Keep in mind that there is a difference between cleave that dictates how many enemies you can pierce in one attack and the armor penetration that dictates how easily you can crack that armor open. For instance the shield and hammer is good at killing hordes with high cleave while the shield and axe are great against armored targets but don't work well against hordes because of bad cleave. Armored targets incude: Rattling gunners, warpfire throwers, Stormvermin, Chaos warriors, maulers (only the head). However weapons with bad cleave usually tend to have not only better armor piercing but also higher shield breaking potential and damage. Different attacks with the same weapon can have very different properties though. The stamina, effective block and shove angle are not the only measure of defense for a weapon. The lighter your weapon the better it is at dodging. This includes dodge distance but also the amount of effective dodges you can do in a row. Shoves are better than blocks if you manage to stagger your opponent. It creates more space and buys time, cancels other attacks you didn't see coming or even attacks that were meant for a teammate. Good luck shoving a chaos warrior though. Berserkers and plague monks require patience. It's not a bad idea to just block/dodge them and let a teammate handle attacking them. Consider using your ultimate to either kill or stagger them. Also... don't eat overhead strikes. Storm vermin, Maulers and chaos warriors all have them and they are truly nasty. Get into the habit of avoiding them at all costs because they are easy to dodge, hard to block and can almost oneshot you on higher difficulties. It's a bad idea to look at your statboard at the end of the mission too much. If you want to achieve something great there try to minimize your damage taken or maybe specials killed. Don't minimize your damage taken by not helping the team though. It's a bad idea to trade hits in this game. If you do then make sure you're in a situation where it's either very very important you get that guy dead (like a low health troll) or you are in a situation where you can generate massive amounts of temporary hp anyway AND there is a significant benefit to it. For instance a slayer might want to jump into a horde with his ult and take some hits to the back before his teammates can help him because this allows him to kill so much that his ult stays active permanently and you can beat the horde back to a saver position. Note that "beat the horde back" does not suffice for taking such a risk. It's the "saver position" that justifies the play.
09:01 "If you're a tank you should always try to get the bosses attention" DO NOT do that on Legend or Cataclysm; People will get mad at you if you take boss aggro from boss dps (especially headshot dependent ones like Bounty Hunter or Piercing Shot Waystalker). Just let them do their thing
Yes, it is dependent on the situation, though. If you have an Ironbreaker and a Shade it works fine, but if you have a waystalker and an ironbreaker it is better to just keep the mobs away from the dmg-dealer.
Important thing to note: the blightstormer's tornado follows the exact same rules for movement as other enemies, so it's can't go over any terrain to make a straight line to your location. This is crucial to be able to avoid it when you have to deal with a horde at the same time.
'ironbreaker is the best anchor a team can have' i mean at pure defence i agree completely, but as a foot knight main i would like to say there are other equally powerful anchors for slightly different scenarios. They can all tank, they can all clutch, and they are all important. PLAY ANCHORS PEOPLE
I realised how impotant having an anchor is when i used my shield bash on a patrol to immobilise the entire elite group and other teammates demolished the entire patrol in seconds. If used my Exec Swords charged attacks sure it one shots elites but we would be surrounded very fast. As almost all the Vermintide Vets say finishing the mission is more impotant than getting the most kills.
Oof, greathammer>halbert hahaha…no. Halbert is great at horde clear, elite/monster dmg the only problem it has is it got power crept by Bret Longsword, Greathammer on cata will have you overwhelmed cuz you are not killing fast enough. Shields have shield bash for hordes but i guess you were trying to explain cleave vs armor pen so an oversight I guess Zealot glass cannon? Just no that title belongs to Bounty Hunter, Zealot has tons of survivability. An ok introduction video, pretty good explanation of the basics, but it does have some bias that could be seen as misinformation. Im guessing you play mostly on Legend cuz some of the things you omitted aren't too much of an issue until you try Cata.
