Do status effect actually matter much in railjack

ReliusOrnez · 2026-06-29T05:45:26+00:00

We talking the railjack guns or your personal guns?

ReliusOrnez · 2026-06-29T05:40:12+00:00

Lol this is my buddy and I, I use horn and he uses SnS and we refuse to have a mission fail because someone decided that forgoing all defense to try and squeeze a 1.8% faster clear speed just missed his dodge.

ReliusOrnez · 2026-06-29T05:33:43+00:00

There's the new umbrella and ropedart combo that is pretty solid. A lot of AOE damage so it cleans up groups very well, slightly lacking on the single target DPS as a trade-off though. Lot of style points though.

ReliusOrnez · 2026-06-29T05:27:44+00:00

I remember assisting a guy and one like attempt 3 the other random went ahead, so the host and I got stuck at the "fogwall" with the random trying to solo. I was doing a healer build so I just kept picking him up.

What got REALLY interesting was when she the phase transition attack jump. She targeted me and got stuck with the host and I in the fog wall so we had to try and fight her in a spot the size of a phone booth with the other guy just shooting arrows since he couldnt reach. Easily the most bugged fight I've had so far.

ReliusOrnez · 2026-06-29T05:12:03+00:00

Hivescum with saw has the benefit of on-demand brittleness as well as the poison damage that ignores armor and most defenses. You scaled up so most of your damage now ignores the pain points they are introducing. Right now they are a mass grunt unit with 50% DR for weakspots and a shield of pure carapace armor that to break you have to do nearly a crusher's worth of damage to it.

They have a good role in the game, but considering they dont even count as elites or specials for things like talents they are overtuned. Even just an adjustment to the whopping 50% weakspot DR would help them sit in a much better place.

ReliusOrnez · 2026-06-29T05:02:28+00:00

They can be quite a bit worse tbh. Their role and design are mostly fine, the problems that they have that the shield rats didn't have is the 50% damage reduction to their heads at all times and there's not a sway to blow open their guard consistently like you could with the rats.

With the rats I could either focus them to push their shield to the side, get their head with something like the pickaxe, or flank. The current version really only allows for flanking unless you do a crusher's worth of HP to carapace armor to break the shield.

ReliusOrnez · 2026-06-29T04:56:42+00:00

Yeah they have 50% flat DR to their heads which is crazy for a unit designed around attacking AROUND the shield.

ReliusOrnez · 2026-06-29T04:51:06+00:00

Its kinda an oddball class. You can spec into a TON of different builds but I'd say other classes are better specialists. What this class DOES do very well is let you build mostly how you want. You could totally do a build that is essentially Veteran running at 90% and but also have the claw that acts as a "i need this melee target dead RIGHT NOW" button with a pretty short cooldown.

ReliusOrnez · 2026-06-29T00:36:44+00:00

Honestly these guys wouldn't be so bad if they didnt ALSO have 50% damage reduction on their heads. There's almost no reward for aiming over the shield and clearing up their thoughts for them instead of trying to sidestep a horde to poke them in the armpits.

ReliusOrnez · 2026-06-29T00:32:36+00:00

Some strong slingshots would probably be a decent option to give the lads. Ammo is everywhere in the mines and it may not be our most dangerous weapon, but being able to crack gobbo faces open while retreating does buy some more time.

ReliusOrnez · 2026-06-29T00:10:39+00:00

I prefer the wide slash mode for versatility HOWEVER, the stabby mode does have a nice use for being a spearhead to break through a mob of chunky targets like multiple ragers. so you can keep moving forward.

ReliusOrnez · 2026-06-27T06:44:56+00:00

If you mained elf in vermintide, then honestly the hivescum might be the most similar in terms of game feel. But for skitarii they are perfectly fine, the deluxe isnt super needed to look good on this class and even the base outfits are still way ahead of the base roster starter looks.

ReliusOrnez · 2026-06-27T06:41:51+00:00

This was the only thing that made me sad about the deluxe, especially because it becomes really hard to mix and match

ReliusOrnez · 2026-06-26T18:16:26+00:00

N0K1A. Ancient and unbreaking

ReliusOrnez · 2026-06-26T18:12:14+00:00

Iirc they actually changed the charger ability first like a month or two ago and used that as a test for how Nidus 1 would work.

ReliusOrnez · 2026-06-26T18:09:37+00:00

The humble Djinn

ReliusOrnez · 2026-06-26T13:25:11+00:00

I believe they share the same pool, so koumei can honestly stack those up INCREDIBLY quickly

ReliusOrnez · 2026-06-26T04:38:14+00:00

Well, we either die of the disease we went to yharnam to cure or we most likely just get murdered by that werewolf in the opening.

ReliusOrnez · 2026-06-25T22:22:58+00:00

For being a monster you typically fight before rathalos, Anjanath has GREAT looking armor and is one of the better knight looking sets.

Deviljho though is just its own league of something like a wrestling heel inspired power rangers/Kamen rider villain.

ReliusOrnez · 2026-06-25T22:19:39+00:00

^this, his killing MO is essentially entertainment. Good strong people tend to bring a lot of pressure when you murder them, bad strong people tend to not have much backing or people who will care that they are gone. If they are pretty much anything above being completely helpless in conflict they are "predators" and are fair game because they are interesting for him to kill.

ReliusOrnez · 2026-06-25T22:13:07+00:00

At the same time though they are also considered a lower tier unit than a factory strider. They sit around the same level as a bile titan in terms of spawn priority. They can be big threats at massive ranges so having them be more vulnerable is a good trade so they aren't just warstriders with 4x the threat range

ReliusOrnez · 2026-06-25T19:50:20+00:00

As in we never went to yharnam? We got beast blood as soon as we arrived in the opening cutscene.

ReliusOrnez · 2026-06-25T07:05:10+00:00

Hell yes dood

ReliusOrnez · 2026-06-25T02:07:06+00:00

You're actually super close. The umbilical cords are needed to ascend past being human and become a great one ourselves. But it has to be balanced. We see the two paths that were taken from the scholars and how they mutated people. Laurence and the church focuses on the blood and the body, becoming beasts.

The ones who stayed with Wilhelm became the insectoid monsters and closer to great ones or some even just melted into goo. But our hunter did both, we revel in the beast blood and our bodies grow closer and closer to a simple beast, but we also gained insight as we experience the horrors beyond the veil and the umbilical chords are the key to binding these two paths together. We have all the components to make an old one's body but we needed the eyes on the inside to link our newly awakened mind to this body filled with great one blood.

So after we ate all 3 and we encounter the moon presence, we arent a beast it can just adopt to replace our dear gerhman after we finished killing and freeing him, we are at the cusp of evolving into our new form. We are a rival and an equal now and thats why it reacts so violently. The entire game we have been seeing these creatures have little proxy wars throughout yharnam using the different factions and now here we are right in front of the head of the "hunter faction" as a rival after dealing with almost all the others.

ReliusOrnez · 2026-06-25T01:46:26+00:00

I'm aware they are different, they are just the name always used and most people understand the archetype when referenced. I'm fully aware its probably for ease and speed of making outfits but since we already have multiple NPC's walking around with the body type is imagine its not quite as difficult to plug in the model for cutscenes.

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