Vermintide 2 l Handmaiden Mastery Guide

[@ThePartyKnife]

Build Links here! And sorry for rabbling on a bit towards the end xD Perfectly Balanced Melee: www.ranaldsgift.com/8/132121/26,4,3,6/16,3,5,2/1,3,1/1,3,2/2,7,1 Perfectly Balanced Ranged: www.ranaldsgift.com/8/133331/26,4,3,6/16,3,6,2/1,3,1/1,3,2/2,7,1 Ironmaiden Easy: www.ranaldsgift.com/8/233321/36,1,3,3/16,3,6,2/3,2,1/1,3,2/4,7,1 Ironmaiden Hard: www.ranaldsgift.com/8/213331/36,1,3,3/16,3,6,2/3,2,1/1,3,2/4,7,1 Berserker Maiden: www.ranaldsgift.com/8/132123/23,1,4,6/17,1,5,4/3,1,1/1,4,2/2,7,1 ThePartyKnives: www.ranaldsgift.com/8/231331/25,3,4,6/18,4,5,1/3,1,1/1,4,2/2,7,1 SwordOfForewardMomentum: www.ranaldsgift.com/8/233131/24,3,1,6/16,6,3,2/3,2,1/1,3,2/4,7,1 Medic Maiden: www.ranaldsgift.com/8/132321/28,3,4,6/16,5,3,2/3,2,1/1,3,2/4,7,1

[@Shywer]

Awesome Video 4 Real!

[@musikverliebt1552]

what is this for a helmet skin?

[@ThePartyKnife]

@@musikverliebt1552 The one with horns? :) If so then it's purchasable in the shop for shillings.

[@musikverliebt1552]

@@ThePartyKnife year but isnt he mixed with the cape?

[@ThePartyKnife]

@@musikverliebt1552 Ohh yeah I also used a mod to apply the hoodie on top for the intro :P I'm afraid that only works on the modded realm

[@justindc05]

Here 3 years after this video was made and it is great! I recently got into vermintide and absolutely love it. Appreciate the absolute thoroughness you go through in your videos so many of them have been helping me get better and I’m finally starting to play cataclysm regularly now having 300 hours in the game which is nothing in retrospect to the community 😂

[@thehistorians5231]

this video is an hour long...honestly party the amount of work you put in to these is absurd dont overwork yourself and thank you for all that you do

[@ThePartyKnife]

Aww why thank you so much man! :) Always glad to hear that it's appreciated my friend!

[@thehistorians5231]

welp just spent this long watching this and man i feel inspired also i just realized i suck at handmaiden compared to you xd one day il learn...one day

[@ThePartyKnife]

@renideo Much appreciated

[@shadowwarriorshockwave3281]

Oh so this is the real hand maiden guide

[@ThePartyKnife]

Yes good sir that is indeed correct xD

[@tocka1980]

I just wanna say thanks for the massive amount of time and effort you put into these guides. They’ve helped me up my game so much, just a couple days ago I got my last Cata banner for Helmgart, and your vids have helped a lot in improving. Super informative, super helpful, gr8 guides. Mad respect, big brain elf main.

[@willbethereforyou8044]

I was looking for a Shade guide but end up learning more about the game I rate this video 11 out of 10.

[@ThePartyKnife]

Aww why thank you very much my friend! My Shade guide is a bit old I'm afraid. It was the first in depth guide I ever made so the audio quality also suchs a bit xD Anyways much appreciated! Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching m8! :)

[@alexconstandache907]

Just recently got into playing vermintide and I instantly got in love with Kerillian and here 3 careers. Yesterday i started to get veteren gear and until then i was maining Waystalker career. I tried out handmaiden today and liked the fresh new playstyle but i didnt feel like really know how to play her. Your video helped me with that A LOT. So for that thank you so much :D

[@ThePartyKnife]

You are most welcome kind sir of the internet! Appreciate the nice comment and thanks for watchingt!

[@BannedEvECharacter]

Holy balls, this helped, actually helped. Watched it all. Thanks for taking the time to do this, its gold.

[@ThePartyKnife]

Aww why thank you very much and I am glad it helped!

[@Tenshihan-Quinn]

@17:00 mins = EXCELLENT ADVICE! Your chances lessen when facing undetermined odds.

[@ThePartyKnife]

Glad I could be of help my friend!

[@danielricardo9797]

what an incredible work, i think i never saw an 1 hour video for any game, much more a single class, uoyr jokes and profissionalism top notch. thanks for teaching and make the game more enjoyable

[@ThePartyKnife]

aww why thank you so very much kind sir of the internet! I'm glad I could be of help and you have an amazing new year! :)

[@muldas]

omg this is the best guide i have ever senn in all the games i played till now. thank you for your good work. :)

[@ShortP1089]

best guide i have seen out there. glad i found your channel, nice work!!

[@rayj745]

Wait, assassins count as infantry? I just assumed that infantry meant basically any non-taggable enemy.

[@ThePartyKnife]

Yes assassins are infantry. All minions have a faction and an armor class. If you wanna see the specifics for all minions in the game I can warmly recommend downloading the mod ''Bestiary'' which gives you an in game menu with a last of all minions, their hp, faction, armor class, etc. Anyways hope you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching!

