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Exactly the kind of vibe I was hoping to achieve! Glad you found the channel and are enjoying the videos <3

This is precisely one of the core reasons I decided to start uploading videos. I'm happy they could help you in such a way have more success in your missions. I hope they help you have more fun as a result as well! GL2U!

This comment is awesome, thank you so much. I'll definitely keep doing Grail Knight videos as he's also my favorite career by far! Appreciate you taking the time to write the kind words as always, thanks for watching! <3

I've been trying to play Huntsman on some Legend missions to kinda get into playing him again but I just haven't been feeling like bringing him into Cataclysm much. And since videos are me just naturally having fun playing the game, I can't just simply force myself to play Huntsman if I'm not feeling like it. And when I'm not feeling the career, the gameplay suffers, and I end up making mistakes that lead to losses as a result unfortunately. I've been trying to get into Handmaiden a bit more. I play her a lot on Legend but never really felt like bringing her up to Cataclysm, so I've been practicing playing her more recently. Handmaiden I expect to get a couple videos with. I'm not sure yet if I'll do Huntsman. And out of all 20 careers, I'll probably never play a Witch Hunter Captain game unfortunately. I just don't vibe with that career too much, despite how strong it is. But I don't know, maybe things might change in the future and I'll get a video playing him too. I did do A Parting of the Waves map on Unchained though with a Wildfire and Coruscation staff build that I will be uploading later this week. Thanks for watching! <3

​@@CataTide I understand, I didn't know you had problems with Huntsman. Sorry for my ignorance, but What does it mean <3?

It's a heart! I heart and favorite just about every comment anyone posts but "<3" is an extra I threw in cause I know I asked people to comment, and you did! I appreciate you watching the video and taking the time to do so.

I hope they have helped you achieve success in your games and most importantly, have more fun whilst playing them! Thank you for watching <3

I appreciate this a lot. I've been getting better at the commentary as I do it more and more. I do have fun playing no matter what! Even if the game is a loss I at least got to slay rats and kill chaos up to my defeat! Glad you found the channel <3

It's still wild to me that the channel got suggested out to anyone at all. I fully expected to have a few hundred videos uploaded and not have more than a dozen views on any video. Really just felt like with the small community Vermintide has, combined with the fact that there are already established content creators who have posted Vermintide content, some with 10's or 100's of thousands of views, and continue posting Vermintide content, that I would have just been swept under the rug by the algorithm. Glad you found the channel <3

I talk about this again in another video I just recorded because I didn't feel like I discussed this well enough, though I don't think I did a good job talking about it in that video neither xDDD Individual pace relative to the rest of the team is important, and very often if I need that temp hp from kills, I will go out of my way to take point at the right moments and advance to get kills on elites ahead of the rest of the team when I know they won't be too far behind. Not to mention that when I'm fighting enemies side by side with teammates, my strikes as Grail Knight with this build is stronger strike for strike than anyone else is capable of. I'll get those last hits more often because my attacks literally deal more than twice the damage most other careers can deal with their attacks. And on Legend difficulty, also the fact that I can one tap all infantry, and one tap stormvermin with headshots makes it easier to secure those kills as well. The choice of which temp HP talent can be very subjective to play style. I really just wanted to urge players to understand which temp HP would be better for them based on what exactly they are trying to accomplish with their build, their gameplay in how well they are executing that style, and/or which temp HP could help make up for certain mistakes they keep making. Ideally of course, you take ZERO damage in a game, and don't even need to make use of any temp HP at all, but for when we do make mistakes and take damage, choosing the right temp HP talent to recover from those mistakes, and in a way that we can feasibly do so with whatever build we are running on whichever career we choose, can be very important.

I never planned on making money off it in the first place. Just want to try to bring more people into Vermintide and have fun playing it. Glad you are enjoying the videos! Thanks for helping boost the channel!

Definitely will. Last game I uploaded for Zealot I tried something a little different and it didn't turn out so well so I'm honor bound to correct that at some point. The playlist is small, but I'm slowly growing each and every playlist as time marches on. Here's those Zealot games if you're interested... ua-cam.com/play/PLYacGCx4RAokCVKwIVlRC9nXSj9WvJTei.html

@@CataTide cheers!

