A Short Video About Vermintide 2

[@RedDeadRussian]

I WAS ABSOLUTELY BAITED BY THE WORD "SHORT", UNBELIEVABLE

[@DootSlayer-vp4os]

Short?!

[@dewmdoomie1730]

@@DootSlayer-vp4os NOH ALLIANCE!!!

[@JackyDeathBerg]

bruh i got baited too ;-;

[@zombieminecraft4213]

@@dewmdoomie1730 there will be no alliance while I am high king!

[@CozyBoat275]

Using Short in the title? That's going in the Book, good sir.

[@magicschoolbass]

I never left The Book, I play Skaven

[@ziomniak7045]

Dawi Zharr approve of grudging

[@frostbite1030]

Yo it was supposed to be short. No?

[@magicschoolbass]

It is short

[@snrfl]

it is tho?

[@CapoFisk]

This IS short

[@Player_Kolosus]

HOLY i saw the lenght only after i readed your comment, btw i did play a lot in this game so love this vid,but DAMN ITS LONG

[@SomeWeirdNinjaToon]

@@CapoFisk SHORT ?!

[@WhirlwindHeatAndFlash]

"fatshart has somehow managed to make it even worse" *shows darktide gear bingo* LMAO, too real

[@oppenz3723]

I don't play vermintide and have no idea about warhammer but your video have made me realized what I've been missing in my life.

[@magicschoolbass]

You have time to fix your mistakes my dude

[@oppenz3723]

Forgive me, Mr. Fish for I have sinned

[@VRichardsn]

@@oppenz3723 You shouldn't be asking Mr. Fish for forgiveness. Ask Sigmar instead.

[@VikiTheBulgarian]

That rat man about to fall asleep while watching what happened to him 💀

[@willbland981]

Ah yes, our favorite overly critical non cooked magic fish that consistently uploads banger videos is back with another crazy lore video

[@magicschoolbass]

That's way too accurate, especially the critical part

[@pstrongman602]

Video was kinda short could you go into more detail next time please

[@cron1807]

At the beginning you are actually incorrect about the amount of guns. It is a brace of pistols, so a bunch of pistols that are preloaded and strapped to Saltzpyre. The fact that the reload is cocking guns instead of reloading guns shows that none of the guns are reused this means that bounty hunter Saltzpyre can carry a measly 47 pistols

[@sergeykirichenko8965]

I've seen tons of Vermintide 2 videos, but this one is probably the most comprehensive, detailed, and fun to watch out of all, even though it's SHORT (just like Bardin, kekw). I love how you struck a balance between humor, creative editing, and covering ALL aspects of the game. I don't know how hard it was to do, but Holy Shit, the result was worth it, because it's a fucking masterpiece. Vermintide 2 is one of those games that opens up to you over time, but for that, as a new player, you first need to try the game as a whole and stay in it long enough to give yourself a chance to fall in love with it. I hope videos like this help give this game more of the attention it so badly deserves. Thanks for this Ultimate Vermintide Magnum Opus, Bass, and good luck with your channel, because just like the game, it also deserves more attention. P.S. Ending is just perfect

[@magicschoolbass]

Thank you my dude, this really gets me going in the morning

[@labdG]

I was like "No way I'm watching 2 hours of this. I have played enough of the game that I probably know all I want about it anyway. I'll just wacth some and skip past any boring stuff. I may not even spend more then 5 minutes on this video." That was 2 hours and 12 minutes ago, and I'm still watching. xD

[@magicschoolbass]

Glad you find it entertaining mate

[@StavoR94]

Hey, this is an incredible effort to put together a SHORT video like this, thanks! Now, if you don't mind - I think that you made the Beam Staff a bit of injustice. It's very good against bosses on Battle Wizard, especially if you don't have killing machines like GK or Shade in your party. It has 5 stages of ticks, first two being really weak, and 3-4-5 being more powerful by applying burning effect on top of progressivly increased damage. After 5th tick it just repeats the 5th one again and again, and btw, 5th tick has the most powerful version of burning, maybe in whole of Siennas kit. So mix it up with Famished Flames (ha-ha, what else), and you see the singular target you've been focusing is literally melting from large amount of strong DoT effects. But if you switch targets, you'll start again with the first tick, and this is why beam attack is utter shit against hordes. On top of that - you can do a right click DURING the beam attack to do a burst attack. It also scales with amount of ticks that you're on now with the beam, and after 5th tick it really does a lot of damage (we're speaking 80+ with famished flames active, so it's reduced since it's not DoT). Now, beaming a target to death is a tough job on Legend+ because you're constantly having a lot of enemies around, this burst attack starts to really shine when you have 2 seconds when nobody's around. You just do 5ticks beam and top it off with the burst attack to chunk bosses HP quite a lot. Also it's decent with specials. Most of them die 2 seconds after you do a 4tick + burst (at least on Legend it's enough), and while beams range isn't infinite, it's still very long, so you can kill almost anything that isn't a kilometer-away-Blightstormer with a slight delay.