[@sustachejohn4567]

The mod hes talking about is what i can to tell u about..... I mean this in the nicest way.. If u dont know what class specials are ur wasting damage. That mod tells u their PRIMARY and sub type of humanoid. U can see what mosters minions etc are vulnerable to.

[@sustachejohn4567]

If u need help dowloading mods i can tell u how

[@theenglishbean7586]

Damn! Your content is FANTASTIC!! 100% will be recommending to everyone I know!

[@ThePartyKnife]

Awww thank you so much!

[@sanguinius6815]

man the hood over the barbute looks so good.

[@BlueRanger7PL]

ABSOLUTE GEM both video and the channel

[@GOBRAGH2]

VMT2202 Professor Saltzspyre M-W-F 8:00am-10:50am. "BE ON TIME MINIONS!" "HAIL SIGMAR"

[@ThePartyKnife]

xDDDD

[@MrMagJon]

I just started playing the handmaiden because i'm playing with a few friends and have to revive them all the time. So handmaiden is perfect for that :D Great guide

[@ThePartyKnife]

Hahahah hell yeah! :D

[@casedistorted]

Fun fact I learned recently, my friend Mr. An@l Gape wrote the dialogue for Kerillian for A Quiet Drink event. Always wondered how he got that sweet Con only serpent border he's always wearing, apparently there was a contest and he won.

[@BD-tp6pr]

I've been playing modded realm since a week or so now. Settings on Cata and onslaught plus and horde spawns, density and amount of specials + monsters etc according to the amount of players we have. last night we played with up to 24 people against fields full of enemies. Your worst enemy are frame drops to 17 FPS LoL. But also good practice when you are with less people and with a steady FPS (and no crashes). You want to practice specials more you just crack up the number of specials that spawn. Same with monsters. We usually play with infinite ammo/heat tho, but the amount of enemies, specials are according to that. Oh yeah, and it's just a lot of fun to do, you get the most insane moments :) Thanks for the awesome guides!!

[@ThePartyKnife]

Hahaha yeah you gotta love the more players mod! :D Anyways I'm glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching! :)

[@BD-tp6pr]

@@ThePartyKnife Indeed! I didn't even know about that mod. Seeing 24 Slayers jumping like young deer in a field is freaking hilarious. Many times I just watched from a distance LMAO

[@parkerthompson2893]

PK, thank you so much for saving me from writing this off as some mindless hack and slash gacha game. You are a gentleman and a scholar, and an absolute mad.

[@ThePartyKnife]

Haha 😂 Thank you so much for the kind words my friend and you are most welcome!

[@tommychappell6359]

I actually have several counters to those points later on. My view is that there are several aspects to that. Lot so brace yourself. 1. Experiencing fight and flight enables one to practice flight and flight mode, and thrive aside fight and flight. (Until learn all characters).Making it a plus not a negative. 2. Actually caring makes you better player sometimes.That includes fight and flight. If you become so calm that you feel nothing well then your just void without emotion, your not even human at that point. This is more than likely a miscommunication by a friend who happened to watch same video. But big difference between being binary/black and white about it and not being confident outright and being semi confident but bit anxious, not about not feeling anxiety outright or that not being confident makes you a bad player doesn't. It's having balance of both and improving balance of both so that more confident and inversely less anxious. Never just like Be Confident (like 100%), being not confident= Bad. Which yeah is something that my friend failed to do. Is to be articulate on that. It's a trap. But a detrimental one. 3. Confidence and calm often comes down to skill.its natural for a player without skill to panick because they might lack that experience. To merely to remain confident for sake of being confident. But to have skill to bolster confidence to be confident. Experience Vs internal thoughts. It's easy to tell someone just to.. BE Confident. When they have no skill to make up for the confidence. 9/10 lack of confidence/fight and flight comes from lack of experience, not ability to BE confident in of itself. Its knowing what you are doing. Self trust. To be successful. 4. Adrenaline/fight and flight can be good surge of excitement, 5. Most screw ups don't occur because of fight or flight. It occurs because you were idiosyncratic arbitrary ''idiot''. Not because it was actually important. 6. Merely putting fight or flight on people's heads isn't way to go. You become what you think. If you think fight or flight your gonna be fight or flight. If you think purely. I'm going to learn from this. Nothing else. And be a ''troll'' who likes having fun. Then who cares. Just a game after all. 7. It's pretty rare that people do experience fight and flight in-game though idk some might in some odd cases. What most people experience is a sudden surprise. But most of them don't even care about mere oanock or fight or flight which to me is irrelevant anyway. Because it's not important. If someone experiences that then it's because they feel judged. They care more about people's judgement about them then what they think about them. 8. Stop caring about the outcome. If so fight and flights out a potential outcome then shouldn't be playing in first place. It's usually because you have an expectation in your head to meet. And your specific to that expectation. over just playing and seeing what happens. Vermintide to me is similar to elite dangerous, it's like in spaceship/ocean exploring facets of game. To me winning has never been the point. But to see fun learning and exploring as the goal. In fact not to set a goal at all. But rather to just be present. It's really just peeling layers and exploring depths of mechanics of the game. There isnt rly win as such more just exploring crap. 9. We tend to overthink things (and we don't even know we overthink things/over-thinkers). Only one thing that makes you feel anxious and that's yourself. Believe it or not. The way you react/your reaction to things will either cause to be anxious or to be less. Especially when it comes to other people who's own reactions have nothing to do with you in the first place. And many times you react gives others a calm reaction too. Keep it simple. Lots of viable alternatives. Could even just be like well I was testing a build. Fair point. You make the narrative.when you care less others have tendency to care less too. But we often don't see it that were contributing to fulfilling prophecy that instills others very judgements to make us anxious when really it's way we treat ourselves and others that perpetuates way we feel. There's probably million different narratives. Nearly each one of them are viable. If there's issue well just use self talk and it's not a problem. But it's as you say, it's just reducing anxiety to minimum. Not denying it outright 100%

