons Specialist and Celerity Stimm.

+30% Reload Speed on Elite & Specialist Enemy Kill.

stat buff: reload_speed

Killing an elite or special increases reload animation speed by 30%. The buff is held until consumed upon reloading. Stacks additively with reload speed buffs from Marksman's Focus, Tactical Reload, Weapons Specialist, the small reload speed node, weapon perks, weapon blessings, and Celerity Stimm.

This also increases the speed of the loading special action of Combat Shotguns.

+X Toughness.

stat buff: toughness

Adds 25 or 15 toughness to Veteran's base maximum toughness of 100 thereby increasing Veteran's max toughness. Stacks additively with other small toughness nodes.

Current max toughness is multiplied by the toughness percentage buffs from curios. For example, at 150 max toughness (Veteran's base 100 and two +25 toughness nodes) with one +15% toughness curio with a +4% toughness perk, Veteran's max toughness of 150 is increased by 150x(0.15+0.04)=28.5 to 178.5 toughness (HUD rounds up: 179).

A character's maximum toughness is the base value that is used in toughness replenished calculations of most talents and blessings.

Availability on tree:
2 (+25 toughness)
1 (+15 toughness)

+10% Toughness Damage Reduction.

stat buff: toughness_damage_taken_modifier

Grants 10% toughness damage reduction. Stacks multiplicatively with other damage reduction buffs.

Availability on tree: 1

0.25s Stamina Regen Delay Reduction.

stat buff: stamina_regeneration_delay

Reduces Veteran's base stamina regeneration delay of 0.75s to 0.5s. This time is the delay before stamina starts regenerating after having spent stamina.

Availability on tree: 1

+10% Ranged Damage.

stat buff: ranged_damage

Increases the damage of ranged attacks by 10%. Stacks additively with other related damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs from weapon blessings.

Availability on tree: 1

+15% Melee Damage.

stat buff: melee_damage

Increases the damage of melee attacks by 15%. This also applies to melee special actions of ranged weapons. Stacks additively with other related damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs from weapon blessings.

Availability on tree: 1

+10% Reload Speed.

stat buff: reload_speed

Increases reload animation speed by 10%. Stacks additively with reload speed buffs from Marksman's Focus, Tactical Reload, Volley Adept, Weapons Specialist, weapon perks and blessings, and Celerity Stimm.

This also increases the speed of the loading special action of Combat Shotguns.

Availability on tree: 1

+1 Stamina.

stat buff: stamina_modifier

Adds 1 stamina to Veteran's base stamina of 2 thereby increasing Veteran's maximum stamina to 3. Stacks additively with stamina values from curios, weapon perks, and weapon stamina templates. Each segment of the stamina bar in the player HUD represents 1 stamina.

Availability on tree: 1

+5% Critical Hit Chance.

stat buff: critical_strike_chance

Grants 5% additional crit chance to all attacks that can crit; stacks additively with other sources of crit chance.

Availability on tree: 1

+5% Movement Speed.

stat buff: movement_speed

Increases movement speed by 5%. Stacks additively with movement speed buffs from Infiltrate, Leave No One Behind, aura Close and Kill, and weapon blessings like Rev it Up.

Availability on tree: 1

Throw a frag grenade that explodes after a short delay. Applies 6 Stacks of Bleed to all Enemies Hit, causing Damage over time.

Starting version: (Frag Grenade)
Throws a frag grenade that explodes.

• Fuse time: 1.7s
• Max velocity: 30 (aimed, quick throw), 8 (underhand)
• Deals very low direct impact damage
• Suppression radius (explosion): 15m
• Explosion radius: 10m (max), 2m (epicenter)
• Explosion damage: enemies inside epicenter will take more damage, enemies between epicenter and max radius will take less damage depending on distance; base damage epicenter: 500, base damage between epicenter and max radius: 200 (linearly decreases to 0 at max radius); average armor damage modifiers across the board, very low armor damage modifier against Carapace; explosion damage is increased by 'rending' / 'brittleness', by Skullcrusher blessing (while staggered), by Combat Stimm, and by damage buffs from Bring it Down!, Close Quarters Killzone (if within 30m to the enemy), Competitive Urge, Covering Fire (if applied to Veteran by another Veteran), Exploit Weakness, Focus Target! (if tagged), Grenade Tinkerer, Infiltrate (if thrown while invisible), Redirect Fire!, Skirmisher, Superiority Complex (against elites), and aura Fire Team
• Stagger: Deals high stagger against all enemies including monstrosities; against Captains/Twins only without void shield
• Ammo: replenishes all grenades per grenade pickup

Augmented version: (Shredder Frag Grenade)
Throws a frag grenade that explodes applying bleed to all enemies within its explosion radius.