I prefer the halberd over the hammer as well. I wasn't saying it's better, I just tried to take two weapons that most players definitely played, no matter the experience. Halberd is the better weapon, but harder to use for the broad player base than the great hammer. I sadly never had people experienced enough around me to constantly win in Cataclysm or Legendary. Explaining Zealot in a video that talks about so many topics at once will bore the majority of viewers, that's why I kept it short. If you are not good and play Zealot, you will die in no time, that's what I meant with glass cannon. Overall, this Video is meant for people who want to level up their skills, not for people who already have their play style figured out. It's meant to give players, getting into Vermintide II, a good fundament to build on.
@@ToBeGoated Fair enough, GH does perform good enough on lower difficulty. I still think Zealot could have used better wording, lower HP for dmg boost is a common enough mechanic in games nowadays to be understood easily by most player. As for getting better in Legend or Cata, my recommendation is to just unshackle yourself from the vault farming mentality, just play on Legend and Cata. You will lose a lot but it will also force you to become good very quickly, and by not farming you will not be annoyed by the lost of book. Vaults are quantity over quality anyways and by getting better you'll get a steady stream of them instead of the occasional Emp vault.
I got over 1k hours in Darktide and its making me wanna play V2 again, havent played vermintide since its launch, but this definitely has me wanting to play it again!
'the zealot is a glass cannon'... excuse me, what? He's literally living off thp, can straight out ignore fatal dmg all the while boosting his own dmg output. His survivability and the resulting gameplay is literally bordering on being a meme unless you play on Cata + (i.e. Weaves or Modded.) All in all nice effort on the guide but... if you're a beginner starting with Vermintide there's more comprehensive guides out there from people with more experience. If you're intermediate and wanna step up your game... there's more comprehensive and detailed mechanics guides (as in literally libraries worth of knowledge) out there from people with.. you guessed it, more experience. Still giving a thumbs up for covering Vermintide at all. ;)
I could have talked about the zealot for 5-10 min alone but I decided not to. Attention span is to short in most people out there. I internationally didn't go into detail with most things. This guide is meant to give people a fundament to build apon, not to talk about every detail I learned while playing the game out of a passion. But thanks for taking the time and writing a comment I appreciate it.
I think its really important that you need to mention standard bearers in the elite sections because holy FUCK they are a massive run ender solely because new players dont bother tsking down their standards, makes hordes borderline impossible to kill
I sadly forgot to mention them. I agree they are a big problem. I think they are even in the Category of Special not an Elite. But sadly I can't just add them to the Video now 😕.
Dont take this any bad way i know you have only 400 hours on the game i give you some tip as veteran player with over 2000 hours on game and playing only peregrinaje now that footage with sister of thorn where you using onehanded sword its really bad game play one handed sword is second most op weapon after bretonian sword and you using like half of the potential with that onehande sword you need to get your mechanics down for horde clear go push attack light attack 1 cancel repeat for elites stop spaming only heavy attacks its really bad you need to go heavy attach light attack cancel and repeat when you get those mechanics down you can solo cataclysm with no problem
is it just me or does the gameplay look slowed down at points? i mean like the footage itself was slowed down in editing, not that the player is being slow/methodical (though there's no shame in doing that if you prefer to play that way). anyway, something not quite about gameplay but just as important imo: don't leave a game until it's over! i see way too many people drop out of games when there is 1 person left. never underestimate someone's ability to clutch a game; handmaidens, ironbreakers, foot knights, and battle wizards are practically guaranteed to save a "doomed" game in the right hands.
Really nice video! Thanks so much for the good advice. Vermintide 2 is a lot of fun considering every career is viable even though some seem (and likely are) more powerful than others. Would love to see a video from you talking about some of the things the game doesn’t tell you, since there’s a lot to unpack in that department.
Glad you enjoyed it! What exactly would be one of the topics that the game doesn't talk about. Because, as you say, there is a lot the game expects you to figure out on your own.
You could have just said "the battle wizard is the best in the game". No seriously, famished flame + flaming sword + THP on stagger and spam of first heavy attack, melts anything and gives so much THP you are immortal even when eating hits on legendary.