[@djwoody1649]

This was verrryyy helpful, much obliged mate, you do some bloody top notch work. I really appreciated the breakdown of the... ...breakpoints.

[@ThePartyKnife]

Why thank you very much DJWoody! :) Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching!

[@GamerzMedia]

What an incredibly detailed and clear video!! Amazing work dude!

[@ThePartyKnife]

Aww why thank you very much kind sir! :) Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for watching!

[@yaratchiku]

Yay! Finally, the Knife guide to tell me how wrong I've been playing my favorite class! :D Well, here's some remarks I had, I guess: For talents, I favor Mainstay over the other 2. Since as Hm you're always pushing between every 2 attack, you can just stagger a horde into oblivion, even on cata. You can also stagger a CW with your Spear and Shield, 40% more dmg is pretty nice. I find it far easier to apply it consistently with Hm then with any other hero. To me, Wraith Walk is the quitencential Hm ability. It's sooo good in almost every situation, and always helps a ton when clutching. Since you're not meant to be main dmg, more survivability is good. I pick it over everything else almost every time for anything that's above cata or weave 40. For the attack sequence for SnD. I'd say light > light > Push > light > light is the best. It's a really good idea to ALWAYS push a trash horde, since it makes you immune to most retaliation. For most weapons, the push is to be used and abused, it regens so fast anyways. I really, REALLY like the berserker maiden. Unsure of how good it'll do on harder stuff, but I sure am gonna try it! I'm gonna argue that, as HM, always playing selflessly isn't a good thing. You're suposed to be a good support, so if you can dash to your teammate, it's often a good idea. BUT. Recognizing a situation where you're gonna die is also important, because most of the time, you might just get a double death on your hand. If there's too many disablers, it's almost pointless to res, you're just gonna get grabbed alongside your teammate. Some situation, you're just better of staying with your alive teammates as support and as stamina regen. I guess, in short, recognizing when to play defensively and not going for res is also a HM skill xP Finally, I'm surprised you didn't talk about Dash timing. Because you wouldn't believe the number of Hm I've seen, who had boss agrro, dashed, and let a teammate take the boss pound. When fighting side by side, or against a boss, knowing when to dash is super important, otherwise you send unneeded complications to your friends. I guess all in all, decision making is what makes or break a Hm =P Great video! You didn't disappoint with this guide! Keep up the great work man!

[@ThePartyKnife]

Thank you so much man and really much appreciated! And to be fair I quite often use mainstay myself even though I know you hit more breakpoints with enhanced power. And you are right about the timing but I had to finish the guide at some point and possibly I'll go into more detail on that part in a seperate video! Also things like not dashing immediately to get past a bunch of enemies, but instead wait a bit to get as many as you can as close as possible and then dashing, putting as many of them on the right side and giving you as much space as possible. Anyways I'm glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for watching friend!

[@iamtheskrillbob5310]

I absolutely love this guide, its amazingly put together as always except for one thing. HOW DARE YOU talk down upon the beauty that is 80% revive speed. It is a majestic feeling when someone goes down next to you and you rez them before they can finish thier fall animation. All jokes aside tho I know its not the most meta but even in cata i run the rez speed just because it feels flippin awsome. Thanks again for the truly awsome guide!

[@ThePartyKnife]

Hahaha I can't argue with that! :D Some things are worth doing simply for the sake of awesomeness!!! It's not like I'm actually under the illusion that doing a 360 mid air is going to assist my aim and increase my chances of nailing a headshot... Quite the opposite in fact... BUT WHEN YOU DO HIT THE HEADSHOT!!!!! You don't even need to apply your sunglasses because through your actions everyone will already know you are wearing them! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@12max345]

What is that skin for the spear and shield in the beginning at 1:53? This guide is phenomenal btw.

[@ThePartyKnife]

Awwww why thank you very much my friend! :) I'm afraid it was the weave skin though which is currently not available outside the weaves which kinda sucks :/ I still hope they implement it into normal gameplay somehow cause it's by far the coolest skin!

[@12max345]

@@ThePartyKnife Oh dang, that sucks to hear. Would have been awesome since the base sword and spear is kinda bland. Hopefully they will add new skins to it to better match that Iron Protector vibe.

[@wilder6408]

I can't believe I have not heard of this channel for vermintide before. Good stuff, man.