• Same properties as starting version
• Applies 6 stacks of bleed on explosion; is the same bleed like other sources of bleed: 16 max stacks on a target, ticks every 0.5s, lasts 1.5s; bleed damage is increased by the same sources (except Grenade Tinkerer) that also buff the grenade's explosion damage (see above). Additionally, bleed damage is affected by perks of currently wielded weapons and the following buffs from:

Throw a grenade that deals devastating Damage. Sticks to Flak Armoured, Carapace Armoured & Unyielding Enemies.

Throws a grenade that can home in only on Carapace armor and that always sticks to armor types Carapace, Flak, and Unyielding before it explodes for high single target damage.

• Fuse time: 1s (thrown), 1s (stuck on target)
• Max velocity: 30 (aimed, quick throw), 8 (underhand)
• Deals very low direct impact damage
• Suppression radius (explosion): 6m
• Explosion radius: 1.5m (epicenter), 5m (max)
• Explosion damage: enemies inside epicenter will take more damage, enemies between epicenter and max radius will take less damage depending on distance, enemies that the grenade sticks to always take epicenter damage; base damage epicenter: 2400, base damage between epicenter and max radius: 500 (linearly decreases to 0 at max radius); inside epicenter, good armor damage modifiers across the board and very high armor damage modifiers against Carapace, Flak, Unyielding; outside epicenter, decent armor damage modifiers across the board; explosion damage is increased by 'rending' / 'brittleness', by Skullcrusher blessing (while staggered), by Combat Stimm, and by damage buffs from Bring it Down!, Close Quarters Killzone (if within 30m to the enemy), Competitive Urge, Covering Fire (if applied to Veteran by another Veteran), Exploit Weakness, Focus Target! (if tagged), Grenade Tinkerer, Infiltrate (if thrown while invisible), Redirect Fire!, Skirmisher, Superiority Complex (against elites), and aura Fire Team
• Stagger: Deals high stagger against all enemies including monstrosities; against Captains/Twins only without void shield
• Ammo: replenishes all grenades per grenade pickup

How homing and sticking work:
Homing in on a target and sticking to a target are two separate mechanics. Void shields (Captains, Twins) cancel both mechanics.

(1) Homing only applies to regular throws, not to underhand throws; the grenade can only home in on Carapace armor hit zones; if the projectile is within 3m to a valid target after an effective minimum lifetime of 0.33s, it will automatically connect to the closest valid armor hit zone; valid hit zones are:


(2) Sticking applies to both regular and underhand throws; the grenade can only stick to Carapace, Flak, and Unyielding armor hit zones; as soon as the projectile directly connects with a valid armor hit zone, it will stick to the target until explosion; for example, Dreg Bruisers have Flak armor hit zone on head and Unarmoured on body so the projectile can only stick to their head and never to their body.

Regardless of the hit zone the projectile sticks to, the explosion will always target center mass hit zone dealing the same damage.

Throw a grenade that creates a lingering smoke cloud for 15s. The cloud blocks line of sight for most enemies and reduces the sight range of enemies inside it.

Throws a grenade that explodes leaving a smoke cloud behind. The smoke impacts enemies' perception.

buff keyword: concealed

• Fuse time: 1.5s
• Max velocity: 30 (aimed, quick throw), 8 (underhand)
• Deals very low direct impact damage
• Initial explosion deals no damage and very light stagger, 10m radius
• Suppression radius (explosion): 15m
• Smoke cloud effect: 5.5m radius, lasts for 15s; disables HUD nameplates of allies; players inside smoke are considered 'concealed' which alters the line of sight distance requirement of enemies during target selection; if a player holds aggro of an enemy who is in melee combat, the smoke has no effect on enemy perception; if a player holds aggro of an enemy who is in ranged combat, then the smoke makes the ranged enemy stop firing and change positions (this includes Sniper; Reaper is less likely to reposition); Gunners and Reaper when they are inside the smoke cloud's area of effect themselves keep firing at a player's last known position; Pox Hounds cannot lock on a player who is inside smoke cloud's area of effect and will keep circling the cloud; Trapper and Flamers need to be closer to players in order to start their shooting action; no effect on Bombers, Mutants, Poxburster
• Ammo: replenishes all grenades per grenade pickup

Replenish 1% Ammo for you and Allies in Coherency whenever any of you Kill an Elite or Specialist Enemy. This can only occur once every 5s.