[@magicschoolbass]

That's actually very interesting, thank you for telling me. Gonna go test it out today. I did not know that ticks did different damage, as everyone I see using the thing just used it to prock Lingering and kite around lul.

[@catuluj4385]

Beam staff also does more damage on the tick explosion if you headshot, allowing you to instatap elites/specials even mid horde (at least on legend, probably will have to let them die to burn damage on cata instead of having their head explode)

[@magicschoolbass]

@@catuluj4385 They don't die on cata from that, not even close sadly

[@prehistoricweasel]

Also the spirit arrows talent for waystalker is unironically the worst one in the row. Complete noob bait that almost never gets good value. If you really want to spam volley, just take resourceful combatant on your melee, it gives twice as much cd reduction as spirit arrows. Please for the love of god, take the increased self healing and don't be the noob that uses volley at the beginning of a horde to kill some clanrats and then dies 15 seconds later.

[@magicschoolbass]

@@prehistoricweasel hold on, let me just regen 10 hp per hour that won't matter because of the THP existing. Also everyone who uses the term noob in 20 fucking 24 needs to reconsider his life choices

[@meemdic8682]

Holy shit the amount of references and actual breakdown that are fit into this 2 and a half hour *short* video is insane. I could start with all the music sources and that’d already show just how unfathomably based this dude is for real.

[@kbzoncapo777]

Bro your videos are amazing! I had so much fun watching this one specially. It's insane to me that you have no more views with the amazing quality and humor your videos have. Thank you for uploading!!

[@Piug0th]

this video is severely under rated. Simply the best vermintide 2 video out there

[@magicschoolbass]

Thank you my dude

[@Momo_oo7]

I'm surprised you didn't mention how broken bretton sword and shield is with the opportunist trait, this combo with grail knight first talent for stagger and a horde can give you full temp health in 3 bashes or so Also you can push berserkers with opportunist

[@magicschoolbass]

I've heard opportunist is good, but never really tried it. Gonna check it out today

[@dogeatsthesun908]

@@magicschoolbass Foot knight is ultimate stagger machine with opportunist on sword and shield and yes, he can easily stun lock monks and chaos warrior at place using shield bash on sword and shield.

[@Draregkoeliekalie]

Only sword and shield? Or also shield with mace or spear? I assume the latter.

[@Momo_oo7]

@@Draregkoeliekalie not sure if you're talking to me or the guy talking about FK but i should clarify that i mentioned the bretton version only because he said it was a bad weapon

[@Draregkoeliekalie]

@@Momo_oo7 sorry, was replying to dogeatsthesun

[@LazyPressit]

im glad i found this channel its a breath of fresh air and has actually good content.

[@magicschoolbass]

It's really nice to hear that, thank you

[@soggycracker3406]

underrated channel bro, these vids are gud. keep up the good work!

[@zennr_]

What amazing length and girt... Thank you for this cool Christmas gift since here in the nordics we celebrate on the 24th. Hyvää joulua/Merry Christmas to you too Fish whichever day you celebrate it on.

[@Merpmaster]

Since you didn't mention it for the beam staff; but the hold left click beam can be interrupted with a right click that does a lot of damage on single target if you build it a couple seconds. Also the continous dps and flame stacking can be really good against bosses. It has been broken twice since launch, making bosses melt like butter in a skillet, but has been fixed both times :P

[@noxer5589]

This has to be my favorite video on KZbin I'm so glad I just got back into Vermintide It's like you were cycling through references to all of my favorite things

[@magicschoolbass]

Happy to provide you funnies

[@mage6325]

Dude this video is incredibly well edited and entertaining good job

[@DieErsteKartoffel]

Bro the amount of great references and the music used in the video are great. 10/10

[@darkdude9248]

I'm a devout huntsman main completing every mission on cataclysm (boar spear is my crutch). the only thing that kept me playing for so long was how charming the game was from how saltspyre would spin his guns cause he secretly LOVES being a witch hunter or how everyone is genuinely distraught if sienna dies. that all being said I genuinely quit playing for 2 years cause of how sick I got of hearing kerillian yell "LUMBERFOOT". its to the point that I cant see a forest without the intense urge to replace it with a parking lot man i hate elfs

[@magicschoolbass]

For Loren!!!!! 1!1!!1

[@Klausinator451]

You think that's bad? You should've seen Kerillian at Hogger's Bridge.