[@ThePartyKnife]

aww why thank you! :D

[@prich0382]

25:56 How does that Trinket have 4 properties??

[@ThePartyKnife]

Was just using a mod on the modded realm to put all 4 on the same trinket in order to showcase it in the same frame. Otherwise I would have had to switch mouse between 2 trinkets while explaining it. So you can't do that on official realm. :)

[@alexsitaras6508]

I think the only way to test if there is a cap is if we add in Kruber's shared paced strikes. I did convocation on the latest patch with bots on legend, I got dropped early and a bot picked me up, who died shortly after. Being one hit from death during 80% of that mosh pit makes the rest of the game seem pretty chill.

[@ThePartyKnife]

hahaha nice! :D

[@Trueromancee]

This is better than the zack snyder justice league cut.

[@ThePartyKnife]

hahahahahaha xDDDD I just watched that the other night xD

[@vinlulu4064]

18:40 why there is squeezie ? xD

[@ThePartyKnife]

xDDDD

[@fel8x889]

I was about to ask for the same question

[@apathy251]

hey what is your opinion on the standard spear without shield on handmaiden ?=

[@honestbenny]

Questions: 1. When you play party setup- you prefer Ironmaiden or Balanced? I find myself prefering Spear n Shield mostly 2. Whne you were showing your gameplay running SnD - was that balanced melee or ranged? 3. Do you think generally SnD is better than SnS or it doesn't matter? 4. Does Ironmaiden Hard has sense on Legend? 5. When doing solo Legend "practice" runs - can I run it with Spear and Shield? I kind of like this weapon the most.

[@MajSpork]

33:00 I'm an American and I CACKLED at that joke. It was very good!

[@ThePartyKnife]

Hahaha I'm glad to hear that my friend! :) Hopefully things will calm down soon so you guys can focus on the issues at hand! And thanks for watching!

[@louismanet3656]

Do you have an attack sequence/guide for the spear and shield? Can't really find much detail within the video! Cheers dude!

[@ThePartyKnife]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eX6neneLfbuWorM :P

[@louismanet3656]

@@ThePartyKnife Thankyou!

[@kubakowalik6598]

I recently tried spear and shield with swift slaying and alai alacrity... Highest DPS vs horde by far seems to be push + 3 light attacks. Thats stagger from push, 60% attack speed bonus and third light also has nice cleave. I was surprised that i am getting all green circles, with S&S handmaiden, lol Anyways, great video as always!

[@Sofrew]

And to play with pubs its the best weapon choice. You can easily stagger SVs, and with Opportunist, you can stagger CWs when they aren't doing any of the overhead attacks. It just makes it so you can be confident when taking on a bunch of elites while making your team much safer as well since the overheads aren't as dangerous.

[@kubakowalik6598]

@@Sofrew I think you mean Opportunist,Off balance give shrapnel effect on block :P I like swift slaying here, with alai alacrity you can spam push attack into heavy really fast

[@Sofrew]

@@kubakowalik6598 You are correct, I've changed it.

[@exoticspoon6117]

So with the range focused M&R build do you hit both the beastigor headshot and assassin body shot? I only saw 30% to assassin and 10% to beastigor.

[@ThePartyKnife]

With the ''Perfectly Balanced Melee'' on cataclysm you hit the 1 SBS assassins and the BS+LS on a gasrat. Where as with the 'Perfectly Balanced Ranged'' You have 20% skaven + Enhanced = 30% for assassin and for Stormvermin and for gasrat and for strangler plus 10% armored + Enhanced for Bestigore,

[@TheIronKingLTD]

Bro fantastic work!!! Thank you 🙏

[@ThePartyKnife]

Thank you so much my friend!

[@esesel7831]

I love your vids man, best channel on YT

[@ThePartyKnife]

Aww why thank you so much man that really means the world to hear!

[@shabanak391]

i can really agree with what you said about playing solo, i improved so much since then, when i started i was quite comfortable with champion difficulty and struggling with legend but sometimes winning. i started my solo runs with bosses and specials disabled and i was so stressed out trying to handle horde wich i completly failed. After many tries and watching videos of you and j_sat i am completing my first solo runs with only bosses disabled and i keep calm and it feels pretty easy now to handle horde. Next goal is to complete runs with all enabled.

[@diablolrm90]

I really enjoy playing with the spear and shield or the spear, however I'm quite bad at getting headshots. Is it worth using it if I can't reliably headshot or should I look at some of the other weapons?

[@crisppringle711]

Man this was so funny. I've been putting of playing Kerillian but I might now.

[@ThePartyKnife]

Glad you enjoyed it m8 and appreciate the kind words!

[@herveglandu4847]

Wise words at the end. Thx.

[@IllerChIller88]

bro you are insane!! your work is appreciated so much!! love your videos and greetings from your neighbor Germany =)

[@ThePartyKnife]

Thank you so much my friend really much appreciated! Ich liebe aber auch deustchland, ich bin ein Viertel deutsch xD it's a bit rusty though haha :DDD

[@IllerChIller88]

@@ThePartyKnife awesome! I wish I could speak danish - for the fact that you are our neighbors we have faaar to few efforts on this in germany :/ Dein Deutsch ist super! :D

[@ThePartyKnife]

@@IllerChIller88 haha well to be fair we are just shy of 6 million people so it makes more sense that we are taught your language than vice versa :D

[@Levyathyn]

An hour long video about my favorite class? Of course!