Killing an elite or special replenishes a fixed percentage of max ammo in reserve for Veteran and allies who are in coherency with Veteran; has an internal cooldown of 5s. Allies receive the ammo amount replenished by Veteran. Does not stack with the same aura from another Veteran, multiple Veterans spread their replenished ammo amounts separately.

For example, with a weapon that has 180 bullets max ammo in reserve: On the first proc, Veteran regains 180x0.01=1.8 bullets which is rounded down to 1; the leftover amount of 1.8-1=0.8 is carried over to the next proc. On the second proc, Veteran regains 180x0.01+0.8=2.6 bullets which is rounded down to 2; the leftover amount of 2.6-2=0.6 is once again carried over to the next proc, and so on. This means, in this case, Veteran gets 1 bullet on the first proc, 2 bullets on the next four procs, and then 1 bullet again on the fifth proc, and so on.

Starting version: (Scavenger)
Replenishes 0.75% of max ammo in reserve per elite or special kill.

Augmented version: (Survivalist)
Replenishes 1% of max ammo in reserve per elite or special kill.

+5% Damage for you and Allies in Coherency.

stat buff: damage

Increases any damage by 5% for Veteran and allies who are in coherency with Veteran. Stacks additively with other damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs from weapon blessings. Does not stack with the same aura from another Veteran.

+5% Movement Speed for you and Allies in Coherency.

stat buff: movement_speed

Increases movement speed by 5% for Veteran and allies who are in coherency with Veteran. Stacks additively with movement speed buffs from Infiltrate, Leave No One Behind, the small movement speed node, and weapon blessings like Rev it Up. Does not stack with the same aura from another Veteran.

Enter Ranged Stance for 5s. When in Ranged Stance you instantly equip your ranged weapon, deal +25% Ranged Damage, +25% Ranged Weakspot Damage, replenish 10% Toughness each second, and your Spread and Recoil are greatly reduced.

Human-sized Elite Enemies and Specialist Enemies are highlighted for 5s.

Killing a highlighted Enemy refreshes the duration of its bonuses for 5s.

Base Cooldown: 30s.

function: recover_percentage_toughness

stat buffs:
ranged_damage
ranged_weakspot_damage
ranged_impact_modifier
spread_modifier
recoil_modifier
sway_modifier
fov_multiplier

buff keywords:
stun_immune
slowdown_immune
suppression_immune
uninterruptible
ranged_alternate_fire_interrupt_immune
deterministic_recoil

Ranged Stance
• On activation, forces a swap to ranged weapon playing a short wield animation
• On activation, adds yellow outlines to all specials and to all human-sized elites (Gunners, Mauler, Plasma Gunner, Radio Operator, Ragers, Shotgunners) for Veteran; specials are highlighted at any distance, human-sized elites are highlighted within 50m of Veteran
• Grants a plethora of buffs to Veteran: immunity to stuns and slowdowns from both melee and ranged attacks; immunity to suppression; Veteran's attack actions (including being in alt fire mode) cannot be interrupted as part of hit reactions; weapon spread reduced by 38%; weapon recoil reduced by 24%, randomness in recoil patterns replaced by a fixed one; weapon sway reduced by 60%; and slightly zoomed in field of view
• Base duration: 5s
• Killing an outlined enemy refreshes Ranged Stance's active duration by 5s; for Veteran, this also refreshes the duration of outlines that are already on enemies and adds new outlines to enemies that may have met the conditions to be highlighted after the initial activation
• Ends early when Veteran gets disabled

Starting version: (Volley Fire)
• Increases both ranged damage and ranged weakspot damage by 15%; stacks additively with related damage buffs
• Increases ranged stagger strength by 50%

Augmented version: (Executioner's Stance)
• Increases both ranged damage and ranged weakspot damage by 25%; stacks additively with related damage buffs
• Increases ranged stagger strength by 100%
• Replenishes 10% of maximum toughness per second; the effectiveness of this toughness replenishment is affected by Tunnel Vision and certain player debuffs like toxic gas
• On activation, adds outlines to all specials and human-sized elites who are currently within 50m of Veteran; outlines last for 5s and are only visible to Veteran

Executioner's Stance now outlines Elite & Specialist Enemies for Allies in Coherency for 5s.

