Code Vein - Charged Drain Build - 100% Certified Jank

[@TwisteDxBoi]

I actually wanted the Veils to be an actual weapon in a way, this is the closest we can get and looks hella fun

[@murwur]

Spamming is so much fun sure. But if you don't die or use healing you can get your max ichor up to 999 and then spam all your active abilities. That would be fun.

[@HailSagan_]

Define "Janky" : "A combination that doesn't seem very good but somehow works out."

[@Roguhr]

I don't think he knows what janky means to be honest

[@CrysResan]

@@Roguhr I mean it might be a real term- but if so it's a very specific jargon term. The one most people think of is "this barely functions" Like something like the mess that is the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-any of them.

[@ANDELE3025]

3 little things id do: Use Royal Heart instead of Perfect Balance to have active poise during walking/charge animation (still only 1-3 hits before getting staggred, but lasts for full fight and tends to be enough time to get a charge off if the enemy attack isnt a heavy attack/telegraphed to dodge); Possibly replace Zwei with a bayonet or 1h sword/anything with quick shift attack that closes the gap and good launch) if using Forted Dammerung (possibly adding Iron will as the 2 buffs stack/is not the same) to allow you to use the quick drains (run in and after gap closer attack since one is already holding shift doing the quick drain is easy if keybound well/i got it on mouse 3); AND most important of all, the Crown of Sand side quest RV 114/Complete Attention passive gives FULL FOCUS on a complete charge attack. Which means you can do ANOTHER DRAIN instantly/without waiting for stamina regen to kick in because your stamina just got refilled OR against mooks by doing a launch attack (as a replacement for strength vit passive) to cc them and get invul time.

[@FightinCowboy]

Yeah I ddn't have Complete Attention at the time but that's a ridiculously good addition. Basically charge into launch against any trash enemies.

[@bankia6723]

@@FightinCowboy Ive been using the claw upper cut in between combos. (R1 +x) Thats a drain attack and quick. I was expecting this video to be about a one handed or bayonet build that light attacked then R1+x. Is there something stopping that from working here? Im assuming since its not a charged attack it would suffer and i realize you went in a completely differnt direction. Whats your thoughts on a build like that?

[@razgriz2276]

@@bankia6723 i a Went for kinda the same idea. But i also use the sharge speed up spell. Charges super fast

[@zaphyrae]

I use a similar build only instead of the hounds I use ivy (I think the name was) and use the spinny cloud thingy to attack from afar. If there's a group of lost and you do this, you only aggro the lost you hit, and so you can draw them away from the crowd. If you're around a corner and the lost can't find you, they don't attack you, allowing you to spam the spinny cloud until they die. Lower level lost can be one shot. If they do attack, I use the "Yakumo, helpppp" method where I keep on dodging and let Yakumo finish them off, lol. It's great for someone who's terrible at games like me.

[@razgriz2276]

This isnt the build code vein needed but it sure is the one it deserved.

[@DeathxJester13]

"If it looks stupid, but works, it's not stupid."

[@DesDraculae]

I made another non-meta build for those who remember my Strength/Light Mage Hybrid. Most of us are probably aware of the Bayonetta Overdrive build made by Fextralife. That build is purely for shooting. My bayonet build is much more melee focused with some shooting on the side. Blood Code: Ishtar Weapons: Burning Disaster & Riot Breaker. Fortification transformation on both. These two bayonets are the only ones with strength scaling; and it's really good scaling which is why this build is more melee than ranged. Blood Veil: Silver/Sanguine/Dusk Garb. Also Fortification. Passive Gifts: Bayonet Mastery, Weapon Drain Rating Up, Strength/Dexterity Up, and Dexterity/Willpower Up. Burning Disaster needs a B in Dexterity to use, hence the double-up. Active Gifts: Adrenaline, Bridge to Glory, Royal Heart, Iron Will, Ranged Impact, Bloodsucking Blades, Circulating Pulse, and Fusillade Rondo. Yeah, that's right. A tank bayonet build. Buff up your physical capabilities (use all the buffs except Ranged Impact), pistol whip the lost into submission, then pop Ranged Impact when you wanna get blasting. I noticed something very interesting while testing. Fusillade Rondo is boosted by both Adrenaline and Ranged Impact. You want to mainly use Burning Disaster, but switch to Riot Breaker if you want to shoot fire resistant enemies. Riot Breaker misses some of its melee attacks (it's the fifth swing in the light combo) when you're very close to some enemies, though. You could of course work around it by shooting a shot, using a special attack/special drain, or using Circulating Pulse or Fusillade Rondo.