[@leonardok9699]

“YOU! ARE POISON!” 😂

[@kevinnieto534]

Beautiful video dawri. ❤ I see it 2 weeks after you upload it, and here I am warching him again for 5th time. For sure this is the most complete video about v2, characters, classes, enemies, weapons, strats and more important... memes!🗿

[@nida6666]

Editing is simply amazing. Thank you!

[@hjalmarrosen3681]

Hol' up, 8,910 subscribers? That won't do...

[@gatogamingonline]

your videos are great, i hope you won't be discouraged and stop posting. you deserve a lot more exposure

[@kane-111]

Why god why, WHY wasn't this recommended to me before, I'm only 26 mins in but this is a damn gem lmao.

[@beloslavbelchev8062]

I bought vermintide 2 in november and I thought "Am I about to buy a dead game ? Ahh , fuck it" . I am so glad I said fuck it at that day and time

[@VRichardsn]

1:46:56 hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on The like button actually glows when you mention said like button

[@jacobaderholdt7233]

Amazing video, watched this all the way through, i've been playing this game for years, it is truly magical

[@teahenglayZUK]

I have been bamboozled

[@magicschoolbass]

Quite possibly backstabbed as well

[@jondoe-qi3vo]

Kruber is S tier just for the moustache

[@headshrunken]

Mentioning tuskgor spear and leaving out that you can ride it like a witch’s broomstick for extra movespeed ain’t right. It’s the main reason I use it

[@beastmode7988]

Just hit 800 hrs in this game. So very good. PLEASE be prepared for the disconnects. It happens OFTEN. If you can get past that, it’s worth your time!

[@Mandelbrot48]

The memes were really top tier in this video 😃 always fit perfectly and good choices

[@djordjebojovic4768]

Character banter is the best part of this game ngl, but you did Kerillian so dirty in lore section

[@Stayhumble792]

I think I've watched this 2 times already. Amazing video. Very underrated.👍

[@phill2065]

Look, I won’t lie, video might be a bit too long for me personally to fully consume in one go, but in the first 10 minutes Iv watched it I can already tell the effort you put into this - I’m sold

[@Oversamma]

Hope you get the views you deserve, my dude! Keep at it!

[@samwise1586]

If we think that we made a dent in the rat population in the world that was

[@DieErsteKartoffel]

I hope this resurgence of V2 persists and isn’t just a short bump in player activity

[@MaelRadeck]

Your have earned a new subscriber, my brother in Christ Merry Christmas

[@aecra]

im loving this video, as a person with 14 days of playtime in this game i can say its a perfect beginners guide and a great refresher for current players

[@The_Real_Maxajax]

As an Ironbreaker main I just want to assure you that with the right build an overhead from stormvermin, maulers and chaos warriors are perfectly blockable.

[@magicschoolbass]

It's always blockable with any build during ur ult doe

[@The_Real_Maxajax]

@@magicschoolbass Ye but the same holds true when you aren't ulting.

[@SwaagMan]

I think I've watched this five times through now. Love your humor and very insightful video of a game I love. Also you're going in the Book of Grudges for rating Slayer B tier.

[@magicschoolbass]

I never left that book, I main Skaven in total war

[@Watermelonlll]

I have 685 hours in V2 and i watched the whole thing, top notch content. goon on you sir.

[@magicschoolbass]

Thank you my dude

[@QueenPancake-]

The repeater handgun can pierce armor, just not chaos warriors

[@magicschoolbass]

That's specifically what I showed in the video my guy

[@QueenPancake-]

@@magicschoolbass oh, I was just listening to the vid, was working when I heard you say that it doesn't pierce armor, my b

[@Janfon1]

Sienna's 2h mace not in S tier? Get tf outta here lol I main that shit Always happy to see more people make content about the game and share their thoughts on the current state of it. I agree with many of your points (except beam staff (and the mace)) and I'm also happy you managed to squeeze in your thoughts about the current balance update. Here's hoping the devs course correct in some form with the next patch

[@magicschoolbass]

I like the mace, but it's just too boring to use for me, I like slashy shit. And I should've perhaps used Beam a bit more. Really happy to see you here, absolute legend

[@maxducks2001]

The Executioner’s Sword is so good, they added it to Darktide. And this time, it’s A FUCKING CHAINSAW

[@magicschoolbass]

It's less fun doe

[@maxducks2001]

@@magicschoolbass True, I do think VT has the better one. Feels more impactful on a moment-by-moment basis since you’re constantly being swarmed and the enemies aren’t spread out between melee and ranged like in DT. (That, and the sound design on the ES is arguably better than the Eviscerator.) But at the very least, Vermintide can’t give me sawing an Ogryn double my height in half while screaming “FOR HIM ON TERRA!!!”