[@ThePartyKnife]

[@HezakHQ]

how do you have 4 properties on 1 trinket?

[@ThePartyKnife]

It was with a mod simply because it made it easier to showcase the 4 properties you were looking for! :)

[@kieranderuyter3705]

Thank you very much for this! I appreciate the hard work on this one!

[@GBugden]

39:00 what game mode is that with the shiny floating orbs? WoM?

[@jaycoaster537]

do you have any details if you can use weave weapons outside of weave playlist??

[@ThePartyKnife]

Yes you can. Just ask on our Discord there are plenty of people there who know how!

[@justinthawsetmyo4173]

I just got Vermintide last week for free, and seeing the lack of "healer" careers, I have been enjoying picking up downed players in the middle of a mob. Handmaiden will probably be my main Kerillian career.

[@tomasz9429]

Thank you for your hard work on this, very informative. I think I'm going to play the handmaiden soon. Been trying RV with throw up axes on legend, it's fun, and I ended up having the highest damage to monsters plenty of times. Also horde decimation with dual hammers is fun. Ran Athel Yenlui with a friend where everybody but me died, I had to run through the whole forest alone... And I hate forests almost as much as I hate elves. Fatshark pls nerf handjoobmaiden.

[@ThePartyKnife]

Glad to hear that my friend!

[@snowythepenguin4661]

I don't understand the breakpoints, for example 20% skaven/infantry means that i have to chose 20% or 20% infantry or i have to get both to 20%? Sorry maybe that's stupid question but i want to fully understand

[@ThePartyKnife]

No problemo! :) All minions have both a faction (Skaven/Chaos) and an armor class (Infantry/Armored/Monster) and if for example the list says 20% Skaven/Infantry for Assassins that means in total you need 20% power vs assassins and can achieve that through both skaven and infantry. So in that example you might put 10% skaven and 10% infantry on the bow and it works, or you could put 10% skaven on the bow and 10% skaven on the charm and it works, or you could get enhanced power and 10% infantry on the bow and it works. Hope all of those examples helped and thanks for watching! :)

[@snowythepenguin4661]

@@ThePartyKnife Ah i see now, thank you!

[@thatsmyname7154]

How do you skip the first heavy attack initiate the second heavy with spear and shield?

[@ThePartyKnife]

I use the push block attack! :)

[@prich0382]

In your Fortunes of Winning guide, your Ironmaiden build is different, like using on Longbow Power vs chaos + infantry rather than Power vs Armoured + infantry you show here, the charm is different too so in FoW you show Power vs chaos + Attack speed rather than here you show Attack speed + Power vs Skaven. You are also using mainstay in FoW guide rather than Enhanced Power, so I'm just confused which one to use aha

[@ThePartyKnife]

Use this one! :) In the FoW guide I just showed you what I had been using but in this one I meticulously did all of the actual breakpoint calculations :) and thanks for watching!

[@prich0382]

@@ThePartyKnife Ah I see so the FoW guide is a bit outdated in places, omg thanks for letting me know, I had a suspicion something may not quite right aha

[@RisenSlash]

Trinkets can have 4 properties? 25:51

[@neurocat6453]

I was so confused when I saw triple xyp9x face first second))

[@ThePartyKnife]

hahaha xD I thought it was kinda funny :P

[@j.d.4697]

With S+D you were not block-cancelling, you were push-cancelling. The first heavy is actually super strong so it's the better option anyway unless you need the extra speed.

[@ThePartyKnife]

Ehhh no I was definitely block-canceling and no the first heavy attack is not always the better option

[@kubakowalik6598]

Holy shit, you have the Eternal Serpent frame? :O

[@ThePartyKnife]

Ahhh you noticed! :D Yeah I got it a few days ago xD I had been considering for a while if they might give me one if I asked due to my commitment to V2 videos :D So I did, and was told to make a hand drawn picture of the meme dog ''doge'' so I did and I got it XD True story

[@AGamingZebra]

@@ThePartyKnife Can we...see the picture?

[@ThePartyKnife]

@@AGamingZebra haha I did in fact post it in a mod channel on the discord server since on of them wanted to see it. I'll consider it haha, not my proudest work but it got the job done xD

[@DarkLess89X]

let's hope the new class is something interesting, I have some interesting ideas about it

[@ThePartyKnife]

Agreed!

[@apathy251]

hey i got a question isint it technically possible to drop the attack speed on charm and weapon and instead get willow stance to free up 2 other bonus spots

[@HalfbodiedJish]

Hey, in the beginning of the video (when you are holding the spear and shield on the tree) how is your hood up with that helmet? Is it just a different helmet than the normal version or do you have a mod for it because that looks sick. Excellent video as well btw. Very helpful tips. I'm definitely gonna start changing my playstyle on Handmaiden. I wish the sword and dagger didn't require so much animation cancelling to be good though. :/

[@ThePartyKnife]

There are 2 ways of doing the hoodie thing! :) One of them is indeed a mod that unfortunately only works on the modded realm which is what I was doing in the video. BUT. You can also do it with any hat simply by double tapping X (or whatever key you have set for inspect) and holding it down on the second tap. Also thanks for watching! :)

[@Jyeoi]

Naise. Lvling my hand maiden now. Is this build still valid for 2022?