Hey! Rly good vid. I'm a new player, spent like 20-30h with the game and so far rly rly enjoying it. Wanted to ask the numeric hp-s and the teammate cd-s and ammos are some kind of mods, or a setting what i missed? If they are mods, how to get them and install them? PS: We can also play a drinking game. Whenever you say "before they became a problem" everybody drinks. :D
You can change it in the UI settings. The Game also allows you to fit it like a glove. You want less head bobbing? There is a slider for it. You want less camara distortion when dodging? There is a slider for it. You get the deal. Its highly costomizable. Glad you liked the Video! Hope I could help!
You forgot to mention that people need to buy the wings if magic DLC to get access to the shield and spear, which from the looks of it in review….it’s doing terrible!
I just used the weapon to show that pretty much every weapon has a sideswipe to control hordes with. You by no means have to use the same weapons I use. Find your favorite weapon and have fun with it.
how do you get past the "tower level(you fight skeletons on the top)" and how do you get past the new expansion level where you put up barrels, they are both bugged.
The tower where you fight Sienna's sister is quite difficult, but not bugged. Once you throw a barrel in the well beneath where the NPC is standing at the start of the event, skeletons will spawn, but you need to pay attention to two faintly green glowing lines on the floor. They will spawn and then move either anticlockwise or clockwise. You need to stay away from these lines otherwise they drain almost all of your life from you, even if you're blocking. So the trick is to keep moving and just keep enemies away. Do that two times and throw a final barrel in and you're done. The problem is that as you throw in barrels, the enemies that spawn in between skeleton phases get progressively harder and they send more specials as well. Lastly, when you have a barrel in your hands and are attempting to throw it in the well, there will be skulls flying around in the air that will ignite the barrel and push it away from the well. Your team can shoot these to move them away but they rarely do this so look out. Hope you beat the level, it's a very satisfying one to beat.
@@davidragg2160We did beat the level at last! It was super good. Me and my son will play Vermintide later again. We are looking for similar games or expansions.
In the wrong hands Zealot is a glass cannon. I wanted to prevent people that are not as experienced to pick him and fall flat on the nose. If you want to talk about all that the Zealot can do, you could make a seperate Video for it. However i wanted to talk about each career no longer than 30 sec. Thanks for Watching till the end, brother.
I want to play better but there is a lot of lag inputs and I don’t know if there’s build you need to use to be good or it’s just something to have fun with or you can use anything and be good idk I’m just confused
I hope the Video was helpful. Please, leave me a comment! Have a nice day.
The Blightstormer does speak English. He says "bring Sigmar to his knees."
I could never understand it, but English isn't my first language either. But that's how I try to differentiate Leech and Stormer.
Wow I always thought he said "This is how they bleed."
no more pain
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Maelstrom Maelstrom Blight Blight Blight
Some of the enemies repeat the player lines
Keep in mind that there is a difference between cleave that dictates how many enemies you can pierce in one attack and the armor penetration that dictates how easily you can crack that armor open.
For instance the shield and hammer is good at killing hordes with high cleave while the shield and axe are great against armored targets but don't work well against hordes because of bad cleave.
Armored targets incude:
Rattling gunners,
warpfire throwers,
Stormvermin,
Chaos warriors,
maulers (only the head).
However weapons with bad cleave usually tend to have not only better armor piercing but also higher shield breaking potential and damage.
Different attacks with the same weapon can have very different properties though.
The stamina, effective block and shove angle are not the only measure of defense for a weapon.
The lighter your weapon the better it is at dodging. This includes dodge distance but also the amount of effective dodges you can do in a row.
Shoves are better than blocks if you manage to stagger your opponent. It creates more space and buys time, cancels other attacks you didn't see coming or even attacks that were meant for a teammate. Good luck shoving a chaos warrior though.
Berserkers and plague monks require patience. It's not a bad idea to just block/dodge them and let a teammate handle attacking them. Consider using your ultimate to either kill or stagger them.