Hell yeah dude, lucky games are still victories, we take those!

Not random at all, it's come up fairly often since I've started the channel but I appreciate you asking it nonetheless and I'll keep answering them in earnest to anyone who continues to ask. I've done true solo. It's fun but I find playing with the bots a lot more relaxing if I want to play by myself and not reapply my deodorant in between every mission xD With that being said, I'm gonna go on a bit of a tangent and hope you don't mind the long rant, and say that I also don't think doing true solo missions for the channel is achieving the goal that I want. 99% of people are never going to play modded realm Vermintide. Fatshark has even said that 1% or less of the player base plays modded realm. I want people who are watching to get into playing Vermintide themselves and understand how they can win and have more fun playing the game, and showing off modded realm content doesn't help that at all in my opinion. It would be purely for entertainment purposes to upload such content, which as I said, isn't my main goal. There's no point in doing videos that 99% of people aren't going to be able to relate to in their own games. There is often very different pacing involved, and more complex strategies that people aren't going to understand that you don't have to apply to a normal game. The game isn't as difficult as people who upload Cata3 Deathwish Onslaught videos would have you believe. I want to showoff the core gameplay loop and prove that you can have plenty of fun with just that. I want to show how people can succeed not just on Cataclysm, but on Legend too, or even Champion, which is the 2 difficulties the majority of players end up looping the most. It's very often why you'll see me take the time to explain where item spawn points are, or strategies that I like to utilize while playing with other real people, so anyone who finds the channel can see, and hopefully help them have more fun playing Vermintide and succeed in their missions. I want more people to get into playing the game and stick with it. Left for Dead still posts up 10's of thousands of players every day despite it being as old as it is. I believe Vermintide should too but it isn't. I want to try to help change that. With all THAT being said...If anyone is still reading this rant, I am going to demonstrate a little hypocrisy and be uploading a game some time next week I just recorded that WILL be purely for entertainment purposes that involves the weekly with Twins and Vanguard xD xD xD

@@CataTide Ha, no worries, everyone needs to rant sometime, gonna be happily waiting for that weekly run, thanks for the answer!

@@CataTide As someone still learning and getting into the game, I personally completely agree with your rant. True solo is entertaining but is so Alien to me whereas doing it with bots I can much better understand and is something I even want to eventually mimic.

I agree with your assessment but I want to add that I've seen a couple Waystalkers make use of the Hagbane bow to devastating effect, and just about near trivializing the Cataclysm games I played with them. They are outliers in a pool of players I've come across, but from what I've witnessed, it would appear with the right skill and knowledge, Hagbane on Waystalker can be made more effective than even Battle Wizard at clearing hordes and large packs of enemies, while also maintaining a deadly threat against specials, all at greater range than any other career. So really, the way I see it, is it comes down to how you vibe with the weapon, and if you can picture and foresee exactly where you need to land those shots to achieve the most effective devastation it is capable of. Outliers they are though. I think your assessment is the general consensus of skill most people have on the matter and I fall into that category as well. I can't make Hagbane work the same way I've seen those certain people utilize it. One of the things I like to say is not every weapon is going to be good for everyone, but every weapon has at least someone who is good with it. Perhaps that's what Fatshark intended for some weapons when they designed/balanced them the way they did.

​@@CataTide while i agree that waystalker can make great use of the hagbane, i'd argue that's an effect of the waystalker and how powerful she can make any ranged weapon. In the case of the hagsbane its because she ignores all the downsides of it. and while agree that some weapons are designed with singular careers in mind, i do not think this is the case with the hagsbane and waystalker. firstly because it is available to all her careers but primarily because both the shade and the waystalker have unique interactions with it via talents. waystalker with ricochet and shade with exploit weakness. The latter specifically mentioning poisoned enemies. of which only one source is available to shade of my knowledge: hagsbane. this tells me that they meant for hagsbane to be generally usable by all careers with some having options geared towards it, but failed to achieve that. With the only remnant of usability being by waystalker due to her ability to flat-out ignore ammo shortages via kurnous' reward and theoretically getting up to 4 poison cloud procs per arrow via ricochet