[@rodney7780]

Holy fuck the amount of work you put in to this.. Thank you very much for this great production. You should make your own app game or something. Loved that American joke I laughed my ass off.

[@ThePartyKnife]

aww why thank you so much! :D really appreciated my friend!

[@elpabloplays2478]

I needed this, thanks

[@ThePartyKnife]

You are most welcome good sir :)

[@pubcle]

*Moonfire bow comes out* *Yeets the quiver of plenty and doubles down on ironmaiden* Who needs to aim when you can blindly spam for a few bolts because they explode and regenerate? Obviously still me but I do love the moonfire bow for having such a nice little addition to anything other than ranger, she's still best with the longbow on that bar none. Ironbreaker main so you know I'm going for those survivability stats, though I love the Witch Hunter, Grail, Foot, Slayer, Engineer, Handmaiden, and enjoy basically everything except the mage line, just because I don't really like having to manage my ranged weapon like that in the heat of battle and her character dynamic is my least favorite of the ones available.

[@ThePartyKnife]

Haha awesome! :D Thanks for watching m8! ;)

[@migfrigid776]

how do you have a hoodie while using the warmaid barbute cosmetic? :O or waht cosmetics are you using?

[@ThePartyKnife]

I think I Was using the weave skin and was also using a mod to apply the hoodie at the same time hehe :P sorry!

[@evandrolemos1138]

Amazing video brother, amazing!!! Thanx a lot!!!

[@ThePartyKnife]

Glad you enjoyed it my friend and thank you so much for watching! :)

[@adsarth3326]

Does Hunter trait really works on melee too? I thought it gives power to your ranged only.

[@GOBRAGH2]

What is this? Vermintide 2 Grad School?! EXCELLENT!

[@ThePartyKnife]

Haha I'm glad you liked it friend! :D And thanks for watching!

[@djwoody1649]

I guess the clutch handmaiden experience in Vermintide is a great way to learn to manage a huge range of factors while under pressure. Who said you can't learn life skills from the Party Knife and Vermintide?

[@ThePartyKnife]

Glad to hear that hehe! :)

[@DEricTodd]

So dumb question probably... but why are my talents different? I'm on ps4, could be that. Or is it a mod? Or do they change with the expansion?

[@brendanclark1058]

Y’all’s patches probably come in much later. They reworked a lot of talents recently.

[@ThePartyKnife]

Yeah I think what Brendan Clark said is true. As I understand it they already updated the Xbox version so hopefully It shouldn't be too much longer! :)

[@supremecourt4131]

The quality of your videos is of the roof! I would love to become better with Handmaiden but i'm really struggeling to kill Chaos warriors with the spear and shield any advice on how to kill them quicker? For now, i'm playing with the glaive

[@ThePartyKnife]

It certainly takes time to do so! :) You don't really have a way to kill them fast, so if you aggro a chaos patrol it's all about consistently dishing out damage with pushblock attack into heavy and hope that your team is also contributing :P also thanks for watching!

[@vinson3505]

Dear Partykife, I've noticed you make a lot of quick build guides lately. I love these mastery guide format and was wondering why the change in format? Did people request quicker guides?

[@Bigskeeterrr]

Damn I need a red spear and shield!

[@axelwedelin92]

Great video. I have a question though. I can't stagger monks when they're attacking with push using S&S even though I'm using Opportunist. Is there something else that affects your stagger?

[@ThePartyKnife]

Yes. Both the talent build and power vs properties on items all affect the stagger breakpoints. In order to stagger monks chain attacks (which is one of the hardest ones) you need both the power from push talent, enhanced power and power vs skaven on the charm. Hope that helps and thank you for watching! :)

[@axelwedelin92]

@@ThePartyKnife Aha! I was missing the enchanced power trait. How much does that handicap you in terms of damage output when compared to Smite or Mainstay?

[@Dearion89]

God video :) Hvis du i din description skriver f.eks. 0:00 Guide Trailer, osv, så bliver videoen opdelt i kapitler. Det er vigtigt du skriver timestamp først og derefter forklaringen, og det skal starte på 0:00.

[@ThePartyKnife]

Helt sikkert m8! Jeg kan ikke huske hvorfor jeg gik over til at gøre det omvendt haha xD Har haft det sat rigtigt op på et par videoer for laaaang tid siden, men sidst jeg prøvede at sætte det op sådan virkede det ikke. Men tror det var fordi jeg ikke havde 0:00 som start punkt. Jeg siger mange tak! :)

[@GorcStew]

I still don't stagger plague rats even with enhanced power? Am I missing smt? :S

[@aetherblackbolt1301]

How am I going to reach +50% for the break point against blights, leaches, or gas rats? Enhanced Power, P vs Skaven OR P vs Chaos on longbow (but not both), P vs Skaven & P vs Chaos on charm, and Focussed Spirit manages 40%. What's one more power boost?