[@randomperson-up5vt]

Who needs superior builds when you can spam doggos. I was using almost same setup but I was using the spear stab veils. I found it to hit from a good distance so easy for me to build the charge around.

[@akirandrake414]

I'm having issues pulling off back attacks consistently. Despite being behind the enemy like I'm suppose to be.

[@ABadassDragon]

Could you do a build around focus and launching enemies in the air

[@FightinCowboy]

I do have a Focus oriented dodge build in the works.

[@ABadassDragon]

@@FightinCowboy Nice

[@DennisOfDragons]

6:58 'who let the dogs out' XD

[@TrueIchor]

Praise the Jank

[@eugenemwango486]

@fightincowboy love your content. Been a fan since 2014. Keep up the great content.

[@JohanFaerie]

This was amazing. And speaking of Jank, will we see anymore MTG decks in the future? Just curious.

[@FightinCowboy]

I want to get back to it, just no time right now.

[@mikhailtagallie8274]

Combo drain can knock ppl down. Hold dash/combo button m press the drain button after melle attacking. I do it after my 2h stuns or enemy is near death. With this you csn probably hit once n then do it.

[@SamC77]

this is great! can you demonstrate this in the Towers?

[@zer0game586]

What the jank is going on in this janking video

[@AiDomij]

1st boss in the Cathedral area should be wary of this build lol you can actually use drain attacks on him, which I found out today, so I just spammed that on him and killed him in about 20-40 seconds

[@heroofkokoto4707]

>Me and the doggos Love the build, I'm all in for weird stuff like that. Just, a question: wouldn't Guard Reversal be more effective in creating openings to charge devour on faster enemies (like the Knight)? I wouldn't say Stun or anything like that due to build-up, but, maybe... in place of Grave Knocker...? Just my random thought, eh; you made the build, I haven't even done any testing on it so you obviously know better than I do in that regard.

[@FightinCowboy]

It would but you can't run it with Heimdall and you need Heimdall to take advantage of the damage buff to your drains via blood sac.

[@heroofkokoto4707]

@@FightinCowboy Oof, I forgot about the stat requirements, my bad. That makes sense. I think Royal Heart could be run with Heimdall but I doubt that the stagger resistance it provides is enough to make a difference, so, rage stomp it is then! XD

[@WaytoOblivion]

Favorite build honestly. Lol

[@Kryto_Gaming]

Wow this looks fun and interesting. Definitely worth a try. How potent is Jack's Communal gift though? I don't know if Communal Gifts work well in Coop or if you want to solo. Is there a replacement? Also does the Swift Destruction passive work with Charged Drain?

[@kingcobra2858]

This looks both funny and fun. I dont like the long set up tho. Lol

[@pocketinfinity6733]

a small price to pay for dps

[@mrolson0603]

Well, this is...different. I dig it. Does the drain buff only apply to fully charged attacks? So backstabs or quick drain combos won't be as strong?

[@FightinCowboy]

There's separate passives for charged, launch, and parry/stab. You could run all of them at once but considering only charged will work on most bosses I stuck to that.

[@razgriz2276]

@@FightinCowboy does the fast drain after an attack get effected by this?

[@johnnyjay6959]

Shit looks crazy.

[@BappinProductions]

7:01 double doggos ;)

[@ais8332]

That's hella awesome

[@theroyalarkusknight9972]

Wouldn't Time Crunch from the Scathach blood code be better than fatal surge?

