Warhammer: Vermintide 2 – Flamethrower Guide

Many players believe flamethrowers to live useless weapons, only IMO they are incredibly strong. Problem is, they require a fleck of noesis together with lots of sense inwards fellowship to live used correctly. They are extremely difficult to master.

Here I explicate how flamethrowers locomote together with how to purpose them to best effect, furnish some recommended builds, together with present off my flamethrower techniques inwards a video of a Cataclysm run amongst bots.

Flamethrower Mechanics

Flamestorm Staff together with Drakegun are essentially the same weapon, thus I’ll live referring to both every bit “Flamethrower”.

Left click attack: instant, high oestrus cost, no DOT, moderate impairment against everything, really high stagger, prevents weapon switching for a brusk fourth dimension subsequently use.

Right click attack: requires charging up, high oestrus terms of charging up, depression oestrus terms of shooting, applies DOT, high impairment against everything except armor, depression impairment against armor, moderate stagger, doesn’t foreclose weapon switching.

Both attacks produce nothing impairment against Super Armor (Chaos Warriors, etc.) unless y'all crit. Right click assault applies the DOT that does impairment Super Armor.

Both attacks produce higher DPS when shooting a unmarried enemy compared to when shooting several enemies.

With the right click attack, the cone of outcome that damages enemies is much wider than the cone that damages teammates.

Crits produce non growth damage, only produce growth stagger.

Bug: spell shooting the right click assault (so you’re asset both your mouse buttons), if y'all acquire hit, y'all volition shoot a left click assault ane time the hitstun wears off.

Flamethrower Techniques

Use left click assault against Stormvermin, Rattling Gunners, Warpfire Throwers, together with Bestigors. Use right click assault against everything else. If mixed horde, nonetheless purpose right click.

Do non purpose Flamethrower against Chaos Warriors. Bring a melee weapon that tin john bargain amongst them. If you’re Battle Wizard amongst Lingering Flames talent, apply flamethrower DOT together with thus purpose melee.

Left click assault costs a lot of heat, only y'all tin john spam it amongst this technique: acquire to 100% heat, hold off for your oestrus to naturally dissipate to nigh 97%, shoot again, repeat endlessly. More effective on Ironbreaker than on Battle Wizard because Ironbreaker has a faster oestrus dissipation (if nosotros disregard BW’s passive ability).

When using the right click attack, produce non fully accuse it. Instead, purpose brusk bursts: accuse for a nigh a second, together with thus shoot. Never accuse to a greater extent than than you’re going to release. When y'all take away to get-go firing every bit speedily every bit possible, get-go asset RMB together with and thus straight off get-go asset LMB likewise – together with thus the weapon volition automatically get-go firing upon reaching the minimum charge.

When overheated, produce non switch to melee together with hold off for the weapon to cool downwards past times itself. Instead, concur R to vent manually, paying amongst your health. Use Natural Bond trait on your necklace to offset the wellness terms of venting. If you’re Battle Wizard, y'all tin john rely on passive venting most of the time.

When teammates obstruct your business of fire, aim your flame cone inwards a higher house their heads. You volition striking the enemies behind them spell non causing friendly burn (because your impairment cone is much wider for enemies than for teammates). However y'all volition blind them together with distract them, thus alone shoot inwards a higher house their heads when can’t shoot otherwise.

Don’t e'er purpose your melee weapon to struggle hordes. Your flamethrower does it much better. When y'all you’re surrounded past times enemies thus y'all can’t purpose flamethrower safely, purpose block/push/ult to reposition inwards such a way that all enemies are inwards forepart of you. Then get-go flaming.

While y'all can’t kill far away specials, it’s your chore to kill the ones that come upward close.

Flamethrower is fantabulous at this. Use left click against Rattling Gunners together with Warpfire Throwers, right click against all other specials. You tin john easily kill Packmasters together with Assassins that are coming through a horde. If you’re Battle Wizard amongst Lingering Flames talent, ane time y'all apply a DOT to a special y'all score it for expiry – fifty-fifty if it escapes, it volition die.

In boss + horde scenarios, your chore is to nuke horde. If you’re confident enough, y'all tin john produce this fifty-fifty spell kiting boss.

While flaming a horde, y'all can’t come across it. Spam your “mark” clit to bring out specials together with elites (especially monks/zerkers) that are coming through your flame cone.

Know which enemies y'all tin john stunlock amongst your right click assault together with which ones y'all can’t. Ironbreaker amongst Drakki Wrath talent is meliorate at stunlocking than Battle Wizard.

As a Battle Wizard, your Soot Shield talent tin john trim down the impairment y'all conduct keep from manual venting, spell your Reckless Haste passive together with Rechannel talent tin john improve the oestrus efficiency of your right click attack.

As an Ironbreaker, y'all conduct keep 30% impairment reduction baseline together with it goes to 80% spell your ult is active. This affects the impairment from manual venting together with from overheat explosion. This agency that when y'all are nigh to explode, y'all tin john purpose your ult to trim down the explosion impairment to xxx HP thus y'all tin john easily live on it.

As mentioned inwards the Mechanics section, if y'all acquire striking spell flaming y'all volition shoot an unintended left click attack, which volition add together a lot of oestrus together with foreclose y'all from switching to melee inwards fellowship to block. This is a major threat, only if y'all await it y'all tin john larn to mitigate the harm (e.g. rely on dodge rather than block when it happens, never acquire approximately sum oestrus when using right click attack).