Hi since we are waiting for the new sienna career, i thought it would be great to share my builds to you, if someone is looking for a change.
These builds are viable for cata and the damage and stagger breakpoints are double checked with the following tool. I also playtested every single build.
This is exactly the sort of thing that keeps me playing unmodded. I am a little confused by the Breakpoint Calculator at first look, but I think I might take a closer look sometime and figure it out so I can play around with some build ideas.
I’ll try out your merc spear build since I’ve been using spear on mercenary a lot lately.
I am happy you like the collection, i really appreciate it. Yeah the Breakpoint Calculator takes a bit time to get used to, but its a very nice tool and a must have if you want to make nice builds.
There are 2 merc spear builds, one with more damage and one with more stagger, take the one you feel most comfy
This is the gift that keeps on giving, I’m coming back here daily to try them out.
I’ve also thought of trying to make some paunchy names and recommended cosmetics for them. I have the Bret Longsword merc build named Mercenary of Parravon with that Hellequin’s raiment cosmetic and the Evengleam bret sword.
These are cool I always swear by Royale’s builds but playing the same meta weapons repeatedly can get kind of tiring.
As someone who doesn’t have the brain power or patience to calculate breakpoints etc. for some of the loadouts I like, it’s nice to see more diverse builds like these that are fully tested.
Royale`s builds are indeed the best allrounder builds, but if you want to side-grade a bit this summary of builds should help you :). I havent added builds which drop in strength behind the common allrounder builds, but tweaked it for specific playstyle/role or for a specific weapon.
Do you think you could make some builds involving a greater variety of weapons?
For example, Ranger with Shield+Axe is not in a lot of your Badin builds; only one with Grudgeraker. I need more Greataxe, more Axes in general; also no throwing axe build for Slayer. Having like 5-6 builds with Dual Hammers and Coghammer isn’t very interesting.
On Warrior Priest, no builds with Hammer+Shield despite it being just as good as Bardin or Kruber’s for ultra stagger and THP. It’s my ‘go-to’ secondary weapon with Warrior Priest, excellent with the tome, dual hammers, and especially Greathammer. It can be spec’d to stagger monks and chaos warriors too.
There’s no bounty hunter builds with anything but rapier, and I know rapier is good, but c’mon man.
I think it looks like you’re covering a lot of the same weapons, but to keep things fresh it’d be nice to have more builds with more different weapons rather than a lot of different builds with the same weapons. Even if it’s not hugely effective, I like to find some of the least commonly used weapons and see what works with them.
Hi Ensrick, at the moment i am taking a break from vermintide 2.
To answer your question and complaints, i know that my build list doesnt include every viable build. With the list of my builds i have tried to show the community how many builds are out there which can be as strong or even stronger than the widely known meta builds. When/If i am coming back to vermintide i can create another list of interesting builds which are imo more off meta but dont fall too much behind and are also perfectly viable for cata. I just dont wanted to water down the already huge list with more and more not as strong builds compared with the ones i had in my mind. I had a certain level of strength in my mind and i included builds which match this level. But yeah you are certainly correct that there are more out there. But for those builds i would feel more comfortable to create an separate list.
Edit: Also i am still waiting until the website will be updated for the current talent trees
That’s good though. These are pretty good builds and many of them are underutilized.
There are some good ones I would add. When you return, maybe I’ll put some in Ranald’s Gift build website and share them. I’ve tweaked some Deathwish Cata3 builds and Dutch Spice stuff that are not as common I’ve seen some Twitch streamers use for use in Cataclysm or Legend by making them more offensive and being less concerned with the breakpoints for Cata3, I was able to swap a few things and make some builds that are underutilized .
The thing for last year of playing this game on and off has been trying off-meta stuff and figuring out how to make it work, especially with weapons that see less use.
Looks very interesting.
I always swear by Royale’s builds but playing the same meta weapons repeatedly can get kind of tiring.