Enables Executioner's Stance's outlines on all specials and human-sized elites to be visible to allies who are in coherency with Veteran. Outlines visible to allies always last 5s.

Executioner's Stance now outlines all human-sized Ranged Enemies.

Additionally to all specials and human-sized elites, enables Executioner's Stance to add outlines to Scab/Dreg Stalker and Scab Shooter.

Executioner's Stance now outlines all Ogryn, Captain, and Monstrosity Enemies and has its duration increased to 8s.

This talent does two things:

(1) Additionally to all specials and human-sized elites, enables Executioner's Stance to add outlines to enemies with the ogryn tag (Bulwark, Crusher, Reaper), to enemies with the monster tag (Beast of Nurgle, Chaos Spawn, Daemonhosts, Plague Ogryn), and to enemies with the captain / cultist_captain tag (Captains, Twins).

(2) Increases Executioner's Stance's duration of 5s to 8s.

Replenishes your Toughness & Staggers all Enemies within 9m.

Base Cooldown 30s.

Releases a shout around Veteran.

function: recover_max_toughness

Sets Veteran's toughness to 100% upon activation.

Shout:
• Holding the ability button shows shout range; preview can be block canceled
• Radius: 9m
• Applies stagger to all enemies within radius; stagger strength decreases with range; does not apply to enemies who are already staggered
• Forces a heavy stagger against enemies if the shout's base stagger strength fails to successfully stagger the target; forced stagger lasts for 2.5s and does not apply to enemies who are already staggered; Captains/Twins can only be staggered without void shield

Voice of Command now also provides you and Allies in Coherency with +50 Toughness for 15s. This can exceed your maximum Toughness.

stat buff: toughness_bonus_flat

For Veteran, Voice of Command adds 50 bonus toughness (yellow), additionally to setting Veteran's toughness to 100% upon activation.

For allies who are in coherency with Veteran, Voice of Command adds 50 toughness upon activation if their toughness is below 100%; if their toughness is at or above 100%, Voice of Command adds 50 bonus toughness (yellow) to allies. Charismatic increases the effective range of this talent.

Veteran's bonus toughness lasts for 15s, can stack additively with itself and with bonus toughness from Zealot's Chorus of Spiritual Fortitude. It acts as a 'second' toughness bar and can be replenished by melee kills, respective talents, and weapon blessings.

Voice of Command revives Knocked Down Allies within Radius, but also reduces that Radius by 33% & increases your Ability Cooldown by 50%.

stat buffs:
combat_ability_cooldown_modifier
shout_radius_modifier

Enables Voice of Command to revive knocked down allies within its radius; the revive effect ignores map geometry. Reduces Voice of Command's shout radius by 33% to 6.03m. Allies who are not in this radius do not get revived whether they are in coherency with Veteran or not.

Also increases Voice of Command's maximum cooldown by 50% to 45s. This max cooldown increase stacks multiplicatively with max cooldown reductions from Psyker's aura Seer's Presence, Combat Ability Regeneration from curios, and the difficulty mutators that reduce ability cooldowns by 20%.

For example, a Veteran with this talent playing the Maelstrom mutator (-0.2) with three 4% Combat Ability Regeneration curios (-0.12) will have a Voice of Command max cooldown of 30x1.5x(1-0.32)=30.6 seconds.

Replenish all Toughness and enter Stealth for 8s, gaining +25% Movement Speed. Leaving Stealth Suppresses nearby Enemies. While in Stealth, and for 5s afterwards, you have +30% damage. Attacking makes you leave Stealth.

Base Cooldown: 45s.

buff keyword: invisible

stat buffs:
movement_speed
damage

function: recover_max_toughness

Sets Veteran's toughness to 100% upon activation.