[@ThePartyKnife]

Technically you don't even need Focussed spirit to reach them. Remember that all minions have both a faction (chaos/skaven) and an armor class (Infantry/armored/monster) both of which you can gain power versus properties for. So if you wanna hit 50% on a blightstormer you could get Chaos+Infantry on the bow and Chaos/infantry on the cham + enhanced power. Or probably more reasonably you can can get enhancer + focused spirit + chaos/infantry on bow and chaos/attack speed on the charm :)

[@aetherblackbolt1301]

@@ThePartyKnife ahh, I see. I run crit chance on all my ranged weapons so the idea of a P vs Armor/Infantry on it escaped my mind. Thanks, makes sense.

[@starryeyedgiant9558]

hi, thank you for this guide! it was in-depth and very interesting. if you don't mind answering, i was curious about your opinion on the row 4 ability dance of blades--you say it's simply not very useful, but i thought it'd be handy for hitting certain ranged breakpoints--for example, with dance of blades, enhanced power, and 10% vs skaven, i can 1 sbs a packmaster on legend. since you mention that dodging at the same moment you fire is a good idea anyway, i thought it'd be a nice boost? i also had a question about spear and shield combos--while 1st heavy does more damage to the initial target than 3rd light, i assumed that linesman cleave vs tank cleave meant that 3rd light would carve through hordes faster than just spamming 1st heavy; does tank cleave actually also improve cleave through infantry as well?

[@zotethemighty06]

So I want to play Ironmaiden but I dont have the DLC. What is a good weapon alternative to the Spear and Shield?

[@Rumple_Gaming]

Hey I'm a bit late to the party but I'm trying the HM Shield and Spear build and I was trying things, I found out that you can stagger a plague monk with the push at only 17% power vs skaven, so I was wondering, what is the upside of taking another 10% power vs skaven instead of 10% power vs infantry to cover more enemies? I'd really appriciate your opinions on this cause I'm very confused how to build it now. Thanks in advance :)

[@NoiceWeed]

Now that we have moonfire bow, is there any tips/changes you'd personally recommend? Of course "Quiver of Plenty" is basically an instant "no" when using moonfire, but beside that?

[@rhysjones81]

so how'd you get Kerillian doing those custom animations? Also why isn't this in the game? Would make the characters feel more alive. If I have to see Kerillian "ready to go" in that sort of hunched over two hander position again I'll cry.

[@zaynekauffeld2073]

What's the best moveset for elven axe?

[@ThePartyKnife]

honest I dunno xD one of the few weapons I almost never use :P

[@noahginnett7435]

Yo my friend group is playing through vermintide 2 rn but I don’t see us replaying the levels once we get through them. This makes me sad cuz I want the spear and shield but I can’t get it till after we finish the main campaign, which means I’ll only have it for the remaining dlc maps. Do you know if there’s any way to get access to the spear and shield earlier?

[@cHaMp630]

Ins't mainstay worse dps than smiter even vs hordes though?

[@luke4466]

This is a truly fantastic guide. Just wow. I have one question though- I crafted the spear and shield but you can't upgrade crafted weapons and I've opened nearly 30 chests trying to get even a white version that I can then upgrade. Am I missing something or are the rng gods just not on my side?

[@ThePartyKnife]

Appreciate the kind words m8! :)

[@luke4466]

@@ThePartyKnife I've unlocked it and crafted it and I've made sure I've unequipped the weapon but any item I craft has a brown background and a power level of 5. I've tested it with multiple crafted weapons of that type and when I scroll over to the upgrade menu in my crafting system none of them show up. It's really grinding my gears. Thanks for the reply though, I'll have another check when I get home but I tried multiple times last night. Oh and that shot you pulled off on the stormvermin did things to me.

[@luke4466]

@@ThePartyKnife I fucking got it! It's because it's a template version and you have to put that in the slot. I thought that would just make another template version. I'm an idiot. Thanks for the response anyway!

[@ThePartyKnife]

@@luke4466 no problemo, glad I could help!

[@icelancer]

Hey i am new to this game and i immediately noticed something that peaked my interest. I see all your targets enemies and friends are almost instantly tagged by "color aura" (lets call it) how does that work? Is that mod of some kind?

[@ThePartyKnife]

In game click ESC --> Options --> Gameplay --> Locate ''Player Outlines'' and set it to ''Always on''. It's a great way to ensure you don't lose track of your teammates! Hope that helps and thanks for watching!

[@icelancer]

@@ThePartyKnife I have that On. its On by default. But for me it only appears when i look at player and its green outline it also only works when player is far,(2 screens away). Outlines disappear when player comes closer (1 screen away). For you all your team-mates are always outlined even if you do not look at them directly and are yellow. And your special enemies and bosses are almost instant tagged even in crowd of enemies. Its literaly impossible for me to tag something i can't even see. So ..how?

[@ThePartyKnife]

@@icelancerIt's ''On'' by default. But if you look through the settings there is another option called ''Always on'' instead of just ''on''.

[@ThePartyKnife]

@@icelancer And no my specials aren't auto tagged that's something I do manually because I have the hotkey set on my mouse. You simply spam the hotkey into the horde if you know you heard a specials there. Hope that helps.