@ O it's most certainly because of how Waystalker buffs up all her ranged weapons that she uses that makes Hagbane particularly effective on her, you don't need to argue that. It sounds like you agree with what I said in the video, that the Elf has mostly anti-armor/anti-large weapons in her repertoire. Which is why I mention why I love Dual Swords for clearing hordes because that's what I tend to struggle with when I play Elf, and let whatever ranged weapon I bring do most of the anti-armor damage, since Dual Swords struggle in that department themselves. Since you got me curious to theory craft some other builds you can use with Hagbane on careers besides the obvious Waystalker...You can try Shade with Exploit weakness and still make use of it as a general do everything ranged weapon. Run Bloodfletcher talent to get ammo back on backstabs, and Hungry Wind for an extra 15% power, for a total of 35% increased damage with it. Run Barrage on the bow for even more increased ramping damage. You might not be getting a bunch of procs like Waystalker can with ricochet, but you should still be able to deal significant enough damage to take large groups of enemies down and especially use it to deal damage against Monsters still. Hungry Wind's ability to pass through enemies should also help you proc Fletcher to get ammo back more easily. I just came up with this build on the spot so I'm not sure how good it could actually work, but it doesn't sound like it's too bad. I'll have to try it out in a game later. www.ranalds.gift/heroes/9/223332/26-8-1-6/62-4-5-1/3-2-1/3-1-2/2-3-1 You can maybe run a build with Sister of the Thorn too. Use Brair's Malice, for guaranteed crits after using your Thornwake, maybe using Tanglegrasp thicket to get nice big clumps of enemies. And with Lingering Blackvenom talent, the Hagbane shots will crit on this huge group of enemies you've just tangled up, and explode in a secondary aoe for even more damage and apply your passive perk for increased damage. Run Bonded Spirit, or Incandescence, whichever flavor you prefer to get more ability casts to proc more crits. Run Scrounger on the bow since you are guaranteed crits to get some ammo back and keep doing your combo. I'll definitely try this out in a game later as well. www.ranalds.gift/heroes/18/233222/23-8-1-6/62-4-5-6/3-2-1/3-1-2/1-3-1

yea, i absolutely agree that elf focuses perhaps a bit too much on anti-large/armor. id actually go conservative shooter on shade. scoring consecutive headshots whenever possible. the ammo gen of fletcher is just too low and inconsistent. its a toss-up between exquisite huntress and exploit weakness for me. im not sure the extra 20% is enough to reduce the number of damage ticks needed to kill infantry units hit by the indirect damage of the aoe by any meaningful degree. but i'd have to test this out. meanwhile exquisite huntress helps take down elites while doing damage to all the infantry around them. im not sure if the extra damage from exquisite huntress would apply extra tick damage to the aoe poison or not or just the direct poison damage of the arrow. again, needs some testing. as for sott, id go ironbark thicket instead of tanglegrasp. as enemies will actually push themselves tightly against the thicket and the poison goes through it to the other side. an absolutely great way to stop a horde in its tracks with sott hagbane.

update: exquisite huntress does increase the poison tick damage on the direct arrow hit, but not on the aoe poison cloud exploit weakness increases both direct hit poison damage and aoe poison damage. whether or not by a relevant degree I still need to test.

There's more than a 1000 combinations of careers, builds, and maps I haven't done yet and I'm planning on going through as many as I can without burning out. I still wanna have fun when I play them and not seem like I'm trying to force myself. I haven't done Parting of the Waves yet, but I do have a game of Trail of Treachery I've done with Battle Wizard already if you're interested. ua-cam.com/video/IQXCPynKj6Q/v-deo.html

Thanks! Some of the older videos when I first started are a little dull but I think I'm getting better at the commentary as I do more. Glad you're enjoying them.