Stealth:
• Become invisible for 8s dropping all enemy aggro: melee enemies reaggro immediately to another target if possible; firing ranged enemies stop shooting, then reaggro if possible; Daemonhosts keep aggro once they are locked on a player
• Can still take damage during invisibility
• Stealth breaks on: hitting enemies with a melee attack; any ranged attack; throwing a grenade (quickthrow or aimed); finishing a rescue/revive/pull up/free from net action
• Stealth does not break on: throwing a grenade (underhand; Krak Grenades do break stealth on underhand throws if the projectile hits an enemy); pushing enemies; using stimms (on self or team mates); exploding grenades that have been thrown before going invisible; active DoT ticks; operating the Auspex device or minigame
• Stealth grace window: actions that would break stealth do not if they are executed within 0.5s after going invisible; this allows, if timed accordingly, for one additional melee or ranged attack that already benefits from all applicable buffs but does not break stealth yet
• When stealth ends, staggers enemies within 9m (except for ogryns, Mutants, monstrosities, Captains/Twins) with increased stagger duration
• When stealth ends, against suppressible enemies within 9m, additionally applies very high suppression

Breeds that can be suppressed: Armored Groaner, Groaner, Dreg Gunner, Dreg Stalker, Radio Operator, Reaper, Scab Gunner, Scab Shooter, Scab Stalker

While invisible, does two things:

(1) Increases movement speed by 25%; stacks additively with related buffs from Leave No One Behind, aura Close and Kill, the small movement speed node, and weapon blessings like Rev it Up. The movement speed buff lasts only for the duration of invisibility (8s).

(2) Increases any damage by 30%; stacks additively with other damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs from weapon blessings. The damage buff lingers for 5s after invisibility has ended.

-90% Threat for 10s on leaving Stealth.

stat buff: threat_weight_multiplier

When invisibility ends, grants a threat weight reduction of 90% for 10s. Generally, there are multiple weight factors (e.g. distance, number of occupied slots, being disabled, being targeted by a monster, etc) that are used during combat to calculate the score which determines the enemy target selection of player units. This talent grants a weight multiplier which manipulates that overall score in the player's favor to make it less likely to be targeted by enemies.

Infiltrate provides +50% Toughness Damage Reduction for 10s on leaving Stealth.

stat buff: toughness_damage_taken_multiplier

Upon combat ability use, immediately grants 50% toughness damage reduction; the 10s duration starts when invisibility ends. Stacks multiplicatively with other damage reduction buffs.

Your Combat Ability gain +1 charge, but +33% Cooldown.

stat buffs:
ability_extra_charges
combat_ability_cooldown_modifier

Adds a second charge to the combat ability. The cooldown of the second charge only starts after the first charge finished its cooldown.

Also increases Infiltrate's maximum cooldown by 33% to 59.85s; this max cooldown increase stacks multiplicatively with max cooldown reductions from Psyker's aura Seer's Presence, Combat Ability Regeneration from curios, and the difficulty mutators that reduce ability cooldowns by 20%.

For example, a Veteran with this talent playing the Maelstrom mutator (-0.2) with a Psyker who has the cooldown aura (-0.1) will have an Infiltrate max cooldown of 45x1.33x(1-0.3)=41.8 seconds.

On Ability use, for 10s any Weakspot hits gain +20% Strength.

When using Infiltrate, this is applied after leaving Stealth.

stat buff: weakspot_power_level_modifier

Upon combat ability use, increases the power level of melee and ranged attacks against weakspots by 20% for 10s. Stacks additively with itself and with other power level buffs from weapon blessings, and multiplicatively with damage buffs.

'Power level buffs' increase the base power of attacks which benefits damage, stagger, and cleave (where applicable).

For Infiltrate, the buff is active immediately, only the duration starts when invisibility ends.

+15% Close Damage for 10s on Combat Ability use.

When using Infiltrate, this begins on leaving Stealth.

stat buff: damage_near

Upon combat ability use, increases any damage by 15% for 10s against enemies within a 12.5m radius. Stacks additively with itself and with other damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs from weapon blessings. Beyond 12.5m, the damage buff decreases linearly until it loses its effect at 30m:


This also increases the damage of explosions and DoTs as long as Veteran stays within 30m to the enemy.

For Infiltrate, the buff is active immediately, only the duration starts when invisibility ends.

Ranged Weakspot kills grant 3 stack(s) of Focus. Up to 10 Max Stacks. Lasts 5s. Stacks are refreshed on Weakspot Hit and decay one at a time.

