This build looks fun. I've been running full healer-support build (From Fury, Fortitude; Prayer of Hardiness and Comet's Gift) for the longest time. Maybe it's time to change things up a bit and get into a more brawler/infinite bubble priest playstyle.
Why do you wade into hordes with the hammer when bubbled? At least according to Armory, Flail has massively better damage cleave than Reckoner does, nearly the same stagger cleave, and Flail heavies do a bit less damage than Reckoner H1 but massively more than Reckoner H2 and L3. Reckoner's obviously more fun to use, but the Flail's stupidly well-rounded.
Pretty good run, I gotta ask regarding the Property and Trait Setup though. I understand the usage of vs Chaos, checking the stagger calculator it's enough to get the breakpoints for staggering maulers, bestigores, and savages out of their combos with the push and heavy (for savages at least). However why Off Balance and Armored, is it to supplement the Greathammer? Opportunist and Skaven can be enough to stagger monks out of their combos, I'm just wanting to see if there's a reason for the listed choice. Thanks!
I'm too lazy to reroll my trinket, so i just re-used the one I typically use on shade. I would've preferred crit chance instead of armored to help with attack speed on the great hammer. As for Off Balance, its a nice damage boost when fighting hordes of elites and helps to thin out their ranks a bit faster if you're good at stamina management while doing it!
I’m primarily saving my opinions for a future vid on the subject, but they definitely went a little overboard with him (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing for WP specifically)
Zealots in Darktide one shotting monsters or warrior priests and outcast engineers destroying in VT2 not a problem, but classes like GK and Shade (not one shotting, mind you) killing monsters or javelins having amazing cleave in a single line when elf has no great horde clearing weapon (s&d is great/meta for its versatility and bcr) is the problem. Fatshark is a goddamn joke.
@@aecra Spear & shield is considered adequate b/c Handmaiden has Asrai Alacrity and that doesn't even make mention of the fact that AA is only available to HM and that it's a HM only weapon. DS and GS aren't considered meta, either. Workable on certain builds? Sure. People using them out of preference? Sure. S&D is, hands down, the meta and, even then, not b/c it's overwhelmingly amazing, just b/c it's versatile.
@@Vulcanerdsnd is very safe for horde clear, glaive good horde clear, spear is the best horde clear wep on keri, shield and spear good horde clear, dual swords are good horde clear. All of these are viable on any ummodded difficulty and i have personally used them on hyper twitch cata.
@@josephstein3559 I believe I said snd is pretty much the default meta for the elf. Spear is good, but you sacrifice damage on Shade if you bother to use it on her and it has to compete with snd if you use it on sott, hm or ws. It's been my WS's main weapon for like... 3, 3.5 years, though? What's more, it doesn't have the bcr that snd has and it doesn't have the dodge count snd has even though it does have an effective block arc of 180 degrees. Dual swords has issues with armor and is mainly only viable on sott if you go the poison route. Glaive is slow and is tied with spear for the lowest dodge count of all the elven weapons at 3. It's not bad on HM b/c of her +sta aura and her high mobility due to her low ult cd, but you run into the same issue with Shade when using a 1h/2h weapon (her cloak/stealth damage applies to mh and oh dmg, but when you're holding a single weapon, you gimp your biggest asset/role). You could run it on sott, but when it's competing against snd, why go with glaive when you can go with the versatility, bcr, heavy 2 of snd? There's a reason why people like Royale w/ Cheese don't have Glaive listed on any of his primary build lists save one and don't have ds listed on any of his primary builds. I think there is a specific Shade build you could use it on and, of course, if you're good enough, you can make just about anything work, but eh. For reference my elf is 35 +1605 and I've done everything in the game minus about halfway through Weaves b/c my regular team fell apart like 3 years ago when one of the members got covid and the team never recovered. And that's with me basically having taken the last 6 months off or I'd probably be at like 10k hrs of VT2 (as it is, I'm at 8240 hrs). There's basically two groups of people who don't use snd as the elf. Those who don't know any better and those who can make anything work.
2/10. on such easy difficulty EVERYONE looks "overpowered". how i know? ive seen your damage taken. thats everything but no cataclysm. dun get fooled. i smell mod in the air. on cata u get SERIOUS damage when hit, no matter WHAT hits you. first minute of clip would be a down for ya. thanks, clickbait, disliked
