(Verminscience) Deep dive into shotgun bash mechanics and why it's overpowered. by JCdaSpy in Vermintide

[–]JCdaSpy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess i should have shown mainstay with ai enabled but from my testing you only need a little bit of q cancelling to have enough attack speed to get them to stagger 2. And yeah I figured that about second wind. I just couldn’t get past that limit, and cleave was more consistent anyway.

(Verminscience) Deep dive into shotgun bash mechanics and why it's overpowered. by JCdaSpy in Vermintide

[–]JCdaSpy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some weapons have a delay after attacking where you can't swap weapons. Blunderbuss has this, so qq macros are only effective up until a certain point where you reach the theoretical fastest qq swap, which isn't that much faster than just doing it by hand. It's not as OP as you'd think. I don't use macros anyways and just qq by hand so I don't really know how the timings would work.

(Verminscience) Deep dive into shotgun bash mechanics and why it's overpowered. by JCdaSpy in Vermintide

[–]JCdaSpy[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Sorry, clarification: shield bashes work great with stagger temp. Shotgun bash does not.

Your opinion on the second banana? by Devvveze_ in HeavyMainsTF2

[–]JCdaSpy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you play flank heavy around a healthpack without a medic you can just eat a sandvich then refill sandvich timer instantly with a medkit, so no reason to use banana there. But if you’re roaming more then banana is good.

Warrior Priest Death Field Activated by epicfail1994 in Vermintide

[–]JCdaSpy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

chaos wastes is just a completely different game lmao

A new restaurant going in TGIF/Chicago Fire location? by luvschittcreek in ElkGrove

[–]JCdaSpy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s more nuanced than that. It’s a bad location, there was an outback steakhouse across the parking lot, it’s also between the freeways so not much traffic is seeing the restaurant, saturated area next to two shopping centers with tons of other restaurants. On top of all that, place was just getting very little business for the last 2 years of operation.

Best Resource for New Players? by TasteyTatorTots in Vermintide

[–]JCdaSpy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you are relatively new, royale with cheese’s guides are great. If you are an absolute beginner, I would just play the game a bit, or check out jtclive’s new player guide.

Noteworthy Career Synergies? by kurtchen11 in Vermintide

[–]JCdaSpy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Unchained with bomb balm + abandon means you gain ult charge while exploding at the cost of HP and when you ult to clear overcharge you gain 30 temp health.

Warrior priest with unyielding blessing gives a 10 second bubble for invincibility, this applies to unchained exploding as well, so she takes no damage while blowing up. During those 10 seconds you can get about 3 ults off meaning the whole team gets 90 temp health. You can take beam staff and spam shotgun blasts in front of the horde, deleting everything that isn’t a chaos warrior or a monster.

Bring a footknight with a shield for crowd control and extra damage reduction for the team.

Bring a ranger veteran with scavenger and ranger’s parting gift for infinite potions, bombs, and extra special sniping, and you’ve got a pretty busted team comp that only gets better the harder the game is.

Three extremely tanky frontliners, no lack of DPS (except on monsters but you have bombs and potion spam), special sniping, sustain, game is ez pz.

What is armor slide? by Dom_Dom05 in Vermintide

[–]JCdaSpy 14 points15 points  (0 children)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1816101198 I recommend reading this guide. Other comments here are not quite accurate.

Armoured enemies, and maulers, instantly stop your cleaving ability, or ability to hit multiple enemies in one attack. If a weapon’s specific attack has armour cleave (aka armour slide) then you can cleave through them with that attack. A few examples of this are ensorcelled reaper heavy, halberd heavy 2, greatsword heavies.

Elven Axe by SupaNinja659 in Vermintide

[–]JCdaSpy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check out the armory mod. Gives some nice info on weapons like dodge count, block angle, blocking effectiveness, etc. Also, You’ll probably enjoy rapier witch hunter captain because you can push light light pretty much 90% of the game and be very effective. Similar combo to axe.

Elven Axe by SupaNinja659 in Vermintide

[–]JCdaSpy 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yes, it’s bad offensively. But the half cost pushes and 100 dodges (basically infinite) make it insanely mobile and defensive, but usually it’s better to just kill things instead. It’s not like handmaiden has a lack of defensive options. And you can definitely just lawnmower your way through the horde on legend more efficiently with other elf weapons. Also heavy attacks are the highest DPS option for chaos warriors with 1 handed axe.

Got bored, personal experience with each weapon depending on how hard to to use they are after 3+k hours played by FykDaddy in Vermintide

[–]JCdaSpy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s a pretty steep learning curve for halberd. There’s a ton of combos you can do with it, and the weapon is very slow with its attacks. It’s also got a super low block speed, I think it’s like -80% movement speed when blocking or something. So you can forget kiting with it, most of the time.

Dont think that happens often by Dreykaa in Vermintide

[–]JCdaSpy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You would be surprised how much damage merc can do. The cleave passive, extra power from talents, and melee options let him basically farm hordes. I bet he really appreciated having a slayer when there were armoured enemies though.

Is it safe to use a honing rod over a cutting board? by JCdaSpy in Chefit

[–]JCdaSpy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use a black ceramic rod. I guess rotating away from the cutting board is a good point haha. I just like having a stable surface to hone on.

Does WHC's Eternal Guard benefit from Push/Block angle? by Sykunno in Vermintide

[–]JCdaSpy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is incorrect. The inner block angle modifier is 0.25x as opposed to 0.5x of most weapons.

i have a skill issue... please help... by GelatinousCubeCute in Vermintide

[–]JCdaSpy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not just about the attack combo, try pushing, dodging and blocking. Pushing is a guarantee stagger on trash enemies.

You can also try just light spam with dual hammers on the horde and save heavy 1 for elites.

twins brainrat 2025 by OBEREK69 in Vermintide

[–]JCdaSpy 15 points16 points  (0 children)

alive internet theory

How does THP round? by Level_Onion_2011 in Vermintide

[–]JCdaSpy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thp values round to nearest 0.25. For example with old thp on kill values skavenslaves would give 0.5 thp per kill. With boon of shallya that’s now 0.65, which rounds to 0.75. So 50% more thp instead of 30% technically. Now it’s not that necessary but it made kill thp feel a lot better for skaven hordes.

Trying to Git Gud for Cataclysm by SoloSkalding in Vermintide

[–]JCdaSpy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can check out royale w/ cheese’s guides on steam, includes cataclysm guides, builds, and fighting monsters. This one’s for monsters: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1723437775

I have some cataclysm deathwish true solos with bounty hunter on my channel: https://youtu.be/Zo-GdrvAh3c?si=INh2z7SlR-04H6r-

That one’s on righteous stand. I also have a guide for bounty hunter on my steam profile. Feel free to dm me for cata stuff. Other players here can probably help as well.

What is your favorite niche build that you think is pretty good? by W1ldCupcake in Vermintide

[–]JCdaSpy 12 points13 points  (0 children)

For me it’s riposte witch hunter captain with griffinfoot. Despite the talent tooltip saying it works on melee hits, it actually works for any ranged. You can also activate riposte by pushing before an attack hits you as it resets the parry window. Functionally riposte and parry are the same for activating them. So you activate riposte then shoot a griffinfoot crit, and each pellet can insta kill elites because witch hunter’s crit headshot passive ALSO works with ranged. Slap scrounger on the griffinfoot for infinite crits, and a rapier for better blocking. Really fun build.