[@rod4309]

MORE JAAAAANK!

[@ludwigziffer6895]

Wouldn't this become even better if you used the consumable item that further reduces charge time or does it make no discernable difference if you have the passive already?

[@FightinCowboy]

Maybe didn't check if they stack since it's silly to need to constantly stock up an item to play a build

[@NeocrimsonX]

Thanks

[@Mrholysymbol]

Wouldn't it be more effective to combo into the drain attack after a normal weapon swing? Since that doesn't have a charge time and you wouldn't have downtime on dealing damage just to charge up

[@Ph33rTheDens]

His passives appear to work specifically on "charged" abilities, so the combo drain wouldn't qualify.

[@justinogoertez6991]

Anyone know if this still works

[@Yokyle4356]

I have a question. I'm looking at a ability that says weapon drain rated up increase the drain rating of a weapon attacks if I use that will my attack go up please answer as soon as you could

[@torukisaragi2712]

I want a stinger veil build. Have yet to see anyone use one in any build

[@fatcat1250]

Because stingers are kinda in the middle of things in stats and don't fit well with minmax builds.

[@hamzadesidragonsarwar]

It reduces your weapon speed a lot though

[@satamoita3]

don't get GXL Defender Blood Veil yet, do you have any alternative for it ?

[@FightinCowboy]

Anything that uses hounds.

[@les8947]

has any one found a wombo combo for the pipe weapon?

[@ジョジョさま]

The only redeemable trait about pipe is its extremely low weight.

[@rocketscientist14]

I want to like this game so badly but I honestly just don’t understand much about the stats & builds lol. Been trying to play it for the last week & keep finding myself falling away from it because I’m having a tough time understanding all the stats and how they scale & what they scale with etc.

[@Ubersicht]

It is a bit confusing at first, there is the wiki and reddit to look it up, but for a short summary: Blood code determines: *Base movement (quick/normal/slow) and weight limit, actual movement is determined by the relationship between the weight you are currently using (blood veil and weapon) and that weight limit, the less you use of that weigh limit the more you will move from the base movement towards quick and the more you use or if you surpass it you will move towards slow from the base movement. *Base stat scaling (if you played dark souls imagine like each bloodcode is a preset of attribute distribution,for example equipping Harmonia is like instantly setting your attributes to INT 40, STR 10, DEX 15, etc), this is what weapon damage and magic damage scales of. Blood veil determines: *Drain attack damage (backstabs, charged drains and parries) *Magic damage (there are two types, light tree and dark tree) *Obviously, defenses *Modifies base blood code stats *Movement (because of weight) Weapon: *Physical attack damage (does not affect magic) *Movement (because of weight) There is other stuff like elemental damage, etc, but these are the basics.

[@nitemayr131]

Trying to understand your point of view but if i were you i wouldnt let ignorance ruin a game for me, id look these things up. Its not hard. Google exists.

[@NoirLun]

How you attack 4:35, I play in ps4 and i can't do attack

[@Kenkaneki-wc9no]

Hold X

[@nekomancer545]

Wait how do you get the gxl overgear? I only have gxl defender

[@Linkforlife199]

It is a alternate version you can buy from Murasame once you get the GXL Defender.

[@Shajirr_]

1:53 this is false. I tested the damage - hound veils even when both attacks hit, which does not happen every time, do less damage than Venous Claw with 1 claw attack

[@Miasma98]

I just tested it too with the Night Claw and GXL Defender (both without any upgrades whatsoever) and the Night Claw does 1480 damage while the GXL Defender does 1093 with the first hit and 820 with the second attack, 1913 total, so cowboy is right, hounds is better than claw, at least as long as both attacks hit.

[@Shajirr_]

Venous Claw has way higher damage than other claw variants, and higher than all hounds variants. You tested the wrong veil.