Also... don't eat overhead strikes. Storm vermin, Maulers and chaos warriors all have them and they are truly nasty. Get into the habit of avoiding them at all costs because they are easy to dodge, hard to block and can almost oneshot you on higher difficulties.
It's a bad idea to look at your statboard at the end of the mission too much. If you want to achieve something great there try to minimize your damage taken or maybe specials killed.
Don't minimize your damage taken by not helping the team though.
It's a bad idea to trade hits in this game. If you do then make sure you're in a situation where it's either very very important you get that guy dead (like a low health troll) or you are in a situation where you can generate massive amounts of temporary hp anyway AND there is a significant benefit to it.
For instance a slayer might want to jump into a horde with his ult and take some hits to the back before his teammates can help him because this allows him to kill so much that his ult stays active permanently and you can beat the horde back to a saver position. Note that "beat the horde back" does not suffice for taking such a risk. It's the "saver position" that justifies the play.
Absolutely true! I forgot to talk about it.
09:01 "If you're a tank you should always try to get the bosses attention" DO NOT do that on Legend or Cataclysm; People will get mad at you if you take boss aggro from boss dps (especially headshot dependent ones like Bounty Hunter or Piercing Shot Waystalker). Just let them do their thing
Yes, it is dependent on the situation, though. If you have an Ironbreaker and a Shade it works fine, but if you have a waystalker and an ironbreaker it is better to just keep the mobs away from the dmg-dealer.
@@ToBeGoated Very true, always depending on team comp and situation; cool guide btw
@@BastiKuchen Thanks, that means a lot to me, that you liked it!
Bounty Hunter is meme tier anyway
The Gloobadier sfx is waaay to menacing for what he actually is, little punk as rat giving me a heart attack every time
Important thing to note: the blightstormer's tornado follows the exact same rules for movement as other enemies, so it's can't go over any terrain to make a straight line to your location. This is crucial to be able to avoid it when you have to deal with a horde at the same time.
'ironbreaker is the best anchor a team can have' i mean at pure defence i agree completely, but as a foot knight main i would like to say there are other equally powerful anchors for slightly different scenarios. They can all tank, they can all clutch, and they are all important. PLAY ANCHORS PEOPLE
I 100% agree!
The unmoving anchor and the buzz off anchor
I realised how impotant having an anchor is when i used my shield bash on a patrol to immobilise the entire elite group and other teammates demolished the entire patrol in seconds. If used my Exec Swords charged attacks sure it one shots elites but we would be surrounded very fast. As almost all the Vermintide Vets say finishing the mission is more impotant than getting the most kills.
New Warrior Priest main here, Sigmar guides us anchors!
New Warrior Priest main here, Sigmar guides us anchors!
Oof, greathammer>halbert hahaha…no. Halbert is great at horde clear, elite/monster dmg the only problem it has is it got power crept by Bret Longsword, Greathammer on cata will have you overwhelmed cuz you are not killing fast enough.
Shields have shield bash for hordes but i guess you were trying to explain cleave vs armor pen so an oversight I guess
Zealot glass cannon? Just no that title belongs to Bounty Hunter, Zealot has tons of survivability.
An ok introduction video, pretty good explanation of the basics, but it does have some bias that could be seen as misinformation. Im guessing you play mostly on Legend cuz some of the things you omitted aren't too much of an issue until you try Cata.
I prefer the halberd over the hammer as well. I wasn't saying it's better, I just tried to take two weapons that most players definitely played, no matter the experience. Halberd is the better weapon, but harder to use for the broad player base than the great hammer. I sadly never had people experienced enough around me to constantly win in Cataclysm or Legendary. Explaining Zealot in a video that talks about so many topics at once will bore the majority of viewers, that's why I kept it short. If you are not good and play Zealot, you will die in no time, that's what I meant with glass cannon. Overall, this Video is meant for people who want to level up their skills, not for people who already have their play style figured out. It's meant to give players, getting into Vermintide II, a good fundament to build on.
@@ToBeGoated Fair enough, GH does perform good enough on lower difficulty. I still think Zealot could have used better wording, lower HP for dmg boost is a common enough mechanic in games nowadays to be understood easily by most player.
