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!

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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!

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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!

Haha, you can totally hear my white noise machine in the background as well XD I rather have the white noise than little noises from cars or such outside. Glad you've been enjoying the videos!

All the careers are S tier! We as people just aren't always capable of using them to their full potential right off the bat. There are also some niches or play styles that may just not jive with our personalities or way of thinking in how to handle certain scenarios and clutch moments. I'm glad I could help you find one of the many fun ways to play! Hopefully I can persuade you into trying other things out that you may enjoy and get you to have even more fun!

Don't stress yourself trying to do Cata if you aren't finding it fun to do despite losing! Cataclysm is EXTRA, and can take a lot of experience losing game after game in order to know how you can rely on the bots in certain situations and what weight you have to pull to make up for their predictably bad tendencies. I often play on Legend difficulty when I play with other people and in my opinion, is where the game feels most fun and balanced. A lot of game instincts you can use to win a game of Cataclysm, can be achieved by simply playing Legend. Like, where to search for items, and more importantly, precisely when to use them. How to move through a map knowing where all the triggers are for monster and patrol spawns and when to expect hordes and specials and what direction they are coming from. And how to maneuver around enemies to stay alive, or even to your advantage if you want to press the attack on specials or such. Not to mention that the specials AI is incredibly devious sometimes. They know exactly when to strike you at the right moment or when you are struggling most and that takes getting used to. You see me mention in this video towards the end when crossing into the finale area how scared I was of that assassin. Can you tell that I've full wiped on that bridge from just a single assassin pouncing one teammate and knocking the other 3 off? XD I hope the losses don't get you down and you keep trying and more importantly have fun playing.

@@CataTide I did manage to do a Cata botsolo Fort Bracksenbrucke on BW. Thanks for the reply and the great videos

Hell yeah dude! One of the goals I have is to show that people can get through any mission and that they are possible in a variety of different ways. It definitely takes some practice, but there's no better practice for the human ability to mimic success than to witness it themselves on a level that they feel they can replicate. While playing missions with Twitch mode, or deed modifiers, or anything in modded realm might be more entertaining to watch in some aspects, I think playing just a base difficulty, and doing so with just the bots, really gives a much better example to witness how you can accomplish these missions yourself in your own way and not just on Cataclysm. And naturally, that skill can translate to playing better with others as you grow more confident in your own ability, and have more fun with the unpredictable nature of real people as your teammates. Sorry for the long rambling comment. I'm glad the videos are helping you ever so slightly to win more. I hope they are helping you have more fun as well!

@@CataTide Nah I don't mind long rambling comments. I think what's kept me playing this game for nearly 1000hrs is you can always be doing better, just takes practice. Just managed Empire in Flames too with this build, including a heroic clutch in the cellar portion, less heroic for the bots I left to die in the square but there was a chaos patrol I really wasn't ready to deal with. Have a good christmas man and thanks for the vids.

I do play a lot of Quickplay XD Thank you very much and I'll look forward to running into you again in game!

Dew it! Maybe we'll run into each other in game one day! Glad you enjoyed the video and good luck to you <3

I'm pretty sure the QoL mods I use are perfectly fine. The Bot mod not so much. I mainly use the Bot Improvement mod for the ability to control how the bots use healing items but I've heard some people who say they get better combat results without the mod. So whether you want to use it yourself is up to you. I explain how you can work around the "Unsanctioned" status of it as well to still use in the Official Realm. As far as your other issue. It sounds like you may have anti-virus or a firewall blocking certain ports that are required to play the game. Most likely, you are blocking the use of the Easy Anti Cheat software that Vermintide uses. Whenever you launch the game, Easy Anti Cheat is probably trying to update, and something on your PC is causing that update to be blocked, therefore Vermintide is kicking you out.

@@CataTide the unsanctioned is not using the disable mods not sanctioned?

@@KyubiHitashi Any mods that aren't Sanctioned by Fatshark can't be used in the Official Realm. This isn't a trick to use any mods you want in the Official Realm, just the Bot Improvement mod. I assume it has something to do with the fact that the mod used to be Sanctioned and usable in the Official Realm before the release of Necromancer broke the mod. But there seems to still be a work around to get it to work, and I personally haven't run into any stability issues whilst using it, which I think was Fatsharks concern when they Unsanctioned it.