[@magicschoolbass]

@@maxducks2001 very true, but sawing is just not fun for me. It is what I like to call a trailer weapon, which sole purpose is to look cool in the game trailer, same with the Psyker swords

[@maxducks2001]

@@magicschoolbass That’s fair. 40K is also my ultimate nerd thing of choice, so chainswords and the like are probably going to be more appealing to me than some. Kind of hard not to be when I’m on book 43 of the Horus Heresy lmao

[@TheBadass117]

On the beam staff You need to hit right click while hitting an enemy with the beam for a few seconds to cause the enemy your shooting to explode and I think causing burning to enemies around it, but i could be wrong about the burn spread. It's great at sniping specials imo

[@magicschoolbass]

Isn't Bolt staff just strictly better in that regard? It does it way faster

[@voidyll5582]

@@magicschoolbass Beam staff is just more versatile, it can be used for sniping by using it as the guy above said, can be used for horde damage and clear with the shotgun spread, and can do some pretty good boss damage when just held on a boss. Bolt staff will always be better for sniping as that's what it specializes in, but beam staff is probably the most versatile of all the staves. Haven't watched the vid yet as I don't have time rn, so if you address that in the vid then ignore me

[@Janfon1]

Bro got to cata difficulty but never learnt how beam staff works this is as legendary as someone failing to roll a red weapon for 200 hours

[@Janfon1]

​​@@voidyll5582He puts it in D tier lol I only play Legend casually, not Cata, so HP breakpoints are different, but I'd personally put it in B tier at least, the falloff isn't that brutal in my experience and left click can be as useful in a tight scenario as a bolt staff

[@Notsuba]

I just started the video, and the toast sandwich almost killed me. Can't wait for the next 2h33min.

[@dusksentry5836]

My main saltz weapon is axe. Holy justice comes for you.

[@magicschoolbass]

Oh no

[@Cptwinter]

I’ve creamed myself in the awe of your big~, lengthy~, comically long video…finally something that would keep me up all night

[@Ralticus]

54:42 War Pick on Slayer is fun. It is still a meme, but it manages to also be fun. Additionally, it's worth noting that the heavy has two stages and to get the full damage you have to hold the attack until you see the arm raise the second time (basically lets you one shot anything).

[@Klausinator451]

I love the war pick. Just sucks there isn't really a weapon that compliments it. I mean hammers a good go to always....but, uh....Anyway yeah, I LOVE dawi drop with the pick axe. Maulers, PLAGUE rats, specials,, Chaos warriors? Dead. That overhead is so satisfying. That big CLEAVE normal swing is so good with it too, apparently it's the slowest attack in the game....I didn't believe that, it's slow, but fine to me. Every class gets good health from it too. Stagger, killing blows, cleave....

[@derrickjohnson4952]

Started playing a week ago , really needed that co-op itch. But I’m having a blast , combat is really fun.

[@dearcastiel4667]

Hagbane has insane DPS. It melts bosses with the right gear and with Kurnous Reward the ammo is a non-issue. It also deals heavy stagger so it still interupts specials before killing them with the DOT.

[@magicschoolbass]

Very true, but it's only good for Waystalker and on top of that it struggles with Blightstormers, Leeches and Hookrats, due to their high healthpool and armor type. And unless you are playing with your mates, Waystalkers prime objective is elite and special focus, there are way better DPS classes

[@goombis2510]

I like your funny words Swedish sounding fish man. I am thoroughly enjoying this video and wish you much love for your work

[@RicardoAlmeidatm]

You can make the repeater crossbow have close to infinite ammo on Zealot as long as you hit your shots with a specific build. Very fun to just sit 100 yards away from a boss pelting them with bolts without ever having to find more ammo.

[@lw8882]

You can drop grimoires by holding left and right click on your mouse. You're welcome.

[@SarcofagoBlackThrash]

Bro I love your content on V2, I wish you'd make more videos, cheers. Thoroughly enjoyed the shitposting, top tier mate.

[@thanhhaitran9422]

You got at least 5 pages in the Damaz Kron for the amount of the S word in Bardin section.