Like I mentioned in the video, it is highly specialized towards deleting monsters, and makes every other enemy a bit more difficult to handle. You can get around ~1800-2000 damage I think with each Cloak of Pain cast. So the ability to be able to guarantee a second Cloak of Pain cast immediately following the first one, means you deal exactly enough to delete Chaos Spawn, Rat Ogres, and Minotaurs on Cataclysm without them even aggroing on you as they have 4000 HP. Stormfiends only have 3000 HP on Cata + the super weak spot on their back which is why you see them go down a lot easier. Bile Trolls also only have 3000 HP but technically you are burning down an extra 1500 when it goes into the regen state and getting that second cast off as soon as they recover from the regen animation makes them the easiest prey of all and you can often take a Troll down without it having made a single attack.

Thanks! I'm getting better at recording them as I do more and more. Huntsman, and in that same vein, Witch Hunter Captain, are my two least played careers so I don't feel as confident doing a Cataclysm game with them. I just never got a certain satisfaction out of playing them that I managed to get with the other 18 careers. I'll try to make an effort to play them in a game and see how it turns out. You'll most often find me in Legend Quickplay. I run into a lot of regulars fairly often in NA and sometimes people from the EU. I have a lot of fun getting to play with the hundreds of different people that come and go throughout the weeks. And I've certainly played with thousands of different people over the years. Chances are, anyone who has played public Legend games for at least a couple hundred hours, has run into me already. There are some really cool people who regularly play Cataclysm too that I play with fairly often when I do decide to jump into Cata.

Thanks! Glad you enjoy the video! I don't play modded. I enjoy playing with most of the community, and most people are in the Official Realm.

LOL, I think the Elf pushed him OVER the ledge with the ability which you can see a lot easier if you slow it down, but I like this take a lot more.

And Tony Stark said, "We'll lose'. You said 'we'll do that together too'. Well guess what Captain. We lost. And you weren't there." If I'm on point, I will often take an aggressive forward position, but I maintain about 5-15 seconds ahead of the rest of the team or at least the 2nd person behind me typically. If I see myself start to widen that gap of time, I will in various ways wait for them to catch up. I'll take longer off the beat paths and look for items/books. I'll go out of my way to get some random ambient mobs. I will always stop before a drop and check to see how my teammates are doing and if they have things under control. Once I see them start to advance properly without resistance than I'll drop and continue on. I've had probably about a dozen people in my entire time playing, tell me that I was moving too fast for them, and it was usually because those people wanted me to play like a bot and be literally at their hip because they didn't know how to even manage basic infantry. I don't boot up Vermintide to babysit other people through their games. But if you got jumped by an assassin and no one was around to get it off you, then it speaks to what I mentioned about splitting up but still staying in range/line of sight of each other in case things like that happen. It's one thing to not engage enemies in the rear and act as a lookout/guard at the front, it's another to completely ignore your teammates who are covering the rear and put yourself 15+ seconds of distance ahead of them or beyond a section that drops and you can't get back to them. Playing at your own pace is important for your own fun, but finding the balance to fit that individual pace into the overall pace of the team also takes practice, time and a bit of patience in some cases, which that person you mentioned may have lacked. Try to refrain from the insults of course. It doesn't help your frame of mind in the long run. Instead, try to imitate the type of behavior and gameplay of how you wish that person would have played. I too have had team mates who run off without a second thought to any of the rest of the team and have suffered game ending consequences. Because of that, I try to always make a conscious effort to be aware of my teammates and what they are handling in any moment. But I also like to fight my own fights because I know I am more than capable, so I try to trust my teammates to do the same, and just be there if they need me in those critical moments or vice versa. Most people, in my experience, don't play like the person you mentioned. Even if people lack the practice and experience, they often have the patience to wait for you and watch your back. Don't let one guy spoil the game for you. Glad you are enjoying the videos!

@@CataTide Ok. I understand. Thanks for the answer. Will try to keep improving. Thanks again!

Real simple lets play video maybe? No editing, and nothing super try hard. Akin to just relaxing and having fun playing a video game after a long day.

