On a Tier IV blessing, it only gives +10% weakspot and crit damage for 2 seconds after a “successful” dodge.
Note that a “successful” dodge does NOT count dodge sliding to avoid melee attacks (Which is the meta), and dodging an attack too early means that even though you successfully dodged the attack, you don’t get the bonus.
Even if you DO get the bonus, it lasts for a measly two seconds.
All that, for a meager +10% damage bonus. On weakspot hits. And crits, which are basically impossible to trigger within the 2s threshold.
Look at slaughterer. You can get +75% power (!!!) just for KILLING something, which is something you do ALL the time with a melee weapon.
I mean, really.
Kill something, easiest thing to do in the game, stacks heavily-> Ultra power boost
Not to mention that (correct me if I’m wrong here) the 10% only affects the BONUS damage a crit or headshot does. Meaning it’s not a 10% dmg increase, but more like 5%
It lasts longer than a normal dodge, has far more distance to avoid heavy attacks, dodges not only melee but also ranged attacks, and has the added bonus of not being restricted by low dodge movement from less-mobile weapons. It is far superior.
Just look at JSat’s true solo videos, all of them feature him dodge-sliding throughout the entire game to avoid extreme amounts of damage. It is most certainly the meta strategy.
Correct.
Now look closer and notice that he is not dodge sliding all that much when melee fighting (where this blessing would potentially apply).
Because those are situations where
Then there’s Shock and Awe, the worst blessing in the game. The buff’s duration is shorter than the Thunderhammer’s swing. This means you can never stack enough of the buff to actually benefit from it.
Both this one and it’s cousin that provides crit chance on successful dodge are absolute trash. They rarely trigger, because it only counts if you dodge at the very last second before getting hit, and no one in their right mind would play around constantly being a microsecond away from getting staggerlocked while fighting in melee.
It’s almost like the blessings in this game were not created with balance in mind at all, but rather to pad out the sheer number of blessings to increase RNG…
the one I loathe is 'oh hey! just remember to slide everywhere and eat your stamina and you get faster reloads. frelling stupid. just give me a blessing with an 18% reload boost without sliding around on my donkey
They do. There is quite a few of us who “suspect” that the state of blessings is a part of the intentional RNG heavy game design. Just another extension of the RNG based itemisation and crafting systems.
It’s a shame regardless. The blessings couldve been a really cool system (like DRG’s overclocks) where they change the weapon behavior in some fundamental way. Instead, it’s a case where a give. weapon has 1-3 clearly superior blessings, mostly
In the form of just straight damage boosts, and it’s matter of hunting for those blessings only.
I think I have that skill on a zealot knife bleed/crit build. Taking the no-stagger feat, and obviously having extra crit chance seems ideal. I assumed plenty of dodging would trigger it at random intervals.
Not tried it on knife but assume it would be same. There is a blessing icon that pops up, so its super easy to see when it has triggered. Most likely the natural crit rate and bleed of knife and zealot bleed is giving you all the crits you would ever need.
Why are there so many blessings that really are pointless? No exaggeration, it’s mind boggling. There’s no way they planned for this game to last long.
To dilute the blessings pool. And this is honestly their attempt at making a 1000+ hour or evergreen itemisation system.
They didn’t know why people played Vermintide 2 played for 1000s of hours when they had tuned things for about 100 hours, and judging by their 'retention’attempts, they still don’t know why.
It’s even more frustrating in that many blessings read like they might be useful, but in actual playtesting they most certainly don’t affect gameplay in any meaningful way. It’s like someone typed up numbers in a spreadsheet and then used ‘wishful thinking’ to call it done.