I'm not too adept at using Bolt Staff, but I'm not gonna say it's bad in any way. I have seen people utilize Bolt Staff on every Sienna Career to great effect. It can take a lot of practice getting the timing down for max power bolt shots in every situation throughout a game. It can leave you just as vulnerable as using the Crank Gun on Engineer. Practice learning how to instinctively dodge away from danger whilst wielding it and you can make great use of it doing chunks of damage to every enemy type.
Yeah, it's fantastic and fun, especially with her level 30 talent, Dissipating Rictus. I do more DPS with that build than any other one I run on her. Talking about it right now makes me want to hop on Vermintide.
As a new player is there anything i need to know in regards to crafting ? I’ve seen ppl say to wait and others say to do as i please so I’m quite confused on what the optimal choice would be
It really depends on how much use you’ll get out of crafting. It might be better to wait if you’re less experienced and not at or near the maximum power level. Any crafted gear will eventually become obsolete as you progress and get higher drops from chests, forcing you to swap weapons to keep up with the rising difficulty. Recrafting the same weapons repeatedly as your power level increases is possible, but those would be better resources spent perfecting items at the maximum power level. When I was brand new, I didn’t craft at all. But when I started over for PC years later, I crafted right away and stuck with the same weapons all the way to Legend difficulty because I was experienced enough to make it work; people still clowned me for using blues and greens tho lol. If you're struggling, I’d recommend rerolling properties and traits. Don’t aim for perfection; try something universally applicable, like attack speed. Crafting a fully regulated build can wait.
It can seem like a far off goal with a lot of stuff in between, and in some cases it just might be depending on how fast you are able to progress in difficulty, but try to constantly strive to get veteran (red) items at 300 item power. Anything less than that, is just part of your path to achieve such. You may have to start with some greens, and blues, and work your way slowly up to orange level items, eventually striving for just 300 power level items of any rarity, and then maybe 300 power level items consisting of all orange items, but after that you will break in 300 power red items. Don't stress yourself rerolling stats too much until you get to the red item level. You definitely can if you want to. Maybe you want a particular stat boost that can help you ever so slightly get the edge you need to win your next game, which is important. But those RNG rerolls and be quite the headache sometimes. So, something to keep in mind is, red items always reroll stats at the highest possible value, taking the headache out of those less than perfect numbers every other rarity of gear gives you when you craft and reroll them. I promise you that once you get a full set of red items on a career, and the ability to reroll them to whatever stats you would like, maybe even have multiple red items in your inventory to switch back and forth to for different builds and experimentation so you don't have to worry about the need to reroll anything, the game opens up entirely, and the possibilities of every weapon and talent combination on every career will start to jump out to you. The game becomes completely different at this level and is much more fun.
Crankgun is a good playstyle. But is boltstaff anygood with pyromancer. How would that run go?
I'm not too adept at using Bolt Staff, but I'm not gonna say it's bad in any way. I have seen people utilize Bolt Staff on every Sienna Career to great effect. It can take a lot of practice getting the timing down for max power bolt shots in every situation throughout a game. It can leave you just as vulnerable as using the Crank Gun on Engineer. Practice learning how to instinctively dodge away from danger whilst wielding it and you can make great use of it doing chunks of damage to every enemy type.
Yeah, it's fantastic and fun, especially with her level 30 talent, Dissipating Rictus. I do more DPS with that build than any other one I run on her. Talking about it right now makes me want to hop on Vermintide.
As a new player is there anything i need to know in regards to crafting ?
I’ve seen ppl say to wait and others say to do as i please so I’m quite confused on what the optimal choice would be
It really depends on how much use you’ll get out of crafting. It might be better to wait if you’re less experienced and not at or near the maximum power level. Any crafted gear will eventually become obsolete as you progress and get higher drops from chests, forcing you to swap weapons to keep up with the rising difficulty. Recrafting the same weapons repeatedly as your power level increases is possible, but those would be better resources spent perfecting items at the maximum power level.
When I was brand new, I didn’t craft at all. But when I started over for PC years later, I crafted right away and stuck with the same weapons all the way to Legend difficulty because I was experienced enough to make it work; people still clowned me for using blues and greens tho lol. If you're struggling, I’d recommend rerolling properties and traits. Don’t aim for perfection; try something universally applicable, like attack speed. Crafting a fully regulated build can wait.
It can seem like a far off goal with a lot of stuff in between, and in some cases it just might be depending on how fast you are able to progress in difficulty, but try to constantly strive to get veteran (red) items at 300 item power. Anything less than that, is just part of your path to achieve such. You may have to start with some greens, and blues, and work your way slowly up to orange level items, eventually striving for just 300 power level items of any rarity, and then maybe 300 power level items consisting of all orange items, but after that you will break in 300 power red items. Don't stress yourself rerolling stats too much until you get to the red item level. You definitely can if you want to. Maybe you want a particular stat boost that can help you ever so slightly get the edge you need to win your next game, which is important. But those RNG rerolls and be quite the headache sometimes. So, something to keep in mind is, red items always reroll stats at the highest possible value, taking the headache out of those less than perfect numbers every other rarity of gear gives you when you craft and reroll them. I promise you that once you get a full set of red items on a career, and the ability to reroll them to whatever stats you would like, maybe even have multiple red items in your inventory to switch back and forth to for different builds and experimentation so you don't have to worry about the need to reroll anything, the game opens up entirely, and the possibilities of every weapon and talent combination on every career will start to jump out to you. The game becomes completely different at this level and is much more fun.