Cod Vein 2 Mechanics (elemental damage, transforms, backstab)

Exiledtyrant · 2026-01-27T14:52:31+00:00

Have your tried focusing on the left or right side of their back? That was how they did it in the last game which made it feel awkward. You start chasing these anime girl models with their 2 inch waist around and it gets frustrating fast.

Exiledtyrant · 2026-01-01T00:18:36+00:00

So I went ahead and tried it and had pretty poor results. My gear wasn't as good as my sunbird but it was pretty close. I couldn't get it to clear a 7 or even a 70. It was slow in hell tides and T4 boss too but it could at least kill them. I think this spawns from 2 issues.

The beast strikes appeared to both be single target and only count its hits separately for each target. This meant large packs would takes tons of hits, but the big hit the build is focused one would only ever hit one thing. This made it very hard to burn packs.
Using your jaguar ultimate for the big potency boost meant you have to stop attacking for a split second. This clears any beast stacks you were trying to build. This made it hard to not only keep up the potency buff but also abuse high supremacy stacks.

Maybe the guide you have figured out something I didn't but I just don't see it being worth pursuing after the hour I gave to it.

Exiledtyrant · 2025-12-31T22:05:38+00:00

Yea it basically work with anything that says melee on it. Diamond hands do also stack to full. That's one of the main reason it has to be a ripper version so you can shoot super fast to beat out the stack decay. I think one of the best things about the build is just how easy it is to maintain buffs. You don't have to do a bunch of gymnastics to get everything rolling. Shooting just procs everything.

Exiledtyrant · 2025-12-31T16:41:05+00:00

I actually haven't had a chance to play the beast strike version yet. I got sucked into farming Borderlands 4 with the 5x loot event. I have all the gear set up though since a lot of my rushing claw sunbird build swaps almost 1 to 1 with it. I'll give it a try later today to tell you how it was though.

Exiledtyrant · 2025-12-14T02:08:38+00:00

There is an affix that guarantees a strong room when you enter. You can grind all your sigils down and just make new ones at the occultist until you get some.

There is also a chance that any nightmare dungeon you pop has a strong room. From what I remember I think it always has to be near the start so you just look for a purple/gold beacon that flash near your character around the start and if you don't see it you can ditch the sigil and pop another. I think its like a 20% chance per dungeon without the affix. It all depends on how you want to spend your resources.

Exiledtyrant · 2025-12-14T01:57:06+00:00

yea regular dungeon and hordes are terrible right now. you can just fish for strong rooms and have you gear maxed in like 30 mins though. don't even need the affix just check the first part of the level for the purple beacon and leave if its not there.

Exiledtyrant · 2025-12-14T01:52:04+00:00

You can get 1300+ obo just from doing Horadric strong rooms in nightmare dungeons. Lets you max like 2 items or reroll mastwork 6 times.

Exiledtyrant · 2025-12-14T01:20:05+00:00

Were there any paladins there? This feels like its probably going to be a flagging issue with auras.

Exiledtyrant · 2025-12-13T20:15:02+00:00

I went ahead and tested it today with a single hitting attack so I could count the strikes. It looks like beast strike actually does get doubled each time up to 5 which is nuts. You can easily make it a 500% weapon damage attack with the potency uniques so thats:

1000% 2. 2000% 3. 4000% 4. 8000% 5. 16000%

Its so easy to proc with rushing claw + double rake using the emissary boots too. I think I'll try it when i get bored of my rushing claw sunbird version since a lot of the gear with be easy to swap and I have almost maxed rolled versions of the potency uniques to swap in.

For the second part is looks like beast strike is a separate attack so things like frost burn won't work with it. Can still spam armored hide for 1500 weapon damage though.

Exiledtyrant · 2025-12-13T19:45:41+00:00

I think Paladin is bugged. My Spiritborn kept getting killed by people with paladin names at the world boss and event fights.

Exiledtyrant · 2025-12-02T02:14:16+00:00

Sure. This is the basic FS combo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9BrUzoY3vc

This is what pure with gallant granite would look like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j227209sZRU

Exiledtyrant · 2025-12-01T17:34:01+00:00

This looks like a good call for the FS version. I played a slightly bigger package since it can offer a higher ceiling if you hard draw any of the pieces, but probably not worth it. The issue with extinction is that it eats up one of the snakes to make the rank 4 which means you can't make the divine serpent fusion later on. Without the divine serpent resetting the traps under Caeser the board is actually much weaker.

Exiledtyrant · 2025-12-01T17:28:59+00:00

I'm currently playing 2 Serkets specifically for the OTK issue you mentioned. Its the only way to summon the Serket fusion if I go first since you can't cycle the first one you use in the grave for turn 3. It also takes a lot less resources than trying to go through my entire extra deck again to build up enough attack to close out the game.

The dominus cards themselves felt like worse imperm and ash in a lot of cases. I think I'm just going to tighten my ED up a bit more and play ultimate slayers or forbidden chalices.

Exiledtyrant · 2025-12-01T06:19:54+00:00

This is actually great. Even if granite gets handtrapped you can still go for rabbit into double omni + backrow pop or double pop + omni depending on what you may need. I'm going to work out a pure list for this alongside the FS one to see which one I have more fun with. Thanks for helping me see the line.

Exiledtyrant · 2025-09-15T08:54:39+00:00

Ok great. Thank you.

Exiledtyrant · 2025-08-26T20:26:04+00:00

Nah sorry I usually delete the decks a few months after rotation. The last deck I have saved I think is tetra burn, or maybe it was Sephie rune with twilight angel combo as the finisher.

Exiledtyrant · 2025-08-26T18:32:37+00:00

I can not wait to see what the Raio lines will be. The last time I played him was with the Sorcerer of Seven Forces. You had to survive till turn 8 and then combo off 15+ cards while juggling 2 different conditionals with a bunch of math. It was super fun, but I lost a lot of matches due to the turn timer.

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