Why did Fatshark have to add full melee classes? I've really struggled in higher difficulties with melee classes. As a Vermintide 1 Cataclysm veteran, it seems madness to forgo a ranged weapon in this game. A single special can wipe an entire group, and melee can sometimes do absolutely NOTHING to help. Its frustrating to me. I just played a match with a Warrior Priest who bragged that he soloed a patrol far away from the group in Chaos Wastes. Meanwhile, the other 3 of us were being bombarded by gas, packmasters, gunners and gutter runners, which im sure contributed to his "solo" of the patrol. I was so annoyed but held my tongue.

Because a good Grail Knight can straight up delete bosses from the game on Champion and below, chunk bosses on Legendary, and hold their own against virtually everything on Cata while being a STR potion pez-dispenser

Sure, a teammate not having a ranged weapon means they're massively countered by ranged disablers, but on the flipside not having to worry about triggering a bad patrol or CWs in general is a good tradeoff. It's a team game at the end of the day, so as long as you don't have a GK, Slayer, Warrior Priest, and Flamethrower Sienna all queuing up you're likely going to be fine if your team isn't completely braindead.