As for getting better in Legend or Cata, my recommendation is to just unshackle yourself from the vault farming mentality, just play on Legend and Cata. You will lose a lot but it will also force you to become good very quickly, and by not farming you will not be annoyed by the lost of book. Vaults are quantity over quality anyways and by getting better you'll get a steady stream of them instead of the occasional Emp vault.
@@ryanw531 Good to know that the vaults are quantity over quality. I'll keep that in mind when I get back to playing Vermintide II.
8:45 kruber: thank you-kerillian: yes
When going over enemy types you forgot standard bearers which will place flags making enemies harder to kill and causing them to do more damage
Yes, you are right. I completely forgot them.
I got over 1k hours in Darktide and its making me wanna play V2 again, havent played vermintide since its launch, but this definitely has me wanting to play it again!
'the zealot is a glass cannon'... excuse me, what? He's literally living off thp, can straight out ignore fatal dmg all the while boosting his own dmg output. His survivability and the resulting gameplay is literally bordering on being a meme unless you play on Cata + (i.e. Weaves or Modded.)
All in all nice effort on the guide but... if you're a beginner starting with Vermintide there's more comprehensive guides out there from people with more experience. If you're intermediate and wanna step up your game... there's more comprehensive and detailed mechanics guides (as in literally libraries worth of knowledge) out there from people with.. you guessed it, more experience. Still giving a thumbs up for covering Vermintide at all. ;)
I could have talked about the zealot for 5-10 min alone but I decided not to. Attention span is to short in most people out there. I internationally didn't go into detail with most things. This guide is meant to give people a fundament to build apon, not to talk about every detail I learned while playing the game out of a passion. But thanks for taking the time and writing a comment I appreciate it.
witch hunter captain is also somewhat an offensive support being as witch hunt can be a applied to any tagged enemy.
I think its really important that you need to mention standard bearers in the elite sections because holy FUCK they are a massive run ender solely because new players dont bother tsking down their standards, makes hordes borderline impossible to kill
I sadly forgot to mention them. I agree they are a big problem. I think they are even in the Category of Special not an Elite. But sadly I can't just add them to the Video now 😕.
Dont take this any bad way i know you have only 400 hours on the game i give you some tip as veteran player with over 2000 hours on game and playing only peregrinaje now that footage with sister of thorn where you using onehanded sword its really bad game play one handed sword is second most op weapon after bretonian sword and you using like half of the potential with that onehande sword you need to get your mechanics down for horde clear go push attack light attack 1 cancel repeat for elites stop spaming only heavy attacks its really bad you need to go heavy attach light attack cancel and repeat when you get those mechanics down you can solo cataclysm with no problem
same here i agree
is it just me or does the gameplay look slowed down at points? i mean like the footage itself was slowed down in editing, not that the player is being slow/methodical (though there's no shame in doing that if you prefer to play that way).
anyway, something not quite about gameplay but just as important imo: don't leave a game until it's over! i see way too many people drop out of games when there is 1 person left. never underestimate someone's ability to clutch a game; handmaidens, ironbreakers, foot knights, and battle wizards are practically guaranteed to save a "doomed" game in the right hands.
Really nice video! Thanks so much for the good advice. Vermintide 2 is a lot of fun considering every career is viable even though some seem (and likely are) more powerful than others. Would love to see a video from you talking about some of the things the game doesn’t tell you, since there’s a lot to unpack in that department.
Glad you enjoyed it! What exactly would be one of the topics that the game doesn't talk about. Because, as you say, there is a lot the game expects you to figure out on your own.
You could have just said "the battle wizard is the best in the game".
No seriously, famished flame + flaming sword + THP on stagger and spam of first heavy attack, melts anything and gives so much THP you are immortal even when eating hits on legendary.
Pro tip: never buy winds of magic, trust me
Sooo the Standard Bearer doesn't exist ? Oh well.. 😬
Just kidding, great video, keep it up and have a nice day ! 🙂
Perfect explanation👌
Glad you liked it!