[@magicschoolbass]

I am mentioned on the cover, I am a skaven fanboy

[@ADTFreak]

Awesome video bass! Loved it. Totally worth the wait.

[@magicschoolbass]

Happy to deliver

[@16pikachu33]

this was a very short video thank you :D this wee little video of such info surely was easily consumed

[@kyosefgofa]

53:25 The free bomb perk doesn't expire by the way. You don't have to use the bomb while the smoke screen is active. You get a free bomb anytime after using an ult.

[@mordecaiplatypus4300]

Was not expecting the Chipsa crossover

[@DarKKnight6290]

The best vid on that game I have ever seen, good job

[@cream3899]

4:54 i think VT1 is worth it to play just for the old voice lines that they removed in VT2. They are GOLDEN

[@marcinh8365]

2 hrs video on vermintide? i respect that

[@Atokedo]

pretty short and on point game preview .thnx

[@Koh_TheRat]

FK Kruber can actually push block plague monks out of their flurry. 10/10 best Kruber class.

[@auburn1036]

This video is as short as my gameplay length when i say just 1 quick game before i go to bed

[@gamedabi1072]

"short video about vermintide 2" sees the little cute rat thinking, yea probably another meme vid... then I saw the length 💀

[@magicschoolbass]

Too late, now you have to watch the entire thing, buddy 😎

[@gamedabi1072]

@@magicschoolbass I still am 😭On 1:08:00

[@gamedabi1072]

@@magicschoolbass Now, after two family gatherings, I finally have watched the whole video Great vid all and all. Though I wish my friends would watch it as well, whom I am trying to convince playing this game. But it is really long and detailed. Not something I dislike, just a scary for someone, who doesn't know a lot of the game I think. But I really love ur humor. Great dmc references and I also liked u talking about Otzdarva's recent video. Felt a great connection to ur content, keep it up. Much love

[@claudealpha2090]

I don't know why you're not getting them views, my man, you're funny

[@magicschoolbass]

Algo don't likes me that's all. Hope it will change some day

[@Ix99oblivion]

Surprisingly worth the +2 hours spent watching it.

[@CapoFisk]

Okay, now I need a longer version of this video.

[@Blessed_Sugmar]

great bloody video

[@magicschoolbass]

Thank you Sigmar, bless this ravaged video

[@wheelskellington3112]

dual swords fills a very nice niche of having a high base crit chance on its light attacks for triggering on-crit effects like ult cooldown or sister of thorns lingering blackvenom

[@magicschoolbass]

Didn't think about that. But aren't the daggers better for that?

[@marksmanmax1158]

@@magicschoolbass The last two light attacks for the dual swords have a stupidly high crit chance boost. The third attack gets a 25% increased crit chance and the fourth gets a whopping 50% crit chance boost; great for meme builds like the aforementioned blackvenom setup on Sister.

[@Merpmaster]

Great video! Very funny memmes, slapped my knee several times. I have an input on volley weapons like the elf and saltz volley. Crits effect ALL of the bolts in the volley, which can actually make the saltz volley crossbow useful even against groups of armored targets. This can be especially fun in the wastes if you get a good crit build.

[@rubz1390]

Kruber is much more than a generic white guy protagonist.

[@nucleenix7762]

fun fact, the reason the hookrat is unusally tanky is because his armor type is classified as "monster" and most weapons, in particular shotguns, generally deal less damage to them

[@magicschoolbass]

Very interesting, considering that this is fatshark, probably unintentional

[@nucleenix7762]

@@magicschoolbass nope, very intentional

[@magicschoolbass]

@@nucleenix7762 hope it is, because that's a smart move, but after BH "bug" I can not help but think twice about certain features lmao

[@ksk_ger5510]

warrior priest even had a bug after his rework where he could self revive himself by being hit when downed. Another example why hes the real Chad

[@professorevil1903]

Bro… Go to the practice range, use the beam staff, right click while shooting the beam. Really good video though

[@magicschoolbass]

I know about that one, just forgot to mention it

[@odix87]

I am good 15 minutes in and I've just realised how short this video truly is. But it's great! I'm gonna watch it in parts but I'm gonna watch it all :D

[@odix87]

btw I think it worked. Subed of course :'P

[@ghilean1174]

Yeah baby. Mildly unhinged 2.5 hour gamer rant with music from Bastion and Darkest Dungeon? KZbin is the place of culture, I say.

[@Maximum-Narezki]

2:41 in my restless dreams i see that soundtrack... sh2 soundtrack.

[@sweeta_va]

A whole 1.5 AR-15 long video on Vermintide?! Keep up the great work man!