100% this

There is a lot more luck attached to doing Chaos Wastes then Adventure Mode. I firmly believe that the core of the game is in Adventure Mode, mainly the Skittergate Campaign, and that is what most people are going to play starting out. As such it is where most people will learn the basics of Vermintide and where I want most of my videos to take place in. You have to rely on not just the basics when you go into Chaos Wastes, but also the hopes that you'll get the boons you need to keep going, not to mention the bots get neutered in Chaos Wastes and aren't capable of getting boons themselves, so they get out outpaced more and more as the expedition goes on. It's not impossible to do solo Cata runs in Chaos Wastes, but it is incredibly difficult, especially depending on which career you try to do it with. I see Battle Wizards most often achieve such success soloing Chaos Wastes on Cataclysm but that's just me personally. The fact that you got to the end of a Chaos Wastes run on Cataclysm, and by yourself with just the bots, means you certainly aren't a bad player. Most people wouldn't even make it pass the first map so give yourself more credit. Just remember that the difficulty ceiling that Vermintide is capable of is damn near endless. Don't burn yourself out on the frustration of extra difficult content unless you are having fun doing so of course. Good luck to you!

@@CataTide thank you for responding and the words of advice I just wanted the cosmetics from the chaos waste but I havent tried battle wizzard so I’ll try it out and see if I get a at least one character completed thank you

If you ever manage to get Battle Wizard with both Lingering Flames, and Famished Flames, her damage potential is unlike anyone else. The only thing you'll really struggle with are monsters but that becomes a game of kiting and blocking. You gotta be careful of course since they'll be hard aggro'ed on you because of the DOT ticks, so maneuvering around other enemies and trying to take them out simultaneously while kiting the monster will usually be the make or break in a situation most of the time. But when all you have to focus on is who's on fire and who's not, the game operates a little differently and is much easier in my opinion. Good luck

It can be easy to get stuck in a "death spiral" in certain areas of a map or throughout, where you are feeling overwhelmed by the enemy numbers and don't keep pace with advancing the map/objective, you run low on resources, your bots eventually go down, and then sometimes, so do you. I take on average about ~28-30 minutes to complete most of these missions and that's usually me taking my time to explore the map and willingly engage enemies. Some people speed run them and complete them even faster in around ~20 minutes or less by dragging hordes or monsters through a map as far as they can take them or into certain areas where the game has to abide by certain rules it places upon itself in how it spawns enemies (for example, some areas in a map don't spawn any enemies at all, and some areas only spawn a very specific set or number of enemies). I have some games where I am posting up the numbers you describe yourself getting, but those games are usually my longer ones, at 35+ minutes. Check out this lucky game where I finish in less than 16 minutes because the game didn't spawn any Monsters or Patrols to slow me down. It's on Cataclysm but the stats make it look like I just finished a game on Legend: ua-cam.com/video/2ATw1cXDjNg/v-deo.html You could be lingering too long in some areas or backtracking too much, causing more hordes for you to fight than necessary which can quickly inflate your numbers. I have an upcoming Engineer game on the same map you mention, Festering Ground, that I've yet to upload that is 37 minutes long. I have over 1300 kills, 75 specials, and over 130 elites. When you are taking too long in a game for any reason, whether it be you are struggling, or the map is just long, it is inevitable that you will post up these kinds of numbers. Have you recorded how long these missions are taking you? Are they longer than 35+ minutes? I have another game coming up that is 40 minutes long and again, the numbers in that game are very high, 1300 kills, 70+ specials, 130 elites. You say you have 1500+ kills so I'm a little under in that category, I suspect though it may be because you are compensating for your bots going down a lot and having to do more of the work. Also, are you using the same bots I am using with the same setups? My bots pull a lot of weight quite often, and very rarely go down so they detract from some of my numbers as well in all categories. How the game spawns enemies definitely has nothing to do with your FPS. Try recording how long your average game is taking you. If it is longer than 35+ minutes, the numbers you describe are not out of the ordinary, especially if your bots are going down and you are having to pull extra weight. If they are less than 35 minutes, maybe around my usual time of 28-30 minutes, but your bots are still very often going down, it is still not unusual to be forced to post up such numbers to make up the difference of the bots not pulling as much weight.

