Some Heavy Drinking with Ranger Veteran - Righteous Stand - CataTide with AI

[@DaddySadiist]

Let's goooo

[@IDONTGIVEAFLUXify]

This video was great! I'm somewhat new to Vermintide 2 but absolutely loving it. Played a lot of the classes but mostly been enjoying Ranger Vet so watching this was extremely helpful! Thank you! Just curious how come you run boon over barkskin? As I had just heard barkskin was best? Also on your weapon you're running 5% crit/attack speed. I've been running bcr, do you think bcr is better for a new player or should I maybe start trying to block less and drop bcr?

[@CataTide]

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.

[@ajzazazaza]

Hoping for a zealot run sometime soon 😔

[@CataTide]

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.