[@magicschoolbass]

A guy in the comments corrected me saying that they measure time in eagles, I was wrong

[@sweeta_va]

@@magicschoolbass Ah I gotcha! In my experience, it can definitely change depending on where in the US. I believe 'Eagles' is a more west coast phrase, where as anywhere in the south prefers the 'AR-15' time conversion

[@apencil5147]

Man i love your video’s. I am sure you are gonna be big! Keep grinding my fish 🐟 and i will always be watching!

[@magicschoolbass]

Appreciate the support

[@TheHorse34]

I think the zoom was for Xbox and PlayStation players

[@magicschoolbass]

Maybe, but why is it on PC? And why is it not a setting?

[@TheHorse34]

@@magicschoolbass that’s fair

[@h4xorzist]

I may have nostalgia goggles, but I've always believed that V1 actually had the better look. This has mostly to do with the lighting engine used in V2, which is utter garbage. V1 focused on dusk / night lvls which were likely more forgiving. I do remember the weapons having strange reach in V1 but I believe that was a client issue due to rater bad net coding. I really hate V2s thp mechanic, turning hordes into health packs and making anti horde weapons, such as most staffs, into downright determents for the team (if used excessively). Don't get me started on the overall balance. Overall V1 was the better designed game and sadly the devs learned next to nothing from their V1 mistakes when they made V2.

[@magicschoolbass]

Oh, I agreee VT1 looks way better, the rats especially

[@LVD3NS]

very good video

[@AleK0451]

ngl vermintide 1 had better level design though, it's a lot less railroady and the random variations you can get are more noticeably different every time, also the sound it makes when you full charge the pickaxe and thwack an enemy with it is CHUNKY and it's GONE in 2 and im STILL MAD

[@sovviedan6791]

i planned on spending like 3 minutes watching this video, but ended up reading the entire thing lmao

[@stormstrike1769]

Thank you for this awesome christmas present mr bass

[@rangerdanger572]

Things I dislike about darktide after playing vermintide 2: Oh this staff only has 22% damage, but this one has 54% but lower stats overall, I wonder which one I should upgrade. Swimming in diamantine, I'm out of plasteel for the 13th time today! the "only 2 modifications allowed to be done on a weapon". Blessings on weapons having levels, whats the point of the blessing thats lower level and thus worse? The mk system, which is nice but then some weapons just don't feel nice to use

[@magicschoolbass]

I hate everything that's not the combat in that game (although the combat itself is flawed in many ways)

[@rangerdanger572]

@@magicschoolbass my assessment of the combat is this: way more focus on ranged combat, which i honestly like since it gives your second weapon more use instead of just "On todays episode, the special (with featured guest, the elite)"

[@magicschoolbass]

@@rangerdanger572 True, but so many guns feel terrible, since recoil is a stat and you get suppressed by a hobo shooting you from 10 kilometers away. Outside of revolver no ranged weapon felt satisfying to use for me yet.

[@rangerdanger572]

@@magicschoolbass "so many guns feel terrible" first thing that came to mind was the heavy lasgun, something doesn't feel right about it, just like the entire line-up of braced guns or the shotguns out of which i only ever use the one that loads a slug on special since its the only one that is consistent to some degree Kinda hard to quantify what makes a gun feel bad to use, but it's definitely noticeable once you get your hands on them.

[@VORP125]

This video is so good. Watched the whole thing while eating, enjoyed my time xD

[@magicschoolbass]

The food must've been good too

[@VORP125]

@@magicschoolbass yep xD

[@klaytondaniel]

Another critic, the weak spot of the Chaos Spawn is not the head. Is the ass (Its not a joke), it even has a target painted on its "underpants". is for shooting , dont try to poke it.(believe it or not, is not a joke)

[@magicschoolbass]

Holy shit, I never knew. Sad that games doesn't count those as a headshot, as Stormfiend baby does not count as a head as well

[@drendy1550]