​@@CataTide > [Recordings] I don't record my games due to storage space issues, but the matches do feel kind of long often, yes. > [Enemy Numbers] Well, recently I had a run with two mates on War Camp, we were getting quite the numbers on the very beginning, as if the AI director cranked up the intensity level to the top from the start. If it's not that on lower frames you get more, it might be that they spawn earlier or something. I will test your Bot builds, and I'm looking forward to your Engineer video, that game I had yesterday on that very map seemed unbeatable, I'm not velsix. I do try to be everywhere at once with my Bots, so to say, which as you pointed out, is quite possibly dragging me down. You did mention areas where the game is set to not allow that much 'traffic', hey, I'm really curious about that, do you know the ones? Anyway, thank you very much for the response.

@@jeansynklar386 Just record the time, like look at your phone before you start a match and take note of how long you've been in game when you are finished. Most Legend missions should only take 15-20 minutes, and I think that's the sweet spot. Cataclysm can start to feel overwhelming compared to that in terms of time spent in game. Any game over 35 minutes in my opinion is going to start to feel like a slog. I too have had games where it seems like the AI director halves some of the timers for hordes or specials spawning. I sometimes wonder if it is because they act as the "triggers" for a map. Instead of a certain patrol or monster spawning at a certain point, you get extra "Roaming"/Ambient enemy spawns, extra specials, or extra hordes. Sort of like what you see in the Chaos Wastes but on regular maps. I can confirm for you it is not anything to do with FPS. Sometimes maps seem more difficult then usual. I've taken notice of the difficulty spike, failed, looked at the stats for the game and said to myself that was a ton of specials for just being half way through the map. And when I run the map again, it'll feel more normal. Take for example, War Camp. Once you get inside the Camp at the end, specials stop spawning, enemies become fixed infantry inside the Fort. Mission of mercy, the mid event in the brewery and the finale area don't spawn anything until you trigger the events. Trail of Treachery doesn't spawn anything in the finale area until you trigger the event. Once you get to the finale area in Righteous Stand, spawns tend to quiet down. Almost every map has some area which are safe spots where timers for enemies are halted. The game sometimes may give you an encouraging "boost" by sending a wave of infantry at you if you are lingering in a safe area for too long, but you might take note that it's smaller than usual. Some people will speed through the map because it quite literally will mean you face less enemies since hordes and specials are on a fixed timer throughout most of the map that are constantly counting down to the next wave that spawns them. I don't recommend this in a team setting though, you should stick together as you move through a map and not leave each other behind. But you shouldn't be lingering around in areas for longer than you need to neither. Try to constantly be pushing the map even during hordes if you can manage. If a horde spawns behind you for example, drag them along until they crash into you and only then fight them. Don't backtrack or wait around for them. Same for specials. If they aren't impeding your path forward, just keep moving forward.

@@CataTide Will keep in mind that of the duration. Given the failure rate, I've not felt like moving quickly because it's had adverse effects, but finding oneself without knowing what to do besides fighting what one's been met with, is highly unideal, and I have that a lot.

@jeansynklar386 I completely understand what you mean, and you'll find in most of my videos I've been uploading that I am no stranger to mistakes. I make them quite often especially because I'm trying to non-chalantly talk while I play, and a lot of my experience is built on countless failures. I hope by demonstrating how you can recover from those mistakes or what action in any given situation you could/should be making, that I can help provide a blueprint for you to improve your own gameplay, and most importantly, have more fun playing Vermintide and slapping some rats. The game is definitely intense sometimes, but no one should feel on edge from playing it, unless of course they like that kind of punishment. To each their own XD

They are Ale's dropped by the dwarf as Ranger Veteran. It's one of his level 20 talents called Drunken Brawler. Every special killed grants a 50% chance to drop an Ale. Each Ale grants 3% attack speed and 4% damage reduction for 5 minutes. It can stack up to 3 times.