@@CataTide not sure if you had such issue but i did the reinstallation of EAC, checked files, but now the fucked up game is bugging on opening the chat box with enter. how can this game still be on the market breaking every piece like that?

@@KyubiHitashi That sucks that you are having so many technical difficulties but I can only help so much. I suggest going to the forums for Vermintide 2 where Fatshark employees can help diagnose and resolve your problems better than I can. forums.fatsharkgames.com/c/v2/vermintide2-technical-support/54

From what I understood, it's less efficient against elites and monsters, also blinding teammates. Probably great for triggering Barkskin though?

@@Appletank8 I don't know, I've gotten green circles with good teams in those categories using it before. Blinding team mates is a problem, I suppose.

@@spookywizard1265 It's probably fine to specialize in premade teams, the risks comes from pairing up with randos and not having enough people in position with long range weapons to take out the gunner blasting them.

Innovative Ammo Hoppers at level 30 is most definitely a good talent but I don't recommend it in conjunction with an aggressive crank gun style as I show in video. You'll notice I often only shoot for a couple seconds before I take a better position, or to keep up with my crank gun stacks. You won't be able to use the crank gun quite the same with Ammo Hoppers as the wind up time can leave you vulnerable in many situations and force you to commit heavily to a single spot in order to unleash your full potential. You can make a case that you get more use out of Perilous Overclock by having a larger ability bar for it to recharge. But you're trading instant peak killing power that gives you far greater options of use, for a larger ability bar, when you already essentially have unlimited ability bar through the Overclock talent. Ammo hoppers is a little redundant in this sense when used with Overclock. I think Ammo Hoppers is really good when you want to take a super committed stance every once in a while throughout a mission for those really big moments. Not like how I use it in video which is on every enemy I come into contact with, especially multiple enemies that are practically point blank in melee range. It's also much better when used with real players who can cover you and give you a larger safe area to wind up and stay that way than the bots who just stick to your hip and let enemies get close to you which can force you out of your wind up.

I'll for sure try to get some Ranger Veteran games in at some point. The channel is barely a month old but it already feels like I've got quite the community participating in the channel. Glad you found it as well! I appreciate you enjoying the videos! Thank you very much <3

I'm very happy you enjoy watching and listening to the videos. I know I'm not a paragon of knowledge, nor am I a super skilled player like some other creators who upload Vermintide, but comments like yours must mean I'm doing something right. Thank you very much <3

@@CataTide you seem to be to tough on yourself, you are a very good player and keep up with the amazing vids

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lol, I do plan on doing more videos using just the Bretonnian Sword and Shield if that's any consolation. It's a build that I imagine a lot of people find a bit ridiculous and curious to watch.

Why would you even ask this question if you saw that I got 788 melee kills in this game? All of the elf's melee weapons can be made to work to their strengths. I may not be adept enough to showcase this myself, but I've seen more practiced players pull it off even with the Elven Axe that most would consider "garbage". It's a matter of individual skill, experience, and a mindset that isn't plagued by Meta-Rot. Dual Swords are particularly effective against hordes of light infantry. If you aren't having trouble with armored enemies because you range attack most if not all of them down, or you have teammates that are more effectively dealing with them, than Dual Swords are the way to go to combat hordes of unarmored enemies with their unique 50% increased crit chance on their light 3 and light 4 attacks that can help proc swift slaying more often and deal overall more damage.