Hah I am a regular Cataclysm player, and with me having played 900 hours, I wish to extend my wisdom to aid some of your errors I'll edit this message as I watch the video, whenever I see something is wrong, so it will be somewhat like my reaction to the video, hehe. And I will start with melee weapon traits. You said that there are only 2 useful ones - Swift Slaying and Parry, which are good traits. But you missed the gold one - Opportunist. Its description says "Push strength +50% against attacking enemies", which is a bullshit description, since it increases stagger not only for push, but for attacks as well. This is usually worthless for damaging weapons, but this is bread and butter for shield weapons. Shield weapons usually (all but spear and shield) have a shield bash, a special kind of attack that can hit infinite amount of enemies as long as they are in range. And, with opportunist, you can stagger EVERY enemy attack save from CWs overheads and monsters. Savages and plague monks included. And again - shield bash has no limit on how many enemies it can hit. So, you can hold of any amount of enemies. Sure, they will hit you between your shieldbashes, but: 1)you can blockcancel to shieldbash almost with no delay, and 2)shieldbash gives you immense stagger THP if you have stagger thp talent (3-5 thp per enemy hit), making you invincible to anything except specials, monsters and MAYBE some unlucky overheads. seriously, try this. In the video I saw your footknight halfdead with no thp and loads of enemies, and you still didnt bash them. Zou could easilz get 30-40 thp with just one bash(exaggareted, but 10 per bash easily). bruh (to stagger plague monks or savages out of their quick combos you need shield weapon, opportunist, 30-40% power increase. With this, you can even stagger them with simple pushes, not even shieldbashes. But dont get me wrong, the same but on normal weapons wont work. Shield weapons have a stronger base push. ) Also, I dont agree with bretonian sword and shield being bad. Well, I wouldnt call them good, but not bad either. The reason being this weapon has weird shield bash position in it's combo. You can access it as 3rd light attack of 2nd charged attack, which sucks. But, If you push and quickly try to light attack right after, you will for some goddamn reason shield bash. So you can just go push-shieldbash-push-shieldbash, so you can very quickly gaint stagger thp. Niche, but not bad. Ah, you touched that point, with its strange bashes, but you for some reason use the kill thp talent. Try with stagger thp. You wont fill as fullfilled, when you kill bosses or CWs with your ult, but would probably be okay due to infinite thp you will swim in. Got to the section with bardins pickaxe. Its charged attacks actually have 2 stages of being charged, like Saltspyre's rapier. Try charging it fully and watch closely. Around one second after starting the charge he will reposition it (i dont know a more fitting word for this) and if unleashed will do WAY more damage against armor. Still wouldnt pick it myself, though. Just wanted to mention that it is not FULLY useless. About hookrat. I myself looked up how to dodge him consistently, and the best option I found was trying to position yourself right near it. Imagine him running to you, and the moment he locks in you rotate yourself so he is to your left or right and dodge in his side. Not doable when in horde or dealing with some other shit, but otherwise usually saves you, unless ping. Ironbreaker. You either forgot, or entirely missed one essential point about him. One, that makes him one of the most tanky character in the whole game. And no, I dont mean trollpedos. It's just that he is the ONLY, ONLY person that can get rid of any special without ANY help from teammates. His passive allows him to absorb 1 hit per 20 seconds, but if you take one certain upgrade, whenever he absorbs that hit he staggers all enemies around him. ALL enemies, SPECIALS TOO!!! Still dont like playing him though, but that seemed a very important point. A bit off point, but I am really amazed you avoided all stagger thp talents in every carier that has it. Since it is common sense to do the opposite. seriously, have you never tried it? I strongly suggest to try. Slayer going 2 twohanded is worthless? well, dunno, dunno... pick the cleave thp talent, take coghammer with swiftslaying for usual combat and great hammer with opportunist when there are to many armored enemies around you. Coghammers quick attacks allow good thp generation and horde killing, charged attacks do okey monster and elites damage, and great hammer is for having Block Cost Reduction property and its charged attack, that with opportunist would allow you to stagger ANYTHING save for CWs. . And yeah, definitely pick the talent for fast ult regen when all passive stacks are up. I didnt see you use it, and it is strange, since it is the most meta option. Specials will be a problem though. Unless you decide to change great hammer for throwing axes. Then they are bearable. Well, later on you made good options for slayer, but I think cog hammer is Great Axe but better. and dual hammers and dual axes... meh, didnt like them. Hah, Saltspyre's Rapier... Seems you didnt know it has 2 stages of charged attacks. Still, I dont think they are that useful, spamming the uncharged charged attack is almost as efficient due to his critical headshots, so fully charged can help only with CWs, I guess. Also, rapier's pistol deals almost no damage if enemy is more than 5 feet away from you. You only killed the blightsrtormer on 1:19:36 due to a lucky crit on the head. The attack itself dealt literally 1 damage. Ah, Zealot... The local men, too religious to die. But it seems like you missed one of the main reasons, WHY he is so popular. You see, one of his talents increases his healing gained by up to 75%, and sure, when I myself saw this, it seemed stupid. Why healing bonus for a character, that always wants to stay nearly dead? The answer to this - is THP. Healing bonus not only increases your normal hp gained, IT INCREASES YOUR THP GAINED. So you can essentially get 105% bonus to THP gained. And yeah, you no longer will feel "injurable" after this. Also, one lide side fact, you should always have use medical supplies after you get downed. No, dont worry, you dont have to heal yourself. Healing OTHERS clears your deadly wounds as well, despite not healing your hp. So you can essentially be downed againg without fully dying. neat, yeah? About Kerilians Dual Swords, they have 2 funny properties. 1, the 3rd light attack has 25% crit chance bonus. Neat, yeah? right, but not as neat as 4th light attacks 50% crit chance. Why is it there? Probably to make this weapon at least somewhat justifiable to use. I usually see it used on WayStalkers along with a long bow. Btw, about Javelins. Handmaiden has a talent, that buffs your attack speed by 30% after pushing for your next 2 strikes This buff increases speed of you reloading your javelins. And, for some reason, ranged attacks dont diminish that buff, despite the wording "next 2 attacks". neat. Though you probably knew this already, so I am just rambling at this point. Also, it comes with the Sister since once she was a damage dealer, but they nerfed her into her current role. I judge fatshark for that. I heard what she used to be, and that sounded like quite some fun. Liches. The easiest special to dodge. Ah, finally, my favorite class, Sister of the thorns. I really like to use the thicc walls btw. When used well, they help immensely. Like, you are surrounded near a wall? place the wall next to it to turn a "wall" into a "corner" for next 10 seconds. Or, if a whole patrol is going for the souls of your team, if they go through a corridor you can block part of them off. Outside of that, fun fact - her staff lifts any enemy for 8 seconds, except CWs - 4 seconds. And finally, Sienna. About Fire Sword - its first Charged attack is actually considered a shield bash. Dont ask me why, no idea either. But that is why she can get so much thp without a "shield" weapon. Also, conflagnation staff. Yeah, its damage is low, but the charged version can stagger most elites even if you dont charge it at all. I heard some use it solely for that purpose. Pyromancer. Maybe you havent heard, but she got a glorious rework. Now she is way more powerful. Essentially, Battle Wizard is sienna doing both melee and ranged, Unchained focused on Melee, and Pyromancer focused on ranged. Beam staff. It has actually a third attack. First one is the shotgun, where you hold the right button and press the left one. Second is the beam, that you get if you hold the left button. And the third is a short burst of damage, that you get if you press right click during the beam attack. And the longer you beamed the last target, the more powerful this attack gets. Also, beam attack leaves a very, VERY powerful burning damage. Seriously, I've seen people melt bosses with it. Though, you have to hold the beam on target for at least 2 second for the main DoT to begin. So, this is actually not the worst staff. Welp, finally we went to the end. Honestly, I wrote this not to make you correct errors in the video, just thought some tips would make some classes for you more enjoyable, like 3rd saltspyre, now that you know about healing bonus. Or any class with stagger thp talent. Hope the game will be as fun for you as it is for me. Good luck)