@CataTide thanks for the reply! That seems like a nice bonus to have when playing with bots. Also, I've been watching your vids recently, and I really appreciate how you walk me through how to use the grail knight's combos with the shield and lobgsword combo, etc. I started playing a week ago but played lots of darktide, and it's kind of jarring being given to little info about the weapon stats or combos in game in VT2. I'd love to see more vids like the one where you showed how to use shield and bretonnian longsword, but maybe do another career like footknight or hunter

​@@soragbo2 Thanks! A lot of what I do when I play is very natural to me at this point, so it can be difficult to dissect exactly what I'm doing and explain it in a comprehensive way that is easy to understand. I'm still very new to making videos but I'm getting better at explaining things as I record more and more. I'm glad you find them useful! I'll definitely continue going more in depth with certain builds and weapons as I continue to upload more games of them so others can experience the same fun as I do. Unfortunately, Bretonnian Sword and Shield is restricted to Grail Knight only, so you'll only find gameplay with that particular weapon locked to just Grail Knight. I don't play Huntsman too much, but I have uploaded a few Foot Knight games with some builds I find fun on the channel. Here's a playlist to those Foot Knight games if you're interested: ua-cam.com/play/PLYacGCx4RAonbyy11ADtUkyLXBzFSJO-i.html

@CataTide sorry if I didn't explain clearly, I meant it would be good to see more vids with the other kruber careers that had to explain the optimal use of the weapons similar to how you did it in your videos about the grail knight sword and shield, if that makes sense (sense each career has some unique weapons). But I wanted to ask, if I wanted to run the Bret sword and shield for stagger and horde clear, and then wanted to take a specialist weapon to deal with armored enemies, what would you recommend? I know a lot of people like executioner sword, but I thought it would be cool to take the warhammer or mace (kind of like a medieval knight) :D what do you think?

@@soragbo2 You can certainly make use of any of those weapons you mentioned against armored enemies of course! I recommend equipping all of them in the Keep and doing some practice swings first. Understand how any of the light attacks flow into heavy attacks and vice versa. You can get a feel for which attacks are more damaging to armored enemies using the Stormvermin dummies in the Keep. Try to get a feel for what situation each of the attack profiles would be good in, and then practice implementing that in a real game. Get a feel for the push attack and how that flows into other attacks as well. Get a feel for using your block to cancel your combo chain and see how that feels on any weapon and if it would be a useful mechanic to use in combat. You see me block cancel with the Bretonnian Longsword a lot so I can do repeat Light 1 attacks against low level infantry like Skavenslaves. Fact of the matter is, not everyone is going to like every weapon in the game, but every weapon in the game has had at least someone who has made it look good. Don't be afraid to experiment with other weapons until you find something that makes your brain feel good when you use it. But as you progress and get better at the game, you may find that you are able to make better use out of weapons you previously may have thought weren't good.

I was taking a little break during New Years. I'll get some more videos uploaded over the weekend.

I have all the improved logic choices on, which I think is the default. The only thing I know I messed with is how they use healing, which I set to "When Wounded" for all their choices and "When Wounded And Low" for Zealot. If you ever do a deed that has the sudden death modifier, try to remember to set it back to "When Hurt" so they actually use heals.

@@CataTide Ty you are the best <3

You certainly can do the same thing with Waystalker with a swift bow or hagbane bow! I would say it may be a little more difficult, as she doesn't have as much damage reduction as Bounty Hunter can achieve, which can make certain mistakes extra punishing, and also doesn't have a melee weapon with a special attack like Saltzpyre's Rapier, but you can definitely pull off a meme of zero melee kills such as this on her as well.

Everybody's gotta start somewhere. Glad you're enjoying the videos!

Fr, the only constant v2 content creator that i actually enjoy.

I don't play too much Zealot so I'm not really practiced with some of the other weapons like Billihook, and the Axe and Falchion which I know are huge favorites on Zealot and are super powerful. I default to the Flail because of how brain dead easy it is to use. I'll play another game soon and get a better showing with it <3 I hope you like tomorrow's video I got lined up with Saltzpyre much more! It's Bounty Hunter with zero melee kills and pistols only, which I am much more practiced with!