Each stack of Focus grants +7.5% Ranged Finesse Strength, and +1% Reload Speed.

stat buffs:
ranged_finesse_modifier_bonus
reload_speed

Killing an enemy with ranged weakspot hits generates 3 Focus stacks (up to 10); can proc multiple times per shot when cleaving. Stacks can be refreshed by melee and ranged weakspot hits and are dropped one by one every 5s.

Per Focus stack, grants a finesse damage bonus of 7.5% to ranged attacks boosting crit and weakspot damage, and 1% increased reload animation speed. The finesse bonus stacks additively with other finesse damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs from weapon blessings. The reload speed stacks additively with buffs from Tactical Reload, Volley Adept, the small reload speed node, weapon perks, weapon blessings, and Celerity Stimm. The reload speed buff also increases the speed of the loading special action of Combat Shotguns.

+15% Rending when at, or over, 10 stacks of Focus.

stat buff: rending_multiplier

When at or above 10 Focus stacks, grants 15% rending to all attacks boosting damage against armor types Carapace, Flak, Maniac, Unyielding (including damage of explosions and DoTs). Only affects Veteran's own damage. Stacks additively with other rending buffs ('rending') and with rending debuffs that are applied to enemies ('brittleness').

Increase Maximum stacks of Focus from 10 to 15.

Allows Veteran to generate up to 15 Focus stacks, up from 10.

+4% Toughness Replenishment for each stack of Focus. In addition, weakspot kills restore 10% Stamina.

stat buff: toughness_replenish_modifier

function: add_stamina_percent

This talent does two things:

(1) Per Focus stack, increases the amount of any toughness replenished by melee kills, talents, and select weapon blessings (only Momentum) by 4% (up to +40% or, if Long Range Assassin, up to +60%). Does not apply to coherency toughness regeneration. Stacks additively with the related buff from Ogryn's aura Stay Close! and with toughness replenishment debuffs like being in toxic gas.

For example, at 10 stacks, a Veteran with 152 maximum toughness killing an enemy with a melee attack replenishes 152x(0.05+0.05x0.4)=10.64 toughness (HUD rounds up: 11).

(2) Ranged weakspot kills replenish 10% of maximum stamina; can proc multiple times when cleaving. Procs separately to the stamina replenishments from Duck and Dive, Get Back in the Fight!, Invigorated, and Target Down!.

Gain Focus Target every 1.5s (Stacks 4 times).

Tagging an Enemy applies the Focus Target stacks to them, causing them to take +5% additional Damage for each stack, and resets your Focus Target stacks to 1.

stat buff: damage_taken_multiplier

Every 1.5s, generates 1 stack of Focus Target (up to 4). Upon tagging an enemy, applies the amount of Focus Target stacks currently held by Veteran to the enemy (always at least 1), and resets Veteran's stack count to 1. Per applied stack, increases any damage taken by the tagged enemy by 5%. This debuff lasts for the duration of the tag (25s), can stack up to 6 times on a single enemy, and stacks multiplicatively with itself, up to ~34% increased damage taken at 6 stacks (1.05⁶=1.34). Enemies tagged with this talent are highlighted yellow.

The current amount of stacks on an enemy can only be overwritten if the amount of new stacks to be applied is higher than the current one. Successfully overwriting stacks refreshes the 25s duration. Multiple Veterans can overwrite each other's tags unless there are already 6 stacks on the enemy.

If an Enemy you have Tagged dies, replenish 5% Toughness and 5% Stamina for each stack of Focus Target applied, to you and Allies in Coherency.

functions:
recover_percentage_toughness
add_stamina_percent

When a tagged enemy dies, replenishes a fixed amount of 5% maximum toughness and 5% of maximum stamina per Focus Target stack on that enemy to Veteran and allies who are in coherency with Veteran. This is up to 30% of maximum toughness/stamina (at 6 stacks).

Focus Target Max Stacks increased to 6.

Allows Veteran to generate up to 6 Focus Target stacks, up from 4.

If an Enemy you have Tagged dies, grant +2% Damage for each stack of Focus Target applied, to you and Allies in Coherency. Lasts 10s.

stat buff: damage

When a tagged enemy dies, increases any damage by 2% per Focus Target stack on that enemy for Veteran and allies who are in coherency with Veteran; lasts for 10s. This is up to 12% increased damage (at 6 stacks). Stacks additively with other damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs from weapon blessings.