[@magicschoolbass]

Dude, thank you for taking your time to write this, this was an awesome read, especially about Zealot and Opportunist. I was wondering why everyone kept saying to try it. Gonna test some of what you said today

[@drendy1550]

Hope it helped Also, thought I should tell you, why stagger is so especially good on shield weapons While any weapon can stagger, you only get thp from stagger if your attack doesnt outright kill your enemy. So, weapons like Great Hammer, despite hitting a lot of enemies, only produce hp if you attack a crowd of 5+ enemies. Shield bash though deal very little damage, but to all enemies hit. Also, what I said about shield bash hitting infinite enemies, the game sees it a bit different. Shield bash only hits the first enemy, after that it works like an explosion with small radius and big radius. So, if you try shield bashing with a cleave thp talent, it will only give you 1 thp. Despite holding back entire hordes. And the reason, why stagger talent is so good at giving thp, is because it is not directly limited. The crit/headshot talent only gives 2-4 hp per strike, kill talent is tied to how well you kill stuff, and cleave has a stupid limit of 5 per strike. Stagger, on the other hand, gives you hp per every enemy you staggered with your attack, with no cap on amount of enemies. Which in turn makes shields shine. Anyway, I am glad it helped you. Also, it would be nice to hear your impression on thing you have missed before. Would make me feel a little bit proud of myself)

[@magicschoolbass]

@@drendy1550 I do use stagger thp trait, but not too often. Very interesting stuff about the shields doe. I love learning about niche mechanics like that

[@thepaulzdontforget]

as someone with almost 1,500 hours in vermintide 2, I feel seen by this video.