Very nice vid. earned a sub
Hey! Rly good vid. I'm a new player, spent like 20-30h with the game and so far rly rly enjoying it. Wanted to ask the numeric hp-s and the teammate cd-s and ammos are some kind of mods, or a setting what i missed? If they are mods, how to get them and install them?
PS: We can also play a drinking game. Whenever you say "before they became a problem" everybody drinks. :D
You can change it in the UI settings. The Game also allows you to fit it like a glove. You want less head bobbing? There is a slider for it. You want less camara distortion when dodging? There is a slider for it. You get the deal. Its highly costomizable. Glad you liked the Video! Hope I could help!
Sienna gets a New class, well i just started playing vermintide 2 so the class is pretty New
Interesting. I never see new players anymore so I'm surprised there's still newbie friendly guides being made.
I've just bought ultimate edition for 8.99. Wanting go get into wsrhammer so thought I'd give it a shot
@@kevinmcarthur1784It's an awesome game, IMO. I have like 1,200 hours in it. lol
i tried playing a little on 2nd difficulty, but kept failures twice in a row multiple times. gave break for now
You forgot to mention that people need to buy the wings if magic DLC to get access to the shield and spear, which from the looks of it in review….it’s doing terrible!
I just used the weapon to show that pretty much every weapon has a sideswipe to control hordes with. You by no means have to use the same weapons I use. Find your favorite weapon and have fun with it.
@@ToBeGoated ahhhh, gotcha, misunderstood, sorry.
And thanks
gotta ask how did you get your hitmarkers to look like that? they look a lot easier to track in combat
Hey, I have made a non-listed video with my in-game settings for you.
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Nice viseo
Bro i can only hear blightstromer and the guy that speaks english when in a fight
how do you get past the "tower level(you fight skeletons on the top)" and how do you get past the new expansion level where you put up barrels, they are both bugged.
I also just played them a few times. I take a break from Vermintide since releasing the Video, so I can't really help you.
The tower where you fight Sienna's sister is quite difficult, but not bugged.
Once you throw a barrel in the well beneath where the NPC is standing at the start of the event, skeletons will spawn, but you need to pay attention to two faintly green glowing lines on the floor. They will spawn and then move either anticlockwise or clockwise. You need to stay away from these lines otherwise they drain almost all of your life from you, even if you're blocking. So the trick is to keep moving and just keep enemies away. Do that two times and throw a final barrel in and you're done. The problem is that as you throw in barrels, the enemies that spawn in between skeleton phases get progressively harder and they send more specials as well.
Lastly, when you have a barrel in your hands and are attempting to throw it in the well, there will be skulls flying around in the air that will ignite the barrel and push it away from the well. Your team can shoot these to move them away but they rarely do this so look out.
Hope you beat the level, it's a very satisfying one to beat.
@@davidragg2160We did beat the level at last! It was super good. Me and my son will play Vermintide later again. We are looking for similar games or expansions.
"The Zealot is a glass cannon." I'm sorry, what?
In the wrong hands Zealot is a glass cannon. I wanted to prevent people that are not as experienced to pick him and fall flat on the nose. If you want to talk about all that the Zealot can do, you could make a seperate Video for it. However i wanted to talk about each career no longer than 30 sec. Thanks for Watching till the end, brother.
how about the necromancer huh?
Will do one when I play the game again. I'm playing Dragon's Dogma 2 right now...
zum glück habe ich eine 3 jährige vermintide ausbildung gemacht puuuh
I want to play better but there is a lot of lag inputs and I don’t know if there’s build you need to use to be good or it’s just something to have fun with or you can use anything and be good idk I’m just confused
What is a glass cannon?
A glass cannon is someone who has strong offensive capabilities but weak defensive capabilities.
@@ToBeGoated thank you. Makes sense.
gas mask sound????? 🤔🤔
Awesome video! well presented. cheers [FtUC]Carlos
Thanks, it means a lot!
400k hours is just novice level in this game 😂 you better to remain video advisory to more experienced players