Not meta doesnt mean bad. That some weapons can be amazing for everything, doenst make weapons that specialize in one or two jobs to be bad, plus elf weapons are amazing overall. Plus, the game does allow for a decent range of player customization of gameplay style, going for the meta all the time fixates you on not finding your own style in wich you may play much better that with weapons or classes that doesnt mix well with your style or decision making

Hagbane is incredibly powerful against hordes. In the right hands, a Waystalker with Hagbane can absolutely be a green circle hog and steal away every enemy on the map even from other veteran players. I'm not one to condone such fun stealing however. Just know Hagbane is very strong. With that being said, if you are playing on Legend, my favorite Shortbow breakpoint is 20% power vs Chaos and 20% power vs Infantry across the bow and Charm. Combined with Serrated Shots, you can one shot Chaos Infantry, and 2 shot Chaos Maulers. Practice shooting Storm Vermin in the head and you 2 shot them still as well. Shortbow takes practice, if you don't hit like, I would say, at least 80% of your shots, then yeah, you might feel like it's not doing enough damage cause you have to consistently hit most targets 2-3 times. But you can attack fast, and your accuracy is pinpoint when you aim with it, your movement doesn't get penalized and slowed down and your field of view doesn't zoom in and get warped like when using Longbow, so you can make super fast and accurate adjustments while aiming and firing and are able to kite with it. It's the most versatile bow in my opinion.

@@CataTide Cool, I would love to see a hagbane gameplay if you feel like. Watching your videos makes me want to try cata!

Using parry definitely takes practice, and on Shade can be incredibly strong. A lot of the game's mechanics and ways to play can require some different way of thinking that you may not have thought of before, and even after that, take some time practicing and getting used to. Sounds like you've got the right experience. With a Handmaiden on the team with this build, it's actually a huge meme mowing down hordes with light shield bash spams. Almost makes you feel like you're on a horse plowing through infantry in Total War Warhammer.

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.

You talking about the Trollhammer Torpedo? It's part of the Forgotten Relics DLC weapon pack.

@@CataTide Yup just got it ands its amazing it destroys bosses like its nothin

I thought I recalled them bringing the skins back but couldn't remember exactly. Thanks a lot for confirming for me!

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.

If you want to do it yourself, start the mission on recruit difficulty and a get a feel for it, search every nook and cranny of the map. Use Battle wizard or Hand Maiden to complete the time sensitive challenges. Or wait until the fanatics that play do that sort of thing for you and release a guide on steam for you to read instead.

@@CataTide tysm I've noticed my bot is acting quite dumb. Can you explain the mod bot setup you used? Is it possible the default settings are causing this?

@@harunasawarut5141 I have no idea. I've been using the bot mod for years. I'll sometimes go without it and don't really notice any differences besides the bots chugging all the healing when they don't need to. I primarily use it to control how the bots use healing. If you are finding better results without it, than you should just play without it. I definitely recommend the quality of life mods that I have listed in the description though! They shouldn't do anything but improve your experience!

@@CataTide ty I'm really fed up with bots. It's exhausting trying to get past all the obstacles. And interacting with other players isn't very fulfilling.

Peasant weapons. Nothing is better than the sword infused with the very power that the Lady of the Lake bestowed upon me when I sipped from the Holy Grail. In all seriousness, I don't like Mace and Sword too much, it is very strong I know, but I find Bretonnian Longsword to be more fun to play with.

That's a pretty big wall of text you're asking for. Just know that this build maximizes damage vs both races and provides defense in situations that matter. The power vs Chaos may be useless on this map in particular but the philosophy of using it as a general do everything build going into quickplay or on maps where both races are present is a more important factor. I have other Grail Knight videos with commentary on some of my choices in talents and weapons I encourage you to watch if you are interested in the play style I use. You'll also get a feel for what you are capable of doing by watching. Grail Knight Playlist - kzbin.info/aero/PLYacGCx4RAolcdavmKtjYRJMnETEYl2pJ

@@CataTide thank you, also a more specific question for you: why don't you use the power pot generation talent?

@@slightly9566 Virtue of the Penitent, the talent that gives you the strength potion quest? That entire row of talents is good, and depending on what flavor of play style you feel like doing, or want to pull off in a game, you can use any which one of them. Free strength potions throughout a mission are great sure, but quests that are giving your whole team free extra stats isn't to be taken lightly neither. Often, it can be that until you understand how those stats are able to greatly affect your play style, or save you in certain situations, the strength potions seem like the best choice. I do like to run Virtue of the Penitent with a monster slaying build I do on Grail Knight, combined with Concoction trait. Something else to consider is, you can pick up potions throughout a mission, and if you know precisely when to use them, you'll always have more than enough for any given situation in a normal game, making Virtue of Penitent redundant. There aren't any items you can pick up that give permanent 10-15% power or damage reduction, or extra attack speed, or bonus health regen, or additional CD regen, that affects your whole team, for the entire rest of the game.