[@Miasma98]

@@Shajirr_ I just tested it and the damage difference is very small (I also switched from Queenslayer to Heimdall blood code since that's what's used in this video) and GXL Defender does a total of 1816 while Venous Claw does 1997, so yeah, that's higher damage, but your sacrificing a lot of defense for just a little bit more damage, plus not everyone has the Venous Claw since it is a pre-order bonus, and even tho you can still buy it I don't think the sacrifice in defense is worth it tbh, you can see yourself how many times cowboy was close from dying in that boss fight, so I don't think he would've made it so easily without all that defence. So I still think GXL Defender is the better option overall.

[@nubbmann637]

Is there a parry build?

[@Kasaaz]

Wouldn't a Quick Weapon + Swift Destruction get you 20% more damage?

[@FightinCowboy]

Can't remember if I tested swift with this but I want to say it didn't work? Charged drains aren't affected by very much

[@InsaneCarverUpqik]

@@FightinCowboy swift does work on charge drains problem is with most doggo veils all weapons (even the pipe) are slow

[@gautamthakur6588]

Hey dude how do u do the charged drain attack in pc I can't seem to able to. Do iy

[@willa1018]

Hold Control and Left mouse button

[@realityoverdrive4059]

What happened to the Mage 3.0 build?

[@FightinCowboy]

Re-uploaded with some minor changes.

[@zaidanfalih2923]

This looks really uncomfortable to play

[@Zodtheimortal]

how did you get so many atlas chromes? my npc says out of stock :(

[@christianpires216]

You farm them from enemies...

[@yvaineanwell9968]

@@christianpires216 Not Atlas chrome. You only get that from trading with Yakumo, just like you only get Prometheus chrome from Louis, Artemis chrome from Mia, etc. The only way you get more of those chromes is successive playthroughs, because once they're out of stock, they're out of stock.

[@cryohartfierade6720]

My build is a lot more different than this one like 100% more different does 9745dmg and only 4 skills needed with certain 4 passive skills.... ok I made my build a little improved now does 10481 dmg

[@Lord-Darkness]

Is this game like dark souls it sure in hell looks like it bro

[@Zenbon111]

It plays similar to it yes

[@Lord-Darkness]

@@Zenbon111 cool ima buy this next week then :)

[@jay-chan2284]

This build is....Jank. Lol 😂 I'm curious if you can make something like a Necromancer build

[@FightinCowboy]

As far as I know there's no way to raise enemies to life so sadly I think that's out of the question haha

[@AmorphisBob]

hopefully they add something like that in a future DLC because that'd be awesome

[@NeocrimsonX]

I want a build that buffs my companion XD stand power

[@wassimakkire7004]

Man seriously 😥 I can't keep up with all those information 😩

[@cinderpsycho1985]

I cant pull it off my drain allways is instant cast and I can't charge it. What am I doing wrong?

[@FightinCowboy]

Drain is never an instant cast. You're probably doing a combo drain. Just hold A instead.

[@nitemayr131]

Or x if on ps4

[@cinderpsycho1985]

@@FightinCowboy found it i fucked my own keybindings and it wasn't mapped out anymore

[@shadowofthe]

fuck can't watch passed 1:04 still playing game also past that silly half castle

[@Roguhr]

Janky, you keep using that word, but i don't think you know what it means

[@enderfire1st_404]

M A X I M U M S U C C B U I L D

[@ayemjake]

sorry man this just looks impractical.

[@FightinCowboy]

It's listed as jank in the title, what did you expect?

[@ayemjake]

I was expecting a bit of a more realistic playstyle based on Charged drain and drain stabs, without the need of going through conditional blood gift buffs. Maybe a more optimized charge build that is playable under any given situation. Because based on what I saw in your build if you accidentally die on the first boss fight encounter (which may actually happen sometimes), then you're gonna need to farm back all those Ichor extensions again in order to cast all the buffs and re-fight the boss again, which I think can be painstakingly annoying. I think getting past that hurdle may make it a more viable build for general play, other than that I think the dps is excellent for a drain build

[@konigstiger3252]

This is lame

[@rail7646]

nice attempt, but it's trash :P