[@dragonlordex]

25:47 - Wait, what? That Trinket has 4 effects? What?!

[@ThePartyKnife]

It was with a mod simply because it made it easier to showcase the 4 properties you were looking for! :)

[@ardynizunia9709]

Such an amazing video. I love playing the Handmaiden and you just made me appreciate her defensive capabilities and utility even more, as well as giving me a clearer picture of her purpose. As someone who only played the game on lower difficulties due to a shitty PC before (I'm not gonna play Legend on 10 FPS xD) but now that I have a better PC, me and two buddies started properly playing this game just a couple of days ago, I REALLY appreciate this video, even today. In case you actually read this, are there any majorly significant changes that I should know about? Like, did breakpoints change or something similar? Other than that, just thanks, I really appreciate your work :D

[@ThePartyKnife]

I actually read this and the only thing I would add is that in the current meta the Moonfire bow is slightly stronger than the regular longbow since it can 1SBS pretty much everything that isn't a chaos warrior or a flag bearer! I'm glad you liked the video, i appreciate the love and thank you so very much for the kind words and for watching friend!

[@ardynizunia9709]

@@ThePartyKnife Would I still take the same properties on the moonfire bow? And what perk would you take since conservative shooter does nothing on the moonfire bow right? Also, I'm really happy about such a quick response. Not only such amazing guides but also quick help for any questions. I am beyond satisfied.

[@ardynizunia9709]

@@ThePartyKnife Oh and one last question, I just tried out spear and shield for the first time and did they change the light attacks? In your melee mechanics video you do 3 stabs in the light attack sequence, meanwhile I do 2 stabs and one sweep.

[@ThePartyKnife]

@@ardynizunia9709 Yes they did! :)

[@ardynizunia9709]

@@ThePartyKnife About my other question, would you take all the same perks and properties on the Moonfire bow? I assume that conservative shooter is useless on it? And is the light spamm still the most efficient against unarmored elites even after the change? Sorry if I'm pestering you ^^'

[@markarato8034]

I dont understand Handmaiden's concept. Shade looks better at basically everything. Can you pls explain to me what's the Handmaiden's allure?

[@ThePartyKnife]

Fatshark logic which means it doesn't have to make sense I'm afraid xD

[@Tiger74147]

Fuckin awesome! But um... how the hell did he do all that dashing, which often seemed to build the hero ability super fast?

[@AGamingZebra]

I'll be honest, I went into this not expecting to learn anything new as Handmaiden is my most played class, however hearing that Spear & Shield can stagger berserkers hard...My urge to not use S&D for everything tryhard'y has slightly grown. Thank you. Now i just need to lose the urge to complete all the 100 mission challenges since i havnt played elf since getting it :'(

[@AGamingZebra]

I really should read the stagger BP page that I've bookmarked a while ago, but its so hard to keep stagger points in my head. Mostly just instinct and practice have taught me what I know now; and thanks to branching out to play more than just VT2, harder to remember things while im not playing.

[@ThePartyKnife]

I usually start a guide expecting that I already know how things work only to find that I had misunderstood at least some aspect of it. This is probably this first guide I've made where I had no ''suprises'' xD Anyways always glad to have you here mate and thank you so much for sticking around! ;)

[@flowstatemeta1559]

Can you do a ranger barden mastery please! I want throwing axe and shotgun breakpoints for cata if there are any.

[@cedrebleu7181]

Wow, thx for this video, it's very helpfull and well done! 🙀🙏

[@ThePartyKnife]

Appreciated

[@5050cox]

how do you have damage numbers?

[@cope0ut107]

I finally get the Handmaiden now... The term "Handmaiden" in many fantasy RPGs, usually implies a Hand-based class that operates with one or more Hands compared to most other fighters. While a traditional Handmaiden might not have any Hands at all, a "Handmaiden" is often described as a more Hand-based style utilizing a variety of Hand attacks such as throwing their Hands or performing compact efficient Punches to assist in combat. Our Handmaiden however is much more of a "hybrid" fighter, with a typical ratio of Gloves-on-to-off combat being around 50:50. In other words, in order to draw out the full potential of the HM, in accordance with her given talents + unique passive + career skill -- the HM has no other choice but to take her Gloves off in aggressive melee combat to a very high degree, resulting in at least half the amount of combat as a HM done as melee combat.

[@chrisg5219]

Oh man its intimidating af trying to do that true solo exercise.

[@ThePartyKnife]

xDDDDDDDD I believe in you my friend! :D

[@chrisg5219]

@@ThePartyKnife Then I know I can do it!!!!!!! Btw how relevant are the builds still?

[@tex69420]

Hello guys, I'm a pretty new player just getting more and more addicted to this awesome game. I did the Iron maiden build to try it and I gotta say I like it a lot. I was wondering though, is it a silly thing to use the moon fire bow instead of the longbow for the build? Will I miss something if I do? Thanks and sorry if the question sounds silly. I'm still trying to figure out the mechanics of this game in order to be able to play cata one day.

[@grayboy9995]

I'm not an expert but I would use moonfire because of the infinite ammo.