​@@slightly9566as he already explained, getting those permanent stat boosts, with one of the best ones, health regen, is also the easiest one to get, since the task is just to pick up a grim, you can ditch it if you just want the buff and not the reward. This essentially turns GK into a must have along with war priest in high level book runs as you get a full health tank with GK providing team healing. On top of the trait that gives you 3 tasks, and with there being only 4 total to roll from, you have a 25% chance to not get it.

I mean, I tested these things a few years ago, so I don't remember exactly but with the Staggering Force talent which adds 35% more stagger power, I was expecting the Greatsword to be able to generate more THP with the stagger talent similar to Bretonnian Longsword against hordes, but alas, it seemed like the THP that was being generated was calculating base weapon stagger power without the talent despite seeming like I was staggering hordes with greater effect. Even if it did provide greater THP on stagger, the on hit, as you said, combined with killing power is the superior talent to use in most cases.

Handmaiden will start popping up eventually at some point. Glad you are enjoying the videos!

The Vermintide Mod Framework lets you access whatever mods you have with the F4 key in game. Make sure you give the options a once over. If you are finding more success without the mod, then of course you should play without it. I've gone without the mod plenty of times and the base AI that Fatshark has is still pretty good. I personally like having control over the healing supplies a lot more though which is primarily why I use the mod in the first place.

The game is balanced around Legend difficulty so don't under appreciate your accomplishment of successfully completing it at that level. Everything after base Legend difficulty is EXTRA. And as long as you don't allow any ego to get in the way by trying to constantly soar to the infinite heights of difficulty that Vermintide is capable of, then you can find quite the fun and enjoyment out of Legend difficulty over and over again. Sounds like you got Ranger Veteran on lockdown. Hope you keep up the experimentation with him and find more fun ways to play!

You mean for the bot? I recommend watching this video I did on Mercenary explaining why I use the bot setup that I do: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaWcZKqeirFqock But basically because one of the biggest weaknesses of the bots is that they don't know how to properly use their weapons and fight, hence they don't know how to properly generate Temp HP in battles. And the bots can also be absolute damage sponges sometimes. You can stack all the damage reduction on them you want with careers such as Foot Knight or Iron Breaker but at some point they will go down if they don't know how to heal back the damage they are sustaining. By using careers that generate Temp HP on ability use such as Mercenary, Ranger Veteran, and Unchained, you can help the bots survive and push through certain fights where they otherwise would have fallen due to their clumsy A.I. The longer the bots are alive, the more help they will provide you throughout a mission, mostly with specials, as they can be the biggest threat to you as you play.

@@CataTide oh ok makes sense i usually use the grail knight for the challenges thx for the answer

Glad to hear! I hope whatever you learn from watching them help you have more fun playing Vermintide as well!

Sorry, I haven't gone through some of the older video descriptions yet and added the builds, my bad. This Grail Knight build is: www.ranalds.gift/heroes/16/232213/43-8-1-6/42-7-6-3/3-2-5/4-3-2/1-4-3

I only use 4 mods, mostly Quality of Life improvements. I use the Bot Improvements - Combat, Numeric UI, Crosshair Kill Confirmation, and Notice Key Pickup mods. All of which can be found on the first page in Steam Workshop in Top Rated All Time and can be used in the Official Realm. The Bot Improvement mod used to be Sanctioned but currently isn't for whatever reason. You can bypass this by checking the Auto-Disable Unsanctioned Mods in Official Realm checkbox in the mod menu and it should still load the mod up in Official Realm. I'm not sure if they're true but I've heard from some forum posts that not all the features are currently working properly, but it still gives you the option to manage healing items on the bots, which if it was the only thing that worked, would be more than enough in my opinion. Glad you are enjoying the videos!