@ always gonna be tuning in 😎

I run boon of Shallya because this team comp specifically is just a bunch of healing. I get healing from the Mercenary's Morale Boost, Unchained's Bomb Balm, and my own ability from Exhilarating Vapors, and it also increases my healing from the stagger temp HP talent which dual hammers procs fairly well. Boon just gets a lot of value in this sense. My biggest weakness personally is when I take BIG hits and need to recover that HP quickly, which boon of Shallya helps with better than Barkskin can. Barkskin is good if you are having trouble with instances of multiple and repeated damage. It will not help you if you are only taking single big hits. So if you are having trouble with assassins, warpfire throwers, gatling gunners, standing in poison winds, getting gobbled up by storms, or are having trouble reacting fast enough to hordes getting the surround on you, than yeah, Barkskin can be your friend. I don't typically have trouble with most of those things that I can't recover from though, so I run Shallya to recover from those things faster for when I make my next big mistake. I am actually running 10% power vs Chaos and attack speed on my weapon. You can run the Block cost on the BOT specifically if you want to though. Block cost reduction is only really useful when you are forced to block. Running at least 30%, which I do on the necklace, can help keep you from getting your guard broken and staggered if you need to do some emergency blocks against unexpected attacks. But ideally, you should be eliminating the enemies in front of you, staggering them, or dodging them, not holding your block up against them just to get inevitably guard broken and overwhelmed. The only time you are FORCED to block, is when you are stuck in the animation of reviving a team mate. Block cost is good, so is Block/Push angle in certain cases where you feel surrounded and want bigger push arc to get more enemies off your back as you reposition for better space, and stamina can give you a little bit extra block (not as efficient as block cost reduction) but is mainly good for having an extra push available to you. Block cost reduction, block/push angle and stamina are all great defensive properties, you just need to know where and when they are most effective and which ones you may want/need to compliment how you like to play.

@@CataTide Hey. Thank you so much for the reply it was super insightful and helpful. I'm still learning this game so stuff like that really helps and these videos are really great to watch and help learn. <3

I do have a game of Zealot that I've been holding off on. It's not the best cause I was trying something different than I usually play on Zealot but I'll upload it anyway. I'll have to play another sometime soon with my usual build that is more suitable to my tastes.

The weapon skins are the ones you get from the Weaves game mode which you need the Winds of Magic DLC for. You can certainly run block cost reduction on the shield if you want. I don't tend to just stand around with my shield up though and let enemies attack me so 60% block cost isn't necessary if you're adamant about keeping enemies staggered. The only time the block cost is truly useful is when I switch to it to pick up downed allies and I'm forced to block attacks during the revive animation. But having 5 shields with 30% is usually enough even in those situations. Running the extra block/push angle can help you push enemies off of you in a larger circle if you get surrounded and need to create some space and move to a better position. Alternatively, you could also run extra stamina if you wanted to as well if you want an extra push + shield bash attack. Block cost reduction, block/push angle and stamina are all great defensive properties, you just need to know where and when they are most effective and which ones you may want/need to compliment how you like to play. I don't recommend movement speed for every career but movement speed is reliable. It's always on. Having the movement speed combined with Grail Knight's inherent 10% bonus from his perk gives you 15% extra move speed and that's nothing to scoff at. The fact that Grail Knight doesn't have any gap closing abilities like Slayers Leap for example, or Warrior Priests invulnerability bubble, means the only things he can truly rely on are his shield, and move speed. You can catch up to specials quicker, search for items faster, outpace your teammates if you desire to take point and secure elite kills ahead, catch up to your teammates if they are leaving you in the dust or if you need to assist them, kite and maneuver around hazards like storms or gas more easily, maneuver around hordes a little easier which makes you harder to hit, disengage hordes more easily if you want to chase a special. You can still run the crit chance if you want to be more effective against hordes in particular, but I find the movement speed to be more impactful throughout my games.

​@@CataTide thanks for fast reply, liked n subbed for that. Came back from long break n didnt even knew there was nerf and buffs all around 😂 The slash is finally better and I didnt even knew, ty for video! Ye was asking if 30% is enough for res and I guess it is, good to know. And I also agree it's better to have something on all the time than having a " chance" for more dmg, so move speed does make sense on GK. Keep doing Sigmars work for the best PvE game out there!