Gain Ranged Specialist on Melee Kills (Stacks 10 times). Gain Melee Specialist on Ranged Kill (Stacks 1 times.)

When you wield your Ranged Weapon, you activate your Ranged Specialist effect to gain +2% Ranged Attack Speed, +2% Reload Speed, as well as +33% Ranged Critical Hit Chance on your next shot, per stack. Lasts 10s.

When you wield your Melee Weapon, you activate your Melee Specialist effect, to gain +15% Melee Attack Speed, and 10% Dodge Speed and Dodge Distance. Lasts 10s.

Ranged Specialist

stat buffs:
ranged_attack_speed
reload_speed
ranged_critical_strike_chance

Melee Specialist

stat buffs:
melee_attack_speed
dodge_speed_multiplier
dodge_distance_modifier

Grants different buffs when switching weapons: Gain Ranged Specialist after switching from melee to ranged; gain Melee Specialist after switching from ranged to melee. Ranged Specialist can stack up to 10 times; generates 1 stack per enemy killed while melee weapon is wielded. Melee Specialist stacks once; generates 1 stack per enemy killed while ranged weapon is wielded.

Generally, whether a stack is allocated to Ranged Specialist or Melee Specialist depends on which weapon is wielded when the enemy dies; kills by DoTs allocate stacks accordingly; kills by DoTs while having other items wielded (grenade, med pack, ammo crate, Auspex device, books, luggables, etc) do not generate any stacks.

Ranged Specialist does three things for 10s:

(1) Increases ranged attack animation speed by 2% per stack (up to 20%), stacks additively with Celerity Stimm.

(2) Increases reload animation speed by 2% per stack (up to 20%); stacks additively with related buffs from Tactical Reload, Volley Adept, and the small reload speed node, weapon perks, weapon blessings, and Celerity Stimm. The reload speed buff also increases the speed of the loading special action of Combat Shotguns.

(3) Grants 33% additional crit chance to ranged attacks per stack to the first shot after weapon swap; this crit chance increase caps out at 3 stacks in practicality, granting a guaranteed ranged crit.

Melee Specialist does two things for 10s:

(1) Increases melee attack animation speed by 15%; stacks additively with related buffs from Trench Fighter Drill and Celerity Stimm.

(2) Increases dodge speed and dodge distance by 10%.

Activating Ranged Specialist replenishes up to 3.3% of your missing ammo in your Clip from your Reserve, rounded up, for each stack.

function: Ammo.transfer_from_reserve_to_clip

When activating Ranged Specialist, per stack, transfers 3.3% of a weapon's missing ammo in clip from the current ammo in reserve to the clip. For example, Veteran with 6 Ranged Specialist stacks and a weapon missing 36 bullets in its clip transfers 36x0.33x(6/10)=7.128 bullets which is rounded up to 8.

Activating Melee Specialist and Ranged Specialist replenishes 20% Toughness. 3s Cooldown for each.

function: recover_percentage_toughness

When activating Melee Specialist, replenishes 20% of maximum toughness. When activating Ranged Specialist, replenishes 20% of maximum toughness. Each replenishment has a 3s internal cooldown that is tracked separately. The effectiveness of this toughness replenishment is affected by certain player debuffs like toxic gas.

Activating Melee Specialist restores 20% Stamina and grants 25% Stamina Cost Reduction for 3s.

function: add_stamina_percent

stat buff: stamina_cost_multiplier

When activating Melee Specialist, does two things:

(1) Replenishes 20% of maximum stamina. Procs separately to the stamina replenishments from Duck and Dive, Get Back in the Fight!, Target Down!, and Tunnel Vision.

(2) Reduces any kind of stamina drain by 25% for 3s. This includes stamina drain by blocking, pushing, sprinting, jumping while sprinting, dodge-cancelling sticky attacks, and Deadshot. Stacks multiplicatively with the same buff from Celerity Stimm and Zealot's aura Zealous; also stacks multiplicatively with sprinting cost reduction buffs from Sprint Efficiency on curios, ranged and melee weapon perks, and Celerity Stimm; also stacks multiplicatively with block cost reduction buffs from Block Efficiency on curios and melee weapons.